After the old man finished speaking, he didn't stay any longer and entered the back room with square steps.
Mo Zhenzhen watched the old man disappear, then looked around, then held the handle of the basket and headed towards the room where the ancestral tablets might be placed.
There was no information about the interior of the ancestral hall in Mo Zhenzhen's memory. The reason why she was able to find it accurately was because she had seen a yard with such a structure and thought about it many times in her mind before raising her feet. Only then could she find it without any flaws.
Right place.
Hongzao Village has a long history, and there are so many ancestral tablets enshrined in the ancestral hall that they cannot fit in one room.
Mo Zhenzhen didn't know if the tablets in this room were her ancestors.
She scanned the Li family name on the tablets and confirmed that all the tablets she saw were named Li. Then she put down the basket, wiped the mud off her hands with her clothes, and took three sticks of incense from the incense box placed on the altar.
, light them with burning candles, and then kneel down respectfully in front of these tablets.
As soon as Mo Zhenzhen's knees fell to the ground, she felt a gust of wind blowing in front of her. The rising smoke was blown away, and the red fire on the tip of the incense seemed to flicker for a moment!
Mo Zhenzhen knelt upright until the gust of wind subsided, then she held the incense stick with both hands and placed it on her forehead, bowing respectfully.
The cold wind blew again, and this time Mo Zhenzhen seemed to feel the incense in her hand trembling, as if something invisible was holding the incense in her hand.
Mo Zhenzhen was motionless as she knelt down. The invisible thing seemed to cut off the incense in her hand, but the incense kept trembling but did not really break.
After a long time, the trembling on the incense disappeared, but the gust of wind still lingered, as if hesitating.
Mo Zhenzhen kept kneeling and did not get up. It was not until the gust of wind dissipated that she slowly straightened up and bowed twice!
Mo Zhenzhen had auditory hallucinations when she bowed down this time. She seemed to hear many people whispering.
The voices of these people were vague and distant, and they were all men's voices.
Mo Zhenzhen couldn't hear clearly what they were saying, but she could feel the confusion and displeasure in their words.
This time Mo Zhenzhen knelt down for a longer time, until the hallucinations slowly faded away, and then she stood up again.
And when she was praying for the third time, suddenly a seemingly distant voice sounded clearly in her ears.
"Which family are you a girl from?" Mo Zhenzhen seemed to see a thin old man wearing a double-breasted Tsing Yi with gray hair and beard.
Somehow, Mo Zhenzhen felt that the old man was very close to her, as if the old man was an acquaintance of hers. She suddenly had the urge to tell this old man all the words she had kept in her heart.
This kind of trance only affected Mo Zhenzhen for a second, so the words that came to her lips took a turn and she spoke timidly in a daze.
"My father is Li Daniu, and I am Li Azhen from Hongzao Village..."
The old man stroked his beard lightly, as if he was thinking about who Li Daniu was, and also seemed to be wondering who Li Azhen was.
A string of children's laughter came, and Mo Zhenzhen was freed from the vague fantasy.
She was kneeling straight, and there was no old man anywhere she could see!
She looked around as if she was frightened, and finally her eyes were fixed on the layers of tablets placed on the table. Her timid eyes seemed a little afraid, but she still bowed down.
After bowing, the three incense sticks held in Mo Zhenzhen's hand suddenly burst into flames, and most of them were burned in just a few breaths!
The clean burnt incense ashes fell on Mo Zhenzhen's rough and black hands. The gray-white incense ashes seemed to still have a scalding temperature. However, Mo Zhenzhen, who was burned, seemed to have no feeling and did not let go.
He stood up and quickly extinguished the small flame with his hand, before all three sticks of incense were burned out.
The incense ashes were shaken off by Mo Zhenzhen, and her hands were intact. The hot feeling before was like her hallucination.
She stood up from the ground without changing her expression, and then respectfully inserted the remaining half of the three sticks of incense into the incense burner.
The moment the three incense sticks were inserted firmly, Mo Zhenzhen suddenly felt like she was finally down to earth. The rich scent of sandalwood in her nose, the dim light in the ancestral hall, and the cold temperature all over her body became clearer!
Mo Zhenzhen didn't show it on her face, but she knew in her heart that she should have taken the right step.
When she first arrived in a new place, Mo Zhenzhen's first priority was always survival.
From the moment she guessed that there might be supernatural elements in the world outside the door, she started from the supernatural point of view and kept thinking about countermeasures.
Now she has offered incense to these ancestors, bowed three times and kowtowed as a junior, regardless of whether she is truly of Li family blood, at least she has become a "familiar" in front of these ancestors, and has a feeling of incense.
She still remembered that someone had told her about the ancestral culture before, saying that the ancestral temple was a destination, a shelter, a root, a support, a reverence, a spiritual sustenance, a glory, a confidence, a acceptance, and a symbol of a big family...
Does that mean that until this moment, she has really integrated into Hongzao Village?
After worshiping her 'ancestors', Mo Zhenzhen bent down to pick up the big basket on the ground. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed a person standing at the door, it was the old man who was looking at the ancestral hall.
Mo Zhenzhen looked at the door as if she was frightened. When she found that the old man's eyes were on her belly, she grabbed the basket on the ground to cover her bulging belly like a frightened bird.
In fact, the bulge in Mo Zhenzhen's stomach was no longer so exaggerated at this time, but Mo Zhenzhen was too thin, so it still looked very abrupt.
The old man was much kinder this time. Seeing that Mo Zhenzhen was frightened, he didn't know what he was thinking, so he actually comforted her.
"Don't be afraid. You probably just have bloated stomach. It's nothing bad. It's just an illness. I'll get you some medicine in a while. You can take it and you'll be fine."
The old man probably regarded Mo Zhenzhen as a girl who didn't understand anything.
"No one in our village has been pregnant for a long time. It's normal for a little girl like you to have never seen this happen."
The old man could clearly see that Mo Zhenzhen's bulge was in her stomach rather than her abdomen. He was worried that Mo Zhenzhen didn't understand this and was suspicious, which would scare him in the end.
Thinking of this, he felt that it was normal for Mo Zhenzhen to insist on coming to offer incense to her ancestors.
The little girl was not married yet, so she would inevitably think about ghosts and gods when encountering this problem. She must have been frightened, so she wanted to ask her ancestors for help.
Thinking of this, the old man felt that the little girl was pitiful, and at the same time he complained in his heart that Li Azhen's parents only cared about their son and did not care about their daughter's life or death. With such a big child in front of them, they did not notice that the little girl was sick!
Look at this little girl again. She has been promised by her parents before she has grown up. The promise is not a good marriage. I don’t know how this little girl will live her life in the future...
The more the old man thought about it, the more he felt that the little girl was pitiful, so when he went back to get medicine for the little girl, by some strange combination of circumstances, he got an extra peace blessing card.
This was given to children in the village when they were full moon to keep them safe, and Mo You, a girl who had grown up long ago, also got one.
As soon as she got the Ping An Blessing Card and the medicine pack, she felt something.
There was no hint, but Mo Zhenzhen strangely knew that this peace blessing amulet was a prop.