Listening to Qingyue's words, Mrs. Qi's anger slowly calmed down a little, patted Qingyue's hand on her shoulder, a sneer appeared on her graceful and fair face, and she sighed with satisfaction, "You still understand my heart, when you say this, you really remind me, there are so many ladies and young ladies who celebrate their birthdays, but they are not as good-tempered as us, and anyone can tolerate them." ”

Qingyue pursed her lips and smiled modestly, the movements of her hands became harder, and she was talking to Mrs. Qi while rubbing.

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Although Bao Qi guessed that this matter would not be brought up by Mrs. Qi on her own initiative, she also knew that the birthday day would not be too easy, seeing that there were still fifteen days to come, the time was not long, and it was not short, and with a little preparation, the fifteenth passed quickly.

Mrs. Ling's birthday is July 19, just after the mid-year festival of July 15, during which a small episode occurred in Qi Mansion.

The Midyear Festival is also known as the Ghost Festival, every household has to worship their ancestors, and the small families put tablets at home, offer new food, and then go to the grave to sweep it, praying for the blessing of the ancestors, and a good harvest in the coming year.

For some large families, ancestor worship is a very grand thing, not only there is a special ancestral hall at home to place tablets, but also the men of the whole family to go to the big temple to kneel and worship incense, praying for the shade of the ancestors, the wind and rain for future generations, the safety of the children, and the family is developed.

The ancestor worship of Qi Mansion is naturally not ordinary, Master Qi took Qi Yue and a man, and went out with the sacrifices early in the morning, heading towards Jing'an Temple, because of Qi Rong's body, he stayed at home every year, waiting for a group of people to come back with incense, and then went to the ancestral hall to incense.

I don't know if it's the reason for Halloween, the weather on this day is not very clear, the autumn day is cool, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the sky is shrouded in a layer of shallow dark clouds, so that the day is a little not bright enough, and occasionally there is a light wind. In contrast to yesterday's hot weather.

This kind of weather is reasonable in terms of the season, and in the eyes of the people, it is the ancestors of the underground who have appeared. Worship is also more religious.

Bao Qi looked at the cool breeze outside, and was quite happy, the fire in July is better than the scorching sun, which makes people dry. She also deliberately propped up the window, so that this cool wind could blow into the house, she didn't believe in any bulls, ghosts, gods and snakes, she was just scaring herself.

Qi Rong stood by the window, looking at the weather with Bao Qi, his eyes were deep, and his spirit was becoming clearer, the two chatted about the autumn weather, and even estimated whether it would rain. I couldn't talk about it, laughed and talked for a while, and when I was silent, I had a faint sadness.

Thinking that today is the day to worship the ancestors, Bao Qi thought of the flower father and the flower mother, and didn't go to Hua Xi to take a look at it after eating in the morning, thinking about today, she must be more uncomfortable than herself.

Bao Qi couldn't help but sigh, Qi Rong looked at her sideways, and said gently, "What's wrong." Do you miss the two old men again?"

Bao Qi was poked at the center, nodded silently, and said later, wait for yourself. I was going to go to the pillar incense in the room, so I stretched out my hand to feel the weather, and told Qi Rong not to blow the wind for too long, and was about to lean over and close the window, but Helan ran over in a hurry.

said that there was an emergency on the girl's side, and Bao Qi listened to it. As soon as he sat down, he immediately stood up, grabbed his cuffs tightly, and wanted to lead Helan over.

Qi Rong had just gone out to change his clothes, and Bao Qi didn't have time to tell him, so he took Helan over first.

It turned out that just now, not long after breakfast, Hua Xi opened the cabinet in the room, there were two tablets neatly placed in it, and a small incense burner was enshrined in front, Hua Xi lit a few incense sticks, bowed to the tablet several times, and said for a long time in a low voice, and then inserted the incense in his hand into the incense burner.

At this time, the autumn wind outside the door was tight, and the door of the house was blowing from time to time, Hua Xi looked at the ranking in front of her in a daze, her apricot eyes were full of grievances and tears, and she murmured in a low voice, "...... Father, mother, it's all daughters who are unfilial, it's your daughters who are sorry for you, and it's you who give your daughters a chance to live...... But now, the daughter is under the fence, and she is not as happy as before, the person is close in front of her, but the daughter can't touch it, father, mother, what should the daughter do...... Bao Qi also has her own life, her daughter is not as good as a maid under her now, in this world, except for her father, her daughter really doesn't know who to rely on...... Dad, mother, if Xi'er really did that, Dad and Mother knew that she would bless her daughter and forgive her daughter, and Xi'er would also be for her own happiness...... Who!"

Hua Xi was putting in what she was saying, and the clanging sound of the door suddenly increased, and Hua Xi, who was attracted by the clang, immediately closed her voice, and looked cautiously towards the door, empty and no one, only the whirring phoenix occasionally came in.

Hua Xi gently closed the door of the window, got up cautiously, stretched out her head and took small steps, walked towards the door little by little, and slowed down again near the door, paused at the position of the door, suddenly opened the half-covered door, stared straight out of the door, looked back and forth several times, confirmed that there was no figure, and then relaxed a little pale, and exhaled extremely slowly.

On the other side, in the main house, which was slightly dim because of the weather, Mrs. Qi held the tea cup, pinched the tea lid and knocked on the rim of the cup a few times, blew carefully and slowly, listened to the maid kneeling on the ground report the situation she had just seen, slowly took a sip of tea, hooked the corners of her lips and seemed to smile.

"The problems of this small family have all been brought to the big courtyard, and on the day of the big festival, there are really ghosts, Qingyue, let's catch ghosts. ”

Qingyue pouted and smiled, and leaned over to salute, "Yes, madam." ”

After that, he stretched out his hand and hugged Mrs. Qi, and Mrs. Qi glanced at the person on the ground lightly, "Okay, you can go back too, don't let people find out for too long." ”

When Mrs. Qi went to the backyard, in addition to Qingyue, she also brought a few maids, and the group was not small, originally said that they were going to see the offerings of the ancestral hall, and after reading it, they planned to visit Qi Rong on the way, this road happened to pass by the side house in the backyard first, and Mrs. Qi also asked casually, "Who lives in the house over there, why do I look a little strange in that figure?"

The maids and mothers-in-law are not serving in the backyard, where do they know so much, follow behind without making a sound, Qingyue hugged Mrs. Qi and smiled, "Madame has a lot of family affairs to take care of, and it is common sense not to remember, this is the cousin of the young lady's mother's family, who was just brought back not long ago." ”

As soon as Mrs. Qi was reminded, she seemed to have just remembered, "Oh, it turned out to be this girl, who else do I want to be, looking at this back figure, it doesn't look like a girl in the house." ”

(To be continued.) )

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