Unexpectedly, the next morning, Chief Ye actually came to the village.
The Ye family was busy drying wood ear mushrooms in the open space when they saw a boy about ten years old running over and saying, "Aunt, my mother asked me to tell you that the clan leader has come to the village and is now at the village leader's house. If you have anything to say, go there quickly."
"Whose family are you from?" asked Boss Ye.
But the boy had already run far away.
Sister Ye said, "Are you stupid? He calls me aunt, so he must be our aunt's child!
"Besides, who else in the village will help us besides our aunt?"
Upon hearing this, Old Mrs. Ye did not dare to delay. She took out a tightly wrapped box from the car and walked towards the village chief's house with it.
The four sons were afraid that she would suffer, so they hurriedly followed her.
Seeing this, Guo couldn't help but say, "Why are there so many people going? If people don't know, they would think we are going to war!"
However, the three sisters-in-law turned a deaf ear to her words and didn't bother to pay any attention.
Old Mrs. Ye walked all the way to the village chief's house. Seeing the gate wide open, she didn't care about anything else and rushed straight into the main room.
At the head of the main hall, a middle-aged man in fine clothes sat opposite Wang Guangping.
The middle-aged man had a fair complexion, no beard, and a round face full of flesh.
There was a little boy standing behind him. He was the one who had turned away Old Madam Ye and Boss Ye yesterday!
There is no doubt that this middle-aged man must be the clan leader Ye Dongming.
After confirming it, Old Lady Ye strode forward, placed the box on the Eight Immortals Table, and tears began to flow down her face.
"Boss, I finally brought you back to your roots!
"After meeting the clan leader, I feel relieved. Someone is in charge of us now!"
Old Mrs. Ye couldn't stop crying. All the hardships she had gone through in raising her son over the years and the grievances she had suffered in the village in the past few days all came to her mind at once.
Wang Guangping didn't expect her to do this. His face turned black when he looked at the square box on his eight-immortals table.
Ye Dongming had no idea who Old Lady Ye was and was completely confused by her crying.
The little boy behind Ye Dongming also became nervous, fearing that Old Lady Ye would complain about him in front of Ye Dongming.
Ye Dongming looked at Old Lady Ye and the young people following behind her, and subconsciously asked, "Who is your boss? Where is he?"
"Clan leader, the head of our family is Ye Donghai. He went to the borderland to make a living, but he died outside before he could return to his hometown."
Old Mrs. Ye stroked the box in front of her while crying.
"Before the head of the family left, he kept talking about going back to his hometown.
"It's a pity that he passed away more than ten years ago before I finally had the chance to fulfill his last wish and take him back to his hometown.
"It's all my fault—"
When Ye Dongming heard that the box contained corpses, he was so frightened that he shrank back suddenly, and the flesh on his cheeks trembled a few times.
Wang Guangping couldn't help swallowing hard and looked at his own eight-immortals table with heartache. He was afraid that he couldn't keep the table.
Ye Dongming didn't remember who Ye Donghai was at all, but judging from his name, he should be of the same generation as him.
He turned around and asked, "Village Chief Wang, is Ye Donghai from your village?"
Wang Guangping gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, but he followed the merchants to seek a living outside the Great Wall and never came back.
"Later, his father died of illness, and his younger brother's family also passed away one after another. The villagers thought that there was no one left in his family.
"No one would have thought that after all these years, his family would still come looking for him."
Wan Guangping winked at Ye Dongming as he spoke.
It’s a pity that his reminder was too obscure and Ye Dongming didn’t hear it at all.
Ye Dongming said to Old Madam Ye in a rather gentle manner, "Sister-in-law, please stop crying.
"As long as your late husband is indeed a member of the Ye clan, he can naturally be recognized as an ancestral figure and buried in the ancestral tomb.
"You guys get ready first. I'll go back and find someone to calculate a date, and then send someone to notify you."
There are many members in the Ye family, and Ye Donghai is not the only one who goes out to make a living.
But as long as a member of the Ye family is recorded in the family tree, a place will be reserved for him in the ancestral tomb.
Some die outside and no one knows about it, there is nothing we can do about it.
But as long as the tribesmen are willing to return to their roots and have not done anything bad, Ye Dongming naturally has no reason to stop them.
After hearing what the clan leader said, Old Lady Ye wiped away her tears and said, "Thank you, clan leader.
"There's one more thing I want to ask you. My parents-in-law and my brother-in-law's family are all gone now.
"Should the property left by my parents-in-law belong to my family?"
"That's since..." Ye Dongming was about to nod when he suddenly remembered that the reason he came to Rongxi Village today was because he was invited by Widow Liu to help her family resolve a property dispute.
He immediately became alert and glanced at Wang Guangping. Seeing that Wang Guangping was trying hard to wink at him, he immediately understood the meaning of what he had just said.
Ye Dongming's attitude had obviously changed. He asked Old Mrs. Ye, "So what kind of property did your parents-in-law leave behind?"
Old Madam Ye said, "There are houses and lands, which should all be documented by the government."
Ye Dongming frowned, then laughed it off and said, "If this is indeed the case, we can certainly investigate it.
"But it's been so many years, it's not something you can find out just by looking it up, right?
"Anyway, don't worry, I'll go back to the county and check it out..."
He had just walked in and sat down, and hadn't even had time to take a sip of tea. He hadn't yet talked about this matter with Wang Guangping, so he didn't know the situation very well. He could only keep practicing Tai Chi, but his words were flawless.
Wang Guangping hurriedly explained, "You should all try to understand this matter.
“Although everyone in the village knows that Dong Hai went outside the Great Wall, since he left that year and never came back, it’s unclear whether he is alive or dead.
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