Zhang Zhaohua walked to the central hall, but was told by Ah Wei that the princess was asleep, and she wanted to go back but was stopped, saying that the princess couldn't sleep for long, and she could wake up in less than a quarter of an hour. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Princess Xu rarely took a nap before, but because it is April now, April is different in twelve months, from the Qingming Festival to the death day of Prince Xianyiwen, she has been making a big Jiao, burning paper and incense for nearly a month, and the palace is very laborious, especially because the princess also has to kneel for Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, and a kneeling is a whole day, Zhang Zhaohua doesn't know how many times he has been persuaded, but the princess still refuses to get up. I had eaten less, and my legs were not good, but I saw that I had lost a lot of money in the past month, and my spirit couldn't support it, so I started to sleep for a while at noon.

On the fifth day of the fourth lunar month, the palace erected three large sheds from east to west, and in each shed there were about seventy or eighty Taoist priests, wearing the clothes of the heavenly masters, and holding all kinds of magic weapons in their hands: some people beat long drums, some people held ink buckets, and some people held ghost torture sticks to act like evil spirits. There are also twenty or thirty Taoist priests blowing the conch, walking around the altar, one after another - this is in the altar, divided into two parts of water and land, so it is also called the water and land dojo, the opening of this dojo is one is excessive, the second is to pray for blessings, the most grand, all the people in the palace chant the scriptures together, and the family of King Yan is for Queen Ma, Prince Yiwen and the King of Zhongshan chanted the scriptures and prayed, and the rest of the palace was for their deceased relatives or ancestors, at this time the Taoist priest was allowed to carry the burden, that is, to carry things for the dead relatives, and everyone especially cherished such an opportunity.

The rules in the court are strict, and for many years it is forbidden to pay tribute to one's relatives, one is not allowed to burn incense, two is not allowed to burn paper, and three is not allowed to make offerings. Poor palace people, whether they celebrate the New Year or meet their relatives, can only find a place where no one is there and cry silently. The palace is much more lenient than the court, you can go to the funeral, but you are still not allowed to pay tribute privately, so when there is such a big Jiao, it is a very rare opportunity, and they are also the most superstitious, thinking that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to repay their relatives.

A big Jiao has also come to an end, Zhang Zhaohua seems to have put down the burden of a thousand catties, and when the princess woke up, she handed over the Buddhist scriptures wrapped in a gold bag to the princess: "This is the daughter-in-law's hand-copied two parts of the Sutra, mother to see, can you provide for the spirit?"

"The Buddha said that the parents' kindness is difficult to report the scriptures" is Zhang Zhaohua with the official calligraphy work neatly copied, the people in the house pray for the queen Ma and the first prince, all of them are hand-copied "Heart Sutra", only Princess Xu is copying this "Grace and Difficulty Newspaper", and vow to copy ten copies of the Buddha. Copying scriptures is not easy to copy, copying a wrong word has to be copied again, not to mention that the number of words in this scripture is very large, especially not easy. The princess copied eight parts day and night, and when the Jiao was about to end, there were still two parts that had not been copied, so Zhang Zhaohua helped her copy the remaining two, of course, she did not tell the princess in advance, but she secretly copied it herself, and only presented it to her today.

The princess opened the scriptures, saw the neat handwriting on it, and saw this sentence in the scriptures: "If there are people, the left shoulder bears the father, the right shoulder bears the mother, grinds the skin to the bone, pierces the bone to the marrow, goes around Mount Meru, after hundreds of thousands of eons, the blood flows down to the ankle, and still can't repay the deep kindness of the parents", so she wept and said: "The Buddhist scriptures say that Yun He repays the deep kindness of his parents, and he should be his parents, read and recite this sutra, give alms and cultivate blessings, write this sutra, and can make a volume and see a Buddha." With the power of creating scriptures, it can make them born as parents and be born in heaven, receive all kinds of happiness, and leave hell suffering. When my father was born, I did not fulfill my filial piety, and after I died, I wanted to repay the favor, but I had nowhere to repay it, I only swore an oath to copy some scriptures, and I did not know the heavens and the earth, did my father know?"

Zhang Zhaohua said sincerely: "Mother only remembers that it is difficult to repay Weng's kindness, but she doesn't know that her son-in-law also has this heart, seeing that her mother's appearance is declining, and she forgets her heart, how can she not be in pain!

The princess hugged her and choked: "My son's filial piety, how can it be!"

Everyone persuaded each other, and Zhang Zhaohua comforted her for a long time before the princess stopped crying. Zhang Zhaohua saw that the princess was unhappy, so he intended to say some happy words to adjust, and when it came to the body of several generals' wives, Zhang Zhaohua said: "I saw Mrs. Wang the day before yesterday, and asked me about Lanlan, I said that her family had just settled down and would move out of the palace in the near future." Mrs. Wang asked me for my address, and it seemed that she was interested in moving around. ”

Princess Xu said, "When did the Wang family meet Lan Lan?"

"I saw you in the back garden of our house in mid-March," Zhang Zhaohua said: "I remember that Mrs. Wang really loves Lanlan, and she has been holding hands and not letting go." It wasn't until Brother Fu'er came to greet her that she was reluctant to leave. ”

"Has Brother Fu seen Lan Lan?" the princess asked carefully.

"When I saw it, I almost made a fuss," Zhang Zhaohua pursed his lips and smiled: "Brother Fu'er's cloak crossed the corners of Lan Lan's eyes, and it was red and swollen in an instant, which was scary to look at, but after taking the medicine, it was fine." I looked at my brother-"

"What's wrong with Brother Fu?" the princess asked.

"Looking at him, I felt quite sorry in my heart," Zhang Zhaohua said: "It's just a hindrance, and I looked back several times when I left." ”

The princess was thoughtful, and said: "These days, each family has recited a lot of scriptures with me in the house, you call them to gather in a few days, and call Lan Lan to be lively, before the Dragon Boat Festival." ”

Zhang Zhaohua pursed his lips and laughed, and sure enough, according to the princess's instructions, he called a few generals to gather in the house, Lan Lan was also called by Zhang Zhaohua, and when Mrs. Wang saw her, she held her hand and said a lot of words.

There were three or four banquets in the house, and Yong'an and Yongping both heard about it, and they came back to live during the Dragon Boat Festival, saying that the Duanyang Festival should be spent with their families. Zhang Zhaohua is naturally happy, she is also short of partners now, Yongan Yongping is married, Lan Lan does not often enter the house, and the rest of An Cheng Changning are not peers, and many words are not in one place, and now when she sees Yongan coming back, she specially slept with her all night, and said a lot of words, and when she got up the next morning, her eyes were black.

The two went to the middle hall hand in hand to say hello, but when they saw that Mrs. Wang was also there, they said something to the princess with a smile, and when they saw her two coming, they didn't avoid much taboos, and when they heard carefully, they were actually talking about Lanlan.

Although this layer of window paper was not pierced, Mrs. Wang's affection was beyond words, and Zhang Zhaohua felt that he could promote this marriage, and he also had his own plans in his heart. So it seemed that Yongan was the only one in the hall who hung his head slightly, and he couldn't see his face clearly, but everyone didn't notice her, and they didn't notice her different look.

After Zhang Zhaohua and Yongan Zhang Luo took a look at the Duanyang Festival, they were busy with chaos, for example, the treasure house sent the jewelry hairpin ring that should have been made for Lan Lan to Yong'an, Yongan joked that in the future, in the jewelry to Lan Lan carved the word, on the carved "blue" word in the jewelry to distinguish, this is a trivial matter, Zhang Zhaohua will follow what she said to tell the treasure to distinguish in the future.

This year's Duanyang Festival is not the same as last year, I didn't go to Xihaizi to play, I passed in the house, and I ate zongzi and listened to the music, but now Zhang Zhaohua saw these musicians trained by the Beiping Teaching Workshop Division, and he was not very happy, and he didn't want to see these people who pretended to be smiling, and it happened that Yongping was also tired of listening to these songs, saying that there is a theater troupe in Beiping now, and the reputation is rising, and the songs that Gaine sings are different from others, not singing those joys and sorrows that are long in love with children, only singing Buddhist classics, ferrying people for goodness, Yongping and Yongan went to listen to it once, and they all felt good, and now they want to invite this opera troupe to the palace to sing。 Zhang Zhaohua had no problem when he heard it, so he really invited this opera troupe to come and sing in the palace Tingyin Pavilion.