Wang Xueqing's village is not far from Chenzhuang, but it is only two or three kilometers away, and it is not long to drive there. When they got out of the car, they saw at a glance the crowd of people from the village who came out to worship their ancestors.

The naming of the countryside is not too particular, the surname Chen is called Chen Zhuang if there are more people, and the surname Wang is Wang Zhuang if there are more people. If the number of people exceeds 1,000, you can add a large one in front of Wangzhuang, which is called Dawangzhuang, which means that the area of the village is relatively large and the population is also large.

This is the case in Dawang Village, where Wang Xueqing grew up, where more than 90 percent of the population is surnamed Wang, and everyone has a common ancestor who guards their own land.

It may not be obvious now, but decades, centuries ago, it was completely controlled by the clan. In the land of Dawangzhuang, the words of the patriarchs and elders are the holy decree. Once the patriarchs oppose it, even the emperor's words are not good.

It was only after the new era that the bigwigs broke the shroud of the temple in one fell swoop, and the rights of the temple were not deprived and suppressed. Even so, in Dawangzhuang, the words of the family elders and other villagers still had to listen. In many cases, even the village chief can't fight the elders.

Of course, basically the people who are the village chiefs in the big villages are all elders or descendants of the clan. Without this identity, others don't pay attention to you at all.

Just as everyone in Chen Zhuang knows Chen Huifang, most people in Dawangzhuang also know Wang Xueqing. When they saw Wang Xueqing walking down from the car with Wang Ning, many people were slightly stunned, and then began to greet them warmly.

'Wang Ning's father, Wang Ning's father,' or it's 'the third!' Or whatever, in general, everybody's got to know each other.

For these voices, Wang Xueqing also replied one by one. After answering a few words, he followed the crowd of ancestors worshippers.

They are all people with the same surname, everyone's ancestors, and ancestors are almost the same, as long as they follow other people, they can only worship their fathers. will be separated. And now it doesn't seem to be the time to worship my father.

There are many rules when worshipping, usually arranged from top to bottom, first the ancestors, then the next ancestors, the generations are arranged one by one, and there can be no transgression. There is this habit of worshipping ancestors, which undoubtedly shows that the Wang family used to be a big family.

Of course, this kind of big family is also a nominal family, and the others don't make much sense at all. The change of decades ago. All families have long been wiped out, and even if they are left, they have long disappeared from the stage of history, and only among their descendants will there be a certain record and inheritance.

In the ancestor worship procession, Wang Ning met a cowardly uncle.

Like Wang Xueqing, the uncle's personality is not strong at all, and the eldest mother has always had the final say at home. It is precisely because of this situation that it has become the drift of Wang Xueqing's family.

At the beginning, it was because the eldest mother was cautious. I can't see that my brother's family is better than my own, so I will take the initiative to be picky eaters. didn't let the grandparents continue to help take Wang Ning and Wang Yun, which caused a huge family turmoil.

The final result was naturally that Wang Ning's family moved out of Yueji City and survived hard in Yulan City. And the uncle's family didn't get much benefit, and the strength of the aunt made the uncle not allowed to implement any plan.

He is not allowed to go out to work, so he can only live on his own one-third of an acre. Because of the state's policy, their family's situation is a little better. The situation of the uncle's family has not improved much, and they are one of the countless ordinary farmers.

looked at the rustic middle-aged man in front of him with a simple smile on his face, especially when he was cramped and panicked when his eyes were on Wang Ning. Wang Ning found that he actually couldn't hate the uncle's family, who had changed dramatically.

Maybe they are cautious, maybe they are jealous, and it is precisely because of them that their family will have a lot of changes. Only then will he and Wang Yun have a life that is completely different from that of thousands of peasant descendants.

Otherwise, the ending of him and Wang Yun would have been doomed long ago, and the land would have become their only root and their biggest constraint.

"Uncle!"

In Wang Xueqing's introduction, Wang Ning softly called out to the slightly short middle-aged man in front of him, the resentment, the suddenness, and the complacency came to naught in this voice.

"Okay, good, Xiao Ning has grown up too, it's good, it's good!"

Looking at the glamorous Wang Ning in front of him and the deep car in the distance, the uncle was a little incoherent, more relaxed.

Whatever the reason, blood is thicker than water and cannot be erased. Young and vigorous may think that they can suppress everything, and when they reach a certain age, many things that they don't care about will become important.

Family, friendship, love, and especially affection, feelings where blood is thicker than water will aggravate with the passage of time. Countless dark nights, whether the uncle has any regrets, whether he has regrets, it is estimated that only he knows.

Now that he sees that Wang Ning's family is prosperous and his life has improved, he finally has a little peace of mind, and many things have finally passed.

Following the ancestor worship procession, Wang Ning worshiped strange and unfamiliar predecessors. They either have graves or not, all that remains is a tree, a bare pavement. Maybe many people don't know what happened under their feet, and in special times, people will still bring it up again.

Those graves, those graves that are long gone, are the endless sorrows of the younger generations. In the end, Wang Ning, Wang Xueqing and Uncle stood on a fairly neat tomb.

The grave had no name, only a tall head, and the two graves were next to each other, because it was winter, and there was not a single weed on the head, only yellow fallen leaves and dead branches that might have been blown by the wind. They are Wang Ning's grandparents.

When he came to the grave, the uncle put down the basket in his hand and picked up all the dead branches and leaves on the grave, while still talking about something.

"Daddy, the second brother and Xiao Ning are back to see you. Xiao Ning was admitted to university, and the second brother's family is finally promising, so you can rest assured. The second brother's family has a future! ”

Maybe it's saying it to the parents under Jiuquan, maybe it's saying it to yourself, many times we pay tribute to our ancestors, isn't it just to give ourselves a little comfort?

After finishing speaking, he took out the firecrackers in the basket, gathered around the grave one by one, lit the prepared coins, and in the sound of firecrackers, Wang Xueqing took Wang Ning and knelt down heavily.

Wang Xueqing didn't say anything, kowtowed three times to the grave, then straightened up, refused the uncle's suggestion to invite him back to dinner, turned around and walked to the car on the side. At this moment, the golden sun gently jumped out of the skyline, and the earth was full of light. (To be continued.) )