novelraw Chapter 276 If that old scumbag really did bury something, where could he bury it?
Chapter 276 If that old scumbag really did bury something, where could he bury it?
When Tong Yuheng and her sister mentioned this man, they showed him no respect whatsoever, calling him an old scumbag! There's probably no one else who could be so despised and hated by their descendants.
"He said it many times: who would believe the words of a drunkard? In the days before he died, he was drunk and talking nonsense. He even said that he hated your great-grandmother and that she looked down on him since he was a child!"
He said he had someone he loved, so why couldn't he just break off the engagement? But the Tong family insisted on keeping their word, and the Guo family elders also wanted to marry a capable daughter-in-law, so they refused to break off the engagement no matter what, ruining your great-grandmother's life!
He also said he'd bury all the things your great-grandmother despised in the Tong family ancestral graveyard, so that even in death he could disgust her! Because of this, I argued with him, but he died a few days later. He was drunk and collapsed on the street, unattended. When I went to collect his body, it was already limp!
When Tong Anfu recalled these events, aside from his anger at his mother's grievances, he felt no lingering affection or sadness for his scumbag father. He truly wished he wasn't his son, that he wouldn't have that single drop of blood from him!
"Grandpa, do you think that old scumbag might have buried those 'treasures' he mentioned in the Tong family's ancestral graveyard? What if he's put something cursed on them?"
Tong Yuheng now knows that before liberation, there were many people in the Xuanmen sect with highly skilled magic, as well as some evil cultivators who made money through shady means and helped people do those shady and harmful things.
"Then let's go back to our hometown and take a look!" Tong Anfu couldn't sit still any longer. If that were the case, he would dig up his scumbag father's grave and scatter his ashes when he got back!
"Grandpa, don't panic. I don't think Guo Siman will give up. Let's..."
Tong Yuheng disliked her constant nagging, but she hadn't done anything wrong, so killing her wasn't an option. He'd rather search the Tong family's cemetery; if there was anything there, he'd just give it to her and tell her to get lost!
They chose a weekend afternoon, and the family set off by car under the pretext of going on a picnic. Their destination was the Tong family's hometown.
This place is less than a hundred miles from Yan City. When he was a child, Grandpa Tong often came back with his mother. Later, after he got married, the Tong family members were scattered all over the place due to the war, so they came less often.
If Tong Jiahui were here, she would probably still have some impression of this place. She came here with her grandmother when she was a child, and Tong Linsheng also lived in this small village when he was young. However, he only came here once, when he first got married, with his wife.
Tong Anfu hadn't been here for many years. His mother's grave wasn't here; the old woman had chosen a burial site on a mountain north of Yanshi, saying that the feng shui there was good and there was no need to return to her hometown for burial.
The Tong family has a rule that daughters who marry out, divorce, or die young are not buried in the ancestral graveyard, and she falls into one of these categories. Even though she is divorced, she is not a member of the Guo family, and therefore will not be buried in the Guo family's ancestral graveyard.
Although this old aunt of the Tong family has made significant contributions to the entire family, and perhaps an exception could be made to allow her to be buried in the Tong family ancestral cemetery, she did not want to make things difficult for her descendants because of this.
The burial site in Beishan was chosen by the old lady herself, by a feng shui master, and was arranged before the liberation. Later, when her health was not good, she took Tong Anfu there and pointed out the location to him.
The old lady said that after she dies, she just wants her only son to come and bury her with his wife and children.
She didn't want any burial goods, nor did she want him to hold a grand funeral, and she tried her best not to reveal the location of her grave to outsiders. If the neighbors asked, they were told that her remains had been sent back to her hometown for burial.
In the old woman's heart, not being buried in the ancestral grave was a shameful thing, and it was probably the biggest regret of her life!
After his mother passed away, Tong Anfu never came back here. Although this was his hometown, in the hearts of the Tong family members, he was just a member of the clan who had changed his surname and was brought back by his married daughter. He was still somewhat different from a true member of the Tong family.
Tongjiazhuang changed a lot in the 1980s. The road leading out of the village was paved with asphalt. Because it was not far from Yanshi, the benefits of the policies reached the village more quickly. Many families built new houses, and several small factories were built in the village.
When they got off the bus, the villagers weren't too curious. Some of the older folks even recognized Tong Anfu and happily came over to greet him. Tong Yuheng and her sisters had never been here before, and the villagers didn't know them.
Tong Yuheng saw a private inn in the village and booked three rooms for the night. The old man stayed in one room, Yuyao and the two children stayed in another, and Tong Yuheng and Xiao Liu stayed in the third.
They planned to go up the mountain the next morning to pay respects to the elders of the Tong family, but in reality, she, her maternal grandfather, and Xiao Liu had already left in the middle of the night. Who would let them dig up ancestral graves in broad daylight?
Tong Yuheng also prepared some incense and offerings to light incense for her grandparents, after all, they had raised her remarkable father. This time, she wanted to move the graves of the two elders to the side of her great-grandmother's grave, and she also wanted to start a new chapter in the Tong family genealogy, beginning with her great-grandmother!
But after that matter is settled, she'll discuss relocating the graves with the villagers. If anyone objects to the relocation, she'll have to have a serious talk with them!
My father was the only bloodline left by my grandparents. The people in the clan just gave him away to a married woman to be her servant. Wasn't that because they didn't want to raise him?
Their son is now a martyr and a hero. Their eldest granddaughter wants to collect her grandparents' remains before burying them. What reason do they have not to let her go?
In the middle of the night, Tong Yuheng gently knocked on his grandfather's door, and the group quietly left the hotel.
Guo Siman was indeed keeping tabs on their family's news. She somehow managed to fool some company boss into sending a driver to follow her over. She even made sure to cover herself up completely, even though the boss had already noticed her.
The group went up the mountain and arrived near the Tong family's cemetery. The densely packed tombstones looked eerie. Tong Yuheng turned on his flashlight and shone it on the tombstones to make out their features. Some of them hadn't been repaired for years, overgrown with weeds, and the inscriptions on them were blurred and difficult to read.
"Grandpa, if that scumbag really does bury something, where do you think he could bury it?"
Tong Yuheng also thought it was unlikely. It was really unreliable to suspect that Guo Yunkai had buried something in the Tong family's ancestral grave based solely on a venting remark from someone who didn't have a normal brain.
"We're just guessing, aren't we? Maybe it's in the Guo family cemetery. Weren't all the Guo family graves dug up a few years ago? If there really was anything there, it might have been dug up by someone else!"
I only remembered the awful things he said before he died, like he wanted to disgust your great-grandmother, so I thought I'd come and check. If he buried a chamber pot here, I'd scatter his bones when I got back!
Tong Anfu was furious when he mentioned his father, and his lifelong composure immediately crumbled.