Siheyuan Shangpeng

The things in the hands of several people were taken over by the people who came up. Shang's father was about to introduce them, but the person who came said, "Don't say anymore, let's go back and introduce them one by one. Everyone is waiting there!" After that, he took the lead and walked towards the village in the middle of the basin.

The merchants had no choice but to follow the others and walk towards the village. Maybe because the village was located at the bottom of a basin, as soon as they came in through the gap, they felt that the temperature here suddenly rose by several degrees. Several people felt a little hot even though they were wearing thick cotton jackets.

I followed a few people into the village, but didn't see anyone along the way. When that person led everyone to the square in the middle of the village, I found that perhaps all the villagers were there, with more than fifty people.

Mr. Shang led everyone to the front to greet the elderly people in the middle and introduced his younger generation to the elders.

The elderly people looked very old, but their faces were rosy and they looked energetic. It was obvious that they knew how to maintain good health.

Gradually, everyone in the village was introduced. Shang Peng only knew that a few of the elderly people were his grandfather's ancestors, and he should call them great-grandfather and great-grandmother. He couldn't recognize the others at all. However, Shang Peng was very surprised because there were only five men over 20 years old like Shang's father in the whole village, and they were the five who went to pick them up.

After the introduction, several old men began to arrange people to line up. When Shang Peng was confused, he saw that the door of the large ancestral hall behind the square was opened, and everyone walked into the ancestral hall under the leadership of several old men. What surprised Shang Peng the most was that a woman also followed in. Normally, people of other surnames and women were not allowed to enter this kind of ancestral hall, but no one said anything about him so he followed everyone into the ancestral hall.

The main door of the ancestral hall was wide open. Shang Peng could vaguely see rows of spirit tablets on it. An old man offered incense first, and then stood on both sides. The rest of the people began to offer incense in turn. When it was Shang Peng's turn to offer incense, Shang Peng suddenly discovered that the tablet on the top was not the ancestor, but the tablets of several ancient people and more than a dozen modern people. Moreover, when Shang Peng and his friends offered incense, they found that his grandfather's tablet was in the second row. One of the old men shouted, "Descendants of Liu Bin of the Liu family, Shang Qi, Shang Xue, Shang Peng, and Shang Liang come to pay homage.

Liu Bin, the man who stayed behind in the Liu family's ancestral land, went out to buy goods and killed 25 invaders. In order not to expose the ancestral land, he fled to another place. Later, he trained dozens of useful people who were beneficial to the country. His special tablet was promoted to the second row, and he will enjoy the incense of the Liu family for generations!"

After listening to this, one of the elders shouted: "The ceremony is over, stand up!"

Shang Peng and his companions stood up after hearing this. Shang Peng secretly took another look at the tablets above. In the first row, there were nine people with the surname Liu, and six people with other surnames. They were just names without any content.

After a few people withdrew, they were led out of the ancestral hall and stood outside the door waiting with the crowd. Finally, after everyone finished worshipping and came out, the door of the ancestral hall was closed again. A few elders led the crowd to bow three times towards the ancestral hall, and then led the crowd to disperse.

Mr. and Mrs. Shang took a few people to find an old man with a gray beard and called out to him, "Uncle!"

Shang Qi felt like leading a few people to shout, "Grandpa!"

The old man nodded with a smile and walked towards the village with a few people.

When we got to our house, a few people came running up behind us, shouting, "Old man, wait for us too. You brought my little sister home while we were getting our things. If other people hadn't seen us, we would have gone after you."

The old man said, "What? How could you get lost in this village? Hurry up and open the door and go into the yard to talk!"

The visitor opened the door and everyone walked into the yard. Since it was not cold, everyone stayed in the yard. Father Shang introduced the members of great-grandfather's family to the children one by one. Soon, third uncle also brought his family to great-grandfather's yard, followed by fourth grandmother and her family. After meeting everyone one by one, they began to chat.

The great grandfather looked at Shang Jia's children with a gratified smile, and said to Shang's mother: "Bingqing, you have educated these children very well!"

Shang Peng couldn't help but ask, "Grandpa, when I was burning incense just now, I found that there was not only our ancestor on the top of the tablet in our ancestral hall, what's going on?"

The great grandfather smiled and said, "I thought you could still hold it in for a while, haha...

This matter started from the generation of the ancestor. At that time, the ancestor established a rule that anyone who resisted foreign invasion would automatically have their tablet promoted to a high position, and the first incense stick to be offered by future generations would be to this group of people. Therefore, the first row of ancestors and the later generations coexisted.

As for the fact that both men and women and people with other surnames can burn incense, it is because we had a good life in the past few years until the Chinese invaded China, and all our clansmen aged between fifteen and forty went to the front line, leaving only six young and strong men in the clan. Moreover, it was not only men who went to the battlefield, but also several women and a son-in-law from another surname. The clan leader saw that these people would also be included in the memorial tablets in the future, so he discussed with the elders of the clan and decided that in the future, both men and women, whether they are from another surname or not, as long as they are of Liu family blood, can enter the ancestral hall to burn incense. Moreover, there were only a few strong men left in the entire clan at that time.

At that time, your grandfather was a liaison officer and basically did not live here. Later, due to some things, he fled from Sijiu City in order not to implicate the clan.

All along, I only communicated with your grandpa through letters. That was after he had settled down and contacted Rabbit. When we came back, he had passed away. So when your parents came to visit us for the first time a few months ago, we were shocked. We thought the ancestral land had been discovered.”

"Grandpa, how many of your people went out back then? How many came back? Which side were you on back then?" Shang Peng asked curiously.

"We? Haha... We were Baldy's people at first, but later Baldy couldn't do it anymore, so we switched to Rabbit's side. But no one knows that we worked for Baldy. After all, we were just small soldiers at that time, and no one remembered us.

Later, our tribesmen followed the rabbits and climbed over the snow-capped mountains and walked through the grasslands. Your great-grandfather and I went with several bosses... hehe... I can't tell you, I can't tell you. Then we beat up those who lived a good life, and then we beat up bald people. In short, there were only a few people left. After liberation, we quietly returned to our ancestral land and have been there until now. Isn't it amazing! "

Shang Peng couldn't help but give a thumbs up and said, "Great, but Grandpa, I have something I want to discuss with you, but it may sound a little harsh, please forgive me. Is that okay?"

The old man was stunned, looked at Shang Peng and said, "What's the matter? Ask?"