Meng Fu's death in battle made the situation in the six cities of Shangdang County more complicated, which also made Zhang Tang, who led the remaining army of more than 60,000 people, in a dilemma. While arranging for people to send Meng Fu's body back to Xianyang for resettlement, he had to be stationed on the spot again and again, waiting for the support of the Qin army.

On the second day after receiving Meng Fu's death, Yingzheng ordered to return to Xianyang City, now the frontier is unstable, and he can't get the power of pro-government in Yongcheng, so it is meaningless to stay in Yongcheng for a day or two, it is better to return to Xianyang City as soon as possible to preside over the government.

Meng Tian rode back to Xianyang City on the black wind that night, and when he arrived at the gate of Xianyang City, the city gate was closed. Meng Tian called the gate outside the city, and the soldiers guarding the city gate stood on the gate and looked down, only to see a man dressed in sackcloth and with a white silk tied on his head outside the city. Meng Tian saw someone appear at the city gate and hurriedly reported his name.

Responsible for the defense of Xianyang City is Wang Li, he is one year younger than Meng Tian, and now under the care of his grandfather and father, he has finally entered the Qin army, but Wang Jian did not allow him to go to the battlefield, so he was first arranged in the garrison army of Xianyang City.

Wang Li received a report from the soldiers and hurriedly ran out. When he saw the people under the city, he recognized it as Meng Tian at a glance, so he hurriedly went down the city tower to open the city gate for Meng Tian.

When Meng Tian saw that the city gate was open, he didn't talk nonsense, said thank you to Wang Li, and rode directly to the house on the black wind.

The gate of the Meng family was already full of white silk, and even the soldiers guarding the door had a white silk tied around their waists to show their condolences to the old general. There was a sad music coming from the Mongol Mansion, and the sound of crying in the courtyard could be heard at the door.

Meng Tian rode to the door of the house, handed the black wind to the subordinate at the door, and then stepped into the gate.

The mourning hall was set up in the hall of the Mongol Palace, and the sound of crying came from inside. There are not many people standing in the courtyard, basically the military generals who stayed in Xianyang City and some civil officials who have a good relationship with the Meng family, and then there are the businessmen and wealthy families who are familiar with the Meng family in Xianyang City, and everyone looks sad and gathers together. When Meng Tian walked into the door, everyone's eyes were focused on Meng Tian.

Meng Tian walked into the mourning hall step by step with heavy steps. In the mourning hall, Meng Wu and Meng Yi knelt on one side, and Meng Tian and Meng Yi's mothers, Mrs. Ying and Zi Yanran, knelt on the other side. In the center of the hall is the spiritual seat of Meng Fu, and the coffin of Meng Fu is placed behind the spiritual seat.

Meng Tian's eyes were red and swollen, he had been holding back all the way on the road without letting tears flow, and at this time he saw his grandfather's spiritual position and lying there

The remains, tears still flowed uncontrollably.

Meng Tian walked to the spiritual seat, knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times for his grandfather, then stood up and wiped the tears on his face, turned around and knelt down towards his parents. Meng Wu and Meng Yi hurriedly stepped forward to pull him up, Meng Wu looked at his son and didn't say anything, just patted Meng Tian on the shoulder heavily, and then said, "Go and change your clothes." ”

Meng Tian nodded, and then he and Zi Yanran returned to the room, took off their armor, put on the filial piety clothes that had been prepared for him in the room, and then came to the mourning hall with Zi Yanran again.

Meng Fu's body set off at the same time as Zhang Tang's report to Ying Zheng, but the body needed to be transported by a carriage, so the speed was much slower than that of a messenger on a horse, but on the night after Meng Yi received the war report, Meng Fu's body was transported to Xianyang City.

The first to learn the news was Wang Qian, Wang Jian and Meng Biao as the few remaining veterans of the Qin State after the death of the former Wu Anjun Bai Qi, although Wang Qian's military rank was one step higher than that of Meng Qian, but the two have always been commensurate with brothers, and the news of Meng Biao's death in the war was reported after Meng Yi returned home, and then sent someone to Wang Jian Mansion to report the news.

After Wang Jian got the news, he was also shocked, and the old general sat on the couch speechless for a long time. Under Wang Ben's call, the old general came back to his senses and ordered someone to immediately arrange a car to go to Mengfu to mourn.

When Meng Yi returned home, Meng Wu, Mrs. Ying and Zi Yanran were sitting and talking in the lobby, waiting for Meng Yi to come back for dinner. The family saw Meng Yi go home, but he looked depressed, Meng Wu stepped forward and before he could speak, Meng Yi knelt in front of him, with a sad look on his face, and presented the war report in his hand to his father.

Meng Wu didn't know why Meng Yi looked like this, and when he saw the bamboo slip wrapped in black cloth in Meng Yi's hand, his heart suddenly hurt, he grabbed the bamboo slip that he didn't have in his hand, opened it, and after seeing the content of the bamboo slip clearly, if he was struck by lightning, the bamboo slip fell from his hand to the ground. Meng Wu staggered back, not wanting to trip over the table behind him, and the whole person fell to the ground.

Zi Yanran saw her father and Meng Yi looking like this, so she stepped forward and picked up the bamboo slip from the ground, and when she also saw the contents of the bamboo slip, she was also shocked. She looked at her mother and said with a complicated expression, "Grandfather died in battle. ”

Mrs. Ying was still thinking about what was written on the bamboo slip, which made the faces of the three people who looked at the bamboo slip so embarrassed, and her husband was even more embarrassed. When Zi Yanran said to her

After that, Mrs. Ying didn't hear clearly, and asked, "Who? Who died in battle?"

Meng Yi knelt on the ground and looked at his mother, "Grandfather, it was my grandfather who died in battle, mother." ”

Mrs. Ying finally heard it clearly, and was so frightened by the news that she almost fainted, but fortunately, Zi Yanran put down the bamboo slip in her hand and went over in time to help her.

Meng Wu tripped and fell to the ground, coming back to his senses. He stood up, helped Meng Yi up, and then said to the subordinates standing at the door: "Go, gather all the subordinates in the family, I have something to say." ”

The people of the family were quickly summoned, and the courtyard in front of the lobby was full. Meng Wu stood in front of the lobby and told everyone about Meng Fu, and many of the old people who had been with the Meng family for more than ten years couldn't help but sobbed after hearing the news.

Then the Meng family was busy, and the male subordinates went out of the house, went to the major silk shops in Xianyang City to buy the white silk inside, and then took it home and handed it to the maid to make a piece of filial piety clothes, and the white silk hung on the gate, the stone lion at the door.

By the time Wang Jian arrived at Meng's house, the mourning hall had already been arranged, but Meng's body had not yet arrived, so the mourning hall was still empty. Meng Wu stepped forward to greet Wang Jian and went to the hall to sit down and wait for Meng Fu's body to be delivered.

At the end of the day, the carriage carrying Meng Fu's body, escorted by hundreds of Qin soldiers, entered Xianyang City and arrived at Mengfu. As soon as Meng Wu and Meng Yi went out and saw the body of Meng Fu who was covered with arrow feathers, they cried loudly, and the group respectfully carried Meng Fu's body into the house, and then pulled out all the arrows on Meng Fu's body, cleaned the body, and then put it in the coffin.

In the early morning of the second day, many ministers and passers-by of the Qin State who passed by the door of the Mengfu passed by the Mengfu and found that the Mengfu was hung with white silk overnight, so they knew that something important had happened in the Mengfu, but they did not know who in the Mengfu had died. When everyone rushed to the palace, they were told by the palace attendants that the old general Meng Fu had died in battle and that the meeting would be waived this morning, and everyone hurriedly turned their carriages and horses to go to the Meng Mansion to mourn.

Meng Tian changed into filial piety clothes, as the eldest grandson of the Mengjia family, he knelt with his father and younger brother to hold a vigil for his grandfather, and at the same time thanked the military generals and relatives and friends who came to mourn.

Ying Zheng's honor guard arrived in Xianyang City a day later than Meng Tian, he first returned to the palace, then arranged it, and then changed into plain clothes, accompanied by Lü Buwei and Li Si, Wei Yi and others, came to the Mengfu to worship Meng Fu.