The years of reselling the haunted house

Chapter 299
The old man stared at the small stone, his body trembling a little.

The people behind kept urging the old man: "Patriarch, hurry up...you should take a look...what are you doing in a daze?"

It turned out that the old man was actually the head of the village.

I know that in some remote areas of our country, this patriarchal responsibility system is still followed.Due to the inconvenient transportation in ancient times, it was common for families with the same surname to live in the same area, and it was common for four or five generations to live under the same roof. A clan may be a natural village.Families generally have ancestral halls, and the ancestral halls have "ancestral rules", that is, family law. To manage family affairs, there must be a patriarch. The patriarch is the most powerful and prestigious person in the family.
It's just that with the advent of the new era, a village is rarely composed of people from the same clan.So this old management system also died out.

But in some remote areas, this system is still followed.That's because the information is blocked there, the transportation is inconvenient, and people live together all year round. This kind of patriarchal management is the most effective.

This seems to be the case in Shoushantun. The old patriarch took the small stone in my hand with trembling hands, and first looked at it carefully.Shaking his hands again, he took out something from himself.

I saw that it was also a small stone of similar shape, also dark, with stubble in the middle.

The old patriarch put the two pebbles together, and the two stubbles fit together naturally.

The old patriarch laughed loudly: "50 years, 50 years, I said that Shoushan will not forget us. After 50 years, he finally sent his descendants back... Hahaha..."

Those people cheered again, and several people were so happy that they shed tears.They kept wiping their tears with the back of their hands, but their faces were filled with extremely satisfied smiles.This is weeping with joy.

The old patriarch waved his hand, and those people stopped cheering.

The old patriarch stepped forward, with a smile on his face, and said to me: "Your name is Li Yang, right? My name is Xu Changhe, and I'm a brother of your grandfather. You have to call me Grandpa Xu, that guard... ...Your grandfather, have you ever mentioned me?"

To be honest, I know that our family moved from other places to the current old house decades ago, but I have never heard grandpa mention what happened decades ago, let alone Xu Changhe.

But when I saw Xu Changhe, I looked forward to it, but I couldn't bear to tell the truth.After all, we came here to beg them to settle me down, and making them unhappy would naturally do us no good.

I nodded: "I've said it before, my grandpa often mentioned you, saying that he has a brother who changed his life, he was loyal and courageous, and righteous to the sky. He also said that if I come, I will find Grandpa Xu. He will take good care of you." mine."

I said in my heart, if you wear it thousands of times and flatter you, let me say something nice first, there is nothing wrong with it.

Unexpectedly, Xu Changhe rolled his eyes after hearing this, and asked me, "Your grandfather, did you really say that?"

"Yes, that's exactly what I said."

At this time, someone shouted from behind: "Why doesn't your grandfather come by himself?"

I said lightly, "My grandfather passed away a few years ago."

"Passed away?" Xu Changhe nodded, looked at me and said, "Your grandfather is right. If you come to Shoushantun, we will definitely take good care of you. After all, this village would have ceased to exist without your grandfather. So this The entire Shoushantun belongs to your grandfather. You are the owner of this place when you come. I will settle you down first. "

With that said, Xu Changhe wanted to take us away.

I hesitated for a moment, and pointed to the black stone in Xu Changhe's hand.

Xu Changhe was stunned for a moment, and quickly divided the stone in his hand into two again, and handed one of them to me.

It is something left by my grandfather, and I must cherish it.

Xu Changhe took the opportunity of handing me the stone, approached me, and said in a very low voice: "Here, don't believe anyone else's words except mine."

I was taken aback, what does this mean?
After Xu Changhe said this, he immediately returned to normal, beckoning us to go with him and arrange a place to stay.

I had no choice but to take Pang Dahai and follow Xu Changhe along the road in the village.

The rest of the people also followed closely.

Xu Changhe turned around and said to those people, "What? Even I don't believe it?"

One of those people looked a little younger, but he should be in his 50s.He smiled at Xu Changhe and said, "Patriarch, it's not that I don't believe you, but to abide by the rules left by Master Shan. There are people in the family, no matter what we do, someone from our family must be present."

Xu Changhe sneered: "When Lord Shoushan left here, you were still a little kid..."

The man also smiled: "I was a hairy kid at the time, but I remembered what Shoushan Lord said. The patriarch won't forget it?"

The man had a pair of triangular eyes, a face with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, and three mouse whiskers. He didn't look like a kind person.Moreover, the tone of the speech was neither humble nor overbearing, soft and hard, as if deliberately opposing Xu Changhe.

Xu Changhe nodded: "Okay, if you want to follow, just follow."

With that said, Xu Changhe waved his hands at us and continued to move forward.Behind us followed those few people, never leaving each other.

Our group, led by Xu Changhe, walked through the village.

This time, the passing villagers all cast strange eyes when they saw the patriarch leading us.

The old man with triangular eyes in the back kept saying hello to the surrounding villagers: "Folks, the grandson of Lord Shou Shan is here. Our hard days are coming to an end..."

The villagers were not as excited as he was when they heard this, and they all acted very dull. Only a few raised their eyebrows, but they didn't speak.

And these words confuse me even more.What do I have to do with them when I come here?Why would their hard days come to an end when I came?

And it seems that my grandfather played an extremely important role here. People here are very awed when they mention my grandfather, and call him Shoushan Lord.You must know what they mean by listening to what they said. Grandpa left here 50 years ago. At that time, Grandpa was still a young man. They can call him Grandpa. Obviously, Grandpa's prestige here has reached an extremely high level.

The patriarch Xu Changhe seemed to be very tired of the old man with triangular eyes, he turned his head and stared at the old man from time to time, but the old man didn't take it seriously at all, Xu Changhe had no choice but to turn back and lead us on our way.

The area of ​​this Shoushantun is not very large. After walking on the village road for less than 10 minutes, several green brick and tile houses appeared in front of it.

(End of this chapter)