SIAS Chapter 222.1

After work in the evening, everyone celebrated Yun Guyuan’s birthday in the same way as Yi Qingqing’s birthday a few days ago.

He might have expected something, so he was not surprised at all.

This time, it was Yi Qingqing who cooked the meal.

It was already dark after dinner. Yi Qingqing sent the others away, closed the door, and began to prepare for today’s worship activities.

The things she was going to burn were now placed in the living room of the thatched house. There were a lot of things. She divided them according to the people she was going to worship and put them in bamboo baskets, which would be convenient to use directly when the time came.

Yi Qingqing went to the backyard in the dark with a shovel and dug nine small fire pits at the foot of the courtyard wall, distributed according to the people she wanted to worship.

Six of them were for her teachers who had names and surnames, while one of the remaining three were for people like Master Yi and others who died in hatred in this era and had no one to worship them, one was for a wandering ghost, and the last one was for a passing ghost.

Burn the petition first, then light the incense, and finally burn other things.

In order to prevent the fire from being too big, Yi Qingqing burned very slowly, basically burning the next thing only after the previous thing was almost burned.

Even so, the nine fire pits still illuminated the base of the wall.

Fortunately, the fire was not very strong, and the light was blocked by the courtyard wall. At most, if people got closer, they would find that her yard seemed to be a little brighter overall.

Yi Qingqing had looked in the village in advance. During this season, the grass and trees were lush. The roof of the educated youth point could be seen at the bottom of the slope, but further down, it was hidden by trees and grass.

This little bit of brightness could only be seen by someone who came to the path on the slope in the middle of the night.

But today is the Ghost Festival. Even if science is promoted now, traditions are not so easy to erase, especially in the countryside. No one will go out in the middle of the night on this day.

Start burning from Master Li, who is the oldest in seniority.

People like him who lived an extremely long time ago were most likely to have been reincarnated.

But even if he were reincarnated, the things she burned would not be affected.

Although he could not receive it, he had the petition. Even if the things did not fall into his hands, the underworld would take them, which would also accumulate blessings for him.

The smoke of the incense sticks lit for Master Li and Master Bai all dissipated into thin air, which meant that the incense was wasted and no one took it.

The smoke from the incense that was lit for other teachers later condensed and did not dissipate. It rose straight up and finally disappeared. According to Master Bai, this meant that someone had received it.

When Yi Qingqing saw this scene, she felt as if she had really connected with the teachers she had never met.

When the stone burned the petitions for the teachers, she would say one sentence.

“By chance, I, Student Yi Qingqing, have been able to receive the knowledge and skills taught by my teacher, from which I have benefited immensely. While it is inconvenient to share the details of the process, I can only express my gratitude in this way. I hope that my teacher will be well-fed and well-clothed in his/her afterlife, free from the hardships of life.”

As for the gifts to lonely ghosts and underworld messengers, it was similar. In short, it was just a small token of appreciation, hoping that they would take care of her teachers.

As a person who had been to the underworld to welcome a second rebirth and had learned funeral skills, she was really serious when she said these words.

After all, she had seen with her own eyes that the ghosts and ghost messengers in the underworld were actually the same as living people, so these bribes should be quite effective.

During the worship process, she did not encounter any supernatural events, and everything went smoothly.

 

 

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