Chapter 429 Scepter
"There really is something!!" Xie Yuzhou squatted on the ground with a look of surprise on his face.
Everyone stepped aside, and Xu Shiyun helped the old lady forward.
The area around the ancestral hall was barren, with weeds growing as high as legs. This was a temporary path cleared by the servants.
The ancestral hall was burned black and had collapsed long ago.
Old Mrs. Ning sighed deeply, squatted down, and picked up the red cloth tremblingly.
After being covered in dust underground for many years, the red cloth has faded slightly.
She lifted a corner of the red cloth. Xie Yuzhou was sharp-eyed and immediately shouted, "It's a pendant..."
A small pendant is hung on a thin silver chain, which looks extremely delicate.
"It looks more like a small scepter..." Xu Shiyun's eyes lit up when she saw the pendant.
The exquisite and small scepter pendant was covered with ancient patterns, and in the center, there seemed to be a gem the size of a fingernail.
"Wow, if this was a big scepter, it would look so intimidating." Xie Yuzhou exclaimed.
Ning stroked the pendant carefully, and felt a sense of closeness to the scepter deep down.
As far as she could remember, it seemed that she had had the pendant hanging around her neck since she was born.
She even remembered the days she spent with the tigress, but she couldn't remember who had put her in the mountains.
"Mom, I'll bring it to you." Xu Shiyun said with a smile.
Xie Yuzhou helped the old lady sit on the doorstep, and Lu Chaochao stood on tiptoe to lift up her grandmother's hair. Xu personally hung the small pendant around her neck.
The sunlight shines on the scepter, and it seems to glow.
Ning gently stroked the pendant, with a nostalgic look on her face.
"I was born without a father or a mother. This pendant is probably something that proves my identity." The old lady sighed.
"Mom, you have us." Xu hurriedly took her hand.
The old lady nodded.
"Since we are back in Taoyuan Village, let's burn some incense to our ancestors. The people in Taoyuan Village are kind-hearted, and it is me who has caused them trouble."
I had already prepared incense, candles, and paper money when I arrived.
At this moment, the guards have already tidied up the place.
Light the incense and the smoke will float straight into the sky.
Ning held incense in both hands, followed by Xu Shiyun and his wife and Lu Chaochao.
"Ning'er has brought the children back to thank the ancestors. Thank you for all the ancestors' protection over the years... It was Ning'er who brought disaster to Taoyuan Village. She is the sinner of Taoyuan Village." Taoyuan Village kindly took her in, but she suffered this disaster.
After the old lady finished paying homage, she felt a little depressed.
"Come back home and have a look. Yun'er, you have never been back to our home." The old lady took her daughter and Chaochao's hands and walked towards the innermost part of the village.
Near the mountainside, there is a small farmyard surrounded by a fence.
However, the original fence has now fallen to the ground and its original appearance can no longer be seen.
"Originally, fruits and vegetables were planted here, and vegetables were planted here. Yes, there is also this tree..." Old Mrs. Ning walked tremblingly to the jujube tree. The palm-sized seedling back then has now grown into a huge jujube tree that people look up to.
“I thought it would die in that fire.”
Now is the picking season, and the trees are full of red dates.
"I planted this tree when I was pregnant with you. I thought I could make snacks for you when you grew up." But I never expected that I would never have a daughter.
"Now I can make snacks too." Xu Shiyun pursed her lips with a smile in her eyes.
The jujube trees grew very well, and the jujubes were so heavy that they bent the trees.
She could pick them with just a slight raise of her hand.
The dates tasted sweet, crisp and delicious: "Mom, they are delicious." She looked at her mother with a smile.
Xie Yuzhou climbed up the tree like a monkey: "If you don't eat them now, they will be ripe. Pick them and make dried dates out of them."
Xie Yuzhou took his servants to pick dates.
Xu helped her mother walk into the house.
"I gave birth to you in this room..." and we also got married in this room.
"I made a lot of clothes for you, but they turned into ashes in the fire."
The old lady cried bitterly in the house.
After a long time, Xu Shiyun helped the old lady with red eyes out of the house.
The old lady had been traveling all night and now she cried again, feeling even more exhausted. Xie Jingxi said, "Let's rest in the village first and return in the afternoon."
Xie Jingxi found a relatively intact house in the village and ordered people to clean it up. They set up camp in the village, and the servants drew some water from the well for their masters to wash.
"Mom, let Yun'er give you a wash." It's not easy to take a bath outside nowadays, but being washed can make you feel more comfortable.
Xu Shiyun brought her maid to clean the old lady.
"Hey..." Dengzhi took off the old lady's clothes.
"Madam, what's on the old lady's back? It looks like a birthmark, but it doesn't quite look like..." The old lady never liked being served by outsiders, and this was the first time someone had combed her hair and washed her.
"It looks more like a painting." Xu Shiyun murmured.
Xu Shiyun was shocked when she saw the marks all over the old lady's back.
The old lady didn't care: "It didn't exist originally."
"When the village was massacred, the whole village was on fire. When I escaped, I was already a burning man. My whole body was on fire. At first, I thought I was going to be burned to death."
At that time, she ran up the mountain madly.
But the more she ran, the bigger the fire on her body became. She felt so much pain that she almost fainted from the burns.
When she was unconscious, she felt as if something was struggling out of her spine.
But when he woke up again, his clothes had been burned to ashes.
Myself, unharmed.
"After the fire, this strange thing grew on my back..."
Lu Chaochao tilted her head and looked at it: "It's a pair of wings."
'No wonder I didn't see it at first. '
'All the breath is sealed in the wings. '
'Oh, the old emperor is going to vomit to death. 'Lu Chaozhao covered her mouth and laughed.
Xu Shiyun lowered her eyelids frivolously, hoping that Lu Chaochao would reveal a few more words in her mind, but unexpectedly, she changed the subject in her mind again.
"Oh, I really want to eat some greasy pork elbow..."
Xu sighed softly.
Nine out of ten sentences she speaks are about food.
"Hurry up and put on your clothes. It's cold today, so you won't catch a cold." To Xu's face, it looked like a pair of wings, but no one dared to look closely. The old lady was too old to withstand the tossing and turning.
After cleaning up, the old lady managed to get some sleep.
Countless nights, she woke up from the fire that year.
This sleep brought her back to her childhood. Although her life was poor and she grew up eating food from many families, she was very happy.
This sleep almost made go away all the knots in my heart from the past.
Even the depression in his brows gradually dissipated.
"There are so many pheasants and rabbits at the door, come and see..." Xie Yuzhou exclaimed at the door, grabbed the chubby rabbit and took a look, it seemed that its neck was bitten off by something.
Rong Che picked it up and looked at it, then said in a serious tone, "A wild beast must have bitten off its neck. It must have been a wolf."
Old Lady Ning couldn't help but laugh: "Wash and chop it up, and add a dish for everyone. It should be given to me."
Just like when I was a kid.
Everyone cheered and the slaughter began immediately.
Half an hour later, gulp, gulp.
There was pheasant soup and mushrooms picked from the mountains in the pot.
The rabbit was placed over the fire, brushed with honey and sprinkled with various seasonings, making a sizzling sound and the air was filled with tempting aroma.
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