[Earth Era, January 4, 2011] [Western Calendar, Tuesday] [Xia Calendar, Gengyin Year, first day of the twelfth month. Auspicious for laying the deceased in a coffin, offering sacrifices, praying for blessings, and holding hairpin coming-of-age ceremonies. Inauspicious for installing doors, planting, and treating illness.]
That day, many people came to District 2.
The funeral of Gu Weiyang, Secretary-General of the United Government, was being held that day.
Following Huaguo tradition, the Gu family had planned to hold Gu Weiyang's funeral procession on the third day after his passing. But too many funerals had been held the day before, so they had postponed it by a day.
Many people attended Gu Weiyang's funeral.
Normally, the mourning hall should have been set up in his own home, but Gu Weiyang's was set up in the Secretary-General's residence in District 2, which the United Government had assigned to him.
The reason was simple: Gu Weiyang had no home of his own.
He had neither a home of his own nor a family, and he had rarely even attended the family dinners his brothers organized.
In his private life, he had been a solitary spectator drifting outside human society.
Qin Siyang arrived at Gu Weiyang's Residence early that morning, but quite a few people had already arrived before him.
In the wake of the great battle, the entire Safe Zone was immersed in funeral dirges that day. Anyone with any standing had received more than one funeral invitation.
The many guests gathered outside Gu Weiyang's doors that day were proof of the great respect he had commanded in life.
The Zhao family had arrived early as well.
When Qin Siyang arrived, the brothers Zhao Longteng and Zhao Longfei were smoking by the entrance. They appeared to be chatting, but in fact they