In the evening of that day, when Meng Zhong and his mother Ge Shi, Meng Yan and Menghu were guarding the mourning hall, there was a rush of footsteps in the courtyard.

Immediately, Meng Zhong was surprised to see Meng Sui leading Xiang Yu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu to the house.

"Why are you here?"

Meng Zhong stood up and asked in surprise.

Hearing this, Xiang Yu said mysteriously: "It's not just us ......"

Before the words fell, Meng Sui had already spoken beside him: "Ah Zhong, the master is here, you hurry out to greet you." ”

Xiang Yi glanced at Meng Sui with a wistful face.

"Master?"

Meng Zhong's surprise was even stronger, he knew that the "master" in Meng Sui's mouth must be referring to Zhuangzi, but since Zhuangzi lived in seclusion for twenty years, he has never visited again, whether others visit him or he goes to visit others, and he lives in seclusion all day long.

And right now, Zhuangzi would come for the funeral of his brother Meng Bo, which is not an exaggeration to say that this is something that the suzerain of the Meng clan Meng Qi could not do.

So Meng Zhong said to his mother and hurried out of the house.

At this time, the elder Meng Jin, who had not rested for a day and a night, also reacted, stroked his beard and frowned and asked Meng Sui: "Ah Sui, the master you are talking about, is it not Master Zhuang?" ”

"Yes, Elder." Meng replied respectfully, and quickly left the main house.

Seeing this, Meng Yi was shocked, and hurriedly said to his grandson Meng Hu beside him: "Quick, help the old man up." ”

I have to say that Meng Yi, as the elder of the clan, is also the former Sima of the family, so when he presided over the funeral on behalf of the elders of the Meng Zhong family, even the sect leader Meng Qi and the young sect leader Meng Yu came to offer condolences, he just nodded as a greeting - after all, he and Meng Qi are the same generation.

But Zhuangzi is different, when Zhuangzi visited the Mengshi clan and had a relationship with the Mengzi clan at that time, he was still in his thirties, so Zhuangzi's generation was a generation higher than him.

In terms of age, Zhuangzi is also more than 20 years older than him, not to mention Zhuangzi's fame, so of course it is not good for him to continue to sit here, and quickly instructed his grandson Menghu to help him up and go out to greet him.

At this time, Meng Zhong had already walked quickly to the courtyard.

I saw that on the path outside the courtyard, there was a carriage parked, and when Meng Zhong walked to the middle of the courtyard, Zhuang Bo and Wu Ying happened to work together to help Zhuangzi down.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong hurriedly walked a few steps up to help.

"Master, why are you here?" Holding Zhuangzi, Meng Zhong asked with a little surprise.

On the side, Uncle Zhuang explained: "On that day, the boy Menghu came to the house, and immediately you saw that you hurriedly said goodbye to the master and returned home, and the master guessed that it must be ...... There must have been something wrong, so I called Meng Sui, Xiang Yu and others to come here to investigate, not wanting to know about your brother and him...... Ay! It was the master who decided to come to offer his condolences......"

As he spoke, Zhuangzi also patted Meng Zhong on the shoulder, although he still did not speak, but Meng Zhong could understand the former's heart, which was probably comfort such as "mourning and changing".

Since he didn't see the two brothers Le Jin and Le Xu, Meng Zhong asked curiously, and then learned that because of Teng Hu's night attack, the Le clan also suffered heavy losses, and dozens of Le Jin and Le Xu's uncles and brothers also died in that night attack, and the losses were almost the same as those of the Montessori.

And the reason why the brothers Le Jin and Le Xu couldn't come was because one of their dear uncles died, so they went back to their hometown to help with the funeral.

At this time, the elder Meng Jin had already walked out of the main house with the support of Meng Hu, and after seeing Zhuangzi, he broke free from the support of his grandson, hurriedly walked a few steps over to greet him, and said respectfully: "Master Zhuangzi, I am Meng Jin, do you remember me?" When you visited me Montessori, the junior had the honor of performing a sword technique in front of you and the former sect master......"

Zhuangzi looked at Meng Yan in confusion, then at Meng Zhong, and then nodded slightly with a reluctant smile on his face.

Thinking about it, this master had long forgotten, after all, he was already seventy years old, and the memories of thirty years ago were indeed very reluctant for him.

Everyone embraced Zhuangzi and welcomed him into the mourning hall, and when he arrived at the mourning hall, Zhuangzi handed the crutches in his hand to Uncle Zhuang beside him, and immediately bowed to Meng Bo's body with the support of Meng Zhong, which surprised all his disciples.

You know, Zhuangzi was not a person who was accustomed to making life and death very sad, and in his treatises, he also recorded a story about his wife's death, a story that happened between him and Huizi.

At that time, Zhuangzi's wife passed away, and his close friend, Huizi, who was then the state minister of Wei, made a special trip to mourn.

When Hui Shi walked into the mourning hall with a serious expression, he was stunned to see Zhuangzi sitting by the coffin, patting the clay pot with his hand in an indecent posture, and singing loudly without sadness.

Hui Shi frowned and accused: The couple has been sharing the same bed for many years, she raised children for you, and now she is old and has passed away, even if you look down on this matter and don't cry, but you actually knock on the pot and sing, don't you think it's too much?

However, Zhuangzi replied: No, when my wife first died, how could I not be sad and sad! However, she was never born in the first place, not only was she not born but also had no form, not only did she not have a body but she did not form a breath in the first place. Mixed in the trance-like realm, there is a breath of change, a breath changes and a body, a body changes and a life, and now the change returns to death, which is the same as the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. When she died, she would lie quietly between heaven and earth, and I would weep with it, and I thought it was not possible to reach the destiny of heaven, so I stopped crying.

At that time, Hui Shi was dumbfounded, scolded something like "hell" and left.

When his wife passed away, instead of showing sadness, he sang loudly, could it be that Zhuangzi was actually a heartless person?

Of course not.

It's just that Zhuangzi saw through the world and believed that human life and death are just a part of the operation of the laws of heaven, and that people are born from "nothing" and eventually return to "nothing", which is the way of heaven and one of the laws of nature.

Therefore, he believes that we should look at it rationally, and don't be too sad about life and death, after all, everyone will eventually turn into "nothing" and return to the "essence" between heaven and earth under the way of heaven. [PS: It's a bit of a meaning to take off the skin and return to the origin.] 】

And now, this master rushed from Zhuangziju to the countryside to mourn for Meng Bo's funeral, and I have to say that this is because he values Meng Zhong as a disciple very much.

After condolences to Meng Bo, Zhuangzi took the money from Zhuang Bo's hands and handed it to Ge with both hands, although the money was not much, but Ge was still very excited, after all, this was his famous Zhuang Master in the Song Kingdom, and this could come to the funeral of her eldest son Meng Bo, I have to say that this is something that no one else can ask for - although this metaphor is not appropriate.

Originally, Meng Jin planned to preside over the funeral for Meng Bo, but since Zhuangzi, an even more remarkable elder, came, of course, Meng Jin was not good to occupy a position anymore, so he spoke on behalf of Meng Zhong and asked Zhuangzi to preside over the funeral.

Zhuangzi nodded and agreed.

After all, this is his oldest, and Meng Bo is Meng Zhong's brother, and Meng Zhong is his disciple.

The news of "Master Zhuangzi came to Mengzhong's house to mourn" soon spread throughout the entire Meng's family, and it didn't take long for the sect leader Meng Qi, the young sect master Meng Hu and other people from the clan to hurry over, and immediately, the rest of the clan also rushed to come - in fact, most of these people had already come to mourn yesterday, and also sent money, and they came again today, apparently to see Zhuangzi, a world-renowned Taoist sage.

And the arrival of these people overcrowded Meng Zhong's family, and the small mourning hall was simply not enough to accommodate so many people, so that many people crowded into the courtyard, looking into the mourning hall from time to time, just to see the Zhuang master.

After three days of mourning, the funeral was arranged in the clan, which was presided over by Zongzhu Meng.

On this day, Meng Zhong, with the help of close companions such as Meng Hu, Xiang Yu, and Wu Ying, put his brother's body into the coffin.

Subsequently, the family sent four domestic slaves to carry the coffin to the outside of the township, while Meng Zhong supported his mother Ge Shi, and Zhuangzi, Zhuang Bo, Meng Hu, Meng Sui, Xiang Yu, Wu Ying and others to give the funeral to his brother Meng Bo.

Dozens of funerals were handled at the same time, and the size of the funeral procession was naturally unusual.

During the funeral, Meng Zhong saw many aunts and sisters-in-law in the clan, lying on the coffin with a sad face, crying sadly, in comparison, his mother Ge Shi was still strong, although her eyes were red, she pursed her lips and did not let the tears in her eyes flow.

It is worth mentioning that during this period, Ge and Meng Zhong also saw the girl named Meng Yan, and after inquiring, Meng Zhong learned that Meng Yan's brother was Meng Chun, that is, like his brother Meng Zhi, who returned to the family because of his injury, he was a skeptical brother of the "Song State War" war, but unfortunately, even if it was such an upright Meng Chun, he did not get any good reward, and on the night when Teng Hu led three hundred Teng soldiers into the army, he was killed by a Teng State soldier.

Two hours later, the funeral procession arrived at the burial place, a hill in the territory of the Mongol township, which was not very conspicuous compared to the famous Jingshan in the territory, but it was the burial place of the ancestors of the Montessori family.

All the graves on the hill are buried with the members of the Mengshi clan, some of whom died in battle, but many more died in battle.

Because the contemporary emphasis is on "graves but not tombs", that is, burying the corpses in the ground, leaving no signs on the surface, it is so that the Mengshan Mountain presented in front of everyone at this moment is still lush and green, and it is suddenly natural, but who knows how many Mengshi people are buried in this hill?

After burying his brother Meng Bo, Meng Zhong stood in front of his brother's grave and recalled how his brother had taken care of him in the past.

Although he knew that in fact, this hatred should not be detained on Teng Hu's head, after all, Teng Hu was only to protect his country and his subjects, but if this hatred was not detained on Teng Hu's head, who should he hate?

And after Teng Hu, Song Wangyan will definitely be able to gain a hatred from Meng Zhong, after all, it was he who started the war with Teng State.

But compared with the two, Meng Zhong's hatred is of course Teng Hu, after all, no matter how much Teng Hu has to suffer, he can't hide the fact that this person killed his brother Meng Bo with his own hands.

"Teng Hu, if you can live for another three years, I should take your life with my own hands and avenge my brother!"

Standing in front of his brother's grave, Meng Zhong clenched his fists and swore secretly.

At this time, although Zhuangzi who was beside him could not hear Meng Zhong's heart, he could see the emotions called hatred and anger in his disciple's eyes, which made him frown slightly, and then sighed gloomily.