Yuan Qiuhua took a boat from Shijitou, a port in the reservoir area, traveled for half an hour to Yaoshan Island, and then walked half an hour to Huitouling on the island. She stood in the valley flat, looked at the old house, first bowed, then bent down and bowed, and then raised her arms and shouted: Ancestors, the prodigal son has returned, are you okay?

The "Lanyue Residence" in Huitouling is the ancestral home of the Yuan family. Five-flower gable, blue brick and black tile, Ruyi bucket arch holds up the eaves, all the house pillars are spliced with wood and stone, lifting beams and wearing bucket structure, it is a classical house in the style of a large mansion in the south of the Yangtze River, with a total area of 850 square meters. By the end of the Yuan Dynasty the first ancestor Mao Qiaogong seven brothers to open the mountain pioneering, build a kiln to burn bricks and tiles, quarry and ram the foundation, planing the tree for the pillar for the beam, cutting down the giant wood saw board to build the building, after dozens of years to build the prototype, and then through the descendants of the descendants of the uninterrupted demolition of the old and the new, repair and expansion, began to become today's scale.

Huitouling belongs to the remaining veins of the northern foot of the mountain Mufu Mountain, with an altitude of 657 meters. In ancient times, it was surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing Yunmeng Guze in the east, and the Yangtze River was ten kilometers away, which can be described as a mountain, and the ancestors also fished, also felled, and farmed. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng repaired the Jingzhou embankment on the north bank, the Yangtze River overflowed to the south, flooded Yunmeng Daze, impregnated to form a water-rich river, Yaoshan became an island, there are still sandbar shoals in the south and the land border, agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry are not hindered, and business and trafficking are unimpeded. In 1958, with the approval of the chairman and the prime minister, a large-scale water conservancy and hydropower comprehensive test dam was built here, namely the "Three Gorges Test Dam". With the construction of the reservoir and the construction of the dam, the total area of the rich lake has increased to 268.5 square kilometers, of which the water area is 78 square kilometers. So far, form 800 miles of rich water lake, the mountains are around the lake, there are islands in the lake, more than 800 islands are inlaid in the middle, and the patchwork is caused, "the lake is like a battle plate hidden in a hundred games, and the island is like a chess piece to make up a thousand pictures". The surface of the lake, or open, or narrow, narrow like a winding path through the secluded, wide into a sudden open, tourists can row a small boat with the rippling blue waves, can also take the airship directly to Taoyuan Island and Bamboo Island, Tea Island, Orange Island, Bird Island and many other islands. Yao Mountain began to become an isolated island, the total area is 55 square kilometers, the east is high and the west is low, the peaks and peaks are majestic, the canyon is tortuous, the rock ridge is meandering, the elevation of the main peak Longjiaojian is 1528.3 meters, the upper and lower are all based on the amount of feet, and the entry and exit all depend on the rocking boat.

The ancestral house sits in the north and faces south, in the shape of a mountain, the main body is seven into five bays, seven brothers live in a family, the portrait of the leader is painted on the wall, and the slogan is written below, "dig deep holes, accumulate grain, prepare for war and prepare for famine for the people", "the vast world, great achievements, we are the successors of socialism". Two into three rooms on both sides, the west side is the private school in front of the school, the back is the gentleman's house, the courtyard wall remains "Yangtze River Brigade Political Night School" font, under it is the slogan, "only communism can save China", "without the Communist Party, there will be no new China". The first entrance to the east is the guest room, the mechanism of the tea brick factory, the second into the miscellaneous room, the oil mill, the oil noodle workshop. Three Lianyu, carved beams and painted buildings, magnificent, majestic, nine rooms lined up, majestic. In front of the door is a square square floor of equal width, which is made of bamboo to dry the basket, and at the same time can dry 100 quintals of rice. In the past, it was used to dry black tea, camellia seeds, rapeseed, noodles, etc. On the left side of the floor is a pond and on the right is a well.

Each entry, there is a large square patio, made of wide and heavy bluestone slabs and long stone blocks, built-in stone carved flower beds, stone fish tanks. There is a laneway above and below the patio, and there are four suites at both ends of the lane, which are divided into two floors, the bright room, the second room, and the inner walls of the wings, all of which are wood-paneled walls. The exterior wall is made of blue bricks, with a one-foot-high stone floor, and hollow lattice sash windows on the wall, and the old man and the boy live downstairs. The house is framed with beams, worn and used interchangeably, the upper floor is paved with wooden planks, wooden columns, wooden row walls, the cloister is a wood-carved railing, which is the bedroom of a young couple, and above it is an open attic, that is, a girl's boudoir.

The house is built on the mountain, and the terrain is from low to high, so the patio is left and right, and in the middle, there is a row of up and down steps. The hall above the patio is the main hall, the wood carving incense case in the middle, the desk displays the branch head (seven brothers from large to small, divided into seven heads, Yuan Huanxuan is the descendant of the second room, the home is in the second entry, the right laneway above the patio) of the ancestral tablet, a copper oil lamp is always on, the light is not extinguished, and the jumping flame seems to tell the vicissitudes of the years. The hall under the patio is a hall with empty black coffins lined up on both sides. When the clansmen reached the age of forty, they began to prepare for their own funeral, that is, to prepare longevity materials, longevity clothes, tombs, etc. When Yuan Qiuhua returned to his hometown, he had additional tasks, to brush the tung oil for his parents' longevity, to turn out his parents' longevity clothes and dry them once, and to clean up the weeds on his parents' future tombs.

There is a lot of rain in the south of the Yangtze River. Between the upper and lower entrances, there is a one-meter isolation roadway, with stone slabs on top and drainage ditches below. The entrance door opens downward, and there is a half-meter-high stone threshold behind the door. The entrance hall door opens upwards, and there is also a stone threshold in front of the door. There is also a stone threshold in front of the doorway door. The four thresholds form a channel, even if it rains heavily and the ditch water rises sharply, it only overflows within the channel and cannot enter the hall.

Each step progresses to the ancestral shrine at the top. In the middle of the hall is the shrine, like the archway, for the spiritual seat of the seven ancestors of the first ancestor, seven everlasting lamps, placed into the shape of the Big Dipper. In front of the shrine, there is an offering table of eight immortals, in the middle of the table is a copper incense burner, a sword is placed on the left, and a brush is placed on the right. There is a row of benches on both sides of the hall, half a meter wide, ten meters long, the whole log is sawn into two, four feet are installed, more than 100 people can be seated, for the clansmen to sit in rows and talk. Under the patio is the side hall, that is, the place for funeral things, stopping the coffin, the big burial, worshipping, crying filial piety, and going out of the funeral. There is a side hall on the left and right sides of the patio, a place for funeral music. Eight red-painted round columns surround the patio. There is no floor in the high hall, and you can see parallel beams, triangular vertical beams, herringbone ridges, hillside-shaped roofs, cornices, warped corners, rafters, tile grooves, and ridged beasts.

The house is built on the mountain, with a height difference of nearly 10 meters. People stand on the valley and look up, only to see the layers of eaves, rows of tile grooves, jagged ridges.

Yuan Qiuhua shouted, startling a flock of sparrows. The door of the first and third rooms of the ancestral house opened, and the eighth uncle came out: Who is it? Before entering the house, he shouted and shouted! Uncivilized, impolite, and unsophisticated!

With the migration of the reservoir area, most of the people have moved away. Subsequently, due to the inconvenience of travel, many households moved away. The homeland is not far away, the young people go out to work, and the old and weak women are left behind. It is okay for people to go to the empty room, but the ancestors cannot forget and be disrespectful, the incense cannot be broken, and the everlasting lamp cannot be extinguished. Every generation of clansmen pooled money and hired someone to protect the lantern. Passed down to the present day, the eighth uncle is the lamp keeper.

Yuan Qiuhua greeted him and handed him a gift bag, which contained Chengguan specialties - two tubes of sesame tea oil moon cakes, five catties of egg twist flowers, she and her jaw was bowed, bent over, and stood on her chest with one palm in front of the "nun" ceremony, her face pretended to be ashamed, her eyebrows were low, and she apologized: I disturbed the gods, the eighth uncle was right, and the younger generation gave you an old apology!

The eighth uncle laughed: Hey, it turned out to be Xiao Ying! Come back to worship the ancestors, I haven't forgotten the roots, it's good! Have you eaten? Are you thirsty or not? Come into the house and rest!

Yuan Qiuhua scratched his head embarrassedly: After walking all afternoon, I was hungry and panicked, so it was delicious and shameless, and I was cheeky to bother my uncle!

The eighth uncle looked at her: Look at your long black and thick hair, which represents the prosperity of the five elements of numerology, a lifetime of money, blessings, longevity, children, and love can be fulfilled, destined to be lucky and prosperous, I really don't know which stupid boy walks shit luck?

Yuan Qiuhua sighed lightly: Hiding the sky in his eyes, shouldering the sun and the moon, tossing and turning, the wind and rain are the most devastating, not peaceful, the butterfly dreams are drunk and wake up, and temporarily return to the mountains and forests. Buddhism view the world, Taoism and nature, purify the soul, hometown is the foundation of the millennium, willing to learn the gulls and herons, Panhuan Xiaoxiang, Xiao Di has no cavity.

The eighth uncle chanted: Spring sowing and autumn harvest are all today. Picking up the stars and exploring the moon, showing my cherishment. The golden crow rotates, and I respect the machine. Wutong moves and asks for the phoenix.

Yuan Qiuhua said: There are no Han people after Yashan, and there are no masters after the Republic of China.

The eighth uncle said: It's windy outside, let's talk about it after dinner.

The uncle is so enthusiastic, the dishes are too rich, fried meat with bamboo shoots, fried stinky dried seeds, steamed fish cakes, pagoda meat, fried Guan knife fish, dry roasted mountain stream clams, boiled potato flour in broth, mixed vegetable noodles, keel simmered lake lotus.

Yuan Qiuhua said: There are so many dishes for everyone, there are too many, I can't eat them, it's a pity to waste them.

Uncle said: Come to guests, 6 dishes, 2 soups and 1 noodles, it is the rule of hospitality.

Uncle said: Enter the noodles, pick up the wind and wash the dust, go out to make wontons, travel safely, old habits.

The table was full of hard dishes, and Yuan Qiuhua came to eat empty-handed, which made him embarrassed. But the firewood stove, the big iron pot, and the dishes fried in the tea oil of the volcano are really fragrant when they smell fresh, and she really can't refuse this table of delicacies, especially the fish cakes and pagoda meat, the taste of her hometown, which is too revealing. She ate most of the plate at once, and then she was a little embarrassed, she didn't refrain from eating so much! The old man is not rich, and the next time she comes to eat, she must pay for the food, otherwise she will be embarrassed to go.

After eating, washing, and holding the key, Yuan Qiuhua came to the second entrance and went to the house on the right side of the laneway. From the kitchen to the hall, into the suite, look up, there is no ladder to go upstairs. She returned to the patio, carried the wooden ladder, put it under the wall at the staircase, climbed the wooden ladder, climbed to the top, raised her hands above her head, pushed open the movable floor, climbed the library building "Yunmeng Pavilion", and then pulled up the wooden ladder and covered the floor, that is, it became a pavilion in the air.

Yuan Qiuhua lit a few candles to illuminate the room. Wooden tables, wooden chairs, wooden tables, and wooden bookcases are all simple furniture in modern times, unpainted, with bare wood textures and a light wood fragrance. The table and chair are made of red pine, the bookcase is made of sycamore, and the desk is made of toon wood. The desk is one meter wide and two meters long, and when covered with a quilt, it is a large bed. Yuan Qiuhua likes to read since she was a child, and she reads until midnight on holidays, so she sleeps on this wooden desk for fear of disturbing her family.

The attic is higher than the patio, but there are double windows on the two sides, which is uncontrolled, and the roof tiles are inlaid with four rows of transparent bright tiles, and the lighting is also uncontrolled. On the windowless side, there is a double-open wooden door, and when carrying objects, a pulley is hung on the eaves beam outside the door and the rope is pulled, which can be transported in and down. Yuan Qiuhua hid in a small building, in mid-air, without wind, rain and pressure, and was at ease. She prepares dry food, drinks spring water, and arranges it in a red-lacquered commode, so that she can sit in the book city, and for a few days she will not be on the ground, cut off the dust and smoke and fire, and only read the books of the sages.