Chapter Seventy-One: The Funeral
Wang Hu wrenched his fingers and hesitated:
"The imperial court patrols the island once every three months, and it has gone through two times from the time our family was caught and escorted to the island. General Feilong only left ten days ago, so it should have been nearly seven months. ”
Ah, seven months!
Didn't starve yourself to death in seven months?
Xin Tianyou was taken aback at first, then shook his head.
If the turtle or crocodile saw his performance, he would probably laugh and say nothing. Hunger for a year or two is a common occurrence for them. The most terrifying cave newt can be resurrected after ten years of starvation.
"Your name is Wang Hu?"
When the man heard this, his face showed a red light, and he said:
"Heh, little brother, I didn't expect you to know our family's name!"
Xintianyou looked left and right, and felt that this product was the Haisha gang leader he had seen on the night in Fanzhou. Seeing that he was so hungry that he couldn't stand steadily, and squatted down again to pull his brain, he walked to the beach and raised his hand to grab it.
Syllable......
A large lobster jumped out of the sea and jumped into the palm of its hand.
Xintianyou turned around, knocked the lobster against the stone, and threw it over.
The big man raised his head and didn't ask where the shrimp came from, just buried his head in munching. I was so anxious to eat that I almost choked, and my shoulder blades shrugged rapidly.
Xin Tianyou waited for him to eat almost enough, and asked, "Wang Hu, there are many fish in the sea, why are you so hungry?" ”
The man said blankly:
"We don't know how to water, you know......"
Damn, I know a fart!
Xintianyou was speechless.
Wang Hu devoured it, whined in his mouth, and said intermittently:
“…… The crabs and oysters on the beach have long been picked up. The rations issued by the imperial court were not enough to eat, and most of the two bags of rice were taken away by rats...... The other prisoners were from official eunuch families and did not want to see our family...... Udai's gang of bandits wants to pull Lao Tzu into the gang, phew...... Even if we starve to death, our family can't rob orphans and widows of their food rations and do things that bully men and women......
Uday forced the men to build wooden platoons and prepared to flee. He was injured more than a dozen in a row, killed Yushu Gongzi yesterday, and today he will marry his sister. The people on the island were driven out to watch the ceremony, and our family was powerless to do anything, and we didn't want to see such pickled things, so we looked for food on the beach...... Right...... Sun Xiu you just mentioned, our family remembers. When Yu Gongzi was dying, he kept shouting this name. ”
What a mess, the situation is getting weirder and weirder!
Xintianyou didn't know the essentials, and said:
"Ha, it turns out that today is a robber robber. Wang Hu, take me to have a look! ”
After finishing speaking, he grabbed the big man's arm and walked in the direction he had just now.
After Wang Hu ate the lobster, his physical strength recovered a lot, and he pushed the other party away and marched behind. Since I went to the island, I have often been sleepy and confused. Take young people who appear out of thin air for granted, and don't bother to think about it.
And Xintianyou saw that he couldn't understand what he was talking about, as if his brain had been broken, and he didn't bother to ask.
The battle of Fanzhou was a sneak attack on Nanxing by a fusion saint. And the ancestor of the Nanhai faction, the supreme true person, was the little prince of Yelang Kingdom eight hundred years ago, what is the connection between this?
If it weren't for the fact that Jade Island was located above the Purple Mansion, and it happened to happen to run into this matter, I wouldn't bother to pay attention to it. Since he promised Yuyangzi to take care of Sun Xiu, he can't break his promise.
Seven months, plus a month in Maple Creek Valley, eight months on my own. The Chinese teleportation test formation should have been built, has it been connected to another world?
I have to hurry back to the mainland.
He thought as he hurried forward. Jump over a large rock, tiptoe a little when you land, hook up a fist pebble casually, and kick it out to sea.
With a sharp roar, the stone slanted into the sky like lightning, and did not fall to the sea at all.
Wang Hu stopped, smacking his tongue.
The two walked unhurriedly through the sandy beach, through a narrow valley, and then climbed a 100-meter-high hillside.
I saw a bay below, and the beach was empty. In the middle, a three-meter-square circle was made with stones, and the firewood in the circle was piled up more than one meter high.
Xin Tianyou pointed to the pyre and asked:
"What's that for, barbecue?"
Wang Hu lowered his head and sighed, and replied:
"Young boy, stay for a while Yushu is going to be funeral, this is preparing for the fire...... Listen to me slowly, and you'll know later......"
Seeing the young man pumping stones to the sky, Wang Hu couldn't help but change "little brother" to "young son", and "our family" to "me".
It turned out that the robbers wanted to rob Yuqionghua to be the lady of the village. After killing her brother Yushu yesterday, she left a message that when today's memorial service is over, she must get on the sedan chair......
Jade Qionghua?
Xintianyou was taken aback.
What the hell is the island, it won't make the master crazy, presumably with the same name and surname.
Behind the beach are rolling hills, and after ten minutes, there is a faint sound coming out, short and neat.
“…… There are gossip in the open sky, and there are five parties in the open earth...... Clean the front of the hall, the golden furnace three pillars of incense ......"
This is when the people go out of the funeral, ask God to open the way.
Desolate voices rippled through the air, layered on top of each other like waves, and gradually approached......
A long white banner poked out of the bushes and was led by an old man in an old robe of green cloth. Wearing a square Nanhua scarf, he sang while walking, took out paper money from the cloth bag he was carrying and threw it.
He was followed by a strong man, holding aloft a banner of soul attraction.
Two young men carried a plank to the beach and laid it on the pyre, while the spirit banner was planted deep in the edge of the stone circle.
On the board lay a corpse, covered with a black scarf and sackcloth. Spread out a white cloth in front of your feet, and place a cup of tea, a glass of wine, and a bowl of rice.
The whole set of rituals is quaint, but not very standardized.
It stands to reason that the one who bears the flag should be a filial son, but he inserted the flag into the sand and ran back to the crowd. In addition, there are also a lot of cumbersome rituals, lack of spirit tablets and memorial objects.
A few people stuffed oil-soaked wood chips, dead grass, and shredded paper under the pyre, and put worn cotton wool and clothes on the pyre. Includes a dark brown firewood knife stained with blood.
Lao Dao brought out a small bowl, and there was only a little clear oil in it that had just covered the bottom of the bowl. After lighting the wick, it is placed flat at the feet of the deceased.
This is called "illuminating the street lamp", which illuminates the way to the underworld for the deceased.
Lao Dao held the soul-attracting bell with his two fingers in the middle of the food and shook it, sometimes urgently. The feet went diagonally forward and retreated, tending to the left and right, like a snake winding and moving, like an ape looking forward to it, and walked around the pyre for three weeks.
A woman in her fifties led two women to weep, placed the white paper flowers on the top of their heads on the chest of the deceased, followed the old road three times, and lit three incense sticks in front of the flag.
The crowd stepped forward in order, walked around the pyre, and threw the white paper flowers in their hands at the corpse.
A child was hugged by an adult and didn't dare to look at it, threw the paper flowers around, and cried after being slapped hard. But he was tightly covered with his mouth, and "woo woo" twisted his head desperately.
More than 200 people were numb and sad, and a large area was densely spread on the beach, like clay puppets.
The scene was silent, and the faint crying of the three women was heard.