Chapter 437 Hongjia Village 2
"Xing'er, Xing'er is alive, that's great, Xing'er is back alive." The old man staggered, and a man next to him hurriedly supported him and shouted, "Slow down, slow down, don't fall down."
"Dad, Dad, I'm back, I'm still alive. Your unfilial daughter has come back to see you!" Hong Xing ran forward a few steps, knelt in front of the old man's legs, hugged his legs and burst into tears.
"Get up, get up," the old man tapped the floor with his cane, crying, "Get up, don't kneel, it's not your fault, you won't be punished."
Hong Xing stood up with the help of his elder brother, his eyes were redder than a rabbit's.
"Big sister." The man next to the old man shouted.
"Little brother, you have grown so tall." Hong Xing stepped aside and supported the other side of the old man.
"Dad, this is my savior, Yike. This is her husband, Ziyi. And that's someone from their village, Chen Dawang. They sent me back." Hong Xing gave a brief introduction.
This is their external statement until things are decided.
There weren't many people gathered in the village, probably only a dozen or so. They heard that Hong Xing was dead last time, but they didn't expect that he was not dead and came back alive.
"Xing'er, you look very healthy. You don't look like you're suffering." A woman came forward and held Hong Xing's hand. "Wow, your hands are full of flesh. This means you're living a good life. How can you say you starved to death?"
"Aunt, I almost starved to death. It was my benefactor who saved me. Otherwise, the grass on my grave would be very tall." Hong Xing pointed at Yi Ke and said with a smile, "This is my benefactor. He saved me, my husband and my child, and arranged jobs for us. We don't have to worry about our lives, and now I'm gaining weight."
"Xing'er, this is a blessing in disguise." A man in his fifties said, "Brother, you must treat Xing'er's benefactor well. I have some cured rabbit meat at home, I'll go get it for you."
"I have a piece of wild boar meat at home, too, uncle. I'll get it to entertain the benefactor."
"Oh, I still have a few Chinese cabbages. I'll pick them to treat my benefactor."
"I still have mushrooms. I'll go home and get some."
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In an instant, the people who had just surrounded him dispersed, saying things like going home to get something to entertain their benefactor.
Yike and Ziyi were both very satisfied. This was a village with a human touch.
As Yi Ke walked into the village, a thick and big old locust tree came into view.
"This tree is more than a thousand years old. When our ancestors came here, it took two people to hug the trunk of the tree. Our ancestors felt that since this tree could grow so big on such a rocky mountain, it must have spirituality. This is one of the reasons why our ancestors settled here." Hong Xing's father introduced the old locust tree.
There is a well on the left side of the old locust tree. The well mouth is higher than the ground and is surrounded by long bluestones in a square shape. Unlike the wells outside, which have round well mouths.
The ground around the well is paved with rectangular bluestones. Each stone is about one meter long and forty centimeters wide, with even stripes on it. They were probably carved by stonemasons and should be non-slip.
There is a pool on the outside of the well, which is full of water. The water is so abundant that it ripples and flows out along a small ditch on the outer edge.
Yike found it strange. The pool was not much lower than the well water, so how could there be excess water flowing out?
She looked carefully and found a leaking hole in the wall of the well on the pool side. When the water in the well overflowed to the leaking hole, the water flowed out of the leaking hole, into the drainage ditch under the bluestone slab, and then into the pool.
To the right of the well is the ancestral hall. There is a majestic stone lion on each side of the entrance to the ancestral hall, and a high pink and white stone wall. The gate of the ancestral hall is exquisite, with carved brackets under the beams and exquisite patterns carved around the plaque. The entire ancestral hall looks tall, broad and majestic.
Yi Ke couldn't help but be amazed when he saw it. The ancestors of Hongjia Village probably used all their savings to build the ancestral hall, otherwise why would their descendants live in thatched houses made of mud bricks?
Yi Ke really guessed the truth. When the ancestors of the Hong family fled here, they did use all their money to build the ancestral hall. The main reason is that they were prime ministers before they fled, so the ancestral hall they built was naturally built according to the prime minister's standards. It's just that the deceased ancestors enjoy happiness in the ancestral hall, while their descendants suffer outside the ancestral hall.
"Hong Xing, it's really you." A woman came out of a thatched house and shouted in surprise when she saw Hong Xing.
"It's me, cousin. I'm back." Hong Xing walked towards the woman happily.
Yike also looked in the direction of the voice and saw that the person calling Hong Xing was Yu Rui.
Yu Rui also looked at Yi Ke, then she dropped the basin in her hand and rushed towards Yi Ke in surprise.
Hong Xing thought that Yu Rui was running towards her, so she walked towards Yu Rui excitedly, and then the two of them passed each other perfectly. Hong Xing looked at Yu Rui's cousin-in-law in astonishment as she ran past her with an excited look on her face.
Hong Xing felt a little disappointed because her cousin's wife was not excited just because she saw her. She turned around to see who her cousin's wife was excited about, and she saw her cousin's wife tightly holding Yi Ke's hand, and said excitedly: "My benefactor, you are finally here. I have been waiting for you to come."
Yu Rui was so excited that she used a lot of force on her hands. She tried to pull her hands away but failed. She could only comfort herself: "It's okay to shake hands, as long as you don't kneel down."
Yi Ke thought to himself, but said, "Look, I'm here, aren't I? Haha."
"Come to my house and I'll cook for you. And Yang'er always wants to thank you for saving his life." Yu Rui said. Ziyi came out after visiting the ancestral hall and smiled when he saw Yike and Yu Rui.
"My benefactor, you are here too, that's great." Yu Rui shouted happily.
"Aunt, just call me Ziyi. There's no point in calling me a benefactor. We came here just to see you." Ziyi said.
"Yes, auntie, just call us by our names - Ziyi and Yike." Yike also said.
"Come to my house and sit down. I'll ask someone to call the head of the household back." Yu Rui said as she pulled Yi Ke to her house and said to Hong Xing, "Hong Xing, you should also come to my sister-in-law's house and sit down. Let's have lunch together at noon."
Yu Rui didn't give anyone present a chance to speak. She just talked to herself and took Yi Ke back home.
“Xiaoyue, Xiaoyue.” Yu Rui shouted as she entered the house, “Go to the mountain and call your father back. The benefactor has come. Tell him to come back quickly.”
Yike didn't have a chance to speak the whole time. He could only listen silently to Yu Rui talking and calling out to people.
"Benefactor, where is the benefactor?"
A cute little voice came from the room, and Hong Yang ran out of the wing room, asking as he ran.
"Hey, this sister Yike and brother Ziyi are both your benefactors."
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