Chapter 543: Sacrifice
Squeak!
The door on one side opened, and the old man stretched out his head to see Wen Xu and asked, "Why did you come here at this time?" ”
Wen Xu, who opened the door to Wen Xu, called the second brother, this second brother is not Wen Shigui, but Wen Shikuan, who belongs to Wen Xu's Taibozu lineage, and is farther away from Wen Xu's bloodline, although he looks more than ten years older than Wen Shigui, but his real age is one year younger, he looks old, and his body is not too healthy, so he is a pensioner in the ancestral hall.
Wen Xu said with a smile: "Send some wine to Lao Dao, and bring a little bit to all the old brothers by the way."
Saying that, Wen Xu entered the door, and stepped into the door, Wen Xu couldn't help but be startled, because he felt that his foot had stepped on a soft thing.
Whew!
At the same moment, a soft roar rang out.
Wen Xu looked at it and found that he didn't know when an overlord was lying in the door, and its tail was just sticking to the ground at the door.
Wen Xu immediately asked, "Why is this thing here?" ”
"This is not the one in the village, this is a female, a little timid, generally feels that when someone comes, it is hidden, you are okay, it is not afraid of you, if it is afraid of you, you will not have a chance to see it. This thing, you Jiu Brother encountered in the wild, who knows, just follow back all the way," Wen Shikuan said with a smile.
Wen Xu just glanced at it and immediately knew who it was, and now Wen Xu's head was thinking about whether he wanted to clean up this batch in the space, or he would be crooked by the scum, and he would follow it one by one in the future, so how could he get it?
"What are you doing, come in!" Wen Shikuan pulled Wen Xu, let the white cow and Dong Liang in, and then gently closed the door.
"Second brother, are you playing cards?"
As soon as he entered the gate, Wen Xu saw that under the pomegranate tree in the middle of the courtyard, there was an old man sitting next to a stone table, Yishui was the old brothers of the family, there was a lamp pole next to the stone table, a solar street lamp illuminated the tiles near the table, and there was a pair of mahjong on the stone table, which seemed to be in progress.
"Wen Xue is here!"
The remaining three elder brothers greeted each other.
Wen Xu also carried two bottles of wine on the table: "Drink two sips when you're usually fine!" ”
"This wine is not good, it is too expensive, it hurts and hurts my heart when I drink it!" One picked it up and looked at it, and found that it was Wuliangye and immediately put it back.
"Yes, yes, we don't have the life to drink this, we should just drink Yanghe, and we also like the taste of that wine," said the other with a smile.
"By the way, a few old brothers, did you have any conflicts with Lao Dao?" Wen Xu turned his head to look around and found that there was no one in the front yard, so he opened his mouth to ask.
"Who has any contradictions with him, we are not interested in messing with him, he asked for himself, he had to raise the bar with Grandpa Nine, and in the end he couldn't say that Grandpa Jiu was left to blow his beard and stare at him blindly" Wen Shikuan sat back in his seat, said with a smile, and began to touch the cards.
Wen Xu was stunned by these words, and asked directly, "Grandpa Hejiu?" Grandpa Nine is delirious, what does Lao Dao have to talk about with him? ”
"Hmmm! You think this can't be discussed? The two of them are quite speculative, and now it is estimated that the two of them are still playing chess in the ear courtyard! Wen Shikuan said with a smile.
"Ahh
Wen Xu felt that his three views had been refreshed, and this old and ugly was just that, and he still liked to play chess with an old man with Alzheimer's disease? Could it be that there is a demon haunted by this sky?
Thinking of this, Wen Xu subconsciously looked at the sky above his head, and found that a bright moon was hanging high above his head, like a big disc, indescribably bright and bright, and he couldn't see any smell of the moon black and high wind, and the demon wind swept the yellow sand.
"Daxu, take this wine back, if you want to drink it, you can give it to Lao Dao, we really can't drink this! Just like Lao Qi said, without this life, I can't sleep after drinking six or seven hundred and one bottles of wine! Wen Shikuan said.
Wen Xu was no longer polite when he heard this, and picked up the wine and walked towards the ear courtyard, the so-called ear courtyard is Wen Xu's statement, that is, on both sides of the first courtyard when entering the door, each opened a small door, and there was a courtyard in each small door, and there was a courtyard in the small gate, and the people who lived here were the keepers of the ancestral hall, and there was no courtyard in the backyard, and the keepers lived in the small ear room next to the altar at night.
Walking out of the courtyard to the west, Wen Xu immediately saw that there was a room in the small courtyard with lights on, and two figures clearly shining on the window.
"Who?"
The people in the house heard the footsteps in the courtyard and immediately asked.
As soon as Wen Xu heard it, he knew that this was the voice of Grandpa Jiu, if he listened to it at this time, he would not believe that the person who spoke had a problem with his brain, and he was a normal person.
"I'm Wen Xu!"
"Oh!"
"Who?" Wen Xu just answered, raised his foot, and the people in the room asked again.
Wen Xu didn't answer now, because he knew that the old man had forgotten what he had just said as soon as he turned his face, and if he answered, it would be endless, so he pushed open the small door with the wine and bent down into the room.
The room is not big, about forty square meters, there is a wooden bed near the west wall, there is a table of eight immortals with four benches on the right hand of entering the door, and near the window are two Taishi chairs with a small square table.
"Oh, it's Renting here!"
As soon as Wen Xu entered the house, Grandpa Nine recognized Wen Xu as Wen Xu's grandfather as usual.
Wen Xu smiled at the old man, and then put the wine on the table, and the old man glared at a pair of rat eyes and said, "You kid is not honest, let you send Moutai, and you still have Wuliangye!" ”
"Don't? Don't let me take it away! As soon as Wen Xu heard this, he immediately picked up the three bottles of Wuliangye.
When Lao Dao heard this, he immediately said: "Put it down, let it go, why are you so excited!" ”
Syllable!
Just when Lao Dao stretched out his hand to signal Wen Xu to put down the wine, suddenly the ninth grandfather on the opposite side made a treacherous speech, and reached out and patted the old man's almost bald head: "Bald!" If you move chess, you will play chess, and you will insult my brother? ”
Suddenly, the old way became furious: "I said old guy, how many times have I told you, don't pat me on the head!" Be careful that I beat you! ”
"Who are you beating? See I can't kill you! Grandpa Nine also rolled up his sleeves here.
Lao Dao also stood up with his sleeves rolled, stretched out his hand and pointed at Grandpa Jiu's chest, and poked: "Kill you!" ”
"I'll kill you!" Grandpa Jiu also stretched out his finger and poked Lao Dao's chest.
So the two of them were in Wen Xu's stunned expression, you poke me, I poke you, poked back and forth for almost thirty times, and there was no sign that Wen Xu had killed whom, anyway, Wen Xu and the others yawned a little.
"Stop arguing, play chess!" Lao Dao flicked his sleeves and roared loudly.
"Play chess, play chess!" Grandpa Nine also shouted angrily.
Then the two of them sat down, and suddenly they started playing chess quietly again!
At this time, Wen Xu felt that he had seen two spirits sick, and Grandpa Jiu's side was just a spirit, and he was originally a forgetful person, but this ugly old way didn't know what to say to Wen Xu, and he really suspected that this old way was actually a spirit disease in nature.
Thinking of this, Wen Xu stood next to the chessboard and watched the two of them play chess, and after watching for a while, Wen Xu couldn't help but be surprised again, because Wen Xu could see that Grandpa Jiu, an old forgetful child, was actually quite good at chess, and he not only did not fall behind the old way of attacking and defending, but also vaguely had the upper hand.
"Grandpa Jiu, you can actually play Go?"
"Shh
Without waiting for Wen Xu to finish speaking, Lao Dao and Grandpa Jiu raised their fingers at the same time and put them to their mouths.
So Wen Xu quieted down, quietly watching the two old men play chess, and after watching Wen Xu for a while, he felt interesting, because there was almost no rule to be found on Grandpa Jiu's side, and there was a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, which was such a play, but it made Lao Dao frown from time to time, and he was forced to deal with it.
Looking interesting, Wen Xu didn't say a word here, and watched with his arms crossed.
After a game of chess, two serial robberies were formed, and no one could determine whether they were dead or alive, and there was an extremely rare draw!
Grandpa Jiu's face was so good, he looked at Wen Xu and asked, "Renting, come and worship your ancestors?" I saw your tablet on the altar, but I didn't cover my head, those boys made me scold, you and I are still strong, why don't you cover your head? ”
The so-called hood refers to the old man after a certain age, to make the spiritual position, at this time the person has not died, with a cloth cover to cover the spiritual position, one is to indicate that the person is not dead, and the other is also to protect the old man's body, so that the old man can live longer. This is similar to the fact that the old man did not pass away, but the family should prepare a coffin. Therefore, only the spiritual seat of the deceased on the altar is without a cover, the ninth grandfather has not passed away, although the spiritual seat is there, but there must be a hood on it, and Wen Xu's grandfather Wen Renting naturally cannot have a hood, and everyone has been dead for more than ten years.
"Oh!"
Wen Xu didn't know how to answer this, so he had to hum.
Hearing this, Grandpa Jiu turned his head to Lao Dao and said, "Bald, go on?" ”
"I'm not bald!"
"You're bald!"
Just in Wen Xu's stunned voice, the two old men stretched out their fingers again, you poke me, I poke you up, one shouts bald, the other shouts that he is not bald, the two old men come and go, and Wen Xu's worldview is about to collapse.
In the end, Wen Xu really couldn't stand the two old men, so he picked up the curtain and came out again, and when he arrived at the front hall, he saw the four old cousins looking at him and smiling.
"How? Now you know why, right? ”
Wen Xu nodded: "The whole thing is two psychosis!" ”
"So, we drove them all to the west courtyard, and we lived in the east courtyard, so it was up to them to quarrel like that."
This caused the other three to laugh.
"Alright, old brothers, I'm leaving!" Wen Xu prepared to go back.
"Don't you want to put incense sticks on your family?" Wen Shikuan asked.
Wen Xu thought about it, and since he came, he should also give incense to his great-grandfather, grandfather and parents before leaving! So he nodded.
"I'll take you!"
"No need, I'll just go in by myself!"
"Okay, you go in by yourself, the door inside is not locked, watch out for the dogs!"
"It's fine!" After Wen Xu replied, he called Dong Liang softly, and then Dong Liang, who was lying on the steps of the door, stood up and walked to Wen Xu's side, and Da Bai also walked over and followed Wen Xu at this time.
Wen Xu didn't notice that Da Bai followed, and walked directly towards the second door, pushing open the second door, directly opposite a big house, which was placed by the ancestors of Wenjia Village from the first generation to the third generation, which was more than the nine generations of the originator for Wen Xu, but now all the people in Wenjia Village inherit the bloodline of the three generations of their ancestors and grandchildren, and no one can deny this account.
When he arrived, Wen Xu picked up the incense, lightly lit it to extinguish the fire, respectfully took it in his hand and knelt down at the portrait and kowtowed a few times, and then inserted it into the incense burner on the stage.
Bypassing this altar, after passing through this big house, there is another courtyard, and there is another room opposite, which is placed in the names of all the people written on the genealogy of Wenjia Village, as for what women are generally Wu, Zhang's, written next to the tablet, there is no name at all, so it is difficult to distinguish the origin and the like.
Pushed open the door, the left hand and right hand in front are trapezoidal high platforms, which are full of tablets, and in the middle of the door are still the tablets of the three ancestors, the largest of them, the first generation tablet in the middle is almost half a person high, and the position is also the highest, the tablet is surrounded by a dragon and mist, quite gorgeous, dark mahogany color with a blue background and gold characters, full of momentum. The two next to it are only slightly smaller, the left is the son of the one in the middle, the son of the one on the left is on the right, the grandson of the tablet in the middle, the left and right sides of the door are the heirs of the three in the middle, according to the tradition of respecting the left, the four ancestors are on the left, the fifth ancestors are on the right, the sixth ancestor altar is slightly shorter than half a minute, and on the left, the seventh ancestor is on the right and half a point shorter than the fifth ancestor, so it has been turned down like this, and when it comes to Wen Renting's generation, it is to the right, and Wen Xu's father is to the left.
Wen Xu still took incense here, first kowtowed to his great-grandfather, put incense, and then his grandfather and parents, told them again that they were going to get married, and they would have children soon, so that the ancestors blessed their children to be born safely, and also blessed themselves with endless heirs and reproduction, and at the same time blessed their children with enough wisdom to keep their secrets and pass on their space from generation to generation.
Anyway, Wen Xu begged his ancestors for a lot of things, Wen Xu felt that he was not afraid that they would not do it, if he didn't do it, no one would be beneficial, if he really died of the heir, who would come to worship in the future, who had nothing to do to worship the ancestors of other branches, fun?
Anyway, Wen Xu is not too verbose here, and it is okay to go back so early, just here to slowly chatter at the tablet, remembering one thing to say, and finally listening to the pillars next to him began to nap, Da Bai almost even gnawed off the leaves of the small saplings in the courtyard at the door, Wen Xu can be regarded as the end of nagging with the ancestors.