This is the darkest era, and it is also an era when the Chinese nation is almost wiped out.

In troubled times, swords are like ants. Siye Yidi, surging. On the land of the Central Plains, some Han people had to bid farewell to their homeland and travel thousands of miles to the south. The other part of the Han people who did not have time or could not afford to move south had to live in the midst of endless disasters, struggling to survive in the midst of natural and man-made disasters.

In troubled times, human life is like grass. There is little peace in the North.

Zhou Cheng sat on the top of the mountain for more than three months, remembering that when he settled down, it was still midsummer, and when he woke up, it was almost autumn.

There are many maple trees in the northern mountains and forests, and in the golden autumn, the maple in the mountains is red like fire. Zhou Cheng stepped on the red leaves on the ground and walked down the mountain.

The mountains are barren, and in terms of farming, they are not as much as the plains~. So there are few inhabitants in the mountains.

But when Zhou Cheng traveled all the way, he found that there were many more homeless people in the mountains than before. Even Xiu'er and his grandfather's hut have a lot of neighbors.

When Zhou Cheng appeared in front of Xiu'er and them in a Taoist uniform, the little girl suddenly pounced on her without caring about anything, hugged Zhou Cheng and cried.

made Zhou Cheng feel embarrassed all of a sudden.

Speaking of which, Zhou Changcheng has never been hugged by a woman when he is so old!

Of course, immediate family members don't count.

"Brother Zhou, where have you been. After so many days of walking, do you know how worried my grandfather and I are about you?" the little girl complained loudly as she cried.

Seriously, in this strange world, there are still two people worried about themselves, Zhou Cheng is actually quite relieved.

But little girl, you're not too small, but can you not hug it so tightly!

Poor Dao is a monk!

Although Zhou Cheng knows this era, Quan Zhen still doesn't know where it is! Taoist priests get married and have children, but Zhou Cheng himself is not used to it!

"Alright, alright, little girl, don't cry. The face is crying like a big cat, everyone else is watching the joke!" Zhou Cheng pushed the little girl a little farther away with embarrassment, and said with a mocking tone.

The little girl's face turned red in an instant, so red that it could drip blood.

"Ignore you!" The little girl glanced at Zhou Cheng angrily and shyly, and there was a shy look like a big girl between her eyebrows, Zhou Cheng was stunned for a moment, and then she saw the little girl's little feet stomped away like a swallow.

Zhou Cheng finally felt that something was wrong.

The little girl left, but the little girl's grandfather greeted her, but this time there were a few more elders around her, following the little girl's grandfather, looking at herself from a distance.

"Zhou Gongzi, you're back, it's good to come back, it's good to come back!" the old man stepped forward with a look of relief.

"Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable!" Zhou Cheng hurriedly bowed.

"You, are you a monk and a Taoist priest?" the old man looked at Zhou Cheng with a little surprise and asked.

"Poor Dao Yun Chengzi, thank you for your life-saving and caring kindness!" Zhou Cheng thanked him again.

"No, no, that Brother Yun, oh! No, Yun Dao Chief. The old man pointed to a few old men around him who were about the same age as him and said, "These are the clansmen outside Xiu'er Mountain and me. Thankfully, you had a warning. Although the tribesmen did not really flee to the mountains fifteen years ago. At least one mind. As soon as they realized that the situation was wrong, the clansmen immediately retreated into the mountain, and finally saved the lives of most of the clansmen, so we should thank you!"

"Don't dare, don't dare!" Zhou Cheng hurriedly waved his hand and shirked: "It's just a poor nonsense, it's not true, it's not true!"

Zhou Cheng didn't have much affection for Xiu'er's clansmen. Whether they live or die, Zhou Cheng will not take it too seriously. I don't want to get involved with them.

In the final analysis, Zhou Cheng's real relationship is only between Xiu'er and his grandfather.

As for saving people, it's just that I can't see Hu Renyidi treating Hanmin like a pig like this.

Zhou Cheng's meaning of avoiding and even disgust is obvious. Zhou Cheng didn't even cover it up hypocritically. Xiu'er's grandfather was suddenly a little embarrassed, and the few clan elders behind Xiu'er's grandfather lost their smiling faces in an instant, and snorted coldly and threw their sleeves away.

"Yun Dao Chang!" Xiu'er's grandfather sighed, looked at a few clan elders who threw their sleeves away in anger, and then looked at Zhou Cheng, who was a little strange standing in front of him, and didn't know how to try it for a while.

"Grandpa still calls me Xiao Zhou, or Zhou Cheng!" Zhou Cheng has lived with Xiu'er and her grandfather for so long. Knowing that they are not used to such formal titles. Zhou Cheng didn't want to distance themselves because of this, so he said.

"Xiao Zhou, hey!" The old man didn't know what to say for a while, looked around, sighed and said, "Let's talk about it when we have something to do back in the house!"

The old man wants to return to the clan, or rather, he wants to return to the clan with Xiu'er.

Zhou Cheng, who came from later generations, could not understand how important the clan was to every Han person in this era.

What is a dynasty?

The clan is a group that survives in a group and has always been external. It is the place where the clan was born, grew up, died and even relied on when the soul depended.

Without a clan, it is naturally a lonely ghost who is excluded from all groups, like a rootless duckweed, unable to be raised in life and buried in death.

In this troubled world, if there is no clan, it is even difficult to maintain life. Although Xiu'er and his grandfather are out of the clan, if it weren't for the clan, there would still be a clan. Xiu'er and his grandfather didn't even dare to go out of the mountain, let alone go to the market to sell the products in the mountain in exchange for vegetables, rice, oil and salt.

The old man is getting older day by day, and in this era of general short-livedness, the old man has lived so long that he has been lying in a coffin for most of his body.

The old man has been living in the mountains with Xiu'er for so many years, but what he can't forget in his heart is to return to the clan, at least hope that he can be buried in the ancestral grave after death, and not be a lonely ghost and wandering.

And Xiu'er is getting older day by day. The old man also has to plan for Xiu'er's future. The old man couldn't bear to let Xiu'er not even have a maiden family in the future, and he was unwilling to leave by himself, and Xiu'er didn't even have one to rely on.

Fortunately, before the catastrophe, Zhou Cheng suddenly asked the old man to spread the warning. Although everyone didn't take it seriously at the time. But when disaster does come, people immediately remember what the old man said a few days ago.

Xiu'er's people are here for this.

Just because you have escaped a catastrophe does not mean that you will always be able to escape. In this chaotic world, survival is not easy. The people remembered the old man's prophetic prophecy a few days ago. Then, after escaping from the great difficulty, he immediately came.

No matter how Xiu'er and his grandfather knew about this in advance, this kind of ability is especially essential.

The clan is willing to bring Xiu'er and his grandfather back under the protection of the clan, and is even willing to make some material compensation, but these require Xiu'er to tell his grandfather the truth of the prophecy. It's good to prepare in advance before the next disaster strikes. In order to ensure that the family can be passed on for a long time in this troubled era.

The world is bustling, all for profit, and the world is bustling, all for profit. After hearing this, Zhou Cheng fell into deep thought with a long sigh.

It is not easy to survive in troubled times, and Grandpa Xiu'er's choice is right. Without the protection of the clan, when Xiu'er's grandfather can't move, how can Xiu'er survive as a girl? What's more, Xiu'er will marry and have children in the future, and if she leaves the clan, which good family will marry a woman who has been expelled by the clan?

Xiu'er's clansmen were not wrong in their choices. The existence of the clan is to protect every clan, and it would be better if the clan could be carried forward. It's just that in this troubled world, when everyone is in a precarious era, the survival of the clan is always the first goal.

This is also the reason why Ming Xiu'er will hate those people who drove her out of the clan with her grandfather and embezzled his family's acres of land, but after hearing about the catastrophe, she still can't bear to let the clansmen suffer.

Zhou Cheng thought about it for a long time. Lots and lots come to mind.

"Taiyi is immeasurably looking for a voice to save the suffering Tianzun! You go and call all those clan elders! Poor Dao has something to say to them!" Zhou Cheng sighed.