The dead in Dong Lang was usually buried instead of cremated, and that was why there was no rule about cremation that was held by some people in the empire.
However, just now Emperor Bai Guowei said that he was the one who scattered his wife's ashes many years ago, and Bai Chen assumed that the one who could do that to the dead was indeed the closest person to them.
The one who could hold the ashes of the dead should be the closest to them because ashes were the last remains of the dead, and they couldn't be held by random people. The same custom probably could be applied to the one who was supposed to scatter the ashes into the river.
That was what Bai Chen believed, and that was why he looked surprised as he shifted his blue eyes to the porcelain jar in his hand before frowning.
