At this time, the chairman of the provincial CPPCC shouted to Chen Xu: "Young man, hurry up and come over to that rag, I will go to the back to clean the portraits and spirit tablets of my ancestors." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Chairman Uncle has an order, grandchildren don't dare to make mistakes, I'll do it, Chairman Uncle wait" Chen Xu walked to the edge of the well, fished out a rag made of cotton from a large bucket full of clear water, wrung it out vigorously, leaving a puddle of water on the ground.

"Uncle Chairman, you are a daughter, I should do such a heavy work, I can do it alone" Chen Xu walked behind the chairman of the provincial CPPCC.

"Hey, how can these jobs be heavy, I have been an official in the capital for many years and have not been to the ancestors' spirit tablets, worship and sacrifice them, today I can do my part, I think it is also a gratifying thing, or let me be a descendant who has returned from a foreign country to do it."

The chairman of the provincial CPPCC took the rag in Chen Xu's hand, half-bowed, with a pious face, his eyes were full of respect, walked to the front, raised his hand, Chen Xu looked at it, the four square old-fashioned frames of almost thirty-four inches were stained with dust and fine substances, and the photo frames were the remains of some great ancestors.

In fact, some of the portraits of these ancestors are not real, because of the age, the faces of the ancestors of more than ten generations are uncertain, and the elders of the great clan have imagined them in their minds and let people draw them.

After many years, no one has come to investigate this, but now the cleanliness of the frame is a big problem, the portrait has become dirty and rough, mosquitoes and flies have come to roost on the edge, several pieces of glass are almost out of the frame, and the figure in the painting has become unrecognizable.

The chairman of the provincial CPPCC walked over, puffed out his cheeks, took a deep breath, and blew violently, but he didn't expect that the dust accumulated over the years was like an old yellow calendar hanging on the wall at this time, turning over the frame.

The mirror showed the remains of the ancestors of the big clan, and the people in the ancestral hall were busy cleaning and had no time to look aside, but this was Chen Xu behind the chairman who was silently watching, the remains of the ancestors on the frame, he suddenly found a problem, the ancestors on the frame had peaceful and calm faces, but in a strange environment, there would always be a wonderful feeling in his heart, thinking about the picture he saw now, his heart was already straight.

Chen Xu took a few steps back, and muttered secretly in his heart: "It's strange, why did I come to the ancestral hall, but why did I have some pictures in front of me that I can't usually see, hey, don't think about it." His heart was like a deer, and he hurriedly clasped his palms together, silently reciting in his heart, "Nanwu Guanyin Bodhisattva, Amitabha Buddha, all the gods and Buddhas in the sky are blessed." ”

But when Chen Xu's head was slowly raised, he suddenly saw that the border had become cleaner, and his thirteenth ancestor at this time was not as blurry as just now, and it was not so terrifying, only to see his old ancestor wearing an official uniform, the official uniform was as fresh as new, and it was particularly eye-catching, but it formed a huge contrast with his old ancestor, only to see that his face was aging, and his face was wrinkled into a cocoon, as if it was a vertical and horizontal gully and shallow ditch on the Loess Plateau, and every centimeter was made of wrinkles compactly.

Chen Xu is also particularly concerned about a pair of intertwined elbows, a pair of hands with ten fingers is obvious, but it is actually a fingernail with long fingernails, Chen Xu always likes to watch some Taoist seduction techniques that are reprimanded as messy by his mother at home, and some people disdain it, but Chen Xu confirmed that the knowledge in it would rather be believed than not.

Just as Chen Xu was thinking this, Ah Fu walked over, took a brush in his hand, and said respectfully: "Chairman Uncle, you don't have to work hard, let me clean the portrait of the ancestor hanging on the wall." ”

The chairman of the provincial CPPCC turned around and said, "No need, let me come, you two young men just have a heart." ”

Ignoring his old and frail body, the chairman brought a folding stool that was more than four feet high and four feet high from the side, peeled off the big black boots under his feet, and took a fine wool brush and stood on top of the stool.

The dust removed from the mirror swirled in mid-air and disappeared into the air, and suddenly an image appeared on the frame, oh my God, it scared everyone enough, and in the frame hanging in the center of the wall, it was actually a headless ancestor.

"Oh my God, what the hell is going on, why is the head of the ninth grandmother missing" The chairman raised his head and saw clearly, his heart was so frightened that his hair straightened, his head and neck wanted to tilt back, his feet lost his balance, and the center of gravity of the whole body fell, and he fell down.

Chen Xu and Ah Fu The two young men, especially Chen Xu's special sharp eyes, saw that the situation was not good, the two hurriedly ran over, Chen Xu grabbed the chairman's neck, Ah Fu shrank behind him and supported his legs, the chairman slowly landed, and he was unharmed, and all the elders of the big clan sweated for it.

Chen Xu hurriedly took out a wet towel from the bucket beside him, wrung it out, and wiped the dust off the chairman's trouser leg, while Ah Fu also rubbed the chairman's wrist tightly, trying to relax his mood.

The entourage bowed his head respectfully and said, "Two young masters, the master has been a little frightened, let's let the master lie flat on the long square bench, maybe it will be better." ”

The chairman of the provincial CPPCC, whose hair was a little messy and his voice was a little hoarse, pillowed his head in the palms of the two young people next to him, and said with a soft smile: "It's okay, it's okay, I'm old, it's inevitable that there will be some mistakes, and the reaction is not so sensitive, now I know that the portraits of the ancestors on the wall are old, and no one has come to clean them up for many years, so it is inevitable that there will be the scary scene just now, in fact, it's nothing, everyone don't have to think about it." ”

Some of the elders who rushed over around me said: "Yes, yes, this is such a phenomenon, after leaving the ancestral hall, I will definitely order someone to repair the frame of the first-class carpenter in Olive Town, and invite Mr. Zhao, a portrait painter in the capital, to paint the portrait of the ancestor at a large cost." ”

Some even said: "The chairman is the pride of our Suzaku County, and if he makes more contributions to our village, he will be able to live a long life, be auspicious and healthy, and there will be nothing to do." ”

The chairman was also thinking at this time: I am an official of the provincial government is very powerful, how prominent, am I still afraid of any strange things, I heard my grandfather say that when I was a scholar in the early years, there was a family in their village that had a small tribute, because the local terrain was low, and the blessing was thin, and it was already very remarkable to produce such a talent, so that the mountain behind his house was cracked out of a mountain crack, according to this statement, the chairman was much more powerful than him, it stands to reason, I am the Wenqu star in the sky, and when I come down to earth, what am I afraid of?

Everyone has their own ideas, and so does Chen Xu, he thought, "It's strange, if it's because of time, why is the portrait of the Fourteenth Ancestor on the side of the table intact, if it is said that the pigment of the painting will fade over time, then why is it just the Ninth Grandma on the wall that is like this." ”

Chen Xu looked at this side, only to see the picture frame of the thirteenth ancestor of the great family, at that time, Chen Xu's neck only came with a cold feeling, wow, the ancestor in the frame seemed to open his nostrils to breathe and breathe in the air, the dust on the glass mirror slipped to the frame, but the hair in the nostrils of this old ancestor seemed to be the same as the green hair on the wall.

Chen Xu trembled, and there was a grunting low sound in his throat, but all this was still static, just by feeling, Chen Xu looked at the people around him fearfully, this is the chairman of the provincial CPPCC spoke, "Relatives of the big family, we have been busy in the ancestral hall all day, and now the sanitation of the ancestral hall has been cleaned up. ”

The elders of the ancestral hall put down the shovels, barrels, garbage shovels, brooms, and rakes in their hands at this time, and arranged them in a row according to the family rules and seniority, and an eighty-year-old elder said: "Yes, yes, yes, it's time for the eldest nephew to worship his ancestors, here you are the unprecedented pride and glory of our family, you can arrange it all together." ”

"Since it is the uncle who is reasonable, the nephew obeys." The chairman of the provincial CPPCC raised his hand and beckoned to more than a dozen entourages in front of the door of the ancestral hall, and those entourages came with burdens, flower baskets or stretchers.

In the afternoon, the ancestors of the altar on the poop to visit all kinds of best, there are three livestock, ginseng antler, as well as Wulu made of ejiao, fine wine, the dynasty rewarded to the chairman of the provincial CPPCC a plum, thousands of years drunk, beauty tears and bamboo leaves, desserts are also available, the entrance of the mung bean paste that melts, lotus seed soup from Zhanning County, all kinds of fruits and vegetables are especially many, there are cantaloupe produced in the Western Regions, Tianjin special blue strawberry, Shandong pomelo.

After the sacrifice, the delicacies and wines on the square long table and the rare products were filled in the basket of "Laughing Eight Immortals" under the table in front of him, which was also a piece of the chairman's heart, and these things that were rare for ordinary croppers were evenly distributed to the relatives of the big clan.

The relatives of the big clan are grateful and praise again and again, but the chairman of the provincial CPPCC waved his hand and said: "I am very honored to be able to worship the ancestors in the ancestral hall today, the people present are my closest relatives, and if you say thank you, it is a great sight, the sacrifice ceremony has been completed, but there is still a matter related to the honor and disgrace of the clan to discuss with everyone." ”

When the elders of the great clan sat on the chairs, the chairman of the provincial CPPCC nodded and said: "For the prosperity of future generations, but also for the sake of comforting the gods of the relatives in heaven and carrying forward the great foundation of the great clan, I plan to choose a suitable place to live in the big forest of Shuihao Township and build a village with humanity and convenience, so that the lonely and widowed old people, poor croppers, and displaced relatives in my clan can live and work here in peace and contentment. ”

What I didn't expect was that the chairman mentioned the "old forest of Shuihao Township" earlier, and the elders present shivered in their hearts. The elder of the "good" word said: "The nephew's strong family affection really moved us, but no one has been there for more than ten years in the old forest of Shuihao Township, and the villagers of Shuihao Township near the big forest have long since ceased to exist. ”

Another elder also said: "Fifty years ago, Shuihao Township was still a popular township with a lot of books, but later some of the mobs who escaped from it in the chaos sneaked into this woods and died in it, and then this place became an ominous place, and ghosts happened repeatedly. ”

The chairman of the provincial CPPCC said: "Oh, these rioters are trampling the country when they are alive, and they are still intimidating the villagers when they die, but if you look closely, it is not difficult to find that thousands of peasants in the land of China have been persecuted and destroyed by thieves and thieves in these three movements, and there must be a sense of fear in their hearts in the future, so that even the place where they died is said to be a haunted place." ”

Some of the elders present began to agree with the chairman's proposal, but there were still those who were not convinced, such as this Chen Xu, Chen Xu said: "Uncles, the big forest in Shuihao Township is not only full of Zhang Qi, but also a mysterious and unpredictable place, there was a terrible thing that happened some time ago, there was a Xiucai from outside the country, who did not listen to the advice of the villagers in Zhuque County, and wanted to ride a donkey to Jiexi Town, Linxian County, Zhuque County to be a private school Mr. The next morning, his black donkey came out of the woods with his headless body. ”

Some of the elders of the ancestral hall have no support or are unfilial and have no ability to support them, and these people strongly agree with the glory of their clan -- the chairman of the provincial CPPCC can build them a house.

The two elders stood up and said: "Such a large county, with so much population base, it is inevitable that some strange things will happen, as for the fact that Xiucai from other places was killed by ghosts, I think it is also a pure coincidence, maybe it was injured by a robber who cut the path in the mountains and forests, or it was killed by a hungry tiger by a jackal, a poisonous snake and a beast." ”

"Why are there any robbers in this forest?" asked the chairman of the provincial CPPCC.

"Well, uncle, a few years ago, a group of robbers came to Panlongling and Stone Crab Village, who like to eat raw, claiming to be evil walkers and brave pioneers, but I don't know what happened, one night there was a thunderbolt and a storm, and they all disappeared that night, and the people in the village never saw them again." Ah Fu said.

The chairman of the provincial CPPCC nodded, and said: "Then this is easy to do, in the final analysis, it is still the disaster of robbers and thieves, and there is no evil ghost and evil god. ”

The chairman has made up his mind, even if the people present are dissidents, they don't dare to express their opinions, but Chen Xu is very unwilling, his eyes widened, but he is silently praying in his heart: "I hope that everything is just rumors, all relatives can turn evil into good fortune, good luck lasts, and the gods in the sky can bless the people of the great clan to prosper from generation to generation, and everything goes well." ”

When everyone was about to leave the ancestral hall, Chen Xu saw that there was a spirit tablet enshrined under the framework of dozens of ancestors, and this spirit card also read, "Miss Gengyue Fang passed away in Jiaqing Bingnian, and this card is specially used to comfort her", and in the center there is also a splendid silk woven from Jiangnan silk wrapped in a Nanmu box.

Chen Xu is both curious and kind-hearted, on the token of the checkered incense burner inserted three incense, when to leave, only to see that the three incense has been extinguished, but there is a phenomenon of two short and one long, according to the book, life in the world for a breath, ghosts in the underworld for a piece of incense, the furnace of Buddha incense burning unevenly, the ghost of the underworld is not smooth.

This is a suspicious point that Chen Xu has noticed, just as he leaned over to pull out the three incense sticks, he didn't expect the chairman to also notice it at this time, he asked: "How can the ancestors' spirit cards be placed on the ground, it is really disrespectful, who dares to do this." ”

"Nephew, don't be angry, this is not the ancestor of our big clan, there is nothing wrong with putting this spirit card on the ground, and you don't have to worry" said an elder of the "ancestor" generation.

"Ah, where did you start with this, please tell me uncle."

The old man coughed twice and said: "Hey, since the virtuous nephew wants to know, then I will tell you that this section is the family's heart disease, the spirit card enshrined in the place is a young lady, fifty years ago this Miss Fang was the daughter of Xia Yuan above the town, his father is a wealthy businessman who runs the business of aquatic production and restaurants, and he is rich and rich, but he can be full of gold and jade but the people are thin, there is only such a girl, so he also regards it as a pearl in his palm, Chen Xiayuan wants his daughter to live a worry-free life for the rest of her life, lived happily, and married a son of Li Shisan, who was known as the jade lotus on the water and known as the jade lotus on the water, but later Miss Chen didn't like the son of the Li family, but liked her cousin, and the two eloped on a full moon night--------------。 ”

As he spoke, the old man of the ancestral generation paused, paying attention to the surrounding environment, and the chairman asked again: "Then what happened to the woman, what happened to this woman who eloped." ”

Another elder beside him said: "Hey, it's really a sin, and then these two families became feuds, Li Yuanwai thought that this was Fang Xiayuan deceiving him, it was a great shame, so he united his own clan to ask the Fang family for an explanation, and later also paid a lot of money to arrest this Miss Chen and her cousin in the elopement, after the two families discussed, they decided to dip the pair of men and women in the pig cage to see the warning, even if Fang Xiayuan's family has everything, it is difficult to change the decision of the elders of the two families, After Miss Chen died by immersing herself in a pig cage on the Rong River, Chen Yuanwai could not accept the reality and committed suicide by jumping into the river. ”

Chen Xu also said: "It was my patriarch and the Li family who made a decision on the spur of the moment, the Chen family was ruined, it was too good, I heard my mother say, after Miss Chen's death, the resentment was too great, she couldn't be reincarnated, and it has always been unpleasant for me to be in the clan, so our clan also had a big change overnight, fifty-nine elders died more than 20, and then the old uncle of the ancestors found out the clues, and went to the treasure statue of the great mercy and compassion of Nanwu Guanyin Bodhisattva to hold a "ask the dead" ceremony, Only then did I know that this is the Yin ghost suffering in the underworld, and the Yang people suffered, and then I enshrined Miss Chen's tablet in the ancestral hall of the big clan, and the soul returned to the temple, so as not to become a lonely ghost and a wild ghost, and accept the pious worship of the descendants of the big clan. ”

I didn't expect these people to tell the truth with one by one, but I saw that this chairman was unhappy, the blood vessels on his neck were red, and his eyes were full of disdain and disdain.

In his eyes, Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun of the Han Dynasty admired each other, and finally eloped against human morality and made the world's scholars lose face.

Now that the stubborn chairman had learned that the big clan had seen this Miss Chen and his past, he saw him scan the spirit card on the ground with contempt, and said: "It turns out that this woman eloped with her cousin before her death, so that she was caught by the elders of the big clan and soaked in the pig cage, which is no longer virtuous, and it has also affected her own family, resulting in the destruction of the family, this woman deserves it, what is the face of such an unvirtuous and unfilial woman, accept the worship of future generations, What merit is to place the spirit tablet in the ancestral hall of my great clan? ”

Everyone saw the chairman commenting like this, and they were also excited with their feelings, and there were few sympathizers, although Chen Xu felt that what the chairman said was unfair, but he didn't dare to refute him, and everyone said: "We put the spirit card here to eliminate the calamity, since the chairman said so, then send the spirit card away." ”

"How can there be ghosts and gods in the world, if there really is, I forgive this woman, she hurt his family when she was alive, and after she died, she will become a ghost, and she will not dare to hurt people anymore." As he spoke, the chairman swept his feet over, and in an instant, the spirit tablets that had been placed where they had been untouched for decades were folded in two, and the broken urns were scattered, and they were blown away by a numbing gust of wind in the courtyard.

The chairman glanced at it tightly and said, "No wonder the relationship between my Chen family and the Li family is not good, I now know that it was caused by this unvirtuous woman, after fifty years, the estrangement will eventually be broken, and soon the friendship between the two clans will be repaired quickly." ”

Since the urn was broken, Mr. Chen Xu, who was standing in the ancestral hall, felt that there was always a pair of eyes watching him in a certain corner, and Ah Fu also felt this way.