Fifteen days after the vernal equinox, the Big Dipper star handle points to the second position, and the Qingming wind arrives.

On this day, all the people surnamed He in Helu Village will take the sacrifices to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors first, there is nothing new in the offerings, it is nothing more than to make a good meal of wine and food, first pick up the ancestral hall to give the ancestors three pillars of incense, and then kowtow three heads and pray. Then go to the ancestral grave on the mountain to remove weeds, and then put some simple fruits, burning paper money and gold ingots, to express the sorrow of the ancestors.

Qingming and cold food are celebrated together, and the cold food festival is to commemorate Jie Zitui. Jie Zitui and his mother were burned to death in the mountains, Jin Wengong ordered from that day on, every year Qingming is the day of Jie Zitui's death, do not make a fire to cook only eat cold food, so this day is also called the Cold Food Festival.

Since the Tang Dynasty, the government will give the hundred officials a four-day holiday, and in the Song Dynasty, it will become seven days, so that the hundred officials can sacrifice to their ancestors. This kind of statutory holiday of Baijia is quite humane, but considering the inconvenience of transportation, officials are often in different places, and it is obviously not feasible to return to their hometowns for a few days to worship. Worship can only be performed in front of the ancestral shrine.

Every important festival, the camphor tree will also have a corresponding holiday, all the bamboo weaving is the housewife of the village, the man is not good at rituals, cooking and cooking worship need housewives to make a big effort, do not let them go back to worship but will cause family conflicts.

These women received a lot of wages here in Liangchuan, this sacrifice, Liang Chuan can clearly see in the ancestral hall, the vegetables and meat they bought are much better than before, the style is rich, the meat and vegetables will not be single, when every household prays to the ancestors, the expression on the face is no longer gloomy, but the frowns are unfolded, and the smile is on the face. Because there is still hope in life, life is getting better and better.

Today, Liang Chuan and Yi Niang have no ancestors to sacrifice, and Liang Chuan's ancestors have not been born yet. And Yi Niang, she was so young when she left home that she didn't even remember the way home, let alone those strange ancestors. Liang Chuan asked Yi Niang to buy some wine and food and made a full table.

Today, Liang Chuan wanted to ask Ye Xiaochai, Yang Xiu, and Li Erhua if the three of them wanted to go to Dashu Mountain. The relatives of the three of them were killed by the bandits of Da Fei Mountain, and there was no place for the bones to be collected, so they could only sacrifice in the place of Da Fei Mountain.

Brother Zhao also went home today, no matter how poor the family is, they have to worship their ancestors today, forgetting their ancestors is equivalent to denying themselves.

Li Chuyi's family also had no news, and he didn't even know where the grave was when the old man died. Today is also depressed, and I led the black nose to the mountain early.

People come and go in the ancestral hall, all of them are worshipping their ancestors, just a few of them are sitting in the room coldly, eating good wine and good food in their mouths, but the three women sit on the table in a daze, quietly do not speak, do not eat, but tears are not fighting all the time. Every festive season, passers-by want to break their souls.

Liang Chuan couldn't sit still when he saw this scene, so he might as well take them for a walk. Yi Niang also walked together, and when she saw other people's homes at home, she had objects of longing, but she was indifferent at her own home, and it was not a taste.

Since returning from Da Shu Mountain, several people have not returned. This is their nightmare place, why are you coming back?

Yi Niang prepared some incense, candles, and paper money for the three of them, and used a bamboo basket to fill a jar of wine, and did not bring meat and vegetables, so she brought some fruits, which were ready to be used for worship in Dashu Mountain.

He Baozheng happened to go to Xinghua to deliver mosquito coils, and when he saw that a few people were just about to go out, he asked a few people and went to Xinghua together.

In the past few days, He Baozheng has been selling mosquito coils smoothly, with a smile on his face every day, and his waist in front of his wife is also straight, a penny can stump a hero, and now he finally doesn't have to worry about money.

It was rare for He Baozheng to see that Liang Chuan's family was all dispatched, and he originally wanted to tease a few people, but when he saw that the faces of several women seemed to be wrong, the words came to his lips and swallowed them back with understanding. chatted with Liang Chuan about the situation of selling mosquito coils in the past few days, as well as the feedback from the two restaurants.

According to He Baozheng, not only did the restaurant give praise to this mosquito coil, but many guests also began to close

I poured this mosquito coil and asked where the ingredients in the mosquito coil were made of this good thing. Many businessmen said that they have seen a lot of sandalwood and the like, but the price of sandalwood is too high, and it is not realistic to use it to repel mosquitoes.

This kind of mosquito coil in the middle family, summer living room activities, if you can't hang the mosquito net, light a plate, put it on the side, the taste will not be irritating, but also can refresh and repel mosquitoes, the activity will be much more relaxed, will not be scratched by mosquitoes.

He Baozheng didn't leave contact information before, and the shopkeeper and the guy in the store only said that it was sent by a half-disabled old man to sell, and the address was in He Lu, but they didn't know where He Lu was. The merchants were blindsided when they heard He Lu's name, let alone let them go to the specific place of He Lu, because they had never heard of this place at all. The shopkeeper of the lower pavilion is okay, he knows He Lu, and the shopkeeper of the Dadi Restaurant does not know where this small village called He Lu is.

Liang Chuan told He Baozheng that he had to leave his name for this good deed, otherwise there would be no place for others to come to thank him. When I got to the store to deliver mosquito coils, I told them that the place where I lived was from the Shima Bridge, and I went to the end and asked about the He ancestral hall.

The feeling of making money is also addictive, because it is much faster than farming to make money, He Baozheng listened to Liang Chuan's suggestion to double his production scale, added fifty more molds, and then purchased a part of the materials from Ye Xiaochai every day, and if it was not enough, he would go to the mountains to collect it himself. A day's work is enough for him to work on his own. In terms of raw materials, Wanda store issued a notice, there are really many villagers go up the mountain to collect these materials, there are too many raw materials on the mountain, and there is no cost, it is easier than firewood, and the price is quite attractive, why not.

When he arrived in Xinghua, Liang Chuan led the four women to walk towards Dashu Mountain without taking He Baozheng's ox cart, relying on his legs. The original Da Fei Mountain is rarely visited, since the outbreak of the bandits' den, harmed the lives of many passers-by, here has become a forbidden place for everyone to talk about and change color, it is said that the land bandit leader has not been found, Wan Shang went up the mountain and encountered this evil star, who to find to avenge the grievances?

There used to be traces of a trail on the mountain road, but now that a few months have passed, the spring grass has emerged, and even the road is gone. The scenery on the mountain is still okay, if there is no sad past, Qingming came to Dashu Mountain to go green, accompanied by four young and beautiful girls, it is also a happy thing in life.

Liang Chuan once asked the three of them in private, Yang Xiu and Li Erhua were both young wives who were married and had children, but the children and husbands were dead under the butcher's knife of the gangsters. As for Ye Xiaochai, Liang Chuan has talked to her a few times, but he refuses to say anything about it, and even Yi Niang didn't find out a little bit of her confidence in her family background.

Liang Chuan wanted to send them back to their hometown, after all, it was where they came, and there were relatives and friends. But the three of them, without exception, all rejected Liang Chuan, they said that they are very good here now, life is leisurely and worry-free, if they go back, they will not only suffer from white eyes, but may also be eaten out of their homes, why go back to find it unhappy? Sometimes it takes more courage to live than to die, Liang Chuan gave them a chance to be reborn, and it is harder to endure humiliation than anything else!

Since the three of them had made up their minds, Liang Chuan couldn't say anything more, he repeatedly stated several times that when they wanted to go home, just say it, and Liang Chuan would send them home safely.

The women of ancient times, the water spilled by the women who got married, covered with water since ancient times, it is difficult to collect.

In spring, Dashu Mountain is more lively than Helu Hou Mountain, full of wild fruits and colorful butterflies and bees, hares and pheasants in the grass from time to time, so Liang Chuan is still in the mood to observe these. The group found a huge stone, and planned to use this stone as a tomb for three deceased relatives to express their grief.

The three of them didn't know whether it was sadness, or if they revisited the old place and remembered the dark and tragic years, and at the beginning of the worship, tears first flowed silently, and then the three of them hugged each other and cried bitterly.

Yi Niang looked distressed, her eyes were already red, and she bit her lip tightly to prevent herself from crying. She set up the fruit bowl and placed it directly on the ground. After finishing, two white candles were lit, three pieces of paper money were placed in front of the offerings, three small porcelain bowls were placed, and a small half bowl of rice wine was poured.

When it was ready, it was time for the three women to begin their prayers. They just held on and cried. The cry spread all over the hill with the mountain wind, moving the mountain and tarnishing the spring.

"Everyone is gone, crying is not a way, I and Yi Niang don't know whether our relatives are dead or alive now, if it's okay to die, I can also cry with you, but I don't even know life and death, and I can't worship my relatives with you." Liang Chuan was also miserable, all four women came to see this owner who was very arrogant and unrestrained, and today I didn't expect to see him such a sad scene.

Yi Niang was the most emotional, Liang Chuan's words made her suppress a lot of feelings and explode in an instant, hiding in Liang Chuan's arms, hugging his waist tightly and letting her tears wet Liang Chuan's clothes.

When others are worse than themselves, their hearts are slightly relaxed. Ye Xiaochai calmed down first, her face was expressionless, but she didn't wipe the tears on her face without touching it. She picked up the three sticks of incense, put them on the white candle and lit them, extinguished the flame on the incense, held them in both hands, looked into the distance with her eyes blankly, slowly bent down and bowed three times, and then inserted the incense into the soil in front of the stone.

followed by Yang Xiu and Li Erhua.

The fragrant green smoke on the ground curls, and the mountain wind blows, drifting between the mountains, rivers and the earth.