On the third day of Deyang, on the official road between Deyang and Yizhou, Zhou Yanbo excitedly exclaimed when he saw the city wall of Yizhou in the distance: "Everyone! Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Arrived in Yizhou?" Yun Yun opened the carriage door, looked at the bluestone city wall in front of her, and said, "Then what are you going to do next?"

"Of course, I went to the hometown of the Zhou family, where there is the real ancestral hall of the Zhou family, so naturally I want to clean the ancestral hall and worship the ancestors. ”

"Then do you know where the ancestral hall is?" Yun Yun asked again.

This time Zhou Yanbo was speechless, he really didn't know where the Zhou family ancestral hall was, and he didn't ask Zhou Yanqing when he was out of noon, so he looked at Zhou Haixu and asked, "Daddy should know." ”

But Zhou Haixu shook his head: "The predecessors didn't tell the old man where the ancestral hall was. ”

After hearing this, Yun Yun teased Zhou Yanbo: "It seems that you have to work hard again." ”

"Cut!" Zhou Yanbo shook the reins suddenly, "What's so difficult about this? as long as you stop someone and ask, you don't know, you don't have to work hard at all." ”

The carriage began to gallop on the official road, and gradually there were more and more pedestrians in front, the south gate of Yizhou is a large paddy field, it is now the middle of June, the rice here has just been harvested, and the second season of rice is being planted, the men in the farmland are in groups of three or five, on one side there are a bunch of rice seedlings, each holding a piece of rice seedlings, and the face is full of smiles; and a group of children are chasing and playing on the edge of the rice field, giggling and innocent; the two-story small farmhouse buildings are scattered in different positions of the rice fields, and there are old people lying in rocking chairs in front of some doors enjoying the sunshine, which is exactly the scenery that Zhou Yanbo is most willing to see, and it is also the scenery that the ruler is willing to see。

Zhou Yanbo got off the carriage slowly, and looked at the scenery next to him while driving the carriage, the paddy fields in the south of Yizhou directly supplied the rations of more than seventy percent of the people in Yizhou, so he couldn't ignore it.

Zhou Yanbo stopped the carriage, then got out of the carriage, walked to a middle-aged man who was resting next to him, and asked with a slight salute: "This eldest brother, I want to ask for directions, how to get to the Zhou Family Ancestral Hall?"

"Zhou Family Ancestral Hall?" the middle-aged farmer looked at Zhou Yanbo, "I haven't heard of such a place in Yizhou. ”

"No?" Zhou Yanbo asked in surprise

The middle-aged farmer nodded affirmatively: "I have been in Yidi for almost forty years, and I have never heard of the place where there is a Zhou family ancestral hall. ”

"Ahh Zhou Yanbo hurriedly said goodbye to the farmer, jumped into the carriage and headed to Yizhou City.

"What's going on?" Zhou Yanbo muttered.

"Could it be that the ancestral hall is not in Yizhou?" asked Yun Yun.

"How is it possible? The Zhou family originated in Yizhou, Yihu, and the ancestral hall must be here!"

"But you also heard what you said just now, Yidi is Yizhou, but he said no. ”

"Ask again!" Zhou Yanbo said.

The carriage drove forward, and it had already arrived at the south gate of Yizhou, Zhou Yanbo parked the carriage at a location at the foot of the city wall, walked to a soldier patrolling the south gate, took out a few pieces of silver from his sleeve and sent them to the soldier: "This soldier's brother, I want to ask for directions." ”

The soldier looked at the broken silver in Zhou Yanbo's hand and said with a smile: "This little brother, the silver is not needed, you just ask." ”

Zhou Yanbo was stunned for a moment, nodded with a smile: "May I ask where is the Zhou family ancestral hall in Yizhou?"

This time, it was the soldier's turn to be stunned for a moment, then thought for a while, and said with a smile: "This little brother, I think you remembered the place name wrong? There is no place for the Zhou family ancestral hall in Yidi." ”

"How is it possible!" Zhou Yanbo said in a lost voice, "Don't you know the Yihu Zhou family?"

The soldier shook his head: "Yihu Zhou is the pride of Yidi, Yidi people will not forget Yihu Zhou even if they forget their parents, after all, without Yihu Zhou, there will be no Yizhou today." ”

"There should always be an ancestral hall of the Zhou clan in Yihu Lake. Zhou Yanbo reminded.

The soldier smiled, "I won't tell you, among the current Yizhou locals, ninety percent are surnamed Zhou, and they are more or less related to the Yihu Zhou family, just like me, I also have the surname Zhou, but no one knows that there is a Zhou family ancestral hall." ”

"But there is a place in Yihu, just west of Yizhou City, the original Yihu Zhou family's mansion has become a place for the Yizhou Zhou family to worship, you can go and have a look. ”

Zhou Yanbo thanked the soldiers and returned to the carriage. Zhou Yansu asked how the situation was, Zhou Yanbo told everyone about the conversation just now, and smiled helplessly: "It's really alive." ”

"Think about what to do next?" Yun Yun asked.

Zhou Yanbo looked at Zhou Haixu, thought for a while, and shouted directly: "Enter the city! I don't believe I can't find it!" After speaking, he drove the carriage directly into Yizhou City, just like before, the first thing Zhou Yanbo did when he entered the city was to find a prosperous teahouse, and then everyone sat down to drink tea together, Zhou Yanbo was used to thinking about things while drinking tea, this is not the first time.

The tea doctor who poured the tea carried a set of exquisite tea utensils on the table, and then poured a cup of tea for each of the five people.

"This little brother, I ask one thing. Zhou Yanbo said with a fluke mentality.

As soon as he heard 'ask about things', Dr. Tea came to his senses: "This guest officer, you said, I don't say ten percent of all the things in Yizhou City, but I know ninety percent." ”

"Well, do you know if there is a place for the Zhou family ancestral hall. ”

"The ancestral hall of the Zhou family, it should be the mansion of the Zhou family, right? It is next to Yihu Lake. ”

"No, it's not the Zhou family's mansion, it's the ancestral hall. ”

"Then I don't know. ”

After hearing the same answer, Zhou Yanbo really had nothing to say, his head made a free fall and smashed it on the table, shaking out the tea in the cup a little, and muttering: "This is impossible, this is impossible, this is really impossible......"

Dr. Tea did not leave, but continued: "But guest officer, I think of a person, he may know. ”

"Huh?" Zhou Yanbo raised his head suddenly, his eyes lit up and asked, "Who is it?"

"There is an old housesmith living in the west gate of Yizhou City, I don't know how old he is, now he is no longer working, every day he takes a bamboo chair to move to the west city gate, every day he sits and watches the people coming and going at the west city gate, he should be one of the oldest people in Yidi.

After hearing this, Zhou Yanbo immediately said: "I'll go and have a look with Yu Ai, you guys are waiting here." After speaking, he called Qingyu Ai to the west gate of the city.

Zhou Yanbo asked Qingyu Ai to find the old man, and he would arrive later.

Qingyu Ai rushed to the West City Gate first, and after many inquiries, he found the old man. Then Zhou Yanbo arrived and found the old man Qingyu Ai said, he was indeed sitting on a bamboo chair at the gate of Xicheng, looking very leisurely.

Zhou Yanbo walked up, saluted and asked, "Hello, old man, I want to ask about something." ”

The young man asked. "The old man may be old, and his speech is a little slurred, coupled with an authentic Yizhou accent, it sounds very interesting.

"Do you always know the place of the Zhou Family Ancestral Hall?"

The old man straightened up and looked at him suddenly, and after a long time, he leaned on the back of the bamboo chair and asked, "Young man, who are you?"

"This ......"

"You are a descendant of the Yihu Zhou family, right?" the old man stared at Zhou Yanbo, expecting him to give a satisfactory answer.

"How do you know?" asked Zhou Yanbo.

"Haha, the only one who can mention this place is the Yihu Zhou who went out" The old man smiled happily.

"Then you must have known this place. Zhou Yanbo asked happily.

"You haven't answered my question, young man. ”

"Oh!" Zhou Yanbo saluted again, "In the next Zhou Yanbo, the twenty-sixth great-great-grandson of the Yihu Zhou family and the tenth generation of the Zhou family. ”

"Is there a proof?" the old man asked.

"Proof of?" Zhou Yanbo thought of something, carefully took out the piece of jade given by his father from his chest, took it off his neck, and handed it to the old man, "Is this okay?"

The old man took the piece of jade and looked at it carefully: "That's right, this is the main jade of the Zhou family." Then return it to Zhou Yanbo, "The ancestral hall of the Zhou family does exist, after leaving the west gate to the Zhou family mansion in Yihu, cross a stone bridge to the north, and walk another mile, there will be a mountain, and the ancestral hall of the Zhou family is on this mountain." ”

"I don't understand something, why do you always know about this? and other people don't know?" In Zhou Yanbo's eyes, that place should not be far from Yizhou.

"Because the Zhou family's mansion is even if it is a 'ancestral hall', who cares what the building on that mountain is?" the old man smiled, "Actually, there are still more or less people who know about that place, but if they know that it is the ancestral hall of the Zhou family, I am the only one, and everyone regards that place as the ancestral home of the declining family, and they are not willing to go." ”

"I see. Zhou Yanbo nodded, thanked the old man, and was about to leave.

"Remember, if you have any questions, just come to me. The old man finally spoke.

……

Zhou Yanbo returned to the teahouse and told everyone what had just happened.

"Then go now?" asked Zhou Yansu.

"Yan'er, don't worry!" Zhou Yanbo said, "Since you are going to the ancestral hall, you must prepare the things for the sacrifice, and this time you may have to clean it and buy some cleaning tools." So, my father and I went to buy the sacrificial things, and the three of you girls went to buy some tools for cleaning, and you drove the carriage, and we will meet here in an hour. ”

After Zhou Haixu and Zhou Yanbo separated from the three of them, they went straight to all the markets in Yizhou, perhaps because of Yihu Zhou's sake, the sacrificial supplies were very popular here, but Zhou Haixu turned around nearly half a circle, and he didn't buy satisfactory sacrificial things. But Zhou Yanbo didn't dare to urge, after all, only Zhou Haixu knew about this matter.

In one of the largest vendors, Zhou Haixu finally started to buy things: "This kind of coarse incense needs six, and it must be intact; the fine incense smell is too shallow, and if it is stored for too long, don't ......" The conditions are very harsh.

"This old stubborn demand is really high. Zhou Yanbo leaned on the counter and watched, thinking in his heart, "The flowers and fruits will definitely be the freshest again." ”

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