"It's the yin energy on the mountain. Today is Qingming Festival. There are many people worshiping ancestors. The lonely ghosts on the mountain will come out one after another to grab some offerings. The yin energy on the whole mountain is very heavy, which can easily scare the children in their stomachs. ●⌒,." Ye Rongyao said.

"I won't go anymore, will our parents blame me?" Liu Qingqing said with some anxiety.

"How could it be? You are pregnant. They are too happy in the sky. How could they blame you? I don't think they want you to see them now." Ye Rongyao said.

"Well, then I'll stay at home."

Liu Qingqing thought for a while and said. Now in Liu Qingqing's heart, the child in her belly is the first priority. When she heard her man say that if she goes up the mountain today, it would scare the child. Liu Qingqing also gave up her plan to go up the mountain to visit the graves for her parents-in-law.

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Carrying a hoe on his shoulders, a sickle on his waist, holding a basket with both hands, and taking "Xiaobai" up the mountain.

"Glory, I went to the grave so early."

Ye Xiangde looked at Ye Rongyao with some surprise and said. Ye Rongyao is a famous lazy person in the village. Although he is capable now, he is still a lazy person. He is not until ten o'clock in the morning, and he is basically unable to see him.

I didn’t expect that this morning, I would go up the mountain to visit the graves before eight o’clock.

"Isn't this Qingming Festival? It's not too late to visit the elders to visit the graves and visit the graves." Ye Rongyao said.

"Yes, yes, that's this ritual." Ye Xiangde nodded and said.

"Grandpa Xiangde, check it out, I can go up the mountain." Ye Rongyao said to Ye Xiangde.

Every year, there are many people going up the mountain to visit graves on Qingming Festival. A few years ago, people going to visit graves and visit graves did not pay attention to controlling fireworks, causing many forest fires.

In recent years, every Qingming Festival, every road leading to the graves and forests is guarded by a special old man, mainly checking whether there are any things that will cause fire.

In fact, it's just paper money, candles, firecrackers and other things.

Logically, these things are not allowed to be brought. Now it is popular to go up the mountain to sweep the graves and send flowers. It is during the Qingming Festival. I bought them everywhere, for fifteen yuan, twenty yuan per blue flowers.

When visiting the grave, you are allowed to bring flowers, paper money, candles, firecrackers that will not cause fire, which can cause open fires, and are not allowed to bring them.

However, although the regulations are as follows, there are special people guarding the intersection to check. In fact, the elderly who guard the intersection will still be allowed to leave things like paper money, candles, firecrackers, etc.

After all, these are for the dead ancestors. If you really stop someone from burning these paper money for the ancestors, if the ancestors have no money to spend underground, they will come to the door.

The consequences are very serious, especially the elderly people who are guarding the intersection, but they are much more superstitious than young people. How could they really stop you?

Basically, you will explain it. After the sacrifice, you must check it and extinguish all the open fires and do not cause fires. Otherwise, whoever burns the mountain will go to jail.

Ye Xiangde is the brother of the old village chief Ye Xianghai. He is the one who guards the mountain intersection every year. After all, this intersection costs 200 yuan a day, but it is easy to hold it. There are still many elderly people who want to do it. But whoever you want to do it is the sentence of the old village chief Ye Xianghai.

As the old village chief's brother, Ye Xiangde will certainly not bring him down.

"No need to check, just pay attention and remember to put out the fire."

Ye Xiangde said, "They are all people from the same village. Ye Rongyao is also a well-known figure in the village, so Ye Xiangde certainly gave convenience."

"Then I'll thank you."

After Ye Rongyao finished speaking, he carried the things and headed up the mountain.

Because Qingming Festival is a family action, many young people have not yet got up at this time, and many families have not gone up the mountain at this time. Therefore, the entire mountain is still deserted and there are no people.

Seeing that Ye Rongyao could not see anyone, he didn't care about so many people and used the "Lingbo Microwave" to walk quickly on the mountains and forests.

This time, the big dog "Xiaobai" was so painful that it could not keep up with Ye Rongyao's speed. It was so tired that "Xiaobai" was breathing, and her four legs kept chasing in the direction of Ye Rongyao's walking.

If "Xiaobai" could speak, he would probably be swearing now. He is a slutty horse. Is this still a human? Even a dog can't catch up with him.

Because of using the "Lingbo Micro-Strip", Ye Rongyao was very fast. In just a few minutes, he arrived at his grandfather and grandma's grave.

Ye Rongyao's grandfather had only two children, one was Ye Rongyao's father, and the other was Ye Rongyao's aunt. However, like Ye Rongyao's elder sister, this aunt married from another province and was rarely back in a few years. Over the years, during the Qingming Festival, Ye Rongyao's family basically visited the graves for grandpa and grandma.

"Grandpa, grandma, it's Qingming Festival again. Grandma is here to visit you to visit your grave. Let me tell you good news. This year, your granddaughter-in-law is pregnant. There are people in our Ye family in the future. So I didn't let her come here to visit the grave this year. I was afraid that I would encounter unclean things on the road, so please ask grandpa and grandma, don't blame her. Next year, Qingqing and I will take your children to visit you to visit the grave..."

"There is another thing that makes you happy, that is, your grandson is now a professor, a professor at Zhejiang South University, and a senior intellectual. I am the first in our village, haha, but I am afraid that I will scare the people in the village and our relatives, I have not told them..."

Ye Rongyao knelt down in front of his grandfather and grandma's grave and slowly told them about him and others.

After talking to grandpa and grandma for about ten minutes, Ye Rongyao got up and took a sickle to start cutting the weeds growing around the grave. If some of the weeds grow on the grave, they must be pulled out the roots so that the weeds will not grow again, and the roots of the grass will grow deeper and deeper, destroying the grave.

Because the cutting was very carefully, it took an hour to cut the weeds around the grave. In an inconspicuous position on the edge of the grave, Ye Rongyao took out the broom that had been put here and cleaned the grave up and down.

After finishing all this, Ye Rongyao picked up the hoe and began to add some new ground to his grandfather and grandma's grave.

Ye Rongyao began to light incense and candles, lit incense and candles in front of the grave, and also lit incense and candles on both sides of the grave. The incense and candles on both sides are for the land of the mountain god who is guarding the cemetery, and pray for the land of the mountain gods to protect the cemetery and bless the ancestors' undead.

After roughly distributing the paper money and "big bags" he brought over were roughly equally in front of his grandfather and grandma's grave, he lit it with a lighter, and after all these things were burned out.

Ye Rongyao took out a string of firecrackers from the basket and started setting them off.

Soon, crackling sounds could be heard throughout the mountain.

Although it is not allowed to light incense and candles or set off firecrackers when visiting graves on Qingming Festival, in rural areas, it is not as strict as possible. Basically, everyone will set off firecrackers after visiting graves.

The main purpose of visiting the grave to light firecrackers during the Qingming Festival is to drive away ghosts and bad things.

After all, when we go to the grave to worship our ancestors, we just hope that the paper money we burn will only be used for our ancestors, not other ghosts. Therefore, the purpose of setting off firecrackers after we go to the grave is to drive away other ghosts and grab things from our ancestors.

There is another reason. People always feel that going to these places is not clean, so setting off firecrackers after going to the grave is used to exorcise evil spirits.

After setting off the firecrackers, Ye Rongyao put out the incense and candle fire, which was to prevent the fire from happening.

Not long after Ye Rongyao set off the firecrackers, many children, and even a few adult men and women came over with them, asking for things.

In Wenzhou, when visiting graves in Qingming Festival, you have to send things to those who come to support them.

Ye Rongyao's memory couldn't help but return to his childhood.

At that time, Qingming Festival was not a sad day for children like Ye Rongyao. The children were still young, and many of them had never met their deceased ancestors and had no feelings for them.

During the Qingming Festival, they didn’t feel sad, but felt that it was a happy day because on this day, they could ask for a lot of food and money.

Ye Rongyao remembered that when he was young, on the Qingming Festival, he would go up the mountain with his friends early. When he saw someone visiting the grave, he would wait there. After the grave was sweeping, he would wait to divide the things.

At that time, basically all the food was distributed, including biscuits, candy, etc. Of course, some people also paid directly. At that time, if anyone paid three yuan, it would be a big deal, and it would attract many people who heard the news to ask for it, and even many adults.

Generally, as long as someone has not left the grave, you will be distributed to you if you come over, but once you leave the grave and don’t give you anything, you have nothing to say.

At that time, at the end of the day, the snacks Ye Rongyao asked for could be filled with a plastic bag, and there were still a lot of change that could be as good as the New Year's money. So for children, Qingming Festival is a particularly happy day.

With the development of the economy, people nowadays will basically not give food to visit graves. After all, people’s living conditions are better now, and even children are not interested in food, let alone adults. If you give food to candy and other foods, others will dislike you and think that your family is stingy.

Nowadays, people find cash when visiting graves during the Qingming Festival, usually five yuan or ten yuan. Of course, if the richer people are, one person will pay fifty or one hundred yuan.

Nowadays, children in rural areas go to the mountains to ask for money early on during the Qingming Festival holiday. Moreover, children are very smart now and don’t wait stupidly. Instead, they find places with many people visiting graves and wait. Wherever they set off firecrackers, they run over quickly. They can basically catch up with the money and then quickly run to the next place.

If you are lucky, a child will earn thousands of dollars a day, and a little less, one or two hundred dollars a day.

After all, everyone’s living conditions are better now, and they can’t afford to pay one or two dollars, and they usually start at least five dollars.
Chapter completed!