prisoner in the door

Chapter 11: Chapter 11: "Red Jujube Village"

The old man didn't stay long after he finished speaking, and walked into the back room with square steps.

Mo Zhenzhen watched the old man disappear, then looked around, then grabbed the handle of the basket and went to the room where the ancestral tablet might be placed.

Mo Zhenzhen didn't have any information about the interior of the ancestral hall in her memory. The reason she was able to find it accurately was because she had seen this kind of courtyard before she lifted her feet, so she could find it without any flaws. right place.

Hongzao Village has a long history, and there are so many ancestral tablets enshrined in the ancestral hall that it simply cannot fit in one room.

Mo Zhenzhen didn't know if the tablets in this room were her ancestors.

She scanned the surname of Li on the tablets, and after confirming that all the tablets she could see were all surnamed Li, she put down the basket, wiped the mud off her hands with her clothes, and took three sticks of incense from the incense box on the altar , Light it with the burning candle, and then kneel down respectfully in front of these tablets.

As soon as Mo Zhenzhen's knees fell to the ground, she felt a gust of wind blowing in front of her, and the rising smoke was blown away, and the red fire at the tip of the incense seemed to flicker for a moment!
Mo Zhenzhen knelt straight until the gust of wind subsided, then she held the incense sticks on her forehead with both hands, and bowed respectfully.

The cold wind blew again, this time Mo Zhenzhen seemed to be able to feel the joss stick in her hand trembling, as if something invisible was pinching the joss stick in her hand.

Mo Zhenzhen knelt down motionless, the invisible object seemed to cut off the incense stick in her hand, but the incense stick kept trembling but did not really break off.

After a long time, the trembling on the incense disappeared, but the gust of wind still lingered for a long time, as if hesitating.

Mo Zhenzhen kept kneeling and did not get up, until the gust of wind cleared, she slowly straightened up, and then bowed twice!

Mo Zhenzhen had an auditory hallucination when she bowed down this time. She seemed to be able to hear many people whispering.

The voices of these people were vague and distant, and they were all men's voices.

Mo Zhenzhen couldn't hear what they were saying, but she could feel the doubt and dislike in their words.

This time Mo Zhenzhen knelt down for a longer time, until the auditory hallucinations gradually disappeared, and then she got up again.

And when she was praying for the third time, suddenly a voice that seemed to be near and far away rang clearly in her ears.

"Which family are you from?" Mo Zhenzhen seemed to see a thin old man wearing a double-breasted Tsing Yi with gray hair and beard.

By coincidence, Mo Zhenzhen felt that the old man was very close, as if the old man was an acquaintance of hers, and in a trance, she had the urge to take out all the things she had kept in her heart and tell the old man.

This trance only affected Mo Zhenzhen for a second, so the words that came to her lips turned a corner, and she said timidly with a trance.

"My father is Li Daniu, and I am Li Azhen from Hongzao Village..."

The old man stroked his beard lightly, as if he was thinking about who Li Daniu was, and also seemed to be wondering who Li Azhen was.

A series of children's laughter came, and Mo Zhenzhen got rid of the seemingly vague fantasies.

She knelt straight, and there was no old man in sight!
She looked around as if she was frightened, and finally her gaze was fixed on the layers of tablets on the table. Her timid gaze seemed to be a little frightened, but she still bowed down.

After this prostration, the three sticks of incense held by Mo Zhenzhen suddenly burst into small flames, and most of them were burned in just a few breaths!
The burnt incense ash landed on Mo Zhenzhen's rough and black hands, the off-white incense ash seemed to be still hot, but Mo Zhenzhen didn't let go of the burn as if she didn't feel it. Standing up, he quickly extinguished the small flame with his hand fan, not letting all three sticks of incense burn out.

The incense ash was shaken off by Mo Zhenzhen, and her hand was completely unharmed, the hot feeling before was like her hallucination.

She stood up from the ground without changing her face, and then respectfully inserted the three remaining sticks of incense into the incense burner.

At the moment when the three incense sticks were firmly inserted, Mo Zhenzhen suddenly felt that she was finally on the ground. The strong scent of sandalwood in her nose, the dim light in the ancestral hall, and the cold temperature all over her body became clear!
Mo Zhenzhen didn't show it on the surface, but she knew in her heart that she should have taken the right step.

When she first came to a new place, Mo Zhenzhen always put survival first.

From the moment she guessed that there might be supernatural elements in the outside world, she started from the supernatural point and kept thinking about countermeasures.

Now she offered incense to these ancestors, bowed three times and kowtowed nine times as a junior, regardless of whether she was really of the blood of the Li family, at least she got a 'familiar face' in front of these ancestors and had a sense of incense.

She still remembered that someone told her about the culture of the ancestral hall before, saying that the ancestral hall is the destination, shelter, root, support, awe, spiritual sustenance, glory, confidence, acceptance, and a symbol of the big family...

Does that mean that she didn't really integrate into Hongzao Village until this time?

After worshiping the 'ancestors', Mo Zhenzhen bent down to get the big basket on the ground, and out of the corner of her eye, she found a person standing at the door, who was the old man looking at the ancestral hall.

Mo Zhenzhen looked towards the door as if frightened, and when she found that the old man's eyes were fixed on her stomach, she grabbed the basket on the ground like a frightened bird to block her swollen stomach.

In fact, Mo Zhenzhen's stomach bulge was not so exaggerated at this time, but Mo Zhenzhen was too thin, so it still looked awkward.

This time the old man was very kind. Seeing that Mo Zhenzhen was frightened, he didn't know what to make up, so he actually spoke to comfort her.

"Don't be afraid, you should just be flatulent. It's not a bad thing, it's just a disease. I'll get you some medicine in a while, and you'll be fine after you take it."

The old man probably regarded Mo Zhenzhen as a girl who didn't understand anything.

"It's been a long time since no one in our village had a stomach ache. It's normal that you, a little girl, haven't seen this."

The old man could see clearly that Mo Zhenzhen's swelling was in her stomach, not her abdomen. He worried that Mo Zhenzhen didn't understand these things and was suspicious, and finally scared himself.

Thinking about it this way, he felt that it was normal for Mo Zhenzhen to insist on offering incense to the ancestors.

The little girl is not married yet, so she will inevitably think about ghosts and gods when she encounters this. She must be frightened, so she wants to ask her ancestors for help.

Thinking of this, the old man felt that the little girl was pitiful, and at the same time complained in his heart that Li Azhen's parents only cared about their son and didn't care about their daughter's life. With such a big child in front of them, they didn't realize that the little girl was sick!
Look at this little girl again, she was promised to go out by her parents before she grew up, the promise was not a good marriage, and she still doesn't know how to live the life of this little girl in the future...

The more the old man thought about it, the more he felt that the little girl was pitiful, so when he went back to get the medicine for the little girl, he accidentally took an extra Ping An Fu card.

This is given to the children in the village to keep them safe when they are over the full moon. Mo You, a girl who has grown up, also got one.

As soon as she got the Ping An Fu card and the medicine pack, she felt it.

There was no hint, but Mo Zhenzhen knew strangely that this Ping An Fu card was a prop.

(End of this chapter)