After looking at the genealogy, Pei Ziyun went into the side hall of the ancestral hall and read a copy of the Pei family genealogy.
This Pei family genealogy is very thin. The first page records the history of the Pei family, which can be traced back four hundred years. The second page is the grandfather's generation, and the third page is the father's generation, as well as the current men.
Pei Ziyun looked down for a long time before putting it down. The third uncle said, "It's almost time. Let's go back to the village. The shed and stage have been set up. Let's enjoy it."
"Okay!" Pei Ziyun nodded and went out. When he went out, he saw Pei Qian's eyes were red, and there was a brazier burning paper.
Today is the opening of the ancestral hall. According to the rules, women are not allowed to enter, but they can enter normally. Pei Qian burned paper money at the door today and talked with tears.
"Mother, look!"
Mrs. Pei Qian took the election document and saw the big seal of the state capital on it. Her hands were trembling. She thought of her husband-in-law. Before his body entered the ancestral hall, he secretly enshrined it at home. In the blink of an eye, it had been more than ten years. She suddenly cried: "Ms. sir, when you were alive, you said that you hoped that Pei'er could be a high school candidate and honor your ancestors. Now that Pei'er has been selected, I have been waiting for more than ten years, and finally this day has come."
Mrs. Pei Qian cried sadly, and Pei Ziyun's eyes turned red and tears fell.
Mrs. Pei Qian choked up, and after crying, she felt a little relaxed. She stood up and said, "Ms. sir, I am finally worthy of you and the Pei family."
The moment Pei Qian stood up, Pei Ziyun felt the plum blossoms vibrating. He must have completed the task of elevating people, so he said: "I will put this document on the incense table to show to the ancestors."
This is also what it should be. Everyone didn't think it was strange. They saw Pei Ziyun go in. It's strange to say that this ancestral hall was first built. I didn't feel anything when I entered it. Now I felt something different, a little cold and a little gloomy. , somewhat empty and dark, with a scent lingering.
"system!"
A small white plum appeared in front of me, and it quickly enlarged into a translucent information frame, with a line of red text appearing: Get the exam and fulfill the family's wish (completed, available for extraction)."
"extract!"
A white petal appeared between the eyebrows, and in a moment, a red but transparent petal formed beside it, and the little auras were like starlight.
Pei Ziyun took a deep breath when he saw it.
"Half of the second petal has been obtained, and I can absorb the Tao Yun."
"It's a pity that this kind of sustenance is more rare than literary thought."
"This is not something that everyone has sustenance for, but it is the result of one person's hard work and hard work for ten years. This is simply sincerity."
"If you are sincere, gold and stone will have spirit. This is your sustenance."
"If one out of a hundred is honest in literature and truth, that would be considered a good thing."
"But last time when Black Wind Pirates was practicing casually, the skills and heat were not worthy of a smile, but he put this sincerity in his heart and put it into his actions, so it became his sustenance."
Pei Ziyun stood in the ancestral hall, shook his head and sighed: "Now it's easier for me."
"The original owner has suffered many disasters. He is afraid that if he just gives me plum blossoms, I will not fulfill his great wish. I have set restrictions in this life and will not grant permissions if he cannot satisfy them. This really gives me a headache."
"But that's right. If the original owner didn't set the permissions, I would have found a loophole to bypass it and enter the immortal gate. What responsibility would I have to bear? I fight day and night, and people come to harm me from time to time?"
After sighing for a moment, Pei Ziyun came to his senses, the plum blossoms disappeared between his brows, he put the document on the incense table, bowed, and turned to leave.
The spiritual place is the place where the soul temporarily resides. If you place it in an ancestral hall, you will be in a big house. If you place it at home, you will feel uneasy. Therefore, the ancestral hall is actually Yin and cannot stay for a long time.
There is a spiritual light on the spiritual tablet, and a humanoid shadow appears in the spiritual position. It seems to be composed of smoke, with a trace of black energy on the body. If it were not isolated by a spell, I am afraid it would have been gray.
But when the minister submitted the document, he saw a sliver of white light, tinged with red, and the sliver of black energy suddenly decreased a bit, and a thin layer of light enveloped the body, making it difficult for the black energy to corrode.
The ghostly figure on the spiritual tablet was fifty-six times similar to Pei Ziyun. At this moment, he looked at Pei Ziyun leaving and called softly: "Ping Niang, Yun'er."
There was a talisman attached to the back of the spiritual tablet, which gradually burned and turned into ashes as it appeared.
The shadow of the middle-aged man also turned into ashes along with the talisman, hidden in the spiritual position, and disappeared. Almost at the same time, in a Taoist temple, a middle-aged Taoist was practicing, and suddenly felt something, and sighed: "Brother Yuan Shen, you The bad fate is gone and it’s worth celebrating.”
After Pei Ziyun left the house, he heard the crackling of firecrackers and headed back to the village.
The last time I was selected as a scholar, there was already a lot of excitement. This time, the reed shed built was larger. Fish, chickens, boiled meat, and fried meatballs were being slaughtered. The smell of meat was even more permeating. When Pei Ziyun returned home, he saw an empty field in front of him. There was a table set up in the reed shed in front of the empty field. This was the seat of the nearby squires and scholars. They all greeted him with a smile.
Pei Ziyun smiled and accepted, and said to the inspector: "Sir, please take a seat."
"Please, Mr. Jie Yuan!" They greeted each other politely and took their seats.
There was no reed shed behind. Cao San, who came with the inspection, brought a team of archers to the table, and some landlords, boys, and doctors set up a stage in the center. When the guests were seated, they shouted: "Let the show begin!"
While singing a drama about adding officers and knights, Pei Ziyun couldn't help but smile. At this time, people were sitting down, the play started, and the dishes were served one after another.
Pei Ziyun toasted one by one, saying that even if he was doing inspections, it was actually a military man who spoke out. At the beginning, he sat up high and enjoyed the scenery and chatted. He discussed "Today's lawsuits are equal, taxes are equal, government is open to people, people are harmonious", and "the production of goods in this county is gradually increasing". After a few glasses of wine, I suddenly felt drunk and staring straight at the stage.
As for the back, they were even better at making fists, guessing riddles and giving orders. Everyone turned red in the face and had a big banquet, drinking from dusk to night.
In the evening Mrs. Pei Qian was a little chatty, and she pulled Pei Ziyun to talk in detail, talking a lot, mostly about Pei's father. It was a little late at night, so she put it down and went to sleep. Pei Ziyun was not tired of it. He checked around and saw that in the side room, While inspecting a room, I was snoring while sleeping.
Cao San and several other archers were left in a room with quilts spread on the floor, and they were also snoring.
"This inspection is really capable. He can bend and stretch." Many people always think that Wu people are straightforward. In fact, this impression is wrong. Didn't you see that this person has changed his attitude towards Pei Ziyun many times
However, this is human nature. If Pei Ziyun is admitted to Jinshi, he will naturally not need to make friends with him—the inspection status is too low.
But if you want to enter the Immortal Sect and you are just a civil servant, then it is just right and complement each other. One is a person with real power who controls the county's law enforcement power, and the other is Jieyuan who has a reputation and is famous throughout the province.
Thinking of Pei Ziyun turning around, although these things can be spent more time on, it is not the most important thing now. It is about absorbing the sustenance, shaping the spiritual roots, and achieving Taoism, and then entered the room.
Up to now, although the ancestral house is a bit narrow, Pei Ziyun has already planned to overthrow and build a new one. However, the bedroom is elegantly decorated, with the walls covered with mulberry paper, a wooden couch inside, a screen in the middle, and a bookshelf under the window. Pei Ziyun just feels like it. He ran to the bookshelf and took out a volume from it.
This old and rough-edged book was placed under the pillow. When I lay down on it, I felt my head just resting on the pillow and I was already falling into a deep sleep.
… …
There was nothing in front of me, and voices came from far away.
Standing in the crowd, looking at the sound of firecrackers exploding in front of me, people crowded past and shouted: "The sedan is here, the bride is here!"
The gongs and drums of suonas were beating continuously, and the wedding team was getting closer and closer. The red color made people's eyes hurt, and the groom was seen on the street.
The groom is riding on a white horse with a big red flower tied on his chest. He is smiling and holding his hands to the left and right, followed by a sedan chair.
He seemed to want to move forward, but he couldn't move a step.
"Wen Niang—"
It seemed to be a shout, so weak that even I couldn't hear it, but the sedan seemed to move slightly, and a corner of it was exposed towards this side.
He looked steadily and saw a pair of bright, tearful eyes.
For a moment, they saw each other, and for another moment, someone bumped into them, and they were pushed to one side. When they looked up again, the sedan chair had passed.
People dispersed in twos and threes and took a deep breath. The sky turned into darkness and the wind blew harder and harder.
"Don't you regret it?"
"This is your most beloved girl."
"..." He left quickly, for the sake of cultivating Taoism, how could he look back, but the tears were mixed with deep and shallow tears. I don't know how long it took, but there were faint voices in the distance, and he came to a house. It was quiet inside, and no one was there. Inside, the inner door was opened, and a man was spinning with gray hair and difficult movements.
"mother!"
The wind became louder and louder, and there was blood on her cheeks. I reached out and touched it. I only saw her white hair in my eyes. I came closer and stretched out my hand: "Mom!"
It was a long rainy night, and just before she raised her head, everything disappeared.
… …
"Ah!" Pei Ziyun turned over and realized that he had only slept for a moment, and the newly lit candle was burning. Tears rolled down his face. An indescribable emotion passed through his chest, and his body was trembling slightly.
If there is a dream, it will be the same as the previous few times.
A young boy originally had the hope of becoming a scholar, but one day he got a Taoist book, which ignited his desire for immortality.
He ignored his old mother and didn't see the tears of his beloved. He devoted himself to cultivating the Tao and struggled hard on the path to immortality. In the blink of an eye, everything left him.
The sun was setting and the journey was far away, so he went in the opposite direction. He lost his mother due to illness and lost her. He threw himself even more crazily into practicing Taoism, even if he was a thief or a thief, even if he practiced evil methods.
In the blink of an eye, more than ten years passed, but the long-lasting vision broke through and was like a dream in a trance. When he died, a deep-rooted despair penetrated the heart and spleen.
"Are you sorry?"
I regretted it, and just wanted to go back to the past, when I burned Taoist books, read sages, made my mother laugh, married the beloved girl, and no longer followed the path of Taoism.
After waking up from the dream, Pei Ziyun touched his face and felt his tears. A kind of despair still lingered in his heart for a long time. This was his obsession before death.
After calming down, the emotion gradually dissipated.
Although it was still midnight, there were still crickets chirping outside. When he opened the window, a bright moon hung in the sky. When the moonlight came in, Pei Ziyun pointed at a tree vine.
The trees and vines are independent of the wind, but they already have spiritual roots.
(End of chapter)