Chapter 123: Ancestor Worship

Well, the meaning of "ancestor worship" here is not quite the same as the meaning in the memory of his previous life, and the people who participate can still have some joy. Looking up at the angle of the sun outside, it should have been more than 8 o'clock in the morning, and it was very close to the time of the ancestor worship ceremony held at the time, Ye Xiaoyu no longer asked Hong'er, returned to the bedroom, got dressed, and went to the bathroom to freshen up.

Sure enough, after a while, Jiang Ping sent the little girl Qiao'er to Nanyuan to ask Ye Xiaoyu and Hong'er if they were ready, if they were ready, they could go to the ancestral hall, and the ancestor worship ceremony was about to begin.

Ye Xiaoyu had nothing to prepare except for putting on neat clothes, let alone Hong'er, so the two went to the ancestral hall with Qiao'er.

Ye Xiaoyu found that in the past few days, every house in the courtyard of the Lu family has been pasted with Spring Festival couplets and brand-new red lanterns in front of the door.

The ancestral hall of the Lu family is located next to the east chamber, although I often hear about it, but Ye Xiaoyu has never been to it, the ancestral hall, the ancestral hall and other places are not something that she Ye Xiaoyu and a girl with a foreign surname enter casually.

followed Qiao'er through the corridor of the east chamber, turned a corner and came to the legendary ancestral hall, Ye Xiaoyu walked while carefully looking at this ancestral hall. I thought that the ancestral hall was located in the room of the East Chamber, but after turning the corner, I found that there was another courtyard next to the East Chamber, five gates in the black oil fence, and there was a plaque hanging on the door, which said "Lu Clan Ancestral Hall" four lacquered gold characters, and the big characters were written in small characters next to the "Liu'an Layman Question".

The courtyard of the ancestral hall was already full of people, most of whom were the female dependents and maids who had not returned home for the New Year. Lu Yishou was dressed very strictly today, and he was standing in the courtyard at this time and asked everyone to stand in order. Lu Meijiao was originally chatting with Mother Liu, but when she saw Ye Xiaoyu coming in, she came over to greet her enthusiastically.

"Xiaoyu, you're finally here, I haven't seen you for a while, not only have you grown taller, but you've become more beautiful. Sunny, Xiaoyu came, and she didn't know how to come and say hello, she really didn't know how to count this kid, and she grew so tall in vain......"

Lu Meijiao walked in front of her, and as before, she spoke with a crackling speech, and pulled the arm of Qing Lang who was standing aside as she spoke, blaming him for not taking the initiative to greet Ye Xiaoyu.

In addition to smiling awkwardly, Ye Xiaoyu didn't know what kind of demeanor to use to face this sudden situation, saying that she and Qinglang hadn't spoken a few times in total, why did she Lu Meijiao admit that she wanted to match? In her previous life, the scene of her mother arranging a blind date for herself resurfaced in front of her, and the thinking of a middle-aged woman was really incomprehensible.

"Don't come to say hello yet......"

Lu Meijiao grabbed Qinglang's arm and pulled him in front of Ye Xiaoyu.

As soon as Ye Xiaoyu looked up, she saw Qinglang's expressionless face. However, this embarrassing atmosphere has nothing to do with Ye Xiaoyu, if you want to blame Qinglang's mother, she is too warm-hearted, thinking like this in her heart, Ye Xiaoyu instantly became calm.

"Everyone stood in their places, and the ancestor worship ceremony began immediately......

Just when Ye Xiaoyu was embarrassed, the voice of the fifth child sounded in the courtyard of the ancestral hall, people were looking for their own position, and there was a commotion around, Ye Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief, and also took the opportunity to find her own position, silently walked to the other side, away from Lu Meijiao's mother and daughter.

After everyone stood up, they quieted down, the incense and candles in the ancestral hall were brilliant, the brocade curtain was embroidered, and on the tablet in the middle of the hall, it was vaguely visible that there were many gods and goddesses, but because Ye Xiaoyu was not tall enough, he couldn't see it very really. After the gongs and drums sounded three times, everyone stood according to the established arrangement: Lu Yishou stood in the middle, the chief priest, Jiang Ping stood next to the sacrifice, and Lu Qian and some Lu family clansmen stood behind them, also looking pious. followed by Lu Meijiao, although she is also surnamed Lu, but because of her status as a married daughter, she cannot stand side by side with Lu Yishou, and she can stand behind the Lu family, which is already a great grace given to her by the Lu family. Ye Xiaoyu and Lu Meijiao stood in a row, and there was a sunny face paralysis next to them, because according to the etiquette, the three of them were all foreigners, so they were naturally arranged to stand together. After that, they were all the subordinates and long-term workers of the Lu family, all standing outside the threshold of the ancestral hall, and there were special people in the courtyard who were guarding the burning furnace.

After the gongs and drums sounded, the band in the lobby began to play, this was the first time Ye Xiaoyu listened to the music of this time and space, "Yi Yi Ya Ya", which was no different from the Taoist music of his previous life. With the music, Lu Yishou held a golden dragon and phoenix wine jug in his hand, walked to the Ding furnace in the courtyard and began to drink wine, the wine jug was not big, and the music stopped, and the wine was basically poured.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of Lu Yishou and the Lu family to drink wine, Ye Xiaoyu finally saw the tablet above the main hall, there are no photos in this time and space, in addition to some signs that only write surnames and names, there are some richly dressed portraits, which seem to be the remains of the ancestors of the Lu family. The incense in front of the statue is brilliant, the color screen is protected, and it is gorgeous. Ye Xiaoyu remembered that the Lu family had been poor for several generations, and it was from Lu Yishou's generation that he made a fortune, and now all the industries were developed by Lu Yishou alone, so from this point of view, the ancestors of the Lu family should be farmers who "faced the loess with their backs to the sky", but judging from this portrait, it looks like a rich and noble family, but this is also a custom here.

After the end of the liquor, Lu Yishou led everyone back to the original position of the main hall to stand, picked up the incense that had been prepared in advance, and recited words in his mouth, Ye Xiaoyu was the same as everyone, he also held incense in his hand, and when Lu Yishou finished praying, everyone knelt down together, and there was nothing to hear around, only the sound of sonorous clanging, the slight swaying sound of golden bells and jade pendants, and the sound of everyone's kneeling boots. After repeating this three times, the worship ceremony was completed, Ye Xiaoyu followed the people in front of him, inserted the incense in his hand into the incense burner in the main hall in turn, and exited the hall.

But the ancestor worship ceremony was not yet completed, Lu Yishou took Jiang Ping and Lu Qian to the Ding furnace in the courtyard, and put the brocade silk, paper money and other things prepared by the fifth child in advance into the Ding furnace for incineration.

After the burning, everyone worshiped together in the compound, so that after a round, the ancestor worship ceremony was truly completed. At this time, it was already past noon, and everyone slowly dispersed, busy with their work, and began to prepare for the reunion dinner in the evening.

Ye Xiaoyu wandered around the garden alone, Hong'er was called to the kitchen to help, and it was not interesting to go back to Nanyuan by herself, although there were still a lot of handkerchiefs waiting for her in Nanyuan, but Ye Xiaoyu wanted to take a day off today, so she should give herself a year-end bonus, since Ling Yu and Qianyi left, she has never been out of the door of Nanyuan, and today is also an opportunity, smell the grass in the garden, and bask in the sun, such a casual life, Ye Xiaoyu does not want to miss it. In fact, to put it bluntly, she is guilty of "lazy cancer" and doesn't want to work.

Think about yourself in your previous life, working overtime day and night, you almost took the company as your home, but in the end, you didn't gain anything, but lost a lot. Now that I am still young, although I have the ambition to make money, it should not matter if I take occasional breaks like this.

Ye Xiaoyu leaned on the stone bench in the garden while thinking, the sun was shining on her body, her eyes were half squinting, warm, anyway, everyone was busy in the kitchen now, Ye Xiaoyu decided to sit on the stone bench for a while.

"I still wonder why I can't find you, it turns out that I am hiding here......"

Lu Qian stood in front of Ye Xiaoyu menacingly, and her personal maid Ying'er was standing next to her, at this time, Ying'er, like her master, was staring at her fierce eyes.