There have been no truths or lies in this world from the beginning, only harsh facts. But everyone who exists in this world mistakes the truth that is beneficial to them as facts, and lives like this, because otherwise

There is no other way to survive, but for the majority of powerless beings in the world, those truths that prevent them from affirming themselves are the real facts.

Xu Lang walked into the ancestral hall and at a glance, all he saw were densely packed spiritual tablets.

The ancestral halls still exist in some places, but this is the first time Xu Lang has seen them. Of course, he has seen similar scenes when watching movies and TV series in his spare time. However, the movies and TV series are fake after all.

It didn't make a deep impression on people, but the scene in front of them was particularly impressive.

The spiritual tablets are lined up from top to bottom. Each spiritual tablet has a name, and each name is different. There are names with great cultural connotations, and there are also very common names that are even similar to nicknames. However, they are all

They have one thing in common, that is, they all have the surname Chang.

When he first saw these spiritual tablets, Xu Lang thought that the owners of all the spiritual tablets had the surname Chang. However, as he looked at them, Xu Lang discovered something was wrong. Among these spiritual tablets, there were several people with different surnames.

Xu Yu, Xu Yuan, Lu Ye, Ye Zhenhai, Shu Anguo, Sun Wenyao.

In addition to these people Xu Lang was very familiar with, there was another woman whose name caught Xu Lang's attention, Chang Yunxin.

Chang Yunxin's name immediately suggested that she was a woman. The reason why Xu Lang noticed her was because her tomb was next to Xu Yu's tomb.

Who is Xu Yu? Xu Lang's grandfather. To be honest, Xu Lang is very unfamiliar with this grandfather, because when he was born, his grandfather was gone and he had no impression of him, and Xu Yuan rarely mentioned him. Xu Lang

I only know my grandfather's name, but not much about his past. My grandmother's surname is Su, Su Yunxin. I heard that she is a lady, and her ancestors are from a large and well-off family.

Xu Lang didn't have a deep impression of his grandfather, let alone his grandma. However, when he saw the name Chang Yunxin, the first thing Xu Lang thought of was his grandma Su Yunxin. Except for the different surname, everything else was the same.

Same.

[Why are their spiritual tablets in the ancestral hall of Changjia Village?]

Xu Lang looked at these spiritual tablets with different surnames, and couldn't calm down for a long time, because in addition to the few people Xu Lang knew, there were also several spiritual tablets with the surnames Xu, Lu, Ye, Shu, and Sun. Their tablets were of high rank.

Top.

"Are you shocked?"

Chang Jiu came to Xu Lang at some unknown time, bent down, raised his head, looked at the tablets that he had seen for who knows how many years, and asked.

Xu Lang nodded subconsciously, not only shocked, but simply too shocked.

"Is there anything you want to ask?" Chang Jiu asked again.

Xu Lang hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand, pointed at Chang Yunxin's spiritual tablet and asked, "Who is she?"

"Your grandma."

"..."

Although Xu Lang already had this conjecture in his mind, Xu Lang still found it unbelievable after hearing Chang Jiu say it himself.

"Her surname was originally Chang, but after she married your grandfather, she changed her surname to Su. She is my aunt, my father's sister." Chang Jiu continued.

"Your father?" Xu Lang looked at Chang Jiu in surprise.

Chang Jiu nodded and said, "Yes, my father."

As he spoke, Chang Jiu stretched out his hand and pointed at the spiritual thrones in the third row at the top.

Xu Lang looked in the direction of Chang Jiu's finger, and indeed found that next to Xu Yu and Chang Yunxin, there was also a spiritual figure named Chang, Chang Rufeng.

"What do these spiritual tablets mean? Why are my family members' spiritual tablets here?" Xu Lang couldn't suppress the shock in his heart and asked.

"Because they are all members of Master Chang."

"How is this possible?" Xu Lang lost his voice and said.

"To be precise, they were once part of the 'Master Chang' organization." Chang Jiu explained.

"What's the meaning?"

Faced with Xu Lang's question, Chang Jiu did not give an answer immediately. Instead, he slowly walked out of the ancestral hall, returned to the yard, lay on the recliner, squinted his eyes, and seemed to be recalling something.

Xu Lang took a deep look at the densely packed spiritual tablets, then walked out, sat down next to Chang Jiu again, picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea. He needed to calm down his shock.

"Our Chang family used to be a big family, both a scholarly family and a military family. There were many important figures in the past. However, due to some reasons, the family fell into decline and completely withdrew from the stage of history. 'Master Chang' is

A branch of Hongmen. Later, Hongmen suffered a great annihilation. Our branch began to choose to live in seclusion, came here and established a village."

"In the beginning, there were not only people with the Chang surname in the village, but also many people with other surnames, the people you just saw. When my Taizu left the stage of history, he was a master, and people often called him Master Chang.

, this is the prototype of the 'Master Chang' organization."

"We have lived here for almost two hundred years. At first, we lived and worked in peace and contentment. Later, some people couldn't bear the harsh life and began to leave. Later, when the war broke out, many people in the village left, and most of them left.

Died on the battlefield and never came back."

"During the war years, your grandfather, Sun Wenyao, Ye Zhenhai, Lu

Ye, Shu Anguo and his father all left here. Of course, they were not the only ones who left, there were many, many more. However, only a handful of people survived. Some chose to continue fighting in the later stages of the war.

Some people choose to settle down somewhere, and some people choose to come back here. If ten people go out and one or two people come back, it’s good.”

"It is said that war is a meat grinder. This is absolutely true. Those who can survive are not easy, or they need great luck."

Hearing what Chang Jiu said, Xu Lang was shocked and in disbelief. He didn't expect that grandpa and the others would walk out from here.

In fact, Xu Lang didn't know much about his family's past. When he was a child, Xu Yuan rarely talked about these things. Maybe it was because Xu Lang was too young. Xu Yuan felt that it was unnecessary to tell Xu Lang these things because Xu Lang wouldn't understand them either.

He said it, and when Xu Lang was a little older, he had no chance to say it. However, Xu Lang still didn't believe it. He didn't believe that grandpa and the others came out from here, and he didn't believe that they would be Master Chang.

'People who organize.

"Why should I believe you?" Xu Lang asked.

"hehe......"

Chang Jiu smiled and said, "I didn't ask you to believe me, I just told you the fact."

Xu Lang frowned and looked at Chang Jiu without saying anything.

"Do you know who the first director of the Secret Service was?" Chang Jiu suddenly asked.

"Um?"

Xu Lang was stunned. Who was the first director of the Secret Service? Xu Lang really didn’t know. When he came into contact with the Secret Service, or when he returned to S City last year, who actually met the people from the Secret Service?

Last year during the Chen Qiumin case, he met Ai Jianbo. Although he didn't know who the first director of the Secret Service was, he did know who the current director was. Yes, it was Mr. Deng.

"The first director of the Secret Service also came from our village." Chang Jiu explained.

"How is this possible?" Xu Lang said subconsciously.

In Xu Lang's view, the Special Intelligence Bureau is the Special Intelligence Bureau, and 'Master Chang' is 'Master Chang'. From the moment he came into contact with 'Master Chang', Xu Lang felt that this is a criminal organization, and the Special Intelligence Bureau is a national agency.

, the most important task seems to be to wipe out the 'Master Chang' organization. If the first director of the Secret Service came from Changjiacun, then Changjiacun would have been wiped out long ago, how could it still exist for so many years.

Seemingly seeing what Xu Lang was thinking, Chang Jiu slowly explained: "'Master Chang' was born out of Hongmen, and it really rose to prominence during the war years. However, there was no 'Master Chang' organization at that time, and everyone

We are fellow countrymen and comrades-in-arms. However, after the war, many people have changed. You also know that people who have been on the battlefield and killed people are different from those who have not been on the battlefield. And those who have been on the battlefield are different.

People, after they leave the army, they often feel very uncomfortable."

Xu Lang nodded, that is indeed the case, some people call it post-war syndrome.

Killing seems easy, especially in war years, but to really kill someone requires a lot of courage and a strong psychological quality. When a person retreats from the battlefield, they will be like normal.

People behave differently, being irritable, irritable, drunk, violent, etc.

"Nearly a thousand people left the village back then, but only a few dozen people came back here in the end, and most of them were disabled."

Hearing this, Xu Lang subconsciously looked at Chang Jiu. To be precise, he looked at Chang Jiu's broken leg.

"You guessed it right, I left the village and went to fight, and this leg was blown off on the battlefield. Have you seen my face?" Chang Jiu turned around and looked at Xu Lang and asked.

Xu Lang looked at Chang Jiu's face. It was a very scary face, especially the scars on his face, which were particularly eye-catching and ferocious. It was okay during the day, but if it were an outsider, it would definitely be scary.

"These wounds were bitten off by people. When the bullets are gone and the knife is broken, everything around you will become a weapon, and so will the teeth. I once bitten three people to death with my teeth. Don't you think it's incredible?

Am I talking nonsense?" Chang Jiu asked.

Xu Lang looked at Chang Jiu for a while and shook his head.

Xu Lang was born in a peaceful era. He has never been on the battlefield or served as a soldier. However, Xu Lang still understands things on the battlefield very well, but not so deeply. After all, a person who has never been on the battlefield will

It is impossible to truly feel the cruelty of the battlefield. Being unable to truly feel does not mean that you do not understand. Once people go to the battlefield, especially when facing desperate situations, they will often burst out with great potential and the bestiality of human nature. In order to

To survive, not to mention killing an enemy with teeth, even using more cruel methods is normal.

"Do you know how old I am this year?" Chang Jiu asked again.

"More than seventy, right?" Xu Lang said tentatively.

"No, I am already over ninety, and I am ninety-two years old this year."

"ah?!"

Xu Lang was shocked. The old man in front of him didn't look like a man in his nineties. He looked like he was in his sixties or seventies.

"hehe......"

In response to Xu Lang's shock, Chang Jiu just smiled and said: "I am a few years younger than your grandfather. If you calculate by age, I am your grandfather's generation. However, in terms of seniority, I am the same as you."

Your father is from the same generation."
To be continued...