Shanwa Small Rich Farmers

   "Second Grandpa, are you blinded by the wind? Why are you crying all of a sudden?" A kid next to him reached out to help Wen Shigui, and then asked in surprise.

  Wen Shigui raised his head and straightened his body, and said loudly to Hu Xiangjun in the pond: "Mr. Hu, please be careful, this jar is the deceased person's plaque of our old Wen family!"

  As soon as he heard the words "Dead Man's Brand", not only Wen Xu, but also the people around him were stunned.

The sign of the deceased is in the local dialect. If it is more formal, it is a tablet, which is a wooden spiritual tablet engraved with the names and taboos of the ancestors of the Wen family. This thing is usually enshrined in the ancestral hall. Now there is no ancestral hall in Wenjia Village. Originally, it was thought that the spiritual tablet It was all burned, and now it popped up again suddenly. It is not surprising that everyone is surprised.

  Thinking of this thing and then linking it to the social situation at that time, Wen Xu understood that the old people must have put these spiritual tablets in jars and sank them to the bottom of the pond because they were afraid that their ancestors' spiritual seats would be desecrated.

  But I don’t know why no one has mentioned this matter, so now no one in the village knows that the spirit bit was hidden at the bottom of the pond.

   "Second brother, are you sure?" Wen Shijie asked excitedly when he heard this, his voice began to tremble a little.

Wen Shigui got out of the way and let Wen Shijie stand at the mouth of the jar. Wen Shijie put his head into the mouth of the jar to have a look, and immediately nodded and said: "Yes, I saw the words on it, which said Xiankao Wen Gong word".

  As soon as I heard that it was really the spirit seat of the ancestors, the people around were immediately quiet. Chinese people still have respect for their ancestors.

   "Everyone go help, get the things up!" Wen Shigui immediately directed the Wen family boys around.

  Hearing Wen Shigui's words, the boys immediately started to work, and slowly took over the work.

At this time, people like Hu Xiangjun slowly withdrew from the center of the pond. As far as they were concerned, if the altar contained the ancestors of Wen's ancestors, then they all knew that it was better to let the family of Wen's village handle it, because This is not a joke, even now, if something unexpected happens, maybe he will be able to forge an enmity with the people in Wenjia Village.

Wen Shigui reached out his hand and carefully took out the spiritual tablet from the first jar, and waited to take it out for a look, only to find that the original spiritual tablet had been disassembled, like the base and tablet The hollow and carved guards on the top and both sides have been removed. The purpose of disassembling is also obvious, so that it is easier to put it into the jar, and more tablets can be placed in a jar, which takes up almost half of the original space.

  If we stick to the original one, there are probably three jars at most enough for one jar, but now there are probably more than 30 jars stuffed here.

  Wen Xu stretched out his hand to look at the words on the tablet. This person's seniority was obviously higher than what Wen Xu knew, and he was from the Qing Dynasty, so he opened his mouth and asked, "Who is this?"

  Wen Shigui shook his head: "How can I remember this, I have to check the generation in the family tree! Or I have to go to the ancestral grave to find out"

  Looking at the tablet in Wen Shigui's hand, Wen Xu felt that the tablet was well preserved, all parts were in good condition, the wood was not damaged, and the paint color could still be seen on it.

   Shi Shangzhen walked to Wen Xu's side at this time, and asked in a low voice: "Then what should we do next?"

  Although Shi Shangzhen is smart, he has never encountered this matter before. However, although she has not experienced it, she knows how important the ancestor's position is to the Chinese family. Even in the countryside now, it is a big event to rediscover the ancestor's position.

   "Leave everything to the second brother! It's none of your business, go home and go to bed" Wen Xin said softly.

   "I'm not sleepy, just wait a while"

Shi Shangzhen also knows that this matter is not in the charge of the village director, it is completely Wen's family affairs, his surname is not Wen, and he is not Wen's daughter-in-law, even Wen's daughter-in-law is probably not I can't talk, so I can only watch it. If you participate in it, it will be exhausting and thankless.

As time went by, the jars were lifted up one by one by the young people in the village. At this time, no one said to pull the jars upside down. Although they were young, everyone knew that if they did this, they would wait for their families The old man who came here will inevitably have a fat beating!

  As the jars were brought out one by one, more and more people came from the village. Halfway through the jars, all the young and old from the entire Wenjia Village arrived.

Wen Shigui and several old people of the generation carefully opened the jars one by one. After muttering a few words, he slowly took out the spiritual seats in the jars, and then slowly placed them in the jars. Together, if the parts can be separated, put them aside, and put them together if they cannot be separated.

   "This jar is heavy!"

  Everyone was watching quietly, there was a burst of exclamation from the pond, and a group of strong boys shouted loudly.

   In this way, everyone's eyes fell on the last two jars in the pond.

  Wen Shigui frowned: "How heavy it can be! Hurry up and don't dawdle. If it sinks, even if you go down and carry it, you have to carry it up for me!"

   "Second Uncle, I really have to go down and carry it!"

  Hu Xiangjun interrupted at this time and said: "We have leather backing here, you just send a few strong ones to wear it on."

   Now the boys went ashore again and put on the leather backing, and then they got off the pond like this. They braved the mud above their knees and lifted the jar together.

   This jar looked really heavy, and the strong young men had to take a break after lifting it for a few steps. It took almost ten minutes to lift the jar to the shore.

  People around were very curious about such a heavy thing, and when they saw Wen Shigui about to open it, they immediately crowded around.

   If some children are clever, they immediately moved the lamp hanging outside to this side. Now Wen Shigui can see the contents of the jar without urging people to move away.

   "Gold! Is it gold?"

  As soon as he saw the things inside, which had a yellowish color, Cai Feng, who was surrounded by the crowd, immediately became excited.

  As soon as someone said gold, a group of people immediately became commotion, pushing forward to see what a jar of gold looks like.

Wen Shigui yelled: "Squeeze what, what gold is not gold, this is a sacrificial vessel for ancestor worship, copper! Even if it is gold, you can still take it and sell it! Get out of the way, don't let me go I'm going to kick someone!"

  When Wen Shigui said this, the crowd immediately took a step back, but it was only a step. Everyone still wanted to see if there was gold in the jar, or copper as Wen Shigui said.

  These people’s thoughts can’t be hidden from Wen Shigui. He took out a small bowl from the jar, and put it in the hand of the nearest person: “Weigh it and see if it’s gold?”

   "Grandpa, I don't have the money to buy gold, how would I know?"

   "Try the portion and you'll know. Copper and gold can't be tested! Why don't you just take a bite?" Wen Shigui said.

   "No bite, rust on it"

"You know, it's made of copper! Gold doesn't rust. You also want to be blind. Just our Wenjia Village is so poor that you think our ancestors can buy a whole set of gold sacrificial vessels?" Wen Shigui While talking, he reached out and took out another one.

  Many people in the crowd have seen gold, and they all understand that no matter what it is made of, it is not made of gold anyway.

In addition, after hearing what Wen Shigui said, they all felt that it was reasonable. The stories passed down from the village, except for the troubled times outside, it was difficult for the village to even marry a daughter-in-law in other times. How could there be money to buy this, so some people in the crowd immediately laughed , and then the atmosphere in the whole air suddenly relaxed.

  There are a lot of things in the jar. There are about twenty or thirty bowls and basins. No wonder such a large copper sacrificial vessel looks so heavy.

   "This one is heavy, good guy, it's an incense burner." Wen Shigui reached out to the bottom of the jar and felt what the last thing was: "There's another thing, maybe it's the lid"

When he was waiting to take it out, his eyes lit up when he saw Wen Xin. It was obvious that this incense burner was different from the one he took out before. This thing had no rust and was a bit dark red. It seemed to have a layer of paste on the outside, which looked very beautiful. .

  Wen Xu had also heard of a kind of incense burner before, the Ming Xuande burner that some people knew, when he thought of this thing, Wen Xu reached out to take the incense burner, turned it over to see if there was a money at the bottom of the burner.

To be honest, Wen Xu wanted to see the inscription of the Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty on the bottom of the stove, even if it was a fake, who knew there was a money on the bottom, but it was not the Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty, but what was the title, it's a pity What's more, Wen Xu didn't know the first two words.

  But since it’s not Xuande Furnace Wenxu, let’s ignore it, put it aside, and wait for the last jar to come up.

  With this jar experience, the last jar came up quickly, and was soon carried to Wen Shigui by a few guys.

  After Wen Shigui opened the jar, he said to the surrounding crowd: "Porcelain is still a sacrificial vessel for ancestor worship!"

As he spoke, he reached out and took out the contents one by one. Wen Xin saw a small bowl, a small candlestick, a porcelain incense burner, a pair of porcelain lions and a pair of vases. It is estimated that when the porcelain was put in, it was wrapped in thatch , After so many years, you can still see traces of dead branches on it, which shows how careful the older generation was when they hid these things in the pond.

   "Fourth brother, please register all these things! Then we will transport these things to the village office together. Today we brothers will just look at them," Wen Shigui said.

  Hearing what Wen Shigui said, Wen Shijie also nodded: "It should be so!"

"Shixu, you go back and bring your car here, and move all these things to the village office, third child, go to the haystack over there and pull the grass, let's wrap things up." Wen Shigui said to Wenxu and the others Assigned a task.

  Wen Xu nodded, turned around and went home to drive.

  There is nothing to say about the next thing. After going back and forth several times, Wen Xu brought back all the things by the pond. The only thing that was not shipped was the dozen or so jars that contained the things.

   Waiting for everything to enter the hut of the village office, a group of people who watched the fun were also preparing to go home.

   "Second Uncle, is the jar by the pond still useful? If not, let me take it home and pickle some vegetables, okay?"

  Wen Shigui looked back at this guy and said indifferently: "You go to the old grave and kowtow, and ask your great-grandfather if he would give you the jar where his spirit seat was placed!"

  As soon as these words came out, everyone laughed.

   After mocking this person, Wen Shigui turned his head and was about to enter the house. Seeing that Wen Xu was also about to go home, he immediately said, "Shixu, where are you going?"

  Wen Xu pointed to his car, originally wanted to say that it was getting late now, and he wanted to go back to sleep, but when he saw the solemn eyes of the second brother, he immediately sighed in his heart.

   "I'll go see if the car is locked!" Wen Xu pointed at his car, and then made a small excuse for himself: "You go in first, I'll come later!"

  Watching Wen Shigui walk in, Wen Xu walked around his car twice, and whispered to himself: "Today I found another place where seniority is not good, and I have my share in everything!"

   "What are you mumbling about!"

   "Oh, Mom! You startled me, you walked without making any sound." Wen Wen was taken aback by Shi Shangzhen who came over.

  Shi Shangzhen saw Wen Xu's appearance, and immediately smiled and said: "You are so timid, what were you muttering just now?"

   "It's nothing, I'm going to sort out the coffin." Wen Xushun pointed to the lighted room of the village office.

   "Can't we tidy up tomorrow? Go to bed early today, and you will be more energetic tomorrow!" Shi Shangzhen looked at the watch on his wrist, and found that it should be one and a half.

  Wen Xu said: "It would be weird if they could fall asleep!"

"why?"

Wen Xu smiled and did not explain the reason to Shi Shangzhen. Most of these people participated in the destruction of the four old ancestral halls in the past. Now every opportunity to make compensation is rare for them. Even if it is not compensation, it is just for peace of mind. , they will do their best.