Wu Min

Wu Min thought that all would be well after the Chinese New Year, but he didn't expect that when he went to a distant cousin's house to pay New Year's greetings, his cousin suggested going back to his hometown to pay respects to the ancestors.In the early years, Wu Ma's family was also a big family. Later, due to various reasons such as family separation and war, it gradually declined. However, the ancestral hall left by the ancestors has always been there, but no one has cleaned it systematically these years. You can't tell what the ruin has become.

Wu Ma is a nostalgic person, and she wanted to go back a long time ago, but she couldn't call on her alone, and she didn't know the way to go back by herself. Now someone proposes, she can't wait, and my cousin is very happy, and I will contact you immediately. The relatives called, looking for one by one, and quickly organized more than 30 family members to go back to their hometown to worship their ancestors.

In people's minds, the best dates for worshiping ancestors are festivals like Qingming Festival. Those who go to worship ancestors during Chinese New Year should be counted as the first ones, right?Sitting in the shaking car, Wu Min thought drowsily.But there is no way around it. Everyone is busy on weekdays, so it is difficult to get together like New Year. Since it is the first time to worship the ancestors and clean the ancestral hall after many years, naturally the more descendants, the more auspicious. It seems that the family is prosperous and has not declined. The ancestors are ashamed.

Wu Ma's hometown is an [-]-hour drive from City B. A convoy of more than a dozen vehicles stretches the battle line, and other vehicles keep joining on the road. Wu Ma told Wu Min that they were all relatives who had received news from other cities. , waiting for them on the road.

The convoy headed south all the way, and the temperature gradually increased, and it was no longer as unbearable as in the north. Wu Min woke up from time to time, and occasionally looked at the scenery outside the window. He felt that this place should be quite close to Linhe Village, so he sent Shen Xiu a message. information, telling him that he was going back to his hometown to worship his ancestors.Such a large family finally went back to their hometown, and they might stay here for a few more days.

When the convoy was about to reach the destination, Shen Xiu's message came back, and he asked Mama Wu for the detailed address of her hometown, saying that she might go to have a look in a few days.This New Year, Shen Xiu was so busy that he didn't touch the ground. When he left, he only brought Xiong San with him, but when he came back, he brought a bunch of monsters, which made Shen Zhengran a bit of a headache. A friendly monster, but his son has so many monster followers in one year, isn't it a bit too flamboyant and high-profile?In a few years, their Linhe Village will be overwhelmed by monsters!

But everyone has come, and the Shen family has no reason to drive them away, especially the little frog has just transformed into a form recently, and its situation is very unstable, so it needs to be recuperated in the spiritual land, and then leave after the situation is stable.

Lao Zhang is an old friend of Linhe Village. He has known him since before Linhe Village took over part of the business of the underworld, but he has not been to the village for many years. The only person who has contact with him is Shen Xiu. This time, Many people thought it was a monster that Shen Xiu had just picked up outside. The village head stared at him for a long time before he recognized that he was the octopus monster that dared to eat any garbage. The last time we met, the village head himself was still naked What about children?

Although the village looks closed, it actually has a lot of contact with the outside world. Every household in the village has prepared a lot of delicious food. During the Chinese New Year, everyone gathers together to eat the water mat, which is very lively.

After Shen Xiu left the village, he seldom had the opportunity to eat such a down-to-earth meal. Every day, as long as he went out, there was an endless stream of delicious food, and some ghosts and ghosts who had a good relationship with Linhe Village also came to celebrate the New Year, and many of them were good at cooking. Gao, stunned to produce a lot of delicacies that have long since disappeared from the market.Shen Xiu is fine, he has strong self-control, he knows what is enough, but when he comes back with him, he can't take care of these things anymore, and they all snatch food like reincarnated starving ghosts, especially Lao Zhang, the villagers in Linhe Village know His details, he didn't even pretend to be fake, and stuffed everything he caught into his mouth. In the end, the village chief used his trump card - if you dare to eat our village's plate, I'll get you a bowl of shit to taste!

Lao Zhang stared exaggeratedly and pretended to be pitiful. He could bear everything, but he couldn't bear excrement, although the sea itself was quite... ahem, I can't think about it.

After gaining several catties of fat, Shen Xiu learned from the pain and felt that he should go back, but the condition of the little frog was not stable and he had to stay for a few more days. At this time, he received a message from Wu Min that Wu Ma's hometown was in a The town called Zhanghe is really not too far from Linhe Village. After driving out of the road that ordinary people can't see, it's only half a day's drive.

Zhanghe used to be a village in the early years, but it was abandoned for some days because of the war, and later it became a town when it was rebuilt, and its population gradually increased.The land around Zhanghe is good, and you can get a good harvest of everything you plant. The people in the town live a very prosperous life, but their life style is more like that of the countryside. They live in tube houses in the town and work in the nearby farmland.

Hearing that there are plenty of snacks at Zhanghe, Shen Xiu stroked his chin, and when the little frog could stabilize the figure and control the green hair on his head, he happened to go for a walk.

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The convoy stopped beside the Zhang River, and the leading cousin took two relatives into the town to find a place to live, while the rest rested on the spot.Wu Min leaned on the front of the car and looked at the town. Perhaps because of the Chinese New Year, the town seemed deserted. The shops on both sides of the street were closed, and there was no one on the road.

Small places are like this.

Fortunately, the hotel in the town was still open. My cousin booked out the entire hotel, and each family could only get one room, so they barely lived in it.

So many people came at once, the hotel owner was a little surprised. It’s not that he has received foreign guests during the Chinese New Year, but he has never seen so many people, and these people seem to know each other, more like relatives than a temporary group tourists.

Besides, their town is famous for its snacks. During the Chinese New Year, the shops are closed, the snacks are not made, and there is nothing to eat.

The group of people who came back were mainly in their 50s and [-]s. They were still young when they left. They had no impression of this place at all, and they didn't know where the ancestral hall was.The uncle passed a cigarette to the hotel owner, and during the chat, the uncle asked the owner if he knew where the Sheng family ancestral hall was.

"Sheng Family Ancestral Hall?" The hotel owner's mouth was wide open, and the cigarettes fell to the ground. "What are you asking?"

The cousin smiled, and handed the boss a cigarette again, "We are all descendants of the Sheng family. This time we managed to gather so many people. We want to come back to worship our ancestors and sweep the ancestral hall for our ancestors."

The boss looked at the group of people again, and nodded clearly: "Oh, no wonder, I said that they don't look like they are here for tourism."

"Sheng family ancestral hall, is it still there?" When he asked this question, my cousin suddenly felt a little nervous. After decades, the ancestral hall that was not maintained by anyone might have disappeared a long time ago. If it wasn't for some relatives saying that the ancestral hall was still there a few years ago , He didn't dare to lead everyone back all the way to worship.

But how many years have passed, who knows if there will be some natural or man-made disasters, it is gone!

"Yes, yes," the boss hesitated, "it's just..."

Uncle let out a sigh of relief, as long as the ancestral hall is still there, otherwise so many people have traveled all the way here, wouldn't their work be in vain?

The hotel owner didn't say the last word. Some things were not deliberately concealed, but no one believed them, so it's better not to speak indiscriminately.

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After driving for a day and a night, everyone was exhausted. Knowing that the ancestral hall was still there, everyone let go of their hearts and went back to the room to rest.Because this time family members worshiped ancestors collectively, most of them came as a family unit, which resulted in at least three people sleeping in a small room of more than ten square meters, with either two single beds or a single bed. Double bed, it is not convenient for the whole family to sleep.

Wu Min's room is better, there is a double sofa, Wu Min stretched his hands and feet on it for an interview, it was not very comfortable, but he suffered a lot when exercising with Shen Xiu, so it is not difficult to deal with it all night on the sofa .Wu Ma felt sorry for her son, thinking that she was smaller and could sleep on the sofa with tall hands and feet, so she let her son sleep with her husband on the bed, but she was always opposed by the two men in the family. In the end, Wu's father made a decision, Wu Min went to sleep on the sofa, and Wu Ma Go to bed obediently.

After resting for one night, everyone gathered at the entrance of the hotel the next day. My cousin had already asked the hotel owner about the location of the Sheng Family Ancestral Hall, and led everyone to walk over there.The ancestral hall is located outside the town. According to the hotel owner, it was the location of the original village. In the new era, there are very few families offering ancestral tablets. Naturally, there are very few ancestral halls. The ancestral halls of several big families in Zhanghe are all outside the town. Avoid the harassment of the crowd, and it will not hinder the planning and development of the town.

From a distance, Wu Min saw a temple-like building, which should have been very grand, but now only the gate is still intact, the surrounding walls are dilapidated, and there is a courtyard inside, and the interior is a bit dark. Can't see what's going on.

I don’t know who pasted a lot of small notes on the gate. The wind blew sparsely. A few rags were hung where the plaque should have been. Why use it.

Just such a place, at first glance, looks like the scene of a horror movie, but with Wu Min's rich experience in seeing ghosts, it feels more infiltrating than the western suburbs cemetery not long ago.The uncle walked over immediately, and the others followed him. When he approached the dilapidated gate, Wu Min obviously felt a gust of wind blowing, and goose bumps all over his body.

The rest of the people seemed to feel it too, and they all stopped. They didn't leave, and my cousin didn't dare to go in alone. A group of people hesitated outside.The ancestral hall was right in front of them. It would be unreasonable for them not to enter, but there was something obviously wrong here. Thinking of the innkeeper's terrified appearance yesterday, everyone believed that there was something wrong with the ancestral hall.

Those who are willing to come to worship their ancestors are all hoping that their ancestors will bless them to a higher level, instead of bringing them bad luck. No one wants to be the first to go in as a test product. God knows if there is a chance to go in. walk out.

"Why don't we go back and ask first, it's not too late to come here later." I don't know who suggested it, but everyone agreed, so the team returned to the hotel in a mighty manner.

Walking at the end of the line, Wu Min looked back cautiously. Although he couldn't see any problem for the time being, he just felt that the aura of the Sheng Family Ancestral Hall was not right. If only Shen Xiu was here, he would definitely be able to see the problem.

I don't know when Shen Xiu will be there, long time no see, I miss him so much!