Xie Wan asked Xie Yuanchao to take Xie Xing out to play, and she supported the fifth aunt and said, "Fifth aunt, can I ask you something quietly?"
The fifth aunt had many children and grandchildren, so she was the happiest to hear about the establishment of a school. When she saw that Xie Wan was very pretty, she liked her and immediately took Xie Wan home.
“I went to my fifth aunt’s house and told her that my family had split up and only my eldest son and his family were living with me.
I live alone in the backyard, it's very quiet."
When they arrived at her fifth aunt's house, her fifth aunt asked her to sit inside, but she felt it was warmer outside in the sun, so she insisted on sitting in the yard.
Xie Wan finally ate the cut melon. It was indeed sweet and fragrant and very delicious. It tasted better than the white-skinned cantaloupe.
While eating melon, Xie Wan asked about the history of this branch of Xiejia Village.
The fifth aunt said that the older generation said they came from Quanzhou, which was more than two hundred years ago. It was recorded in the family tree, but she didn't know clearly.
Xie Wan thought about it and decided to inquire about the news about jade jewelry, and asked, "Fifth Aunt, do you know if there are any other families in our clan that may have old items passed down from their ancestors?
My dad wants to buy one to keep as a souvenir.”
When the Fifth Aunt heard this, she immediately pulled Xie Wan into the house mysteriously and whispered, "You can't ask this outside. If those bastards hear it, it will destroy your family."
Xie Wan understood what he meant, nodded, and said in a low voice: "I am asking you because you are the elder of the village and have experienced a lot. You must know what happened in other people's families.
I really paid for it.
My father was afraid that those people would accidentally smash all the things left by our ancestors, so he asked me to come back this time to collect some things so that they can be passed down to our Xie family."
Xie Wan used her father's name as her own and had no psychological burden at all.
She has helped Xie Dahong earn a good reputation. Wouldn't it be a loss if she doesn't put it to use?
After hearing this, the fifth aunt sighed and said, "Changgen is so thoughtful!
Those things are not valuable now.
Just a few years ago, we held criticism meetings every day. I don’t know who spread the rumor that our Xiejia Village used to be a large feudal family.
The town’s Revolutionary Committee came every few days and dragged the entire village out for criticism and struggle sessions.
Many families had their homes searched and many of their belongings taken away.
What is left now?"
Xie Wan was a little nervous, fearing that the other jade jewelry had been stolen.
She asked, "What was taken away?"
The fifth aunt said, "You know, our village is poor, if there were good things, we would have sold them long ago to make a living.
Most of what was confiscated were old furniture passed down from generation to generation, as well as some ancestral portraits. A few families had some jewelry hidden away as heirlooms, which were also confiscated.”
When Xie Wan heard about jewelry, she became even more nervous and asked, "What kind of jewelry are they? Whose family are they? Do you remember, Fifth Aunt?"
The fifth aunt thought for a moment and said, "A jade bracelet was confiscated from my house. It was given to my mother-in-law by my father-in-law, and my mother-in-law also passed it on to me.
I shouldn't have given it to my silly eldest daughter-in-law.
She wore it out to show off, and then people found out about it.”
When Xie Wan heard the word jade bracelet, it made more sense and she asked, "Is it jadeite?"
The fifth aunt said with regret: "It is green, and the water head is very good."
Xie Wan didn't expect to get the clue about one of the bracelets so quickly. He asked his fifth aunt if she knew who stole it. But his fifth aunt shook her head and said that she only knew that it was from the town's Revolutionary Committee. A group of people came, but she didn't know who took it.
The fifth aunt also told Xie Wan about several families whose old belongings were also confiscated.
Xie Wan said goodbye to his fifth aunt and began to visit these families one by one.
All the people with the surname Xie in the village were her relatives. She was very popular and sweet-spoken, so she quickly found out what had been confiscated from these families.
Strangely enough, most of the items that were confiscated from these people's homes were jewelry. Just from the one she walked around, she found three jade bracelets, all made of jadeite, and they were all said to have good water content.
Now Xie Wan was not sure whether the one she was looking for was missing.
It is easy to understand if you think about it. Jewelry is the easiest thing to be passed down as a family heirloom. Since the Xie family was a wealthy family in the past, it is possible that every female member of the family had a jade bracelet on her hand.
But she could only rely on the space to identify which one was a set with her jade ring.
After asking around, I finally heard a name.
"The town's Revolutionary Committee Secretary, Wang Hongguang, is a piece of shit. He said he wanted to get rid of feudal remnants, but he confiscated all our stuff.
But the good ones must have been taken by him.”
Xie Wan decided to ask Xie Juncai about Wang Hongguang during dinner.
She visited each household in the afternoon, not only asking for a lot of information, but also spent money to buy two new quilts, which she brought back to the old yard to cover Xie Yuanchao and Xie Xing with at night.
When she returned home, the two brothers Xie Yuanchao had not returned yet.
Xie Wan actually brought bedding and other things into his space and made beds for them.
The two beds I bought were just for cover.
Unexpectedly, when Xie Yuanchao came back to visit his brothers, he actually brought back two wild rabbits.
"Brother, you didn't even bring a gun, how did you kill the rabbit?"
Xie Xing now worshipped his elder brother so much that he raised his slingshot and said, "Brother used my slingshot to shoot.
Big brother is amazing, he hits every target!"
Xie Yuanchao patted Xie Xing's head proudly and said, "What you are playing with now are all leftovers from when I was a kid."
Xie Wan looked at the two rabbits, each weighing three kilograms, and she began to admire her elder brother.
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