Chapter 29: The Funeral Bucket
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The people of the Great Wilderness who 'died for the sake of death' will never be afraid of death.
As the leader of the Great Wilderness, Ba Ri is even more fearless, and even when he is dying, he enjoys the feeling of 'life' passing and disappearing in his body.
This enjoyment was a relief for him.
Liberation means that he can finally stop walking in the snowy mountains, can finally let go of the heavy burden on his shoulders, can finally stop smelling the blood in his mouth, and can finally die in a dignified battle.
It's just that before he died, he still didn't know why Zhang Xiaodao could do this, but he really didn't have the ability to ask anything, and the answers left to him were only, 'I have good eyes' and 'pig killing knife'.
At this time, the armor of Bari lying in the snow was shattered, and the huge scar was like a natural chasm between heaven and earth, and blood gushed out from the upper mouth of the roll, but it was not red and some black.
Zhang Xiaodao still maintained a posture of arching his body close to the ground, it was not that he didn't want to stand up, but he really couldn't stand up.
The vitality in the body is depleted, and although the pig killing knife has once again proved its indestructibility, it still needs to use the strength to tear the seemingly ordinary spirit armor.
Zhang Xiaodao did exactly that, so because he used too much force, his wrist bones were broken, and there were bone spurs in the flesh of the wrist that was folded upwards and were dripping with blood.
But he didn't realize it, he just looked at Bari deadly, and the desperate hope in his heart was that he closed his eyes and proved that he was dead.
Perhaps there was still a trace of nostalgia in his heart, Ba Ri's eyelids seemed to be supported by an invisible matchstick, he looked at the dark sky, did not pursue the answer again, and said with difficulty in Sheng Tang language: "It's good." ”
That's nice?
Zhang Xiaodao didn't understand what the meaning of these two words was, whether it was good to be dead, or whether Ba Ri felt that the world before death was so good. But he knows he's really bad right now.
Not far away, under the wall, the fat man Zhang An and Li Dongmin, who were holding hands, closed their eyes, and their eyes before they died did not reveal how nostalgic they were for this world, but they were just blindly satisfied.
Zhang Xiaodao's heart suddenly twisted like a knife, but he looked at Ba Ri who still had a breath and said: "A few days ago, a mother-in-law asked me what I wanted to leave for this world, and I didn't have an answer at that time. ”
Ba Zhi didn't know whether he didn't understand, or if he understood but didn't, he used his last strength to furrow his brows to express his doubts before he died.
Zhang Xiaodao continued: "I still don't have an answer yet, but at this moment I know that I must leave something for the Great Wilderness in the future!"
Ba Ri listened to Zhang Xiaodao's ordinary and extreme rhetoric, and lost all consciousness when Zhang Xiaodao's words fell to the last word.
Then, Zhang Xiaodao stopped looking at him, and his unsupportable body finally lay on the snow, but there was a heart-rending choking sound from his throat that was pressed very low.
This kind of sad sound enters people's ears and penetrates all the way, as if it pierces people's hearts, making people feel what it feels like to be grief-stricken!
Li Yi felt the same way for some reason, but he didn't comfort him, he just turned around and walked into the alley, just holding the back of the palm with the handle of the knife exposed.
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The dark night ushered in the first morning light after the sun rose.
The morning light was not very bright, it was very faint. But perhaps because the night was too dark as ink, just a faint morning light quickly dispelled the night in a very short time, just like the people of the Great Wilderness in Lingyin County had disappeared without a trace.
Just disappearing without a trace does not mean that the people of the Great Wilderness are really missing, but completely dead.
As for the officials of the Tang Dynasty in the state and county, they will not be wiped out, because the living Great Wilderness people are more valuable, and they can get some information in the mouths of the Great Wilderness people, even if these information are not valuable, but at least they can confirm whether the other information is accurate.
But for a general like Li Yi, who has lived in the border for 30 years, not killing him is not enough to make his body and mind comfortable.
In fact, as early as before the arrival of the Jiuyang garrison, Li Yi killed the people of the Great Wilderness because of his mood, and did not leave any chance for the state and county officials to persuade him to stay alive.
Therefore, after the arrival of the garrison of Jiuyang City, all they can do is to be responsible for the aftermath. It is quite the style of the police in Hong Kong movies.
But at this time, Zhang Xiaodao, the only one who has watched a Hong Kong movie, will definitely not think of Hong Kong movies.
At this time, he was already standing at the forefront of the crowd with his hands wrapped in pure white cloth, looking at Lingyin County silently, silently feeling Lingyin County at this moment.
Entering the eye, paved in the street, the snow on the eaves is reflected by the morning light like high-grade silk, covering Lingyin County with a layer of silver veil.
But such a scene has become a little black and white in the eyes of the people who are still alive in Lingyin County.
In their opinion, the snow in the streets on the eaves is not like silk, but more like huge pieces of corpse cloth!
When the real mortem cloth appeared along with the improvised stretcher, Zhang Xiaodao heard the choking sound beside him.
In this battle, Lingyin County lost 160 hunters, which meant that many old and weak women and children living here lost their family support.
At this time, their choking was not excessive, and it was not impossible to even cry. But no one did, some just choked quietly.
The military masters of the Jiuyang garrison, who were in charge of sending the corpses to be buried, felt the strangeness of the atmosphere.
Because of this kind of scene, it should be more tragic, but obviously the people of Lingyin County who are still alive are not too excited.
Soon the military masters showed the differences, and the people of Lingyin County, regardless of men, women, and children, whether old or weak, the waists of the women and children who were sent to the funeral were extremely straight, like a gun!
The military masters don't know if these brave border people are pretending to be strong, but they admire it from the bottom of their hearts. I feel like I should work harder.
The hard-working military masters gradually accelerated, and the funeral procession marched all the way to the north of Lingyin County.
At the foot of the snow-capped mountains in the north of the county, more hunters and military masters had already gathered at this time, because there were not enough wooden coffins, but there were many deceased people, so they had to make more of them.
Zhou Zhongxi sat in the snow at the foot of the mountain and didn't reach out to help, because he knew that this was not what he was good at, just like he didn't participate in the battle in Lingyin County.
Next to him was Li Yi, and the two officials of the Tang Dynasty, who had a huge difference in status and identity, sat silently like this.
I don't know how long it took, it seemed that the funeral procession could already be seen in the distance, and Zhou Zhongxi finally spoke: "General, there is something to ask the officials for." ”
Li Yi looked at the mid-week breath that had turned white overnight, and did not respond immediately. Because he really didn't understand why Zhou Zhongxi insisted on not needing the thick burial of the Tang Dynasty, and chose to bury the warriors of Lingyin County at the foot of this mountain immediately.
"Tell me first, why?"
Zhou Zhongxi was silent for a moment and said: "It takes too much time to bury the thick burial, I don't want these people who died in battle to lie in Lingyin County, it's not because I dislike corpses, but I don't want the survivors to always see them, so as to avoid sadness." ”
"If that's all there is, I can't agree with you. ”
Zhou Zhongxi took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "The general is interested in listening?"
"I want to hear about it. ”
Zhou Zhongxi said softly: "The border army has the rules of the border army, and the hunters naturally have the rules of the hunters. ”
"Because the hunters of Lingyin County hunt all year round, they are likely to encounter accidents in the deep mountains and forests, and if no one knows, their corpses will soon be swallowed by the beasts, and there is not even a single bone left. ”
"Therefore, it is the rule here to bury the body of the hunter immediately when he sees it. ”
"And the buried hunters, in addition to being able to protect people in this dangerous area, they also hope to fight with wild beasts after death, this is called a funeral fight!"
"That's why I chose Beishan, because the far north is a wilderness!"
Li Yi was awe-inspiring in his heart, and said softly: "I see. Then he asked, "And what are you asking for?"
Zhou Zhongxi stood up, dusted off the snow on his shabby pants and said: "The county officials in the imperial court always have to be transferred every three or five times, and I have been here for a lot of years, but I don't want to leave." ”
Li Yi said solemnly: "This is the rule of the imperial court. ”
Zhou Zhongxi smiled and said: "My political achievements are good, and it is also a great achievement for Lingyin County to hold on this time, and it is not far for me to be promoted." ”
Faced with such a naked word in the middle of the week, Li Yi showed a look of surprise and said, "Do you want to?"
"That's right, I can never advance an inch, and only stay in Lingyin County!"
Li Yi looked at the young scholar in front of him, and for the first time felt that the useless words that he had agreed with before were actually not like that, Yan nodded and said, "Do your best." ”
Zhou Zhongxi laughed happily, walked more than four steps, and shouted to the busy people: "Lao Wang, hurry up, I know you are tired, but this matter must be hurry." ”
The person called Lao Wang shouted: "Okay, Xiaoxian Ling, don't worry!"
Li Yi, who was watching this scene, smiled and touched the donkey who was gnawing on the grain: "Look, I'm as stupid as me." ”
Soon after, the funeral procession arrived at the foot of the North Mountain, and the burial began very slowly.
Every time a wooden coffin is made, one person is buried, and for each person is buried, the people in Lingyin County, regardless of men, women, children, old and weak, women and children will kneel in front of the grave bag and snort three times.
By the time the seemingly simple but time-consuming funeral came to an end, it was already dark.
At this time, the last two people to be buried broke the only black and white tones of the world, and the joy that had been prepared for a long time also resounded in this instant.
Zhang Xiaodao carried Zhang An, who was wearing a red cardigan with big sleeves, and Wang Daniu was carrying Li Dongmin, who was wearing a phoenix crown.
Under the guidance of the mid-week rest, follow the steps to lay the two people flat in the widened wooden coffin.
In the end, Zhang Xiaodao picked up a piece of big red silk and wrapped it around the hands of the two, took a deep breath, held back the tears in the corners of his eyes, and said softly: "Buried." ”
After the order was given, the dust mixed with the snow flew endlessly, gradually covering the wooden coffin, and when the spiritual seat was on it, Zhou Zhongxi was the first to kneel in front of the grave and said: "Two people in a coffin, until death." Then he slammed his forehead into the ground.
Zhang Xiaodao immediately echoed with three heads, and there was a sound on the ground.
In the distance, Li Yi, who was standing in the wind, watched Zhang Xiaodao hit the ice with his head again and again, caressing the hard hair of the big black, and remembered a certain sentence of Zhang Xiaodao, so he asked himself in a rhetorical tone: "What do you want to leave for the Great Wilderness?"