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Chapter 51: Willows and Flowers Bright Another Village

Duan Kefan was a little overwhelmed. Why was this woman so sensitive? He quickly changed the topic and said, "I'll take you to the ancestral hall first. The photo with the inscription Zhu Yunwen was taken there. I live there now..."

The group came to the entrance of the ancestral hall. Zheng Xiumei's uncle stood at the door and looked at the inscription on the door carefully, nodded and said, "From the handwriting, it should be Zhu Yunwen's inscription. Now the key is to see if there is any other evidence. Let's go inside and take a look..."

When I entered the ancestral hall, I did not find it surprisingly. The ancestral halls worshipped the very ordinary ancestral tablets and other things that are often worshipped in the ancestral halls of ordinary people. However, Zheng Xiumei was very surprised by Duan Kefan's accommodation conditions: "You live in such a place? Are you not afraid?"

Duan Kefan laughed and said, "What's there to be afraid of? Are there really ghosts in this world? I'm not afraid of ghosts. The 'ghosts' here were beaten away by me..." As he said that, he used to kill the giant snake as a joke.

Zheng Xiumei was so scared that she lost her temper and said in horror: "You are too bold. What if you are bitten? What if it is healed and come to take revenge?..." Her uncle looked at Duan Kefan deeply and nodded and said: "Everything has spirits, and that giant snake is so spiritual. It is right for you to let it go. It seems that this place is indeed a Feng Shui treasure land!..."

There was no gain in the ancestral hall, so Duan Kefan suggested to ask the elderly in the village for inquiries. Perhaps he could hear some historical anecdotes from the elderly. There were many elderly people in the village, with more than a dozen of them in their eighties, and the longest one was almost 100 years old. However, perhaps because of the age of the old, the elderly could not provide any valuable clues. Not to mention historical celebrities like Zhu Yunwen, in the impression of the elderly, there was no decent big figure in Rongshu Village.

Zheng Xiumei's uncle was not surprised, and shook his head and said, "Zhu Yunwen was being chased by Zhu Di at that time and fled everywhere. He must keep his identity strictly confidential. Perhaps he did stay here for a short time. To thank the villagers here for taking in the inscriptions on the ancestral hall, it is not surprising that the villagers here do not know his true identity. But if there is no strong evidence, there is no way to make a conclusion. However, the ancient buildings here are indeed damaged too seriously, and it is leaking everywhere. How can people live? Xiao Duan, let's do this. No matter whether you can find evidence that Zhu Yunwen stayed here in the end, I will find a way to apply to the above, allocate a hundred thousand to at least repair the roof, so that the villagers can't let the villagers live in the leaking house again. If this continues, not only will the ancient buildings here be damaged faster, but people are also prone to illness..."

Duan Kefan was a little unwilling to give up and thought for a while, "Why don't we go to the old branch secretary in the village to ask again. He has been the village party secretary for many years and may know some of the situation..."

So the group came to the home of the old branch secretary Wang Caihou again. Wang Xiaocao saw Duan Kefan but was not as friendly as the first time. He stared at him angrily and still hated him for taking away the money for his grandfather's treatment. Wang Caihou was very happy to hear that Duan Kefan brought experts from the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau to prepare for the protection of the ancient buildings in the village and sighed: "The house in the village is time to be repaired. Now most people in the village have rheumatism and cannot do heavy physical work in their fifties. If the government can allocate money to help the villagers repair houses, that would be a great thing!..."

Duan Kefan hurriedly said: "Old Party Secretary, the key now is to find evidence that Zhu Yunwen had visited our village, so that the government can allocate money to help the villagers repair houses!"

"What kind of article is Zhu? There is no one in our area with the surname Zhu. There is a Zhujia Village in the next town, but there is no contact with our village..." Wang Caihou said with a puzzled look on his face.

This is a bit like a chicken and duck. Duan Kefan had to smile bitterly and explain Zhu Yunwen's identity in detail to Wang Caihou. Wang Caihou shook his head repeatedly and said, "Emperor? Which emperor would come to our place where birds do not shit? I have been the village party secretary for so many years. The biggest official in the village is the mayor. Once, he said that the county magistrate was coming, but because the road was difficult, he turned around again halfway through the journey!..."

Duan Kefan was a little desperate. It seemed that there was no hope to find evidence that Zhu Yunwen had visited Rongshu Village. Or was Zheng Xiumei's uncle more experienced and continued to ask patiently: "Old Secretary, think about it carefully, have you ever found unusual objects or the like in the village? It's just something that is not very common..."

Wang Caihou thought for a while and said, "Unorable objects? There are really. In the past, many people in the village had some pottery jars and other houses. The carvings on them were so beautiful. They were all carved with dragons and phoenixes. There was one in my family before, which was passed down from my grandfather's generation..."

Duan Kefan and Zheng Xiumei's uncle's eyes lit up as soon as they heard this, and they quickly asked, "It's so good, is the thing still there? Take it out and take a look..."

Wang Caihou spread his hands and said, "It's gone. All the four olds will be smashed. There are some iron tools, bronze tools, etc., and the big steel will be melted..."

"Oh!" Duan Kefan and Zheng Xiumei's uncle were so sad that they slapped their thighs. If it weren't for the ignorance that harmed people, so many historical relics would have been destroyed!

However, this also proves that there have been unusual things in the history of Rongshu Village. Zheng Xiumei's uncle regretted it and continued to ask: "Is there any unusual things that cannot be smashed and burned?"

"I can't smash it and burn it?" Wang Caihou patted his forehead and thought seriously, raised his hand and pointed to the mountain outside and said, "There are two small stone castles on the hills on both sides of our village. When we were young, we often went to play with chopping wood. When we broke the four olds, the commune had to destroy it, but the stone castle was too hard and it was too difficult to destroy. In addition, the villagers also needed a rest to chop wood, so they stayed. In recent years, the government has not allowed to chop wood, and the stone castle was covered by thatch, and I couldn't see it even if I saw it!"

This is really a desperate situation, and there is no way out. There is another village! Duan Kefan and Zheng Xiumei’s uncle looked at each other in surprise and said in unison: “That’s great! Then you can take us to see it quickly…”

Wang Caihou scratched his head with some embarrassment and said, "You can ask me to lead the way, but now there is no road to Xiaoshibao. It is all thatched. It is a big project, and there are few strong laborers who can't drive it out..."

Duan Kefan patted his chest as soon as he heard this and said, "Leave this to me, I'll mobilize the villagers to open the way!"
Chapter completed!
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