Chapter 80: Mourning Hall
readx;? It is not common to set up a mourning hall on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info one is to welcome the New Year happily, the other is a grief-stricken farewell to the deceased, when the two occur on the same occasion, the atmosphere can become a little difficult to figure out.
Qingmen, last night there were hundreds of tables of wine banquet here, more than 1,000 disciples here to drink and drink, the lively scene lasted until late at night, last night's Qingmen was full of righteous shouts, clinking glasses, laughter, drinking......
However, just a few hours later, the originally lively Qingmen completely changed its appearance, and all the cheerfulness and laughter came to an abrupt end, replaced by a depressing atmosphere of solemnity and silence, and a series of poignant low sobs and whimpering from the crowd......
There were more than 1,000 Qingmen disciples here last night, and there are still more than 1,000 Qingmen disciples here today, people are still last night's people, the wine is still last night's wine, and even the leftover wine glasses from last night's wine banquet have not had time to completely clean up today. It's just that the only difference is that the smiles and excitement on the faces of these Qingmen disciples yesterday have all turned solemn and low today.
Last night, Liu Qing once stood at the front with a wine glass, raising a glass and shouting with all the Qingmen disciples, and this scene is still vivid. And at this moment, where Liu Qing was still standing, there was a huge offering table, and on top of the offering table, there were two spiritual seats, they were Liu Qing, the lord of Qingmen, and Mu Ming, the second master of Qingmen.
Last night, Liu Qing also laughed that Mu Ming was difficult to attend the banquet because he was seriously injured, but he didn't want to wait a few hours later, Mu Ming stood with Liu Qing in another way and reappeared in front of all the Qingmen disciples.
I have to say that Qiu Ming did an extremely domineering and thorough job this time. Just after Qiu Qiong's death, Qiu Ming issued several orders overnight, expelling Lin Hu, Lin Yuan, and Chun'er from the Holy Soul Academy related to the loss of the Wind Tiger Claw Cheats, and as these three people were forced to leave the Academy, the loss of the Wind Tiger Claw Cheats became completely hidden, and under such iron-blooded means, even Cheng Yi and several core disciples of the Qingmen who knew the truth about the loss of the Wind Tiger Claw Cheats were very consciously trembling and sealed their mouths at this moment, and no one refused to mention anything related to the Wind Tiger Claw Cheats!
Cheng Yi and the others are not stupid, and no one dares to play any tricks in front of Qiu Ming.
And the reason why Qiu Ming didn't kill them all was because he wanted to use the method of grace and power to make all the disciples in the Qingmen return to the team loyal to the emperor, after all, Qiu Ming couldn't give up all the disciples of the White Tiger Academy because of such a thing.
Liu Qing and Mu Ming are dead, and Lin Hu was also taken away by the black-clothed guards in the early hours of the morning, and the dragons in the Qingmen have no leader, so Cheng Yi, who is already in a good position, has naturally become the new leader of the Qingmen. What's more, Cheng Yi's mentor Fu Li has been appointed by Qiu Ming as the new president of the White Tiger Academy, and Cheng Yi's status has naturally risen with the tide.
Today's funeral was arranged by Cheng Yi, not because he really missed Liu Qing and Mu Ming, but because Cheng Yi wanted to take this opportunity to win people's hearts and unite the Qingmen disciples who had become a plate of scattered sand again.
I have to say that Qingmen's catastrophe also made Cheng Yi in a real sense.
Today, Cheng Yi's mood is far more complicated than people can imagine.
In the cold wind, thousands of Qingmen disciples all stood on both sides wearing white scarves, looking around with solemn expressions as groups of people came to mourn, while Cheng Yi and several Qingmen core disciples stood beside the offering table in white clothes, bowing and saluting the people who came to worship one by one.
"Hanmen, Hancheng Gate, Shangxiang condolences!" With a cold and sad voice, I saw a serious Hancheng slowly walking forward with seven or eight Hanmen disciples, holding three pillars of high incense in his hand and bowing three times to the spiritual positions of Liu Qing and Mu Ming.
"Brother Liu, Brother Mu, although we have been fighting with each other in the past few years, how can we say that we are also from the Holy Soul Academy, do you remember what we said when we drank together during ......the Chinese New Year last year? Han Cheng couldn't help choking up when he said this, and even the corners of his eyes were a little moist, "I just didn't expect this to happen......"
Cheng Yi stood aside and watched Han Cheng quietly, he didn't know how much truth Han Cheng had in his words, but at least Han Cheng's surface kung fu was really good, and his pretended to be strong made many people around him who came to worship couldn't help but feel even more sad.
"Thank you Han Sect Master!" Cheng Yi led people to bow and said, "Today, my Qingmen suffered this misfortune, forgive me for being rude, he will go to Han Gate in person to thank you!"
"Brother Cheng Yi doesn't have to see outside!" Han Cheng glanced at Cheng Yi meaningfully, and said faintly, "I will have more contact with Brother Cheng Yi in the future!"
Cheng Yi's expression moved, and then he nodded lightly, and didn't say anything more.
"Yumen, Qin Qingyumen's lord incense condolences!"
Immediately after a shout, Qin Qingyu led people to step forward and put incense on it.
"Brother Cheng Yi......" Just as the condolences were in progress, a Qingmen disciple hurriedly ran in, came directly to Cheng Yi's side and whispered, "Lu Yifan has brought someone here!"
Hearing this, Cheng Yi's expression suddenly gathered, and then a thick chill instantly surged onto his face.
"Where?"
"Just waiting outside the door!"
Cheng Yi's eyes were full of light, and after hesitating for a moment, he gritted his teeth and squeezed out a word from his mouth: "Please!"
"Please Lu Yifan!"
With the shouts of the Qingmen disciples, the courtyard was quiet in an instant, and the original sad and depressing atmosphere also changed in an instant, and the killing intent was about to move, and everyone invariably turned their eyes to the gate of the Qingmen, even Qin Qingyu, who had just finished the incense, turned his head in surprise and was stunned.
At the gate of the courtyard, several figures gradually emerged, and the leader was Lu Yifan, who was thin and slightly weak.
At this moment, I saw Lu Yifan's eyes red staring directly at the two spiritual positions in front of him, and his legs trembling slowly forward, and Ji Yuan and Lu Jun saw this, and hurriedly stepped forward to support Lu Yifan left and right, but they were pushed away by Lu Yifan.
"Lu Yifan, you still dare to come, I'll kill you!"
A Qingmen disciple standing at the door roared with red eyes, then rushed forward in two steps and punched Lu Yifan's cheek mercilessly.
"Bang!"
With a muffled sound, Lu Yifan, who was already injured, trembled uncontrollably, and then fell to the ground, Lu Jun saw this, even if he snorted coldly, he raised his foot and kicked at the lower abdomen of the Qingmen disciple.
"Stop!" However, before Lu Jun could make a move, Lu Yifan suddenly opened his mouth and shouted, "The dead are great, how can we mess around in someone else's mourning hall?"
"But...... Alas!" Lu Junqiang endured the roar in his heart, and then raised his eyes to look at the two spirit positions in the distance, and finally just sighed helplessly and stepped forward to help Lu Yifan up again with Ji Yuan.
"Lu Yifan, what are you doing here?"
"Is the cat crying mouse? Second brother was killed by you!"
"That's it, brothers go up together and be angry for the master and the second brother!"
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For a while, the heroes in the Qingmen were furious, and many Qingmen disciples had long been unable to hold back the anger in their hearts, and they surged up one by one with angry eyes.
"No one is allowed to move!"
Just when the scene was about to get out of control, Cheng Yi's roar suddenly stopped the noise of all the Qingmen disciples.
Lu Yifan, with the support of Ji Yuan and Lu Jun, looked at Cheng Yi who was walking slowly with solemn eyes, and the solemn color in his eyes became more and more obvious.
"Cheng Yi......" Lu Yifan slowly opened his mouth and said, "Although I have a conflict with Qingmen, I am not here today to find trouble, but to give Liu Qing and Mu Ming a stick of incense and send them on their last journey." ”
"Lu Yifan!" Cheng Yi hesitated for a moment before he slowly opened his mouth and said, "Today we are here to see off the master and the second brother for the last time, I don't want to do anything disrespectful to them, but you remember to me that the matter between Qingmen and you is not over yet!
"Cheng Yi, what are you doing here, no matter what you say, everyone is also from the Holy Soul Academy, isn't it okay for Yifan to come here to give incense to Liu Qing and Mu Ming?" Han Ling'er couldn't help but say grievances for Lu Yifan, "And have you ever seen anyone who would be bored and endure a serious injury to come here to gloat?"
"Cheng Yi, when Liu Qing was alive, Qingmen has always had strict rules, no matter what time you have to maintain courtesy, you can't lose the face of Qingmen, isn't it a courtesy for you to do this today?" Tang Ruoxi opened his mouth lightly and said, "What's more, neither Liu Qing nor Mu Ming was directly killed by Lu Yifan, the death of the two of them was really an accident!"
"Accident? Is it really an accident?" Cheng Yi's eyes narrowed, lowered his voice and took a step closer towards Lu Yifan and Tang Ruoxi, and said faintly with a smile that could only be heard by two people, "How did you lose the Wind Tiger Claw Cheats? How did the whole thing happen? I think you all know better than me, and if you still have the face to talk about accidents here today, won't you feel blush?"
"You ......"
"Forget it!" Before Tang Ruoxi could open his mouth, Lu Yifan suddenly stretched out his hand to stop him, "What he said makes sense, in this matter, we really can't stay out of the matter, if it weren't for the struggle between us and Qingmen, Liu Qing and Mu Ming might not die today!"
Lu Yifan's words made Cheng Yi stunned, and his originally cold eyes couldn't help but turn red, obviously he thought of Liu Qing and Mu Ming again.
Lu Yifan said, and turned his gaze to Cheng Yi again: "It is precisely because I can't escape the blame that I want to come to this pillar of incense, I don't ask them to forgive me, but I beg to send them the last ......"
"Yes, Brother Cheng Yi, I know the Lord of Liumen very well, if he is still alive, he will definitely not ignore the sincerity of others. Han Cheng echoed.
With Han Cheng's echo, some other people who came here to mourn also began to echo them, obviously they had all been moved by Lu Yifan, in fact, if you think about it carefully, although there is a contradiction between Lu Yifan and Qingmen, it is not a deep hatred after all.
In the persuasion of everyone, Cheng Yi and several core disciples of the Qingmen glanced at each other, and several of them nodded in unison, obviously no one wanted to make trouble at the funeral.
"After the incense, leave immediately!" After hesitating for a moment, Cheng Yi only left this sentence and then turned around and walked back.
Lu Yifan nodded lightly at Cheng Yi's back, and then walked towards the spiritual position with Ji Yuan, Lu Jun, Lu Wencai and Luo Xiu.
Since Tang Ruoxi and Han Ling'er belong to the Tang Gate and the Han Gate respectively, they cannot accompany Lu Yifan to incense together in terms of etiquette.
"Lu Yifan, offer incense and condolences!"
Lu Yifan took the lead in standing in front of the spiritual seat, holding three pillars of incense in his hand, staring at the two spiritual positions on the offering table with blazing eyes, and a touch of guilt in his heart involuntarily surged up.
"Although I did not kill people directly, your death has a lot to do with what I have done, this ...... It's the first time in my life that I have killed someone......" Lu Yifan whispered to himself to the spiritual position on the table, "Whether you believe it or not, I really have no intention of killing you, and today's result is not only beyond your expectations, but also far beyond my imagination...... We don't have a friendship with each other, I come to worship because I am ashamed of the two of you, and in the face of the truth of this matter, I am just like you, too weak, too powerless, until this moment, I can't even tell right from wrong...... Like you, maybe I'm just a pawn in the truth of this matter, but I'm lucky enough to survive...... In what is not right or wrong, there is not even justice, just because we are all too weak...... So weak that even his own life will be played with in the palm of his hand...... In the face of the unchangeable results, a stick of incense for you may be the only thing I Lu Yifan can do now......"
Lu Yifan said that he bowed respectfully to the spiritual position, and at the same time, the four Ji Yuan behind him also bowed together.
"The words have also been said, the incense is also on, Lu Yifan, now you may need to go with us!"
Just when everyone's eyes were focused on Lu Yifan, a joking voice with a sneer suddenly sounded from the gate of the Qingmen Courtyard, and at this moment, there were already black-clothed guards in black robes standing there at some point, and among these black-clothed guards, the leader was Mo Bai!
"Lu Yifan, Mu Ming died violently while recuperating from his injuries after the battle with you, my death is probably inseparable from you, out of duty, my black-clothed guard will now take you away for the crime of murder! As for whether you are guilty or not, then please go and explain it to the dean!"
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