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Chapter 6
The poverty in Tanggou Town exceeded Li Chaosheng's imagination. When Li Chaosheng came to the entrance of the village, he saw a middle-aged man. The man said to Li Chaosheng:
"Who are you looking for?"

Li Chaosheng glanced at the middle-aged man, and saw that the man was wearing a burlap suit with six or seven patches, especially the knees and elbows, which were often worn out, and a pair of worn-out straw sandals under his feet.

Li Chaosheng looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, imitating ancient times, making his left hand and holding his right fist, and said: "Hi, big brother, my name is Li Chaosheng, and I am the son of Li Jindao. I come back today to recognize my ancestor and return to my ancestor."

"Li Jindao?"

The middle-aged man was taken aback when he heard this, looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Are you the second uncle's son?"

"Second Uncle, who are you?"

Li Chaosheng stared blankly at the tall and thin young man in front of him and asked. Hearing this, the tall and thin young man said: "If what you said is true, I should be your cousin. My name is Li Chaolong."

Li Chaolong, upon hearing this name, Li Chaosheng immediately recalled the information on the genealogy, quite chivalrous, Chongzhen organized the villagers to kill the soldiers who caused disasters to the people for ten years, and then disappeared without a trace.

"Wait a moment, I'll call the patriarch."

Li Chaolong glanced at Li Chaosheng, and then ran to call the patriarch. According to the genealogy records, the patriarch of this generation should be Li Chaolong's father, Li Jindao's elder brother Li Jinli.

After Li Chaolong walked for a while, he heard a rush of footsteps in the distance, and at the same time he heard someone talking there.

"Brother Jindao's son is back, alas, it's been decades since Brother Jindao went to the sea to seek immortality, and there is no news at all. I thought I would never hear anything about him in this life."

"Yeah, yeah, how many years has it been, and that's when I was."

A group of people hurriedly rushed to this side, and soon Li Chaosheng saw a group of people surrounding them. The leader was an old man with a goatee, a hunched waist, and a stick.

This old man's identity is not ordinary at first glance, because there are so many people, he only has one patch on his body, and it is very small. It is on the left knee. How about other people? much better.

There are small patches sewn on top of big patches, and small patches on top of small patches. Some of them really have no place to sew, so they tie a pull on the clothes with a rope.

A group of people gathered around Hulachao, and the old man at the head looked at Li Chaosheng standing there, and was taken aback for a moment, mainly because he didn't expect Li Chaosheng to wear Confucian shirts, which can only be worn by gentlemen. A few points.

This kid is probably the son of Li Jindao, otherwise, who else would come to this poor village to entertain his poor people, come here to recognize a group of poor ancestors?
Moreover, the matter of recognizing one's ancestors and returning one's family to one's ancestors is a huge matter in this era, and no one would joke about it.

"You, are you a child of the Tao?"

The old man's voice trembled a little, Li Chaosheng nodded and said, "Well, who are you, old man?"

"Old Man Li Jinli"

The old man said with a suppressed voice, Li Chaosheng's face became serious and he said: "You are Uncle Li Jinli?"

"That's right, that's right, I'm Li Jinli, are you a child of Taoism?"

The old man rushed towards Li Chaosheng leaning on a stick, a little excited, but he suppressed it forcefully, Li Chaosheng hurriedly supported him: "Slow down."

Li Chaosheng supported Li Jinli, and Li Chaolong reminded him: "Father, look at the token."

The old man nodded: "Yes, child, your father asked you to come back to recognize your ancestors, didn't you bring any tokens back?"

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng was taken aback for a moment, then remembered the copper lock, and Li Chaosheng took out the copper lock directly.

The old man took it tremblingly, and then carefully took out a brass lock wrapped in blackened red cloth from his arms. The two brass locks are a pair and fit perfectly.

The old man burst into tears in an instant: "Entering the Tao, it is entering the Tao."

The old man showed it to the people around him, and the people around immediately said: "This longevity lock can be aligned, it is the way of entering, that's right, it is the way of entering."

Once the Longevity Lock was locked, everyone basically believed in Li Chaosheng's identity.

This brass lock was made by the old man of the Li family, Li Jindao's father. At the beginning, the Li family gave birth to twins, Li Jinli and Li Jindao. When he left Tanggou Town, he told Li Jinli that if his descendants came back to recognize their ancestors in the future, they would definitely hold this longevity lock.

After having the longevity lock, everyone looked at Li Chaosheng's straight nose and believed it even more. Almost everyone in the old Li family has straight noses. This feature has continued until Li Chaosheng's generation. The gene of the nose is very strong. How many generations have passed, and Li Chaosheng has inherited this physiological characteristic.

Everyone greeted each other for a while, and then came to Li Jinli to introduce. The oldest generation of the Li family who is still alive is the Jinzi generation. Li Jinli is now the patriarch, and there are four other elders of the Jinzi generation who are still alive. The core member of the old team of the Li family's highest power clan.

Holds the basic rights of the Li family in Dagou Town.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the policy of clan management was implemented. These old men are the power controllers of a clan, in charge of the power of life and death in the entire clan. The clan elder can make the decision without reporting it to the county magistrate.

Li Jinli was very excited at this time, and said to everyone: "This is the son of my brother who entered the Tao. My eldest nephew Li Chaosheng recognizes his ancestors and returns to the clan. Let's worship the ancestors in the ancestral hall. As Li Jindao said, he pulled Li Chaosheng and said: "Go, follow The uncle went to kowtow to the ancestors. "

As he spoke, he pulled Li Chaosheng towards the ancestral hall. Li Chaolong rushed home at this time. His wife was waiting for the egg nest at home. At this time, Li Chaolong said: "At home, bring the knife."

"Master, what do you want a knife for?"

The daughter-in-law asked, and Li Chaolong said: "Slaughter the chicken."

"Ah, you are crazy. Our family only has this old hen. Mother is not in good health and is still waiting for eggs. You slaughtered the chicken. What will mother do next?"

"I don't care about that much anymore. When I have free time, I will go up the mountain to catch two pheasants and come back to make up for my mother. But today, Uncle Jin Dao's son came to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors. We can't let Uncle Jin Dao's son drink wild vegetables."

"But~"

Daughter-in-law, I wanted to say something after hearing the words, when the door of the earthen house was pushed open, and a pale old lady leaned against the doorway and said, "Hua, don't stop him, this chicken has to be killed. If Jindao hadn’t left his hometown and given us the food, our family would have starved to death, and now the son of Jindao came back to recognize his ancestors and returned to his clan, and he didn’t even care about his flesh, son, kill him.”

"Eh."

……

The ancestral hall is the most prominent building of the Li family in Tanggou Town, with blue bricks and blue tiles, in sharp contrast with the surrounding earthen houses. The ancestral hall is the face of a clan.

No matter how poor they are, if they can't afford to eat, the ancestral hall should be repaired to look decent. If the ancestral hall collapses, it means that this ethnic group has come to an end.

When he arrived at the ancestral hall, Li Chaosheng kowtowed in front of the ancestral tablet, and a group of elders behind him witnessed that Li Chaosheng's three kowtows were natural, because the ancestors in the ancestral hall were his true ancestors, how could he be without them.

After finishing the three kowtows, the old patriarch said: "Chaosheng, if you kowtow to your ancestors today, you will officially become a member of the Li family in Tanggou Town. Now the village is not rich, and this ceremony of recognizing ancestors and returning to the clan is a bit crude. Yes, when there is a chance, let’s make up another one.”

The old patriarch said, but Li Chaosheng didn't say anything. Everyone was so poor that they couldn't open the pot. What else should they pay attention to, and even if they paid attention to ostentation, the money should be paid by themselves. It's really too much for the ancestors to ask for money.

However, with this kowtow, Li Chaosheng's seniority was determined, and he became a descendant of the Ming Dynasty. Calculated, he should have turned his seniority by more than ten or twenty generations at once. This is really a super extra generation.

Kneel down briefly in the ancestral hall, which is considered to have initially integrated into this big family, and also considered to have his own identity in this Tanggou Town, and the first step to integrate into this world has been completed.

After the worship in the ancestral hall, the old village chief wants to entertain several elders who participated in the witness, and go to the old village chief's house for dinner together. Of course, Li Chaosheng must be the protagonist.

When we arrived at the old village chief's house, the old village chief's house was already on fire. Li Chaosheng was brought into the house, and then the house was full of people, all of whom came to see Li Chaosheng. After all, Li Chaosheng was dressed so decently, everyone was curious What happened to this fellow.

The old village head in the house asked Li Chaosheng and his family's situation, and Li Chaosheng made up his own life at this time.

"Uncle, I was born in the country of Siam on the Nanyang Island..."

Li Chaosheng said that his father went to sea with an old Taoist priest, and settled down in Siam, where he practiced Taoism with peace of mind. Zuohua, his mother died when he gave birth to him in his early years, leaving him alone in Siam.

But before his father sat down, he took his hand and said: You must go back to your hometown, Tanggou Town, find your clansmen, recognize your ancestors and return to your clan. Although this Siam is good, it is not our home after all.

Li Chaosheng said that he secretly applied some wind oil on his hands, and burst into tears immediately, and a group of old men who were moved were also crying, Li Jinli sobbed at this moment: "I have pity on my brother, when there was a severe drought, The food at home was not enough for our family to consume, so my parents followed me and called me to the front and said: "One of you two is going to escape from famine. Let's draw lots. I caught the short one. I should be the one who went to escape from famine, but it turned out that I was going to flee famine." Dao took the initiative to say that he would go to sea with Master to search for immortals, so he escaped for me, I owe him, I owe him!"

The old man beat his feet and chest while talking, and the people around him tried to persuade him.

Everyone was talking and crying like this, crying and talking, tears streaming down their cheeks. It took a long time for someone to yell for dinner, and then everyone dispersed. Soon the table was ready, and the food was served. A pot of corn bread mixed with wild vegetables , but it is not made of cornmeal, it is made of wheat flour.

Then there was a plate of scrambled eggs, a plate of roots of unknown plants, a plate of green wild vegetables, and finally a small pot of stewed chicken with wild mushrooms.

Seeing this pot of chicken, not to mention the children around, even the five clan elders sitting on the table were drooling, meat, this has not been seen for more than a year.

And surrounded by a group of children, looking at the delicious DC halazi on the table, but no one dared to come forward, let alone them, even the daughters-in-law of these clan elders could not sit on the table, this is a feudal society!
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