Chapter 104: The Valley of Water
Uncle said that this was quietly left by him when he carried gold last time, thinking that one day he might be able to use it, but he didn't expect it to come in handy today.
The eldest and second sons did not dare to delay, and immediately tied one end of the rope firmly on a protruding stone, and threw the other end downward, so that everyone grabbed the rope and slowly descended to the river.
After walking here, everyone's anxious hearts calmed down a little, and they stopped complaining or cursing.
There was also a thatched hut by the river that they had built the last time they had passed by carrying gold, but it was impossible to accommodate so many people, and in the end the youngest children had to live in it, and the others kept warm outside and stood guard for the children.
Everyone gathered all the torches and fir manuscripts, and lit only a few of them, and kept the rest for later use.
After the dog and the wolf had arranged a guard, everyone took advantage of the faint moonlight and the faint light of the torches to pick up firewood nearby, and there were no big trees, small trees, or dead grass, only dry branches and dry firewood from the upper reaches of the river when the river was flooded.
After all, there is a lot of strength in people, and it didn't take long for them to set up five or six fires by the river, and together with the fire, everyone seemed to see the power of people, and the restless crowd calmed down.
After everyone cleared up, several people who were still scolding just now ran over to the eldest son and asked what to do.
The eldest son spread his hands and said, "Now it's like this, it's all black and rumbling everywhere, what can I do!" The questioner made himself bored, but he still didn't want to leave with a shy face.
After a while, more and more people gathered around the eldest son, and they felt that only by relying on the eldest son could everyone be saved.
The father's expression was a little depressed when he looked at his eldest son. She glared at him fiercely, but didn't say anything.
The eldest son is also almost forty years old, and he knows what to say on what occasions.
Besides, he has just experienced this change, and it is estimated that the eldest son has not yet recovered from his frustration. It is inevitable to shirk.
The eldest son looked at his father's eyes, glanced at the brother and cub in front of him, and could no longer play his temper, no matter how big the grievance was, he had to stand up as the person in charge of the score, not to mention that he also made a mistake in judgment, which caused everyone to be busy for half a year in vain, and almost died in the water, washing away the hard work of several years.
This is the responsibility that the person who holds the score must bear!
No responsibility. No sacrifice, no responsibility, what does the ancestor want you to do!
Thinking of this, the eldest son's heart has gradually calmed down, first of all, let everyone not worry, everything will wait until dawn tomorrow, maybe tomorrow morning you can go home to dig some things to use.
As for being hungry, the eldest son said that he had to be it. There's nothing anyone can do about it in the middle of the night.
By the end of the night, everyone was exhausted.
As soon as the day dawns. The eldest son hurriedly organized some young people to go back to the village to see. After drilling through the long hole, everyone came to the entrance of the cellar, and fortunately, everything was normal here, and it seemed that the water had not spread here.
But when I got out of the cellar, the scenery I saw was terrifying.
The whole courtyard was eerily quiet. There was no sound at all.
Last night's flood had passed, and last night I saw the collapsed mountain beam, which was still there.
It's strange to see that the big tree that washed away is still there. Is this a dream?
It is possible for one person to dream, but it is impossible for hundreds of people in a yard to dream.
Descending into the ravine, it was also well there, and there was no sign of great water flowing through it at all.
The eldest son couldn't believe his eyes, let alone what he saw.
While puzzled, the eldest son hurriedly sent a few people back to the river to invite everyone back, so as not to worry everyone.
When the family returned to the yard, they were surprised and surprised, but it was better than their homes being washed away by the water.
In the end, everyone wondered if this was the result of the help of the old gentleman who continued the score.
But the old gentleman's body and bones were gone, and this conjecture could only be a conjecture, and there was no way to ask.
The eldest son had a different idea, and he vaguely felt that all this was due to the Martians, perhaps because of the genealogy of the camphor leaves.
Yes, that's for sure.
At a critical moment, the camphor leaves can isolate the Xiyan family from the outside world and avoid invasion, and this is definitely the case this time.
When he thought it through, he laughed happily again.
As the head of the Xiyan family, this is the greatest capital, the greatest power, and the greatest ability!
It is also the greatest responsibility!
According to Captain Mars' arrangement, this camphor leaf genealogy can be used for a thousand years, that is, it can be used for the entire Tsubaki Bay mountain area back to the surface, and by that time the underground radiation has all dissipated.
At that time, I thought that after the Martians left, this leaf would no longer be of any use, and I didn't expect that the Martian captain would leave such a big gift to Xiyan's family before leaving.
In other words, with this, the Xiyan family can continue to pass on peacefully. This is the greatest meaning of being the head of the Xiyan family.
Looking at his father's suspicious eyes, the eldest son gathered the whole family and told everyone his analysis and ideas, and everyone agreed, however, the father had an idea, since this leaf still has such great power, in order to ensure her safety and foolproof, the person in charge must be replaced, and the eldest son can only be the person in charge of the score on the surface, and the real person in charge of the score must be found separately.
The reason for this is well known, because the identity of the eldest son as the head of the Xiyan family has been made public, and if everyone knows that such a big disaster is due to the effect of this camphor tree leaf, maybe someone will covet it.
In fact, this is also the purpose of the eldest son to convene everyone to discuss today, and seeing that his father has already said it, the eldest son will not say more.
As for who he later passed on his genealogy, no one knows to this day, and it may always remain a mystery.
But there is no doubt that this genealogy will play a role at a critical moment and bless the safety of Xiyan's family.
Later, some people may have thought of this layer, but the eldest son quietly told everyone. When the Martians left, they quietly left a monitoring system in space to monitor the situation on the earth and prevent the space robbers from coming back.
The Martian is awesome. Everyone has been taught, and the situation that the eldest son said is also entirely possible, at that time, everyone also knew that before the destruction of the space robber's spaceship, a small spaceship escaped, and the Martians must have guarded against it.
After a short period of fright, the entire Ziyanping returned to calm, and the drought in the surrounding area slowly eased, and the scene of people coming and going reappeared. The eldest son thought that since this camphor tree leaf genealogy still works for a thousand years. It is possible to take advantage of this good condition to do more things for the Xiyan family.
Because of the good deeds of the ancestors more than 1,000 years ago, they left heirlooms for the Xiyan family, as well as the whole mountain of gold!
As a generation of genealogists, if you don't do something, I'm afraid you can't live with your ancestors and your descendants.
If you think about it, the most important thing is to get the conditions of the Xiyan family right. The house is beautifully repaired and everyone is dressed up cleanly. Let the children go to school and be literate, and preferably participate in local affairs.
On the one hand, we must make good use of the gold in our hands, and on the other hand, we must make good use of the identity of the person in charge of the book and the power of the leaves.
The next day, he summoned the whole courtyard to the Dasun Valley Flat below. Then I briefly told everyone what I thought. Everybody said yes.
Of course, there is no mention of using the power of genealogy, and the fact that the Xiyan family has endless gold is known to many people, and it is definitely impossible to hide it, but it is still necessary to try to control the scope.
After everyone is gone. The eldest son left all the people who carried the gold that day, and specially explained that he must keep the ancestral gold of the Xiyan family a secret, and even the family members can't say it, otherwise if they say it, it will attract outsiders to covet it, and the people of the Xiyan family will very likely have no bones, or even extinction.
Everyone was shocked by what he said.
Just do it, the eldest son selected some honest, capable, and good health people from the whole family to form a team to run errands for the Xiyan family, and made money to buy things to count the entire Xiyan family.
Others still live on their own as a family, and dividends are distributed during the New Year's holidays.
However, after operating for a period of time, some families have more people and some have fewer people, but they all share the same dividends, and there is no one to help with the housework at home, so the team fell apart in a few days.
The eldest son saw that it was difficult to do things with many people, so he discussed with his father and used the people in the family first, just like in Zuhechong before, it seems that the people of the Xiyan family are not suitable for group living, suitable for fighting alone, and going alone.
This time it was the father who led the way, the eldest son, the second son, the third son, and the cousin went out together, and all the things in the family were handed over to the mother, Manmei and several daughters-in-law, and the children are now seven or eight years old, and they can help the family do a lot of things.
Before leaving, the cousin of the Sifang family found the eldest son and said that he also wanted to go with everyone, but the eldest son asked him to go to the side and muttered for a while, he no longer insisted, and only said that everyone should take care.
According to the old rules, this time everyone also brought ten sturdy dogs and little wolves, and they couldn't help when they went out.
The first stop they were going to was to go to the big place in Yuanchang to ask a teacher to help the children in the yard read and write, and relying on the eldest son's few words that I don't know whether they were right or wrong are now far from enough.
Teaching and educating people can pass on a century-old family business.
Along the way, everyone walked slowly, and after three days, they finally arrived at the market in Yuanchang.
This is the first time that the children have traveled so far and to such a large place, and they used to go to the mountains as much as they could, at most they had visited the next day market in the next village, but this time it was completely different.
As soon as I entered the bazaar, everyone was attracted by the bustling traffic of this fancy world, and felt that everything was fresh, no wonder the bazaar of "Lilliputian" was so small, it turned out that there was nothing in my head, and the space robbers couldn't copy it.
The bazaar is full of people, crowded, crowded, burden-bearers, walkers, shouting, juggling, and it is not lively.
Next to the bazaar is a large river, the black green river flows slowly, and many black canopy boats wander on the river.
My father walked in front, crawled through the bustling street market, and walked straight into a bookstore.
The owner of the bookstore saw that his father came in with a few people, a group of dogs and wolves, and he didn't know what he meant, but he thought that with so many people, it would never be a small business.
So the enthusiasm of the businessman suddenly hung on his face, "Where is the boss from? ”
Then he asked someone to bring him tea.
My father was not polite, and sat down on a nearby stool.
Some of the children sit, some squatting, watching what their father said to the boss. My father was not polite to the boss, and said straight to the point: "Boss, we want to hire a literate gentleman, see if you can introduce me to one." ”
The reason why the boss greeted him so warmly was to make a big business of selling books, and he couldn't imagine that his father would never mention buying books, but he was looking for a gentleman, looking at their dirty appearance, and they didn't have much money.
So, he immediately pulled down his face, "I didn't see that this is a place to sell books, we only sell books, not people!" As soon as the father saw that it was screwed, he quietly took out a yellow thing the size of a fingernail from the dirty and torn pocket, and slowly handed it to the boss who had turned his face. At first, the boss ignored it and snorted at the shelves full of books.
However, a businessman is a businessman, and when his father's hand was just stretched out, the boss saw the yellow and white things in his father's hand at a glance.
It's really the boss's face, a three-year-old face, he will change when he says it, and suddenly his face is full of smiles, and his jaw is about to fall, "Oh, isn't it just to invite a gentleman, this is outside." ”
As he spoke, he leaned down, as if he wanted to kneel, but in fact he leaned his whole body towards his father's palm.
Just as he was about to reach out and grab the gold, his father jerked back his hand. The boss's salivating appearance suddenly became stunned, and he couldn't figure out why his father was like this.
Slowly stirring the tea leaves with the lid of the bowl, the father took a sip of tea in a hurry, and then gently put down the teacup and closed the lid before he opened his mouth to speak to the poor boss.
He said, "You only sell books, not people, so let's go and see them elsewhere." "With that, get up and leave.
As soon as the boss saw this formation, he knew that if he didn't work hard today, he would definitely not be able to keep this group of guests, so as soon as his knees weakened, he knelt down for his father.
Just when my father and everyone were stunned, I saw the boss slap himself several times and scolded himself for not being human.
When the eldest son saw it, he accepted it when he saw it, and said to the boss, "You have such a character, I really don't believe that you can invite any good gentleman." (To be continued.) )