"Little brother, is this your father?" A middle-aged man with a slightly chubby body and a flushed face asked at the counter, "This old man is really strict, the things in the small shop are already the best, but his requirements are even stricter." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Zhou Yanbo turned his head to look at the shopkeeper, shook his head and said, "No, he is my grandfather, a very old-fashioned old man, and the requirements are naturally stricter." ”

"Are you from Yidi, I don't think I've seen you before."

"Sort of." Zhou Yanbo nodded, "But we have been living in other places, and this time it is rare to return to our hometown, so we want to go to the ancestral hall to worship, so the things we come to buy are naturally stricter, after all, we are facing the ancestors and ancestors." ”

Hearing this, the shopkeeper couldn't help but applaud: "Well said, Yizhou people respect the ancestors the most, and the ancestors and traditions are the soul of Yizhou, and they can't be lost." Little brother, just by virtue of your words, I can count you less on what you buy. ”

Walking out of the store, Zhou Yanbo found that Yizhou is the best place for ancient morality to be preserved today, and it seems to be the only place in the turbid world that can make people feel fresh.

When Zhou Haixu bought everything and the two returned to the teahouse, the other three people had been waiting for a long time, after all, their things were very simple, Zhou Yanbo carefully put things into the carriage, the three girls got into the carriage, Zhou Yanbo threw the reins, and Zhou Haixu drove the carriage towards Yihu.

After the west gate, drive forward for about three miles, is the original Yihu Yihu Zhou family's mansion, now is the Yizhou Zhou's large ancestral hall, every major festival here can be more lively than the morning celebration. At the intersection in front of the Zhou family's mansion, Zhou Yanbo's carriage turned north, and it didn't take long for it to be a wide stone bridge, although the stone bridge was wide, but the road after that became narrower, after all, after crossing this stone bridge, it was a large area of terraced fields and fruit forests, Zhou Yanbo had to slow down the speed of the carriage, and as a result, the journey of one mile took two miles.

The carriage stopped at the bottom of the mountain, after all, the road up the mountain was paved with stone slabs and logs, and the carriage could not walk, so Zhou Yanbo parked the carriage at a nearby farmhouse, and then walked towards the mountain with things on his back.

Although the mountain in front of me is not high, the slope in some places is almost vertical, and if people who are afraid of heights come, they will never go up. The things that need to be taken are not evenly distributed to five people, and Zhou Yanbo takes the most, so he walks last; Zhou Haixu is second only to Zhou Yanbo, so he is ahead of Zhou Yanbo; Yun Yun and Zhou Yansu took the same amount, but they were lighter, so they walked in front of Zhou Haixu one after the other; Qingyu Ai didn't take anything, because Zhou Yanbo asked her to explore the way in front just in case.

"I said, brother, you're walking a little slowly." At a vertical corner of a mountain road, Zhou Yansu looked back at Zhou Yanbo, who had already pulled down some distance, and smiled, "Can't you be faster?" ”

Zhou Yanbo stopped and wiped the sweat on his forehead and said, "Yan'er, how can this be less solemn on the road of paying tribute to your ancestors?" You see, my father and I have come up step by step, and we have never even used light work, so you have to be like us, you can't use light work. ”

"No, brother, you're too unkind, aren't you?" Zhou Yansu said in surprise.

"You are not allowed to bargain on this matter." Zhou Yanbo said with a smile, and then walked up.

In the afternoon, when the sun was shining, the five of them arrived at the Zhou Family Ancestral Hall halfway up the mountainside, the Zhou Family Ancestral Hall was built on a cliff in the south of the mountainside, the entrance was in the east, the south gate was a cliff, and the north and west sides were against endless woods.

Qingyu Ai looked at the huge shadow wall at the entrance, the shadow wall was engraved with the family emblem of the Yihu Zhou clan, but after more than a hundred years of wind and rain, the patterns on it should have been mottled and blurred, and the two sides of the shadow wall were still occupied by wall creepers.

"It's really bleak." Zhou Yanbo, who came up at the end, looked at the shadow wall and could only say this sentence, but from the remaining patterns of the shadow wall, Zhou Yanbo could still see the prosperity of the Yihu Zhou clan at that time.

Yun Yun looked at the ancestral hall carefully, this is not like other ancestral halls, it is not a regular rectangular structure, but there is a central axis, which is very similar to a rectangle, but the layout is more like a trapezoid, but the two sides have not changed much.

"Let's not talk about it yet, let's go inside." Zhou Yanbo took the lead in walking to the front door, shook the door, and found that there was a copper lock hanging in front of the door, although it was rusty, but it was still guarding the door like an iron general.

"Yu Ai!" Zhou Yanbo shouted, and pointed to the lock, Qingyu Ai understood, pulled out the snow and cut the copper lock in half with a knife, Zhou Yanbo gently opened the door, and looked inside, first the main hall, there were two rooms on the left and right, and the ground in the front yard was paved with bluestone slabs, but because no one cleaned up, weeds grew from the cracks in the stone slabs, and they were almost over people's chests.

"What should I do? My Young Master Zhou? Yun Yun looked at the desolate scene and said, "You don't just want to rely on the strength of the five of us to completely clean up the ancestral hall, do you?" ”

"I did ignore that." Zhou Yanbo said, "In this way, let's clean out the place where we want to live tonight, and I'll go to Yizhou tomorrow to recruit some people to clean the rest of the place." ”

The five of them walked through the main hall and arrived at the second courtyard, which was more like a garden, not only trees, but also wild flowers and a stream formed by clear water, and there was only one room on the east side of the second courtyard, but it was the cleanest one, so the five decided to clean out this room and live in it at night.

The biggest advantage of this room is that there is not much furniture, and the floor is made of wood, and the wooden floor that has been treated with anti-corrosion treatment has not been damaged much, so as long as the dust on the floor is cleaned and water is carefully drained to every corner, it will not take a while to clean up the wooden board, and the other furniture is moved out of the room and placed in the storage room of the ancestral hall. Now that the room has become an empty room, Zhou Yansu walked barefoot on the floor, and the cool air transmitted to his feet in one step, which was very comfortable.

Zhou Yanbo sat cross-legged on the wooden plank, looking around, this room seems to integrate the characteristics of the Zen room, because only the Zen room will use wooden floors, and the doors are also sliding doors; In addition, there are no windows in the room, and the things are large sliding doors, which occupy nearly half of the wall, although it is very strange, but it can produce a passing breeze, and it will be very cool in summer.

Zhou Yansu and Qingyu Ai tore off the paper on the door and re-pasted it with new paper, which could prevent mosquitoes from interfering at night.

"How?" Zhou Yanbo looked at Yun Yun with a smile, "This kind of room may be better than the Yun family." ”

Yun Yun looked at the sleeping kitten in Zhou Yanbo's arms and said, "That's right." ”

The next day, Zhou Yanbo went down the mountain in the morning and drove the carriage to Yizhou City, firstly to buy some things, but to see if he could recruit some people to help. It's easy to solve when you buy something, as long as you go to the store, but in terms of recruitment, Zhou Yanbo is a little worried, you can't post a notice at the city gate, so it's difficult to recruit people quickly, and it may be faster to go through the government, but in order to recruit people, it seems trivial to alarm the government.

Just when Zhou Yanbo was at a loss, a person gently patted him on the shoulder, Zhou Yanbo turned back suspiciously, after all, there was no one he knew in Yizhou, and the person who patted him on the shoulder was a young man, dressed very plainly, but with a military atmosphere.

"Does this little brother remember me?" The young man asked.

"Your Excellency?" Zhou Yanbo didn't know the young man in front of him in his memory.

"I'm the officer who answered your question at the time," the young man reminded.

Hearing him answer, Zhou Yanbo suddenly realized and said with a smile: "I remember, the soldier next to the city gate at that time, why, don't you have to be on duty today?" ”

"Yizhou implements a wheel system, and I am free today." The young man laughed. The so-called rotation system is to stagger the soldiers' on-the-job time, so as to ensure that each soldier has time to rest.

"How? Didn't you find the place you said? The young man then asked.

Zhou Yanbo nodded: "I found it, the place is still relatively remote, but there is still a problem." ”

"What?"

"I need labor to help me clean the ancestral hall, after all, there are only five of me here."

"What do you think?" The young man then asked.

Zhou Yanbo said his thoughts, including methods, recruitment costs, and so on. The young man pondered for a while and said, "It's the busy season of farming, and 'the people take food as the sky', so it's generally impossible to find anyone, but I have a suggestion, I don't know if the little brother wants to hear it?" ”

"Oh? What is recommended? ”

"As I just said, Yizhou implements a rotation system, and today happens to be a new round of rotation, so ......"

Zhou Yanbo instantly understood that some of the soldiers after the rotation became idle, in other words, he could ask them for help. "Is that okay?" Zhou Yanbo asked.

"No problem, little brother, your remuneration is not low, they are definitely willing to help you, if you don't mind, just leave it to me."

Zhou Yanbo readily agreed, and told him the address of the ancestral hall. The young man said: "It has not been officially introduced, in the next week of the snowstorm, the day of birth coincided with a rare snow day in Yizhou, it is the Zhou family in Nancheng, and now he is the commander of the Yizhou Patrol Army." ”

"In the next Zhou Yanbo, Yihu Zhou's family, the current Zhou family is in charge." Compared with Zhou Fengxue's voice, Zhou Yanbo's is much smaller, after all, he doesn't want to cause too many fluctuations.

Zhou Fengxue looked at the young man in front of him in surprise: "Are you really from the Yihu Zhou family?" ”

"It's like a fake!"

Zhou Fengxue suddenly applauded: "Then I am really honored, it seems that my blessing is not thin to know the descendants of the Yihu Zhou family." At this time, Zhou Fengxue completely understood why Zhou Yanbo wanted to find the ancestral hall of the Yihu Zhou family.

"In this case, then I have to complete the matter of Zhou Shao as the master."

"Don't tell me who I am."

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