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"My father and his men followed the traces left by the Zou family's old servants to find the Zou family's ancestral tomb. In an unnamed Taoist temple near the tomb, they discovered a plan that had lasted for a hundred years."

When Cao Su said this, he couldn't help but look surprised and suspicious.

The origin of the matter has to start from the previous dynasty.

The last emperor of the previous dynasty was Emperor Tianqi, who was truly an emperor with lofty ambitions.

He was born in the best of times. His grandfather was warlike and aggressive, and he fought wars everywhere, but he did not make any money from the wars and instead emptied the national treasury.

However, Emperor Tianqi had a good father - Emperor Tianzheng.

Emperor Tianzheng rectified the administration of officials, reformed taxes, increased revenue and reduced expenditure, and reached trade cooperation with the northwest and southwest.

He also led people to head westward and reopen the Silk Road which had been gradually closed, successfully supporting the country that had been almost bankrupted by his father.

Unfortunately, this emperor reigned for only a little over ten years before he died of illness. When he died, he left a full treasury and a clean court to his prodigal son, Emperor Tianqi.

I don’t know if it’s because his life is too smooth, but as soon as Emperor Tianqi got on the plane he started to act like a naughty middle school kid and started catching monsters.

It can be seen from the reign title that Emperor Tianqi had a huge dream, which was "I want to become an immortal and be as happy as heaven."

The first thing he did after taking office was not to bury his father or appease his subjects, but to seek for a powerful person who could help him live a hundred years.

"Uncle Xu said that we don't know if there is any powerful person in this world who can help people live to be a hundred years old, but there are many powerful people who can bewitch people and make them crazy." Cao Su agreed deeply with Xu Da's words.

In fact, deep down in his heart he also suspected that his ancestor Cao Yun had been bewitched by Xu Maoling, which was why he followed Xu Maoling without hesitation to find some strange things and then disappeared without a trace.

When the superior makes demands, the subordinates will flatter them. As soon as Emperor Tianqi issued the edict, countless people came to respond.

Among them, Emperor Tianqi’s younger brother, Prince Zibo, recommended a Taoist named Xuanfeng, who successfully took the throne.

This Taoist Xuanfeng has extraordinary abilities. He can make lotus seeds bloom and pick chestnuts from the fire.

Yu Sanlang and Yu Hongdou couldn't help but frown when they heard this.

Yu Sanlang had met several friends who performed on the street, and he knew that these tricks were just deceptive tricks.

Yu Hongdou, who comes from the new era, is even more disdainful of these things.

She is a little superstitious and believes in some metaphysical things, but the two stories of lotus seeds blooming and getting chestnuts from the fire have been debunked by science for more than a hundred years.

"Prince Zi had ambitions, so he found Xuan Feng to deceive Emperor Tianqi. Prince Zi thought Xuan Feng was a charlatan and asked him to trick Emperor Tianqi into cultivating immortals and refining elixirs."

"But this Xuan Feng is not just a liar, he is also a lunatic." Cao Su couldn't help feeling sick when he thought of the news that came back.

What Taoist Xuanfeng is best at is indeed making elixirs, and he does it using dead bodies.

As soon as Cao Su said this, Yu Hongdou realized that all the preparations before were for this sentence.

Since they like to use dead bodies to make elixirs, it is very normal for them to be related to grave-digging and tomb-robbing families like the Zou and Xu families.

"I just found out that there are people in this world who do not decay after death. Taoist Xuanfeng firmly believes that the reason why the body does not decay after death is that the body contains Qi."

"When Taoist Xuanfeng was insignificant, he was not strong enough to find a decent corpse."

"After being valued by Emperor Tianqi, he began to contact these tomb robbers and went to various tombs, especially the tombs of emperors and generals, to seek for the immortal body."

Cao Su felt a little disgusted when he said this, but the next words forced him to cheer up.

At that time, the Zhang, Zou and Xu families were representatives of the local scholars in northern Jiangnan. The three families were of the same origin and often worked together.

Jiangbei is different from Jiangnan. There are imperial tombs everywhere. At that time, the local tomb robbers in Jiangnan had already made a list of the tombs of several emperors and princes, and were ready to go directly to the tombs.

When they heard about Taoist Xuanfeng's request, they remembered the news they had received before.

A falling star once landed in the Moxi area north of Jining, and someone found a corpse wrapped in a crystal coffin at the location where the star landed.

As the leader of the local monks in Jiangbei, the Zhang family took the lead and headed straight for Mo Xi.

As a result of this trip, the family of the leader of the local monks in Jiangbei disappeared.

The Zhang family disappeared without a trace, which made them extremely anxious, and also frightened the Zou and Xu families.

The people they sent to investigate came back and said that the area where the star fell in Medog was completely destroyed, and that the people of the Zhang family were most likely buried underground and would never come back.

The two heads of the Zou and Xu families discussed it and went to Motuo in person. After coming back, they said nothing and went their separate ways.

Until the end of the Tianqi period, the Zou family was reported to have secretly stored treasures, and they were forced to spend a large amount of money and use half of their fortune to beg Taoist Xuanfeng for protection of their safety.

The Taoist Xuanfeng asked the Zou family to find him another immortal body of an emperor or a duke.

Because he needs nine immortal bodies to refine the elixir, and he only needs one.

This is why the Zou and Xu families joined forces with a group of bandits to rob the tomb of King Jing, which caused mountain torrents, suffering the people of Xuzhou and leading to Emperor Anhe's uprising.

Cao Su drank some water, rested for a moment, and looked at his little cousin.

When he saw how cute his little cousin was in his early years, he even thought about taking her home.

At that time, I could never have imagined that things would turn out like this.

My uncle promised to help them find the traces of their ancestors. My cousin has accomplished something great at a young age, which has benefited the Cao family and the whole village.

Uncle Xu directly warned them to respect their cousin and uncle as the head of the family.

Originally, he, his uncle, and his brothers were not very convinced. Even though the other party was his uncle and his uncle was indeed capable, the Cao family did not need to put themselves in such a low position.

Later, the news brought by their uncle and the huge benefits and changes that their cousin brought to Cigou Village made them change their minds.

Uncle Xu often said that Cigou Village had no shortage of warriors and strategists, but what it lacked was the most unpredictable luck, and only the third branch of the Yu family could help them with this.

Facts have proved that what Uncle Xu said is true.

Cao Su recalled the changes that have taken place in Cigou Village and his home over the past few years.

Yu Sanlang, Yu Song and Yu Hongdou were also digesting the news he brought.

Yu Sanlang felt that the foreshadowing from the former Emperor Tianqi and Taoist Xuanfeng were all useless news. He thought to himself that he would have to talk to the Cao family about the importance of extracting information in the future.

Yu Songze was thinking that these strange and unpredictable events of the previous dynasty were only recorded in a few sentences in history books. He didn't know whether it was because the historians were negligent or someone deliberately erased these records.

Yu Hongdou's thoughts were rather biased. When she heard that a crystal coffin appeared at the landing site of the falling star, her first reaction was the hibernation capsule in science fiction movies. After all, there was the "Hat Fairy" before, so the appearance of the hibernation capsule seemed reasonable.

If it really is a hibernation capsule, then what fell with the hibernation capsule, besides a meteorite, is more likely the remains of some kind of equipment?