Xu Family Village?
I was a little surprised. "There's a place like that?"
There might have been a hundred years ago, but few villages from a hundred years ago would have survived to this day.
Because of the wars, many people had left their homes. In some cases, entire villages had migrated elsewhere.
Song Xiaotian took out his phone, lit up the screen, and placed it in front of me. "Look for yourself. Xu Family Village, a century-old village and a famous local tourist spot on social media."
I picked up the phone and looked. It really did exist!
The introduction to Xu Family Village emphasized its long history. The village had existed since the Qing dynasty, and because it had been so remote a hundred years ago, it was one of the few villages untouched by the wars.
Simply put, it had been tucked away deep in the mountains and forests, so the enemy troops back then hadn't swept through the place.
And the village was only about sixty or seventy kilometers from the original site of the Luo Residence.
"Sixty or seventy kilometers isn't far by car now, but a hundred years ago, that was quite a distance."
Song Xiaotian said, "Xu Xiu and Xu Changming were probably from this Xu Family Village. It's a large village organized around a clan, and that clan culture has survived to this day."
I nodded. That was indeed possible.
Back then, almost every village's name began with its clan's surname, and practically everyone in the village shared that surname.
"If Xu Xiu didn't die back then, she probably had descendants. Even if she didn't, Xu Changming probably did. Even if neither of them had descendants, someone in the Xu clan should know something about what happened at the Luo Residence back