Chapter I

"Old man Song, the Chishui War that decided the world has been finished, which paragraph are you going to talk about today?"

As soon as the storyteller appeared, the diners stopped their chopsticks, and some of the sons had already taken out their silver.

Xiao Er is naturally quick-eyed, and he doesn't wait for the sons to talk nonsense, so he takes it and turns around to give the storyteller a drink.

This storyteller is also a bold character, whether it is firewood or green ants, he will drink it after taking it.

After drinking and moistening her throat, the little girl who didn't know whether it was her granddaughter or the maid also adjusted the strings, and the storyteller snorted softly, without startling, and the tavern was instantly quiet.

"Smack!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, don't be in a hurry. ”

"The battle of Chishui, although Daliang won most of the world, but the Xishu did not perish, but retreated into the hinterland of Bashu, and our book has just finished the beginning. ”

"As the so-called wounded enemy 1,000, self-loss 800, said that after the battle of Chishui, although the Great Liang was a big victory, but it was also a tragic victory, and then unable to pursue, the general Jiang Fengyang of Zhennan led the army back to Jingbei City, the capital of the Great Liang State, ready to recuperate, who knew that this maintenance was twenty years. ”

In the twenty years since the dawn of Daliang, a major event has happened in Jingbei City: the Lin family, known as the first merchant of Daliang, has lost a town house stone bought with a lot of money!

Speaking of the Lin family, the common people know that there are three monsters.

The first monster is the strange background of the Lin family. No one knows where the Lin family came from, where their ancestral home is, where they do business, whether they started from scratch or inherited their ancestral property.

The world only knows that the original Battle of Chishui emptied the treasury accumulated by Daliang for ten years.

When General Jiang was about to lose his fight, a middle-aged man surnamed Lin entered Jingbei City alone and knelt outside the Taiji Hall in cloth clothes, claiming to help Daliang dominate the world.

It is strange to say, you must know that if the body of Bu Yi dares to approach the Taiji Palace, he can be beheaded on the spot for the crime of treason, but this person was not beaten to death as a madman.

According to the people, after kneeling for nine hours and unable to make a sound, the emperor personally took him into the Taiji Hall in the middle of the night when there was a lot of thunder.

Of course, no one knows if the emperor actually greeted him personally.

But everyone knew that less than a month after Lin Weige entered the city, three million stones, gold, silver and grain were continuously transported to the military camp of General Zhennan.

Since then, Lin Weige has also established a name in Jingbei City, and even the salt transportation and Cao Yun, which have been seen to death by the imperial court since ancient times, are in charge of him, and he is known as the first merchant of Daliang.

This second blame refers to Lin Anyan, the son of the Lin family.

The people know that Lin Weige's wife was appointed by the emperor.

After the Battle of Chishui that year, the court rewarded the king with a reward for meritorious deeds, and the bounty was given silver, except for two people.

One is Jiang Fengyang, the biggest hero of Daliang, and the emperor personally named him the only king with a different surname in Daliang, but unlike other princes, Jiang Fengyang did not receive fiefdoms and continued to be a general.

At the same time, the emperor's grace, when Jiang Fengyang was busy with military affairs all the year round and had no heirs, directly ordered that as long as Jiang Fengyang had a son in the future, he would let a princess of the same age marry;

The princess is married, or the unborn "finger belly is married". Throughout the ages, there has never been one.

The other is Lin Weige, in addition to acquiescing in his participation in the economic lifeline of the two major countries of "Salt Transport" and "Cao Yun", the court also appointed a palace maid to him who had not yet married a wife at that time.

Don't look at these two marriages, they seem to be very different. It can be known that Jiang Fengyang is the only king with a different surname in Daliang under one person, and Lin Weige is just a businessman no matter how he says it.

Even if she is a palace maid, these four words are hand-picked by the emperor, which is unprecedented enough.

It stands to reason that this is just enviable, not "weird". But what happened later, the people couldn't figure it out.

This palace maid married into the Lin family only three months ago, and Lin Anyan was born.

At that time, it was rumored in Jingbei City that this palace maid was actually Lin Weige, who was only allowed to ration after being spoiled by the emperor, and Lin Weige was regarded as a green hat by the emperor.

As Lin Anyan grows bigger and bigger, his facial features become more and more heroic, which is very different from Lin Weige.

If it's just a difference in appearance, it can also be explained that the biological mother is beautiful. But compared to his appearance, Lin Anyan's personality is very different from Lin Weige.

Although Lin Weige is a businessman, he is not mercenary, and often squanders money.

On the other hand, Lin Anyan... The people of Jingbei City privately called him "King Lin Yan".

The last third monster is the Lin family's town house stone.

said that although Lin Weige has a lot of money, he doesn't love gold and silver or pearls and jade, but likes to collect strange stones.

This town house stone is said to have been bought by Lin Weige for spending a small half of his family property.

You must know that the Lin family has used the strength of a family to make the Battle of Chishui fight for more than a year, and half of the family property must be how much?

The common people dare not think about it, and they can't think of it.

It is said that at that time, the Yellow River was flooded, and many people who lived by the Yellow River all the year round and relied on water for food were drowned.

So the imperial court urgently ordered that the former general of Jiang Fengyang's subordinates, the current general of Liang Zhengdong, lead 8,000 tigers and leopards to ride to the disaster relief.

The tiger and leopard cavalry has always been the elite division of the imperial court, and every soldier has accompanied Jiang Fengyang to fight in the south and north for many years.

This decree soon reached the ears of the people by the Yellow River, and the people were all grateful to the emperor of the current dynasty.

However, this elite division, which only crawled out of the pile of dead men in the war, actually encountered heavy losses in this flood control.

Later, the approval of the imperial court only said that it was because although the tiger and leopard cavalry was elite, it was longer than war and shorter than water control.

Because of his lack of experience, he miscalculated the power of the Yellow River floods, and suffered heavy losses.

But according to the refugees who escaped from the Yellow River, in fact, the feared Dian Wu'an really encountered a ghost!

It turned out that on the first day the tiger and leopard rode to the Yellow River, most of the water of the Yellow River receded.

At that time, the people all praised it, saying that it was the general and the tiger and leopard riders who scared away the monsters that made trouble.

Dian Wu'an naturally doesn't believe in this kind of mythical theory, anyway, for some reason the water has receded momentum, and it is estimated that this water control will be easier than imagined.

In this way, despite the dissuasion of the people, Dian Wu'an directly ordered to set up camp by the Yellow River, preparing to repair the embankment as quickly as possible day and night.

But on the first night, the night watchman heard a loud noise not far from the camp.

The sound shook the organs of several officers and soldiers of the night vigil, and there was even a wounded veteran who was directly bled to death by the shock.

However, the strange thing is that with such a loud noise, not a single one of the Hundred Battles Division woke up.

Sensing that the situation was wrong, he hurriedly ran to the camp to report the situation.

Dian Wu'an, who was woken up, didn't believe it and beat him until he saw the body of the dead veteran, and he realized that something was wrong.

The tiger and leopard ride is the elite of the elite in the end, even if it is in the middle of the night, the horn of the emergency assembly is blown, but the time of half a pillar of incense will be gathered neatly.

So Dian Dian led the team at noon, and set off towards the bank of the Yellow River with a loud noise in the direction of the guidance.

The refugees didn't know about the rest of the story. It was only later that 8,000 tigers and leopards rode and only a dozen people came back, as well as a seriously injured and unconscious Dian Good Afternoon.

And the few people who survived were all tight-lipped, and no one else said what happened that night until they died.

But after that, the water of the Yellow River miraculously receded. Only the embankments and villages that have been washed out to the tattered have left traces of where it came.

Later, the government found this boulder by the Yellow River.

The people all said that this is the ancient era of Yu after the water left behind the town stone, this stone was originally used to press the water monster Akajiri horse monkey, the stone was washed ashore to show that the red jiri horse monkey also ran away.

Including Na Dian Good Night and Eight Thousand Tiger and Leopard Rides, they were also defeated by the fleeing Akajiri horse monkeys.

However, although the common people do not question this kind of myth and ghostly theory, they will not believe it too much, and it is just a conversation after dinner.

After Lin Weige learned about this, he spent a small half of his family property to buy this boulder from the imperial court.

Who knew that the stone was gone.

Some people say that Lin Weige transported it to the ancestral tomb of Anzhen, the ancestral hometown, so as to bless the family wealth of generations;

Some people also say that it was buried in the underground of the Lin Mansion by Lin Weige, so that the Lin Mansion could not be disturbed in the dragon-like Jingbei City;

What's more, through the legend of the origin of the stone, it is said that Dayu went down to earth, caught the escaped Chijiri horse monkey, and took the stone back to suppress the demon beast.

In short, in the midst of all the opinions, the stone disappeared for three years.

It wasn't until Lin Anyan's third birthday that everyone who came to the door to say goodbye suddenly found that there was an extra boulder as high as a hill in the middle of Yunying Lake in the mountain behind the Lin family.

Only then did people recall that this strange stone that had consumed half of the Lin family's property three years ago had finally moved into the Lin family.

is such a legendary Lin family, this legendary town house stone, lost!