At 19:14:18 on February 3, 1996, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred in Lijiang, causing serious damage and losses. After the main shock, there were 25 aftershocks, the largest of which was magnitude 6. The earthquake affected a large area.

Buildings in Lijiang, Heqing, Zhongdian, Jianchuan, Eryuan and other places suffered varying degrees of damage. About % of the houses in Lijiang Old Town and nearby areas collapsed. There were 51 disaster-stricken towns, with a population of 1.075 million, and more than 300 people were seriously affected.

10,000. The number of casualties was 17,221, of which 309 were killed and 3,925 were seriously injured. More than 350,000 houses collapsed, more than 609,000 were damaged, and more than 30 million kilograms of food were lost.

After the earthquake, officials from the World Bank came to Lijiang for inspection. They were pleased that most of the residential buildings in the ancient city remained intact. They were also deeply moved by the people of Lijiang's united spirit in earthquake relief, so they offered to provide loans to help restore and rebuild the ancient city.

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Because they were attracted by the glorious past of the ancient city of Lijiang and Mufu, as well as the historical and cultural heritage of the ancient city. They decided to personally conduct an on-site inspection of the Mufu site. In the end, the head of the World Bank, Richard, made the decision on the spot and agreed to restore Mufu as part of the reconstruction process.

A major project in the ancient city. That night, officials from the World Bank calculated and said that it was estimated to cost about 36 million. After the designed project was approved, the World Bank provided a loan.

On February 2, 1999, the completion ceremony of the newly restored Mufu was held. The Mufu, which was re-presented in front of people, covers an area of ​​46 acres. On the 369-meter-long main axis, there are: Zhongyi Stone Archway and Yimen Assembly Hall.

, Wanjuan Tower, Dharma Protector Hall, Guangbi Tower, Yuyin Tower, Sanqing Hall; on both sides there are side halls, attics, street buildings, courtyards, official posts, corridors, etc., a total of 162 houses. Sit west to east, close to the mountain

The cloth, with its scattered heights and undulations, successfully reproduces the momentum of this former "Forbidden City" in Lijiang, giving it a unique style of an ancient palace in a mountain city.

While retaining the architectural style of the Ming Dynasty, Mufu also incorporates the simple, simple, heavy and solid style of Lijiang's ancient buildings, and integrates the exquisite craftsmanship of the Naxi and Bai ethnic groups to become a "Grand View Garden" where individuality and commonality coexist.

"Yugou" is crisscrossed and surrounded by living water, reflecting Lijiang's unique Feng Shui and architectural cultural characteristics.

Because Mufu is located in the center of the ancient city and is known as the crown of the ancient city, the local department has positioned Mufu as the Lijiang Ancient City Museum, which not only fully displays the long cultural history of the ancient city, but also strengthens the research on Lijiang's national and folk culture. Mufu

As a public institution with corporate nature and corporate management, it has become a self-financed enterprise. All staff have been recruited and a group of commentators who are familiar with the history of Mufu and love cultural work have been trained.

Among them, there was a commentator named Ah Shui, who worked in Mufu until the second summer and became Mufu's know-how and the first commentator in the mansion.

Ah Shui's origin is very strange. His ancestral home is the ancient city of Lijiang, but there is no family member in the household register. He is in his thirties, unmarried, handsome and well-groomed.

Ashui had an ancestral courtyard house, which was within the Mufu territory before the earthquake. Logically speaking, all the ancestral properties in the Mufu territory were the ancestral properties of the Mu clan, but Ah Shui, whose surname was not Mu, owned the largest courtyard house.

No one knows what Ah Shui did before. He has no relatives or friends and is extremely withdrawn. But he seems to be very rich. When Mu Mansion was rebuilt, he donated his house without any compensation.

Then he bought four shops on Sifang Street opposite Mufu and made a hand-off shop.

Being a Mufu commentator is just his personal hobby, and the salary is meaningless to a person like him.

A rich, single and handsome man like him will naturally attract the attention of the beauties around him, and there are many people who want to flirt with each other. The strange thing is that Ah Shui is not interested in women, and he is not even interested in dating women. Some people suspect that he is

He is a gay friend, but it turns out that he does not associate with men either. To put it bluntly, he does not associate with humans. He is like an alien, revealing his disdain and disgust for humans intentionally or unintentionally.

So in recent years, the old residents of Sifang Street have all known about this rich, eccentric and non-sticky "alien" Ah Shui.

It was only when Ah Shui was at work and explaining the history of Mufu to Chinese and foreign tourists that he showed his vitality and energy. As a commentator, Ah Shui was a competent, cheerful and charming man.

In the evening of the summer of 2000, as usual, Ah Shui got off work, walked out of Mufu, walked past the wooden archway that said "the sky is full of fragrance", crossed two ancient stone bridges, and walked into one of Sifang Street.

In a small alley.

This alley has no name because it is very short, only fifteen meters deep, and houses three households.

The door on the left is an old-fashioned wooden door, which is Ah Shui's residence.

The one on the right is a stainless steel side gate, which is very impressive and impressive. Even the wall is a high ceramic tile wall that has been renovated in recent years.

Passing through the side gate, you can see that the courtyard is very spacious, with a small garden with a fountain, a tall oleander tree, and a bunch of wisteria climbing out of the wall. There is also an extremely luxurious Rolls-Royce sedan parked.

Behind all this luxury and elegance is a three-story small foreign-style building.

The owner of this family, whose surname is Mu, is obviously a descendant of the Mu clan, a great chieftain in the ancient city. This 500-square-meter triple courtyard is the ancestral property of the direct descendants of the Mu family in the past.

It has only been a year since Ah Shui moved here. He has never met the owner of the house. He has only seen a middle-aged woman who looked like a servant. She went out to buy groceries a few times.

The third house in the innermost house has a rusty black sealed iron door, and the courtyard wall made of black stone is very high and very old, rather like a gloomy prison!

It is said that this ancient courtyard has been closed for a hundred years and is also the ancestral property of the Mu family. There is no way to verify who the owner is.

But on the black iron door, there is a concave block embedded in the stone wall. It is yellow and extremely conspicuous, and is about one foot square. An expert can tell at a glance that this is a gold brick of high quality, worth at least one million.

the value of.

Over the past century, thieves have come three times to dig out the gold bricks on the door, but the next morning, without exception, people found the body of the thief.

After that, everyone in the ancient city knew that this ancient house was very evil, and no one dared to take advantage of this ancient house. The two neighbors on the left and right had also changed residents several times, and they all felt that this area was evil.

It was resold again and again at a bargain price.

However, Ah Shui lives here not because the house he bought is cheap, but because he wants to look at the ancient house in the deepest part.

No one knows this secret.

While he opened the door of his house, he habitually looked at the black door and the big gold brick on the head of the black door. On the gold brick, there were three simple words engraved on it -

Sanqingyuan.

In Ah Shui's eyes, what he saw was not the gold brick, but those three words.

A hundred years ago, Sanqingyuan was not called Sanqingyuan, but Sanqingdian!

This is the real ancient site of Mu Mansion...
Chapter completed!