Chapter: 5246

However, this village is not our destination. We're heading to a village on the precipice halfway up the mountain, where the terrain is steep and rugged, with only one treacherous mountain road that can be traversed by motorcycle, but no other vehicles can climb up.

It's good that the mountain road was difficult to walk, but the distance wasn't far after all. The two of us are strong and powerful, so climbing this kind of mountain road isn't even worth mentioning.

So, after walking on the mountain road for more than an hour, the two of them arrived at a small village sitting on the precipice halfway up the mountain.

This mountain village is quite run-down, with most houses being old wooden buildings that are black and worn out, and have been in disrepair for many years.

It seemed to be extremely rare for outsiders to come here, so when the two of them walked into the village, the elderly men sitting at the village head felt rather surprised.

Among the few elderly people at the village gate, Ye Chen did not see that old lady from yesterday. Fortunately, Chen Zekai got some image data from Wan Ba Jun, knowing which path to take from the village gate to get to the old lady's house.

So, even though it was their first time coming here, they still found the old lady's residence with ease.

Ye Chen and Chen Zekai set out early in the morning, but it's already evening now. Smoke is drifting into the yard.

The two wooden gates with worn-out hinges were only half-opened, just enough to see someone walking out from under the cooking canopy in the courtyard and carrying a bundle of firewood from the other end of the yard.

Ye Chen recognized this person as the young son mentioned by Old Lady Jiangnan, who is the only one among her four sons to have grown up to adulthood.

At this time, Old Lady Jiangnan's son did not see the two people standing outside the door. He carried some firewood and went back in again. Ye Chen knocked on the half-opened wooden gate and asked, "Is this the Jiangnan Jiao family?"

The other person stood still, using a Sichuan accent to ask, "Where are you from?"

Upon hearing the other person's inquiry, Ye Chen smiled slightly and said, "You should be Jiangnan Jiao's son? I'm Ye, my father and your respected father are old acquaintances. Let me come over to see Jiangnan."

The other person was surprised to ask, "Do you recognize my son?"

Ye Chen nodded lightly.

At this time, an elderly woman slowly walked out from under the cooking canopy, looking at Ye Chen with some puzzlement and furrowing her brow to ask, "Young boy, do you know my husband?"

Ye Chen said, "You're Jiangnan Jiao, my father knows your husband."

The elderly woman hesitated for a moment and hurriedly said, "Please come in, please come in!"

As she spoke, she quickly told her son, "Quickly invite the guest in, pour the guest some water."

A middle-aged man hurriedly opened the door and said, "Please come in, please come in! Come sit down inside."

Ye Chen nodded his head, thanked him, and then entered the courtyard with Chen Zekai.

This small courtyard was not very large, only a few tens of square meters in size. There were three wooden houses, two grass sheds, one without any shading except for thatched roof, and one with a mud earthen platform below it. Another shed was built along the wall, forming a circular shape, and it looked like a bathroom.

The three wooden houses stood right opposite the main gate. The central hall had its doors open wide, with two rooms on either side, each room having curtains made of cloth to block off the entrance.

Ye Chen and Chen Zekai followed the middle-aged man into the hall, where a long and narrow altar table was placed against the wall, looking very old but well-maintained. The altar table was black and unadorned, giving no hint as to its material, but from the color of the lacquerware, it could be seen that this was indeed an extremely old object.

On top of the altar table, there were incense burners and many tablet tablets, all with names written in them. All the names had the surname Jiang. JrNovels.com