But it's just a family separation. If the family finds a way and makes money in the future, those people will definitely join them again, so they have to find a way to distance themselves from that family.
In this era, being an official requires the support of the family, so Yang Zhengsong has no intention of leaving the family.
When Yang Zhengsong brought his two sons to the patriarch's house, all the elders in the village were drinking tea at the ancestral hall.
"My son, Zhengsong, brought his sons Jinwen and Xiuwen to pay New Year's greetings to all the elders." Yang Zhengsong, after putting down his things with his two sons, knelt down and paid New Year's greetings to the elders sitting at the top.
"Okay, okay, get up, everyone, get up. Your family has just been separated, and your family is not well off. We have accepted the gift, and you can take the things back with you!" The patriarch happily accepted their gifts, but he was not prepared to keep the things.
How were their families separated? Everyone saw it and wanted to help them in their most difficult time.
"Grandpa Patriarch, these are not good things. My mother fried some peanuts at home, just for the elders to eat and play with while chatting. The eggs here are from the pheasants I caught in the mountains. Little
Si's health has recovered. My mother said that she usually relies on the help of the elders in the village, so it's just a few wild eggs. It's nothing." Yang Xiuwen took out the melon seeds and peanuts wrapped by his mother.
Fill all the plates on the table.
Because the melon seeds here are usually fried by themselves, Ms. Lu Qingshang didn't dare to get the five-flavored or cream-flavored ones. All she got were the original ones, so that the smell would not be so strong.
"You kid, you have to be careful when you go up the mountain. You can handle less things and don't get yourself hurt. Do you understand?" The patriarch saw that he did not stop his movements. These things are not valuable. In autumn, there are many things on the mountain.
Yes, he didn't refuse.
Besides, all the elders of the clan are here, so they don't have to go to the homes of other clan relatives.
The Yang family has a reunion dinner every year on the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year. Each family takes what they have, and then comes to the cafeteria to cook and eat together.
The sons and grandsons of the patriarch's family are relatively promising, so every year the family will raise a pig, kill it at the end of the year, and eat pig-killing rice in the afternoon, and the whole village will come. After that, the elderly and widowed people in the village can get
Half a catty of meat, the rest is reserved for the reunion dinner on the afternoon of the first day of the new year.
Usually, when children in the village go to the mountains to collect pig grass, they will send some to the patriarch's house to feed the pig. This has been a tradition that has not changed in Yangjia Village for 20 years.
"Grandpa, the clan leader that I know, look at it. The eggs of pheasants are not as big as the eggs we raise at home. Each one is just a little bit. Let grandma and aunts cook them for the children of the clan to eat tonight, boy.
, If you don’t have other skills, it’s okay to go shopping in the mountains to exchange for something. Grandpa, the patriarch, just keep these things.” Yang Xiuwen knew what the old patriarch was thinking, but their family really didn’t have anything else to take out. They are going to do it today.
It’s impossible to have a reunion dinner without bringing something.
The clan has taken good care of them. If they don't take things, some people will have other ideas. It would be bad if they followed their example.
Of course the clan leader also knew this, so he accepted it in front of everyone, thinking that he would subsidize it privately when the time came, and they would order something else.
He felt even more at ease, which was why he paid special attention to this family because there were so many people in difficulty in the family.
They are close relatives, also because Yang Laosan is very good at life and never does anything difficult for him.
"Grandpa Patriarch, the autumn harvest is not going well this year. I go up the mountain more often. There is a situation that I find very strange. You are more knowledgeable than me. I would like to ask if there is any special meaning?" Yang Xiuwen has known since then.
After the drought, I have been thinking about how I can help these villagers?
"Oh, Xiuwen boy, tell me what you have to say and let everyone listen." The patriarch knew that this boy had followed the old hunter up the mountains and down the river since he was a child, so he knew more about it. This was the first time he heard that this boy was in trouble.
"Isn't there a bad harvest last year? Many things in the mountains don't go out. When I entered the mountains, I found that all the prey had gone in. There were not many left on the outside and they were all skinny. There were many trees in the mountains.
They have all dried up. There is less and less water in the pools, and some of the shallower ones have dried up!" Yang Xiuwen told the clan leader and others about the situation in the child's memory mountain.
The more the clan leader listened, the more solemn his expression became. Generally, a catastrophe would definitely occur in this situation. Every time a catastrophe occurs, animals will predict it before humans do.
"Is it still like this until you go in before the Chinese New Year?" the clan leader asked with a frown.
"Yes, it's even more serious. Does Grandpa Patriarch know about the water pool at Yezhu Slope?" Yang Xiuwen nodded and turned to look at everyone, who all looked solemn.
"I know, that pool is very deep. I went there to play when I was a child. During the driest time, there was no drying there." The patriarch is a native of this place, and Yezhu Slope is where he played when he was a child.
"It's almost dry, and the remaining water hasn't come up to the bottom of the foot plate when I step on it. Before the Chinese New Year, my little girl had a fever, so I thought about going there to see if there were any fish? There was a thin layer of ice on it.
When he cut open the ice and reached down, there was only a little bottom left in the water. Not to mention fish, there were not even any fry." Yang Xiuwen learned from his memory that the child had been worried ever since he went to that pool.
But because he was so busy with things at home, he almost forgot about it.
"What? Are you actually going to do it? Xiuwen boy, are you sure?" The patriarch stood up so excitedly that he grabbed Yang Xiuwen's shoulders and looked at his face seriously.
"Yes, Grandpa Patriarch can ask two uncles to come with me to see it. It hasn't snowed very much in the past two days, and there is only a thin layer of ice on it." Yang Xiuwen nodded solemnly, he must
Give the family members a heads up.
"Lao Liu, Lao Qi, you are going to take Xiu Wen with you now. You must take a closer look. This is related to the fate of the family." The patriarch turned to look at the two young men who were setting up the stove and waved.
Let them come over.
"I got it, Uncle Patriarch." Although these two look young, they are senior. One is twenty and the other is twenty-three. Yang Xiuwen has to call them uncles.
The two men picked up the machetes in the ancestral hall and followed Yang Xiuwen out.
Now most of the clan members were in the ancestral hall. Everyone craned their necks, waiting for the three of them to come back. They were no longer interested in chatting. They just waited eagerly.