It is said that the Chen Ming family was not originally from Litian, in order to suffer a few fewer cannons in the war-torn era, Chen Ming's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's father moved to Litian with a family of dozens of people, and later slowly developed into a big family, and in less than a hundred years, it was on a par with the original Luo family of Litian, and even most of Litian's fields fell into the Chen family.

Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, the Chen family has been beautiful for more than 100 years, but it is gradually declining......

At the beginning of April this year, during the Qingming Festival, Chen Ming had not yet obtained the construction system, and at that time he was still a 'scum' in the eyes of others......

No matter what others say, Chen Ming has a fierce heart for his ancestors, and he doesn't know whether it is to atone for the sins of Chen's father, or it is destined to be so.

For some reason, Chen's father no longer worshiped his ancestors when he was a child, and occasionally he could hear Chen's father's disrespect for his ancestors, which was a great forbidden, and that's it, Chen's father was so unbearable in the eyes of his three brothers, and Chen Ming's family was abandoned by his relatives in his clan.

Thinking about a month ago, it was a drizzly day, and it seemed that the ancestors wept about the passing years, and seemed to be waiting for the future generations to delay the future and worry about it.

The rain has not stopped on this day, and it is very embarrassing to sweep the tomb, even so, it cannot stop the descendants from worshiping the ancestors.

Early in the morning, Chen Ming went to worship the ancestors with his uncle and the people of the Xiatang clan, first of all, the other side of the Chen family's back to the mountain, "North Guangshan", which was the main cemetery of all the Litian clans in the past 100 years.

Although Chen Ming's house is north of the corner of the "North Guangshan", it is the corner of the source of the mountain, and on the back side is the bamboo forest of the second and third uncles, and there are only two or three small graves left in one corner of the bamboo forest, which has a creepy sense of sadness.

To the north, Kozan is located in the center of Satoda Village, and the two plains are separated by a concrete road, creating a large road connecting the small villages. Facing north is thousands of acres of heaven and earth, and facing south is the place where all the people of Litian live.

The source of Guangshan in the north is the Chen family, so Chen's father's generation has become the Shangtang Chen family. At the end of the mountain is another Luo family, and in the middle of the area is the Xia Tang Chen family and the Luo family, which is also the center of Litian, with convenient transportation and dense population.

The Chen family has only a small number of cemeteries in Guangshan in the north, all of which are ancestors who have passed away in the past hundred years, and the main cemetery is still on the mountain, because a hundred years ago, the Chen family had an extraordinary status in Litian, and the feng shui treasure land they chose was naturally extraordinary.

After more than an hour, the cemetery in Guangshan in the north was swept under the leadership of the adults, but today's task has not been completed, and the most important thing today is Luofang Mountain in the east, the mountain named after Luo.

Luofang Mountain is 768 meters above sea level, don't underestimate this number, today a day will be spent here, because the north Guangshan is closer, so the road to sweep the tomb of the north Guangshan first, and Luofang Mountain is also the highest peak in the local area, it takes two hours to climb to the top of the mountain.

There is no doubt that the tomb of the Chen family in the early years was on the top of the mountain, and more than a dozen men of the Chen Ming family were going to eat steamed buns in the mountain for lunch.

In the local area, women are not allowed to sweep the tomb, there is a saying of immorality, simply put, it will sweep the door, there are bad customs, and Chen Ming and his party are the representatives of every household in the clan, as for the second brother Chen Zhi and some other men went to sweep the tombs in farther places, those are the tombs of about 200 years ago.

The drizzle did not stop because of the footsteps of Chen Ming and others, and the group would not be deterred by the rain, although some of the older people in the clan walked very slowly, but their will was insisting on going on.

Because of the rain, the mountain road is a little slippery, and the journey is even slower. Some people wear hats, some people wear raincoats, and Chen Ming just walked in front with an umbrella, followed by the grandson of Uncle Chen Yongchang, that is, Chen Zimin's two sons, the eldest son is called Chen Zaile 12 years old, and the younger son is called Chen Zaiyi 8 years old, because it is not much different from Chen Ming's age, they have never called Uncle Chen Ming, but the relationship between them is that the elder brother and the younger brother, there are talking and laughing all the way, but fortunately, the drizzle disturbs the hearing of the older generation behind them, if they hear it, they may have to be trained again.

Many people always go to the grave with a heavy heart, especially the older generation, their heaviness is sandwiched with too many emotions, and Chen Zaile and others can't understand it at all, and even in this era of abundant food and clothing, it is difficult to imagine the suffering of those turbulent times.

After reaching the top of the mountain, Chen Ming did not continue to walk, because he could not remember the specific location of the tomb for a long time, so he could only stand with an umbrella and wait for the arrival of the older generation of the clan.

I don't know how long I waited, but when Tsai Yi complained, Chen Yongchang and some elders of the Chen family who came down to the hall were late, followed by Chen Shiming and his grandson Chen Jinhui and other younger generations.

Chen Shiming is more prestigious in the clan, and his seniority is also the highest, Chen Ming's uncle Chen Yongchang still has to be called uncle, that is, Chen Ming's uncle, but at that time, Chen Ming didn't pay attention to these people who went down to the court, there were too many people, and he couldn't remember them if he wanted to.

Under the leadership of Chen Yongchang, I went around the top of the mountain for more than ten minutes before I found the most important cemetery today, the cemetery is very large, the front of the tombstone is semi-circular, the back of the tombstone is semi-oval, and there is a big tree at the apex of the ellipse, which shades the cemetery with a radius of eight meters.

The cemetery is facing west, there is a sunset and rest, by the most famous local feng shui master in the early years, the feng shui is excellent, and the 'North Guangshan' is only facing a little north to the west, only because of the continuous hill across the Lita will become the cemetery of the vast majority of the people in the Lita .

For the older generation, feng shui is not only about geographical location, but also about the symbol of power and status, just imagine, a 50-square-meter wide cemetery to build on the top of a high mountain how much manpower and material resources, just the cost of a cemetery is the income of ordinary farmers for a year or even a few years.

This cemetery is the largest and oldest cemetery of the Chen family, with a history of more than 300 years, because when Chen Ming cleaned the front end of the tombstone, you can clearly see that the tombstone is engraved with 'the eleventh year of Yongzheng AD', the deceased ancestors are traditional characters, Chen Ming can't understand, but there are two words in the lower left corner', or understand.

"Which ancestor is this?" Chen Ming couldn't help but ask.

After hearing this, everyone in the lower hall shook their heads to say that they didn't understand, the eldest Chen Shiliang didn't speak, and no one noticed his heavy eyes, which was the fear of death coming, and it seemed to be a relief.

Seeing that no one knew, Chen Ming asked his uncle.

Chen Yongchang also shook his head after hearing this, and then said lightly: "I don't know a word in my life, you ask in vain, I have been sweeping this cemetery for almost sixty years, I started sweeping it at the age of six, in the early years, my grandfather seemed to have said that our Chen family opened a money village three hundred years ago, and this cemetery is ironclad evidence, and there is no one bigger than this ...... among the thousands of cemeteries in Guangshan in the north."

Chen Yongchang said a lot, and his ancestors believed in feng shui: saying that this is a basket of land, it is not that the Chen family has not spread its branches and leaves in Litian, but that the population of more than 40 households has to move some away.

At this time, Chen Shiliang, who had not spoken, also added: "Our clan has a historical record, there are many generations, and the earliest in the genealogy is Zhengda Guangming, but my grandfather is indeed a friend, my father is a big character, and my father is a light generation. We've been here for a long time, I don't know exactly how long, but I've heard that this little place is on the map of the pre-liberation area. The hours are not sensible, and the war/hunger makes us not know where we moved from or how many people have been moved from here~"

Chen Yongchang also continued: "Well, your uncle Shiliang is right, your grandfather was also a petty official during the Republic of China, and we went to the Chen family in your father... In my generation, I still retained the Yongzi generation, and the reason why our Chen family fell was because about a hundred years ago, the daughter of the patriarch married someone from the Luo clan, and the patriarch had no son, a lot of money was not counted as a dowry, and other money that belonged to the construction of the ancestral hall was also taken away, and then our Chen family was defeated, and there was never a population of forty households in more than a hundred years, and no one moved away.

As soon as Chen's father is mentioned, Chen Yongchang's anger will not be beaten, because Chen's father did not worship his ancestors in the past few years, but he has never been stingy with Chen Ming, and his family's orchard will ask Chen Ming to help every harvest season, saying that it is helping, but in fact, it is helping to eat almost, and he eats Lassi every time.

This is the memory of the Qingming Dynasty, thinking of this, Chen Ming also deepened his impression of Chen Shiliang in front of him, so he asked him to go back first, and let someone pick up the car tomorrow, Chen Shiliang was grateful again before leaving.