Chapter 583 - 311 Offering to the Kitchen God_2
The two were talking when they suddenly saw Wang Zhanrui hastily running out of the garden and dashing into the main hall.
"Has brother Yuhuai come back? Just now, I was so busy in the garden, I thought that the Escort Agency of Lianshun would be very busy on the last day before the New Year too. I feared you might trip and not make it back in time; now I can rest easy!"
"What’s the matter? You’re not trying to find my Yuhuai to drink again, are you?"
Hua Xiaomai looked up at him and said with a half-serious, half-joking smile.
"Not at all, my capacity for drinking is really not enough," Wang Zhanrui said, a bit embarrassed, waving his hands, and then hesitantly continued, "I’m looking for brother Yuhuai because of the matter of sacrificing to Lord Stove. That... as the owner, you should know that the sacrifice to Stove God needs to be done by a man, right? Just now, I was discussing it with Master Tan, and I was quite worried, but since brother Yuhuai is here, it will be easier to handle."
Last year, Hua Xiaomai had not formally carried out the sacrifice to Stove God, and hearing such a rule for the first time in her life, she was somewhat stunned, biting her lip: "I... can’t do it?"
"This..." Wang Zhanrui became more embarrassed, "according to the old ancestral rules, in the sacrifice to Stove God, women cannot be involved; at most, they can only clean up in the kitchen, uh..."
In those times, women could not participate in ancestor worship, visiting graves, or making complaints at the Government Office, and now unexpectedly, even Lord Stove was such a picky deity...