Chapter 382: Genealogy

Of course, Master Wu knew the seal of Emperor Kangxi.

The courtyard of the Wu family was demolished and rebuilt during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, and the Wu family, who were officials in the court at that time, lived in.

It was passed down for 8 generations, and later because the government fainted at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Wu family was suppressed in the court, so the head of the family at that time gave up the development in the capital, and the entire Wu family moved to the southwest ancestral home.

This migration never returned, and Master Wu, as a descendant of the Wu family who returned from the capital, inherited one of the ancestors' wishes, that is, to buy back the old mansion in the capital during his lifetime.

Master Wu's ancestor is an ancient martial arts family, in his generation, he is almost the most outstanding martial artist, and later because of Xia Li, he got some opportunities to advance, although I don't know who is stronger than those martial artists before the family, but Master Wu is not intentionally quite outstanding, his current state is equivalent to the state of an ordinary person at the age of forty, and at this time his lifespan is more than one hundred and fifty years old.

If nothing else, even if he doesn't advance in the later stage, he can live for more than seventy years, which is equivalent to the longevity of the monk's foundation building period.

But at this time, these things that Master Wu found from the old house of the family, as well as the formations, were a little beyond his understanding of the family, could it be said that someone on his ancestors was a monk?

Just when Master Wu was staring at the painting of Shen Zhou, Xia Li had already moved to the back shelf and held a booklet and sighed.

Master Wu looked up, the booklet held by Xia Li was thread-bound, and he didn't know what material the booklet was made of, it was a heavy brown color, and it looked old and broken, but the few words revealed by the booklet held by Xia Li made Master Wu's eyes widen.

There are four big traditional Chinese characters written on the booklet: "Wu Family Tree"!

The startled Master Wu took over the genealogy from Xia Li's hand by snatching it in a few big strides, and easily stuffed Shen Zhou's painting in his hand to Xia Li without being gentle at all, as if Shen Zhou's painting was as worthless as waste paper compared to the family tree.

Xia Li reluctantly took Shen Zhou's painting and put it in the jar, and then Xia Li began to check other things.

To Xia Li's surprise, the shelves in the last three rows actually set up a forbidden enchantment, and Xia Li couldn't get in after trying several times.

And Master Wu stood under Xia Li's hanging pole sun stone and couldn't enjoy it, and at this time he had already taken out the table, chair and charging lamp, and he had a long-term look.

Seeing this, Xia Li just shook her head and continued to visit this huge field.

There are many antiques here, and they are all precious objects, and it is not a problem to take out one piece and exchange it for a villa.

Except for the things on the back three shelves, Xia Li couldn't see it, and the other things, Xia Li probably looked at it and sorted it out, and in her spare time, Xia Li also performed a cleaning spell to clean up the surroundings, and Master Wu also closed the Wu family tree with deep eyes.

Master Wu waved when he saw Xia Li standing not far away, Xia Li walked over, took out a chair and sat down, and Master Wu carefully put the family tree in front of Xia Li and said, "Take a look!"

Xia Li raised her eyebrows: "Can I watch it?"

Master Wu nodded and said, "Of course you can read it, it's just a family tree." ”

Xia Li just opened the first page of the introduction to the Wu family and was snatched away by Master Wu before she finished reading it, so she continued to read it now.

The first page tells that the Wu family was studied by a farming clan in Xiangtan, and the three jinshi made the whole clan have a way out.

Although these three people have no background, they support each other, and continue to use their relationships to study the children of the family, which makes their branch gradually prosperous.

What Xia Li didn't see in the back was written one thing, that is, the ancestors of their Wu family were not really farming families, but a few years ago, I don't know if it was the Ming Dynasty, or even earlier, there were powerful monks.

And they are a child of this powerful monk without a spiritual root, who was taken back to secular life by the domestic servants, and then gradually multiplied to form a large family, and the family is quietly protected by the monks behind him, and every ten years, a monk will come to the family to test the spiritual root for the children of the clan, and if there are good seedlings, they will be taken away.

Later, I don't know why no monk came to the door to take the child away, and thirty years later, a man came to the village with the secret book of martial arts, taught martial arts to the children of the family, and told them that this martial arts could only be used for self-protection, and could not be used to earn money.

This is the origin of the ancient martial arts cultivation method that Master Wu learned, and the Wu family began to encourage the young descendants of the clan to study hard to participate in the imperial examination in order to grow stronger.

This is connected with the things that were first described, but this paragraph is written very simply, and does not explain in detail where the monk came to the Wu family living in Xiangtan, but simply tells about such a past.

And the genealogy of the Wu family clearly says that the Wu family in Xiangtan, that is to say, this genealogy records the branch of the Wu family in Xiangtan, can it be said that there are other Wu families?

Xia Li continued to look through it with the doubts in her heart, the first generation started from the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it was the first generation of the ancestor of the Wu family, as far as Wu Fanchen, this name was given, and the fairy spirit was fluttering, Xia Li was very suspicious that this ancestor should be the powerful child of the monk, because he was exiled to the world because he had no spiritual root.

Xia Li gradually continued to look at it, and the names behind it were very characteristic of the times, and finally when it came to the Jiaqing period, the ancestors of the Wu family were very prosperous in the capital, and there were eight officials above the fourth grade in the same period.

Then flipping back, Xia Li noticed that there seemed to be fewer Taoists, and a name was written on the last one, Wu Zongnan.

Xia Li looked at the name and felt a little familiar, looking at the date of birth on it, Xia Li couldn't help but look at Master Wu who was sitting on the side, could it be that this is Master Wu's name.

Master Wu obviously felt that Xia Li was looking at him, and came back to his senses and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xia Li pointed to the name on it and asked, "Is this Wu Zongnan your old?"

Master Wu nodded and said, "Yes, I didn't expect that I was still recorded on the family tree." Master Wu was a little emotional, he really didn't expect to see the genealogy of the Wu family one day.

Xia Li flipped back, and there were still seven or eight empty pages in the back, Xia Li just wanted to say something, but saw a line of small words in the corner under the cover of the last page.

When Xia Li got it in front of her eyes and saw it clearly, she couldn't help but grow her mouth in surprise.

Seeing this, Master Wu hurriedly took it, and when he saw the small words on it, he couldn't help but be stunned.