novelones Chapter 209 Southern Yi Customs
Chapter 209 Southern Yi Customs
"Mr. Li, did you say that tomorrow is Nanyi's New Year?" During the Chinese New Year, Peng Qiongyu ran to help Mr. Li dry the medicinal materials.
"That's right, didn't your great-grandmother tell you?" Mr. Li joked, "It's not good to not go back to see her after you're married."
"Hey," Peng Qiongyu smiled bitterly, "Don't laugh at me, I don't even know what to do now."
"Oh? What's wrong?" Mr. Li asked curiously.
Peng Qiongyu sighed, told him what Li Xinran had analyzed before, and then said: "Mr. Li, what do you think I should do?"
Mr. Li smiled and said, "No wonder you came to me when you had nothing to do recently. It turns out this is what happened."
"Mr. Li..." The depression on Peng Qiongyu's face became more obvious.
Mr. Li smiled, but did not tease him anymore, but said: "You don't have to worry too much about this. Although you are a descendant of Priest Miao, you don't know how to raise voodoos, and there are no voodoo insects around you. Even if Priest Miao wants to take you back, the elders of Nanyi will not agree."
"Elder Nanyi?" Peng Qiongyu heard a novel term and asked curiously.
"Yes, there are elders in Nanyi. In Nanyi, their priests have supreme power, but they also have an elder system. If nine out of ten elders object to what the priests decide, it will be complete. It won’t work. Moreover, Nanyi’s priests are not inherited by blood, but by ability. Only the descendants of the Miao family who can raise the most powerful Gu can inherit the position of priests.”
"What if the descendants of the Miao family raised powerful Gu insects?" Peng Qiongyu asked curiously.
"Impossible," Mr. Li laughed, "because only the blood of the descendants of the Miao family can contain things that can suppress and nourish the poison. I have never known what it is, but it turns out that only people with their blood can Only then is it possible to raise voodoos. Anyone who is not of Miao bloodline will be eaten by the voodoos and die." Mr. Li said while stroking his beard.
"What about me?" Peng Qiongyu hesitated.
"Of course you can try to raise Gu," Mr. Li smiled, "You are a descendant of Priest Miao. Of course you have Miao's blood in your body, but..." He hesitated.
"But what?" Peng Qiongyu asked.
"However, if you follow the Miao priest to Nanyi and inherit the position of Nanyi, you will have to change your surname."
"Change your surname!" Peng Qiongyu's eyes widened, "Why change your surname?"
Mr. Li chuckled: "Actually, Nanyi people don't care about surnames. Children of Nanyi people can even choose to take their father's or mother's surname. The only ones who care about surnames are the Miao clan who raise Gu, because they have to judge by their surnames. Whether this person can raise Gu, so if you really decide to follow Priest Miao back to Nanyi, you must be prepared to have your surname changed."
Peng Qiongyu's face turned green: "That won't work, wouldn't he become a beast that betrays his ancestors and forgets his ancestors?"
Mr. Li laughed, raised his hand and turned over the drying herbs without saying a word.It snowed on New Year's Eve, so those medicinal materials were not dried. Today the weather is nice, so I took them out to dry.
"Mr. Li, why don't you speak?" Peng Qiongyu asked.
Mr. Li glanced at Peng Qiongyu: "What did I say? This is other people's customs. If you want to go, you have to respect other people's customs. If you can't accept it, just don't go."
"No," Peng Qiongyu detoured to Mr. Li and asked in disbelief, "Don't you think this rule is particularly strange? Could it be that the children of Priest Miao also have her surname?"
"That's right." Mr. Li didn't even look at Peng Qiongyu, he was flipping through the medicinal materials, "Priest Miao's daughter has the surname of Priest Miao."
"You mean, Priest Miao and her husband have the same surname? If they get married with the same surname, this..." Peng Qiongyu smacked his lips.
"No," Mr. Li glanced at Peng Qiongyu strangely, "No one knows the surname of Priest Miao's husband, but Priest Miao's daughter has the surname of Priest Miao. No matter what the other half's surname is, she will eventually be named Miao. "
Peng Qiongyu held it in for a long time, his face turned red, but he didn't say anything in the end.
Mr. Li kept flipping things in his hands, took some time out, glanced at Peng Qiongyu, and said with a smile: "Boy, you have too little experience."
Peng Qiongyu looked at Mr. Li with doubts in his eyes, with three big words "I don't understand" clearly written in his eyes.
"When you travel to enough places, you will find that the customs of some places are based on their local realities. They may be different from our habits, but they are the customs that are most suitable for them. No Which custom is the most correct? Only the customs that adapt to local customs are the most correct customs. The ethnic group that thinks its customs are the most correct is truly looking at the sky from a well."
Mr. Li patted the medicinal shavings on his hand, patted Peng Qiongyu, and wiped the sawdust on Peng Qiongyu's body. Then he turned and entered the house, leaving Peng Qiongyu alone to meditate outside.
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A few days later, on the eve of the Nanyi New Year, Priest Miao walked from the window and waited until the sunset, but there was no sign of Aya. Priest Miao sighed softly and planned to bring the soaked glutinous rice to make cakes. have eaten.
As soon as I walked out of the door, I heard someone reporting: "Master Priest, General Peng, General Li and others are here."
Priest Miao was confused for a moment and hurriedly invited people to come. Just when he was about to cheer up and ask them why they came, he saw Peng Qiongyu holding a wooden basin with glutinous rice in his hand, and Li Xinran also holding a basket in her hand.
"Great-grandmother," Peng Qiongyu said with a smile, "Have a good New Year."
Li Xinran smiled and raised the basket in his hand: "We are here to celebrate the New Year with you."
Tears filled his eyes unknowingly, and Priest Miao smiled with tears in his eyes: "Okay, okay."
……
Aya's room
Aya was eating the cake made by Xiaoguo, with a smile on her face: "You made it delicious, I haven't had this for a long time, what do you think?"
Xiaoguo smiled and said: "Miss likes it, I will often do it for Miss in the future."
"No..." Aya waved her hands vaguely while eating the cake in her mouth, "This thing is only delicious if you eat it during the Chinese New Year."
"Yes." Xiaoguo responded with a smile.
"By the way," Aya said, halfway through eating, as if she suddenly thought of it, "Tell me, that old thing is still waiting for me to celebrate the New Year with her?" Aya said with ridicule in her tone, "She wants to be with someone else. Chinese New Year? What a beautiful idea! Let her want to harm me and feel like she is often abandoned!"
A trace of evil flashed in Aya's eyes, and then she proudly ate the cake made from Xiaoguo.
When Xiao Guo was smiling and agreeing, suddenly there was a loud noise from next door.
"What's going on?" Aya's expression suddenly changed. Next door was Priest Miao's yard, "Xiaoguo, what's going on?"
Xiaoguo hurried out the door, and then came back in a panic: "Miss, it's not good, the priest's courtyard is full of people, they are all...all..." She hesitated.
"What are you doing! Tell me!" Aya was a little anxious.
"They are all celebrating the New Year for the priest..." Xiaoguo's voice became smaller and smaller as he spoke.
Aya felt a sudden surge of anger in her heart, and the cake in her hand suddenly no longer smelled good.She angrily threw the cake on the ground and yelled, "Damn it!"