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

Uncle Qi started to repeat what Wen San said last night. The old man sat on the armchair, holding a walnut in his hand and didn't say anything. After listening to Uncle Qi's words, he spoke after a long while.

"It's not difficult to silence someone, but it's difficult to handle it properly afterwards without causing suspicion or discovery. The political situation is stable now, and it's not the same era as before when human life was worth less than grass. There's no need for that."

"Gouzi, call someone to keep an eye on Wensan during this period, and don't remind him on purpose. Sometimes! The more you remind him on purpose, the more he will pay attention."

Li Zihang listened to his grandfather's words and asked in disbelief: "Grandpa, you don't want to kill people to silence them, do you? Uncle Qi also explained it last night. I think Wen San should believe it."

The old man ignored him and said to Uncle Qi, "Xiao Qi, go find some decorators to vacate the room you live in now. Then separate it into two rooms. Gouzi, it will be inconvenient to stay here too late. Just stay overnight."

"You and Juan, move to the backyard. Someone still has to live in the backyard. I'm still a little worried about relying on those animals."

"By the way, of the six rooms, you can take the upper and lower two. Don't skimp, decorate them however you want. There are plenty of furniture and antique shops and warehouses. Ask people to bring back whatever you need. For the other rooms, simply decorate them and connect them to electricity."

Li Zihang then interrupted: "Grandpa, can you get me a set of equipment for developing photos and put it in the backyard? And build me a studio for developing photos?"

The old man heard his grandson's words and replied indifferently, "Got it. Gouzi, and Xiaoqi, you two can go out if you have nothing else to do. I have something to tell Xiaohang."

Uncle Qi and Gou Zi went out without saying a word.

Li Zihang looked at the old man and expressed his doubts: "Grandpa, are you going to tell me about the secret room in the underground palace in our backyard?"

The old man looked at his little grandson and said, "You are slowly getting involved in the family business. I will tell you something. Do you know why I, your grandfather, moved here from the Western-style building?"

Li Zihang asked tentatively: "It's not because of the underground palace in the backyard, right?"

The old man looked at his grandson's cleverness and said with a smile: "That's right! I will tell you the origin of the underground palace."

"In the past, every wealthy family had several secret treasure rooms. As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows, and the master's family is no exception. The underground palace in the backyard was not built by me. At that time, the master was already worried that I was too powerful! He was already afraid of me."

"I bought this house from a prince in 1930. After the purchase, the owner of the house asked the third housekeeper to supervise the renovation. The people he hired were all the confidants of the owner at that time."

"It was a sensation at the time that hundreds of people were involved in the construction of this house. Naturally, your grandfather knew about it. But in order to avoid suspicion, I ignored it and pretended not to know."

"After more than a year of construction, it was still not finished. I started to get suspicious. It wasn't like they were building a palace. Hundreds of people had been working on it for such a long time, so it should have been finished long ago."

"So I asked someone to investigate. I found out that the backyard garden had been hollowed out a long time ago, 2 meters deep. Reinforced concrete was used to build a two-story underground palace."

"When I heard the news, I knew what the owner was planning. I pretended nothing had happened and continued to manage the business."

"It was not until the early spring of 1932 that the entire courtyard was repaired. After the repair, I asked people to keep an eye on the house. In the following six months, one or two horse-drawn carriages would enter the house every night with goods. The goods were always brought in but not out."

Li Zihang: "Grandpa, the carriage is not full of gold, silver and treasures, right?"

The old man ignored him and continued, "My grandson, this is just the beginning. After more than half a year, there were no horse-drawn carriages to carry goods in and out. But what happened next shocked me."

Li Zihang: "Grandpa, what happened again?"

The old man said: "In the days that followed, I accidentally got a piece of news that the hundreds of workers who built this house disappeared one after another. Some had accidents, some died of illness, and some went to other places."

"Anyway, those hundreds of people never showed up again in the next three years."

"One night in 1934, I came back late because I had to deal with business in the store. On my way home, I was stopped by a man covered in blood."

"I carefully looked at the bloody man who fainted in front of me. I found that he was actually a servant of the master's family. I was cautious at the time and called a doctor to arrange for the servant to be treated in a remote place."

"When the man woke up, he knelt down and cried for me to save him. After I asked him the whole story, I learned that in those years, the master had ordered assassins to kill all the people who built the house. There were more than a hundred people in total!"

"That's not all. Even the assassins who were sent to silence the witnesses committed suicide after they were done. Except for a few people, no one else knows about the underground palace."

"And the servant I saved was also the master's confidant. He also participated in the construction of the underground palace."

"Since then, I have been more cautious. I have distanced myself from my master, Kishimo Shin. Apart from some business matters, I gradually stopped asking about other things."

Li Zihang was also terrified and asked in a low voice: "Grandpa, how did this house come into your hands again? Are the things in the underground palace still there?"

The old man took the purple clay teapot, took a sip of tea and said slowly: "How did it come into my hands? God is watching what people do. If you do too many bad things, retribution will always come."

"After the incident with your second uncle and aunt in 1936, the Chinese people began to fight against the Japanese invaders.

Later, the Japanese also took over the city. However, the master and the third housekeeper went in the opposite direction. On the one hand, they followed the foreigners to do business, and on the other hand, they engaged in the business of reselling materials with the high-ranking members of the Skinhead Party. They were even more entangled with the Japanese. "

"Later, the fact that the master family was doing business with the Japanese was exposed. The master of the family at that time was determined to go all out and secretly joined the Japanese."

"This matter was also exposed. Later, the Guo Party and the underground party's anti-espionage team assassinated the master and the third butler on their way to a banquet."

Li Zihang: "What about the underground palace?"

Old man: "After the master was assassinated, the main family was in chaos, and the eldest wife asked me to take charge. At that time, I guess no one knew about the underground palace except the eldest young master of the main family."

"I just finished dealing with the funeral of the master and the third butler. But the eldest young master put an advertisement in the newspaper. He said that anyone who can catch the murderer of the master or provide information will be rewarded handsomely."

"I knew that placing a reward in the newspaper would lead to death. I still had some feelings for the master's family. So I tried to persuade the young master. But he didn't listen! Sure enough, within five days, the young master was assassinated while he was out."

"The owner was completely panicked. So I took over the owner's business, cut off the business with the Japanese, and revoked the reward order in the newspaper. At the same time, I also stopped the arms smuggling business."

"I talked to the high-ranking officials of the Baldheads again and paid a price. I agreed that the rest of the main family would go to the rear area, the mountain city."

"As I expected, other members of the master's family moved other secret rooms of treasure. Then they asked me if I knew about the master's other secret rooms."

"I was being cautious at the time, so I said, 'The master is very careful, and he would never tell me something as secret as the secret room.' The first wife was not easy to fool at the time. Then she asked me if I had any doubts. I half-truthed and mentioned a few places. Some of them had been moved by the master. There were indeed two places where gold bars were hidden."

"Of course, there is a possibility that there is a secret room in our backyard. I told them that. But they searched for a long time and found nothing. In addition, the situation was getting more and more tense. So they evacuated the city and went to the mountain city."

"After the master left, I moved out of the western-style building. I renovated the stables in our house and moved in with your grandmother and a few of my confidants. I was also asked to continue to manage some of the business."

"The situation became increasingly cruel, so in order to protect our family and preserve our bloodline, I sent your second uncle to Hong Kong, and your third uncle to Southeast Asia. So now I, your grandfather, can do foreign trade business without any worries."

Li Zihang listened to the old man's words and asked in surprise: "Grandpa, I still have a second uncle and a third uncle?"

老爷子白了一眼他，开口说：“废话，你曾祖娶了4个老婆。生有4子，2女。我是嫡房长子。你2爷是3房遮出次子。你3爷跟我一母同胞兄弟。正房嫡次子。你四爷跟大姑奶都是2房一脉的。现在都在弯弯。你小姑奶是4房所生。跟你2爷去了香江”……