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"Come on, stop pretending!"

Chen Muyu waved his hand, "I can't use this elixir now, so just keep it if I give it to you. Otherwise, if I take it back, you may be depressed for several days!"

After saying that, he stood up and said, "The day after tomorrow is grandpa's death anniversary. I'm going back to Chenjiayan in the afternoon. Do you want to go back?"

Hearing this, Qin Hong paused.

He didn't speak for a long time, and the expression on his face seemed a bit complicated.

"I can't leave here. Why don't you give your grandpa some incense for me?" After a long while, Qin Hong sighed.

Chen Muyu didn't say much. There were no grievances or grudges among the older generation. Chen Muyu, the younger generation, had no right to ask.

Maybe Qin Hong still had some unresolved knots in his heart.

Chen Muyu didn't force it. After all, Qin Hong had never been to the anniversary of his grandfather's death in the past two years. Of course, he didn't know whether he had been there in private!

"I'm leaving!"

Chen Muyu nodded in agreement and prepared to leave.

"Wait a moment!"

Qin Hong stopped Chen Muyu and then turned around and entered the back room.

Chen Muyu stood in the yard, not knowing what Qin Hong was doing in the house. It took a while before he came out.

His hand was pulling something out of his pocket, and his movements seemed to be giving Chen Muyu some lucky money, which made Chen Muyu a little hopeful.

With a jingling bell, what appeared in Qin Hong's hand was a bunch of keys.

Chen Muyu looked at Qin Hong in confusion.

The key was placed in Chen Muyu's hand. Qin Hong said, "There is a secret door in the well in the backyard of the old house. If you are interested when you go back, you can go and have a look. Don't let others know!"

"Um?"

Chen Muyu was a little stunned.

"Let's go quickly!"

Qin Hong didn't think too much about the explanation and urged Chen Muyu to leave.

…

After leaving the door, he looked at the keys in his hand. They were quite ordinary small lock keys. There were six of them in total. They looked quite new. It should be because Qin Hong had taken good care of them.

Is there a secret door under the well in the old house?

What is this operation?

What did Qin Hong hide? Or is there something left behind by the ancestors of the Chen family?

With doubts, Chen Muyu left Ganlin Village.

…

Chenjiayan Village.

This time, only Chen Muyu, his father's third uncle, and two aunts will come back, but they will only come back on the anniversary of his grandfather's death.

According to the custom in the village, newly erected graves cannot be cleared of weeds for the first three years, and can only be taken care of after the expiration of the three years.

This year happens to be the expiration of the three-year period, so everyone has to come back and work.

The three of them first went to the primary school in Longtan Township and gave them some books and materials.

This is a routine. Grandpa often did this when he was here. Whenever he collected some useful books from waste collection, he would collect them and bring some to the school every time he came back.

This tradition continues to this day.

But this time when he came back, Chen Muyu also heard the news that Longtan Township Primary School seemed to be no longer open next year.

The closure of the school is not a matter of funding, and it is difficult to recruit students.

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Although Longtan Township also has a large population and a lot of school-age students, because it is not far from the town and the transportation is convenient now, many people go to the town to study, which makes the existence of the township primary school very embarrassing.

Teachers from rural primary schools will be completely integrated into towns next year, and students will also go to schools in towns.

Chen Muyu was somewhat emotional. When he was a child, he also attended a rural primary school. After so many years, although there have been changes, this two-story building actually carries many childhood memories.

Originally, he planned to spend some money to renovate the township primary school as a whole, but now it seems that it is no longer necessary. He will go to the town primary school to have a look when he has time.

Chenjiayan is still a bit far away from the rural primary school. One is at the foot of the mountain and the other is on the mountain. In the past, it would have taken more than an hour to walk on the mountain road. Now that there is a highway, it is much more convenient. It only takes ten minutes by car.

The place names in the township are very casual. Zhangwan, Songgou, Nieshan, and Dupo are basically given surnames based on geographical characteristics. The same is true for Chenjiayan, because it is on a cliff and there are many people with the surname Chen. That’s how I got the name.

The old house of the Chen family is a zigzag-shaped building, covering an area of ​​two to three hundred square meters, with a large patio in the middle.

His ancestors could be considered a wealthy family in the village, but they later fell into ruin. Chen Muyu still remembered that when he was a child, there were five families living in this courtyard.

The remaining four households were all grandfather's cousins, and it was quite lively at that time, but less than twenty years later, things have changed.

The older generation has passed away and the younger generation has left. The old house has long been deserted, and the grass in the patio has grown almost one meter deep.

The four rooms in the main hall were left by my grandfather, and the ones next to them belonged to other families.

In the past few years, the house has been repaired several times. Although no one from the other houses came back, I still briefly helped them repair it during the repairs to at least ensure that the house would not collapse.

In my grandfather's generation, these cousins ​​were still close, but after my grandfather passed away, the relationship between the younger generations was not so deep, especially in Chen Muyu's generation, which family has a younger brother and which family has a younger brother? A younger sister, I just heard more about her.

Even the few friends I had good friends with when I was young have not been in contact with each other for a long time.

Among the five households, except Chen Muyu's family, one household has rebuilt a new house in the village, one household went out to work and has not come back for several years, and the remaining two households are dead.

After Chen Muyu's family settled in Qingshan City, Chen Muyu's uncle Xu Xinggui took care of the old house.

It's said to be taking care of things, but actually, I'm afraid I haven't even entered the door at all.

Grandpa's family was also from Chen Jiayan, but they were just outsiders who moved in later. Chen Jianzhong was like a rabbit eating grass on the edge of the nest.

Grandpa and grandma also passed away long ago, especially grandpa. Chen Muyu has never seen what he looked like, and the only impression he has is his grandmother's kind face.

But it has been twelve years since my grandmother passed away.

My brother-in-law has been living with his grandmother. After her grandmother passed away, Chen Muyu’s family helped him. He is now in his forties. A few years ago, under the introduction of Chen Muyu’s mother, he took a wife and gave birth to a son. It's also a pleasure.

Xu Xinggui has a problem, that is, he is lazy. A few years ago, his parents took him out to work in the scrapyard for a while, but he was tired and came back within two months.

Chen Muyu's mother couldn't do anything about him, even though she made him the youngest.

Dinner was eaten at my brother-in-law's house. My sister-in-law was a diligent woman. She killed the chickens and stewed the meat. It was a sumptuous dinner.

When they came back in the afternoon, my father and my third uncle started to clean up the old house. They repaired what needed to be repaired and mended what needed to be repaired. My uncle also went to help for a while, which was a way to show off in front of his brother-in-law.

After dinner, my uncle mysteriously pulled my father into the back room, saying that he had something to talk about.

Chen Muyu just shook his head in his heart. He knew nothing about what could happen to his uncle, it was just borrowing money from his father.

Over the years, Chen Muyu has really seen too many similar scenes.