Fang Yun went to the mourning hall without eating.
The Yun family’s people were busy, and the Yun family’s relatives and friends were also busy. Fang Yun changed into a set of mourning clothes.
The funeral ceremonies of the human race have been changing, and many contents of the Zhou rituals have also been changing. As a guest, Fang Yun did not say much. He stood quietly aside, watching the details of the funeral and experiencing the different "rituals" of the Xuemang Ancient Land and the Shengyuan Continent.
Fang Yun discovered that the funeral in Xuemang Ancient Land was very simple. He had this feeling since the day before yesterday when the patriarch asked him to sleep in Yun Jie's room, because according to Zhou Li, Yun Jie's body should be placed in his bedroom, but Yun Jie's body was actually placed in the main hall.
Since Yun Jie was a Jinshi (a scholar) in the Zhou Dynasty, according to Zhou rituals, the funeral was extremely complicated, including summoning the soul, offering sacrifices, condolences, collecting clothes and quilts, erecting an inscription, setting up flags, digging a grave, arranging clothes, three utensils, washing the corpse, arranging clothes again, dressing, entering the grave, etc. This was only the first day, and the entire funeral would last for three days.
In Shengyuan Continent, only the funerals of kings, great scholars or even semi-saints will last for several days. Other funerals are simple, like the Mohists who advocate "simple burials", and some people do not hold funerals at all.
On the first day, the Yun family held a soul-calling and sacrifice ceremony, but the people here did not send clothes or quilts to the deceased. They just washed the corpse, dressed it in new clothes, and placed it in the main hall. At the same time, they ordered people to make a tombstone.
On the first day, the Yun family sent out invitations, saying that a funeral would be held in two days to bury Yun Jie, and only those who had a very close relationship with the Yun family would come.
On the second day, the final preparations were made. Today is the third day, and the funeral is officially held.
The Yun family of Changle Street is a famous family in Juyun City. When the time came, the whole Changle Street was blocked by carriages. Even the city lord sent his eldest son to come. The whole process went smoothly.
After an hour, the Yun family was almost full of guests.
In the mourning hall, the people from the main branch of the Yun family knelt on the left, while Fang Yun and other relatives of the Yun family or Yun Jie's friends stood on the right. They did not kneel, but guests who came to pay their respects would salute.
Fang Yun did not have deep feelings for Yun Jie, but they were comrades in killing monsters together. He had also obtained so much dragon-patterned rice, and participating in the funeral as a good friend was a basic etiquette that a scholar should observe.
Fang Yun did not feel that he owed the Yun family anything. He fabricated his identity not to gain undue benefits, but to protect himself. He did not hurt anyone, and this was not doing evil.
Confucius openly violated the covenant he was forced to sign. It is said that the gods would not listen to such a covenant, and scholars disguised themselves in the face of the danger of death and did not harm others, which did not violate the basic principles of scholars.
If you don’t even understand this principle, you don’t deserve to be a scholar.
The whole house was filled with mourning, crying, and funeral music. The entire Yun family was filled with gloom and sorrow.
Near noon, someone outside suddenly cried out, "What happened? I saw my brother a few days ago. How could he just leave like that..."
Fang Yun was startled. This voice was too familiar. The person who said the most bad things about him in Yun Town was the owner of this voice, Jinshi Yun Ao, Yun Jie's cousin.
Afterwards, Yun Ao and his other friends rushed into the house, walked quickly to Yun Jie Ling, knelt down and kowtowed.
Others did not touch their foreheads to the ground. But Yun Ao kowtowed three times, shaking the dust off the beams and stopping the crying in the mourning hall.
Fang Yun looked carefully. The five people did not even have time to put on mourning clothes. They looked dusty and exhausted. It seemed that they had hurried back after receiving the news outside.
When Yun Ao raised his head, there was a clear bruise on his forehead.
Yun Ao knelt and cried before the head of the family, Yun He. He kowtowed three times and cried, "My nephew deserves death. I couldn't come back in time to see my eldest brother for the last time. Please punish me, uncle!"
Yun He's eyes were red. She stood up and helped Yun Ao and said, "It's good that you're back. I know you were out of town."
Yun Ao cried and said, "When I was a child, I chatted with my elder brother and we talked about what would happen after I died. My elder brother said that if I, as his younger brother, died in battle, he would recognize my father as his father and take care of him until his death. At that time, I also told him that if he died in battle, I would regard my uncle as my father! From today on, you are also my father!"
Yun He finally couldn't hold it in any longer, tears streamed down her face, and she hugged Yun Ao and cried loudly.
Seeing this scene, many people wiped away tears.
If Fang Yun didn't know who Yun Ao was, his eyes would definitely turn red. Unfortunately, Yun Ao's words in the restaurant were still fresh in his mind, and even if Yun Ao's words today were true, Fang Yun couldn't believe it.
After the condolences, everyone had a meal at the Yun family and then buried Yun Jie together.
After that, the guests left, and only a few of them returned to the main hall of the Yun family with the Yun family.
In the main hall, only Jinshi, Juren and a few people of higher seniority were sitting.
The rest of the people stood in the main hall, while those without literary titles stayed away from the main hall and did not even have the qualifications to attend as observers.
"Close the door."
Yun He sat in the seat of honor, his face calm, his eyes slightly swollen, making him look even older.
The two young students near the door hurriedly closed it.
Fang Yun took a quick look and found that except himself, all the people here were real members of the Yun family of Changle Street. Except for the main family of the fourth branch, the rest were side branches.
The head of the family, Yun He, was a Jinshi, and the third son, Yun Hu's, Yun Ao, was also a Jinshi.
In addition, there were five juren, twelve xiucai and twenty-one tongsheng.
If this family were placed in Shengyuan Continent, it would be enough to become a famous family in a prefecture, and a famous family of extremely high status.
The literary rank in the Ancient Land of Xuemang is worthless. This was said by a great scholar in Shengyuan Continent.
The Blood Mang Ancient Land was very strange. The scholars here only needed to obtain a small amount of Holy Temple talent to be promoted, but what was actually injected into their literary palaces was not only the Holy Temple talent, but also the power of the Blood Mang Ancient Land. The combination of these two powers made it easier for them to be promoted to a higher position.
However, the scholars here are not recognized by the Holy Academy. The Holy Academy itself is the largest holy temple of the human race. It is not that the saints do not recognize it, but the power of the Holy Academy and all the holy temples in the Holy Yuan Continent does not recognize the scholars in the Blood Mang Ancient Land.
As for the reason, no one knows.
Moreover, if the scholars of the Xuemang Ancient Land leave, their strength will drop by half or even one rank!
The people of the ancient land of Xuemang hate the scholars outside, because deep down they fear the reduction of their power.
The voice of the head of the family, Yun He, rang out.
"As you all know, my son Yun Jie was killed by a demon bear. As the head of the Yun family and his father, I must avenge him! So, prepare tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, the Yun family will go out to fight the demon tribe. We will not return to Changle Street until we have killed two thousand demon bears!"
Everyone was stunned. This news was too sudden. If the expedition failed, the entire family might be ruined.
Yun Ao immediately shouted loudly: "I, your nephew, swear to follow you till death, avenge my cousin, and kill all the bear monsters!"
Yun Hu looked a little gloomy as he stared at everyone and said, "Yun Jie is the hope of our Yun family. He was killed by the bear monster. If we don't take revenge, how can our Yun family have the face to stay in Juyun City? There should be a thousand ears displayed in front of Yun Jie's tomb!"
.(To be continued..)