Before the worship ceremony began, Yuan Laichang was telling Haoren what details he needed to pay attention to.
"Haoren, my grandfather should have told me the story of his ancestor of the Yuanji clan, right?"
"Said."
"That's good. I'll listen carefully, Haoren. That ancestor has a bad temper. No matter what you hear or see later, you won't say anything. Leave everything to him to deal with the problem. Very good, ancestor
Whatever you ask me to do, I just do it..."
As a traveler from the Celestial Dynasty, Haoren is no stranger to worshiping ancestors.
As far as we are concerned, in the Celestial Dynasty, worshiping ancestors is a tradition of being cautious about the past. Drinking water remembers the source, worshiping ancestors out of filial piety, and praying for and repaying their protection and blessing by worshiping ancestors.
Because the ancestors have passed away, it is more of a spiritual sustenance.
However, the ancestor worship of the Mingyuan clan does not seem to be the same thing.
"Isn't that an ordinary worship ceremony? Could it be that he can see the ancestors of the Genji family?" Haoren said with some confusion.
"Of course, the ancestors are not dead. They worship her and she will feel something. And whether the shrine is built with special materials, I hope the ancestors can sense it, so they can come here and communicate with them."
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"It's bright red."
"Wrong, Haoren, because it is very important whether he asks me to inherit the orthodoxy of the Yuan clan that time. After that, my ancestor Coco will put me through some special tests."
"A special test?"
"I'll know then."
Yuan Laichang didn't elaborate, he just blinked at Haoren mysteriously.
Afterwards, the worship ceremony officially began. Different from the ancestor worship in the Celestial Dynasty, the worship in the island country is not so much about worshiping the ancestors as it is about not worshiping the ancestors.
Although the island country is deeply influenced by the culture of the Celestial Dynasty, its sacrifices can be divided into narrow and broad senses.
Chivalrous sacrifices are similar to ancestor worship in the Celestial Dynasty, in that they pray for the blessings of ancestors and gods.
Sacrifice in a broad sense can be derived from the meaning of festivals and cultural activities, such as "cultural festival", "summer moon festival", "college festival" and so on.
Genji's ancestor worship is more similar to the festival.
According to Minamoto Noraisho, offering sacrifices to ancestors is not the important annual confinement period for the Minamoto clan.
To this end, Minamoto Noraisho specially invited villagers to help, and a group of people paraded along the countryside, playing music, field music, drumming, lion dance, umbrella dance, etc.
It was like a festival, which allowed Haoren to fully experience the village festival of the island country.
After finishing, Minamoto Noraimasa and Fujiwara Kirei took Hirohito all the way to Genji Shrine, where they held incense, read blessings, offered rice soup, served tea, and burned blessings...
After completing such a set of procedures, finally, outside the shrine of the shrine, Ye Chang's huge unknown thought quietly descended here.
"The ancestors are coming!"
Coming then?
Yuan Laichang let out a low cry, but before Haoren could react, an angry voice suddenly came from outside the shrine.
"Yuan Laichang, didn't he tell me what I was doing? There is no need for me to introduce the error to him!"
"Ha~?"
In the shrine, hearing the anger that suddenly came from the shrine, but also unexpectedly carrying a woman's soft and soft voice, Hao Renque stood still.
Although he had long known that the ancestor of Genji was a woman, actually hearing her voice was somewhat beyond his imagination.
In Hirohito's view, although the ancestor of the Genji family, Ushiwakamaru, was not a woman, she was born in an era of frequent wars.
As a woman, Fang Fang has achieved a reputation as a military commander in the island country that most men cannot achieve. I think she should be a King Kong Barbie... Well, although it is a bit exaggerated, at least she is a rugged female man.
But I didn't expect that her voice would be so beautiful.
Bu Nao, it sounds good, but Wong Fang's tone sounded very angry.
Haoren didn't understand the meaning of her words, so he naturally didn't understand why Hong Cuofang was angry.
At this moment, besides Hirohito, there were also two people, Minamoto Noraimasa and Fujiwara Kirei, outside the shrine.
When they heard that Ushiwakamaru was so angry when he arrived, the two of them were slightly startled.
Fujiwara Kirei seemed to have remembered something, his face looked strange for a while, and he opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything before.
On the other hand, Minamoto Laichang looked like an old god was present and bowed towards the shrine in a neither humble nor overbearing manner:
"The ancestors are well."
As the instigator, he naturally knew very well why his ancestors were so angry.
No Fei had previously resolved the crisis of the Genji clan's extirpation. He made a constructive and bold proposal to his ancestors, but was initially rejected by his ancestors.
That's just a small thing.
Although he tried to persuade her several times after that, and even threatened her ancestors with the precepts of the ancestors, and on the condition of saving an elder of the Tengu clan, he forced the ancestors to successfully participate in a blind date he introduced.
It turns out that not only did it not work out, but the ancestors used it as a test for the blind date, and gave the wrong partner a severe lesson.
Because of his preconceived notions, the ancestor would definitely think that he did not deny the same thing to her that time, so he would be so angry.
As everyone knows, although he, Yuan Laichang, acts informally and has unconstrained ideas, he also knows the truth that "things cannot be done and cannot be forced."
Therefore, that time he settled for the next best thing and thought of another way - to designate Haoren as Genji's heir and adopt one of his children to Genji.
Although the children of the direct descendants are different in terms of blood, they still have some Genji blood.
In this way, the problem of Genji's heirs has been solved. I think our ancestors will be very happy when they find out.
Therefore, Minamoto Laichang was not worried at all about the slight misunderstanding at that meeting, but instead asked about it slowly.
"How can he be safe? With a careless and unfilial descendant like me, how can he be safe? Do you really want to be pissed to death by me!"
The voice in the shrine was still angry, but unexpectedly revealed a hint of helplessness.
She is the ancestor of the Genji clan, but she is also the leader of the Tengu clan. The Tengu clan was entrusted to her by her master before his death, and she cannot abandon it.
And if humans are strong and demons are weak, even though she is the demon emperor, Yuan Laichang is not a genuine human priest.
In front of the same level, even if she is not an ancestor, she really doesn't have much face to speak of.
Even since the demon clan fled to the demon rift two hundred years ago, the Tengu clan who used to take care of Genji have in turn been eager to be taken care of by the Genji clan, and their position has been completely reversed.
Therefore, even though she appears to be tough, her actual confidence is not as strong as she imagined.
"Tell me, who did you introduce that time?"
After a few angry words, voices of compromise could be heard from the shrine.
"Ancestor, that time was actually..."
Yuan Laichang smiled slightly and was about to explain something.
However……
"I'm sure Fujiwara Kirei, he's already old, so should I ask that boy to go on a blind date with him?"
Haoren: "???"
"Well, I'm not bad looking. I want to catch his eye, and I really need to pass his test...