Chapter 692: Family

Black Peony frowned, shook her head, and said, "I don't know."

"You don't know?" Tang Feng narrowed his eyes slightly, with suspicion in his eyes, "Then why did you stop him from going?"

When Ji Ning talked about this with Tang Feng, he mentioned that Black Peony seemed to know something. Before Li Jia wanted to go to the tomb that made him suffer from a strange disease, he had refused to let him go. Just now, Black Peony also admitted this point, but now, she said that she didn't know the reason, how could she convince Tang Feng.

Hei Mudan smiled wryly, and said: "To tell the truth, Mr. Tang, my craft was passed down from my ancestors. I learned tomb robbery from my father."

Lin Mengjia was even more surprised. Even Shangguan looked at Hei Mudan with a little bit of shock.

In China, many skills are passed down through the family, such as the medical skills of the eldest grandson's family. Although tomb robbery is also a very old business, most of them are passed down from generation to generation by the family.

However, Shangguan knows a lot more about this than Lin Mengjia. As far as she knows, other crafts are easy to talk about, but this tomb robbery has always been passed on from male to female, even if it is passed on to the son-in-law It will not be passed on to her daughter. Unexpectedly, Black Peony was taught by her father.

Hei Mudan saw everyone's astonishment, and explained: "When my father was young, he also did tomb robbers because of his ancestors. After he married my mother, he washed his hands in the gold basin. He said that digging graves Tomb, this is something that harms the morality. Since you get married and have children, you have to accumulate virtue for your children. He gave birth to me with the advice of an expert, but after me, he never had any other children."

It was also Ji Ning's first time hearing about Black Peony. Although he still lowered his head and dared not speak, his ears were pricked up and he listened very carefully.

Shangguan nodded slowly, but there was still doubt in his eyes.

Xie Huohu and Rong Guocheng exchanged glances. Neither of them spoke, but in their eyes, they were all surprised at Hei Mudan's life experience. Even Xie Huohu only knew that Hei Mudan was a famous person. , knowing nothing.

Lin Mengjia heard Hei Mudan's words, and said a little puzzled: "Why did your father know that tomb robbing is not good, but still teach you? You are his only daughter, so is he not afraid of your troubles? "

"It wasn't he who taught me on his own initiative, but I learned it secretly." There was a complicated look in Hei Mudan's eyes, and it was unclear whether it was pride or regret.

She probably thought that if she hadn't learned tomb robbery herself, the things like this wouldn't happen.

"Stealing?" Lin Mengjia became more and more curious.

Hei Mudan lowered her eyes, and after a long while said quietly: "When I was young, I lived with my parents in the old house in the countryside. Although he didn't rob graves anymore, he kept all those tools and hid them in the In a small room for storage of sundries in the old house, one day I was making toys in it, but I found those tools and became interested. I asked my father. He didn’t say anything at that time, but just sighed. Touched my head, and put those things away. At that time, I didn’t know why my father acted like that. When I grew up, I realized that my father had always been extremely contradictory. On the one hand, it is a pity that he has no son and cannot pass on this craftsmanship. He only had me at a very old age. I know that there will be no more heirs in the future, and there will be no son to inherit his craftsmanship. It's very sad."

Lin Mengjia was still puzzled. This thing that is harmful to Yin morality cannot be passed on to her daughter. Does it matter if it is passed on to her son?

When she was about to ask another question, Shangguan said softly: "For these family inheritances, the important thing is not good or bad, right or wrong, right or wrong, but since it has been passed on to me, He has the responsibility to keep it from being lost."

Black Peony nodded, holding the teacup in her hand, and sighed rather embarrassingly.

Lin Mengjia let out an "ah".

She is also from a big family. Although she doesn't know much about the inheritance of such traditions, she can easily accept it. She nodded and said: "Since he didn't want to teach you, how did you learn it secretly?" where?"

Hei Mudan said: "When I was fifteen years old, a man from my family found my father and wanted to worship him as his teacher. At that time, he was a fledgling boy. My father was eager to find someone to inherit his skill, so he accepted him. After leaving him, my father didn't avoid me when he taught him his skills, so I also took this opportunity to learn secretly, and after a few years like this, I can learn well."

Shangguan said thoughtfully: "Your family-inherited ability, you must not be able to pass it on by just accepting an apprentice?"

Hei Mudan said sternly: "At that time, my father asked us to make a marriage contract before he was willing to teach him. However, the two of us will eventually become husband and wife. It is because of our mutual love, not because of my father."

It can be seen that Hei Mudan is very concerned about the relationship between their husband and wife, and immediately wants to explain, but obviously Shangguan is not interested in whether there is any relationship between them. What she wants to prove is that this kind of family inheritance must be based on family inheritance. To Yuanyuan, if Li Jiafei was the husband of Black Peony, her father would definitely not teach him the skill, and when he taught Li Jia, he did not avoid Black Peony, which meant that he was not very resistant to teaching it to his daughter.

Naturally, Tang Feng didn't care about these things, he just said indifferently: "What does this have to do with that tomb?"

"Since our craftsmanship is inherited from the family, there are many rules from our ancestors." Hei Mudan frowned, his face very ugly. No matter how great the temptation is, it must be kept at a respectful distance, and that tomb cannot be touched."

It was only then that Tang Feng realized that the reason why Hei Mudan talked about these many things was just explaining to him. Although she knew that there was a problem with that tomb, she didn't know when the problem was, and she was just following the ancestral precepts.

He nodded, and said again: "What's so special about that tomb, why are you not allowed to steal it?"

Hei Mudan also had a puzzled look on his face, and said: "The ancestors said that the tombs of those who practice Taoism are not allowed to enter. As for why, I don't know."