When Wang Shoude heard the news, his whole person was like five thunderbolts, standing directly at the door, his body trembling slightly because of ecstasy, and he muttered in his mouth: "I...... I'm going to be a dad?".

After a long time, he finally recovered from his stupor, and rushed into the house with an arrow - at this time, his daughter-in-law, when she heard him return, was about to get out of bed, and watched him rush into the house excitedly, and the two of them looked at each other, and were stunned for a moment.

"I ......" Wang Shoude looked at his daughter-in-law for a long time, excited and didn't know what to say, after a long time, he spit out a word, and his daughter-in-law was already crying, slender fingers covered her emaciated face, while sobbing, while saying to Wang Shoude, who was standing in front of the bedroom door: "...... Shoude, now, can we live a good life?"

Wang Shoude listened to his daughter-in-law's words, and could no longer suppress the excitement and sadness in his heart, so he rushed directly to his daughter-in-law, knelt on the ground, hugged his daughter-in-law and cried bitterly......

After crying for a while, Wang Shoude gradually calmed down, quickly got up and let his daughter-in-law lie down, and then called Liu's mother in and instructed her to take good care of her daughter-in-law's body. Liu's mother nodded yes again and again, and hurriedly ran to his daughter-in-law's bed to ask for warmth.

Seeing his daughter-in-law and Liu's mother happily discussing the child's affairs, he looked around, looking at the already dilapidated rental house, he felt a little ruthless in his heart: wealth is in danger, and it is worth taking risks for this child!

After thinking about it, he secretly decided that in three days, he would go downstairs in the city to meet the "old man......

Three days went by in a flash.

Early that morning, Wang Shoude got up early, and after a simple breakfast with his daughter-in-law, he lied to his daughter-in-law that he was going out for a walk, and the family was struggling, so he could find a suitable deal to do first.

When his daughter-in-law heard this, she immediately smiled, and comforted him again and again not to be too stressed, and to take his time in business.

He smiled and nodded, counting the time in his mind. After chatting with my daughter-in-law for a while. He estimated that the appointed time was almost up, so he told his daughter-in-law to have a good rest, and then he got up and walked out of the house.

After coming out of the house. He took a deep breath, he made his way, and then hurried straight to the city building......

When he reached the foot of the city building, he saw that the lean man was already standing at the bottom of the building.

Wang Shoude settled down and walked towards the lean man. Maybe it's gas engine traction. As soon as Wang Shoude walked to the side of the thin man, the thin man raised his head, his eyes hit Wang Shoude's face like a torch, his expression was a little relieved, and he said with a smile: "Think about it?"

Wang Shoude nodded and said respectfully: "I've already thought about it." ”

When the thin man heard this, he smiled: "Then come with me." With that, he turned around and left, Wang Shoude hurriedly followed, and asked, "Where are we going?" The thin man turned around and smiled mysteriously at him. said lightly: "Go to the house." With that, the lean man walked through the city building, along the street, to the northeast.

Wang Shoude listened, followed the thin man and walked in the direction of the house, on the way, Wang Shoude had a sentence and the thin man accosted: "Since you plan to do business, and you are a family, I don't know what your name is, brother? He just said, "My name is Wang Sixteen." ”

"Wang Sixteen?" Wang Shoude couldn't help but feel very puzzled when he heard the thin man say his name: Why did he never seem to have heard this name in his family?

The lean man named Wang Sixteen seemed to have guessed the doubts in Wang Shoude's heart, and said lightly without looking back: "This family is more complicated than you imagined, and not everyone you recognize." Not everyone you've heard of. ”

Wang Shoude listened to his words, and thought that he was going to make a fateful deal with him, and for the first time, he felt that he still knew too little about the huge family he was in.

Thinking of this, Wang Shoude retreated a little in his heart. But when he thought of his dilapidated rental house and the child who was about to be born, he felt a heart: instead of living in a nest, it is better to fight, no matter if he goes to the knife mountain or the oil pot, Lao Tzu has also decided!

After thinking about it, he no longer hesitated, followed Wang Sixteen closely, and walked towards the Wang family's mansion.

The Wang family's mansion is not far from the city building, only one street away. When he arrived at the mansion, Wang Sixteen did not enter through the gate, but took Wang Shoude and walked into the mansion through a small side door next to the mansion.

Although Wang Shoude is a member of the Wang family, he did not grow up in this house since he was a child, and he has not been to the mansion of his family a few times, so there are many courtyards in the house that he has never entered.

After Wang Sixteen entered through the side door, he led him into a courtyard near the side door - as soon as he entered the courtyard, he found that there were many people standing in the courtyard, and he roughly counted them, there were about fourteen people, these people did not look very old, basically they were in their twenties, and the eldest was probably in his early thirties, and they all had the same curiosity and doubts in their eyes as Wang Shoude.

The courtyard is not big, and the fourteen people, counting him and Wang Sixteen, standing in the courtyard, it seems that the courtyard is a little crowded.

Seeing Wang Sixteen come back with Wang Shoude, a strange color flashed in the eyes of these people—a color connected to the same fate.

Wang Sixteen glanced at it briefly, turned around and closed the door, walked through the crowd, stood in the middle of the courtyard, glanced around with his sharp gaze, and said, "Brothers, please listen to me. ”

Hearing Wang Sixteen speak, all the people in the courtyard turned their heads to look at him, waiting intently for his next step.

Wang Sixteen saw that they were all concentrated, nodded with satisfaction, and then said in a deep voice: "Everyone in the courtyard today is all brothers of the family, so I won't beat around the bush, I asked you to come here for one thing-" Speaking of this, Wang Sixteen paused, and his eyes suddenly became more aggressive, like a knife, cutting everyone's faces: "This matter, that is, I want to lead you into the ancestral hall." ”

As soon as Wang Sixteen said this, the people below immediately exploded: "Enter the ancestral hall, what's so difficult about this?"

"Didn't you say that there was any danger? What ...... about the ancestral hall left by this ancestor?"

Listening to the shouting in his ears, Wang Shoude also felt a little puzzled in his heart: he had also heard of the place in Zongna, which was rebuilt by the old house of the old ancestor, and it was said to be in a col in Jingsheng, but wasn't that the place where the Wang family worshiped their ancestors, and what was the danger of going there?

Just as the people below were chattering and discussing, Wang Sixteenqing, who was standing in the middle of the courtyard, shouted: "Brothers, be quiet and listen to me,"

As soon as Wang Sixteen's words fell, the courtyard quieted down, and Wang Sixteen saw that the people around him were looking at him blankly, and said in a deep voice again: "The clansmen guarding the ancestral hall have sent a message, there is a cave in the ancestral hall, and the purpose of my summoning you here is instructed by the elders of the clan, let us go first to investigate and find out what is hidden in this ancestral hall." ”

After listening to Wang Sixteen's words, the people next to him quieted down, and Wang Sixteen saw that they all closed their mouths, slowly breathed a sigh of relief, and began to make detailed arrangements for this exploration work......

However, the content of the letter came to an abrupt end here, and there was no mention of the process of exploring the ancestral hall and the things in the ancestral hall.

The content of the letter was hastily received, and it was about a dozen people, and only Wang Quan's grandfather, Wang Shoude, came out of the ancestral hall alive, and brought out a small bronze medal from the ancestral hall - and that bronze medal was the bronze medal engraved with the pagoda that Wang Quan and I picked up in the hands of the surnamed Chen.

And at the end of the long letter, there is only an inexplicable and wonderful sentence: After I died, I left Pingyao quickly, if the Wang family sent someone into the ancestral hall again, I must do my best to stop it, my son remember!

According to what she said: After Wang Shoude came back from the ancestral hall alone, he became the same as before, and he was really nervous, and he was often awakened by nightmares when he slept.

It wasn't until later that his grandfather was born that he recovered some. The year Wang Quan's grandfather was born, Wang Shoude was already not confused, he looked at his infant son who was crying, he couldn't help but cry in tears, and he was speechless for a long time, until the midwife asked him to name his son, he choked up and spit out a sentence: "Wang Ning, just call Wang Ning." After that, the old man began to cry bitterly, and the relatives and midwives next to him were inexplicable.

The old man died in 1935, when Wang Quan's grandfather, Wang Ning, was upright and weak.

Before his death, the old man handed over this long letter to his wife, and told her to give the letter to her son after his death.

After Wang Shoude died, his wife handed over the long letter to his son, Wang Quan's grandfather has always respected his father very much, and after reading his father's will, he felt that his father must have a reason for saying this.

Immediately, Wang Quan's grandfather immediately opened up the funeral, and on the evening of the funeral, Wang Quan's grandfather took his mother, simply packed his luggage, and left Pingyao City non-stop......

Since then, the line of Wang Quan's family has been completely disconnected from his own family, and it was not until Wang Quan's grandfather gained a foothold in Beijing that he gradually became familiar with each other...... (To be continued.) )