2301: C2301 Zhou Family's Ancestral Temple

C2301 Zhou Family's Ancestral Temple

Only after the death of generations of patriarchs, elders, and those who had contributed to the family, the memorial tablets were qualified to enter the temple.

Ta, ta, ta...

Everyone lowered their heads and slowly walked towards the main hall.

Even the Great Elder. The Second Elder, Zhou Fuloong, and Zhou Xian all lowered their heads with serious expressions on their faces. At this moment, they were not in the mood to look at Wang Xiao and make him their enemy.

After all, when they stepped into this place, everyone knew about it. This was the place where the ancestors of Zhou Family worshipped their ancestral tablets. There were people who worshipped their ancestral tablets.

Elder Zhou followed by Wang Xiao's side. He lowered his head and slowly moved his feet. He was probably the only one who knew the joy in his heart. After this matter, his position in the family would immediately rise. Although it was somewhat difficult to become an elder, he would not listen to anyone below the elder level.

With the help of Wang Xiao, the patriarch, and his wife, it could be said that his position in the Zhou Family would rise by leaps and bounds. He really didn't expect that his group would rise from the very beginning.

The gate of the Ancestral Shrine was huge. It was a hexagonal gate formed by the combination of the six gates. It was enough for more than twenty people to enter at the same time. When they stepped into the Ancestral Shrine, they saw that there was a lot of space inside.

The inside of the Ancestral Shrine was like a huge warehouse.

Apart from the incense table, the cauldron, and the altar, there were only a dense number of memorial tablets. There were at least a hundred memorial tablets. However, compared to the spacious area of the Ancestral Shrine, the space occupied by the memorial tablets was less than one percent.

The level of those spirit tablets were different, and they were placed on the wooden steps. The closer one was to the front, the lower one's seniority. The last wooden step only offered one spirit tablet. On it was a line of words, 'The late Great Ancestor, King Pingnan, Zhang Zhengzhen'.

When Wang Xiao saw the memorial tablet, he was a little curious. King Pingnan meant the person who was conferred the title of king. How many years had it taken? According to what Wang Xiao knew, the four major families had started early. They had only appeared after the establishment of the new government. It had not even been a hundred years. However, the first ancestor that the Zhou Family worshipped was King Pingnan. In modern times, there was no title of king or general.

With the title of King or General, it was at least during the Qing Dynasty. Could it be that the Zhou Family had existed for countless years? Who knew? Only they themselves knew. Perhaps it was because of their pride and dignity that they forced their relationship.

For example, Li Shiming. Therefore, all the people with the surname Li were listed on the family tree. Everyone would say that Li Shiming was Li Shiming's ancestor, or that Li Yuan was Li Shiming's ancestor. Or Li Shiming's sons and brothers. In fact, these were all nonsense. Although they all had the surname Li, there were so many people with the surname Li. Not everyone was Li Shiming's descendant. None of them were related to Li Shiming.

Although Wang Xiao was curious, he did not ask. It had nothing to do with him.

"Wang Xiao, the Zhou Family has existed for countless years. It has existed for at least a few hundred years." The patriarch said.

Wang Xiao was even more surprised. This family of the Zhou Family had existed for hundreds of years. Was this a joke? Did he hear it right?

The patriarch continued, "Among the four big families in the capital, only the Zhou Family has the longest history, far surpassing the other three families. The other three families have only appeared recently, and our Zhou Family has been here for hundreds of years."

"Yes, that's right. Our Zhou Family has existed for hundreds of years." The Great Elder said with a proud expression. When mentioning the Zhou Family and his family, the Great Elder felt incomparably honored and honored.

The Zhou Family had existed for so many years. To everyone in the family, it was something to be proud of, something to be proud of. Every member of the Zhou Family should be proud and honored to live in such a family.

However, only they thought so. Wang Xiao didn't think so. He didn't think that being born in such a big family like the Zhou Family was his pride and glory.

What pride? What glory? These were all fake. Although living in a big family like the Zhou Family had wealth and wealth, and even though their status and status surpassed ordinary people, they still had their own schemes.

As long as they were members of the Zhou Family in the capital, even if they were the weakest and the least powerful, as long as they walked outside, they would at least have a higher status than ordinary people.

Even if they committed a crime, the relevant departments would not sentence them arbitrarily. Instead, they would hand them over to the Zhou Family or get the approval of the Zhou Family. For example, if a member of the Zhou Family had killed someone, even if the murderer was the lowest ranked member in the Zhou Family, the court would not dare to arbitrarily sentence them to death. At the very least, they would have to ask what the Zhou Family's intentions were and see what kind of attitude the Zhou Family had.

If the Zhou Family expressed that they didn't want to interfere in this matter, the court would be able to judge them. If the Zhou Family didn't agree and insisted on handling this matter, then the court would be powerless to do anything about it.

The patriarch continued, "Back in the Ming Dynasty, our Zhou Family already existed and was even conferred the title of king. It was a period of prosperity. Later on, it gradually declined and withdrew from the stage of history. Until the modern era. "The Zhou Family once again became glorious."

So that's how it is. So the Zhou Family had existed since the Ming Dynasty. It was just that it had declined, so no one knew about it. It only rose up again in the modern era and appeared in everyone's field of vision again.

At this time, Great Elder was extremely proud. "In the Four Great Clans, this kind of thing, Although our Zhou Family isn't the richest and doesn't have the most political position, we are the strongest."

The Great Elder's words were true because there were six or seven Celestial Rank warriors standing in the hall. Patriarch, Madam, Great Elder, Zhou Fuloong and so on. In total, there were six or seven Celestial Rank warriors. With so many Celestial Rank warriors, of course, they were very strong. Even if they were compared to the Underground Martial Guild and Medicine King Valley, they wouldn't be much weaker.

However, Wang Xiao had always felt that the Medicine King Valley was even more mysterious and powerful. Although the Underground Martial Guild's strength wasn't bad, it shouldn't be as strong as the Medicine King Valley.

When Wang Xiao had never seen the Medicine King Valley before, he heard from the people of the Pugilistic World that the Underground Martial Guild and the Medicine King Valley were the most powerful sects in the entire country. These two sects were on par with each other, keeping each other in check. After that, they were the four major families. Compared to the Underground Martial Guild and Medicine King Valley, the only advantage the four major families had was that they each controlled the politics, economy, and construction of the Huaxia Country.1

Later on, after Wang Xiao's rise and his many experiences, he discovered that the rumors in the Pugilistic World were not necessarily true. Firstly, the Underground Martial Guild was indeed very strong. This was also the last thing Wang Xiao knew.

However, the Underground Martial Guild was still incomparable to the Medicine King Valley. Back then, due to a coincidence, Wang Xiao had sneaked into the Medicine King Valley. Only then did he know that the strength and foundation of the Medicine King Valley was even stronger and stronger than what was rumored in the outside world.

After that were the four great families. According to the rumors in the Pugilistic World, the combat strength of the four great families was not as strong as the Medicine King Valley and the Underground Martial Guild. It was just that their political status was high and they had a lot of resources, which was why they became the top four great families in the Huaxia Country. However, these rumors were also wrong. Wang Xiao did not know much about the situation of the other families.

However, he knew quite well about the Zhou Family. There were six or seven Celestial Rank warriors in the Zhou Family. With so many Celestial Rank warriors and the strength of the patriarch, It was enough to fight against the Underground Martial Guild, or even the Medicine King Valley. However, according to the rumors in the pugilistic world, They could only be skeptical. Because of the background of each family, Who would be stupid enough to tell everyone and show off how much money they had? How many masters and so on, these are the secrets of the big families. The outside world would not know.

Just like the country, which country would stupidly tell the world how many weapons I had, how powerful they were, and how good they were, etc. Regarding this kind of secret, the country was strictly conservative. The things that were occasionally reported were only the tip of the iceberg, or they were all fictitious. They didn't have anything at all, just to scare the enemy.

The members of Zhou Family stood in the temple with serious expressions. Apart from the patriarch introducing the situation of Zhou Family and the Great Elder showing off their power, no one spoke a word. Everyone stood quietly with a serious expression on their faces.

At this time, the patriarch was kneeling under the memorial tablet.

Immediately after, all the members of the Zhou Family knelt down as well. The moment the patriarch knelt down, everyone did the same thing. They all knelt down respectfully.

Wang Xiao also followed the crowd and knelt down under the memorial tablet. In any case, he was also a member of the Zhou Family. Moreover, he had come to the Zhou Family to acknowledge his ancestors.

The patriarch kowtowed three times to the ancestors of the Zhou Family. He held three incense sticks in his hands and said in a clear voice, "Unfilial disciple of the Zhou Family, Zhou Lingtian, the eighteenth patriarch of the family. We pay our respects to our ancestors. May our ancestors protect us for tens of thousands of years."

It turned out that his father was the eighteenth patriarch of the Zhou Family. However, it was normal. After all, the Zhou Family had appeared since the Ming Dynasty. It was only after its decline that no one knew about it. Moreover, there was no record of it.

Although some of the ancestors of the Zhou Family had been the King of Pingnan in the Ming Dynasty, there was no record of it in the history books. No one even knew about it. There were only two possibilities for this situation.

The first possibility was that no one had recorded it, but this possibility wasn't very high. After all, as long as one was crowned king, there would be records in the history books. Then the last possibility was that the book that recorded this incident had been destroyed. This was very likely because most of the history of Huaxia Country was during a period of chaos. A large amount of documents and information had been destroyed.

Those destroyed and missing documents were indeed a huge loss. However, because of the social unrest back then, the emperor could not even protect his own country, so he did not have the time to care about those documents.

The patriarch continued, "I have recovered from my loss. I thank the ancestors of the Zhou Family for protecting me and allowing me to find my son, Zhou Wenxuan, again. From now on, I will protect him with my life."

Zhou Wenxuan!

It should be his name, Wang Xiao thought to himself. Back when he was born, he was destined to be unable to cultivate due to a heart problem, so he was abandoned by the Zhou Family. It seemed that his parents knew that he had no hope of cultivating, so they added the word 'Wen' to his name.

His parents definitely hoped that he would be able to establish himself as a scholar in the future. Although there was no hope in the path of martial arts, the path of literature would definitely work. It was just that he did not expect that under grandfather's pressure, he would finally be abandoned.

If his grandfather wasn't the patriarch and was just an ordinary member of the Zhou Family, he shouldn't have been abandoned. Because there were so many members of the Zhou Family, not all of them were experts. Not everyone had a cultivation base, but there were also some who couldn't cultivate.

However, the family wouldn't abandon those people. It was just that their status in the family would be very low. But he was born in the wrong place. His grandfather was actually the patriarch.

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