The three sisters Shen Zhiyao were sitting on the bench, chatting with Mr. Dong. Without saying a few words, Shen Zhiyao saw Shen Jin and Shen Yin coming.
They saw the three sisters Shen Zhiyao from a distance and hesitated whether to come over to say hello.
Before Shen Jin and Shen Yin could decide, Shen Shuisheng walked up to Shen Zhiyao and the others in a few steps.
The two sides wished each other a happy new year, and then heard Patriarch Shen asking his eldest son to count the numbers. When he learned that people from each family were coming, Patriarch Shen waved his hand:
"Everyone is here, let's go!"
Dozens of people began to visit the grave along the planned route.
When we walked to the Shen family's grave in Lihua Village, standing on a high place, we could see people with other surnames in Lihua Village visiting the grave to pay New Year's greetings to their ancestors.
They put incense and candles, scatter paper money, burn paper money, pour wine, bow and celebrate the New Year, and set off firecrackers.
Every time he visited a tomb, Chief Shen was responsible for informing the clan members whose tomb this was.
The descendants of the tomb owner put incense and candles and burned paper money, while the rest of the tribe sprinkled some paper money on the tomb with intention.
Then a set process begins.
After worshiping at this tomb, they rushed to the next place.
Shen Zhiyao carried the wine and firecrackers, Shen Baiqiu was responsible for carrying the incense candles and paper money, and Shen Yueya followed them steadily.
After paying homage to dozens of people, we finally arrived at the graves of Shen Zhiyao’s father and mother.
Shen Zhiyao burned a lot of paper money for her parents and poured two pots of fine wine. The three sisters knelt down and kowtowed respectfully in front of the grave, and then said a happy New Year and hoped that their parents would live happily in the underworld. wishful words.
After the toast, we started setting off firecrackers.
The crackling sound was deafening.
"Zhiyao and the others set off so many firecrackers, are they all eight or nine dead?"
"More than that, I'm counting, there are twelve hangings."
"They also burn more paper money than other families. Dachang and his wife didn't get much paper money in previous years, but now they can live a good life underground."
Everyone was talking to each other.
After paying respects to the graves of Shen Zhiyao and his parents, the clan members continued to move forward.
When she walked to a new grave, Shen Zhiyao raised her eyes and heard that Chief Shen said it belonged to Shen Sili.
Shen Jin and Shen Yin stepped forward to burn incense.
Although Shen Sili was shameful during his lifetime, the clan members still threw some paper money in a meaningful way because the deceased was the most important person.
It was the end of noon when all existing graves in the clan had finished worshiping.
The clan members were led by Chief Shen to the ancestral hall.
On this day every year, after worshiping, the tribesmen gather together to have a meal.
This day is almost the only time in the year that the tribesmen eat three meals a day.
After Shen Zhiyao and the others arrived at the ancestral hall, those tribesmen who had not gone to worship had already prepared meals and set up more than twenty tables in the large earthen dam outside the ancestral hall.
Looking at the clansmen who were busy taking their seats, Shen Zhiyao's feeling from morning to now was that the clan cohesion in ancient times was really strong.
"Bai Qiu, did each family collect the money to make these meals in previous years?" Shen Zhiyao suddenly thought of a question.
Shen Baiqiu nodded, he was still aware of this matter.
"Then our family didn't give us any money. I'll ask the clan leader later."
"Zhiyao, the clan leader asked you to sit in front."
Just as Shen Zhiyao was thinking about this, Shen Li was walking towards her and pointed to the two tables in front of her.
The people sitting at those two tables were some uncles from the clan who were relatively prestigious in the clan.
"Where are you going?" Shen Zhiyao looked around at the men and women sitting at separate tables.
Shen Lizheng nodded: "Let's go, Yue Ya, Bai Qiu and Shui Sheng..."
Shen Li was about to ask his children to come over and take Shen Baiqiu and Shen Yueya to sit down.
At this time, Liu Zhaodi happened to pass by them. When she heard this, she said: "Zhiyao, if you don't mind, you can ask Yue Ya to sit there with me. Bai Qiushui will sit with Ah Jin and Ah Yin."
Liu Zhaodi and the others' seats were not far away.
Shen Zhiyao did not immediately reply to Liu Zhaodi's words, but looked at Shen Baiqiu, Shen Yueya and Shen Shuisheng.
After they nodded, they said, "Then I'll take care of you, Second Aunt Lao."
After saying that, Shen Zhiyao followed Shen Lizheng forward.
Patriarch Shen specially left a place for her.
Before the banquet started, Chief Shen gave a speech. He first talked about the changes in the clan in the past year and the contribution of the clan members, and then looked forward to this year.
When talking about the contributions of his clan members, Patriarch Shen mentioned Shen Zhiyao and the fact that she received the imperial plaque.
The imperial plaque is the highest honor the Shen clan has ever received.
"So, this is why Zhiyao can sit here."
"Zhiyao also gave me the tomato seeds for everyone's sake. After the Lantern Festival, I will distribute the seeds..."
After Patriarch Shen spoke, the clan members began to use their chopsticks to eat.
After the meal, after all the tables and chairs in the ancestral hall had been cleared away by the clan members, Shen Zhiyao went to Chief Shen and asked about the silver.
"You don't have to go out. Everyone can eat better this year than in previous years. It all depends on you."
Patriarch Shen was determined not to want her money.
Shen Zhiyao had no choice but to give up.
After returning from Lihua Village, Shen Zhiyao began his leisurely days at home reading storybooks, looking at flowers, sleeping, and teaching Shen Yueya some unfamiliar words.
In ancient times, it was a great custom that most people only officially started work after the Lantern Festival.
"Sister, do we want to go for a walk in the city tomorrow during the Lantern Festival?"
After Shen Yueya finished reading a word, she looked up at Shen Zhiyao.
Shen Zhiyao: "Go, let's all go. If we're late, we'll stay at the house in Qinglian Lane."
"Great, I wonder if there will be any ironworkers tomorrow?" Shen Yueya looked expectantly, thinking about the ironworkers.
"Tomorrow we will go into the city and inquire first."
During the Lantern Festival, half of the city is lit up and bustling.
There were six people in Shen Zhiyao's group.
In addition to Zheng Er's sister-in-law Zheng and Grandma Sun, Wan Fang, Jiang Tao and Die Lan all came together.
When they arrived at the street where there were many people in the city and the carriage could no longer move forward, Shen Zhiyao asked Wan Fang to find a place to park the carriage and then pick them up here at the appointed time.
Afterwards, the five of them went shopping.
The Lantern Festival is indeed one of the most lively festivals. Shen Zhiyao and the others didn't walk long before they saw some fire-breathing performances, lion dances, lantern riddles and stilt walkers.
And this day is also Valentine's Day in ancient times. You can see some boys and girls dating shyly at any time.
After walking around for a while and finding out that there was no Iron Flower performance today, Shen Zhiyao told Jiang Tao and Die Lan to go play whatever they wanted and leave them alone.
After Jiang Tao and Die Lan left together, the three sisters Shen Zhiyao were going to play lantern riddles.
Before they reached the lantern riddle booth, two figures suddenly descended from the roof.
A knife was placed on Shen Zhiyao's neck.
"Don't move. If you move again I will kill her. Let me go!"
