The second day in Qili Village became lively, with many villagers heading to the Zhou Family to help cook and prepare food—a task primarily handled by the women.
Meanwhile, the men gathered together under the elders of the Zhou Clan, who decided to open the ancestral hall. The older folks dragged Zhou Lixue and a few other educated ones into the hall to flip through the family genealogy. After offering freshly stewed chicken, duck, and lamb to their ancestors, they re-entered Zhou Yin and his wife into the family register, recording the entirety of Zhou Yin's life in the genealogy.
Qili Village was remote, its residents living here for generations. Besides the chaos during the Jin Dynasty when refugee armies stormed in, only natural disasters posed a real threat to the survival of the village.
