Chapter Eighty-Seven: Ancestor Worship

When the three of them were laughing, the little maid Fu'er came, pushed the door and came in to greet the three of them.

It turned out that the person who served Mrs. Zhang and the two aunts just now was Fu'er, and she was entrusted by Zhuang Jie to stay on the side and keep the conversation of the three of them in mind. At this moment, I came to the back cover room to report the news.

After a while, Fu'er told Zhuang Jie and the three of them exactly what she had just said, and Zhuang Jie breathed a sigh of relief after listening to it. Thinking that it was fortunate that this Aunt Zhang was reliable, and she didn't let those two greedy meddlers in the wedding, otherwise they would really have to mess up everything.

If they could, the Zhuang brothers and sisters would never want to have anything to do with those two aunts anymore. When their father died, they were able to come to talk to their orphans and widows about repaying the money, saying that their father owed them two families the money back then, and they wanted all the money in their mother's hands. Thinking of the past, Zhuang Jie's face was ugly and terrible.

Banxia didn't know about this, but she saw that Zhuang Jie's face was not good, so she asked, "Zhuang Jie, what's wrong with you, but you're not feeling well?" ”

Zhuang Jie smiled reluctantly at Banxia and said, "Sister Banxia, I'm fine, but I want to remind you that you must be careful of my two aunts." Now that they know that you have such a rich dowry, they may be able to change the law to ask you for money in the future. Remember, don't give. ”

"How can this be, they are elders, I can't ignore them. Besides, how could they ask for money from one of my nieces and daughters-in-law? "Banxia doesn't understand much.

"Sister Banxia, there are many things you don't know. Hey, let's tell you the truth. The reason why I came to this back room today to see the dowry is because I don't worry about my two aunts. I'm afraid that they will make some kind of moths and kicks at the dowry. Sister Banxia. You must remember that you must not believe the words of my two aunts, and try not to ignore them if you can, both of them have a bad conscience, and they want to take advantage of our family all day long. ”

Banxia was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't expect that the banker's simple population would have such troubles...... But looking at the thirty-six dowry full of Dengdeng, and looking at Zhuang Jie's sincere eyes, Banxia knew that there were still Zhuang brothers and sisters by her side.

So he nodded cautiously. said, "I see." ”

Banxia understands that there are gains and losses in everything, she can't just want to ask for it and don't want to pay, and at this moment Banxia feels that she is really going to get married, and she is going to marry Zhuang Kai! It's just that at this time, Banxia's heart didn't panic except for looking forward to sweetness, and there was full of stability.

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Banxia's marriage had just been decided, and the grounding of Yage was lifted, for no other reason, because the Midyear Festival had arrived.

Not long after the begging festival, it is the mid-year festival on July 15. This day is the day of ancestor worship, and every family worships their ancestors on this day. Fang Yage is the eldest daughter of the Fang family, so naturally she can't be absent.

Early in the morning, everyone in the Fang family began to get busy, and the servants prepared food for the sacrifice. The servants opened the ancestral hall and cleaned it clean. Fang Yage, Fang Yaxin, and Fang Yahuan are girls, and there are limited things to do when worshipping ancestors. On the contrary, Fang Yahou and Fang Yaol are the protagonists.

At noon, everyone gathered outside the ancestral hall, and the little servant opened the door of the general's mansion early. A stone's throw behind the gate is the Waiyi Gate, and after the Waiyi Gate, go west to the ancestral hall of the Fang family.

Standing outside the ancestral hall were all righteous Fang family members. Including Yuan's family, including Jin Rou, only Aunt Hua and Aunt Min are not there. The concubine is a woman who does not have a letter of appointment and does not go to the family tree, so she is not qualified to appear on such an occasion when worshipping her ancestors, and can only nest in her own courtyard and cannot walk around and disturb at will.

Today, Yuan wore a royal blue gourd double happiness pattern everywhere gold gown, with a set of jade head, and people also looked much more energetic.

It's just that Jin Rou next to her is wearing a princess's formal dress. On the big red shirt is a dark blue Xia veil, which is embroidered with gold thread and a cloud and phoenix pattern, and there are two gold pendants at the bottom.

On the head, he wears two crowns of Jiuzhai, and the crown is decorated with a pair of golden phoenixes, a pair of golden hairpins, two pearl and green peony flowers, two pairs of face flowers, one pair of plum blossom rings and four bead rings.

Dressed like this, Yuan suddenly lost his momentum when he stood in front of Jin Rou, and Yuan was a little annoyed in his heart, and said secretly: "The day of ancestor worship will also crush me, for fear that the ancestor will not know that he has married a princess as a daughter-in-law." ”

Although the Yuan family was dissatisfied with Jin Rou in her heart, she didn't dare to find trouble on such a special day, the key was that she was afraid of disturbing her ancestors and really condemning herself, then she would lose more than she gained.

Fang Zhengyun saw that everyone was almost there, and said, "Let's start worshipping our ancestors." "All should be.

After Fang Zhengyun finished speaking, he opened the door of the ancestral hall and walked in, followed by Fang Yayu and Fang Yahou, and all the female dependents stood outside the ancestral hall and did not enter.

Fang Yage looked in from the door, and saw his father walking to the table of the Eight Immortals with his two younger brothers, there were various offerings on the table, and his younger brother Fang Yaol picked up the three incense sticks on the table, lit them with candles, and then handed them to his father. His father, Fang Zhengyun, held a lit three-pillar incense stick, prayed silently in his mouth, and then inserted the incense and closed the door of the ancestral hall.

Because the Fang family moved to the capital with the emperor, and from Fang Kui to Fang Zhengyun, it was a single generation, so only the tablets of Fang Yage's grandfather and great-grandfather were enshrined in the ancestral hall.

Fang Ya Getong saw that after his father finished drinking alcohol, he threw the paper money into the basin and burned it for worship, and the three of them respectfully kowtowed to their ancestors on the futon...... Fang Yage felt the figure in front of him shake for a moment, the door of the ancestral hall opened, and the father and son walked out. The ancestor worship of this midyear festival is completed.

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After lunch, Fang Yage took Shisu and Bai Zhi to Jin Rou's Qifeng Garden, and when Fang Yage entered the door, he saw that the big girls Xiwu and Biqin beside his mother were arranging for a group of little girls to pack up the cage...... Inside were a change of clothes, handkerchiefs, fans and other small items.

"Mother, I'm coming."

Fang Yage had already changed out of his morning clothes, wearing a red cotton gauze jacket, with only jade carved beads on his head, not very luxurious.

Jin Rou also changed out of the princess's formal dress at this moment, wearing only a pink and white sprinkled gold piping satin placket with a long white skirt underneath, plain and quiet. Seeing that her daughter was dressed up, she nodded with satisfaction.

"Let's wait a little longer, I've already sent someone to urge your brother, I believe it won't be long before it arrives." This younger brother naturally refers to Fang Yaol.

Jin Rou patted the big pillow beside her kindly, and Fang Yage was not pretentious, and leaned lazily on it.

"I'm not in a hurry, it's just that there are a lot of people outside today, and I have to tell that leather monkey in a while, don't run around when you go out, not to mention that it's still a place for Buddhism to cultivate, and you can't run into it at will." Fang Yage muttered to himself.

"Well, I'll let Xiwu follow him for a while, and don't leave a step, I've seen a maid named An Yinya next to him a few times, although he is young, he is very safe, and then send Zhuang Kai to his side to watch, it shouldn't be a big problem."

Today is the Midyear Festival, and there are naturally ancestors in the palace, but Jin Rou, as a married daughter, is not qualified to go back. Jin Duo and Jin Rou's biological mother, Concubine Rou, has long since passed away, although Jin Duo later posthumously named her the Empress Dowager of Shengci, but the mausoleum of the former emperor has been sealed, and finally buried in a corner of the imperial mausoleum.

Every time she thinks of the next thing, Jin Rou doesn't have a taste in her heart, so she lights the ever-bright lamp for her biological mother Shi Ningran in Daxiangguo Temple, and takes her children to Daxiangguo Temple to add some lamp oil to Daxiangguo Temple every year on the Midyear Festival, and recite Buddhist scriptures to relieve her sorrows. Therefore, today Fang Yage came to his mother Jin Rou after lunch, and he was dressed very plainly. (To be continued......)