Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 285 ancestor worship
Wan Zhigao supported Jiang Shi and was about to leave, reasoning, at this time Mai Xiang and Huai Ci should stand up and give them away, who knows that Mai Xiang would be burying his head in eating hard, but Huai Ci kept picking up vegetables for Mai Xiang, Both of them ignored Jiang's increasingly gloomy face.

"Mai Xiang, thanks to the fact that you are still literate, where is the morality of this woman? You can't be your parents, you can't be your husband, what's the use of a woman like you?" Jiang said sarcastically.

Mai Xiang was about to speak, Huai Ci stood up and said first: "Madam, this marriage was arranged by the emperor, if you deny Mai Xiang so much, do you mean that the emperor has misread it?"

"You?" Jiang's anger suddenly froze, and with all her courage, she would not dare to say that the emperor's eyes are clumsy.

"Zhiyuan, this is your mother. Don't be disrespectful to your mother. Your mother is right about one thing. You are a man and a husband. It is her duty for a woman to serve you. This principle works everywhere. " Wan Chengyao spoke.

"Father, Mai Xiang is not just a woman to me. It can be said that without her, I wouldn't be where I am today. In this life, no matter how much I love her, I can't do too much." Huai Ci looked at Wan Chengyao and said.

"Father, mother, the second brother is newly married, as long as the second brother is happy, you don't want to meddle in these innocuous matters." Seeing that his father was also disgraced, Wan Zhigao hurriedly persuaded him.

Of course, Wan Zhigao knew that Huaici returned to the academy after getting married and had a certain financial foundation. So to a certain extent, it was Mai Xiang who made Huaici what he is today, so Huaici was able to Will be so careful about Mai Xiang.

Wan Zhigao knew this, and Wan Chengyao and Jiang Shi naturally knew this too. Because of this, Jiang Shi hated Mai Xiang so much. Without Mai Xiang, she wouldn't have such a headache today.

When Mai Xiang saw these three people staring at her, how could she have any appetite?Also got up to go back, Pian Huaici asked carefully: "Are you full? Do you want to pick up some favorites and go back to the room to eat?"

"No, I'm done eating, but my wife, do you want to send some snacks?" Mai Xiang stood up and asked.

"You don't need to be courteous." Jiang snorted, turned around and helped Wan Zhigao to leave.

Wan Chengyao originally wanted to reprimand Huaici a few words, but looking at the exquisite and beautiful face in front of him suddenly touched his long-standing memory, that woman who always had a bright smile in his memory, even if she was tortured by Jiang later When she was skinny and sick, she also had a slight smile on her face. Speaking of it, he was the one who betrayed her, but she left him such an excellent son.

Wan Chengyao sighed, stood up, and patted Huaici's shoulder, "Son, take your wife to rest while the meeting is over."

Uh?What's the situation?Mai Xiang was a little stunned, Big Bad Wolf is going to transform into a loving father?
Huaici also looked at Wan Chengyao with some puzzlement. Over the years, it seemed that this was the first time his father called him "son".

Wan Chengyao didn't dare to meet Huai Ci's eyes, turned his head away in embarrassment, wanted to say something, saw the maid beside him, sighed, turned and left.

Huaici saw Wan Chengyao's back turning and disappeared, so he ordered a woman to pick up a few meals and put them in food boxes, and found a lantern and put it in Mai Xiang's hand. He was holding the food in one hand. He took Mai Xiang out of Jiang's courtyard with one hand, walked out of the Crescent Gate along a corridor, and returned to the inner courtyard of Erjin. Huai Ci said, this is the place where the old man and the old lady lived, but unfortunately it was so dark Yes, Mai Xiang can't see anything.

Still going along the veranda, I turned to a small door and entered an east-west veranda with a small courtyard on each side. Huaici said that this was the place where Aunt Wan Baocai lived. At the end of the veranda was a high wall with a Huai Ci held Mai Xiang's hand tightly through the small round door. Through this small door, there was a cross alleyway with high walls on all sides, but for some reason, Mai Xiang felt a little gloomy and frightening.

This time, he walked about 30 to [-] meters, exited a corner gate, entered a courtyard, and finally arrived at the place where Huai Ci lived.

Even a person with such a sense of direction as Mai Xiang was stunned.

At this time, Mai Xiang realized that the Wan family, as the richest man in Changhe Town, did not come from it, but indeed had some family background.

Just thought of one thing, with so many properties in Wan's family, Huaici was locked up in such a small remote place since he was a child, without any relatives around him, not even a servant, everyone seemed to have forgotten him, only Feng Xiang's His mother came to bring him some food every day, and Mai Xiang's heart was full of sourness, not knowing how he spent the first three years.

The Wan family is indeed cold-blooded, even if the Jiang family hates Huaici and abuses Huaici, but if the old man, the old lady, and Wan Chengyao have a little bit of affection for Huaici, the Jiang family can't cover up the sky like this.

"What's the matter?" Huaici asked joyfully seeing Mai Xiang hugging herself actively.

"I miss you."

"Lucky to have you." Huai Ci quickly realized what Mai Xiang was talking about, and returned Mai Xiang with a tight hug.

That night, Mai Xiang fell asleep amid Huai Ci's eloquent narration.

Although this yard is remote, it has the advantage of facing the street.In addition, there were two jujube trees in the yard. Huaici had learned to climb the trees to pick dates since he was a child, and even sneaked out of the courtyard wall and ran outside to exchange the dates for eggs.Later, I felt bored, and started raising a few chicks, talking to them every day, and then the chicks grew up and started laying eggs. He learned how to boil, fry, and bake eggs, and learned a lot from it. pleasure.

That night, both Mai Xiang and Huai Ci had the same dream. In the dream, the little boy kept coaxing a little girl with eggs, so that when he woke up the next morning, Mai Xiang said that he wanted to eat baked eggs.

When the two were getting bored, Jiang sent his mother-in-law to pass the message, telling Huai Ci to take Mai Xiang to the ancestral hall immediately.

Only then did Mai Xiang know that when she came here yesterday, there was a tall compound in the cross alley, which was the ancestral hall of the Wan family. No wonder Mai Xiang felt gloomy, and the small courtyard where Huai Ci lived was only ten meters away from the ancestral hall. !

When Mai Xiang and Huaici were standing at the entrance of the Wan's Ancestral Hall, Jiang and Wan Chengyao had already arrived, and they were placing sacrifices with Wan Zhigao inside.

Mai Xiang stepped into the threshold of the ancestral hall, only to feel a gust of wind, and she retracted her foot.

Coincidentally, this scene was seen by Jiang Shi, and Jiang Shi sneered: "Will you know that you are afraid?"

When Mai Xiang heard this, she became courageous, walked into the ancestral hall a few steps, and said without looking around, "What am I afraid of? There are gods three feet up, and the ancestors of the Wan family are watching."

Wan Chengyao frowned after hearing this, and said, "Shut up and be quiet."

Mai Xiang shut up honestly, but she still didn't dare to look up at the memorial tablets on the case table, it was really scary, she was really scared.

Huaici seemed to perceive Mai Xiang's fear, and held Mai Xiang's trembling hand.This is also the reason why he had to accompany Mai Xiang back. Not to mention how the Jiang family would make things difficult for Mai Xiang, he was worried about letting a little girl like Mai Xiang live in such a remote courtyard, let alone letting Mai Xiang be alone. Standing in this gloomy place kowtowed.

Because the Wan family's ancestral hall, in addition to the men can enter, even the women of the Wan family can enter, and the maids and women are all three feet away from the gate, because they are afraid that the yin will overwhelm the ancestors.

"Mai Xiang, wipe these tablets with a cloth," Jiang ordered.

"Ma'am, it's my life..."

"I'll do the job." Huai Ci said first.

Wan Chengyao glanced at Jiang Shi and Mai Xiang, and said, "The butler said they just wiped it off."

After Wan Chengyao finished speaking, he lit three incense sticks and knelt down first. Wan Zhigao knelt behind him, Huai Ci also knelt down on Wan Zhigao's right, and Mai Xiang knelt down behind Jiang Shi.

"The unworthy descendant Wan Chengyao brought his son to visit the ancestors. Thanks to the blessings of the ancestors this year, the weather has been good and the business is booming. The youngest son Zhiyuan, also called Huaici, won the Juren and married a wife. I also ask the ancestors to bless him next year. Test the title of the gold list, and continue to bless the prosperity of Wanjia's family business." After Wan Chengyao finished speaking, he led the crowd to kowtow three times.

After Wan Chengyao got up, Jiang Shi and Wan Zhigao also got up. Seeing Huaici and Mai Xiang standing up, Jiang Shi said: "Mai Xiang, didn't you say that you want to kowtow for Zhiyuan and ask his ancestors to bless him for his title on the gold list? This Juren I only kowtowed 81 heads, how can this Jinshi have to double?"

Mai Xiang looked at Jiang's smiling face, and said with a smile: "My wife doesn't know, my 81 heads were kowtowed to the Buddha. Excuse me, under the whole world, ah, no, within the Three Realms , who can be greater than the Buddha?"

"Mai Xiang is also right, you just look at the meaning." After Wan Chengyao finished speaking, he glared at Jiang Shi.

Huai Ci held Mai Xiang's hand, knelt down, and said: "The ancestors of the Wan family, the unworthy descendants Huai Ci and his wife Mai Xiang came to kowtow to you, please bless her with good health and worry-free life, long and long stay by my side."

After Huaici finished speaking, he solemnly kowtowed nine times.

"You, you're really mad at me..." Wan Chengyao was so angry that he didn't know what to say, and turned around twice by himself.

On the contrary, Jiang Shi had a smile on his face when he heard Huaici's words, she didn't want the ancestors of the Wan family to bless Huaici.

Unfortunately, before the smile on Jiang's face went down, he heard Mai Xiang chanting: "There are gods standing three feet above your head, whether it's the ancestors of the Wan family, or the gods and Bodhisattvas passing by, the little girl is here to pray sincerely." The man next to me, Wan Huaici, is a descendant of the Changhe Wan family. He has suffered a lot and suffered a lot in these years. I know that a person who wants to do great things must first work hard. His body is hungry, his body is empty, and his behavior is chaotic, so he is tempted to endure and gain what he can't. Because of this, we regard the past sufferings as the trials of life. Now, it is the most difficult time in his life. When the key is the most important, please bless him to be named on the gold list in the coming year, bless him with a smooth official career, and bless him with a long life, in this life, no matter rich or poor, poor or sick, I will be by his side and never leave."

After Mai Xiang finished speaking, she solemnly kowtowed nine times.

(End of this chapter)