Even though it was rumored that the Xinan Xiao Zhou Mansion had donated a large amount of assets to Zhou Kai's genealogy, the Zhou clan still chose the auspicious day of the zodiac as usual, March 21.

The cadres of the Zhou family moved to live in another village in Zeting Town, a southern suburb of Huocheng, two or three days in advance, in order to make it more convenient to go to the ancestral hall on the day of the clan sacrifice.

Originally, the ancestral hall of the Zhou family was set up at the foot of Huo Mountain in the north of Huocheng with the ancestor, but at the beginning of the Chen Dynasty, the Zhou family had a Zeting Marquis, and the ancestral hall was moved to the south of Shunfangxi next to the big lake "Xi Ze", and Zeting was also named Chengzhen because of the title given by the Zhou family.

"When the Chen Dynasty was first established, Emperor Taizu sealed the world and asked the ancestor Jingren Gong where he wanted to live, and the ancestor replied, 'The minister wishes to return to his hometown in fine clothes, and plant tea and release cranes on the shore of Jize Lake.' , Taizu was disgusted and allowed it, and he was named the Marquis of Zeting. Jing Rengong is high and elegant, resigned hereditary, restricts his children and grandchildren to read poetry and books, inherits family voices, strictly disciplines himself, and seeks fame with the fragrance of books......"

Early in the morning of March 21, when Zhou Manyun walked slowly into the flower hall with Xiaoman, he listened to a soft and clear voice talking about the history of the Zhou family.

There were a group of girls of different ages sitting around the flower hall, and it was Man Yun's second cousin, Zhou Manmiao, the eldest daughter of the second uncle Zhou Bai, and the Zhou family sisters and Man Yun gathered in the room, a total of seven people.

The ancestral festival is restricted to adult men and women and children are excluded. And on the back side of the ancestral hall, there is a small courtyard named Cizhen Pavilion, which opens a small door for female dependents to enter and exit, and the pavilion enshrines the virgin women of the Zhou clan in the past dynasties, and the girls of the Zhou family are allowed to go in and worship after the clan sacrifice is cleared. Manyun's great-grandmother, Meng's spiritual seat, was also enshrined in the church last year, so they are waiting for the announcement of the steward at the end of the sacrifice. Go to the Xiang Matsuri.

Zuihou came to Man Yun, and honestly saluted according to the rules. Most of the sisters in the hall are just polite and polite, and they are very estranged.

There is only Zhou Manyin, who still has a friendship on the way back to the north. Leaned forward and took Man Yun's hand, smiled and let her sit down in his chair.

As soon as Man Yun sat down, Man Yin, who was sitting on the chair, leaned on her ear with a red face and whispered, "Sixth sister! When you get back to the city, you don't live in the mountains anymore, come with me......"

"Zhou Manyin! Can't you sit properly? Don't think that if your mother lifts you up, you don't know the height of the sky! A cold cheer came from the other side. Manyin's sister-in-law, twelve-year-old Zhou Manyan's delicate melon seeds have a little sorrow on her face.

Zhou Manyin bowed his head aggrievedly. Honestly sit on the chair and dare not move for half a minute.

This time on the genealogy, Grandpa also responded to the invitation of the fourth uncle, and recorded the fifth sister Manyin in the name of the fourth aunt Min, for the fourth sister Manyan, who was originally the only daughter of the fourth room, she would feel a little uncomfortable. Zhou Manyun smiled, leaned back with his small body, hid himself in the chair circle of Huang Huali, and looked at the sisters in the room without a trace.

Sitting across from her and Manyin in a circle. Listening to the eldest Zhou Manmiao's family history, they are all from the second room. The second uncle Zhou Bai is the father who has the most children in the Zhou family now, with three sons and four daughters, but only Zhou Shen was born to the second aunt Gao. After the eldest sister Zhou Manhua "died", the longest girl in the Zhou family's generation. The fourteen-year-old second sister Zhou Manmiao and the twelve-year-old third sister Zhou Manqing are both from the second room.

From time to time, it was Manjing, the eighth sister who was about to be six years old. She and her seventh sister Manshu are twin sons, and they were born to the second uncle's favorite aunt Sun. She was so annoyed by Manyin. is because this time she and Lao Qi will also be named, but not as good as Manyin, who is recognized as a concubine. The birth of their sisters will be marked in black and white as a concubine.

The third uncle's family also has a five-year-old ninth sister, Manxian, who didn't come because she was sick. In the next four or five years, there will be another tenth sister Manya in the long room, and then, the eleventh sister Zhou Manjie in the second room should be born......

Zhou Manjie, Zhou Manjie...... Man Yun's eyes darkened and she lowered her head, but after a while, she suddenly straightened up.

I missed the kitten Zhou Manzhen, and now the kitten is the girl of the Zhou family!

Man Yun's heart was pounding, and her little hands that were tightly holding the armrests were also red, and the sudden discovery after seeing the room sisters made her a little dizzy. It wasn't until Manyin shook her arm vigorously that she came back to her senses.

"Sixth sister!" , Manyin called Manyun's voice with a crying tone, and the tears in his big eyes were about to fall.

"Fifth sister, what's wrong?" , Man Yun asked suspiciously. She felt that she should not be in a daze and should provoke the crying little girl.

Sure enough, following Manyin's aggrieved gaze, Manyun saw the small-mouthed Man Jing standing in the middle of the flower hall, continuing the gossip she had missed half of just now with a proud face. "Daddy told me that the names of the girls in the Zhou family were all taken by their great-grandmothers. Gorgeous and clear, quiet and elegant, all lined up. It's just that somehow there is some mess in the middle......"

Messy in the middle? Zhou Manyun raised her eyebrows, looked intently at Man Jing and the few sisters standing behind her who were silent or unstoppable, and then looked down at Zhou Manyin, who was now pounced on her, crying and laughing.

Although Man Yun was distracted for a while and didn't know the beginning and the end, he also knew that the eighth sister Man Jing's attack on Man Yin had led him to himself.

Man Yin, who was lying on Man Yun's neck and was crying, choked up: "Sixth sister! Just now, the eighth sister said that she would go to Cizhen Pavilion to worship her great-grandmother later, and she would come according to the ranking of her old man's name. In that case, they jumped the two of us out of the way......"

"What did the eighth sister say?" , Man Yun looked at Man Jing, who was slightly proud, and smiled dumbly. From the past life to this life, whether it is a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl or a five or six-year-old child, Man Jing is always the one who is pushed out by the sisters behind her to fight for.

Man Yin hugged Man Yun tightly and nodded imperceptibly. was humiliated by the combination of several girls in the second room, the fourth sister Manyan, who was supposed to be on her side, ignored her, and even acquiesced in the other party's behavior, and she could only find Manyun, who was younger than herself, to fight back.

"So? The sisters are all set? Man Yun tilted his head, moved away from Man Yin without a trace, and said with a smile: "Sisters are all set, so be it!" ”

"Sixth sister!" , Manyin straightened up, glanced at Manyun incredulously, bit her lip, turned around resolutely, and said to the other cousins: "Sisters, the order that Manjing said is no different to Manyin. But you have to think about the sixth sister, she is the daughter of the fifth room, starting from the grandfather and grandmother, Sister Yun is the most expensive one among us......"

The little girl who couldn't cry in the rain just now didn't get Manyun's support, and she was able to speak with reason.

Zhou Manyun, who was sitting firmly on the chair, quietly put his hand on his lap and listened to the sisters' back and forth. The fifth sister who died early in her previous life was a smart one, but her desire to borrow strength still made people see it clearly at once. But the old man who has been through a lifetime, what is the point of turning back and competing with some little girls who have not grown up.

If they like it, get used to them grabbing it! It would be nice if it went on like this. In the previous life, the second aunt helped to snatch back the marriage of the Gao family, Shu and Jing, the two siblings, cried half to death, if this life will be the first time, they can snatch Gao Wei, and they will burn high incense to reward God.

"Whoever loves it, go for it!" , Man Yunjing watched the confrontation between Man Yin and Man Jing, the persuasion of graceful firewood, and Man Yan who pretended to be high and hid on the side...... I feel that time and space are rotating with a familiar scene of the year.

"Sister Yun! There are really people in the ancestral hall who want to make trouble! Xiao Man, who walked outside the flower hall and came back after listening to the news, whispered in Manyun's ear.

Zhou Manyun nodded, his eyes were cold......

The ancestral hall of the Zhou clan standing next to Xize is backed by a small mirror screen mountain, and in front of it is the wide Baili Lake in Xize.

The ancestral hall covers an area of more than 100 acres before and after, and the main hall of the three ancestors is enshrined in the Jingren Hall of Ze Tinghou, the head of the ancestral hall of the Chen Dynasty, and there are two ancestors of Wende and Wenchang Hall in the east and west.

At this moment, in the smoke of the main hall, the men of the Zhou clan were listening to the patriarch Zhou Huai's family sacrifice proclamation with bated breath.

From the main hall to the main courtyard, four or five hundred people stood according to the blood branches and trees of distant relatives, with solemn expressions. It's just that under a few equally serious faces, there are people who are looking forward to the news from outside the ancestral hall like a monkey scratching their ears and cheeks.

The sun shines on the closed red lacquer gate of the Zhou ancestral hall, the three big characters of "Shao Lian Tang" at the top are shining, and the fifty or sixty white stone poles in front of the door are densely covered with the pen of the stone carving on the laurel pointing to the sky, each pole shows a scientific expedition of the Zhou clan, showing the unique heritage of the Zhou family.

No one is allowed to linger at the entrance of the ancestral hall, especially on such a solemn day. The people of Huocheng have respect for the Zhou family, especially the ancestors of the residents of Zeting Town are mostly the servants of the ancestral hall of the Marquis of Zeting, and after several generations, although some people have found another livelihood, they are very in awe of this place, and they don't have to say it explicitly, and they will follow the rules.

The guards of the Zhou family scattered around the ancestral hall in Xibei were a little slackened after completing their inspections before the opening of the festival as in the past. Some of the old people even found shade to rest, and it was very uncomfortable to hold on to the long festival.

Therefore, when a group of people dressed in white filial piety clothes drove an ox cart with a thin coffin, crying and crying from the north, and crashed into the pole forest in front of the ancestral hall, most of the guards did not slow down.

A strong man under a white guise raised his eyes and looked at the lintel of Shao Liantang, wiped his face with tears and snot, opened his mouth, and cried: "Wronged ......"

The strong man's voice was still swirling in his mouth, and out of nowhere, a black shadow suddenly flew down, stuffed a piece of coarse cloth into his big mouth, and suddenly disappeared.

A group of people who also appeared strangely from all directions concocted the people in the team who were about to howl one by one, kicked them to the ground and tied them up, or led, or threw them on the ox cart carrying the coffin, and quickly took them away from the front of the Zhou ancestral hall.

"See...... Hell yes! The few people who were originally in charge of the guards of the ancestral hall shook their teeth against the big sun that suddenly appeared and disappeared suddenly, and started a cold war. (To be continued......)