Chapter 3 Chen Family Ancient Ancestral Hall
Now all this is inadvertently known to me, an outsider, and the blow to my heart is conceivable. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoIn the last text, I found the most crucial word, which is the "Chen Ancient Ancestral Hall" recorded in the book.
The word recurs in the final text, and according to what he wrote, it is a clue that he only found until the end of his search. And in the most critical part, the place where this ancient shrine may have been written, has now been destroyed due to dilapidation. Without the following here, I still used a hair dryer to blow the whole book, and it seems that these are the only records, and there are no other hints or map styles.
"Chen's Ancient Ancestral Hall", which is also a big surname among the hundred family names, even if there are no hundreds of millions of people, there are tens of thousands. In such a big country, where will the Chen Ancient Ancestral Hall be?
For a moment my mind was full of all sorts of thoughts, and I had no idea what I was going to do next. I didn't do anything for an afternoon, just researching the clue, the clue about Mu Dingsheng and how to find him.
If I can find Mu Dingsheng, then I can't believe what kind of feat it will be, and what a huge shock it will bring! Maybe I was too excited to even take care of eating, so I quickly called Chuanzi. I'm going to let him know about it, after all, he gave it to me, and without him, how could I know about it by chance, so he was the first person I thought of.
When he came, I closed the door and sat in the back room with him, and told Chuanzi exactly what had happened. He didn't believe it at first, but after I demonstrated it with a hair dryer, his eyes widened like bull's eyes.
"If this legend is true, then we haven't picked up a treasure," Chuanzi said in surprise. As expected, I already knew his expression, how could he not be shocked by this kind of thing, how could he not be moved......
"Well, if that's true, then we'、、、" I didn't go on. But he seemed to have been moved by what I said, and he looked focused, smoking a cigarette and tapping his fingers on his brain. This is the first time I've seen him do something with such a big demeanor, and after discussing with him, the two of us are ready to find this Chen Ancient Ancestral Hall.
"But the place recorded in this book is only the Chen Ancient Ancestral Hall, and there is no specific place, how should we start?" This is the question I put to him after I consulted with him. Since there is no follow-up, we can only look for a needle in a haystack, and the blind touch the blind, and this is not a way to go on.
He thought for a moment and told me, "I'll figure out how to do this, and leave it to me, don't worry." ”
So far, I have to inquire first, "Okay, I'll also check the information, look through the historical records, and see if there are any special records." ”
Two days passed like this, which were my busiest days, and I looked through a lot of books and didn't find anything useful. At this time, Chuanzi called, he had news from there, and he would come over and tell me in detail later. After a while he came to my shop, but he asked me to make him a hot cup of tea, and I wanted to beat her up.
When did he still have the leisure to drink tea, but I still didn't argue that he made the tea, and after a slow sip, he began to speak. "I've inquired about this matter, my friends on the road have already moved, and even my seven aunts and eight aunts have swept through, and I also have a little bit ......of an eyebrow in this Chen Ancient Ancestral Hall."
Looking at his half-way words, I really couldn't bear it, "But what, what are you saying, what are you selling." ”
He said with some hesitation: "I heard the news from my mother, according to my mother, when he was a child at his grandmother's house, there used to be an old ancestral hall there that seemed to be the Chen ancestral hall. But I don't know what age it is, but every time it is time to worship the ancestors, the whole village surnamed Chen has to go to the ancestral hall to worship. ”
"Then your mother's grandmother's family is a member of the Chen family?" "I've heard my mother talk about this, he said that his grandmother's family is surnamed Chen, and the Chen family is a big family in that village, and nine out of ten people in the village are surnamed Chen."
"Then, according to what you say, the Chen ancestral hall of your mother's grandmother's house is very likely to be the place we are looking for."
"Well, it may be possible, it may be, it is ......"
Looking at Chuanzi with an embarrassed face, my brow furrowed, "What? Is there any difficulty? ”
"How to say this, there is a little difficulty."
"Then what are you talking about?"
"According to my mother, only people with the surname Chen are allowed to enter the ancestral hall, and people with foreign surnames are not allowed to enter at all." Hearing him say this, he instantly felt that this matter was not easy to get into the ancestral hall, and if everything about Mu Dingsheng could not be solved, then all this would be meaningless.
"We have to enter this ancestral hall, it seems that we have to think about it in the long run," I thought about it and said to Chuanzi. Since this matter is relatively obscure, and it has to be carried out secretly, there are not too many people who know about it, and he and I have not told anyone else, and this matter has only been known to me and them so far.
"Alright then, let's go over and see the situation before making a decision." Chuanzi seems to be more professional and thinks about this and that, but I want to travel light and don't want to attract attention, so we keep everything simple. Discuss everything with him in the evening, just like that, you say a word, I say a clear division of labor, and do a good job.
We plan to act for these two days, as soon as possible, so that we don't have too many dreams at night. At this time, a big piece of good news suddenly appeared, and Chuanzi, who was still worried about how to go to that distant relative, suddenly couldn't close his mouth with a smile after eating honey. It turned out that the Chen ancestral hall of his mother's grandmother's house was dilapidated and precarious due to the old age and the ravages of insects and beasts, and now they were going to renovate this ancestral hall.
This matter originally had nothing to do with him, but it was because his grandmother, that is, his grandmother's mother's family, originally had 7 brothers and sisters, and the only sister of this one was his grandmother. They want to renovate the ancestral hall to give an account to all the Chen clan people in this village, because the brothers of Chuanzi's grandmother's mother's family are still people who talk in that village, so the matter of presiding over supervision naturally falls on them.
Originally, they only told his grandmother, but since his grandmother's family is now only his grandmother and his little grandson, the children of the family have either gone to other places to do business or go abroad. Only Chuanzi's mother was still at home, so he knew about it, and when he knew about it, he volunteered to find his roots and take a look at the scenery over there by the way.
As soon as this matter was settled, it seemed that things had taken a turn for the better, and after everything was properly prepared, Chuanzi and I set off with confidence. After a long journey along the way, Chuan and I finally arrived at Shangluo at 5 o'clock and settled in a small town not far from his mother's and grandmother's village. Since that place was far away and relatively remote, and he had never been here before, he wasted a lot of time along the way.
After arriving here, Kawako made a phone call, and it turned out that he had called one of his uncles whom he had not met yet, and told him to let him come and pick us up. Since we were not familiar with this place at all, and we had never been here, Kawako had already asked for the number of an uncle from her grandmother's family long before we left.
He took us into the village, so that we would get acquainted with a lot, and after a while, a strong man wearing a helmet and a fur coat came to us on a shabby motorcycle, and his face was in his 30s.
"You are Xiaochuan, I heard your grandmother say that you are so old." I really can't stand this straightforward greeting, this guy knows at a glance that he has been a soldier.
"Eun, I'm Uncle Xiaochuan, okay, I'm here for my grandmother, and I'm here because the old man is not in good health." Due to the problem of generation, it is natural that age cannot be used as a benchmark here.
"Good, hey! Who is this? ”
"Oh, this is my friend Wu Lingfeng, I asked him to come to accompany me to see, my friend has never seen anything in the world, take him out for a walk."
When he said this, I kicked him hard and scolded him fiercely, "Listen to your mother's fart", but my face was full of seven points of laughter and three points of anger.
"Haha"
"Haha"
His uncle laughed, it was just a shame, and it made me and Chuanzi laugh even more.
After a brief shush and warm greeting, we had an extremely hot fight with this uncle of Chuanzi, and he also asked us to call him "Uncle Pan". Kawako and I got on the motorcycle, and the bumps along the way almost beat my little heart out.
The scenery along the way is not bad, there are mountains and streams, it is this path leading to the village, it is really scared, I don't even dare to move along the way.
This path is really hard to call a road, there is no cement or gravel at all, and it is full of potholes. This is nothing, the most terrifying thing is this path, which is only 2 meters wide or winding mountain road. On one side is the stone wall and on the other side is the deep pit cliff, which is thrilling, the narrowest part is only one meter wide, and you have to pass through some dilapidated bridge holes.
In this way, I drove cautiously all the way, and it was getting dark for about half an hour, because the village was halfway up the mountain, and the fog started relatively early. I don't know when the headlights of the motorcycle were turned on, and due to the weather, we drove really slowly, and I dare say I trotted faster than this motorcycle.
Gradually, gradually, I saw some faint lights and some faint houses in front of me. It won't be here, I silently prayed in my heart, hoping that it really came, and this kind of worrying thing should end quickly.
Pushing back the clouds and getting closer and closer, I finally saw clearly that this was the real house that had really arrived.
It's really different from what I imagined before I came, and the layout of the houses here is not scattered and widely distributed. Rather, it is rhythmically from low to high, although it is not like the flatness of the plains, it seems to be disorderless, but it skillfully uses the sense of the drop of the mountains and rivers to form a natural ecological village -- it is beautiful.
I already liked it at first glance, and the fog made the whole village feel like a blessed place. The bits and pieces of lights are shining, reflecting the most simple past, I can't help but think of a poem, the crowd is looking for her thousands of times, and looking back at the twilight, the person is in the lamplight......