Standing at the highest point of Peach Blossom Village, although the cold wind was blowing, it did not reduce Ye Chen's plan for the future restoration of the Ye family compound.

Hu Ziqiang used the walkie-talkie to communicate with the surveying and mapping team at the foot of the mountain, "Mr. Ye said, do two standing piles at the No. 1 position and three standing piles at the No. 5 position. ”

Overlooking the workers who laid out the piles and pulled up the pay-off grid, it seems to show the outline of the Ye family's compound in the past.

Taking a pen to mark on the drawing, Ye Chen motioned to Hu Ziqiang to continue to communicate with the surveying and mapping team.

"Position 8, position 11, do four piles."

Along the courtyard where the second uncle of the Ye family lived, there are nine courtyards horizontally and seven courtyards vertically, according to the topography, this should be the core residential area of the Ye family's compound, with almost sixty to eighty courtyards.

Sketching the boundary of the outer wall, Ye Chen drew a rammed earth wall in the northwest corner of the courtyard group to draw a city wall connecting the fortress in the back mountain on the drawing.

The base of the nine fortresses, restored according to the original appearance of one of the remaining fortresses, was supposed to be the protective wall of the village.

According to this line of thought, Ye Chen restored the original appearance of Peach Blossom Village.

"Mr. Ye, where else do you want to get off the pile?"

Ye Chen said in a deep voice: "No need, I have already inferred the original appearance of the village. After a while, the engineering team can drill holes according to the positions marked on the drawings. ”

After receiving the drawings, Hu Ziqiang and Ye Chen supported each other down the mountain.

The villagers who lived in the demarcation area were curious to gather around to see the excitement when they saw the engineering team drilling holes in the aisle in front of their houses.

Back at the village office, Ye Chen had a meeting with his father and Chen Jiefang.

"Uncle Jiefang, are the villagers in this demarcated area all the old landowners in our Peach Blossom Village?"

Chen Jiefang shook his head, "I can't say anything about this, you have to ask Brother Jianguo." ”

"Dad, do you know what's going on?"

"It's a bit of a long time ago. But there is one place that I think of, and there may be a record. ”

Saying that, Ye Jianguo led everyone to an old warehouse behind the old yamen to rummage.

A large wooden box that had been rested in the corner was dragged out.

"There should be the information you are looking for here, son, you can look for it from inside."

Pry open the wooden box, Ye Chen spread the contents of the box on the table and sorted them.

At this time, Shen Jiahui, who came to deliver the meal, brought a casserole rack on the stove, and Chen Jiefang went to help.

"The eldest nephew's and daughter-in-law's craftsmanship is getting better and better, and I cry when I hear it."

"I'll give you more meat to eat later."

"Okay."

Ye Chen, who was frowning, looked at the things in the big wooden box, and the bottles and cans inside were taken out and placed on the ground.

It is that no books with suspected literature have been found.

After setting up the dishes and chopsticks, Shen Jiahui came to Ye Chen to help, "Find something, if you are not in a hurry, you will find it after eating." ”

Ye Chen squatted on the ground like an archaeologist to find items one by one, but after the box was emptied, there was still nothing found.

Seeing Ye Chen so persistent, Shen Jiahui knocked on the inner wall of the box with her hand and found that there was something else.

Carefully unwrap the paper on the inside of the box, revealing a thin envelope inside.

Taking it and inspecting it carefully, Ye Chen raised it above his head to the light, and some regular lines and patterns appeared.

Shen Jiahui glanced at it, took it in her hand and gently unfolded the envelope.

Looking at the drop, it is a picture of the whole picture of Peach Blossom Village in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.

Ye Chen held it in the palm of his hand like a treasure, and Ye Jianguo called Chen Jiefang to witness this historic moment.

As the law continued to inspect the wooden box, Shen Jiahui saw the mystery from the inner wall on the other side, and after opening it, the thick village chronicles fell into the box, and there were several letters from home mixed in.

Ye Chen took these village chronicles and those letters from home, and came to the village office to study together while having lunch.

Shen Jiahui unfolded the letters and read them, "These are a few letters written by an author surnamed Ye to his family, the Qing court, and the Beiyang authorities.

For some unknown reason, these letters are sealed in boxes, which is a bit strange. ”

After taking two mouthfuls of rice, Ye Chen casually picked up one of the letters and read it, "Ye Guangrong, the unfilial descendant, knocks on the family Weng Ankang." Now the Qing court has fallen, and Beiyang is in charge.

I didn't dare to forget the ancestral teachings of the old banner man for a moment, and vowed to follow His Majesty and go to the Northeast to revitalize the national fortune. But the northeast is surrounded by the two empires of white and yellow, and the land of the ancestors of Longxing no longer exists.

Although His Majesty has a long-cherished wish to regain control of the mountains and rivers, this matter has long been unjustifiable. The Beiyang army is powerful, and the warlords in various places are acting independently and exploiting the people.

The son wanted to follow the example of the leader of the Hunan army and lead the army north to King Qin, but he was afraid of violating the ancestral teachings, so he asked his father to make a decision.

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If this person was an ancestor of the Ye family, according to the time of the letter, he should have been young at that time. ”

An old man who was in charge of cleaning the yamen came to the village office in rags to cook.

Seeing the letter on the table and the village chronicles, the rice bowl in his hand fell to the ground.

Inevitably, he was noticed and hurriedly squatted on the ground to clean up.

Ye Chen keenly caught the old man's abnormal behavior, got up and personally took a new bowl to cook for him.

"Old man, I'll clean up the one that fell on the ground. You sit down and eat this new bowl of rice. ”

The old man was stubborn, holding the broken rice bowl, picking up the food on the ground into the bowl, and eating it in a big gulp.

Shen Jiahui saw that the old man was lonely, and took out dozens of yuan from his pocket and gave it to him, "Old man, take this money to buy new clothes." ”

The old man who had eaten refused Shen Jiahui's favor and walked away alone.

After lunch, everyone was studying the relationship between the village chronicles on the table and the letters, but Ye Chen stared absentmindedly in the direction of the entrance of the village office.

For after the old man had finished lunch, he sat alone on the millstone, leaning against the doorpost to rest.

The person in charge of the surveying and mapping team and the engineering team came to the village office to have a meeting with Ye Chen under the guidance of Hu Ziqiang.

When the old man saw an outsider entering, he tilted his head and looked inside.

Hu Ziqiang spread out the drawings, and the person in charge of the surveying and mapping team reported to Ye Chen: "Mr. Ye, according to your instructions, the surveying and mapping team has basically marked the location of the original map of the Ye family's compound.

It's just that I've been in the industry for so many years, and there are a few things I don't understand. ”

Ye Chen took out the newly found picture of Peach Blossom Village in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China to show everyone.

The person in charge of the surveying and mapping team compared the contradictions on the drawings, and suddenly became clear.

"Mr. Ye, several paintings on this picture are the points of controversy on our drawings."

Ye Chen said with a smile: "Since you have found the crux of the problem, let's trouble the two of you to run again." ”

took the hard hat, Hu Ziqiang took the two to the construction site to deal with it.

Lighting a cigarette, Ye Chen slowly walked to the door of the village office. deliberately threw the cigarette between his fingers to the ground, and the old man caught it quickly, and the cigarette butt burned on the palm of his hand without any pain.

When Ye Chen saw the calluses on the old man's hands clearly, he also seemed to understand something.

He took off his coat and put it on the old man, and he stood in front of the door stretching his muscles.

After two strokes, a fake fall, the old man threw out his coat and came to Ye Chen to help him.

Ye Chen stood still and said in a deep voice: "Ye Guangrong! ”