Wu Dong is famous, and there is one thing that must be done when he returns to his hometown.

In ancient times, you had to do it with great fanfare, otherwise you would be poked in the back, and in modern times, no one said no, but you'd better not be too ostentatious.

If Wu Dong's family doesn't go today, it will be difficult to find time for free activities in the future.

……

Rushing out of the fishing road, Hongqi Village was in sight.

"Xiao Liang, you stop for a moment, I'll change with Lao Wu, you will follow the car in front of you for a while, and Lao Wu will follow them after you are done, and you will listen to my command again."

Liang Zhong nodded slightly, he didn't like to talk and rarely talked to Wu Dong's parents, so it was too difficult to call him.

Wu Dong called him Brother Zhong, he had to call Wu Dong's parents uncles and aunts, and he simply didn't open his mouth because he suffered too much.

The car protecting them followed from a distance, Wu Dong found out, and Liang Zhong had already found out, so he used this section of the fishing road to get them away.

The administrative regulations in some places are the same from place to place, and some things are not only in 2023, but they are just amplified by the Internet and self-media.

Firecrackers are not allowed to be set off, because they pollute the environment, have fire hazards, and affect the rest of residents; Don't let dragon boat racing say it's unsafe; There are places to level graves, saying that they want to protect arable land; There are places where it is forbidden to burn paper, which is also said to pollute the environment; There are still places to demolish ancestral halls......

There are two sides to everything, and only the bad side is talked about, isn't that it, cough cough cough.

It is now 2004, and in this administrative region, ancestor worship is regarded as a feudal superstition, and civilized worship is "advocated".

"Advocacy", if you obey, it is advocacy; I'm sorry if you don't accept it, hahaha.

Of course Wu Dong is not afraid, but there are some things that you don't need to offend people, and the relevant personnel of your propaganda without much fanfare naturally pretend not to see it. In fact, the executor himself worships his ancestors, and then it was slowly canceled, as if, it seems to have been in the ordinance, but no one mentioned it or implemented it, so it existed in name only, and it was completely released.

……

Liang Zhong drove the car and followed the broken jeep in front of him for more than ten miles, and although the dirt roads in the countryside were not smooth, they were much stronger than the nominal roads.

Four people came down from the front car, an old man, two middle-aged, and one young.

They unloaded a bag of things from the car, gold and silver treasures, countless money, Wu Dong and Wu Gang got out of the car, Liang Zhong also wanted to help, Ye Fen stopped him, "Xiao Liang, don't move, let's just wait here." ”

"Oh!" Liang Zhong agreed lightly, turned off the fire, picked up the water cup and drank a few sips of water.

"Hey, Xiao Liang, are you reluctant to speak or are you embarrassed to speak?"

Liang Zhong sneered, "I don't know what to call it." ”

"Hey! If you call me eldest sister, it's over, call me eldest sister Ye, and call his father Brother Wu. Isn't it just a title, I thought it was a big deal. Hahaha, if you are really a relative, there is no way, when I was a little girl, there was an old man in the village who had to call me aunt. If it's not a blood relative, how comfortable and how to call it, how should you and Wu Dong be called. ”

Liang Zhong nodded happily. "Good!"

"You're Hu Jianren, aren't you?"

"Well, yes, I later married a daughter-in-law from the northwest and stayed in the northwest, if it weren't for the child's illness, I think although it was a little desolate over there, the family was plain and good."

Ye Fen glanced at Liang Zhong slyly, "Li Ran introduced you, to be honest, you have two hits, right?" ”

"It's okay!" Liang Zhong was very modest in his mouth, and his eyes flashed.

"If you run into two or three wild wolves, you ......," Ye Fen said tentatively.

"Whoosh!" "Smack", a willow tree with a thick bowl mouth seven or eight meters away broke at the waist!

A coin bounced back and "flowed" between Liang Zhong's fingers.

Ye Fen clapped his hands and laughed, "Hahaha, I'll just say, those who don't do anything every day and are always drowsy must be masters of the rivers and lakes." ”

Liang Zhong scratched his head, "It's the era of firearms now, and it's useless to practice this." I originally used a flying knife, but I often had to take a plane with Wu Dong. ”

"And what about the one with the gun?"

"Two or three people, I'm sure I'll win within ten steps, and if I go any further, I'll have no moves."

Ye Fen knew that he had reservations, and he had a bag of coins in his pocket.

……

On October 7, 2004, at about 3:25 p.m., there was a row of tree belts in the direction of the north, wasteland, and Wudong, and the rest of the place was obviously desertified.

Seeing Liang Zhong looking at the surrounding environment, Ye Fen explained: "Saline-alkali land, nothing grows, and there is less and less grass. ”

"Is there anyone else in the village?"

"There has been no one for a long time, 20 years ago, there were only three or five households left in the village, and when the old people are gone, the village will be completely deserted...... Ay! When I was a child, desertification was not so serious, and during the years of starvation, there were baskets of wild vegetables and camellia all over the mountains, so no one starved to death in our village. ”

Liang Zhong asked suspiciously, "Are we going to give you ...... later?" ”

Ye Fen said lightly: "No, go and repay Wu Dong's wishes." ”

Liang Zhong asked in confusion, "Is there a temple inside?" ”

……

Smoke could be seen in the distance, but the Wu family had not yet returned.

Ye Fen's expression was solemn, "Wu Dong, this kid is just dead-eyed, he was willing to listen to me when he was a child, and he didn't let me talk about it anymore when he was in high school, saying that what I said was feudal superstition."

Bastard, I'm his own mother, and I don't tell anyone else to lie to my son. ”

There used to be a small temple in this place, and no one looked at it in all directions, since I can remember, now think about it like the one that Monkey King changed in Journey to the West, that is, there is no flagpole behind. ”

When I was a little girl in the 60s, a group of people said that the archaeological team came with equipment, and at that time, there were a large number of cadres who followed us and prevented our villagers from approaching......"

Liang Zhong felt that Ye Fen's expression was a little wrong, and he interrupted: "Wu Dong seems to have written a book about tomb robbing, and it says that he is from a family of tomb robbers, hahaha." ”

"Clean nonsense, their old Wu family is a farmer, and his grandfather and my father still know each other. If you want to say that there is a inheritance, it was also given to him by my side, our Ye family is a feng shui family, but the male is not passed on to the female, my younger brother secretly went to serve as a soldier when he was 18, and he didn't come back when my father died......"

"Over there, it was originally the location of the small temple." Ye Fen stretched out his hand and pointed.

"Everyone in our Ye family knows that outsiders just don't believe it, I said that Lao Wu was a story, and Wu Dong said that it was superstition, and I didn't say it after I got angry.

Five or six of those experts went to inspect at 10 a.m. and left at 2 p.m., and my dad knew there was a problem for three days in a row. They chose to enter the temple at noon, and they didn't enter in the morning or evening, but the children in our village had no taboos. ”

"I don't know what my dad did, anyway, their group ran away on the fourth day and saw a woman in red."

Liang Zhong listened with interest, he had rolled in the pile of dead people, and he didn't care about anything.

"Actually, the people in our village have long known that there are two foxes near the temple, one is red and the other is snow-white, so what kind of women do they have.

This place originally had excellent feng shui, but it was destroyed by those people, and after three days, our village decayed.

Hahaha, why do you say that the hometown is more timid, I haven't said it for many years, and I'm talking to you here today. ”

Liang Zhong laughed, "It's okay, I love to listen!" ”

Ye Fen said happily: "If you like to listen to it, you can listen to it as a story, now everything is about science, in fact, I can't say it myself."

Later, I went to play again and I didn't see two foxes, that year I was 16 and I didn't study at home and herded cattle at home was the child king of the village, when I was taking a nap in the temple, I felt that I was stepping on the air and fell into a pit, two foxes were in the pit, there was a bead there, I didn't know what to think about at the time to take the bead and swallow it. ”

"The two foxes didn't rob you?" Liang Zhong said with a smile.

"The two fox furs look bald, the red ones are not like the red ones, the white ones are not like the white ones, and I don't know if the two of them are fighting, or if the gang did it before.

At that time, I finished eating, and the two foxes did not come to grab it. I was a little embarrassed and promised to build a temple for them in the future. ”

Liang Zhong laughed, "You dare to say anything!" ”

Ye Fen said with a solemn expression: "After I woke up, I knew that it was a dream, and I didn't get any benefits, so it passed, and then I gave birth to Wu Dong, and there was a round birthmark on his waist."

He came back from Jinling for the New Year, and the birthmark was gone! ”

Liang Zhong, "Normal, developed!" ”

(End of chapter)