Chapter 258: Transcending the Revenant
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At the beginning of the year, the Empress Dowager sent a good female official to ask Li Shuci if she was ready, and then she was going to Chongyuan Temple. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ info Li Shuci followed the good female official directly to the Queen Mother's Fengxian Palace.
According to the folk saying, a person who 'dies horizontally' is not allowed to enter the ancestral grave, and he is not allowed to die a good death, and the lack of Fury will affect the luck of the living relatives. The death of the eighth prince was too tragic, and the first seven was the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, so there was a bit of a collision, so from today onwards, he had to do the 7749 days of the law in a row, and he could go to bed in the imperial mausoleum.
Chongyuan Temple is not far from the west city, and the royal rituals or ceremonies are all here, which can be regarded as a royal temple. Li Shuci followed the Queen Mother out of the carriage and looked at the bright and solemn faΓ§ade of the temple in front of him. The plaque is from the hand of the first emperor, strong and powerful, and magnificent. In the eaves of the yellow wall, you can see the tall pagoda standing in it, the bell tower and the drum tower are divided into east and west, all of which are the places of respect and admiration.
Walk into the courtyard, surrounded by stone guardrails, through the bright yellow short curtain can vaguely see the incense mist in front of the golden Buddha in the hall. It is said that the beams in the hall of Chongyuan Temple are covered with agarwood, and the rest of the building is built without a lack of precious golden silk nanmu, which is not much worse than the Taimiao.
Emperor Xuwen's body still needs to be raised, and there is no empress, and the grandmother of the Queen Mother, who is the eighth prince, is also the only elder who can preside over this overall situation now. "The Queen Mother is slower. β
The good lady walked in front, and there were no monks in the temple to wait here, and when she met on the road, she only folded her hands and lowered her face to the side, and the queen mother, who was second only to the king, did not feel lazy at all. After all, all beings are equal, and everyone who comes here is mortal. Li Shuci looked at the incense burner of the Buddha hall everywhere, the verandah mountain stone, no place is not exquisite and rich, although it is winter, the courtyard still does not show the solitude, the green pine gray stone, the bright yellow short curtain, the ever-bright lamps and candles are reflected in one place, and the Buddha statue in the hall is solemn. After all, it is a royal temple, and this brilliant and indifferent bearing really amazed Li Shuci.
The first emperor was also stopped here, and the queen mother wanted to bless Chongnan for thousands of generations with a stick of incense to comfort the spirit of the first emperor.
The Empress Dowager's respect for the first emperor is also one of the reasons for Emperor Xuwen's respect for the Empress Dowager.
The Queen Mother entered a large hall, and Li Shuci and the others stopped outside and did not go inside. The main hall stands in the center of the whole temple, with seven rooms wide and four rooms deep, and the three main halls in the front, middle and back constitute a triple garden. In the main hall, under the statue of the golden Buddha with compassion and eyes, there are three brand-new and neat futons, the queen mother took the incense stick handed by the monk on the side, knelt on the futon in the middle and recited silently for a long time, before kowtowing three heads, inserting the incense stick into the incense burner. When the Queen Mother moved out, Li Shuci and others went in one by one to kowtow and incense.
"Let's go see Yu'er together. If there is a sigh, it just shows that the grandmother is sorry for her grandson, she and the many children of Emperor Xuwen do not have much flesh and blood affection, but after more than ten years of getting along, there is always affection in the heart. However, Li Shuci felt that with the heart of the Queen Mother, at best, the status of the Eighth Prince in the Queen Mother's mind may be comparable to the white-faced Xiaosheng in the Joy Garden. It's just her 'companion' in the second half of her lonely life.
The group went around the main hall to a hall at the back, there were countless palace people and many familiar faces standing inside and out, and there was a huge black coffin in the courtyard, such a black coffin was for those who had suffered death by swords and guns, or who had died early by themselves. It's just that the royal people still use gold lacquer around the coffin to show their status.
In the coffin is the coffin of the eighth prince Jin Yu, there are not a few people who come here to see the eighth prince on the last journey, and they step forward to meet the queen mother one by one and retreat to the side for silent mourning.
Li Shuci looked at the place where everyone was crowded, and sure enough, the Confucian King was standing in it. He was dressed in a black brocade robe, wearing a white mid-top inside, slightly exposed from the collar and cuffs. There is no sense of coldness and hardness on him in this body, and he feels that his face is moist and not stained with mortal dust. As the saying goes, female filial piety is not false.
When he saw the Queen Mother coming, he respectfully stepped forward to ask if he wanted to start doing it. Li Shuci did not see the slightest look in his eyebrows and eyes that did not belong to this situation, and his face had an expression almost exactly the same as the grief of that day, as if he had practiced the mirror thousands of times before he was relieved to show it in front of everyone without any fault, so that people could not find anything to blame.
And when his eyes touched Li Shuci, the meaning seemed to beg her for comfort, like a child who had been robbed of candy, trying to get what he wanted again in this way. Li Shuci's eyes subconsciously avoided it, so he didn't see some kind of unexplained light overflowing from one of them at one moment.
"Let's get started. The Queen Mother commanded in a deep voice, and everyone hurriedly invited the Queen Mother into the palace. Li Shuci was cross-legged beside the Queen Mother, surrounded by three-tiered palace maids, and then on the periphery were the monks who chanted the scriptures and purified the souls of the dead.
Li Shuci from the open door of the palace, just in time to see the palace people open the coffin of the eighth prince, when the four palace people who opened the coffin moved the heavy gold and black coffin lid to the side, one of the palace people subconsciously glanced inside, I don't know what I saw, suddenly full of horror, his hands slipped, and the heavy coffin lid fell on the coffin with a bang.
The people present were all startled by this sudden sound, and all the sadness, doubt, heartache and other expressions couldn't help but be stunned, Li Shuci looked at these beings clearly, and couldn't help sighing. It's really sorry for the Eighth Prince, he's still a child. However, it was he who started this incident, and he should have forgiven this sin in order to be 'reborn'.
"What's going on?" King Ru frowned, as if he was angered by this disrespectful act, and he couldn't bear to attack in front of the Eighth Prince: "Why are you so careless." β
The palace man stammered, opened his mouth, pointed to the coffin with his eyes and stared at him without speaking, and several palace people who were carrying the coffin lid next to him also saw it at this time, looking incredulous and unsteady on their feet.
Just when everyone was about to get up and step forward, a gust of cold wind fluttered in the courtyard, and countless white confetti suddenly floated out of the coffin of the Eighth Emperor, which spread out one after another, like goose feathers and snowflakes in the sky, and after flying for a while, they fell on the heads, hands, and clothes of everyone in the courtyard.
On the slender strip of paper that curls slightly, a few lines of small characters come into everyone's eyes.
"When I show my faith, it will be the time when I am dead. The brotherly love between me and Jin Yao is not enough to describe. β
The Queen Mother looked at the handwriting on the note suspiciously, "What does this mean......" asked what it meant, in fact, she had already seen what it meant, so she would have such doubts.
The words of the eighth prince accusing Jin Yao before his death are still in his ears, but at this moment, it shows that between the two of them, brothers are of one heart and one mind.
Li Shuci picked up another note and said, "Queen Mother, it seems that the content is different." β
The Queen Mother took the note in her hand and looked at it, and sure enough, the content was not the same: "I have been working hard in the palace for many years, and I am under the control of others, I am overwhelmed, take the first step, and hope that my brother will cherish himself." These words obviously mean something, as if he meant that his actions before his death were done as a last resort. In other words, it seems to be saying goodbye to Jin Yao.
picked up another one, and it was still another astonishing statement: "My small body is not enough to comfort the people of the world, but there must be a reason for it, I hope to die this time, but it is not a pity to wake up one or two people." β
The people in the courtyard seemed to be stunned, and they didn't care about the etiquette of dignity and humility, so they picked up the white paper around them and watched.
"The king's spirit is exhausted, the traitors are in chaos, and the world is bewitched. My brother tried his best to overturn it, but he couldn't do it. β
Since I said earlier that he and Jin Yao are brothers and sisters, my brother here naturally refers to him. Who, then, is the traitor referring to?
"The wind and rain in the court are inevitable, I don't dare to steal and steal my life, but I hope that after death, my soul can return to the underworld and still be able to gather with my brother. β
The people present were all relatives of the emperor, princes and nobles, and they were all very surprised by these words, and they couldn't help whispering at the moment. "It seems that there is something else going on in there!"
"The Eighth Prince is so young, but he suffered this misfortune, which is already deplorable. Now it seems that ...... of them"
"Adulterer...... Who are you talking about?" This flying white paper seems to be evidence that the coerced Eighth Emperor Prince is unwilling to be controlled by a 'traitor' like this, and only dares to announce it after his tragic death.
"The Eighth Prince couldn't even die in peace, and he was secretly coerced to do this defiling of the Six Princes. Now, when he is relieved after death, he specially clarifies that there is another disgrace in this matter. It's really intriguing. Now the court is divided into two worlds, this traitor ......"
Someone next to him turned him with his elbow, and the man immediately remembered something and immediately shut up.
The Confucian King squeezed a few notes into the palm of his hand, and his gaze looked at Li Shuci, who was standing beside the Queen Mother. Can this little trick bring him down? His princess looked down on him too much. "Queen Mother, the time has come, let's start quickly. β
Everyone listened to his words and stood back in place, exchanging glances with each other from time to time. The Queen Mother's shock was by no means smaller than anyone present, but it was not something she needed to make a choice. All she could do at this time was let what was in front of her continue.
Around the coffin of the Eighth Prince, the lips of a hundred eminent monks moved, and a series of scriptures spit out from them, as if they were going to suppress Fang Cai's strange scene.
Li Shuci saw that the Confucian King looked at her meaningfully, and naturally understood his seemingly provocative meaning, but she remained silent and still knelt there reverently. This is indeed not convincing, after all, the courtiers have more or less experienced the conspiracy and trickery of using this as a gimmick. But the conspiracy is nothing more than fiction and reality, as long as there is a mind to disturb these people in the bureau, the next thing can be logical.