After exchanging the two peach charms, Zhu Xiuyuan and Dong Shuzhen completed their task.

The two of them walked towards Dong Cheng together, preparing to meet everyone and return home together.

"Father-in-law, we have changed it!" Zhu Xiuyuan cupped his hand.

"Um……"

Dong Cheng nodded slightly, then turned his eyes and landed on Dong Shuzhen. His face immediately darkened, his eyes widened, and his hands trembled slightly.

To be honest, Dong Cheng wanted to give his little daughter a severe lesson.

It's just that it's not possible now.

Dong Shuzhen has been scared since she was a child. When she saw her father like this, she stared at her with a dark face. Dong Shuzhen immediately realized that she might have done something wrong to make her father angry.

Happy.

Then, Dong Shuzhen moved her steps and ducked behind Zhu Xiuyuan.

After hiding, she stuck out half of her head and peeked at Dong Cheng, as if she was playing hide and seek with him.

Dong Cheng's face darkened again. The corners of his mouth twitched, causing his beard to tremble. He almost went crazy and even said the word "you".

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Dong Shuyu next to him gave him a hand again.

Dong Cheng immediately suppressed his anger and just glared at Dong Shuzhen without saying anything else.

This sight frightened Dong Shuzhen. She completely hid behind Zhu Xiuyuan and held his hand. On the way back home, she also hid behind Zhu Xiuyuan and was always in Dong Cheng's blind spot...

Zhu Xiuyuan had no words to say, so he could only smile bitterly.

After hanging the peach charms, the next activity is "ancestral worship".

During this event, Zhu Xiuyuan and Dong Cheng were separated.

Zhu Xiuyuan offered sacrifices to the ancestors of the Zhu family in the main house, while Dong Cheng offered sacrifices to the ancestors of the Dong family in his courtyard, each offering his own sacrifice.

In the main house, there is a mourning hall that was hastily arranged.

Zhu Xiuyuan lit two memorial candles and inserted them into an incense burner. He then lit three incense sticks and inserted them into them.

On the table of the incense burner, there are piles of sacrifices, various meats and fruits, etc. on the left and right sides.

Behind the incense burner is a spiritual tablet with the words "birthday wishes" written on it.

"Wish you birthday" is Zhu Xiuyuan's cheap dad.

Zhu Xiuyuan lit the incense candle, took two steps back, knelt down on the futon in front of the case, kowtowed and bowed, which was very polite.

On the futon next to him, Dong Shuzhen was there.

When she saw Zhu Xiuyuan kowtow, she also kowtowed and followed his example.

However, there was a faint suppressed excitement on her little face, and her two big eyes turned around, looking at everything strangely.

It stands to reason that when worshiping ancestors on New Year's Eve, female relatives are not allowed to be present. This has been a long-standing rule.

However, these rules are completely useless in Zhu Xiuyuan's case.

What are the rules? Rules are meant to be broken.

Therefore, when Dong Shuzhen said that she had never worshiped ancestors before and didn't know what it was like to worship ancestors, Zhu Xiuyuan personally brought her in.

In this mourning hall, there are only two people, Zhu Xiuyuan and Dong Shuzhen, so it can be said that there are only a few people.

After Zhu Xiuyuan kowtowed, he stood up and stared at the spiritual tablet. He could see the word "birthday" on it, and he was fascinated.

He had never met this cheap daddy at all.

I think back to the day when he first traveled through time, his cheap dad had already been buried for three days!

There are only some fragmentary memory fragments of his impression... Zhu Xiuyuan looked very strange to this spiritual tablet and the words on it!

This mourning hall is too spacious and quiet, and the layout and atmosphere make it easy for people to feel sad.

Zhu Xiuyuan thought about the memory fragments of birthday wishes. As he thought about it, he couldn't help but think of some things from his previous life...

Eh……

He had no time to make any preparations for the sudden time travel, and it was inevitable that he would leave many regrets in that world.

Thinking about these questions in his mind, Zhu Xiuyuan's mood suddenly became unattractive, and the outward manifestation was that his brows were furrowed and his face turned blue.

Dong Shuzhen immediately noticed the change in Zhu Xiuyuan's spirit. She opened her eyes wide and looked at her husband blankly. She thought to herself that her husband might be in a bad mood because he missed his ancestors...

Ever since, the suppressed excitement on Dong Shuzhen's face completely disappeared, she stopped looking around, and gradually got closer to Zhu Xiuyuan, and finally, she hugged Zhu Xiuyuan's hand.

"Husband, today is New Year's Eve, the most rare festival of the year. Husband, please don't be unhappy."

Dong Shuzhen held his hand with both hands and leaned her head against him. She felt so calm and intimate, like a little bird leaning against him.

Zhu Xiuyuan came back from his thoughts, looked at her sideways, the corners of his mouth suddenly raised, and gently stroked the bun on her head, which was silky and smooth, and the light was discernible.

Dong Shuzhen had dressed up carefully today, and her hair was black, but her little face was white, one black and one white, the contrast was sharp... This is really a rare beauty!

"Well... Madam, when this year is over, you will be seventeen, right?" Zhu Xiuyuan asked suddenly.

"Yes, I will be seventeen tomorrow! My husband has also grown a year older and will be nineteen!" Dong Shuzhen said with a smile.

"Why did your husband suddenly ask this?" Dong Shuzhen asked again, raising her little face with an innocent smile.

"Well……"

Zhu Xiuyuan's hand stroking her bun suddenly froze and stopped there, his expression slightly unnatural.

"Nothing, I am my husband... I just lament that my husband has passed away like this. Time flies so fast. It has been so long since we got married..."

"oh……"

Dong Shuzhen nodded blankly, her big eyes rolling around, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Let's go, we have finished worshiping our ancestors. Let's go to the flower hall and wait for my father-in-law and the others."

Zhu Xiuyuan patted her back gently and stood up from the futon first.
Chapter completed!