Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

Spring Festival,

Yun Jixing returned to his old home with his parents to celebrate the New Year.

The old house is where his grandparents live, and his uncle's family also lives there.

His grandparents raised four children in total. The eldest, second and his father, the fourth, were their biological children, while the third was an orphan of a friend. The two elders just helped raise him. However, they have always treated these other people's children as if they were their own and raised them with all their heart and soul.

During the holidays, all the children, no matter what happened or where they were, must return to the old house to reunite.

Everything was normal during this Chinese New Year, but on the fifth day of the New Year, the second elder of the Yun family called all the children except the third elder's family to gather in the auditorium at home.

Yun Zhonghe and Xiang Huiyun, two old men with white hair and thick eyebrows, sat in the main seats. Their gentle, kind, respectful and frugal character was revealed, and they looked dignified, like a mountain standing tall. The others sat in front of them at both ends. The two old men looked around at the many descendants in front of them, and finally fixed their sight on Yun Jixing's family, or to be more precise, on Yun Jixing himself.

"Shanyuan." Yun Zhonghe called out.

Every descendant of the Yun family will be given a character to be called in addition to their registered name. Yun Jixing's nickname is "Shanyuan".

When Yun Jixing was called, he immediately stood up and walked to the center of the auditorium and stood still, "Grandpa."

Yun Zhonghe looked at him with a serious expression. After a moment's pause, he spoke again, "Kneel down."

"Yes, Grandpa."

Yun Jixing lowered his eyes, and without saying a word, he immediately lifted the hem of his robe and knelt down on his knees.

Chi Qinghuai felt bad when he saw this scene, and reached out to secretly grab Yun Bianzhi's clothes. The two elders of the Yun family wanted to teach someone a lesson, and no one could interfere. Yun Bianzhi was helpless, not to mention that he didn't know what Yun Jixing had done wrong, so he could only pat her hand to signal her to calm down.

"Shanyuan, I heard that you have been very high-profile in the past year, flexing your power in the political arena, suppressing people in the business world, and hiring killers on the street. You have done it all and a lot. Is that true?" Yun Zhonghe asked.

Yun Jixing hesitated for a moment and replied, "Yes."

Hearing this, everyone looked at the people around them.

"Recite all our family mottos." Yun Zhonghe spoke again.

"Yes." Yun Jixing nodded.

"Those who are faithful to integrity and righteousness and follow the right path will enjoy endless blessings, while those who are evil will suffer from unforeseen troubles..."

There are a total of thirty-five Yun family precepts, nearly six hundred words, and Yun Jixing recited them all fluently without missing a single one.

After he finished reciting the family motto, Yun Zhonghe looked at the other descendants and said, "This family motto of our family has been passed down for six generations. It has a meaning for it to exist for so long."

As he spoke, he glanced at Xiang Huiyun beside him and said, "I asked you to recite it, not because I want you to pretend to be a descendant of a noble family or to act coyly and pretend to be from a big family, but because I want you to understand the meaning behind it, learn how to be upright and down-to-earth, and how to better behave in the world. Now that Shanyuan has recited it once, how about you, do you still remember it?"

Everyone responded with their voices to indicate that they could still recite it.

Yun Zhonghe nodded with satisfaction, and his eyes returned to Yun Jixing. At this time, the right to speak was handed over to Xiang Huiyun, "Shanyuan, you are stealing power, relying on wealth and power, and you have power and blessings at your own will. This kind of mentality must not exist. If you have such thoughts, this person will be ruined and his family will be gone. Tell me, why do you do that? And to what extent did you do it?"

Yun Jixing raised his head and said, "Grandma, they were partial to each other and bent the law. They happened to do evil in front of me, so I did it. I hired someone to kill him, but before the murder even started, the other person had already been killed by someone else. I can swear to my ancestors and all the gods that my hands are clean and I have done nothing wrong..."

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The next day,

Yun Jixing came to the ancestral hall in the house and knelt down at seven in the morning. He has been kneeling for half an hour.

He explained the reasons why he did those things. Yun Zhonghe and Xiang Huiyun thought it was understandable. Everyone else also agreed that his actions were reasonable and not wrong. However, in order to prevent him from getting carried away after experiencing the convenience and pleasure brought by power and money, the two elders still gave him a small punishment. They made him kneel in the ancestral hall at home for two hours at seven o'clock the next morning and copy the family motto five times.

In addition to the tablets of the Yun family's ancestors, the ancestral hall also houses statues of various Taoist gods, including household gods, heavenly gods, and gods of different identities. The placement of each of them is very particular. Therefore, in order to better arrange the layout, the ancestral hall was made very large, and gods can be seen everywhere.

Yun Jixing didn't dare to look around, so he lowered his head to look at the mat under his knees or the table of offerings closest to him.

He had been keeping his head down for a long time, and his neck was a little sore, so he raised his head slightly to look at the offerings. Suddenly, through the container of fruits and vegetables, he saw a shadow behind him that seemed to be looking at him.

He looked back and saw his third uncle's only son Yun Quan standing not far from the door, looking at him.

As soon as he turned his head, Yun Quan walked aside as if nothing had happened.

After he left, Yun Jixing turned back expressionlessly and continued to look at the mat under him. In his heart, he secretly mocked Yun Quan for being too lazy to even pretend, which was really ridiculous.

He hated Yun Quan, including his father Yun Liuyi. In his opinion, both father and son were ungrateful people who could never be tamed. Even raising a stone would be more loyal than them.

In his previous life, it wasn't just his family that was in trouble, the entire Yun family was destroyed. According to the development of his previous life, Yun Zhonghe and Xiang Huiyun had already passed away, instead of teaching him to kneel in the ancestral hall yesterday, his uncle's family died in an accident, and his second aunt's family lost contact for unknown reasons. Otherwise, if his family was in trouble, there must be someone to help them, and the family would not be broken up.

The only ones who were okay were the third uncle's family. Both father and son were in Huacheng and everything was fine. However, they just stood by and watched coldly at everything that happened to the Yun family.

They didn't have this look before, at least not before the Yun family got into trouble. They treated their brothers and sisters very kindly. Yun Liuyi almost lost himself trying to save his uncle from drowning. I didn't expect that when something really happened, they actually looked very proud.

He later investigated the reasons for his father's bankruptcy and discovered something wrong. The people who caused all the disasters seemed to be Yun Liuyi and Yun Quan. Their purpose was unclear and it was uncertain to what extent they had done so.

In this life, he is still secretly investigating Yun Liuyi and Yun Quan, and is also quietly stopping them from doing bad things to the Yun family.

Now he was sure that he and his son were the ones who completely led to the demise of the Yun family. They were the ones who were responsible for the misfortunes of his uncle's family and his second aunt's family. Even his grandparents were poisoned to death by Yun Liuyi. It was just a mystery why he was the only one left alive.

Why they did that remains a mystery.

His investigation and obstruction had been noticed by Yun Liuyi's Yun Quan. The father and son were pretending in front of other people, but they were completely without any disguise in front of him. They were too lazy to even put on a fake smile and were already in a hostile state.

After kneeling in the ancestral hall, Yun Jixing kowtowed a few times to the Yun family’s ancestors and the gods, then stood up and left, walking towards the door.

As soon as he went down the stairs, two dogs jumped out from nowhere and jumped in front of him. They were a Husky and a Teddy. It was so sudden that he was startled. Fortunately, he was not afraid of dogs and did not overreact. He just subconsciously took half a step back.

"Woof woof!" The two dogs wagged their tails and barked at him.

Yun Jixing recognized that they were the dogs raised by Yun Quan.