Chapter 541 The Richest Man (Part I)
"Shi Shanliang? This...... Who is this?"
Zuo Jiajun had a confused look on his face, and he was muttering the three words Shi Shanliang in his mouth, but his expression obviously told Ye Tian that he had never heard of this name.
Although Zuo Jiajun only came to Hong Kong decades ago, he went in and out of Hong Kong's super wealthy families, but Zuo Jiajun racked his brains at the moment, and he didn't expect which wealthy family was surnamed Shi?
You must know that the burial time of this dragon's cave is not short, at least more than one hundred and fifty years ago, that is to say, the descendants of the people in this tomb must have been rich and noble, but they are still the kind of people who are indescribably noble.
It's just that Zuo Jiajun looked back at the modern tycoons in Hong Kong, and there was not a single person with the surname Shi, which made him scratch his head a little, looked at Ye Tian and said: "Little junior brother, there are really no rich people with the surname Shi in Hong Kong, could it be that this formation has not worked?"
Ye Tian shook his head and said, "Impossible, the Seven Star Formation is the unpassed secret of our lineage, since this senior can arrange it, he will probably wait until the formation runs before leaving."
When Zuo Jiajun and Ye Tian were talking, Gou Xinjia was reading the inscription on the stele carefully, his face changed from time to time, and after hearing the argument between the two, he said: "You two don't discuss it there, come and take a look at the words on this inscription."
"Senior brother, what's wrong?" Ye Tian and Zuo Jiajun looked at Gou Xin's family at the same time.
Gou Xinjia shook his head and said with some sighs: "The person who arranged this feng shui yin house is indeed the senior in our family, you will know after reading it."
"Oh?"
Ye Tian and Zuo Jiajun were very surprised, and instead of arguing anymore, they carefully studied the words on the stele, and this story from more than a hundred years ago was presented in front of them.
It turned out that the owner of this sarcophagus was not a wealthy merchant, but a stonemason at the bottom of society at that time.
When the stonemason named Shi Shanliang was twenty-eight years old, that is, in 1842, the British ruled Hong Kong, and the status of the Chinese fell to the bottom.
Fortunately, Shi Shanliang has the ability to carve stone tools, although life is difficult, he can still maintain it, and occasionally he can receive a business to improve his life.
It is said that Shi Shanliang's life should have passed so ordinary, but a very accidental thing changed his fate, not ...... It should be said that it changed the fate of his descendants.
In 1855, Shi Shanliang took over the work of carving stone lions, and this business could keep his family of three safe for several months.
At that time, Hong Kong did not have any awareness of environmental protection, fishermen relied on the sea to eat the sea, and the stonemasons naturally relied on the mountains to eat the mountains.
However, when the group came to the foot of the mountain, they found an old man covered in blood and dying in the grass, with seven or eight stab wounds on his body.
Seeing the miserable appearance of the old man, he immediately felt compassion and carried the old man back home without even picking stones.
Shi Shanliang's parents died early, and there was only his wife and a thirteen-year-old daughter in the family.
After Shi Shanliang's meticulous care, the old man's body recovered very quickly, and he could go to the ground after three days.
Shi Shanliang also knew at this time, and dared to save a strange person by himself, but he was not the kind of person who wanted to repay kindness, and he had no parents, so the old man did not say leaving, so Shi Shanliang supported him like an elder.
One day a year later, the old man suddenly called Shi Shanliang into the room and told him that his first wife's deadline was approaching and that she would die the next day, and he couldn't do anything.
After his wife's funeral, the old man said something to Shi Shanliang again, telling him that his fate was low, and even he only had three years to live.
According to the old man's words, if he could have helped Shi Shanliang change his life against the sky before he was injured, he would have lived a few more years, but after the injury, his vitality would be greatly damaged, but he would not have that ability.
Shi Shanliang was also an open-minded person, and he told the old man at that time that he didn't care what he was doing, but he hoped that the old man could make his descendants happy and healthy.
After thinking about it for a long time, the old man agreed to Shi Shanliang's request, but told Shi Shanliang that because he only had one daughter, this blessing would be blessed to Shi Shanliang's daughter's juniors, and those juniors would no longer have the surname Shi.
Shi Shanliang was very open-minded, no matter what the surname of the descendants was, there was always his blood in his body, and he was very firm at the moment begging the old man to arrange it for him.
From that day on, in addition to taking on some work to make a living, Shi Shanliang spent the rest of his time building his own sarcophagus, which took two years to make.
Three days before Shi Shanliang's deadline, the old man took him to this place, asked him to dig a pit five meters deep in the ground, and put the sarcophagus inside.
After doing all this, Shi Shanliang died suddenly overnight, just as the old man said, and no one could find the cause of death.
Because Shi Shanliang was kind and the neighbors knew his last wishes, he helped the old man and his daughter bury him in the sarcophagus of the excavated cemetery.
At the bottom of the inscription, the old man left his own name, his surname is Yan, his single name is Yuanzi, and his Taoist name is Yuanzi, who is the forty-sixth generation master of the Mai lineage.
In order to escape the war, Yuan Yuanzi came to Hong Kong from the mainland, but he did not expect that a hostile sect would also escape the disaster.
After a life-and-death battle, although Yan Yuanzi killed the other party, he himself was also seriously injured.
At the end of the inscription, Yuan Yuanzi left a letter saying that he used all his energy and blood to perform, and more than a hundred years later, there will be people in Mai who will see this stele and bury it as a place where the people in the sarcophagus can find a place with excellent feng shui and bury it to repay Shi Shanliang's life-saving grace.
Seeing this, Ye Tian was shocked and suddenly realized that the biggest mystery in Mai's lineage was inadvertently solved.
Ye Tian once heard Master Li Shanyuan say that when the lineage was passed down to the forty-sixth generation, that is, in the middle of the nineteenth century, it happened to encounter the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising, and the contemporary master of the sect, Yu Yuanzi, disappeared.
Since many of the core techniques of the Mai lineage were passed down by the master's lineage, and at that time, neither of Yuanzi's two apprentices could get the core inheritance, which also led to the lack of most of the techniques in the Mai lineage in the next hundred years.
The story on the inscription is like this, not only the identity of the owner of this sarcophagus is greatly beyond the imagination of Ye Tian and others, but this person who arranges feng shui ** is also a person of the ancestor of the linen lineage.
The story engraved on the stone stele by Yan Yuanzi made Brother Ye Tian learn what happened after a hundred years, and for a while, several people actually had a feeling of time and space reversal.
After reading this record, Ye Tian and Zuo Jiajun couldn't help but look at each other, if it weren't for Yan Yuanzi's use of many code words in the door, it would be really hard for them to believe this tortuous and bizarre story.
"Alas, I don't know what happened to Patriarch Yuan Yuanzi in the end? Why didn't he leave the inheritance in the door behind?"
Gou Xin's parents sighed, Qimen pays attention to acting against the sky, and its end is a little more bleak than those in the rivers and lakes.
Just like Gou Xinjia himself, of course, if he didn't use the golden cicada's shell, he would probably have become a bowl of loess long ago, but even so, he had endured nearly half a century of loneliness.
"Maybe the inheritance in the Maoshan Taoist Temple was left by Patriarch Yuanzi?" After hearing the words of the senior brother, a strange thought appeared in Ye Tian's heart.
Because Li Shanyuan once said that this Taoist temple in linen clothes was discovered by him, and its existence time was probably more than a hundred years, in terms of time, this coincided with the time when Yu Yuanzi disappeared.
From this, it can be boldly inferred that perhaps Yan Yuanzi once lived in seclusion in Maoshan and found a Taoist temple built in such a place, but later the war involved Jiangnan, so he had no choice but to leave.
The more Ye Tian thought about it, the more excited he became, but his acceptance of the inheritance was too fantastical, except for what he had clearly said to the old Taoist, no one in the world knew about it anymore, but at the moment he couldn't discuss it with the two senior brothers.
"Huh? Second senior brother, ...... What's wrong with you?"
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Ye Tian raised his head, but found that Zuo Jiajun's face was red, and his expression seemed to be a little more excited than himself, Ye Tian suddenly wondered, could it be that the second senior brother can also read minds and know what he thinks?
Zuo Jiajun looked left and right, and said mysteriously: "I...... I know who the owner of this sarcophagus is."
"Second senior brother, isn't what you said nonsense?"
Ye Tian was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said angrily: "Not only do you know, but senior brother and I, as well as Xiao Tianding, know that this person's surname is Shi, and his name is Shi Shanliang."
"That's right, Junior Brother Zuo, is the identity of the owner of this sarcophagus very clear?"
Gou Xinjia also laughed, the inscription clearly stated the name of the owner of the sarcophagus, and his second junior brother also took it out to show off, making them inexplicable and a little confused.
"Hey, I...... I'm not talking about him."
Zuo Jiajun became anxious and opened his mouth to discern: "I am talking about the identity of his descendants, that is, the descendants of his daughter, then...... That was the richest man in Hong Kong!"
Speaking of this, Zuo Jiajun's voice suddenly lowered a little, and he said: "Let's transport the stele home first, and don't pass on a word of the content on the stele, otherwise you will get into trouble."
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