My hometown is on the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi, which is a remote and barren place, when I was in junior high school, I followed my parents to Xi'an, I went back once after graduating from college in 06, and left my hometown for 10 years, where I was shocked by poverty and backwardness, so I was determined to stay here and change the face of my hometown.

Now that I think about it, how naïve I was at that time, and I dared to shake this mysterious land with just one heart's blood......

The village where I was born is called "Jin Jiapu", and the village is composed of two surnames, Jin and Wei, and I heard my grandmother say that our Jin family was in the Ming Dynasty because of offending the big officials in the court to go to the place where the rabbits and live in seclusion.

And in fact, we don't have the surname Jin, but in order to save our lives, everyone changed their surnames to Jin, of course, there is also a saying that the ancestors of our Jin family who first came here were a group of Jinyi guards who committed capital crimes and fled, and all of them changed their surnames to Jin after settling here, because Jin and Jin have the same sound.

But this is also a legend, no matter how good the ancestors are, they can't change the reality of the tinkling of the poor now, and Wei Xing only came to this village more than a hundred years ago, Gu said that the Qing Dynasty had just fallen, and the Jin family shop was very poor at that time, and the people at that time relied on the sky to eat, but at that time, God was too ruthless, and it rained so little like a cat peeing.

At that time, it had not rained in the village for three months, if it did not rain again, the dealer in the field would definitely have no harvest, and when winter came, the people in the village would all starve to death, and at this time a group of people surnamed Wei came from outside the village, among them there were men and women, old and young, and they looked like a big family.

The people in the village saw that they were old and young, so they gave them some food, and these people were grateful, and when they saw that it had not rained here for a long time, they found the patriarch of the village and said that they could help Jinjiapu dig a well.

It turned out that this group surnamed Wei was a group of craftsmen, and their skills in digging wells were all ancestral, and the patriarch was naturally happy when he heard it, so he arranged for them all to live in the village, so these people began to wander around the Jinjiadian every day.

There were several times when the patriarch suspected in his heart that these people surnamed Wei were not here to cheat and drink, but he thought so in his heart, but he didn't say it until half a month later, this group of people finally found the place they thought was most likely to come out of the water, in a wasteland at the west end of the village.

It was the first sweet well of Jinjiapu, it was this well that saved the lives of the whole village, and the patriarch proposed that the two families of Jin and Wei would be a family from now on, and Jinjiapu also had another surname from that time.

More than 100 years have passed, and now although the Jin family shop has Jin and Wei in the surname, it has actually long been separated from you and me because of the intermarriage between the two clans.

My surname is Jin, my name is Jin Yuxuan, my parents hope that I can be proud when I grow up, my grandfather is the previous village chief, he originally hoped that his father could take over his class, but he didn't expect my father to marry a female intellectual, that is, my mother.

Later, although my mother returned to the city, she did not abandon us and my father, but kept moving around, and finally brought me and my father back to the city when I was 10 years old.

When I told my mother that I wanted to go back to Jinjiapu, she didn't object at all, but was very supportive of me, and before leaving, she said to me, "Jinjiapu is kind to me, you can go back to help the villagers there, you should repay my kindness." ”

Naturally, my grandmother was happy that I was going back, but when she heard me say that she wanted to stay, she objected, "Baby! You're from the city, why do you want to go back to this place where birds don't? Your surname is Jin, and wherever you go is the root of our old Jin family, you don't necessarily have to stay in the Jin family! ”

After listening to it, I knew that my grandmother really felt sorry for me and didn't want me to suffer here, but the more I did this, the more I had to stay! The next day, the village chief, who is now the patriarch, took me to the ancestral hall in the village, where I have a name, and now when I return to my hometown to recognize my ancestors, I naturally want to kowtow and burn incense.

But as soon as I came to the ancestral hall with the village chief, I felt that a pair of eyes had been staring at me, and the feeling of being watched was too strong, and I suddenly turned around and saw a black shadow "whoosh" and flashed into the shade of the trees next to me.

When I was stunned, the village chief stopped and asked me, "What's wrong?" ”

I shook my head and said, "It's okay, maybe I'm dazzled." ”

Then, after the village chief and I worshipped our ancestors in the ancestral hall, he led me around the Jinjia shop......

When we walked to the east of the village, two tall and big arches appeared in front of my eyes, although I often came here to play when I was a child, but I didn't know the origin of this thing, the village chief saw me take pictures with a camera, and I told me about the origin of these two chaste archways.

One is a woman named Kinmen Wei Yinggu during the Kangxi period, her husband died of illness after marriage, this woman was widowed at the age of 16, and has been doing her best to serve her in-laws, and she died at the age of 95, and later her deeds were reported to the court by the Yamen at that time, and the emperor at that time was Kangxi, so he ordered to repair this archway for Yinggu.

And the other is a Weimen Jin Shuzhen in the Jiaqing period, this woman was widowed at the age of 25, and then the only son raised the three sons of the deceased husband, of which the eldest son was not Shuzhen's biological son, so the three sons of their family passed the imperial examination at that time and became officials, which can be described as a three-master! After Jiaqing Ye knew about this, he personally mentioned the word "Festival Filial Piety Fang" for Shuzhen's chaste archway.

These two chastity archways have always been the pride of the village, so long ago, widows here were not allowed to remarry, otherwise they would be considered adultery! This bad habit has only improved in recent years.

When I came back from the archway of chastity, I passed by a stone platform in the west of the village, which was black and shiny, and looked very smooth, and I walked over to take a closer look, and found that there was a hole the size of a bowl in the middle of the stone platform, and I didn't know what it was used for.

So I asked the village chief curiously, but I didn't expect his face to change when he heard it, and he pulled me out of there as if he was very taboo, and when he returned to his house, the village chief told me that it was used to deal with some women who had violated the rules of the clan in the early years, and it was an unclean place, so I should go less in the future, or not at all.

This aroused my interest, so I asked the village chief what the family rules of the Jin family shop were, and what kind of punishment these women would receive?

The village chief is actually my cousin according to his generation, because my father refused to stay in the village, so my grandfather had to pass on the position of patriarch to him, so he is about the same age as my father.

Seeing his strange face, wanting to say but not wanting to say, I knew that things were not simple...... (To be continued.) )