"Yes, Dad!"
"Now that everyone is here, let's get started."
The Lian family's ancestral tomb is in Pingyang, and only the ancestral tablets are placed in the capital.
However, the foundation of Lian's family is shallow, and the ancestors three generations up can't even recognize a few characters, and the ancestor worship ceremony is also simple. It's just because Lian Fangyu is in the Ministry of Rites and has presided over several sacrifice ceremonies for the emperor's family. Learned some processes.
Offer incense, read blessings, offer rice soup, tea, silk, wine, food boxes, meat, offerings of blessings (blessings), burn blessings, bow to gods...
Lian Jialiang is the eldest son, and Lian Suisui is the legitimate daughter. The two of them kneel in front, while the other aunts lead the concubines and concubines to kneel a little further away.
When it came time to present the wine and food boxes, Lian Fangyu and Qin were in front, while Lian Suisui and Lian Jialiang held the food boxes in one hand and the wine in the other.
According to the rules, women are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall during sacrifices, but Lian Suisui is the only legitimate daughter of the Lian family, and her status is not lower than that of Lian Jialiang, so Lian Fangyu arranged this job for her.
She was holding the tray and couldn't see her feet. She caught a glimpse of Lian Jialiang's malicious eyes from the corner of her eye. The next moment, she stepped on a stone and her foot slipped. She twisted her foot in order to stand firm.
"Third sister, what's wrong with you?"
Lian Jialiang deliberately interrupted the sacrifice.
Lian Fangyu turned back with a warning look.
Lian Suisui took a deep breath and endured it.
"Dad, I'm fine. I don't know why my elder brother suddenly spoke."
Seeing that she was not embarrassed, Lian Jialiang made up for it: "I just saw that Third Sister's expression was wrong, and I was afraid that Third Sister was not feeling well..."
"You have to be serious when worshiping ancestors. My eldest brother is actually paying attention to my expression... Besides, I don't have any expression, so eldest brother's eyesight is dazzled."
"I care about you too..."
"okay!"
What Lian Jialiang was about to say was interrupted by Lian Fangyu, "Your sister is right. Everything depends on the occasion. Why aren't you as steady as your sister?"
Lian Jiayuan felt dissatisfied after eating Guanluo.
The floor of the ancestral hall had been cleaned countless times in advance. Where did the stones come from?
Lian Suisui glanced sideways at Lian Jialiang. If it hadn't been for him, her name would have been written upside down!
Hey, if you use vicious tricks to deal with your own sister, a dog can't change it!
It would be unworthy of a gentleman not to avenge this kind of hatred.
"kneel--"
Lian Suisui remained calm, and Lian Jialiang fell aside with an ouch and the food box together, spilling the prepared meals on the floor.
He quickly got up from the ground.
"Dad, I didn't mean it. When I knelt down, I felt like needles pricking my knees, and it suddenly hurt..."
Meeting Lian Fangyu's reproachful gaze, he suddenly pointed at Lian Suisui, "It must have been Third Sister who did it!"
Lian Suisui said innocently: "Brother, you don't want to kneel to your ancestors, you have scattered all the food for sacrifice, and you still want to accuse me wrongly? In front of your ancestors, can you tell me how I harmed you?"
Lian Jialiang really had no evidence. The sting just now was like a very fine needle pricking him. He was afraid that even the needle hole might not be found. Where did he get the evidence?
Moreover, it was he who took revenge on Lian Suisui first...
"I……"
Lian Suisui sneered: "Why, are you feeling guilty in front of your ancestors?"
She was also plotting against her own clan, and even Suisui didn't feel guilty at all. She didn't know how many times she had lifted up the ancestral tablets. She had done nothing wrong. How could she be afraid of those wooden tablets?
"It's strange to say that in order to worship the ancestors, the ancestral hall has been cleaned and inspected countless times. How could I just step on a stone and injure my foot?"
Lian Suisui lowered his head to look for the stone. Lian Fangyu saw the stone she was talking about at a glance, and his face turned livid with anger.
"Forget it if you just mess around normally, why don't you mess around with something as big as worshiping your ancestors?"
"Go out and let Jiaying come in!"
"I……"
Lian Jialiang couldn't express his sorrow, so he glared hatefully at Lian Jiaying who came across the threshold, and walked out under Zhang's worried and jealous eyes.
Mrs. Qin calmly ordered her servants to bring up the spare food box and hand it to Lian Jiaying. She said with a cold expression: "Don't delay any more. Let's continue."
Lian Jiaying looked at Lian Suisui flattered, and Lian Suisui blinked at him and reminded in a low voice: "Just help father put the food on the counter later."
Lian Jiaying nodded.
After the obeisance, wine and delicacies were served, incense was lit on the table, and everyone returned to their original place to worship their ancestors.
Lian Fangyu took out the blessing text he had written and read it out in front of everyone. He was the head of the family. Others listened, burned the blessing text, and knelt down again...
"Lian Suisui, it's you who did it!"
After the sacrifice was over and they came out of the ancestral hall, Lian Jialiang blocked Lian Suisui's path and said, "You are deliberately trying to make me look bad and you want dad to punish me, right?"
Lian Suisui rolled his eyes.
"Who hurt whom first? Didn't you throw stones to hurt me first?"
"The stone I kept in my purse to ward off evil spirits accidentally slipped out..."
Oh, even Suisui almost forgot that he has a hobby of collecting stones.
"Then tell me how I hurt you?"
Even Jialiang has no evidence.
"The little girl has such a vicious heart, be careful not to get married in the future!"
Lian Jialiang held back this sentence for a long time, and even Suisui didn't bother to pay attention to him.
"My eldest son, I call you to go to the study."
As he lingered here, Lian Fangyu sent the boy next to him to call him. Lian Jialiang's scalp went numb, and the expression on his face was as if he was about to be guillotined.
"I'll go over right away..."
He turned back and glared at Lian Suisui, his eyes threatening. Lian Suisui was not afraid at all. When he saw him walking with weak feet, he let out a tut.
It seems that he studied hard at home behind closed doors. He was not idle during the day or at night...
If you are like this, how can you get a wife in the future?
She had just mixed a few bottles of Shiquan Dabu Pills with good medicinal ingredients, and it was obvious that Lian Jialiang needed them more.
"I won't give it to you if you want. I'm using all good medicinal materials this time! Humph!"
"Third sister!"
Lian Xiao became a lot more cheerful while helping out at Miaoshou Tang, and he caught up with her after it was over.
"How is Xiaowei's injury?"
It's embarrassing to say that Lian Suisi didn't go to Miaoshou Hall as many times as Lian Xiaoxiao.
"The trauma has almost healed, but Doctor Qian said that he still needs to take medicine for a while to recover. Xiaowei is very serious, and the injury is so serious. Every time the dressing is changed, he can't help but cry."
Xiaowei only recognized Lian Suisui at first, but later she became familiar with Lian Xiaoxiao and asked her to help change the dressing.
As long as the injury is healed, she is not allowed to interfere in Yishantang's affairs, so she can only temporarily put aside the investigation of Yishantang.
"I want to use pearl powder to make a batch of facial cream to give away. Can you help me grind the pearl powder!"
The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and there are a lot of social activities during the Chinese New Year. She is really not used to using rouge and gouache in ancient times, so she simply uses pearl powder to make makeup cream, and she can go out with just one swipe!
Not only for giving away, but also for her own use.
Lian Xiaoxiao nodded in agreement.
Here, the two sisters were sitting together grinding pearl powder and preparing medicinal materials. In the study over there, Lian Jialiang asked questions, and Lian Fangyu also inspected his other homework, and was very angry.
Xiao Tao and Ye'er went to the sewing room to get embroidery thread and on their way back, they heard people talking and ran back to talk to them.
"Miss, I punished the eldest son to kneel in the ancestral hall!"
"I heard that the eldest son is not as good at studying as the second son. Aunt Zhang ran to plead with the eldest son, but she was also scolded by the master!"
Mrs. Qin didn't punish Mrs. Zhang, and made her one aunt raise her tail every day. Others dared to be angry but dared not say anything. Xiaotao was the maid next to Suisui, so she was not afraid of them!
"Miss, didn't you say that Aunt Zhang's father is our master's mentor? Why doesn't Aunt Zhang look like a daughter raised by a scholar at all? The eldest son has been taught like this by her alone!"
Lian Jialiang is short-sighted, greedy for profit, arrogant and greedy for pleasure...
Several words popped into Xiaotao's mind.
"Thankfully our wife is wise and allows each room to raise their own children. If they were raised under our wife's knees and raised like this, she would not be blamed!"
Lian Suisui poked Xiao Tao on the head with his finger.
"You're a little girl, and you still have to take care of your adopted heir?"
