Rebirth 2002: Chic Life

Chapter 505
After Wu Dong became famous, there was one thing he had to do when he returned home in glory.

In ancient times, you had to do this with great fanfare, otherwise you would be poked in the back. In modern times, no one says no, but you'd better not be too ostentatious.

If Wu Dong's family doesn't go today, it will be difficult to find time for free activities later.

……

After rushing out of the fishing road, Hongqi Village is in sight.

"Xiao Liang, please stop, I will change with Lao Wu, and you will follow the car in front after a while, and Lao Wu will follow them after that, and you will follow my instructions."

Liang Zhong nodded slightly. He didn't like to talk to begin with and rarely talked to Wu Dong's parents. It was too embarrassing to address them.

Wu Dong called him Brother Zhong, so he had to call Wu Dong's parents Uncle and Aunt. It was too bad for him so he simply didn't say anything.

The car protecting them kept following them from a distance. Wu Dong noticed it, and Liang Zhong also noticed it a long time ago, so he used this section of the fishing road to get rid of them.

The administrative regulations in some places are different in each place, and some things are not unique to 2023, but are only magnified by the Internet and self-media.

Firecrackers are not allowed to be set off because they pollute the environment, pose a fire hazard, and affect residents’ rest; dragon boat races are not allowed because they are unsafe; graves are leveled in some places because they want to protect cultivated land; paper burning is prohibited in some places because they are also said to pollute the environment; and In some places, ancestral halls need to be demolished...

Everything has two sides, if you only talk about the bad side, that's it, cough cough cough.

It is now 2004. In this administrative region, ancestor worship is regarded as a feudal superstition and civilized worship is "advocated".

"Advocacy", if you follow it, it is advocacy; if you don't obey, then I'll be embarrassed, hahaha.

Of course Wu Dong is not afraid, but there are some things that you don’t need to offend, and your non-publicity related personnel will naturally pretend not to notice.In fact, the executors themselves also worshiped ancestors, and then they gradually canceled it. It seemed that it had always been in the regulations, but no one mentioned it and no one implemented it, so it was completely liberalized in name only.

……

Liang Zhong drove the car and followed the broken jeep in front of him for more than ten miles. Although the dirt roads in the countryside were uneven, they were much better than the nominal roads.

Four people got out of the car in front, an old man, two middle-aged people, and a young man.

They unloaded bags of things, gold and silver treasures, and countless money from the car. Wu Dong and Wu Gang got out of the car. Liang Zhong also wanted to help, but Ye Fen stopped him, "Xiao Liang, don't move, let's wait here." That’s it.”

"Oh!" Liang Zhong agreed lightly, turned off the fire and took a few sips of water from the water glass.

"Hey, Xiaoliang, are you unwilling to speak or are you embarrassed to speak?"

Liang Zhong smiled sarcastically, "I don't know what to call him."

"Hi! Just call me eldest sister, call me eldest sister Ye, and call his father eldest brother Wu. Isn't it just a title? I thought it was no big deal. Hahaha, if you are really a relative, there's nothing you can do about it. I'm still a kid. When I was a girl, there was an old man in the village who still had to call me aunt. If it wasn’t for blood relatives, you could call me whatever you felt comfortable with, and you and Wu Dong would call me whatever you want.”

Liang Zhong nodded happily. "good!"

"You are from Hu Jian, right?"

"Well, yes, I later married a wife from the northwest and stayed in the northwest. If the child hadn't been sick, I think it would be nice to have a normal family there even though it's a little desolate."

Ye Fen glanced at Liang Zhong slyly, "Li Ran introduced you. To be honest, you were a bit hesitant, right?"

"It's okay!" Liang Zhong said modestly, and his eyes flashed brightly.

"If you encounter two or three wild wolves, you..." Ye Fen tried.

"Whoosh!" "Pa", a willow tree as thick as a bowl was broken at the waist seven or eight meters away!

A coin bounced back and "flowed" between Liang Zhong's fingers.

Ye Fen clapped her hands and laughed, "Hahaha, let me tell you, those who always fall asleep without doing anything every day must be the masters of the world."

Liang Zhong scratched his head, "We are in the age of firearms, so there is no point in practicing this. I originally used a throwing knife, but I had to use this because I often go out with Wu Dong and have to fly."

"What about someone with a gun?"

"With two or three people, I will definitely win within ten steps. If there are more or more people, I won't be able to move."

Ye Fen knew that he had reservations. He had a pocket of coins jingling in his pocket.

...On October 2004, 10, at about 7:3 pm, in the north, in the wasteland, there was a row of tree belts in the direction Wu Dong and the others went, and other places were obviously desertified.

Seeing Liang Zhong looking at the surrounding environment, Ye Fen explained: "On the saline-alkali land, nothing grows, and the grass is getting less and less. There is a village further ahead that is my hometown, the Ye family shack, where my ancestors settled when they broke into Guandong. over there."

"Is there anyone else in the village?"

"Twenty years ago, there were only three or five households left in the village. When the old people were gone, the village was completely deserted... Hey! When I was a child, desertification was not so serious. In those years, I was starving. There were wild vegetables and shepherd's purses all over the mountains and plains." With one basket, no one in our village starved to death."

Liang Zhong asked doubtfully: "Are we going to give it to you at that moment...?"

Ye Fen said calmly: "No, go and pay Wu Dong's wish."

Liang Zhong asked confusedly: "Is there a temple inside?"

……

Smoke can be seen in the distance, but the Wu family has not returned yet.

Ye Fen looked solemn and said, "This kid Wu Dong is so stubborn. He was willing to listen to me when he was a child. But when he got to high school, he stopped letting me talk anymore, saying that what I said was all feudal superstition.

What a bastard, I am his mother, I don’t even tell anyone else, I am just trying to trick my son. "

There used to be a small temple in this place. It was a square place with no one watching. It has been there for as long as I can remember. Now I imagine it is like the Monkey King in Journey to the West, but there is no flagpole behind it. "

When I was a little girl in the 60s, a group of people from the archaeological team came with instruments. At that time, there were brigade cadres following them to prevent us villagers from getting close..."

Liang Zhong felt something was wrong with Ye Fen's expression, so he interrupted: "Wu Dong seems to have written a book on tomb robbing, and it said that he was from a family of tomb robbers, hahaha."

"It's nonsense. The old Wu family is a farmer. My father still knows his grandfather. If there is a inheritance, it is from my side. Our Ye family is a Feng Shui family, but it is passed on from male to female. My younger brother, who is 18, secretly He went to serve in the army. My father died and he didn’t come back..."

"It's over there, where the small temple used to be." Ye Fen pointed.

"We in the Ye family all know that outsiders just don't believe it. When I talk about Old Wu, I treat it like a story. Wu Dong says it's superstitious. I got angry and stopped talking about it.

Five or six of those experts went to investigate at ten in the morning and left at two in the afternoon. For three days in a row, my dad knew there was a problem.They only enter the temple at noon, morning or evening, but the children in our village do not have any taboos. "

"I don't know what my dad did. Anyway, the group of them ran away on the fourth day, saying that they saw a woman in red."

Liang Zhong listened with great interest, he had been among the dead, and he didn't care about anything.

"Actually, people in our village have long known that there are two foxes near the temple, one is red and the other is white, so what kind of women do they have?

This place used to have excellent Feng Shui, but it was destroyed by those people. After three days, our village declined.

Hahaha, why am I even more timid when it comes to talking about nostalgia? I haven’t talked about it for many years, but I’m here to talk about it with you today. "

Liang Zhong laughed, "It's okay, I like to listen!"

Ye Fen said happily: "As long as you like to listen, just listen to it as a story. Nowadays, everything is about science. In fact, I can't explain it clearly myself.

Later, when I went to play, I could no longer see the two foxes. At that time, I was 16 and not studying at home, herding cows, and was the child king in the village. When I was taking a nap in the temple, I felt like I had stepped on the air and fell into a pit. In the pit, two foxes were in the pit, and there was a bead in there. I didn't know why I took the bead and swallowed it. "

"The two foxes didn't rob you?" Liang Zhong said with a smile.

"The two fox furs looked bald. The red ones didn't look like red and the white ones didn't look like white. I don't know if they were fighting or if it was done by the previous group.

I finished eating at that time, and the two foxes didn't come to grab it.I was a little embarrassed and promised to build a temple for them in the future. "

Liang Zhong laughed, "You dare to say anything!"

Ye Fen said solemnly: "Only after I woke up did I realize it was a dream, and I didn't get any benefits, so I just let it go. Later, when I gave birth to Wu Dong, he had a round birthmark on his lower back.

He came back from Jinling to celebrate the New Year, and his birthmark was gone! "

Liang Zhong, "It's normal, it's developed!"

(End of this chapter)