Life in the academy is a bit monotonous, but the new students are constantly improving, so it doesn't make them feel bored, but they are all interested, and time passes quickly.

The green gradually disappeared from people's sight, the joy of the harvest gradually faded, and the sky was no longer raindrops, but pieces of white and crystal snowflakes, and the new year was coming.

The end of the year is approaching, and the college gives students a month's vacation.

Shaoyang originally planned to return to Songhai City, but was left in the Chaotic City by Shaoyan's uncle, because Shaoyang had never participated in a family sacrifice at the end of the year.

The baptism of the blood pool Shaoyang has already been accepted, but it is not necessary, but it is still necessary to participate in the basic sacrificial rituals.

At first, Shaoyang wanted to go back to Songhai City first and then come back, so Zhang Fei brought Nelson over to pick him up, and it would only take three or five days to go back and forth, so he had time to participate in the sacrifice.

"No, you just let me stay at home honestly, if I'm really bored, let Shaoze take you out for a walk, it's okay to go to the small Chinese world, but you are not allowed to leave the chaotic capital. "Don't look at Shao Yan is usually very talkative, he is really stubborn, and no one can change his decision.

Shaoyang had no choice but to agree, anyway, with Xu Shu in charge, it didn't matter if he didn't return to Songhai City, but Shaoyan's words made him feel a little depressed, as if he went back because he was bored and homesick.

Some time ago, news came from Songhai City, Zheng Hun has studied the method of papermaking, and the specific production process still needs to be improved, but the paper is finally manufactured, and it is only a few days away from production.

No matter how much he muttered in his heart, Shaoyang's vacation ended up staying in the chaotic city.

The last day of December is also the day of family sacrifice, not only the Shao family, but all Chinese families will sacrifice their ancestors on this day, the sacrificial ceremony has begun in the morning, Shaoyang was woken up by Shao Ze early in the morning, and then followed his uncle Shao Tianxing and the young family people who came to the panic capital one after another to enter the small world of the Chinese family.

I thought that most of the clansmen of the Shao family lived in the chaotic capital or the small Chinese world, but on this day, Shaoyang knew that he was wrong, no matter how big the small Chinese world was, it was only a small world after all, and the Shaojia only occupied an area where Haotian City was located, and the chaotic capital was even smaller, compared to the entire Dusk Continent, it was still far inferior.

However, those who are outcast are some side branches of the family, and even most of them are not even qualified to establish the branch lineage, and every year, there are not many people who are qualified to participate in the family sacrifice, and most of them may only come here when they are eighteen years old in their lifetime.

Entering Haotian City, they came to the outside of the ancestral hall, Shao Tianxing left alone to enter the ancestral hall, and the rest of the people converged with other clansmen living in the Shaoyuan lineage.

The members of the young family, whether they are from the small world or from all parts of the Dusk Continent in the outside world, are divided into two main veins and ten branch veins according to their respective blood intimacy.

Twelve parts, it can be seen from the number of people that the Shaoyuan first vein is the most powerful in the Shao family, and even more than the number of the main vein and one branch vein where Shao Hanfei is located.

While waiting patiently, Shaoyang also knew for the first time that it turned out that in the Northern Chu Kingdom, the Shao family was not only one royal family, and the royal family's pure Chinese blood was only their father and son, far less than some other side branches.

When an old man who was old enough to be his grandfather came to greet him and claimed to be his cousin, Shaoyang was stunned, but Shaoze knew each other and avoided embarrassment.

"This is Shao Haoxuan's cousin, the ancestor is a cousin of the ancestor of Shaoyuan, and he once assisted the ancestor to lay down the Northern Chu Kingdom..."

Shaoyuan was not a lonely person at the beginning, at the beginning of the founding of the country, the Shao family was indispensable to provide him with support, whether it was support or manpower, and later most of the clansmen returned to the small world of the Chinese people, but there were still a few people left in the outside world, and those large number of side branches, most of them were born because of similar circumstances, and most of the young families in the Northern Chu Kingdom were left or multiplied at the beginning of the founding of the Northern Chu Kingdom.

Among them, Shaohaoxuan's vein is the strongest, and it is most closely related to Shaoyuan's lineage, and the generations between each other are at least the Yuan generation.

Since he knew the relationship between the other party, and he was still a fellow countryman, Shaoyang was not too cold, and Shao Haoxuan gradually chatted, and learned that their family had lived on the southern border of the Northern Chu Kingdom for generations, although they did not have a place in the official, but they were local wealthy families, with great influence, and more importantly, they were responsible for the mission of guarding southern Xinjiang, and in history, Northern Chu played a vital role in the war with the southern countries and the Bright Empire.

"Cousin Haoxuan and all the clansmen, Shaoyang thanked your father for everything you have done for the Northern Chu Kingdom. Shaoyang praised the other party very kindly, and immediately got the favor of the other party, and during the conversation, he felt obviously much closer than before.

In the ancestral hall, dozens of young family elders and twelve vein sect masters gathered together, but at this moment they were only standing, and there were only five people sitting in front of them, including the two great elders that Shaoyang had seen when he came to be baptized, so the remaining three were also great elders unexpectedly.

"This year, the patriarch still hasn't returned, and the family sacrifice will be presided over by your patriarch and the sect master of the twelve veins, Shaoyan will stay, and everyone else will go out. The elder who sat in the middle commanded.

If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you would never have believed that the voice that had been full of vicissitudes just now came from the mouth of a child who looked no more than ten years old, but those young family elders didn't dare to slack off on his words at all, and immediately left to prepare for the sacrificial ceremony, leaving Shaoyan alone.

When Shao Hanfei left, he glanced at Shao Yan with doubts and solemn eyes, but even if he was curious about the reason why Shao Yan was stayed, he didn't dare to disobey the orders of the Great Elder, but he didn't dare to be slower than the others at all.

"That little guy, also came to participate in the sacrifice, right?" The child elder raised his eyes to look at Shao Yan, and asked softly, his voice a little less powerful than just now, and a little softer.

"He originally wanted to go back to Northern Chu, but I forced him to stay according to the instructions of the ancestor. Shao Yan said respectfully, it turned out that it was not all his own attention to keep Shaoyang down.

"How has his strength improved in the past few months?" The eldest elder of the child was most concerned about Shaoyang's strength, but Shao Yan was hesitant, and he didn't know how to answer, and when the eldest elder scolded impatiently, Shao Yan slowly said the truth, "I just broke through to the middle of the seventh level a few days ago. ”