The two came to the Li's Ancestral Hall and pushed open the door. There were several middle-aged people cleaning inside. They saw a man and a woman wearing hats and sunglasses coming in.
When one of the gray-haired middle-aged men saw Long Fei and Tao Xiang, he walked over and asked, "What are you two doing here, young men?"
Tao Xiang asked, "Excuse me, is there a tombstone of a person named Li Weilang here?"
"Li Weilang, wait a minute, let me check it." The middle-aged man with gray hair went to check the family tree.
Long Fei and Tao Xiang sat on a long chair.
Taoxiang felt a little nervous. When she was a child, she still remembered the kind faces of her grandparents.
Soon, a middle-aged man with gray hair came up to the two and said, "There is indeed a tombstone for Li Weilang. Please come with me."
Long Fei and Tao Xiang followed the gray-haired middle-aged man to a place and saw a wooden plaque with the words "Li Weilang's tombstone" and a wooden plaque next to it with the words "Li Weilang's wife Huang Qiuxia". There were two urns placed in front of the two tombstones.
Taoxiang's eyes were red and tearful.
A bald middle-aged man came up to Long Fei and Tao Xiang and asked, "Excuse me, who are you to Li Weilang?"
Long Fei replied: "Relatives."
The bald middle-aged man looked a little unconvinced.
Tao Xiang asked the bald middle-aged man in a crying voice: "Excuse me, old man, do you know my grandfather?"
The bald middle-aged man narrowed his eyes and said, "You are Li Weilang's granddaughter. It's impossible. His eldest son and his family had already immigrated to Jupiter. Even if his granddaughter is still alive, she would probably be 70 years old this year."
"Ake, you can still stay young even at 70."
"That's right." The middle-aged man nodded, and then said to Taoxiang with a somewhat unfriendly look: "Little girl, I don't know why you said you are Li Weilang's granddaughter. After all, the Jupiter Federation where his eldest son and his family immigrated to hasn't had any contact with us for 50 years. The eldest son's family has long lost contact."
Taoxiang explained the whole incident to the bald middle-aged man. Seeing that he still looked unconvinced, Taoxiang took out a childhood photo of herself with her parents and grandparents.
The bald middle-aged man looked at the photo with a shocked expression, and then compared the little girl in the photo with Taoxiang's appearance.
The bald middle-aged man's expression finally eased, and he said with some relief: "Uncle, your eldest son's daughter is here to see you, and your granddaughter is here to see you."
Taoxiang was shocked. She didn't expect that the bald middle-aged man was her relative. No wonder he looked so unfriendly just now.
The bald middle-aged man immediately introduced himself: "My father and your grandfather are brothers, and your father is my cousin, so you should call me uncle. My name is Li Wenke."
"Hello, Uncle Wen Ke."
"Put some incense on your grandparents."
Taoxiang immediately lit incense and placed it in her grandparents’ incense burner, then knelt in front of her grandparents’ tombstones and kowtowed.
Taoxiang was in tears at this time. She stood up, but was unsteady and had to rely on Longfei to support her.
Taoxiang was crying on Longfei's shoulder at this time, and Longfei patted Taoxiang's back to comfort her.
The middle-aged man with gray hair patted Li Wenke on the shoulder and left the scene on his own.
Li Wenke's eyes were filled with tears. He didn't expect that after so many years, he would still meet his uncle's descendants.
After Taoxiang stabilized, she said to Li Wenke: "Uncle, I want to know how grandpa and grandma came back here in the end."
"This is your uncle's family who brought your grandparents back."
"Where are uncle and the others?"
Li Wenke looked a little unhappy, but he finally made up his mind and pointed his chin at the tombstone of Li Weilang and his wife.
Taoxiang looked towards the tombstones of her grandparents, covered her mouth with both hands, and was unsteady on her feet, almost fainting. Long Fei immediately hugged Taoxiang.
"Help her to the chair first." Li Wenke pointed to a bench.
Long Fei supported Taoxiang and let her sit on the bench.
It turned out that what Taoxiang had just seen were the tombstones of her uncle and aunt.
Long Fei said to Li Wenke: "Old man, I would like to ask, what happened to Taoxiang's uncle and his family?"
"Alas, Mr. and Mrs. Weilang were originally taken home by their second son's family to enjoy their old age. The second son and his wife had a pair of children, and the three generations of the family lived happily together. Later, there was a car accident during a family trip, and the second son's family of four died in the car accident. Although the two elders were rescued and came back alive, they died of excessive grief after learning about the death of the second son's family."
Li Wenke looked at Taoxiang who was crying very sadly, reached out and patted the back of Taoxiang's hand, and said apologetically: "Niece Taoxiang, don't blame your uncle for being rude to you before, because we all thought that the line of our uncle was extinct."
"It's okay, uncle."
Taoxiang never expected that she had heard her father say before that he had a younger brother, and she thought she could still meet her uncle and his relatives, but she didn't expect that they were no longer in this world.
"Uncle, can I take away the tombstones and urns of my grandparents, uncle and his family?"
"I need to tell the person in charge of the ancestral hall about this."
Li Wenke walked into an office in the ancestral hall.
Taoxiang once brought her younger sister on the Jupiter spacecraft. She once thought that if possible, she wanted to leave her younger sister to be taken care of by her grandparents, so that at least her younger sister could go to school like ordinary children.
Unexpectedly, after the Jupiter spacecraft accident, so many things happened during the more than 50 years that the two sisters were sleeping.
Soon, a middle-aged man who was slightly younger than Li Wenke came to Long Fei and Tao Xiang accompanied by Li Wenke.
The middle-aged man was the person in charge of the Li family's ancestral hall. He came to Taoxiang and said, "Uncle Weilang, you can't take away the tombstones of their family, but I can allow you to take the urn. You can ask the master here to make a tombstone for you. We also need you to fill in the genealogy of our Li family for Uncle Weilang, so that the genealogy can record that Uncle Weilang has a granddaughter."
"OK, thanks."
"By the way, where are your parents?"
"Mom and Dad are gone."
"Is that so? Then we will also make a tombstone for your parents. If you can come here in the future, please pay more respect to our Li family's ancestors."
"Okay, I have a younger sister, so I'll make a record for my sister as well, okay?"
"Why doesn't your sister come?"
"She's still a child."
"Oh, I see. Sure. You can help your sister record it."
Then, Taoxiang wrote down her and her sister's names on her father's side of the Li family's genealogy.
Afterwards, Taoxiang burned another stick of incense to the ancestors of the Li family, representing her recognition of her ancestry.
Then, Li Wenke took Long Fei and Tao Xiang to the shop of a master who specialized in making tombstones and gravestones, and asked him to make the tombstone.
Long Fei sighed inwardly, "Some of the traditional customs in this world are almost the same as those in the previous world."
Then, Long Fei suddenly remembered a man named Boss Sun, and asked Li Wenke, "Uncle Li, I want to ask you about a man named Boss Sun. What's the matter with this man? He wanted to develop someone else's store, but he sent some thugs to drive the person away."
Li Wenke showed a hint of disgust, then shook his head and said, "You don't need to know who this person is. You just need to know that he is a well-known bully who colluded with officials and businessmen here."
Long Fei told Li Wenke what had happened today.
Li Wenke sighed and said, "The old restaurant you mentioned is a local villager. It was run by a couple with great effort. After the husband died, the wife ran it alone. Originally, there was nothing wrong with it, but that guy surnamed Sun took a fancy to the shop on the whole street owned by the proprietress. Originally, if he was willing to pay a considerable amount of compensation to the shop owners in that row, most of them would be willing to move away. But the money he gave was very small, so those shop owners were unwilling to leave. He hired local and foreign thugs to beat up those shop owners at night. Many shop owners were beaten away by them. Some shop owners wanted to go to the Municipal Council to appeal, but unfortunately they were either intercepted by them halfway or had no place to complain. Everyone here knows that the Municipal Council has been bribed by them."
Long Fei nodded after hearing this. No matter where they are, the people at the bottom are always bullied by those at the top. If the people at the bottom don't want to be bullied, they can only try their best to climb up.
At this time, Long Fei's cell phone rang. It was a message. After Long Fei took a look, he said, "Uncle Li, I have something to do. I have to excuse myself for a moment."
"good."
Tao Xiang watched Long Fei leave the scene, and immediately chased after him and asked, "What happened?"
"Something happened in that store."
Taoxiang understood what Long Fei meant and immediately followed Long Fei to the old restaurant where they had breakfast.