The shopkeeper coughed and scolded Xiao Er: "Zhang Cheng, you don't go to the back hall to watch, what nonsense are you talking about here!"

Xiao Er went to the back hall in a gray manner, leaving only Xiao Ziyang who was muttering to himself!

"The old house of the Xiao family...... "He suddenly had a strong impulse, go there now, maybe the answer he is looking for is in the Xiao family's old mansion!"......

Xiao Ziyang's process of buying Li Erlong's ancestral house was very smooth, and the money spent was staggeringly low. But no one thinks that Xiao Ziyang is taking advantage of others. Because Li Erlong was forced into debt by the gambling house, he has been crying and selling his house everywhere for nearly a month. Locals are not interested in this house next to the legendary haunted house. Just when everyone thought that Li Erlong's house must not be sold, Xiao Ziyang, who was suddenly killed, made everyone in the town think that Li Erlong had taken a shit luck.

As for the Li family's old house, which has two entrances and three rooms in the main compartment, it only sells for only three hundred taels of silver, which is less than one-third of the normal price. Because Xiao Zi** didn't have a counteroffer, he agreed to Li Erlong's offer.

On the lakeside of the east end of Longkou Town, in the main hall of a house facing the street and the lake, four people sat in it with serious faces.

Among these four people, sitting at the bottom of the left side is Xiao Ziyang, who is like an iron tower, but wearing a scribe's robe, which is quite funny.

Sitting opposite him was a middle-aged man with a sharp-beaked monkey cheek and a somewhat flattering smile on his face, who was Li Erlong, the owner of this house.

Sitting above Xiao Ziyang was the shopkeeper of the small restaurant. This person has a high rank in Longkou Town, and he also has a bit of prestige, so he was invited by Xiao Ziyang to be his own middleman.

On top of Li Erlong sat an old man with gray hair. This person is the head of the Li family in Longkou Town, a middle-aged person invited by Li Erlong.

The patriarch of the Li family held the written contract in his hand and asked Xiao Ziyang: "Zhang Yuanting, this house has two front and back, a total of thirty-two houses, and the price is three hundred taels, do you have any objections?"

This Yuanting is one of the three road guides that Xiao Ziyang got from Qinglong Village that day, and one of them has the owner's name on it.

Xiao Ziyang got up and arched his hand towards the Li family patriarch, and said, "There is no objection!"

The shopkeeper of the restaurant asked Li Erlong: "Li Erlong, this house has two entrances in front and back, a total of thirty-two houses, and the price is three hundred taels, do you have any objections?"

Li Erlong got up and waved to the shopkeeper of the restaurant and said, "Old shopkeeper, Erlong has no objections. ”

After the two asked, they handed over the contract in their hands to Xiao Ziyang and the two, and the two signed and signed respectively.

After collecting the contract, the two took out the deed and the silver ticket respectively, and handed over the money with one hand and delivered the goods with the other.

Li Erlong received the silver ticket and happily ran towards the gambling house without any nostalgia.

Xiao Ziyang invited the two witnesses to go to the restaurant together, set up a sumptuous table, and invited the two witnesses to eat and drink enough before they dispersed.

The Li family's house faces the street and backs the lake, and there is a back door behind the main house in the second courtyard, and there is a small pier outside the back door. The elegant environment made Xiao Ziyang very satisfied.

On the east side of the Li Mansion is a huge deserted mansion covering an area of more than ten acres, which is built on a piece of land that protrudes into the lake and is shaped like a peninsula.

From the wharf outside the back of the Li house, you can see that the side of this deserted house is near the lake, and the foundation under the wall is built with bluestone slabs, which obviously took a lot of effort and a lot of silver to build back then.

This deserted house is the old house of the Xiao family in the second child.

In order to avoid being abrupt, Xiao Ziyang just casually asked about the origin of this house, and looked like he didn't care very much.

This old mansion is the ancestral home of a Xiao military attaché, as for what is the name of this Xiao military attaché, how many grades are the officials, the people in the town don't know much, the Xiao military attache is a Beijing official, and he rarely returns to the ancestral house, and even if he comes back, he doesn't interact with the people in the town.

Eighteen years ago, a group of wolf-like officers and soldiers suddenly came to Longkou Town, saying that the Xiao family and King Chengtian had colluded to rebel, and they couldn't help but rush into the house and kill more than 30 people in the Xiao family's old house, regardless of old and young, men and women.

It is said that in the second year after the Xiao family was killed, the house began to be haunted. Originally, a large family in Zhongshan City took a fancy to this place and planned to push it to rebuild, but they were also frightened by the rumors of haunting and gave up their plans, and since then, this Xiao Mansion has been abandoned until today.

Xiao Ziyang pressed his temperament, waited until the third watch passed, changed into night clothes, took out a pair of horse chopping knives hidden in the gift box and put them behind his back, gently opened the courtyard door, and quickly rushed into the night.

Since there is this haunted old house of the Xiao family, every time someone in Longkou Town wants to build a new house, most of them will choose to build a new house in the west of the town, so the east end of the town where the old house of the Xiao family is located has become more and more desolate.

Xiao Ziyang spared a circle, quietly climbed over the courtyard wall of nearly two feet, and entered this ghost mansion.

Where he entered, was the back garden of the house. It is overgrown with artemisia grass and has little place to stay.

Xiao Ziyang took out his horse chopping knife, separated the artemisia grass on the ground, and walked towards the garden.

The climate of Chuzhou is warm, it is spring at this time, the artemisia grass is very lush, when he is on the courtyard wall, he can still see a few small buildings in the garden, but when he enters the garden, he can't see anything.

Xiao Ziyang followed his memory, pushed aside the artemisia grass and walked forward for four or five zhang, and suddenly his eyes were empty.

What appeared in front of him was a three-zhang square area, and the weeds on the ground were low, as if someone had taken care of it before, but looking at the weeds here were not much lower than other places, the person who took care of them should have been in the future for a long time.

In the middle of the clearing, a five-foot mound of earth peeked out of the weeds. Xiao Ziyang stepped forward to remove the artemisia grass, and there was an incense burner and a few cups and bowls in front of the mound. In the incense burner were several incense roots that were no longer recognizable. The ground in front of the incense burner is slightly black, and it is not difficult to tell that someone has burned paper money here.

On the opposite side of the clearing, a path that had been cleared could be faintly seen, and the lush artemisia grass on the path showed that it had not been walked for many years.

Along this path, you can see a pond with a radius of seven or eight zhang not far away. On the opposite side of the pond is a dilapidated two-story building that still shows the original grandeur.

Xiao Ziyang looked at the mound that seemed to be a mound of graves under his feet and thought for a moment, then put aside the artemisia grass and walked forward along the path.

When he came to the edge of the pond, his vision suddenly widened. There are two small buildings and a water pavilion by the pond, and the path leads around the pond to the water pavilion.

Xiao Ziyang followed the path to the water pavilion, which was empty, even the windows had been demolished, the ground was covered with dust, and the surrounding walls were covered with cobwebs.

Passing through the water pavilion, the path sank deep into the artemisia grass again.

He walked along the path, and after walking more than ten zhang, he came to a decaying and collapsed gate, and outside the door was a pier four zhang wide.

After observing on the dock for a while, Xiao Ziyang returned the same way and left the ghost-like old mansion of the Xiao family.