Siheyuan: Traveling through Sizhu, the scumbag father ran away at the beginning

Hearing that He Yuzhu was interested in this abandoned courtyard, the beggar narrowed his eyes in surprise, then looked at him, and confirmed that He Yuzhu was not a threat before relaxing his guard: "Okay, since you have given me a full stomach, I will tell you the history of this courtyard."

He Yuzhu immediately imitated the old beggar's posture, sitting cross-legged on the ground, looking very focused, staring at the old beggar in front of him with interest.

Then, the old beggar began to slowly tell the story of this courtyard and its owner: the owner of this courtyard was an official named Shao, who worked under Empress Dowager Cixi in the late Qing Dynasty, but because he offended a villain, he was framed for corruption and died in prison.

"His son vowed to take revenge and decided to join the anti-Qing forces in the late Qing Dynasty and launch underground activities against the corrupt Qing government! For example, he assassinated corrupt officials, robbed their property, and distributed it to the oppressed people."

Hearing this, He Yuzhu hurriedly asked, "So, did his son succeed in avenging him in the end?"

The beggar sighed and replied, "His efforts were in vain. His son was arrested in Baishun Hutong during an uprising and was brutally killed in a hail of bullets!"

"So the Shao family had no descendants from then on, and gradually declined."

"Mr. Shao had three wives at the time. The first and second wives were taken away by the housekeeper with violence."

"As for the concubine who had a strong character, she refused to submit to the butler, so the butler killed her."

Hearing all this, He Yuzhu could not suppress his indignation and cursed directly: "That housekeeper is simply not a human being. He is simply taking advantage of others' misfortune! He is lawless! Even a beast would not do such a thing!"

The beggar looked at He Yuzhu in surprise: "Do you also think that the housekeeper's behavior is unforgivable?"

"Nonsense, he is just a steward. He robbed his master's wife and property because his master died. If he is not a villain, then what is he?

How ridiculous! Old man, please continue telling the story. What happened to the housekeeper? Did he get the retribution he deserved? " He Yuzhu was anxious to know the ending of the story and couldn't help but urge him.

The old beggar stared at He Yuzhu, who was frowning, and scratched his sparse hair with his fingers. "What happened next was this: the old gatekeeper who was guarding the mansion couldn't stand it anymore, so he secretly put knockout drugs in the food when the housekeeper wasn't paying attention. After everyone fell unconscious at night, he started a fire and burned down the entire mansion."

"The housekeeper, Mr. Shao's first and second wives, and even everyone in the house were burned to death. I heard that the housekeeper and the woman were screaming in the fire."

"Finally, because the house had experienced the fire and tragedy, no one dared to move in, and the courtyard house was slowly abandoned."

Hearing this, He Yuzhu nodded, "This housekeeper and those who betrayed the old master deserve it!"

Suddenly, he asked a new question: "Senior, where is the old man who guards the gate? Is he still alive now?"

The old beggar raised his head to look at the sky, and said slowly: "Maybe he was burned to death, or maybe he disguised himself and started a new life, or maybe he was arrested and executed by the Qing government. These are just rumors. No one knows the fate of the old door."

Regarding the old man's ending, He Yuzhu said casually: "I hope that old man can escape bad luck. Good deeds will be rewarded and evil deeds will be punished. People who do good deeds should not die young."

Then He Yuzhu asked curiously: "Old man, how did you know the history of this courtyard house, and you know it in such detail?"

"If you ask the older generation living nearby about this kind of thing, you will know. They usually spread such rumors." The old beggar felt a little uncomfortable, but tried to explain calmly: "You don't need to ask me, you can find out by just asking around. If you continue to ask other people, you may get a more detailed answer."

Obviously, the beggar didn't intend to give any more details, and didn't want He Yuzhu to find out more about the story.

The old beggar closed his eyes, yawned, and fell into a deep sleep, snoring and completely ignoring He Yuzhu beside him.

He Yuzhu noticed this unusual reaction and saw that the old beggar did not want to continue the conversation, so he slowly stood up and left.

He Yuzhu rode his bicycle to the dark corner of the courtyard and stored the bicycle in his consciousness. With his body strengthened by the spring water, he gently bent his legs, jumped up, and climbed up the courtyard wall with both hands. He used the force to climb over the outer wall and quietly landed in the courtyard.

The yard was in a mess. Many beams and pillars showed signs of being burnt, and the walls of the side rooms also had signs of being burned. It seemed to be consistent with what the old beggar said. This place had been burned by a fire, He Yuzhu thought to himself.

When he entered the courtyard of the quadrangle, his consciousness space seemed to be affected by something, and the vibration became stronger and stronger.

The strength of this vibration changed in direction as his footsteps changed. Guided by the constantly changing vibration frequency in his consciousness space, He Yuzhu came to a remote but relatively intact wing on the far right.

He Yuzhu pushed open the door of the wing room. The exterior of the wing room looked as if it had suffered a serious fire, with the walls charred black, but there seemed to be no signs of fire inside.

The furniture in this wing room was badly damaged, there were thick spider webs everywhere, dust covered the ground, and the air was filled with a strong smell of rotting wood.

When he walked to the pillar of the room, the trembling of his consciousness space suddenly became more violent.

"It's weird!"

He Yuzhu's heart skipped a beat and he immediately started searching around the pillar. While knocking and banging, he discovered a hidden basement door on the ground beneath the pillar.

With a creaking sound, he struggled to open the door of the basement that had been sealed for a long time, and then waited until the dust settled and the air dispersed before walking in. He Yuzhu walked down the stairs for a while and arrived at the hidden basement.

There was no light at all in the basement. He Yuzhu took out matches and kerosene lamps from his consciousness space. After lighting the kerosene lamp, he was able to see the situation in the basement clearly. The first thing that caught his eye was the pile of rotten wooden boxes.

He took out a pickaxe from his consciousness space again and began to pry open the rotten wooden boxes one by one. Each box was filled with super-controlled items - firearms.

He Yuzhu was greatly surprised to see these controlled objects, and wondered if this might be a hidden arsenal of enemy spies.

So he pried open another seven rotten wooden boxes and checked the supplies in them one by one. He found that four of the eight boxes contained various firearms, and the other four contained bullets and grenades.

Only then did He Yuzhu become certain that this basement was definitely the secret armory of the Blue Sky and White Sun Party's spies in the capital.

Looking at these super-controlled items, He Yuzhu gradually felt a little lost. As a law-abiding citizen, these guns were actually useless to him.

In comparison, gold, silver and jewelry are the wealth he needs more.

It seemed that bad luck turned into good luck. When he pried open the ninth wooden box, he found that the items in the box had turned into antiques and calligraphy and paintings. Although he was not good at antiques, he still put these calligraphy and paintings into his consciousness space one by one, hoping to use them in the future.

While he was lamenting that he didn't find any hard goods such as gold or jewelry, he noticed that there was only one rotten wooden box that had not been opened. However, compared with the other boxes, this box was undoubtedly the largest one.

He pried it open with anticipation, but it seemed that the goddess of fate still did not favor him, and the box was just filled with stones.

He picked up a stone at random and prepared to examine it carefully, but the consciousness space in his mind suddenly burst out with a suction force, sucking the stone into the space.

Oh no, this is not an ordinary stone, so He Yuzhu simply put all the stones in the box into the consciousness space, and he also went directly into the consciousness space to see the situation.

As soon as I entered the consciousness space, I saw all the stones put in floating in the air by themselves, and then the stones began to rotate, and the speed became faster and faster. I saw a pile of dust falling from the rotating stones. After a while, these stones stopped dropping dust, and the rotation speed became slower and slower until it stopped, and the dust that fell on the ground disappeared into the consciousness space in the blink of an eye.

He Yuzhu discovered that the stones that had stopped rotating had turned into beautiful jade with crystal clear color. He was secretly surprised. He thought that this was not like calligraphy or painting. One could tell at a glance that it was very good jade. If he could sell it, he would become rich.

But suddenly, these pieces of beautiful jade were sucked into the clear spring of the consciousness space, and then slowly disappeared one by one. To be precise, they were absorbed by the consciousness space, and then the consciousness space began to vibrate slowly again.

At this moment, the vibration in the consciousness space became stronger, and He Yuzhu felt that its boundaries seemed to expand outward. The original consciousness space only covered an area of ​​3 acres, but now it has expanded to 15 acres, which is about five times the land. It seems that these beautiful jades have promoted the evolution of the consciousness space.

At this moment, he felt his connection with this mysterious space becoming deeper and deeper, and he could observe the changes in the entire space of consciousness.

He saw that the wheat had been planted on only one acre of land before, but after absorbing the jade energy, the wheat grains began to grow rapidly, and the green wheat field gradually turned into a golden wheat field.

He also saw that the grass carp in the pond used to weigh six or seven kilograms, but now they have grown to about seven or eight kilograms.

As the last piece of jade completely disappeared into the clear spring, He Yuzhu was surprised to find that his control over the space of consciousness had greatly improved, and the space of consciousness had expanded from the original three acres to thirty acres. My goodness, the space area had directly expanded tenfold.

So he divided the space in his consciousness equally into ten acres each for farmland, fish ponds and livestock farms.

The originally green wheat fields have now turned into a golden ocean, indicating that the wheat is ready to be harvested. It is roughly estimated that this area can produce at least 500 kilograms of wheat.

The one hundred grass carps observed in the fish pond before have now grown to about ten kilograms, which is equivalent to having one thousand kilograms of grass carps in the fish pond.

What is strange is that with the end of the evolution of consciousness space, He Yuzhu's ability to observe consciousness space in detail also disappeared.

It seems that it is a temporary ability brought about by the evolution of consciousness space. Now that the evolution of consciousness space has been completed, this power has also disappeared.