He put his head down on the tea cup, frowned and asked: "Huizhou merchants? How come Wei merchants were buried in Luoyang after their death? How could they not be found? No tombstone was erected back then? None of you have ever visited the grave?"
The old lady shook her head slowly, her eyes lonely.
She said: "Mr. Wang, you don't know something. My great-great-grandfather's name is Qin Yingqian. He was born in the 27th year of Kangxi's reign. His mother, my great-grandfather, remarried in her early years because she was too poor to eat."
"Later, when Taizu Nai died of illness, my great-grandfather's business happened to be booming, so he wanted to bury Taizu Nai in the Qin family's ancestral grave. However, he was severely rejected by the clan."
He kept his head and listened carefully, then nodded and said: "So that's it...I understand."
In fact, I understood it too.
In that era, if a woman remarried, whether it was because her husband died and she could no longer live on, or for any other reason, she was not eligible to be buried in the ancestral grave of the man's family after her death, and she was not allowed to erect a tombstone.
Let me just say, no wonder.
In the past, the large Huizhou merchants and Shanxi merchants had clan tombs in the south. How could one or two people come to Luoyang in the north alone? It turned out that they were driven out by the clan family back then.
The old lady sighed and continued: "There was nothing we could do. My great ancestor heard that Mang Mountain had good feng shui, so he buried my great ancestor's grandmother here. A hundred years later, he also chose to stay with her great ancestor's grandmother."
After saying this, the old lady looked out the window.
From there you can only see the endless green leaves of the Beimang Mountains.
She looked at it for a long time, and her eyes gradually became moist.
"Because the Zong family did not allow tombstones to be erected, and later there was war, our Qin family was almost extinct. Now three hundred years have passed, things and people have changed, and we can no longer find our original place."
The old lady pointed at the mountain through the window: "There is a Shanngling Village on the mountain. When I was a child, my father and I lived in that village just to find the tomb of our great ancestor. We lived there until 1951, when we left and moved to
Cold country."
Perhaps it was because she recalled the past that made her cry.
Seeing her grandma like this, the girl's eyes turned red.
"Mr. Wang, you are professional robbers...professional historians."
"Please help me. Don't worry about the reward I mentioned earlier. It's just a lot more. We have been looking for someone for three generations..."
I picked up the cup and took a sip of water.
Wondering how to start?
This is much harder than robbing a tomb alone.
Because just knowing the name of his great ancestor is of no use at all. It is still a tomb from the Qing Dynasty. We rarely touch the tombs from the Qing Dynasty. Firstly, they are not valuable, and secondly, they are difficult to find.
"Big girl."
"puff!"
I squirted out a mouthful of water.
"cough!"
"It's okay! I drank too fast and choked."
He glared at me, turned around and said, "Sister, do you have any other information?"
"For example, is it probably buried in the north of Mangshan Mountain, or in the south of Mangshan Mountain? Or in the central area?"
The old lady shook her head slowly and said that she only knew that she was on Mang Mountain and knew nothing else.
"Hmm...that's it."
He kept tapping his head and fingers on the table, and then said: "This matter is a bit difficult, let me think about it, do you have a place to stay at night?"
"Yes, we will live in the village. Mr. Wang, you can come to me to discuss any ideas you have.
"Then let's go clean up the place where we live."
Get up and send it off.
Turns out he just came back.
Dou Sprout, Brother Yu, and Xiao Xuan all jumped out from a corner at the same time!
Three people! They shouted in unison: "Mr. Wang...!"
"What are you doing!"
"It's no longer big or small, right?"
"Sit down and give me a seat!"
I know Dou Sprout, he always speaks freely and says whatever comes to mind.
He sat down and laughed: "Haha!"
"Boss, you're not married yet! Why don't you catch up with this old lady? She is a descendant of Huizhou merchants, and all ladies are not short of money. That way, you won't have to go to the grave in the future!"
"There are four of us disciples left. Let's go get the scriptures by ourselves."
