The next morning, Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing got up early. Li Guangyu, Cao Weiqing, and Wu Wen did not return to the commune guest house to rest, but only ordered the bodyguards to go back. Li Guangyu and the others stayed at Li Yingzhong's place to rest, but Du Yonghong still
Two people were arranged to be on duty at night.
Resting in the countryside, it is impossible to sleep peacefully until dawn, especially for someone like Cao Weiqing, who has just come to live in the countryside. At three or four in the morning, the rooster began to crow.
Today is a very important event for both Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing. They are going to worship their ancestors in the Li Clan Ancestral Hall. This Li Clan Ancestral Hall was built with money from Grandpa Li Guangyu when he came back in the past five years.
Cao Weiqing will also be officially included in the Li family genealogy today. This is a very happy thing for Cao Weiqing. Even if he didn't get a good rest at night, he is still in high spirits.
As for the various sacrifices, yesterday afternoon, Wu Wen arranged for Li Weiming to follow Li Wenze to the commune to purchase them.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the door of Li's ancestral hall slowly opened, and Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing walked in under the leadership of Li Yingzhong. They were also accompanied by many descendants of this ancestor in the village. This time they hosted a ceremony.
A clan elder who is one generation higher than Li Yingzhong.
After placing the sacrifices, Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing offered incense and kowtowed to their elders.
After completing these ceremonies, Li Guangyu placed the memorial tablets of Li Yingliang, Li Wencheng, and Li Hemengping in the corresponding positions. Then, Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing offered incense and kowtowed to each other again.
After completing the ancestor worship, Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing followed the clan elders to the place where the family tree was kept to add Cao Weiqing's name. As for Li Guangyu himself, his grandfather had already added his name to the family tree when he came back.
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The clan elder is now approaching eighty, which is considered relatively long-lived in this era. Wearing a pair of reading glasses, he is looking for Li Guangyu's name in the family tree.
After finding it, the clan elder asked Li Guangyu and the others: "Guangyu, please write Weiqing's name next to it to prevent me from making mistakes when writing the genealogy."
After Li Guangyu wrote Cao Weiqing's name on a piece of draft paper next to him, the clan elder said repeatedly: "That's good, that's good, Li Cao Weiqing, Li Cao's family."
In the minds of the clan elders, they still think that they follow traditional ideas. Even though many people think this is backward, they still think it is good.
After the ancestor worship was completed, Li Yingzhong's family held a grand banquet to celebrate the addition of a new member to the Li family.
At noon, the happiest children were the children of the Li family. Today they were able to eat a variety of dishes that were usually difficult to eat once on weekdays, as well as various candies prepared by Cao Weiqing. The whole noon was full of them.
of laughter.
Li Guangyu saw that these children today are really easy to satisfy. They are very happy if they can have a good meal and a few candies, unlike those in later generations who would not eat this or don't want that.
At noon today, Li Guangyu was toasting to the elders one by one and drank a little too much. The bulk wine bought from the commune was really quite powerful. Li Guangyu did not buy those expensive wines. Besides, nowadays
He wants to buy it, but he can't buy it here.
At 8 o'clock in the morning on November 12, Li Guangyu, Cao Weiqing, Wu Wen and others, led by their cousin Li Guanghui, came to the grave of Grandma Li Guangyu.
After offering incense and saluting, Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing said: "Grandpa Wu, after you and your cousin go back, contact someone to build a tomb for grandpa next to grandma. Check the date, and we will ask grandpa to stay with grandma from now on."
"Okay, Master, I will contact someone to start construction when I get back." Wu Wen replied.
Li Guangyu was very grateful to Li Yingzhong's family. Apparently someone had cleaned up the weeds around his grandmother's grave. And Li Guangyu could tell that these were not traces of fresh cleaning. It was obvious that Li Yingzhong arranged for his family to clean these up regularly every year, so as not to cause serious damage.
Let it be desolate.
After Li Guangyu returned to Li Yingzhong's home, he thanked him and said, "Grandpa, thank you for taking care of my grandma's grave over the years."
Li Yingzhong said: "What's the point of thanking you? As Wen Gao and Guanghui are your grandma's juniors, and you are not at home, shouldn't they go to worship and take care of her?"
Li Guangyu said: "Grandpa, regarding my grandfather, I have asked Wu Wen to contact people to build it next to grandma's grave. You still need to preside over this matter. I don't understand many things yet."
Li Yingzhong was also very concerned about his brother being buried next to his sister-in-law. After Li Guangyu finished speaking, he immediately agreed to Li Guangyu's request.
Li Yingzhong said: "Guangyu, don't worry, your uncle will take good care of it and won't let anything go wrong."
In the afternoon, Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing came to the village primary school and took a look at the children studying here.
Today's village primary schools are nothing more than two tile-roofed buildings and an earthen dam. There are only two grades in total, one grade and one class. Today, there is no multi-year preschool education. At most, it is only when you are about to enter the first grade.
When opening a preschool, many times the children do not go to preschool at all and start directly in elementary school.
Cao Weiqing looked at this simple school and said to Li Guangyu: "The learning environment here is too difficult. We should help them build a good school."
Li Guangyu has already made plans for this, and today he came here specifically to take a look and understand the actual situation.
When Li Guangyu and the others came to the classroom, a female teacher in her forties noticed them. After stopping her lecture, she asked Li Guangyu and the others: "Who are you looking for?"
The female teacher thought someone from that child's family was looking for her, so she asked.
Li Guangyu said: "Hello, we just came to take a look. Sorry, I disturbed your class."
When the female teacher heard what Li Guangyu said, she stopped asking and started telling the children about the knowledge in the book.
After class, Li Guangyu chatted with two teachers. The female teacher was named Li Wenjing, and the teacher in the other class was the female teacher’s father, who is now over sixty years old. They were the only two people in the village primary school.
Teaching here, her father Li Yinghua taught Chinese, and she herself taught mathematics. Today, children in primary schools in the village only learn these two courses.
Cao Weiqing listened sadly. The learning environment here was really far different from her own learning environment. At the same time, she was moved by the persistence of these two teachers. It was because of their presence that the children in the village were able to thrive.
There is hope.
Li Guangyu said: "Two teachers Li, according to seniority, you are both my elders. Now that the children in the village have your presence, they can hope to get out of the village and enter a higher learning hall. We will stick to you."
I’m very touched here.”
Cao Weiqing said: "Teacher Li Yinghua, don't worry, after we come back this time, we will build a complete school for the village and change your difficult environment."
Li Yinghua and Li Wenjing also heard the news about Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing. Because of class, they did not go when Li Guangyu worshiped his ancestors, but they still knew the news about them.
Li Yinghua said: "Guangyu, I want to thank you on behalf of these children. It doesn't matter to Wen Jing and I. We are used to it, but we still hope that the children's learning environment can be better, so that they will develop better in the future."