novelraw Chapter 279 She knew everything he had done, yet she watched him bounce around like a clown.
Chapter 279 She knew everything he had done, yet she watched him bounce around like a clown.
Tong Yuheng truly intended to treat her great-grandmother as the ancestor and establish a separate family genealogy for her lineage. After discussing it with Tong Anfu, the old man was overjoyed.
How the genealogy begins is up to him! The Tong family is doing very well now, with many children and grandchildren. It's only right that his mother sees it and is happy for her.
Tong Yuheng's plan was not only to compile a separate family genealogy, but also to build an ancestral hall. Having a genealogy without an ancestral hall would seem insufficiently dignified.
She has leased the mountain where her great-grandmother is buried, and she's planting fruit trees in the forest. This will also contribute to the local economy.
The local earth god temple on the mountain was also included in the plan. She had someone renovate it into a courtyard-style house, and enclosed her great-grandmother's grave in the back garden.
Tong Anfu entrusted the specifics of the operation to Tong Yuheng, who finalized the plan and then passed it on to Tong Yuchen. As the eldest grandson of the Tong family, how could he not do some work?
Two months later, the original land temple was gone, and a new building was built in its place, which was the Tong Family Ancestral Hall called "Yuqing Hall".
Tong Yuheng painted a portrait of his great-grandmother, which was hung in the center of the main hall, with several memorial tablets placed on the table below.
The topmost tier is the memorial tablet of Tong Yuqing, Tong Yuheng's great-grandmother, and the next row contains the tablets of Tong Yuheng's grandmother, Zhao Ningshuang, as well as her paternal grandparents.
The graves of Tong Yuheng's grandparents have been moved and are now buried next to their aunt, Tong Yuqing. Zhao Ningshuang's grave was originally behind the old lady's, and after Tong Anfu passes away, she will be buried with his wife.
There is also a grave of Tong Linsheng here, and his memorial tablet is placed on the altar. He was the third generation of the Tong family, one level below.
Tong Yuheng was conflicted about setting up a memorial tablet. His father's body had passed away and he had been cremated, so his ashes were here, but his soul was alive thousands of miles away. Should they make a memorial tablet or not?
After asking for his opinion, he said to proceed with it, leaving the body there as an offering, as it wouldn't affect him much now. However, he requested that after Liu Fengyi passed away, his body should still be buried in the Liu family cemetery.
If Jia Hui passes away someday, she must be sent back here and buried with Tong Linsheng!
For those who had passed away, Tong Yuheng hand-wrote a biography for each of them. The Tong family's active support for the revolution and their heroic deeds were all recorded in the book.
The Tong Family Ancestral Hall is built on a mountain, with Yuqing Hall as the main building. The building is small, only about eleven or twelve square meters. There are two small doors on the left and right leading to two side rooms. The main building is usually locked, and these doors are not opened except for the offering of incense and sacrifices during festivals.
The side rooms on both sides were for the Tong family to live in. They would stay here when they came to enjoy the spring scenery or pay respects to their ancestors.
Two rows of dormitories were built on both sides, which were outward-facing rooms for the fruit farmers who looked after the mountain.
The area next to the front gate was converted into a warehouse, where ripe fruit was temporarily stored. The backyard was larger, enclosed by a fence; it served as both a cemetery and a vegetable garden.
Tong Yuheng often comes here to stay for a few days. She feels that her mind becomes more peaceful here.
Perhaps because she has never encountered an opponent with a higher level of cultivation in this world, she is not in a hurry to cultivate, and even wants to resign and retire earlier.
Tong Yuyao: Sister, you're only over thirty, and you already want to retire? Is that okay?
Tong Yuhan: Let's retire! Let's go on an adventure together and find pirate treasure!
Tong Yuheng: You've got to give up. We still have hidden treasures in our own home that we haven't found yet.
Speaking of treasure, Tong Yuheng thought of the painting left by Guo Yunkai that was unclear whether it was a treasure map or not. She searched through her spatial storage and found it; it was indeed the original, unrenovated earth temple.
The original building is now completely gone. After being repaired and deepened, the well is now producing water again. The fruit farmers used to draw water from here when they lived here.
The well walls used to be covered with a thick layer of green moss, but after it was removed, no holes or openings were found.
On this day, Tong Yuheng had a sudden whim and stepped onto his flying sword to land in the well. He used his divine sense to explore inch by inch, trying to see if there were any mechanisms on the well wall.
The investigation revealed a problem: a hidden hole in the well wall about ten meters from the wellhead!
Tong Yuheng quickly pried off the well wall bricks and stored them directly into his spatial storage. He hadn't expected the well wall to be so thick, nearly a meter high!
After the demolition, a hole appeared that was big enough for a person to bend over and enter. Tong Yuheng went in and walked a dozen steps before discovering an underground warehouse connected to it!
Tong Yuheng opened the large door covered with rusty bronze skin, turned around and went out through the hole. The inside felt damp and cold, and had a musty smell. It was really not a good place!
After waiting for a long time, Tong Yuheng went down again, holding his breath as he entered the underground treasure room.
It's not very spacious here. There are a few shelves inside, and different surnames are written on the shelves and boxes!
Wow, these are really treasures stored up by several families. These spoiled brats really trust Guo Yunkai and aren't afraid that he'll take them to gamble!
She believed that Qin Hui also had three good friends!
Two of the five shelves belonged to the Guo family, while the other three shelves bore the surnames of several of my grandfather's equally spendthrift and despicable friends.
Each shelf held seven or eight boxes containing things their ancestors were proud of: official robes, court beads, official hats, various treasures and weapons bestowed by the emperor, the phoenix coronet and embroidered robe of a noblewoman, various jewelry, and imperial edicts collected in the family!
Of course, besides all of this, there were also a box and a half of yellow and white goods, as well as some antiques and calligraphy and paintings, all placed on the bottom shelf of the three-tiered display case. The collection here is of great cultural value.
Upon further searching the Guo family's belongings, Tong Yuheng discovered that in addition to items similar to those found in other households, several extra boxes of gold and silver had been added. Guo Yunkai had also left a letter for Guo Qirun.
The gist of it is that he and his mother are the people he cares about most, and this money is for him and his children in the future.
Actually, he married Tong Yuqing back then because of her ability to manage the household and run the business. At that time, the Guo family was only a facade; they were outwardly strong but inwardly weak!
Tong Yuqing has been married into the Guo family for over a decade and has truly turned the family's fortunes around. All this gold and silver was secretly hidden away by him under various pretexts, and most of the items in those collections were bought with her money.
His words were full of resentment towards his great-grandmother, hating that she always looked down on him with a superior gaze, as if she knew everything he did, yet watched him jump around like a clown.
He suspected that the woman's purpose in having a son with him was simply to abandon the son once he grew up! Therefore, he couldn't like the child at all!
He harbored even deeper resentment towards her for divorcing him without hesitation after his parents' death, taking a large amount of property with her, and even using the officials at the time to suppress him!
Tong Yuheng: Heh, you think you can give me the money my great-grandmother earned to support your mistress and your illegitimate son? You're dreaming! I won't give them a single penny!
Back then, after Tong Yuqing divorced Guo Yunkai, Guo Yunkai went around ruining her reputation. The thought of him condoning his concubine's plot to harm her son made Tong Yuqing determined to show no mercy!
Old Mrs. Tong began to retaliate, suppressing him in business. He was not good at business and loved gambling, so he quickly ruined the Guo family and lived in a small house with his concubine and son.
Because the hidden treasures included items from several other families, he didn't reveal the details to his concubines and illegitimate children at the beginning, causing them to endure a period of hardship.
When he wanted to tell his son Guo Qirun the secret, he never expected that the only person he had ever loved and cherished in his life would run away because she was tired of everything. Even his beloved son abandoned him without hesitation!
He longed to take out the hidden gold and silver to exchange for money, but the world was in chaos at that time, and he dared not go and take it casually. What if he was targeted and ambushed?
Back then, he blocked the entrance so tightly, firstly because he didn't want to be discovered, and secondly because he was afraid he wouldn't be able to control himself and would squander those things!
Now that's great! No one can have any ideas about these hidden treasures belonging to the Guo family anymore; they all belong to us, the Tong family!