Quanxi Village, a very remote ordinary village in Youzhou. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The dark night of early spring always comes very early, especially for Youzhou, the northernmost of the thirteen counties of Yuguo, the sunset is westward, and a breeze blows through the mountains, stirring the fallen leaves on the ground and bringing a chill to a teenager walking in the woods.

The boy looked to be about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a delicate face and a somewhat thin figure, carrying a bookcase on his back, and wearing a blue book shirt, the cuffs of which had faded and turned white because he had washed it too many times.

"It's finally here. The young man tightened his clothes, looked at the lights lit up in the village not far away, and a flash of excitement flashed in his eyes, and he couldn't help but speed up his pace.

His name is Zhou Qingqing, and he is an ordinary scholar in Quanxi Village. When I was a child learning literacy with Mr. Teach in the village, Mr. Teach's eyes said that this son has wisdom roots, and when he grows up, he will definitely be able to take the examination to become famous and glorify his ancestors, so he embarked on the road of the imperial examination.

And today is the last day of Yuguo's annual imperial examination, after handing in the test papers and walking out of the examination room, Zhou Qingqing refused the invitation of several scholars from neighboring villages to participate in the township examination at night and go back together tomorrow morning, and hurried back with a bookcase.

"Brother!" As soon as he walked to the entrance of the village, Zhou Qingqing saw a little boy with a tiger head looking at him excitedly, and then rushed towards him with a shout.

"Mountain. Zhou Qingqing showed a smile, squatted down and picked up the little boy who rushed towards him, and with his other hand, he naturally wiped the two snots under his nose for him, "I don't know how dirty the snot is." You got out of school so early today?"

Zhou Qingshan sniffed and said a little stumblingly: "No... Not really. I couldn't understand what Mr. was saying and ran out, and I was afraid of being told by my mother when I went home, so I didn't dare to go home, so I waited for my father at the entrance of this village, thinking that I would go back with my father, and my mother wouldn't talk about me. ”

"You little cleverness. Zhou Qingnian patted Zhou Qingshan's ass lightly, but there was not much reproach in his tone. He knows his younger brother Aoyama's personality very well, likes to play, and what he dislikes the most is this reading and writing, and it is not surprising that he can do this thing of skipping school.

Zhou Qingshan smiled, "By the way, brother, why did you come back today, my father said last night that you have to come back tomorrow, so I thought you really had to come back tomorrow." ”

"I think we're in the mountains, so I'm going to come back quickly. Zhou Qingnian said with a smile, while taking out a string of red sugar gourds from the bookcase he was carrying and handed it to Zhou Qingshan, "Here, take it and eat." ”

Zhou Qingshan's eyes lit up when he saw the sugar gourd, and he hurriedly took the sugar gourd and showed a bright smile to Zhou Qingqing, "Brother, you are so good." ”

"You kid will only say I'm good at this time. Zhou Qingnian couldn't cry or laugh, but his eyes were full of doting when he looked at Zhou Qingshan.

Quanxi Village is very far away from the county seat, whether it is the stage team or the sugar gourds that sell them, the snack merchants of stove sugar can't come to Quanxi Village a few times a year, so the sugar gourd that children in this county town can often eat has become a rare thing that may not be eaten once a year for his younger brother Qingshan, and the little guy doesn't have to hang these things on his lips on weekdays, and it is precisely because of this that Zhou Qingqing will rush back today regardless of tiredness, and use the money saved for a night to buy this string of sugar gourds for Qingshan.

Holding Qingshan and waiting at the entrance of the village for a while, when the sun was about to set completely, Zhou Qingnian saw a familiar figure slowly walking towards the village from a distance at the end of the dirt road.

"Shan'er, Dad is back. Zhou Qingqing said with a smile to Qingshan in his arms, and then walked a few steps quickly to meet him, "Dad!"

Father Zhou looked at his eldest son standing in front of him in surprise, and he was stunned, "Da Nian, why did you come back today? I thought you had to ......."

"Today's exam started early and ended early, so I rushed back. Zhou Qingqing said with a smile, turning around and walking towards the village with Zhou Hu.

"The New Year is back!"

"Yo, our great talent is back?

"Lao Zhou, when you win the championship in the big year, your whole family can move to the county seat. With such a great talent in the New Year, your old Zhou family is really smoking from the ancestral grave. ”

Walking into the village, the villagers on the road saw Zhou's father and Zhou Qingqing smiling and greeting, and Zhou's father and son also responded with a smile, but Zhou Qingshan, who was in Zhou Qingshan's arms, didn't care about these, and his little tongue was busy licking the sugar gourd.

When she returned home, Zhou's mother was also very happy to see that Zhou Young was also very happy, and specially added a new dish of fried bacon with garlic and winter melon bacon soup to the dinner menu. Zhou Qingshan's greasy mouth can reflect the light next to the small mouth, raised his head and said to Zhou Qingnian with a smile: "Brother, when will you go to the township test again, I found that as long as you go to the township test, my mother will make meat to eat." ”

Zhou's father, Zhou's mother, and Zhou Qingnian were amused by Zhou Qingshan's childish words at the same time, and Zhou's mother gently patted the back of Zhou Qingshan's head, "What nonsense, you only take the township test once, and you can win it once!"

Zhou Qingqing also put down his chopsticks at this time, and said with a smile: "Dad, mother, I am in good shape in the township test this time, and I should be able to win a lift." After inquiring, it is not a problem for me to be the chief bookkeeper in charge of the documents in the county government after I won the promotion, and the money is six dollars of silver per month, so that you can take your second elder to live in the county seat and enjoy your old age in peace. ”

"Eh, eh. Zhou's father and Zhou's mother responded continuously, smiling, and the eyes of the two of them were a little red under the light of the candle.

After eating, after Zhou Qingnian helped collect the dishes and chopsticks, he was about to carry Zhou Qingshan back to his room to sleep, but Zhou's father suddenly stopped him at this time, "Da Nian, get up early tomorrow morning and go to the ancestral grave to incense." You can have today, and you are also blessed by our ancestors and ancestors. ”

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Early the next morning, when the sky was just dawning, Zhou Qingqing was called up by Zhou's father. At the urging of Zhou's father, after hurriedly wiping his face with a coarse cloth, Zhou Qing walked out of the house towards the mountain behind the village.

Walking into the back mountain and walking into the mountain for about half an hour, Zhou Qingnian turned into a barren and grassy path, and at the end of the path there were several dirt bags faintly visible, and each soil bag was also covered with grass.

This is the ancestral tomb of the Zhou family.

It is also strange to say, they are all buried in this back mountain, even if the ancestral graves of other families in Quanxi Village do not need to be cleaned often, it is no problem, but near the ancestral graves of their Zhou family, the weeds grow very fast, obviously just finished cutting a stubble but after one night and then the next morning to see, it must be growing green shoots again, if it is not cleaned up for more than three days, the weeds will grow to the point that even the road is blocked like now.

By the time Zhou Qingnian had finished cutting all the weeds around the ancestral tomb, it was already more than half an hour later, and Zhou Qingqing was also tired and sweating, looking out of breath. After wiping the sweat from his head and throwing the sickle aside, after taking a breath, Zhou Qingshan walked to the grave in the center of the ancestral tomb.

There are a total of 17 tombs in the ancestral tomb of the Zhou family, where 17 ancestors are buried, and the most central one is the tomb of the ancestors of the Zhou family.

To say that the ancestor of the Zhou family, according to the genealogical records of the family, is also a great figure, once traveled all over the world, and later became the national teacher of Yu, so high that even the emperor of Yu saw him and had to perform the gift of a disciple, under one person, above ten thousand people.

But Zhou Qingqing was a little unimpressed by this statement.

In Zhou Qingqing's opinion, if his ancestors were really so powerful, how could the Zhou family, who was his descendant, be reduced to a nest in Quanxi Village, where birds don't, barely making a living on a few acres of thin fields?

More importantly, if this is true, then it stands to reason that the tomb of this ancestor should be arrogant, and among the seventeen cemeteries of the ancestral tomb of the Zhou family, the tomb of this ancestor is the most shabby. After reading so many books, Zhou Qingqing has never seen in any book that the cemetery of a national teacher of a country is a small dirt bag!

Shaking his head to drive these miscellaneous thoughts out of his mind, Zhou Qingqing lit the incense, knelt down in front of the grave, and recited the words in his mouth, "Ancestors, ancestors, if you have really been the national teacher of our Yu country, please show your spirit, bless me to be able to lift people this time, so that my father and mother can also enjoy a few years of happiness." The descendants of Young Zhou swear here, after I am lifted, I will definitely rebuild the cemetery for my ancestors. ”

After speaking, Zhou Qingqing knocked his head on the ground, respectfully and meticulously kowtowed three times to the tombstone one after another,

Click......

Just as Zhou Qingnian finished kowtowing and just stood up and was about to leave, a strange sound suddenly came, as if something had cracked. Young Zhou was taken aback by this voice, and shouted: "Who!"

Click......

The voice sounded again, and this time Zhou Qing heard it clearly, and turned to look at the grave, his face a little frightened and a little curious. This voice came from the graves of our ancestors!

Click, click, click......

The sound kept ringing, and it was getting louder and closer, as if something was about to come out of the ground.

Bang!

With a sound like a firecracker exploding, the ground shook slightly, and I saw that the ground in front of the tombstone suddenly cracked! The crack continued to spread outward like a crazy branch, and it had already spread in front of Zhou Qingnian in just a few dozen breaths.

Rao was mentally prepared Zhou Young Man was still taken aback by this scene, and hurriedly walked a few steps away from these cracks, holding the sickle tightly and looking at the cracks that were still spreading in all directions with a wary face, and his head was already sweating slightly because of the nervousness.

I saw that the crack on the ground stretched out for more than ten meters before it stopped, and then a bigger cracking sound sounded, as if a thunderbolt suddenly exploded, and the crack suddenly and slowly separated to both sides, and from the underground, a gray-faced old man crawled out!

The old man was of medium stature, wearing a brown uniform, his gray face looked embarrassed, and he cursed in his mouth, "Damn, the formation is still so powerful after being dead for five hundred years, if it weren't for the fact that I still have some means to save my life, I would almost be planted here today." It seems that if you want to get the treasure, you have to go to his descendants. It's just that after so many years, I don't know where his descendants are now, which is difficult. ”

"Huh, is there anyone else?" the old man found Zhou Qing standing aside at this time, and said with a surprised face.

Zhou Qingqing looked at the old man blankly, he had never imagined that someone could actually get out of the ground!

The old man patted the soil on his clothes, walked over the crack and walked in front of Zhou Qingqing, raised his hand and shook it in front of Zhou Qingqing's eyes, "Boy, let me ask you, what day is it today?"

"On the fifth day of the second month, ......" Zhou young man replied subconsciously, and then suddenly reacted, and shouted at the old man with a furious face: "Who are you? Why did you appear in my Zhou family's ancestral grave!"

"Your Zhou family's ancestral tomb? So you are his descendant?!" The old man's face suddenly turned happy when he heard this, and his eyes were full of fire when he looked at Zhou Qingqing, "Okay! This is really good! I thought that I would inevitably return empty-handed today, but I didn't expect that it would take no effort to get it!"

As he spoke, the old man stretched out his hand and pointed at the ground under Zhou Qingqing's feet. I only heard a strange noise from the ground, and the flat ground suddenly cracked into a black hole three feet square. Without waiting for Zhou Qingqing to react, he fell directly!