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Ling Yu got up immediately, took a jar of iced coffee from the refrigerator and warmed it in the hot water basin, and made another cup of tea for the housekeeper. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

When he handed it over, the butler was startled and followed it with both hands.

Ling Yu smiled and said, "You are an elder, you don't have to be polite to me. I took over the Luo family late, and there are many things I don't understand, so I have to ask you. ”

"Don't dare, don't dare." The butler thought for a moment, and then spoke briefly.

It turned out that the Luo family and the benefactor were both from the same hometown, and they lived in the same village.

Luo Zhenyu's father opened a grocery store in the village, and he ate with a mouthful, and the housekeeper's father was the young man in Luo Zhenyu's father's grocery store. Luo Zhenyu's mother worked in the field every day, and the couple worked hard to live together.

The son of the benefactor went out to work and couldn't take care of the family from time to time, Luo Zhenyu's father often went over to help others because even his ancestors were neighbors.

One year, the second elder of the family was about to pass away, but the son of the second elder could not come back in time. At that time, there was no such thing as a telegraph or telephone. The family also has a daughter-in-law and a child who is a few years old.

Luo Zhenyu's father waited in front of someone's bed for several days, and Luo Zhenyu's mother also helped cook for others and do some farm work. People in the village say that the Luo family is kind-hearted, and the second elder of the family told Luo Zhenyu's father before he died that their family members would be buried in a fixed tomb group after their deaths, and when each generation died, they should bury the most valuable things around them in the coffin and leave them to their grandchildren.

The old man also said that they had been poor for generations and had nothing to leave for their grandchildren, so they asked Luo Zhenyu's father to help, and after they died, they put a few silver bracelets in the family in clay pots and put them in coffins, which was also a little bit of their heart for their grandchildren.

Luo Zhenyu's father did so, helped to bury others, and paid for the funeral of others, which is also considered to have been a neighbor since his ancestors.

However, Luo Zhenyu's father thought about the words of the deceased second elder, wondering if there would be a missing coffin in that tomb group and any property that had not been discovered.

At that time, Luo Zhenyu's mother still laughed at him, saying that everyone took it out every other generation, and if there were, they would have dug it up a long time ago.

Luo Zhenyu's father smiled and didn't speak. But that night, he called the housekeeper's father and dug up the family's ancestral grave. After two nights, all eighteen coffins were lifted and buried, and a treasure was really found in one of the coffins.

The treasure was a wooden box of gold bars, and a few bronzes from an unknown number of years ago.

The butler said that the wooden box was not very large, about the size of a shoebox for shoes now, but it was full of gold bars. In the early years, the purity of gold was particularly high, and after opening the box, the gold could dazzle people's eyes.

Luo Zhenyu's father carefully examined the gold bars, all of them were bare and shiny, and none of them were marked.

Together with the housekeeper's father, he buried them in his yard and waited for the wind to pass. The second elder of the family has just passed away, and now he suddenly dragged his family and disappeared, and it was out of place to sleep.

In this way, Luo Zhenyu's father held back in the village for four whole years, and the son of the second elder came back twice one after another, and the second time, he stayed in the village and did not leave, saying that he would take his daughter-in-law to live a good life in farming, and they were also very grateful to the Luo family for their help at a critical time.

Luo Zhenyu kept smiling and said that neighbors should help each other.

Gradually, two years passed, and the two families got along like neighbors, and they were very harmonious. Luo Zhenyu was about to enter elementary school at that time, Luo Zhenyu's father looked at his son, thought about it again and again, and finally gritted his teeth and said that he wanted to take his wife and children to the city to wander around, at that time, the son of the family said that he had been to the city, and it was difficult for people to work in other places, but Luo Zhenyu's father said that if he didn't break through, he would never know if he could do it.

Finally, in the autumn of that year, Luo Zhenyu's father bought a carriage with his wife and son, as well as the housekeeper's family, and completely left the place where his ancestors had been living and came to City B.

Hearing this, Ling Yu finally understood how the Luo family developed, it turned out that it was ill-gotten gains.

Ling Yu's mood was a little heavy, and he frowned and asked, "Then, after the Luo family got up, did you go back to help that family?" ”

The housekeeper said: "Naturally, there is, your father took the family out of the mountains, bought a house for others, settled a household registration, and helped them start doing business, and later, they gradually had a place in City B." Therefore, the family is still very grateful to our Luo family. ”

Ling Yu raised his eyebrows, there were only a handful of merchants who had a place in City B, blinking, he thought and thought, and asked, "Which one?" ”

The housekeeper glanced at Ling Yu deeply, sighed, and didn't speak.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Ling Yu knew that he had concerns, so he didn't continue to ask, but this answer was almost scrutinizable.

After thinking about it, he asked again: "Then what is in the house now is the bronze ware handed down by the ancestors of that family?" ”

The housekeeper nodded: "There is no mark on the gold, it can be exchanged for cash." But bronzes are antiques and can't be sold lightly. Your father once asked someone to confirm that those few pieces are all things from the Shang Dynasty, more than 3,000 years ago, each one is genuine, and the value of each piece is immeasurable. ”

Ling Yu sighed, a thick shadow buried in his heart.

With the current status of the Luo family, its value is no longer comparable to a box of gold, but the early period of the start is really not very glorious.

Digging people's ancestral graves and stealing people's treasures, no matter which one it is, it is outrageous.

The housekeeper saw Ling Yu's thoughts, and smiled faintly: "Young master, you don't have to feel too much, in fact, it's all a matter of the previous generation, besides, now that the two families have come out of the mountains, they are also living a prosperous and happy life, in the past, let it pass." ”

Ling Yu blinked: "However, I still owe it to others." ”

Don't say anything else, just say that this bronze can't be sold, and don't dare to donate, even if it is passed down from generation to generation, it will be like a hot potato. There are provisions in the National Cultural Relics Law that they are not allowed to be privately stored, they are not from formal channels, and there are no relevant purchase documents.

The butler sighed, his weather-beaten eyes flashed with deep emotion: "Perhaps, by now, it has been repaid." ”