1. Story introduction
Lin Yuan is a child who grew up in Dengzhou City Wall Roots, and is also the "Queen of Sinners" in the eyes of the whole village.
Eighty years ago, his great-grandfather Lin Dachuan "rebelled and surrendered to the enemy" during the battle to liberate Deng County, killing an entire company of comrades. From then on, the Lin family was nailed to the pillar of shame: the ancestral grave was smashed, the old house was occupied, and Lin Yuan was not even allowed to enter the village school when he was a child - because "the son of a traitor is not worthy of studying."
Lin Yuan desperately wanted to go to Beijing to study architectural history, just to get as far away from Dengzhou as possible. Until one day, my mother called me: "A brick was dug out from the base of the city wall, and your great-grandfather's name was engraved on it. The villagers said that this was evidence of a traitor's crime, and they were going to smash it and throw it into the river."
Lin Yuan knew that if that brick was smashed, the Lin family would never be able to lift its head again in this life.
He returned to Dengzhou and stood in front of Pingcheng Gate. The villagers surrounded him and spat: "The traitor's grandson still has the nerve to come back?"
Lin Yuan said nothing. He looked at the city brick with the word "Lin" engraved on it and found a yellowed note stuffed in the crack of the brick. Expand the line above:
"In the spring of the 37th year of the Republic of China, the city wall did not fall down. Lin Dashuan was not a traitor."
The handwriting belongs to his great-grandfather.
Lin Yuan held the note in his hand, turned around and said to the whole village: "Give me three months. If I can't dig up evidence, the Lin family will get out of Dengzhou and never come back."
Three months, the secret of thirty bricks, the wall of three thousand years, and one person's innocence.
Every day after that, Lin Yuan dug bricks under the city wall. Every time a brick is dug out, Grandpa Chengqiang will tell a story about the brick - the city guard of the Han Dynasty carved the surname, Zhang Guolao
