Chapter 141: The Secret of the Old Huang Family
I followed my master into the house and found that there were elderly people around 60 years old sitting on both sides of the house. One of them was tall and thin, with beautiful eyebrows and eyes. The other one was short. Although he was not good-looking, he had big ears and big noses, which looked very rich.
Both of them were wearing an old-fashioned Zhongshan suit. The tall one was clean white, and the leather shoes were also white. The thick and short one was all black all over, and even the shoes and glasses were black.
When I first saw them, I thought I had seen black and white impermanence.
At this time, my master pulled me in front of me and said to the people in the room: "This is my apprentice, Zuo Youdao, and the next generation supervisor of the Huang family."
After saying that, the master introduced the three people in front of me one by one.
The old man Kuiwei, who was sitting in the middle of the house, is the contemporary head of the old Huang family, which is called "Old Master Huang" by Master Li and others. His name is Huang Wenqin, and like Master Li, he was also a second-year-old from Xuantong. When I met him, he was nearly a hundred years old.
The other two are grandsons of Mr. Huang. The one who wears white clothes and looks outstanding is Huang Changrong, the one who wears black clothes and looks rich is Huang Changsheng. After Mr. Huang’s hundred years, he will become the next head of the Huang family.
By the way, the woman who drove us before was named Huang Yulian, who was the daughter of Huang Changsheng. Huang Changrong also had a son named Huang Yuzhong. After Huang Changsheng passed away, Huang Yuzhong was the next head of the family.
Since Huang Yuzhong was still studying in Jiangsu at that time, I didn’t see him when I first came to the old Huang family in Northeast China.
I heard that I am a disciple of the Shouzheng lineage. When Mr. Huang looked at me, his eyes were much gentler than before, but that sharpness seemed to have been integrated into his nature. When I looked at him, I still felt like there were two steel knives hidden in those eyes, but just now, the sharpness of these two knives was revealed, but now they were covered with scabbards.
Later, my master introduced Liang Houzai to them. After learning that Liang Houzai was Li Liang's disciple, Old Master Huang and others became polite to Liang Houzai.
Huang Changrong and Huang Changsheng moved four chairs to the wing room not far away. My master and Mr. Huang sat in the center of the room, one left and one right, while Huang Changrong and Huang Changsheng sat on both sides of them. As for me, Liang Houzai and Master Li, the seats were not so particular, and they could sit anywhere.
After the master sat down, he asked Mr. Huang: "Where is the great monk?"
Old Master Huang sighed and said, "Master Chengyun has already been guarding Baishuidu. Master Chai, you are here. This time, our Huang family is in big trouble!"
"I know, the letter has been written very clearly." As the master spoke, he lit the tobacco pot and started smoking silently.
Then Old Master Huang continued, "Oh, what do you think of that letter? At that time, I didn't expect that the matter would be so big, so I still hid some of the matters from Master Chai."
My master smiled and didn't say anything.
At this time, Master Li said to Mr. Huang: "Grandmaster, you should just talk to us and tell us the whole story. We are all old friends. Everyone knows the truth, so there is no need for you to hide it all the time."
When Master Li spoke, I put my eyes on his face again. The light in the room was very bright, and the space was wide and there was no large shadow. I originally thought I could see his appearance this time, but when my eyes fell on his face, I found that there was a straw hat on his head. The light could not penetrate the brim of the hat, and it cast a heavy shadow on his face. I still couldn't see his face clearly.
Hearing Master Li's words, Old Master Huang sighed again: "Okay, but today I will tell the matter out. Everyone should help me keep this secret. Never tell me."
While talking, he stared at Master Li with a very vigilant look. It seemed that in the whole room, the only thing that Old Master Huang couldn't rest assured was Master Li. As for us, we were not among his worries.
Until Master Li nodded and said, "Don't worry, no one will tell you."
Old Master Huang also nodded and talked about some things that have happened at the Huang family since the beginning of last month.
If it were three years ago, I would not have been able to say the content of that. After all, as the supervisor of the Huang family, I often have to help them keep some secrets. But now, our business is different from the past. Even if many secrets were dug out, it would be harmless, because some of these secrets have nowhere to be verified, and some of them no longer exist.
Mr. Huang's words were very long and he said very trivial. Although I could remember the general content of that passage, it was almost impossible for me to restore his words in detail after so long, so I still planned to separate the content of Mr. Huang's words and slowly restore the experiences of the Huang family during that period based on the time when the incident happened.
Huang Yulian told me before that during the Guangxu period, the Huang family discovered a dragon vein in the old forest in the northeast, and since then, they washed their hands and started to do serious business.
She was not completely wrong. When the Huang family was in the Guangxu period, they did find something in Laolin, Northeast China, and they did change their careers at that time.
But after the old Huang family changed their careers, they did not do the serious business that Huang Yulian said. At least in that era, it was definitely not a serious business. However, in the present, their industry has become legal. As for what they do, this involves a secret from the old Huang family, I really cannot say it.
I'd better talk about what the old Huang family found in the forest. It was not a dragon vein at all, but an evil tomb. When I first discovered the tomb, the people from the old Huang family went down to see it. Old Master Huang also heard from his ancestors that the entire tomb was an extremely long tomb, running through the east and west along the mountains, at least hundreds of miles long.
Hundreds of miles are just an approximate number. In fact, no one knows how long this tomb is, because only one person who came down tomb came out alive. The old Huang family was still the old Su family at that time. The person who came out of the tomb was called Su Santong. He was the head of the Su family at that time. He was also a well-known local thief in the northeast land. Because the name contained the word "three", the fellow Taoist gave him a nickname, called him Sanye.
Mr. Huang did not mention the story of the Third Master back then, but said that the Third Master brought out a set of statues of the Golden-top Monk from the tomb. It was five white jade human-faced statues the size of fists. Each portrait was made of a bald and a large-collared robe, and a layer of gold foil was pasted on the top of his head, so he was called the Golden-top Monk.
After he left the tomb, he ordered people to bury gunpowder in the forest and blew up the entrance of the tomb. The explosion caused a wildfire that burned for seven days and seven nights.
After the wildfire was extinguished, the Third Master brought his tribe's tribe's family to build a house next to the mountain. That house is the prototype of the Huang Family Ancestral Hall today.
The second year after this incident, the Su family changed their surname to Huang. Another year later, the Third Master ordered people to dig an underground palace in Baishuidu. There were five stone gates and five statues of monks with golden tops, which were the keys to these five doors.
Ten years after the underground palace was built, the Third Master disappeared. In the same year, a small earthquake occurred near Baishuidu. A landslide appeared on the hill where the evil tomb was located. At the location where it was supposed to be the top of the hill, two natural stone pillars more than one person were exposed.
Coincidentally, not long after, a scholar who was studying abroad got lost in the forest and mistakenly entered the old Huang family house. He saw the two wide and narrow stone pillars on the top of the mountain. He thought it was a dragon horn, so he speculated that there should be a dragon vein at the foot of the mountain.
Later, this incident was promoted by scholars, and everyone thought that the dragon vein appeared behind the ancestral home of the Huang family. This statement has been used to this day. Only the older generation of the Huang family knew what was under the two "dragon horns".
Speaking of this, there was something that made me puzzled. At that time, the Huang family was guarding the dragon vein and spreading the city. After all, it was the dragon vein, and it was impossible for the court to not hear the wind. But after all, the imperial court did not seem to care about this matter and never asked about it. The scholar, and those who later spread the rumor, died of untimely death.
After that, generations of tribe members of the Lao Huang family stayed in this ancestral home until the wilderness became a village, and the ancestral home became a clan ancestral hall.
Old Master Huang thought that in his lifetime, the evil tomb would not be known. This secret will be told to the next generation of heads of the family Huang Changsheng before he died. In the next few decades, Huang Changsheng will carefully cover the secret.
But at the beginning of last month, Monk Jinding was stolen.
Although Monk Jinding is the heirloom of the old Huang family, no one in the family except Mr. Huang knows its existence, let alone people outside the family.
The statue was originally stored in the brick wall of Mr. Huang's house. When Mr. Huang built the house decades ago, he directly built the monk Jinding in the wall. Except for himself, even if others knew that there were so many white jade monks in the world, they would not know where they were hidden.
But at the beginning of last month, Mr. Huang went to the provincial capital. When he came back, he found a hole in his wall and the Baiyu Monk disappeared.
This scared Mr. Huang. He contacted my master immediately, but when Monk Jinding involved the secrets of the old Huang family, many things were hard to say, just said that something happened to the Huang family and asked my master to come.
But my master focused all his attention at that time. When he saw Mr. Huang covering up on the phone, he asked him what he was doing and didn't say anything. He asked him if the situation was serious or not, and he just said it was not serious. After that, my master said that he had something to do and asked the old master to contact Master Li from Qingfeng Temple.
Chapter completed!