Five: Lock the door
The Yin-Yang Gate has been laid out in Jiangnan Road for many years, and Xu Fuzhong not only hides Mrs. Wang's brothers and sisters, but also other people who hide in the shadows.
Since Mrs. Wang married into the Xu Mansion, the Yinyangmen has accelerated the layout, with the purpose of seizing the Xu family's property in Jiangnan.
In the past three years, the Yin Yang Gate has hidden many backhands in the Xu Mansion.
Xu Fan tied the worn-out gourd around his waist, rubbed his right hand lightly for a moment, looking at the very new crack where his fingers were rubbed, and felt a little heartache.
After a moment of sadness, he walked out of the mourning hall with his feet raised.
At this moment, dozens of sturdy men dressed in the Ding Hu of the Xu Mansion flocked to the main hall where the mourning hall was located from the verandah, rockery, side courtyard, instrument gate and other places.
Previously, the disciples of the Yin-Yang Sect who were waiting outside the main hall of the mourning hall were dismissed by Mrs. Wang and the Qing man.
However, the roar of the qi machine in the mourning hall still alarmed the entire Xu Mansion.
The real servants of the Xu Mansion were repelled by this group of sturdy men who suddenly appeared, hiding in the corner and shivering.
Xu Fan walked out of the mourning hall slowly, and glanced indifferently at the Yin Yang Sect disciples who were rushing towards him.
He slashed horizontally with his right hand, and slammed his palm knife into the arm of one of the Yin-Yang Sect disciples who rushed to the front.
"Squeak"!
The sound of bones shattering! Then came the miserable howl of the Yin-Yang Sect disciple.
The cold sweat of the bean is flowing down the forehead!
Before the Yin-Yang Sect disciple could dodge, Xu Fan took a step forward, and lightly stepped on the knee joint of the opponent's right leg with his right foot, and there was another "squeak"!
The arms and calves were all broken, and the pain made the Yin-Yang Sect disciple curl up and lay down and wail.
Xu Fan walked leisurely in the courtyard, and the disciples of the Yin and Yang Sect who rushed up did not have a single enemy, and fell to the ground one after another.
In less than half a cup of tea, more than 10 people lay on the rockery, in the flower garden, and under the verandah in the courtyard.
Looking at the young man who stepped on the knee of a disciple of the Yin-Yang Sect in the courtyard, he took a sip of pear blossom white, and there was no hidden killing intent in his eyes.
The eyes of the seven or eight Yin-Yang Sect disciples who retreated to the front of the Yimen were full of fear.
One of the Yin-Yang Sect disciples at the head of the group let out a low shout, "Withdraw!" ”
The rest of the people did not hesitate any longer, and fled, and the people did not pay any more attention to the same door that kept howling on the ground.
"Want to go?"
Xu Fan spat out a mouthful of wine, and said indifferently with contempt for the many Yin Yang Sect disciples who were screaming miserably.
The next moment, a golden red light flew out of his hand.
Penetrate the gap between the rockeries and rush straight in the direction of the instrument gate. The disciples of the Yin Yang Sect, who had already withdrawn dozens of steps outside the Yi Gate, felt a terrifying strong wind coming from their backs at the same time.
"Spread out!"
As soon as the word "escape" was spoken, the golden red light penetrated the hearts of seven or eight Yin-Yang Sect disciples irregularly.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ...”
Less than a hundred steps away from the Yimen, this group of Yin-Yang Sect disciples all fell face to the ground, until death came, and they couldn't believe that it was a wine gourd that killed them.
Xu Fan looked around, his eyes swept over the people who were still wailing on the ground, and said lightly towards the outside of the Yi Gate, "Close the house and lock the door, no one is allowed to go out." Go to Xu Ji and Xu Xiang, the two clan elders. ”
A corpse, and a courtyard of miserable howls. No one dared to disobey Xu Fan's orders.
There were no disciples of the Yin Yang Sect who were in charge of the ground, Xu Fan returned to the spirit hall, his eyes fell on his titular aunt again, and winked at the pink carved sister in her arms, revealing a seemingly gentle smile.
Completely ignoring the frightened look on Mrs. Wang's face, Xu Fan picked up his sister and sat down again in the only chair in the row on the left, and asked with a low smile, "Do you miss your brother?" ”
"Yes, yes..."
Xu Fan's right hand gently scratched his sister's little hand, causing her sister to chuckle.
"Good sister, let my brother take care of you in the future."
Hearing this, Mrs. Wang, who had not yet come back to her senses, lost her luster on her pretty face in an instant, and her cheeks turned pale.
Thinking that Xu Fan would go around her life, Mrs. Wang turned her head, and her apricot eyes lost their former brilliance, leaving only a trace of reluctance.
I don't know if it's reluctance to die or reluctance to my daughter.
Seeing the two old men of the Xu Mansion coming cautiously from the courtyard, Mrs. Wang stood up dejectedly, her voice a little hoarse, "Good girl, go to rest with your mother first." ”
Xu Fan did not stop him, handed over the sister in his arms to Mrs. Wang, and looked at the back of the other party who had lost his spirit and disappeared into the side hall.
Xu Ji and Xu Xiang are both over half a hundred years old, and their seniority is a head higher than Xu Fan's father, and they are the old men of Xu's mansion.
Because he is an old member of the Xu Mansion, he has long stopped asking about family affairs.
It is precisely because he didn't bother with the affairs of the Xu Mansion early that he escaped the catastrophe of the Yin and Yang Gate. The two old men were also taken aback when they first entered the courtyard.
The Yin-Yang Sect disciples who fell to the ground in the courtyard pretended to howl miserably before they stopped.
Without Xu Fan's orders, the remaining family members of the Xu Mansion did not dare to make their own decisions.
Xu Ji and Xu Xiang have always been cautious, and the moment they entered the mourning hall, they were even more frightened by the scene in front of them.
In the main hall, except for the coffin and the chair where Xu Fan was sitting, everything else was in a mess, and the two of them even saw a corpse and a large bloodstain.
The corpse, which the two also knew, was a man who had often appeared next to Mrs. Wang in recent years.
At this moment, seeing the man's body, Xu Ji and Xu Xiang both showed excitement.
"Brother Fan, this..." Xu Xiang's voice was still a little trembling, since he entered the courtyard, he saw two groups of corpses one after another, which really scared him a lot.
"Come on, move two chairs for the two grandfathers."
Soon, someone from Xu's house moved two chairs. On this mourning hall, two corpses were on the side. In front of Xu Fan sat two old men from the Xu Mansion who were over half a hundred years old.
"The current situation of the Xu Mansion, I believe the two grandfathers also know something." Xu Fan raised his chin, pointed to the corpse in the middle of the two sides, and continued. "He is a member of the Yin-Yang Gate, and those people in the courtyard are also from the Yin-Yang Gate. By the way, there is also Mrs. Wang, who is my aunt, who is also an undercover agent sent by the Yin and Yang Sect to my father's side. ”
"Ahh What's going on? ”
Xu Ji and Xu Xiang's faces were full of wrinkles, and their eyes showed a look of horror.
Obviously, I was frightened by this news.
Although the two of them didn't know what the Yin and Yang Gate was, they were able to infiltrate the Xu Mansion into what it is now, and they almost seized Xu Fan's housekeeping rights.
After living for half a hundred years, Xu Ji and Xu Xiang have already become human spirits, otherwise they would not be alive now.
"The two grandfathers are the old men of our Xu Mansion, and now the Xu Mansion is already stormy, my father is dead, and there are strong people outside who covet it." Xu Fan scratched his forehead, looked helpless, and sighed.
"So, please come and make decisions for me."
"This..."
Xu Ji and Xu Xiang glanced at each other, and a hint of panic flashed in the depths of their cloudy old eyes.
Unexpectedly, Xu Fan, who had been imprisoned for three years, had just come out of Xujiazhuang and did such a big thing.
The two didn't dare to hesitate, just a moment of looking at each other to understand what the other party was thinking, and at the same time smiled bitterly at Xu Fan in front of them,
Only refusal, otherwise it will be difficult to live.
Xu Ji coughed lightly, raised his right hand, and motioned for Xu Xiang to speak.
"Brother Fan, you are the son-in-law of our Xu Mansion, and the Xu family still has to make up your mind."
"Bang~Bang~Bang~"
The huge Xu Mansion, the main entrance, the side gate, the corner gate and other small doors for clutter are all closed.
This abnormal behavior attracted the attention of all the forces in Guangling City, and Wang Wenhua, the prefect of Guangling, even sent his master to Xu's mansion in person.
As a result, I was told that it was Young Master Xu Fufan who ordered it, and there was nothing else to say.
The master of the government could only sit in a private room in a teahouse not far from Xu's mansion and rest, waiting for the reaction of the rest of the parties.
The Xu family controls the lifeblood of Jiangnan Province's salt affairs, and this line involves the princes of the national dynasty and the vassal kings of various places, not to mention the four-grade local super-grade masters such as the Guangling prefect.
As the door of the Xu Mansion was closed, he refused to thank the guests.
Suddenly, Guangling City was treacherous.
After all, the head of the Xu Mansion only died.
Unlike the tense atmosphere in Guangling City, there was silence in Xu's Mansion.
After Xu Ji and Xu Xiang left the mourning hall, they ordered their subordinates to detain the Yin-Yang Sect disciples who had broken arms and legs in the courtyard and torture them severely.
If it was in the past, the Xu family would have asked the Guangling Mansion to take people away directly.
Now, the Xu Mansion has decided to use lynching without authorization, just to eradicate all the details hidden in the Xu Mansion.
Xufu East Road Courtyard, Wave Garden.
A lake with blue waves, a green starting point. In the middle of the lake, in a three-story building, simple and silent, Xu Fan, who was wearing a brocade robe, bowed down and bowed three times to the tablet in front of him.
Under the verandah outside the attic, a little maid dressed in purple stood quietly outside the door, her eyes red and swollen, but she couldn't hide the joy in her heart.
It's been three years, and the young master has finally returned home.
The lady also waited for the young master to offer incense in person.
Since the death of Xu Fan's mother, the Wave Court has become a forbidden place in the house, precisely because this is the place where Xu's mother lived before her death.
After a long time, the door of the attic opened, and Xu Fan slowly came to the guardrail of the verandah, looked around the island in the middle of the lake, and took a deep breath.
The clear water of the lake, with the slightest ripples, was silent for a long time, and the little maid in purple endured it for a long time, and finally spoke, "Young master, you are finally back." ”
Xu Fan turned sideways and looked up and down at the purple-clothed maid on the side, the maid next to him, who was as big as himself, was bought by his mother to accompany him.
It's a pity that since Xu Fan was sent to Xujiazhuang outside Guangling City three years ago, the little maid was left in the Wave Court to take care of her mother's old residence.
"Zi'er, I'm back."
Looking at the beautiful face of the girl in front of him, Xu Fan's expression was in a trance, as if he had returned to his previous life, which was a memory of how long ago, a memory of his childhood.
It was the purple-clothed maid in front of him who accompanied him, and the memories came to his heart bit by bit, his mother accompanied him in the past, and Zi'er's dusty memories of accompanying him to play on the island in the middle of the lake began to loosen.
After being speechless for a long time, in Zi'er's shy call, Xu Fan came back to his senses, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, revealing a friendly smile.
"Zi'er, how have you been in the past three years?"
Looking at Zi'er, who was a little thin, Xu Fan showed a look of concern, took half a step forward, reached out and rubbed Zi'er's hair, and his tone was rarely gentle.
"I, I." Zi'er looked up at the brocade-clothed young man in front of her, who was a head taller than herself.
It is completely different from three years ago, and the sadness in my heart has turned into a cry at this time.
"Okay, don't cry, don't cry. I am back. Xu Fan said silently in his heart, "I'm really back." Millions of years apart. ”
Completely messed up, the hair on Zi'er's forehead, Xu Fan chuckled, "Zi'er will continue to take care of me in the future." We're staying in the Wave Court for the time being. ”
On the other side, Xufu West Road Yard, a miscellaneous yard of Xu's family, has more than a dozen storage warehouses.
From time to time, there was a terrible heart-rending howl in the storeroom.
If it was in the past, the disciples of the Yin and Yang Sect would not have taken these ordinary family members of the Xu Mansion in their eyes.
At this time, the arms and leg joints of the disciples of the Yin-Yang Sect were broken.
Become a chopping board fish for others to handle.
There were more than a dozen burly men with huge waists standing outside the door, and they would tremble when they heard this scream.
Since Xu Fan entered the mansion, the Xu family has been turned upside down, and all the people who were originally commanding in the mansion have been arrested.
All the guards in the mansion were replaced by side children, and there were even some slaves who were attached to the Xu family.
After nightfall, Xu Fan, accompanied by Zi'er, dined in the main hall on the first floor of the Wave Garden.
The sound of slight footsteps outside came from the verandah, and Xu Ji and Xu Xiang waited on the verandah outside the side hall of the Wave Court with four young children of the Xu family.
The expressions of the six people were extremely solemn, and although the four young children didn't know why their grandfather had brought them here, they also cautiously followed them under their father's instructions.
Not long after, a purple-clothed maid appeared at the door of the side hall, it was Zi'er.
"Young master, please two grandfathers."
Zi'er bowed slightly, gave up half of her body, and led the way in front.
Xu Ji and Xu Xiang held a thick stack of confessions in their hands, and the complicated color in their eyes could not be dissipated for a long time.
The confessions in their hands involved the lives of hundreds of people in the Xu Mansion, as the old men of the Xu Mansion, they really couldn't imagine that so many people would betray the Xu family, and there were even some collateral children.
"Two grandpa, please take a seat."
Xu Fan saw the figures of the two appear at the door of the main hall, raised his head and pointed to the chair on the right.
"Thank you, Brother Fan."
Xu Ji and Xu Xiang arched their hands, and after sitting down, they handed the confession in their hands to Zi'er, who had finished serving tea.
"These are the names of those thieves. Among them, many of them are major shopkeepers in Guangling City, and even some Xu family members. ”
The more Xu Ji spoke, the more angry he became, and the green tendons on his forehead rose.
"These thieves have spent money on food and clothing for the Xu family, and they have teamed up with outsiders to seize the ancestral property of the Xu family." Xu Xiang on the side put down the teacup he had just picked up, snorted heavily, and said with a disgruntled face.
Casually glancing at the confession, Xu Fan threw the list lightly onto the dining table. looked at the angry looks of the two grandfathers, and suddenly chuckled.
Both of them were puzzled, why Xu Fan was laughing, his eyes showed doubt, and he looked over.
"The two grandfathers don't need to be angry, they need to know that they are angry." Xu Fan's right hand lightly tapped on the armrest of the chair, and his eyes wandered off the confession.
After being silent for a long time, he spoke, "These thieves broke into our Xu family and plotted to rob our Xu family's ancestral property, and they died innocently. But after all, our Xu family is a prestigious family in the south of the Yangtze River, and we still handed over the thieves of the Yinyangmen to the Guangling Mansion, so that the court would know about the evil deeds of the Yinyangmen. ”
"That..." Xu Xiang's expression was solemn, and he looked at Xu Fan's expression cautiously, and only after a long time did he feel embarrassed to ask.
"The two grandfathers can rest assured, the house slaves on the list will be killed directly. The people of the Xu family, after all, are also surnamed Xu. Xu Fan pulled out a list from the dining table, which was the list of thieves in the Xu family.
"Xu You, Xu Yu, Xu Shu, Xu Jun..."