The first emperor Chu Tianshu especially admired Buddhism during his lifetime, and now counting from the queen mother, almost all of these masters in the palace are devout Buddhists. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

A number of temples have been built in various parts of Xixia, most of which are dedicated to the three saints of the West. From the emperor's relatives to the common people, because of the respect for Buddhism, the temple incense is extremely vigorous.

Nowadays, each palace has its own small Buddha hall, and a Baohua Hall is specially built in the west of the imperial garden, and the mud gold square bricks of the painted lotus flower are paved with the three saints of the West.

The masters of each palace worship the Buddha and chant sutras, often in their own small Buddha halls. If the eunuchs and palace ladies want to pray for blessings, most of them go to the Baohua Palace. The small Buddha hall at the back of the Canwei Palace is connected to the study, and it is also the place where Murong Wei often lingers.

The Shanggong Bureau originally did not have a small Buddha hall, but Guo Shanggong played the queen mother, saying that the palace people were pious to the Buddha, and asked for the addition of a small Buddha hall for them to worship.

The queen mother originally agreed to Guo Shanggong's request in order to make a good match, but she didn't expect that this small Buddha hall has now become her private property. The ambitious character of the wolf, who dominates the small Buddha hall alone and recites scriptures for the Buddha, Murong Wei doesn't believe that she is so pious.

Qiu Sishan's soothing voice was still calm and unhurried, and the narration was methodical: "Guo Shanggong copied Buddhist scriptures alone in the small Buddha hall, and worked hard in the middle of the night, never asking anyone to wait, and her two personal palace maids could only stay outside. ”

Seeing that he was about to talk about the important point, Qiu Sishan's eyes still swept timidly from the gentle skirt, and then turned back to Murong Wei, with a look of wanting to speak and stopping.

Wen Wan was so transparent, only gently covered her lips, and continued to elegantly taste the lotus tea in her hand, without half getting up. Murong Wei stroked the tassel on the fan, and said with a slow smile: "Qiu Sishan is too careful, you also know, since this palace saw you in Hanzhang, what else should you not say to Sister Wan?"

Qiu Sishan answered, and then picked up the key point and continued: "The small Buddha hall is pasted with snow-white Korean paper, which is very bright. Reflecting the plain white silk palace lamp on the desk, the figure of the scripture copyist will be clearly reflected in the window. ”

Since receiving Mama Luo's instructions, Qiu Sishan pays close attention to Guo Shanggong's words and deeds on weekdays. also learned to draw inferences, and even Mama Bai has an extra heart.

On the first and fifteenth days of the new year twice, Guo Shanggong asked the chef to prepare vegetarian food for her, and after bathing, she changed into vegetarian clothes and went to copy Buddhist scriptures alone.

After Qiu Sishan disappeared into the shadow of the flower, he looked at the silhouette of Guo Shanggong and cast it on the Goryeo paper, and he was extremely serious with one stroke at a time.

I didn't think it was strange before, but when I had doubts in my heart, I felt suspicious when I saw everything. Qiu Sishan always felt that Guo Shanggong's demeanor of copying scriptures was a little different from what he saw on weekdays, and he couldn't say what was different, so he could only go back to the room and figure it out to himself.

Guo Shanggong occasionally gave away the scriptures he copied, and Qiu Si had to send her a full text of the "Dizang Sutra", and that day she took a risk, guarding Guo Shanggong and pretending to memorize a few verses in the "Dizang Sutra" unintentionally, Guo Shanggong seemed ignorant and did not react.

Therefore, Qiu Sishan did not believe that Guo Shanggong was a true believer in Buddhism, and felt more and more that the problem might be in the small Buddha hall.

In the middle of the autumn moon the day before yesterday, Qiu Sishan did not pray for the moon with the palace maids, but focused all his attention on Guo Shanggong.

Taking advantage of Guo Shanggong's vegetarian diet in the evening, she cooked some rock sugar bird's nest porridge, made two plates of vegetable oil palace snacks, and brought the tray to Guo Shanggong's room in person.

The palace people who are not in charge of their duties are privately celebrating the reunion festival, and the masters are all blind to each other, and there is no one waiting here in Guoshang Palace. She was alone in her room and had already begun to eat dinner.

Steamed dumplings with mushroom choy sum, eight-treasure tofu, vegetarian mix, candied eggplant, and shrimp skin eggs. The reunion dinner on August 15, how simple it looks, seems to be a hasty meal.

Qiu Sishan presented bird's nest porridge, served a bowl for Guo Shanggong with his own hands, and said with a sincere smile: "The slaves and maids are only afraid that they are lazy today, Lord Shanggong is short of people to wait here, so he specially made two vegetarian snacks, Lord Shanggong is not vulgar." ”

Guo Shanggong seemed to be bent on copying the scriptures, and he was a little unsavory, so he reluctantly used half a bowl of bird's nest porridge and put his chopsticks aside.

Qiu Sishan admired and sighed: "Shanggong Niangniang is so pious, there must be a good person with good rewards." The slave and maid always have distracting thoughts, and they are not quiet in front of the Buddha, which is really ashamed. Today, I will serve Lord Shanggong wholeheartedly, and I will also be blessed with some Buddha. ”

Although Guo Shanggong laughed at her, he could see that he was very useful in his heart. After a simple bath, it was really served by Qiu Sishan to re-dress and change clothes.

Qiu Sishan remembered clearly that on that day, Guo Shanggong changed into a palace robe with a moon-white lotus pattern, his hair was tied up, and only a simple white hosta was inserted.

The hairpin is thin and long, and the hairpin tail is bent into the shape of water droplets, and the whole body is engraved with auspicious patterns.

In this way, Ziqiu Sishan is very familiar, and it is clearly a long hairpin specially made by Si Zhenfang when the first emperor died.

The two went out together, and Qiu Sishan sent Guo Shanggong to the small Buddha hall before he bowed and retired.

is only a foot away from the Buddha and Bodhisattva, and it is clear that he expressed his willingness to worship in front of the Buddha, Guo Shanggong just didn't open her mouth to let her go in to worship the Bodhisattva.

Qiu Sishan didn't insist, turned around and left, but he didn't go back to the room. Instead, he found a girl and took the tray in his hand, circled around himself, and turned to the side of the small Buddha hall.

When the silk yarn palace lamp in the small Buddha hall was lit, she hid in the underworld to take a closer look, and the silhouette cast on the Goryeo paper was vaguely the appearance of Guo Shanggong, but the long hairpin with curled hair was half a minute shorter, and the position of the insertion was also moved up slightly.

The makeup of Guo Shanggong was arranged by himself, and the long hairpin was also inserted by himself, and the position was categorically not mistaken, and the good white hosta was obviously intact, how could it be short for no reason?

Qiu Sishan was full of doubts, and only thought that the mystery was about to be revealed, and he refused to move his steps. I only stayed until the end of the second watch, thinking that the candles in the palace lamp burned out, and the lights and shadows were extinguished.

I think Guo Shanggong added candles, and when the silk yarn palace lamp was lit again, Qiu Sishan was surprised to find that the window screen of the Korean paper was clearly reflected, and the figure of Guo Shanggong sitting upright and copying the scriptures seemed to have not changed, but the long hairpin clearly returned to its original length and position.

In this way, Murong Wei had already understood what she meant, and Qiu Sishan suspected that the one who copied the scriptures was Li Dai Taozhuang, covering up the traces of the real Guo Shanggong.

It's not suspicious, Qiu Sishan just didn't dare to say that it was clear, the long hairpin changed back into a similar costume, and it was clear that the two of them had made similar outfits. Unexpectedly, Qiu Sishan was very clear, and he could tell the length of even half a minute.