When Lian Fangzhou's siblings arrived at Lian Li's home, Lian Li was very gentle, with a forced smile on his face, while Qiao's face was straight, and he snorted in his nostrils and pretended not to see their greeting.
However, after the brothers and sisters experienced wave after wave of cold-eyed and sarcastic remarks, Qiao's simple expression was of little use at all. A few people didn't take it to heart.
"Uncle, is it about to start?" Lian Fangzhou asked Lian Li with a smile.
"Well, put everything on the table!" Lian Li reluctantly nodded.
Lian Hai greeted them, giving instructions on how to arrange them, and took a moment to cast a warning glance at his mother.
Qiao's heart was filled with sullenness, and she had to scold a few words, but fortunately, she just scolded in her heart.
At that moment, the offerings were placed, the bowls and chopsticks were placed, the wine was poured, and even the sea was filled with incense. Lian Li led the crowd to kneel down and kowtow in order to kowtow. , Children and grandchildren are safe" and other words.
After three courses of wine, everyone burned the money paper in the brazier with it.
Then set off a hang of firecrackers, and it's done.
Lian Fangzhou and the others put away the fish and chicken they brought home, and Lian Hai helped out, smiling, "You guys go and prepare first, we'll go later!"
Seeing that Lian Fangzhou and the others actually wanted to take away the ancestor worship things instead of taking the initiative to keep them, Mrs. Qiao couldn't help feeling annoyed in her heart: How could they be so ignorant? Is there any reason to send something back? He ran to his own house to worship the ancestors, so what if he left some things for him!
The annoyance on Qiao's face became more and more serious, and she was about to open her mouth to find out the bad luck of Lian Fangzhou and the others, when Lian Hai happened to walk up to her, smiled and gently pushed her and said, "Mother, pack up your things." , Wash your hands, let's go to the cousins and the others later!"
Qiao Shi snorted, glared at Lian Fangzhou and others, turned and walked away.
Lian Fangzhou and his siblings left the old house, Lian Ze couldn't help laughing and said, "Sister, my aunt didn't scold anyone today!"
Lian Che immediately said: "She wanted to scold, but my cousin stopped me!"
"She listens to her cousin!" Lian Ze snorted softly.
Lian Fangzhou laughed and said, "Never mind her! If she doesn't scold us, we're happy to be quiet, but if she does, we're not easy to mess with!"
"That's right!" The siblings all laughed.
When they came back, the third aunt's grief had passed, and she greeted them with a smile, took the basket from Lian Fangzhou's hand, looked at their faces, and said with a smile: "They look good, it doesn't look like they have quarreled with others. Yes! Your eldest aunt didn't say a few words?"
Several people laughed.
"My aunt wanted to say it, but my cousin stopped me!" Lian Ze and others laughed.
"I'm talking!" Grandma Sangu slapped her thigh, and let Lian Ze and her little brother and sister go into the house to warm up, while she and Lian Fangzhou went into the kitchen.
These fish and chicken that have been sacrificed to the ancestors need to be put back into the soup and heated up before they can be sacrificed to their parents.
This side is getting ready, Lian Li and Lian Hai also came in from the outside.
"There are some trivial matters at home to be busy, so your aunt can't come!" Lian Hai said to Lian Fangzhou and the others with a smile, his eyes apologetic.
Lian Fangzhou smiled hurriedly and said, "It's okay!" None of them felt regretful or angry that Mrs. Qiao didn't come, but they felt a sense of relief.
Immediately, the offerings were placed, incense was burnt, and candles were lit. Lian Fangzhou, four siblings, and Lian Hai knelt down, while Lian Li and the third aunt stood aside.
Kowtowing her head, Lian Fangqing couldn't help crying softly with tears in her eyes.
When she cried, Lian Che couldn't help but rubbed his eyes with his hands and sobbed. Even though Fangzhou and Lian Ze didn't cry, they felt a burst of sadness.
The sadness that came from the depths of his heart suddenly swept over with a burst of momentum, and it hit Lian Fangzhou's whole heart with a dull pain.
Inexplicably, her nose was sour, and she felt a strong sense of sadness and sorrow.
It wasn't how she felt, but it felt so deeply! She knew that this was the residual consciousness of the deity who had suddenly returned at this moment!
Lian Fangzhou couldn't tell whether it was shock, fear or other feelings, and he froze there in a daze.
Until she was awakened by the voice of "Sister! Sister!"
Lian Fangzhou, who suddenly came back to her senses, saw the tense and concerned faces around her, as well as the tears on the faces of the little brothers and sisters, her heart warmed up, she forced a smile and said softly: "I It's okay, it's okay."
"Cousin Fangzhou, get up quickly! Don't be sad!" Lian Hai sighed, and said pitifully, "Second Uncle and Second Aunt don't want to see you sad either! Now that you are doing well, their spirits in heaven must feel relieved ,do not be sad!"
Lian Li and Grandma Sangu also persuaded her a few words.
Lian Fangzhou thanked her, and Lian Ze helped her up. She couldn't help but cast a glance at Lian Hai and thought to herself: My cousin never called me Fangzhou cousin before! He never seemed to look me in the eye, Aze and the others.
At this time, I heard Lian Li whispering to Grandma Sangu: "Why don't you go back to Tian's house during the winter solstice to worship ancestors? Anyway, it's your husband's house!"
The third aunt sneered, lowered her voice and said coldly: "Oh, brother, is this concerned about me? Why do you still say such things when you care about me? I'll go back? Hehe, will I have a foothold when I go back? If the Tian family wants to When I go back, I have already called someone to pick me up! It’s not like you don’t know, I’ve been back for so long, but there’s not even a message from there, I wish I never went back!”
"You!" Lian Li felt annoyed, he swung his sleeves and said "I don't know what to say!" and stopped talking.
Lian Fangzhou subconsciously remembered the situation of the third aunt at her husband's house.
Indeed, it was unbearable.
She was startled, what she remembered was not what she heard recently, but what seemed to be a long time ago. But she knew that was the truth, not her imagination.
A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and Lian Fangzhou's whole body suddenly changed color. The memory of the deity seemed to be recovering bit by bit!
Realizing this, the memory of the past in my mind seemed to become clearer again!
The corners of Lian Fangzhou's lips raised slightly, he couldn't help being secretly delighted.
After burning the money paper and setting off firecrackers, Lian Hai and Lian Li said a few gossips and left.
Lian Hai warmly smiled and invited Lian Fangzhou's siblings and the third aunt to have dinner together at night, but Lian Fangzhou politely declined.
If the uncle doesn't show it on the face, he must be unhappy in his heart, but the aunt will always show it in his heart. Lian Fangzhou didn't want to see their faces, let alone his siblings.
It's not that I don't have food at home.