Siheyuan: Traveling through Cai Quanwu, pretending to be Uncle Shazhu

When Jia Zhang heard her son's dissatisfied tone, she was about to call out to Old Jia again, but when she saw Jia Dongxu's gloomy eyes, she stopped immediately.

Jia Dongxu's eyes are really scary.

She was afraid that if she summoned Lao Jia again, Jia Dongxu would turn against her.

Jia Dongxu had warned her just now.

Thinking of this, Jia Zhang's attitude softened and she said softly, "Dongxu, let's go and sweep your father's grave early."

When Jia Dongxu heard this, his expression eased slightly and he nodded slightly.

……

forecourt.

When Cai Quanwu and his friends passed by, they met the third uncle.

The third uncle was standing at the door, holding some yellow paper in his hand. Needless to say, we all knew that he was preparing to go out to sweep the graves and worship his ancestors.

Seeing Cai Quanwu, the third uncle greeted him with a smile.

"Old Cai, are you going to visit the grave?"

"Then what else can you do? You are going to visit the graves too."

Cai Quanwu responded to the third uncle verbally, but he was complaining in his heart, saying that this was a question he asked despite knowing the answer.

Going out with yellow paper ingots, is it to visit someone instead of visiting the graves?

"Yes Yes."

"Old Cai, this is your first time visiting your father's grave, so you have to buy more gold ingots."

Cai Quanwu felt that there was something behind what the third uncle said, but he had no evidence.

After taking a look at the third uncle and seeing that he was only holding a few thin sheets of yellow paper in his hand, Cai Quanwu had an idea.

"Old Yan, you can't just blame me, you also have to buy more incense, candles and gold ingots."

"I see that the papers you have in your hand are not enough. If there are not enough to share, and a fight breaks out downstairs, I will come to find you."

When the third uncle heard what Cai Quanwu said, his face darkened and he said angrily:

"Old Cai, this is wrong. I'm telling you the truth, why are you teasing me for no reason?"

"It is a rule passed down from generation to generation in our Yan family to only burn yellow paper when sweeping graves. Don't worry about it."

The third uncle's words were like a revelation to Cai Quanwu, making him realize where the Yan family's stinginess came from.

It turns out that it was passed down from generation to generation in the Yan family.

No wonder the children of the third uncle are better than their father.

This generation is definitely stronger than the previous one.

"Old Yan, I have to say that you have inherited the ancestral teachings of your Yan family very well and carried them forward."

"I think your children will be better than you."

Cai Quanwu said with a teasing tone.

"That's right." The third uncle answered proudly.

Cai Quanwu was speechless when he saw the proud uncle.

With Uncle Third's face, ordinary bullets definitely can't penetrate it.

It’s nothing, it’s just too thick.

"Okay, Old Yan, we don't have time to chat with you anymore, let's go."

After Cai Quanwu finished speaking, he pushed the cart out of the yard.

"Okay, you go first, we'll set off right away." The third uncle said, looking at Cai Quanwu's back.

……

Cai Quanwu rode his bike with He Yushui and followed Sha Zhu out of the city.

After riding for more than half an hour, we arrived at a small hill in the suburbs.

I heard from Sha Zhu that his grandparents and mother are buried here.

The ancestors before that are definitely not here, so they must be in the countryside, somewhere Shazhu knows a little, but he has never been there.

He grew up in Beijing and had never been to the He family's old house.

After walking along the path for a while, they came to a cemetery with several tombstones standing in front of the graves.

Cai Quanwu glanced at the tombstone and realized that Sha Zhu's mother was called Tian Cuiyun, a very ordinary name.

As for the tombstones of Shazhu's grandparents, due to the long time, wind and rain, the words on them have become blurred, and Cai Quanwu couldn't see them clearly from a distance. (I don't want to name them, so I'll ignore them.)

It’s not a good idea to lie down and look.

After putting the things down, Sha Zhu took out a hatchet and started clearing the weeds around the tombstone.

I guess this is what it means to sweep the tombs.

He Yushui looked at her mother's tombstone quietly, her eyes moist, without saying a word.

Cai Quanwu did not disturb He Yushui. At this time, he didn't know what to say to comfort her.

After looking around, Cai Quanwu looked back at the graves in front of him, wondering if the feng shui here was bad? Otherwise, how could Sha Zhu and his sister have such an unfortunate fate.

I was thinking about whether I should remind Sha Zhu and ask a Feng Shui master to take a look.

But this thought only flashed through my mind.

You should know that feudal superstition is being vigorously cracked down on nowadays. If someone finds out and spreads it, they will put a hat on you and you will suffer the consequences.

After clearing the weeds, Sha Zhu inserted hanging paper on the grave, placed offerings in front of the tombstone, opened a bottle of wine, and began to burn paper with He Yushui.

The dead are the greatest.

At this time, even though Cai Quanwu felt uncomfortable, he still went forward to help.

After the yellow paper was burning, they threw all the yellow paper ingots they brought into the fire. Cai Quanwu and his sister Sha Zhu watched them burn from the side, and also prevented the flames from igniting the nearby grass and trees and causing a fire.

After everything was burned to ashes, Sha Zhu lit a string of firecrackers.

After a series of crackling sounds, Sha Zhu and He Yu Shui kowtowed several times in front of the grave.

After Sha Zhu kowtowed and stood up, he saw that Cai Quanwu had no intention of kowtow, so he hesitated to speak and finally said nothing.

"Uncle, let's go."

Sha Zhu packed up his things and said to Cai Quanwu.

Seeing sparks flying up from the ground in the wind from time to time, Cai Quanwu said for safety reasons: "Wait a minute, there are still sparks here."

"okay."

Sha Zhu stood beside Cai Quanwu holding something, and the few of them just looked at the pile of ashes.

When no sparks could be seen anymore, they walked down the path.

"Zhu Zi, are there any relatives on your mother's side?" Cai Quanwu asked while walking on the path.

"My mother also has an uncle and two aunts, but they haven't had much contact since my mother passed away."

Sha Zhu recalled.

"Are you going to tell them about your marriage?" Cai Quanwu asked.

When it comes to this topic, Sha Zhu hesitated and didn't answer for a long time.

After not seeing each other for so many years, to be honest, Sha Zhu doesn’t have many feelings for his mother’s relatives anymore.

"Uncle, why don't you give me some advice?" Sha Zhu hesitated for a long time and passed the question to Cai Quanwu.

"As the old saying goes, your mother's uncle is your most important relative. Logically, you should have informed him."

"But you said that your father had a bad relationship with that side. I don't know the details. Also, I don't know how your uncle treated you in the past. How can I make a decision for you?"

"It's up to you to decide on this matter."

Cai Quanwu was too lazy to get involved in such matters. He just asked about it because he saw the grave of Sha Zhu's mother.

He was completely clueless about the situation on Uncle Shazhu's side and knew nothing about it.

What if Uncle Shazhu has a bad temper and is difficult to talk to? He might end up doing something bad with good intentions.

Hearing Cai Quanwu letting him make his own decision, Sha Zhu scratched his head and said:

"Because of my dad, I had very few contacts there, and every time I went there I was always in a hurry. I can't really describe how it felt."

"What impressed me most about that place was my little cousin. He always followed me around every time I went there. He was much more fun than He Yushui."

"Forget it, it's still early. Let me think about it first. I can't make up my mind for the time being."