Shentai is also called the shrine, as the name suggests, it is a small pavilion where the ancestors placed the spirit cards of the people in the old days.

The ancestors are offered at home, and they generally worship incense during the New Year's holidays, remembering the ancestors at the same time, they will also pray for the ancestors to bless their children and grandchildren with peace and prosperity.

The shrine of this house is dedicated to the spiritual tablets of the ancestors.

But Zhang Deman's name was also on the spirit card, which was something Ning Qing didn't expect.

Well?

How is one missing.

Ning Qing muttered in her heart, and immediately prepared to walk towards the shrine.

"Uncle, don't go over..."Chu Xiaohe clutched the corner of Ning Qing's clothes tightly, and pleaded with a frightened face.

Ning Qing smiled lightly and pushed away her little hand: "It's okay, I'll take a look." ”

After speaking, he walked directly over and checked the spirit card on the altar in the dim candlelight.

The movements of the two were watched by the resting people, and their eyes couldn't help but be attracted, and they couldn't understand what the other party wanted to do mysteriously.

Long...

Ning Qing was still standing motionless in front of the shrine.

Everyone was itching, but they were too embarrassed to ask, for fear that they would break the atmosphere.

In the end, it was Zhang Zhengguo who asked out loud with a puzzled face.

"Brother Mu, have you lived in the city since you were a child, rarely going to the countryside, and haven't seen a shrine?"

"No, I'm from the countryside, and I'm not so unfamiliar with the shrine." Ning Qing replied with a serious face and a very straightforward face.

Zhang Zhengguo was choked by Ning Qing, and thought that Ning Qing had never seen the shrine and was a little curious, but it turned out that this was not the case.

The look of doubt on his face became even more exaggerated: "Then you are..."

"It's nothing, it's just that there's a tablet missing." After speaking, Ning Qing continued to think about it.

"What does a tablet mean?"

"It's just one less tablet!"

Ning Qing suddenly felt that Zhang Zhengguo was so annoying, he always interrupted his thoughts, couldn't he understand what he said so simply?

"Uh... Brother Mu, can you tell us more about what's going on? Zhang Zhengguo felt his heart congested for a while, but his curiosity was like a cat scratching an itch, so he had to continue to ask.

Ning Qing saw that everyone was curious, and immediately understood that if she didn't explain it to them clearly and satisfy their curiosity, she wouldn't want to think with peace of mind, and there would definitely be questions waiting for her one after another.

Thinking of this, he simply explained the ins and outs of the matter directly to everyone.

"At that time, you walked the trail after getting off the bridge, and Chu Xiaohe and I had been walking along the main road, and on the way we met a group of tombs, one of which had Zhang Deman engraved on the tombstone, and the other was his wife Yang Fang.

According to my judgment, some people went to the cemetery with sacrifices today, but only worshiped Zhang Deman but not Yang Fang.

Coincidentally, the same is true for the shrine, which has Zhang Deman's spirit card, but does not see Yang Fang's spirit card. ”

Lin Yu touched his chin, and asked with puzzlement on his face: "I haven't been to the cemetery, so I don't know the situation very well, but the shrine is not on Yang Fang's spirit card does not mean anything, maybe the custom of this village is that wives and women do not go to the shrine, after all, no matter how you say it, you have a foreign surname."

Ning Qing shook his head, and his tone was very determined: "I may not know the customs of other regions, but I still know a little about the customs here."

Villages that are only used for one ancestral hall of the clan basically exist in the way of the structure of the clan group, and the village generally has a large family tree and several sub-family trees.

The big genealogy will record the name of each household in the village in detail, and if you go up the generations, you will find that the whole village is the same ancestor, so there will also be a rule in the village that you cannot intermarry in the same village.

Some villages even have a rule that the same surname cannot intermarry, because there is another more ancient genealogy, which can be traced back to the origin and feet of the ancestors, and then you will find that it is the same ancestor as Zhangjia Village in the next county or city.

The reason for this is nothing more than the frequent wars in ancient times, as well as natural disasters such as floods and mudslides caused by force majeure, and the ancestors would migrate in order to take refuge at that time.

The South values the inheritance of the torch, and those ancestors knew that even when they migrated, they knew that eggs could not be put in the same basket.

After migrating to a place, if a tribe member thinks that it is suitable for farming or fishing, and wants to stay and settle down, the patriarch at that time will divide the family tree into a family tree for the people who are willing to stay, and the tribesman who is unwilling to stay will continue to migrate for a long time until they find a suitable place.

When these small groups of people grow up, they will slowly develop into villages, and the family tree will become the big family tree in the village.

After the reunification of the country, people's lives have become better and better, and they are no longer plagued by natural disasters, so naturally there is no need to repeat the suffering of the older generation of ethnic migration.

The ancestral hall of the clan in the village usually has a stone tablet engraved with a poem, the content of which is about the heel of the ancestors, so that future generations will not forget it.

Another function of this poem is to recognize relatives.

If the Zhang family wanders outside and eats on grass, but as long as you meet someone with the same surname Zhang or a village with the same surname Zhang, and the other party can pick up after you read this poem, then your hard life will come to an end.

Because both sides are the same ancestor, most of them will not hesitate to lend a helping hand when they encounter people who are in distress outside.

Keep you fed and clothed and even send you home.

It is certainly incomprehensible in our current thinking, but in the seventies and eighties and nineties, this kind of thing was not uncommon.

Now that life is stable, people are becoming more and more prosperous, there are more and more things between brothers who turn against each other because of their ancestors' land, and the spirit of the ancestors who grit their teeth and survive together in hardship has also been forgotten.

The final outcome of the brotherhood is the 'separation of furnaces', which is also known as the separation of families.

In the past, when everyone was together, they ate rice in a big pot in the same stove, and if you want to split the family, you have to open a stove and cook it yourself, which is what we now call a new stove.

Then, under the auspices of a prestigious elder in the clan, the brothers each got a share of the family tree after they split the family, and the two sides never got along with each other from old age to death.

The family tree can only record the clansmen of their own faction, but for them, whether it is a married wife or their own daughter, they are eligible to enter the family tree.

Wouldn't it be embarrassing for the descendants of the future to check but not find out who their grandmother was? ”

Ning Qing's mouth was dry when she spoke, and she took a sip of mineral water to moisten her throat before continuing.

"I took a closer look at the spirit card, and there are many feminine names that are foreign surnames, based on the above points, so there is no situation like what Lin Yu said.

Moreover, I found that Zhang Deman and Yang Fang's death day was tomorrow, but the worshippers went to worship a day earlier today.

If my guess is correct, the man we just met must be a worshipper, otherwise it would be impossible to understand why he would have stayed for days in an abandoned house in a deserted village.

Since he is a local, he must know the weather on the island, and he can more or less tell that the weather is not right, it is a typhoon.

Such a person who has been on a desert island for several days does not say anything about worshipping a day in advance, and when Brother Zhang tries his best to persuade him, he would rather leave in the typhoon than stay on the island. ”

Ning Qing listened to the sound of everyone's breathing one after another, his tone paused slightly, and he lowered his voice and said, "Considering the above things, don't you think it's weird?" ”