The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 490 New Year's Eve ([-])

The New Year's Eve is a busy and joyful day for Su's Second Household.

On this day, not only will they participate in the grand ceremony of worshiping the ancestors in the ancestral hall of the family, but Erfang will also set up a world table to worship the ancestors, so the three animal meals, three teas and five wines are especially well prepared and carefully prepared.

Every year at the exact moment of New Year's Eve, the Su clan holds a grand sacrifice at the Dakai Ancestral Hall.

On this day, the men of the whole family, old and young, will stand in front of the ancestral hall with offerings early on. When the door of the ancestral hall is opened, the patriarch will lead the descendants of the family to perform a grand ancestor worship ceremony.

Ancestor worship is naturally a matter for men. Although there is no such thing as Mrs. Lu, Ning and Su Yunduo, it is the first time in decades that Erfang has heirs to participate, and there are four males from father and son. The rise of Erfang is expected. Therefore, this ancestor worship has a very special meaning to Erfang.

Mrs. Lu regarded this as the most important thing of this New Year's Eve. For this reason, Mrs. Lu, who had already handed over the mundane affairs to the Ning family, went back to the battle and personally instructed Ning's family to prepare the sacrifices to the ancestral hall for Su Chengzhi and his son.

Other families carry offerings to the ancestral hall, while Erfang carries offerings to the ancestral hall.

The offerings included suckling sheep, suckling pigs, big roosters and other sacrifices. Mrs. Lu even specially ordered to find a big red carp that was alive and kicking, so Erfang attracted the attention of all the clansmen as soon as Erfang appeared on the stage.

"Hey, eighth uncle, your second wife is trying to grab the first share in the clan!" Su Chengzhi had just arrived at the ancestral hall with his three sons when he heard such a yin and yang voice.

Looking up, it was Su Fengwen, the sixteenth of Sanfang who was talking, and Su Fengxiang, who was standing next to him, was the thirteenth.

Although Su Fengwen was the only one who spoke, Su Chengzhi felt a deep sense of unwillingness in Su Fengxiang's eyes.

Sanfang really didn't miss any chance to sow discord!
Whenever there is an opportunity, Su Lingzhi will not speak up because of his identity. Su Fengwen is Su Lingzhi's gunman and pawn.

No, as soon as Su Fengwen opened his mouth, he pushed Erfang to the forefront.

Thinking that Su Chengzhi, who was not a Jinshi at the beginning, could make Su Fengxiang suffer a lot, let alone Su Chengzhi, who has been a doctor in the Imperial College for nearly half a year, it is impossible to let the third room and the second room be blacked out like this.

I saw Su Chengzhi frowned slightly, and glanced at the clansmen in front of the ancestral hall, his face full of sadness: "What is this nephew talking about? Ever since my father passed away, although my second wife hasn't cut off ancestor sacrifices in the past few decades It is the first time for my children and grandchildren to participate in the annual grand sacrifice in person, and my second wife wishes to make up for the debts owed to their ancestors over the past few decades, not to mention that these offerings should be ten or eight times more."

When Su Chengzhi said this, he looked at the patriarch and the clan elders, and said with a little anxiety: "I don't know if Brother Hao and the clan elders will agree?"

When Su Fengwen spoke just now, Su Chenghao was very unhappy. The more abundant the offerings for ancestor worship in the clan, the better, and there has never been a rule that which room should be the first.

The situation of the second room is special. In the past years, there was no heir in the mansion, and the old lady Lu was kind-hearted. Whenever the clan worshiped the ancestors, it was always necessary to prepare some sacrifices and send them to the housekeeper. But after all, there is no heir in the mansion, which is always bad. some.

This year is different from previous years, Erfang finally has an heir, and it is the first year to participate in the family's New Year's Eve festival. No matter how rich the sacrifice is, it is only natural!

Pian Sanfang is deeply concerned about Su Chengzhi's family's failure to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors. They are afraid that others will not know what they are thinking. They are really stupid!
"It's right, it's right! This year, Erfang finally has an heir to participate in the family sacrifice. No amount of sacrifices is too much! Besides, who would despise the ancestors' sacrifices that are too rich. If there is, then it is really It's unfilial!" Before Su Chenghao could speak, the First Elder spoke firmly, and then gave Su Lingzhi a hard look.

Hmph, Su Fengwen's ignorance is not all because of Su Lingzhi, who is in charge!

He thought that no one saw the wink given to Su Fengwen just now, but the few of them standing here could clearly see the expressions of the clansmen.

No matter how much they thought about Su Chengzhi's family's recognition of their ancestors, and no matter whether they supported the third family's succession of a grandson to the second family, but now that the second family's descendants have recognized their ancestors and returned to their ancestors, the third family can't help but have such and such thoughts.

What's more, Erfang returned such a large profit to the clan. Even if there are still people in the clan who have such or such thoughts on Su Yunduo's family's recognition of their ancestors, they will not put their dissatisfaction on the surface like Sanfang.

Su Ling'an knew that the general situation was over long ago, so he asked Su Fengwen to come out and speak, but he was unwilling to do so, and wanted to add some trouble to the second room, but in the end he didn't, but let himself do it first.

The news of the second room finding fault soon spread back to the mansion, and Ning was quite worried.

The old lady Lu smiled lightly, she didn't take it seriously at all, what Sanfang did and said in these years was outrageous, if she was worried about getting angry, how could she still live to this day? !

Su Yunduo even cursed in his heart: "I'm so stupid!"

The scolding is naturally a person from the third room.

This episode was just an appetizer before the ancestor worship, and did not affect the grand sacrifice of the clan.

After a grand worship, I will go to the ancestral tomb in the eastern suburbs to worship the ancestors.

Originally, according to Old Madam Lu's wishes, Su Chengzhi was only asked to take Su Zexuan and Su Zechen to the ancestral grave to worship. After all, it was cold and Su Zerui was still young.

Unexpectedly, Su Zerui, who was only two years old, became interested because of the ancestral hall sacrifice just now, and felt that he was a man, so he insisted on going to the grave with him.

Mrs. Lu couldn't insist much, so she had to let him go with her.

Fortunately, it is not too far from Dongmingfang to the ancestral grave in the eastern suburbs, and the time to go to the grave will not be too long, and it only takes an hour to go back and forth.

It was already noon when the ancestors came back from paying respects, and Zhang Ping'an happened to be there too. Before lunch, they talked with Zhang Ping'an in the study for a quarter of an hour, and it was time for lunch.

The lunch was not as rich as the reunion dinner in the evening, but the table was much richer than usual, among which were several new dishes that Su Yunduo instructed the cooks to make.

These new dishes won unanimous praise from everyone as soon as they came to the table. Even the old lady Lu, who has always been restrained, ate half a bowl of rice.

After lunch, Ning and Su Yunduo led the cooks in the kitchen to prepare for the evening reunion dinner, Su Chengzhi led the sons to write Spring Festival couplets in the study outside, and Mrs. Lu brought a group of handy maids and women to meet with them. Anju cuts window grilles.

Waiting for the work in the kitchen to be arranged at random, Su Yunduo decided to go back to Xiulou for a rest before having a cup of hot drink.

This year's tea drinks in the mansion are all made by Su Yunduo based on the prescriptions of Miracle Doctor Valley, combined with a certain brand of herbal tea from the previous life, which has a great fire-clearing effect. During the Chinese New Year, big fish and meat are very easy to get angry. Drink two cups of regular tea every day. suitable.

(End of this chapter)