Chapter 27: Condolences
Shang Jiuying rushed off the horse, and when she arrived at the door, she was already in tears, crying and staggering to the mourning hall: "My grandson is not filial, and I didn't see my grandfather for the last time." The two sides of the aisle were full of kneeling people and serving maids, and when they saw the young master crying, they all wiped their tears. After Shang Jiuying entered the Deling Hall, when she saw her grandfather's coffin, she fell to the ground on her knees, knocked her head three times in a row, and when she raised her head again, her forehead was already bloody: "My grandson is late, grandpa, my grandson has come to see you!" ”
Shang Jiuying cried and crawled towards the coffin of Heimu Shou, he grabbed the coffin and climbed up, looking at the grandfather who loved him closed his eyes and lay peacefully in the coffin, as if he was asleep, he trembled his hands and stroked his grandfather's hands without temperature: "Grandpa, my grandson is here to see you off!" Open your eyes and look at me again. Saying that, his legs were weak, he sat on the ground, and on the left side of the coffin knelt Shang Jiuying's father and mother, his father fell to the ground and cried bitterly, and his mother held Shang Jiuying's hand and tears rained down: "My Ying'er is back." As he spoke, he pulled his son to kneel beside him.
Kneeling on the right side were Shang Jiuying's second uncle and second aunt, the second uncle looked at Shang Jiuying with a blue face, and said in a weird manner: "Good nephew, you are here!" Shang Jiuying looked at the second uncle coldly, and said slowly: "Grandpa has passed away, and his grandson doesn't dare not return." It's the second uncle, the grandfather's bones are not cold, is the second uncle so unbearable? The second uncle said: "My good nephew, what are you talking about, the second uncle can't understand!" ”
At this moment, the mourner already said loudly: "After the relatives meet, seal the coffin!" One letter is blessed by heavenly officials, two letters are for the well-being of the soul, three letters are for the longevity of the living, four letters are for the absence, and five letters are for the prosperity of the descendants. After the mourning was announced, several subordinates covered the coffin and took five long nails, which were nailed to the head, tail, and waist of the coffin.
Shang Jiuying was sad and grief, and she was too lazy to talk to her second uncle at this time, so she stopped talking and said in her heart: It's not too late to make plans after burying grandpa.
Steward Zhang asked the people to place the corpses of the guards in the backyard first, and then led Qin Bai and Jiang Yaoyao to the mourning hall to pay their respects. Qin Bai walked towards the door, only to see that the houses on the left and right sides were hung with white cloths, the soul flags were hung on both sides of the road, the dismounted flags at the gate, and the tearing flags at the door of the hall, there were soul flags on both sides, and the wind blew and rattled. Walking to the door of the hall, the gong sounded to announce the arrival of the mourners, Qin Baimai walked inside, and saw that the people in the house were all honored with filial piety, everyone held a mourning stick, knelt on the ground and wept bitterly. In the middle of the lobby is a black wooden coffin, and the coffin has an eye-catching word "lay". There are three people kneeling on the left side of the coffin, the middle-aged man is weak and thin, with some elegant atmosphere, and now he is kneeling on the ground and crying bitterly, this person is undoubtedly Shang Kaiwen; Kneeling beside the middle-aged man was a dignified and elegant woman, who was crying pear blossoms with rain, this person was Shang Kaiwen's wife; Qin Bai, who knelt down the most, knew none other than Shang Jiuying. There were two people kneeling on the right side of the coffin, the man was burly and powerful, with thick eyebrows and huge eyes, and a resolute face, Qin Bai guessed that this person should be Shang Kaiwu; Kneeling beside Shang Kaiwu, the woman took a handkerchief, covered her mouth and pretended to sob, but there was no tear in the corner of her eyes.
Qin Bai and Jiang Yaoyao received incense from the welcome and send-off, and the mourner said, "Condolence salute." The two of them bowed down with incense and inserted the incense on top of the confession. Seeing Shang Jiuying crying heartbroken, the two couldn't bear to look at it anymore after comforting a few words, and went out of the mourning hall and rested in the residence of Steward Zhang.
Running all the way and some of the injuries that had not healed during the day's battle, Qin Bai was really a little tired. Qin Bai sat cross-legged on the bed and absorbed some heaven and earth aura to replenish his spiritual power. took out the book "Divine Wood Change", first swallowed the dates and read it, and used the spiritual power imprint to leave an imprint in the soul master token. Only then did he begin to study carefully, Qin Bai only felt that this exercise was subtle at first, and the more he looked at it, the more he realized the subtlety of the idea of the person who created this exercise, which was simply breathtaking.
The first step of the exercise is to "turn into wood", which is not really to turn into wood, but to imitate the flow of the aura of wood, so that it can be endless.
As long as there are other branches, it can continuously absorb nutrients from the sunlight in the air and grow new branches, even if all the branches are cut off, as long as the trunk is still there, new branches will be sent out on the trunk. Even if you cut off all the trunks, as long as the roots are still there, new shoots will emerge from the ground, and even if you dig out the roots, if you stick any branch into the soil, the branch can grow into a new tree. Trees can do this, mainly because of the flow of aura within the tree, a tree is a coherent aura circulation system, during the day the leaves absorb the aura in the air, through the branches, transported to the trunk, the trunk to the roots, the roots of the tree to the branches, and the branches to each leaf; At night, the roots of the tree absorb the aura of the earth, and transmit it through the trunk to the branches, and then from the branches to the leaves, and then from the leaves to the branches, from the branches to the trunk and roots, and so on. If a link in the cycle is broken, it will also skip the break and form its own cycle to achieve perfection. Therefore, the leaves of trees in winter are backward and self-formed, and in spring the leaves are lush and become a new cycle, and when a branch is broken somewhere, the cycle automatically skips, and the broken branch is inserted into the soil and becomes a cycle of its own.
The spiritual aperture is the root of a person, the body is the trunk of a tree, the limbs are the branches, and the hands and feet are the leaves. The spirit master cultivates the spirit body, solidifying the belief that each part of the body corresponds to the part of each spirit, but the "Divine Wood Change" of the release of the afterlife is subversive, the spirit body is in the cycle all the time, the spirit on the arm is still on the arm at this moment, and the next moment it returns to the torso with the flow of aura, and the aura keeps flowing in the body, that is, it keeps impacting his own body, and every impact on the body promotes the ability of muscles and muscles to resist hits, so that the body is constantly improved day and night. And this kind of improvement is a lifting of every musculoskeletal part of the body.
Knowing that there was a huge gap between cultivating the exercises and being able to cultivate, he didn't know how many people would be stumped by the "Turning Wood" alone, and of course Qin Bai wasn't sure if he could succeed.
After watching the cultivation of the exercises, Qin Bai was extremely excited, as if he saw that his cultivation path had another layer of protection, the gate to the peak was so dazzling, and now he was able to reach out and touch this path of glory. The night was already dark, and Qin Bai was indeed tired, so he went to the bed to rest, thinking that he would start observing the flow of the spiritual energy of the trees from tomorrow, so he fell asleep deeply.
Jiang Yaoyao was really tired all the way, and went to bed early.
The next day, Qin Bai and Jiang Yaoyao both got up very late, and when they woke up, the exhaustion of their bodies had been swept away, and the whole person became energetic again. Because Qin Bai was in a hurry to rush to the Tianhuang Mountain Range, after meeting with Jiang Yaoyao, he discussed going to Shang Jiuying to separate from him, and then hit the road as soon as possible.
The two walked towards Shang Jiuying's room, but were stopped by Steward Zhang halfway. Steward Zhang said: "After burying the master, my young master is too sad and has fallen ill, I'm afraid it is inconvenient to see guests now, forgive me." As he spoke, he took out a money bag from his arms: "This is the reward we promised to the two, thank you for sacrificing your life to save you, so that the young master can return home safely, the young master commanded, if the two of you are in a hurry, you can go." ”
Qin Bai is not a pretentious person, he will definitely need money along the way, so he took it. When he was rushing to Lingzhou City along the way, he was intercepted twice, and just after burying the master, the young master fell ill, and Qin Bai faintly felt that something must be wrong. Qin Bai thought that when he first met Liang Lianqi, the young master couldn't bear to accompany the two to death and let the two of them leave, he had already made up his mind in his heart, he couldn't ignore this matter, since the second master could send someone to chase and kill him before returning to the house, then I don't know what he would do at this time?
Thinking of this, Qin Bai said: "We have met the young master, I don't know when we will see you again this time, we will go far away today, we will definitely say goodbye to the young master in person, and ask Steward Zhang to guide the way." ”
Steward Zhang said: "The young master is dizzy, and he has been coughing, I'm afraid he is infected with the wind cold, and the two of you should stay away when you say goodbye, so as not to be infected, and the two of you will come with me." With that, Steward Zhang led the two of them to Shang Jiuying's room.
As soon as he arrived at the door of Shang Jiuying's bedroom, he heard the whispers of two maids inside.
A maid said: "I have long heard that the young master is a short-lived man, and in my opinion, he will not be able to survive." ”
Another maid said, "The old man was dizzy first, and then he started coughing, and it didn't last a few days before he went." ”
"The uncle has a son, and the second master has a daughter, if the young master also dies, such a big businessman will be extinct."
"It's not like that, if you want me to say ......" Steward Zhang pushed the door in, pointed to the two maids angrily and said: "You two dare to talk nonsense in the mansion again, be careful that I break your legs." The two maids were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and did not dare to speak.
Qin Bai and Jiang Yaoyao walked in the door, and suddenly saw a gray phantom on Shang Jiuying's head. Qin Bai stepped forward quickly: "Evil spirit, where to run!" "The evil spirit is very small, only two or three years old, but it is very fast, and when Qin Bai found him, he flew away through the wall with a whoosh.
Jiang Yaoyao and Qin Bai glanced at each other: "Chase!" The two of them turned into a gust of wind and chased after the little evil spirit.
The little evil spirit was very slippery, dodging left and right, and after turning another corner, it entered through the door of a house. Qin Bai and Jiang Yaoyao chased to the house, and when they looked up, there was a plaque hanging on the house, with the words "Zhilan Zhai" written on it.
Qin Bai knocked on the door, and there was a charm of the young woman who opened the door and leaned out half of her body, although she was wearing filial piety clothes, but her makeup was exquisite, her fragrance was gorgeous, and she was wearing blush, and when she saw that it was Qin Bai and Jiang Yaoyao, she said, "Hey, who should I be?" Aren't these two of the young master's friends? I knocked on my aunt's door early in the morning, what's the matter? Qin Bai said: "The two of us saw an evil spirit entering my aunt's room, can you let me and I go in to have a look." I saw the young woman raise her eyebrows and said, "In broad daylight, Lang Lang Qiankun, where did the evil spirit come from?" Recently, the guests from the house have become more and more unruly, what if I don't agree? When Jiang Yaoyao heard this, his temper suddenly came up: "If you don't agree, we can only break in, I don't believe you can stop us." Qin Bai saw that Jiang Yaoyao was going to come hard, and it was inconvenient to fall out with the merchant at this time, so he stretched out his hand to stop Jiang Yaoyao, shook his head at her, and then said to the woman: "It's the younger generation who is abrupt, and it is not right for us to disturb the aunt's rest, so I would like to make amends to the aunt, and we will retire first." Saying that, Qin Bai pulled Jiang Yaoyao up and turned around and left.
The woman snorted coldly and slammed the door shut.