Section 5: Qingming Ancestor Worship

Chen Manhao ignored Li Hong's words, her daughter is not a money-making tool, and she Li Hong may not necessarily make much money for her mother's family. She squeezed next to Chen Guifeng, and Chen Guicun had to give up his seat and go to other tables to eat, so as not to listen to those unspeakable topics.

"Guifeng, tell your aunt, do you have a boyfriend? Don't listen too much to your mother, she can't wait for you to never marry for the rest of your life. Women have limited youth, and you should also think about marriage. If you can't find a suitable one, my aunt will introduce you to a landlord in the town. Chen Manhao said seriously.

"Auntie, I don't have a plan for those things right now." Chen Guifeng felt that the food in the countryside was much better than that in the city, and she was eating it with a big appetite, and she really didn't want to hinder her aunt's interest in eating wildly.

"How's that going to work? You see, your cousin Yanshan is only three years older than you, and the children are all six years old and ready to go to elementary school. If you don't care at all, no matter how good your youth is, it will be wasted. Chen Manhao said unrelentingly.

"Don't listen to your aunt, do you see that Yan Shan married early, how are you doing? A small quarrel for two days, and a big quarrel for ten days. It's hard for me to worry about her at my age. So Guifeng, women, either you don't marry or you have to marry a good one, at least you are dead to earth, hard work and resentment. What your aunt said was a gust of wind, just blow it away. Zhang Ping, the eldest sister-in-law sitting opposite, said.

Chen Man stared at him dissatisfied, this guy saw that she was old, and he always liked to dismantle her. Li Hong ridiculed with contempt, her relationship with Chen Manhao has always been unfriendly.

"Don't talk so loudly, Yan Shan, they are not happy to hear it." Chen Manhao reminded Zhang Ping in a low voice that he could no longer say these words in front of his daughter and son-in-law.

Zhang Ping drank some wine, his face turned red, but he was sane and sober, and he was silent.

The next day is the Qingming Festival, and the people in this village have the custom of stepping on the Qingqing.

In the morning, it was raining lightly, and the mud road was wet, although it was already half past nine, but the sky was still gray, and the scenery could not be seen clearly at a distance, the fog was too thick. A group of people rushed up the mountain with great difficulty, led by six strong men carrying a roast suckling pig on their shoulders, walking in front, someone in the middle carrying a basket, someone carrying a bamboo basket, and the one behind was responsible for setting off firecrackers non-stop. It seems that there are no less than fifty or sixty people, and the scene is chaotic and lively.

The canvas soles under Chen Guifeng's feet were covered with yellow mud at this time, and she was really unable to walk an inch because she was not used to walking on the mountain road, and gradually threw herself behind the crowd.

I walked for more than an hour on the mountain road to reach the ancestral mourning temple. The group first cleared the weeds and branches outside the temple, and then burned incense to worship. Because of the large number of people, Chen Guicun and Li Hong didn't notice that Chen Guifeng hadn't caught up yet.

At this time, Chen Guifeng landed on the mountain road 300 meters away from everyone. The big straw hat on her head is too heavy, and her feet are numb, it seems that her Chen Guifeng's divine heart to worship her ancestors is indeed very loyal, otherwise how could she walk such a long mountain road, and now it is the road uphill, which is a great test of personal physical strength.

Chen Guifeng suddenly felt an urgency to urinate, although there were no other pedestrians passing by here, but she really didn't dare to be a girl in an unobstructed place. Seeing a small bush on the left, she walked cautiously over to it. After hiding and solving the problem, she found that she couldn't tell the direction, and the black and white mobile phone in her pocket naturally had no signal in this uninhabited place, so she could only walk first by feeling.

After walking dozens of steps, Chen Guifeng felt that something was wrong, the fog seemed to be much bigger, and a chill hit his face. She was not a heroine, she was not very bold, and she began to get scared. When he was about to retreat, he suddenly saw a flickering open flame in the distance. Chen Guifeng was shocked, maybe there was someone in front of him. So she mustered up her timidity and walked on.

Sure enough, I saw a figure squatting on the ground with his back to her in the fog. Naturally, there was no such fear in the place where there were people, and her heart settled down, and she walked briskly closer. It turned out to be a majestic man squatting on the ground with his back to her, trying to use a lighter to light the pile of paper money and other sacrificial items on the ground, but for some reason he couldn't light them. Chen Guifeng stood there, not knowing whether to disturb the other party and ask for directions.

"Is there anything wrong with you?" The other party seemed to have eyes behind him, and he could know that there was someone behind him, and asked in a cold voice, he still maintained his original posture and insisted on igniting the fire.

Chen Guifeng couldn't see the other party's face, and she could tell it was a young man by listening to the voice, she was a little embarrassed, and hesitated for a moment before saying, "Can you tell me how to get out of this grove?" I'm lost. ”

The man hesitated for a moment, slowly stood up, and when he turned to face Chen Guifeng, Chen Guifeng's heart beat violently.

Unexpectedly, the other party was a very handsome young man, dressed in casual clothes, full of indignant arrogance. He didn't wear a hat in the light drizzle, and the fine raindrops didn't seem to touch him, and he couldn't see any wetness in his short black hair, and his clothes didn't get wet. Chen Guifeng only stared at other people's faces, and didn't care about other details, just looking at it like this, she believed that there was really such a thing as love at first sight in the world. However, the other party's posture of rejecting people for thousands of miles made her dare not approach at all.

"You burn them all, and I'll take you out." The man said coldly, even though he knew that his appearance could easily fascinate people, he was still unhappy with Chen Guifeng's overly hot gaze at this time. If it weren't for the paper on the ground, he wouldn't have been able to burn, and he would have disappeared from her eyes.

Chen Guifeng smiled lightly and took off the big straw hat on her head, she thought that burning paper money was just a simple little thing. Approaching the pile of clothes and paper disapprovingly, when she took the lighter in the man's hand, she couldn't help but shudder, did this lighter come out of the freezer? It was so cold that she had to use all her strength to grab it. Chen Guifeng didn't think much about it, she squatted on the ground, ready to start work. She asked curiously, "Dare to ask which ancestor you are worshipping?" ”

When the man heard Chen Guifeng's question, two clouds of blue light appeared in a pair of deep black eyes, and in an instant, the smoke thickened again.

Chen Guifeng shivered again, and the surrounding airflow was a little colder. She didn't look back at the man, naturally she couldn't see the other party's heresy, she didn't hear the other party's reply, she thought that people didn't want to speak, so she didn't continue to speak. Chen Guifeng hit the lighter more than a dozen times in a row, only to find that he was worse than the other party, he couldn't even light up the lighter, and his palms were numb to ice.

The man returned to his original cold and arrogant posture, and looked coldly at Chen Guifeng, who was squatting on the ground and not giving up, and continued to fight, her side face was soft and beautiful, because of the cold current, her face was as pale and colorless as the man's. The man did not tell her that if she could not burn the paper on the ground, she would never see the light again.

In the past 60 years, he has come here every Qingming day to worship his child daughter-in-law who has not yet passed through the door when he is still in the world. Perhaps his fiancée, who jumped off the cliff, was unwilling to accept his kindness, and despite all his efforts, he still couldn't light the paper. And every time it comes to Qingming, his mood swings are always very large, and he can't control the cold aura in his body at all.

"Is your lighter broken? You see, you can't fight at all. Chen Guifeng turned his head to look at the man and said suspiciously.

A trace of disappointment flashed on the man's strange handsome face, and he said coldly, "You can go, as for whether you can get out, it depends on your own creation." "It was she who broke into this corrupted territory, and he couldn't help an outsider without conditions.

Chen Guifeng threw down the cold lighter and found an ordinary lighter in the pocket of her clothes, which her brother Chen Guicun stuffed into her pocket before leaving. She didn't know that this time it was Chen Guicun's unintentional move that saved her life.

I saw Chen Guifeng lit two red candles with the lighter in his hand and inserted them on the ground, picked up the paper money, paper clothes, paper ingots and the like on the ground and lit them on the candles, and then put them on the ground and burned them in piles.

The firelight reflected in the man's eyes, and the coldness on his face warmed up at once, and an irrepressible joy appeared in his eyes. The surrounding fog dissipated a lot, and the cold receded, allowing the surrounding trees to breathe.

Chen Guifeng felt that the fire drove away the cold for her, so she smiled and said to the man, "Look, isn't this ignited?" Your lighter must be broken. ”

The man approached Chen Guifeng indifferently, squatted down next to her, picked up stacks of clothes and paper and burned them with her. "Thank you." There was a lot of gratitude in his tone. It's been sixty years, and he finally sent his guilt out, and the only person he was sorry for was her.

Chen Guifeng thought it was her own illusion, and she accidentally found that the man's gray coat had turned into a brand new light yellow. She didn't know that this was the last trace of tenderness from the man's fiancée in his previous life to the man, the woman said goodbye to the man with peace of mind and was going to be reincarnated, and she entrusted the man to Chen Guifeng. And the clothes on the ground were all light yellow.

"Can you tell me what's your name?" Chen Guifeng's face was slightly red in the firelight, she had no experience in getting along with strange men, and the other party was still a beautiful man who could make her heart beat faster, she felt very unnatural.

"Fu Ning." The man said lightly.

"My name is Chen Guifeng." She silently remembered Fu Ning's name in her heart, "Can we be friends?" Chen Guifeng looked at the other party's eyes and asked sincerely, his eyes were very bright and charming.

Fu Ning didn't respond to her, just continued to burn the paper. Chen Guifeng didn't know the details of the other party, so he didn't dare to talk more.

Perhaps it was Fu Ning's fiancée who was reluctant to part for the last moment of separation, and it took half an hour for this pile of clothes and paper to be burned.

"You take eleven steps to the right, three steps back, and then go straight to the left. In the meantime, you can't turn back, you can't take half a step. In the end, Fu Ning sent Chen Guifeng away.

At this time, the rain stopped and the fog cleared. Chen Guifeng couldn't help but gasp, there was an abyss cliff and a deep valley in front of her, if this Fu Ning was not here at that time, she couldn't see the road clearly, didn't she fall to her death directly?

"Can you send me out?" Chen Guifeng said with palpitations.

"No, I have other things to do." Fu Ning is not a lustful person and will not pity girls.

Hearing Fu Ning's refusal, Chen Guifeng felt a trace of loss in his heart, and he was stunned for a while.