Chapter 146: Zhou Family Archway (Part 1)

Although Zhoujiazhai is deep in the mountains, due to the surrounding mountain roads, convenient transportation, and the like Chenjiachong, a large number of goods are transported from here to Zhili, causing prosperity here. There are many restaurants, teahouses, theaters, and brothels and tobacco shops in deep streets and dark alleys. There are more people in a small town than in a big town like Xuanhua. Most of the people living here have more or less relationships with the Zhou family. They are either hereditary long-time workers of the Zhou family or distant relatives of the Zhou family. They all make a living under the Zhou family's cute shade and have a strong sense of belonging to the Zhou family.

Due to the relationship between the Huang family brother and sister, many wealthy and powerful people around came over to ask for divination during this period. However, since the Zhoujia Village was haunted, the number of people has decreased a lot, but there are still people who have taken advantage of the day to come to Zhoujia Village. During the period when these wealthy and powerful people lived in Zhoujia Village, they also made a lot of prosperity in Zhoujia Village. All the shops of all sizes of Zhouzhuang made a fortune. Unlike other aristocratic families, the Zhou family only accounted for a small part of the large number of shops in Zhoujia Village, and most of them were opened by outsiders. This caused a lot of people to flow here, causing the Zhou village to keep fresh blood coming in. Although I don’t know which Zhou family thought of this, the Zhou family could share money with the people and strengthen themselves with the people. No matter how you look at the Zhou family, the Zhou family has the courage that other big families do not have.

The people of Zhoujiazhai are obviously very familiar with Zhou Zhenglin and have a very good relationship. Many people come forward to greet Zhou Zhenglin when they see him riding a horse and say hello warmly, just like they meet their relatives and friends, and they do not seem restrained because of Zhou Zhenglin's identity. Zhou Zhenglin returned the greetings one by one, and could almost call out the names of all the people who greeted him, know their current life situation, and promised to solve their problems one by one. Seeing this scene, Xu Changqing could only think of the four words that the people wanted, and couldn't help but feel more favorable to Zhou Zhenglin.

When the group walked through the outer town in front of Zhoujiazhai and officially entered the residence of the Zhou family, Xu Changqing suddenly froze as if he had been struck by lightning, and his eyes were straight at the front door of the entrance of Zhouzhuang. Zhouzhuang was surrounded by a moat, and the streets extended toward was a small bridge. The small bridge was a very common moon arch bridge in Jiangnan. What really attracted Xu Changqing's attention was the huge chastity arch on the opposite bank of the arch bridge. This arch was built in antique, for at least two or three hundred years. The wind, dragons and phoenixes on the arch were carved, and there were all kinds of birds and beasts. The four pillars underground were made into four great valiant masters, carried by four black turtles. In the center of the arch was the four big characters Zhenxin Yongjie. The lower end was written by Kangxi in four Manchu, Mongolian, Tibetan and Chinese characters.

Xu Changqing had seen this archway. When he used the Zhoutian Lingzhi Dafa to reverse his mother's fate, he saw a lot of information about his mother's identity. Most of his memories were sealed by the heavenly sentencing because of the heavenly observation of fate. Only this huge chastity archway and some things around the archway were always left in his memory, becoming the only clue for him to find his mother's mother's home. The chastity archway in front of him was exactly the same as the chastity archway he had, even the stone turtle that carried the archway and the arch bridge in front of the archway were not bad at all. He suddenly felt unprecedented excitement in his heart. Although the expression on his face was still calm, his eyes emitted a hot sight that was enough to burn everything.

"Mr. Xu, is there any problem?" Unlike Xu Changqing's heart, his body emitted a chill at this moment. The chill was vaguely felt by the extremely sensitive Zhou Zhenglin, so he looked at Xu Changqing in confusion and asked.

"Nothing!" Xu Changqing took a few deep breaths, calmed down his mood with his years of cultivation in Taoism, and said expressionlessly: "I didn't expect that your Zhou family actually had a archway written by Emperor Kangxi, which is really surprising!"

"Oh! This is actually a chaste woman who died for her husband from my ancestors. Later, Emperor Kangxi found out, so she gave this archway." Zhou Zhenglin obviously did not want to show off his family background, and obviously felt very disgusted with this chaste archway. He whispered: "This is actually not a reward at all, but a shackle like a prison!"

"Please be careful when Mr. Zhenglin," the servant who had been following Zhou Zhenglin heard it and hurried forward and said, "If the master and the master hear this, you will be punished again."

"Please punish me! It's not the first time anyway!" Zhou Zhenglin looked indifferent, turned over and dismounted, made a gesture of invitation to Xu Changqing, and said, "Please, Mr. Xu!"

Xu Changqing nodded, and after getting off the horse, he walked towards Zhou Zhenglin in a complicated mood. After passing the archway, there was a long porch composed of two walls. Both sides of the porch were covered with gossip mirrors, money swords and other evil-proof objects. At the end of the porch, there were a group of people waiting there. After seeing Zhou Zhenglin's figure, he quickly surrounded him under the leadership of a middle-aged woman who was not much older than Xu Changqing, and asked about his well-being, as if he had been out for more than ten years. Xu Changqing was pushed away by these women and stood there quietly, looking at these people coldly. From the words of these people, it can be seen that they were almost all Zhou Zhenglin's father's wife, some aunts and cousins.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! What do a group of women gather here like?" Just as Zhou Zhenglin was tired of dealing with the women in his family, a very majestic voice shouted at everyone, and everyone immediately calmed down.

Then the crowd automatically made way. A middle-aged man with a long beard and thin beard, about thirty years old, came over and saw him wearing a long black-haired gown, square footsteps, looking quite powerful, but he was a little listless and had a blue-white face. He probably did this because he often smoked big cigarettes. The man walked up and down to Zhou Zhenglin with a serious expression. Seeing that he was not injured, his face relaxed a little and said, "You are back!"

"The child is back!" Zhou Zhenglin quickly saluted respectfully, lowered his head and said, "It's really a sin for my father to come out to greet him!"
Chapter completed!