Beloved

The night before the Fu family's family sacrifice, the entire Fu family lived in trembling.

Those people led by Guan Dalong have raised the security level to orange, which is already a first-level security alert. It seems that what happened to Uncle Fu today made these employees more alert.

Fu Shanlong stayed up all night, also guarding Sheng Jie outside.

At dawn, Fu Shanlong took people to pick up Sheng Jie.Opening the gate of the ancestral hall, Sheng Jie knelt on the futon and was dozing off. When he heard the movement, he turned around and lost his mind for a few seconds, then raised his lips and smiled.

The fish-white light lightly hit Sheng Jie's face, showing endless tenderness.Fu Shanlong's heart was beating wildly, and he quickly walked in a few steps and picked him up from the ground.

When his feet touched the ground, Sheng Jie couldn't stand up at all. Fu Shanlong pressed his knees against his thighs, made him turn over and sit down, and squatted beside him to massage his knees and calves.

The ones who came to pick them up this time were the priests who sang the sacrifices and the priests who led the sacrifices. They were all famous elders in the family. Seeing their grandpa "serving" the young master with their own eyes, their hearts were lit up.

"I have obediently burned incense and refueled according to the time." Sheng Jie raised his chin proudly.

He originally wanted to show Fu Shanlong his ability, who knew that what he said sounded like a baby, Fu Shanlong pecked him on the forehead and continued to massage him without saying a word.

On the contrary, those two elders had a good impression of Sheng Jie.After all, another headed family member who is so cute, handsome, and so 'well-behaved' is good for the whole family.

After massaging for more than ten minutes, Sheng Jie pressed Fu Shanlong's hand, "No need, Brother Long! I can go."

"Do you still remember what to do?" Fu Shanlong held his armpit to help him up, and after making sure that he could stand firmly, he let go of his hand a little.

"I know!" Sheng Jie knew it in his heart, and replied in a soft voice, which made him look more gentle and harmless.

"Let's go!" Fu Shanlong grabbed him with one hand, turned and looked ahead.

The two elders also wore sacrificial attire, leading the way on the left and right. When they walked out of the gate of the ancestral hall, they picked up two white lanterns from the ground outside the gate to illuminate the bluestone path on the ground of the ancestral hall.

The four of them walked silently in this ancient building. Every time they took a step, they could feel the majesty and solemnity of the surroundings. Every time they took a breath, there was a thick and solid historical atmosphere in their noses.Unknowingly, the four people's footsteps and breathing have reached the same level.

They went down the mountain all the way to the black sacrificial shed.

At this time, the sky was not yet bright, and in the large and small white sacrificial sheds outside the sacrificial shed, people from various branch families made preparations early, displayed the tributes of their various tribes, changed into white hemp sacrificial attire, and arranged Standing quietly in their respective positions, waiting for the auspicious time to arrive.

When Sheng Jie was pulled into the black sacrificial shed by Fu Shanlong, he let go of his hand and motioned him to go to the central pile of sacrificial vessels.

When he was about to walk over, Fu Yuan jumped out wearing a black and white feather jacket with his head tied and his tail tied. He held a fan in one hand and a tambourine in the other. While shaking the fan and the drum, he circled around Sheng Jie three times, muttering something.

This should be the 'shaman' in the clan.Sheng Jie thought in his heart.

After Fu Yuan finished singing and dancing like this, he led Sheng Jie to the huge pile of sacrificial vessels, pointed at them, and made several gestures to him.

Sheng Jie knew that this meant that he was asked to pick out a sacrificial vessel representing his own family.

The family of the Fu family has the most sacrificial utensils, with a total of more than [-] types. During the family sacrifice, they will be put together with the sacrificial utensils of other branches, and the chief priest will personally select the same as the main offering for the next four years. sacrificial vessel.

Although Sheng Jie memorized all the fifty types of sacrificial vessels in his mind, it was quite embarrassing for him to suddenly choose from so many sacrificial vessels because he hadn't compared them with the real ones in advance.

You can't pick them up and compare them before making a choice.

The eyes of all the Fu family members were focused on Sheng Jie, those who were nearby could see clearly, those who were far away could only see a small shadow from afar, and those who were further away could only see the sacrificial shed.

However, the Fu family is still in the same heart.They all hope that this young master who is in charge of the officiant for the first time can win a good fortune at this time.

Amidst the beating of Fu Yuan's tambourine, Sheng Jie walked around all the sacrificial vessels, reached out and picked up an ordinary-looking black jade cong, and handed it to Fu Yuan.

Fu Yuan raised the jade cong and showed it to the people nearby and far away, then shook the drum in his hand again.

The sacrificial singer shouted loudly: "Cangbi pays homage to the sky, Huang Cong bows to the earth, the husband is the sky, the woman is the earth, the chief priest obeys the sky and the earth, good luck!"

Sheng Jie was at a loss.He swears that no one has taught him this, and he has never seen it in the process. He chose the jade cong firstly because he thought it looked more simple, and secondly because it was the closest to him, and he stretched out his hand to pick it up. I can!

What did the singer mean?

Sheng Jie involuntarily glanced at Fu Shanlong next to him. His brother Long also changed into a sacrificial uniform at some point, which was a little simpler than his, but it was quite formal. Sheng Jie only glanced at it, his eyes straightened .

Fu Shanlong looked at him with doting eyes, and gave him a thumbs up.

It's a little ritual of winning a lottery jackpot.Generally, it doesn't matter if you can't choose the sacrificial vessel of your own family, and even if you choose, most of the chief priests take the jade bi that represents the sky, not the jade cong that represents the land.

Sheng Jie's identity is the head of the house, according to the tradition that the husband is the sky and the woman is the earth, the jade cong should be taken, and the jade cong he chose, Yihao, is the most famous one among all the jade cong in the family's sacrificial vessels. .

It's all perfect!

With a crisp sound of "Mouth—" a copper bell rang, Sheng Jie was startled, and he withdrew his eyes to look at his nose, nose and heart.

At this time, the singer began to pull his neck and shouted: "The No. 20 fifth-generation heir of the Fu family came to sacrifice with the ceremony—Su!"

The place where there was not much sound suddenly became silent.

"Toss!"

The leader of the sacrificial offering came forward with two huge crosses in his hands and handed them to Sheng Jie.This is the meaning of asking the ancestors to give instructions. If the holy bamboo cannot be thrown after three throws today, only the family members will enter the family sacrifice this time. Wherever the other branches come and go, they must evacuate the ancestral hall within three hours.And the sacrifices of the main family should not be too long, only when all of them are thrown to the sacred bamboos can people from the branch also participate in the sacrifices.This is the rule handed down from the ancestors.

I remember that when Fu Shanlong held the family sacrifice for the first time, he failed to throw the oatmeal. At that time, the grandfather was only 14 years old, because of this, he faced a little pressure, but after he dealt with it decisively and a series of Driven by development, those guys who wanted to take the opportunity to make trouble failed to get what they wanted... and lost the best chance to shake the position of the young master.

In fact, it's common for people to throw cats unsuccessfully, but some people with poisonous hearts will use such trivial things as an excuse to cause trouble.

Fu Yuan glanced at the grandfather worriedly, but seeing Fu Shanlong's calm and relaxed expression, he put away the worry in his heart.

Today's grandpa is no longer the grandpa when he was young. In other words, no one can shake him when he was young, let alone now?

Sheng Jie hugged the two watermelons and scattered them casually on the ground, the first one!

The hearts of the Fu family members relaxed a little and then became tense again.Although it is said that there is some superstition in throwing bamboos, these people still hope to succeed in throwing bamboos smoothly, and it is not in vain for them to come all the way from thousands of miles.

Sheng Jie didn't pause, and without any sense of tension, he tossed two holy rice balls in succession, which was another auspicious omen.

This time, all the Fu family felt relieved, and their first impression of my young master was that he was a blessed man.

Fu Shanlong also heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. In fact, he had already made various plans. Even if Sheng Jie couldn't throw the holy ginkgo, he would take him to worship the ancestors and complete the family sacrifice.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly.Fu Shanlong regarded these as Sheng Jie was blessed by his ancestors, and he was very relieved.

"Ring the bell——! Go up the mountain!! Participants come out!" The sacrifice singer shouted, and the leader of the sacrifice stood out holding the official sacrificial attire of his family, and faced tens of thousands of clan members solemnly.

Among the participants who were notified last night, apart from Fu Erye and Fu Siye, there were also some elders who often served as participants. Other than that, the rest were those who had never been prepared to participate in the sacrifice. people's family.

In addition to Fu Xingyu's family, the families of Fu Jilan and Fu Mingyuan were also among them.

Along with the list, there are also the conditions for future candidate candidates-in addition to being the elders of the family and contributing to the family, five positions are specially vacated for future candidate candidates for all branch families to take turns.

That is to say, those families who were not qualified before will also have the opportunity to enter the ancestral hall of their own family and pay homage to their ancestors at close range.

This is a particularly 'enlightened' alternative.If this continues, one day our family will have the opportunity to stand in the deepest part of the majestic and solemn ancestral hall, fulfilling the piety in our hearts.

Thinking that this condition was set by the mistress of the family, those families who had no chance had a good impression of Sheng Jie.

The mistress is really a caring and meticulous mistress!

In his first public appearance, Sheng Jie earned himself a reputation for being lucky, open-minded, caring, and generous.

Even if everyone gradually discovers in the future that they misunderstood this seemingly innocent and harmless male mistress, most people's impressions have been deeply ingrained and it is difficult to change.

Among them, Fu Erye, Fu Jilan and Fu Mingyuan felt the deepest.There is no other reason, these three have already experienced Sheng Jie's true temperament.It's just that at this time, they thought that it was Fu Shanlong who played the role of "participant", but they didn't expect that these actions were all done by Sheng Jie behind the scenes.

The next sacrificial ceremony went very smoothly. It took a full three hours to strictly follow the ancient rituals and meticulously complete the entire process of the entire sacrificial ceremony.

After the head priest of the family finished reading the sacrificial oration, performed the ceremony, and distributed the genealogy to all branches of the clan, it was time for the offerings and worship of each family of the participants. From this time, Sheng Jie could rest.

Fu Shanlong took him to the lounge to rest for a while, and took off the heavy sacrificial clothes for him himself.

"You can eat and drink now." Fu Shanlong kissed the corner of his mouth and said softly.

Sheng Jie threw his head into his chest, "I want to sleep first..."

"Hey, eat something first, or your stomach will be starved." Fu Shanlong felt sorry for him, even though Sheng Jie had closed his eyes, he still took the food he had prepared a long time ago, and personally fed it to his mouth.

Sheng Jie chewed a couple of mouthfuls, and fell asleep before he could swallow it...