After Long Wenyu returned from studying abroad, Mrs. Feng, who was nearly seventy years old, officially announced her retirement, handed over the group company to her son, and began to enjoy her old age.

Long Wenyu officially became the fourth-generation head of Wanlong Group.

As the saying goes, "a tiger father has no dog son", and this sentence also works for mothers.

Long Wenyu, who received a double master's degree in economics and management in the United States, began to show his skills in the business world.

Whether it is a conventional merger or a new field, he has shown a complete inconsistency with his age and shrewdness, and has pushed the output value, efficiency and influence of Wanlong Group to the top until today.

And this old lady Feng is the victim of this incident, the "Iron Lady" who used to dominate the business world, and now the biological mother of Long Wenyu, who is sick in bed.

Although the Long family's Wanlong Group was founded in the island city, the ancestral home of the Long family is in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

As people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the living habits and ways of the ancestors have naturally been preserved from generation to generation.

If you want to talk about Mrs. Feng's condition, you have to start with a "please princess" of the Long family not long ago.

What is "please be too public"? I was confused with the fat man. After Long Wenyu explained, this is the general knowledge of one or two.

It turns out that this "please Taigong" is a general term for the form of sacrifice. In layman's terms, "please Taigong" is like a sacrifice to the ancestors of the northerners, and according to the pronunciation of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang dialects, it is read as: please Taigong.

"Please Taigong" is a common ritual in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, not only on the death day of the ancestors, but also on ordinary festivals such as Chinese New Year's Eve, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other days. I ask for the blessing of my ancestors and the safety of my family.

As a unique custom in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, from ancient times to the present, according to the different assets, status, family business, etc., the pomp and circumstance of "inviting the prince" held are also different.

For small households with average economy, it is nothing more than cooking a table of good dishes, opening a few bottles of good wine, placing them in the courtyard, and taking a family of men to burn incense and worship.

Saying something like "please eat and drink well", the three sticks of incense are closed, and the whole family sits down and shares the food at this table.

Except for the ten-minute ceremony, there is no difference between eating together on weekdays.

If it is a big family, then there will be more attention to "please the princess".

First of all, in order to show respect for the ancestors, incense bathing is a must.

Even the new clothes after bathing are also particular, bright colors such as red and green are not allowed to be worn, which is afraid of piercing the eyes of the ancestors, and the blue, white, and gray colors are the most suitable, which is regarded as a great filial piety.

In addition to burning incense and bathing, fasting should begin three days early. The so-called fasting is to eat a vegetarian diet and not touch the meat. Not only can people not touch it, but even pet cats and dogs at home cannot eat meat.

It is said that the fire of meat will scare away the spirits of ancestors. After running away, how can you eat the meals that your children and grandchildren are honoring?

In addition, it is also said that the big families do not avoid their female relatives when they "invite the princess".

Generally, families with big businesses often attach importance to filial piety. Since childhood, children regard their mothers who gave birth to them as heroes, and since they are heroes, how can they not let their ancestors see them?

As for some monks chanting, Taoist priests dancing swords, playing lions and dragons, beating gongs and drums and setting off firecrackers, it is needless to say that it is not only a filial piety to the ancestors, but also a form of expression of financial resources.

Whether it is a large family or a small family, the core idea of "inviting the grandfather" is the same, that is, to invite the ancestors to drink and eat.

Rice is different from rice, and wine is different from wine. In the newspapers of the early years of the Republic of China, there was even a special report on a wealthy man named Wang Bingsheng.

In order to show his strong strength, this wealthy Wang not only invited almost all the dignitaries and media reporters across the country, but also did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to hire dozens of former palace chefs.

It took half a year to prepare, to make a full 1,999 dishes, and to hold a "please prince" that is enough to be written into the modern Guinness World Record.

The ordinary "please princess" has completely evolved into a naked farce of showing off wealth.

As a rich and famous Long family, although it has reached modern times, the operation of "inviting the prince" is naturally not comparable to ordinary families.

In fact, for the fourth-generation head, Long Wenyu, the current chairman and CEO of Wanlong Group, and his contemporaries, they are a little tired of the ancient custom of "inviting the prince".

In the face of the rituals that are to be done every year, cookie-cutter, and even a little wasteful, I naturally don't pay too much attention to it. It's just to spend some money to make the old people in the family happy.

But Long Wenyu never expected that this year's "please Taigong" would really invite the "Taigong" out......

To be honest, when I understood the so-called "please be a princess", I couldn't help but want to laugh in my heart.

The truth is always in the hands of a few. In my opinion, people worship their ancestors for nothing more than a kind of psychological comfort, and it is in line with the Buddhist worldview with the largest number of believers in the country, and thus the performance art is derived.

Although there are also a small number of ghosts after death, they all end up in chaos, and they all end up in chaos.

As I said earlier, the Soul is a spirit that feeds on popularity.

Naturally, the spirits can't enjoy the physical food, so the so-called inviting the ancestors to eat, regardless of whether the ancestors' ghosts are still in the world, even if they are, they can only watch the dishes on the table, and they can't eat them.

I understand this truth, but it is inconvenient to tell Long Wenyu directly, so I don't move and listen to him continue.

After several days of preparation, on this morning, the Long family's "Please Taigong" ceremony officially began.

In the courtyard of the huge Long Manor, where rockery fountains flow and green trees and flowers surround the courtyard, six large long tables for the banquet hall have been set up.

The tablecloth of this long table is divided into three colors: two green, two white, and two gray, to show respect for the ancestors.

At the moment, the long table is filled with a variety of dishes: the long table on the right is filled with a variety of Chinese cuisine and branded baijiu, and the table on the left is filled with Western meals and cocktails made in goblets.

The two tables in the center look longer and wider, and they are filled with "Hangzhou dishes" prepared by well-known Jiangsu and Zhejiang chefs:

West Lake vinegar fish, Dongpo meat, Longjing shrimp, Song sister-in-law fish soup, accompanied by Shaoxing daughter red with more than 20 years of aging.

A huge bronze gold-encrusted three-legged incense burner was placed in front of six long tables, and several incense sticks were inserted in the furnace, which were one and a half meters long.

Near the left side of the courtyard wall is a group of bald monks in bright robes, knocking on the wooden fish they are carrying, and chanting sutras neatly in their mouths.

"If it is subtle and strict, there is nothing in the world ......"

On the right side of the courtyard wall is a group of Taoist priests in Tsing Yi, who step on gossip and dance in the dust, all of them look like a fairy and chant in their mouths.

"The best of the best, ten times; Hundred demons hidden rhyme, clutch natural ......"