On that day, with the help of Meng Hu, Meng Zhong carried the body of his elder brother Meng Bo home and carried it to the house on the east side of the yard where the two brothers usually live.

"Ahu, help me remove the gate of the courtyard."

"Okay."

The two took off a door of the Meng Zhong family and moved it to the house on the east side, letting Meng Bo's body lie on it, preparing to decorate the house into a mourning hall.

After that, the two began to wash their bodies.

During this period, in order to avoid suspicion or to be unable to help but be sad in his heart, his mother Ge hid in the house alone and cried. It was not until Meng Zhong and Meng Hu were busy that Ge walked out of the house with a brand new dress, and still choked to Meng Zhong, saying to him: "Zhong'er, please put on this robe for your brother. This was sewn for the bride. I planned to get married when your brother got married..." At this point, she glanced at her eldest son who was lying flat on the door panel, and finally could no longer help the sadness in her heart. She held the new clothes in her arms, knelt on the ground and cried in tears, muttering words like "Bo'er, Bo'er, the child who was suffering for his mother."

Seeing this, Meng Zhong and Meng Hu hurried forward to comfort him.

After a while, Ge gradually suppressed the sadness in his heart and set up a mourning hall with Meng Zhong and Meng Hu. After a busy schedule, he made the mourning hall look decent.

Not long after, Meng Jian, the elder of the clan, came to visit him, and at the same time, he asked the slaves from the four clans to carry a coffin (i.e., coffin) over.

"Ge, please beg for the change."

While comforting Ge, the elder Meng Jian took out a small cloth bag from his sleeve and handed it to Ge with both hands.

This is "gold" which is a kind of money gift that the guests who come to mourn in the common rituals to support the funeral host to handle the funeral.

"Thank you, Elder." Ge forced a few smiles.

Meng Jian nodded after he wanted to speak, and then called Meng Zhong outside the house on the pretext, and said to the latter with a sad look: "I have also understood the incident, Zhonger, I..."

As if he had guessed Meng Jian's thoughts, Meng Zhong hurriedly said, "Elder, I learned from the letters my brother gave me before his death that Uncle Meng Qing, Uncle Meng Zhi, and Uncle Meng Xian took good care of him, and this was not Meng Xian's fault."

This is indeed Meng Zhong's heartfelt voice. To be fair, his brother Meng Bo is just a newcomer who has first entered the battlefield. Although he also killed some soldiers from Teng Kingdom, he was promoted to the "chariot officer" who commanded the soldiers with these contributions. It is obvious that the secret help of Meng Zhi, Meng Xian and others are indispensable. Meng Hu's father Meng Qing, as Sima, is not good at favoritism in this regard to avoid complaining to other tribesmen, but Meng Zhi, Meng Xian and others have no such concern.

It is precisely because of my gratitude that Meng Zhong's brother Meng Bo took the initiative to meet Teng Hu, the monarch of Teng Kingdom, in a critical moment, sacrificed his life and bought time for other tribesmen to save Meng Zhi.

Seeing Meng Jian still feeling guilty on his face, Meng Zhong asked: "I haven't seen Uncle Meng Zhi, Uncle Meng Xian and others just now. Haven't they returned this time?"

Meng Jian nodded and said, "Meng Qingtuo Mengzhi brought a letter to the sect leader. After Teng Hu attacked our army, King Song was furious and vowed to capture Teng City and slaughter the Teng clan. Now, your Uncle Meng Qing, Meng Xian and others are still assisting the king's army in Teng Kingdom to attack Teng Hu. Only your Uncle Meng Zhi was seriously injured by Teng Hu and returned to his hometown to recuperate."

Meng Zhong sighed after hearing this, "In other words, this battle continues..."

While speaking, he turned to look east, because in that direction, the cries of other women in the clan came intermittently.

"yes."

Listening to the intermittent crying, Meng Jian also sighed deeply.

As the two were talking, suddenly someone came to the yard. Meng Zhong turned his head and found out that Meng Hu's grandfather Meng Hu was carrying his second son Meng Zhi, who was supported by a boy who was a few years younger than Meng Zhong and Meng Hu. He was Meng Zhi's son, Meng Fu.

"Grandfather, uncle."

Meng Hu hurried forward to salute.

Meng Yan nodded to his grandson, nodded and greeted Meng Jian. Then he walked to Meng Zhong with the transformation, and said with shame and gratitude: "A Zhong, I..."

He really didn't know how to face Meng Zhong.

After all, his second son Meng Zhi escaped with Meng Bo's life, but Meng Bo died because of this. If it were someone from other tribes, Meng Feng would not have felt so uncomfortable and guilty. The problem is that Meng Zhong has been with his grandson Meng Hu since he was a child and has a very good relationship. Therefore, after all these two things, Meng Feng actually regarded Meng Zhong as a grandson.

Under this relationship, Meng Yan really didn't know how to face Meng Zhong.

Fortunately, Meng Jian was in time to smooth things over, "Okay, go to the mourning hall to worship Uncle."

“Yes.”

Meng Yan nodded repeatedly, walked into the mourning hall with his second son Meng Zhi and Meng Hu and Meng Fu's two grandsons.

When he arrived inside the house, Meng Zhi knocked on the ground with both knees and knelt in front of Meng Bo's body to perform the kowtow ceremony. Seeing this, Ge was shocked. After all, it was like such a great ceremony. Only children bowed to their parents and elders, even if they were not required to do so.

So she quickly stood up and dissuaded: "Meng Zhi, why do you have to..."

However, before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Meng Wei's hand. The old man looked at Meng Bo's body with guilty and gratitude, and said without refutation: "Although my son is one generation older than Uncle, it is up to Uncle to live by chance this time, so this is what it should be!"

Beside him, Meng Jian nodded and advised Ge: "Meng Zhi bows to him, his life-savior, you don't need to care about Ge."

Under the witness of Meng Yan and Meng Jian, Meng Zhi kowtowed a few times to the late Meng Bo. Due to the large extent of his movements, when Meng Zhong and Meng Hu later helped up the uncle (uncle), Meng Zhong saw that Meng Zhi's newly changed robe was leaking out of blood. It was obviously because his actions just now tear the wound.

But Meng Zhi didn't say a word about this. After being helped up by Meng Zhong and Meng Hu, he solemnly said to Ge and Meng Zhong: "Ge, A Zhong, don't worry, I and my brother will never let Uncle die in vain. As long as my brothers are still alive, they will definitely kill Teng Hu in the future to comfort Uncle's spirit in heaven!"

Seeing Meng Zhi's face full of seriousness, Ge and Meng Zhong looked at each other and didn't know what to say, so they had to nod.

Afterwards, because Meng Zhi was too seriously injured, his son Meng Fu helped him home to rest. The two elders Meng Hu and Meng Jian laid a straw mat in the house and sat down.

In the words of the elder Meng Hun, Meng Bo died this time because of his son Meng Zhi. Although he could not be resurrected, he had to at least help to handle the funeral for Meng Bo and preside over the funeral. This was the only thing he could do.

About an hour later, Meng Qi, the sect leader of the Meng family, brought the young sect leader Meng Wu, Meng Da, Meng Xiang and other children of the legitimate clan, also came to worship Meng Bo and sent gold. Meng Qi, the elder Ge, came to receive it.

However, Meng Qi and others did not stay for long because as Meng Zhong later learned, there were about fifty bodies of tribesmen carried back from a carriage this time, which means that about fifty families in the tribe were going to hold funerals. Meng Qi and Meng Wu, as the sect leader and young sect leader of the Meng family, should go to comfort each tribe one by one and pay homage to each tribe who sacrificed for the family.

That night, Meng Zhong originally planned to guard the mourning hall with Meng Hu, but let his mother Ge go back to the house to rest for a while, and also let Meng and Meng Jiang go back to rest, but he didn't expect Meng Jiang to insist on staying here.

In the end, there was no way, Meng Zhong, Meng Hu, and Meng Hu, guarded all night.

It has to be said that Meng Yan's insistence on staying made Meng Jian quite embarrassed, but there was no way. After all, Meng Jian served as the clan Zhu of the clan, and he needed to arrange the funeral of all the people who died in the clan.

The next day, almost every household in the clan sent family members to visit and give them money, even a few of them actually lost their relatives.

In the afternoon, Ge asked Meng Hu and Meng Hu to guard the mourning hall on their behalf, while she took Meng Zhong to visit other families.

When I arrived at the courtyard of a family, two uncles and aunts from the clan came out of the courtyard. The woman sighed and said to his man: "There was no father at all, but now because the elder brother died, the mother also passed away, and she was the only one left. She is such a miserable child..."

As she was talking, she saw the coming of Ge and hurriedly greeted Ge.

Ge also heard the woman's words and asked curiously: "Sister, what you said just now..."

“It’s this one.”

The woman looked back at the room behind her and said to Ge: "The man in this family died in a war with Wei State earlier, leaving only the woman in the family, Xiao, who raised her brother and sister alone. Now she finally raised her son to be a human, but her son died in the battle in Teng State. It's so miserable..."

"Hey!" The man lowered his voice and scolded him, and then quickly said to Ge: "This one in my family can't speak, Ge, don't care."

The woman was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized that Ge's husband Meng Qu also died on the battlefield of fighting with Wei.

Ge forced a smile. Seeing this, the man quickly pulled his unrestrained wife and left.

After the couple in the clan left, Ge led Meng Zhong into the yard. After shouting a few times, he did not see the owner of the family coming out. Then she walked towards the main house curiously. Only then did she see that the main house was the mourning hall.

"Where are people from this family?"

Ge muttered and walked into the mourning hall, looked around for a few glances, and then he found that there were two wooden boards in the mourning hall. On these two wooden boards, there were two lifeless corpses lying. One of them was a young man wearing leather armor like Meng Bo, Meng, and the other was a woman who seemed to be the same age as Ge, probably what the couple said just now.

Seeing the people from this family, Ge and Meng Zhong worshiped the two corpses, and then placed the gold he brought in in a clay pot in front of the corpse. In addition to the gold he had in their family, several bags of gold had been placed in the ceil pot.

"well."

Ge sighed, shook his head and was about to leave when he suddenly heard a very light voice in the room: "Thank you, thank you."

“Eh?”

Ge was startled and looked in the direction of the sound. Then he saw a girl in the corner of the house, holding her knees with her forehands and huddled in the corner and staring at her timidly.

"Child, what's your name?"

Ge walked forward, squatted down and looked at the girl, looking at the latter's red eyes and the dry tears on his face.

"Yan...Meng Yan..."

The girl whispered loudly.

Ge hugged him in his arms with distress and whispered: "Although it is very difficult, we still have to work hard to survive and not let the deceased people worry about us. Are you right?"

The girl nodded, and then she burst into tears. Ge also thought of her deceased eldest son Meng Bo, and hugged the girl named Meng Yan and cried quietly.

Seeing this scene, Meng Zhong walked out of the mourning hall silently and looked up at the sky.

He felt very moved that the former Montessori clan was harmonious and united, and most of the tribes were laughing. However, the war in which King Yan of Song launched an army to attack Teng made the entire Montessori clan lose his relatives and immersed in sorrow.
Chapter completed!