Worship is the same as tomb sweeping, mainly to pay tribute to deceased relatives and ancestors, is to offer sacrifices to the deceased to express mourning, respect for a ritual.

According to the customs in this area, in addition to the Qingming Festival, every year the family must go to worship again on the day of the death of the deceased, that is, the death day, which is a custom that the ancestors have continued to mourn the deceased, and has been a custom for hundreds or even thousands of years.

Today is a rather special day for the Wuyang family, as this time of year is the day of worship for their family.

Of course, sacrificial supplies are indispensable for worship, so Wu Yang and Wu Ling divided their labor early in the morning to handle the goods.

The sacrificial supplies they bought were not as complicated as in ancient times, requiring the slaughter of livestock and the preparation of wine and food, but simply bought some paper such as paper money ingots, as well as a few bunches of white lotus flowers and white lilies.

The white flowers symbolize mourning and remembrance in the sacrificial offerings.

Of course, Buddha incense is also one of the indispensable sacrifices.

Every year, there are only these few sacrifices they prepare, which the stubborn man has not changed for more than ten years, and this time it can't be different.

Although the naughty man is not here today, the two sisters and brothers also have to maintain the habit of the naughty man, and at the same time have to take on this responsibility.

Although Wu Yang wanted to ask the stubborn master why he bought the same sacrifice every year a few years ago, it was difficult for him to open his mouth in that serious and solemn scene, so this question has always been hidden in his heart and has never been revealed.

And what makes Wu Yang most curious is that he goes to worship every year, but he doesn't know who the person he worships is, he once asked the naughty man, but every time at this time, the childlike naughty man will become extremely serious, and then he will only say "We are all important family members." ”

Seeing this, Wu Yang didn't want to continue to ask, but when he went to ask Wu Ling, Wu Ling would shake his head and shrug his shoulders to say that he didn't know, and he was extremely helpless about it.

However, although he doesn't know who he worships, he is extremely serious at this moment, and he is also extremely concerned about worship.

"Sister, everything is ready, isn't it time to go. ”

After Wu Yang sorted out the sacrifices, he asked, the two sisters and brothers had just come back from shopping, and they needed to sort out to see if there was anything missing.

"Uh-huh!"

Wu Ling bowed slightly, looked into the distance, where the sun rose in the east, and the glow of the sun beawned a piece of the sky in the east, and then said with concern: "This time the two of us went, and I don't know where the master is now?"

Thinking of the naughty master, Wu Ling is always a little worried, the naughty master has been away from home for two days, and the naughty master has been like evaporating from the world in the past two days, without any news.

The annual worship is a very important event for the stubborn man, as long as every day, even if he is seriously ill, the stubborn man insists on worshipping, as if the worship is more important than his life, but the stubborn man who regards the worship as more important than his life is absent today.

Knowing that today was the day of worship, the stubborn man left home two days ago, only telling them on a note not to forget the day of worship and explaining that he might not be able to catch up without any explanation.

Although I don't know why the stubborn man left, he would rather miss the day of worship than leave, which can only show that what he wants to do is more important in his heart.

Now two days have passed since the date agreed by the stubborn master to return within three or four days, but there is still no relevant news from the stubborn master, and it is impossible to say that he is not worried.

"Sister, don't worry about the master, with the master's ability, it is definitely safe, it is useless for us to worry about it here, it is better to try our best to do a good job of worship, so as not to worry about us in other places. ”

Wu Yang comforted, comforting Wu Ling while also comforting himself, the stubborn man has not returned so far, which also makes him very worried, especially on this day of worship.

"Well, let's go!"

Wu Ling regained her emotions, she knew the importance of worship to the naughty master, since the naughty master is no longer today, then as the eldest daughter, she has to do this well.

On the edge of the north district of Qingsheng City, there is a small forest moving with the wind, looking into the distance, as if waiting, and like guarding.

In the past, the cuckoo's song rose loudly in the grove at all times, lingering throughout the forest, and there were even unknown birds flapping their wings from one tree to another, and jumping from one branch to another, so discordant and joyful.

But today it is a strange anomaly, there is no shadow of birds in the forest, and even the perennial singing is silent at this time, falling into an abnormal dead silence, so quiet that people feel oppressed, even the sound of falling leaves can be faintly heard.

At the end of the grove, there is an old temple, the walls of the temple are yellow, and the walls have fallen off, apparently many years have passed.

And in front of the left side of the temple, there are two round stone pillars, the stone pillars are more than twice as high as the temple, there is a pendulum clock in the middle of the top, the pendulum clock is ancient but walks normally, the pendulum sags, and there is a tendency to break at any time.

The pendulum clock is called a yin-yang clock here, and as the name suggests, it is a clock that is in the two worlds of yin and yang.

Not far from the temple and the yin-yang bell, there is a vast open space, and there are thousands of tombstones erected above the open space, densely packed, large and small, high and low.

This is the burial place of the bones of the entire Qingsheng City, and it is the place where all the dead are buried in the earth for permanent rest, and is known as the circle of happiness, which means that no matter whether it is pain or sorrow in life, burial here will be happy after death.

This is similar to the Christian belief in God and eternal life.

After Wu Yang and Wu Ling left home, they came here not long after, looking at the thousands of tombstones, although they came here every year, they were still shocked.

Wu Ling lit the Buddha incense, and the car was familiar with the road to the yin and yang bell, in the middle of the two round stone pillars, at this time, under the yin and yang bell, there was an incense burner, Wu Ling raised the incense and bowed three times and then inserted the Buddha statue into it.

This is the first link that must be done before worshipping, the yin and yang bell communicates yin and yang, and the burning of incense is mainly to inform the deceased in advance of the netherworld, and relatives come to worship before coming.

It is also a custom.

Wu Yang was not surprised by Wu Ling's actions, the perennial stubborn man did this, so he knew the meaning, but his focus was not on the cemetery, but on the cemetery, to be precise, on the thick ink-like turbidity.

The scene here is also different from previous years, and it is completely different from the outside.

As soon as he entered the grove, he felt that it was abnormally quiet, and he always felt a sense of oppression and strong accumulation, and here, there was a thick turbidity, like a wandering dark cloud, suspended between the tombstones and the tombstones, which was very eerie and terrifying, making him feel a sense of oppression of black clouds pressing down on the city.

What frightened him the most was that he could vaguely feel the fluctuation of breathing around him, coming from the cemetery, and this scene could not help but make him think of a kind of terrible.

"Hope is my thoughts, hope is my delusion......"

Wu Yang already had cold sweat on his forehead at this time, if it was really as he thought, then he and Wu Ling would be extremely dangerous.

"Xiaoyang, what's wrong?"

Wu Ling saw that Wu Yang had been sweating, and asked with concern.

She didn't notice anything unusual, she couldn't see the cloudy without clear eyes, and she couldn't perceive some of them.

"It's okay sister, maybe it's too hot. ”

Wu Yang raised his hand to wipe away the cold sweat, took a breath and said slowly, he didn't know how to tell Wu Ling about this, he was afraid that if he said it, Wu Ling would think that he might be sick and have to worry for no reason, anyway, he just had to pay attention, once there was any abnormal movement, take Wu Ling away as soon as possible.

Wu Yang followed behind Wu Ling and went to the tombstone of worship, and when he walked, he didn't forget to perceive his surroundings, and the whole person was as tight as a string, not daring to relax in the slightest.

It's so weird here.

It's a little weirder than the scene at the construction site where the pseudo-turbidity was.