Chapter 271 The Third Rune
Chapter 271 The Third Rune
Fang Dahai took the box and naturally understood what Mr. Qin meant.
Only the village chiefs of all generations know the location of this secret room in the ancestral hall.
When Mr. Qin handed him the key, it was obvious that he had passed the position of village chief to him.
When he proposed to marry Qin Feng before, there were rumors in the village that he just wanted to inherit the position of village chief and covet the money of the village chief's family.
I didn't explain anything, I just did what I was supposed to do.
If he hadn't really loved Qin Feng to his core, he would never have wanted to have anything to do with the village chief's family.
The village chief has no sons, only two daughters.
The younger sister is marrying far away, and the eldest brother’s man will definitely come to inherit the position of village chief in the future.
Even if it wasn't me who married Qin Feng at that time, no matter who it was, I would have been gossiped about.
Fortunately, the village chief was a good man and did not let himself be a son-in-law. Instead, he followed the formal marriage process and married Qin Feng home in a formal ceremony.
When the child was born, the village chief generously let the child take his surname.
Moreover, after marriage, the village head and his wife never took sides and treated him like their own son.
Just for this reason, I am very grateful to the village chief. We should treat them like our own parents and be filial to them.
Qin Feng took Fang Dahai to the secret room of the ancestral hall. As soon as they opened the door, a musty odor hit their noses.
Although a white snake was placed inside to guard it, the time was too long and the food had already rotted and was inedible.
Only the valuables and old objects sealed in the stone grids managed to avoid serious damage.
Two people moved the things out and piled them all in the middle of the ancestral hall's courtyard.
It was not until noon that all the things were moved out, and then the villagers were called over to distribute them.
In the past, when the village received medical treatment from outside the village, the village chief would collect the money and make all the arrangements.
The cases with less difficulty are treated by the villagers. As for the seriously ill patients, it depends on whether the village chief is willing to receive them. In any case, he treats them himself.
Every family that receives a patient will get a point, no matter who the patient is from.
Except for the village chief who gets more, other families get the same amount.
The villagers are not envious of the village chief for making so much.
Although the village chief gets paid a lot, he also has a lot of responsibilities. He not only has to take care of the villagers' food, drink, defecation and urination, but also has to pay for the village's infrastructure.
You might even have to pay for it yourself.
Therefore, the villagers of Gege Village still respect and protect the village chief.
The village is now in trouble. Every household has been looted by the Japanese. There is nothing left except some tattered old furniture and a few broken earthen kangs.
But life must go on.
At this time, the village chief would definitely take out the things that were usually accumulated in the ancestral hall and distribute them to everyone so that they could get by.
The villagers also collected the supplies stored by the Japanese and placed them in the square, waiting for the village chief to distribute them.
Decades have passed, and the villagers are still the same as before, waiting for the village chief to make decisions and distributions on everything.
But this time, it was not the village chief who did the distribution, but Fang Dahai.
Everyone had no objection to this, which was tantamount to tacitly agreeing to the transfer of the position of village chief.
During the decades when everyone was enslaved, although Fang Dahai did not complete the succession ceremony of the village chief, he actually protected the villagers and did what the village chief should do.
Zuo Zixuan slept until after two in the afternoon.
After they had a quick bite to eat, they went to have a meal and rest with Qiao Xinghua and Bai Zongde.
The Japanese who were knocked unconscious had already woken up.
The short and fat man who was responsible for delivering meals every day was tied up by the villagers and thrown into the pit to make him stand.
The Japanese soldiers who usually supervised the work with whips were tied up tightly and hung on trees in a circle.
Under their feet were the corpses of Qin Ya and Du Gu. The stench of rotten flesh made them vomit again and again.
All the other devils were tied up under tree stumps to bask in the sun.
The Japanese also cursed at first, but after being beaten with small whips by the villagers, they became quiet.
When the children arrived in the countryside, they played around like wild horses and no longer stuck to Zuo Zixuan.
Zuo Zixuan, Xu Qingfeng, and Fang Hanyang brought small chairs and sat under the stage to watch over the Japanese while whispering to each other.
"Hanyang, I remember your compass was only broken into two pieces, one hit the professor and the other hit me. You weren't injured, so how did you get through here?"
Xu Qingfeng asked while holding a bowl of melon seeds and eating them.
"I was indeed not injured. Not only that, I also attended both of your funerals and saw with my own eyes that your bodies were pushed into the crematorium."
"what?"
Xu Qingfeng and Zuo Zixuan stood up from their chairs in shock and asked in unison:
"Cremated?"
Fang Hanyang shrugged, "If they don't cremate it, are they going to keep it as a specimen?
The compass pierced your heads, and you both died on the spot before you could be rescued."
Zuo Zixuan and Xu Qingfeng sat down stupidly, not expecting that the bodies over there were gone.
“Don’t be too surprised.
You guys, it makes sense even after you've been through it.
But I was fucking in my sleep, and it was forced upon me.”
Xu Qingfeng turned around and looked at Fang Hanyang in surprise. Before he could say anything, Fang Hanyang continued:
“I attended your funeral and then that night I somehow traveled through time here.
The grandfather of the original owner of this body of mine is the director of Harbin People's Hospital.
The original owner studied surgery in a technical secondary school and went to the hospital for internship. The first time he was on the operating table, he saw a living person being cut open and was scared to death.
I traveled into his body, took over his memory, and did an internship at Xiangshi People's Hospital.
Later, I don’t know what went wrong with my father, he insisted on bringing me and my mother back to recognize our ancestors.
It is said that he ran away and traveled when he was young and never returned home. His letters could not be delivered to the village, so he had no contact with his family for decades.
He was worried that if he died one day, his family would not know about the existence of me and my mother.
So he insisted on taking us back to the village.
As a result, once we entered the village, you all know the final result..."
"You haven't been back to Harbin for more than half a year. Didn't your grandfather and your internship unit look for you?" Xu Qingfeng asked puzzledly.
“I guess my grandfather doesn’t even know the exact location of my father’s hometown. He only knows that he is from a village in Tan City.
What's more, my father is always mysterious, as if he is afraid that people will know where he is from.
When people asked him, he said he was from a certain village in Tan City, but he didn't say which village, leaving others to guess for themselves."
"So what does your father do for a living?"
"He was the deputy director of a steel mill, and no one knew how he got in.
However, he was able to get the position of deputy factory director thanks to my mother's strong connections in her family.
Back then, my mother was so fascinated by my father's face that she was determined to marry him.
His father said that he liked my mother's appearance back then, so he agreed to the marriage without any hesitation.
Strictly speaking, he is a half-son-in-law.
But my grandfather was a relatively democratic person. He gave my father enough respect and did not force me to take my mother's surname.
Now that I've traveled here, I don't know if my body in the 22nd century has been cremated like yours."
"It seems like we can't go back." Xu Qingfeng couldn't tell what he felt in his heart.
“I think it’s okay if you can’t go back.
To be honest, I think both your two families are a bit heartless.
Because of Qingfeng's family situation, it is understandable that the relationships among family members are a little cold.
But why are the professor's family members so indifferent to him?"
Zuo Zixuan turned towards Fang Hanyang with a confused look on his face.
"Why do you say that?"
“As soon as you got into trouble, the school called your family and told them to come and bury you.
As a result, not only did your family not come, they also said that you could just cremate the body and scatter it into the sea.
The school couldn't bear the loss, so they arranged a simple funeral for you in the school hospital.
All the students in the class took turns to keep vigil for you and send you off at the funeral.
However, after cremation, your ashes were scattered into the sea as your family requested.
I think your family is so heartless that they didn’t even come to see you for the last time, nor did they want your ashes.”
Xu Qingfeng squinted his eyes and pinched his chin, and said with a puzzled look:
"That's not right. In the circle, the Zuo family is well-known for doting on the only little princess in the family.
How could he die without even taking a last look?
Professor, does your father have a mistress?
Could it be that when the school called, it was Xiao San who answered the phone? "
Zuo Zixuan was also very confused.
Logically speaking, her family couldn't be so heartless.
Could it be that something big happened in my family when I died?
Is her family going bankrupt?
That's impossible. With her father and brother's intelligence, there's no way they could let the Zuo family fall to the point where they don't even have money to collect their bodies, right?
But there's no point in guessing here now, and I can't go back.
"Hey, Hanyang, what did you put on again?
This lanyard is very similar to the one you had in the 22nd century."
Xu Qingfeng asked as he looked at the lanyard exposed around Fang Hanyang's neck.
Fang Hanyang took out his lanyard and said:
"What's the resemblance? It's the same one.
I don’t know how this thing came with me.”
When Xu Qingfeng saw the pendant under the lanyard, he excitedly grabbed the lanyard around Fang Hanyang's neck and pulled him towards Zuo Zixuan.
"Professor, the third rune stone is here."
When Zuo Zixuan heard Xu Qingfeng's words, she excitedly reached out her hand and fumbled around in front of herself.
"Hey, hey, hey..., what are you two doing?
You're dragging me around by the neck, are you being polite?"
Xu Qingfeng ignored his complaints, took the lanyard off his neck and put it in Zuo Zixuan's hand.
Zuo Zixuan took out the other two pieces from the space and placed them in the palm of his hand.
"Compare them quickly to see if they are the same."
"Professor, how come you have two?
This piece of mine is said to be a family heirloom passed down from my ancestors."
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