When the kingdom is in turmoil, there will be evil spirits rampant.

The difficulties of the Huang family are complicated, and to investigate the root cause of everything, we have to start with Huang Xinmin, the father of Huang Qichang, the old man of the Huang family.

Huang Xinmin, the father of the old man of the Huang family, was born in an era of great turmoil in the world, with foreign invasions, warlords, banditry, people's livelihood, and unspeakable suffering.

Only Zhonghai City was relatively prosperous and stable at that time, but in fact, it was divided and set up a concession by countries around the world, although it was a bit of a loss of power and humiliation to the country, but it did bring a long time of peace to Zhonghai.

As we all know, Zhonghai is a metropolis with an integrated population, and there are few natives of Zhonghai in the upper three generations of residents, and Huang Xinmin came to Zhonghai during that period.

However, before Huang Xinmin arrived in Zhonghai, his family had been running a salt and iron business in southern Gansu, and he was also a wealthy local gentry, and Huang Xinmin lived very rich when he was young.

However, the good times did not last long, in July 1926, the Northern Expedition broke out, and in September of the same year, the Northern Expeditionary Army entered southern Jiangnan, but was blocked by the army led by Sun Chuanfang, who was known as the 'King of the Southeast' at that time, so a large-scale battle that lasted several months was launched.

The Northern Expedition was powerful, Sun Bu finally couldn't resist it, and he lost one after another, Sun Chuanfang promised a lot of money as a reward in order to boost morale, but because of the continuous battles at that time, Sun Bu's military budget had long been in deficit, and Sun Chuanfang couldn't find so many military salaries.

So, a staff officer next to Sun Chuanfang gave him an idea, that is, to blackmail the local landlords and gentry, so that the military salaries used as rewards were borrowed into the hands of local wealthy people.

The Huang family is also a well-known family in southern Gansu, so the general responsible for assisting in this matter chose the Huang family as the first target and personally went to the door, hoping that the Huang family could contribute 200,000 silver dollars to assist Sun Bu.

This incident made the Huang family embarrassed at that time, although the salt and iron business made money, but it was also in a relatively peaceful period, but at that time, the situation in the world was turbulent, and the business travelers from the south to the north often suffered inexplicable losses, in fact, the Huang family's business was already beyond their means at that time, so how could they come up with the huge amount of 200,000 silver dollars?

The Huang family was in charge of Huang Xinmin's father at that time, and Huang Xinmin was not yet twenty years old at that time, but in the face of the blackmail of the warlords in southern Gansu, the Huang family had to comply.

As a last resort, the Huang family could only negotiate with it several times, until later, a military report came from Sun's army, saying that the front line was tight, and the troops had a precursor to a rout, and Sun Chuanfang had given a ruthless order that the relevant people in charge of financing must prepare the general's salary within the specified time limit, otherwise it would be a serious crime to kill the head.

At that time, the general who was in charge of negotiating with the Huang family was in a hurry, and the life of the family was at stake, and the general put the charge of 'delaying the military plane' on the head of the Huang family, and ordered the soldiers to besiege the Huang family's compound, which led to the huge Huang family in southern Gan being razed to the ground overnight.

Because Huang Xinmin was studying abroad at that time, so he escaped a catastrophe, only a few women and children in the family escaped from the tiger's mouth, although the warlord Sun hollowed out the Huang family, but also with a fierce extortion of many local families a large sum, but in the end still failed to save the decline of the Sun Department, Sun Chuanfang was finally driven out of the Ganzhou area by the Northern Expeditionary Army.

But at that time, the big mistake had been made, when Huang Xinmin returned to Gannan, he unexpectedly learned that the huge Huang family had been wiped out overnight, and only a few of his descendants survived, and in desperation, Huang Xinmin, as the son of the head of the Huang family, finally took on the important role of the revitalization of the Huang family.

Eighteen-year-old Huang Xinmin began to learn to do business for the first time, using the only remaining thousands of silver dollars in his family to try to make a comeback, but it is conceivable that the Huang family has been lonely, and few of the former business partners are willing to deal with this hairy boy.

After paying several tuition, Huang Xinmin finally developed his own business experience, because the family started with the salt and iron business, so in the end, Huang Xinmin still chose to do salt and iron.

Finally, the business improved a little, and Huang Xinmin contacted a former business partner in Xiangbei, who was also a local big family, because he felt the misfortune of Huang Xinmin's family, and transferred a batch of salt to Huang Xinsheng to sell in southern Gannan under the condition of almost half selling and half giving away.

However, at the same time, the Northern Expedition was also in full swing, and soon the revolutionary army invaded Hunan and Hubei and other places, and the war raged everywhere, blocking the trade routes between the north and the south.

It can be said that Huang Xinmin hated the warlord from the bottom of his heart and hated the war, Huang Xinmin was twenty years old this year, and it was also this year that he became one of the many refugees living in the south.

Almost begging all the way, after several twists and turns, and even almost died on the road a few times, Huang Xinmin finally entered the territory of Ganzhou, and finally returned home, Huang Xinmin retreated, he did not dare to face the only remaining women and children at home, cried several times, and finally chose to stay away from home.

Huang Xinmin decided to go to Zhonghai to fight, on the way to do business, he had heard from the past business travelers, if you want to say the last happy land in the land of China, it must be Dazhonghai, which is the only place that has not been burned by the war.

Huang Xinmin didn't know whether Zhonghai was a happy land or not, but as long as there was no war, Huang Xinmin had the confidence to make a career again, so Huang Xinmin, who was penniless, decided to go north and turn to Zhonghai at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

After several days of tossing and turning, Huang Xinmin rushed to the foot of Longhu Mountain.

You know, at that time, Longhu Mountain was not as smooth and beautiful as it is now, and it happened to coincide with the alternation of spring and summer, and there were many wind and rain, so this mountain road was very difficult to walk.

On this day, Huang Xinmin was hungry and came to an official road not far from the vicinity of Xianshui Rock.

At this time, Huang Xinmin temporarily decided to rush overnight, hoping to cross this official road until he walked out of the range of Longhu Mountain and then rested, and then he could see people, maybe he could make a bowl of hot rice soup to eat.

Perhaps, God really deliberately went against Huang Xinmin, the weather was good, but suddenly there was a violent storm, and seeing that there was no store in front of the village and behind the store, Huang Xinmin had to find a big tree to hide.

"It should not be far from Xianshui Rock here, I heard that there is a hanging coffin on Xianshui Rock, it is very mysterious, I don't know if it's true!" The night was quiet, drenched in cold rain, Huang Xinmin couldn't help muttering secretly, to be honest, he was scared at this time, and he always felt as if something was staring at him.

The heavy rain is not too long, after all, the weather in the south, the child's face in June can change eighteen times a day, and the heavy rain will stop when he says stop, Huang Xinmin at this time only feels cold and shivering all over his body, he has a premonition that his body may not be able to bear it after the rain, so he took advantage of the darkness to speed up his pace and continue to walk along the official road.

In the past few days, the heavy rain near Longhu Mountain has poured down, and a lot of mud ponds have accumulated in many places, and the mountain road is difficult to walk and there is no moonlight.

'Oops'

Suddenly, Huang Xinmin exhaled in pain, and he didn't know what he stepped on under his feet, which was extremely sharp, cutting Huang Xinmin's feet, causing his body to lose his balance and fall to the side of the road in an instant.

This mountain road is near the halfway up the mountain, it is extremely high, Huang Xinmin stepped on the air, the whole person fell down the slippery slope, Huang Xinmin's heart was full of despair and unwillingness, and only four big words were recalled in his mind: My life is over!

Subsequently, Huang Xinmin's whole person lost consciousness, only remembering that in the end his whole person fell into the water, after Huang Xinmin recalled afterwards, it should be a mountain flood, because the mountain road built at that time was basically rocky, there was no water and the like.

In this way, Huang Xinmin, who was in a coma, was hit by the mountain flood all the way and went towards the lower edge of Longhu Mountain.

When he woke up again, Huang Xinmin only felt that the bones in his body were about to fall apart, and he felt pain everywhere in his body, as if his body was not his own.

"I'm still alive?!"

At this time, the sky was already slightly bright, Huang Xinmin was lying in the muddy water, when he saw the surrounding environment clearly, he couldn't help crying, he couldn't tell what he felt at this time, although he didn't die, he didn't know where he was!

"Hiss~"

Huang Xinmin tried to break free from the muddy water, but there was an amazing pain in his legs, and he couldn't help but gasp in pain.

"Thief God, what have I Huang Xinmin done to hurt the heavens and reason, why do you do this to me!?" Huang Xinmin roared, lying on his back in the muddy water, tears flowing unstoppably from the corners of his eyes.

"Gollum!"

Suddenly, just after Huang Xinmin's voice shouted, a thunderous voice came from a distance, as if God was responding to him, and Huang Xinmin's whole body was trembling, and his eyes involuntarily looked in the direction where the voice came.

However, at this glance, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and on a huge bare rock not far away, a golden figure was squatting, like a golden mountain, and his whole body was shining with golden light.

This turned out to be a huge golden toad!