According to the long-established funeral rites, no matter how the funeral specifications of the deceased will be determined, there is a first set of procedures that must be carried out immediately after death. There are four main things: the corpse, the soul, the corpse, and the curtain. After the four events, the family of the deceased can officially report the funeral to all parties, and then continue to carry out the funeral rites that have been determined.

The corpse is to immediately carry the body of the deceased back to the main bedroom of the mansion, which is said to be the right place to die at the end of life.

After the corpse is removed, immediately invite the great wizard to summon the spirit according to the program. The Great Wizard held the deceased's garment in his hand, climbed to the highest roof of the mansion from the eastern side of the roof, and shouted three times to the north: "Oh ho—so-and-so has returned!" Then the deceased's clothes are thrown from the front of the house, and the family members use a special wooden box to catch them, and then enter the room to cover the deceased, and the soul is considered to return to the body of the deceased.

The placement of the corpse after the conjuring is the initial disposal of the body of the deceased in preparation for the official burial. One is wedge-tooth wedge: in order to prevent the body from suddenly closing its mouth when it is stiff, once the person is confirmed to be dead, a keratin spoon is immediately wedged between the deceased's teeth, leaving a gap, so that the pearl can be placed in the deceased's mouth when entering the burial according to the officially determined funeral specifications; Another case is to decorate the feet, put the deceased's feet together and straighten them, and use the swallow table used by the deceased to press the feet and tie them with twine rope to bind them to make them straight, so that they can wear leather boots upright when they are officially buried.

When the corpse is ready, the family immediately sets up dry meat, meat sauce, and liquor to make a simple first sacrifice, and uses a curtain to isolate the body of the deceased who has not yet been formally buried, and outside the curtain, a mourning room for the first mourner to cry (after the body is officially put into the coffin, a large mourning hall corresponding to the funeral specifications is set up), which is the curtain.

After the completion of the first set of procedures, the head of the family officially reported the funeral to all parties, and gradually entered the formal funeral procedures.

Since ancient times, funerals have always been the first of etiquette, and it is most taboo to change procedures without permission, and it is most taboo to be frugal and frugal in mourning. As the old saying goes, the dead are honored. Another cloud, frugal marriage is not thrifty burial. It is the way of funeral that has become a long-standing custom. In later generations, although the funeral procedure has been greatly simplified, its basic links have not been touched, and people's respect for funeral rites has hardly changed in the slightest.

At that time, the master Xunzi in the middle and late Warring States period said: "Those who are courteous are careful to treat the dead and dead. Life, the beginning of man. Death is the end of man. All the time, humanity is complete! Therefore, the gentleman respects the beginning and ends carefully. Things are disloyal and disrespectful, and they are called wild. Sending death is disloyal and disrespectful, and it is called barren. The mourners are not mournful and disrespectful, close to beasts! The mourner decorates the dead with the living, and the elephant lives to send him to death. Therefore, if death is like life, if death is like existence, it will be the same!"

Xunzi is also a law and a Confucian, and his theory is recognized by the mainstream of the world, and his funeral theory is undoubtedly a public theory based on customs and etiquette - the basic procedures of the funeral must be sincerely observed, and cannot be desphemed.

The reason why a lot of pen and ink is spent on the funeral rites of the Zhou generation is not only to explain the deep meaning behind Mrs. Wei Jiang's simplification of the funeral of the abandoned concubine Wu Rina, but also to make people understand the state of grief and despair of Zhao Bohu after learning of the death of Kui Duoyou. A generation of famous generals who can be regarded as the mansion stone of the country ended up in death, and they couldn't even do a slightly decent funeral.

However, at this time, Zhao Bohu, who was trekking in the vast desert, could not predict what kind of unbearable he would face in the near future.

Outside the tent of the Endless King, the beating bodies of the wizards resemble ghosts in the dark night against the backdrop of the campfire. In the king's tent, there was a loud cry of a baby, this was the first child of Wang Zhiyu who was born, and it was still a baby boy.

It should have been a celebratory moment for men, women and children to drink horse wine and sing and dance. But at this time, none of the hundreds of men and women gathered outside the tent said a word, everyone only stared motionlessly at the figures of the two wizards jumping around the bonfire, and the bearded Wang Zhiyu next to the fire also had a sad face. All of this is because the little prince's biological mother, the concubine of the Eastern Lynx King Jin Wudu, has a difficult birth!

Because the fetus was too large and it was the first child, the fox aunt struggled on the kang for three days and three nights before she barely gave birth to the child, but she was dying due to a postpartum blood collapse. Although Zhi Yu has a love for the fox girl, after all, she is the woman who gave birth to her first child, and if she dies, she will leave a knot in her heart for the rest of her life. But there are only witch doctors on the grassland, so you can only ask a wizard to exorcise ghosts, and a dead horse should be a live horse doctor!

On the ground, a terrible woman's cry came from the tent:

"Sister--" "Side Concubine-"

Zhi Yu stood up and wanted to run to the tent, not wanting to fall down with a stumble. The curtain door was lifted, and Princess Likui walked out with a crying baby in her arms, with tears in her eyes, crying, "My lord, Sister Fox is ...... She didn't survive and went to ......."

Zhi Yu only felt that his eyes were dark, and he fell to the ground.

Although the grassland peoples do not have the complicated and cumbersome funeral rites of the Central Plains, there are still basic procedures. When she was buried, Princess Likui hugged the body of the fox girl and cried bitterly: "Sister! My sister is saying that when you give birth to a child, we will raise him together and ride with him, but you are in a hurry!" Choked and suffocated, and passed out on the spot several times. Everyone in the clan sighed with emotion and cried.

At the time of the burial, Princess Likui was dressed in sackcloth, personally watched the witch bury for the fox concubine, and personally put her most precious snow-white mink fur into the coffin.

As soon as the matter of the fox concubine was completed, Zhi Yu officially gave the little prince the name Fox Tu to commemorate his biological mother. As for raising the little prince and handling the chores of the clan, he was given carte blanche to the princess Likui, and he devoted himself to the battle with the Donglu clan for the grassland tribe.

At night, Li Kui rubbed her dry eyes that had been crying during the day, and a wave of tiredness welled up all over her body for no reason. Just as he was ordering the evening soup to rest early after using it, the baby in the hanging basket suddenly cried "wow".

Babies are born at term, and the heavy ones in their hands are indeed a little heavier than other newborn babies. Li Kui looked at this little chubby dun with a tiger brain, she really loved it in her heart, and kept holding it in her hand and singing and coaxing, her eyes were full of the joy of being a first-time mother.

"Princess, this child is crying like this, he is hungry, and he wants to feed, so let the slave go down and nurse!" The nurse stretched out her hand and bowed her head.

"Okay, be careful, don't choke him."

It wasn't until the nurse walked into the warm tent built for breastfeeding next to the big tent with the swaddling clothes in her arms that Li Kui reluctantly withdrew her gaze. The personal maid was fiddling with milk tea and beef bone soup, beckoning Li Kui to take a seat, and quipping: "The princess also spoils this child too much, and she values it more than her own."

As soon as she heard this, Li Kui suddenly felt that the beef bone soup in her mouth suddenly lost her taste, and muttered, "I don't know, when the fox grows up and knows all this, will he blame me?" Will you deny me as a mother?"

The maid was stunned, waved her hand to repel the rest of the waiters out of the tent, and then reminded in a low voice, "Princess, what's the matter? Do you regret it?"

Li Kui seemed to be very talkative, looked at the top of the tent, and said quietly, "How can I regret it? I was originally the king's side concubine, and the king made me the main concubine, but I didn't have a stomach, and I got married for a few years and didn't come out. In fact, Aunt Fox is pregnant, I am happy, and there is finally an heir in the end. If she's a good person, why wouldn't I be happy to be like a sister to her? How nice it would be to raise the fox protrusion together!"

A trace of resentment appeared on the maid's delicate face: "The princess is too kind-hearted. Not to mention anything else, it is the matter of persuading General Kui to surrender, it is clear that the woman came to the princess for her father, and begged you to enter the border army camp to persuade her to surrender, yes or no? Princess, you are happy to go there for the sake of brother and sister affection, and also to give her face. The result? Not only did she stab the king in front of her, but she fanned the flames from time to time, making the king almost want to break with you. If it weren't for her father's lack of anger and the fact that he and Wu Jian turned the table, it is hard to say whether the king would have abolished you and made her a concubine. In this case, according to the slave maid, she is entirely to blame."

Li Kui smiled slightly bitterly, but her voice was very sweet: "That's what I said, but ...... Now every time I see that kid from the fox, I always feel weak for no reason."

The maid was very disapproving: "What is the princess's heart? At the beginning, everyone in the tribe said that the fox girl's belly was smaller than others, and she was also afraid that the child would make a mistake, so she ate Haisai by herself. What's the matter with us? Besides, she also took advantage of the king's discord with you to squeeze out a lot of food in our big tent. These are all self-inflicted, and the princess doesn't have to care about them at all."

"But we have a share of these words!" Li Kui listened to this for a long time, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Before the maid could speak any more, the maid outside the tent suddenly whispered, "The king is here."

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"So late? What is he doing here?" Li Kui was slightly startled, but she still stood up from the kang and dusted off her wrinkled clothes.

After a burst of heavy footsteps, Wang Zhi of Endless lifted the curtain and entered the tent, bringing a fresh and cool night breeze in the wilderness. Li Kui hurriedly stepped forward to take off his coat for him, and then instructed the maid to serve milk tea, and she was busy with her work.

Zhi Yu pointed to the felt mat, motioned for her to sit down, and asked casually, "Where is the fox tu?"

"The nurse just took her down to feed, and now she doesn't cry, I think I'm sleeping. I was going to go to the tent, but I didn't want the king to arrive." Li Kui replied blandly, but there was a little sweetness in her words.

"Don't be busy, I've already eaten." Zhi Yu rebuked the maid and stared at his wife, "I have something to say to you."

Li Kui felt "Geden" in her heart, held the table slightly, calmed down, and smiled: "The king seems to be unhappy, but is there something difficult?"

"I'm going to lead my army into battle early tomorrow morning." Zhi Yu said lightly: "After I leave, the men, women and children of this clan will be handed over to you, the princess."