Chapter 10 The Hearts of the Fellows
The next day, Shi Jian took Shi Kaijie to Shanwozitun. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
It took an hour to ride a horse from Xiran Town to Erdaogou Village, and then led the horse from Erdaogou Village over two hills with no road and trees, and it took another two hours to reach Shanwozitun.
Shanwozitun is really in a mountain nest, but now it is an abandoned Xiaotun, and the houses are still there, but many are damaged, and no one lives in them.
In fact, there is nothing to be nostalgic about in this village, it is too poor here, and the life expectancy of people is very short, Shi Jian has never met anyone of his grandparents' generation, and his parents also died when he was in his twenties.
In the past, the dead people in Shanwozitun were buried in the sky, that is, the bodies of the deceased were directly carried to the back mountain and thrown to the bottom of the cliff.
Fortunately, Shi Jian returned to his hometown once when he was eighteen years old, and later everyone in Shanwozitun moved out of Shanwozitun with Shi Jian's sponsorship, and Shi Jian's parents also went to live in Xiran Town with Shi Mei.
Shi Jian's parents died three or four years after moving to Xiran Town, when Shi Jian was still wandering outside, only Shi Mei sent them to the end, and when Shi Jian came back at the age of twenty-five, he didn't see his parents for the last time, which has always been a regret for Shi Jian.
In fact, when Shi Jian came back at the age of twenty-five, although his martial arts level had dropped, he had two age-increasing pills on his body at that time. This is the elixir that he desperately grabbed from the people in the high-level continent, and this elixir is made from a very rare and precious herb called Thousand Years of Snow Ginseng.
The thousand-year-old snow ginseng is the main medicine for refining several pills that increase the strength of martial artists, but after being desperately snatched by Shi Jian, he found someone to refine two pills that increase lifespan. For a martial artist, it is a great waste to be able to refine herbs that increase the elixir of one to fifth level of power, and refine the elixir that increases the life span of a hundred years.
In Shi Jian's mind at that time, it was the greatest worth to let his parents live for an extra hundred years. But alas, it's still too late.
When Shi Jian's parents died, Shi Mei cremated her parents according to the customs of all families in the Pinglan Continent, put them in an urn, and then made two tablets and offered them at home together with the urn.
After Shi Jian came back, Shi Mei sold the house in Xiran Town and went to Anlin City with the tablet and urn. Shi Jian specially built an ancestral hall in the Shiyang Dart Bureau, but only Shi Jian's parents, Shi Ji and Shi's two tablets, were placed in the ancestral hall, which was also the smallest ancestral hall in the entire Pinglan Continent.
Shi Jian must worship the ancestral hall according to the custom every Spring Festival, although there are only four people to worship, Shi Jian, Shi Mei, Yang Peide and Shi Kaijie, which can be regarded as the smallest ancestral hall worship. However, Shi Jian still made it very clear that Yang Peide, as Shi Mei's husband, must participate in the ancestral hall worship, but Yang Yugang and Yang Yumei belong to the Yang family and are not eligible to participate in the worship of the Shi family ancestral hall.
Once when Yang Yu was just born, Shi Jian discussed with Yang Peide, anyway, Yang Peide would not return to the Yang family, so he simply let Yang Yugang follow his mother's surname and belong to the Shi family. Yang Peide, who had never vetoed Shi Jian, resolutely disagreed with this matter, and later said that the second one could be passed on to the Yang family with his mother's surname.
Because Shi Jian's son Shi Kaijie was born early, Shi Jian did not mention it again, and this matter was later dissolved. Of course, it is also because of the rules of Pinglan Continent that opposite-sex cousins can get married, but they can't have the same surname.
Shi Jian and Yang Peide wanted to order a baby kiss for their son and daughter, but Shi Mei firmly disagreed, saying that it depends on their own ideas when they grow up, and do not impose the concept of adults on newborn children.
The main reason why Shi Jian took Shi Kaijie back to Shanwozitun was that Shi Jian was a nostalgic person, and he wanted his son to know where his hometown was.
It took them another half a day to return to Xiran Town from Shanwozitun. When they arrived in Xiran Town, it was still early, only four o'clock in the afternoon. After Shi Jian took his son to buy all kinds of things, he began to visit friends. That is, the villagers who used to live in Xiran Town.
Shi Kaijie remembered that he and Shi Jian went to Chen's house before, and Shi Jian took him to visit various elders with headaches. On this night and the next day, Shi Jian took Shi Kaijie to visit thirteen fellow villagers. The least three of the same generation and the elders of each family, and the most of nearly ten people, a total of more than 100 people were introduced to Shi Kaijie, and about 80 of them said a word when they were introduced.
Shi Kaijie suddenly felt that the memorization he had practiced was not easy to use at all, and at the end of the day, he only remembered a few children who were about the same age as himself, and he didn't remember any of the names of adults.
The deepest impression is that there are two families who are also surnamed Shi, and those two families have a total of four children, named Shi Kaijun, Shi Kaiqiang, Shi Kaiyong, and Shi Kaihong. Hehe, how do you sound like a person of the same generation as your own family!
Shi Jian explained that it was just his own self-esteem. The Shi family is too small, and there was no inheritance before. Shi Jian has a wish to make the family bigger, he even thought of the words to be taken by each generation, and he thought of twelve a long time ago: Kaiming Shengshi Dragon Tenghu Yueshuo Guoheng Nian, and told the villagers in the mountain nest Zitun.
There are also two families surnamed Shi in Shanwo Zitun, and they said that they will also be named like this in the future, so that the family will be more prosperous.
Among the four of them, Shi Kaijun is a 15-year-old samurai level 3, Shi Kaiqiang is a 13-year-old samurai level 2, and Shi Kaiyong and Shi Kaihong are 11-year-old samurai level 1. The other twenty or so children were all similar, and compared to them, Shi Kaijie suddenly felt that his qualifications were still excellent. I was always with my two friends Ye Wei and Chen Yuehai before, and I felt that my qualifications were deviant.
In the past day and a half, Shi Kaijie has not stopped seeing the smile on Shi Jian's face, and Shi Jian feels that he has said more than he has said in the previous month.
Finally on the way back to Anlin City, Shi Jian and Shi Kaijie immediately hung four blankets, which were all specialties sent by the villagers. However, these so-called specialties of Xi Ran Town are mainly all kinds of food and fabrics, such as what kind of cured meat, all kinds of dried vegetables, Xi Ran Town's own woven and colored dyed cloth, etc., Shi Kaijie has seen it in Anlin City before, and it takes up space and is not valuable, and it is troublesome to bring it.
However, Shi Kaijie has endured the idea of throwing away these specialties, he knows that his father Shi Jian thinks that these are the thoughts of his fellow countrymen, and if he mentions it, he will definitely be severely criticized by Shi Jian.
But is the mind just a troublemaker?
In this way, Anlin City, which could have been reached by riding a horse on the official road for half a day, could only rely on walking because it was immediately full of goods, and Shi Kaijie and Shi Jian were stunned It took three days to walk back to Anlin City. Although the food and accommodation on the official road post station are good, they are also more expensive than in the city, and Shi Kaijie calculated that the extra two and a half days of food and accommodation have exceeded the value of those special products.