Xie Lanzhi and Qin Shu stepped forward, and Sixth Uncle handed them three incense sticks each.
Sixth Uncle walked to the left, looked up at the densely packed tablets on the shrine, and began to recite the sacrificial text.
The content is nothing more than praying to the ancestors first, blessing the family's descendants with safety, health, prosperity and development, and then informing the ancestors that Qin Shu has started a family and brought a son from outside to be included in the Qin family tree.
After the recitation of the sacrificial text, Sixth Uncle looked at Qin Shu and Xie Lanzhi with satisfaction.
"You guys step forward a few steps and prepare to burn incense."
Qin Shu and Xie Lanzhi walked forward, lit three incense sticks in their hands, and bowed to the tablet of the Qin family's ancestors.
Qin Shu put the three incense sticks in her hand into the incense burner one by one, and asked Xie Lanzhi to burn the incense according to the steps she had just followed.
At this point, everything was going well.
Xie Lanzhi successfully offered the three incense sticks and returned to stand beside Qin Shu.
Normally, after the two of them burn incense, other members of the Qin family will burn incense and worship in turn to show respect for their ancestors.
The accident happened after Xie Lan finished burning the incense.
The Sixth Uncle shouted, "Perform the ritual of three kneelings and nine kowtows!"
Qin Shu stood in front of the futon, protecting her round pregnant belly, and knelt down with difficulty.
Seeing that she was kneeling so hard, Xie Lanzhi supported her arm.
Qin Shu pushed him and urged, "It's okay, kneel down too."
"good--"
After Qin Shu knelt steadily, Xie Lanzhi looked straight at the tablets of the Qin family's ancestors in front of him, and bent his knees slightly.
“Boom!”
“Boom! Snap—!”
Outside the ancestral hall, thunder exploded and lightning cut through the dark night sky.
The originally quiet ancestral hall was suddenly in an uproar. The elders of the Qin family gathered in the ancestral hall looked at Xie Lanzhi with suspicion.
Even Qin Shu, who was kneeling on the mat, showed obvious surprise on her quiet and charming face.
"..." Xie Lanzhi hadn't completely knelt down yet.
His handsome face showed a confused and stunned expression, and he stared at Qin Shu with deep eyes.
Qin Shu took a deep breath and opened her red lips slightly: "Don't pay attention to it!"
Under the gaze of the tribesmen, she grabbed Xie Lanzhi's wrist and dragged him to kneel on the mat.
The Sixth Uncle was horrified and shouted urgently: "Ah Shu! No!"
Qin's father and mother rushed forward quickly and dragged the cushion in front of Xie Lanzhi away.
"Ah Shu! You have forgotten the rules of our ancestors. A vision has appeared, and the ancestor worship must be stopped!"
Qin Jianguo was talking to Qin Shu, but he was glaring at Xie Lanzhi fiercely and angrily, as if he was looking at a scumbag.
Qin Shu's beautiful face was cold and her gentle and harmless eyes concealed a hint of stubbornness and paranoia.
She looked at her sixth uncle and parents who all looked disapproving, and said angrily, "Maybe this is just a coincidence!"
Seeing Qin Shu's persistence, the Sixth Uncle said calmly, "Ah Shu, since ancient times, no one has been able to violate the Qin family's ancestral precepts. You can't disregard the Qin family's thousands of years of inheritance just because you are young and hot-tempered. Even if you are the heir of this generation, I will be the first to disagree!"
The old man was angry.
The tone went from gentle at the beginning to increasingly serious later on.
The look in Sixth Uncle's eyes when he looked at Qin Shu also revealed a hint of disappointment.
Every generation of the Qin family is so rational that they are cold-blooded, even to the point of being selfish.
The Qin family is in the business of practicing medicine and saving lives, but there are too many suffering people in the world and it is impossible to save all those who are sick.
The heir of the Qin family must keep a calm mind and avoid being emotionally unstable, impulsive, irritable, and sentimental.
Xie Lanzhi was still in a posture of wanting to kneel but not wanting to. When he noticed Qin Shu's tight grip on his hand, he slowly loosened his grip.
Faced with Qin Shu's protection, he felt very happy inside.
At this moment, Qin Shu gave up so quickly that Xie Lanzhi felt helpless in his heart, and a hint of absurdity flashed in his eyes.
Just because there was a sudden thunder and lightning during a sacrifice, can we judge whether a person is good or bad?
The corners of Xie Lanzhi's lips curled up into an imperceptible arc of coldness.
He just refuses to believe it!
Xie Lanzhi looked up at the tablets of the Qin family's ancestors with a frank gaze, and a hint of disdain inadvertently flashed across his face.
“Bang!”
He straightened his back and knelt upright on the marble floor.
As soon as Xie Lanzhi knelt down, the weather outside became more and more severe.
“Boom!!!”
"Crack! Crack! Boom!!!"
The rumbling thunder in the distant sky seemed to be getting closer and closer, as close as the roof of the ancestral hall.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!!!"
“Crack! Crash!!!”
Thunder and lightning are like exploding gunpowder and crackling firecrackers.
Then there was a loud splashing sound, and it started to rain heavily.
The younger generations of the Qin family who were outside the ancestral hall rushed in to hide from the rain, and some people in the crowd shouted.
"Sixth Grandpa! It's raining heavily outside! Such a heavy rain!!!"
"The sky was clear during the day, why is it raining now?"
"This weather is so weird..."
The noisy discussion of the crowd was soon interrupted.
“Pah, pah—!”
The tablet in the middle of the shrine was placed neatly and orderly down on the table.
Grandpa Qin's tablet shook a few times and then stabilized, which was the only way to give face to Xie Lanzhi.
The strange scene caused the atmosphere in the huge ancestral hall to stagnate, and also made everyone in the Qin family look horrified.
“Bang!”
"Bang! Bang—"
Led by the Sixth Uncle, members of the Qin family knelt down one after another.
They looked nervous and were muttering to themselves, asking their ancestors to calm down and forgive them for today's ancestor worship.
Only Qin Shu and Xie Lanzhi looked calm and composed.
It’s just that the former looked thoughtful, while the latter looked extremely ugly.
I don’t know if it was the Qin family’s pleading that worked, but the thunder outside quickly disappeared and the sound of rain also quickly became smaller.
Sixth Uncle wiped the sweat from his forehead and personally lit three incense sticks for his ancestors.
He turned around and stared at Xie Lanzhi with sharp, inquiring eyes: "You also saw it, the strange phenomenon fell from the sky, today's ancestor worship ceremony has to be cancelled, do you have anything to say?"
His demeanor and tone were still polite, but lacking the initial intimacy.
Xie Lanzhi said nothing, but lowered his eyes and stared at Qin Shu who was in deep thought.
"Ah Shu, what do you say?"
At this moment, he was actually prepared to be abandoned by Qin Shu.
After all, Qin Shu had already made her choice when she let go of her hand.
Qin Shu touched her pregnant belly to comfort the baby who was suddenly making a fuss inside.
I only heard her pleasant voice and said calmly: "I mean to continue!"
The Sixth Uncle looked at Qin Shu with a look of disappointment on his face as she was bewitched by the man and had lost her mind.
He pointed at Xie Lanzhi's nose and asked, "Are you protecting him like this?"
Qin Shu tilted her head and smiled playfully, then pointed with her jade hand at the fallen tablet in the middle.