Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 786
"Yes, mayor, what happened back then? Why did the Yuan family disappear suddenly?" Another old man also asked with a blank expression.

Liu Yang sighed, and said: "The Yuan family was indeed the masters of this town back then, and even our Fufeng Town is peaceful today with the help of the Yuan family."

"That's right. This town was originally a remote mountain village with few lands and few people. It was also infested with ferocious beasts. It was the Yuan family who came here decades ago to help the villagers build houses and hunt ferocious beasts, which gradually made the village prosperous." The old man nodded and said.

Liu Yang continued: "The Yuan family settled here and helped the villagers a lot. The villagers respect the Yuan family very much. But no one has ever investigated the past of the Yuan family, and no one knows why the Yuan family moved here. To the villagers, the Yuan family is a mystery. But even so, the villagers have never had the slightest suspicion of the Yuan family."

The rest of the elders nodded and said: "The villagers thought it was strange back then. Judging from the behavior of the Yuan family, it is clear that they are a rich family, but it is really puzzling to come to such a remote village to settle down."

Liu Yang sighed, and said, "After the Yuan family settled down in this town, they never set foot outside this town. Back then, when I was a child, I often played with the young master of the Yuan family, Zimei. Later, Zimei inherited the family property and took charge of the Yuan family. After being drunk once, he inadvertently disclosed his family affairs, and that's when I realized that the Yuan family's prestige was beyond my imagination."

Hearing the words, several old men immediately looked at each other in blank dismay.

Then I heard Liu Yang continue to say: "The Yuan family was originally a big family in the capital, and they are famous for their numerology. More than a hundred years ago, the Yuan family had an unborn master of numerology. Appreciation technique."

"Yuan Tiangang?" Before Liu Yang finished speaking, Li Canghai blurted out.

Liu Yang looked at him in surprise, as if he didn't expect Li Canghai to guess it so quickly, so he nodded and said, "That's right, the person I'm talking about is Yuan Tiangang."

"It is said that Yuan Tiangang is proficient in the five elements and six ren, and he also knows the theory of 'fengjian'. He can tell good or bad by just the sound of the wind, and then he soars in the daylight on Lingyun Mountain. Back in the day, Pindao also made tea with him and discussed Taoism. His academics indeed run through the past and the present. Even if he is a poor Taoist, he feels that he is just like this." The false old Taoist slightly opened his eyes and praised the authenticity.

The rest of the elders were all surprised, they didn't expect that the Yuan family who helped the villagers build Fufeng Town at the beginning turned out to be the queen of the legendary God and Man.

Li Canghai did not expect that Yuan Tiangang's descendants would hide in such a remote town.

"With Yuan Tiangang's reputation, they can live a comfortable life in Chang'an City. Why did they come here?" Li Canghai asked.

Liu Yang sighed and said, "I have asked Zimei about this question. It is said that Yuan Tiangang once made up a hexagram for his family, and the hexagram showed that future generations would suffer catastrophe. After traveling all over the Central Plains, they finally found this place, so they asked their family members to move here and live in seclusion. They also made a family rule that within a hundred years, their offspring were not allowed to study mathematics, and they were not allowed to go to Chang'an. After the Yuan family came here and settled down, they have always obeyed Yuan Tiangang In other words, they lived a stable life in this town. Until Brother Zimei went to Chang'an that year, the Yuan family's disaster finally came."

No one spoke, everyone stared at Liu Yang.

"Brother Zimei is like his grandfather, he is a numerology genius. Although Yuan Tiangang made a family rule not to allow his descendants to learn numerology, the Yuan family is a family of yin and yang numerology after all, and left behind many books on five elements and yin and yang. Zimei Brother, however, is talented and self-taught. He admires his grandfather Yuan Tiangang very much, but after learning this fortune-telling technique, he always feels itchy, so he leaves home and goes to Chang'an, hoping to let the world know the Yuan family's physiognomy again. It's amazing. But it was this trip that put the Yuan family on the road of no return." Liu Yang recalled for a moment, then said tremblingly.

"Why?" Li Canghai asked with a slight frown.

Liu Yang shook his head and said, "I don't know exactly what happened to Brother Zimei when he went to Chang'an. But after he came back from Chang'an, he became distraught, as if he was a different person. I asked him what happened, but But he didn't mention a word, but dismissed his family and left Fufeng Town with his family. Since then, he has never returned."

"It's no wonder that the Yuan family suddenly emptied their house, but what does this have to do with the ghosts of the Yuan family's former residence?" An old man asked in confusion.

Liu Yang suddenly became short of breath, his expression was a little excited, and he said tremblingly: "Originally, I thought that brother Zimei had encountered a blow in physiognomy, and that's why he left Fufeng Town. Five years ago, I passed by Yuan's hometown I wanted to go in to commemorate it, but I didn't expect to find a dead body in the backyard of Yuan's house..."

"How could there be a corpse in the backyard of the Yuan family?" The rest of the people asked in surprise.

Hearing that there was a dead body, Li Canghai's face instantly became serious.

Liu Yang's old face was full of sadness, and a few tears glistened in his cloudy eyes, and he said, "The corpse is none other than Brother Zimei!"

"This...how is this possible? Didn't Zimei leave Fufeng Town with her family?" The old man stood up from his seat in surprise and exclaimed in disbelief.

Li Canghai raised his eyebrows slightly, and said in a deep voice, "Old man, how can you be sure that the corpse is Yuan Zimei?"

"Although his body has long since rotted, I will not admit that he is missing a phalanx in his left little finger." Liu Yang said sadly.

"Mayor, since you found the corpse, why didn't you report it to the police back then?" asked the old man before.

"When I found the body, I went to report it to the government, but the government ignored it. Besides, the deceased was too big to let brother Zimei's body be exposed, so I asked someone to bury brother Zimei's body." Liu Yang sighed.

"Strange, didn't Zimei leave Fufeng Town, why did she die in her backyard?" The old man was puzzled.

Liu Yang shook his head and said, "I've always felt strange all these years, so I wanted to ask Zimei's family, but I never got any clues."

"That's right, this is what the poor Taoist said about the wronged soul." The fake old man narrowed his eyes and said solemnly.

"Immortal Elder, in your opinion, what should we do?" the old man asked.

"The evil spirits are causing trouble, and the hostility is soaring. If you don't resolve it, it will definitely affect others." After thinking for a while, the fake old man said: "The poor man will go to the deserted house to save the dead souls. However, this ritual must at least be done In two days, whether it succeeds depends on God's will."

When Liu Yang and others heard that it would bring disaster to the people in the town, they immediately became worried, and hurriedly worshiped the fake old Taoist: "I beg the immortal to show mercy, and we must save the people in this town! We will definitely build a shrine for the immortal!" Temple, make offerings to the Immortal Elder!"

(End of this chapter)