Chapter 6: The Secret of the Phoenix Collection

At this time, the faces of the four old men showed infinite yearning, recalling that beautiful time. The third brother's voice was sad and slow. He said slowly: "I think that the Phoenix Market was the most famous post market outside the Guanwai back then, and at that time it was crowded with people and the flow of passengers was like a shuttle. People who went to the Turks to do cattle and sheep business, and Turks who went to the Guannai to do business all came here to meet and trade, and at that time the Phoenix set was a pearl from the grassland to the Central Plains. The meandering black river runs through the edge of the market, and the fertile grasslands and brown earth give us the richest rewards. How happy we were at that time. But that all changed thirty years ago, and one day ten years ago, a chance mistake led to a thirty-year curse that turned this place into a living hell, and we have been living a life of no one and no ghosts. Thirty years on, we're all in despair. The third brother's voice became a little louder, he became emotional, tears flowed from his eyes, the ulcers on his face twitched, and the sticky liquid flowed from his face to his clothes, he stopped talking, reached into his pocket and took out a handkerchief to wipe away the tears and secreted liquid from the corners of his eyes. The remaining three old men also sobbed quietly, tears streaming down their terrible countenances.

"The four seniors, sat down and said slowly, if Xiao Ruoshui can help, he will definitely help in the future. Xiao Ruoshui helped the four old men to do it, and he was also shocked by this miserable curse. He was also anxious to know what was the cause of these curses?

"The four seniors, looking at the pattern of the Phoenix Collection below, is an anti-Nine Palace Gossip formation, extending in all directions. The place where wealth gathers must be done by a master, and it stands to reason that it will not suffer such a catastrophe?What happened ten years ago that caused the Phoenix Collection to suffer such a catastrophe?" Xiao Ruoshui looked at the four old men and asked.

The four old men looked at each other with ashamed expressions. They looked at each other, but none of them spoke. Xiao Ruoshui looked at the four old men and sighed and said, "If the four of you are unwilling to tell the truth, we will have no way to help." ”

The four of them looked at each other and nodded. The four elders of the anxious son said loudly: "We did something wrong back then, and it is a matter of heart to say it, so as not to be very aggrieved here." He patted his chest and said loudly.

The old man named Third Brother sighed and said, "Okay, let's tell you." Our ancestors are from Linxian County, Longnan, and have always been the tomb keepers of Taoist Laozi. Hundreds of years ago, our ancestors were loyal to Lao Tzu because of his tomb. Therefore, during the Yellow Turban civil strife, I received the guidance of a high-ranking person, who said that it can bring prosperity and wealth, peace and tranquility to our people for hundreds of years. But there is one condition, and that is if his disciples ask us. We must give half of the wealth of the whole clan to help his disciples. Our ancestors have always been grave keepers. Down and out. So I agreed, and it was written in our family rules. The master also made a rule for us that the patriarch should be shared by four people. He was afraid that we would not give up our wealth to his disciples. These are written in the middle of our family rules and have been passed down from generation to generation. After hundreds of years of multiplication, our clan has monopolized the trade between the grassland and the Central Plains, and has accumulated huge wealth, we have always lived a rich life, and we have continued the rules of our ancestors, no one has come to us for this wealth for hundreds of years, and we have not taken this regulation seriously. But thirty years ago, a teenager came to us. He came to us with the jade pendant of the great man, hoping that we would fulfill our promise. We took out the pattern left to us by our ancestors, and it was not bad, and we arranged for the young man to live there, and the four of us had a disagreement between whether to give or not to give this wealth, and things went on day after day in a lot of noise. The young man obviously couldn't wait, and came to urge almost every day, and then we learned by chance that the young man's surname was Yang was the royal family of the Sui Dynasty, and he wanted to use the money to arm the team to regain the world of the Sui Dynasty. The old man shook his head.

"After the four of us told the secret, we unanimously decided not to fulfill our promise, because the world has just returned to the Tang Dynasty, and the people of the world have been nearly displaced and separated from their wives after a hundred years of war. If we give him this wealth, then the world will fall back into the chaos of war, we can't give this wealth to this boy, and we have decided not to keep our promise. The old man looked at Xiao Ruoshui and said. "Xiao Daxia, do you think that we are people who do not keep our promises, in fact, we don't want the world to fall back into the chaos of constant disputes, and we are a little selfish, thinking that our ancestors will give half of their wealth out of thin air, and we are also unwilling, so we drove away the young man. snatched his jade pendant. The boy was in tears as he left, and he said loudly to the sky: "You will fall into my most poisonous curse, you will never see the sun, you will live in darkness forever, you will live life worse than death, you will live in hell." "We didn't care about it at the time, we just didn't take it seriously when the boy was angry. But since the boy left, the curse began to work, our people will see the sun will skin ulcers, the most die of death, gradually we no longer have merchants here, who wants to trade with people at night, who dares to trade with a cursed person, no one dares, everyone knows that we are cursed here, all people can not see the light, we have been tortured by this curse for thirty years, how many unbelievers died in the sun, died in the curse. The old man stayed in tears and couldn't cry.

"It's all our fault, we should keep our promises, we are blamed for being too greedy. The three old men said together.

"The four seniors don't have to be too rigid in form, I think the four did the right thing, if the four seniors fulfilled their promises, then the world is probably going to be chaotic again, since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the five chaos Hua, the world has been chaotic, the people are displaced, if the four predecessors are not benevolent and righteous people will not do so, the old-timers have done a great thing for the world. Xiao Ruoshui said loudly.

"Hey, I'm ashamed, we were going to wait for death in this place, we were already desperate, and the arrival of Daochang Li half a month ago gave us a glimmer of hope. When he arrived, he carefully observed our building and laid out an illusion for us, saying that if someone can break this illusion, he will be your savior. He told us that he couldn't save our town, and that the people who could solve the bureau were the saviors of our town. You are the person he said, I hope Xiao Daxia can look at the lives of more than 3,000 people in our town, save us. The four old men pounced and knelt down and kowtowed to Xiao Ruoshui. Xiao Ruoshui hurriedly helped the four old men up, and he hurriedly said, "The four seniors hurry up, and they will do their best to break the curse." The four old men were busy thanking.

Xiao Ruoshui looked at the four old men carefully and said, "Can you show me the jade pendant?" The third child hurriedly took out the jade pendant and handed it to Xiao Ruoshui, the princess came up curiously, she looked at it and suddenly shouted with Xiao Ruoshui: "The Pisces jade pendant of the Demon Gate." (To be continued......)