The ancestral house of the Zhou family was built 30 years ago according to the unified construction regulations issued by the imperial court, with three sets in a row, the widest façade in the middle, a total of five rooms, and it is an ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall is divided into two entrances, and the outer room is the place where the clan handles affairs and records the clansmen.

Across the atrium is the inner entrance, which visits the altar, where the tablets of the deceased of each branch are stored.

On the east side is the residence of the patriarch, with only three facades, but the progress is deeper, with three courtyards in the front, middle and back.

The backyard is a garden, which is connected to the guest house on the west side, and encloses the ancestral hall inside, forming a wide concave shape.

The guest house on the west side is the largest, in addition to the kitchen in the front yard, the middle and back yards are all places to live, there are more than a dozen suites, and there is a garden connected to the patriarch's residence.

This unified system of patriarchal residence is determined according to the local climatic conditions and living style around Tianfu, and the style of each family is the same.

However, this is just an ordinary family, like Zhou Bei was awarded the title of earl this time, and the door plaque of the ancestral hall can be changed from three feet to five feet.

If it is the Duke's Palace, the ancestral hall door plaque can be changed to seven feet, and only the royal family can be nine feet.

Knowing in advance that they were coming back, Zhou Feng had already cleaned out seven guest rooms, although there were not so many quilts, but Zhou Bei also brought some bedding in the car, just for one night, and they were not sad.

There are still many villagers who remember Zhou Duo, and they are not familiar with the juniors, and they talked to Zhou Duo, but their eyes kept staring at the earl's suit on Zhou Bei's body.

Zhou Beida generously let them watch, came to the courtyard to fetch water from the well, and began to wash his face.

Worshipping ancestors does not pay attention to fasting now, but it still pays attention to washing away the wind and dust.

If you go to worship your ancestors without washing your face, you will be instructed.

Yunshan Village is a small village, almost all of its ancestors have been ordinary people for generations, even if there are a few officials, it is completely different from the nobles.

Because the nobles have fiefs, the clansmen will also be restricted from living in other ways, and they can hardly be seen in Zhongzhou except for Yingtianfu.

Zhou Bei is still a minor, and now he has no fiefdom, and the clansmen will not migrate, mainly because he is the first generation, and it is still early for his descendants to flourish.

It was still very unusual for the residents of Yunshan Village to see an earl appear in the village.

And Zhou's mother and Zhou Duo naturally took the trouble to introduce their son's "great achievements" to others.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhou Bei and Zhu Cheng's marriage had not yet been confirmed, I am afraid they would have been unable to help but publicize it.

Zhou Bei is not idle, grandparents, and Zhou Feng, the uncle who used to keep a straight face in the past, has been talking to him.

Zhou Bei is very patient with his blood relatives, and he can tell what he asks, answers, and what he can say to satisfy their curiosity.

A group of sixteen people washed and cleaned, and under the leadership of Zhou Feng, opened the door of the ancestral hall.

After entering the door, even the youngest child was told not to cry at this time.

Among the young children, three have never returned to Middle-earth, nor have they been named on the family tree, and they will also be named after this ancestor worship.

The five wide ancestral halls, starting from the ancestors who remember to invite, arrange the tablets according to their generations and branches, forming a card forest.

The history of the Zhou family is not long, except for the names recorded on the genealogy, the ranking of the Taiping Mansion branch is from the twelfth generation, and the northern Zhou belongs to the nineteenth generation.

Eight generations later, there are less than 200 tablets. But the card forest composed of 200 tablets still makes people feel solemn.

Unlike genealogy, the tablet can only be erected by a deceased man, and must also be erected by a man with a son.

As for women, they are not qualified to be erected in the ancestral shrine.

The history of the surname Zhou can be traced back to the ancient Yellow Emperor era, the vast majority of people with the surname Zhou regard the great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor Houji as the ancestor of the surname Zhou, and there are also some people with the surname Zhou Chang, the minister of the Yellow Emperor, Zhou Wen Wang Jichang or Zhou Gong Ji Dan as the ancestor of the surname.

In the middle of the ancestral shrine of the Zhou family, there is a hanging statue, which is painted Houji.

The arrangement here is similar to that of temples in the other world, Taoist temples. There is an ever-bright lamp on each side, and the lamp oil of these two ever-bright lamps is paid tribute by the descendants of the Zhou family and is permanently extinguished.

Below the hanging statue, there is an incense burner and a giant tripod.

Inside the incense burner is the incense of longevity, a plate of incense can be lit for a day, changed every day, Juding is the place where future generations will incense.

Zhou Feng wrote a memorial text as the patriarch, introducing the origin of Zhou Duo's family and future generations to each of his ancestors.

Led by Zhou Duo, Zhou Bei and others were in order, the men in front and the women in the back, kneeling on the futon.

Zhou Feng finished reading the sacrificial text, then lit the sacrificial text, placed it in the giant ding, and everyone kowtowed three times.

After this set of procedures, the ancestor worship procedure ended, and everyone did not say a word and withdrew from the ancestral worship house in the middle.

Only three of the five wide ancestral halls are now in use, and because of the limited number of ancestors, the two rooms on both sides are locked, and they are currently used as punishment rooms for descendants.

Women also have punishment chambers, but not in the backyard, but in the front yard.

They are not necessarily the descendants of the Zhou family, if they are locked up in the backyard, they are angry in their hearts, and it is even more inappropriate to damage the ancestral tablet.

Zhou Duo took his eldest son, wife and daughter to the front yard to register the unregistered children and grandchildren, while Zhou Bei stayed alone in the backyard of the ancestral hall and began to worship his ancestors in turn.

Usually, he is just an ordinary son-in-law, and he is only the fourth-ranked son-in-law, and he is not qualified to make incense alone.

But now, he has been made an earl, and he is the pride of the Zhou family today, with the highest status, even the patriarch is not as noble as him.

Then, he was qualified to inform his ancestors individually.

The incense was poured in the three sacrificial halls one after another, and when they came out, everyone else waited in the courtyard.

Zhou Feng personally wrote, and wrote the names of his concubine Zhou Ping, grandson Zhou Yan, and grandson Zhou Dan behind Zhou Duo's branch, and this worship officially ended.

In the past, don't talk about concubines, even concubines are not qualified to record the family tree.

But now it is different, all people are equal, and even the concubines are eligible to be on the family tree.

When everyone in the Zhou family left the ancestral hall, the villagers in the village who got the news gathered in the open space at the door, and there were fifty people.

Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, today is a holiday, and there are other people in the village who work in the surrounding area to celebrate the festival.

The door of Zhou's house was overcrowded, and there were many people watching the car here.

When they saw Zhou Bei's earl suit, they were extremely envious.

Suddenly, there were many people around Zhou Bei, and they talked enthusiastically one by one.

In Daming, classmates and fellow villagers are all naturally formed groups, and in the face of other people's enthusiasm, even Zhou Bei can't be blunt, so he can only deal with them one by one.

At this time, the women all went to the patriarch's courtyard and began to prepare lunch.

Zhou Bei finally managed to deal with everyone, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, Zhou Hao, the eldest grandson of the uncle, who was one year older than him, came over. "Fourth uncle, can we go hunting in the back mountains in the afternoon?"