On the second day of the Centennial Shrine Festival, a large ceremony will be held to worship ancestors in 144 small palaces. The number one hundred and forty-four is the sum of the three major clans of Mengxibai, the nine major lords, the twenty-four families, and the one hundred and eight wealthy families.

The origin of the witch festival is to commemorate the ancestors of the Ying family. It is said that the ancestors of the three major clans, the nine major lords, the twenty-four families, and the one hundred and eight wealthy families are the outstanding disciples and grandchildren of the ancestors of the Ying family. There are many more disciples and grandchildren who have disappeared in the long course of history, and now only these are left.

However, it is not an annual witch festival, and these 144 families can worship their ancestors in the attached palace of the main hall of the sacrifice. Only the 10-year festival will they be qualified for this, not to mention the 100-year festival.

Zhu Youxiang is a son-in-law, of course, he has to participate in his own ancestor worship ceremony. Fortunately, the ancestral hall of their Zhu family is not too far away. Zhu Youxiang hurried slowly, and finally sneaked into the hall before all the children and grandchildren knelt and kowtowed.

Several of his cousins snickered secretly, and Zhu Youxiang rubbed behind the two brothers, and smiled flatteringly at his father, who turned his face to look at him. His father glared at him fiercely, and he quickly knelt down and listened to the prayer of the ancestors of the fourth and sixth of the Liu.

It is only possible to enter the ancestral worship hall once in ten years, and the heads of the three major clans and the one hundred and eight wealthy families all attach great importance to this matter. Unless you can't get up, the head of the family will lead the sons and grandchildren to worship, and the children of the concubines are not qualified to come here.

In addition, Daqin is so big and has such a long history. For thousands of years, the kingdom built by the Ying clan has been divided and merged, with ups and downs. Not only the Ying family, but also the wealthy families of these clans, many of them have bloodlines left in various places. For more than ten years, the gods and witches are allowed to send descendants of these bloodlines to come and worship their common ancestors.

The Zhu family is no exception, Zhu Youxiang secretly looked around the hall and found many unfamiliar faces. He knew that these dozen or so strangers who couldn't cry could not cry themselves were the bloodlines left behind by the Zhu family.

In the booklet that was reported to Ma Gongcheng. Zhu Youxiang concealed one thing. The poor guest from the subject country of Great Qin who died of poison was a bloodline descendant of the Gongsun clan, one of the nine major lords of the hall, and he was the one who wanted to participate in the ancestor worship ceremony alive.

The Gongsun clan ranks sixth among the nine major valves. Notoriously difficult and face-loving. The death of that guest was hastily determined to have been poisoned by chronic poison for a long time, and reported it to Ma Gongcheng. Don't say that the cause of death can't stand up to scrutiny, even if it's the real cause of death. The Gongsun clan can also pick bones in the eggs and cause more trouble.

Gongsun has a concubine who is also in the harem of today's majesty, and she is one of the twelve beauties. This grandson beauty is eyeing the position of lady, and she is competing to the death with the other two most powerful contenders.

In addition, the Gongsun family and the Meng family have the most marriages, and the relationship is inseparable. And the Wang family, one of the twenty-four families, is very close to the Gongsun family. The Wang family is listed at the end of the eighth family, and it is the object of a midstream family like the Zhu family that they want to pull down.

Tut-tut, see. I'm afraid of a lot of things today. With the prayer of the celebrant of ceremonies, Zhu Youxiang bowed mechanically. But the mind does not know where to fly.

The long and tedious ancestor worship ceremony has to last for as many as four hours, during which it is impossible to eat, not convenient, hungry or uncomfortable, you have to endure it. Therefore, from the night before, everyone who was going to participate in the ritual was asked by the elders to fast from water and food, lest they make a fool of themselves.

But this body is sometimes so disobedient, Zhu Youxiang's sensitive dog nose suddenly smelled a bad smell, and then there was a burst of stealing laughter. He followed the sound and looked. It turned out that some of the dozen or so branch tribesmen from other countries were incontinent.

This kind of thing is actually very common, and it mostly happens to the elderly and young children. Often, they just turn a blind eye and forget about it. Unfortunately. This time, there were a few stunned young boys in the Zhu family, and they laughed out loud without holding their hands for a while.

The incontinent old man was already so embarrassed that his face was purple, and he looked self-conscious. Seeing that the juniors of his family laughed at him, he rolled his eyes, and almost fainted, trembling all over.

Fortunately, there was an elder in the family who noticed the abnormality. glared fiercely at the stunned blue eyes who were still snickering, and finally made people stop. But the old man from the branch vein, his face slowly turned from purple to pale.

At the end of the morning, around the time of Shen, the family sacrifice of the Zhu family was finally coming to an end. Everyone was so hungry that they just wanted to go back to their lodgings and chew on it. In the last procedure, all the descendants step forward one by one to kowtow to the ancestors, and then they can exit the main hall.

It was like flowing water, one tribe after another. First it is the main vein of Great Qin, and then it is the branch vein of other countries. When it was the incontinent old man's turn, an accident happened.

The old man gave incense to his ancestors, and after solemnly kneeling three times and knocking nine times, he didn't get up and retreat, but shouted miserably: "Unfilial children and grandchildren lose their honor in front of their ancestors' spirits, and are humiliated by the younger generations. ”

With a shout, the old man slammed forward, and a white head slammed into the huge bronze tripod filled with incense candles. In an instant, the brains burst and blood flowed.

At this time, all the main vein clansmen had already retreated to the outside of the hall, and the remaining dozen or so branch vein clansmen were all honestly kneeling in place far away from the bronze tripod. No one could react in time to stop the old man. For a time, the corpse was sacrificed to the ancestral hall.

Zhu Youxiang saw very clearly that his father's already long horse face was getting longer and longer, and that face was even darker than the bottom of the pot!

It's not over yet. I don't know if it's because this self-defeating old man used all his strength to hit the bronze tripod. The offering table, which was next to the bronze tripod, actually shook three times and shook three times. This is good, there are enough five or six ancestral spirit cards from the spirit shelf that is several zhang high.

Fortunately, the spirit cards are all cast from precious metals, and even if they are dropped from a high altitude, they will not be cut in two. But it was precisely because of the hard material of the spirit card that it smashed into this equally hard ground, and there was a huge thumping sound one after another, which shook people's eardrums.

Zhu Youxiang was dumbfounded, and looked at several peers of the same age. They all know that this is going to be a big fuss. The clansmen were killed in front of the ancestors' spirits, so that the cards were shocked, this is really a great omen! How can his father, the head of the clan, explain to the clan elders, to the Divine Witch Palace, and to His Majesty?

After all, this is not their Zhu family's ancestral ancestral hall, but the royal ceremonial hall dedicated to holding the gods and witches! (To be continued.) )

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