Su Ergou scratched his head: "Brother-in-law, are you really awake?"

Wei Ting asked, "Just woke up, what's wrong?"

Su Ergou passed the steamer to him and said, "Oh, my sister asked me to bring you a basket of buns. Do you want to come down and eat with us?"

Wei Ting said: "No, I'll eat inside."

Su Xiaoxiao and a few others were doing business and eating quickly, so after he went downstairs and sat down for a while, he was the only one left. Besides, he also had to look after the three little guys next door.

Wei Ting said: "Put it away to Sister You's house."

Su Ergou agreed: "Yeah, okay!"

Su Xiaoxiao had almost finished her meal in the lobby. She had a choice of where to sit. It happened to be in a position where she could see her and Wei Ting's two rooms. The other two rooms were around a corner and were in her blind spot.

She glanced at Wei Ting in the aisle.

Wei Ting walked into the room where she and the three kids lived with a normal expression.

The three of them fell asleep in the middle of the night, so they would probably wake up late tonight.

She didn't believe that Wei Ting followed her to the capital city just for the three little ones. Wei Ting was too cunning and he must have his own purpose.

Su Ergou was also full.

The group set out for Half Moon Mountain.

The cemetery of a wealthy family is located in a Feng Shui treasure land. The top and two sides are towering, and the middle part is concave inward, which is the layout of Xianglu Mountain.

It is good enough for an ordinary family to have a grave, but this family has an entire cemetery.

Not only that, they also built a separate ancestral temple.

On the way here, Su Xiaoxiao asked Wei Ting a lot about sacrifices.

The ancestral hall of the Great Zhou is also called the family temple, and ordinary people are not qualified to build a family temple.

The emperor has seven temples, princes have five temples, officials have three temples, and scholars have one temple.

In short, to build a family temple, one must at least be an official.

She also learned from the innkeeper this morning that the wealthy family for whom they were going to make snacks today had built five temples.

In other words, he was a prince.

The princes from the capital are of great importance.

What is Li Futai in front of them? What? Not even worthy of carrying shoes? No, this sentence itself is an overstepping of authority.

Moreover, the gossip that Manager Sun heard yesterday was also wrong. The wealthy family did not come here to relocate the graves, but to worship their ancestors and to perform a coming-of-age ceremony for a direct descendant.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, men were considered adults when they came of age at the age of 20. If they married earlier, they would have a coming-of-age ceremony the day before the wedding.

The locations are all in the ancestral temple.

It is difficult for country people to even fill their stomachs, so naturally they don't care about so many things. They can just tie their hair up casually, and they can't even afford a hair crown, even if they are adults.

Only the princes and scholars who live in luxury can afford to go through all these red tapes.

Su Xiaoxiao felt that this time when she returned, she had to buy a hair crown for Old Man Su as well, not one made of jade, but real jade.

Old Man Su drifted to Yangliu Village during a famine year, and worked as a cowherd for ten years. He grew up eating at many homes, had no elders, and naturally had no ceremony of coming of age. He just became a husband and a father in a daze.

"The little red-tiled house at the foot of the mountain... yes, it's right here!" Shopkeeper Sun lifted the car curtain, "Xiao Wu, stop the car."

Shopkeeper Sun pointed to the majestic buildings ahead and said, "See? That's the Su family's ancestral temple. It's so magnificent! It's a pity that we can't get in. We'll make some snacks in the kitchen here and someone will come to get them."

"Um."

Su Xiaoxiao got off the carriage calmly.

Su Ergou took a nap in the car and felt in good spirits.

The person who came to contact them was a manager named Yu.

Probably knowing that they were introduced by Master Huijue, Manager Yu was very polite. After taking them to the kitchen, he asked if they needed anything else.

Su Xiaoxiao said, "We brought our own food. Can I ask where the drinking water is?"

Manager Yu smiled and said, "There is a clean well in the backyard. If you don't want to use well water, there is a natural mountain spring half a mile to the east. It tastes sweeter than well water."

Su Xiaoxiao decided to try the mountain spring water.

They soon reached the half-mile distance. Su Xiaoxiao looked at the winding spring flowing down from a naturally formed cave in the stone wall. She stretched out her chubby little hand, scooped the water up and took a sip.

So sweet!

"Sister, is it delicious?" Su Ergou asked.

Su Xiaoxiao hummed without hesitation: "It tastes good, sweeter than the water in our mountains."

"I'll do it too!" Su Ergou put down the carrying pole and the bucket. Instead of scooping it up with his hands, he tilted his head and used his mouth to receive it.

“It’s so cold!”

His collar was wet.

But he also tasted that the spring water here was indeed sweet.

"Sister, can we bring two buckets for Dad when we go back?"

"Hey? Sister, what's wrong with you? Why don't you speak?"

"sister!"

Su Xiaoxiao said softly, "I heard it. I'll ask Manager Yu how much the spring water costs and buy some to take back."

——The brother and sister are really one who dares to take care of the child and the other one who dares to pamper the child.

Su Xiaoxiao frowned slightly.

She just now... seemed to have seen Jing Yi.

Surrounded by a group of people in luxurious clothes, he entered the ancestral temple of a wealthy family.

It’s too far away, and I can’t see it clearly. Maybe I’m seeing things.

But the next second, she no longer thought so.

Because Changping is here.

Changping also came to fetch spring water, but the difference was that he brought two small bamboo tubes.

"Sususu... Miss Su?"

Changping looked at the siblings in disbelief, "Why are you here?"

I see you guys everywhere, you're really haunting me!

Changping is Mr. Xiang's personal attendant. His presence means that Mr. Xiang is here too, so Jingyi is most likely here as well.

No wonder they were not there when she went to the academy to look for them. It turned out that they had gone to the city.

…

Jing Yi and his group arrived at the gate of the ancestral temple.

A middle-aged man in his forties had already been waiting here with his family. He first bowed to Jing Yi and said, "Young Marquis Jing, I haven't seen you for a long time. I hope you are well."

Jing Yi nodded slightly and moved aside.

The man took a closer look, his face changed drastically, he lifted his skirt and knelt down: "This humble official greets you three——"

Master Xiang stretched out his hand to stop his courtesy: "When you are out and about, just call me Master Xiang."

The man understood: "Yes! Mr. Xiang, please come in!"

Master Xiang and Jing Yi followed the man into a courtyard next to the ancestral temple, which was mainly used to guard the ancestral temple.

After they sat down, the servants served them tea.

Mr. Xiang asked, "It has been half a year since we last met in the capital. I wonder how the Marquis is doing?"

The man sighed, "It was getting better, but now that my aunt's death anniversary is approaching, my father can't sleep at night again."

Master Xiang also sighed and said, "My Lord, have you not let it go yet?"

The man shook his head helplessly: "My father has always been brooding over what happened back then, and feels guilty for not being able to protect my aunt. My father often said that if he had not brought my aunt back to the hometown to worship the ancestors, then my aunt would not have died tragically, and her children would not have been living among the people for many years."

(End of this chapter)