The old man looked at me, as if waiting for my answer, and I said to him: "Grandpa, the person in the photo is Yang Changsheng, then Yang Dingshan is my grandfather!" ”

When I said this, the old man was a little surprised, but after being surprised, the expression on his face quickly turned calm, and he sighed: "Alas, I really didn't expect that so many years have passed, and Yang Dingshan's great-grandchildren are so old!" ”

The old man on the other side was dressed in the Qing Dynasty and had long braids, could he still be from the Qing Dynasty? In this way, this old man is more than a hundred years old, to say the least. In the coffin shop on the ancient street, there are many large coffins engraved with Manchu text, plus the plaque I saw when I entered this mansion just now, and there is also a prince's signature on it, this Lin Ji coffin shop may be the royal coffin shop of the Manchu royal family at that time.

The old man went to such great lengths to come to me, it was definitely not so simple as to express his feelings, I knew that he must have something.

Thinking of this, I asked, "Grandpa, do you have any instructions for calling me over?" ”

The old man seemed to be still deeply immersed in his memories, and my words brought him back to his senses, and he said, "I'm sorry, I'm old, I'm not in good spirits. When people are old, they want to see old friends, you are very similar to your grandfather when he was young, or more than just like, you are exactly the same as him! ”

I was stunned, and my heart became even more confused, so I asked, "You and my grandfather have known each other since we were young?" ”

"It's not just that when I was young, I grew up together. Lin Zhaotang is the name of the old man, this name is still the name that your grandfather gave me to change my life, and they are all people from Yangjiazhuang! Back then, your grandfather was bent on gaining fame, while I didn't have the ambition of your grandfather and did business on the streets. Your grandfather once had a trick with me, saying that my numerology is yin, and I can only do business with the dead, I didn't believe it at the time, but what happened later, I had to believe it. The old man recounted.

I suddenly became interested, I have only heard a few words from my father and grandfather, basically saying that grandpa he didn't understand the Yang family's ancestral yin and yang secret arts, so he wrote a book about the Yang family's secret techniques, the purpose is to prevent the Yang family's secret techniques from being lost.

Dad said that grandpa Tai may just be a weak scholar, and he is not interested in the secret art of yin and yang at all. However, the grandfather's hairstyle in front of me is different, and the grandfather may not be what my father said.

It was at this moment that I seemed to have a question in mind. Before Grandpa Tai, the secret art of the Yang family has always been passed down by word of mouth, since Grandpa Tai can write out the secret technique of the Yang family without losing its essence, this is actually based on a certain premise. This premise is that first of all, Grandpa Tai must be extremely familiar with the secret techniques of the Yang family, so maybe Grandpa Tai doesn't know how to, but he has been hiding.

These things flashed through my mind, and I immediately asked, "Why?" ”

Old Man Lin took a sip of tea, and he continued: "Alas, I was still young at the time, and your grandfather said that my numerology was yin, and I felt that he was fooling me, so I was going to do it with him." But what I didn't expect was that no matter what business I did, there would always be some reasons for losing all my money. When I didn't have any money, I had to do hard labor, and with the money, I continued to do a small business, and in the end I lost my confidence, and even once I had a dispute with the people of the yamen because of some things, and I was beaten and put in prison for several months. ”

"In the prison, when your grandfather brought me food, he talked to me. He said, "Let me give it a try, and go into the business of the dead, and I will definitely be able to save my family's wealth." I always thought he was joking with me, and I didn't believe it, but then I realized that I was wrong. At first, I didn't have any money, so I sold paper on the street, and then when I had money, I opened a paper shop. Later, a coffin shop was made. Your grandfather was bent on gaining fame, he was helping in my coffin shop while studying, and that morning, when I opened the door of the store, your grandfather said to me, "There are nobles coming today!" I don't think so, I think that the business of doing the dead is nothing more than buying paper and making a mouthful of longevity materials, what noble people can come? ”

I became more and more interested, Mr. Lin must have asked me to come over to catch up with the past, he must have something important to say to me, and what he said later almost subverted my previous impression of grandpa.

"Actually, that noble man was a prince at that time, the prince went out on patrol in micro-clothes, and he was originally going to my coffin shop to find trouble, but because of your grandfather's words, not only did he not find trouble, but he made Lin Ji's coffin shop famous." When Old Man Lin mentioned this, there was even a little excitement on his face.

The plaque that the old man said must be the plaque hanging at the gate of his house, and when he said this, I was a little curious, what kind of words did the grandfather say, which could make the attitude of the prince at that time turn a hundred and eighty degrees?

"What did my grandfather say?" I asked.

"Actually, I also listened to your grandfather's words at that time, and I knew that the person was a Belle master. Your grandfather's exact words are, anger is easy to be rude, and fear is easy to lose moderation! At that time, when the Lord Belle heard this, his face changed, but it didn't take long for the Lord Belle to even bow to your grandfather, and then take your grandfather to a nearby teahouse to talk, and the conversation lasted for more than two hours. Old Man Lin said.

"It's easy to be rude when you're angry, and it's easy to lose your temper when you're afraid...... Why did Lord Belle care so much about these two sentences? I said to myself.

These two sentences are from the Book of Changes, when the Belle Ye was originally going to enter the coffin shop to find trouble, because Lin Ji's coffin shop robbed the opposite side of the business, and the coffin shop opposite was somewhat involved with the Belle Lord, as if it was a distant relative of the Belle Lord. However, being angry and rude is easy to be rude, and your grandfather's prompt made him hold back his emotions. The latter sentence, which is afraid of losing its temper, directly poked into the heart of that Belle Lord, because this Belle Lord was facing some crises at that time, and his status as a prince might not be guaranteed. He has almost reached a desperate situation, Ben came to the market to find strange people, and happened to meet your grandfather in the coffin shop of Lin Ji. ”

"And then?" I continued.

"Later, your grandfather often went in and out of the Baylor Mansion and became friends with the Baylor Lord, it seems that your grandfather's magic really played a role, and the Baylor Lord survived the crisis, and the Lin Ji coffin shop became famous. As your grandfather said, he did manage to protect my Lin family's wealth, but then he disappeared, and I never saw him again. However, before he disappeared, I found a craftsman to make a unicorn coffin in the courtyard of my house, saying that with this Lin family's coffin shop, it can prosper for a hundred years. ”

"During that time, he was busy writing a notebook, and he was always in the library over there!" When Mr. Lin said this, he pointed to the room next to me, where the light was dim, and I could vaguely see some calligraphy and paintings in the room.

Later, when he said that he had finished writing, he handed me the notebook, wrapped in yellow paper, and said that he must give it to his descendants in the future, otherwise he would be called unfilial. I still remember the situation clearly, your grandfather spoke like he was going to explain the aftermath, and I asked him where he was going, and he said that he was going to do great things and would not come back for a long time. I just said, then I, Lin Zhaotang, will wait for you to come back, brother for so many years, the Lin family is his Yang Dingshan's home. I didn't expect that after your grandfather left that time, he disappeared, and I even went to Lord Belle's house to look for it, but there was none, and even that Lord Belleer disappeared with your grandfather. ”

"Who knew that it would be more than ten years in a flash, about the thirteenth year after your grandfather disappeared, Yang Changsheng came, and he was still a child when he came. In other words, during the time when your great-grandfather disappeared, he became a family and had children. However, when I asked the kid where your family was, he said that he lived in Yangjiazhuang, which was the hometown of me and your grandfather. After that, I gave the notebook to that child, that is, your grandfather Yang Changsheng. "Old Man Lin told about the past, and I could see in his eyes the admiration for my grandfather.

Things are basically connected here, grandpa handed over to my father, and the grandfather's secret book that my father later handed over to me was actually brought back from Mr. Lin. Grandpa was at most a teenager at that time, and he traveled so far from Yangjiazhuang to Luoyang, and I don't know how grandpa carried it at that time.

After Grandpa Tai and that Belle disappeared together, where did they go and what did they do?

I became more and more curious, grandpa was a carefree person at that time, and that Lord Baylor would rather give up his status as Lord Baylor and disappear with my grandfather, what is it for?