After getting off the long-distance bus, Wu Fan stood at the entrance of the village in Yanhui Town, feeling a little hesitant for a moment.

Although this is Wu Fan's hometown in name, in fact he has never been here. Looking at the golden wheat fields in front of him, Yanhui Town is located surrounded by these wheat fields.

When Wu Fan came back, it was almost time for lunch. He saw smoke rising from the roofs of every household in the village. Groups of students who had just finished school were riding new or old bicycles.

They chased and quarreled on the street with their friends, and the more courageous boy put his hands on the handlebars, controlled the balance of the bicycle with the strength of his waist, and moved away from Wu in a big way.

Fan whizzed past.

The troublesome thing for Wu Fan is that he doesn't know where his home should be, and he doesn't even know what his nominal father looks like.

However, Wu Fan couldn't ask anyone else. They were all from the countryside. Once it was spread that Wu Fan had been living in the city for a few years and couldn't even find his home when he came back, it was easy to say but not easy to hear.

Just when Wu Fan was considering whether to call his nominal father to ask for directions, a bicycle bell rang behind him. He turned around and saw a young man in a white coat with one foot on the ground, riding on a bicycle.

A bicycle was laughing at Wu Fan.

"Great talent, why did you suddenly come home? Why didn't you bring back your fairy-like wife?" This young man was obviously an acquaintance of Wu Fan, and there was a hint of anger in his tone when he spoke.

Stocks are close.

Wu Fan walked over, smiled and patted the young man's shoulder lightly, and said in the same friendly tone: "What? I can't come home to see you. I miss my dad, okay? Stop talking nonsense."

, let’s go, let’s talk while we walk, tell me what’s new in our village these days?”

Based on Wu Fan's current experience, he had not walked very far with this young man, and he had already figured out the location of his yard from him without leaving any trace. When he came to the alley entrance of his yard, Wu Fan waved goodbye to this young man.

Turned around and walked into the yard.

Wu Fan's parents obviously did not expect that their son would suddenly return home. The old couple were huddled in the kitchen preparing lunch, chatting casually while their hands and feet were busy.

Standing in the yard, Wu Fan calmed down because the two figures in the kitchen reminded him of his biological parents. At that time, the two of them were cooking and working together so intimately. Unfortunately, with that

There was a sudden car accident, and they never had the chance to cook a delicious lunch together.

Since he has taken over Wu Fan's identity, he should treat the two old people in the house as his parents and fulfill the filial piety that he failed to fulfill for the unfortunate original.

"Dad, Mom, I'm back." Wu Fan called loudly twice, threw the luggage in his hand onto a chair, and strode towards the kitchen.

When the old couple who were cooking heard Wu Fan's cry, they immediately looked out the door and saw Wu Fan pushing open the door with a smile on his face and standing steadily at the door of the kitchen.

After finishing the meal, Wu Fan eliminated all the strangeness between him and his two elders. They sat around the coffee table like real relatives, eating melon seeds and chatting away.

Although Wu Fan came back this time, he also wanted to find the half-moon-shaped jade pendant that was said to belong to the Wu family. However, since Wu Fan had picked it up countless times at home, the possibility of Wu Fan finding it was not very high, so this

When Wu Fan returns to his hometown, his biggest goal is to find out what kind of family the Wu family is and whether it is possible to obtain the Ninghuang Pei.

Under Wu Fan's guidance, Wu Fan's father talked enthusiastically about the past glory of the Wu family. Of course, it was up to Wu Fan himself to identify how much legend these words contained.

The old Wu family is indeed as Wu Fan imagined, a family with a story.

Before liberation, the entire Yanhui Town was actually the property of the old Wu family. It can be said that there was no Yanhui Town at all at that time. This was the Wu family's manor, and it has always been named Yanhui Garden by the Wu family. People living here

In addition to the various branches of the Wu family, there are also the tenant farmers, servants and the like who are dependent on the Wu family.

Originally, the Wu family had a good reputation in the local area and was always known as a charitable family. Unfortunately, with the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese took over this land. With the arrival of the Japanese, no one expected how many people would come out of the old Wu family.

This unlucky villain actually went to the Japanese and became a traitor.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, affected by those evil obstacles, the Wu family was branded as a traitor, and their family fortunes quickly declined.

At that time, Wu Fan's grandfather was in charge of the Wu family. The old man was unwilling to accept the decline of the Wu family, so he resolutely sold most of the family property and donated it to the government to clear himself of the charge of being a traitor.

However, the old man never expected that not long after donating a large amount of property, the area of ​​Yanhui Town would be liberated. Not only would his behavior of donating money to the government not be good at all, but it would be regarded by the new government as a typical example of land-rich, counter-right, and bad right-wingers.

The Wu family was suppressed.

If the Wu family hadn't taken root in this area, multiplied for hundreds of years, and were related to almost every household, they would probably have been uprooted and disappeared.

After liberation, the Wu family gradually swayed in several movements, and the population became smaller and smaller. By Wu Fan's generation, there were less than 20 people with real blood of the Wu family. And only the eldest son and grandson of the eldest son, the eldest son, had passed down the lineage.

Wu Fan is such a solitary person.

After learning about the history of the Wu family from his father, Wu Fan really figured it out. The Wu family was considered a wealthy family before the liberation, and there might be a chance to collect the Ninghuang Jade Pendant, but this situation is precarious.

Over the past few decades, even if I once owned a jade pendant, I am afraid it has already fallen into the hands of others. It seems that returning to my hometown is not of great significance, and there are almost no clues to be found.

After chatting for a while, the two old men's excitement about Wu Fan's return was somewhat over, and their spirits seemed a little tired. Wu Fan stood up and asked the two old men to take a lunch break, and then he got into the room that originally belonged to him.

I rummaged through it bit by bit, trying to find some useful clues.

The result was very disappointing to Wu Fan. The original Wu Fan was also a careful person. He had brought all potentially useful things to Shicheng. In his hometown, except for a large number of useless textbooks and exercise books, there was nothing.

What other valuable items are there?

Wu Fan was called out of the house by his mother to prepare for dinner. However, the gray-headed Wu Fan had to take a shower before he could come out to meet people. Otherwise, he would be just like a local monkey. But let the old mother be better.

After a scolding, Wu Fan almost ran away in the end.

At the dinner table, Wu Fan barely spoke. Now his mind flew back to Tang Mengru. Since there were no more clues from his hometown, it was better to focus on the Tang family again. Maybe he could get some clues through Tang Mengru.

The information from Tang Mengru's grandfather, because judging from the current situation Wu Fan has, Tang Mengru's grandfather is also looking for Ninghuang Pei.

As the saying goes, flowers planted with intention will never bloom, but willows planted without intention will form shade. When Wu Fan was silent, he heard something from his nagging mother that moved his heart.

After the reform and opening up in Yanhui Town, people in the town gradually had some spare money, and some old people wanted to restore the lost genealogy. The old building of the Wu family ancestral hall is still there, but the memorial tablets in the ancestral hall are early.

It was burned and thrown away, and even the ancestral hall itself was used as a warehouse for the town government.

It is easy to renovate the ancestral hall and re-erect the ancestors' memorial tablets. What is really difficult to do is that no one can clearly rewrite the original Wu family genealogy, or even

There are also two or three versions of what the current generations of the Wu family are.

What kept Wu Fan's mother nagging was not the construction of the ancestral hall and the establishment of the family tree. What the old lady was really dissatisfied with was that their family was the real first wife of the Wu family. As a result, because of their ordinary family background, no one from the Wu family came to rebuild the ancestral hall.

Ask Wu Fan's father for his opinion. Even on the day the ancestral hall was built, no one came to invite Wu Fan's father to watch the ceremony. It seemed that everyone had forgotten that they were the true bloodline of the Wu family.

Wu Fan didn't care about the status issue at all, but the Wu family's rebuilding of the ancestral hall moved Wu Fan's heart. Listening to his mother's talk, the Wu family found many old styles that originally belonged to the ancestral hall, and rebuilt them again.

The Wu family ancestral hall was set up. It was these old tricks that made Wu Fan a little excited. Anyway, he had given up hope. He treated a dead horse as a living horse, so he just went to the ancestral hall for a walk. What if he really found some clues?

Not just right?

Wu Fan quickly shoveled three bowls of noodles into his stomach, wiped his mouth, stood up, said something to his parents, and was about to go out. However, his father grabbed his arm and dragged Wu Fan back to the dining table.

"You are still so impatient. When your mother said something about the ancestral hall, do you just want to go and have a look in the ancestral hall? You don't even think about it. Our Wu family's ancestral hall holds the memorial tablets of our ancestors. How can we decorate them?"

The door is open, anyone who wants to come in can come in

Go and have a look? Let me tell you, if you want to enter the ancestral hall, you have to wait until the door of the ancestral hall opens on the third and eighth days of every month, and then you can go in to worship your ancestors." Wu Fan's father reminded him, which made Wu Fan couldn't help but look at it.

The old man laughed heartily.

"Dad, did I really show it so obviously just now? You could tell at a glance that I wanted to go to the ancestral hall?"

The family of three chatted warmly and comfortably, laughter constantly overflowed from the house, and the warm lights spread throughout the yard.

Since the ancestral hall was closed today, of course Wu Fan couldn't go now. He simply stayed with his parents for a while and went to the ancestral hall in the evening.
Chapter completed!