People in Xigui usually go to visit tombs on the eve of the Qingming Festival. After dinner on Friday, Jin Lily received a call from home, saying that everyone was going to visit tombs on Saturday and asked her to go back and cook.

Jin Baihe covered the phone and asked in a low voice: "Brother, my mother called me just now and said that we are going to visit the graves of our grandparents tomorrow. Should we go back today or tomorrow?"

The Mu family was alone in Xigui, so naturally he was the only one who went to visit the tomb. It was just a "dry plate" that was prepared for the tomb-sweeping, because the family did not kill the New Year pig, so naturally there were no sausages or bacon.

. So I plan to buy some to prepare for the tomb sweeping tomorrow.

"Go back tomorrow."

Jin Lily made an "OK" gesture and said to the phone, "Mom, we'll be back early tomorrow morning."

"Oh. It's all fine. I just don't know if anyone sells sausages and bacon."

"What's wrong? Do you want to buy sausages and bacon?"

"Yeah. I'm going to buy some and make some 'dry dishes' to visit grandpa's grave."

"What else are you going to buy? Just go and cut some at home."

"It's not good. It was made at home."

"What's the difference between what's in my home and what's in your home and what you buy? The main thing is to achieve the effect of offering sacrifices to the ancestors and immortals. How about you buy some more fruits and go home."

"Okay. Then let's buy some fruits and go back tomorrow morning."

"OK."

Early the next morning, the two bought a lot of fruit and hurried back to Datang. They got off the car on Jinjia Road and entered the house.

When Mrs. Jin saw the two men coming back with a lot of fruit, she quickly said, "Why did you buy so much fruit?"

Jin Lily was the first to say, "I asked him to buy less. He said that there would be too many people and he was worried that there wouldn't be enough food. So he bought so much." After saying that, he turned around and looked at Mu Yi and made a cute one.

grimace.

Although Mu Yi was a little confused, he still understood that the main purpose of Jin Lily's words was to improve the family's goodwill towards Mu Yi.

After hearing what Jin Lily said, Jin's mother turned around and went back to the room, took a hundred yuan and handed it to Mu Yi. "Yao Yao. Take it."

Mu Yi looked at Jin's mother in confusion: "Honey, what are you doing?"

"This is your money to buy fruit. Take it quickly."

Mu Yi quickly declined.

Jin Lily hurriedly helped Mu Yi out. "Mom, have you prepared the 'dry dishes'? Why are there two portions?"

Mother Jin forced the money into Mu Yi's hand and hurriedly walked to the kitchen. "That's it. I thought that no one in Mu Yi's family was in Datang, so these things might not be prepared. So I prepared one by the way.

.After a while, Mu Yi will take a copy and give it to his family to ‘worship the mountain’.”

Before Mu Yi could mention this, Jin's mother had already prepared the "dry dishes", which really moved Mu Yi. He quickly followed him to the kitchen and put the "dry dishes" into the basket with Jin Lily.

Mu Yi was hesitant to ask Jin Lily to visit the grave. Jin Lily then said, "Brother, let me go with you."

"You followed me. What about here?" Mu Yi was a little worried that the relatives here had arrived, and they would also go to the mountain to sweep their tombs together. But the place where they would sweep their tombs was not in the same place as the place where Mu Yi would sweep his tombs.

"It doesn't matter. The uncle's house and the third uncle's house are both here. Only the second uncle's house is in Chengguan. When they arrive, they usually have to cook some noodles before going. We can win by going back quickly.

of."

Mu Yi saw that Jin's mother had no objection, so he took Jin Lily to visit the grave. After leaving the house, Mu Yi gave the one hundred yuan to Jin Lily.

"what does this mean?"

"What my maid just gave me, she said it was money to buy fruit."

"Mom gave it to you, and you really took it?"

"I didn't want to take it. But she forced it on me. What can I do? Now I'll give it to you. You can find a way to take it back."

"You are also very stupid. You can buy other things instead and return them in disguise."

The two came to the intersection of Datang Primary School and bought some fragrant wax paper money firecrackers from a paper fire shop on the roadside. Then they walked up the mountain from the branch road.

The mountain roads in this area have been covered with thorns since the farmland was converted into forests. There have been fewer people going up the mountain.

Mu Yi picked up a wooden stick on the roadside. He used the wooden stick to hit the thorns in front of him to clear the way, while holding Jin Lily and crawling hard. After a lot of effort, he finally reached the grave of Grandpa Mu Yi.

Grandpa's tomb was hidden among the trees and was already overgrown with weeds. Mu Yi asked Jin Lily to find a flat stone slab to sit on and rest, and then he went to clean up the weeds beside the tomb.

After everything was cleaned up, incense candles were lit, and "dry plates", rice, fruits, white wine, water and other offerings were placed. Muyi took out the paper money and went to the grave to "build a house". He tore off a piece of paper money and put it on the grave.

Then pick up a small piece of soil and press it on the paper money. In this way, the entire grave is covered with paper money, which is "building a house." This is a bit like renovating roof tiles in rural areas before the rainy season.

The ceremony of "building a house" is finished. Just take out the "wangqian", tear up the long "wangqian", and then tie it to the grave. Then set off firecrackers and burn paper money. Be sure to leave a sticker for burning paper money.

Take it back, don't burn it all. It probably means "there will be successors".

Mu Yi also followed his father's example and made a bowl of "water rice", then threw it next to the grave for the ghosts to "eat"...

After finishing these pieces of wood, he went to kowtow and asked Jin Lily to kowtow too. Jin Lily said, "Brother, do you want to kowtow even if you are not married yet?"

"Come on. It's no different than getting married. It's just that we haven't done the nine bowls yet."

Jin Lily kowtowed obediently. The two packed up their things and went down the mountain back to Jin's main road.

Arrive at Jin Baihe’s house. Ha! It’s really lively.

There are even more people in the uncle's family. From the eldest sister, the second sister, the third sister, the fourth sister, the younger brother to the seventh sister, there are 24 people in the family. Adding the uncle and aunt, there are 26 people. It's just wood.

After counting, there is one "brother" missing. Because there is only a "little brother" and no "big brother". I am very curious, because it is not obvious from everyone's conversations and expressions that the "big brother" has died. Mu Yi secretly

After asking Jin Lily, I found out that the "eldest brother" went out to "travel in the world". The eldest sister and the uncle's family also came with 10 people. But their children were not all here. The second uncle's family, including all the children, came

There were 8 people. Another 7 people came from the third uncle’s family. Plus 5 people from Jin Baihe’s family. In total, there were 56 people.

In this way, a large and mighty team, chatting and laughing, walked towards the Shangtang ancestor's graveyard. Compared with the small team of Mu Yi and Jin Baihe just now, it was really too huge.

It was really lively when a group of people came to the ancestral grave of the Jin family. The uncle, second uncle, third uncle and Jin’s father were busy cleaning up the weeds beside the graves of Jin Lily’s grandfather and grandma. Aunt, second aunt, third aunt and Jin’s mother also

Some sisters and brothers-in-law were busy setting up "dry dishes", tearing up paper money, tearing up money, and lighting firecrackers, and the children were chasing and playing all over the mountains and plains...

Mu Yi seemed a little uncomfortable. Fortunately, the third uncle's daughter Jin Yanli and son-in-law Lu Junchang were friends in Zhongguozhuang. It was not too embarrassing to chat with each other like this.

The adults gave the order, and the brothers-in-law lit firecrackers. Many strings of firecrackers were lit almost at the same time, and the loud sound of firecrackers was heard throughout the valley, with echoes. And this cemetery is relatively concentrated, and other families are also

Firecrackers were lit one after another. The whole valley could only hear the sound of firecrackers one after another...

After the ceremony was over, everyone took the "dry dishes" brought by each family to the open area and sat around to eat. Naturally, toasts to each other were inevitable. As the new son-in-law, Lu Junchang was naturally toasted by his sisters and brother-in-law.

As the prospective son-in-law, Mu Yi also had to toast all his relatives.

After going back and forth, Mu Yi got drunk on this mountain. However, for the sake of face, he couldn't just get drunk on this mountain! So he could only hold on. Fortunately, everyone just said that you respect me, and I will respect you in return.

one time.

More importantly, Jin’s mother saw that Mu Yi’s drinking capacity was at a disadvantage on this occasion. Because the brothers-in-law only drank two sips of wine, and after one round, Mu Yi drank more than a dozen sips. He quickly came to the rescue: "

"Moreover, it's very windy on this mountain. It's rare for everyone to get together. Wait until the scented wax burns out and make sure there are no sparks. Then go down the mountain and play at my aunt's house. You can drink whatever you want."

So everyone divided the work and cooperated. Some people found some branches and held them in their hands to prevent sparks from being blown by the wind and causing wildfires when burning paper money. Some people unscrewed the kettles on their backs and were ready to pour water to put out the fire at any time.

.Then everyone took turns burning a small amount of paper money in a place that was cleaned up and surrounded by stones in a small circle...

After the paper money was burned and the fragrant wax was burned out, everyone poured water on the ashes of the paper money and lined up to kowtow. After kowtowing, they went down the mountain.

Mu Yi followed everyone down to the bottom of the mountain in a daze. When he looked back, he saw white tombs all over the mountains and plains. He was very emotional...the tombs in the mountains and fields are the final destination of people.

An endless life. Suddenly a thought flashed through his mind. If he died, would he have a grave and his descendants come to visit his grave?

With great difficulty, he finally made it to Jin Lily's house. Mu ran upstairs, went to bed and fell asleep. He slept for more than an hour.

During the hour or so when Mu Yi fell asleep drunk, he was very busy downstairs, killing chickens and pigs, playing cards, drinking and bragging...

The alcohol had subsided, and there was a lot of excitement downstairs. As soon as Mu Yi woke up from the wine, he hurried downstairs. Jin Lily fetched a basin of water for Mu Yi, washed his face, and suddenly felt quite sober.

At this time, Jin Lily quietly pulled Mu Yi to a place where few people were around.

"Brother, they will definitely try to persuade you to drink some wine soon. Don't be too honest. If everyone has a drink, you will definitely be drunk before you finish walking around. You have to find a way to learn to say no to alcohol."

"We are all the closest relatives. If I don't offer them wine, they will be worried. If they offer me wine and I don't drink it, they will still be worried. If I say that I look down on them, that will be troublesome.

.Do you think I can stop drinking?"

"Yes. It's true that you have to drink. But anyway, you should find a way to avoid offending others and drink as little as possible."

Just after Jin Lily told Mu Yi, Jin's mother also found an opportunity and called Mu Yi aside. Her words were similar to what Jin Lily said.

Mu Yi remembered what they said in his heart, and followed Jin Lily to prepare everyone's dinner.

"Sayuri. Is it like this every year? Or is it just like this this year?"

"It's like this every year. Everyone went up the mountain to sweep the tomb, then went to my house to play, and then went back after eating. We got together once during the Qingming Festival, and then during the Chinese New Year, everyone came to pay New Year's greetings and get together again. During the New Year's greetings, my father's family

Let’s get together once, let’s get together once at mom’s house.”

"oh."

There are too many people, and it is not suitable to cook bowls of meals. In ethnic areas, the natural influence between ethnic groups is also mutual. It is like the Han people have learned the "Tuo Tuo meat" of the Yi people, and the Yi people have learned

The "nine bowls" of the Han people.

There is no need to be particular about it. Mixing fire to roast pig meat is a good skill that Mu Yi learned in Zhongguozhuang. This is the time for him to show off his skills. Mu Yi has mixed the pork meat. Everyone gathered in three circles.

Squatting on the ground to defecate, we ate lumps of meat, stewed chicken, and of course pickled cabbage and potato soup.

Eating a large piece of meat and drinking a large bowl of wine, it was so enjoyable. Mu Yi also changed his tactics and made a simple classification of relatives: older generation, naturally everyone was served a bowl of beer, sister, brother-in-law, brother, and sister-in-law.
Chapter completed!