August 21, this was an ordinary day, but today in the Great Qi Kingdom, this day has become unusual. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because it is also the festival day of Zhou Tianzi.

In the past, the Great Qi Kingdom would not pay tribute to Zhou Tianzi every year, but this year, Zhao Yuan pacified the southern Xinjiang and eliminated several major pillar states that had lasted for more than a thousand years from the Zhou Dynasty to the present.

Although the Pillar Kingdom is gone, a large number of powerful families still exist. In order to win the hearts of the people and show the national prestige of Daqi, Zhao Yuan issued a decree announcing that Daqi would be inherited from the ritual system established by Zhou Tianzi.

With this will, the Great Qi Kingdom suddenly changed from the opposite of the Shijiawang clan to an alliance with these clans, so that the Shijiawang clan, which was originally leaderless, found a bold and powerful leader.

Since he has become the leader of the Shijiawang clan, today's sacrifice day of Zhou Tianzi cannot be hastily passed, and it must be solemnly commemorated.

Unfortunately, on the morning of August 21, Yunyang's body became uncomfortable for some reason, and Zhao Yuan decided to stay in the palace to take care of Yunyang, so the ceremony to commemorate Zhou Tianzi was held in the royal temple that day, and Zhao Yuan could not participate.

However, if he does not participate in this event, he will definitely cause dissatisfaction among the family members. The trust they had just established in Zhao Yuan was afraid that it would soon fall apart.

Just when Zhao Yuan was in a dilemma, Xuanbo stood up, and she was willing to go to Chongshan Temple to pay tribute to Zhou Tianzi's ceremony instead of her father. Zhao Yuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately approved Xuanbo's request and ordered her to go to Chongshan Temple as soon as possible.

The royal memorial service is always long and tedious. Xuan Bo stood in the middle of the main hall, and first listened to the official read out the strange and obscure sacrificial texts.

Then I listened to hundreds of musicians play solemn but dull ceremonial music. At the end of the ceremony, it is a complicated memorial process, and after the memorial, there are dozens of chanting of senior monks.

After all these projects were completed, it was past noon, and Xuanbo's legs that had stood for four hours were numb, she raised her hand slightly, and the two palace maids immediately walked over, helping her to walk slowly outside the hall.

At this time, the swirling waves have the opportunity to take a good look at Chongzenji Temple in early autumn.

As a royal temple, the scenery of Chongzenji Temple is really rare and quiet. This temple is built according to the mountain, there are mountain springs outside the temple, the water and gas are dense all day long, the ancient trees in the temple stand, the pines and cypresses Cui Wei, there are often rare birds and beasts in the temple to walk leisurely.

Xuanbo has loved animals since he was a child, and now he is very happy to see so many little squirrels, rabbits and other animals playing freely here, and his face is swept away from the sleepiness in the ceremony of commemorating Zhou Tianzi just now.

Xuanbo wanted to go and see the small animals, but he was afraid that there would be too many people following him, so he would disturb them. When she saw that there was no one around, she lowered her voice and said to the palace maid beside her: "I'll go around the temple, don't follow any of you, I'll be back in a while." ”

Although the palace maids were not at ease, they did not dare to stop them, so they had to nod silently.

Whirlbo smiled with satisfaction, turned his head and walked down the jagged stone path of the ancient pines, watching the little squirrels picking up pine cones on the grass as he went.

Suddenly, she heard the sound of birdsong coming from her head, the voice was high-pitched and clear, tactful and changeable, very pleasant, and when she looked up, she saw that it was two purple whistling thrushes playing on the branches.

The plumage of the purple whistling thrush is a deep and light blue-purple color, with a black beak and red eyes, which is quite rare in the Central Plains. When I saw the swirling waves, my heart rippled.

It turned out that she loved purple the most, and the purple on this bird was pure that could not be seen elsewhere, and the attention of the whirling wave was all attracted by the pair of birds.

Xuanbo lightly lifted the Yueluo gauze skirt and tiptoed over.

Her voice was soft, but it still sounded harsh under the quiet old trees. When the two purple whistling thrushes heard the sound, they immediately flapped their wings and flew away.

When Xuanbo saw the bird fly away, he was anxious, but he couldn't attack, so he had to follow the pair of purple whistling thrushes from locust tree to poplar tree, and from the stone path to the courtyard.

After turning an unknown number of corners, Whirlwave was looking up at the birds, and suddenly they jumped and disappeared.

Xuanbo was depressed in his heart, lowered his head, and then found that he had walked to the door of a courtyard with gray walls and tiles, and the black lacquered wooden door in front of the door was half-hidden, and there seemed to be a human voice coming from inside.

In order to find out where this is, Xuanbo planned to go into the courtyard to ask for advice, just arrived at the door, looked in through the half-open door, and saw a person standing in the courtyard, and when he saw this person's figure, Yunyang was shocked, and immediately turned around and hid by the wall.

It turned out that there was a woman standing sideways in the courtyard, this person was wearing an apricot yellow Hanchun Luo jacket, with a purple silver thread embroidered camellia pattern Fahua yarn shawl, this dress was also worn by Xuan Bo, and this woman's height and body shape were no different from her.

Xuanbo's face began to turn pale, and his heart was pounding: "Is this a ghost?" How can there be a self here? ”

Although he was flustered, Xuanbo still tried his best to calm down: his clothes were made by the Zhangyi Bureau, and there was only one set, how could others get them? On second thought, it's not impossible for someone else to wear the same clothes as you, although extremely rare.

It turned out that in addition to getting the silver from the royal family, the Zhangyi Bureau in the palace also secretly found a new way to make money. It is to secretly write down the clothes styles of the concubines and princesses in the palace.

After the clothes were presented to the court, the palace people in charge of the clothing bureau took out the list of styles and fabrics they had written down before, made several sets according to the above records, and then sold them to the noble ladies in Luoyang City at a high price.

So the young woman in the courtyard probably wore the same clothes as Princess Xuanbo in this way.

"But what is a young girl doing in this secluded courtyard? Could it be that you are watching purple whistling thrushes like me? Curiosity swelled, and he looked in through the circular window on the wall.

I saw this woman standing under a cluster of slender and dense bamboos in the courtyard, and a middle-aged monk with a height of more than six feet stood two feet away from her in front of her.

At this time, I heard the girl say, "Are you going to see me again?" ”

The middle-aged monk neither looked back nor accosted him.

Seeing him so cold, the girl became emotional, and her voice trembled and said: "At this time last year, the green plums were like beans, picked with Yi, leaning on the east wind on the flowers, and there was no drunken dream. Now, the wind outside the screen window shakes the green bamboo, the sound of blowing after the people go, the bead curtain is lonely, and the tears are a thousand points. The drums and the yaoqin are all bleak sounds. Do you know that I am alone in the cold moon and cold couch, lovesick night and night, and it is difficult to sleep. ”

After hearing this, Xuanbo praised in his heart: "I didn't expect this girl to be a talented girl, and she said it in a brilliant way, not inferior to those talents in the world." ”

I saw that the middle-aged monk didn't look back, and said slowly: "You go back." There are two worlds of monks and laymen, and it is difficult for a reed to cross the forgotten river. ”

When the girl heard him say this, she burst into tears and said quietly, "But to whom do I complain of mourning?" The spring scenery only caused countless sadness, and the voice was even more bitter. ”

The middle-aged monk looked up to the sky and sighed: "In this life, I have served as if I came, and I will eventually be defeated." ”

His words made the young girl's emotions almost out of control. She said angrily: "Since the flowing water is ruthless, why is the courtyard quiet, the flowers are dense, and I have a few times of wind and moon." ”