After the sun rose again, Lao Zhu's house became lively.
"Both the old man's house and the second son's house, go and prepare everything in the kitchen. Put away the rabbits and pheasants that the second son took care of yesterday."
"The third brother's family, let's clean the yard again."
"From the fourth child's family, go wake up the fourth child and ask him to go to the village grocery store to buy some snacks, melon seeds and fruits, and get some wine."
Early in the morning, my grandmother summoned several daughters-in-law to come, finish their busy work, and tidy up the house.
The ingredients picked yesterday were also processed overnight. Fungus and other fungi were roasted on the stove last night and soaked by my aunt and mother in the morning. Bamboo shoots were also undressed, and other ingredients were also processed.
preliminary processing.
My grandfather rarely wore blue cloth that was 80% new, and kept it clean and tidy. He sat in the middle of the yard smoking a cigarette, looking at the door from time to time and listening to the noise.
The main style of men's clothing in the Ming Dynasty, this is a robe cut in one piece from top to bottom, with slits on both sides, but the middle slit has a hidden hem to cover it.
The eldest uncle was no longer studying in his room. He was dressed as a Confucian scholar and stood pacing in the yard with his hands behind his back.
After a while, the fourth aunt woke up the fourth uncle, who came out of the room muttering and wearing baggy clothes.
"Fourth, please pack your clothes and see what you look like." When Mr. Zhu saw his fourth uncle looking careless, he immediately blew his beard and glared, grabbed his uncle and sprayed him.
After all, he was my grandmother's favorite son. When my grandmother saw the old man getting angry, she immediately came to the rescue.
"Okay, isn't it because I asked the fourth man to call him in a hurry? You bastard, why don't you pack up quickly? Go to the entrance of the village to buy some snacks, fruits and melon seeds, and then bring a few kilograms of soju for your father."
Grandma gave the fourth uncle a handful of money. The fourth uncle took it and stuffed it into his sleeve pocket with a smile on his face, promising again and again that he would do everything his mother asked him to do.
The eldest brother followed his father and third uncle to borrow tables and chairs from a neighbor's house. Although there are two sets of tables and chairs in the house, if the eldest grandpa and his family came over today, there would be a lot of people and two sets of tables and chairs would not be enough.
At half-past the sun, the sound of horses neighing came from outside. Mr. Zhu put down the pipe in his hand and walked out like a gust of wind.
"coming."
The old man's voice came from outside, and then everyone swarmed out, and Zhu Pingan also squeezed out.
There were three large carriages parked outside, two of the same model, and one larger carriage.
It turned out that not only the uncle's family was here, but also the aunt's family. It was so lively that three large carriages squeezed to bring the two families. The two carriages with the same standard belonged to the uncle's family, and the other one belonged to the uncle's family.
The larger one belongs to my aunt's family.
My aunt heard that my uncle's family was moving to the south to join their eldest son, so she brought her family over to practice it for my uncle and his family.
The eldest grandpa and his aunt's family are obviously much richer than their own family, and their clothes are on a higher level. Both families wear the latest styles made of silk and satin. Although the eldest grandpa's family is in business, they buy land and register it when they have money.
When registering for residence, I insisted that my main income was from farming, and did not admit that I was a businessman... My family has land and land, and I am a landlord, not a businessman. Then I took some silver, and in this way, the businessman was on the yellow list of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
As a farmer, it does not violate Taizu’s ancestral precepts.
The uncle in the grandpa's family is doing business in the south, and the aunt is taking care of the elderly at home with his two children. The youngest son in the grandpa's family is the third uncle who has just gotten married and has no children yet.
My aunt is a very warm and generous old lady, while my uncle is like a saw-mouthed gourd and talks very little. They have a son and a daughter. The second cousin’s family has two children, a 12-year-old eldest cousin and a 10-year-old second son.
Cousin; My aunt’s family only has one little cousin, who is eight years old this year.
Look at what some of his cousins are wearing. The styles and materials are much newer, and the people wearing them are also much prettier. Looking at himself, he is so uncouth. The only thing Zhu Pingan can be thankful for is that he doesn’t have to wear crotchless pants anymore.
Otherwise, the only choice is to hang it from the southeast branch.
For ancestral halls, people highly value the art of Feng Shui. When building villages, courtyards, ancestral halls or even temples, a Feng Shui master must be asked to determine the direction and determine the ins and outs. In terms of orientation, most of the local ancestral halls in Xiahe Village are oriented north to south.
Some are due south, some are south-to-west, and some are to the east, but few are facing north and west. This is because people think that "if you go to the west, you will overdo it." "If you go to the north, you will eat the northwest wind."
Houses that open to the south are not as cool in summer and warm in winter, and "eating northwest wind" has an unlucky meaning.
The Zhu family ancestral hall was built with money by the Zhu family after they moved here. Although it occupies a small area, it pays great attention to decoration, from the roof ridge, roof corners, eaves corners, eaves, vertical belts, beams, brackets, beams, beams, and beams.
The columns, raised up to the main wall, lintels, screens, doors, screen walls and other parts are all "carved beams and painted buildings, which must be extremely skillful, strive to praise the magnificence, and spare no expense." The folk arts and crafts of the Ming Dynasty were also used incisively and vividly in the decoration of ancestral halls.
The entire ancestral hall can be said to be an art palace where various Ming Dynasty folk arts and crafts are organically integrated.
Grandpa took the lead in worshiping the ancestors. He first read a sacrificial text, then burned silk and paper, and offered a glass of wine in front of the god. Then he led his grandfather and the eldest son of the second aunt's grandfather to place the pork and mutton for ancestor worship on the altar table.
, reciting words, bowing three times and kowtowing nine times, very solemnly.
Zhu Pingan followed his elder brother and cousin and were led by several cousins to kneel in the yard. Zhu Pingan was very envious of his cousins at this time. They didn't have to follow them to worship their ancestors. Otherwise, these delicate little girls would definitely
Kneel down and find something wrong.
Rather than worshiping ancestors in such a tedious manner, it would be better to work hard to honor them. Of course, Zhu Pingan did not dare to say these words.
When he knelt on the ground to worship his ancestors, the strange phenomenon occurred again. Zhu Pingan saw luck again. This time, not only people, but also luck pillars appeared above the ancestral hall.
It is truly an uncontrollable ability. I have no idea when I will see luck. I have no clue and it suddenly appears without any precaution. The road to free control is long and arduous.
The grandfather's family and the aunt's family all have white luck on their heads, but the strange thing is that there is a wisp of rich blue luck on the white luck pillar in the Zhu family ancestral hall. This wisp of luck occupies about half of the white luck pillar.
One tenth, blue represents official aura. Perhaps the ancestors of the old Zhu family are blessing a noble person for the sake of filial piety from their descendants. I just don’t know whether it is my uncle or myself who is being blessed. After all, we are the only two who can study.
But it should probably be me. If it were my uncle, he would have passed the scholar examination long ago. It has been so many years, and he would not have failed the scholar examination.