Divine Light Warrior

Sea burial

"Okay, little hero, let me go, one hundred taels per person!"

The horseman was in a panic and quickly agreed. However, Li Kaiyang was not at ease with him. He put his head on Ma Yuanwai and thought to himself, is he trying to trick me? I would like to try him again.

Li Kaiyang put him on the ground and asked:

"Hey, how does it taste up there?"

The horseman looked at Li Kaiyang with squinting eyes, with an unconvinced look on his face. The corners of his mouth twitched and his eyes flashed with coldness.

"Hmph, you kid, you kid..."

Before he finished speaking, Li Kaiyang lifted him up again.

Then he shook his body violently above his head.

This time, the men around him all reacted, and they stabbed Li Kaiyang with their guns.

If the horseman is not put down, I'm afraid he will be stabbed into a candied haws.

When he was in danger, Li Kaiyang shouted:

"You all stop, if you dare to shoot me, I will smash your members to pieces. If you are not convinced, give it a try and see if your guns are faster or my hands are faster."

Everyone stopped at this shout. A petty official came over and said:

"Uncle, Uncle Li Kaiyang, just be good and let our member go! As long as he is safe and sound, we will not make it difficult for you anymore. You can go your own way and we will go back to our home."

Li Kaiyang thought that this man was honest and kind, and he seemed like a good person. So he had three points of belief in his heart.

"Can you make the decision when you say this? If you can, I will release your members. If not, don't you want to harm me?"

The little official was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed and said:

"Master Li, you are too worried. Just think about what we dare to do to you if our members are in your hands. Don't worry, you will be fine if you put me down."

The words sounded very soft and tactful. But Li Kaiyang was still worried. He was afraid that without the hostages in his hands, the gang would do whatever they wanted, and he would be trapped in a tight siege again, even if the leopard girl never came to save him again. Don't I want to be in a desperate situation when the time comes?

But Li Kaiyang then thought again, a real man, I am not afraid of you villains repenting. Since he agreed to one hundred taels per person, forget it.

One hundred taels was not an astronomical figure for the family at that time, but it was also a huge fortune.

Li Kaiyang put the horseman down and said to him rather embarrassedly:

"Commissioner, you see I was a bit harsh just now. What about you? Whether you are a righteous person or a capricious villain depends on you."

Turning around, he said to the men holding spears next to him:

"Don't think that I can do whatever I want just because I put the officer down. Take a look...!"

Li Kaiyang pointed to a rock in the distance with his hand, and the light bullet on his finger flew out. The stone was struck by the light bullet and scattered in all directions. The soldiers around were all surprised!

The horseman was much more honest at this time. He quickly rushed to the crowd on his side, and many servants surrounded him.

At this moment, Ma Yuanwai gained momentum and felt confident in his heart. However, after seeing Li Kaiyang's move just now, he no longer wanted to regret it.

He kept sighing, shaking his head and saying:

"Okay, you go quickly and get two hundred taels of silver and give it to him, and find a carriage for him to take the other two corpses away."

Then Ma Yuanwai led a group of people and rumbled down the mountain. A skinny little servant came running to Li Kaiyang with a red cloth bag in his arms and stuffed it into his hand.

Li Kaiyang asked:

"how many?"

The little servant trembled and said:

"If you don't believe two hundred taels, go and weigh it!"

After saying that, he ran away.

Not far away, Li Kaiyang saw several servants driving an ox cart, pulling two corpses towards the small village by the sea.

At this time, Li Kaiyang's heart finally fell to the ground. He didn't save the person, but he got the pension.

Li Kaiyang rushed back to the small village with the money.

As soon as I entered the village, I saw the dancing master and a group of disciples making a lot of noise, not knowing what was going on.

Li Kaiyang thought: They probably didn't know what happened just now. Two people died in their village, and they were suddenly brought back. They didn't know what kind of reaction they would have.

When those people saw Li Kaiyang, some of them came over to talk to him, especially Xiao Niu's fiancée. She smiled sweetly and knelt down when she saw Li Kaiyang. Li Kaiyang quickly returned the favor, but he just crossed his arms and nodded.

"Why didn't Maverick come back with the young master?"

When Li Kaiyang heard this, his face turned red. He quickly took out the bag of silver from his arms, which contained four ingots. He grabbed two and stuffed them into the girl's arms.

Then he said to her in a trembling voice:

"I can't help you, Maverick will never come back. Just now he went with me to find Ma Yuanwai to seek justice for Wang Wu...!"

When Li Kaiyang said this, he lowered his head, and the noisy people also gathered around.

Each of them stared at Li Kaiyang with sharp eyes, wanting to hear what he would say next. Especially the girl Alan, when she heard Li Kaiyang say such words, she immediately grabbed the front of her clothes with her hands, as if she didn't even dare to breathe again.

Li Kaiyang didn't want to say those words, but he had to say:

"I'm sorry, the calf is dead. His body will be brought back soon."

Suddenly Alan burst into tears and two pieces of silver fell to the ground. She ran over and grabbed Li Kaiyang's arm, shook it and asked:

"Brother, don't lie to me. Is it true? Who killed him? Who killed him?"

The people around him were also excited, and their eyes were widened.

"Yes, it was someone other than the horseman who did it. It's all my fault. If I didn't take him, nothing like this would have happened."

A few impulsive young people couldn't bear it anymore. They grabbed the swords on the martial arts field and rushed out.

Unexpectedly, Master Li Guang stretched out his hand to stop these disciples.

"Wait! Things haven't been figured out yet, don't be so impulsive!"

His long white beard trembled in the wind as he spoke, and a majestic air spread across his entire face.

"Master just let our people die in vain!"

A chubby man said. Li Guang took a long breath and looked at the sea leisurely and sadly.

"Xiao Niu, Xiao Niu, why did you leave the master so quickly? You haven't learned the boxing I taught you yet. Why did you leave the master so cruelly? Where is his body!"

Li Kaiyang quickly replied:

"The people outside the horse crew are sending it back. Wait a moment and the body will be brought back."

As soon as Li Kaiyang finished speaking, he saw an ox cart coming around the hillside from a distance. Li Kaiyang pointed to the car and said:

"This is the bullock cart that transports corpses!"

Everyone was immediately attracted by the bullock cart, especially Alan who suddenly knelt on the ground, tears already soaking his front.

When the bullock cart arrived, everyone gathered around to check on the bodies of the calf and Wang Wu.

Alan even pounced on him, howling endlessly. Li Guang couldn't help but shed a few tears.

He walked over and gently opened the straw curtain covering the two people. At a glance, Maverick's childish face was immediately visible. Now that he has become unrecognizable, it is even more heartbreaking to see his face.

There was a loud cry all around. Suddenly Li Guangda shouted loudly:

"Stop crying! Can you still come back if you cry after someone is already dead?"

"What should we do, master? Should we avenge him?"

The fat disciple at the head said this again.

Li Guang pondered for a moment and said decisively:

"Let's bury Maverick and Wang Wu first, and we'll make other plans."

The people next to him also pulled Alan up who was crying bitterly. Master Li Guang said to Alan:

"Daughter, don't be sad. After arranging his funeral, those of us who practice martial arts in Zhuangzi will not let Ma Yuanwai go easy."

Alan wiped his tears with his hands and said with sobs:

"I really didn't expect that things would get to this point. If I had known it would happen, why didn't I stop Mavericks in the first place."

Li Kaiyang looked at the scene in front of him with his heart pounding. He really didn't know what to say to comfort the other person.

At this moment, an old woman came running over crying. Of course I know this old lady Li Kaiyang, she is Wang Wu's mother, the one who plans to rely on him.

"It's Wu'er, it's Wu'er! Why are you so cruel and leave your mother behind?"

While talking and crying, she came to the car trembling slightly and pulled Wang Wu's arm hard. He kept saying:

"Get up quickly, get up quickly, and leave me alone. How do you want me to live?"

People around him stood silently and didn't speak. Li Kaiyang felt that he could not explain to others, so he suddenly knelt down and said to the old woman:

"Auntie, I want to help you and relieve your urgent needs, but I didn't expect that the horseman was so vicious. I didn't protect Brother Wang. It's my fault. He died. I can't compensate him. I owe him The employee paid a hundred taels of pension, which is enough for you to spend your old age peacefully."

As he spoke, Li Kaiyang handed the money to the old lady. The old man glanced at the money, laughed miserably and said:

"Silver, what's the use of silver? What's the use of money when people are gone? Son, who will spend the money you earned with your life?"

Li Kaiyang couldn't help but burst into tears. How could this tragic scene not break the liver and gallbladder?

Such a scene was beyond Li Kaiyang's expectation, but it was also reasonable. It took a long time to comfort everyone before everyone stabilized. People began to arrange their funerals.

Seaside people usually bury at sea, so Li Kaiyang witnessed a funeral that he had never seen before.

These people wrapped the two bodies with white cloth, layer after layer. Just wrap two people into one big rice dumpling.

On a calm day, several people carried the body to a large boat. Hundreds of villagers boarded the boat together. The two family members of the deceased walked in the front and were surrounded by everyone, and boarded the big boat.

Li Kaiyang didn't know where this big boat was. Anyway, an ordinary family had a small fishing boat. Such a big boat couldn't possibly belong to someone here.

Li Kaiyang didn't care to study these. He mainly wanted to see how to bury a person.

I saw this big ship floating towards the place where the sun sets in the wind and waves. Not knowing how far he had gone, Li Kaiyang felt dizzy and a little seasick.

He struggled to sit in the cabin and did not dare to go to the deck. He only waited for the critical moment to go out.

Seeing that it was already far away from the landing, the big ship stopped. Then the villagers walked onto the deck one after another, and the eight people carrying the body faced the setting sun. He kept chanting something.

Next, I heard the painful cries of Auntie and Alan. At this time a big wave crashed over.

Water splashed on the boat, splashing all over people's faces. The sky became gray at this time, and the sunset began to dim.

Master Li Guang presided over the funeral. He bowed towards the sea first, and then muttered:

"O sea, your children have come back to you! You have raised them, given them food and clothing, and you have to accommodate them and let them fall into your arms forever."

After speaking, he made a signal to the people behind him, and then the eight people carried the four bodies. Walking to the side of the ship, he threw the person head-first and feet-back into the sea.

"Plop" a wave rose in the sea water, and then there was another "Plop" sound, and another wave rose in the sea water. The two bodies sank into the sea instantly.

Alan and Auntie burst into tears, while the men just stared at the sea. The expression on his face was very solemn.

Li Kaiyang thinks this is good. Burial at sea is much more convenient than burial in the ground. Sometimes the cemetery is quite tight, but burial at sea does not have these worries and troubles. If you throw it into the sea, it will become food for the fish. This sounds like a very environmentally friendly thing, but it’s a pity that people in modern society cannot accept this kind of funeral. If I go back one day, I will also promote it to everyone.

With this thought in his mind, he felt a lot more relaxed. He finally had an answer to this difficult matter. Although their relatives were gone, Li Kaiyang tried his best to get them two hundred taels of silver, which was enough to comfort their hearts.

As soon as Li Kaiyang thought of this, he suddenly heard people shouting.

It seemed that someone had fallen into the water. Li Kaiyang looked down through the crowd.

Only then did he realize that it was Wang Wu's mother, the aunt, who actually jumped into the sea.

At this moment, the waves on the sea are very strong. Although these fishermen were born on the seaside and all of them have very good water skills, many of them dare not jump easily to save people in such sea conditions.

But in the end, two young men were brave enough to jump into the water to catch Aunt Wang.

Unexpectedly, the aunt's body sank quickly. I don't know what kind of weight she was carrying. Before the two young men could fish her out, the aunt disappeared into the sea forever.

"Auntie, why can't you think about it so hard?"

It was Alan who called her. Alan was lying on the side of the boat, looking at the sea with burning eyes. She hoped for a miracle and hoped that the two people could rescue the aunt. Li Kaiyang also had the same mood. She always felt guilty towards her aunt. He knew how painful it was for a mother who lost her son. Living in this world, she was already worse off than dead.