According to the county annals, this Li Yuanwai lived to be 95 years old, and his children and grandchildren were full, and he was prosperous in both people's and wealth, and on the day before he died, he personally went to see the porridge shed that he donated money to build for the local victims. And the strange thing is that after inspecting the porridge shed, when he returned home, Li Yuan gathered his children and grandchildren, and inexplicably said a family motto or something, Li Yuan's family motto is very simple, it is one word: "good".

Li Yuanwai talked about his life in detail like making a report: it turned out that the fortune teller said that he could only live to be 45 years old, and because he did good deeds, how did his fate change; When he met the Jew who wanted to harm him, how he did good deeds, and how he met the superior to save him, and so on. Of course, the disgraceful part of the Zhang family must be hidden.

In fact, my children and grandchildren have heard these stories more or less, and I don't know why the old man gathered everyone together today and nagged about them. However, because the Li family is extremely strict, no one dares to complain, so they can only listen to the old man's chatter in a proper manner. It was very late that the old man was still willing to let his children and grandchildren go back, leaving only the youngest son born to Zhang. The eldest son in the field has long since passed away, and this younger son is the only one around.

Although Li Yuanwai has been talking for so long, he has not been tired at all, which makes the youngest son feel a little abnormal: his father is in his nineties after all, although his health is not bad, he usually tosses so much for a day, and he is tired enough, but I don't know why he is so energetic today.

Li Yuanwai looked at his beloved little son lovingly, and was speechless for a long time. The father and son sat silently opposite each other, and although the younger son felt a little inexplicable, because his father had never been like this before, since the father did not speak first, he did not dare to ask questions, but just sat there quietly.

Suddenly, he heard his father say very sternly: "You must remember that no matter how much your mother tries to control the property, you must not give in the slightest, do you hear?" ”

The youngest son was stunned by his father's brainless words. I just wanted to ask why, but when I saw my father's stern gaze, I hurriedly lowered my head.

"Remember?" Li Yuanwai asked his son step by step, and his son just nodded a little panicked.

"If you don't do what I say, you will have endless troubles," Li Yuanwai continued in his unquestionable tone. The youngest son still just nodded his head repeatedly. Li Yuanwai knew that his son was kind and cowardly by nature, and he had been a very obedient and well-behaved child since he was a child, but at the same time he lacked courage and courage, which made Li Yuanwai also very worried that in case he was not there, how could such a cowardly character control the huge wealth of the family.

It was already late, and the lamp was in the house, Li Yuanwai looked at the back of his youngest son gradually walking away, couldn't help but sigh long, and shook his head very worried and helplessly.

The next morning, when it was time for breakfast, I still didn't see Li Yuanwai get up. The servants who served him all felt very strange, because Li Yuanwai always got up very early, and usually when it was not dawn, Li Yuanwai had already walked back. Maybe I was too tired yesterday, so I got up like this.

A servant came into the house and told Li Yuanwai to get up and eat, and when he walked to the bedside, he found that Li Yuanwai was still lying on the bed, sleeping quietly. The servant called softly, "Sir, it's time to get up and eat."

Li Yuanwai didn't have any reaction, and then called, still no response, this servant seemed to feel a little wrong, he had been serving Li Yuanwai for more than ten years, and knew that Li Yuanwai had always slept very lightly, as long as there was a little movement, he could wake up immediately. What's wrong this time, isn't it ....... He put his hand in front of Li Yuanwai's nose and found that there was no longer a little breath. Hurriedly touched Li Yuanwai's body again, it was already cold, it turned out that Li Yuanwai was dead.

In the people around the Li family's house, they can hear heart-rending cries coming from the house, and many people have already guessed that this must be Li Yuanwai's death. As the saying goes, "people don't stay overnight after 70", that is, when people reach their 70s, life is like a candle in the wind, which can be extinguished at any time. What's more, Li Yuanwai is already ninety-five years old, despite this, many people are still very sorry and sad, because this Li Yuanwai is a great good person, helping the needy, repairing bridges and roads, how many people in this county have not received his favor?

Especially the servants up and down the Li family, they are even more saddened by Li Yuanwai's death. Li Yuanwai was especially good to his servants, especially when he reached old age. However, there is one person in the Li family, not only is he not sad about Li Yuanwai's death at all, but also has a bit of revenge, and this person is of course Zhang.

Zhang is also in his seventies, but he is still energetic. Although the Li family made her live a very depressed life, she still couldn't bear to leave for the sake of a comfortable material life. She looked forward to Li Yuanwai's death almost every day, but what made her a little disappointed was that Li Yuanwai had such a long life, although he was finally dead now, but Zhang knew that her own days were numbered, so her plan had to be implemented quickly.

As soon as Li Yuanwai died, it stands to reason that Li Yuanwai and Zhang's youngest son should be in charge of the family business. This son is in his early forties, and he is still in the prime of life. But because of his character weakness, he is destined to become a puppet of his mother Zhang.

Gradually, the management, distribution, and regulation of a lot of money was transferred to the Zhang family, and this old woman became the actual ruler of the Li family.

Li Yuanwai has a favorite grandson named Li Xiaotong, and this child is only eighteen years old. Among the seven grandchildren, Li Yuanwai loved him the most, because he felt that this child was not only kind-hearted, but also intelligent, decisive and witty. Li Yuanwai felt that even when he was young, in terms of intelligence and wisdom, he could not compare with this grandson. Therefore, they feel that this is the real wealth and hope of their Li family.

When Li Yuanwai is fine, he likes to chat with this grandson. And the two chatted very speculatively, chatting for most of the day, but when Li Yuanwai talked to other grandsons, he would not have this feeling. All in all, the grandfather and grandson are very close to each other.

And Li Yuanwai's death, Xiao Tong is also the most painful one, because his relationship with his grandfather is incomparable to others. The two are not only grandfathers and grandchildren, but also confidants in a certain way, or they are old friends. Li Yuanwai did not want to say many things to others, and he would tell sù, the grandson of the young and old.

When Grandpa was there, the house was full of warmth and order, although there were many people, they could always get along with each other, and everything was in order. But when Grandpa died, the whole atmosphere in the house changed. The grandmother, who used to live in a simple place in the backyard, suddenly began to manage the east and west, and the more she managed, the more domineering she became. forced a cowardly father to retreat step by step.

And those old servants who have followed grandpa for decades were ruthlessly dismissed by grandma one by one. Many of these servants have been in the Li family for more than ten years, or even decades. They may never have thought of leaving the Li family, because here, although they are servants, their lives are not bad, and Li Yuanwai treats his subordinates very well, making these servants feel that this place is like their own home, and Li Yuanwai is not their own master, but more like their elders, both amiable and respectable.

But what I didn't expect was that when Li Yuanwai died, Zhang slowly gained the right to control, and everything changed. The servants will be scolded and punished at every turn, a large number of old servants have been dismissed, and the newly recruited servants are trying their best to curry favor with the Zhang family, constantly dumping each other, attacking, informing, and intriguing, turning the originally happy Li family into a miasma.

Li Xiaotong looked very sad, but as a child, he was helpless. What especially shocked Xiao Tong was that Zhang's Zhengtong was desperately trying to make money through all kinds of means. He really couldn't understand why his vicious and weird grandmother was about to enter the ground, so why she was still so desperate to make money? What does she want all that money for?

His father, on the other hand, was obsessed with the Jews who brought something called "Fushou ointment", which was not used to eat or apply externally, but to be sucked. Since he became addicted to this kind of "Fushou Cream", his father was even more lazy to take care of anything, and he was half-lying on the kang every day, squinting his eyes, and intoxicated.

Li Xiaotong's heart is about to break, he sees that the family business that his grandfather has spent a lifetime of hard work and run is collapsing step by step, and his grandfather knows how sad his old man will be!

Xiao Tong also noticed that her grandmother Zhang was secretly implementing a very strange plan Zhang announced to others on the surface that she had worked hard all her life and had reached the age of antiquity, and it was time to prepare for her death, so she wanted to find someone to build a better yin house for her.

If this is really the case, of course, it is not "weird", and it is said that "weird" is because these people who built the "Yin House" were not found locally, but the people who Zhang let his henchmen, with huge sums of money, go to places thousands of miles away, and these people are not from one place, but from different places.

What is even more strange is that these people who have been found from thousands of miles away do not leave after completing all the work, but only finish part of the work, then disperse, and then use the same method to recruit another group of people to continue to work.

Why is this happening? Why don't you find a group of people locally and complete the project in one go? And to spend so much material and financial resources, to find people so far away, and to replace people in batches?

Xiao Tong thought about these questions repeatedly, and one day, when he was reading an ancient book in the house, he saw such a story:

Cao Cao was suspicious by nature, so he liked to use all kinds of intrigues and tricks all his life, even the design of the tomb after his death was no exception. It is said that this wise man also set up seventy-two fake tombs for himself to confuse those who tried to rob the tomb. And built his real tomb at the bottom of the Zhanghe River.

Hundreds of years after Cao Cao's death, a fisherman suddenly died with a scream when he was swimming in the Zhanghe River, and his body was divided into two parts. So Taishou wanted to find out what was going on, so he ordered the river to be barricade upstream, and when the water dried, he found that there were many long knives and sharp blades at the bottom of the river, and the ingenious thing is that these long knives and sharp blades would rotate with the help of the current, as if someone was wielding these weapons, and once someone approached, they would be hacked to death. Taishou ordered people to remove the mechanism, and people found that a hidden ancient tomb was revealed, and the stone tablet at the entrance read "The Tomb of Cao Cao, the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty".