Chapter 2301

Only after the death of the patriarchs, elders and those who have contributed to the family, can the spiritual throne be qualified to enter the ancestral hall.

Step on...

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

Even the elder, the second elder, Zhou Fulong, Zhou Xian, these people are also low head, a serious expression. At this time, they are not in the mood to raise eyebrows against Wang Xiao, and they are not in the mood to be enemies with Wang Xiao.

After all, when you step in here, everyone knows. This is the place where the ancestors of the Zhou family are worshipped. There are common ancestors here.

Mr. Zhou followed Wang Xiao. He lowered his head and moved slowly. He is the only one who knows the joy in his heart. Because after this incident, his position in the family will rise immediately. Although it's difficult to enter the elder level, he won't listen to anyone below the elder level.

With the help of Wang Xiao, the patriarch and his wife, it can be said that he will be promoted step by step in the Zhou family. I didn't expect that, in his group, he began to rise.

The gate of the ancestral hall is very large. It is a six gate gate, which is composed of six gates. It is enough for more than 20 people to enter at the same time. When I stepped into the ancestral hall, I saw a lot of space inside.

Inside the ancestral hall, it is like a huge warehouse.

In addition to the incense table, cauldron and altar, there are only a lot of holy places. There are at least hundreds of them. However, compared with the large ancestral hall, the space occupied by them is less than one percent.

The tablets are different in height and are placed on wooden steps. The higher the front, the lower the seniority. The last wooden step is dedicated only to a spiritual throne. There is a line on it: "the late supreme ancestor, King Pingnan, Zhang Jianzhen"

when she saw the throne, Wang Xiao was a little curious. King Pingnan means the person who granted the throne. How many years ago was that. According to Wang Xiao's knowledge, the origins of the four families are not early, and they all appeared after the establishment of the new deal, which is less than 100 years old. However, in the ancestral hall of the Zhou family, the first ancestor was the king of Pingnan. In modern times, there was no such name as the king, marquis and general.

It is also known as the branch of princes, Marquises and generals in the Qing Dynasty at the latest. Could it be that the Zhou family has existed for countless years? Who knows, only they know. Maybe they just want to face and honor, so they have to pull some relationships.

For example, people surnamed Li, because of a Li Shimin. Therefore, all the people surnamed Li and their genealogy will say that their ancestors were Li Shimin, or Li Yuan, or Li Shimin's son, brother, etc. In fact, these are all nonsense. Although they are all surnamed Li, not all of them are descendants of Li Shimin, so they can't get together.

Although Wang Xiao was a little curious, he didn't ask. Anyway, it had nothing to do with him.

"Wang Xiao, in fact, our Zhou family has existed for countless years, at least for hundreds of years." Said the patriarch.

Wang Xiao is even more surprised that the Zhou family has existed for hundreds of years. Are you kidding me? I heard you right.

The patriarch continued: "among the four big families in Kyoto, only our Zhou family has the longest history, far more than the other three families. The other three families have only recently appeared, while our Zhou family has appeared for hundreds of years."

"Yes, it's true that our Zhou family has existed for hundreds of years." The elder said with a proud face. When talking about the Zhou family and his own family, the elder feels extremely glorious.

The existence of the Zhou family for so many years, for everyone in the family, is very proud and glorious. Every member of the Zhou family should feel proud and honored to be born in such a family.

But only they think so, Wang Xiao has no such idea. He did not feel that it was his pride and glory to be born in such a big family as the Zhou family.

What pride, what glory, these are all false. Living in such a big family as the Zhou family, although they are rich and prosperous, although their status is higher than that of ordinary people, they also have intrigues.

As long as they are members of the Chou family in Kyoto, even the lowest and the most powerless, they will at least have more status than ordinary people.

Even if the crime, the relevant departments will not arbitrarily sentence, but to the Zhou family, or to get the Zhou family's consent. For example, if a member of the Zhou family killed someone, even if the murderer was the bottom member of the Zhou family, the court did not dare to impose death penalty on them. At least ask the Zhou family what they mean and what their attitude is.

If the Zhou family says they don't want to take care of this matter, the court can make a judgment. If the Zhou family doesn't agree, the court will be helpless if it has to take care of the matter.

The patriarch continued: "as early as in the Ming Dynasty, our Zhou family already existed, and it was once a king. Later, it gradually declined and withdrew from the stage of history. Until modern times, our Zhou family was brilliant again. "

It turns out that the Zhou family had existed as early as the Ming Dynasty, only declined, so it was not known. It did not rise again until modern times, and it appeared in people's vision again.At this time, the elder was very proud and said, "in the four big families, although our Zhou family is not the richest or the most political, our Zhou family is the strongest."

The elder's words are true, because there are six or seven heaven level masters, patriarch, madam, elder, Zhou Fulong and so on standing in the hall. In total, there are six or seven heaven level masters. So many sky level masters, of course, the strength is very strong. Even if compared with the underground martial arts and Yaowang Valley, it's not much worse.

However, Yao Wang Valley and underground martial arts, Wang Xiao always feel that Yao Wang Valley is more mysterious, the strength will be more powerful, and the inside information will be more abundant. Although the strength of underground martial arts is also very good, it should not be as good as Yao Wang valley.

When she had never seen Yaowang Valley before, Wang Xiao heard from people in the river and lake that underground martial arts and Yaowang valley are the most powerful sects in the country. These two sects keep pace with each other and check and balance each other. Then there are four families. Compared with the underground martial arts and Yaowang Valley, the only advantage of the four families is that they have mastered the politics, economy and construction of Huaxia.

Later, with the rise of Wang Xiao, and after a lot of experience, he found that the original rumors in the Jianghu are not necessarily true. First of all, underground martial arts is really strong, which is the last thing Wang Xiao knows.

However, underground martial arts can not be compared with Yaowang valley. At the beginning, after lurking into Yaowang Valley, Wang Xiao knew that the strength and inside information of Yaowang valley were even more powerful and powerful than what was rumored by the outside world.

Then there are the four families. It is said that the combat effectiveness of the four families is not as good as that of Yaowang Valley and underground martial arts, but their political status is high and they have a lot of resources, so they become the top four families in China. But there are some mistakes in these rumors. Wang Xiao doesn't know much about other families.

But as far as his Zhou family is concerned, he knows quite well. There are six or seven heaven level masters in the Zhou family. So many heaven level masters, together with the powerful clan leader, are enough to compete with the underground martial arts, even comparable with the medicine King Valley. However, the rumors in the Jianghu can't be taken seriously after all, they can only be half believed. Because the inside information of each family, who would be silly to say it all, show off how much money, how many experts and so on, these are the secrets of the big families, the outside world will not know.

Just like a country, which country would foolishly tell people all over the world how many weapons I have, how powerful these weapons are, what their performance is, and so on. For this kind of secret, the state strictly keeps it. The things reported occasionally are just the tip of the iceberg, or nothing at all, just to scare the enemy.

The members of the Zhou family stood in the ancestral hall with a serious face. Except that the patriarch was introducing the situation of the Zhou family, and the elder was showing off the cattle of the Zhou family, no one spoke. Everyone was standing quietly, with a serious face.

At this time, the patriarch knelt under the throne.

Then all the members of the Zhou family knelt down one after another. At the moment when the patriarch kneels down, everyone's movements are very consistent. Everyone kneels down neatly and respectfully.

Wang Xiao also followed the crowd to kneel down, kneeling under the throne. Anyway, he is also a member of the Zhou family, and he came to the Zhou family this time just to recognize his ancestors.

The patriarch paid three respects and nine kowtows to the ancestral tablets of the Zhou family, holding three sticks of incense in both hands, and then said in a loud voice, "Zhou Lingtian, the unfilial son of the Zhou family, is the 18th patriarch of the family. I'd like to pay homage to our ancestors and wish them to protect our Zhou family for thousands of years."

It turned out that his father was the 18th generation patriarch of the Zhou family. But it's normal. After all, the Zhou family has been around since the Ming Dynasty, but after its decline, it's unknown, and there are no relevant records.

Although some of the ancestors of the Zhou family once served as the king of Pingnan in the Ming Dynasty, there is no record of this event in the historical books, or even no one knows about it. In this case, there are only two possibilities.

The first possibility is that no one has recorded it, but it is not very likely. After all, as long as the person who has been granted the title of king is recorded in the history books. Then the last possibility is that the books recording this event have been destroyed. This possibility is great, because in the history of Huaxia, most of them were turbulent periods, and a large number of documents were destroyed.

The large amount of literature that has been destroyed and disappeared is indeed a great loss. Just because of the social unrest at that time, the emperor couldn't even keep his own country. He didn't care about the literature.

The patriarch continued: "I lost my son and recovered. Thanks to the protection of the ancestors of the Zhou family, I found my child Zhou Wenxuan again. From now on, I will protect him with my life."

Zhou Wenxuan!

it should be his own name, Wang Xiao thought. When I was born, I was destined to be unable to practice because of heart problems, so I was abandoned by the Zhou family. It seems that at the beginning, when parents learned that they had no hope of self-cultivation, they added the word "Wen" to their name.

My parents certainly hope that I will be able to make a living with culture in the future. Although Wu Dao has no hope, Wen Dao is sure to go. I just didn't expect that under the pressure of my grandfather, I was finally abandoned.

If his grandfather is not the patriarch, but an ordinary member of the Zhou family, he should not be abandoned. Because there are so many members in the Zhou family, not all of them are experts. Not everyone has accomplishments, and there are also some people who can't practice.But for those people, the family will not abandon them, but their status in the family will be very low. But I was born in the wrong place, and my grandfather was the patriarch.