Lord of the Desert

Chapter 4 The Funeral
Around Hong Fan, those who talked eloquently and prayed together before, and even Hong Fu, who came here just for the sake of gaining knowledge, all had their eyes reddened and wept loudly.

It seems that if this is not the case, you cannot prove your sincerity to Xingjun.

Amidst the continuous sobbing, Hong Fan, who was not sad at all, felt his nose sour.

[Humans are indeed social animals. 】

He lowered his head slightly to hide his incompatibility, thinking in his heart.

When the four high-ranking riders passed by, Hong Fan raised his head a little bit again and looked at the hearse pulled by the four horses.

The hearse was not covered.

The black-painted sandalwood body is covered with several layers of purple velvet (velvet).

Jingsha Xingjun's body is wearing a gold crown, armor, and dragon-patterned gold silk on his body, lying flat on it.

His eyes fell on Xingjun's remains, and Hong Fan couldn't help but be surprised with just one glance.

This turned out to be a mummy!
The hair has completely fallen off, the muscles are contracted, and the roots of the teeth are exposed...

[Stopping for a month, it shouldn't be like this! ? 】

Hong Fan thought about it and didn't dare to look any more.

After the hearse, there were more than [-] strong men who could be seen to be professional and skilled on foot with the car, and there were many familiar people among them.

[They are all warriors who have followed Jingsha Xingjun to fight the snake people. 】

At this time, the crying was surging to its peak.

Hong Fan withdrew his gaze and suddenly felt stuffy in his chest, as if he had seen something extremely disgusting.

It's just that I don't know if it's the golden-crowned mummy displayed on the purple velvet, or the weeping and wet souls surrounded by dense crowds.

The hearse passed by slowly, and it was just Shen time (three o'clock in the afternoon).

Hong Fan's eyes suddenly darkened.

It was as if there was a tengu that swallowed the sun in one gulp.

He suddenly raised his head, only to see the layers of clouds covering the sun in the sky violently tumbling, suppressing downwards, like a raging sea hanging upside down.

Just when Hong Fan was in a daze, on the hearse passing in front of him, a golden light suddenly shot into the sky from the eyebrows of Xingjun's mummified corpse and shot into the sea of ​​clouds.

In an instant, brilliance bloomed from behind the clouds, lighting up the black cloud city brightly.

Between the heaven and the earth, it seems that there is a flicker.

Bright light shines everywhere, plating everything with gold.

Before Hong Fan could react, the golden light that had just rushed into the sky re-entered the mortal world and shot towards him.

"Clam?"

The golden light entered his body, and Hong Fan gasped violently in fear.

But he glanced around and found that the people around him didn't notice.

His abnormality is only regarded as excessive sadness by others.

[The scene just now, is it a hallucination? 】

Hong Fan lowered his head and hid his face in the shadows, and pressed his chest and lower abdomen calmly to confirm that there was no change in his body.

Not long after, the hearse team slowly left.

The cry followed suit without any surprise.

Hong Fu wiped away his tears three times and five times, and secretly gave Hong Fan a thumbs up.

He was probably praising his outstanding performance just now.

On Anning Street, although the children of each family stopped crying, they still waited solemnly in place.

The ceremony isn't over yet.

It wasn't until a long time later that the arrows screamed again in the east, and then everyone loosened up.

At this point, the hearse stepped out of Jinhai City and headed eastward all the way to Shenjing.

"Okay, Brother Fan, we can go home and wait for the dinner."

Hong Fu patted the gown on his body, shaking off a lot of dust.

Jinhai City is next to the sand sea, no matter the four seasons, the wind and sand are not small.

Hong Fan nodded and pretended nothing happened.

The two found an alley with fewer people and walked to the southwest of the city together.

That was the direction of Hong Mansion.

Turning two street corners, as the surroundings quieted down, they heard singing singing from a side alley in the distance.

"At dusk, the sky is sad, and the elegy comes out of the heavy building;

Whose white crane car will send you to Youyou. "

The singing is gentle and mournful, dissipating with the wind and smoke.

Walking to the entrance of the alley, Hong Fan turned his head to look, but he couldn't see clearly because of the distance. He just saw a patch of red lanterns swaying in the dimness due to the wind.

"Over there is Yanliu Lane, where some singing girls make a living."

Hong Fu explained casually.

"When Xingjun's hearse is still there, they are not worthy to make a sound."

Hong Fan nodded and kept walking.

To him, the spontaneous sad farewell singing of these singers was more sincere than the wailing of the children of various families just now.

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The funeral banquet in the Hong Mansion begins at You hour (six o'clock in the evening).

Under the arrangement of the eldest lady, the mansion is completely different from usual.

Every piece of residual tile on the roof was replaced, and all the pillars and decorations in the courtyard were wiped spotless.

The newly waxed round tables and wooden chairs are properly placed in the courtyard, and then illuminated by the plain lanterns under the eaves of the surrounding corridors, they are full of brilliance.

All kinds of gorgeousness and exquisiteness are just for people to know the dignity of the Hong family in Jinhai at a glance.

When Hong Fan and Hong Fu arrived, the guests had already occupied half of the seats outside.

The yard was buzzing with people, and many people ate so much that they couldn't see the sadness during the funeral in the afternoon.

Hong Fan was not surprised at all.

He was familiar with Tao Qian's poems about funerals when he was young.

[Always send people off each other, and each return to his home.

Relatives or Yu Bei, others have also sung. 】

Hong Fan swept his eyes and saw that many Hong family children looked restrained, but they couldn't help but feel a little bit high-spirited.

Soon, he understood the reason from sporadic and ear-to-ear conversations.

There are a total of three innate level masters in Jinhai City.

As soon as the leader Jingsha Xingjun left, the title of No. [-] in Jinhai fell to Hong Jian, the head of the Hong family-this Hong Jian was the biological father of Hong Fan's soul wearer.

[This person thinks, it's the same in another world...]

Hong Fan said silently.

The banquet is divided into two parts, inside and outside.

There are about [-] tables in the main hall of the second entrance, where the real distinguished guests are entertained.

The dozens of tables outside are running water seats with no seat reservations.

Hong Fan and Hong Fu chose a table that was mostly outsiders and sat down, and after greeting the people at the same table, they also started to eat.

Although it was a second-class meal, the dozen or so dishes piled up on the table were solid.

White-cut chicken, old duck soup, beef and mutton...

There are even two plates of freshwater fish and shrimp.

The meat that Aunt Liu exchanged with the brocade turban before was a full stomach, how can it compare to today's abundance?
In the past three days, Hong Fan, who could only eat half full every day, was not restrained, and started to eat heavily.

But aside from gluttonous food, he still kept his attention on the direction of the main hall.

Since the dinner started, there have been guests coming and going there all the time.

Just after eating a chicken leg, Hong Fan saw the butler of the Hong Mansion lower his head halfway, leading several nobles in official uniforms and accompanying female family members in.

At the entrance of the main hall, a graceful lady dressed in splendid attire and wearing gold hairpins walked out quickly, accompanied by a tall young man.

An uncontrollable hatred immediately rose in Hong Fan's heart.

He knew immediately that the woman was the cause of his current predicament.

Hong Jian's regular wife, the eldest lady of the Hong family.

And the handsome young man with a square face next to her is Hong Fan's nominal elder brother, Hong Sheng, the first-in-law of Hong's family.

PS: When you read a book, is there a space between the dashes (——)?
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