Chapter 155: The Past of the Zhou Family (Part 1)
After saying the sacrifice, the old man personally inserted the fragrance in his hand into the incense burner. This action moved the servants and guards inside and outside the room and looked at the old man respectfully. Xu Changqing, standing on the beam of the house, admired the old man's way of winning people's hearts. He spoke a few words and a few casual actions, and dozens of people were vowed to serve him. From this, it seems that the Zhouzhuang was hiding dragons and lying in a lie.
After worship, the old man raised his hand and waved at the servant who had been twice, and ordered: "You all go outside the house, I have something to say to the girl Qinglan."
After hearing the order, the servants bowed one after another, bowed out of the room, and gently closed the door. At this time, when Zhou Qinglan was about to ask what happened, the old man spoke first and asked in a deep voice: "I heard from the servants that when Zhenglin came back from Chaigoubao this time, he invited a guest from another country. He lives in Yuhua Building now. Have you ever seen this person?"
Zhou Qinglan was stunned for a moment, not understanding why the old man asked Xu Changqing, but he nodded truthfully and said, "I have seen him! Mr. Xu is a great man worthy of friendship."
"A man of the world?" The old man looked at Zhou Qinglan in surprise, as if he didn't expect that his niece would have such a high evaluation of Xu Changqing. After calming down, his expression was a little expectant, and he asked calmly: "The people all say that he looks very similar to Qingping. You have seen him, what do you think?"
"It looks very similar to the elder brother?" Zhou Qinglan was stunned. Xu Changqing's figure and Zhou Qingping's figure gradually overlapped with each other. Then she showed a look of surprise, covered her mouth, and said in disbelief: "It's really similar. If it weren't for uncle, you remind me, my niece really didn't notice it. As long as Mr. Xu was touched with a beard, it would be almost exactly the same as a slap!" As he said, he paused again, turned his head and looked at the old man with a little confusion, and said, "Uncle, you don't think Mr. Xu's child is outside, right? Judging from Mr. Xu's age, it's impossible."
"It really looks like him! Is it really him?" the old man murmured to himself, and then looked a little excited, and asked anxiously: "Do you know how he and Zhenglin met?"
Zhou Qinglan felt that the old uncle, who had always been calm, became very strange today, and couldn't help but frown, "Uncle, it's better to ask Zhenglin, I don't know the specifics very clearly. It seems that the Qi-raising pill Zhenglin was preparing for Xiaolian some time ago, and there was still a lack of medicine. The medicine happened to be bought for Mr. Xu, and the two met like this. Zhenglin said that Mr. Xu came to Zhoujiazhai to do business..."
As he said that, Zhou Qinglan felt that it might involve the relationship between Xu Changqing and the Huang brother and sister. At this point, he stopped abruptly and stopped talking.
The old man seemed to be thinking about something, but did not notice Zhou Qinglan's strangeness at all. He walked around the room with a nervous and anxious expression, and murmured to himself: "I just hold Zhenglin in my hand and want medicine. This is clearly to meet Zhenglin! Is it really him? Is it because he came back in this way? Was it because of the instructions of the little sister? Do you want him to do something secretly? Do you take revenge on us?"
"Uncle, what's going on?" Zhou Qinglan was also affected when she saw the old man's abnormality and asked anxiously: "Why did you deliberately meet Zhenglin? What little sister is taking revenge? Uncle, what are you talking about?"
"These things are the grudges of the previous generation, don't worry about them." After hearing the niece's question, the old man gradually calmed down and said in a deep voice: "Anyway, you take your servants to show that person to me more rigorously. You can't let him approach his family at will, and you can't let him approach your grandma, otherwise things will be bad!"
After hearing the old man's order, Zhou Qinglan couldn't help but stick out her tongue, thinking how could she see such a paradise with her own abilities? And the matter was really a bit inexplicable, which made the monk confused. So she said with a gloomy face: "Uncle, you should know my personality. If I don't understand it, I will not act rashly!"
"Oh! Among these nephews, except you and Zhenglin, there are almost all unreliable and mediocre people. I have no one to believe." The old man looked a little lonely, sighed, looked at Zhou Qinglan, and said, "Some things are indeed time for you juniors to know, but after you leave this house, you must bury it in your heart and not reveal a word to the outside."
Seeing the old man's serious expression, Zhou Qinglan also nodded seriously and made a vow. Xu Changqing, who was standing on the beam of the house, became focused and listened carefully to every word the old man said.
"Oh!" The old man sighed again at this time, and then his whole body seemed to be trapped in the past, his breath became long and deep, and he said in a low voice: "This has to start with the Qing Dynasty entering the pass. At that time, our Zhou family was a large family in Shandong. The Qing soldiers entered the pass and burned, killed, looted, and our Zhou family was also injured and almost destroyed this thousand-year-old root. Later, a strange man from the Zhou family came out and obtained a treasure. Later, this Zhou village was built on this Fengshui treasure land, and used that treasure to suppress the thousand-year fortune of our Zhou family, so that our Zhou family could continue."
Zhou Qinglan also said with surprise: "It turns out that when I was a child, I heard from my elders that there was an underground palace under the Zhou family's house, and there was a treasure in it. These are all true!"
Xu Changqing, who was standing on the beam of the house, was also a little surprised. He did not expect that the Zhou family now knew about the underground palace. If this were the case, why didn’t they know about the bronze armored zombie king in the underground palace? Xu Changqing couldn’t help but wonder.
Just as Xu Changqing was thinking about the underground palace, the old man nodded and then asked: "Do you know that the academy in Zhuangzi's inner house was suddenly closed, and Hanyue Xiaoyuan also did not allow others to move in. Why is this?"
Zhou Qinglan shook her head and said, "I don't know very well. I heard that my grandmother ordered the suspension!"
The old man nodded and admitted: "Yes, it was indeed my mother ordered the suspension! My mother had three children at that time. In addition to me and your father, there was also a little sister. She was your sister-in-law named Zhou Ranjie, who lived in Hanyue Xiaoyuan."
Chapter completed!