The settlement where Chen Guiliang's family lived was called Manzi Tuo, situated between three administrative groups of the village.
The terrain was isolated and cramped, with only seven households in total.
Even those seven households had branched out from brothers splitting their families, and they belonged to three different village groups.
There were quite a few tombs nearby.
Especially the ancient ethnic-minority tombs commonly known as Barbarian Cave.
There were also some Han tombs, though most had already been looted.
When Chen Guiliang was in elementary school, he once crawled into a looted ancient tomb, took a skull to school, and scared many students into bawling. The teacher severely reprimanded him afterward and viciously smacked his palms twenty times.
When he returned the skull to the tomb, he pulled out a tooth to keep as a souvenir. His parents discovered it and gave him another brutal beating.
This showed that Chen the Hero had been a reckless troublemaker since childhood. That lunatic personality of his seemed to be inborn.
During the New Year holiday, aside from visiting his maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother to pay respects, Chen Guiliang stayed home writing game proposals.
Elementary school classmates occasionally came by to visit.
Because when Chen Guiliang had been in elementary school, he had always been the king of the kids at school.
His battle to establish dominance had been the time he brought that skull to school—anyone who dared defy him got smacked with a dead man's head!
"Brother, hurry up, we're leaving."
"Coming, coming."
On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, they had arranged to visit grandmother's natal family to pay New Year's respects. The second uncle and aunt's families were going as well.
Since grandmother got carsick, everyone could only walk, and the journey took more than