Chapter 126: Funeral

The drizzle, which lasted for several days, finally washed away the cold air of the northland, and as May approached, the mountains and fields were painted with a cloudy green.

The most complicated household registration, resettlement of new households, division of new residential areas, and distribution of new crops and grains for spring plowing have finally come to an end.

Even with the help of Zhao Xi and Zhao Yun and others who had not yet left, Gongsun Yan was still too busy to touch the ground.

She has so much to do and need to do, but there are so few people available and she knows too little about the world.

The strings of household registration recorded on the bamboo slips and scrolls in the palm of your hand are not just numbers that can be arranged at will, and everyone has their own thoughts and ideas.

And every decision made by Gongsun Yan will deeply affect the livelihood of these people's families, so while she is thinking, these people are also thinking.

These living people have their own emotions and positions, and they will have their own reactions to every new policy and every order.

Over the past few days, there has been a lack of resistance, support, disobedience, and ineffective implementation...... Many things make Gongsun Yan have a headache.

She had to run both the study and the conference hall, and grabbed Zhou Xing, who was about to go to Lu Long, to work overtime for a few days, which made Zhou Xing's already scarce hair even more sparse.

On the day he left with Zhao Yun, the bun the size of xiaolongbao was barely on the top of his head, and it seemed that he couldn't even wear a hairpin.

Even Gongsun Yan has systematic daily treatment, but when combing his hair in the morning, Ah Qing, who is in charge of cleaning the inner room, is still heartbroken on the grate for days and days, and has taken off several long black and straight hairs of Gongsun Yan.

Gongsun had a calm face, and secretly bought sesame pills and anti-hair loss shampoo in private.

The most complicated matters were basically settled, and the diviner of the divination ceremony finally chose the funeral ceremony of Gongsun Zhan's family.

Gongsun Zhan self-immolated Yi Jing, and the whole family except Gongsun Yan and Gongsun Chengde, the rest were all buried in the Yi Jing fire, and the body was obtained by Yuan Shao.

Although Gongsun Yan asked Gongsun Ying to go to the capital and ask for the bones of his relatives, everyone knew that even if he was afraid of getting back, it would be difficult to get the whole corpse.

Moreover, the Han Dynasty emphasized funerals, paying attention to treating death as life, and without a tomb, there was no place for the soul.

Therefore, although the bones were still left in the hands of others, the officials who ordered the branch Taishou Mansion to take charge of divination still chose a date and returned to the countryside for burial.

Gongsun Zhan is still in the prime of life, and he has not repaired the tomb before, and the time is in a hurry, so he only chose a place in an open place in the north mountain of Guzhu Manor, and the whole family was buried together.

Gongsun Yan's eldest brother Gongsun Xu had married and had children before his death, and his wife and children fell into Yijing together, and they also set up a mound in Guzhu Beishan.

Regarding Gongsun Yan's insistence on refusing the family's funeral to be held in Lingzhi City, and he was bound to return to Guzhu, Gongsun Jing, the head of the Zhi family, was displeased, but privately nodded and appreciated Gongsun Yan's ability to be so alert.

Now that Gongsun Zan has been defeated, Yuan Shao has become the new lord of Youzhou, and the attitude of the Gongsun family in western Liaoning has attracted the attention of many people.

Xingbing avenged Gongsun Zhan, which was never on the Gongsun family's choice list.

They have to maintain a hazy attitude on the matter in order to see what happens.

This is the wisdom that the Great Family has left for hundreds of years.

Therefore, Gongsun Zhan's funeral had to be low-key and low-key.

Gongsun Yan moved the funeral to Guzhu to hold it, and thoughtfully gave a suitable step to the various clans in Lingzhi City.

Maintain a state of care but not so much attention, and send your children and nephews to participate, without having to weigh whether you need to be there yourself.

After sending someone to report his death like a process, Gongsun Yan handed over everything to Tian Kai, with Tian Kai in charge of the overall situation and Zhao Xi and others.

I am worried that Guzhu Manor does not have such experience in handling funerals, and it will cause some omissions and lose face.

Gongsun's family not only sent mourners, but also sent several stewards and a few housekeepers.

Among them, there are the lady surnamed Jiang and the steward surnamed Lin, who have dealt with Gongsun Yan.

In the early morning, before dawn, Gongsun Yan took Gongsun Cheng to bathe and change clothes, and wore linen and filial piety.

A tall mourning shed was erected in the main house, and among the several lacquered coffins placed in the mourning shed, only the clothes were placed.

These clothes were carried by Gongsun Yan and Gongsun Cheng with bamboo poles, and those who had performed the soul return ceremony were regarded as the corpses of the deceased.

Gongsun Yan hugged Gongsun Cheng, put lacquer pillows at the head of the coffin one by one, and put the rice on it.

Finally, the lacquered coffin was closed and stopped in the funeral shed.

In addition to the coffins of Gongsun Yan's family, there are several coffins behind the mourning hall, which contain the ashes of the villagers in Yangqiu and the dead of the First World War in Yangqiuli.

There were many deceased, and they could not bring back all the corpses with their hands, so they brought back the ashes and buried them in Beishan, where they could enjoy incense sacrifices on how to build a good mausoleum.

Gongsun Yan knelt on the right side of the mourning hall with red and swollen eyes, and kept throwing some paper money into the brazier.

Gongsun Cheng seemed to know something, and from the beginning of the soul ceremony, he didn't say a word, and refused to leave Gongsun Yan half a step, and knelt obediently and snuggled beside him at this time.

From the day of the small collection, their sisters and brothers will cry day and night, and thank the guests who came to pay their condolences.

Gongsun Jing didn't come in person, only said that the white-haired person sent the black-haired person to be sad excessively.

Gongsun Ying and several cousins took Gongsun Yan's cousins and cousins yesterday and came to Guzhu yesterday.

When Gongsun Yan was in Lingzhi, he had met these uncles, brothers and sisters once or twice, and he was far from being familiar with them, and he couldn't talk about any blood and family affection.

and Gongsun Ying are even more close.

It's just that this is not the time to count these, Gongsun Yan and Gongsun Cheng's sisters and brothers are kneeling alone in the mourning hall, and the concierge picks them up, and these uncles are at their disposal.

There weren't many people who came to pay their respects, and there weren't any heavyweight guests.

No one would have imagined that Gongsun Zhan, the overlord of the northern land, who had been outside the earthquake and crisscrossed several states, would have such a shabby and cold funeral.

Gongsun Yan glanced at the paper-tied white horse and black bull standing next to the coffin, and carefully raised his sleeve to wipe his red and swollen eyes.

The filial son and filial daughter have to cry in the mourning hall in the morning and evening, and she has to cry even if she can't cry.

So before dawn, he got up and performed Asian magic and bought cosmetics to paint himself a pale ghost-like sick crying makeup.

Moreover......

She wasn't entirely fake, although she only had flashbacks in her mind, but she remembered a few people in the coffin.

She didn't know how to define those memories and emotions, and she couldn't deny that those emotions had an impact on her.

"Ah Cheng, are you tired?" Gongsun Yan asked softly about Gongsun Cheng, who was close to her.

"Not tired." Gongsun Cheng looked at the coffin in a daze, and seemed to be affected by the crying of the people around him in the morning, and he also cried in horror.

At this time, his eyes were also red, and he grabbed Gongsun Yan's sleeve tightly.

Knowing his situation, Gongsun Yan wanted to lie that he was sick and not let him face this.

But he was strongly vetoed by Tian Kai, and he said that the little boy could not hide under his sister's skirt for the rest of his life, and there were some situations that he still needed to face.

If the funerals of fathers, brothers, mothers and sisters are still avoided, how to grow up in this troubled world.

Tian Kai's words have come to this point, and Gongsun Yan has nothing to refute.

Just as he was about to comfort a few more words, he heard a report from the mourning hall:

"Zhao Yun, the county commander of Lulong County and the commander of the barrier."

"Liaodong Taishou Cao Yeyao"

"Come and offer your condolences."