The Dark Barbarian Arrives in American Comics

Visiting the graves to worship ancestors does not require much time.

But I can’t stand having so many relatives...

What makes people even more unhappy is that the relatives are not very reliable...

The customs here are actually not complicated, it is a very common ancestor worship process.

We agreed to set off at 9:30 in the morning.

By the time everyone is here, it's already half past ten...an hour wasted.

Then the two uncles and grandfathers were a bit outrageous...

Every year when they visit their ancestors' graves, they have to go to my aunt's side first, which is a large tomb area near my home, so there's bound to be a traffic jam.

(That’s right, they always take a whole family to visit other people’s ancestral graves first... I don’t understand.)

By the time they finally arrived at their ancestral grave, it was already after one o'clock in the afternoon...

This is outrageous enough.

After all, according to custom, visiting the graves of ancestors must end before twelve o'clock noon...

This is not the most outrageous...

What follows is the outrageous beginning.

When a big family goes to the grave to worship their ancestors, my family needs to prepare food and money for ancestor worship.

(Originally, this has nothing to do with my family. Each should prepare their own tribute, but they will choose to "take" part of it themselves.

For the sake of face and friendship between relatives, my family simply makes more preparations. Maybe this also encourages this unhealthy trend.)

Next we have to go to another cemetery. (This is the ancestral grave of a relative further away)

It’s not that they have such good intentions, but that this relative from a place so far away that I don’t even know how to talk about is a rich person…

They are still the type who are extremely rich. They are not in their hometown and cannot come back.

I left it to my two uncles and grandfathers. (It’s fine that we don’t get to see any of the benefits they give us.

But asking our family to provide the money and tributes required for worship is extravagant. Of course, the method is still to take it without telling us.

It's a bit unpleasant to say "steal", so just use "take".)

When the round of worship is over, it will be after four o'clock when I return home...

I'm from the northwest, my home is not in a big city, and the cemetery is on the desert sands of the Gobi Desert.

The wind is strong and the sun is strong, and it takes a whole day of wind and sand.

There is a cement factory next to my ancestral grave... Every time I go to the grave, I have to take a long detour. (Of course, the cement factory came after my ancestral grave)

Hmm... the road over there feels a bit similar to climbing over mountains and ridges.

Anyway, I have to carry the objects for worship and climb those sand dunes with one foot deep and one foot shallow... There is always a reason why I get injured when I go to the graves to worship my ancestors.

My family lineage has been mercilessly controlled by them, and I feel bad every time.

This experience happens four times a year...

I also have to realize the truth many times every year that "if you are poor in the busy city, no one will ask you, but if you are rich in the mountains, you will have distant relatives."

Worshiping ancestors itself is just a matter of expressing grief.

As a result, one by one they became filial sons and grandsons of other families.

The problem is that it is true that the distant relatives have money, but can they spend it on them if they have money?

Furthermore, by worshiping other people’s ancestral graves, can they still make that wealthy relative grateful?

Do you want someone's ancestor to tell someone in their dream, "Oh, look how many times they come to worship every year. You need to give them money."

That doesn't make sense.

No matter how you put it, it is still a matter of keeping the family in an orderly manner, and there are other things to do. What is the point of being a filial son and grandson to someone else's family by leaving one's own ancestral graves undisciplined?

Of course, it is their business to have an agreement with that relative or to be able to get the money.

What makes me sad is not that our family didn't get a share of the benefits they got.

Our family has never asked them to go there.

Why bother with this kind of thing in our family!?

Isn’t it good to prepare things that others need by yourself? Isn’t it bad to go to someone’s ancestral graves by yourself?

He didn't prepare any tribute, but took it from us without telling us. Is this dissatisfaction with his ancestors?

Emotionally I really can't accept this kind of thing.

"When you are young, you are not a grandson, and when you are old, you have nothing to say,___________!"

It's really mentally and physically exhausted.