Old Yan sighed and said, "Xi Feng, don't blame him. It's natural for people to be greedy. He has been guarding this place for forty years, and he also wants to see what this treasure looks like."
When Lu Fei heard me expose his master's true colors and knew that he was the one who wanted to harm both of us, he immediately got furious and said through gritted teeth: "Why have you been guarding here for forty years? Wasn't it to get this treasure? You killed my whole family for greed. This feud is irreconcilable!" As he said that, he was about to rush up to fight the old guy to the death.
I hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Don't be impulsive. Wait until you have figured out the situation first."
Lu Fei turned around and angrily said to me: "What else is there that you don't understand? He has made it so clear!"
"I want to know what happened in these forty years and the real cause of your parents' death," I said.
Lu Fei nodded and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you and not kill him first." As he spoke, his eyes were still glaring at Old Qian.
Old Qian chuckled bitterly, looked up at the roof and said, "Your parents were frightened to death. I had to let Liu Lingnu kill your eldest brother because he wanted to tell you the secret under the house."
Lu Fei jumped up and pointed at Lao Qian's nose and shouted, "Bullshit, I remember it clearly. My parents got a strange disease. They stared at the ceiling all day and talked about something. In the end, they lost their appetite and died."
"Don't you think that kind of strange disease is a symptom of being frightened?" Old Qian answered calmly.
"..." Lu Fei was speechless. I could also hear that the old couple had indeed seen something horrifying, which frightened them out of their wits.
Lu Fei was stunned for a moment and then thought of his eldest brother and shouted angrily: "The treasure is buried in my house, and I have also suffered the misfortune of nine generations. I have the right to know this secret. Why did you stop my eldest brother from telling me? That doesn't have to cost his life!" As the boy spoke, tears fell.
Old Qian laughed bitterly again: "It's not too late to get angry after you listen to me tell you the whole story."
I held Lu Fei and said, "Let him finish." Only then did Lu Fei suppress his hatred and sit down.
Old Qian went on to say that ever since the Feng family's descendants had their treasure-stealing plan sabotaged by the old man of the Xi family, they had never given up on this idea. But there was another difficulty in digging out the treasure, which was the magic array of my great-grandfather. Although they used their ancestors to win over the wolf demon, they could not crack the magic array. Over the past few hundred years, the descendants of the Feng family have passed down the secret from generation to generation. After so many generations, there are always people who can't control their mouths and leak the secret.
The secret of the treasure of Shijiazi Temple spread like a plague, and many people flocked to steal the treasure. This old house also changed hands several times over the past few hundred years, and finally no one dared to live in it, and it became an abandoned house.
Grandpa Lu Fei is actually from Guangdong. He is also a disciple of the Five Ghosts. He learned this secret from people from Taigu who were doing business in Guangdong. People from Taigu are very business-minded. During the Qing Dynasty, some people went to Macau to do business. In modern times, there are traces of Taigu businessmen all over the country, and many of them stayed in Guangdong.
Their old Lu family was also punished by heaven in Guangdong from that time. Grandpa Lu Fei then took his family north to Shanxi and found the Shijiazi Temple, just to dig out this treasure to increase the life span of himself and his descendants.
When Lu Fei heard that his hometown was Guangdong and that his grandfather was also a descendant of the Five Ghosts, he was stunned.