Woof! Woof! Woof!

A burst of dog barking sounds, Li Chen's tense nerves finally relaxed, and the wolves in the jungle fled in panic.

Soon after, an old man with an old dragon bell appeared, and four black dogs were playing around the old man, and the old man was smoking dry cigarettes.

"Second Uncle......"

Li Chen saw the old man running over quickly, this old man was Li Chen's second uncle.

The patriarch of Lijia Village has three sons under his knees, and two of the sons moved to the town to do business, leaving only the younger son to live in Lijia Village.

"It's Chenzi back, it's so late, why don't you stay at your eldest brother's house for one night."

Li Chengye is over 50 years old this year, and he still likes to drill into the mountains, and his son and daughter-in-law have persuaded him countless times, but he still can't change this bad problem.

Fortunately, there are still a few mountain dogs at home, unless they encounter tigers and bears blind, even the wolves in the mountains do not dare to compete with the mountain dogs.

"It's not that the sun has gone down yet, I want to come back and see you soon."

"What are you yelling about, hurry up and lead the way, and I'll cook you in a few more days."

Li Chengye waved his pipe, and the mountain guard dogs that were originally whining at Li Chen ran towards Lijia Village in a swarm.

It is said that relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft water, Li Chengye has been a hunter since before liberation, and he has a special affection for the mountains and forests.

Just like Li Chen's grandfather, he has been dealing with water all his life, and there has never been a shortage of aquatic products at home, and he has left more than a dozen acres of fish ponds.

"Second uncle, what are you biting in your mouth?"

The thing in Li Chengye's mouth was very similar to the medicinal herbs that Li Chen had seen on the Internet before.

"This is Cordyceps, I heard that this thing is quite valuable, and last year there were a few drug dealers who went into the mountains to buy them, and I usually go into the mountains to pick up some when I have nothing to do."

There are a lot of wild medicinal materials on Shilipo, such as Cordyceps, star anise maple, gastrodia, stone chips and other Chinese herbal medicines, but the amount is not much, and there were professional medicine pickers in Lijia Village in the past.

With the progress and development of society, coupled with the underdeveloped transportation in Lijia Village, there are fewer and fewer dealers who enter the mountains to buy mountain goods.

"Chenzi, what about your daughter-in-law, why didn't one of them come back?"

Li Chengye met Wang Yingying once, and that time Wang Yingying came back with Li Chen, and behaved decently, and Li Chen's uncles were also quite satisfied with Wang Yingying.

"We've split up and I want to come back for a while."

When talking about Wang Yingying, Li Chen's mood was a little lost, the five-year relationship was not a positive result, and in the end it turned out to be a parting of ways.

"It's good to come back, the world of flowers outside is not a place for countrymen.

It's better to come back, your old house is still there, but the ancestral house is in disrepair. ”

The ancestral house of the Li family is built of blue bricks and green tiles, and a large courtyard is more than 800 square meters, and the ancestral house is taken care of by the patriarchs of successive dynasties.

After Li Chen's grandfather died, Li Chengye temporarily kept the family tree.

Why is it temporarily kept, because Li Chen is the descendant of the Li family, and this ancestral house is still Li Chen's in the end.

"Second uncle, go back, I'm such a big person, I can take care of myself."

The Li family's ancestral house is the first in the village, and Li Chen has lived in the ancestral house since he was born.

Except for the family members of successive patriarchs, few others enter the ancestral house.

The hall was full of spirit cards, and few people were willing to enter.

"Parents, grandfathers, grandmothers, the ancestors of the Li family, the one hundred and thirty-fifth generation descendant Li Shaochen, greetings to you!"

Li Chen put down his backpack and lit incense to incense the hundreds of spiritual seats in the hall.

The ancestral house is still taken care of, except for some cobwebs in the corners, there is no dust on the table, and the whole hall looks quite simple.

Li Chen, who was lying on the bed, couldn't sleep until the early hours of the morning.

When I had dinner at the second uncle's house in the evening, I heard the third brother say that his grandfather left a will before he died, and asked Li Chen to stay and guard the ancestral house.

"Should I leave?"

Li Chen originally only planned to go home for a few days, and then set off to the north to break through, but the third brother's words made him hesitate.

Li Chen has nothing to worry about alone, and wherever he goes, he is a family, but people have to return to their roots after all, and Lijia Village is Li Chen's roots.

In the blink of an eye, Li Chen stayed in Lijia Village for three days, and Li Chen lived very comfortably during these three days, rising from sunrise to sunset.

When I was bored, I walked into the mountains with Li Chengye, teasing the third brother and a pair of children in my spare time, there was no metropolis at all, and there was no breathless sense of rhythm.

Early morning.

Li Chen opened the old study room of the ancestral house, where many ancient calligraphy and paintings were placed, these things were old objects, and they were usually locked in this room.

Except for Li Chen and Li Chengye, none of the others had the keys to the ancestral house.

Li Chen wanted to take advantage of the time to clean the ancestral house.

"It's ......"

When cleaning the wall clock on the wall, Li Chen found that there was a hidden grid behind the wall clock, and after taking out the green bricks, several boxes were revealed, and Li Chen took them out one by one.

The Li family tree, the first box contained a thread-bound ancient book, and Li Chen barely recognized the words on it.

In the second box was a medicinal herb, due to the age, the red rope on it broke with a slight pull, and Li Chen could guess that it was a ginseng.

The third box contained a set of teacups, although Li Chen didn't understand antiques, he could store everything with the family tree in the dark grid, it was definitely not an ordinary product.

The fourth box contained gold ingots, and I don't know which dynasty it was, and more than a dozen gold ingots weighed five kilograms.

There are a total of eight boxes in the dark grid, in addition to a few genealogies, there is also a volume of ancient paintings preserved, as well as more than a dozen gold ingots and jade ornaments, and a few old ginseng plants of unknown age.

"Before my grandfather died, I always told my third brother to come back to inherit the ancestral house, it should be for these things!"

Li Chen looked at the several wooden boxes on the table and couldn't help but think of his childhood.

Li Chen and several cousins always like to play hide and seek in the ancestral house, and every time they are found by their grandfather and enter the study, they will be scolded.

"Chenzi, are you at home?"

Hearing the voice of the third brother Li Shaohua, Li Chen covered the wooden box and walked out.

"What's the matter with me at home?"

Li Chen walked out of the study and met Li Shaohua who was coming to him.

"Chenzi, what are you still sweeping, your beautiful daughter-in-law has come into the mountains to find you!"

Li Shaohua pulled Li Chen and walked out, Li Chen was confused by Li Shaohua, where did he come from?

When I ran to the second uncle's house, I saw that it was Wang Yingying, and the eldest brother Li Shaoming, who lived outside the town.

"Brother Chen!"

Wang Yingying threw herself into Li Chen's arms, in the past few days after Li Chen left, Wang Yingying stayed alone in Shenzhen, and suddenly felt empty in her heart, five years of relationship, how to say that you can break up.

"Yingying, what's wrong with you?"

Li Chen didn't know what to say, it had only been three days since he returned home, and Wang Yingying chased after him, could it be that Li Chen sent Wang Yingying back?

"I'm coming to you, are you unhappy, I'll go back if you're unhappy."

Wang Yingying was coquettish at this time, causing Li Chen to be killed by the second uncle and second aunt, and after a while, she led Wang Yingying to flee.