Towering Taihang, magnificent and majestic, mountains and mountains, from north to south, just like a giant dragon crawling on the land of North China, its body is the Loess Plateau to the west, the Great Plain of North China is to the east, the two provinces of Xishan and Beihe are bounded by the trend of Taihang Mountain, to the southeast foothills, Taihang Mountain is convex, more majestic and magnificent, Xishan is bounded by Nanhe Province again, although the geographical conditions are sinister, but the scenery is rare.

Funiu Town is located in the north slope of the southeast foot of Taihang Mountain, belongs to the rule of Yangcheng in Xishan Province, and is Huaiqing Mansion of Nanhe Province over Taihang Mountain, with a unique geographical location, but the traffic is not convenient.

The area of the town is not large, but it has a large population, the appearance of the town is ancient and rustic, and many buildings can see the shadow of the sixties and seventies of the last century. Today is the town market, very lively, a short main street is crowded, merchants, shops and market people gather together, all kinds of mountain goods and traditional crafts and modern electronic products mingle.

The instructor disguised himself as a motorcycle merchant who went to the countryside and towns, with a blue cloth coat, leather shoulders, leather knee pads, a large white towel wrapped around his head, and a black wool cotton boot under his feet, which was very characteristic of the local people, and the cheeks on both sides were rough and red, and at first glance it was the result of being blown by the mountain wind all year round.

The motorcycle is a dilapidated Jialing, the back seat has been modified, and there are retractable and foldable wooden shelves, several stories high, which are full of colorful mobile phone cases, mobile phone films, decals, cartoon mobile phone holders, brackets, chargers and so on.

The instructor put the shelves in an inconspicuous corner of the eastern section of the bazaar, looking at the bustling flow of people, thinking hard about the connection between Yanbei Yunhui and the Zhang clan, he didn't expect Zhang Zhiqiang's family to be so complicated, with mystery in the complexity, as if falling into the clouds and not finding the direction.

This time, the instructor personally went out, but also a helpless move, there are really not many people at hand to deploy, the most powerful 'rangers' have been mostly scattered in the light, even so, things are not going well, there are still three people in the dark line in his hands, that is absolutely impossible, he has to resume the abandoned field work for more than ten years, reluctantly difficult.

He also said that he stepped on the front line again, and he was quite emotional, and the unknown journey under his feet seemed to be recovering the shadow of the past, ten years ago or fifteen years ago?

It was also on such a summer afternoon when the sun was westward, the instructor and Lan Ling at that time were on a mission in northern Shaanxi, one disguised as absenteeism, the other dressed as a villager, after being recognized, in the face of the vicious, heavily armed thugs, Lan Ling smiled like a flower, and the instructor made a decisive move, and in an instant, the clouds covered the sun, and the bloody wind and rain...... The bloody sunset on the way back has always stayed in my heart, as if it were yesterday......

"Oh, this is good-looking, why do you sell it?"

A sweet female voice interrupted the instructor's contemplation, and in front of him were two slim girls, both seventeen or eighteen years old, combing braids, although they were all dressed as villagers, but it was difficult to hide the atmosphere of youth, the instructor immediately smiled, "One for seven yuan, for two, ten yuan to take away." ”

"Cheaper, uncle. ”

"Hey, it's already very cheap, and if you kill it any further, you won't even be able to get it back. ”

"Well, two. The young girl obviously didn't know the essence of bargaining, so she was blocked back with a knife, so she immediately gave up, and happily handed the instructor ten yuan tickets, and happily took away the two cartoon pig mobile phone holders.

It's good to be young, the instructor carefully held the ten-dollar bill, and the figures of Li Tianzhen, Xu Wen, Wu Fang and others appeared in front of him, all of them were he and Lan Ling personally came out, Li Tianzhen is considered a halfway monk, although he was born in the market, but he was born with extraordinary abilities, extremely talented, and he is a top seedling that has been rare in the field team for decades, but unfortunately he is unlucky, and he has to be involved in that old case, and he is now trapped in a turbid whirlpool and cannot extricate himself.

Xu Wen's potential is much worse than Li Tianzhen, but he is also a heroic boy, and he has a deep family background, so he only needs to cultivate himself, guard against arrogance and rashness, and naturally have a bright future.

Wu Fang is actually Lan Ling's closed disciple, and there is another talented person in the same door as him, that is, Zhang Zhiqiang, who is also a teacher and friend of Lan Ling, this is a guy who is a headache for everyone now, compared with twenty years ago, he has become unrecognizable, after that mission, he actually did not die, what did he experience in the process of being overseas?

The strangest thing is to investigate and collect Zhang Zhiqiang's background information, which is unprecedentedly difficult, although the resumes of the entire group members were sealed, but under the conditions of the instructors, it is not difficult to re-obtain, but Zhang Zhiqiang, only knows that his ancestral home is in Honggu, Xishan, but his resume is blank, and it has been washed cleanly.

Wu Fang disappeared like air, and the instructor understood the truth of discussing things on a case-by-case basis, and immediately decided to come to Xishan, giving Zhang Zhiqiang an impression of being in a hurry and unstable mentality.

In the course of the investigation or looking for Wufang, both of both, after consulting the local chronicles and county chronicles of Honggu and Anxian counties, the instructor had a preliminary impression in his mind that the southern part of Luliang Mountain was several important gathering places of the Zhang surname, of which there were two foreign surnames Zhang, one was concentrated in Honggu, and it was the southern migration of the Yunhui area of Yanbei.

The other place has moved south again, to the southeast foot of Taihang Mountain, Xishan and Nanhe provinces at the junction of Guozhuang, Baji, Funiu Town, in fact, it is also a branch of Yanbei Yunhui, and this branch is still maintaining contact with Honggu's Zhang clan, since Zhang Zicui's mother and daughter are not in Honggu, will they live in seclusion here?

From Honggu and Guo County to Yangcheng and Baji, and then to Funiu Town, the geographical direction is an oblique line from the northwest to the southeast, and it has also completed the leap from the southern foot of Luliang Mountain to the southeastern foot of Taihang Mountain, showing the trajectory of this southward migration of the surname Zhang.

Why did they move south again? Why did they go all the way and settle down all the way, instead of moving their clan to their destination? Where was their destination, and why did they stop when they arrived in Funiu Town? Zhang Zhiqiang and Zhang Mugen were small branches in Honggu, so what does it have to do with this branch that moved south?

A series of questions, stirring up the instructor's brain like paste, it seems that he is getting older, and the reaction is really not so fast, so he can only take his time step by step, trace back to the source and go straight to the point, it seems that there is no choice now, otherwise Li Tianji's actions will not stir up an uproar.

Yanbei is a historical general name, originated in the Northern Wei Dynasty, in a narrow sense refers to the north of Xishan and Beihe Province, and also covers today's Hetao area in a broad sense, but Yunhui specifically refers to the current Lingwu, Jingbian, Dingbian, Huaiyuan and Baoning areas in the northern boundary of Ningshan, since ancient times, it is a pasture with abundant water and grass under Yinshan Mountain, but now the desertification is serious, and the grassland has also been degraded.

It is not difficult to understand that the Zhang clan moved south, so it brought new problems, the specific time of Zhang's southward migration, the local chronicles are very vague and simple, on the two words of modern times, from the late Qing Dynasty to one or two hundred years before liberation, it seems to be called modern times, and the ancestors of the Zhang family are nomadic or business, or other trades, and there is no description.

In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of Li Tianji and Wu Fang, the instructor decided to go from far to near, from the periphery to Honggu, from the origin of the Zhang family to Zhang Zhiqiang's relatives, including his mother and sister Zhang Zicui.

After a brief investigation and a long period of thinking, the instructor gave up the legendary Wanjia Mountain, but finally locked in Funiu Town, this ancient and typical mountain town, there are several villages with Zhang's ancestral hall and Zhang's family temple, but most of them have become ruins or do not exist, only the ancestral hall of Zhangmiao Village has experienced historical ups and downs and is still standing.

After a general external observation, the instructor found that this Zhang clan ancestral hall has many strange features, in fact, the place where the clan worships the ancestors, in the north is mostly called the family temple, in the south is called the ancestral hall, like the Zhang clan ancestral hall is really rare in the north.

Secondly, the architectural style of the ancestral hall is also very unique, the overall design idea has the unique roughness and majesty of the north, but the internal layout is a typical southern characteristic, the instructor stands outside, can only take a glimpse of one or two from afar, the ancestral hall sits in the north and faces south, divided into three in the front and back, adhering to the outer middle door, the left west step, the right step of the ancestral hall layout rules, the big red lacquer column, the carved beams and painted buildings, very magnificent, this rule is actually the typical ancestral hall layout advocated by the Song Dynasty since the Song Dynasty, and it is very popular in the south of our country.

In fact, only a prosperous and wealthy big family has the ability to build a three-entry ancestral hall of this scale, and those with a slightly worse family background can only retreat to the second, from the land occupation, pattern, function and other aspects to be greatly reduced, and the Zhang clan ancestral hall is obviously the former, and there is more.

Repeated migration, as well as such financial resources and heritage, this at that time, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a wealthy family on the side of the rich armor, such a ancestral hall, the instructor found a total of three places from the northwest to the southeast, one in Honggu, no one has repaired and managed, obviously ruined, sneaking into it at night did not find any valuable things and records, and the traces of Zhang Mugen's line are nowhere to be found.

The other is in the southern suburbs of Yangcheng, just a ruin of broken bricks and tiles, but I didn't expect the last Zhangmiao Village, the ancestral hall is not only preserved quite completely, but also has a special person to live and take care of it.

But how to enter the ancestral hall to verify is a difficult problem, after thinking about it, the instructor decided that it is safe to do the gentleman's business at night, and there is no other way not to cause trouble and not touch Zhang Zhiqiang's nerves.

The instructor believed that if the ancestral hall here was related to Zhang Mugen, Zhang Zhiqiang must have maintained a very close connection with this place, and even inferred from his character, it is not known that this person controlled this place.

In the flow of people in the bazaar, there were two very eye-catching guys, one was over sixty years old and energetic, and the other was in his early forties, with a strong physique.

The instructor has been staring at them, the older one is called Zhang Jiugen, and the middle-aged man is called Zhang Zhixun, both of them are people who take care of the Zhang family's ancestral hall, and they live together in two earthen houses next to the ancestral hall.