It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

After everyone vented their emotions for a while, the ancestral hall gradually became quiet again.

Jiang Wang turned to the old man who had spoken first and asked, "Uncle Xing, do you think we should take the children and hide this time?"

The Uncle Xing that Jiang Wang mentioned was the oldest surviving elder in Dongshan Village, now sixty-nine years old. Jiang Yan had to call him Uncle Xing, the younger cousin of Jiang Yan's late grandfather.

Jiang Wang and the other elderly people in the village were of the same generation. Dongshan Village was small, and everyone with the surname Jiang was a relative, so Jiang Yan had to call everyone he met, "Grandpa."

Therefore, even though Jiang Xing was not the oldest in the room, Jiang Wang had to ask first out of respect.

Jiang Xing frowned and thought for a moment when he heard Jiang Wang's question. He replied, "Hide... Do you mean let the children hide in Qinshan?"

Jiang Wang nodded, "Yes, hide in the mountains like our ancestors did."

Dongshan Village is located at the foot of the eastern mountain of Qinshan.

A hundred years ago, three or four cousins ​​with the surname Jiang headed north to escape drought and civil unrest. They were displaced and finally hid in the deep mountains and forests to survive.

After a year or two, the Jiang brothers felt that the situation outside might ease, so they tentatively walked out of the cave where they lived. Only then did they realize that they had arrived at Qinshan.

Later, the ancestors of the Jiang family slowly built mud houses and opened up wasteland not far from the foot of the eastern mountain of Qinshan Mountain, and interacted with the local people around them. Over time, the current Dongshan Village was formed.

The elders in Jiang Village grew up listening to the history of their ancestors' founding of the village, so they are deeply impressed.

But nearly a hundred years have passed, and apart from their fathers who went up the mountain to clean up the cave, few people have gone there since their generation because the country has become increasingly stable.

Jiang Fa, the oldest person present at 75, asked, "Do you still remember how to get there?"

Jiang Xing, Jiang Wang, as well as Jiang Fa, Jiang Da, Jiang Quan and others who had found a place to sit due to their old age and physical weakness, looked embarrassed and turned to look at the old ladies sitting around them.

Jiang Da’s wife, Sun Yun, is the second oldest person after Jiang Fa and is 74 years old this year.

The old lady rolled her eyes and said sarcastically, "How can we, who married in later, know about places that you old men surnamed Jiang haven't even been to?"

The scene suddenly became a little awkward.

Jiang Wang's wife, Gao Hua, quickly interrupted, "I heard that one or two of our ancestors could write. Scholars love to write and draw. Maybe they wrote down the instructions for getting to the cave and left them in the village."

It is possible.

Jiang Wang looked at the group and then turned his gaze back to himself. He pulled a small tuft of his beard and thought about it, then thought about it carefully, then shook his head and said with certainty: "I haven't seen it."

Everyone felt a little discouraged, and they also felt that they had actually expected their ancestors to leave behind a road map, which must have been due to their anxiety and confusion.

The atmosphere became stagnant again.

Until suddenly a weak voice came from the back row, "I saw my grandfather holding something in his hand before, and there was something drawn on it. I wonder if it is it."

Everyone looked back, then turned around, looking in shock at the little kid standing next to Jiang Yan.

The little kid is called Jiang Ning. He just turned seven years old and now lives with Jiang Quan.

His grandfather Jiang Gui was the village chief of Dongshan Village. If he was lucky enough to still be alive, he would be 42 years old now.

During the fourth imperial conscription, Jiang Gui was taken away along with his wife, son, and daughter-in-law, that is, Jiang Ning's grandmother and Jiang Ning's parents.

Jiang Wang pushed through the crowd and hurried to Jiang Ning's front, carefully confirming: "Did your grandfather tell me about the map of how to get to the cave?"

After being asked this question, Jiang Ning hesitated again.

"I heard it from my grandfather and my father."

"One night, my grandfather felt uneasy and restless, so he went to my father and told him he wanted to take the uncles, aunts, and brothers from the village to the mountains to look for a cave."

“But they don’t know the way.”

"My grandfather asked my father to dig out the object from the big rock under the main table in the ancestral hall and take a look. He would tell everyone the next day if he understood it."

Someone nearby interrupted, "I don't remember the village chief telling us that."

Jiang Ning pursed his lips. "The drawings on it were too difficult. They couldn't understand them all night. They wanted to discuss it with everyone the next day, but before they even left the house in the morning, my grandparents, my father, and my mother were all arrested..."

Wow……