HCB Chapter 278 ancestor worship
Chapter 278 ancestor worship
Lin Chuyi put the matter aside for the time being and concentrated on preparing for the New Year. Although she treated the matter coldly, Lin Chuyi believed that as long as she revealed a hint of her desire to return to the Lin clan, the elders of the Lin clan would come to her the next day and would even offer many favorable conditions to get them to return to the clan.
But the problem is that Lin Chuyi doesn't care about the bargaining chips that the other party can offer. She will never let her family fall into a passive situation again for such a small profit.
Her choice to take the cold approach did not mean that she forgave the other party's behavior of deliberately acting without authorization while she was not at home. She was just planning to settle the score later.
After the New Year, the whole family will move to the county, and they can use this incident to write something about it. However, this is all after the New Year, and what she needs to do now is to have a good New Year.
It’s just that they can’t go to the ancestral temple to worship. It’s like they care about who they are. If they are not allowed to go, it’s the same if they set up a table at home to worship.
Early this morning, the Lin family got up. Aunt Huang set up a square table in the middle of the yard. Various fruits, snacks and fresh meats were placed in order in the front of the table.
In the middle part, a plucked rooster is enshrined on the left, and a plucked duck is enshrined on the right.
At the back are various staple foods, as well as wooden chopsticks and fruit wine. Of course, in addition to these offerings, there is also an indispensable incense burner.
Under the guidance of Aunt Huang, Lin Jinxiu held three burning incense sticks, silently recited her parents' names, knelt down on the straw mat in front of the table and kowtowed three times, then stood up and inserted the incense sticks in her hand into the incense burner.
Lin Chuyi and his two siblings followed closely behind and did the same, bowing their heads in front of the incense table.
Before 01 fell asleep, Lin Chuyi once asked 01 privately whether this world was really like what was said in the myths, that after death the soul could go to the underworld and be reincarnated.
After all, the fact that she can appear here now has already proved that the soul really exists.
01 clearly told her that the rules of this world are incomplete and a complete reincarnation system has not yet evolved. Therefore, each person has only one life. After death, the soul will leave the body, but it will not exist forever in the world as described in novels and storybooks. Instead, it will gradually weaken with the passage of time and eventually disappear into thin air.
The length of time a soul exists in the world varies depending on the strength of the soul. A stronger soul can exist for three to five days, while a weaker soul generally only exists for one to two days.
The strength of a soul depends on its state before death. If one dies with strong emotions of resentment, resentment, concern, worry, etc., then the soul of such a person will be relatively stronger. But this does not mean that they will become wandering ghosts like in the stories, using their souls to complete unfinished business in their lifetime.
Once the soul leaves the body, it is heading towards extinction. They will gradually forget about their past lives, and obsession only prolongs the process of disappearance.
Therefore, Lin Chuyi knew very well that the souls of her original body's parents and herself had long since ceased to exist in the world, and such a sacrifice was of no use at all. However, she still followed Lin Jinxiu's example and completed the entire process of the sacrifice.
In Lin Chuyi's opinion, such sacrifices were just a custom, mainly to express people's longing for their deceased relatives. There was no need for her to jump out and act like an expert at this time.
After kowtowing, they started to burn paper money. When the incense sticks were burned out, the paper money they had prepared was almost burned. When the fire was completely extinguished, Aunt Huang removed the incense table, and Lin Chuyi started to eat the chickens and ducks on the table.
Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. Lin Chuyi thought it was not good to let the three little girls celebrate the New Year alone in the county, so she asked Grandpa Huang to drive a horse-drawn carriage to the town to pick them up early this morning. They are probably almost in the county by now. There are many people at home today, so she has to cook more dishes.
While Lin Chuyi and Aunt Huang were chatting and laughing, and cooperating with each other to prepare today's offerings into various delicacies, Uncle Huang had already picked up the three girls from Piaomiao Pavilion and was waving his whip, driving the horses back.
By the time Lin Chuyi and the others had prepared the meal, Grandpa Huang had just driven the carriage into the yard.
It is better to arrive at the right time than to arrive in time. They came back just in time to have a hot meal.
Lin Chuyi invited the three girls who were a little awkward to eat at the same table with Aunt Huang and the others. There was no rule in their family not to talk while eating, and Aunt Huang was a talkative person, so under her leadership, Lichun and the other three quickly relaxed.
The family had a lively lunch together. After the meal, Aunt Huang took the three girls to clean up their rooms.
Lin Chuyi asked Grandpa Huang to pick them up on a whim, so their room was not tidied up. However, all the rooms in the house had been cleaned a few days ago, so now they just needed to wipe it briefly, put down new bedding, and move in.
The three girls had no objection to Aunt Huang asking them to help clean up the room; they even felt relieved.
Although Lin Chuyi, Lin Jinxiu and other store managers of Piaomiao Pavilion were very friendly to the three of them, this was the first time they had spent so much time with them in a non-work setting, and they were somewhat nervous. In addition, they were new to the place and unfamiliar with the new environment, which made them even more nervous.
At this time, they wished that Lin Chuyi would assign them some work to do, otherwise they would feel uncomfortable just sitting there.
Aunt Huang asked them to clean up the room together, which was exactly what they wanted. In their opinion, Aunt Huang was warm and considerate, and was of the same status as them. They would feel more comfortable in front of Aunt Huang. Moreover, Aunt Huang asked them to clean up the room for them to live in, so they had no reason to refuse.
So the three girls followed Aunt Huang. While cleaning the room, Aunt Huang's talkative nature came into play again, and she chatted with the three of them many interesting things in her daily life.
Through Aunt Huang's words, Lixia and the other two gradually deepened their understanding of every family member in this family. Their uneasy mood gradually relaxed, and they were no longer as reserved as before when getting along with Lin Chuyi and the others.
New Year's Eve arrived in a blink of an eye. After the family had breakfast, they cleaned up the table and sat around two tables to prepare making dumplings.
Uncle Huang and Aunt Huang were responsible for chopping the dumpling stuffing, Lin Chuyi was responsible for mixing the stuffing, Lin Jinxiu and Madam Shen were responsible for rolling the dumpling wrappers, and the three girls and three children were responsible for making the dumplings.
Lin Chuyi is undoubtedly the best at making dumplings among all the people in the family. She is capable of every step. Although she only assigns herself the task of mixing the fillings, she is not idle at all.