Longniu Mountain is the family tomb of the Song family, and the ancestors of the Song family buried here are the patriarchs who led the family for an era, and there are at least a dozen tombs, covering the entire mountain.

But only three of them are stone tombs.

The others are earthen tombs.

In ancient times, it was very expensive to repair stone tombs, the Song family was hidden in abundance, and the farmers of the past dynasties have never been rich, and the more important ancestors were buried in stone tombs, and the others were buried in earthen tombs that carried coffins.

The stone tomb only needs to be swept and cleaned, and even if the earthen tomb comes to worship every year, the tomb is still overgrown with weeds.

So the tomb should be repaired.

One by one, the clansmen began to weed with hoes, and sweeping the tomb is to repair the tomb, if you don't come for a few years, it is estimated that you will not be able to find the tomb.

However, there are many people and great strength, the Yudu Song clan is dominated by the Fengsheng clan, and the clansmen of several towns add up to hundreds of people, all of whom are men, and the Song family in Yanbian also has more than 100 people, and there are many young and middle-aged people, and the tombs are cleaned in three or two clicks.

Young adults at work.

These children of four, five or six years old ran all over the mountain, and were soon caught by their parents, and then they were pressed by the older generation to patrol the tombs one by one, in fact, to popularize the ancestors buried here for them.

"This largest stone tomb is the leader patriarch of our migration to the northwest, Song Qifeng, the Duke of Qifeng was still a man back then!"

"This is our Twelfth Ancestor!"

"This is the Seventh Ancestor!"

“......”

The older generation of people have a lot of respect for their ancestors, and in order to let the children remember their ancestors, they say it over and over again.

"The time is right, make sacrifices!"

The old patriarch looked at the hour for a moment, then looked at the surrounding tombs that were almost repaired, and began to shout.

"Sacrifice!"

"Light incense first!"

One by one, the clansmen began to get busy.

The Yudu Song clan gathers sacrifices together, but the people of the Yanbian Song clan have their own set of sacrifices, and the two sets of sacrifices are placed together, and the superior and inferior.

Fengsheng Village prepares a rooster and a pig's head.

But Yanbian Song directly brought out a golden roast pig.

"The people of the Song family in Yanbian are really rich!"

"Look at the gold chains and gold rings they wear, the big brothers who take them one by one, can they not be rich?"

The people on the Song side of the Jade Capital were quite envious.

"Hehe, the Song clan here in Yudu is too poor!"

"It seems that the old ancestor has hope this time!"

"Let's just look at the face of the ancestor!"

Several members of the Yanbian Song clan were also secretly discussing.

Of course, no matter what everyone thinks, at this time, everyone is harmonious, after all, in this society with a strong family concept, the status of ancestors is very high, and they are presumptuous, and they dare not be presumptuous here.

After setting up the sacrifices and offering sacrifices to the heavens and ancestors, it is time to bow down.

First of all, the children, groups began to kneel and worship, three kneels and nine knocks, this is the standard for going to the tomb, after kneeling and worshipping, go out to the side, another row of people began again, to sweep the tomb, worship the ancestors, is to ask the ancestors to bless, pay attention to sincerity.

Song Shan also followed a group of young people from the Song family to kneel and worship.

Kneeling to the sky, kneeling to the ground, kneeling to the ancestors.

So he is also very sincere to kneel and knock nine times.

If he had bowed down to his ancestors in his previous life, he would have been less sincere, because he was born in a godless world, and when people die, they die, so what else is there to bless him, but after all, what happened to him is a bit treacherous, so he now has a sense of awe for these Shinto things.

If you don't know, it won't be.

Maybe in the dark, the ancestral gods will still bless you, such as him, maybe it is the blessing of the ancestors that gave him a second life, so he is very sincere.

Syllable!

When he kowtowed, he probably pushed a little harder. There shouldn't be anything on these dirt floors, but he just knocked him, and I don't know if he hit a stone, and his forehead was red and swollen.

He was a little annoyed.

"What's that?" he peeled back the dirt from his forehead, revealing a stone, only the size of a little finger, but the shape was strange and familiar, and he suddenly glanced at the palm of his right hand, isn't this small stone the same as the pattern in his palm?

He picked up the small stone and blew away the dirt, revealing its original shape, a swarthy stone, but it didn't feel like a stone.

"Shanzi, the ancestors are looking at you, you are sincere!"

At this time, the uncle next to him was urging Song Shan to kneel and worship.

Song Shan hurriedly put the small stone into his pocket, and then completed three kneeling and nine knocking.

Everyone knelt down and bowed, that is, the final procedure, burning offerings, ingots, dead coins, paper clothes, paper buildings, and so on.

At this time, some elders began to divide bread and sweets, and children lined up to receive them.

Song Jifang came over with a sweat: "Shanzi, there is something to discuss with you!"

"What time!"

"Isn't the ancestral hall cooking?" Song Jifang glanced at the people of the Song clan in Yanbian in the distance, and said in a low voice: "These people also want to go back to the ancestral hall to eat, but the ancestral hall didn't cook their meals, and when the family collected the head money before, they didn't collect much, and now it's too late, so the patriarch wants our family to sponsor something!"

Tomb sweeping is paid according to the head, and it is stipulated that a table should be set at the entrance of the ancestral hall to eat.

"Dad, leave this matter to me!"

Song Shan squinted at those people of the Song family in Yanbian, these people want to make a noise and take the master, it is not a matter of one or two days, it is nothing more than to see that the Song family is poor, and they are still a little bit of rules in front of their ancestors, if they go out of Longniu Mountain, they will ensure that they will be moths.

He pulled out his phone.

I made a phone call and asked someone to arrange it.

Money can make ghosts grind, and the county may be a little far away, but he can bring people to several restaurants in the town, and he doesn't believe that this meal can't be made, so don't you want to show off, then show off.

It took a lot of time to sweep the tomb in Longniu Mountain, and it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon, and the group returned to Fengsheng Village.

This time, people from the Song family in Yanbian also came.

Hundreds of members of the Song family suddenly made the entire Fengsheng Village lively.

And that's not all.

The Feng family also sweeps the tomb today, but the Feng family is different from the Song family, the Feng family is more considerate of the customs of the northwest, and the Song family inherits the tomb sweeping customs of the south, which is different, so the Song family is more lively, but the entire Fengsheng Village, all year round, is the most lively on this day.

In front of the ancestral hall.

on the main square.

The table has already been set, and more than a dozen large stoves are cooking next to it, and the dishes are very fragrant, and the fragrance can spread throughout the entire Fengsheng Village.

"Isn't that the chef at the Rainbow Restaurant in town?"

"That chef over there is still a chef at Jinli Restaurant!"

"Who brought them all!"

"Sweeping the tomb every year, eating ancestral hall rice every year, or today's meal, chicken, duck, prawns, fish ......"

The local Song people were a little surprised.

Every year, the tomb is swept and the money is collected according to the head, and the families are not very rich, and the ancestral hall rice is also a little shivering, but it is not as rich as today.

"This rich Song family is out of the power to milk, I don't want to be looked down upon!"

"I guess it's someone from the Song family in Yanbian who is here, why do you have to pretend!"

The people of the Song clan in several nearby towns know the poverty of the Song clan best, and this meal can make the Song clan search for a few months.

"Didn't you say that the Fengsheng Song clan was quite poor?"

"This ancestral hall meal is almost 20,000 smaller!"

The Song family in Yanbian was a little surprised.

Old Patriarch Song was very happy, and smiled with a smile: "This Jifang family has done a good job, and it has given the ancestor a long face!"

A crowd was seated.

The children were happy to eat, and there were drinks and dishes that they couldn't usually eat, and they ate one by one with greasy mouths.

However, the atmosphere at the main table was a little different.

"Brother, this ancestral hall is a little dilapidated!" The oldest old man in the Song family in Yanbian is Song Xinghe, eighty-seven, old, but his eyes are very shrewd, he looked at the ancestral hall and said.

"yes!"

The old patriarch is two years older than Song Xinghe, but maybe it is the abundant mountains and rivers to raise people, after all, in the entire northwest, I can't find a village like Fengsheng, the loess slopes in the northwest, the green mountains and green waters, that is the scene of the south of the Yangtze River, so he looks a little younger.

The old patriarch sighed and said, "The descendants are not filial!"

Song Xinghe said to the old man: "When I went to Longniu Mountain to worship the ancestors today, I was very uncomfortable when I saw the adobe tomb, and now I look at the dilapidated ancestral hall, and I always feel sorry for the ancestors!"

When he said this, the people at the table, the vein of the Yudu Song clan all lowered their heads, which seemed to be self-pity, but it was clearly laughing at the Yudu Song clan for being sorry for the ancestors, and the ancestors were not at peace when they died.

"In this way, our Yanbian Song family should also contribute!"

Song Xing and the old man continued: "Our Yanbian Song family will pay 100,000 yuan, repair this tomb, and also repair the ancestral hall, brother, what do you think?"

"100,000 yuan?"

"Rich and rich!"

Quite a few people called out.

In the northwest of ninety-seven years, 100,000 yuan is a lot, and it is estimated that this money will be paid, so that the Song family in Yanbian will also cut a piece of meat.

"Xinghe, just say what you have, do you need to beat around the bush?"

Old Ancestor and Song Xinghe seemed to have known each other for a long time, he sighed and said softly.

"My brother still understands me!"

Song Xinghe said with a smile: "The children of our side have not been on the genealogy for several generations, so I just want to ask my brother to borrow this genealogy to use it!"

As soon as he said this, there was a sudden silence.

Borrowing a family tree?

Everyone couldn't help but gasp, and the people of the rich vein were even more angry.

Can I borrow this?

Genealogy is the history of a family and the hallmark of a family.

Since the reform and opening up, the beginning of universal education, the people of China are indeed progressing, and they will not be too attached to the clan, but in ancient and modern times, the clan is the root of a person, how many people in ancient times would rather die than be removed from the genealogy, once the genealogy is removed, then even if it is dead, it is a wandering soul, and there is no root.

Only the clan can hold the genealogy.

Every male must be cautious when going to the family tree.

Now the Yanbian Song clan, this is to seize power nakedly, they are taking away the last roots of the Fengsheng Song clan, once the genealogy is taken away, the ancestral hall will be opened in Yanbian in the future.