Qin Mingyu was playing with his cell phone when he saw his old-fashioned grandfather walking towards him with a stern face. He immediately hid his cell phone behind him and sat on the sofa in a daze as if nothing had happened.
His grandfather was a typical stubborn old man. He always said that playing with mobile phones was bad for the eyes and the body, and that young children who played with mobile phones too much would become obsessed with them, neglect physical exercise, become addicted to the Internet and not care about the lives around them, etc. Every time he saw them playing with mobile phones, he would give them a lecture, which gave Qin Mingyu a headache.
"Grandpa? How come you have time to come here today?" Qin Mingyu asked in a half-actual and half-genuine surprise. His grandfather usually lived alone in a garden villa in the suburbs. He was too lazy to live with the younger generation like them, so he seldom came here when he had nothing to do.
"Come and see you." The old man said with a straight face. He had a hard face, a habit he had as a chief judge for decades. Sitting next to his little grandson, he looked even taller and stronger than his grandson.
Qin Mingyu unconsciously imitated his grandfather and sat up straight to avoid being scolded. Suddenly, he saw a new model of super large screen mobile phone appeared in front of him. His grandfather, who despised mobile phones, held the mobile phone he had coveted for a long time and looked at him without saying a word. Qin Mingyu instantly had an exciting guess in his mind. Could it be that this was a gift from his grandfather? ! Damn! This is really his grandfather!
"Teach me how to use this thing." Grandpa spoke.
Qin Mingyu: "Thanks... eh!?"
He figured out why his grandfather came here suddenly, and he asked him to teach him how to use the mobile phone! The sun really rose from the west, was his grandfather possessed? Feeling strange, he had to smile on his face. The humble grandson turned on the mobile phone and taught his grandfather how to use it step by step.
Seeing that his grandfather had changed his usual disdain and was studying very attentively, he couldn't help but be curious, "Grandpa, why do you suddenly want to learn how to use a mobile phone? Don't you usually dislike it?"
The old man took the phone and operated it unskillfully, adding a few friends. Now he was looking curiously at a contact whose avatar was red camellia. Qin Mingyu took a look and saw that the name of the red camellia avatar was "Shishen", and immediately puffed.
"What? Who is so bold to use this name? Isn't he afraid that old Shishen will punish him with justice?" He laughed and saw that his grandfather looked at him with disdain. He suddenly understood and jumped up from the sofa, "This... This can't really be Shishen's contact number?!"
This is really weird! Is Ujigami still playing with his cell phone
"What are you making so much noise for? You are so grown up but you are not steady at all!" The old man completely forgot that he had accidentally dropped two fine teapots when he received the news, and began to scold him: "I asked you to help prepare offerings for the family in the first month of the calendar year, but you prepared a lot of snacks directly. If your parents hadn't stopped you and the clan god hadn't blamed you, I would have spanked you! The clan god blessed you back then, and you have good inspiration, but in the end, you don't contribute to the clan at such an old age. You just eat and sleep, and play with your phone every day. You really let down the clan god's expectations! What's the use of having a grandson like you!"
"Grandpa... I haven't graduated yet, so I'll talk about contribution after I graduate." Qin Mingyu said, glancing at the contact number of the clan god on his grandfather's phone. Suddenly, a bold idea came to his mind. The clan god is so powerful, protecting the descendants of the Qin family for generations. I wonder if asking him for blessing to draw a card will be useful.
Thinking of his miserable experience of not being able to draw a gold card after 500 draws, Qin Mingyu suddenly felt that he had to try out the power of his ancestors. While his grandfather was taking a nap, he stole the old man's mobile phone, opened the page of the clan god's contact number, and bowed twice. There happened to be incense at home, so he lit three sticks.
"I pray to the God to bless me so that I can draw a gold card ten times in a row!" Just as he was about to draw after praying, he felt that this seemed a bit disrespectful. It would be a lie to ask the God for help without any offerings and without sincerity. He got excited, picked up his phone, and sent a red envelope of 200 yuan to the God.
"Thank you, ancestors, I can get two gold cards for ten consecutive draws. I'm not greedy at all!" Qin Mingyu knelt on the sofa, nervously clicked on the card draw button, and stared waiting for a miracle to happen.
The merciless white light of the copper card stung his eyes. When the fifth copper card appeared, Qin Mingyu was already desperate, and he completely believed that metaphysics could not change his fate. However, the next second, the light of the supreme golden card shone, one, two, three... five! The last five were all gold cards! This game, which is famous for its low gold card rate, has ever had such a terrible drop rate! This was his most glorious moment!
"Damn! Shishen is so awesome!" An excited roar came from the living room. Qin Mingyu was dancing in ecstasy when he suddenly heard his cell phone ding-dong. He looked down and found that his 200 yuan red envelope had been received.
Coming back to his senses from his crazy happiness, he was stunned for a moment, then realized belatedly, "Ah... So there really is someone on the other side using this account of Ujigami?"
Luo Yu'an sorted out the many new contacts on her phone. They were all well-known and senior figures in the Qin clan. She classified and annotated them one by one, and talked to the clan god from time to time. When she suddenly received a red envelope, she was particularly surprised, "Second brother, someone sent you a red envelope, look."
Having seen how respectful these elders were to the Qin clan's ancestors and gods, since these numbers were added, no one had made any noise and dared not disturb them. The first person to send out a red envelope stood out and was truly courageous and bold.
Ujigami suddenly hummed and said, "The child is too naughty."
The child is too naughty? Luo Yu'an looked at the profile picture of the person who sent the red envelope. It was a half-length portrait of an old man who looked very serious and stern. This, a child? Well, in the eyes of Shi Shen, it is indeed a child.
Ujigami said two words indifferently: "Draw a card."
Luo Yu'an was at a loss: "Draw a card? What draw a card?"
The indifferent Ujigami asked her, "Do you want to draw a card?"
Luo Yu'an: "I don't need it, why do you suddenly ask this?"
Ujigami: "The children are very happy to draw the cards."
Luo Yu'an didn't quite understand what he meant, but she still obeyed her heart, holding Shi Shen's white sleeves with one hand and said, "I am happiest when I am with my second brother."
The two women who had just entered the shrine happened to hear this, and for a moment they didn't know whether they should come in to disturb them. In broad daylight, couldn't the lady be more polite? She just said such sweet words! These young people are so unmodest!
The two daughters looked at the several mobile phones and tablets in front of the lady and felt that they really needed to retire. They came today to ask for permission to retire.
For the Qin clan, being a clan daughter is a lifelong career. They cannot get married and need to stay here all year round to serve the clan god. In return, their families will be compensated, and their status in the clan will be extremely special. They are respected by everyone, not to mention food, clothing and shelter. Staying with the clan god, they will naturally have the health and longevity that ordinary people dream of, and they will be properly taken care of when they retire.
In the past, there were many women in the tribe who came to serve the clan god, but in recent years, with the development and changes in society, fewer and fewer young people volunteered to be clan daughters, because many people were unwilling to endure decades of loneliness. Even the two they chose did not have the piety of the people in the past.
Thinking back to when they were young and had just become maidens, the two maidens felt a little sad and melancholy. They also felt ashamed that they had not fulfilled their duties and trained qualified successors.
"We are both old and can no longer serve the god. From now on, these two children will continue our responsibilities."
Two little girls dressed in clan women's clothes walked up respectfully and kowtowed. They were just adults, about one or two years older than her younger sister. Luo Yu'an remembered them.
In the past, I always saw them in the outer courtyard reciting various prayers with the clan daughter. One of them was very greedy, especially fond of small cakes. She would pull the sleeve of the clan god to eat secretly. She caught this child eating secretly several times. Another one secretly played with her mobile phone, playing the same girl development game as her sister before, which also left a deep impression on her.
The two little girls seldom saw the clan god, and suddenly they took over the heavy responsibility of being clan daughters. They were uneasy but pretended to be calm.
The god raised his hand to the two elderly women, who would leave in two days after unloading their burdens. Their eyes were red as they looked at their gods devoutly. The god touched their foreheads, which were covered with traces of time, twice, as if comforting two children.
This was his blessing. In his long life, there had never been someone who could always accompany him. Even the life of these children was only a few short decades for him. He had experienced countless such lives.
“Thank you for your care over the past few decades, but we failed to take good care of you… We are really ashamed, and we hope you can be happier in the future.” The two old ladies finally shed tears and glanced at Luo Yu'an who was watching quietly beside them. For the first time, they did not show a critical look, but instead felt relieved.
The two daughters retired and the new daughters took over. Probably because every daughter was required to be dignified and serious, the two girls, who were 18 or 19 years old and liked to talk and laugh in private, put on a serious face as soon as they entered the shrine, and imitated the two old daughters in a proper manner.
However, in Luo Yu'an's opinion, the two of them were really like children. When she looked at them, she always thought of her own sister, so she loved them and treated them very gently.
The two little girls grew up listening to all kinds of terrible rumors about the clan god. In contrast, Mrs. Luo Yu'an seemed gentle and amiable. Her temperament was so harmless that it didn't take long for the two girls to be able to laugh and joke with her even when the clan god was not present.
However, the "situation where the clan god was not present" refers to the "situation where the two little clan girls could not see the clan god." The two little girls sat in the outer courtyard, watching Luo Yu'an play games, discussing games with her, and chatting casually, completely unaware that the clan god they respected and feared was floating aside.
Although he had a cold mask, Luo Yu'an always felt that her second brother liked to stay by her side more than before... It could also be the charm of the mobile phone. When she went to the outer courtyard to charge it, he would follow her, but he hid his figure so that no one could see him.
"Sister An, it's troublesome for you to charge the battery outside every day. Why not ask someone to install a battery inside the shrine?" the girl named Ming Hui suggested. Of course, if it weren't for Luo Yu'an, she would never dare to make such a "treasonous" suggestion, because any change in the shrine would be frightening.
Luo Yu'an said: "Forget it, it's not that much trouble." In fact, she felt that her second brother, who was a bit addicted to the Internet at an old age, was very cute when he silently followed her outside to charge his phone when it ran out of battery.
"Sister An, I brought back the takeaway!" Ming Huang came back with a bunch of takeaways and quickly put all the snacks on the table, slurping his saliva as he did so. "When I was in school, I could occasionally eat a little secretly. Since I moved to the old house, I can't eat these anymore. There is no takeaway delivered here at all. I feel embarrassed to mobilize a lot of people to buy them every day. Hehe, now I can finally get some food from Sister An."
"Sister An, can you still taste what you are eating now?"
"Yes, but I don't feel full. It's the same as not eating."
"This is so great. I won't gain weight, and I can eat and drink as much as I want without worrying about getting a stomachache. It's the ultimate enjoyment."
Luo Yu'an watched them smile, but when he looked at his second brother floating beside him, he felt uncomfortable. If only he could taste these flavors.
A cool hand touched her cheek soothingly.
"Sister An, I have always had a question. Can you answer it for me?" Ming Huang suddenly came over stealthily and asked in a low voice.
"What?"
"I absolutely, absolutely don't mean to offend you! I'm just extremely curious!"
"Okay, I'm not angry, go ahead and ask."
"You and..." Ming Huang pointed to the shrine in a low and cautious voice, his eyes full of thirst for knowledge and gossip, "You are husband and wife, so do you have a married life? Is it the same as us humans?"
Kids nowadays really dare to ask anything.
She didn't know how to answer, she just felt her second brother's sleeves on her shoulders, his fingers touching her neck, and he gently called her: "An."
Moved by this shout, Luo Yu'an took a breath and put the chicken wing in front of Ming Huang, "Eat more."
Ming Huang groaned and groaned, still trying to get clarification. She pressed her sleeve on her shoulder so no one could see it, smiled, and threatened the child, "If you keep asking, you'll be cursed."
Ming Huang immediately cowered and bowed twice to the shrine, "I was wrong, I was wrong, please forgive me!"