This question was obviously asked while knowing the answer. Yang Yi was already bursting with curiosity.
Yang Chonggui sighed after seeing Yang Yi's nod: "I originally wanted to tell you about these things when I was about to die or even bring them into the coffin. But now, you have grown up and have your own children. Sooner or later, you will become the clan master of the Yang Clan, so you should know a few things."
Could it be a secret story?
"Come with me!" Yang Chonggui opened the door of the ancestral hall and brought Yang Yi in before closing the door.
"I once told you three siblings that our Yang family has been loyal for generations..." Yang Chonggui stood in front of the altar and cupped his hands. He looked up at the tablet on the altar and said slowly, "Do you still remember?"
How could he just remember? He used to talk about it often. When Yang Yi came back, he had said it so many times that his ears were getting calluses.
"Dad, aren't you just making up stories to fool us?" Yang Yi couldn't help but ask the question that his predecessor, Yang Qing, and Yang Huan had been harboring.
If what Yang Chonggui said was true, the Yang family had so many great generals in the previous dynasty. Why were they so miserable in the Old Master's generation? Moreover, looking at these memorial tablets, although they had been smoking for a few years, Yang Yi found them in his memory. Twenty years ago, these memorial tablets were still very new. They were obviously made by Yang Chonggui!
Besides, no matter how good Yang Chonggui was, Yang Yi didn't think that he had participated in the previous wars!
The timing didn't match!
The Old Master should have been born in the flames of war. When he had just grown up and had some ability, the war had already ended. Where did the enemy come from for him to kill?
However, Yang Yi's questioning made Yang Chonggui very unhappy. He fumed and glared at him. "Made it up? How can I make up stories about my ancestors? If I made it up, how can I face my ancestors in the afterlife? "
That was true. No one would like to make up a father or a grandfather for themselves...
Yang Yi closed his mouth and listened to Yang Chonggui's story.
The Yang Clan was indeed the descendant of a general. It could even be said that the entire Yang Clan was a famous military clan in the previous dynasty. It was stationed in the Min Province and the Jiangnan area. Under the Emperor's orders, it recruited and trained soldiers to resist the Japanese invaders from the sea.
What Yang Yi said was right. Almost every generation of Yang Family Head had sacrificed themselves on the battlefield to protect their country. The Yang Family Army was just like the Qi Family Army in Yang Yi's previous life. They were famous in history and the Japanese invaders were even more fearful of them! Moreover, compared to Qi Jiguang, the Yang Clan's legacy was even longer. Until the end of the previous dynasty, the Yang Clan had a history of over 200 years!
Speaking of that history, Yang Chonggui's face was full of glory. He even proudly said, "If you go to Jiangnan or Min Province, you can still see the statues of our ancestors and the ruins of the ancestral hall."
But after that, Yang Chonggui stopped smiling. "Later on, the country fell into enemy hands. All sorts of Russians, Japanese, and Red Haired wanted a piece of the pie. With the country in danger, your great-grandfather, who is also my grandfather, brought his relatives and former subordinates to join the Southern Army and continued to fight against the Japanese …"
At that time, the Chinese army was still stuck in the consciousness of the past. They fought valiantly and fearlessly. They didn't understand that they would just raise their swords and charge forward. However, the Japanese army had already entered the era of firearms. The Yang Family Army couldn't adapt and suffered heavy casualties. After a few big battles, there weren't many people left. Yang Yi's great-grandfather was very skilled, but he couldn't withstand a bullet …
In the later stages of the war, Yang Chonggui's father, who was also Yang Yi's grandfather, finally used a gun. He and the remaining men of the Yang Family once again entered the extremely tragic all-out war to reclaim the country!
"The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of every man!" Yang Chonggui said solemnly. Yang Yi didn't know why, but he also had tears in his eyes. It wasn't something he could control. It was a surge of true emotion that came from the depths of his bones.
Yang Yi's grandfather became a small general. Of course, it was far from the status of the Yang Family Army back then. However, in local wars, the guerrilla force led by Yang Yi's grandfather was like Li Yunlong's independent regiment. They appeared and disappeared unpredictably, beating the Japanese until they cried for their parents.
"When it comes to fighting the Japanese, no one has as much experience as our Yang Family. These two hundred years of fighting the Japanese weren't for nothing!" Yang Chonggui said proudly.
However … war was unpredictable. No one knew what changes would happen. It was very similar to what was written in Yang Yi's novel. His grandfather's army was attacked by the Japanese's elite forces. In order to get rid of Grandfather Yang, the Japanese in the Central China battlefield sent out a special force.
Grandfather Yang wasn't as lucky as Li Yunlong. His entire army was wiped out. Although he sacrificed himself generously, his corpse was found by the Japanese and hung on the city wall to deter the other Chinese troops.
The Japanese didn't know that this had instead aroused the bloodlust of the Chinese troops! Two months later, the Japanese at this station were besieged and annihilated.
Speaking of this, Yang Chonggui gave Yang Yi a meaningful look. He had watched some of Drawing Sword. If it weren't for the fact that Grandfather Yang was ambushed during a field battle and that the details were different, he would have suspected that Yang Yi knew something about it.
Yang Yi also knew the direction of the war later. Three years later, all the Japanese in mainland China were driven out. In the end, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. After a hundred years of humiliation, it finally came to an end …
"But … Dad, where were you in the whole story?" Yang Yi could not help but ask.
"I was still young at that time!" Yang Chonggui glared at Yang Yi. "And my mother wouldn't let me go to the battlefield to avenge my father. She said that she wanted to leave an heir for the Yang Family. Otherwise, how could I sit back and do nothing?"
Next was Yang Chonggui's story.
Yang Chonggui was not able to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, so he had to hold his breath and practice martial arts. He also met his benefactor in the crowd of people fleeing the war and learned internal strength.
However, when he saw the list of Japanese war criminals who were not punished in the newspaper, there was a colonel in the special forces who killed his father. He later became a lieutenant general of a division commander … That guy didn't die? Yang Chonggui was furious.
At that time, Yang Yi's grandmother had passed away. The last person who was in charge of Yang Chonggui had left. Yang Chonggui was like a wild horse that no one could stop.
"I borrowed Treasure Island and learned the Japanese language there for two years. After that, I stayed in the Japanese's hometown for a full fifteen years!" Yang Chonggui proudly said, "In the past fifteen years, I've killed every single one of the people on the list. I even set fire to that whatever club it was, and burned it down! "
"You were the one who did that?" Yang Yi took a deep breath. When he was rewriting Drawing Sword, he had checked a lot of history and even a lot of unofficial secrets. He knew that something big happened to the Japanese after the war. Unlike his previous life, where the war criminals could still get away with it, the war criminals in this world died one by one.
"But that villain … Cough, that hero's name was Yang Jiye, right?" Yang Yi could not help but ask.
"Yang Jiye! Motherf * cker, they can't even write my name wrong! " Yang Chonggui snorted and said, "Your father used to be called Yang Jiye, but after I returned to China, I changed my name. That name has been registered in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, so how can I still use it?"
It really was him!
Yang Yi felt a little dizzy. He thought that he was quite awesome in his previous life, but he did not expect the old man to be even more awesome than he was. In fifteen years, he turned the Japanese upside down with assassinations and even set fire to their place. Yang Yi wanted to kneel down before the old man when he saw that!
It was … too awesome!
Yang Yi could not think of any words to describe the old man's impressive achievements.
Yang Yi originally wondered if Yang Chonggui, who always boasted that his ancestor was a great general who protected the country, was also a soldier in the past. Now, it seemed that he guessed wrong! The old man was similar to him in that they were both in the same line of work. It was no wonder that he was unwilling to deal with the government for so many years … However, in his previous life, he was doing it for money, while the old man was doing it for revenge and for the country! He could not help but respect the old man's past.
After causing such a big incident, Yang Chonggui was naturally hunted down by the angry Japanese. However, he did not know what happened and escaped back to China. He could not be careless even when he returned to China. After all, agents were everywhere. The old man changed his name, but he did not change his ancestor's surname. He hid in the valley in Wudaokou Village, which was rarely visited by outsiders.
"You married my mother and gave birth to me. Why did you want to leave? Didn't you say that you had something important to do? "Yang Yi asked in confusion.
He was still brooding over the fact that his mother had given him the name "Yang Tiexin". What kind of lousy name was that? In his previous life, it was a little green!
"I wanted to bring you and your mother back to acknowledge your ancestors! But our Yang Family is the only one left. If we want to rebuild our family and return to our old home, we can only ask our neighbors and elders to help preside over it. If we want to do it, we have to do it in a grand manner. Our Yang Family is a famous family in two provinces and three cities. We have to make preparations beforehand. Isn't this a big deal? "Yang Chonggui snorted.
"…" Yang Yi was speechless. He thought that he had some enemies left behind.
"Then why didn't you go back?" Yang Yi asked.
"After that, I secretly went back to my old house. There was no one in the old house of the Yang Family anymore. However, there were a few outsiders who were sneakily watching from outside."
Needless to say, they were definitely waiting for Yang Chonggui, the demon king, to return! However, he did not know whether they were enemies or friends. Perhaps the former was more likely!
For the sake of his family's safety, Yang Chonggui decided not to leave. He stayed obediently and peacefully became a farmer in Wudaokou Village. And this secret had been guarded for more than thirty years.
"So, you must never tell anyone about this matter. Even if it rots in your stomach, you must keep it to yourself!" Yang Chonggui warned sternly.
Yang Yi nodded silently.
No wonder the old man did not tell the three of them. He was worried that the little brat's mental state was not complete and would flaunt it to others and bring disaster to the family.
The old man had caused too much trouble in the Japanese's territory. Yang Yi did not know if there would still be people who would not let it go after so many years!
Yang Yi was also very cautious. Especially now that he had Xi Xi and Murphy, these two people whom he wanted to protect for the rest of his life.
Let this matter remain in the ancestral hall!
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