I said in a deep voice, "Keep talking!"

Lin Zhao continued, "Banxianzhuang had contacted the Kong family several times. After repeated rejections from the Kong family, they finally gave up the idea of building Banxianzhuang on their land."

"Not long after Banxianzhuang was completed, the Kong family was exterminated overnight. No one was spared, not even the chickens and dogs."

"Although the Kong family passed down their legacy through poetry and books, they rarely interacted with the outside world. It wasn't until the stench of rotting corpses wafted from the Kong family's compound that nearby residents discovered what had happened."

"It is said that the scene at the Kong family was appalling. Dozens of members of the entire family died with incomplete corpses. However, the family's wealth was not stolen."

"The government at the time determined it to be a revenge killing, but in those years, the government was practically non-existent. A major case involving dozens of lives was eventually dropped."

Lin Zhao paused and said, "However, a very strange thing happened at the time."

"According to common sense, the government should have taken all the remains of the Kong family members away for burial, or cremated them together to avoid a plague."

"The coroner who performed the autopsy at the time somehow managed to persuade the county magistrate to bury the remains on the spot in the Kong family's compound."

"It is said that even lime wasn't scattered in the Kong family's courtyard after the burial."

I frowned involuntarily after hearing this, "What kind of operation is this?"

The coroner is one of the four occultists of the public service, among whom are hidden dragons and crouching tigers.

The coroner who made such a decision back then must have had other intentions.

However, I couldn't understand his methods.

I said, "What else? Keep talking."

Lin Zhao said, "When the Kong family's remains were buried, the yamen runners and villagers who came to handle the bodies took away all of the Kong family's wealth."

"Not long after, those who took things from the Kong family began to die mysteriously."

"The villagers all said that the Kong family had returned to claim their lives, causing widespread panic. Many people secretly returned the wealth."

"They didn't dare put the things back in their original places, so they piled them all in the center of the courtyard, which eventually formed a small mountain in the courtyard. Later, the legend of the Kong family's gold mountain spread."

"Those villagers who returned the wealth were fine. But some people began to covet the gold mountain. However, no one who entered the Kong family's compound, whether they were thieves or distant villagers, ever came out."

"The Kong family's compound became a notorious haunted house."

"The nearby villagers were so frightened that they all moved away, and Kong Family Village became an abandoned village."

Lin Zhao paused here for a moment and said, "After the Kong family's affair gradually subsided, it was brought up again twice, twenty years ago and ten years ago."

"Twenty years ago, a group of local lumberjacks accidentally entered the haunted house."

"There were seven people who went in at the time, but only one came out alive. The other six all disappeared without a trace."

"Ten years ago, a group of university students on a trip entered the haunted house out of curiosity. Only one person came out, and the others mysteriously disappeared."

I asked, "Have you found out about the survivors?"

Lin Zhao said, "I have. The two survivors were so frightened that they went insane. They couldn't explain anything and had to be hospitalized."

"However, the two survivors later disappeared as well."

"Because the hospital's management at the time was not perfect, the specific reasons for their disappearance were not found."

"Xiao Chengzi has only been able to find this much information so far."

"She is still continuing to investigate."

Lin Zhao suddenly thought of something, "Oh, right, Xiao Chengzi said that after the Kong family bloodbath, the people from Banxianzhuang did not come to offer condolences, or even make any expression of sympathy."

Xia Mengying said in a low voice, "That's strange. Confucian disciples wouldn't be so indifferent to each other. Even if there were some disagreements, they should still perform the necessary rituals."

I asked Lin Zhao, "Ask Xiao Chengzi if any other Confucian disciples came to offer condolences after the Kong family bloodbath, or put pressure on the government to solve the case as soon as possible?"

"No!" Lin Zhao said, "It is said that no one came to offer condolences at the time!"

"Oh!" I replied vaguely, "Teacher Xia, why do you think Banxianzhuang wanted to choose the Kong family as the site for their estate back then?"

Xia Mengying shook her head and said, "I don't know! Maybe they thought it was suitable for building a school!"

I shook my head and said, "Building a school is like building a school now. There is no such thing as suitable or unsuitable. Besides, Banxianzhuang wasn't building a school."

Wang Butcher turned his head and said, "You think there's a problem here?"

I responded, "Unlike other sects, Confucianism doesn't pay much attention to Feng Shui. The difference between beautiful scenery and barren mountains is not significant to them."

"Even now, it's not strange to build a school on a barren mountain or next to a graveyard."

"To take a step back, even if they really valued the Kong family's Feng Shui, it wouldn't make sense."

"People who believe in Feng Shui usually don't take places that others have used. The Feng Shui energy has already been taken away by the previous occupants. Even if they take it over, it's just a mess, and the Feng Shui power will be greatly reduced."

"Am I right? Leng Gou."

"Looks like you sprouted an ivory tusk for once." Ye Yang's words were just so annoying.

I don't know why the girls from Liangjie Tang liked such an unlikable guy.

I rolled my eyes at Ye Yang and said, "Don't you think Banxianzhuang's purpose in wanting the Kong family's mansion back then is a bit interesting?"