Chapter 165: Burial
Three large ships ran aground and sank one after another. When the boat next to it saw it, before it could react, it saw three boats rushing towards the reef one after another. All of them turned pale, and for a moment their minds went blank, except for the boatmen, who screamed one after another, and quickly sailed away and approached the shore. When the entourage came to their senses, the huge whirlpool that had eaten the three big ships just now disappeared without a trace like a demon!
Slowly, planks emerge from the river; Then a human figure appeared, lying flat on the surface of the river. The organic spirit hurriedly asked the boatman to drive the boat and rushed over to catch it. The boatmen hesitated and braved, so at the beginning there was only one small boat sailing out, and with the help of the boatmen, everyone scooped up the man, and the experienced boatmen turned the man over to control the water, although he squeezed out some water, but touched his chest, and the man had no heartbeat.
One after another, human bodies surfaced, and some boatmen were bold enough to drive the boat over to rescue them...... In the end, not only the entourage boats, but also some of the surrounding fishing boats came to help. But none of the people who were caught were alive...... Boats shuttle back and forth with the center of the river on the shore, transport the people they have fished to the shore, and then go to the center of the river to fish for people.
After about twelve people were scooped up, no more human bodies surfaced on the river. After identification, Duan Zigan and the young master were among them, and the others were retinues, but the prince did not surface.
At this time, the sun is setting. Since all the envoys were killed, it was only up to the leaders of the guards of Qin and Wei to negotiate. The guards of the Qin people were naturally led by the five doctors, and the leader of the guards of the Wei people was a battalion commander. Luoyang is still upstream, and now in the past, not only may it not arrive before sunset, but it may also miss the human body that may surface later. Therefore, everyone agreed that the Qin people sent ten people to Luoyang by land to report to Xianyang; The others rushed to Chenggao downstream first and asked Chenggao Shou for assistance; The next day, the Wei people sent the ship back to Daliang to report.
Going downstream is faster than going against the water, and the distance is also close, and it didn't take an hour to return to Chenggao. The news of the capsizing of the mission had already reached Cheng Gao, and when he saw the members of the mission returning, Cheng Gao Shou had to cheer up and try his best to flatter, after all, Wei and Qin could not be offended. He promised to put up a barrage on the river, and as long as there were corpses floating down the river (now there were still living people, ghosts don't believe it), he would definitely be able to stop them, but they needed to be guarded by members of the mission. That, of course, is no problem.
The guards of the two countries waited in shifts beside the barrage, while the head of the group stayed up almost all night; Especially the fifth doctor of Qin, who lost the prince and the young master, he is basically a capital crime, and if he doesn't get it right, he will exterminate the clan; I don't know how far his five masters can reach, and whether he can't break the rest of his sins with all his might. That night, there were occasional bells on the barrage, but they were all big fish, and there were no corpses.
The next day, a Wei ship carrying a corpse and a messenger carrying a messenger back to Daliang set off to report back to Daliang. Wei Yingsi, who remained in Chenggao City, led the rest of the people to leave the city and never returned. The five doctors said to their guards: "Those who wish to leave can leave." ”
One of the guards asked, "What about the five doctors?" ”
The five doctors replied, "I will pay for my sins with knights!" Those who have more than are willing to pay with their lives! ”
The attendant said: "My family is in Xianyang, and there is nothing to escape." May you pay for your sins with your body! ”
The rest of the people also said: "The death of the prince is also inevitable, and we are not exempt." However, the family is in Guanzhong, and it is impossible to leave. ”
The five doctors said: "If there is a trust, it can all be attributed to the minister!" ”
Everyone: "I am willing to share it with the five doctors!" ”
The five doctors asked people to go to the city to inquire where there was a service that could go down to the river to retrieve the corpse, and how to charge. Soon back, there are three miles upstream, all boatmen, can dive to fish for corpses, each of which costs 100 yuan. The five doctors then borrowed 5,000 money from Cheng Gao and went to the small town. It is an irregular ferry, and people who are greedy for convenience and cheapness often cross the river from here, and if something happens, there will also be family members who will pay for the corpse to be retrieved on their behalf.
The five doctors found the elder of Yizhong and made their request. When the elder heard that it was the fleet that had been killed yesterday, he was very distressed. Because the terrain at the bottom of the river is very complex, the surface water flow often changes drastically, which is very dangerous. The five doctors repeatedly requested, and the elders also consulted with several families, and finally agreed, and went into the water at a price of 150 yuan per corpse.
When they arrived at the wreck site, the five people with the best water skills in the city were launched at the same time. Dive to the middle of the river in turn. After about an hour, a corpse was finally fished up from the bottom of the river, and when everyone looked at it, it was the prince! It is said to be stuck in the middle of the stone crevice. After fishing the prince's body, the five doctors didn't know whether to cry or laugh, anyway, their own life would be completely ruined; can find the body of the prince, barely able to make a difference!
After a total of three days of fishing, four bodies were fished out, and two others were said to be missing, and I don't know whether they were buried by mud and sand or washed downstream. Of the four corpses, three were Qin and one was Wei. The two people who didn't find it were both Qin.
After transporting the salvaged corpses back to Chenggao, he bought a coffin in the city and collected it. Cheng Gao Shou did not dare to let the Qin people live in the city, so he outsourced food and lodging for the reverse brigade and invited them to go out of the city to live. So the Qin people moved outside the city and waited for someone from Xianyang to deal with the matter.
A few days later, someone from Xianyang came. Unexpectedly, the person sent was An Guojun's son Yiren. Now, Inhuman has grown from the size of a child to almost an adult, with a hoarse voice and a velvet beard on his lips, which is completely different from the image he had when he was in Handan.
Accompanying the strangers were officials from Zongzheng Mansion, retainers from the Prince's Mansion and pedestrians from the Dianke Mansion. In addition, the Imperial Governor's Mansion sent two judges, and the National Governor's Mansion sent two five doctors, who were responsible for investigating the responsibility of each person in this incident and holding them accountable!
Despite the fact that more than ten days had passed, and the bodies had decomposed, disgustingly shaped, and smelling unpleasantly in the temperatures of spring and summer, the two judges examined all eleven bodies with great diligence and recorded them in detail on the wooden rafts. The work lasted three days. During these three days, the prince's guards were either two or three people, or five or six people, or groups of seven or eight people, respectively, leading the five doctors who came to investigate to the scene of the accident and gave a detailed account of what they saw at that time. The investigators recorded everyone's words and asked them to draw them to confirm it. After examining the bodies, the judge visited the surrounding towns and asked them what had happened that day. Although Chenggao is Korean, the local people speak the standard Zhou Yin, which is relatively close to Qin Yin, and the communication is not barrier-free. The judges also took note of the statements of the people of the city.
At the end of the investigation, the coffin was resealed, and the expenses were settled. A pedestrian, accompanied by the five doctors and the public attendants and two swordsmen who accompanied the prince of Wei, hired a boat, put the body of the Wei man in a coffin, went to Daliang, and returned it to the Wei state; At the same time, after informing the prince of the wreck, the prince's entourage will all return to Xianyang. The rest of the people loaded all ten coffins into the car and returned to Xianyang by land.
The pedestrians arrived at Daliang three days later by boat and reported to the post station outside the city. The post station immediately reported up one level at a time. The next day, Dr. Sujia came to meet him in person, and recognized it as the five doctors who followed Prince Wei, and asked why? The five doctors informed Dr. Xu Jia of the process of the death of the prince and his party, and said that the bodies of Duan Zigan and others who had been killed by Wei soldiers had returned first, and the other Wei soldiers were afraid of punishment and had fled en masse in Chenggao.
When Dr. Sujia heard this, he was so anxious that he patted his knees and said, "It's urgent, it's urgent, we haven't reported it...... It will be the first to repay the king! "The pedestrian asked Dr. Sujia to receive the coffin, and he will go to Liang Xiyi to live, because the prince died, Liang Xiyi can only be withdrawn. Doctor Sujia agreed to let the Qin people return to Liangxiyi, and leave the coffin in this post station and hand it over to the post officials to take care of. He hurriedly rode into the palace and reported the shocking news to the ministers.
The Prince of Qin and the Wei envoy Duan Zigan sank the Yellow River together, and the transfer of Yicheng failed. The news quickly spread in Wei political circles.
With the efforts of the Xinling Junmen, the bodies of Duan Zigan and others who were quietly discarded were all recovered, returned to their respective families, and each of them was buried according to the lord. Duan Zigan is a Korean, but he did not disclose where his family lives, and he has not settled in the Wei State, so he is considered a desperate household. Everyone thought that Duan Zigan felt that King Wei was heavy, and he died in the king's affairs, so he should be given a thick burial anyway. But the king of Wei just didn't speak, and the courtiers who handled the matter also found a place in a cemetery in Wei and buried them hastily.
Some officials in the DPRK and China proposed to arrest the Wei pawns who had fled without permission, so they issued arrest lists to all counties. Since there were as many as 50 people arrested, and most of them were nameless and surnameless people, Bang Wen had already changed beyond recognition when he went to various counties, and it was impossible to find these people. Their families can only be detained.
On behalf of the King of Wei, Dr. Xu Jia hosted a banquet for Qin Xingren and the five doctors, thanked them for sending back the coffins of the Wei people, and expressed his grief over the death of the crown prince. Dr. Sujia generously took the initiative to say that in view of the serious blows suffered by the two countries, the matter of Yicheng should be put on hold for the time being. The pedestrians announced that they would withdraw all the Qin people in Liangxiyi to Xianyang in the near future; Suja said he would come to see him off in person.
On the day of departure, it was drizzling. The Qin people of Liang Xiyi draped a piece of coarse white linen over their bodies to show their mourning for the crown prince and the other victims. Only the necessary items in the post were picked up and loaded into two carts, and the rest of the goods were distributed to the towns of Sixiang. The five doctors also went to the battalion garrisoned by the Wei army to express their gratitude to the battalion division! Dr. Su Jia came by car and gave gifts to the Qin people, but the gifts he brought were politely declined by the pedestrians and the five doctors, and they were not accepted. A group of Qin people left Liangxiyi and embarked on the journey home.
Doctor Su Jia watched the Qin people drift away, and unconsciously whispered, "The Qin people are coming back!" ”
(End of Volume II)