It started with being betrayed by my ex-boyfriend

"Hurry up and tell me! Tell me!"

Bai Yunxi even forgot how the two pairs of men and women managed to get through the test despite the crowd's encouragement. Anyway, when she returned to her residence, she was both excited and tired.

"Are you having fun?" Ji Hanmo had a smile on his lips, and a hint of calculation flashed across his eyes.

Bai Yunxi nodded: "Happy! It's so fun!"

Ji Hanmo looked at her lovingly and pulled her into his arms: "As long as you like it!"

The reason I decided to bring her here was because I hoped she would be happier.

Bai Yunxi laughed.

The feeling of clinging to him like this is so reassuring!

Everything around them was silent, and the world was so quiet that it seemed as if only the two of them were left.

Bai Yunxi fiddled with the buttons of Ji Hanmo's shirt, and suddenly she wished that they could stay here forever, stay here for the rest of their lives, and never go anywhere else.

"What's wrong?" Ji Hanmo looked down at her. Wasn't she quite happy just now? Why was she sighing again?

Bai Yunxi shook his head and just hugged him without saying anything for a long time.

The next day, just after breakfast, the village chief came here with two older villagers.

"Morning, Miss Bai."

Ji Hanmo and Tao Jingchen looked at each other, then turned to look at Bai Yunxi: The village chief and the others are dressed very formally today, as if they are facing something very important, what are they going to do?

Bai Yunxi blinked and said belatedly, "The village chief invited me to their ancestral hall today. Did I forget to tell you yesterday?"

Well, when she heard the invitation, she felt it necessary to tell Ji Hanmo, but later she was so excited that she actually... forgot!

So Ji Hanmo and Tao Jingchen looked at each other again, and both saw the slight shock in each other's eyes.

A place like an ancestral hall is not a place that anyone can enter casually, let alone outsiders like them?

Ji Hanmo's eyes flashed: "If you feel uncomfortable, you don't have to go."

He always felt that something was wrong with the people in this village.

Although he was currently on someone else's territory, if these people dared to attack Bai Yunxi, he wouldn't mind giving them a taste of their own medicine! The bodyguards he brought with him hadn't been used yet!

Bai Yunxi herself couldn't tell whether she wanted to go or not. To be honest, when she first arrived, she just felt strange about the village chief's idea that she should have the last name Murong. Yesterday, Ah Wu's solemn expression outside the ancestral hall deeply shocked her, and the elders' amazed expressions after seeing her appearance clearly at night made her curious.

So when the village chief suggested taking her to see the ancestral hall today, she agreed without thinking.

She also wanted to know what kind of miraculous connection there was between her and this village.

Awu brought Bai Yunxi here yesterday, so she was familiar with the route. The village chief and two elders first took Bai Yunxi to the ancestral hall in the village.

The people enshrined there are all the ancestors of the village. The strange thing is that these people do not have the same surname, but many different surnames!

"The people in our village are not all from the same clan." The village chief saw her shock and confusion and took the initiative to explain.

"Are they people who fled here and settled down here?" Bai Yunxi asked.

What we often see on TV or in the news is that many people flee in the same direction and then slowly gather together, right?

"Escape? Haha." The village chief suddenly laughed, then shook his head slightly, his face full of justice and confidence, which made people inexplicably respect him.

But what he said next surprised Bai Yunxi!

"We are rebels, or even traitors!"

Bai Yunxi’s eyes widened immediately!

In this day and age, there are still people who call themselves rebels... and traitors? !

She almost suspected that she was dreaming! But the village chief looked very confident, and even the other two elders who accompanied him looked like they were "proud of being a rebel"!

Ha ha!

She suddenly felt like she had entered a den of thieves and boarded a pirate ship.

When the village chief saw her nervous expression, he waved his hand and smiled, "That was more than two hundred years ago. At that time, our ancestors were all heroes who fought against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty!"

Bai Yunxi immediately understood.

So this is what he meant by rebels and traitors!

"When the Qing army entered the country, many righteous men from all over the country rose up in rebellion. Our group was very successful in the Jiangnan area and became quite large. We once put a lot of pressure on the Qing government." When the village chief talked about this "glorious history", he changed from his previous aging look, his pride was beyond words, and he looked very energetic.

The two elderly villagers also kept nodding.

The tablets in the ancestral hall are densely packed, but they are arranged in a very regular order from ancient times to the present, and the names of the deceased are marked on the tablets, so they can be distinguished at a glance.

The first batch of tablets often had characters like Left General or Right Vanguard. They looked very brave and could fight ten people at a time on the battlefield!

Among them, the tablet of a great general is particularly eye-catching, and all the other tablets are placed in order behind it, like stars surrounding the moon!

Obviously, he should be the leader among these people!

Sure enough, the village chief pointed at the tablet of the great general and said proudly: "This is the leader of the rebel army back then, and the one next to him is my ancestor." He then pointed to the other two tablets at the back: "Those two are their ancestors!"

The two villagers felt very honored and nodded repeatedly at the same time.

"Our ancestral hall is also called the Merit Hall. Only those who have made great contributions to the village can be enshrined here. After other villagers pass away, they will be buried on the mountain next to the village. That entire mountain is the burial place of our village's deceased ancestors. Each family will also enshrine a tablet in their own home, but not everyone can have a separate tablet in the Merit Hall."

This is someone else's rule. Bai Yunxi himself doesn't quite understand it, so it's not right for him to interrupt casually.

But looking at the huge array of tablets, the battle must have been very fierce, right? !

"Miss Bai, you must have heard of the Ten Days of Yangzhou?" The village chief looked at her, as if he didn't know what she was thinking.

Of course Bai Yunxi had heard of such a major historical event!

After the Qing army entered the pass, a prince of the Qing Dynasty led a large army to attack the south of the Yangtze River. Originally, the army had been advancing unimpeded and unstoppable. However, after the army arrived in Yangzhou, it encountered fierce resistance and failed to capture it for more than a month. Although the city was eventually not saved, the Qing army also suffered heavy casualties, and even lost a Beile!