I am many years in the courtyard

April 1985, the eve of Qingming Festival.

Many years ago, I returned to Hong Kong Island before the Qingming Festival, and then took my family to Sai Shui Village to visit the grave.

The clan culture here in the south is really strong.

On festivals like Qingming Festival, you can see many groups of thirty or forty or fifty or sixty people, including men, women, old and young, carrying sacrifices, firecrackers, paper money, etc., wandering around in the deep mountains and old forests.

It looks like a tomb-sweeping trip, but it is actually an outing.

However, in some years, when it rains during Qingming Festival, you have to put on a raincoat and step into the heavy rain to visit the tomb.

Just like this year's Qingming Festival, for many years the family has only been able to put on raincoats and go to visit graves.

In addition to the married sisters Xiaodoubao and Baidoufu, as well as Xu Yuantong and Xu Yuanxi who were not yet able to walk, Xiaotuanzi and his siblings all set out together.

Even the two little guys Xu Shanhe and Xu Shanyou were in the arms of their parents and set off together.

The culture of tomb-sweeping starts from a young age, rather than waiting for them to grow up.

Old Xu, who is so old, walked at the front of the team in high spirits and even helped guide the way.

Just because he knows the graves of these ancestors most clearly.

Starting at eight o'clock in the morning, graves were swept one by one.

Cleaning around the tomb and in front of the hall, pressing paper money, burning incense and candles, setting off firecrackers, offering sacrifices, and worshiping ancestors are all completed in one go.

After finishing, go to the next cemetery and repeat the previous process.

Until noon, a group of people gathered in a small clearing in front of three of the grave piles.

Tomb sweeping in the morning usually ends here.

However, what comes next is the favorite part for many little kids.

Here, people usually hold a pot and cook a large pot of pork. These were the sacrifices used to worship the ancestors, and now everyone eats them directly.

Since everyone has been hiking and wading all morning, eating such pork at this time will make you drink up the soup.

In addition to pork, mustard is also placed in the pot, and there are even sacrifices such as roasted pig, chicken, and eggs.

Or bring cookies, oranges, grapes and other snack fruits.

In short, everyone will get together, chat briefly, and then have something to eat before ending the morning's tomb-sweeping activities.

This is just the grave sweeping in the morning.

In the afternoon, it’s the highlight.

The Xu family moved from the north to settle in Xishui Village hundreds of years ago. It has grown to now have three villages.

I have not participated in the tomb-sweeping activities before Qingming Festival for many years.

But on Tomb Sweeping Day, tomb sweeping is done in the morning and afternoon. The tombs swept in the morning are basically ancestors seven or eight generations ago.

The graves I scanned in the afternoon were from three or four generations ago, even to Lao Xu, his parents and grandfather.

However, the tomb-sweeping activity in the afternoon is relatively simple.

Just because these tombs have been renovated and renovated over many years, they were originally very clean, with no grass or trees growing on them.

In rural areas, especially in the south, the ability of many trees to grow in the wild is terrifying.

Even if bricks are laid, there will still be trees emerging from the soil.

However, the tombs that have been renovated with money over the years are about two meters deep into the ground, and a lot of stones, sand, etc. are directly placed there, making it impossible for the grass to sprout.

Just like Qin Zhidao in ancient times, more than two thousand years later, those trees, flowers and plants have not been seen emerging from the ground.

Only some trees and flowers have grown on the surface after being covered up by the wind and soil.

"Grandpa, whose tomb is this? Why is there no inscription on it?"

Near the end, Xu Shanhe was surprised when he saw that the last tomb that everyone cleaned was different from other tombs.

At this time, after many years of silence, Lao Xu had already spoken.

"This is your great-grandfather, my grave. From now on, grandpa will live here."

That's right, this grave was one that Lao Xu himself asked a Feng Shui master to find for him.

In fact, in the beginning, I didn’t agree with it for many years.

Just because Old Xu was obviously still very young, he insisted on finding the grave so early. Wasn't this a curse on himself?

When he traveled to this world many years ago, in 1958, Lao Xu was already in his fifties.

It is now 1985, and twenty-seven years have passed.

In other words, Lao Xu is now over eighty years old.

Logically speaking, this age is not too young, but for many years he thought that his father could live to be over ninety years old, or even over one hundred years old.

Although Lao Xu had suffered from a serious illness such as rectal cancer before, wasn't this cured?

What's more, didn't Duan Xuefu, the head of the Mathematics Department of Peking University, also suffer from rectal cancer?

But they are still living well now.

Others can live for such a long time and have many years of protection. How could Lao Xu not live for that long?

Because of this, for many years I disagreed with Lao Xu finding a grave for him so early.

Unfortunately, he was not with Lao Xu every day for many years, so the latter secretly found Mr. Feng Shui himself. It was not until the tomb was built that he found out about it many years later.

Now that things have come to this, what else can we do after many years?

You can't tell Lao Xu: Dad, even if you find it, it's useless. Where will it be buried? It's not him who has the final say?

That’s really it!

There are five brothers in the family, but at present, the words of many years are most effective. The eldest and the second child listen to what they have said for many years.

Therefore, when the time comes, once Lao Xu is buried a hundred years later, it will be decided by many years.

Of course, I would definitely not talk to Lao Xu like this for many years, otherwise, I might just send him away like this.

"Grandpa, don't you have a home? You live on the first floor, right?"

At this time, Xu Shanyou next to him said something.

Lao Xu's words made the brothers a little silent for many years, but for the little guys, they didn't understand these things very well, so they thought that the home their great-grandfather mentioned was the home they usually talked about.

"Haha, yes!"

Many Years quickly touched the little guy's head and then changed the topic.

They say that children's words are unbridled, but on a day like today and in such an atmosphere, it's better not to say such things.

Tomb-Sweeping Day has passed, and life has returned to ordinary daily life.

In mid-April, many years ago, I attended the high-speed rail completion ceremony celebration.

This is the first high-speed railway in the mainland. Although it has only been completed and run through, and it will still be some time before it is officially opened to traffic, it has already taken the first step.

Throughout the mainland, it won’t be too far before train speeds increase.

Nowadays, the speed of trains in the mainland is still 40 to 50 kilometers per hour. This speed is undoubtedly very slow.

And there are many slow and late trains.

Just because one train line is running, in order to improve the utilization of the railway, there are many short-distance local trains. For example, the distance from Xishui Village to Baiyun City is only about two hundred kilometers, but there are still trains, and there is more than one.

A few years ago, the expressway between Xishui Village and Baiyun City was opened, and the traffic speed between the two places suddenly increased a lot.

However, there are really few vehicles now, so the utilization rate is not very high.

With the development of the economy, it has been believed for many years that there will only be more and more cars on the highway.

After returning to Hong Kong Island from the mainland, I didn't know for many years that the tycoon in the Middle East, Basham, had been waiting for a week for him to come back and sign a contract.

Basham and the others finally decided to let Wharf Group undertake this land reclamation project.

Even though the project took eight years, they could only accept it.

"Mr. Xu, I wish us a happy cooperation!"

After the contract was signed, Basemu finally showed a relieved smile on his face.

It was just a small project for many years.

But for him, Bassem, this is the first project he has been responsible for since he became an adult, and the project is very large and will take another eight years.

No matter what, eight years is a very long time.

Once eight years have passed and things have changed, it is not certain that other changes at the decision-making level will be made.

After all, the world situation can change at any time.

The negotiation of the entire project took less than half a year, and before that, they also spent more than a year inspecting many places.

It's only been determined now.

Therefore, while he was excited, he was also full of expectations and a little worried about the future.

"Pleasant to work with."

Many years smiled slightly and shook hands with each other.

"Mr. Xu, I know you are a person who likes traveling very much. I wonder if I can invite you to travel to the Middle East?"

Hearing Basemu's invitation, Manyian was stunned for a moment and said:

"Is there anything interesting in the Middle East?"

It’s not that he is ignorant, there seems to be nothing interesting in the Middle East.

How could that ghost place in Somalia have attracted millions of Chinese to settle there if he hadn't been there for many years?

But even in a place like Somalia that he had transformed, he didn't find it interesting.

It is estimated that only a playboy like Frank would linger in a place like this.

Just because places like Somalia are too free. They can do whatever they want. As long as they have money, no one can restrain them.

Not to mention, Frank has a very good relationship with many warlords, and no blind person will bother him at all.

For this reason, Frank often brought back many super models from outside, and then they were raised by him in Somalia.

Frank, who was rich, had already built a large manor in Somalia that was much larger than Braao's manor in the small town of Enab.

And built a castle inside, a proper nouveau riche.

As we all know, many white people in North America are actually descendants of Anglo-Saxons.

These descendants of them admire the royal family and the dukes in England very much.

After all, their ancestors were slaves and subordinates of their masters, the royal family, so they were full of servility from the very core.

As long as the farmers in the mainland are dissatisfied with the emperor's actions, they will revolt, rebel against him, and become the emperor themselves.

That's why there are emperors, generals, and prime ministers. Would you rather have the seed?

But the descendants of the Anglo-Saxons have no such rebellious mentality at all.

Even though they have created a powerful country on the continent of North America, they still feel naturally inferior when facing the British royal family.

Therefore, when Great Britain instituted a new knighthood system, many top stars, players, rich people, etc., whether in London or New York, directly knelt down to the royal family.

It seems that after being knighted by the British royal family, they are as legitimate as they are and it is the glory of their family.

So in North America, there are many places where you can see British-style castles.

There is also such a scene in many Hollywood film and television works.

Frank is a typical example of this.

When you have money, in addition to pursuing material enjoyment, you will also pursue spiritual comfort.

But for many years, the so-called castle looked completely different and had no sense of history at all.

In this regard, every time I went to the capital for many years, I always felt that something was wrong.

The reconstruction project of the capital city wall has been proposed, but it is still under discussion.

However, the Tiananmen Gate Tower of the Forbidden City has been rebuilt.

As we all know, after Li Zicheng captured the capital, the Ming Dynasty became a thing of the past.

By the time of Shunzhi, in the seventh year of Shunzhi, Chengtianmen was rebuilt and renamed Tiananmen.

However, after more than 300 years of historical vicissitudes, although Tiananmen did not suffer large-scale damage during the war years, it was already crumbling due to lack of management and repair.

In addition, in 1966, the Xingtai earthquake affected the capital, and Tiananmen suffered another natural disaster.

So it had to be rebuilt.

To be honest, I discovered this during the National Day last year and during the Tiananmen Rostrum for many years.

Tiananmen no longer has the quaint and historical sense it had before.

"We have desert camels, Middle Eastern food, and beautiful beauties over there."

As soon as Basemu heard Duan Nian's words, he suddenly became anxious.

"We still have a lot of oil and gold. Yes, yes, yes, Mr. Xu, you can come to us to invest in minerals. I guarantee that your investment will be profitable."

Thinking of this, Basemu couldn't help but give a thumbs up for his wit.

In the Middle East, there are many oil exploration companies, all of which are foreign-funded groups.

For example, the current Aramco oil company is backed by four holding companies.

They are Chevron, Texaco, Exxon and Mobil.

The four of them are all very powerful capital in Bald Eagle, and they firmly control the oil production in the entire Middle East.

However, as a native of the royal family where Basham belongs, they must be dissatisfied with Chevron's greed.

After all, the first oil crisis that began in 1973 and the second oil crisis in the late 1970s were both the result of struggles between the two sides.

If you are interested for many years, then this is a good strategy to drive away wolves and tigers. (End of chapter)