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Ruan Yin nodded, wondering why the Bai family actually had an ancestral hall. However, she did not ask more at the dinner table. She would find out when she went there tomorrow. She finished her meal quietly and chatted with Chen Zhi in the living room. Xi Xuanyao and Bai Ling were playing chess, and Bai Xiu was watching with his arms folded beside them.

Chen Zhi smiled and said, "Your father loves playing chess, but Ah Xiu doesn't like it. Even if he plays reluctantly, he loses quickly, leaving him with no sense of accomplishment. Today, he finally meets his match."

"This is also the first time I see Ah Xuan playing chess." Ruan Yin glanced at the two people fighting fiercely over there. Why did she know that the game was fierce? Because the two people had serious faces and were very cautious when playing chess, which showed that the battle situation was tense.

Finally Xi Xuanyao said, "I lost!"

Bai Ling straightened his back for the first time since being scolded by Xi Xuanyao, waved his hand and said: "I only lost half a piece", feeling very proud. He enjoyed playing chess very much today.

"Even losing half a piece is still a loss. You are still a better chess player," Xi Xuanyao said calmly.

Bai Ling was delighted by these words. You should know that Xi Xuanyao had always been dissatisfied with him, and he had even made him feel ashamed because of his daughter's matter. Now that Xi Xuanyao praised him, Bai Ling felt as comfortable as drinking a sip of hot tea in the middle of winter. He felt that he had finally enjoyed the status of father-in-law. He was so happy and proud.

Bai Xiu couldn't bear to watch, so he walked over to Ruan Yin to play with Xi Yuanshu, poked her little face, and said, "Call me uncle!"

Xi Yuanshu thought he was playing with him, so he danced with excitement and laughed. He tried to grab Bai Xiu's hand with one hand. When the soft little hand grabbed his fingers, Bai Xiu's heart was touched. He lowered his head and said, "Uncle will take you to play, okay?"

"They will be able to speak in a few months. Now they can't call me uncle," said Chen Zhi.

Bai Xiu carefully picked up Xi Yuanshu, and after she got used to it, she flew around with Xi Yuanshu in her arms. The whole house was filled with her laughter. Xi Yuanzhao lay in his mother's arms, watching all this comfortably, very calm.

Chen Zhi looked at the lively atmosphere at home, and the emptiness in her heart that was not filled was filled a lot. There is gain and loss, and she shouldn't be too greedy.

The next morning, Bai Ling took Ruan Yin and Xi Xuanyao into the car and set off for the ancestral hall. As they saw fewer and fewer houses and the road becoming more and more remote, Ruan Yin's eyes were full of question marks until the car stopped at a cemetery.

Bai Ling went down first, explaining as he walked: "The Bai family has been buried in this cemetery for generations, so the ancestral hall was built next to the cemetery."

As they were talking, they walked to a small house. It was called a small house because it was compared to a villa. It was actually about 100 square meters. As soon as they entered, they saw a white-haired old man lying on a recliner. The teapot next to him was gurgling. Hearing the noise coming from the door, he slightly opened his eyes and looked over.

"Third Uncle," Bai Ling greeted him first, and turned to Ruan Yin beside him and said, "Call me Third Uncle."

Ruan Yin obediently called out, "Hello, Third Uncle."

The old man slowly sat up from the recliner, gestured, and said in a hoarse voice: "Sit down."

Just as he was about to pour the tea, Xi Xuanyao got there first, "Just lie down, I'll do it."

After drinking tea and sitting for a while, the old man led them to the ancestral hall. Ruan Yin went in and saw that it was filled with tablets, laid out from top to bottom like a staircase. In the middle was a small sandalwood box. She saw the old man walk to the box, unlock it with a key, and take out a book-sized volume from it, which should be the family tree.

The old man walked to the desk on the left and sat down. He poured some water into the inkstone and began to grind the ink. He waited for the ink to spread, then turned the booklet to the page about Bai Ling, filled the brush with ink, and before writing, he looked up and said to Bai Ling, "I will cross out Bai Ying's name from the family tree. Have you thought it through?"

Seeing Bai Ling nod, he turned his head to Ruan Yin: "Are you sure you don't want to change your surname?" Bai Ling had mentioned this to him before, but to be on the safe side, he still had to confirm with Ruan Yin. After all, the Bai family genealogy has recorded the descendants of the Bai family for hundreds of years. This is the first time he heard of someone not changing his surname and recording it in the family tree.

"No change," Ruan Yin said with a firm look.

The old man was stunned for a moment, but didn't say anything. He quickly started writing. After a few minutes, he finished writing and motioned Bai Ling and Ruan Yin to read it. Ruan Yin came closer and didn't pay attention to her own name. Instead, she was attracted by the handwriting and blurted out, "This word is really beautiful."

Then he realized what he was saying and blushed. The old man's serious face couldn't help but soften a little, "Tell me what you think."

"I don't know much about calligraphy, I just thought the calligraphy was beautiful at first glance," Ruan Yin said honestly.

Bai Ling smiled and gave a thumbs up, saying, "This is your third uncle's calligraphy. I don't know how many people asked him to write inscriptions at the time."

"That's all old news," the old man said calmly. Many people had commented on his handwriting before, and each of them could say a bunch of words, but this was the first time he heard someone directly praise the word "beautiful", so he asked one more question.

Ruan Yin leaned over to take another look at the family tree, only to see that the words "Bai Ying" had been crossed out, and "Ruan Yin" was written on top with a bracket at the end. The note had been replaced by a bad guy, "Recognized at the age of 23".

She stared at it for a few seconds and asked the old man, "Can I take a look?" It was the first time she saw a family tree and she was full of curiosity about the Bai family. What kind of family would specially open a cemetery for their members to rest in peace and also build such a large ancestral hall next to it?

The old man nodded and told Ruan Yin to wait until the ink was dry before reading it, and to be careful when flipping through the pages, because the paper of the family tree was very fragile after a long time.

Ruan Yin nodded, picked up the family tree and looked at the first page. It gave a detailed introduction to the origin of this branch of the Bai family. It recorded the names of each generation of the Bai family since the Qing Dynasty, and added that this family tree was re-transcribed by later generations. The yellowed paper was filled with densely packed names. When she turned to the end, her eyes were dizzy.

After reading the book, Bai Ling closed it and handed it to the old man with both hands. After coming out of the ancestral hall, Bai Ling helped the old man back to his residence. Ruan Yin and Xi Xuanyao waited outside. Looking at the countless tombstones in front of them, Ruan Yin suddenly had an idea: "Will I be buried here after I die?"

"Do you want to be buried here?" Xi Xuanyao glanced at her.

Ruan Yin waved her hand, "I'm just curious, what difference does it make where we are buried after we die?"

After Bai Ling came out, the three of them headed back home. As soon as they entered the house, they heard Xi Yuanzhao crying. Ruan Yin walked quickly to the living room and saw Xi Yuanzhao crying loudly. Chen Zhi didn't know what to do next. She didn't know why it was funny. She rarely saw Xi Yuanzhao crying. She squatted down and asked, "What happened?"

Xi Yuanzhao saw Ruan Yin stop crying immediately and reached out to hug her while sobbing. Ruan Yin hugged her and coaxed her a few words: "Daddy and mommy are just out for a while, don't cry."

"I cried so hard when I woke up in the morning and didn't see you," Chen Zhi waved her hands. It was the first time she saw Xi Yuanzhao cry.

"Maybe it's their first time in Yecheng, and they didn't see us and felt insecure," Ruan Yin explained. She thought about it carefully, and said to Xi Xuanyao beside her, "Let's take them out for a walk." The house is big enough, so they rarely take the children to the park outside, let alone meet strangers. This time they found that Zhao Zhao was sensitive and shy, and it might be better for him to go out and meet more people.