Qixi Festival is followed by the Midyear Festival, which is no less important for Chinese people than the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, especially for those large families with strong traditions. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the day of the Midyear Festival, Xiao Dushan and Xiao Duliang personally presided over the sacrificial activities of the 'Xiao family' and paid tribute to the ancestors and ancestors in the Xiao family cemetery!

In the hundreds of years since the 'Xiao family' settled in 'Ginkgo Village', the 'Xiao family' has occupied several hills near 'Ginkgo Village' through various means, and turned them into the Xiao family's cemetery.

This cemetery has buried more than 1,000 ancestors of the 'Xiao family' over the generations, and it has a special status in the hearts of the clansmen. In a sense, this cemetery, together with the Xiao family ancestral hall in the village, is the inner sustenance of the 'Xiao family', and it is precisely because of them that the people of 'Ginkgo Village' still have their roots here wherever they go.

Xiao Duliang has been living overseas for 60 years, and in his old age, he still wants to return to his roots and be buried next to his parents, this is the power of blood.

The former cemetery was a little more desolate, although most of the tombs were in order, but there were still a lot of weeds and shrubs on the mountain, and it took a lot of energy to clean up when the Xiao family swept the tomb every year.

After all, at that time, most of the clansmen of the 'Xiao family' were only struggling with food and clothing, even if Xiao Feng held hundreds of millions of huge wealth, it was not easy to expose it.

However, all this has changed dramatically with the rise of the 'Jinghu Group', and the Xiao Family Cemetery is moving in an amazing direction.

The Xiao family funded the entire cemetery, with white walls and black tiles, and from a distance, it looked like a long dragon winding between the mountains, looking magnificent.

In addition to building a fence to prevent tourists from entering by mistake, the Xiao family also dispatched tens of thousands of laborers to clean up the cemetery in an all-round way, all kinds of shrubs, weeds and miscellaneous trees were cleared, and pines and cypresses and lawns were planted, decorating the entire cemetery like a cemetery on TV.

In addition, the Xiao family also re-carved the stone tablets of each tomb instead of being slightly shabby as before.

At the end of the infrastructure construction, the 'Xiao family' also took out a sum of money from the family father-in-law to hire several elderly people in their early fifties to guard and inspect the mausoleum to ensure safety.

All in all, after spending tens of millions of funds and countless manpower, the mausoleum of the 'Xiao family' presents a magnificent momentum of a big family, and it has also become the focus of many people's attention.

It's a pity that the 'Xiao family' rarely opens the cemetery to the public, and many tourists and reporters can only observe this large-scale cemetery on the distant hill.

Of course, the cemetery doesn't have many spectacular buildings, and there are no historical figures buried, and no matter how large it is, it can't change the fact that it's just an ordinary family cemetery.

The opinion of the outside world is insignificant in the eyes of the members of the 'Xiao family', this is the home of the hearts of all the 'Xiao family' people, perhaps with this cemetery, the cohesion of the Xiao family can become so strong.

It is precisely because of this that the annual tomb sweeping and ancestor worship in Zhongyuan are the most solemn festivals of the 'Xiao family'.

Especially in the past few years, with the help of the huge capital and investment ability of the 'Xiao Family Asset Management Committee', many clansmen have become more united, and they have paid more attention to the matter of ancestor worship!

On the day of ancestor worship, most of the innkeepers of 'Ginkgo Village' handed over the affairs to the staff, and all gathered in the Xiao family's old house to prepare for the ancestor worship in the afternoon.

Ordinary people's ancestors are to kill chickens and ducks, and fruit cakes and sugar are offered to ancestors, not to mention today's 'Xiao family'?

Therefore, the Xiao family's old house was lively early in the morning, and the clansmen came to the old house spontaneously, basically without the assignment of Xiao Jinhao, who was in charge of the work, everyone consciously found their own tasks.

Even though they are now worth hundreds of millions, the 'Xiao family' still retains the traditional habit of holding banquets at home, and almost every wedding and funeral celebration is held at home.

For the people of the village, the banquet at home is more lively and humane, although it is a little harder, everyone is happy.

In the entire 'Ginkgo Village', more than 90% of them are surnamed Xiao, and Xiao Feng is the descendant of the same ancestor, and as for the remaining people with foreign surnames, they are all married to the Xiao family, so the 1289 people in the entire village are related to each other and are inseparable.

Ancestor worship in Zhongyuan is a major event, not only all the people who live in the village participate, but also the clansmen who work in other places also rush back one after another, and the village has become lively.

For example, Xiao Jasmine, who was far away on Ludao, rushed back to 'Ginkgo Village' with her husband Ye Fan and son Ye Tian, and the major event of worshipping ancestors cannot be sloppy.

As soon as Xiao Jasmine came back, she was complained by Xu Mengyao, saying that she stayed on Egret Island this holiday, which made her so bored.

Xu Mengyao and Xiao Jasmine are of the same age, and the two have the same views on fashion, makeup, clothing, etc., and they can be regarded as the two people with the best relationship in the family.

Xiao Jasmine was also a little helpless, she was going to take her son back to her hometown to escape the summer at the beginning of the holiday, but unfortunately her mother-in-law was hospitalized in a car accident, and she could only stay on Ludao to serve her mother-in-law.

Now that her mother-in-law has been discharged from the hospital and her body has recovered her health, and there is a nanny at home to watch, Xiao Jasmine is relieved to take her husband and son back to worship her ancestors.

Although they don't usually meet often, Yu'er is still very close to Ye Tian's younger brother, and immediately took him to visit his toys, and the brothers had a lot of fun.

Almost at the same time as Xiao Jasmine, Xiao Shaoyao in Spring City returned home, and she finally asked for leave with her husband Ding Shouye to come back, which was really inconvenient.

Speaking of which, over the years, Xiao Feng has privately given the fifth sister tens of millions of dollars in cash, and also bought them shops, houses and cars, so that they can easily live a rich life and work hard without maintenance.

But Xiao Shaoyao, like the old people at home, is not willing to stay at home as a rice worm, and the taste of waiting for death is uncomfortable, and she still feels that her life is more fulfilling when she goes to work.

Especially after Ding Shouye was promoted to a department-level cadre in the Department of Finance, the couple were even more low-key and cautious, and the outside world didn't know that she was Xiao Feng's fifth sister.

Many people also know that Xiao Shaoyao is a girl from 'Ginkgo Village', but she also said lightly that she and Xiao Feng are clansmen, and she has already made five suits.

Xiao Shaoyao and his wife were busy with work, so they asked Xiao Jun to go to Spring City to pick up the children back to the 'Ginkgo Village' before the summer vacation began, in their opinion, the children's holidays should return to the village, back to nature, in order to let them have a happy childhood.

At this point, the vast majority of the families of the 'Xiao family' are surprisingly consistent, and almost all families who live and work in other places will send their children back to the village during the holidays, so that the children will not be trapped in the concrete forest of the city all day long, staring at televisions, computers and mobile phones.

In view of this situation, the 'Ginkgo School' even organized a summer camp with no age difference to receive the children of the Xiao family.

In addition to organizing children to learn swimming, cycling, playing tennis and other sports, the summer camp will also take children to farms and pastures to experience life, of course, fishing in the river and fishing.

For children, being able to play openly without having to worry about heavy schoolwork and listening to the nagging of adults is the most enjoyable thing!

Originally, some parents didn't want their children to become wild horses after the holiday, but when they saw that Xiao Feng threw all 4 children into the free-range flock, and even Xiao Feng took the lead in leading the children to have fun, everyone was relieved.

It is convenient for Xiao Dujuan, who works in Nanzhao, to go home, and the highway from Nanzhao to Ginkgo was opened to traffic at the beginning of the year, so they will not go home to Yaozhou and turn back.

After the opening of the expressway, the distance from Nanzhao to Ginkgo was shortened to 80 kilometers, and it only took about an hour to get there.

Xiao Dujuan and Ling Jianying are both medical workers, and Ling Jianying, while serving as the deputy dean of the School of Medicine of Nanzhao University, is also a surgical knife in the affiliated hospital, and his work is very busy.

At the beginning of the holiday, the two of them sent their baby son Ling Xiao back to the village for his grandparents to take with him, and followed the children's group at home to make trouble in the Heavenly Palace!

Today, the family worships the ancestors, and the children in the family are even more crazy, running in and out under the leadership of the eldest sister Tou Tongtong and Ding Dang, from time to time they are beaten by adults, or they will get something delicious from the kitchen to share, and the crisp laughter resounded throughout the old house.

Xiao Duliang, Xiao Dushan, General Xu and other old people sat in the shade of the trees in the courtyard, chatting with the old people in the village, while watching the children running in and out, smiling like chrysanthemums.

For the elderly, seeing their children and grandchildren happy is their greatest happiness!

Needless to say, Xiao Duliang and several other old people have no shortage of money in the family, and their children and grandchildren are filial, so they are extremely happy in their later years.

As for the old people in the village, it is not bad, after all, every elderly person now has a subsidy of 3,000 RMB per month, and the medical expenses are also fully paid by the village, and there is even a full body examination once a month. In addition, the dividends that the elderly receive every year are also millions, and every old man in the village is a treasure of the family when he is alive, and all the children are eager for their old people to live a long life.

As a result, the bad habits of abuse and non-support for the elderly, which occur in many rural villages, do not occur in Ginkgo Village.

In addition, the 'Ginkgo Village Asset Management Committee' has also included family harmony in the detailed rules for dividend evaluation, and as long as there are various bad habits, it will affect the proportion of year-end dividends.

In this way, 'Ginkgo Village' has almost become the best rural village for the elderly in China, and all the elderly can enjoy their old age in peace.

In addition to material comforts, Ginkgo Village has also established various groups such as an activity center for the elderly, a university for the elderly, and a song and dance troupe for the elderly, so that the elderly can enjoy their old age.

As an important partner of 'Jinghu Group' and a company under Xiao Feng's name, 'Brilliant Travel Agency' organizes a special tour group for the elderly almost every month, leading the elderly of 'Ginkgo Village' and the parents of employees of 'Jinghu Group' to travel around the world.

Compared with the outside travel agencies, their own travel agencies not only charge reasonable fees, but also provide thoughtful services, so that these elderly people and their children can rest assured.

Like the annual Qingming ancestor worship and tomb sweeping during the Qingming Festival, it is a good time for the old people to get together and talk about the world, and many people have never thought that they can live such a happy life now.

Ten years ago, although 'Ginkgo Village' relied on the huge Mirror Lake and Biluo Snow Mountain, it would not be hungry, but the living money in its hands was too little. At that time, not only did the young and middle-aged people in the family need to go to other places to work to support their families, but the elderly who stayed in the village also had to take care of the housework, work in the fields, and take care of the children, which was not easy at all.

In a sense, the problem of left-behind population, which is now prevalent in the central and western parts of the country, has also existed in 'Ginkgo Village', but all this has disappeared with the establishment of 'Jinghu Group'.

The beautiful changes in everyone's lives and even their lives come from Xiao Feng, and from this point of view, everyone has reached a consensus on the issue of establishing Xiao Feng as the future patriarch of the family.

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The old people are chatting about the past, the children are playing happily, and there is no time for a strong laborer like Xiao Feng to be idle.

Don't look at Xiao Feng as a national idol who is popular all over the world outside, and he is the chairman of the group inside, but when he returns to his old mansion, he is an ordinary family member, and he still has to listen to the words of Commander-in-Chief Xiao Jinhao.

Xiao Feng is mainly responsible for the three hard dishes of roast suckling pig, roast duck and white chopped chicken, this work is not easy, hundreds of chickens and ducks and 10 roast suckling pigs, thinking about it makes people's scalp tingle.

Moreover, in order to ensure freshness and quality, these chickens and ducks are not sent to the slaughterhouse for processing, but are slaughtered in the backyard of the old house, which adds a lot of difficulty and workload.

Xiao Xiao carried a camera to take pictures everywhere, and said that she wanted to leave a memorial for everyone, but in fact, it was not to record the embarrassment of Xiao Feng, Xiao Qiang and others.

No, Xiao Xiao just posted Xiao Feng's appearance of wearing a T-shirt and shorts, standing on the edge of the oven and sweating profusely on his neck, which immediately attracted a large number of netizens.

Everyone never thought that Xiao Feng, who is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, is not in a suit and leather shoes, but like an ordinary rural youth, he is busy working for the banquet in the village.

Such a scene not only made netizens and fans disappointed in Xiao Feng, but felt that Xiao Feng was so down-to-earth and praised countless times.

Many celebrities also forwarded this photo after seeing it, and it spread all over the Internet in a blink of an eye, Xiao Feng concentrated on making roast duck, and he was still quite handsome!

The lively ancestor worship ceremony also made all the members of the 'Xiao family' have a better understanding of the family, especially in the young hearts of the children, which left a deep imprint.

This is the foundation on which a family remains united and thrives! )