Chapter 289 Tomb Sweeping (1)
"What else can I do? Someone is coming over there again!" The lady in the air replied with anger at this time. The "over there" she said naturally refers to her parents' home, that is, Pei Ju's mansion. Since Pei Ju forced her to the front and front of Li Xiu's mansion, she had completely broken up with the Pei family. But she didn't expect that Pei Ju would even send someone with shame.
"Pei Ju is not giving up. What did he send someone to do?" Li Xiu couldn't help but say in surprise when he heard this. Yi Niang had completely had a quarrel with Pei Ji, and Princess Pingyang and Li Xiu also warned each other not to come to Yi Niang again, but he didn't expect that Pei Ji's face was so thick.
"This is not the first time. Last time on the Dragon Boat Festival, I sent someone there to invite me and my husband to come, but I drove him away. I didn't expect it to be here again!" The lady in the air said angrily again. Her mother died early and there were no other brothers and sisters. The only relatives that can be considered Pei Ju. Unfortunately, Pei Ju was too hurt and she no longer recognized him as her father, so naturally she was unwilling to have any contact with the Pei family.
"The Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of visiting relatives, but now it is not the New Year and the festival is not the same. What do the Pei family do?" Li Xiu asked again curiously. It is still early before Mid-Autumn Festival.
When Li Xiu mentioned this, Yi Niang's face immediately dimmed. After a while, she said, "In a few days, it will be my mother's day of worship. Someone sent me to invite me to visit the grave together. However, when my mother passed away, the Pei family buried my mother with just a thin coffin, and did not enter the Pei family's ancestral grave. There was no other person except me at the funeral, and I was the only one who went to visit the grave in recent years. Now I remembered it!"
When the mother spoke at the end, her tone was full of resentment. Her mother was originally a concubine of Pei Ju, so it was normal that she did not enter the ancestral grave. However, after her death, Pei Ju never showed up. She even doubted whether Pei Ju knew about this at that time? Now she pretended to sweep the grave, which was simply disgusting.
"It turned out to be my mother's day of worship. Why didn't you tell me earlier? I'd better prepare?" Li Xiu heard that Yi Niang's mother's day of worship was coming, and he couldn't help but blame him. His son-in-law, who must have gone to worship for his mother-in-law's day of worship, but now he has not made any preparations. Not to mention anything else, the offerings also need to be prepared seriously.
"I... I didn't have time to tell you about this, but I've prepared all the sacrifices and the like. Let's go together that day!" When Yi Niang heard Li Xiu's words, she suddenly felt relieved.
In fact, Niang Yi had wanted to tell Li Xiu about this, but her marriage with Li Xiu was a bit strange. In her opinion, she was neither a wife nor a concubine, so Niang Yi didn't know how Li Xiu looked at her mother, and she was even worried that Li Xiu would not want to go, so she kept dragging her and didn't tell him, but she didn't expect that Li Xiu would go after hearing this.
"That's good. When it's time to tell me that we'll go to visit the grave together!" Li Xiu didn't think too much and said solemnly.
"Yeah!" Yi Niang nodded heavily when she heard this, and her nose felt sore and almost shed tears. Since her mother passed away, she had not enjoyed this feeling of being cared for for a long time. It was at this moment that Yi Niang really accepted Li Xiu as her husband from the bottom of her heart. No matter how she changes in the future, she only recognized Li Xiu as her husband.
A few days passed in a blink of an eye. On the day of the festival, Li Xiu and Yi Niang got up early and burned incense to take a bath. This is also the standard process before the sacrifice. Of course, this may not be very popular in later generations, but the ancients attached great importance to it. This is not a superstition, but a kind of respect for the ancestors who passed away.
After taking a shower, Li Xiu and Yi Niang changed into more solemn clothes. The styles and colors of the clothes are of special scale. For example, the colors of the clothes should be darker and more formal, and they must not be too frivolous. Li Xiu himself did not understand these rules. Fortunately, everything was handled by Yi Niang and Yue Chan, so he was much more worry-free.
He went out in a carriage, and then under the guidance of Yi Niang, the carriage bypassed Chang'an City and drove eastward to the city. When Yi Niang said that her mother's tomb was in the east of the city, Li Xiu was also stunned, because as far as he knew, it seemed that the Feng Shui of Chang'an City and other reasons made most of the powerful people in Chang'an City more willing to be buried in the west of the city, and most of the people buried in the east of the city were poor people. Yi Niang's mother was buried in the east of the city. This alone is enough to show the status of their mother and daughter in the Pei family at that time.
After driving for a long time, he finally arrived in front of a mountain of earth. There was a stone archway at the foot of the mountain with two small seal scripts written on it. Li Xiu looked at it for a long time but couldn't recognize what he wrote. This made him feel very ashamed. You must know that even Qi Niang was already writing small seal scripts with Princess Pingyang, and Yi Niang could do it. If this calculation was made, it seemed that he was the one who had the lowest level of education in the family.
"This is Beiqiu. After the death of the powerful and powerful people in Chang'an City, they usually like to be buried in the west of the city, but some concubines from powerful families do not have such treatment. Many people are buried in the east of the city after death. The feng shui here is good, and many similar people are buried here." Yi Niang explained softly to Li Xiu, but at the end of the day, her eyes were filled with tears.
Seeing the sad look of Yi Niang, Li Xiu also reached out and held her little hand and gave her a comforting look. This made Yi Niang feel a little relieved, so the two of them hiked to the Beard Hill. It was indeed as the name suggests. Walking up from the foot of the mountain, all the cemeteries were divided into one by one, probably by family. However, the cemetery was very simple and the tombs inside were very casual. A little better, a tombstone was built, but most of them did not even have a tombstone.
Following a small path until it was almost at the top of the mountain, Yi Niang took Li Xiu to the right, and after walking around a few short trees, he finally came outside the cemetery. However, when he saw this cemetery, Yi Niang was obviously stunned for a moment and stopped.
"What's wrong?" Li Xiu asked in surprise.
"Why has the cemetery changed here?" The lady in the air said in disbelief at the cemetery in front of her. After saying that, she turned her head and looked around because she doubted whether she had gone to the wrong place?
"It seems that this place is newly built. Could it be that the Pei family sent someone to rebuild the cemetery?" Li Xiu carefully looked at the cemetery in front of Shi Wu, and then guessed that the cemetery in front of him was obviously much more grand than the previous cemeteries, and the exterior walls were also very new, so it was probably rebuilt soon.
"Reconstruction?" Yi Niang frowned when she heard this, and then she strode into the cemetery. Li Xiu hurriedly followed. As soon as she entered, she could only hear a burst of crying from inside, but Yi Niang was so angry that her face turned pale. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!