After returning to the countryside to farm, I brought the whole village to become rich

Chapter 271 Qingming Festival

April 3rd, the second day of the Tomb Sweeping Day holiday;

Suitable for worship.

Before dawn in the morning, the lights came on in the Shen family courtyard.

The whole family got up early and started busy with today’s ancestor worship and tomb sweeping;

Kill chickens, steam fish, cook meat...

The older generation attaches great importance to tradition, and there are many things to pay attention to when visiting graves;

"Three animals and five fruits" are indispensable;

The three animals refer to: pork, whole chicken, and whole fish;

The five fruits do not refer to any specific type of fruit, as long as they have a good meaning;

Grandma Shen prepared grapefruits, tangerines, oranges, red dates, and apples;

The five fruits symbolize metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and are a metaphor for good weather and abundant harvests.

In addition, there are incense candles, paper money, gold and silver ingots, firecrackers, drinks, candies, snacks, etc.

There were three graves to be visited, and Grandma Shen also prepared three portions of things. She packed several large baskets full of them, and also packed several woven bags with paper-folded gold and silver ingots;

Shen Jiashu helped carry the things grandma had prepared to the tricycle, and also took two hoes and sickles and put them in the carriage;

Shen Qiuqiu filled two buckets of water in 50L plastic buckets and asked Shen Jiashu to carry them to the car.

"Sister, why are you carrying so much water?" Shen Jiashu panted from exhaustion;

Shen Qiuqiu handed him a bottle of drink and explained: "The weather is dry and the wind is strong these days. Burning paper on the mountain will cause a forest fire if you are not careful. After the worship is over, you have to put out the fire with water."

Grandma Shen became anxious when she heard this, "How can that be done? The ingots and paper money must be burned. They cannot be broken into pieces, and they cannot be poured over with water, otherwise the people over there will not be able to receive them."

On some things, the older generation's ideas are very stubborn and cannot be changed easily;

Shen Qiuqiu had no choice but to follow her grandma's words and said: "Okay, don't water it with water. Let's wait for it to burn out. But it's been dry these days, so we'd better bring water with us, just in case."

The old lady said nothing more.

Around nine o'clock everything was put away;

The packing aunts and ladies also came one after another. Shen Qiuqiu briefly explained a few words, and then asked Wang Gannian to help watch;

As for the strawberry field, Yang Yanhong was asked to help look after it for a long time;

Visiting the grave and sweeping the tomb is a big event. The whole family must go, and no one can be absent.

Shen Xiu was a little worried, "Yang Yanhong is a thief, and she almost falls in the eyes of money. Could she secretly hide money or something?"

"No." Shen Qiuqiu was not worried at all.

Afraid that Shen Xiu would be careless, Shen Qiuqiu did not explain to her that there was a camera installed in the bamboo shed in the strawberry field, and every move would be recorded;

Shen Xiu didn't understand this, but Yang Yanhong had lived in a big city and could understand it at a glance in the bamboo shed;

Not to mention that she didn't have this intention, but even if she did, she wouldn't dare to do it so blatantly, even for a few thousand dollars; we are all from the same village, and we will have to live in the village in the future.

After confirming that nothing was missing, the family set off.

The cemetery is some distance away from the village, so it is more convenient to drive there.

Shen Qiuqiu drove Grandma Shen, Shen Xiu and Song Na in a van;

Grandpa Shen and Shen Jiashu followed behind on tricycles.

Ten minutes later, the white van slowly stopped at the foot of the mountain;

Further up are winding mountain roads and winding trails that cannot be driven up by a van, so you have to walk;

Fortunately, the tricycle can barely pass, otherwise carrying those things up the mountain would be very energy-consuming.

Shen Qiuqiu put on her straw hat and reached out to help her grandma walk up the mountain;

After only two steps, the old lady threw her hand away in disgust, "Stop supporting me. I can walk faster by myself."

Shen Qiuqiu shook her head dumbfounded, found a stick on the roadside to lean on, and trotted after her, keeping up with her grandma.

The sky is clear and the sun is shining, the vegetation is lush and green, with the vitality of spring;

There is a cool breeze on the mountain, and a few birdsong occasionally come from the woods;

"Gu Gu--Gu--Gu--", it sounds gentle, crisp and sweet. Shen Qiuqiu walked slowly on the mountain path, breathing in the fresh air, and the sun shone through the gaps in the leaves on her body, making her feel particularly comfortable.

After walking on the mountain road for more than ten minutes, when we climbed halfway up the mountain, we could see tombs one after another.

This hilltop belongs to Qinghe Village, and it doesn’t just belong to any one family. After the people in the village pass away, they are basically buried here;

From generation to generation, this place has become a mountain of graves.

Grandma Shen took Shen Qiuqiu and the others around and found several tombs of the Shen family with familiarity;

This is the grave of Grandpa Shen’s father and grandfather;

Tombstones are full of names of descendants, which is a symbol of a prosperous family and a prosperous family;

Vegetation flourished on the mountain, and after a while, the tomb became overgrown with weeds.

Grandpa Shen and Shen Jiashu arrived first and were already taking hoes to remove the weeds and thorn trees around the tomb;

This is the most physically demanding work during the Qingming Festival every year.

Shen Qiuqiu put on gloves, climbed to the great-grandma's grave with a sickle and started weeding;

Graveyard grass cannot be dug with hoes and shovels, nor can it be removed by the roots. It can only be cut off bit by bit with a sickle;

Grandma said that growing grass on the grave represents good feng shui and is the shade of the ancestors. Removing the grass roots is equivalent to removing the blessing shade.

Shen Xiu also found a sickle and climbed to her grandfather's grave to weed;

Grandma Shen and Song Na took out the things needed for the sacrifice one by one from their backpacks.

It was more than an hour later that the thorn trees and weeds were cleared from several graves;

Shen Qiuqiu and Shen Jiashu were so tired that they were sweating profusely and sat under the big tree to rest.

Grandpa Shen and Shen Xiu, who were accustomed to farm work, seemed to have nothing to do with them. They watched Grandma Shen place the offerings with their hoes.

Shen Qiuqiu turned Shen Jiashu beside him with his elbow, "Look at grandpa, he is getting stronger and stronger, and look at your small body... Tsk, tsk, this won't work; you can't just focus on studying in school, you still need to exercise more; this replay During the summer vacation, go to work in the fields with grandpa."

He was obviously out of breath from exhaustion and couldn't speak clearly, yet he still made fun of his younger brother.

Shen Jiashu rolled his eyes at her, "We are talking about each other, eldest sister, let alone second brother."

Grandma Shen laid out the tributes and called the siblings to go over and pay homage to the mountain.

Shen Jiashu just dug a small pit next to the tomb and built it with stones. When burning paper, he would not be afraid of paper money and sparks flying around.

Shen Qiuqiu picked up the gold and silver ingots and put them into the fire one by one, while Shen Jiashu burned the money tree, paper house, paper mahjong, paper mobile phone that Grandma Shen bought from the street...

Shen Jiashu looked at the cell phone tied with paper in his hand and couldn't help laughing, "Grandma, will my grandparents use this?"

Grandma Shen glared at him and ignored him, and muttered, "Ancestor of the Shen family..."

After the worship was completed and the incense burned out, Grandma Shen distributed the fruits offered at the grave to everyone to eat;

Shen Qiuqiu was stuffed with an apple and an orange;

Grandma Shen also specifically told her, "The fruit you offer will bring good luck and good luck to you. Eat it quickly."

In the eyes of the older generation, the offering fruit has a good meaning. If you eat the offering fruit, you can get the blessings of your deceased relatives and protect the safety and health of your descendants.

(End of this chapter)