286 Burning the mourning hall
At the same time, there have been shrewd clan elders who have sent people to the city to spread the news, and asked people to build a mourning hall in the new cemetery, so that everyone can know how Xia Guifei was favored by the heavens, and her body lasted five years to be immortal.
Within half a day, almost all of Amagi had heard the news.
In the evening, a simple but gorgeous mourning hall has been erected in front of the newly built cemetery, and the body of Xia Guifei has been carefully processed, re-groomed and changed into clothes, placed in a precious golden silk nan wood coffin, and placed in the mourning hall for the Xia clan and relatives and friends to worship.
The coffin lid was not closed, but because of Xia Guifei's noble status, ordinary people could not look at it, and only some relatives and friends with the same noble status could take a look.
Xia Guifei is already a dead person, and she has long lost the value of her knot, but after hearing that her body lasted for five years without decaying, many dignitaries and nobles still came to see the "miracle" in the name of condolences.
Anyone who saw Xia Guifei's body was all surprised, and secretly said in their hearts: Could this really be a sign that the heavens are protecting the Xia family, and the Seventh Prince will not really die
In the grass not far away, Qiu Guhan watched the people coming and going in the makeshift mourning hall, everyone talking about his mother's body in amazement, and his whole body trembled with anger.
The Xia family actually regarded his most beloved and important mother as a display piece, and those people actually watched and talked about his dead mother as if they were looking at some strange object
Originally, he shouldn't have appeared in such a place, but how could he not care about such a big event as the removal of his mother's bones into a new grave
Especially after hearing that his mother's body was not decomposed, he could no longer suppress a son's longing and love for his mother, and tried his best to sneak out of the underworld, so he had to see his mother with his own eyes
In this way, he found it all the way here.
On the surface, the Xia family is very unscrupulous to Xia Guifei, picked a feng shui treasure, built a good tomb, set up a temporary mourning hall, let the Xia clan keep vigil for Xia Guifei, and invited famous Taoist priests and monks to practice for her mother.
However, Qiu Guhan knew in his heart that the Xia family was just selling fame and reputation, if his mother's body was decomposed and only white bones remained, the Xia family would definitely not spend so much money and effort to set up a mourning hall and build momentum for his mother
The Xia family is now using his mother's incorruptible body to show off
He would rather that his mother would still be resting quietly in the mountains and undisturbed by the world, rather than be shown as an object for those who have no affection for his mother to point fingers at
After his death, he was treated as a display by his relatives and allowed to be pointed at by others, what a shame it would be for his mother
At this moment, Qiu Guhan faintly hated the Xia family
Five years ago, he and his mother were imprisoned and persecuted by Qiu Lushuang, and almost no one in the huge Xia clan sought and rescued them, or even cut off relations with them, which made him feel the heat of the world and the sinister hearts of the people again.
He blamed the Xia family, but he didn't hate the Xia family, because his mother told him not to hate the Xia family, and he also knew that the Xia family had no ability to resist Qiu Lushuang at that time, and the Xia family chose to protect themselves, which is the practice that most people would choose, and he admitted it.
But this time, he couldn't tolerate the Xia family's treatment of his mother's corpse like this
He stared hatefully at the bright lights in front of him, the voices of the people were boiling, and the scorching magma was tumbling in his eyes, and he made up his mind that he would take his mother's body away, and never let these disgusting things look at and talk about his dead mother so much
How to take it away
His mind was racing at high speed.
It was slowly getting dark. Just entered February, the weather was still cold, and the night was even more cold and howling, but the mourning hall was still lively inside and outside, and the carriages of the dignitaries who came to see the body of Xia Guifei formed a long queue on the road.
According to the arrangement of the Xia family, Xia Guifei's body will be placed in the mourning hall overnight, and the senior monk will personally chant the scriptures, and it will be placed in the tomb tomorrow morning.
After a busy day, the Taoist priests took a break for a while, walked to the side under the grass hut to eat and drink tea, and prepared to do it again in the middle of the night.
Qiu Gu Han hid in the grass, silently approaching those Taoist priests.
Finally, a Taoist priest couldn't hold it anymore and walked into the dark grass, ready to let go of the water in his stomach.
When he was releasing the water, Qiu Guhan silently sneaked behind him, and slashed at the side of his neck with a knife hand, and the Taoist priest didn't snort, and fell down on his stomach.
Qiu Guhan pulled him deep into the grass, quickly took off his clothes and changed into them, and then tied his hair into a Taoist hairstyle, and then walked out of the grass and found a corner to nap.
The Taoist priests were all tired, and they all found a place to take a nap, and there were too many people coming and going around, so no one would pay attention to him.
The night slowly deepened, and most of the guests couldn't stay up, so they either went back to the carriage to rest or rested in the shed.
This is the outskirts of the city, the city gate has long been closed, and they have no choice but to rest here if they want to go back.
In the mourning hall, the old people and children who were not physically supported had also gone down to rest, leaving only the middle-aged and young people who were physically strong to keep vigil, but they were also so tired that their limbs were sore, and their eyelids could not be opened.
Suddenly, a scream came from outside the mourning hall: "Fire, fire, fire"
In an instant, everyone woke up and rushed out of the mourning hall and the sheds, and saw that several sheds for guests to rest temporarily were on fire, and many guests rushed out of the sheds, spinning around like headless flies.
When the Xia family saw it, they hurriedly shouted: "Don't panic, please gather in the open space, don't run around"
"The fire doesn't have to be extinguished, but cut off the flammable materials around the shed so that the fire doesn't spread."
At this time, screams were heard from other sheds: "This place is also on fire"
In a short time, more than a dozen sheds temporarily built by the Xia family were on fire, although it was winter now, but the winter wind was howling, fueling the fire, coupled with the lack of manpower, it was impossible to extinguish the fire, and the Xia family had to go into battle in person, accompanied by the people to block the fire.
I was so busy that I suddenly heard someone screaming: "The lights in the mourning hall are all out, what's the matter?"
The Xia family turned their heads to look, and it was really dark in the mourning hall, and they immediately couldn't help but be shocked and shouted: "Hurry up the lights, hurry up the lights"
In case there is a mistake in Xia Guifei's body, the "miracle" will become an ominous portent, and the one they did today is to lift a stone and shoot themselves in the foot
Soon, some people lit candles and walked into the mourning hall to light the candlesticks and lanterns.
The mourning hall was restored.
"Let's see if the concubine is damaged"
"Master, the concubine is fine"
Xia Muze finally breathed a sigh of relief, wiped his sweat and continued to command his subordinates to stop the fire.
However, only half a moment later, Xia Lili's panicked screams came out of the mourning hall: "The concubine is gone, come soon, the concubine is gone."
Xia Muze's heart was beating, and he rushed into the mourning hall without thinking about it: "Didn't you say that the concubine is good?"
Xia Lili wore linen and filial piety, pointed to the person in the coffin, and kept jumping her feet and screaming: "This person is not a concubine Niangniang, the real concubine Niangniang is gone"
Xia Muze rushed to the coffin, looked inside, and almost fainted.
In the coffin lay a woman who had fallen asleep, but this woman was not a concubine
The real concubine Niangniang is missing, and someone must have taken advantage of the chaos just now to drop the bag