Prosperity through farming

Chapter 97

Anyway, Ruiqi will fall into a deep sleep after the Chinese New Year, so he doesn't need to visit her for the time being, and he can take advantage of this time to make up for the lessons he missed during his practice.

Xiao Han clenched her small fist and waved it, she will work hard.

However, today is New Year's Eve, and tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and she will go to worship the ancestors early in the morning, oh, she is really looking forward to what she can see after using the psychic talisman.

The ancestor worship needs to be completed before the sun appears in the early morning. At four o'clock in the morning, Xiaohan was pulled up from the bed. After washing her face, she was carried on the aircraft by her father in a daze.

The ancestral hall is not far from the village school. Of course, this not far means that if you use the flying magic weapon, if you have to climb on your legs, you can't walk such a steep mountain road in ten days.Dad's aircraft landed in a mountain depression, and he explained to the three children who had been woken up by the cold wind blowing from the high altitude, that this is a rare shady place in Shenqi Mountain, and only a little sunshine will come in at noon, because Due to such geographical characteristics, the ancestral hall of Xiaotian Village was built here.

The mountain has a radius of about ten li, and there are five bluestone gates according to the directions of the five elements, all of which are tightly sealed.

"This is?" Xiaohan was really visiting the ancestral hall for the first time—girls are not allowed to set foot here before they arrive at the foundation building.

The father and mother have already exchanged pleasantries with others, and the elder brother has been holding Xiaohan's hand, and he is also here to answer her question, "This is the ancestral hall of the five surnames, and all the five surnames in Xiaotian Village have ancestral halls here. That's why we say , Xiaotian Village is a place where the five surnames live together."

Xiao Han was startled, "But the Ge family and the Hu family... aren't they different from the Sun family's Zhang family's Zhong family?"

"Yes," Han Lu nodded, "The ancestral hall of the Ge family enshrines the patriarch surnamed Tian. It is a place to worship the patriarch. It is only opened on the first day of the first lunar month every year. As for the Hu family, their ancestral hall is dedicated to the saints of the monster clan. , and will not mix with us, they have their own time to worship, and they don't stay with us, today there are only three ancestral halls of the Zhang family, the Sun family and the Zhong family."

Xiaohan touched the psychic talisman in the storage bag, very curious, "Brother, how long will it take to use the psychic talisman before I can see the ancestors who came back to enjoy offerings?"

"When the ancestral hall is opened, the ancestors will light incense and offer offerings to guide the ancestors into the ancestral hall. After all the etiquette is done, you can use the psychic charm," Han Lu chuckled, "I have participated in the ancestor worship for ten years. You are not as bold as you, but you actually thought of seeing the appearance of your ancestors."

"Isn't that what the psychic talisman is for?" Xiaohan was puzzled, "Otherwise, why would the Zhong family make so many psychic talismans?"

"This is an incidental measure after the entire continent is in the hands of cultivators." Han Lu frowned slightly, obviously not wanting to explain too clearly, "Now there are national teachers in every country, and there are Taoist temples dedicated to worshiping Emperor Pangu and Dear immortals, then, at least the common people should know and believe that their offerings are necessary. The psychic talisman can let ordinary people see the appearance of the Stove Lord and the appearance of their ancestors enjoying the offerings, so they will believe And revere the existence of gods, and act without contradicting the principles of heaven and conscience. In short, this kind of talisman is specially prepared for ordinary people, because the psychic talisman drawn by the Zhong family is the easiest to work on ordinary people, so every year before the year From the beginning, the Zhong family will be very busy."

"Including the students in their private schools, they can earn extra money by drawing symbols at this time of year," the second brother came back from nowhere, and stood next to Xiao Han, adding, "So, every time the Chinese New Year is on holiday, the Zhong family On the contrary, the children are even busier, and they don't have time to play with me." He stretched his waist and waved to several other places.

"But didn't you and those from the Sun family have a lot of fun? You brought a large group of people from our private school with you?" Han Lu rolled his eyes at him. For Jing Zhe, who had a lot of friends and spent time on fun, it was very difficult. Look down on.

Jing Zhe shrugged, "Brother, don't scold me. Uncles have said that I am also a kind of mind cultivation. I am not like you. I can advance to the next level by thinking about formations. I will definitely be traveling in the future." The kind of comprehension, so it is a good thing for me to make more friends."

"It's all about you that my uncle is used to. That way of promotion is the most dangerous one, and you really..." Han Lu wanted to say more, but Xiao Han tugged at the corner of her elder brother's clothes, and signaled with her eyes that the uncles were coming.

"No way," Jing Zhe lowered his voice with a playful smile, "Everyone has their own destiny, my 'Tao' is born that way, and I can't help it."

Seeing that the elder brother was looking sad, Xiao Han tugged on his sleeve again, "Don't worry, elder brother, at most, I will dedicate more merits to the second brother in the future. If the merits are good, the danger will not be so great."

"I don't want it," Jing Zhe groaned strangely, "I'm not that thick-skinned, I want my sister's merits, cut, my skills are not fake. Hmph, I've always been the number one fighter in the private school."

"You kind of arrogant," Han Lu kept her voice to a minimum. "You should be thrown into the village school to practice hard. How good do you think your fighting weapon is? Once you arrive at the village school, you will know that you are a frog at the bottom of the well."

"I'm also very eager to enter the village school. Anyway, at least the children in the Zhong family's private school have fought against me. Many of them are evenly matched. I didn't win, but I didn't lose either." Jing Zhe pouted, "Even Uncle They say I'm pretty good."

Han Lu gave him a disdainful look, "The ones who will compete with you are all from the Zhong family's private school. People with foreign surnames are playing."

"Hey!" Jing Zhe was a little angry.

"What's the matter? The ancestral hall is about to open, so we can't quarrel." Zhong Lanyu and her two older brothers walked over, putting one hand on the shoulder of a son, while Zhong Yuyang and Zhong Xuyang held Xiaohan's hand each , leaning down with a doting face, as if asking Xiaohan what New Year gift she wants...

"I knew it." Jing Zhe took a look at the eldest brother, and found sympathy in the other person's eyes, "If Xiao Han is here, Uncle won't be able to see us."

"Don't worry," Han Lu said viciously, "after they give birth to their first daughter, Xiaohan won't be treated like this anymore."

At 04:30, the Venus hung high on the zenith, becoming the brightest point in the blue-gray sky, and a chime sounded.

The uncles forced a few gifts into her hands, and hurried back to the gate of the ancestral hall facing south.

Xiaohan didn't have time to see what these things were, so she put them into the storage bag, followed the strength of her mother's pulling her, and stood beside her brothers.

The two elder brothers stood behind their parents, and in front of their parents were their uncles, uncles, and great-grandfathers... In short, they were all elders of my father, densely packed, filling the entire square in front of the ancestral hall.

The second chime sounded, and the people in the valley fell silent after standing in a square formation facing the gates of the three ancestral halls.

The third chime sounded, and the bluestone gate of the ancestral hall opened.

Like all ancestral halls, it is a very deep and wide gloomy room. The difference is that Xiaohan can see that there are obviously compartments on both sides.

As far as the eye can see, there are layers of memorial tablets against the wall of the ancestral hall, with shelves from top to bottom. It is not like the altar with a long table in Xiaohan's imagination, but the width is similar to that of a bench. The wooden bracket - it seems that it is obviously custom-made according to the number of tablets. It has to be said that there are much fewer tablets in the Zhang Family Ancestral Hall than Xiaohan imagined.

As soon as the door was opened, big white candles were lit on the wooden brackets, and two candles were lit up in front of each tablet.

"Introduce incense." A clear shout came from the central point behind the three phalanxes.

The ancestor in the middle of the first row in front of the ancestral hall had three long sticks of incense sticks in his hand, and after a slight shake, a fire lighted up on the top of the sticks.

"Recite the sacrificial text." There was another clear shout.

"Fu Yijiuhua jade que seven treasures royal house inherits the fate of the heavens, the master of yin holds the handle of yang, promotes respect, contains great virtues, accumulates in softness, smoothness, and chastity imitates Haotian... The children of the Zhang family in Shenqi Mountain welcome all ancestors. Enjoy the sacrifice!" After Zhang Patriarch finished reading the sacrificial oration, he inserted the incense into the incense burner under the table and stepped back to the side.

With a puzzled expression on her face, Xiaohan looked at her elder brother who was holding her, "Shouldn't you be kneeling and kowtowing?"

"Of course you have to kowtow, don't worry." Han Lu stopped her softly, "Just do it, and I'll explain later."

In front, after the ancestor retreated, those behind him who were of the same generation as him or who were lower than him but not bad in cultivation all retreated to both sides of the ancestral hall.By the gate of the ancestral hall, two rows of human walls were formed, and when the parents also stood at the end of the human wall, the ones left facing the front of the ancestral hall were the young children of the eldest brother and the others.

Xiaohan suddenly changed from the last row to the first row.

"Kowtow." There was another clear drink.

Xiao Han knelt down along with his elder brother and kowtowed three times into the ancestral hall.

"Get up and finish the ceremony."

Standing up following the pulling force of the elder brother, Xiaohan looked at the elder brother suspiciously, Zhang Hanlu motioned her to keep quiet and watch first.

"Worship in each room."

Following these words, the ancestor and his wife stood up again, walked to the open space of the ancestral hall, flipped their hands, and a round table appeared. Then, the ancestor's wife quickly took out a round table from the storage bag. Plates of steaming delicacies covered the entire table.At the same time, the ancestor also quickly moved along the outer circle of the table, putting down more than a dozen sets of wine glasses, chopsticks, spoons and bowls, and took out the jug to fill them up one by one.

The ancestors and his wife stepped back, followed by the ancestors and his wife who were standing opposite him. It was also a table, full of dishes, tableware, and wine.

It's just that the offerings from the descendants of the ancestors who were a generation younger than the ancestors couldn't be put in the ancestral hall, but everyone seemed to be familiar with it, and put it outside the ancestral hall.

Since they are all practitioners, the speed of serving food in each room is extremely fast. The husband and wife can arrange all the tables for the offering in less than half a minute.

In less than half an hour, Zhang Hoe and his wife had already set up a table, followed by Zhang Tieli, who also set up a table on behalf of his parents.

At this moment, Xiaohan obviously felt that the atmosphere had relaxed, and it was not as solemn as before, especially in the Zhong family, there were already soft jokes.

"Okay, let the ancestors enjoy the sacrificial offerings. Take it easy, I'm going to talk to the elders too," Zhang Hoe pulled his daughter and rubbed her head, "You can't talk casually when you open the ancestral hall, you know?"

"Why do only children kowtow to their ancestors? It's not based on seniority, how strange?" Indeed, Uncle Tie Li was also among the kowtowers, so it's not based on seniority.

"Those above the golden core stage cannot kowtow to them," Han Lu explained to her, "Well, those who have practiced have already escaped reincarnation, and the ancestors of the Zhang family who are invited to come back to enjoy the worship are all officials of the underworld. It's not good for their cultivation if they don't accept the rituals of cultivators."

(End of this chapter)