Not long after, Patriarch Hong came and invited them to talk in the yard over there.
Zhou Yan and Liang Xiaonan carried small chairs and followed Hong Yongshun to the yard. When they got there, they saw that it was probably a barn in their village.
There were not too many people, but they were all very embarrassed.
Hong Yongshun called Zhou Yan and Liang Xiaonan into a room. Sitting here were Hong Yongshun and four men, his two sons Hong Guangming and Hong Yonggui, a cousin and a nephew.
"We decided to buy a water pump and a generator, but we didn't have that much money, so we exchanged things." Hong Yongshun said to Hong Guangming, "Go and get the chess records."
Hong Guangming immediately went to get it, and it was another iron box.
Hong Guangming handed it to Zhou Yan and said: "This is handed down from our ancestors. We don't know what its use is. To be honest, none of us can play chess. We don't know whether it is worth anything. We have been using it for several years."
Someone came to ask if there are any old items that my father has been hiding secretly. Can you see if you can exchange them for food, water pumps and generators?"
Zhou Yan glanced at it for a few times and handed it to Liang Xiaonan. It was not like he had never seen old objects before, so he really couldn't stand a chess book.
Liang Xiaonan put on his gloves and looked through the chess book. It was an ordinary chess book, even a bit clumsy. The handwriting was very sloppy and childish, and there was no "treasure" quality at all.
Hong Yongshun did something cunning once, so Liang Xiaonan would not believe him easily.
"Chief Hong, actually you don't need to exchange anything. When we come to Binhong this time, we have cooperated with the city. In two days, a ship of supplies will be sent directly to the city, and you will all receive it by then."
Liang Xiaonan returned the things and said, "We don't want your heirlooms either."
Hong Yongshun's old face was a little confused. When the supplies arrived in the city, let alone one ship, even 10 ships, it would be impossible to allocate one pump and one generator to their village.
How many districts, how many counties, how many towns, and how many villages are there in Binhong? A shipload of supplies cannot be distributed throughout the city. How can it be possible to distribute pumps and generators?
Patriarch Hong said helplessly: "I know you don't like it either. In fact, this chess book has been passed down from generation to generation. We have always felt that it is more like the exercises for our ancestors to learn calligraphy for the first time. But if it can be passed down from generation to generation, we think
There must be a reason for it."
Zhou Yan shook his head and said: "That's not necessarily true. Bai Jingqi from Baicao Hall actually put a piece of shit into a brocade box and pawned it for 2,000 taels of silver! For example, there have always been rumors that there is an emperor's tomb here, but so far he has only seen it.
Who can tell whether there are a few stone horses on the ground and whether there are coffins underground?"
Hong Yongshun's face was already ugly. Has this young man seen through all the tricks he has played?
He made up his mind and said: "I have hidden some things secretly, and they don't know about it. Bring your things and I'll give them to you."
The young man named Jiaxing came over and handed the chess book directly to Zhou Yan and said, "Brother, take it. It has been passed down from generation to generation by my ancestors. Whether it is a treasure or not, it has been more than 100 years.
It’s a toy, just take it and you’ll be doing us a favor.”
This young man talks quite well.
Zhou Yan handed the chess book to Liang Xiaonan. Liang Xiaonan took it and put it together with the iron box into his basket.
Hong Jiaxing is right. Regardless of whether this chess game is an antique or not, in terms of time, it is already an old thing.
And she felt that it was no coincidence that she received two chess books today!
Liang Xiaonan stood up, took Zhou Yan's hand and walked out, saying, "It's getting late, let's leave first. Tomorrow we will find a way to bring you the things you urgently need."
Hong Yongshun said he couldn't go out at night because it was too dangerous. They both said no. They had flashlights and were anxious to go back and transfer things to them.
Hong Jiaxing lit a torch to send them off, and Liang Xiaonan took out two emergency lights from the space. The strong light was like a small sun.
Hong Jiaxing said eagerly: "Can I have a look?"
Liang Xiaonan handed it to him. Hong Jiaxing looked over it over and over and couldn't put it down. Zhou Yan took it over and said, "Don't look at it, we have to hurry on."
Hong Jiaxing reluctantly gave the emergency light to Zhou Yan and watched the two of them walking towards the highway carrying the light.
Hong Jiaxing watched them walk away, returned to the yard, and said to Hong Yongshun enviously: "Grandpa, you don't know, their electric light is much brighter than a flashlight, it's like two little suns. I look like the headlights on the front of a big truck."
"
He gestured to Hong Yongshun, two square lights.
Hong Yongshun listened and said: "You are talking about emergency lights. I have seen them in the hospital before."
"Grandpa, let's get one too. With such a bright light, we will no longer have people disappear while walking at night."
A few days ago, his second uncle risked his life and went to the old house to find some food because his child was hungry, but he never came back.
Hong Yongshun was silent for a long time, and suddenly said to his son and cousin: "Tomorrow he will really bring the things to survive. I want to open the basement and give them the things."
Some geologists came here a few years ago and said that landslides were very common here and suggested that they relocate. The district wanted to break them up and spread them among the villages.
He didn't agree at the time, and he regrets that such a big disaster happened this year.
Moreover, he gradually became suspicious of the so-called guarding the tomb, because he also checked the history and various information on detecting the tomb. He felt that they might have been deceived by their ancestors.
Although it's hard to admit this, it's true.
It's just that Hong Yongshun couldn't tell all the people clearly, otherwise it would be unacceptable that they had persisted for so many generations and risked their lives for a joke.
He wanted to open the basement, exchange life-saving items for the whole village, and tell them that after the disaster is over, everyone should disperse. It doesn't matter if we are together or not, as long as our hearts are together.
Hong Guangming said: "Dad, how many things are there in the basement?"
The cousin also looked at him.
Hong Yongshun sighed and said: "There is really something, why didn't I take it out a long time ago? Historically, every family head has taken a look at the property in the basement after taking the key. In fact, there is no property anywhere, just to stabilize the people's hearts. Every family head has deposited it there.
Some, just in case the family encounters a catastrophe. My father is obsessed with calligraphy and painting. He didn’t save anything else. He only bought a lot of modern calligraphy and painting. It’s still young and it’s not popular to play with calligraphy and painting now. It’s just a pile of waste paper.”
Hong Yonggui said: "Then you opened the basement and gave these two young people these calligraphy and paintings?"
"No, our ancestors really had a treasure, a cat's eye stone." Even Hong Yongshun didn't have the confidence to say this. Who would care about a cat's eye stone!
Zhou Yan and Liang Xiaonan walked a while, and Liang Xiaonan pulled Zhou Yan into the space. This is the most comfortable place, neither cold nor hot, and the air is fresh and sweet.
Liang Xiaonan cooked a table of food himself, and the two of them had a good meal and then began to study the two chess books.
To be honest, I really can’t see anything special between the two chess books. Liang Xiaonan doesn’t understand Go, but Zhou Yan is very proficient in it. He read the two chess books over and over several times.
"The chess records are indeed exquisite, especially the Tianji book. The chess moves are very subtle."
"I'm not interested in chess records. I just want to see why they made such big tricks in a chess record? I looked there today and didn't see any big tombs or underground palaces underground, so is this chess record the same?
Deceiving people?"
Liang Xiaonan threw the book aside, but accidentally dropped the book in the basin where Zhou Yan washed his face.
Zhou Yan hurriedly fished out the book, and sadly spread out the pages page by page to throw away the water.
After turning over and over, he shouted out loud: "Xiao Nan, come and take a look."
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