The next day, Chen Xia and his family followed Chen Shuqin and Lin Hui to Qingfeng Village in Xipu Commune.

Chen Shuqin actually grew up here when she was a child. Although she was only 7 years old when she went to Xiangjiang, she already has some memories.

In order to find her hometown in her memory, Chen Xia specially arranged a boat to take a waterway. Yuezhou is a famous water town in Jiangnan. Even if it is already autumn, the scenery on both sides of the river bank is still as beautiful as the painting.

This made the two Xiangjiang guests very excited and kept taking pictures with their cameras.

"Wow, Xiaoxia, look, this is Taiping Bridge, right? I walked through when I was a child and it has not changed."

"That mountain, is it Osmanthus Mountain? I seem to smell the fragrance of osmanthus. When I was a child, the Empress often took me to make osmanthus and make cakes."

"Are we about to arrive in Qingfeng Village?"

Along the way, the little aunt became very excited and talked a lot. Maybe she didn't know it herself. This is called "near-facing love". Overseas wanderers returned to their hometown decades later in this era, right?

When Chen Shuqin saw her hometown, Chen Yigen on the shore also saw Chen Xia and the others coming over on a boat and had contacted her in advance.

So Chen Yigen asked the people on the shore to set off firecrackers quickly, and even the drum band from Qingfeng Primary School pulled out again.

The pier suddenly became lively. Sure enough, it was different with the "atmosphere group" and it was lively.

Chen Shuqin has been away for many years and has no longer recognized the people in her hometown. When she stepped onto the dock, Chen Xia kept introducing her to her:

"This is the current clan, the fourth uncle, the second uncle, the third uncle, and the seventh uncle. Come and let the fifth uncle come over."

Chen Shuqin quickly greeted her, and her good professional ethics have trained her to be very good at rituals.

"Hello, Uncle Fourth, I am Chen Defa's youngest daughter."

Chen Yigen was excited, "Okay, I know, I know, I hugged you when I was a child. Is Fabi in Xiangjiang now?"

"Brother Fa?" Chen Xia had already gotten off topic and thought about the little brother Ma who was lighting a cigarette with money.

"My father is in good health. This time I came to the mainland for a business trip and also came to take the stand for him. He said he wanted to go back to his hometown for the New Year to see him."

After Chen Shuqin finished speaking, there were cheers around him:

"Brother Fa is coming back, it's great. He was the first person in our village to go to Shanghai Stock Exchange, and later he was the first person to go to Xiangjiang. We could worship him tightly when we were young."

"Yes, every time Brother Fa came back, he would tell us about the lively Shanghai beach, and we liked to circle around him."

"Yes, yes, yes, I also like to listen. The last time he came back, Decai and I were shaking the boat together to send him away."

Several old men were excited and recalled their youth all at once. Chen Shuqin laughed at him. Obviously, he was very interested in his father's appearance when he was young.

I was so happy when I heard everyone say how good my father was back then.

Which father is not the idol in his daughter's mind?

Chen Yigen shouted: "Let's go, Xiaoqin, go to worship your ancestors first, and your grandparents. When they died, they were very concerned about your family."

Speaking of this, Chen Shuqin felt depressed. She lived in Qingfeng Village when she was a child. Her father had been away from home. She grew up with her grandparents since she was a child. In the end, she didn't even know that they died, which was very unfilial.

The people of Xiangjiang are very superstitious, but Chen Xia, the reborn person, is not interested in this kind of pretending to be a ghost.

The Chen Family Ancestral Hall was protected in that era. Although the surface decoration would be smashed, the house was not demolished and the ancestral tablets were hidden.

Usually, I took it out for worship during the Chinese New Year. This time, Chen Shuqin came back and invited all her ancestors out for the first time to let them meet the wanderers in Xiangjiang.

Chen Xia thought to himself that this little aunt was treated well enough, you should know that women did not worship their ancestors in the past.

Chen Shuqin respectfully knelt down and kowtowed, burning incense, and was very serious throughout the whole process, which made Chen Yigen very satisfied. This shows that even though they have been in Xiangjiang for many years, they still recognize their ancestors.

If we really want to recognize our ancestors, the Chaoshan people in Xiangjiang are even more exaggerated and have also led to the prosperity of superstitious activities in the entire Xiangjiang River.

Even though life in Xiangjiang has become very westernized and thinking has become westernized, he is very concerned about the matter of worshiping ancestors, and Feng Shui masters are also particularly popular.

Chen Shuqin was busy having social engagements in the morning. When the villagers of Qingfeng heard that guests came to Xiangjiang, they were like looking at a diorama and surrounded them three times.

Chen Xia had known that this would happen, so she prepared red envelopes and candies early on, and she couldn't buy gifts anyway.

The elders in the village gave a red envelope of 50 yuan per person, and all the underage children gave a red envelope of 20 yuan per person.

This gave out more than 10,000 yuan at once, which was definitely a huge sum, but this red envelope must be sent.

Isn’t it just for this moment to return home in glory? Besides, the money is not a huge sum of money for Chen Shuqin. It is for Chen Defa’s face and for the face of Chen Xia, a tribe member.

The villagers who received such a huge sum of money all praised Chen Shuqin and Chen Defa's family, and also told her about Chen Xia's "benevolence and righteousness".

How can they be unhappy? If Chen Xia is a small "big coin", now another big "big coin" has come...

In the eyes of the villagers, Chen Defa, Chen Decai's family is indeed a family of people, and they all have the habit of spending money and have strong genes.

I wonder if Chen Shuqin knew what the villagers were thinking, and would be so angry that she would return the red envelope.

In the afternoon, Chen Shuqin went to see her old house again. Chen Defa had no travel expenses to go to Xiangjiang, but Chen Decai had already decided to sell the house and property and exchanged for money, so it was no longer her house.

Chen Decai and his parents, wife and children were in the ancestral hall for a while. Later, they built a few thatched huts before they settled down. That was really hard.

This is also what Chen Defa insisted on leaving half of his property for his younger brother's family after he became rich in Xiangjiang. This was what he owed his younger brother and his younger brother's children back then.

However, later Chen Decai and his family were also blessed in disguise. Because the family was poor and clean, the ingredients were determined by poor peasants after liberation, and they did not suffer much in the most chaotic years.

With the intentional concealment of the village cadres, Chen Bingkun and his three brothers were also allowed to go out to serve as soldiers and were not dragged down by overseas relations.

In the afternoon, Chen Shuqin ran to the grave of her grandparents to worship and came to Qingfeng Pharmaceutical Factory outside the village.
Chapter completed!