The Reincarnation of Lu Bu at the End of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 880 Night Watch
At night, the wind howled.

The lanterns hanging outside the gate of Yan's mansion kept swinging, and the guests who came to express their condolences had dispersed, leaving only the direct relatives of Yan's family, staying in the hall to watch the night.

The so-called night vigil is also called "spirit vigil", which is a kind of commemoration of the living to the deceased relatives.

The ancients believed that after a person dies, his soul will not go to the underworld immediately, but will stay in the underworld for several days and return to his original home to have a look.

People are afraid that the soul will get lost on the way home, so they will light an oil lamp and place it next to the body of the deceased.In order to prevent the oil lamp from being extinguished and the deceased relatives cannot find their home, the family members will wait all night in the mourning hall where the corpse is parked to ensure that the guiding light keeps burning.

Seven days of vigil.

Today is the fourth day.

The night was deep, and apart from the burning candles in the mourning hall, there was silence all around.

The haggard old lady was helped to rest. Although the old lady kept saying that she was not sleepy, Yan Li ordered the servant girl in the mansion to help her mother back to the room.

The old man's death hit the old lady no less than a landslide.

The two old people have lived together for decades, but now that the old man is gone and the old lady lives alone in the world, what is left to her is only endless loneliness and longing.

After that, there was no one to talk to.

What's more, in ancient times, the husband was the sky of a woman.

As soon as the old man let go, the old lady's 'sky' collapsed.

After seeing off the old lady, Lu Bu asked someone to fetch his coat.

Afterwards, he stood up, walked behind his wife, and put on his coat lightly. Although they had been an old couple for more than ten years, Lu Bu's voice was as gentle as when he was young: "Wei Niang, you bring Zhuaner Go and rest with Little Bell, I am here."

Although her eyelids were battling and she fell asleep badly, Yan Wei refused.

This is also the first time Lu Bu has seen his wife's stubbornness in many years.

"Wei Niang, be obedient! You have been up for several nights, if you don't go to rest, your body will not be able to bear it!"

Lu Bu's tone couldn't help but aggravated. His wife's constitution was weak, and she had finally cured her hidden illness a few days ago.

Yan Wei still refused, but shook her head, crying in her voice: "I can't sleep. Whenever I close my eyes, I see my father's appearance in front of me. He loves me so much and treats me like a baby since he was a child." Holding it in my hand, but I couldn't even see him for the last time, I'm really unfilial..."

Yan Wei fell into deep self-blame. Although the old man had forgiven her disobedience and abandonment of the family, in Yan Wei's heart, she always felt that she was ashamed of her father's many years of raising her.

"Then go to the room with your bridesmaid. The old man has just left, and my mother will definitely not be able to sleep. You go and talk to her, maybe it will be better." Lu Bu stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears that were about to overflow from his wife's eyes, and his tone softened again. down.

"Let's go with the bridesmaids too!"

The daughters-in-law of the Yan family also got up, talking about going to accompany the old lady.

Only then did Yan Wei agree.

At this time, only the three brothers of the Yan family and Lu Bu, the son-in-law of the Yan family, were left in the hall.Little Lingdang, Lu Xiao and the other three generations of the Yan family have also arranged to sleep.

"Three uncles, do you want to go to sleep for a while too? After all, there are still several nights to come, so I'll just watch over here." Lu Bu looked at the three kneeling on the opposite side, and asked aloud.

"Fourth brother, you go and rest! These days you are the one who is the most exhausted, rest for one night, and continue to watch tomorrow." The elder brother Yan Li and the fourth son Yan Xin said.

After the old man passed away, Yan Xin was the first to rush back home. Under his management, all funeral affairs, large and small, were orderly and orderly.

Likewise, it was extremely mentally exhausting. By this evening, he hadn't closed his eyes for six days and six nights.

Yan Xin was indeed exhausted, he stayed up six nights in a row, even with his iron body, he couldn't take it anymore.

Hearing what the elder brother said, Yan Xin didn't pretend to be hypocritical, but nodded and said: "So, I will have to thank the elder brother, the second brother and the brother-in-law."

I believe in my father's spirit in heaven, and I won't blame him too much.

After Yan Xin left, only Lu Bu, Yan Li and Yan Yi were left in the mourning hall.

After a silence.

Yan Li opened his mouth. He looked at Lu Bu, and his tone lost the kindness he used to have when he was an official: "Should I call you General, or brother-in-law?"

The atmosphere in the hall suddenly stagnated!
Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, the second child, Yan Yi, hurriedly yelled, trying to ease the oppressive atmosphere: "Brother, what are you talking about! There are no outsiders here, we are all brothers in our own family, what do we do with official positions!"

"Brother, do you have something you want to say to me?" Ignoring the words of the second brother Yan Yi, Lu Bu frowned slightly. It happened that he also had something to remind the Yan family.

Without the detours in the hall, Yan Li is now straightforward: "I do have something to say, although you are now the Great General Sima, I still want to say these things. "

"Then I would like to ask my uncle to show me, I am all ears." Lu Bu's voice was two points lower.

"In the past few years, don't you feel that what you have done has gone too far?"

"Oh? I don't know what uncle is referring to?" Lu Bu fixed his eyes on Yan Li.

Lu Bu dared to listen, so Yan Li dared to say: "A few days ago, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty forced the emperor to make you king. If there was no nod from you behind this, would they dare to threaten the emperor so blatantly?"

"So what? In these years, I fought for the Han Dynasty, making the Xianbei dare not go south, the Xiongnu and Qiang surrendered, and the Western Regions paid tribute every year. I kept the Guanzhong where the emperor is as stable as Mount Tai!

In the fight with the enemy, how many times my life was on the line, and the scars on my body were too many for me to count.You said, based on my achievements over the years, is it too much to be crowned king? "

Lu Bu suddenly raised his voice by two points, but he didn't make any excuses.

In fact, he didn't know about the kingship at first.

"You know very well that this is not what I want to tell you!"

Yan Li refuted it, and he told Lu Bu: Since ancient times, no matter whether it is a courtier with great achievements or a courtier with power over the world, they have not come to a good end.

"So you are secretly cultivating members of the Yan family, trying to draw a line with me?" Lu Bu said abruptly.

Yan Li was startled when he heard the words, a rare look of surprise appeared on his face: "You know?"

Lu Bu sneered and snorted, "If I don't even have this kind of means, how can I dare to leave the customs with peace of mind and deal with those more difficult princes from all walks of life."

Yan Li only thinks about the interests of the Yan family. He is afraid that Lu Bu's downfall in the future will destroy the Yan family's hundreds of years of foundation.He is the new head of the Yan family, so he is naturally responsible for the foundation of his ancestors and the lives of hundreds of people in the Yan family.

Little did they know that the Yan family had already been firmly tied to Lu Bu. Even if Lu Bu's wall was toppled by everyone and the Yan family was willing to turn against them, they would still be unable to escape death.

After a long time, Yan Li sighed: "Brother-in-law, the surname of this Han family is Liu, and we outsiders are ministers after all."

If the king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die.

(End of this chapter)