Hong Xitai took a sip of tea and said, "Okay, it's time for me to reveal my mystery, and I'll tell you my story." My ancestors are a descendant of the eleventh Jin King Zhu Qiugui, so my hometown is in this city! After saying that, he let out a long breath, and it seemed that these words had been holding back in his heart for a long time.

Hong Xitai nodded at the two people who were stunned when he heard this, as if he was sure that his words were correct, and continued: "My ancestor Zhu Qiugui succeeded the king of Jin in 1613, the year after the construction of Yongzuo Temple. When Li Zicheng attacked this city, my ancestor's army happened to escape in the provinces; Later, due to the war, from the defeat of Li Zicheng's Dashun army to the entry of the Qing army, my ancestors have been stranded in the south, and they can't come back if they want to go back here. ”

Hong Xitai put down the teacup, and then said: "In the process of the Qing army's unification of China, they killed the Ming Dynasty royal family, and my ancestors fled south again and again, first following Zhu Shugui, the king of Ningjing, to Taiwan; After Taiwan descended to the Qing Dynasty, my ancestors stayed in Taiwan, in order to avoid the pursuit of the Qing court, my ancestors changed their surname to Hong, so that the descendants will not forget the Hongwu year of Zhu Yuanzhang's founding year; After the Liberation War, my late father first went to Malaysia and then to Singapore, where I was born. To sum up, it has been less than 400 years since our family left the local area, and although we have been wandering outside, generations of clansmen have always missed this city in their hearts. ”

When Li Ruhui heard this, she seemed to not know how to express her shock, and she stammered a little: "Sir, I really didn't expect your family history to be so ...... It's so closely connected to this city......"

Zong Zhenlei listened to Hong Xitai's narration, and he was already excited. He remembered the painful expression that Hong Xitai had when he listened to Li Ruhui's story about the history of the late Ming Dynasty in Hong Xitai's studio in the capital; At this time, he realized that it was completely Hong Xitai's true feelings! He didn't wait for Li Ruhui to finish speaking, then stood up and respectfully waved at Hong Xitai and said, "Sir, we are a family!" My ancestors fled to Zhejiang in the early Qing Dynasty in order to escape the bloody massacre of the Ming Dynasty royal family, and changed to the surname in order not to forget the ancestors, so I should have been surnamed Zhu. ”

Hong Xitai's eyes widened, and he also stood up, and was about to bow back, but then he returned Zong Zhenlei with a bow, and then sat down with each other.

Li Ruhui looked at their humility, probably thinking of the final whereabouts of the Hong Xitai family from the exile and migration of the royal family surnamed Zhu, and asked: "Sir, you just said that your late father went to Malaysia after the Liberation War, is your late father's migration related to the Liberation War?" ”

Hong Xitai nodded: "During World War II, my late father was forcibly conscripted into the army by the Fuso occupation army in Taiwan, belonged to the Taiwanese soldiers, came to the mainland with the army, and after 1945, he participated in the battle of defending the city against the Yan army and the People's Liberation Army, and finally became a prisoner; After the war, as a Taiwanese soldier, he could not return to Fuso, and he did not want to return to Taiwan, so he drifted to Malaysia, and later became a family in Singapore. ”

Hong Xitai let out a long sigh, and then said: "My family history is here first, let's talk about the origin of this research topic. My father told me that there was a saying left by my ancestors that the Yongzuo Temple of this city blessed the Ming Dynasty and our people, but he never knew the cause. During the period when his father was defending the city for Yan Jun, he experienced an event that he couldn't let go; At that time, he met an old evil monk who brought a small disciple to Yongzuo Temple and forced the temple keepers to tell the hiding place of the Buddha's relics; The father had tried to dissuade them from doing evil, but the old monk said what he knew about the 'Golden Lily Project' to show his special status, and said that he needed to continue to implement the secret plan to help the revival. When the old evil monk saw that my father was blocking their questioning, he threatened that if my father dared to stop him again, he would report my father's behavior to his superiors in the army, so that the superiors would dispose of my father as a traitor. ”

Hong Xitai looked at the two young men who were listening carefully, and continued: "I promised you that I would tell you the origin of that sketch when I have time, and now I will talk about it." The father didn't know whether the treasure map of the evil monk was a brick carving on a building or a brick carving as a whole, but he reminded him to do one thing, so he sketched all the brick carvings on the building of Yongzuo Temple in the interval between the wars, so as to prevent the building of Yongzuo Temple from being destroyed by the war, as a basis for restoration after peace, and the sketch you saw was one of them. ”

Li Ruhui asked, "Sir, is it because you funded this research specifically to understand the connotation of these sketches?" ”

Hong Xitai shook his head and said: "When my father was alive, I was always depressed about shooting and killing the evil monk at that time, and I couldn't calm it down for a long time; He repeatedly asked himself, was this a protection of the Buddha treasure? Or is it doing the right thing to protect the land of the blessed people? This involves whether the statement left by the ancestors is true, and I don't know if there is really a Buddha treasure of the blessed Zhu Ming clan here. For this reason, he has always wanted to find out the truth of this legend; However, due to various reasons, he was unable to do this, so he pinned his hopes on me and asked me to help him fulfill his long-cherished wish. ”

When Zong Zhenlei heard Hong Xitai talk about the "Golden Lily Plan", he was first shocked in his heart: Tongyun's master came to this temple and really had something to do with that plan! Later, after listening to Hong Xitai talk about the reason why his late father stopped evil deeds, and used the sketch of the brick carvings in the temple as the basis for future restoration, as well as the origin of the establishment of this research topic, he couldn't sit still and said excitedly: "Sir, my father's deeds make me awe-inspired, he is a person worthy of admiration!" ”

Hong Xitai stopped Zong Zhenlei, who was about to stand up, with a gesture, and said with a smile: "I already know the source of the Buddha treasure here, and the current research results are enough to comfort my ancestors, and they are also enough to comfort our wandering descendants of Zhu Ming; So, I think the whole study can come to an end. As for the steps to complete the study, it is enough to complete it according to the contract, and the final evaluation will be carried out by the two schools and foundations. ”

Li Ruhui glanced at Zong Zhenlei, and it seemed that the "Golden Lily Project" mentioned by Hong Xitai remembered Zong Zhenlei's worries when he came, so he said in a tone of soliciting opinions: "Mr. Hong, there is another point, we have not yet completed the speculation on the hiding place of the Buddha relics, do we need to write it into the report?" ”

Hong Xitai thought for a while and said, "Whether or not I can see the real Buddha relics is not what I am looking forward to, and it is not within the scope of the subject; I think it's better to leave it to someone who can protect this Buddha treasure to know about it. ”

Zong Zhenlei listened and nodded with relief; Thinking that he had worried about the hypothesis that a treasure hunting gang from Southeast Asia would use the remnants of the "Golden Lily Project" to hunt for treasure, now he can finally stop worrying.

Li Ruhui said: "Okay, sir, listen to you, we will complete the research report as soon as possible." ”

After she finished speaking, she seemed to think of another question that she needed to explain to Mr. Hong: "However, we have not found any record of Yongzuo Temple as a place of worship for the royal family in historical materials." ”

Hong Xitai waved his hand and said: "It doesn't matter whether there is a record or not, for us descendants, this sacrificial place is like the 'Wailing Wall' that the Jews saw when they returned to their hometowns, after the suffering of several generations of displacement, now as long as we confirm the location of the blessed people, our hearts will be at ease; He pointed to his heart again and said, "What is in the heart only needs to be known by the heart, and all that remains in the heart." ”

Hong Xitai looked at the two of them, paused and said: "Originally, in order to ensure the objectivity of the research project, I didn't want the research to be interfered with by personal feelings, and I was going to announce my family affairs when the research report was handed over, and I have written a letter to be handed over to Professor Li at the end, but the world is unpredictable!" ”

When Li Ruhui heard Hong Xitai mention Professor Li, she asked, "What does Mr. think of Professor Li?" ”

Hong Xitai didn't answer, but just reached out to summon a staff member, whispered a few words to her, and the staff left quickly.

Hong Xitai said with deep eyes: "Whether a person is noble or not is not judged by social status, but determined by his spiritual realm, which is cause and effect; "Do not do all evil, but do all good", the noble will naturally avoid "all evil", and will inevitably "pursue" good love to the public; on the contrary, the greedy and self-righteous people, no matter how high their status, will not leave a happy ending. ”

The staff member hurried over, holding a round copper box in his hand.

Hong Xitai took the round copper box, first gently wiped the lid of the copper box engraved with the delicate Guanyin statue with a tea towel, then opened it carefully, and took out two strips of cloth from the box; One strip of cloth reads "昼は山に従って尽き", and the other reads "黄河は海流に入る".

Li Ruhui and Zong Zhenlei have only seen the one shown by Professor Li, and the other one is the first time they have seen it.

Hong Xitai gently stroked the strip of cloth and said to himself: "The efficiency of the police is still quite high, so that these two brothers can finally no longer be separated." ”

Zong Zhenlei and Li Ruhui listened silently and did not make a sound, they didn't want to disturb Mr. Hong's thoughts at this time.

After a while, Hong Xitai said: "'The sun is at the end of the mountain, and the Yellow River flows into the sea', which is like my blood returning home, which is also the expectation of future generations' concept of life!" It was only when the police told me that I had found two strips of cloth that I realized that Professor Li was a descendant of the temple keepers. Although this strip of cloth was not merged by the descendants of both sides as my late father had hoped, the broken elements of the whole event still came together, which seemed to be providential, which was enough to comfort the two ancestors and give me a grand view. ”