Chapter 71 Defensive Array Plate
The letter also said that when the family encounters difficulties and needs the family treasure to overcome them, they must not be greedy or impatient. As long as the green hills remain, there will always be firewood to burn.
When a family regains its vitality and is on the rise, it needs to start thinking about the future of the family, know how to make choices, and add wealth to the family's treasure in a timely manner.
In order to preserve the Yun family bloodline, each generation would select a girl from the descendants of women who had married out or were adopted into another family and send her to be raised elsewhere. Only the clan leader knew where the girl was.
Sending only girls was not a matter of favoring boys over girls, but rather that the methods for confirming bloodlines were either based on appearance or by offering blood as a token of kinship, which our ancestors discovered was not accurate.
However, any girl from the Yun family must be a descendant of the Yun family bloodline.
When Ning Xuan saw this, she thought of the matriarchal society in ancient times, where the father of a child could not be determined, but the mother could be. Ning Xuan thought that the ancestors of the Yun clan were quite wise.
In the event of a catastrophe like the extermination of the clan, the girl who was carefully selected and raised outside, whose whereabouts are known only to the clan leader, will take on the heavy responsibility of revitalizing the Yun family.
If the Yun family is safe and sound, the chosen girl can grow up in wealth and comfort.
In this way, the Yun family has been able to rise again from the depths of despair every time it has fallen for hundreds of years.
Several letters were left by clan chiefs from different generations. Some didn't leave letters, but just a few words in the inventory list.
Below the letters was a family genealogy book. Ning Xuan glanced at it briefly and then flipped directly to the end. The most recent genealogy book was added during the Republican era.
According to the timeline, the last clan head on the genealogy should be over 90 years old; it's unknown whether he is still alive.
The next generation of people, the clan leader is either her grandfather's generation or her uncle's generation, but it's unclear which generation has been chosen as the new clan leader.
Ning Xuan started from the back, took out her phone from her storage ring and took pictures of the more recent pages of the family tree, just in case she encountered someone with the same name in the future, who might be a member of the Yun family.
As for the family genealogy book, she simply put it back where it was.
Ning Xuan was unsure of her relationship with the Yun family. From the original owner's memories, she knew that the original owner's biological mother did not have the surname Yun. So, whether her biological mother was a member of the Yun family or her scumbag father was a member of the Yun family, she would have to investigate further later.
However, after reading the letters written by the Yun clan's past patriarchs, Ning Xuan decided to only take a small portion of what was here as a reward for this adventure.
She doesn't lack money now, so she should save it for the Yun family descendants to use in critical moments. Each generation of clan leader is carefully selected and nurtured by the family, and special methods are used to leave information about the treasure to prevent the family treasure from being lost if the clan leader suddenly has an accident.
Moreover, only those of the Yun clan bloodline can open this stone gate. Although we don't know what methods our ancestors used, it should be reliable, so it's relatively safe to keep the treasure here.
After making her decision, Ning Xuan began selecting what she would take with her. She would take the box of cloth she had just opened, one box of gold and silver, two boxes of jewelry, and one box of books to take with her, as there might be many rare copies. She would see if she could make copies or transcribe them later when she had time.
Having chosen what she wanted to take, Ning Xuan prepared to head back. She had already spent quite a bit of time here, having made the impromptu decision to come.
Fortunately, she had just read the letter and already knew how to get out, so she left quickly.
Sure enough, when they reached the outer gate, the door that had been blocking the water flow reappeared through the crack in the wall.
After the passage was blocked by the door again, you can press a spot on the right wall of the main gate. If you look closely, you can see that it is different from other places. Ning Xuan pressed it with her hand, and then the main gate slowly opened.
After coming out, looking at the closed gate, Ning Xuan took out the defensive array plate that Yun Xi had given her. This array plate did not have a deceptive effect, but it had a very good defensive function. It could sense malice and would launch an attack directly if the person coming had malicious intent.
If there is no malicious intent, it will be allowed to pass automatically.
However, regardless of whether there is malice or not, the owner of the array plate can sense anyone who gets close.
Anyway, she's still in the Red Star Brigade these past few years, which is very close to here. If we put a defensive array here, she can get over quickly if anyone comes.
If it weren't for this array plate, Ning Xuan really wouldn't feel comfortable leaving such a large amount of treasure here, even though this place seems very safe.
However, Liang Zhicheng and his group's hidden valuables also happened to be in this area. They were worried that people might dig up the place for the legendary treasure of the Yun family and accidentally stumble upon it.
After placing the array plate and adding a mid-grade spirit stone, Ning Xuan confirmed that the array plate was effective before starting her journey back.
Fortunately, they managed to get back to the courtyard before Lu Xun and the others finished work.
Her and Xu Jiajia's weakness had actually subsided, but outsiders didn't know that. To be on the safe side, she and Xu Jiajia would lie on the kang (a heated brick bed) together to continue resting after work, so as not to give away their secret if anyone came to visit them during their break.
Ning Xuan changed her clothes, quickly put away the puppet, and then went to Xu Jiajia's room. This was something they had agreed on beforehand; she would go there before finishing work.
Ning Xuan was mainly worried that the puppet would be found to be abnormal and didn't want the puppet to be alone with Xu Jiajia for so long, so she specifically brought it up.
"Ning Xuan, you're awake! Come in quickly~" Ning Xuan had the puppet make up an excuse to go back to her room to sleep.
After Ning Xuan entered the room, Xu Jiajia took out a few sheets of paper and showed them to Ning Xuan. "Look, this is the self-criticism I wrote this morning. I also wrote the ones for you. You can copy them again when you have time."
"Wow, you wrote four by yourself! That's amazing! You've worked so hard, Jiajia!" Ning Xuan was pleasantly surprised. Although each apology letter was short, they still required thought and effort. She really didn't expect Xu Jiajia to take the initiative to write all four.
She had originally planned to write again when she got back in the afternoon, but now she can use the afternoon to rest.
When Lu Xun and the others returned at noon, they were all very touched to learn that Xu Jiajia had written self-criticisms for them. However, they had to copy them in their spare time in the evening after work.
Ning Xuan took a nap in the afternoon. After work, Liang Qingqing and Zhao Yulian came to see her and Xu Jiajia.
"I heard that you don't have to do 8 work points every day anymore, that's great, otherwise your little bodies would be exhausted," Zhao Yulian said with a look of relief.
Liang Qingqing chimed in, "Who says otherwise? The way you guys looked that day really scared me. You'd better be more careful in the future."
The group chatted for a while, and then it got dark. They finished work late, and Liang Qingqing and the others ate together. The two of them had eaten before coming over, so it got dark very quickly.
Although they lived nearby, Lu Xun and the others escorted the two girls back to the educated youth compound, and then the two girls returned together.
Ning Xuan wanted to see if Huang Xiaomei would come to visit them this time, or if she was truly determined to cut ties with them.
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