Chapter 289: Tomb Sweeping (I)
"What else can it be, there's someone over there again!" Yi Niang replied angrily at this time, the "over there" in her mouth naturally refers to her maiden family, that is, Pei Ju's mansion, since Pei Ju forced her to the door of Li Xiu's mansion, she has completely broken with the Pei family, but she didn't expect Pei Ju to be cheeky enough to send someone. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Pei Ju is still not giving up, what is he sending people to do?" Li Xiu couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this, Yi Niang had already completely fallen out with Pei Ju, and Princess Pingyang and Li Xiu had also warned each other not to come to Yi Niang again, but they didn't expect Pei Ju's face to be so thick.
"This is not the first time, during the last Dragon Boat Festival, I sent someone over there once, and wanted to invite me and my husband over, but I drove them away, but I didn't expect to come again now!" Yi Niang said angrily again, her mother died early, and there are no other brothers and sisters, the only one who can be regarded as a relative is Pei Ju, but unfortunately Pei Ju really hurt her too much, and she has long since denied him as a father, so she naturally does not want to have any contact with the Pei family.
"There is a custom of going to relatives during the Dragon Boat Festival, but now there is no festival in the year, what do the people of the Pei family do?" Li Xiu asked strangely again at this time, it is still early for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
As soon as Li Xiu mentioned this, Yi Niang's face immediately darkened, and after a while, she spoke: "In a few days, it will be my mother's sacrifice day, and someone over there will invite me to go over and sweep the tomb together, but when my mother died, the Pei family only used a thin coffin to bury my mother, and it did not enter the ancestral tomb of the Pei family, and there was no second person at the funeral except me, and I was the only one who went to sweep the tomb over the years, and now I think about it!" ”
When Yi Niang said the end, her tone was also full of resentment, her mother was Pei Ju's concubine, and it was normal not to enter the ancestral grave, but after his death, Pei Ju did not come forward at all, and even she doubted whether Pei Ju knew about it at that time? Now he even proposed to sweep the tomb again, which is disgusting.
"It turned out to be my mother's sacrifice day, why didn't you tell me earlier, and I could have made some preparations?" When Li Xiu heard that the sacrifice day of Yi Niang's mother was coming, he couldn't help but blame him a little at the moment, his son-in-law would definitely go to worship on his mother-in-law's sacrifice day, but now he hadn't made any preparations, not to mention anything else, the sacrifice also needed to be seriously prepared.
"I ...... I didn't have time to tell you about it, but I've already prepared the sacrifices and the like, so let's go together on that day! When Yi Niang heard Li Xiu's words, she suddenly seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
Yi Niang actually wanted to talk to Li Xiu about it a long time ago, but her marriage with Li Xiu was a little strange, in her opinion, she was neither a wife nor a concubine, so Yi Niang didn't know how Li Xiu thought of her mother, and was even worried that Li Xiu was unwilling to go, so she kept dragging it out and didn't tell him, but she didn't expect Li Xiu to take the initiative to go after hearing it.
"That's good, when the day comes, you tell me, let's go to the grave together!" Li Xiu didn't think too much about it, and said solemnly at the moment.
"Hmm!" Yi Niang also nodded heavily when she heard this, and at the same time her nose was sour and almost shed tears, since her mother died, she has not enjoyed this feeling of being cared for a long time, and it is at this time that Yi Niang really accepted Li Xiu as a husband from the bottom of her heart, no matter how it changes in the future, she only recognizes Li Xiu as a husband.
A few days passed in a blink of an eye, and on the day of the sacrifice, Li Xiu and Yi Niang also got up early, and then burned incense and bathed, which is also the standard process before the sacrifice, of course, this set may not be very popular in later generations, but the ancients attached great importance to it, this is not a superstition, but a kind of respect for the deceased ancestors.
After bathing, Li Xiu and Yi Niang changed into more solemn clothes, the style and color of the clothes have a special scale, such as the color of the clothes should be darker, the style should be more formal, and it must not be too frivolous, etc., Li Xiu himself does not understand these rules, fortunately, everything is handled by Yi Niang and Yuechan, so he has a lot of peace of mind.
rode out of the carriage, and then under the guidance of Yi Niang, the carriage bypassed Chang'an City and drove towards the east of the city, and when he heard Yi Niang say that her mother's tomb was in the east of the city, Li Xiu was also stunned, because as far as he knew, it seemed that the feng shui of Chang'an City and other reasons made most of the magnates of Chang'an City prefer to be buried in the west of the city, and most of the people buried in the east of the city were some poor people, and Yi Niang's mother was buried in the east of the city, and this alone is enough to show the status of their mother and daughter in the Pei family at that time.
The carriage drove for a long time, and finally came to a dirt mountain, there was a stone archway under the mountain, on which were written two small seals, Li Xiu looked at it for a long time and didn't recognize what was written, which made him very ashamed, you must know that even Qi Niang has been writing small seals with Princess Pingyang, and Yi Niang will also, so if you calculate it, it seems that he is the one who has a low cultural level at home.
"This is Beiqiu, after the death of the magnates in Chang'an City, they generally like to be buried in the west of the city, but some of the concubines of the powerful families do not have such treatment, many people are buried in the east of the city after death, the feng shui here in Beiqiu is good, and many similar people are buried here." Yi Niang explained softly to Li Xiu at this time, but at the end, her eyes were also full of tears.
Seeing Yi Niang's sad appearance, Li Xiu also reached out to hold her little hand and gave her a comforting look, which made Yi Niang feel a little relieved, so the two hiked up the sad hill. This place is really as its name, from the foot of the mountain to go up, into the eye everywhere is a piece of cemetery, it is estimated that they are divided by family, but the cemetery is very simple, the graves inside are also very random, a better one also repairs a tombstone, but most of them do not even have a tombstone.
When she walked along a path to the top of the mountain, Yi Niang took Li Xiu to the right, bypassed a few low trees, and finally came to a cemetery, but when she saw this cemetery, Yi Niang was obviously stunned for a moment, and her footsteps stopped.
"What's wrong?" Li Xiu asked with some surprise.
"What happened to the cemetery here?" Yi Niang looked at the cemetery in front of her with some disbelief, and after speaking, she turned her head and looked around, because she wondered if she was in the wrong place?
"It seems that this place seems to be newly built, could it be that the Pei family sent someone to rebuild the cemetery?" Li Xiu carefully looked at the cemetery in front of Shi Wu, and then opened his mouth to guess that the cemetery in front of him was obviously much more magnificent than the previous cemeteries, and the outer wall was also very new, and it was estimated that it would be rebuilt not long ago.
"Rebuild?" Yi Niang's brows furrowed when she heard this, and then she saw her striding into the cemetery, and Li Xiu hurriedly followed, but as soon as she entered, she only heard a cry from inside, and Yi Niang was angry and her face turned pale. (To be continued.) )