Chapter 18: Cause and Effect
Li Zhichang smiled at the girl, like a spring breeze, the girl's face turned red, and she no longer stuck out her tongue.
"This is the courtyard of the Geng family, why does the old man occupy it. He was generous and straightforward to this Confucian old man.
The Confucian old man said: "This is not an occupation, there is also a public case, if the son wants to hear it, the second child is willing to talk about it in detail." ”
Li Zhichang said: "Oh, you can talk about it. ”
He sat down with a swagger, calmly, without the slightest nervousness because the room was full of strangers.
The old man in Confucian service was awe-inspiring in his heart, knowing that Li Zhichang was a hard stubble, unlike the Taoist priests and monks who were shallow in Taoism before.
The more calm Li Zhichang was, the more the old man did not dare to be careless.
He spoke first, pointed to the girl and said: "This is my niece Qingfeng, next to me is my old wife, our family is a descendant of the Tu Shan clan, the son should know the Tu Shan clan." ”
When he said Tu Shan, he was very proud.
Li Zhichang nodded and said, "Is it the Tushan tribe to which King Yu's wife belongs?"
There is also King Yu in this world to control the water, there are thousands of years ago, Li Zhichang has seen it in the wilderness.
The Desert Classic is the story of introducing some famous mountains and rivers and strange people and strange things in this world, similar to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which is widely circulated and difficult to distinguish between true and false.
The book records that "Yu controls the flood, chisels and opens, and Tu Shanshi said: If you want to pay, you will go to the sound of drums." Yu jumped the stone, hit the drum by mistake, Tu Shan's go, saw Yu turned into a bear, and went away in shame. At the foot of Song Mountain, it turned into stone, and Yu said: Return to my son! ”
The gist is that King Yu ruled the water and one day became a bear. When his wife Tu Shan saw it, she thought she was married to a bear and was very ashamed. Turned into a stone, King Yu found her, and then the stone broke open and gave birth to his son, Qi.
This paragraph is naturally grotesque and uninhibited, and you can also get a glimpse of the ancient times, perhaps there is no distinction between shemales.
The Confucian old man said: "Exactly, my family tree is no longer verifiable. I lived a long life, and I only remembered my great-grandfather's name, and I didn't know anything about his life. ”
"You mean you know now. And it has something to do with this Geng family's old house?" Li Zhichang looked at him with interest.
The old man in Confucian clothes was stared at by Li Zhichang, and he felt a little chilly, and said in a deep voice: "That's right, maybe the prince should have heard that there was a 'King of Nine Mountains' in the previous dynasty?"
Li Zhichang nodded. Jiushan Wannai was a thief at the beginning of the dynasty. At that time, the crowd occupied the mountain, and the momentum was huge, and the imperial court made a large-scale force to encircle and suppress it.
Confucianism said: "At the beginning, the king of Jiushan, surnamed Li, was also a local landowner. At that time, his family's house was not big, but behind the house was a wasteland, with a few acres, which was the predecessor of the Geng family's old house.
One day. An old man came to rent his house, and offered to pay a hundred taels of silver for rent. Li Sheng refused him on the grounds that there was no extra house. The old man said to him, 'Please rest assured that you will accept the rent.' Don't worry. He didn't know what the old man meant, so he took the rent for the time being and saw what was going on. ”
When Li Zhichang heard this story, his heart suddenly moved, as if this matter had something to do with him.
He looked thoughtful, and the old man seemed to be brought into his own story.
Only Qingfeng blinked his smart eyes, looking at Li Zhichang very curiously, his eyes were wandering, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
The master took the money, and after a day suddenly a great number of people, numbering hundreds, came to the open space behind the house, and were seen by the villagers, who came to inquire of the master.
The master of the Li family didn't know anything about this, he went to the wasteland at home to see, and there was no change, even the abandoned yard in the original wasteland was nothing.
He was secretly suspicious in his heart, and after a few days the old man came to him again, and said to him, "It has been several days since I moved to your house, and everything has to be rearranged, and I have to cook in a pot, and I have to sleep in a bunk, and I have not had time to visit my master." Today, I asked the little girl to make a light meal, please be sure to enjoy the light and sit down. Li Gongzi immediately followed the old man to the banquet.
Li Zhichang uses the blood as a guide, combined with the breath of this courtyard, and traces the cause and effect, which is already clear.
He smiled and said: "After the master of the Li family was a guest, he found that this family was all foxes, so he kept quiet, and after returning home, while you were not paying attention, he secretly buried sulfur and fire oil, and burned this place cleanly." ”
The old man was surprised: "Where did Childe know?"
It is not surprising that Li Zhichang knows the King of the Nine Mountains, but it is a little strange to know the plot just now.
Li Zhichang said indifferently: "I also know that the old man escaped from the fire, very resentful of the master of the Li family, but he didn't know what to do, when the world was in chaos, and then there was a fortune teller to the Li family, the fortune teller was all effective, the head of the Li family was convinced of him, and then he saw that the time was ripe, and bewitched the master of the Li family to rebel, and the Li family had a reputation in the local area, and soon pulled a group of people and horses, gathered to occupy nine mountains, known as the 'King of Nine Mountains', and finally attracted officers and soldiers to break through the cottage, the head of the Li family was captured, and the wife and the whole family were killed. Only then did he understand that the fortune teller was the old fox back then, and it turned out that he killed Li Gongzi to avenge his extermination of the clan back then.
The old man in Confucian clothes said with a gleam in his eyes: "What you said is right, although we are not human, but we also spent a hundred taels of gold in rent at the beginning, let alone renting this piece of land, even if we buy it, it is fair." The head of the Li family got 100 gold, but he also harmed my relatives, is this fair? Now my family is being hunted down and homeless, that's why I thought of this place, and I want to use this as a place of refuge, isn't it right?"
Li Zhichang shook his head and smiled: "You are wrong, since this yard is rented, it is not yours, and it should still belong to the Li family." ”
The Confucian old man said: "The Li family has been destroyed, where are there still people." ”
Li Zhichang smiled slightly: "I forgot one thing, I haven't introduced myself yet, my surname is 'Li'." ”
"No way. The old man muttered, because his great-grandfather's codex clearly said that no one in the Li family escaped at that time.
Li Zhichang said leisurely: "Your great-grandfather can escape, naturally there are people in the Li family who escape, the way of heaven is subtle and indescribable, but in the end, it is the Li family who is responsible for you first, so before the ancestor of the Li family dies, there is no hatred, if you are willing to leave today, everyone will be gone." ”
Only then did he understand why his family was also a poetry and book heirloom, but he lived in seclusion in the countryside, it turned out that he was still a descendant of the thief, so he was naturally a little taboo. However, because time has passed too long, perhaps even his father in this life does not know about this past, and it is only because of some ancestral teachings that he moved to Huaxi Village, Qingshui County.
As for his father, he may have stayed in Huaxi for a long time, and he was not clear about that past, so he didn't tell him anything. (To be continued......)