The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 347 Acknowledging the Ancestor and Returning to the Clan ([-])

Following Su Chenghao's loud announcement, the gate of the Su Clan's Ancestral Hall "creaked" and slowly opened. It turned out that someone inside had been waiting for the moment when the gate was opened for Su Chengzhi's family.

At this moment, Mrs. Lu's eyes were moist, and when the clansman stood up from their seats, her legs seemed a little weak. Fortunately, the maid standing behind her and Madam Wu stretched out their hands to support her firmly, Kankan stabilized his body.

At this moment, Su Chengzhi's eyes were red, and Ning's eyes were filled with crystal clear tears.

At this moment, if Su Zexuan hadn't held Su Zechen tightly, I'm afraid he would have jumped up and cheered to vent his excitement.

At this moment, Su Zexuan also felt emotional, but kept Su Yunduo's advice in mind, and held Su Zechen's hand tightly, not letting him do anything out of line, and making people criticize them for being uneducated.

At this moment, even Su Yunduo, who has always been very indifferent to the recognition of ancestors, couldn't help being excited. Only the youngest Su Zerui looked around with a pair of curious big eyes.

After calming down a bit, Su Yunduo felt very grateful that he insisted on packing up the gifts for the elders in the clan and bringing them here. According to Su Chengzhi's original estimate, today is at most a day to discern his authenticity and truly recognize his ancestors. Choose another auspicious day.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the family confirmed Su Chengzhi's identity, they opened the ancestral hall and ordered the six members of their family to recognize their ancestors.

Wouldn't this be a little too hasty?
Such a thought crossed Su Yunduo's mind, but he was stunned by the scene in the ancestral hall in an instant.

This is not rash, the ancestral hall should be fully prepared, maybe today is an auspicious day to recognize the ancestors, no wonder when Mrs. Lu asked Madam Wu to pass the news to them, she specially said one more thing, telling them to wear clothes today. Be clean.

Sure enough, when the gate of the ancestral hall was completely opened to their family, Su Chenghao took a stick of incense lit by Uncle Fu and knelt down at the gate of the ancestral hall to the end: "Su's No. Lie Zong, today we welcome the second-generation male Sun Chengzhi, No. 30 of the Su family's direct branch, and his wife and children back home, and ask our ancestors, Lie Zong, to bless him with a smooth official career, harmonious husband and wife, and filial and healthy children."

Su Chengzhi was only slightly stunned for a moment, then lifted his long coat and knelt down behind Su Chenghao: "Su's No. 30 second-generation son, Sun Chengzhi, and his wife Ning, sons Zexuan, Zechen, Zerui, and daughter Yunduo are returning home , I respectfully ask the ancestors and ancestors to bless my clan to prosper, to have something to raise the children, to teach the old and to rely on it.”

When Su Chengzhi fell to his knees, Ning also knelt and kowtowed half a step behind him.

When the gate of the ancestral hall was opened, Su Yunduo had already let Su Zerui down. At this time, he brought his three younger brothers to kneel behind his parents and kowtow to the ancestors in the ancestral hall.

The ceremony of acknowledging the ancestors and returning to the clan started in the sound of prayers to the ancestors.

The ancestral hall always only admits men and not women under special circumstances, but today is a special case. Ning and Su Yunduo were welcomed into the ancestral hall amidst the sound of firecrackers.

Although the gate of the ancestral hall is open now, not all clan members can enter the ancestral hall. Today, apart from Su Chengzhi's family of six, there are 18 people who entered the ancestral hall, including the patriarch, the elders of the clan, and the heads of each house of the Su clan.

Other clan members, including the patriarch's wife and Mrs. Lu, waited in turn outside the ancestral hall and quietly watched the solemn ancestor recognition ceremony inside the ancestral hall.

After a group of people entered the ancestral hall, the patriarch who presided over today's recognition of the ancestors announced loudly: "Fire the cannon to ask for the genealogy."

There was another burst of firecrackers, and the great elder, who was more than a few years old, knelt and bowed tremblingly to ask for the genealogy.

The requested genealogy was respectfully placed on the incense table that had been set up earlier, and then the patriarch led Su Chengzhi's family to start worshiping the ancestors. After three worships and nine kowtows, the ancestor worship ceremony was finally completed.

Since entering the ancestral hall, Su Chengzhi and the Ning family basically had no time to take care of their children, and were only able to deal with the cumbersome rituals.

Su Yunduo had to take on the burden of taking care of the three younger brothers. Fortunately, the sensible Su Zexuan shared the task of taking care of Su Zechen, which made Su Yunduo a lot easier.

Of course, even though Su Zechen had a bit of a temper, since entering the ancestral hall, he has a sullen face, which is very good-looking. In addition, there are special people in the clan to guide them, so they only need to kneel and kowtow when they are required to kneel.

Although Su Yunduo only needs to take care of the youngest Su Zerui, it is too difficult to keep Su Zerui from making mistakes. He is still too young, and he is really active and curious. Taking Su Yunduo's hand, he either ran towards Ning's or went down to the incense table curiously, making Su Yunduo flustered.

In order to make Su Zerui calm down, Su Yunduo had no choice but to fight, and granted many benefits to the gluttonous Su Zerui, which forced the young Su Zerui to persevere.

Among them is Su Zerui's favorite "cake". This "cake" is not an ordinary pastry, but a cream cake that Su Yunduo worked so hard to make successfully.

After some kneeling and worshiping the ancestors, the next step is to continue writing the genealogy.

Only when the name of a family is recorded in the genealogy can the recognition of the ancestors be considered completed.

When the patriarch Su Chenghao continued to write the names of the six members of Su Chengzhi's family under the name of Su Shi Ling'an, Su Chengzhi shed tears of excitement.

He is finally no longer a rootless duckweed. Even if his own father has passed away long ago, even if the old lady outside the ancestral hall is not his biological mother, he is now a person with roots and parents!
After completing the continuation of the genealogy, Su Chengzhi brought his wife and children and reverently kowtowed three times to Su Ling'an's memorial tablet. From then on, he will start to support the second wife of the Su family's direct branch, and bring his sons to continue the incense of the second wife.

Respectfully send the genealogy back to its place, and under the leadership of the patriarch, worship the ancestors again. With the long and high-pitched "Licheng" from the patriarch, the dust of Su Chengzhi's long-cherished recognition of the ancestors has finally settled.

Exiting from the ancestral hall, the first thing he met was Mrs. Lu who was smiling but had tears in her eyes. Su Chengzhi took two steps and knelt down in front of Mrs. Lu with a "plop", followed by Mrs. Ning : "My lord, please accept my son's (daughter-in-law) worship."

The couple's worship was an extremely standard and pious five-body prostration kneeling ceremony, and this prayer also brought down the tears that Old Madam Lu had been holding back.

Mrs. Shi standing next to Mrs. Lu just tried to comfort her. Mrs. Lu kept shouting while wiping away the tears from her eyes, and Nurse Wu and her maid standing behind her hurried forward to help Su Chengzhi and Mrs. Ning .

Although Su Yunduo doesn't like the etiquette of kneeling and kowtowing, he also knows that at this time, he must go to the village to do as the Romans do. When his parents are helped up, Su Yunduo quickly brought his three younger brothers to bow respectfully to Mrs. Lu in the same way. present.

(End of this chapter)