"Then, I'm better to be respectful than to obey!" I smiled and pretended to be generous, in front of this big family, I can't be stingy, lest they look down on a small family like us. Thinking about it, he also followed up with a swagger.

The Li family's mansion is solemn, all kinds of decorations are mainly cyan and copper red, you can smell a faint line fragrance everywhere, and there is a kind of incense that I don't know the name, and the breath is very calm.

Passing through the corridor made of bluestone, the branches of wisteria flowers are still attached to the outside of the corridor, presumably spring and summer must be extremely beautiful, think about walking the corridor with wisteria flowers falling, I can't help but yearn for it. Under the corridor, there is a whole piece of bluestone hewn chessboard and stone pier, black and white chess pieces like agate polishing, packed in a jade bowl engraved with treasure flowers, shining. Although I have been shuttling around the magnificent Yanyu Pavilion since I was a child, I can also see that although the surface is simple, in fact, it is extremely luxurious and elegant, which is really incomparable to the vulgarity of the Yanyu Pavilion.

Passing through the Zhumen Jade Household, into a small study, the bookcase is placed on the four treasures of the study, the wall is hung with swords and I don't know which famous dragon flying phoenix dance ink treasure, Li Qitang let me sit at the red sandalwood table, called the maid to take out all kinds of snacks and tea, put it on the table, and said with a smile: "This is the class to get an axe, in front of the dim sum shop daughter to serve dim sum, I only hope that Miss Mei will not laugh at my cook is vulgar."

I fixed my eyes to see, a few large pastel porcelain plates painted with lotus flowers are colorful, it is golden crispy fried pine nut candy, turquoise white jade lotus leaf soup, bright red crystal hawthorn cake and light purple chestnut mud steamed taro, although the dish is said to be what I have seen, but the materials must be thousands of choices, the presentation pattern is also complicated and exquisite, the general guest treatment, I laughed: "Li Gongzi teased, this kind of exquisite dish, plum cabbage has never been eaten."

said and took out the gold: "Gongzi Li, I can't hide it, Mei Cai is not here to disturb the dim sum today, but wants to invite Gongzi to take a look at this."

Li Qitang took a look, and his face changed greatly: "This is gold, yes, there is only one thing, this is not something that should exist in the world."

"Huh? Isn't this gold conjured by witchcraft? I asked.

"No, it's real gold, but, there's a breath of death, because it's a funeral offering, the money of the dead."

My first reaction was that the scholar was forced by life to rob the tomb?

Li Qitang smiled: "How can the tomb be stolen casually, if there is a place where it is so easy to steal gold, thieves will become tomb robbers, and if you can bury this amount of gold, you must be a prominent person, that kind of large-scale mausoleum, even if he is lucky to find it, he may not be able to pass the layers of organs to protect the tomb."

I nodded in understanding: "Then according to Li Gongzi's opinion?"

Li Qitang said: "In my opinion, it must have been squandered by the owner of the tomb himself."

The owner of the tomb is the dead man who buried it? A ghost, who is not good at lying underground, actually took the money from his funeral to squander it in the world, what is it for? What is the connection between this ghost and the disappeared person? With all this gold to be buried, who is she?

I hurriedly asked Li Qitang if there were any clues, Li Qitang looked under the ingots, and didn't know what was carved with the ancient seal characters, and sighed slightly: "Miss Mei come with me, I'll take you to meet my father, maybe he can see the origin of the ingots."

I hurriedly got up: "Then bother!"

The corridor of the Li family went straight to and fro, through the bluestone shadow wall carved with strange beasts, and walked through the corridor covered with big blue bricks, wearing soap clothes ordinarily, and saluting us with his hands on his side in a proper manner, waiting for him to lead me through a few courtyards, I saw a small courtyard with flowers and trees, in which exotic flowers and plants, vines and vines were entwined, whether it was blooming well or not, a sweet fragrance of flowers and fruits wafted in, it turned out to be a big peach tree full of peach blossoms and peaches!

Now, it's the wax moon! No matter how much you warm the yard, how can you make the peach trees bloom and bear fruit at the same time? I couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Li Qitang smiled, lured me in, and called out in a stack: "Father, the messenger of Lord Gluttony, Miss Meicai, is here!"

An old man came out in response, and I couldn't help but be stunned, with a sallow face, two wisps of mouse whiskers, and a mouse face, this ...... Isn't this the feverish Qiu Dao Chang who was scared by Biluochun?

"This ......," I stammered, "who is this?"

Li Qitang said: "This is my father."

Daoist Qiu clasped his fists and saluted: "Miss Meicai, I haven't seen you for a long time, is Lingtang all right?"

"You, aren't you the head of the hill?" I was horrified.

"The length of the road in autumn is the length of the road in autumn, and in winter, it is the length of the road in winter." Daoist Qiu, no, Daoist Li proudly stroked his rat whiskers.

That Qiu Daochang, who looks so poor, is actually the owner of this Li family's mansion, or a descendant of a scholarly family, and a returning official, I really can't accept it.

Li Qitang explained: "My father's life is the most love of Taoism, to return to the hometown with a speech, specializing in research, my ancestor has produced an immortal, leaving some rare treasures, just like these Penglai fairy island brought back the world's unprecedented exotic flowers and plants and this year's peach trees that bloom and bear fruit all year round and never wither, so that Taoism has been extended at home, and it has been prosperous for a long time, among which my father is the most enthusiastic, after resigning from the government, he studied Taoism every night, and during the day he went to the street to solve problems for people with Taoism to solve problems and benefit the world."

I don't know if he knows the abundance of his father when he was scared away by Bi Luochun.

The top priority is to find out the origin of this little ingot, although this Li Daochang does not look very reliable, after all, he is also a family missionary, I thought to myself, and presented the ingot with both hands.

Li Daochang took it, took a closer look, I was busy explaining the origin, Li Daochang pondered for a long time, and said: "This, engraved with a plum blossom seal of the Du character, may be the funeral object of Mrs. Du in the previous dynasty." ”

I hurriedly asked, "Who is Mrs. Du?" ”

Li Daochang led me and Li Qitang to sit on the bluestone table and chair under the peach tree, and picked a few big peaches for me to eat. Obviously it is a cold day in the lunar month, the garden is not only warm as spring, but even the bluestone tables and chairs are very comfortable, not cold and biting, and it must be a heirloom brought by their immortals.

"This Mrs. Du is a product of the previous dynasty, is Liu Shilang's daughter, smart and erudite since childhood, can chant poetry, and beautiful and moving, many dignitaries and nobles want to marry Liu Shilang, but this young lady is also strange, lifelong events are partial to life, do not be the right person, to learn to sing on the stage to throw the hydrangea, said that it is fate has its own cause, Liu Shilang did not agree at first, only said that Miss is messing around, if this is smashed on the head of the inferior person, marry or not? Smile and be generous, but the young lady does not eat or drink and is getting thinner, this Liu Shilang is angry and painful, and has no idea, Mrs. offered a plan to say, it is better to follow her, the hydrangea smashed to the right posterity, if it is not suitable, only lie to her to respond, when you get married, you will cover your head, the parents' order matchmaker's words, let's see which marriage is suitable, so she will hide from her and send it over, she doesn't know anything, how can she not follow. When she finds out that the wood is already in the boat, what can she do? Liu Shilang praised his wife and daughter, and then acted according to the plan.

On the day of throwing the hydrangea, since it was an empty alley, every household went to see Liu Shilang's daughter to choose a son-in-law with hydrangea as a matchmaker, the so-called heaven does not fulfill people's wishes, hydrangea actually smashed into the hands of a beggar who looked lively, this thing caused a sensation in the streets and alleys, people want to see what kind of beggar is also, it turns out that the beggar is not very old, is a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, originally also a scholarly family, but the family suffered from the plague, both parents died, according to the last words of the parents, sold the property to Beijing to seek refuge in the uncle, who expected that the uncle died of illness half a year ago, The aunt wanted to occupy his property, only said to welcome him, but secretly left his belongings, called the family to drive out with a stick, the young man was not satisfied, so he sued the official to redress his grievances, who knew that the principal accepted his aunt's benefits, beat him and drove him out, the young man had nowhere to go, and wanted to present the case again, but the injury was not healed, and there was no money for treatment, so he had to temporarily beg for food for a living.

Liu Shilang was furious, and promised to overturn the case for the young man, but privately discussed that he wanted him to abandon the marriage, the young man thought about it, this kind of son-in-law of the powerful family is not easy to do, just overturn the case, and he is not worthy of the young lady, so he responded to Liu Shilang, the young lady learned, came out late at night to look for the young man, only said that he was told to keep the contract, he would never dislike him, and the grievances could be found by himself, and he also gave the young man his own poems to show his heart, and the young man also loved Miss to be loyal and willing to tide over the difficulties together.

After the two were destined for three lives, the boy was nowhere to be found, and the aunt only said that the boy took the property back to his hometown, and if people didn't believe it, she took out the paperwork, and there was indeed a handprint of the teenager.

Liu Shilang also sighed, and the young lady cried to death, Liu Shilang took the opportunity to draw the red line with the only son of Du Guogong's family, and the young lady had to obey.

Who knew that just married into the Du Guo Mansion, the son went out hunting, was thrown down the hill by a fierce horse, and died of serious injuries, Du Guo Gong and his wife only complained about Miss Kefu, and they were extremely abused, Miss abided by the women's way, and survived for half a life, the emperor of the previous dynasty felt his loyalty, and was awarded a good life, this year was a spring breeze, who expected that the young man's bones were dug out, and there was still a young lady in his arms.

It turned out that the aunt was frightened when she learned that the young man had accepted the favor of the young lady, and she thought about how she could be a widow and make an enmity with Liu Shilang's noble son-in-law, so she simply didn't do anything, and called the young man at night, saying that she was willing to return home to give birth, so that the young man remembered the face of the deceased uncle, and spared her orphan and widow for a while.

The young man had both parents dead, and he attached great importance to family affection, so he immediately responded as long as he returned the family property, and he was not to blame for the past, and the aunt was busy holding a banquet to celebrate, and tricked him into writing a return book, who knew that he was poisoned in the wine, and the young man returned to the west on the spot, and the aunt pressed it with the boy's finger, and then hung the body on the stone and threw it into the dry well in the deep mountains, and only said that the young man took the family property and returned to his hometown, if people did not believe it, she took out the paperwork.

When the young lady learned about it, she fell seriously ill and died.

When the emperor learned, he was also embarrassed, and he was rewarded with a rich burial, and Du Guogong also entered the earth with a thousand gold taels of his wife, and the mausoleum was said to be in the western suburbs, which was very old, and now it is impossible to find it. ”

Speaking of which, they are all poor people, as the saying goes, people die for money, birds die for food, Li Qitang's family is a big family, and our family is not worried about food and clothing, probably can't understand that kind of despair.