Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 436 Improvisation
Gu Wenxuan remembered that on the fifteenth day of August in previous years, the men of the old Gu family would go to the ancestral hall in the morning to worship their ancestors, and after dark the women of each family would stay at home to worship the moon.

That is, when night falls and the moon comes out, people will set up a large incense table in their yard, and on the table will be placed moon cakes, fruits and other offerings to the moon god.

The tablet of the "Moon God" is then placed towards the direction of the moon in the sky. Under the guidance of the housewife, all women in the family light incense and candles, burn incense and worship the Moon God to pray for blessings.

Offering sacrifices to the moon and worshipping the moon is a specific custom. The moon is yin and women are yin, so it is not easy for men to participate, and there is no need to worship the moon and make wishes in private. Usually, only women can participate.

Even when children offer sacrifices to the Rabbit God during this period, the housewife will lead the prayers.

After the ceremony, it is time to admire the moon. The whole family, young and old, men, women, and children gather in the yard to admire the moon, eat moon cakes, fruits, drink osmanthus wine, and chat about family matters.

Unlike Gu Baoya, Gu Wenxuan knew Zhou Banxia very well. As soon as he heard Zhou Banxia mention visiting someone's house, he knew what she meant and wanted to listen to what the clan wife had to say.

If you don't want to take the initiative to go to the nursing home to ask the old lady how to worship the moon under the circumstances like tonight, then the first choice is the grandmother who is the clan member.

It just so happened that his eldest sister-in-law was about to give birth, and his parents would definitely not be able to take care of the outside world for the time being, so it would be good for him and his wife to represent his great grandfather and second grandfather to say hello.

Also, considering the special situation at home and we may not be able to offer the moon sacrifice tonight, I asked my wife and younger sister to go to those two families. It would be good to offer the moon sacrifice and pray for blessings no matter which one we go to.

Gu Wenxuan immediately held his eldest nephew and led the way without saying a word. Clan leader Gu lived in the middle of the village, and Second Master Gu lived at the end of the village. He chose to go to Clan leader Gu's house first.

Unlike his grandfather, his second grandfather and great grandfather had a very good relationship, and the old couples also had close contacts. Either the two brothers were together, or the two sisters-in-law visited each other.

This time, he was lucky.

Just as he was about to step into the door of Patriarch Gu's house holding Xiao Changsuo, Second Master Gu was walking out.

Seeing Gu Wenxuan and his group coming here, Master Gu was not surprised, as it happened just then. He and his two brothers had just heard in the house that the midwife and the doctor had come to their nephew's house.

Well, he was more skillful than his elder brother, so he thought of going back and asking his wife to go to his nephew's house to check whether the older one was about to give birth or if something happened to the younger one.

When he heard that the older one was about to give birth, and then saw the younger one bowing calmly in front of him, Master Gu thought to himself that it would be better if the younger one could hold the baby steadily.

As for the big one that’s about to be born?
"Didn't you say that the full-term pregnancy is still ten days or half a month away?"

After Zhou Banxia took Bao Ya to pay her respects and went to the back with Aunt Gu and others who had taken the long locks, Mr. Gu was no longer in a hurry to go home to find his wife.

"It's only a few days away. I'll be due in the second half of the month. I didn't get angry or scared today. I ate a lot of lunch while chatting and laughing.

My brother said that the child is impatient, but my sister-in-law is very patient. After lunch, she returned to her room and told my brother that something seemed to be wrong and her belly was getting bigger and bigger.

My brother asked about it, and my sister-in-law said that she felt a little pain when she woke up this morning, but it was fine afterwards. She didn't take it seriously because the pain was getting worse.

It was my brother who asked her to lie on the kang and rest. She was afraid of indigestion, so she walked around the house a few more times. Her stomach began to hurt more and more, just like when she had growth stasis.

Hearing her say this, my brother was frightened. He then realized that the child was in a hurry to come out to celebrate the festival, and hurriedly called for his parents. Fortunately, the pregnancy was good, the baby was well taken care of, and the fetus was in the right position. "

Second Master Gu laughed. The head of the Gu clan standing by thought that his Gu family had another child, and he couldn't help but shake his head in amusement. Just as he was about to speak, his grandson Wen Yu stepped forward.

After all, it was not appropriate for a grown man to talk too much about his grandson's wife giving birth, so Patriarch Gu simply let it go and asked Gu Wenxuan to sit in Gu Wenyu's study.

On Zhou Banxia's side, Gu Wenyu's mother, who had pulled her into the house, gave her, Baoya and Xiao Changsuo to Gu Wenyu's wife, and went out with her mother-in-law.

He said he was going to her house to take a look, but Zhou Banxia didn't even have time to find out whether the time for the moon worship tonight had been set, and whether it would matter if it was early or late.

I was just about to ask Gu Wenyu's sister-in-law for advice. Unless there are special circumstances, the position of the clan leader is basically inherited by the eldest son of the clan leader's lineage. I thought that as the wife of the next clan leader, she should be able to give the correct answer. I didn't expect that Gu Wenyu invited Gu Wenxuan to come and scared him away.

In fact, although the house of Patriarch Gu and his family was not as spacious as hers, the west wing where Gu Wenyu and his wife lived was divided into inner and outer rooms.

The small hall in the west wing is Gu Wenyu's study, and the south room is the couple's inner room. There is really no need to be so shy about it as to avoid it immediately.

For a moment, if Gu Wenyu's wife hadn't quietly explained that her sister-in-law was busy preparing for the moon worship tonight, Zhou Banxia would not have known that the grandmother-in-law and mother-in-law in this family had given up their power so early.

Does this mean that after the renovation of the Gu family ancestral hall is completed, the old patriarch will step down and be succeeded by the eldest son Gu Wenyu's father, and then Gu Wenyu and his brothers will soon separate?

Among her father-in-law's cousins, Gu Wenyu's father was the eldest. Not only was he the eldest son of the clan leader's lineage, he was also a few years older than Gu Yangqing from the second house.

Being a few years older, they naturally got married earlier. Relatively speaking, their children are also several years older than those of the other two families, and all of them have married so far.

But it seems difficult to split the family.

According to the exemption rules, Gu Wenyu, the scholar who passed the exam this year, can only be exempted from one labor service in his household, which means that there is only one more vacancy besides himself.

Once the household is divided, it won't be like Dajiang, where the extra quota is useless. Unless the brothers divide the property but not the household, the whole family is still on the same household card.

Thinking of this, before Zhou Banxia could observe Gu Wenyu's wife's expression secretly, she had already mentioned that it was better for her to have only two sisters-in-law.

"...few people mean less, more people mean more. My sister-in-law is similar to your sister-in-law. She is kind and fair, and she doesn't gossip—"

"The eldest sister-in-law is very nice." Zhou Banxia pretended not to understand and took over the conversation. Some melons are delicious, but how could she, a sister-in-law from the next room over, eat some melons?

She followed suit without taking a breath and started praising Gu Wenyu's sister-in-law just like Gu Wenyu's wife. She was an expert at praising people.

After praising him, he then changed the subject and mentioned the moon worship tonight.

No matter what, no matter whether Gu Wenyu's wife can give the correct answer about the time of moon worship, it is safer to talk about the topic of moon worship.

This topic is not safe, so she continued to talk about how Gu Wenyu also had to go to the county school tomorrow to enroll in a certain period of time. Zhou Banxia didn't believe that she didn't miss her husband.

But, where is my sister-in-law?
In the past, when encountering similar situations, the clever sister-in-law would have come out to change the subject. Now that she is not around, could she have sneaked back home alone?
While the two of them were chatting, Gu Baoya handed Xiao Changsuo and Gu Wenyu's child to Gu Wenxuan and Gu Wenyu who were in the study next door and immediately slipped away.