I raised my legs and was about to cross the threshold of the "Zhong Family's Old House" when a voice suddenly sounded next to me.
"Hey, young man, buy the tickets first! If you enter the attraction directly, you are evading the fare. It costs ten yuan per person."
Well……
Turn around and look.
Sure enough, I found a small ticket window, opening in an inconspicuous place on the side.
I:"……"
He shook his head helplessly.
Fine!
While reaching into his pocket to take out money...
Unexpectedly, you have to buy tickets to take a look at the "client's" home.
When Yao Nan saw my deflated appearance, he immediately laughed and his eyes narrowed like crescent moons.
"I came with you, and you have to pay for my tickets!"
As she spoke, she grabbed twenty yuan from my hand and ran towards the ticket office laughing.
Her hair was rimmed with gold in the sunshine, and the pink strawberry hairpin on her hair looked quite cute.
I pouted.
"Tch~ You obviously insisted on coming with me, okay?"
After buying the tickets, we entered the interior of the Zhong family's old house.
Xiao Yuan didn't need a ticket, and this guy didn't want to come in, so he was just hovering and playing above the Zhong family mansion waiting for us to come out...
This house is a typical standard "three-entry mansion"-the so-called three-entry can be understood as "row"-meaning that there are three rows of houses and three yards from the entrance gate.
The whole thing will be in the shape of a long strip, somewhat similar to the shape of the word "eye".
I have to say that even after hundreds of years, this Zhong family mansion still has a sense of grandeur!
Of course, I am not mainly here to travel...
From the moment I walked in, my attention was focused on the attraction introduction boards in various places.
Generally, for this kind of cultural relics protected building, there will be text introductions nailed to the wall in various places in the house.
I took a look and found that the origin of this house and the owner’s experience were indeed almost the same as what Zhong Xiaoyun himself told me!
Except for some small details that are difficult to obtain from historical materials or local county annals, the big aspects are quite credible.
For example, the attraction introduction also mentions that the owner "Zhong Xiaoyun" who built the mansion when the Zhong family became prosperous won a battle and received a reward from the emperor. It was supposed to be that we should be disarmed and return to the fields, and return to our hometown in fine clothes.
Unexpectedly, the boat capsized in the Chuanjiang River basin upstream of Fubei County and drowned...
When the red ship bearded men collected the corpses, they had no intention of distinguishing the identities of the salvaged corpses. Anyway, they stripped them naked and piled them randomly on the shore.
Then they were all sent to the Yishan Tomb and the Hundred Bones Pagoda.
However, the housewife of the Zhong family had just given birth to a child and could not go out to find her husband's body in person. Moreover, the child is relatively weak and does not dare to be distracted, so he can only endure the pain of losing his husband to raise the child.
By the time I have the energy, it will be several years later. Send a trusted member of the family to search for Zhong Xiaoyun's body in Yishan's tomb outside Lianghe Town. Where can you find it?
I had no choice but to go back and get him a tomb...
Looking at the introduction text of the scenic spot, I also sighed with a wry smile.
"Who would have thought that although the master of the Zhong family who drowned in the Chuan River hundreds of years ago was dead, he was not completely dead. Not only did he later turn into a zombie, he even practiced all the way to the realm of the corpse king and regained everything that belongs to human beings. Memories and emotions. It’s time to look for relatives in turn!”
It’s a strange thing, right?
At this time, Yao Nan next to him pointed at a wall on the east side of the main room and shouted happily.
"Come and see, my deskmate! Here is the Zhong family tree in the scenic area and the migration route of the descendants."
I was also overjoyed.
"That's great!"
Hurry over and take a look.
Sure enough, Zhong Xiaoyun's wife gave birth to a son named Zhong Siyun.
As a general who was good at conquering and fighting, Zhong Xiaoyun's posthumous son unexpectedly had no interest in boxing and kung fu, and instead liked to study.
Later, he took the imperial examination and passed the Jinshi exam, which meant he did not embarrass his father!
Zhong Siyun’s first wife gave birth to two sons and a daughter...
I followed the historical timeline and the line of [direct descendants] in the Zhong family tree - after all, after hundreds of years of reproduction, there must be more and more people - the Zhongzhi King wants to find a blood relative, then I can only look at the line "Legendary Son"!
Otherwise, can I still find a group of people for the Corpse King?
The more I look at it, the more surprised I am!
Because for so many years, from the Ming Dynasty, to the fall of the Ming Dynasty, to the rule of the Qing Dynasty... the Zhong family has not declined. It belongs to a local big family, so there are relatively detailed written records in the local county annals. It was also fed back to the introduction column of this scenic spot.
What's even more rare is that they didn't move, they just continued to renovate and maintain the mansion that Zhong Xiaoyun built during his lifetime.
I couldn't help but think to myself.
"It looks like this is a very simple task! I thought it was like finding a needle in a haystack, but it turned out that I just followed the clue... Hahahaha, huh?"
My laughter stopped suddenly and my expression gradually hardened.
Because when I saw the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, my mentality collapsed!
Because it says that at the beginning of the last century, all the direct descendants of the Zhong family immigrated to Singapore with their families.
Those left in the country are only very remote side branches - basically the kind that are about to release the fifth server and can only be regarded as the head servants at home.
Moreover, after the descendants of the Zhong family went to Singapore, due to the continuous civil war at that time, it was called the most chaotic era in China. All kinds of information were scattered, and it didn't take long for them to completely cut off contact with the country!
In the past decade or so, relevant departments have had good policies...
If you have clear local county annals, official records, and a "land deed" from before the founding of the People's Republic of China, you can get back your family's former property.
In other words, if the descendants of the Zhong family can contact the relevant domestic departments, they can take back the Zhong family mansion and make it privately owned.
However, the fact before us is that the Zhong family mansion has become a tourist attraction where you can buy tickets to visit...
This means that the descendants of the Zhong family who went to Singapore with their family a hundred years ago have never thought of coming back!
I grabbed my hair with both hands, furious with impotence.
"Oh my god! Singapore...is a foreign country...the descendants of this senior corpse king have immigrated abroad. How can I find this?"
At that time in 2000, going abroad was still a very niche thing!
Except for official business trips, studying abroad, etc., it is difficult for ordinary people to go abroad.
Although I have the status of the team leader of Xiuxing Company, it is actually not difficult to go out.
But the question is, how is it possible to find it?
Well, what I thought was a needle in a haystack turned into a clue, but it turned out to be back again!
And the difficulty is doubled.
In my current state, I'm afraid it's impossible to go abroad to find heirs for the Corpse King... I can only put it on hold for now.
Seeing me scratching my hair in annoyance, Yao Nan shrugged helplessly.
"Look, what does extreme joy bring about sorrow!"
