Old man Mei continued: "Later, the situation was turbulent, business was not good, and the family gradually declined. Master Jing has three sons, the eldest and second are not doing their jobs at all, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling all day long, and doing some bad things with money.

"Only the youngest son is sensible, and he is busy in the Jing family, and it is the best for us, but he still can't save the defeat. It's really rich for only three generations. And Master Jing accidentally got infected with smoke again at this time, and the Jing family was even worse, so Master Jing had to return to his old business. ”

Qi Xiaoting interjected and asked, "What old business?" ”

Old man Mei: "Tomb robbery." ”

Qi Xiaoting was stunned: She is no stranger to tomb robbing. In my previous life, I read a very classic suspense tomb robbery novel "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", the main content of which is tomb robbery and treasure hunting. Some of the main episodes of the article are still fresh in my mind.

"I was very young, and I didn't know how to rob tombs in the past. This time, I chose a big mansion where yin and yang are combined, that is, the kind where the upper part is a yang house and the lower part is a yin house. That mansion is a treasure of feng shui, and it can be said to be a rare good house within a radius of 100 miles.

"And the Yang Mansion above, living in a large family, very rich, is described as thousands of acres of fertile land, a group of slaves, it is not an exaggeration. In a large household like this, there are either houses in a cluster or several houses in the village. The house with the grave below is their old mansion and the point of feng shui for the whole village.

"The lord took a fancy to the place, so he planned to buy the house first, and then dig the grave inside. Who will sell a good house? The old man tried to make a disturbance in the house. To put it bluntly, it is haunted, so that they dare not live in it. ”

Qi Xiaoting immediately thought of Zhang Laocai's haunted mansion, isn't that a house where yin and yang are combined? And it's being haunted now, is that also the kind of thing? Is there such a coincidence in the world? I couldn't help but scheming, and I inquired more carefully

"What happened? You have to go into detail, the more carefully the better. Seeing Old Man Mei bowing his head and smoking, Qi Xiaoting urged.

Old man Mei threw away a twisted cigarette butt in his hand, twisted one with trembling hands, lit it, took a sharp puff, and continued: "After more than a month of trouble, the owner didn't mean to be afraid at all, but bought a few big wolf dogs and stocked them in the courtyard. When the old man ran out of options, he bought a nearby mansion and dug a tunnel from it to the grave below the house.

"After digging for more than ten days, the tunnel was finally dug through. Inside is a large curtain, with a lot of gold, silver, jewelry, and precious artifacts buried in it.

"There is a rule for tomb robbing: when entering the ancient tomb, a candle is lit in the southeast corner before the coffin can be opened, and if the candle is not extinguished, all the belongings inside can be taken: if it is extinguished, you must exit quickly, and you must not take anything. According to legend, this is a contract between the living and the dead made by the ancestor of the tomb robber, which has been inherited for thousands of years and cannot be broken.

"But this time it was destroyed. This will mean that we cannot touch the contents of the tomb. But at that time, Master Jing watched his family business gradually decay, and he couldn't bear it psychologically, and he still had to support us subordinates, the most important thing was that as soon as he became addicted to smoking, life was better than death.

"Besides, it's not easy to find a curtain with treasures, not to mention the fact that we have to work hard to find a big curtain. Seeing that the treasure in his hand cannot be taken, how can the lord be willing? So, I came to a non-stop job, and simply did everything. ”

Old man Mei paused at this point, and the hand holding the cigarette butt was shaking.

The room was so quiet that no one dared to speak, as if if speaking would lead to something bad.

After a moment of silence, Old Man Mei threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, stepped on it with his foot, and said:

"There is another thing to do in this business: if the candle is extinguished, and you are reluctant to give up, after robbing the tomb, you have to completely break the feng shui of this tomb. Only in this way will the ghosts in the tomb not be haunted. And the only way to do it is to blow up the tomb. ”

"Blew up the tomb?" Yan Lanzhu asked in surprise: "Aren't there still people living on it?" ”

Old man Mei sighed: "Cough! At that time, the old man was in a hurry to use the money, and he couldn't take care of it much, so he had to take this road.

"As soon as the tomb exploded, all the houses above collapsed. I don't know if it was because there was too much explosives or if there was an open flame on it, and the collapsed house was ignited. It was a bitter northwest wind, and a sea of fire soon formed on it.

The male owner of this house may have been refining pills in the alchemy room at the time, and as soon as he heard the movement, he hurriedly ran out, and happened to collide with Master Jing who was observing outside with a hood. The man immediately understood what was going on, and the two men fought. During the fight, the other party broke Master Jing's head with a Dan furnace. Master Jing was so angry that he also killed him with a saber and threw him into the fire.

"It was two o'clock in the night, people were sleeping, and the wind swept through more than half of the village, supposedly burning many people."

It's vicious!

Qi Xiaoting said in her heart.

But it is the great-granddaughter and daughter-in-law of this old man Jing who is looking for herself, and it has been several generations, so the account should not be counted on their heads. So he asked, "What is the name of this village?" ”

"Xuejiazhuang. The big family who was bombed was also surnamed Xue, and he was a well-known rich man in ten miles and eight townships. ”

"Surname Xue?" Sister-in-law Jing, who was stunned, suddenly asked.

Old man Mei nodded: "It is indeed surnamed Xue, I remember this clearly." ”

Yan Lanzhu suddenly shook his head again: "Maybe it's the same surname, Uncle Mei, you go on, talk about the lack of virtue done by their elders." He began to cry as he spoke.

Qi Xiaoting hurriedly persuaded: "That's all the business of the elders, not to mention that no one is there." Don't get too entangled, let him explain the situation, and I can take measures. Then he said to Old Man Mei, "What happened later? ”

"I did it this once. The old man washed his hands and didn't dry them. I exchanged the stolen artifacts for money, opened a big factory, took over the original store, and arranged us all to be the supervisors of various teams and stores.

However, just after a year or two of prosperity, a fire broke out in Master Jing's house. I happened to be staying at my lord's house that day. In the middle of the night, the fire suddenly ignited, and since the whole family was already asleep, none of them escaped.

"I lived in a side room, and I was lucky enough to run out, and then I heard the third young master shouting 'child, child' in the room, and I also heard the child's heart-rending cry.

"The third young master's child is only a little over two years old, and he is also one of Master Jing's favorite grandsons, so I am determined to rush into the house to save the third young master and this child.

"But the fire was so big that I couldn't get any close. I found a torn quilt, soaked it in water in the water tank, covered my head, and rushed into the fire to carry the little master out. When I went to save the third young master again, the house had already burned down.

"In that fire, the Jing family, except for the son of the third young master whom I brought out, more than 20 people were burned to death. We guessed that the old man must have offended someone, and the revenge came. I didn't dare to raise the son of the third young master locally, so I sent him to a peasant woman who had a relationship with our subordinates dozens of miles away to raise him.

"A few of our subordinates sold the master's factory and shop at a discount, and built a factory elsewhere in the name of someone else to continue to maintain production.

"Every year, I will send some money to this peasant woman's family, so that she can have a good life and support.

"When this boy grew up, we used the money from the factory to buy him a mansion. married him to a family, and his wife is now Jing's sister-in-law.

He also told his family and outsiders that he had a factory and that he didn't have to worry about life. Actually, we didn't let him go to the factory once. I transferred the money to him.

"I was very careful, but then I still didn't escape, when his daughter was more than two years old, the house caught fire again, this is the process that Sister-in-law Jing said, he pushed his wife and daughter out of the door from the sea of fire, but he couldn't come out, and burned alive inside."

Yan Lanzhu couldn't hold back anymore and cried "whining". While crying, he said: "I didn't expect their family to have such an unsightly past. I got married and lived with my husband for several years, and I never heard of it. ”

Old man Mei: "Your husband is also kept in the dark, he doesn't know these things at all, how can he tell you!" ”

When Yan Lanzhu heard this, she cried even more. He cried, "Poor husband, I don't know why he died. Why is my life so miserable? Spread such a family. ”

Old man Mei: "At that time, I just hoped that he would live a happy life, and no one could predict what happened later." ”

Yan Lanzhu choked up and said, "Our Yan family is a loyal and kind family. When I was three or four years old, my father rescued a woman who was fleeing with his daughter, and we called her Aunt Xue. Aunt Xue said that their house was blown up by the tomb robbers. All the family members were killed, and the house was destroyed. She is the young grandmother of the Xue family, and because she lived in her mother's house that night, she escaped a disaster.

Later, her mother's house was robbed by bandits, her parents, brother and sister-in-law were killed, she ran out secretly with her daughter in her arms, and it was winter, even hungry and frozen, and the mother and daughter fell in the snow.

"When my father saw it, he rescued them and brought them home. It took several visits to the doctor to get better. Later, he worked as a maid in our house. Aunt Xue's daughter is the same age as me, and the two of us are pretty good. After Miss Xue got married, she took Aunt Xue over to support her, and our two families walked around as relatives. After I moved here, I was far away and lost contact.

"The family you robbed the tomb is surnamed Xue, and Aunt Xue's mother-in-law is also surnamed Xue, and the tomb robber was also blown up, can't you save it or do you cause people to die?"

Yan Lanzhu said and cried again.

Qi Xiaoting: "Aunt Xue didn't tell you where her mother-in-law's house is?" ”

Yan Lanzhu: "I must have said it at the time, but I don't remember." I was three or four years old, and I never asked since. I only remember the general idea of what happened. ”

Old man Mei: "It can't be such a coincidence, right?" Your mother-in-law killed the Xue family, and your mother-in-law saved the Xue family? Are you still good friends with the girls of the Xue family? Impossible, how can there be such a coincidence in the world? Maybe you were young at the time and remembered it wrong. ”