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"Good morning."

In the morning, Meng Huo yawned and greeted Li Qin, and then took a towel to wash up.

"How did you sleep last night?" Li Qin asked with a smile.

"It's okay, it feels a little like when I was a child."

Meng Huo replied that he and Li Qin slept at his grandmother's house last night, which actually surprised him.

When he came home the year before last, the old couple still wanted to chat more with their grandchildren, and they didn't want their mother and son to stay overnight. The old man had a bad temper, but his concept was very traditional. They believed that the children born to their sons were their grandchildren, so the old man didn't love Meng Huo and his aunts' children very much.

Originally, Meng Huo was ready to return to the county to stay in a hotel, but he didn't expect his uncles to take the initiative to leave with a few children last night, so he stayed. He hasn't lived here for many years, and he misses it a bit, but speaking of it, he prefers to go to a hotel, there is nothing in this rural place. The two old people don't watch TV either, so they have nothing to do at night except chat.

"Xiao Huo, follow me to the ancestral hall before dinner."

Li Qin said again.

The ancestral hall, one of the ancient buildings in China, is found in almost every village, which is a little different from Meng Huo's previous life. Most of the ancestral halls in his previous life were located in the southern region. The ancestral halls in the northern region were torn down and smashed during several campaigns after liberation, and ancestral tablets and even some family trees were burned and destroyed.

Qingcheng County is located in the south, so Meng Huo is very familiar with the ancestral hall. However, there is another person, He Xi's hometown is in the north, when Meng Huo and she talked about this topic together, she had no idea what an ancestral hall is and what it does...

Meng Huo felt a sense of nostalgia. At that time, Hexi was the first time to show that she was not omnipotent. He still remembered Hexi's a little annoyed face when he questioned him. But this world should never be seen again, when traveling. Meng Huo discovered that the ancestral hall culture in China has not been damaged, and the north has a good inheritance. Jose in this world should also know about ancestral halls.

"Pity……"

Meng Huo sighed, washed his face and followed Li Qin to the ancestral hall.

There are differences in the folk culture of each region. In Qingcheng County. On the first day of the new year, every household, including county residents, will offer incense to their ancestors and set off a cake of firecrackers in the ancestral hall to celebrate. In today's activities. People in the county usually burn incense at home, and then return to their hometown after breakfast.

People in the village must come to the ancestral hall early in the morning to offer incense.

Li Qin also wants to offer incense, she does not have a formal husband's family. So the identity is still a member of the Li family. But Meng Huo could only stand at the side of the ancestral hall and watch his mother offer incense with a few unmarried women. He had been unable to participate in this activity since he was a child, and his status was not even comparable to those women who married to Li Village. He is not regarded as a member of the Li family by others.

It's always been like this, but this time it seems to be different.

"Meng Huo, you also go to burn a stick of incense."

The old man in the village who was in charge of revising the genealogy suddenly walked up to Meng Huo and said this. Meng Huo was slightly surprised: "No. How can this be possible!"

He quickly refused, but the old man explained.

"You were raised by Li Qin, and you don't have a father, so you are actually a member of our Li family. This year you have come of age and are eligible to go to incense."

The old man's explanation silenced Meng Huo, and his age had nothing to do with this event. The village did not admit that he was the key. Meng Huo seemed to have discussed his surname in the village when he was a child. Li Qin's experience was a bit embarrassing, but she was still considered to be from the Li family, so Meng Huo could also be identified as Li at the beginning. descendants of the family.

This is the same as when a man marries, the child takes the mother's surname. As long as the village speaks, Meng Huo can become "Li Huo" and join the family tree. But in the end the village did not admit that Meng Huo was regarded as an outsider no matter how big or small it was, including activities such as sweeping tombs during the Qingming Festival. But now the old man's attitude suddenly changed, and he wanted to accept Meng Huo again. But now, what is the point of this matter?

"No, I'm an outsider, just take a look."

Meng Huo said with a smile. Disappointment flashed across the old man's face, and he left with a sigh.

"Look, I knew the kid wouldn't agree..."

"Sigh...the village shouldn't be so harsh back then, but now that he is rich and powerful, it will be difficult for us to curry favor."

"It's such a pity. If he had changed his surname back then, now this child would have honored his ancestors for us..."

Hearing a lot of small talk, Meng Huo smiled wryly in his heart. In the final analysis, it was a matter of strength - if you have strength, you can change everything around you, and if you don't have strength, you won't be able to please anyone. Every year, Li Village will celebrate with great fanfare as long as a college student is born. This village has a history of hundreds of years, but so far no one with the status of Meng Huo has appeared. Back then, he did not agree to change Meng Huo's surname to join the family tree. This matter was destined to make the old people in the village regret it.

But they didn't seem to give up. After burning the incense, all the respectable people in the village came to chat with Meng Huo. Meng Huo's grandparents seemed to agree to this approach, and their eyes towards Meng Huo became more cordial.

But to be honest, Meng Huo didn't expect such a scene to appear, which made him a little embarrassed. Fortunately, he was very lucky. When Li Qin didn't have enough authority to help him, Yang Long from the county government arrived.

"Mr. He Xi, the county magistrate would like to invite you to drink tea."

He appeared like a savior, and while apologizing to the elders, Meng Huo left with Yang Long with a secret smile in his heart. The county magistrate invited, and all the old people in the house did not dare to come out to stop them. They all froze in place, watching Meng Huo leave with Yang Long, the old people started to riot.

"Why did the county magistrate personally send someone over to invite him?"

"That's the magistrate of a county, our parent officer! It seems that it is true that the government helped us build roads to please Meng Huo. How powerful is this kid now? Even the county magistrate wants to Please him?"

"We can't let this kid go away like this. We'll wait here for him to come back. We must let him join the family tree! Li Qin, you mother should help us persuade him!"

"That's right, he doesn't have a father, our village is his home!"

The old people were talking excitedly, and Li Qin was dripping sweat listening to it. She likes Meng Huo's current surname very much. In fact, she never thought of letting her son join the Li family, but in front of these elders, her seniority is too low, and people can't say anything. Come back later.

Meng Huo did indeed plan to do this. He met the county magistrate, and there was nothing to say during the meeting. The county magistrate of Qingcheng County gave Meng Huo a good feeling—"As expected of an official, he speaks and acts better than a businessman." Sleek."

The county magistrate was very enthusiastic, and people who were immersed in the officialdom had a very strong ability to observe words and demeanor. During the chat between the county magistrate and Meng Huo, Meng Huo did not feel any pressure. And he also expressed the wishes of the county government. The wishes of the county government are very simple. They hope that Meng Huo, as a native of Qingcheng County, can make some contributions to the city.

For example, when you are interviewed by the media, you can praise your hometown, when you draw comics, you can describe some scenery of your hometown, or when you have the idea of ​​developing inland in the future, you can invest and build a factory in Qingcheng County... Generally speaking, things are For some political incidents, the county government hoped that Meng Huo would make some contributions to the development of his hometown if possible.

Meng Huo agreed. These things were very simple. He didn't have a strong love for his hometown, but he himself was willing to help his hometown develop as much as possible.

The Qingcheng county government valued its relationship with him, and Meng Huo was very happy. He has been planning to establish a charitable fund for some time, and it will officially start next year. It just so happened that the government of Qingcheng County liked it, so Meng Huo decided to use this as a key experimental area. This small county is not rich, and the charitable foundation has played a big role. role.

When the county magistrate learned about this, he was very excited and thanked Meng Huo on the spot. If the charity fund was successful, it would be beneficial to Qingcheng County. After chatting all morning, the two had lunch together. Meng Huo asked the county magistrate to send someone to Li Village to bring the luggage. He decided to return to Ninghai early on the grounds that he was busy with work.

Yang Long sent Meng Huo to the station, and even bought the high-speed rail ticket.

"Thank you." After Meng Huo said goodbye to Yang Long, he walked into the waiting hall wearing a hat and scarf. However, just after he passed the checkpoint, when he picked up his luggage, he saw a familiar person in the waiting hall——Shen Jie, with her small suitcase, was engrossed in reading a book in her hand in the waiting seat.

"Why is she here?"

Meng Huo wondered, did Li Qin tell Shen Jie that he would leave Qingcheng at this time?

But this is impossible, Meng Huo didn't inform Shen Jie at all when he came back this time, and the decision to leave was just made not long ago. Li Qin only found out when the county government sent someone to pick up the luggage. In such a short period of time, it was impossible for Shen Jie to get the news, buy a ticket, and sit in the waiting hall in advance to wait.

It's just a coincidence——

"..."

At this time, Shen Jie seemed to notice the strange gaze, she put down the book in her hand and turned to look over. Meng Huo's heart skipped a beat. Although there was a hat and scarf to cover it up, there was no reason at all. He knew that Shen Jie would recognize him.

Sure enough, just as Shen Jie looked over, her face was slightly startled, and then immediately burst into a smile of surprise and joy.

"Meng..." She wanted to shout out, but she stopped in time, got up and said, "When did you return to Qingcheng?"

"Yesterday." Meng Huo replied, "I only stayed for two days, so I didn't inform you. Why did you leave so early?"

On the first day of the new year, even the third year of high school did not start, he didn't understand why Shen Jie left Qingcheng so early.

"I have training." Shen Jie took Meng Huo to sit down, and then said with a smile: "Because school hasn't started yet, I want to seize this time to learn more." ()