The splendid countryside of the princess

Chapter 40 Winter Solstice Worshiping Father (PK, please add to the bookshelf)
The snow stopped, the sun came out, the weather warmed up and the snow started to melt.

Today is the winter solstice in the 24 solar terms. On the hillside on the other side of the Long River, head of Tangjia Village, firecrackers sounded from time to time, and it was the villagers who went to the grave to worship.It is the custom of Tangjia Village to eat wontons during the winter solstice to visit ancestors’ graves.

After breakfast, Mrs. Li was busy packing fruits, snacks, meat and other offerings. Tang Feng was busy folding paper gold and silver ingots. Tang Jue also went to buy firecrackers.

After the family packed up, they went to the grave of Tang Dai's cheap father, the scholar Tang Ergui.This is the first time that Tang Dai went there after time travelling.

Crossing the Changlong Bridge on the Changlong River, it took three quarters of an hour to arrive, because Tang Ergui died unexpectedly, and was not buried in the ancestral grave, but was buried on another hill, which was a little far away.Tang Dai was so tired that she was out of breath.

A small grave was lying there alone. The grass on the grave had grown, and now it was withered again. The withered yellow piles were piled up on the grave, rustling by the cold wind.The tombstone was carved with a small stone and stood upright. The words on it were blurred, and I don't know what it said.There was the sound of jackdaws passing by in the distance, and against the background of the white residual snow all around, it looked bleak and desolate.

Thinking of the people lying there, Li's eyes turned red.Putting the sacrifices one by one, he held back his tears and muttered something, which probably meant that the children had grown up, and the family's life was better now, so I told him not to worry about it.He also said that he brought the children to see him today, and asked him to remember to bless the children to be safe and sound.

Hearing Li Shi's sad words, he choked up.Tang Feng and the others also shed tears, but Tang Dai was a little embarrassed, after all, she was not the original owner, and she had never met Daddy Cheap, so she couldn't talk about feelings, so she couldn't cry.

After Mrs. Li burned incense and prayed, she asked several children from oldest to young to kneel and kowtow to worship. When it was Tang Dai's turn, she saw Tang Dai was lowering her head and didn't know what she was thinking. react.

A trace of displeasure flashed in Li's eyes. This child, brother Ergui died indirectly for her, why was he so absent-minded in front of her father's grave? Red it!
Tang Dai came to her senses and raised her head just in time to see the impatience and displeasure flashing in Li Shi's eyes, and she froze for a moment.But he reacted immediately, took the incense from Li Shi's hand and knelt down.Tang Dai didn't understand. She was just thinking about other things just now, but she didn't realize it for a while.Why did Mrs. Li have such a big reaction to such a small matter?
After the return trip, Tang Dai noticed that Li Shi was silent all the way, and seemed to have a knot in her heart.She decided to ask about the situation, which was what she was thinking in a daze just now!He came to Li Shi's side and took her hand.

"Mother, I want to ask about Daddy. I'm young and don't know Daddy. I want to know more, but you can't be angry, can you?" Tang Dai said.

"Ask what you want, I'm not angry." Hearing Tang Dai's question, Li Shi felt a little better, and his face softened.

"Well, mother, I was born on the eighth day of the first lunar month, and it was the time of Chinese New Year, and every family should still be resting at home, so why did daddy go up the mountain to cut firewood so early, and was hit by a tree?"

Hearing Tang Dai's question, Li's face turned pale instantly, and his hands were shaking. It took a while to recover, and calmly and slowly explained the cause of Tang Ergui's death.

"At that time, there was a big family and the family was poor. Your father was working as a teacher outside to help people copy books to make some money. In order to make more money, your heartless grandma forced him to go out on the fourth day of the new year. It's just A few days after arriving there, I heard that you were going to be born, so I rushed back to Tangjia Village overnight. But it still didn't catch up with your birth. When he arrived home, it was already light, and you were born at night. It was cold, Your father saw that you were born weak, and he was afraid that you would be cold, so he wanted to help you gather more firewood to burn the kang, so that you could be warmer. He didn't care about rest, and went to the mountain to cut trees for firewood, who knows... Ugh!"

Mrs. Li didn't continue talking, thinking of how badly her brother Ergui was hit by a tree, she couldn't stop crying.

"Mother, I get it, don't worry, we will be filial to you in the future. As long as my parents don't do too much to my family, for my father's sake, they are indispensable." Tang Dai felt a little bit Sad, she knew that it should be the original owner's body's instinctive reaction, so she comforted Li Shidao.

"Good boy..." Mrs. Li stopped crying, touched the little girl's head, and felt a little ashamed for having resentment in her heart just now.Before Ergui's elder brother left, he repeatedly told her to treat the little girl well and not to have any other thoughts.

"Mom, let's find a better place to move Dad's grave when the spring is warm next year. Now the family is not short of money. Dad's grave is too simple, and it's too lonely to be alone in this mountain. Mother wants to see how far she has to run!" Tang Dai said again.

"Little girl, my niece, woo..." Li-shi couldn't stop the pain that had been in her heart for many years after hearing Tang Dai's words, and hugged Tang Dai and cried loudly, regardless of the eyes of passers-by.

She also wanted to make the place where Brother Ergui lay lively. It would be best if he could enter the ancestral grave, not to enter the grave. Brother Ergui has always wanted to be that lonely ghost and the two old ones in the ancestral house. Second son, when did you ever do something that hurts your heart?The two brothers seemed to have no one. At that time, the clan said that they were not allowed to enter the ancestral grave, and neither of them dared to let the other fart.

"Mother..." Tang Feng, Tang Hua, and Tang Jue who were following behind called out "Mother", choked up and unable to say anything, unable to stop their tears, they also cried together.

"..." Tang Dai didn't expect her words to trigger such a big reaction, she stood there daring not to say anything, and let Li Shi hug her and cry, just let her vent her emotions!

Knowing that Mrs. Li has suffered the most these years, Tang Dai can see that Mrs. Li has a very good relationship with that cheap father, so her suffering in the past eight years is not only because of raising four children by herself under the eyes of others, but also because of This misses the pain that the dead have nowhere to tell.

As the saying goes, "Ten years of life and death are boundless. If you don't think about it, you will never forget it. There is a lonely grave for thousands of miles, and there is no place to talk about desolation."

I even hate that "everything is wrong if you are more important than a broad family, so why do you come here and return differently?"

After venting the emotions in Li Shi's heart, Li Shi who stopped crying took the veil handed over by her daughter and wiped her tears. Feeling a little embarrassed, she cried until she was in tears in front of her eight-year-old daughter.

After a few people returned home, they started making wontons. In the past, they used to wrap a little bit of vegetable stuffing every year, just to make sense of it.This year, if the family has money, make more packages so that the children can eat enough.After Tang Dai's suggestion, there are meat stuffing, tofu stuffing, and leek stuffing.

A few people wrapped a lot around them, and after they were ready to cook, they sent some to the village head's house, the third grandma's house, and the master's house, so that they could all try something new.Tang Dai thought about it and asked Li Shi to bring a big bowl of meat wontons to the two elders in the ancestral house. Li Shi agreed and brought it over.

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