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Seeing Ye Nuonuo blasting away everyone, she herself stared at her again, Mo Ye couldn't help but stare back at her, and asked at the same time, "What portrait did everyone talk about just now?" ”

"It's kind of like that." Ye Nuonuo first muttered to herself, and after hesitating for a moment, she replied: "I'll take you to see it, you'll know when you see it." ”

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In the southeast corner of Yefu, there is a room, this room has no windows, only a door that is not too tall.

Mo Ye stayed in Ye Mansion for two days and only passed by this house once. She didn't notice anything special about the room at the time - the truth was that it looked too ordinary. Mo Ye thought that this was a place to put sundries, until Ye Nuonuo brought her here today, she knew that the house was dedicated to the spiritual seat of the ancestors of the Ye family, and this small room was the small ancestral hall of the Ye family that the servants occasionally mentioned.

Fortunately, Mo Ye herself has not seen what kind of pomp and circumstance the ancestral hall of the big family worships her ancestors, so although she feels that this house is so small, there are no windows, and the light in the house must be extremely dim, which seems to be a bit rude, but other than that, she doesn't have much other feelings. However, when Yenono called the little girl, took the key to open the door, and she was able to step into it, she was temporarily stunned by the furnishings in the house.

Xiaoya put down the key and ran away, and Mo Ye stood in front of the rows of spiritual positions, also frozen.

Nearly seventy percent of the floor of this hut is occupied by three long tables, which are arranged in a vertical row like three steps in the center of the room, and dozens of spirit cards are neatly placed on them. These cards are arranged in five straight rows, but each row has a different number of digits. In the first row of the highest table, there were only two bottles of spirit cards, which were written in crimson tree lacquer, which was very obvious at a glance.

"Ye ......" When Mo Ye was slightly distracted, he almost pronounced out the name engraved on the spirit card. Fortunately, she came to her senses in time and kept her mouth shut.

Xiaoyu stood silently by the door, while Ye Nuonuo walked to Mo Ye's side. Seeing the doubts in Mo Ye's eyes, she didn't hide it, and said slowly and generously: "Here are the spiritual positions of the late ancestors of the Ye family for three generations, and in terms of arrangement, my father is the fourth generation, and I am the fifth generation." ”

Ye Nuonuo only explained simply, that is, let Mo Ye feel that the Ye family was also a big family. At the same time, she was also very puzzled in her heart. Why did the people wither so badly in the fourth generation? But in this environment at the moment, she didn't want to ask much.

She only returned her gaze to the rows of spiritual seats on the three tables in front of her. And soon, her eyes were attracted by the portrait behind the spiritual seat of the great ancestor of the Ye family at the front.

On a wide and tall scroll, there is no background at all, only a feather is drawn. Originally, the paper was supposed to be white, probably because it had been eroded by wind and dust for too long. So it gradually turns beige in color.

"Why did you just draw a feather?" Mo Ye finally couldn't help but ask.

"Actually, it's a very ordinary chicken feather." Ye Nuonuo smiled and said: "My ancestors made a fortune in business, and they first started making money by raising chickens. The great-grandfather of the Ye family thought of this and left behind the painting scroll, although my father has now changed to medicine, this painting must still be handed down. ”

Mo Ye nodded solemnly when he heard this.

After Ye Nuo paused, he gave Xiao Yu a look behind him.

Xiao Yu nodded. Then he raised his arm and pulled down a rope loop in the hidden corner of the door.

There was a slight sound of ropes rubbing against wood, and the bright sunlight outside the house was reflected inside. It could be seen that in that light, some slight dust fell from the beams overhead, causing Mo Ye to look up naturally.

Then she saw four scrolls hanging in mid-air slowly fall from the beams of the room, but they only landed two feet above the spirit tablets on the table and stopped. The portrait unfolds in this position, taking the position where Mo Ye is standing. You only need to look up slightly to see the panorama on the scroll, and it is estimated that an adult is standing in her position. You just need to do it usually.

The four portraits are three men and one woman, three old and one young, and the only young one is the only woman.

The three men in the four portraits are full-length portraits, but the only female portrait is a bust, and the other three are smeared in ink, and this only female portrait has delicate brushstrokes and clear lines, which resemble ......

Mo Ye suddenly thought of the carbon core pen that he had used not long ago, and it seemed that only this kind of pen could draw the kind of sharp and even lines in the painting.

On the whole, this portrait of a woman is clearly out of place with the other three portraits, not only because it depicts a woman, but also because of the style of painting...... It doesn't look very solemn.

The face and facial features of the woman in the painting are very delicately painted, but they are only a bust, and the woman is draped in her hair casually, without any hairstyle or headdress...... I don't know if it's a coincidence or some kind of providence, it fits with the appearance of Mo Ye's cloak now!

Mo Ye subconsciously glanced back at Ye Nuonuo.

Since these four portraits were lowered from the beam to the position in front of her, Ye Nuonuo didn't speak again, but when Mo Yegang turned around, she said in surprise: "Wow, standing together like this, it's really quite similar!" ”

When Mo Ye turned around, at the height of the portrait, it really looked like the person in the painting was standing side by side with her!

The people in the painting and the spiritual seat on the table represent all the elders of Ye Nuonuo's clan, so she doesn't think it's inappropriate to say this, but Xiao Yu, who was standing next to the door, looked at the scene in the room, and heard Ye Nuonuo say that again, she couldn't help but shudder.

Xiao Yu said silently in her heart: "The ancestor of the Ye family is above, Xiao Yu is just serving the eldest lady to come here, and there is no offense." Just now your descendants are talking about you, absolutely nothing to do with the servant, if there is a need, please give the eldest lady a dream, don't ask the slave, thank you, thank you! ”

When Mo Ye saw the fear in Xiaoyu's eyes, she couldn't help but feel a little furious in her heart, but when she turned around and looked at the woman in the painting, she felt a slight heat in her heart, and she was not afraid of the person in the painting.

If you look into the eyes of the woman in the painting, if you look at it for a while, you will have the illusion of looking at yourself in a mirror.

After the slight heat in my heart, there was another strange feeling.

Mo Ye turned his head to look at Ye Nuonuo again, and listened to Ye Nuonuo say: "The characters depicted in these four paintings, according to my father, are relatives who have made great contributions to our Ye family, but they are not of the same generation. If you take a closer look, it should not be difficult to see that the old and new Cheng dù of the four paintings are different. ”

Although he heard Ye Nuonuo say this, Mo Ye did not look back to take a closer look.

Ye Nuonuo also knew that if he took Mo Ye to see this step, it would be almost the same.

She turned around again and gave Xiao Yu a look, and Xiao Yu, who was already waiting a little anxious, hurriedly went to pull another rope loop. In response to the pull of the rope, the four portraits began to slowly rise again.

Ye Nuonuo said slowly: "It is not easy to preserve the portrait, so it is usually put into the mezzanine on the beam of the house, and it is only put down for a short time on the first and fifteenth days of each month, and after the servants have checked the spider silk and dust, my father will burn incense and worship, and it will be collected again soon." Spices are placed in the mezzanine to protect the scroll from insects. ”

When Mo Ye heard this, she suddenly remembered that when she was in Xingjia Village in the past, her home there, on the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year every month, the master would also take her to burn incense and bow down in front of a portrait. It's just that it seems that the master has been worshipping the middle-aged man in the painting very sincerely, but when he left, he set a fire to it and burned it, only telling himself not to forget the appearance of the person in the painting, what does this mean?

After hesitating for a moment, Mo Ye asked softly: "Sister Nuonuo, is there a sacrifice to be made at the beginning of each month and in the middle of the month facing the spiritual position of the ancestors in the family?" ”

Ye Nuonuo nodded and said: "Generally, I just worship the spiritual position of my grandfather and parents so diligently, and then go up, I just sweep the tomb during the New Year's sacrifice, but our family is a bit special, so we all worship together, and I won't go into detail about why." ”

"Oh..."Mo Ye was a little distracted.

Seeing this, Ye Nuonuo couldn't help asking, "Does Sister Mo think there's something wrong?" ”

Mo Ye hurriedly shook his head, and after thinking about it, he said, "Maybe...... It's a different place. ”

"Also, I almost forgot that Sister Mo is not from Kyoto." Ye Nuonuo had a look on his face.

At this moment, Mo Ye suddenly felt a light breeze blowing from the direction of her head, and then she felt that her eyes were dark, and at the same time, she heard the exclamations of Ye Nuonuo and Xiao Yu in unison.

Because, the four portraits that were slowly rising and were about to be put into the collection box on the beams of the room, I don't know if it was the aging of the rope, one of the paintings suddenly fell from mid-air, and happened to gently and softly put on the top of Mo Ye's head, covering Mo Ye's face and the back of his head.

Mo Ye was slightly stunned, and was about to reach out to lift it.

Suddenly, I heard Ye Nuonuo say urgently: "Slow-"

Mo Ye's hand froze in a half-raised position to his shoulder, and he couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?" ”

"Huh..."Mo Ye heard Ye Nuonuo's doubts, and saw Ye She walk up to him and stop, and said, "I never knew that you could write on the back of this painting." ”

Mo Ye finally lifted the scroll covering his head.

Turning the direction of the painting, facing himself with the reverse side of Ye Nuonuo's visible painting, Mo Ye really saw that on the paper that should have been a blank space, several paragraphs with different contents were written in different handwriting, and at the end of each paragraph there seemed to be a signature or something like a text, but this kind of 'signature' was obviously a little less rigorous.

"The difference in wine is rare in the world, and it is the best of the heart." Ye Nono was the first to read out the first paragraph, and when she saw the signature left at the end of the paragraph, she couldn't help laughing: "Old drunkard...... Hahaha. ”