Chapter 936 A Grand Scottish Funeral

ps: Speed ​​up the pace. After the funeral, it’s time for revenge.

In addition, you can listen to the songs written in this chapter, or you can look for the album of the Royal Scots Horse Guards Wind Band and listen to it. You can feel it after listening to it.

You can also look for videos to get a feel for it. However, I remember that there used to be videos of Scottish-style funerals, but I couldn’t find them. However, you can look for videos of the Queen Mother’s funeral. If you can find them, they are almost always the same. mean.

Bruce's body was parked at home for two days. During these two days, Jason barely stayed at Bruce's home. He kept running back and forth from the airport and the hotel. Jason wanted to give Bruce a grand Scottish wedding. He has been busy with this for days.

On the fourth day after returning home, Bruce was going to be buried.

Bruce had faith, so the funeral would be held in the church. At ten o'clock in the morning, everyone attending Bruce's funeral came.

All members of the Satan Mercenary Group participated, some of Bruce's relatives, and some of Bruce's friends.

Morgan came. In addition to Morgan, Distin, who came to Seattle to attend his funeral, was from Israel.

The relatives and friends of the Satan Mercenary Group did not come. Grolev and Frye had relatives in the United States. They did not notify them. The reason was very simple. As a whole, Bruce would die in the battle, which meant that they might also die in the battle. In addition to not wanting to In addition to worrying their families, Grolev and Fry also don't want their families to affect their revenge.

Not many people attended the funeral in the church. Bruce is a third-generation immigrant, but his family is not big. As a third-generation man, he had no close relatives and few friends. Except for a few friends who had grown up with Bruce, none of his comrades in arms when he was serving in the army were notified.

Gao Yang and the others were all dressed in black formal suits, while Mrs. William was wearing a black suit, a black hat on her head, and a black veil.

Lucica and Lady William were dressed alike. She did not actually hold a wedding with Bruce, nor did she officially marry Bruce in the legal process. But at this time Lucica still dressed up as a widow.

As for Jason, his dress is quite special. He is wearing traditional Scottish clothing and holding a Scottish Highland bagpipe. Standing next to Bruce's coffin.

According to the funeral process, the pastor was going to start reciting a eulogy for Bruce and then praying for him. However, the pastor did not follow the normal procedure, but signaled to Jason that he could start.

Jason burst into tears,

But there was no sound. When the farewell ceremony that was part of the funeral began, Jason took a step forward, shed tears and choked up and said loudly: "Bruce. You are my brother and my best friend. We made an appointment to You play the bagpipes.”

Jason took a breath. Then the bagpipes were played.

The bagpipe played, and the sound of the bagpipe made people cry.

Everything about Jason is very traditional, with traditional Scottish habits. He wears a short black sheepskin hat with a white feather on his head, and a black woolen jacket. There is a white shirt underneath, and a black and gray plaid pleated skirt underneath. Wearing a large cloak with the same black and gray plaid, a wine bottle decorated with a black and white long tail hung on his waist, black and gray plaid woolen stockings, and black leather shoes with white shoe covers.

The piece Jansen plays is called God's Grace, which is commonly seen at funerals in both the UK and the US, and is certainly appropriate for funerals.

After the weeping bagpipe performance was over, Jason took a step back, covered his face with his hands, and began to cry silently.

The pastor began to introduce Bruce's life. Finally, the pastor read a passage that Gao Yang and the others had requested to be added.

"Bruce William, he is a warrior. He has saved many people with his skills, and his courage and sacrifice allowed Bruce to save his brothers and partners."

Gao Yang lowered his head and listened below. When the pastor finally finished all the eulogies and blessed Bruce, the people in the church looked at Bruce for the last time.

Finally, Bruce's coffin was closed, and after the priest covered the coffin with a piece of black velvet, Gao Yang suddenly realized that he would never see Bruce again, living or dead.

Next, Bruce was taken from the church to the cemetery for burial.

The cemetery where Bruce is buried is a cemetery, and his grandparents and father are buried in the same cemetery.

There are a total of twelve people in the Satan mercenary group, and now there is one less, leaving eleven people.

Lucica is Bruce's widow, and Irene, as a woman, is not suitable to carry the coffin. Jason is standing aside holding the bagpipe, so there are eight people who have to carry Bruce's coffin.

Originally there were only four coffin bearers, carrying the four corners of the coffin respectively, but Gao Yang and the others had eight people, and they didn't want to take turns. They all wanted to see their brother off in person, so there were eight coffin bearers.

Jason played God's Grace again, and the eight men lifted the coffin and walked out of the church.

Jason, who was leading the way, played the bagpipes and walked in the front. Gao Yang and the others followed behind Jason, carrying the coffin. Behind them were Bruce's relatives and friends.

After stepping out of the church door, Gao Yang and the eight of them stopped and watched Jason pass through the neatly arranged queue until he stood at the front of the queue.

Yes, there was a procession lined up outside the church.

Bruce served as a soldier. If he died in service, he could put up a flag, but when he died he was just a mercenary. And when a mercenary dies, there is no flag to put up, no matter how heroic or great he died, He doesn't get any credit.

They couldn't raise the flag to Bruce, but they could give Bruce a funeral that only a brave man could get, a Scottish warrior's funeral.

There were seventy-four people outside the church, holding bagpipes, bugles and whistles, or marching drums hanging in front of them. They were all Scottish Highlanders, wearing skirts similar to Jason's.

The army in which Johnson served may not have been a fighting force. But the army he served in had the best bagpipe band in the world.

Royal Scots Horse Guards Pipe Band, of which Jensen was a member, so. He wasn't one of the best soldiers, but he was one of the best pipers in the world.

Playing for Bruce at the funeral is not suitable for accidents, so Gao Yang and the others know what Jason is busy with these days. He is busy inviting his former comrades and asking them to help give Bruce a traditional Scottish gift at Bruce's funeral. An honor that only warriors deserve.

Jason could have invited about twenty people, all retired bagpipers. Not necessarily a formal member of the Royal Scots Horse Guards Pipe Band, but definitely a first-class bagpiper.

Jason's comrades spread the news. When he learned that one of Jason's comrades had died trying to save him, some people who had been retired for many years and whom Jason didn't even know came to Seattle. Among these people. There were young people about the same age as Jason, as well as old people in their sixties or seventies. In the end, a total of seventy-four people came, forming not only a complete but a huge bagpipe band.

Most of them came from the UK, and most of them came from Scotland. A few came from other places in the United States, and some came from other European countries, but not all of them lived in Scotland. But they are all Scots.

Originally, the only musicians who had served in a British army could not be Scots, but since a funeral was to be held for a Scottish warrior, there were no Englishmen in the band to mourn Bruce. There was no Irishman, no Welshman, it was all pure Scots, otherwise their band wouldn't all be in kilts.

The dense beat of a snare drum rang out as Jensen made his way through the crowd. Bugles and whistles sounded as Jensen stood at the front. Then, there was another intensive sound of military drums.

Bruce's funeral was not a formal military funeral. There were no shots fired and there would be no salute. However, it did not prevent a group of Scots from playing traditional military music for the Scottish warriors they did not know.

Jason played the bagpipes again, this time playing the tune "Scottish Warriors", and then more than fifty bagpipes in the entire band played the bagpipes at the same time.

The entire bagpipe band began to play the Scottish Warriors, and then, accompanied by drumbeats, the military band in front began to move forward rhythmically and solemnly.

The band opened the way, and the eight coffin bearers followed them. Behind them were the relatives and friends attending the funeral.

The bagpipe is not blown directly with the mouth, but is blown into the wind bag with the mouth, and then the wind bag is squeezed to let the air flow through the wooden tube to vibrate the reed to produce sound.

The music of Scottish bagpipes is originally derived from military music. The high-pitched highland bagpipes played by Jason and his colleagues are high-pitched and sad, and it is very suitable to bid farewell to the blues.

The big band consisting of more than seventy people is really impressive.

It takes ten minutes to drive from the church to the cemetery, and it takes at least half an hour to walk, and it takes at least forty minutes to play bagpipes all the way there, and Gao Yang and the others have no intention of putting the coffin in the car and transporting it to the cemetery, let alone four. Ten minutes, even if it was four hours, they still had to carry Bruce to the cemetery.

There will be vehicles and pedestrians on the road to the cemetery, and it is impossible for Gao Yang and the others to get the police to close the road just because of a funeral. Therefore, they have to go all the way to the cemetery on a road with pedestrians. Fortunately, the funeral route was specially chosen. A route with relatively few pedestrians, there won’t be too many pedestrians or vehicles.

Originally there were not many pedestrians, but when the special and huge funeral procession attracted the attention of many people, some people from the houses on the roadside came out to watch. Oncoming vehicles would politely stop on the roadside and wait for the funeral procession to pass before following. However, Bruce's funeral seemed too solemn and rare. Gradually, a team composed purely of pedestrians gathered behind and on both sides of the mourners. They just wanted to see this rare and extremely artistic event. A funeral with emotional and tragic colors.

The funeral procession could not go unnoticed, which is to be expected, because the funeral of a member of the British royal family can only use a bagpiper of this size. Of course, the funeral of a member of the royal family will wear a bearskin top hat. , soldiers wearing red military uniforms, there will also be honor guards and the like, the standards will definitely be higher, and much higher, but for the Scots, those are not rare to them, they only need a pure Scottish bagpipe band. .

The music was not interrupted, Scottish Warrior, Scottish Highland Cathedral, for more than 40 minutes, the band played several pieces until Bruce was sent to the cemetery, and the last time they collaborated to play God's Grace, a song to bless the dead. until. (To be continued)