Where do tomb robbers meet in their lives?

I'm so excited to hear this that I can't fidget.

Brother, could it be that you are really the Zhang family that our family is waiting for? This is too coincidental.

"Then, what happened afterwards? Someone in the Zhang family found the token, right? Who is this person?" I was so engrossed in listening that I almost forgot where I was.

Bai Tao's expression gradually became serious, and after a moment of consideration, he slowly continued the story.

In the winter of 1920, the Zhang family and the Liang family met again.

A skinny boy about eight or nine years old appeared in front of Liang Jincheng, whose health was deteriorating.

The Liang family never dreamed that after 400 and [-] years, it would be a pale and bruised Zhang family child who would bring the news of Ssangyong Banhuanyu.

What happened in the ancient city of Sizhou, Liang Jincheng couldn't ask, but from the cold eyes of the child, he seemed to see a cold and tragic picture of purgatory.However, he still couldn't restrain the excitement in his heart, and took a slightly dirty old book from the boy almost piously. This is an excerpt from the Zhang family's record of family treasures. Under the supervision of the Zhang family, He saw the page that recorded Shuanglongyu.

That's right, that is the lost token!After so many years of suffering, we finally found its trace!

Ancestor, I can rest in peace after reaching this point.

It was night, Liang Jincheng died in his dream with a smile on his lips.

The snow kept falling that night, as if it wanted to fill up the pain of everyone, making everything disappear without a trace.Under the moon, everything is covered with a silvery white light, holy and flawless.

It's just that no one thought that this was the moment when the Liang family was closest to the agreement.For many years afterwards, they would miss out on this little boy whom they had high hopes for, and never waited for the moment when they reached an agreement.

In any case, at that time, the hearts of the Liang family members were full of optimism.

The little boy who brought back the excerpt received great attention from the two families.The hopeful Liang family decided to make an exception and pass on their knowledge of organs and architectural structures to the boy. After reaching a certain agreement with the Zhang family, the succeeding head of the Liang family, Liang Zixin, began to personally train the boy.

The members of the Zhang family were very strict on guard against outsiders. Even the patriarch of the Liang family who was inconvenient to offend could only teach the little boy in the presence of the Zhang family.But this does not prevent him from having a good impression of this child.Liang Zixin was originally the most generous and kind-hearted patriarch of the Liang family, not to mention that the boy is very smart, often draws inferences from others, and has a stability and calmness that other children do not have. More importantly, he has seen in this child a kindness that is rare in troubled times. Let him feel compassion.Over time, he treated the boy as a descendant of his own family.Every time Liang Zixin found out that the boy was injured in class, Liang Zixin would feel unbearable and feel guilty.

Do we really need to sacrifice the happiness of so many people for a promise?

What have we gained in this process?

In 1925, when summer and autumn met, a 13-year-old boy said goodbye to Liang Zixin.

Liang Da is the head of the family, and I am going to Sizhou.

Liang Zixin nodded, stretched out his hand and hesitated for a moment, finally retracted, took out a bag of candy from his bosom, and called the boy to his side.

"This is your second uncle Liang's proud work, stay on the road to eat."

The boy looked at the candy wrapped in red paper in his hand dumbly, showing confusion.

Liang Zixin patiently motioned him to take out one and try it.The boy chewed a few times before he understood: "Sweet."

"It's sweet."

Liang Zixin nodded with a smile, but felt a bitterness in her heart that she had never felt before.

In 1922, the Secretary of the Liang family copied the letters between Liang Zixin's family and said: ...When the bright moon surrounds the river, the quilt is as cold as the iron, the maple leaves are red and the wind is rustling...It's sad!Gai this young man, who was lonely and lonely since he was a child, did not know what sugar is, and he bears the hope of my family for several generations.Ultimately, it is both true and illusory. I don’t know that my family has searched for countless generations without success, and now I have this young man, just like that beggar who picked up an ingot of gold. He has nothing to care about, nothing to know, nothing to hear.Why not use the misfortune of one person to seek the happiness of a whole family?What's the problem?Every time I think about this, I feel extremely chilled, ashamed, ashamed, ashamed!

That year, the boy put the candy in his arms, kowtowed to Liang Zixin, turned and left.

This was the last time he saw the head of the Liang family.

"When the young man left, the situation in the country was getting worse and worse. Every year was not as good as the year. The war broke out everywhere, and the Liang family was forced to face their own fate. Liang Zixin was still waiting in the last moments of his life. , It is said that he has been looking forward to the boy's return, maybe he doesn't mind if he gets the half ring jade, he just wants to know if the boy survived in the end."

I just felt that my throat was blocked by something, and after a while, I continued to ask: "Afterwards, did he survive? If Liang Zixin dies, there will be other Liang family members around. Maybe the successor can see you again." What about him?"

Bai Tao shook his head: "What follows is a dark history of your family."

Many years after the boy left, the turmoil in the country made the Zhang family and the Liang family overwhelmed, and the two families only contacted each other twice.One time, the young man finally found the patriarch's body in the ancient city of Sizhou, and took back the patriarch's token, but unfortunately, the ultimate secret of the Zhang family and the Shuanglong half-ring jade were not in the ancient city of Sizhou, but in another place of the Zhang family. Buried quietly in the old house.The patriarch's token is a key to the old house.They also have to wait for the opportunity to dig out the secrets of that place again.For this reason, the Zhang family needs to move to Guangxi, the original site of the ancient house.

The time of the second contact was ten years later, and the Zhang family's letter was sent to Liang Zixin after going through several times. It said that the Zhang family had made full preparations to enter the ancient house in Guangxi. The grown-up boy will bring a token to meet the head of the Liang clan.

This year, 1933, the Liang family was busy publishing the "Message to Workers All over the Country" jointly with business friends, proposing that they should unite as one to face the national calamity, strictly enforce the boycott of goods, and intensify the resistance against Japan.

"September 1933, 9, this is a day that the entire Liang family will never forget. I think you should also know what happened this year." Bai Tao looked at me with a trace of sadness in his eyes, making me I also feel gloomy.

September 1933, my grandfather's first birthday.

A raging fire ignited in the endless darkness.

No one could tell how the fire started. When the people who were drinking the wedding wine came to their senses, the whole house was surrounded by fire.

"Of course I know." I said softly, "Because of this incident, my grandpa never celebrates his birthday. That fire almost killed everyone."

Bai Tao shook his head again: "That was actually a premeditated killing. The fire was just a murder."

"What did you say!"

"What kind of fire would suddenly start burning around Liang's house, making it impossible for everyone to escape in time? And what kind of fire would burn bullet holes in some people's bodies?" Bai Tao clenched his fists and looked at me coldly, "That was not an accident at all. The Liang family has been targeted for a long time, and they chose to bloodbath everyone on the day of your grandfather's first birthday." .”

I couldn't turn my head all of a sudden, so I could only listen to Bai Tao's story in a daze.

This is a monstrous disaster.In this catastrophe, Liang Zixin, his wife and four sons were all killed. Others were trapped in the fire. In the end, some old people rushed to the fire and made a human bridge for others to pass through. What we have to face is a cold shot in the dark.For a while, the sky was full of crying and shouting, and countless deaths occurred.In the end, only Liang Youdao, the youngest son of Liang Zixin, and Liang Tuo, the big shopkeeper, and a handful of eight escaped.

I stayed for a long time before uttering a sentence: "But...why? Why did you do this? Who is the one who harmed our whole family?"

"The surviving members of your family have asked themselves this question for many years. It wasn't until 40 years later, when your grandfather Liang Youdao rebuilt the family, that he slowly speculated on a huge possibility."

Someone wants to prevent the agreement from being made.

On September 1933, 9, the young man of the Zhang family successfully walked out of the ancient building of the Zhang family. Along with him came the ultimate secret of the Zhang family, which had been lost for nearly 15 years, and the Ssangyong of the Liang family. Half ring jade.

He set off to the Liang clan with an ancient promise!

"Liang Zixin is really only two days away from fulfilling the promise of the generation." Bai Tao sighed, "However, in such a short period of time, the enemy who has been waiting for an opportunity finally couldn't let him go. Things continued."

On September 9, the adult Zhang family boy came to the former Liang's mansion.

Ruins and ruins, a piece of scorched earth, the kind old man who smiled at him in the past is no longer.

The Liang family was so miserable this year. The surviving people knew that they were being targeted, so they could only flee without stopping, and they didn't even dare to clean up the funeral for the dead.The once glamorous people have become hundreds of unclaimed charred corpses piled up on the pier, only some poor people who have received relief and the chamber of commerce collected money to do a simple burial for them.As for who the patriarch is, no one can identify it.

"Once again your family was deprived of everything and fell hard into the mud." Bai Tao said softly, "And the people who survived never gave up fighting."

The first thing to put aside is dignity.

In fact, even if he doesn’t say it, I have heard a little bit about it. When he was young, his grandfather seemed to have repaired shoes for others and carried goods (smuggling). The worst time was begging and stealing money. The family's understanding of ancient Chinese architecture began to reverse.

Everyone rolled in the mud, struggled hard, was stepped on, and climbed up inch by inch enduring the pain.

Liang Youdao, who has almost lost everything, has become more and more sophisticated, more ruthless, and more and more adapted to the law of survival.

"Your family has experienced more than 1000 years of suffering, and you have honed a unique trait. This trait is like a pillar. When the entire family form is threatened, it will become an unyielding will, allowing the entire family to survive. Rebirth in the midst of destruction. This family consciousness of concentricity, coexistence and common prosperity has allowed your family to survive time and time again. It is also the fundamental reason why the Liang family has never been divided since Xixia. Your grandfather is really an amazing person Elder, with his own hands, he took back the lost things one by one when he had nothing. I have respected him very much since I was a child."

Hearing this, I also knew that Bai Tao and our family really had a deep connection, but this understanding made me even more confused.

"Brother Bai Tao, you are so familiar with my family, it doesn't seem to be because my elder brother is so simple. It sounds like you know more than him."

He looked at me with a relaxed look on his face.

"That's because, since I was born, I was sent to your family for foster care."

What foster care?Child bride? - a ghost!What am I thinking really.

I patted my cheek to drive away the inexplicable thoughts, and looked him up and down: "No, no, are there any people in our family that I don't know? I'm sure I've never seen you. I haven't heard of you either." A man named Bai Tao is at my house."

Bai Tao leaned his head against the stone wall, lost in memory.

"Of course you haven't heard of me." He looked down at me and smiled, "You were not born when I was sent to your home. Now, it was almost 40 years ago."

"40 years!" My eyes almost popped out, "You're kidding! You look exactly like me."

hehe.Bai Tao laughed again.

But this time, I couldn't help but feel a chill.

His pale face had a burst of greenness at some point, which made his facial features strangely beautiful. It felt a bit like a doll in a horror movie. It was obviously a cute appearance, but it made people feel dizzy in their hearts. coolness.

"I've said it before. My body hasn't changed since 20 years." His eyes became a little hazy, "20 years, before I know it, it's been so many years... By the way, I have to Let me explain to you, 20 years ago my name was not Bai Tao, but Qi Yu."