The merchant boat trekked in the rain for three days, reached the next town, and docked.

When the captain came over, he saw Ye Qing using a cup of tea, and the sizzling sound of the kettle on the stove was clearly recognizable, so he smiled: "Childe, today is the afternoon of the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year, and the guests below want to settle down for a few days before leaving, you see?"

But it was decided when renting, and the voyage was determined by Ye Qingding, who had chartered half of it.

Ye Qingzheng was thinking about the Zhaowang Temple, and was stunned when he heard this, came to his senses, and said, "This nature, how can we make it hard for everyone to celebrate the New Year?"

"If you want to celebrate the New Year, the guys on the boat will each have a tael of silver red envelopes, and if you are a guest, I will invite a big table to have a banquet and have a lively meal, what do you think?" Ye Qing played with the bamboo fan in his hand, pondered for a long time, and took out three silver tickets of ten taels, and said.

The captain was immediately overjoyed, took it respectfully, and said, "Xie Gongzi reward, I'll do it."

Seeing the boat leaving, Ye Qing said to Zhou Ling: "You hurry up and book an inn, you want a separate yard, I don't want to live in the cabin." ”

"Yes, Childe," Zhou Ling said crisply.

The sky is gloomy, the New Year is coming, there is still business in such weather, at a glance, this town is estimated to have 30,000 people, clothes shop, velvet shop, head shop, lacquer porcelain shop, calligraphy and painting shop, paper shop, lantern shop......

All kinds of shops are at a discount, and more than a dozen large businesses jointly organize dance and music performances, and pedestrians are weaving, and fish swim in spring water as happily as strolling.

After a while, Zhou Ling came back to report that the rental had been completed.

Ye Qing couldn't help but laugh when she saw the bright eyes of the two women, and accompanied them to go shopping, take a look, and put them in a few new clothes.

When I went back to the inn, I passed by a street market, Zhou Ling took a fancy to some window flowers, flowers and birds, and the stories of the characters are all there, the production is wonderful, and it is also very spiritual, I really can't see that it is the work of an ordinary lady.

According to Zhou Ling's temperament, I just took a look, Ye Qing took the money to buy it all, and the lady who was happy to sell paper-cuts praised again and again: "The son and the two ladies are really golden boys and girls, but I asked for this paper from the Zhaowang Temple, and I will be able to bless the two ladies with an early birth to a noble son......"

Ye Qing smiled: "Thanks to Ji Yan, by the way, how to go to the gift shop?"

"It's just across the street"

Zhou Ling held the large box of window flowers in his hand, quietly lowered his head, and secretly sighed.

When he returned to the hotel, he blushed under Jiang Zinan's gaze, and there was no way to hide his shame under the lamp, which caused Ye Qing to pay attention to and wonder several times: "Is Lingling hot?"

"Uh, no. The head of the mantis hung lower, and he was admiring the window flowers, and for a moment, he said casually: "Actually, I will also cut the flowers...... Both the father-in-law and the uncle said yes. ”

"Oh, then I'm looking forward to your work. Ye Qingzhi said that she would not boast, saying that she was actually excellent, and encouraged her seriously.

"Good ......" voice was slightly happy.

Jiang Zinan wrote a letter on the case, saying that he promised to give it to Qianqian, Ye Qing leaned over to look at it, covered it with his bare hands, and blushed: "My daughter's private words are not allowed to be read." ”

"If you don't look, you don't watch. Ye Qingha smiled, and took out the letter while she was relaxed.

"Childe, you ......"

frolicked for a while, but returned it to her, didn't really look at it, her daughter's private words, some still don't know the way, which will ruin the beautiful image in her heart.

After a while, Jiang Zinan screamed in surprise, and in a blink of an eye, he saw snowflakes falling.

"It's snowing?" I remembered in a trance that I saw this New Year's snow scene in my previous life, and it was still a state city.

At this time, they all changed into red clothes, which seemed to be New Year's clothes and wedding clothes, and Ye Qing was very happy to see it, Jiang Zinan pursed his lips and smiled, not having a kind of coquettishness, and said: "Ruixue Zhaofeng New Year...... I don't know if there is snow in my hometown, and if there is snow in 10,000 acres of fields, there will be a bumper harvest of potatoes in spring. ”

She subconsciously regarded Yejiazhuang as her home.

Ye Qing smiled when he heard this: "Zi Nan's blessing, it is snowing in my hometown, and the snow is five minutes and seven centimeters deep." ”

"Childe is chattering again......"

"Don't believe us, bet. Ye Qing smiled, he was really unsure, it was estimated that it would snow, but it was probably not this.

"Bet..." Jiang Zinan was excited, but subconsciously glanced at him, saw that he was confident on his face, and frowned: "Hmph, I don't gamble, every time the son does this, there is a conspiracy." ”

Ye Qing smiled, and at this moment, a guy came over: "Childe, everything you ordered has been bought, and an ox cart has been prepared." ”

"Go, pay a visit to the Zhaowang Temple. Ye Qing restrained his smile and said solemnly.

"Yes," the two girls also responded.

The ox cart was driven by Zhou Ling, all the way out of the town, and the streets and even the main road were cleared by special personnel, but the snow was long, and the car gradually slowed down, and it took a long time to turn up the mountain road.

Zhaowang Temple is on the mountainside, surrounded by mountains, the clear stream flows forward, the feng shui is still good, the incense in the temple is acceptable, the dynasties canonized, in such a big snow, there is also the ancestral hall is guarding.

Seeing that Ye Qing was dressed in a crimson lifting uniform, he hurriedly greeted him, and presented the sacrificial book according to the custom: "What instructions does this adult have?"

"I am a person who went to Beijing to catch the exam, passing by the Zhaowang Temple, I dare not be disrespectful, I am willing to give the gift of a young prison" Ye Qing said slowly: "Just below, you look for someone to move up"

In this world, Shao Prison is also a ceremony for princes and doctors to sacrifice to the temple, which is originally a sheep and a pig, but the Taoist court is reformed, so it is replaced accordingly.

This shrine is a great joy, and he responds again and again: "This is what the villain does." ”

Ye Qing saw that there was nothing to do for a while, so he looked along the corridor, first the main hall, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and in the middle of the main hall, King Zhao was wearing a crown robe, and his treasure was solemn.

There is no god on the west side and the east side, but the wall is painted with military generals and civil officials, each with armor and official uniforms, and the demeanor is either kind, or smiling, or literary, or mighty, which is quite awe-inspiring.

At this time, the gift list could still come up, Ye Qing did not go in, strolled out by himself, and turned to the cemetery behind the ancestral hall.

Extending the road past, the trees are mostly pines and cypresses, evergreen and verdant, and it is gratifying to see.

Zhaowang Temple is the ancient holy king, the emperors of all dynasties have sacrifices, gradually there is extraordinary, after a while, the pine forest is cheerful, and a large garden appears.

Ye Qing felt that there was a kind of aura that refreshed people's hearts, and he didn't think it was strange, and secretly observed it with the eyes of heaven - there was a trace of qi, but it was far from being a king's qi, but there was an awe-inspiring aura looming inside.

"Public opinion is the people's heart, so the holy king has his own righteousness, even the mausoleum is polluted, leading to the correct rural customs, and invisibly purifying the people, how can there be spirits?"

Ye Qing suddenly felt ominous in his heart: "Even if there is, this hall of the Holy King's Ancestral Hall, the royal qi is so easy to take, and the imperial court and the Daomen have no reaction?"

"Also, how come I can't find this Huabiao tree?"

At this moment, seeing Jiang Zinan and Zhou Ling coming over, they were all laughing softly, tiptoeing under the tree, holding three white silk scarves and trying to hang them on the tree......

"Childe come and help us......" This is Jiang Zinan's voice.

Ye Qing stepped forward, looking at Zhou Ling, who was not used to covering the hem of the light gauze red skirt, and did not dare to jump with a red face: "Childe......"

Ye Qing smiled a little, took the white silk scarves in their hands, and hung them on the tree.

Jiang Zinan smiled and said, "Childe, the following sacrifices have been moved, you can go to the front hall."

Ye Qing straightened his formal clothes, at this time he was wearing a black wooden crown, wearing a robe, and with long sleeves, he turned to the front hall, and saw that the oil lamps were lit, and the case had been cleaned up.

Ye Qing stepped forward, first took a deep look, according to the etiquette system, first the clothes, and then put the left and right sides of the smooth silk on the case.

The second is food, and the sheep and pigs made of cakes are served.

Again, it is wealth, offering a white jade side, and a pair of gold ingots (twenty taels).

As for the ox cart with heavy rice bags and meat, this is for the living people in the ancestral hall, and it will not be placed here at this time.

Ye Qing Licheng, retreated, and then the two women offered incense, they knelt and whispered silently, they had the experience of the previous few visits, and they didn't need to listen carefully to know their wishes.

When all the rituals were completed, the shrine was smiling: "Thank you, Lord for the generous sacrifice"

This set is afraid that there are two hundred and fifty taels of silver sacrifice list, except for the court to send people to sacrifice, this has not been a few years, and hurriedly stammered: "My lord, it will be late, you live here, but the banquet of this ancestral hall is famous." ”

Ye Qing smiled: "Excuse me, just because the night is getting late, you can take me around again, and I will go back to the hotel in the town." ”

"Yes, yes" The shrine was hurriedly responding, and led Ye Qing and his party to visit, counting the allusions one by one, but there were also many stories.

Ye Qing listened with a smile, but observed carefully, but saw that there were many trees planted inside and outside the left and right, and there was no royal spirit.

was puzzled, so I listened to the ancestral hall and said casually: "These trees are more than 100 years old, and they are the monuments of the ancestral hall. ”

Ye Qing was stunned, and hurriedly said, "Take me over to have a look." ”

The ancestral hall was answering, but he went down, and on the side of the steps, he saw a thick tree being cut down, but he didn't pay attention when he went up the steps just now, Ye Qing's heart moved, and he hurriedly went up.

Seeing a tree blocking the waist and breaking, the cross-section was smooth, just touching the hand, I felt something, and suddenly realized: "It's this, there is a royal spirit in it, but unfortunately it has been broken at the waist."

When I asked some more, the shrine didn't know, saying that someone cut it in the middle of the night, and I didn't find out until tomorrow morning.

Ye Qing's expression did not move, his mind was rolling, and he secretly thought: "Who is it, who knows what happened to Lu Dao? Could it be Yu Fan? Or is it the number of days that has been shifted and obtained by others?"

If you don't know the essentials for a while, you have to pick up and go down, but this shrine is rushing two steps at this time, and you are looking at the head: "The adults don't want to stay, and the villains don't dare to force it, but the adults sacrifice like this, but they will get the sacrificial book, and please move the adults." ”

said, and smiled: "The adults don't register their names, and the government still thinks that the villain has coaxed and defrauded him to get so much silver."

Ye Qing heard this, and also smiled: "Then I will go up and record your name, so as not to embarrass you." ”

After writing, my heart moved, and I saw that there was an empty wall on the east side, but I paced up, pondered for a moment, and mentioned a poem on it, but it was - "Worship Zhaowang Temple"

Alone in a foreign land as a stranger,

I miss my relatives every festive season.

Knowing the Brothers from afar,

There is one less person to worship the ancestors.

After writing, as soon as I returned the pen, it was spilled away.