Chapter 796 Jiang Clan Ancestral Hall
That night, Jiang Qilan booked a high-speed train back to his hometown.
The departure time is a few hours later in the morning.
After booking the tickets, Jiang Qilan fell asleep again.
This time, he didn't dream about anything.
Before departure, Jiang Qilan sent a message to Nolan, telling him his itinerary so that Nolan didn't have to worry.
It was almost time. Jiang Qilan picked up his satchel, put a blue baseball cap on his head, put on a black mask, and set off.
Jiang Qilan's hometown is Hongcang Prefecture, which is very close to Hangzhou. It only takes three and a half hours to take the high-speed rail from Maple City back to Hongcang Prefecture.
——Although the Special Security Bureau cannot have direct contact with Jiang Qilan, it has been protecting him secretly.
What's more, the United Economic Association is now in chaos, and no one cares about Jiang Qilan's movements.
After getting off the high-speed rail, Jiang Qilan rented a car - the Jiang Clan Ancestral Hall is located in the suburbs of Hongcang Prefecture, and the transportation is very inconvenient. There is only one long-distance bus a day, and he has already missed it.
It took almost an hour to drive from the city to the ancestral hall.
Many large families like to build ancestral halls in remote mountains and forests, away from the world and not easily disturbed by others. They can safely protect the good fortune of the family's descendants.
The same is true for Jiang's ancestral hall.
Jiang Qilan parked the car at the foot of the mountain and walked up the mountain.
The ancestral hall covers an area of thousands of square meters and is built halfway up the mountain, with the mountains at its back and the water source facing the water source. There are few people coming and going.
At the end of a deep path, the archway of Jiang's ancestral hall appeared in front of us.
The ancestral hall was surrounded by lush trees, and it was quiet. There were only a few thin magpies jumping under the archway. When they saw Jiang Qilan, they fluttered their wings and flew high.
A plaque hangs high in the center of the archway with four characters: Jiang's Ancestral Hall.
The red letters on the black background and the mottled paint give it a sense of historical vicissitudes.
Jiang Qilan stood under the plaque, looked at it for a while, then looked around to make sure there was no one around, then took off his baseball cap and put it into his bag.
"I'm back." Jiang Qilan said.
I don’t know if I’m talking to myself or to someone else.
After saying this, he took a breath, raised his legs, crossed the high threshold, and walked into the gate of the ancestral temple that had been away for more than twenty years.
A smell of antiquity came to my face, and everything I saw was ancient relics, without any trace of modernization——
A door seems to separate two periods of time and space.
There was a thick pile of fallen leaves in the yard, and it seemed that no one had cleaned it for a long time.
There was a big broom and a basket at the base of the wall. Jiang Qilan stepped on the fallen leaves and walked over. The big broom was still usable.
He rolled up his sleeves and started cleaning the yard.
After a while, all the fallen leaves in the yard were swept to the corner, and Jiang Qilan used a basket to carry them out of the ancestral hall——
He had been feeling depressed the past few days, but now that he was cleaning the fallen leaves and seeing the yard become tidy, he felt much better.
However, he encountered a strange situation when he was a child, but he never appeared.
——Is it because it is noon?
——Or is it because I am no longer the little Douding I once was?
The fear he once felt towards the ancestral temple disappeared without a trace. He only felt that he was in the ancestral temple and gained a rare peace and tranquility in his heart.
After sweeping the yard, Jiang Qilan walked into the ancestral hall where the sculptures and tablets of his ancestors were enshrined. The statues of his ancestors had long been damaged and their faces could not be seen clearly. On the other hand, the names of Jiang clan members carved on the wall on the right side have not suffered any wear and tear.
Jiang Qilan stood in front of the wall of names and felt quite emotional. When he was a child, he thought the wall was unusually tall, but when he came back today, it felt quite small.
The walls were covered with a thick layer of dust and tattered spider webs.
He found a small broom beside the altar table in the ancestral hall. He patted the dust on the broom and began to clean the name wall.
After the dust and spider silk were swept away, he took out a wet tissue from his bag and wiped it little by little.
While wiping, read the name.
In the past, you had to look up to see some names, but now you have to squat half down to see some names.
Each name once represented a living life, and these lives were related to him by blood. Jiang Qilan found it very strange.
While wiping, Jiang Qilan's hand paused - he touched a name with "Lan" in it.
【Jiang Youlan】.
There are many things to pay attention to and taboos about when naming a large family.
The family tree will have a set of character generations in a specific order, and descendants must be named according to the character generations.
The Jiang family has a total of eighteen characters: "Xian, Shi, Zhen, Qi, You, Xiao, Wei, Dao, Duan, An, Ding, Xiu, Sheng, Qing, Wen, Yang, Ze, Guang".
Jiang Qilan and Jiang Qiyun are both from the "Qi" generation.
As for taboos, descendants will generally avoid taboos in the names of their ancestors, and words used by their ancestors will not be used again.
Maybe it was an oversight. Jiang Qilan thought.
He continued to wipe.
After two generations, the word "Lan" appeared again.
【Jiang Daolan】.
Jiang Qilan felt something unexpected happen in his heart. He stopped wiping the work, ignored the dirt, and lay on the wall looking for——
He wanted to see if the word "LAN" would appear again.
