After Liu Xia took the things, the mother and son left Jinde Building and got into the car together, Lin Haoran started the car and drove in the direction of the ancestral house.

On the way, they encountered many vehicles that were also going to their ancestral homes.

Lin Haoran drove to the ancestral house, found a parking space and parked the car, and the mother and son walked to the ancestral house.

There are bright street lights everywhere on this side of the ancestral house, and all the roads are not dark.

On the way, Lin Haoran met many uncles, uncles, aunts, uncles and other elders that he was not familiar with.

He didn't go to say hello, he just quietly watched [his] mother greet others, or watch others greet [his] mother.

However, Lin Haozhan on the other side of Liu Xia was completely different from Lin Haoran, he would occasionally accompany his mother to greet the elders.

But every time he accompanies Liu Xia to greet him, the people who are more than a generation older than Liu Xia are all people.

When he approached the ancestral house, Lin Haoran felt more and more that this ancestral house was special, the ancestral house in front of him was more than 1,000 meters long alone, and the gate was also a bit exaggerated, eight or nine adults could walk in side by side.

The mother and son crossed the threshold of the gate, bypassed the family monument, and separated.

Because the ancestral house is a forbidden place, it is forbidden for any outsiders to come, and even bionic intelligent robots are not allowed to come, Liu Xia went to the warehouse to help as soon as she entered the ancestral house.

And Lin Haozhan went to chat with his good cousin.

Lin Haoran swept around the open-air courtyard of the ancestral house, looking at the many clansmen sitting or standing around, and suddenly his eyes were attracted by the tripod outside the ancestral hall (the house for the ancestral spirit tablets).

Not far from the ancestral hall, there is a three-legged tripod, with five dragons on the body, each of which forms a tripod ear, and he also found that the materials on each of the five dragons are different.

One was made of gold and silver, one was carved from wood, one was hewn from jade, and two were made of jade, and Lin Haoran couldn't see what the material was.

But this made him feel the strangeness of the ancestral house even more.

Afterwards, Lin Haoran casually found an empty seat and sat down, quietly waiting for the start of the ancestor worship.

After a while, the patriarch Lin Shiheng walked to the door of the ancestral hall and shouted, "The children and grandchildren of the Lin family, line up. ”

As the patriarch's words fell, the crowd suddenly became a little chaotic.

Lin Haoran sat and waited for the crowd to be less chaotic, then slowly got up and walked towards the seat in his memory, and as soon as he approached the seat in his memory, he saw Lin Xiaoyu.

"Little brother, hurry up. ”

"Cut~~ Queue up and play big names, I really think I'm a celebrity!" Lin Jiangan said sarcastically next to him.

Lin Xiaoyu turned her head and glared at him, then turned back to Lin Haoran and asked, "Little brother, why are you so slow." ”

Lin Haoran said lightly: "I'm lost." ”

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The people around him who heard Lin Haoran's words were speechless in their hearts.

After Lin Haoran stood up, he noticed that there were two unfamiliar acquaintances standing on his left, namely Lin Weixiang and Lin Haozhan.

As for Zhao Lihua, she has not yet given birth to a child for Lin Weixiang, and she has not continued a trace of blood for the Lin family, so she is not qualified to come over to worship her ancestors together.

"The children and grandchildren of the Lin family knelt down to welcome the ancestors of the past generations. ”

With the words of the accompanying patriarch, everyone in the Lin family lined up 'pounced', and they all knelt down.

After Lin Shiheng saw that everyone in front of him knelt down, he took out the key to the door of the ancestral hall and opened the lock.

Then he pushed the door open with all his might, turned and shouted to the kneeling crowd, "Incense." ”

The people kneeling in the Lin family, regardless of men and women, from old to young, lined up one by one to take over the three pillars of incense in the hands of Li Xianglan (Lin Shiheng's wife), and then inserted the incense on the three-legged five-dragon tripod outside the door of the ancestral hall.

Then, the person who had made the incense returned to his seat and knelt down.

After a few months old baby saluted the incense with the help of his mother and returned to his seat to kneel, Lin Shiheng shouted loudly again: "Prepare a gift for money, take a road to wealth." ”

Hearing this, the women of the Lin family (here refers to the women who married into the Lin family), in groups of three or in pairs, went to the bamboo basket not far away to get their belongings.

And the old and young of the Lin family (including the girls) also dispersed.

Dozens of strong descendants of the Lin family walked to a few long large iron plates that had already been placed on the ground, and several people lifted the iron plates in groups to the door of the ancestral hall, and built several large iron plates into a long and large rectangle.

"Line up. ”

This time, only the elders and children of the Lin family lined up in two rows on the left and right sides of the financial road (a rectangle made of iron plates), from large to small, and from top to bottom.

But the women waited with things in their hands.

"The descendants of the Lin family, filial piety to the ancestors of the past generations. ”

As soon as Lin Shiheng's words fell, the women who were waiting on the side immediately stepped forward and handed the items in their hands to the elders and children of the Lin family in the two rows of Cailu.

The elders and children of the Lin family took the gold and silver treasures (gold and silver ingots made of paper, etc.) from the women, and after they lit them with fire, they threw them into the financial road.

When they were about to finish throwing it away, the women of the Lin family would go to the bamboo basket and take out the gold and silver treasures to them.

It took more than an hour to put an end to this behavior.

Looking at the flames soaring into the sky, the flames like a fire dragon roaring, Lin Haoran only felt that it was a waste of money.

"Enter the ancestral hall. After speaking, Lin Shiheng took the lead in walking into the ancestral hall, and the elders and children of the Lin family on both sides of the financial road followed closely behind him.

The women of the Lin family followed behind the youngest person of the Lin family and entered the ancestral hall together.

Lin Shiheng stood in front of the spirit table, and when he saw that everyone was standing, he shouted: "Kneel down and remember the ancestors of the Lin family." ”

When they heard this, they knelt down on the mats in front of them, and then closed their eyes and rested.

LIN SHIHENG SAW THAT EVERYONE IN THE LIN FAMILY KNELT DOWN, SO HE WALKED TO THE TAISHI CHAIR NOT FAR AWAY, SAT ON THE TAISHI CHAIR, PICKED UP THE QIANZHI (JIANZHI) PLACED ON HIS RIGHT HAND, AND KNOCKED THE WOODEN FISH RHYTHMICALLY.

Lin Haoran listened to the sound of "tuk, tuk, tuk" for a while, and gradually became sleepy.

When the sky began to turn white, Lin Shiheng stopped knocking on the wooden fish's hand, put the Qianzhi back in its original place, and shouted: "The children and grandchildren of the Lin family, repair the appearance of the ancestors and ancestors of the past dynasties." ”

Lin Shiheng said that he repaired the face of the ancestors and ancestors of the Lin family, not to open the coffin to make up for the body or anything, but to rewrite the words on the tombstone and trim the weeds on the side of the tomb.

Lin Haoran, who was in a daze, was awakened by Lin Shiheng's shout, and then he followed the people of the Lin family out of the ancestral hall and came to the kitchen not far away.

Everyone drank a bowl of porridge in the kitchen that had already been cooked, and then walked to the warehouse on the far right of the ancestral house.

When they came to the warehouse, Lin Haoran's generation and [his] father's generation all took a bamboo basket prepared in advance, and then everyone walked to the graves behind the ancestral house.

The bamboo basket contained ink made of cinnabar, a brush, a large lawn clipper, a few handfuls of incense, and a lighter.

When the Lin family came to the tomb group, they were divided into three groups.

Lin Haoran's generation was responsible for repairing the graves in the lower rows of the tomb group, and [his] father's generation was responsible for the upper rows of graves.

And the generations above [his] grandfather (except for the patriarch), and those younger than [him], just need to watch from the sidelines with the women.

Fortunately, the Lin family has many descendants, otherwise just sweeping the tomb can exhaust people to death. But even if so many people were repairing the tombstone group, it was not until noon that they were all done.

Everyone returned to the warehouse and put the bamboo baskets, and then came to wait outside the ancestral hall.

After listening to the patriarch's words of encouragement, and packing up the sundries left after the ancestor sacrifice, the Lin family's ancestor worship was truly over.