"Pangya, look, this piece of land used to belong to your grandfather!"
Cheng Shun pointed to the large stretch of connected fields and said with emotion.
"so much?"
Cheng Yue was a little surprised.
She has been here for almost a month. After jogging for so long in the morning, she knows that Xinghua Village has the most fields here. Basically, every household has some land here, and their family also has two or three acres here.
"Well, not only here, but also in the neighboring Lihua Village, Lotus Village and Osmanthus Village, there are such large areas."
Cheng Shun nodded and said.
"So, Grandpa was a landlord before?"
Cheng Yue smiled.
"There are so many fields and forests. When I was little, your father was a young master of a landlord's family. He knew nothing at all! Although we had a ton of servants, we didn't have to do anything at all. I wanted to study at that time, but unfortunately, I didn't study hard. I thought, with so many mountains and so much land at home, why should I bother studying? Studying is not fun!"
Cheng Shun laughed miserably, with a hint of regret in his tone.
"father."
Cheng Yue felt that Cheng Shun was in a bad mood, so she moved closer to him, but she didn't know how to comfort him.
"Although I'm a bastard and didn't study hard, at least I managed to save your grandfather's little piece of land."
Cheng Shun spoke to himself.
"What about the others?"
On the way back from Jinxiu Village last time, Cheng Yue had heard Cheng Shun say that their family used to have a lot of land. She had always wanted to ask about it, but because of the snack stall incident, she never found the chance.
"You have an uncle, my eldest brother."
Cheng Shun did not answer Cheng Yue directly, but told her a story instead.
"Your uncle was a very smart man with great ambitions. He wanted to be a wealthy businessman since he was a child. When your grandfather was alive, he didn't dare to do anything wrong. But after your grandfather passed away, he took over the family and vowed to make our Cheng family one of the richest merchants in Daqi. Then, bit by bit, our family's fields and forests were squandered by him. Fortunately, he had some conscience and didn't sell them all. He left a few dozen acres for me and then ran away."
"Alas! More than 30 years have passed, and I still remember what your grandfather said when he passed away, and what your uncle said when he left."
"When your grandfather passed away, he said these fields and forests were the fruit of his life's labor. He held your uncle and me by the hand and said that no matter what we brothers did in the future, we must preserve these things. Our Cheng family's ancestral hall would be built in Xinghua Village, and those fields and forests would be counted as the family property of our Cheng clan."
"Pang Ya, your grandfather was a refugee from the disaster. All his relatives are gone. Therefore, our Cheng family has no ancestral hall. Now we only have your grandfather's tablet."
"Fat Ya, do you know how your grandfather died?"
"The year your grandfather passed away, I was thirteen. Because I was naughty, I ran away to the capital. Your grandfather came to find me, and then the mountain collapsed and he was injured. He took his last breath to tell us that we must develop the Cheng family and protect those fields and forests."
"Fatty, I'm useless, I'm incompetent. I couldn't convince your uncle, and I didn't fulfill your grandfather's dying wish!"
Cheng Shun cried.
This time I really shed tears.
He didn't cry when his eldest brother ran away. The last time he cried was when his father died when he was thirteen years old.
Cheng Yue felt a little uncomfortable.
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