Chapter 18: The Ancestral Mansion

We turned our heads to see that it was a spirited old man walking over, Lantern Xiao was stunned when he saw this person, and then walked up to the old man, and said with some hesitation: "You, you are the third master!" ”

The old man smiled, raised his hand and patted the Lantern Festival, "I haven't seen you for many years, you kid still know me!" ”

Lantern Xiao nodded again and again, "Of course, you and my dad have been friends since we were young, and speaking of which, I still grew up watching you since childhood!" ”

The old man nodded, but then sighed, "I heard about your father, alas, it's all fate!" You said to do what we do......" Halfway through speaking, the old man waved his hand, "Alas, forget it, don't talk about it!" Ay! By the way, why did you kid get here today, this is all where our old men are waiting to die, you kid and what! ”

Lantern Xiao said: "That's the case, the third master, my dad still has some things left in this storage box before his death, I want to take them!" No," Lantern Xiao pointed back to the two god-like black suits in front of the door, "These two great gods won't let them in!" ”

The old man nodded slightly, "That's it, it's okay, come with me!" With that, he led us to the door of the clubhouse again.

When the two black suits saw the old man, they said respectfully: "Old Zhao, hello!" ”

The old man pointed his finger back, "I brought these two, can you enter?" ”

One of them was in a black suit, and after a little hesitation, the old man's face was cold, "What?" Bewilderment? Never mind! Find your boss, I think my Zhao San's face is worth nothing! ”

The other black suit immediately laughed, "Third master, you are laughing, please everyone!" ”

The old man snorted coldly and led us in.

As soon as I walked through the lobby, the old man's footsteps hesitated for a moment, then he suddenly turned around and looked me up and down carefully, "Young man, what do you call me?" ”

I hurriedly replied, "Third Master, my name is Zhuo Ran!" It's a friend of Yuan Ding! ”

Lantern Xiao also said beside him, "This is my best buddy, why do you know him?" ”

The old man shook his head slightly, thought for a moment, and asked, "Zhuo Ran?" Your surname is Zhuo Oh? Who are you too? ”

Hearing the old man ask, I couldn't help but be stunned, "Zhuoqiu is also my second uncle!" ”

The old man showed a sudden expression, "Sure enough, it's someone from the Zhuo family!" Then he looked at me, then at Lantern Festival, sighed, shook his head with a wry smile, "It's really a creation and a trick!" ”

The old man's words confused me and Lantern Xiao, and Lantern Xiao was just about to speak, "Third master, what kind of ...... are you?"

Before the Lantern Festival finished speaking, the old man waved his hand, "Okay, I'll go over there and have a look, you young people can't play with us old men, you have your own business, just take care of yourself!" With that, he nodded to us and left.

Lantern Xiao shrugged helplessly at me, "Let's go, let's do our own!" ”

We walked around the hall and headed straight to the lounge area, in a room next to it, where the storage boxes were placed. We took out the key and took a closer look, and below the two letters BJ, there were two smaller Arabic numerals: 58.

Soon we found locker No. 58, and when we opened it, there was a file bag inside the cabinet, which was bulging with a lot of things.

When we opened it, there were a lot of documents and materials in the file bag, and there was a line written on the top one: Qilian Mountain Sanmiao Ruins. And what surprised me even more was that there was also a photo attached to this information, and the person in the photo turned out to be Cai Rang Dorjee. It seems that the Tang family did secretly participate in some things at the beginning.

We had just seen this, and suddenly a service staff from the clubhouse saw us and came over and asked, "Do you need any help?" ”

Lantern Xiao put the materials back into the file bag, stuffed them into the bag, and shook his head, "No! Get busy with you! ”

But the man didn't leave, but continued to ask, "Are you two members of us here?" ”

"No!" I didn't expect the inspection of this club to be so strict, he must have thought that the two of us were face-to-face, and it didn't look like a member here, so he came to interrogate.

The person smiled and said, "I'm sorry, the contents of the storage box need to be opened by a member, or authorized by a member, and only a non-member can open it, may I ask who is the authorized person for the two of you?" ”

The two of us suddenly ran out of the bottom, what the hell is this place, have we entered the Pentagon, so heavily guarded!

Lantern Xiao took a deep breath and frowned, "I'll tell you, keep your eyes open and recognize who I am!" Do you know the Tang family? Do you know Zhao Sanye! If you have any doubts, ask them to go! Get out of the way! Saying that, Lantern Xiao pushed the waiter away.

Maybe this waiter was really frightened by the Lantern Festival and didn't stop us. So we hurriedly walked to the outside of the clubhouse, and when I turned around, I saw that the waiter was talking something on the walkie-talkie.

I was afraid of being stopped at the gate, but fortunately, my worries were superfluous, and we walked outside smoothly, and it was not until we got into the car that we often let out a sigh. Lantern Xiao smiled, "It's so fun, it's like an American movie!" ”

We drove directly back to Dongding Pavilion, not to mention that the business in the Lantern Festival store was not bad, and there were a lot of people. Lantern Xiao hurriedly put down the bag and helped Sisi to take care of the guests.

At the moment, I was also dry and my throat was smoking, and when I got a cup of tea, I sat on a chair and drank it, and by the way, I picked up my mobile phone and looked at it, and saw that there were a few messages in WeChat, and I opened it to see that it was full of advertisements. I opened the circle of friends again, and swiped it casually, and suddenly my eyes couldn't move, looking at a message in the circle of friends, I was immediately stunned, and the teacup in my hand almost fell to the ground. I sat back in my chair, my mind blank.

On the screen of my mobile phone, there is a message from the circle of friends, the message is sent by a brother in my hometown, and a line of words is written on the message: The century-old ancestral house of the Zhuo family suddenly collapsed today, and it is said that the foundation is sinking. There are also several photos of the scene in the back. I saw that the house, which was originally on the ground, suddenly sank into more than half of the ground, and the scene was chaotic, and I even saw my father in the photo.

After a momentary blank in my mind, the question immediately emerged, why did the ancestral house suddenly collapse? The point is, does this have anything to do with what I found under my ancestral home?

After being busy for a while, Lantern Xiao came over and sat on the chair with a look on my face, "Hey! Zhuoran, what's wrong with you? ”

Seeing that I didn't speak, he shook his hand in front of my eyes again, "Hey! Are you okay! ”

I took a deep breath with a frown, and said, "Something's wrong!" ”

When Lantern Xiao heard this, coupled with my expression, he knew that I was not joking, so he immediately sat down and asked softly, "What's wrong?" What the hell is going on! ”

I didn't answer, but handed over the mobile phone in my hand, Lantern Xiao took the phone suspiciously, and his expression suddenly froze, "This, how can it be like this suddenly!" Lantern Xiao gave me back her phone, "The ancient tomb you mentioned to me is under this ancestral house?" ”

I took the phone and nodded, Lantern Xiao's expression was shocked, and he immediately lowered his voice and said, "Damn!" Isn't everything buried underneath? ”

Lantern Xiao clapped her hands in annoyance, "I also said that the opening of this store is over, I'll go back with you and take a look at the place you said!" It's completely gone! ”

At the moment, my mind is very messy, and my heart is full of a kind of remorse and regret. The clues and mysteries I found there at the beginning seemed to indicate that the Zhuo family was hiding a secret, but what kind of secret was it that I was buried forever before I could explore it.

I called my father, and he told me that the foundation of the ancestral house had indeed sunk, but the other houses had not suffered much damage, except for the main hall, which was more seriously damaged and almost collapsed. When I heard this, my heart moved, and I knew that under the main hall, it was the location of the tomb I had visited.

My dad asked me where I was, and I told him I was with Lantern Festival. I told my dad that if something so big happened, I would rush back in the next two days to take a look.

Dad didn't really care, he said that no one could have imagined such a thing as a sinking foundation. There is nothing important in the house, and the ancestral house is also in disrepair, and it will collapse when it collapses, and it is time to renovate.

I heard my dad say that now that the engineering team has started construction, I tentatively asked, do you need to turn the foundation again? I was actually a little worried about the ancient tomb under the ancestral house, but my father told me that there was no need to dig the foundation, and that it was enough to re-tamp it, and at most pour cement to ensure that the foundation was stable, and he also told me that there was no need to rush back, and besides, I couldn't help if I went.

After hanging the arc, I was still very unsure, so I decided to rush back to my hometown to have a look. Lantern Xiao saw that I insisted on leaving, and I didn't want to stay, so he drove me to the station, and along the way, we discussed the ancient tomb under my ancestral home.

In the end, we boil down to two aspects: first, whose tomb is underground, and how big is this tomb? The one I went to was obviously not the main burial chamber, so where was the real main burial chamber? Second, and what bothers me the most, who is this Zhuo Chengyang?

Lantern Festival sent me on the train, let me go back to my hometown to find out the news first, he took care of the things in the store, and if nothing changed in two days, he was going to meet me.

I nodded and waved goodbye to Lantern Festival.

After getting off the train, I went home first to rest and recuperate, and I was afraid that my mother would be anxious if she didn't show up for many days.

Lying in bed at night, I couldn't sleep for a long time, and the events that happened during this time kept circling in my mind alternately, one moment was the strange statue of Ali Mok, one moment was the strange key and information left by Tang Yudong, and the other time it was the collapsed ancestral house and countless dry bones underground. I finally barely fell asleep, but I saw my second uncle standing in front of me covered in blood.

I woke up in a frightened spirit, touched the cold sweat on my head, and found that it was a dream, and then I breathed a sigh of relief.