Chapter 372: How Can I Help You?
Song Sixian and Wu Saburo walked in front, and the vassal kings of all walks of life wept and wiped their tears. A few vassal kings estimated that the degree of sadness was not enough, so they got chili powder from somewhere, and secretly smeared it on their eyes, and suddenly burst into tears, and their eyes were swollen like eggs.
A few of us followed.
Song Sixian suddenly stopped, standing quietly in the middle of Yongdingmen Street, motionless.
Seeing this, the vassal kings didn't know what was going on, thinking that he was going to have some orders, so they stopped crying and looked at Song Sixian together. Song Sixian glanced back at them and slowly bent down, it turned out that at some point, Song Shoufu's shoes fell off, and he bent down to lift them up.
Seeing this, a prince couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Song Sixian glared at him, laughed at anything, cried to me, and when he entered the palace, he cried the least hard, and went to guard the tomb for three years! When the princes heard this, they cried loudly again.
Because it was a national funeral, a piece of white silk was hung at the door of every household in the capital.
According to the Ming etiquette system, the emperor died, divided into a small funeral, a large funeral, a funeral, a respectful funeral, etc., a small funeral for one day, a large collection of three days to half a month, because of the need to wait for Wu Saburo to return to Beijing from Jinling, so Zhu Wuneng half a month, during this period, the coffin stopped in the palace Wuying Hall behind the Renzhi Palace.
Today is the day of the funeral, after the Yongding Gate, I saw a kneeling on both sides of the street. The Chinese military officials in the capital, all the women above the third rank were dressed in sackcloth and fell to their knees. The civil and military officials, dressed in plain clothes, wearing black yarn and rhinoceros horn belts around their waists, also knelt on both sides along Yongdingmen Street.
When the princes were crying and mourning, suddenly the situation on the street suddenly changed, and a middle-aged fat woman rushed out of the crowd, evaded the officers and soldiers guarding the guards, and rushed to the vassal kings. The woman came to King Yong and grabbed him by the collar.
King Yong was already fat, and the chopping clothes he wore were loose and boundless, and he was pulled by the fat woman, and with a loud sound, he tore off a piece of the linen clothes. The fat woman said, you ungrateful man, my little heart, you are finally back.
King Yong held back his anger and asked, Who are you?
The fat woman said, are you men so ruthless and unrighteous? Since you pretend not to know me, then let's go straight to each other. The fat woman paused, raised her voice an octave, and said, since you don't show affection, then let's settle the account, last year you lived in my room for half a month, and the final account was not settled, so you secretly ran away, but Sister Bustard let me bear eighteen taels of silver, is your surname Zhu yes or not? Don't think that you are fat again, I don't know you.
This woman spoke very rudely, and King Yong was very annoyed when he heard it, and said angrily, Where did you come from?
The fat woman howled, and they all said that men were ruthless in lifting their pants, and when they liked me, they were like glue with others, and now that they are fat, they even scolded me for being a crazy woman. The middle-aged fat woman sat on the ground and began to spill, but her eyes were not far away.
Following his line of sight, it was Na Mei Keqing under King Jing. I suddenly thought in my heart, I guess this woman was hired by Keqing surnamed Mei to make trouble. King Yong killed King Jing and refused to reuse himself, so he simply scolded him, so that King Yong could not raise his head in front of the civil and military officials and people in the capital.
Everyone watched King Yong's liveliness, one person, the third brother, and it wasn't much money, so let's just settle it for others.
King Yong said to them, what this crazy woman said, how can you believe it, you look at her honor, Lao Tzu would rather sleep with a pig than sleep with her.
As soon as the words fell, a sow swaggered onto the road. Everyone looked at King Yong, their eyes were full of banter, they really wanted to come true, if they wanted to sleep, they would come to the pillow, no, it should be a sow. King Yong looked embarrassed and said, I'm just making an analogy.
Fortunately, the officers and soldiers next to them reacted in time, hurried over, grabbed the fat woman, dragged the woman, and dragged the woman to the side of the road.
When the officer and soldier heard this, when Chang drew his sword, put it against the fat woman's neck, and said coldly, today is the day of the emperor's funeral, you made such a fuss, do you think you can still live?
Since ancient times, the people have been afraid of officials, and when the mother-in-law heard this, her face changed dramatically, and she shouted, don't kill me, don't kill me. The officers and soldiers said that they would not kill you, but would they still find a place to serve you with good food and drink? The mother-in-law said, "I think it's okay." The officers and soldiers sneered again and again, you don't deserve to die today, go to the prison and squat first.
The mother-in-law said, wronged, master, someone gave me ten taels of silver, let me come over and make trouble, I am also innocent. The officer and soldier asked, who instructed you to come? The fat woman looked at Mei Keqing, where was there still Mei Keqing, and cried, where was that person before, but now I don't know.
The officer and soldier sent someone over, but found nothing, cursed in his mouth, locked her up, and took her away.
The mother-in-law coveted a few taels of silver, caught fire for no reason, and caused a murder, this is a foreign word, not for the time being.
In a short time, the crowd entered the palace.
I discussed with Zhang Youqian, and later it was the emperor's funeral ceremony, so that Lin Hongyi took Xu Ruonan to Zhang's mansion to rest first, in the past half a month, I have been running all the way, and I haven't eaten much, and I have lost a lot of weight, and I am ready to find a way to mix into the palace, go to Doctor Xue or Xie Junyan, no matter what, we must find a way to unlock the ban on Xu Ruonan.
Outside the noon gate, lingering for a long time, the palace is heavily guarded at the moment, and there is no chance to meddle in at all. At this moment, in the palace, the mourning music was flourishing, followed by seventeen salutes, Zhu Wuneng's burial ceremony officially began, and someone in the palace shouted, the time has come!
Zhang Youqian and I couldn't get close, so we stood on top of a private house dozens of feet away, looking down.
At this time, the noon door was wide open. First of all, two teams of palace guards dressed in plain clothes came out separately, and then hundreds of civil and military officials who participated in the court meeting came out left and right, and in the sound of mourning music, thirty-two princes came out with a coffin. The coffin is made of golden silk nanmu.
The emperor's coffin was nine feet five inches long, nine or five inches wide, three feet six inches wide, and had three hundred and sixty days in a year. The emperor's coffin is particularly particular, according to the first senior brother, he and the fifth senior brother once robbed a tomb of an emperor in the previous dynasty, among which even the emperor's dragon body decoration is also quite particular. When the emperor died, he was lying facing his right side, his left arm hanging down, and his hand resting on his waist. The right arm stretches straight down, the feet are overlapped, the left foot is on the top, the right foot is on the bottom, and the hands are covered with prayer beads, ruyi and other evil spirits.
King Yong's body is too large to carry the coffin, hanging on the left and right with yellow support, which contains the paper of the underworld, which was cut into the shape of an ingot, while walking, while throwing it to the sky, throwing out more than a zhang, a gust of wind blew, the paper scattered around, and there was a group of eunuchs behind him, followed by the paper, not long after, outside the noon gate, the paper was everywhere.
The last one to come out was Zhu Runmao (Wu Saburo), at this moment he changed into a filial piety suit, held the coffin with his right hand, and walked out slowly. As soon as the coffin came out, the women who knelt on the ground on both sides of the road and the officials of lower rank began to cry loudly, not knowing whether they were really crying or fake crying.
As far as the eye can see, there is no trace of Doctor Xue. However, with today's formation, he is not qualified to appear in the funeral procession.
At this time, I suddenly felt a danger approaching, Zhang Youqian also had a sense, we looked to the southeast, but saw not far away, Xie Junyan looked at us with an indifferent face. Where she stood, there was a large black dog, lying on the ground, with a fierce glint in his eyes, and let out a whining and low roar.
I was about to go over, but Zhang Youqian stopped me and said, the one who came is not good, you and I are not her opponents, it is better to be cautious.
I was worried about Xu Ruonan's matter, and when I saw Xie Junyan, how could I not ask, so I said, you wait for me here, and I will reason with her. Zhang Youqian said that there is still reason to talk to her? Now Xie Junyan is no longer the weak woman she was back then, she hates you to the bone, if you really do it, I am afraid that we will die here.
I said you wait for me for a while, and as he spoke, he performed light skills and ran towards Xie Junyan. Zhang Youqian sighed and followed.
Before I could speak, Zhang Youqian spoke first, I haven't seen you for many days, has the leader of the Xie League been okay? You see, it's the Mid-Autumn Festival soon, and I'm still thinking about whether I should get a few boxes of five-kernel mooncakes and go to the door to visit. Xie Junyan ignored him directly, which made him quite embarrassed, she looked at me and said, You really came.
I smiled bitterly, Master Xie has orders, why don't I come?
Xie Junyan smiled slightly, a trace of blood appeared on his indifferent face, and asked, what are you thinking about?
I know that she refers to the matter of asking me to unite with her, break through the door of death, and welcome the underworld into the Central Plains. But how can I agree to this kind of thing? So I pretended to be puzzled and asked, I don't know Aunt Xie...... What did the leader of the Xie Alliance ask? Xie Junyan glanced at the funeral procession on the ground, and said, as long as you are willing, help me restore the Holy Realm, this emperor of the Central Plains, it doesn't hurt for you to do it. You can't be a fugitive for the rest of your life, can you?
I laughed and said, what's so good about being an emperor? I wear the stars and the moon all day long, worry about the affairs of the world, and worry about others coveting the throne and working hard, where can I be a charlatan and be at ease? What's more, even if I become an emperor, I am just a puppet of the leader of the Xie League, and this emperor is not appropriate.
Xie Junyan asked rhetorically, even at the cost of your Miss Xu's life and death?
I was silent, but my heart was entangled. Xie Junyan is ruthless, on the one hand, it is the safety of the world's rivers and lakes, and on the other hand, it is related to the death of Xu Ruonan, Yu Gong, I will not let Xie Junyan open the door to death, so that the original soul of the middle earth will be ruined and fall into fire and water;
After thinking for a long time, I looked up and asked, how can I help you?