Chapter 18 Cause and Effect
Li Zhichang smiled at the girl, as if the spring breeze blew by, and the girl's face turned red and she no longer stuck out her tongue.
"This is the Geng family's courtyard, why does the old man occupy it?" He said bluntly to the old man in Confucian uniform.
The old man in Confucian uniform said: "This is not an occupation. There is another case. If the young master wants to hear it, the younger brother is willing to explain it in detail."
Li Zhichang said: "Oh, you can talk."
He sat down swaggeringly, calm and uneasy at all because the room was alien.
The old man in Confucian uniform was in awe of his heart, knowing that Li Zhichang was a tough guy, unlike those Taoist priests and monks who had shallow Taoism before.
The calmer Li Zhichang was, the less he dared to be careless.
He spoke first, pointed at the girl and said, "This is my niece Qingfeng, next to me is my old wife. Our family is capable of descendants of the Tushan clan. The young master should know about the Tushan clan."
He was very proud when he talked about Tushan.
Li Zhichang nodded and said, "Is it the Tushan tribe to which King Yu's wife belongs?"
There is also a flood control in this world, which has been around for thousands of years. Li Zhi often saw it in the desolate scriptures.
The Waste Sutra introduces some famous mountains, rivers, strange people and strange events in this world. It is similar to the Mountains and Seas. It is widely circulated and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.
The book records that "Yu controlled the flood and drilled the steed and opened the steed. He said to Tushan: "If you want to pay, you will leave when you hear the sound of drums. Yu jumped into the stone and mistakenly entered the drums. Tushan went there and saw Yu turned into a bear, so he left ashamed. When he arrived at the foot of Songshan Mountain, he turned into a stone. Yu said, "Go back to my son! The stone broke into the north and started to live."
The general idea was that King Yu controlled the flood. One day he turned into a bear. When his wife Tushan saw it, she thought she had married a bear. She was very ashamed and turned into a stone. King Yu found her, and then the stone broke open and gave birth to his son Qi.
This is naturally weird and unruly, and you can also see from it the ancient times, perhaps without distinction between humans and demons.
The old man in Confucian uniform said, "That's right. My family genealogy is no longer verified. I have lived for some time. I only remember the name of my great-grandfather, but I knew nothing about his life and deeds."
"What you mean is that you know now, and it has something to do with this old Geng family house?" Li Zhichang looked at him with an interesting look.
The old man in Confucian uniform was stared at by Li Zhichang's eyes and felt a little chilled. He said in a deep voice: "That's true, the young master may have heard of the 'Jiushan King' in the previous dynasty?"
Li Zhichang nodded. Jiushan Wan was a rebel who was the first to begin the country. At that time, people gathered to occupy the mountain and had a huge momentum. The court captured a large-scale encirclement and suppression.
The Confucian fu said: "The King of Jiushan, whose surname was Li, was also a local landlord. At that time, his house was not big, but there was a wasteland behind the house. It was a few acres, and this was the predecessor of the Geng family's old house.
One day, an old man came to rent his house and was willing to pay 100 taels of silver as rent. Li Sheng refused him on the grounds that there was no extra house. The old man said to him: 'Please accept the rent with confidence, don't worry.' He didn't know what the old man meant, so he took the rent for the time being to see what was going on."
When Li Zhichang heard this story, his heart suddenly moved, as if there was something to do with him in the dark.
He showed a thoughtful look. The old man seemed to have brought his story into it.
Only Qingfeng blinked her smart eyes and looked very curious at Li Zhichang. Her eyes were circling, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
The owner collected the silver. After a day, many people suddenly came to the open space behind the house, hundreds of them were floating in the air. They were seen by the villagers and came to ask the owner.
The owner of the Li family knew nothing about this. He went to the wasteland at home and saw nothing changed. Even the abandoned yard in the wasteland was nothing.
He secretly felt suspicious. After a few days, the old man came to him and said to him: "It has been several days since he moved to the mansion. Everything has to be arranged, and he has to cook, and he has to sleep in the shop. He has not had time to visit the master. Today, he asked the little girl to make a meal, so please give it a treat and sit there." Mr. Li immediately followed the old man to the banquet.
Li Zhichang used his bloodline as the guide, combined with the breath of this yard, and traced the cause and effect, and it was already clear.
He smiled and said, "After the host of Li's family was a visitor, he found that the family was all foxes, so he remained silent. After returning home, while you were not paying attention, he buried sulfur, tinder oil, and a big fire to burn it clean."
The old man was surprised and asked, "Where did the young master know?"
It is not surprising that Li Zhichang knew that King Jiushan was not a surprise, but it would be a bit strange to know the plot just now.
Li Zhichang said calmly: "I also knew that the old man escaped from the fire. He was very angry with the master of the Li family, but he didn't know where to end. At that time, the world was in chaos. Later, a fortune teller came to the Li family and all fortune tellers were effective. The head of the Li family believed in him. Later, he saw that the time was ripe and bewitched the master of the Li family to rebel. The Li family had a reputation in the local area. Soon he raised a group of people and gathered to occupy nine mountains, known as the "King of Jiushan". Finally, he attracted officers and soldiers to break through the mountain village. The head of the Li family was captured, and his wife and the whole family were killed. Only then did he realize that the fortune teller was the old fox of that year. It turned out that he had killed Mr. Li and a whole family to avenge his genocide.
The old man in Confucian uniform looked shiny and said, "You are right. Although we are not humans, we also spent a hundred taels of gold to rent. Not to mention renting this land, it would be fair even if we buy it. Then the head of the Li family got a hundred gold, but he still harmed my relatives. Is this fair? Now that my family is being hunted down again and is homeless, so I thought of this place and want to use it as a place to stay. Isn't that right?"
Li Zhichang shook his head and smiled, "You are wrong. Since this yard is rented, it is not yours. It should be the Li family."
The old man in Confucian uniform said, "The Li family has been destroyed, and there are no people there."
Li Zhichang smiled and said, "I forgot one thing. I haven't introduced myself yet. My surname is 'Li'."
"Impossible." The old man in Confucian uniform murmured, because his great-grandfather's letter clearly stated that no one in the Li family escaped at that time.
Li Zhichang said: "Your great-grandfather can escape, so naturally some people in the Li family escape. The way of heaven is subtle and indescribable, but in the end, the Li family has let you down first, so there is no hatred before the ancestors of the Li family die. If you are willing to leave today, all your grudges will be eliminated."
Only then did he understand why his family was a descendant of poetry and books, but he lived in seclusion in the countryside. It turned out that he was a descendant of a traitor, so he was naturally a little taboo. However, because time passed too long, perhaps even his father in this life did not know this past. It was only because of some ancestral teachings that he moved to Huaxi Village, Qingshui County.
Chapter completed!