Siheyuan: I am a big capitalist after the founding of the People's Republic of China

"Crescent Hotel? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"In the past few years, I have been to all the restaurants in Beijing, big and small. I'm not going to say that I've been to all the famous ones."

"Grandpa, I've never heard of the Crescent Hotel you mentioned!"

The old man explained to him patiently.

"The Crescent Hotel, in the late Republic of China, after the Japanese surrendered, it went from being open to being secret. Of course you haven't heard of it."

"People who are not in this industry or who are not at a certain level cannot get in touch with it at all."

"I told you before that I would deal with some industries, which included cutting off ties with the Nine Gates. I will no longer make acquisitions and deal with those underworld artifacts."

"Since the Nine Gates have established a relationship with our family, they will sell some of the underworld artifacts directly to us."

"After we receive the goods, we will sell them in antique shops in various places."

"Grandpa, I heard from Anbao that they came to Beijing to ask for help from our family. What's the matter?"

When the old man heard this question, he didn't know how to explain it to him for a while.

Looking at my only grandson, who is now growing up and the only heir, I think I won't hide some things from him.

"The Nine Gates have been digging graves and robbing tombs for a long time. They always encounter some strange things that cannot be explained."

"We will also find tombs of people who studied immortality in various periods of ancient times."

"Eternal life and immortals are always very tempting in any period."

"Especially for the upper class, the temptation is self-evident. Many emperors were addicted to this in the past."

"Isn't that how you get your blood?"

"The Nine Gates will handle the strange things themselves. The problem they encounter is that some elderly upper-class people want to study the method of longevity like their predecessors."

"So we controlled the people of the Nine Gates. We asked them to do the work and help dig graves. We wanted to combine the longevity methods studied by the ancients with modern science to see if we could come up with a reliable method."

"The Nine Gates don't want to be manipulated by others, so they want to find someone who can speak with them to help them and see if they can get out of this predicament."

"This is why the Nine Gates asked our family for help."

Li Zihang was shocked when he heard this.

"Grandpa, if they ask you for help, will it cause trouble for us?"

"The Nine Gates are the Nine Gates, and we are us. It goes without saying."

"The Nine Gates have too much leverage, and my identity is not public. If I want to stay alive, I can only let them control me."

"Our family is different. We are an honest businessman. We are well-known and now we have a golden body. No one dares to do anything to us!"

"Another point is that no matter it is the clan or the ancestral land, those clan members who bet on the right treasure are our greatest backers. If they want to make a move on our family, they have to consider whether they have enough weight."

"Another point is that those people dare not expose what they did. If they were exposed, they would not be able to have an easy time."

"There is no need for our family to offend those people. Let those people from the Nine Gates go back to where they came from."

After hearing this, Li Zihang had an idea in his mind.

So I told him what I wanted to do next.

"Grandpa, I would like to ask the Nine Gates to help me enlarge the inscriptions, murals, and stone carvings in the tomb every time I go to the tomb. I also want to take some photos of the furnishings in the coffin."

"You can see it?"

The old man thought for a while and then said, "Grandson, you are grown up now. If you want to do something, you should weigh the consequences first."

"Since you want to study those cultures, I have no reason to disagree. But you must keep your distance from the people in the Nine Gates and don't make close friends with them. There's too much shit in their crotches. It's easy for it to stick to you."

The old man paused for a moment and then said, "The day after tomorrow, there will be an auction at the Crescent Hotel. I'll take you to meet them."

"It's getting late, go back and rest."

Time passed, and two days passed. Uncle Qi called and said that Qin Huairu's matter had been settled.

"Let the Jia family take their ID to the street police household registration office to transfer their household registration."

"Someone will help them get it done directly when they get there. Don't say anything."

After Li Zihang went to the Jia family and explained the matter, he did not pay attention to the follow-up. Such a trivial matter was not worth his trouble.

What he is looking forward to now is the meeting with Jiumen.

I was excited just thinking about it, and wanted to ask them if there were really different types of zombies, if the tombs were really that dangerous, if Feng Shui and Bagua were really that magical, and what strange things they had encountered.

He had so many things to ask them, so many curious things.

No matter what happens, if you count the days on your fingers, time will seem to pass by very slowly.

The same thing happened to Li Zihang in the past three days.

Not for the purpose of meeting Jiumen at the auction, Li Zihang asked for leave from his school teacher the day before.

I got up early this morning and practiced martial arts with Master Jiu.

Go back to the house and clean yourself up.

After Li Zihang tidied himself up, he would occasionally hang around in front of the old man to show his presence.

"Grandson, don't keep hanging around in front of me."

"It's still early! Just stay here and relax. I'll call you when we leave."

Li Zihang chuckled and went back to the house to play with the bird.

At half past nine, the two arrived by car to a bustling place in Dongcheng District.

The entire street is 1.6 kilometers long and was once home to foreign consulates, churches, various clubs, shops, and European-style pubs.

After the founding of China, China severed diplomatic ties with those countries for various reasons.

These buildings are now used for various office and commercial purposes.

After parking the car, we arrived at the entrance of a club with European architectural style.

The old man got out of the car and took him into the club and into the backyard.

Li Zihang thought he had reached his destination, but it was a false alarm. He walked out of the back door, through the streets and alleys, and came to a European-style residential complex.

Then he was taken to an inconspicuous house.

In the European-style ceiling hall, the old man took out the invitation letter, followed his servants, and took the elevator to the third underground floor.

The European-style courtyard looks inconspicuous from the outside, but I didn’t expect there to be a whole new world underground.

It opened his eyes again.

The underground auction house was built and decorated in a modern hotel style.

Guest rooms, small gambling hall, entertainment venues, small bar, tea house, restaurant, medium-sized auction meeting room.

The entire underground hotel is now bustling with people.

Various social circles were chatting about the auction.

Many of them saw the old man coming.

They all came forward to say hello, and some even surrounded the old man and introduced themselves.

For a moment, the old man and Li Zihang were surrounded by a group of people like the moon surrounded by stars.

After the old man sent everyone away with a few words, he came to the box on the second floor of the auction.

"They're coming?"

The old man said to the Li family's secret bodyguard.

"My Lord, they are all here. They are in the Xuan box."

The old man sat on the sofa in the box, turning a walnut.

"Who is coming this time?"

"Master, you know that in the Warring States Silk Book Case in 52, the Nine Gates were almost destroyed."

"That group of people have been hiding for three years. The only ones who have shown up now are Master Gou Wu, Huo Xiangu, and Master Jie Jiu."

"And last year, after the incident with the three-legged, two-eared tripod with two dragons entangled in it, there was no news about them at all."

“The rest of them have not shown up and there is no news.”

"It was those three people who came to Beijing this time."

The old man was thinking about something, but Li Zihang didn't care and walked around the box curiously.

"Gou Wu? Didn't he go to Qiantang? How did he come to Beijing?"

"Master, think about whose territory Qiantang belongs to. I think he is here to pay his respects to the mountain gate. He wants to ask our family to keep him alive."

The old man continued to ask.

"Huo Xiangu, where is He Jiejiu? He shouldn't be hiding with us now."

An implicit answer, a meaningful answer.

"I met them a few days ago. From what they said, they wanted to stay in the capital and take root there."

"This time we came to Beijing to seek a way to survive. Let's see if our family can protect them."

Li Zihang was standing nearby, listening to familiar names from his past life, various film and television dramas, and novels.

I am very excited and will take a good look at them later to see if they are really that magical.

Little did he know that the person he wanted to see was in another box, thinking about how to please him and make the old man give him a chance to live.

Xuan box.

"Master Gou Wu, how come you got involved in this trip to Beijing?" The speaker was Jie Jiu.

Dog Master Wu held a silver-white puppy in his arms and said with a worried look on his face.

"Jie Jiu, my purpose for coming here is the same as yours."

"Same? You're hiding well in Qiantang. Just like us, you're arguing with me!"

Lord Gou Wu, I didn’t understand Jiu this time.

Huo Xiangu spoke up beside her.

"It's already this late, and you still have the energy to bicker. Grandpa Li just came with his grandson. You should think about how to please them~"

Master Gou Wu said to the silver puppy in his arms.

"Whether I can survive or not depends on you. Please save my reputation."

As soon as he said this, the two people next to him looked at the silver puppy in his arms.

Huo Xiangu: "Okay, Master Li, you've been here for a while. Let's go and pay your respects."

Say something and take the lead to walk out of the box.