The Great Liang State Kaiping was seven years old. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info June XIV. It's night.

At this time, the hour has passed halfway, the time is approaching, the lights of thousands of homes in Nanling County are extinguished, but there is no moon or star in the sky tonight, not only is it dark and dull, there is not even a trace of breeze, the silence is unusual, it seems that the whole world is silent in a silent darkness, which makes people feel panicked for no reason.

And tonight was an unusual night. At least, for the Lin family, one of the five major martial arts families located in Nanling County, Pingxi Prefecture, Jinyi Province, Daliang Kingdom, tonight was an unusual night.

Because tonight, it is Lin Yi, the former head of the Lin family, and Lin Jiasheng, the eldest grandson of Lin Ao-

First Seven !!!!

In this situation where there are no stars and moons, and the lights of thousands of homes around are extinguished, there is no candle flame in the huge Lin family village, so that the huge Lin family village almost sank into darkness.

However, at this moment, there is a place in the huge Lin Family Village that is still lit with bright and dazzling candles, which is the front yard lobby of the Lin Family Village.

The Lin family's main village is immersed in darkness almost everywhere, but only this front yard lobby is still lit with bright and dazzling candles, not for anything else, just because this place, six days ago, was changed into a mourning hall for Lin Ao and Lin Jiasheng.

And at this moment, in the dead of night and silence, Lin Xiaoyang, who was wearing a navy blue robe and almost blended in with the night behind him, held the dragon roaring sword in his hand, lying silently on the wall that was four or five meters high in the front yard of the Lin family's main house, staring at the brightly lit ...... below him without blinking Mourning Hall.

Although it is a little far away, with Lin Xiaoyang's eyesight, he can still clearly see that the front yard lobby of the Lin family's main village is full of white silk inside and out, because there is no wind tonight, those white silk are just hanging quietly, as quiet as a painting.

Through the doors and windows on the front of the lobby, Lin Xiaoyang could see that in the plain lobby, there were futons, incense tables, incense offerings, meals and other things in an orderly manner, as well as two pairs of ...... in the middle of the lobby Pitch black coffin......

Lin Xiaoyang knew that it was the coffin of his father and his eldest nephew whom he had only met once so far. And today, it is the first seven of the two deceased.

Although it is generally customary to believe that the "first seven" refers to the seventh day after the death of a person, in fact, this "first seven" has a theoretical basis:

Every seven days of the heavenly stem is evil, and every seven days of the earthly branch is rushing. The earth branch takes seven places for the rush, and the heavenly stem takes seven places for the meaning of evil. For example, the meridian is hedged, the number of the meridian is seven, the first is the evil, and the first is the seventh number.

After death, the soul attaches itself to the bones, and on the seventh day, when the heavens and the earth rush to the heavens, because the body dies, the soul is excited, so it walks away from the bones, and the soul is still conscious, and knows that its body is dead. Because the soul is consciously stimulated by the heaven and earth for the first time, and feels it extremely, it has the will to seek protection, so there is a saying that "the first seven return to the soul".

It is also said that after death, if a person is attached without bones, it will be called turning bones into ashes, or wandering spirits and wild ghosts, or the soul will be scattered.

On the Tiancheng Continent, different places have different funeral customs:

In some places, the funeral custom is "keeping seven". It means that from the date of death, the family of the deceased must set up a sacrifice every seven days until the forty-ninth day, the seventh seven days, commonly known as the "broken seven". Among them, the "first seven" and "six seven" (or "five seven") are the most solemn. The "first seven" sacrifice to the deceased at night, close relatives and friends stay all night, eat "first seven wontons" at midnight, and send people to other people's fields to "steal vegetables", the purpose is to be cursed by the thief's house, it is said that the more fierce the scolding, the faster the wealth will be made.

During the period of "keeping the seventh", on the fifth or sixth seven-day death day of the deceased, his family members invite monks or Taoist priests to do excessive things, which is called "six seven", and invite relatives and friends to come to the sacrifice. The daughter of the deceased, who had been married, bought three animals and fruits to sacrifice on the night before "six or seven", which was called "burning six or seven soups of rice". This sacrificial table was set up until the afternoon of the "June and Seventh" death day. After the "Broken Seven", the funeral ended.

In some places, the funeral custom is to "burn seven". That is, from the day of the death of the deceased, every seven days is a sacrifice day, called "the first seventh", "second seventh", "third seven", "four seven", "five seven", "six seven", "last seven", a total of 49 days. It is said that after the death of the deceased, within 49 days, the king of Hades had to interrogate the soul of the deceased every seven days, so the "seven phases" are also called "seven plagues". At the burning of the seventh, the mourners should hang white paper lanterns at the gate to indicate that the family has filial piety. The first seven set up spiritual cards at home, burned incense and candles, offered wine and food to mourn, and the remaining six or seven went to the cemetery to turn paper money.

There are countless funeral customs such as this in the Tiancheng Continent, and the funeral customs of Nanling County are:

It is generally believed that after the death of a person, the soul will wander around in front of the "first seven", and when the day of the "first seven" comes, the soul of the deceased will return home. The family of the deceased should prepare a meal for the soul of the deceased before the soul returns, and then avoid it, the best way is to sleep, and if you can't sleep, you should hide under the covers.

This is done so that the souls of the deceased do not see their living family members. The reason for this is said to be that if the soul of the deceased "returns to the soul in the first seven years" and sees the living family members, it will make the soul of the deceased remember, and then affect the soul of the deceased to be reincarnated as a human being.

Although Lin Xiaoyang knew that tonight, if he appeared in the mourning hall of his father and his eldest nephew, who had only met once so far, it might affect the reincarnation of his father and his eldest nephew's souls and reincarnate as a human being, but Lin Xiaoyang couldn't control that much at the moment!

Because, seven days ago, after the news of Lin Ao and Lin Jiasheng's deaths reached Lin Xiaoyang's ears together, it was not until tonight that Lin Xiaoyang found the opportunity to see Lin Ao's "last face" because of the funeral custom of Nanling County, where "the deceased return to their souls for the first seven years, and the living must be avoided". If it's past tonight, if it's past tonight......

Because all the people in the Lin family felt that Lin Ao and Lin Jiasheng's death was disgraceful and unlucky, the Lin family had already agreed, and after tonight, Lin Ao and Lin Jiasheng's first seven days passed, and tomorrow before dawn, the two coffins containing the remains of Lin Ao and Lin Jiasheng would be buried in the ancestral grave of the Lin family.

In other words, if Lin Xiaoyang doesn't take the risk to see Lin Ao's "last face" tonight, when dawn arrives tomorrow and all the Lin family members come out, Lin Xiaoyang will never have a chance again.

In the future, if Lin Xiaoyang wants to see his father Lin Ao again, he can only go to the ancestral grave of the Lin family and see a cold piece engraved with Lin Ao's name and year of birth and death...... Bluestone stele.

I have to say that since he was sensible, Lin Xiaoyang has always felt guilty about Lin Ao's father.

This guilt, especially after Lin Xiaoyang left home for eighteen years and returned to the Lin family's home, saw Lin Ao, who was lying on the bed, sick and weak due to bone toxicity, and even struggled to lift his hand, became more and more serious!

Lin Ao loves Lin Xiaoyang so much, Lin Xiaoyang has known it since he was a child.

In Lin Xiaoyang's memory, the mother who gave birth to him was not as good to him as his father.

Before Lin Xiaoyang left home to learn art with their master when he was a child, his father had always been extremely kind to him, even if he occasionally made any mistakes, his father would not punish him, but would only tell him with a pleasant face that he was wrong and that he should not make the same mistake next time......

Even later, Lin Xiaoyang almost buried his young life because of his playfulness, and was saved by their master who happened to pass by, his father did not show a face to him, and did not even scold him.

Lin Xiaoyang still remembers that that day, after he woke up, his father just held his little hand and told him with a pleasant face that he was still young and that he not only picked up a small life by chance, but also got a hidden master as a master, and in the future, he left home with his master to learn art, remember to listen to his master, and be as obedient as when he was at home......

However, when his father, who was so kind to him and loved him so much, was poisoned and fell ill in bed and was dying, he Lin Xiaoyang ...... but he did not do his filial piety at his father's bedside......

This matter has always been a hurdle in the heart of Lin Xiaoyang, who believes in "100 goodness and filial piety first", but Lin Xiaoyang has never shown it on the surface.

Now, Lin Xiaoyang can be successful in learning and art, got off the top of Qinshan Mountain, returned to the Lin family village thousands of miles away, and reunited with his father again after eighteen years, but Lin Xiaoyang still didn't have time to do his filial piety as a son of man in front of his father's bed, and his father was inexplicably ...... Killed......

Yes, Lin Xiaoyang's father, Lin Ao, he was not tortured to death by the strange poison that was getting deeper and deeper into the bone marrow in his body, but was killed!!

Not only Lin Ao, but also Lin Ao's eldest grandson, Lin Yu's eldest son, Lin Lanfeng and Lin Xiaoyang's eldest nephew, Lin Jiasheng, who was only ten years old, was wiped cleanly with a sharp weapon in Lin Ao's wing......

Lying on the wall silently, looking down at the dazzling lights below, the mourning hall inside and out, quiet with a bit of a strange atmosphere, recalling what happened in the past few days, Lin Xiaoyang only felt in a trance, as if he was in a mess in his mind, no matter how he reasoned about it, it was a mess that couldn't be sorted out-

Eight days ago, in the last round of the competition of this year's martial arts conference, Lin Xiaoyang listened to his father's advice to him the night before, "no scruples, just let it go" Holding the Long Xiao Sword, he defeated the last person who competed with him on the same stage - his eldest brother Lin Yu, and successfully won the throne of the leader of this year's martial arts alliance.

According to the practice of the previous martial arts conferences, the alliance leader seal representing the identity of the leader of the martial arts alliance will be issued on the third day after the end of the last round of the martial arts conference.

Aside this year, that is, on the ninth day of the first month of June, all the martial arts heroes of the nine countries will witness the final winner of this year's martial arts conference, Lin Xiaoyang, take over as the leader of the alliance and officially become the historic moment of the leader of the martial arts alliance!

Speaking of which, since winning the last round of the martial arts conference, on the seventh and eighth days of the first month of June, Lin Xiaoyang went to Lin Ao's courtyard to see Lin Ao twice and chatted with Lin Ao for a while, so he stayed in his own courtyard and waited quietly for the ninth day of the sixth month to take over as the leader of the alliance.

However, there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck! When everyone thought that the rivers and lakes of the Nine Kingdoms, which had been chaotic for two years, could finally usher in a day of peace, an accident fell from the sky-

On the ninth day of the first month of June, on the day when Lin Lanfeng accompanied Lin Xiaoyang to take over as the leader of the alliance, something happened that completely surprised all the martial arts heroes of the nine countries who were watching the ceremony, and even shocked everyone-

It turned out that in the second half of the night of the eighth day of the sixth lunar month, when everyone in the Lin family's main village was immersed in sleep, the current head of the Lin family, Lin Ao, who had been bedridden for a year due to a strange poison, died!!

Lin Ao was not tortured to death by the strange poison that was getting deeper and deeper into the bone marrow in his body, Lin Ao was killed in the dead of night by someone with a sword!!

Moreover, Lin Ao's eldest grandson, Lin Yu's eldest son, Lin Lanfeng and Lin Xiaoyang's eldest nephew, Lin Jiasheng, who was only ten years old, also died in Lin Ao's room at the same time!!

When they learned of this earth-shattering news, the martial arts heroes of the Nine Kingdoms present immediately became in an uproar: This is a deliberate murder without any doubt! This is an undisguised disregard for human life......! It's going to be chaotic again!!

It is said that the bodies of Lin Ao and Lin Jiasheng were found in the early morning of the ninth day of the sixth month by a member of the Lin family who served Lin Ao on weekdays.

It is said that after the Lin family entered Lin Ao's room with a basin, he found that Lin Ao and Lin Jiasheng had both died tragically, and he was so frightened that he threw the basin in his hand, and went to Lin Yu to report the incident. And Lin Yu was having breakfast in his own room at the time, and when he heard about this, he immediately mourned, spit out a mouthful of blood on the spot, and sprayed a meal table.

Later, under the interrogation of Lin Ao's wife, Yang Xinrui, the Lin family who found that Lin Ao and Lin Jiasheng had both died tragically said that on the first night, in the second half of the night, he woke up at night, sleepy-eyed, and stared in confusion, as if he vaguely heard a howl that seemed to be a beast coming from Lin Ao's room, but the sound was not loud, and he didn't hear it really and couldn't distinguish it.

At that time, after hearing this strange sound, the Lin family subconsciously glanced in the direction of Lin Ao's wing, and in a daze, he seemed to see a corner of clothes flashing on the roof of Lin Ao's wing, but he couldn't see it clearly at night, and he only felt that the corner of his clothes flashed like blue and black......

Although such strange things happened one after another, the Lin family thought that he was in a daze and had hysteria, so he didn't care about it and went back to sleep in his room.

It wasn't until early in the morning, that is, in the early morning of the ninth day of the sixth lunar month, that the Lin family took a basin and went to serve Lin Ao to wash as usual, that he found that Lin Ao and Lin Jiasheng had ...... (To be continued.) )