Dad: I will farm and raise children after quitting the circle

Chapter 376
Burning paper on New Year's Eve is a first-class event in the temple.

When Su Qinghe and Bai Zhi, Su Qinghai and Chen Ping arrived, the people in line had already reached the gate of the temple.

There were bursts of firecrackers on the basketball court, a layer of red firecracker confetti accumulated on the concrete floor, and thick gunpowder smoke filled the air. Su Qinghe took a deep breath greedily, and said with a satisfied face: "This is the smell, authentic!"

Bai Zhi fanned her nose with her hand, looked at Su Qinghe with disgust, "I like to smell it so much, I'll buy some more firecrackers and let you smell it."

"No need, this stuff can't be felt by one person, it has to be paired with this sense of ceremony to be interesting." Su Qinghe said.

Su Qinghai laughed, "Then you have to smell it a few more times, it's only a few times a year!"

"Together!"

After queuing for a while, finally entering the temple, Bai Zhi had to sigh for Su Qinghe's foresight, because the scene in front of him was so different from when he came to Baofu a few days ago.

First of all, there are a lot of people, especially in the main hall. The six Eight Immortals tables arranged in two rows are full of sacrifices. There are people walking around and kneeling down in the worship hall. Everyone moves quickly and is busy with their own affairs. Since the process steps are the same, there is another sense of order in a busy schedule.

Then there is the smell. The incense altar in the courtyard has two layers. The upper layer is filled with incense, and the lower layer burns paper money. The incense is too strong, and the smell of firecrackers from outside floats in again.

The last thing is noise, not to mention the sound of firecrackers outside, just the sound in the temple makes people's brains buzzing. The voices of adults and the noise of children fill the small, crowded temple.

This is a kind of excitement that makes people faintly feel suffocated.

Seeing Bai Zhi covering her mouth and nose with her hands, Su Qinghe handed her a mask, put it in her ear and said, "Be patient, this is the only place like this, other places are much better."

Bai Zhi put on the mask and said happily, "It's a good thing I didn't bring you here!"

She can hardly bear it, let alone be obedient, the little guy will definitely make a fuss in such an environment.

However, it was also in such an environment that those young people who saw Su Qinghe did not dare to come over. The big thing at the moment was to burn paper and worship the gods. They still knew what they should do and what they couldn't do.

After queuing for about 10 minutes, Su Qinghe finally came to the side hall on the left. Seeing that someone was about to collect things, Su Qinghe immediately untied the ropes of the vines.

Now is not the time to talk about humility. Before, it could be said to be queuing, but here, it depends on who moves quickly, or waits to be snatched by others.

Place the sacrifices swiftly, pour tea and wine, burn incense and worship gods, stuff two yuan red envelopes into the money box, burn paper money, set off firecrackers, collect things and leave!

It doesn't matter if you are sincere or not, it's just a process, a ritual, and what is emphasized here is the word "fast". If you take your time, others will urge you to hurry up.

This is also a place where things like taking the wrong sacrifices often happen. There are many people and things, and everyone's sacrifices are similar, so it is inevitable that mistakes will be made in the busy schedule.

So when Su Qinghe was packing up his things, he deliberately took a few extra glances.

Bai Zhi was still a little dazed after she came out, "Is this the end?"

Waiting in line for 10 minutes, burning paper and worshiping gods for only a few minutes, how come there is a feeling of being anticlimactic, as if it is perfunctory?
Chen Ping and Su Qinghe came out one after the other. Hearing Bai Zhi's words, she said with a smile: "This is how worshiping gods in the temple is. Anyway, everyone regards it as a task now. When you go back to the ancestral hall, you will have to worship carefully."

This is the reason. Everyone knows whether worshiping gods is useful or not. It is nothing more than seeking peace of mind and auspiciousness.What really needs sincerity is to worship the ancestors in the ancestral hall. After all, they are all people who have actually existed. Without ancestors, there will be no descendants.

As Su Qinghe said, other places are much better. After they came out of the temple, they went non-stop to the small temple dedicated to the land lord and land woman. Although there was also a line here, the situation was much better. There are only four or five families.

Bai Zhi was really an eye-opener. After leaving the Earth Temple, Su Qinghe and others came to the next place of worship, and what they worshiped was actually a tree!

"Worship the tree?"

Bai Zhi looked at the scene in front of her in disbelief. Behind a simple cement altar, there was a big tree that could only be embraced by at least two adults.

"What kind of tree is this?"

"I don't know!" Su Qinghe shook his head, "Anyway, when I was young, I heard from my grandfather that the tree grew so big when he was very young, and it has never changed!"

"It must have been hundreds of years?"

"It should be. Anyway, we only come to worship on New Year's Eve and the second day of the year all year round." Su Qinghe placed the offerings.

No one can say anything about the species of this old tree. I just heard that when Shuangtang Village was built, this tree was already here. The incense of this old tree will not be lost.

As for why he worshiped him, no one knew, probably because the old tree had survived for too long, and the ancestors thought he had spirituality and divinity.

There are many customary ceremonies among the people. In fact, many people don’t know why, and few people will go to the bottom of it. It’s just that everyone has done it, and the rites passed down are like this, just follow it.

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Guaiguai was woken up by the sound of firecrackers. After returning from the ancestral hall, she also had to worship the Kitchen God and the gods of heaven and earth at home.

Amidst the sound of crackling firecrackers, obediently was startled, woke up and saw the old lady covering her ears, and threw herself into the old lady's arms crying.

The old lady was busy coaxing for a while, and finally came out to the corridor with the wronged little guy in her arms. When she saw Su Qinghe, the little guy scolded: "Daddy is a badass~~"

"Aren't you afraid of guns?" Su Qinghe teased his obediently without a trace of guilt.

Obediently turned her head, leaving the back of her head for Su Qinghe to see, she didn't want to talk to Su Qinghe.

Su Qinghe ignored her, and was very busy posting Spring Festival couplets.

Starting from the gate of the courtyard, stepping on the herringbone ladder, Su Qinghe and Bai Zhi got busy.

The little guy was probably bored and looked interesting. When Su Qinghe brought the ladder in and was about to paste the Spring Festival couplets on the door, she ran over and wanted to climb the ladder.

She tried a few times and found that the ladder was a bit high, and her short legs couldn't lift it that high. Seeing Su Qinghe climbed up, she shook the ladder.

The little guy is not strong, so Su Qinghe, who just stepped on the first level, didn't panic, lowered his head and smiled and said, "Why, you want to murder the old father?"

"Father is tall~~" the little guy held his head up and smiled innocently.

"When Dad finishes his work, I will let you be high!"

"Yeah~ I'm tall too~~"

The little guy was happy and shook even more vigorously.

"You try shaking it again?" Bai Zhi couldn't stand it anymore, "If you throw my husband off, I'll beat your ass until it blooms!"

Obediently subconsciously blocked the little butt, but looked directly at Bai Zhi not to be outdone.

"Your ass is blooming~~"

(End of this chapter)