On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the Dragon Boat Festival, every important festival arrives, every household should put the family tree, ancestor statues, tablets, etc. in the upper hall of the home, place the offering table, and place the incense burner and offerings. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Before dawn, the uncle, aunt and Lewen's parents were busy with the matter of worshipping their ancestors.

"The old lady is old, let's let her sleep more, let's put all the things needed to worship the ancestors in place first, and clean up the inside and out." Originally, Father Le wanted to ask the old lady for instructions, but the uncle hurriedly stopped him.

"What about the third child, why hasn't their family gotten up yet?" Le Father asked with some puzzlement.

Uncle waved his hand and said: "He came home too late last night, forget it, leave him alone, he only comes home once in a few days, just let him sleep more, I think it's okay, a few of us are enough." ”

Father Le wanted to speak and stopped, so he had no choice but to shake his head.

The eldest aunt said a little unhappily: "When the family needs money, the third family is a dime, why do they work for his family, it's too unfair." ”

"You are a woman's family, what do you know, don't care so much about the family, no one is perfect, there are so many in total, this yard is not full of chickens and dogs jumping every day?" Uncle scolded in a low voice.

The eldest aunt remembered the past, and said unwillingly: "Every time you say this, last time our family was in a hurry to use money and wanted to borrow from the third family, but she said that she couldn't open the pot at home, where is the money to borrow, obviously the third child will bring a lot of money and clothes as soon as she goes home, how can she have no money." ”

The uncle wanted to say something to persuade the eldest aunt's grievances, but he didn't know what to say, so he could only wave his hand and say: "Forget it, don't mention the previous things, the second family, you and your sister-in-law go to prepare the fruit plate and wine and vegetables, and the second brother and I will sort out the family tree, ancestor statues and tablets." ”

Le's mother didn't want to mix the rights and wrongs of a large family, so she nodded and walked towards her kitchen.

The ancients believed that although their ancestors died, their souls still existed and could bring disaster and blessing to their descendants, so they set a daily schedule and made devout sacrifices.

An hour later, the yard and the house were cleaned, and the fruit bowl and wine and food were also placed on the offering table, but the wild boar's head on the offering table made people feel a little abrupt.

Ordinary farmers, not to mention wild boar heads, are ordinary pig heads, most farmers can't afford them, and they have to rely on renting pig heads from butcher shops, and there are also people who can't afford to rent pig heads, so they can only put some steamed buns, barley porridge and so on.

Although there were poor people in previous years who couldn't afford to buy pigs' heads, they could only rent butchers' heads, like wild boar heads, which were only bought by rich and noble families, but there were priceless things in the market, or the big girl went to the sedan chair for the first time.

Before the ancestor worship ceremony began, the old lady who had just gotten up stood in front of the offering table and chanted: "Old man, it's the Dragon Boat Festival again, are you staying with the ancestors and ancestors over there, are you doing well?" ”

The old lady muttered, and tears flowed out of the corners of her eyes unconsciously, dripping slowly down her slightly wrinkled face.

She remembered that when she was a little girl in the past, she listened to her parents, was introduced by the matchmaker, married to Lejia, and when the husband picked up her red hijab on the wedding night, the two never met strangely, and later fell in love with each other.

Then came the birth of the eldest son, which gave the mother a taste of the joy of being a mother, and also made her taste the sadness and difficulty of being a mother.

Every additional son brings more toil and hardship.

Seeing that the child of the second family, not long after birth, her father-in-law left her.

The Wang family, who had just cleaned the yard, saw that the time to worship their ancestors was approaching, so they went back to the house to wake up their two sons, and their father-in-law Le Haoxuan took Le Wen and Long Chao to the east house of the courtyard.

As soon as I entered the house, I saw that the tears in the old lady's eyes were swirling in her eyes, dripping down, so I quickly took out a white handkerchief in my sleeve and stepped forward to help the old lady wipe the tears off her face.

"Mother, what are you thinking about, how many years have you been, why are you still crying."

"Hey, the older my mother gets, the more nostalgic she becomes."

At this time, the uncle and the aunt also came over with the girl.

Since the Lejia family was passed on to the grandfather's generation, there was only the grandfather's only seedling, so there were only these three families in the courtyard to worship the ancestors, and there were no seven aunts and eight aunts, nor the two grandfathers or anything.

Ordinary peasant families do not have ancestral halls, and most of them have their east houses separated into a special one for priests.

"Yo, everyone's here." The person who came was the third aunt Wu, Wu took his son Lotin Yi, and Le Tianyi was still sleepy-eyed and hazy after him.

The old lady turned her head and glanced at Wu and said, "You are a good man, the ancestor worship is about to start, why haven't you come to the East House yet." ”

The third aunt Wu's pretty face turned red as if she had a peach blossom on her face, her delicate body trembled, her small mouth opened slightly, and she said, "Haojing hasn't woken up yet." After saying that, he wanted to turn around and go back to the house to wake up Haojing.

The third uncle Haojing arrived home very late last night, and because he was a little overworked at night, he was still sleeping in bed.

"This unfilial son, such a big thing today, he is still sleeping, you stand still, I will call him in person."

The old lady blushed with a blue face, and after saying it with a trembling voice, she walked towards the Westhouse on crutches.

"Oh, mother, you want to kill your own son."

The third uncle Haojing, who was sleeping soundly with his head covered in the West House, was wearing a set of white bedclothes, suddenly jumped up from the bed, covered his butt and shouted.

The old lady held a cane in her hand and scolded: "You unfilial son, do you know what day it is? It's time, and you're still sleeping in bed, you're trying to be angry. ”

The third uncle Haojing covered his buttocks and said with a smile: "When ...... Of course I do, otherwise I wouldn't have come back from the city overnight last night. ”

"I know you're still asleep, don't get up and wash up yet, and be sure to get dressed!" The old lady reprimanded.

"Got it, mother, I'm not a three-year-old child, why do you still treat me as a child." The third uncle muttered.

When the time came, the ancestor worship was led by the eldest uncle, because the grandmother was a woman's family, and she was illiterate, and the ancestor worship was first to recite the sacrificial text, so the eldest uncle was fully authorized.

Although the eldest uncle is just a farmer, he also read some books when he was a child, as long as the words are not too complicated, he still recognizes them.

The ancestor worship ceremony is still carried out according to the old rules of the past, first reciting the sacrificial text, then burning paper money, then offering a glass of wine in front of the god, and finally the family kneeling in front of the offering table three times and nine knocks.

In the tiled room of the East House, smoke-filled, three incense sticks were inserted into the incense burner in front of the tablet, and on the table were placed pig's head, cooked meat, a few dishes and two jars of wine.

The whole family knelt on the ground, kowtowed and prayed, and the third uncle and aunt, as well as their son, were dressed in gorgeous and new silk brocade robes.

Looking at the others, including the old lady, they are all dressed in rustic clothes, giving people the feeling that a landlord's family and a group of servants are worshipping their ancestors.