Needless to say, Zhou Yan, the eldest grandson of the eldest family member, is clearly recorded in the genealogy.
This place is far away from the city, and people have moved away, so there is very little right and wrong.
The ancestral hall has basically been preserved as it was, because Zhou Hanqing moved the entire Zhou family from the village with great fanfare, so many of the memorial tablets were also moved. None of the memorial tablets from Grandpa Zhou Hanqing’s generation are displayed outside.
Two grandpas surnamed Gu brought Zhou Yan and Liang Xiaonan to the ancestral hall. In the small room, only the memorial tablets of Zhou Hanqing and Yu Fanghua were placed on the incense table. Both grandpas Gu said that no one had been there.
If someone asked, they would say that they are old and unwilling to move away, so they would create a memorial place for the master and his wife to guard.
I will not tell anyone that the real tombs of Zhou Hanqing and Yu Fanghua are actually here.
Grandpa Gu took Zhou Yan and Liang Xiaonan away from the ancestral hall and went halfway up the mountain. Finally, they saw the legendary Zhou family's ancestral grave.
There is a green hill with several chair-like tombs. The top of the mountain behind the cemetery has bulges on both sides, while the middle part is sunken inward, resembling an incense burner.
This is the legendary incense burner layout. If ancestors are buried here, their descendants will have smooth fortunes and prosperous fortunes.
According to what Zhou Hai said, they were looking for the neem tree, and the grave under the neem tree belonged to Zhou Hanqing and Yu Fanghua.
However, when they found the neem tree, the ground was clean, with no tombstones, no tombs, nothing.
Fifty meters away from that location, there is a stone tablet less than three feet tall. The words on it are extremely simple: Quiet.
Liang Xiaonan and Zhou Yan searched mentally at the same time, and sure enough, there was nothing under the tombstone.
At the neem tree, the two of them regained their strength, and immediately saw a masonry-topped tomb more than three meters underground, two black coffins, and two stone tablets standing on the heads of the coffins.
Embedded on a tombstone is a black and white photo of Zhou Hanqing, wearing a suit and slicked back hair. He looks more like a scholar than a businessman.
Another stone tablet has the inscription "The Tomb of My Wife Yu's Fanghua", and the person who erected the tablet is Zhou Hanqing.
The photo on the tombstone is a photo of Yu Fanghua when she was young. She has deep eye sockets, a delicate nose, an almost perfect face shape, and a strong bookish air. From the perspective of Liang Xiaonan, an earthling, this appearance "makes her debut" in no time.
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This place is indeed inaccessible. There are no real estate and tourist attractions developed everywhere like in her previous life. This small and declining fishing village is not much different from the wilderness.
This is probably the main reason why Guo Acai and some caring people did not pay attention to this place.
The two kowtowed on the ground in front of the tombs of Zhou Hanqing and Yu Fanghua.
Zhou Yan held Liang Xiaonan's hand and said solemnly: "Grandpa, grandma, this is my partner, her name is Liang Xiaonan. I will show it to you old people today. Please accept her, like her, protect her, and bless her."
He said again: "Grandma, we plan to take away your dowry first, because Aunt Guo Acai is here, and they will find it sooner or later. We have a secret space that the world cannot find, so we take it away first.
We will not waste or spoil it, and when the time is right, I will take it out and share it equally with cousin Chang'an, or I will give him an equal amount of money."
As for Zhou Weiyu, forget it, just ask your own grandma to divide the property!
The dowry is in the basement of their ancestral hall.
"In those days, it was popular for wealthy families in Yue to marry their daughters. It was a real ten-mile wedding for grandma to marry grandpa. Grandma's marriage became a strange event that people in Yue and Modu talked about."
Zhou Yan said to Liang Xiaonan seriously, "Legend has it that grandma has a lot of dowry, so Guo Acai always wanted to find it before us."
They held a precise memorial ceremony at the cemetery. Two old men surnamed Gu took them to the cemetery and stopped talking, watching from a distance.
In fact, they were also observing Zhou Yan.
There are so many unscrupulous descendants, and they don’t know what kind of person Zhou Yan is.
Seeing how accurately they found the addresses of Zhou Hanqing and Yu Fanghua's coffins, they were very surprised.
This shows that Zhou Yan is indeed Zhou Hanqing's grandson, and his wife's biological grandson, not Guo Acai's grandson.
After the two paid tribute, they went back.
"Grandpa Gu, this is my partner, Liang Xiaonan." Zhou Yan introduced Liang Xiaonan first to prevent the two old men from distrusting Liang Xiaonan and afraid to say something.
But Liang Xiaonan still found an excuse and walked away. She and Zhou Yan were not married. These old men can guard the Zhou family's ancestral hall for decades. In addition to being extremely respectful and grateful, they must also take their thoughts into consideration.
Women should stop asking about men's important affairs, she understands!
In fact, to put it bluntly, she didn't want Zhou Yan to be in trouble.
"Master, the graves of the master and his wife are here. Except for the two of us and Zhou Hai, no one else knows." The old man said, "The master told us before he went that he didn't want to be buried with Guo Acai, so
Leave the empty tomb on Zhouqian Island to Guo Acai!"
Zhou Yan didn't say anything. In the old days, it was normal for rich people to have several wives and concubines, but Guo Acai had great ambitions and wanted to replace Yu Fanghua. He even thought about moving Yu Fanghua's coffin so that she could be next to Zhou Hanqing.
Everyone in the clan disagreed, so in the end she took a lot of money and demanded that she be treated equally with Yu Fanghua.
The clan reluctantly agreed, and two identical coffins were placed on either side of Zhou Hanqing's coffin, except that the clan elders secretly placed an extra brick under Yu Fanghua's coffin.
Even if it's an empty coffin, just an empty coffin for show, they still want Yu Fanghua and her step-sibling Guo Acai to have a sense of dignity.
In other words, only Zhou Hai and Rong Yongtai know where the property is, and only two brothers Zhou Hai and the Gu family know where the cemetery is.
Rong Yongtai is dead, and Zhou Hai and the Gu brothers are about to die of old age.
So these old men are in a hurry! The things must be handed over to the rightful owner as soon as possible.
Zhou Yan came out of the cemetery and said to the two old people: "Grandpa Gu, I will go with you to your home."
The poverty of the two Grandpa Gu's families is beyond imagination. It can be said that they are completely destitute.
Zhou Yan took Liang Xiaonan's hand and said, "Xiaonan, I want to give them some food."
Liang Xiaonan thought the same way. Several loyal servants consciously guarded their deceased master for decades. Their best time and years were spent in this lonely and desolate place. This affection is as heavy as a mountain.
"Whatever you want, I will listen to you." Liang Xiaonan said, anyway, there is nothing missing in her space. Even if there is something missing, she can make it in time.
According to Zhou Yan's request, Liang Xiaonan released a truck from the space and put 20 sacks of rice, 10 sacks of flour, corn, sweet potatoes, soybeans and various grains. It also packed a lot of vegetables, dried noodles, etc.
of a big truck.
When they left and returned, Gu Da and Gu Gu did not expect that Zhou Yan and Liang Xiaonan carried all the food into the stone house with their hands and shoulders.
Liang Xiaonan thought about the seafood in the space and saw that they didn't even have a large extra vat in the yard, so she discussed with Zhou Yan to put out a few wine jars and put seafood and river fresh food in them.
There are a lot of fish in their space. If Zhou Yan could build a pond, he would want to build a seafood pond for them and put more fish and shrimps in it.
Before leaving, Zhou Yan gave each of them 2,000 yuan. He decided that from now on, he would cover all the living necessities of the two old people and send them food every year. When they got older, they would be able to live happily ever after.
Before leaving, Liang Xiaonan left them clothes, steamed buns and sesame cakes, and steaming Wanjia hanging stove duck.
There are a lot of things that can be given, but the weather is hot in summer and if you give too much, they will go bad.
The two old men couldn't help crying. The master and the young master are both kind and righteous.
After delivering supplies to the two elderly people of the Gu family, Zhou Yan took Liang Xiaonan to the ancestral hall again.
Zhou Hai said that Yu Fanghua’s dowry was buried under the ancestral hall by Zhou Hanqing during his lifetime.