At the wharf outside the west gate of Yuzhang City, Xu Chen came here again in a few days, but it was to see off his teacher Xu Fan, and the letter sent by Emperor Xuanzong Tongguò Neiwei had arrived.

"Teacher, do you think I should go and break a wicker stick?" Xu Chen joked as if he didn't want the teacher to notice the hidden sorrow.

But how can Xu Fan be fooled? It's just that he knows this student of his own, and once Xu Chen decides not to say something, even he can't let him speak.

"Well, watch out for yourself!"

Xu Fan was also very puzzled, why was he summoned to Beijing this time, Xu Chen naturally knew in his heart, with the power he was about to grasp, plus the huge amount of money in Xu Chen's hand, there were a lot of things that could be done, but even so, Xu Chen still did not speak. Xu Fan was really curious and puzzled about what this student was going to face.

"Teacher, don't worry! I'm very afraid of death, if I can survive, I will never let myself die!"

This is the first time that Xu Chen has put life and death on his lips so clearly, looking at the student's calm smile, Xu Fan can only smile helplessly.

"By the way, teacher, after going to Chang'an, you must be calm! Don't be as angry as before, if you can't help but want to come out, think more about that turtle Dafa! Don't be too miserable, when I still have to be a student, I will go to Chang'an to save you, how unsightly!" Xu Chen saw that the atmosphere was gloomy, so he joked with the teacher.

Xu Fan's eyebrows straightened, and he reprimanded angrily: "You don't need to worry about the teacher's affairs!

"Oh, that's right, that 'Qianli Gongchanjuan' of yours seems to be in Chang'an, right? Do you want the teacher to help me take care of one or two?" Xu Fan fought back sharply flatly.

Sure enough, the smile on Xu Chen's face suddenly changed, with a hint of shyness, and said embarrassedly: "This...... Forget it, no one has seen me yet!"

"Big brother, you're shy! You're so shy!" Xiao Shi leaned over from Xu Chen's side with a big head, tilting his head in surprise. But then he found that the eldest brother's eyes became a little gloomy, so he reacted instantly, and immediately changed his words: "The eldest brother is really a man of temperament!"

Xu Chen smiled sweetly, the smile made the brothers beside him tremble, and then looked at Shi Lei with sympathetic eyes.

Sure enough, after a while, Xu Chen said to the teacher: "Although the teacher is gone this time, we can't fall behind in our future studies! In this way, it will be up to me, as a senior brother, to take care of it! Xiaoshi, after I go back, I will first memorize the 'Four Books', and if I can't memorize them, copy them again to deepen my memory! If I can't do it once, I will copy it a few more times! There will always be a time to memorize it." ”

Little Stone wailed, "Don't......"

The smile on Xu Chen's face was still the same, ignoring Xiao Shi's wailing at all.

In this laughter, Xu Fan's fleet gradually drifted away, Xu Chen stood on the shore and looked at it for a long time, and sighed in his heart: "I hope we can see each other again!"

The shadow of the fleet was completely unclear on the river, so Xu Chen turned around and said to the young people: "Go back!"

Xu Chen walked down from the dock, came to the side of the third iron bull, and said: "Tie Niu, in the future, you will come into contact with high-level people, and it will look a little rustic to use the original name, why don't you change it?"

Tie Niu was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "It's okay! Then it's better for the eldest brother to help get one!"

"Big brother is not very good at choosing names, how about you call him 'Wang Ce'?" Xu Chen thought for a while and said.

"Wang Ce, that's fine! Then it's called Wang Ce!" Tie Niu, oh, the young man now called Wang Ce said happily.

The two brothers tried their best to shorten this process that should have been more solemn, and they also tried to express their natural calmness, but in the meantime, even the little stone became more silent......

As soon as they reached the gate of the West City, they saw a single man riding towards them, followed by a spacious carriage.

As soon as the knight ran in, he pulled the reins, and the horses under his seat deftly slowed down and came to a steady stop in front of the boys.

The knight dismounted, hugged his fist at Xu Chen and said, "Luo Bin has seen Xu Gongzi!"

The person who came was Luo Bin, the captain of the guard of Wan Shijun, the head of the Wan family!

"I don't know if Brother Luo is here?" Xu Chen's face was expressionless, but he was really relieved in his heart.

"The head of the family invited Gongzi Xu, Gongzi Lu, Gongzi Wang, Gongzi Zhou, and this little stone boy to go home together!

"Big brother, what is Wan Shijun going to do?

"That's it, this trick is too earthy!" the silent Zhou Kang also wondered.

"Whatever! If you want to know, just take a look!" Xu Chen was very calm.

"Zheng Tai, bring everyone back!" Since the other party only made it clear that he wanted to see the five of them, Xu Chen didn't want to make trouble, after all, the purpose of his trip was also obvious, and it was better to follow the others a little before the things arrived.

Zheng Tai understood the meaning in Xu Chen's eyes, nodded solemnly, and then led a group of teenagers home.

Xu Chen and the five of them then got into the carriage brought by Luo Bin, and followed Luo Bin to the west, but it was the direction of the ancestral house of the ten thousand families.

Half an hour later, the carriage stopped in front of the bluestone road in front of the town, and Xu Chen and the five of them got out of the car, walked on the bluestone road, and gradually walked towards the town.

Not far away, at the end of the bluestone road, on the steps in front of the gate of the ancestral hall of the Wan family, the two ancestors and grandchildren of the Wan family were looking at Xu Chen and others on the bluestone road from a distance at the moment.

"Strange! Why didn't you react?" Wan Shijun had a deep puzzle on his face.

"Could it be ......" Wan Shijun looked at his grandfather without saying anything.

The old man just replied lightly: "There has never been a mistake on this road for thousands of years!"

"That'...... Could it be that I'm thinking too much, this person is nothing special!" Wan Shijun said with some uncertainty.

"It's hard to say! Maybe he's really the one we're waiting for. The old man said.

"That'...... Just let him try?" Wan Shijun asked uncertainly.

"Since you are here, you have to try it! You are only a year away from the age of twenty, and although I have a lot more time than your father and your grandfather, I should do what I need to do in advance!" said the old man.

"Okay, let him try!" Wan Shijun said after hearing this.

The bluestone road is not long, Xu Chen does not need to complete a ceremony like Wan Shijun that day, and it is naturally much faster to walk, after the tea kung fu, Xu Chen and the five people came to the gate of the ancestral temple of the ten thousand families.

I saw Wan Shijun, the current head of the family, and an old man with gray temples standing in front of the door waiting.

"The younger generation is late, but I am really sorry for making the old gentleman wait for a long time!" Xu Chen said with a respectful salute.

The four people behind him didn't know the intentions of the eldest brother, but when they saw that the old man was old, they also bowed sincerely.

"Okay, good, all good children! It's not too late, it's not too late!" the old man said happily when he saw that the five of them were very sensible.

"Don't even stand outside, come in and talk!"

"Old gentleman, please first!" Xu Chenqian conceded.

"Good!"

In any case, the old man always cares for those smart and polite young people, not to mention the cleverness, this etiquette and sensibility naturally have to start from the very beginning, in order to give a good impression, so as to pave the way for the future.

It's just that Xu Chen didn't know that the goal he wanted to achieve this time was only made by Wan Shijun, the head of the family, who had the right to make a decision.

Everyone entered the house, and after a few words of greeting, the two ancestors and grandchildren of the Wan family retreated under the pretext of excuses, and only Xu Chen and five other outsiders were left in the huge ancestral hall of the Wan family.

Looking at the ancestors of the ten thousand families who had gone away, Lu Hao couldn't bear it anymore, and asked Xu Chen, "What kind of medicine are they selling in their gourd?"

Xu Chen shook his head and said, "It's all here, let's take a look first!"

So everyone really looked around.

The ancestral shrine of the Wan family is very ordinary, really ordinary, ordinary furnishings, ordinary layout, ordinary to even a little simple. Not to mention those bejeweled and splendid palaces, even the low-key luxury that is common in the family cannot be seen at all.

But gradually, the brothers still saw something unusual.

"Big brother, come and see this ding!" Wang Ce seemed to have discovered something, and hurriedly called.

"What's wrong?" Xu Chen walked over and asked.

"This tripod is very ordinary! The shape is not atmospheric at all, and at first glance you can see that it is just the style of ordinary people. "Zhou Kang has seen a lot of people of all kinds these days, and he also has some superficial attainments in some jewelry and antiques.

But obviously, Wang Ce's vision is even more vicious.

"That's right! Look at the style of this tripod, it is indeed not a precious thing. But if you look at the texture on this tripod, this is indeed an old thing!" Wang Ce said.

"It's useless to get old! Antiques pay attention to their appearance, and even if they are a few years old, they are destined to be worthless!" Zhou Kang said.

"Hehe, I didn't say it's valuable!" Wang Ce smiled.

"Then the third brother, you ......," Zhou Kang also reacted.

"Fourth, since you have some understanding of antiques, you should know that older bronzes will have some faint patina on the utensils, and in terms of chemistry taught by the eldest brother, it is the process of gradual oxidation of copper. However, the patina on the usual bronzes has some other colors, and that is because most of these bronzes are dug out of the earth. But Wanjia's one doesn't have those superfluous colors!" Wang Ce said eloquently.

"Third brother, are you saying that this bronze tripod of the Wan family was not dug out of the soil?" Zhou Kang seemed to realize what Wang Ce wanted to express, and the surprise on his face was difficult to hide.

"That's right! Not only did it not dig out of the earth, but there was not even a trace of it being buried in the earth. And there are obvious traces of smoke on this copper tripod, I think this copper tripod has been used as an incense burner for a long time! It is long enough to make such obvious traces of patina appear on the copper tripod, these are all traces of time!" Wang Ce looked at the brothers with burning eyes.

The rest of the people were also shocked by his words.

"Then these furniture ......" The second Lu Hao stroked a desk and said without saying anything.

"I'm afraid it's also a grade of this copper tripod!" Wang Ce said with great certainty.

"Then why aren't there any worms?" Xiao Shi's thinking is always a little more special.

"Damn! This is also low-key and luxurious!" Zhou Kang was shocked for a long time before he finally spit out a sentence.

Xu Chen saw that the brothers said the abnormality in the ancestral ancestral hall of the ten thousand families in a few words, and said with emotion in his heart: "It seems that the history of this ten thousand families is longer than I imagined before!"

But in my heart, I also looked forward to that jade pendant even more.

"I'm sorry! I've kept you waiting!" Wan Shijun seemed to have calculated the time, and walked in just in time after everyone had finished checking and re-seated.

"Brother Xu must have doubts in his heart, the purpose of inviting you here today. Wan Shijun became much more direct after coming back from a trip, and as soon as he came in, he went straight to the point and said: "Actually, this time I invited Brother Xu to come because I had something to ask for!"

"Oh, I don't know if Brother Wan needs help with anything?" Xu Chen thought slowly in his heart, but replied flatly.

Wan Shijun immediately took off the jade pendant on his waist that had never left his body since he succeeded to the position of head of the family, and handed it to Xu Chen's hand.

Xu Chenqiang took it calmly, looked at it calmly, and asked with a puzzled face: "I don't know, this is ......?"

"This jade pendant is the belongings of the successive heads of my family, and it can be regarded as a token inherited by the family!" Wan Shijun replied.

"Then I don't know what Brother Wan wants to do?" asked Xu Chen.

"Brother Xu doesn't know, the jade pendant in your hand is actually just an imitation!" Wan Shijun said lightly.

As soon as Xu Chen heard this, his heart suddenly sudden, his pupils shrank slightly, such a big reaction naturally couldn't escape Wan Shijun's eyes, and in a moment, Xu Chen took advantage of the situation to reveal a trace of indifference, and asked, "I don't know what Brother Wan means?"

Wan Shijun smiled slightly, and actually picked Xu Chen's cover-up: "Brother Xu, don't worry! I didn't mean to play Brother Xu, but in fact, I only had this only imitation in my hands." Not only in Xia, but even in Xia's father and grandfather when they took over the position of head of the family, they only had this imitation in their hands!"

"Where is the real piece now?" So far, Xu Chen has not hidden his peeping heart for the jade pendant of the Wan family.

Wan Shijun replied: "It's in this ancestral hall!"

Xu Chen asked, "Then why ......?"

Wan Shijun shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Why don't you take it out?" Alas! Brother Xu doesn't know anything! Although this jade pendant is stored in my family, the people of my family can't take it out!"

Xu Chen asked, "Why is this?"

Wan Shijun replied: "I don't know about this matter, I only know that it is a rule handed down by our ancestors, and a rule that has been proved by countless failures in the past generations!"

Xu Chen thought about it for a moment and said, "Brother Wan, do you want to try it down?"

Wan Shijun smiled: "That's right!"

Xu Chen just smiled and didn't speak.

Wan Shijun understood, so he continued to explain to Xu Chen: "Before and after the succession, the head of each generation of the Wan family will find a special person who is destined to help him try to take out this jade pendant, and he must not do it at night before the twenty years of the successor head of the family! ”

"So, does Brother Wan think that he is that special person in the future?" Xu Chen said with a playful smile.

"It's still too early to say whether there is a fate, but it is certain that it is special!" Wan Shijun also said to Xu Chen with a smile.

Immediately, Xu Chen was silent for a long time before he asked again: "I don't know when the Wan family last took out this jade pendant?

Wan Shijun replied: "According to the records of the Wan family, it has been more than 400 years since the jade pendant was taken out last time!

Hearing this, Xu Chen's brows furrowed slightly, for unknown things and unknown risks, Xu Chen was always reluctant to touch them lightly before he was ready. However, in the face of a huge crisis, Xu Chen really has no choice.

Seeing that Xu Chen was still hesitating, Wan Shijun immediately said: "Brother Xu, don't worry! Every twenty years, someone who is destined to come to Wanjia to help get the jade pendant, and you can assure Brother Xu that there is no risk in this matter! The person who helped my father get the jade pendant twenty years ago is also in Yuzhang County, and Brother Xu can go to inquire at any time." In addition, according to the records of the past dynasties, these people who were invited by the Wan family to help take the jade pendant died without illness or disaster in the rest of their lives, without exception!"

Wan Shijun actually said the benefits all at once, and Xu Chen and the other five people were shocked, especially the four people except Xu Chen, who had no idea what this jade pendant was in advance, and as soon as they heard Wan Shijun's mysterious words, the first reaction in his heart was that Wan Shijun was lying! How could it be so magical! Could it be that as long as he touched the jade pendant, he could make people completely ill and have good luck in their lives? Why didn't Wan Jia touch it himself? Besides, if Wan Jia had such a magical thing, it would not lead to chaos in the world!

As if feeling the doubts in the hearts of several people, Wan Shijun had no choice but to continue to explain: "This jade pendant of my family will not have any effect even if it is touched when it is not taken out, and even if it is taken out, it will not have any effect on the rest of the family except for the head of the ten thousand families! As for the people outside the ten thousand families, unless it is a person who is destined to be willing to invite back by the heads of the ten thousand families in the past generations, it is impossible for the rest of the people to take it out, and it will naturally not have the slightest effect after touching it. In addition, the most important thing is that no one can see this jade pendant without what the heads of the ten thousand families have prepared in advance! And this kind of preparation is huge, even if the whole family and the whole family are ready to prepare, it will take twenty years each time!"

The more Wan Shijun spoke, the more mysterious it became, and the teenagers only felt as if they were listening to a legendary story, but after seeing the contemplation on the face of the eldest brother Xu Chen, as if he believed it a little, although he doubted in his heart, he did not sneer.

"Okay! I agreed!" Xu Chen didn't think about it for a long time, and then said calmly.

Wan Shijun looked at Xu Chen with a smile and said, "Thank you, Brother Xu, I don't know when we will leave?"

"Sooner rather than later, now!" Xu Chen replied.