Chapter 33: Offerings

Worshipping ancestors during the Qingming Festival is one of the most important things of the year.

Whether it is ordinary people or dignitaries, as long as they have their hands, most of the ingots every year are folded by hand, one is to pay attention to sincerity, and the other is to avoid passing it out and making people poke their backs and scold a word of unfilial piety.

Even old people like Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Min will more or less mean it and fold it into an auspicious number.

Right now, it's the end of March, and another ten years will be Qingming.

Fu Dong saw Gu Yunjin asking, and replied, "Grandma Qi Liu sent someone to come in the afternoon, and it was set in three days." ”

Gu Yunjin understood.

In the north three alleys, Qingming, according to the rules of the Zhenbei General's Mansion, the third day of the first month was lit on the offering table, and it was ordered until the eighth day of the first month, sacrificing the ancestors and comforting the heroic souls.

After a long time, there are naturally more ingots burned, and there are so many people in the partial alley, so you have to prepare in advance and spend more time.

According to the old year, Gu Yunjin moved back to the alley in the second year of junior high school, and came back after the eighth year of junior high school.

Gu Yunjin never participated in the sacrifices in Xu Shilang's mansion, and even the Xu family was set by Mrs. Min as water to be splashed out, and she only came back on the second day of the first month of the first month every year to kowtow to the Shi family's tablet.

After a night's rest, Gu Yunjin went to Qingyu Hall before lunch.

At this hour, she estimated that the Yang family was just empty.

Sure enough, Huazhu greeted her with a smile, and reminded her in a suppressed voice: "The second wife just left." ”

Gu Yunjin knew it in his heart.

No matter how the Yang family and Xu Yan discussed it last night, before Xu Yan came back from the yamen, Xu Lingyi's matter was still on hold, where could the Yang family have a letter to the Wei family?

Wei Shi came to visit, but there was no result, she had a request for Yang, and her speech would not be unpleasant, but it was always inevitable to sigh for a long time, and Yang must be holding her breath at this time.

Gu Yunjin is not afraid that the Yang family is holding her breath, the more Yang has no way at the moment, the better she can make a request.

Anyway, she's barefoot, what is she afraid of.

"Auntie." Gu Yunjin called.

Yang sat on the Luohan bed, with a few account books on his side, and when he saw Gu Yunjin coming, he motioned for Huamei to put it away: "Did you rest well last night?" ”

Gu Yunjin sat down on the embroidery pier and said bluntly: "I didn't rest well, I didn't sleep well all night." ”

Yang was slightly stunned.

Yang Xiyu still didn't send out the peace charm last night, the Yang family heard about this early in the morning, and when he heard Gu Yunjin say this, he couldn't help muttering in his heart, could it be that Yang Xiyu didn't pay attention to what he said last night, and asked Gu Yunjin to pick out the thorn?

The previous time was, Yang Xiyu deliberately curried favor, and let Gu Yunjin block the words, and the Yang family had to help around.

She was secretly annoyed, seeing that it was the son-in-law brother of Yushu Linfeng, why couldn't she even coax a little girl.

"What's not so exciting? Tell your aunt about it. Yang tentatively whispered softly.

Gu Yunjin pouted: "My sister-in-law sent someone to come yesterday and said that it was time to prepare to fold the ingots." ”

As soon as he heard this, the Yang family immediately breathed a sigh of relief, Gu Yunjin didn't want to go back to face to face with the Xu family, not to ask Yang Xiyu to provoke.

"You are a filial child, your parents left early, and Yunqi is not in Beijing, you as a daughter, you must have to pay more attention." Yang said.

"As a child, you should be filial," Gu Yunjin changed his words and said, "It's just that our wife wants some old lady's things." ”

Yang's eyebrows raised, and Xu Hui would open her mouth to ask for the old lady's things, which was really rare.

Gu Yunjin explained again: "Oh, it's not the one in the Immortal Crane Hall now, it's our wife's mother's thing."

A few years ago, our wife didn't mention it, but this year, as you know, the old lady has a fifty full life, and the waiter's house is not a big show, and our wife wants to be filial and want to provide a table by herself, but there is always something to do.

My wife's illness has not yet recovered, so let me breathe with my eldest aunt first, and let my sister-in-law pick it up in a few days.

I told you earlier, so that you don't have to be prepared. ”

Yang's smile froze on his face.

If it weren't for Gu Yunjin to confess to her at this time, if the Wu family really came to the door to ask Mrs. Min for it, Mrs. Min could smash people out with a tea bowl and pillow.

It's really handed over, and it's the Yang family who is going to be smashed.

Yang didn't want to be angry with Mrs. Min at all, she was a daughter-in-law, no matter what she thought in her heart, she couldn't resist it on the surface.

She sighed to herself.

In fact, Xu Hui's request is not too much at all, and there is nothing wrong with it.

Mrs. Min is the most intolerant of others mentioning the Shi family, and the annual sacrifice in the house looks grand, but it is all for the ancestors, and the Shi tablet is deserted, passing by.

Xu Hui got married, and Mrs. Xu didn't say anything, who else would touch Mrs. Min's moldy head for the sake of Shi's family?

This year is the fiftieth birthday.

Xu Hui didn't force the mansion to do a big job, as long as she took some of Shi's things and went back to Beisan Hutong to worship, she was already so relieved that she couldn't retreat anymore.

"Everything is stored in the old lady's storeroom." Yang sneered, while saying, while pondering how to throw the hot potato out.

Gu Yunjin snorted: "Actually, I don't want to be sacrificed in the Beisan Hutong, I don't want to deal with this, what kind of rules is this?" ”

Yang's eyes flashed, and he was just about to follow Gu Yunjin's words for a few words, but he was preempted again.

"Although it is now my wife who takes me and my sister-in-law to live in Beijing, but Beisan Hutong is surnamed Gu, how many ancestors of our Gu family want to worship, she invited her mother-in-law, how can this be like words?" Gu Yunjin spoke very quickly, "She provides for her mother, do I also have to help my mother to provide for my grandfather's family?" You can't go early, and the tea will really be cold. ”

Yang shrunk his neck uncomfortably.

People go to tea and cool, it doesn't sound like Gu Yunjin is complaining about Xu Hui, or she is scolding Mrs. Min.

"The old lady is fifty full, if you want to offer, you must also come to the Lang Mansion to offer, what about the original wife, isn't there no juniors in the house, and there are few people kowtowing?"

Gu Yunjin said it easily, and Yang only felt that his heart was burned.

Let Xu Yan and Xu Chi kowtow to Shi's?

Judging from the rules, it can be counted from the old lady Min, and the Yang family has no doubt that the old woman can directly lift the offering table.

What a sin this is!

It is said that the predecessors died early, and these two have never met each other, Mrs. Min will not get angry when she hears Shi's name, but there is a root in it, Yang just entered the door to find someone to inquire, and finally made up some past.

Shi had a difficult birth when he gave birth to Xu, and within half a month, Mrs. Xu remarried Mrs. Min.

It's not something that can be endured or unbearable, but the Xu family is too young, except for the nurse, there must always be someone to take care of.

Mrs. Xu is busy with business, and his parents are gone, who can he give his infant daughter to? According to the wishes of the relatives, marry a woman and come back to see the children.

Mrs. Min married in just to "watch the children", where can she hear such words with her arrogant temperament?

In addition, she quickly became pregnant with Xu Yan, even if she was born at full term, in the small town where the Xu family made a fortune, there were malicious people who said that she had long been unclear with Mrs. Xu, otherwise why would she pick her as soon as she entered the door?

Gossip, unreasonable at all, and gave birth to two sons who completely controlled the Xu family, and Mrs. Min was extremely annoyed by the Shi family who had made her stigmatized when she died.