"Nan Nan, get up quickly, the time is coming, or it will be too late, hurry up!" Grandma knocked hard on the door and shouted.
Qin Nan couldn't help but sigh and replied: "Okay, grandma, I'll get up right now, don't knock..."
Qin Nan scratched his head, slowly sat up from the bed, looked at the sun that had not yet risen outside the window, and then looked at the time on his phone. It was only 5:10 in the morning, and the rooster had just crowed. What a difference.
There seems to be some discrepancy in the grave sweeping time mentioned by Zeng Li yesterday.
He dressed slowly and then opened the bedroom door. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Zeng Li and Haotian, who were already gathering around the table in front of them to eat breakfast.
Grandpa Wu and Aunt Qin smiled at him when they saw him. Qin Nan also quickly tidied up his clothes, and then sat on a stool nearby and ate breakfast. The whole eating process was very quiet.
Only the sound of clinking bowls and chopsticks could be heard. Qin Nan looked at a sign in the center of the dining table. He didn't know what was written on it. Guan Zai lit three sticks of incense aside. It looked really weird to him.
Five minutes later, Qin Nan hurriedly finished eating and went directly to the courtyard. When Wu Haotian and Zeng Li saw Qin Nan finish eating, they also put down their bowls and chopsticks and came to the courtyard with him.
"It's not like you. I used to eat breakfast very slowly. I also ate while looking at my phone." Zeng Li asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I, isn't there something strange on the dining table? I'm so scared that I can't eat it..." Qin Nan said while smoking a cigarette.
"Tch, okay, stop smoking, it's choking me to death, cough cough..." Zeng Li said, fanning the smoke in front of her.
"I remember you never cared about these things before. You said you didn't believe them..." Zeng Li coughed and said.
"The past was before, and now is now..." Qin Nan threw the cigarette butt on the ground and said.
"By the way, what should we do later?" Qin Nan asked.
"Now let's wait for grandma and the others to finish sweeping the tomb. According to this progress, it will only be half past six. Fortunately, our family's tomb sweeping is very early. I think they will have just started when we rush to Shenfeng Village.
." Zeng Li said.
"Children, help me get something from the kitchen..." Grandma walked out of the door and shouted to Qin Nan and the others.
Afterwards, Qin Nan and the others went to grandma's kitchen to get several large packages of paper money and two large bundles of firecrackers. When he came back yesterday, he had not noticed these.
At 5:45, Qin Nan and his party arrived at a tomb one kilometer away. When they were less than ten meters away, Qin Nan couldn't help but narrowed his eyes when he saw the tomb in front of him.
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Because this tomb is very ornately built, it doesn’t look like it was built by grandma and others of her generation, but judging from the moss and some marks on the stone, it is indeed quite old.
There is a one-meter-high wall built around the tomb, and there are exquisite-looking stone carvings on the wall. Although the stone carvings look a bit rough, the overall look is very solemn.
Qin Nan also noticed that the stones in this circle were all made of granite, not ordinary cement stones.
This fence is seven or eight square meters in size, and there are three stone monuments inside. These three people are grandma's mother, grandpa's father, grandpa and grandpa Wu's masters.
These three tombstones all looked very "domineering". As of now, they were the only three most modern tombstones he had seen in the village.
Grandpa and the others burned the Ming coins for about twenty minutes. Zeng Li also clapped her hands and looked at Grandma and the others. All the Ming coins and firecrackers around her had been burned.
"Grandma, let's go back first~" Zeng Li asked.
"You three, please come here and kowtow three times." Grandma said.
Immediately after Qin Nan and the other three kowtowed, Zeng Li led the two of them towards the direction of Shenfeng Village.
After Qin Nan walked away, just as he was about to look back, Zeng Li noticed that the last right hand hit him directly on the cheek.
He couldn't help but widen his eyes, thinking that his niece was going to heaven. Just when he was about to say something, Zeng Li said: "You have to thank me properly. You can't look back after sweeping the tomb. This
You don’t even know if you try, let alone a country like ours.”
Qin Nan also looked at Wu Haotian with wide eyes, and he nodded in agreement.
Although he is an atheist, he sometimes maintains an attitude of awe towards these superstitious things, and sometimes he feels very contradictory.
Along the way, Qin Nan saw a lot of villagers sweeping graves on the mounds in the mountains, and of course some were farming. However, the fire source was so close to the woods and he didn't know whether a mountain fire would break out.
"Have there been any fires here before? It looks very dangerous." Qin Nan looked at Zeng Li and asked.
"This is the amazing thing about our two villages. There have never been wildfires here in the past few decades, and there is no drought in the summer, and there is plenty of rain.
When I was a child, I was a little strange. My grandma told me that it was the gods of our two villages who were protecting us, one dragon and one phoenix. According to the legend, someone saw two bright lights appearing in the sky at night, and then they landed in our two villages.
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Someone saw a dragon and a phoenix, so we named them Shennong Village and Shenfeng Village. However, our two villages have no intersection. I may have lost the most people in Shenfeng Village. After all, there are a lot of rituals to be done.
" Zeng Li said.
Qin Nan couldn't help but nodded. He definitely didn't believe what Zeng Li said. The dragon and the phoenix were just good luck and the villagers' high awareness of fire prevention. If there was a fire here, all the harvest for the year would be lost.
The villagers were unwilling to take the risk. After about twenty minutes, a few people walked to the entrance of Shenfeng Village.
When Qin Nan saw the houses of these villagers, he couldn't help but sigh, because at this glance, he also found two or three "villas" built in recent years, and the rest were large tile houses.
The difference between it and Shenlong Village is really not that small.
"I haven't been here for a long time. This place is still the same as before..." Wu Haotian sighed.
Under the leadership of Zeng Li, several people quickly arrived behind one of the three self-built houses.
"This is it..." Zeng Li said softly.
She squinted at the top of the room, then listened carefully to the sounds inside. After listening for a long time, she couldn't help but frown.
"What's wrong? Did you find anything?" Qin Nan asked.
In fact, Qin Nan was also listening carefully but heard nothing. He only heard a few pigs howling in the pig pen.
"No, it was clearly in this building yesterday...how could there be no sound? If she didn't come here voluntarily, she should have made some noise." Zeng Li said softly.
"If that girl has been calling for help all night, she may have fallen asleep, and it's only around six o'clock in the morning..." Qin Nan said while looking at his phone.
At this moment, Wu Haotian approached the wall, pressed his ears tightly against the cement wall, closed his eyes, and listened carefully to the sounds inside.
"No, there is a very weak voice..." Wu Haotian said softly.
Qin Nan and Ma Xiaotao pressed their ears against the wall and still didn't hear any sound. They could only hear the pigs howling in the pigsty not far away.
"There is no sound..." Ma Xiaotao said softly, and Qin Nan also shook his head.
"Let's go to the gate and have a look..." Qin Nan said.
Then the three of them arrived at the gate of the courtyard. At this time, the gate was closed tightly. Through the gap in the door, Qin Nan could still see a native dog roaring at the door.
"There won't be anyone if I go..." Qin Nan said.
"No, they should go out to visit graves at this time..." Zeng Li said.
Wu Haotian looked in through the crack in the door and found no one else. He only saw a native dog behind the door. He pushed gently and the courtyard door seemed to be locked.
Just as Qin Nan was trying to figure out how to get in, a woman's voice came from behind him: "Oh, the Second Immortal Aunt is here..."
Several people turned their heads and looked behind them, and saw several villagers standing behind them...