The night was thick, and the second watch had probably been knocked out. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The dim silk lanterns in the Shoukang Palace swayed, and the towering pines and cypresses in the courtyard covered the light of Qionghua, which made the silence of the place more and more set off.

Mama Bai greeted the Queen Mother and made the bed for her. He hooked off the peach birthday Ruiyun golden hook hanging on the bed on the shelf, put down the bean-green flying silver covered bed curtain, turned around and said thoughtfully: "Your old man will wait for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the two mothers to come and kowtow tomorrow, some of them are so busy, will this be the rest?"

The queen mother was still unsatisfied, sat cross-legged for a while, put the jade Ruyi in her hand back to its original place, and then rubbed her back and lazily responded: "People are old, don't dare to go to bed too early." Otherwise, when you wake up in the middle of the night, you can only close your eyes and wait until dawn, but fortunately, with this bowl of red dates and millet porridge, you will suffer a lot less. ”

In the past, Mama Bai had mentioned burning incense to help her sleep, but now she feels very short of breath.

In the Shoukang Palace, even the cloisonné enamel eight-treasure incense burner used by the former queen mother was put into the treasury by her.

The incense shop where Suri makes incense is very clean, and even the simple and commonly used things such as borneol and cinnabar are not left, and Mama Bai has not made incense by herself for several days. To be more precise, she is very resistant in her heart now, and she really doesn't want to step into Xiangfang.

Remembering that today is the fifteenth, the Queen Mother looked at the moonlight sparsely sifted from the treetops outside, and Mama Bai changed her bedclothes for herself, and asked: "Do you want to go to the small Buddha hall later to add incense?"

Mama Bai's subordinates did not slow down, and replied: "The slave and maid go and add incense and some lamp oil." After decades of this, if you don't go on the fifteenth day of the new year, I'm afraid that this night will not be stable. ”

The Queen Mother slowly lay down, closed her eyes a little tired, as if talking to herself, and seemed to be talking to Mama Bai: "Just count your fingers, if you really have decades of time." People are always easy to miss the old when they are old, and the mourning family is really reluctant to you. ”

With such a sigh, Mama Bai couldn't answer. She just stood quietly on the side of the bed, waiting to see that the Queen Mother had no other orders. After waiting for a while, I saw that the Queen Mother slowly turned over, facing inside, and was already snoring evenly.

Under the hazy lamp and candle, the queen mother's silver hair was scattered on the dark green blue cloud spring water pillow, adding a bit of gloom and even more messy. Mama Bai stroked her body down with pity, straightened it out for her lightly, and then carefully tucked the bed curtain.

For a moment, Mama Bai recalled the moment when the old woman in front of her was as green as a waterfall.

She once rode in fresh clothes and angry horses, indulging in galloping on the grasslands outside the pass, letting the mood of her youth sway; she also made a decision to kill, pointed out the world while talking and laughing, and wrote the myth of the beauty of the country and the mountains with the first emperor; what is even more rare is that she and she also went boating under the moon, putting aside the difference in identity between each other, and made a promise to be a good sister for a lifetime.

Mama Bai walked out in a trance, and one was not paying attention, and almost tripped over the high threshold of the dormitory. She gently closed the door of the temple, stumbled against the flower wall on the side, and slowly squatted down.

If you look closely, two lines of muddy old tears slowly overflowed Bai Mama's eyes, smashed heavily under the evergreen pine and cypress tree at her feet, and then burrowed into the dirt and disappeared.

Back in the room to bathe and change clothes, Bai Mama changed into a plain dress with crow blue painted and embroidered grape patterns, combed some fluffy white hair meticulously, pulled a smooth bun, inserted a long hairpin with plain silver dark lines, and took lamp oil, incense candles and other things to the small Buddha hall.

The small Buddha hall is lit with everlasting lights, and a dim halo is visible from afar. Mama Bai was familiar with the way into it, and saw that there was still half a bowl of lamp oil in the Changming lamp offered in the bowl of Buddha Qianhai, so she still carefully filled it with the oil pot, and then worshiped a few times sincerely.

The three holy statues under the candlelight were glowing with soft colors, and each one was so kind and kind-eyed, and the compassionate and kind eyes looked down at Mama Bai, as if they wanted to relieve her suffering.

After wiping the offering table and incense table, Mama Bai rearranged the offerings, put incense in the incense burner again, slapped the futon in front of the three holy statues, and knelt on the futon on the right side and began to chant silently, feeling peaceful.

The sentence that the Queen Mother said in front of the Empress Dowager, "If you don't come to see it, you're afraid that you won't sleep all night", is not Mama Bai's greeting. Earlier, she had to come, but later she got used to it, and she really fell in love with this rare tranquility in front of the Buddha.

In her early years, Mama Bai only ran around for a living and did not believe in Buddhism. After following the Queen Mother's side, he has been taking care of this small Buddha hall, and has been reciting the "Sutra of Amitayus" with the Queen Mother since he was young, and has been reciting it for decades.

Although she had never read the scriptures, Mama Bai memorized every word of a copy of the "Sutra of Amitayus" in her heart. When the queen mother was free, she also talked about Buddhism for her a few times, and the easy-to-understand Buddhist scripture story came out of the queen mother's mouth.

Mama Bai recited the scriptures silently, ignoring the passage of night, and the bangzi of the third watch sounded far away.

It was the heart that was not distracted, but the faint clicking sound behind the Buddha statue remembered again. Mama Bai got up suddenly, let out a silent sigh, and walked behind the Buddha statue.

Seeing that there were enough shadows, a person turned out from behind the golden statue of Amitabha Buddha, as if it was the woman dressed in palace clothes last time.

The woman was wearing a dark purple hooded cape, covered with green gauze, revealing only a pair of cold and sharp eyes, staring at Mama Bai, and speaking very arrogantly.

"Bai Zhi, the sect leader followed your advice back then, and instead of poisoning Qiao Huanxia, a dead old woman, he let her live with Fushou cake all the time. The sect has never been short of your supply, and the sect leader asked me to ask, how can her illness be cured after eating these things all year round?"

Mama Bai performed a strange etiquette, and then leaned over and knelt in front of this woman, and her tone was so flat that she didn't seem to distinguish herself: "My subordinates mentioned it to the right envoy last time, and now Luo Nayan enters the palace twice a month to check the pulse of the Queen Mother, and all the blood in the hospital has been changed. ”

The lights in the Buddhist hall were dim, and the tone of the woman in the palace costume became more and more cold, and it was even more frightening to hear: "Bai Zhi, have you already had a different heart? Don't forget that your brother has been staying in the sect to recuperate all these years, how did the sect leader show great kindness to you and your brother back then?"

Mama Bai bowed down more and more respectfully, but there were not many ups and downs in her tone: "My subordinates will remember the great kindness of the sect leader when they took in my sister and brother until they die, and they dare not forget it one day." ”

"That's fine", the woman's Beijing accent softened slightly. She ordered Mama Bai to get up, threw out a bag casually, and threw it into her arms: "This is the antidote for next month, it can relieve the pain of your January flames." ”