It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

"Jiangning, go home and take the things your grandfather left behind to the ancestral hall, okay? We'll see if we can figure out how to get to the cave."

Jiang Wang took advantage of the moment when Jiang Ning was crying for breath and found out that the things should still be at the village chief's house. He then coaxed Jiang Ning, who wanted to continue crying after being forced to pause to answer questions, to run errands.

Seeing Jiang Yan standing next to Jiang Ning, Jiang Wang made an arrangement, "Jiang Yan, accompany Jiang Ning."

The village chief and his family were taken away by the soldiers in such a hurry that they didn't have time to pack up many things, so they were just left there.

Later, the aunts in the village helped Jiang Ning pack up his things and sent them to live with Grandpa Jiang Quan. They didn't pay attention to which box or cabinet the things were stuffed into, or which corner they were thrown into.

Jiang Yan and Jiang Ning searched the village chief's room for a long time before they found the important piece of leather that was suspected to contain the "road map".

When we returned to the ancestral hall, the elders were already standing outside, discussing who would lead the expedition. The younger generation, along with a few of their children, gathered together, quietly reviewing tree climbing and mountain trekking techniques.

Jiang Ning handed the "road map" made of some unknown animal skin to Jiang Wang.

Jiang Wang took it, unfolded it, looked it over from beginning to end, and silently handed the leather to Jiang Xing.

Jiang Xing took it, read it from beginning to end, and said nothing.

"Why don't you say anything? Let me take a look." Sun Yun couldn't wait to reach out and take the "road map" from Jiang Xing.

The old lady turned the leather left, right, turned it over, and then turned it over again.

"Is that writing or a picture?" the old lady asked. "If it's writing, why does it look nothing like the one on the ancestral tablet?"

Jiang Wang and Jiang Xing couldn't answer. After all these years, they could only barely remember the word "Jiang" on the tablet.

Dongshan Village has only been around for about a hundred years. Apart from the ancestors who could recognize a few words at the beginning, how could later generations have the time to learn?

Everyone was busy working in the fields to make a living, and the wives they married into the family were also busy working in the fields to make a living. None of them could read or write, and none of them wanted to learn to read.

The inscription on the Jiang family tablet was rewritten by someone hired eight or nine years ago after Jiang Fu and his family moved to the county town. Previously, it only had symbols like ╭╰○◎x. that only the family could recognize.

The "road map" went through the hands of elders such as Jiang Fa, Jiang Quan, Li Hao, Gao Hua, and then fell into the hands of several aunts.

The aunts couldn’t understand it either, they really couldn’t understand it.

Although Jiang Yan followed to look for the "road map", he did not unfold it to look at it immediately after finding it.

She looked at the adults with worried faces, and she felt worried: the characters on the Jiang family's ancestral tablets were more complicated and difficult to recognize than seal script, but the elders couldn't even tell whether they were words or pictures... It was over.

Jiang Yan thought for three seconds, then walked straight over to Aunt Li Yue, who was holding the "road map," intending to analyze it with his already illiterate brain. If there really was a time-traveling woman with aura, he might be able to figure something out.

Help, it seems that the oracle bone script and the Abu Qade letters eloped for love and traveled to Qinshan.

There seems to be a road in the picture (many zigzag lines going in different directions), but there are no words in the place where the reference should be, nor are there any iconic landforms such as trees and ravines. There are only various abstract stick figures and little people "doing things" in all directions.

The rumor that Jiang's ancestors could read and write was probably a rumor, and Jiang Yan couldn't help but complain in her heart.

"Grandpa Jiang Wang, how about we go ask around in the county? Uncle Jiang Fu and Aunt Yu Qian said when they came back to the village that their son Jiang Yuan was studying and Jiang Nian was learning to read. Maybe they know more?"

Jiang Yan suggested.

Uncle Jiang Xing agreed very much when he heard this and nodded repeatedly.

"Yes, yes, they are educated people who know more about this kind of thing."

"Jiang Wang, hurry up and go to the county to ask Jiang Yuan and Jiang Nian. If it's too late, the officials might have already arrested them."

"By the way, ask Yu Qian quietly if he wants to bring the baby back to hide. We have mountains here, so it's easier to hide. Jiang Yuan is already fourteen this year."