The clan elders had already gone home, and the clan chief's family members had all left. Only the clan chief was left alone in the courtyard, smoking his pipe.
"They're gone?"
Without turning his head, he tapped the pipe in his hand.
Jiang Anshan nodded, then, remembering that the man was blind, said, "Uncle, I want to go back to the old house and find some of his clothes for him to change into."
The clan chief paused for a moment, then said, "Have you seen the wounds on his body?"
"No."
"Hmm, it's better not to look."
After saying that, he handed the key to the old house to Jiang Anshan.
Jiang Anshan hurriedly left and quickly returned with a set of Jiang Songzong's clothes. After unwrapping the jacket he was wearing, he saw what Jiang Songzong looked like and couldn't help but gasp.
Recalling the bits and pieces of Jiang Songzong's childhood, a feeling of suffocation suddenly rose in his chest.
Holding back the tears that welled up in his eyes, he changed Jiang Songzong's clothes before carrying him on his back.
"Uncle, I've taken Zong-ge'er away."
When they reached the courtyard, Jiang Anshan greeted the clan chief and then carried Jiang Songzong outside.
The clan chief was stunned for a moment. Seeing him walk towards Pingshan, as if he intended to just dig a hole and bury the person, he thought to himself, "Aren't you going to hold a funeral?"
Then he thought that his family had been expelled from the clan and could not be buried in the ancestral graveyard, so whether or not they held a funeral, it seemed to make no difference.
Thinking of this, he gave a bitter smile, the cigarette in his hand lost its flavor, he put down the pipe, got up and walked outside.
Some things should be put to rest.
As he pondered, his figure became unsteady, and his head grew even whiter.
Jiang Bai had just arrived home when the clan chief arrived.
They invited the person into the house and brought out their treasured water, but the clan chief didn't touch it. Instead, he told her about the clan's arrangements.
Hearing what the clan chief said to her, Jiang Bai fell into a long silence. After a long while, she asked, "Does the clan mean that from now on, my siblings and I are not allowed to step into the village again? And the land next to our house, as long as I can afford the money, will all belong to our family?"
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