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Chapter 136 Burial
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"Why? I have carefully measured every inch of Anyuan Hall. Even if I deliberately hide the location of the secret room according to some strange formations, I have tried most of them. I have found nothing. The appearance of Anyuan Hall looks very fresh. But in fact, it has been abandoned for a long time.”

"That's not the case." Xiao Lingdang smiled with interest.

"That's not the case."

Liuluonana: "What do you mean? Children should not imitate adults in talking and showing off."

Xiao Ling Dang suddenly covered her mouth and looked like she was vomiting. Xiao Yu was startled, and then she heard Xiao Ling Dang reluctantly say, "Does Sister Liu Luo know the burial customs of the people here?"

Liu Luo nodded: "Naturally, I know a little bit. In fact, the burial customs of the entire Qi State are similar. Except for Qi State, there is a big difference. The generation of Later Shu except Lingyun River, and the southern Wu Dynasty except Wucheng have their own burial customs. , is very different from our country of Qi. Why do you ask these things?"

Lingdang nodded, finally no longer making the same vomiting appearance just now, but due to the dim light, there was really no trace of blood on his face.

Before Xiaoyu had time to worry, she lowered her head and looked at the points and lines under her feet.Then I heard Xiao Lingdang clearing her throat: "Water burial in Southern Wu, where the body is thrown into the river after death. Cremation in Houshu or sky burial. During the cremation, the body is burned on the cremation pyre, surrounded by the pyre. A pyre is lit where the body of the deceased is placed, and the fire burns the wood and the body. After the body is burned to ashes, it is placed in a container, buried in the soil, or scattered in water.

The climate in Houshu is dry and windy and smoky for most of the year. People believe that during cremation, strong winds can carry the deceased outside the mountains and to places that they could not go before they were alive.This has something to do with the terrain of Hou Shu, where mountains are connected to mountains, and mountains are connected to mountains.Being able to walk around after death can be regarded as making up for my wish when I was alive.The living can also feel that their loved ones just turned into smoke and went to a farther place. "

“But in this case, wouldn’t it mean that when we miss our loved ones, we don’t even have a place to mourn?

What about water burial?Is it really throwing people directly into the water?Isn't this somewhat similar to offering sacrifices? "

"The sacrifices were made to living people." Liu Luo was impatient and interjected: "Don't you know that the sacrifices tied living people to stones and threw them into the water? In order to ensure that they can sink to the bottom of the water, the stones are always the same. Not bad, and they will never break free easily. Most of these living people are boys or girls, smaller than bells, dedicated to the river god and water god, hoping that they can protect the mortal world and ensure good weather. "

"However, children don't understand water at all, throwing them into the river like this is tantamount to drowning them alive."

The child who had never felt this incident underwater before, fell on the mulberry tree and soon became a member of the Sapphire Gate.

Sister Ze Yu was also born in this way.No one would think there is anything strange about this method. The fish scatters the child in the water and never asks who the father is, nor does it care whether the child knows its mother after birth.

The corals continue to grow day and night, and even after they die, they just lose their original color and become a more plain and elegant gray-white color.

Indeed, the colors on the road look different from those under water. Everything on the road is brighter. The dazzling sunlight, the see-through moonlight, and the flowers are so colorful that it is really hard to see them.

In such a beautiful place, so close to the sky, why would people here send living children to death?
Thinking of this, Xiaoyu didn't know whether she felt sad or painful. The method of reproduction that she was used to taking for granted now now thinks of those children who are as vivid as bells.

Drowned alive.Xiaoyu shook her head hard, really wanting to shake all these bad emotions out of her thoughts.

But without these children, Sawatomon would disappear.So she didn't know whether she sympathized with these children on land or felt sad for Sawayamon.

"What do you know? People believe that this is the only way to avoid offending the river god. Do you know that when the solar terms are disordered, there are frequent bitter rains, the crops are not growing or the locusts are defeated, the storms are coming, and the beautiful grass is not solid, bitter Who are they? They are all ordinary people."

Liu Luo raised his head and waved his sleeves, saying: "That's all, it's useless to talk about this. Qi State has banned people from making living sacrifices on their own, and now all sacrifices must be subject to the Lin Mansion. As for the Lin Mansion, we should not mention it as much. good.

Little bell, did you know that only tombs are allowed in Qi State, not sky burials, cremations or even water burials.Especially in Shuizang, it is said that many former Southern Wu people in Wucheng area still follow the custom of Southern Wu ancestors and throw their bodies into the river after death.Later, the Lin Mansion specially sent people to patrol the Wucheng area. If they saw anyone secretly carrying out water burials, they would be arrested and imprisoned.Nowadays, all the dignitaries and ordinary people in Qi are buried in tombs. "

"People have to be controlled while they are alive, and they have to be restricted in how they can be buried after death. Does the emperor take care of these things every day?

Xiaoyu said angrily.

"Of course not, the emperor has many more things to take care of than this, but the emperor of Daqi is an emperor who is unwilling to take care of things. Daqi has always been protected by the gods, and has the blessings of the weather and the favorable geographical conditions, so the emperor naturally does not need to Mind your own business.”

Although her face was as plain as white water, Xiao Lingdang's tone revealed a rare maturity for a child. After listening to Liu Luo's words, Lingdang said: "Our emperor is the most laid-back person in the world."

"You have said so much, what are you going to say? Don't show off your child's family, what time has it been?" Liu Luo said sternly.

"The burial."

"what?"

Xiao Lingdang opened his arms and formed a circle in mid-air, saying: "The place where the corpse is placed is the 'tomb', and the way the corpse is placed is 'burial'. The reason why An Shiyuan's coffin cannot be found is because the entire Anyuan Hall is A tomb, and this stone chamber is the coffin.”

Xiaoyu was surprised and Liu Luo was stunned.

"That's right, the place where Sister Liu Luo came down should originally be facing directly upward, that is, facing the sky, and the upper and lower parts where the Fuxi Bagua and the words "The Ballad of Dividing the Sea" are engraved are exactly on the left and right sides of the coffin. As for the side corresponding to the stone wall that cannot be opened, it should be the bottom of the sarcophagus."

"Little Bell, are you saying that we are in a coffin right now? This whole place is An Shiyuan's sarcophagus?"

Liu Luo's face twitched again, her face was extremely ugly,
"Since it is a coffin, even if your guess is correct. Why is the direction of the coffin so strange?"

The little bell tugged at Xiaoyu's sleeves, and Xiaoyu finally regained consciousness from her meditation.

(End of this chapter)