"Zhibi Jingshan, Songbai Pill Pill. It is broken or moved, and Fang Miao is religious. There is a hakama on the pine tree, and there is leisure in the tree. Sleep into Kong'an, return to Jingshan, the heir of Tang Sun ......"

According to the ceremony, the Son of Heaven will be buried on the seventh day and in July; The princes were buried on the fifth day and in May. On September 23, it happened to be the funeral ceremony of Song Gong.

Zhao Wuxian, as a guest of Song and Le's son-in-law, also appeared in the funeral procession. After coming to the Spring and Autumn Period, he had to experience the funerals of Jin and Lu a little more, but the funeral of Yin Ren was the first time he encountered it.

The Xia Dynasty advocated black, and the funeral was held at dusk, and the chariot was driven on a black horse, and the sacrifice was made with black. Therefore, the Jin State was sealed in the ruins of Great Xia, following the Xia ceremony, because of the Xia customs, when the Jin Wengong died, the whole country was black, this group of black mourning soldiers fought the famous battle of Kun under the leadership of the ancestors, so that the Qin people could not advance eastward for three hundred years.

Although the Zhou people call themselves Xia Min, they are different, they advocate red, the funeral is at sunrise, the chariot is driven by a red horse, and the sacrifice is made with red, and the Lu country that respects the Zhou rites is the same.

The Yin people advocate white, and the funeral is at noon, the chariot is driven by a white horse, and the sacrifice is made with white. So on this day, the doctors of Shangqiu and the scholars in the city were all plain. They set out from Shangqiu at noon, went out of Yangmen, and wrote in the "Shang Song. Yin Wu" slowly trekked eastward to the accompaniment of "Yin Wu", the coffin of the Duke of Song was placed on a chariot, driven by four white horses, and the target was the burial place of the monarchs of the Song Dynasty: Jingshan.

"Zhibi Gaogang, I'm Ma Xuanhuang. I will take care of him, and I will not ......be hurt forever," looked at Nanzi, who was holding the coffin, wearing a coarse linen deep coat without sewing, and walking forward on foot in thin Ge shoes, Sima Geng, who had always been upright, turned around and sighed to Zhao Wuxian: "The princess is really pure filial piety." ”

In the eyes of outsiders. The performance of the filial daughter Nanzi these days can be called perfect, and she has been keeping vigil for Song Gong for several nights in a row. She weeps all the time, and she doesn't change her generation. Clothed in a veil, tears never stopped, living in the mourning hall, sleeping on a straw mat. No matter how hungry he is, he can't eat food, and no matter how cold he is, he wears thin clothes, so he looks like he has lost a lot, and now he has to hold the coffin to get up, and Le Lingzi can only walk with the support of Le Lingzi on the side.

Zhao Wuxian didn't think so, not to mention that these were what Nanzi should have endured. Who is the beautiful woman who sneaked into her room the night before and slept with herself all night, and left before dawn?

But he deeply believed that Nanzi could establish such an image, which would be beneficial to Zhao Wuxian's plan.

He snorted at the sackcloth boy on the other side of the coffin and said, "Compared to that, Xinjun has done an unsatisfactory job......

Sima Geng followed Zhao Wuxian's line of sight, and his face suddenly darkened.

After the husband was stunned and withdrawn by Zhao Wuxian's high-level heavy salute in the ninety-nine prisons, Shangqiu's predicament was lifted, and Zhao Wuxian, Le's and Huang's immediately sent troops to Daiyi to entangle Gongsun, the only heir to the throne.

Gongsun Jiao was only taken to the palace without stopping yesterday. As a new monarch, the funeral of the ancestor is a necessary ceremony for legal enthronement, and he must attend as a nephew. But everything was rushed. His small body could not support the well-dressed court clothes, so he could only wear a large mourning dress. Maybe it was because he was too tired to travel yesterday, or maybe Nanzi stayed up all night for his surprise funeral ceremony. Gongsun was holding the coffin and fell asleep for a long time, and his head almost hit the coffin. attracted the etiquette on the side, Yousi, hurriedly coughed and reminded.

As a disciple of Confucius, Sima Geng attached great importance to etiquette. Gongsun Jie's performance on the first day made him a little disappointed, but he was relieved when he thought about it, a ten-year-old child is just a genius, and not everyone can be as talented as Jin Mourning Gong. It's good to meet a ruler of the mean, but don't be too demanding, at least better than a guy like Lu Zhaogong who has a happy face during the funeral.

But bluntly, he still sighed softly: "The grandson is not as far away as the princess, it's a pity, the princess is not a man, otherwise she can be the heir." ”

While the two were talking, Jingshan arrived, and the pale color cast a layer of desolation and sadness over the withering trees. The expressions of the Song people became solemn, this is not only the tomb of the monarchs of the Song Kingdom, but also the first generations of Shang emperors are also buried here.

The procession stood still, only Nanzi and Gongsun continued to go up with the coffin, followed by people of higher status such as Le's, Huang's, Zhao Wuxian, and Sima Geng's, and the real chief priest of today's ceremony had already arrived, waiting for them on the hill.

A middle-aged woman wearing a bow robe, her appearance has not diminished, standing in front of the cave, she wears a wide-sleeved long bow robe, on which there are only two colors, simple and mysterious.

She is the great witch of the Song Kingdom, and she is a god-man who can communicate with ghosts and gods.

Yin people are still ghosts and gods, and the cumbersome Zhou rites are just imported products to them, and they are forced to paste outside under the pressure of Zong Zhou. But only the shaman is a native of the Song Dynasty, rooted in the Song Dynasty, from the monarch to the doctor, down to the common people of Li all believe in it.

All the Song people looked at her with awe, including those who were deeply influenced by Confucius, believing that "life is unknown, and death is unknown?" If you can't help people, how can you do ghosts? Sima Geng also saluted her respectfully, as did Zhao Wuxian.

Da Wu's eyeshadow was painted with dye into a weird dark purple, her nails were slender, and she put her left and right hands on the shoulders of Nanzi and Gongsun Jie, especially after looking at Nanzi more, she said lightly: "The auspicious time has come, and the filial son and filial daughter will follow me to summon the soul of the dead." ”

……

"The emperor issued an edict saying: The soul returns!

There is no heaven for you, nine levels and eight poles.

There is no place for you, and the yellow spring is deep and secluded.

The East cannot be in the past, and the ten days are scorching.

The south can't go to Xi, poisonous insects are reckless.

The West cannot be swept away by shifting sand.

You can't swim in the north, the ice and snow are high.

The Soul Returns! Return to the Soul! ”

The sound of the seer, the leisurely chanting of the bell, the sound of the drums, the whining of the wind music, the jingling chime, and the ethereal singing of the great witch that seems to be able to penetrate the Yellow Spring of the Nine Heavens and spread throughout the six poles and eight wildernesses. This is a simple version of "The Conjuring" in the Spring and Autumn Period, which was popular in Zhongxia and Chu, and later Qu Yuan's "Chu Ci. The Ultimate Move is adapted from this.

This grand princes' sacrificial music covered the entire Jingshan funeral ceremony, and the white smoke of wormwood burning lingered, the smell was pungent and smoky. I couldn't help but want to cry in my eyes, and then I looked into the smoke. It seems that you can catch a glimpse of ghosts and gods descending one after another.

Above the mound shrouded in white mist, there is a great witch with a cape and a strange dance. Her face twitched, apparently channeled to the gods. As the only two people left in the close branch of the office, Nanzi and Gongsun Jiao waited on the side as auxiliary priests under the guidance of the great witch, Gongsun Jiao was still ignorant, holding a white lamb, and he was also cowardly and frightened like a sheep waiting to be slaughtered. Nanzi, who was holding the sacrificial vessel, behaved perfectly everywhere, her eyes weeping, and she joined the chant of the Great Witch, her voice clear and high-pitched. Attracted everyone to nod their heads again and again.

Except for the three people on the mound, the rest of the people knelt around.

"Nanzi is really pitiful." Le Lingzi, who had also experienced the pain of losing his father, sighed softly beside Zhao Wuxian.

Wuxian stroked her hand, and with a feeling of shame in his heart, he replied, "Yes, this half an hour is indeed very difficult for her...... Reiko, do you believe that there are ghosts in the world? ”

Le Lingzi was stunned for a moment, and replied softly: "My master, the doctor Bian Que, does not believe in the existence of ghosts and gods, and he insists that healers should be separated from wizards, and to find the cause of the disease, they must be separated from ghosts and superstitions. I also ...... from what he said."

"The thinking of Bian Que's faction is really progressive enough."

Bian Que is probably the most materialistic scholar of this era, and most of the other sages dare not deny the existence of ghosts and gods, and even Confucius is just silent and confused. "Worship ghosts and gods and stay away". Zhao Wuxian contradicted Confucius in many ideas, but in terms of ghosts and gods, he felt that this was the most suitable.

Respecting ghosts and gods has its social existence value. And who can say for sure what is going on in this world?

At least most of the Song people were convinced of the existence of ghosts and gods, and the Mozi of later generations was greatly affected. Calling out the theory of ghosts.

Le Lingzi, who belongs to the materialist school, tilted his head and asked: "What does the gentleman think, are there ghosts and gods in the world?" ”

Zhao Wuxian said: "I used to think like you. It wasn't until later that something happened...... "If there is no soul in the world, how to explain that he came to Zhao Xiangzi across thousands of years?"

His gaze looked up at the sky, the clouds were dense, and there was only a hole in the blue sky above Jingshan, as if a huge eye was watching the nether, which made Zhao Wuxian feel a palpitation.

Zichan once expounded his view of ghosts and gods, and he believed that ordinary people, such as ordinary people, would not behave after death, because they would not have enough "essence" and would directly enter the Yellow Spring, and it was impossible for them to be "promiscious" in the mortal world. Only those nobles who usually have abundant food, fat brains and violent deaths can become powerful ghosts and evil spirits, they absorb a large amount of essence from the territory and people, and endanger the human world by attachment and reliance.

"If there are ghosts, Song Gong must be flying around the mound now, it is said that the Great Witch is a psychic person, who can persuade the ghosts to return, and can hear their lawsuits......"

So in Zhao Wuxian's mind, Nanzi must be extremely scared now.

Rumors of revenge for unjust souls were quite popular in this era, and the most famous is the story of King Zhou Xuan's death under the arrow of Du Bo's ghost: Du Bo died unjustly for three years and was revived under the Yellow Spring, when King Zhou Xuan joined the princes to hunt in the garden, hundreds of hunting carts, a few followers, and a crowd of people filled the mountains. When the sun was in the middle of the day, Du Bo's soul rode in a white horse chariot, dressed in a red robe, and held a Tong bow, chasing King Xuan of Zhou, and an arrow hit King Xuan's heart, causing him to break his spine and fall on top of the bow bag and die.

It is said that this incident happened in plain sight, no one saw it, no one heard of it, and it was recorded in the "Spring and Autumn Period" of the Zhou Dynasty. The ruler teaches his subordinates in this way, and the father warns his son in this way, saying, "Be on guard! Be careful! Whoever kills an innocent person will have ominous consequences. The punishment of the demons and gods is so quick and painful. ”

If Song Gong had a spirit, what would he do with the daughter who pushed him off the platform? Only a strange woman with a tenacious temperament like Nanzi can still keep her face unchanged and her acting skills as usual on this occasion.

Looking at Nanzi, who was chanting loudly with the Great Witch, Zhao Wuxian guessed: "Actually, she must be shouting in her heart, wanting Song Gong's soul not to return, not to return?" ”

Zhao Wuxian was suddenly looking forward to her future.

As a result, half an hour passed, nothing happened, and Dawu did not hear the lawsuit of the unjust soul, and did not expose Nanzi on the spot, but was relieved to hold her head. There was no strangeness from the sky that day, so that Song Gong drove a horse to take revenge, and the funeral ended smoothly, and the whole afternoon was beautiful.

Only the heavenly eye in the clouds was still silently watching the earth.

Afterwards, when Zhao Wuxian saluted in front of the coffin, he whispered to Nanzi, who knelt down on his side to thank him: "Heaven listens to my own people, and heaven sees itself as the people, as long as the princess can do a better job than Song Gong in treating the people, I think even if there are ghosts in the world, they can't fight against the people's wishes......"

The historians are all selectively blind people, and later generations only saw Hei Yang Guang killing his father and his stepmother, who would pull Li Er to kill his brother and force his father to not let go?

Nanzi was slightly stunned, and then bowed his head and thanked him.

……

At this funeral, the Xiang brothers did not arrive, so Sima Geng was very angry and scolded the two brothers for not being ministers, and even the most basic loyalty and filial piety were gone.

In fact, this is another trap for Zhao Wuxian to pit the Xiang brothers, morally, they will be condemned by the whole country for this, and it is impossible to enter Shangqiu. Of course, their absence was not without reason, Zhao Wuxian deliberately let the envoy delay on the road was one thing, the two brothers didn't dare to approach Shangqiu alone, and the husband took them to capture Xiaoyi, which was the third......

Although Fucha is not good at emotional intelligence, he is a good hand at conquering the city, and the tall and sturdy Xiao Yi only lasted less than five days......

With the uprooting of Xiaoyi, the Song rebels were completely swept away, although the remnants of the Zheng army were still entrenched in the six Yis to the west, and although the Wei State was still clamoring for an offer to send troops with Qi to attack the Song, the Song civil war that lasted for more than two months basically came to an end. The mourning messenger set out from Shangqiu and went to Zhou, Chu, Jin, Qin, Wu, Lu and other neighboring and friendly countries.

The princes were buried on the fifth day, and the coffins were stopped in a safe place, and the mausoleum was built five months later before they were officially buried. In addition, every seven days after the mourning day of the princes, the children and ministers had to hold a worship ceremony, and it was not until the second first seven o'clock that the Fucha and the Xiang brothers were late...... (To be continued.) )