Under Chen Yigen's introduction, Chen Defa met with some brothers of the same clan one by one, recalling what happened when he was young together.

The group of old men seemed to have returned to their youth, making fun of each other and telling about their childhood scandals, making Old Man Chen Defa laugh happily.

The eldest lady had always lived in Qingfeng Village before, and she knew more people. The old sisters, young sisters, and relatives of her parents all came, which made the old lady cry excitedly.

Even the sisters Chen Shufen and Chen Shuqin have been wiping their eyes. She has been living in Qingfeng Village at the beginning, and she still has some memories.

Actually, I feel embarrassed to say that Qingfeng Village has not changed much in the past 35 years after the liberation. The rural areas of Yuezhou have changed a lot, and we have to wait for a few more years.

It was not until the goods were truly flowing freely that the people dared to go to the city to make money, and they had money to build small buildings.

Decades later, the "luxury houses" in rural Zhijiang Province are famous throughout the country.

The first thing to do when returning to the village was of course to worship ancestors. This time, Chen Xia paid the money, regardless of the impact, and used the most solemn ceremony of the ten major sacrifices.

The so-called "Ten Great Sacrifices" means the grand sacrifice of the ancestors of the whole clan every 10 years.

At this time, all the descendants of the Chen family would come back wherever they were. Major matters were finalized at this clan meeting. If the descendants of the Chen family from other places had new juniors, they would also enter the genealogy on this day.

Therefore, there are quite a lot of sacrifices for "Ten Great Sacrifices". Three animals are not something that ordinary people can do in this era. This is a whole cattle, sheep and pig. In addition, other sacrifices are piled up like mountains, and countless burn papers are burned.

It cost Chen Xia almost 3,000 yuan, which was almost his three-year salary. So after the rural clan forces were disbanded, it can be said that it was the only one in Yuezhou.

If it were 10 years earlier, all the Chen family would have been arrested to go to Haitu to build land and make labor reforms.

Chen Yigen also took the initiative this time, but took a lot of risks. After all, this is a feudal superstition.

The Chen family in Xiangjiang knelt in the ancestral hall very devoutly, officially recognized their ancestors, and made an exception to include the names of Chen Shufen and Chen Shuqin in the genealogy. Originally, the daughter did not write them.

This is also the reason why Chen Defa favored Chen Xia so much. In the eyes of the older generation, his daughter has no status and does not even have a basic person, as if only his sons and grandchildren are their biological children.

People in later generations may not understand the meaning of "recognizing ancestors and returning to ancestors". For the elderly, it means that they can enter the ancestral tomb after death, gain recognition from ancestors, and enjoy incense sacrifices from their descendants.

If you cannot recognize your ancestors, you will be a lonely ghost after death. This old man with a very strong clan concept is absolutely unbearable pain.

As soon as the ancestor worship ceremony ended, Chen Defa was completely relieved.

He went home, but he really went home, and his soul could rest in peace if he died.

After leaving the ancestral hall, everyone went to the grave of Grandpa Chen Xia, and his dead grandparents and parents were buried together.

After Chen Xia got rich, he specially cleaned up the surrounding weeds and made some public tables with cement, so it didn't look so desolate.

The graves in rural Yuezhou are not like in the north, and do not use soil to build graves. They are built with bluestone slabs into rectangular boxes, placed in fields or on mountains, and then sealed after putting the coffin in.

So you can see rows of rectangular stone graves next to the villages in the 1980s and 1990s, arranged neatly, very spectacular and terrifying.

Chen Defa slid on his parents' grave, touching one with one hand, lowered his head and said nothing for a long time, as if he was whispering to his parents.

Chen Yigen was telling him the scene after he left. After all, Chen Xia had never experienced it and was not very clear.

After Chen Defa's family escaped, the old man Chen and the old lady who sold the house could only live in the ancestral hall with their younger son's family. Later, they built a few thatched houses before they could settle down.

Moreover, in order not to let the Chen family be implicated, Chen Defa's name was removed from the family tree in advance, and no one mentioned this person anymore, which indirectly protected Chen Decai's family.

Because his family was poor and his land was sold, Chen Decai had to help others work as a small worker. Later, after returning to the countryside after land reform, only the couple worked and earned work points, but they had to support two elderly people and three children, so they couldn't even have enough food.

Chen Defa's father and mother could only hide their worries about their son's family in their hearts, and until they died, they could only whisper: "Defa, Defa."

Because Chen Decai's family was so poor that they could not afford to buy coffins when the two old men died, they still had to pay for money to buy a few bluestone slabs and wrap them in a straw mat before they were buried.

Chen Defa heard about these things after he left, especially when he heard that his parents didn't even have a coffin after their death, he started to cry like a child.

"Dad, mother, brother, I'm sorry for you, I've made you suffer all the hardships for me."

Even the two Chen Shufen and Chen Shuqin were also in tears. After all, grandparents loved them very much when they were young, but they did not even deliver them to them.

I never thought that after their family left, the life of the grandparents and uncle in Qingfeng’s hometown was so sad.

At least for both of them, the old man couldn't even have enough food, which was really a horrible thing. He just felt so uncomfortable.

Even Dai Ning understood why his father-in-law insisted on leaving half of his property for Chen Xia's family. If it weren't for Grandpa Chen Xia's family to sell his house and land to make up for the travel expenses, I'm afraid his father-in-law's family would be in danger.

After returning from the grave sweeping, Qingfeng Village was already lively. Chen Xia paid for the money and invited the whole village to have a meal. Of course, Chen Defa nominally invited the whole village to have a meal.

Uh, this sentence sounds weird.

There is also a happy event for the Chen family. Chen Shengrong, who was pregnant with ectopic pregnancy while playing with fire, finally got married to Song Yulan, who changed her original surname.

Chen Defa was also very happy that he could catch up with the Chen family's children getting married. He drank two more glasses at the wedding that night and gave the two newlyweds a big red envelope of 500 yuan.

This made the villagers around envious. The 500 yuan red envelope, and the villagers' red envelopes are at most 1 yuan or 2 yuan at this time.

This made both of the two in-laws, Chen Guoxian and Chen Guojian, so excited that they were so silly. The people in Xiangjiang were generous in their actions. As well as Chen Xia, they were all super rich people. It seems that Chen Defa's branch is going to be very special.

People from Yuezhou are smart and can see the situation clearly. If the relatives in Xiangjiang cannot hold the thighs, just hold Chen Xia's thighs.

They have heard that Qingfeng Pharmaceutical Factory will expand production after the New Year, so don’t they recruit more workers?
Chapter completed!