Qian Yuning stepped into the palace with Mrs. Hou, and saw that there were many tablets placed high and low around the hall, some of which were wrapped in fine lace with white silk cloth, and a personal name was written on it, and the light in the hall was dim, and there was a gloomy feeling. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Qian Yuning followed closely behind Mrs. Hou, and walked with Master Kongjing to the front of the innermost row of lattice rooms in the innermost part of the main hall, which were divided into a small room and a small room.

I saw Mrs. Hou walk to the front of the second cubicle, kneel down with a solemn face, and she beckoned Qian Yuning to come over and kneel on the futon on the right side of her.

Master Kongjing folded his hands and paused slightly, and said, "Amitabha! Lord Zhuo, please take care of yourself! The poor monk was outside the hall, chanting scriptures for Mrs. Zhuo. ”

Mrs. Hou nodded to him slightly, folded her hands, and said modestly: "Amitabha! Thank you, Master of Empty Tranquility! ”

Master Kong Jing took his little apprentice out of the gate of the Hall of Blessing, and the two masters and apprentices sat down cross-legged in front of the door of the hall at the entrance of the hall, and began to knock on the wooden fish and recite the scriptures.

And the Hou Mansion and the guards all knelt neatly outside the door of the main hall, waiting respectfully, the scene was silent, only the sound of Master Kongjing and his little apprentice Wuzhen chanting and wooden fish was heard.

Mrs. Hou said to Qian Yuning: "Put it on!" ”

Qian Yuning replied respectfully: "Yes, mother." "Open the bright yellow satin cloth bag in your hand and see that there are incense candles and paper money, as well as a white porcelain bottle of sesame oil, a white porcelain bottle of wine, a small wine glass, two strings of gold ingots, two strings of silver ingots, a stack of bright yellow paper money, a stack of filial piety clothes to entertain relatives, four pieces of papier-mâché clothes, a pair of papier-mâché boys, and a pair of papier-mâché girls.

She first laid out these things, then opened the small bag she had been carrying in her hand, and took out two sets of papier-mâché clothes, one dark blue and one dark green, and a string of gold ingots and a string of silver ingots, and set them aside one by one.

Mrs. Hou glanced at her and the two papier-mâché clothes, and opened the bag handed over by Meilian when she entered the hall just now, and inside was a neatly wrapped white-boiled chicken, only to see her respectfully put the white-boiled chicken in front of the tablet, and said in her mouth: "Mother, my daughter knows that you love to eat white-cut chicken, look, I brought it to you today, you can eat it well!" As she spoke, she picked up the white porcelain bottle filled with sesame oil and filled the everlasting lamp in front of Mrs. Zhuo's tablet.

After doing this, Mrs. Hou began to kowtow respectfully to the tablet with the inscription of the ancestor Zhuo Liu, and Qian Yuning did the same.

Soon after kowtowing, Mrs. Hou began to pick up two white candles on one side and light them on the everlasting lamp, inserting them in the candlestick in front of the tablet, one on each side, and lit three incense sticks with the flame on the candle to insert them in the middle of the two candles.

After doing this, Mrs. Hou Ye began to pick up the bright yellow paper money on the side and burn it in the brazier in front of her, and Qian Yuning also knelt down two steps and burned it together.

Mrs. Hou Ye began to chant while burning: "Mother, this is paper money for you, live better over there, eat and buy what you want, buy what you like, don't be restricted, don't be too expensive, you were too frugal during your lifetime." She picked up the boys and girls and burned them one by one in the brazier, and then said: "Mother, burn two more servants and two maids for you, listen to your call, and serve you comfortably, and your daughter will burn four times a year for you, so that you can be the same old lady over there, and live comfortably." Come, this is a garment for the four seasons, take it and wear it! ”

After Mrs. Hou burned the four pieces of clothes, she took the two pieces of paper clothes that Qian Yuning had just taken out and burned them together, and said, "Mother, this time I came to see you is the third granddaughter-in-law, and these two clothes are also her filial piety, so you can accept them." The eldest daughter-in-law is sick, so she can't come to see you anymore, but her two children are very happy. Brother Zhen and Sister Yun are both smart and filial children, when they are older, I will bring them to kowtow to you. The second granddaughter-in-law was married a few years ago, and this time she was supposed to come with her, but because she was pregnant, it had to be postponed until next year. This third one is also a good one, adding a male grandson and a granddaughter to our Hou Mansion, and he is very virtuous. Mother, you can bless our whole family in heaven, and bless our grandchildren with their hard work, peace and health, and no illness or disaster. ”

Mrs. Hou Ye talked a lot alone, and after talking for a while, she kowtowed, Qian Yuning watched her movements, as long as she kowtowed, she kowtowed, and silently burned the paper money in her hand, and the paper money and paper clothes in the brazier burned very strongly, reflecting her and Mrs. Hou's faces.

Mrs. Hou finally lost the paper in her hand, she kowtowed to her mother's tablet again, straightened up, and said a little sadly: "Mother, you can rest over there!" My daughter has already said to the master of Kongjing in this Puji Temple, and I will light an everlasting lamp for you, and in the future, if you lack anything or something, give me a dream, and I will have someone send it to you. ”

After the worship, Mrs. Hou stretched out her hand, Qian Yuning slowly helped her up, only to feel that her body was a little heavy, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law slowly walked to the door of the main hall, raised their feet high and stepped out of the high threshold on the main hall. When Master Kongjing saw the two of them come out, he and Little Master Wuzhen packed up the wooden fish in their hands, stood up, folded their hands and said, "Amitabha! Donor, if you feel a little tired! Please follow the poor monk to the meditation room for a while! ”

Mrs. Hou nodded, and Qian Yuning said, "So, thank you, master." ”

Master Kongjing nodded, lifted a string of Buddhist beads in his hand, walked out with his hands folded and took the lead in leading the way, and the little monk Wuzhen also carried a string of Buddhist beads in his hand and folded his hands and followed behind him. Qian Yuning helped Mrs. Hou Ye to walk behind them slowly, and everyone in the Hou Mansion also got up one after another to get out of the way from the middle, and only after they passed, did they follow in turn.

After the main hall of the king of Jizo and the main hall of Guanyin, Kong Jing took everyone left and right into a very quiet courtyard, this courtyard into the courtyard door will make people feel a pure and elegant atmosphere, there are no tall trees in the courtyard, only two common chestnut trees on the mountain. In addition, the road is planted a lot of wheat winter and four seasons spider plant, in addition, there are some spring orchids, peilan, Phnom Penh orchid, it seems, most of them are orchid grass, although it is winter, but these orchids are actually green and green, very spiritual, there is a faint fragrance of orchids in the air.

After Kong Jing brought them here, he pointed to a row of houses in the courtyard and said to Mrs. Hou: "Master Zhuo, this is the Orchid Garden, there is a hot spring behind the meditation room, this hot spring water is smooth and delicate, moisturizing the skin, and can remove body toxins, invigorate blood and menstruation, and make people strong and healthy, the orchids in this courtyard benefit from the warmth of the hot spring water, which is not thanked all year round, and there are orchids lingering next to the hot springs all the time, the environment is elegant and comfortable, I hope to help you with Zhuo Shizhuo." ”

Mrs. Hou tried her best to climb the mountain herself, and without resting, she went to worship the Bodhisattva first, and worshiped Mrs. Zhuo, and now she was already very tired, and now she heard Kong Jing say this, and she cheered up, smiled reluctantly, folded her hands, and bowed to him, saying, "Thank you Master Kong Jing for your guidance, Meilian." Mrs. Hou Ye shouted, and the big girl Meilian on the side took out two silver tickets from her sleeve, and Mrs. Hou took it and put it into Kong Jing's hand, and said: "I also have to bother Master Kong Jing to continue to worship my mother with the ever-bright lamp and all the daily incense wax in the future, a little meaning, these two thousand taels will be donated to your temple to make a sesame oil money!" Please be sure to accept it, it's really disturbing, not respectful! ”

Kong Jing wrapped the Buddha beads in his hand around his right hand twice, put his hands together, waved to Mrs. Hou, and said in his mouth: "Amitabha! Lord Zhuo Shi was polite, that is, he added sesame oil and daily offerings to his relatives, and the poor monk accepted it, and the rest would be used to reshape the golden body of the Bodhisattva, Amitabha! The merits of Lord Zhuo are immeasurable! Good, good, good! ”

Master Kong Jing and Little Master Wuzhen retreated, and Qian Yuning saw that Mrs. Hou's face was not very good, and it seemed that she was too tired, so she hurriedly asked someone to go to the meditation room to have a look, and made the bed first. Qian Yuning and Meilian helped Mrs. Hou Ye in and gently put her in the bed, covered her with a quilt, and instructed Dongxue to bring the two little maids to fetch hot water and bring some food, and specially instructed to boil some hot porridge. She thought, Mrs. Hou is tired at this time, and she is in a bad mood, so she probably can't eat too much, so it is better to boil some hot porridge to warm her stomach first, and then eat other things when she has opened up some appetite.

Mrs. Hou Ye lay on the bed, after a while, she fell asleep, a little maid fetched some hot water, Qian Yuning personally twisted a handkerchief to wipe Mrs. Hou's face, wiped her face and wiped her two hands carefully, and finally, Mei Lian washed Mrs. Hou's feet, she was used to serving, her movements were fast, light and sharp, and she did not wake up the sleeping old lady at all.

After doing this, Meilian said to Qian Yuning considerately: "Third lady, the slave maid sees that you are also tired for a day, why don't you go back to the room to rest, the slave and maid here are watching." ”

Qian Yuning was indeed a little tired, so he nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll go next door to rest for a while, and if my mother wakes up in a while, you will be the first to inform me." You know? ”

Meilian responded, Qian Yuning took Xiao Man to the next room with confidence, and the next door was also a meditation room as big as Mrs. Hou's, the little maids had already come in and arranged it just now, and people could rest when they entered.

Qian Yuning sat on the stool, Xiao Man came over to pinch her shoulders, relaxed her stiff muscles, she squinted and enjoyed, and asked, "Xiao Man, have you all done where you live?" Who assigns it? ”

Xiao Man replied: "Back to the third lady, everything is done, the slave maid and Dong Xue and a few second-class maids live next door to this room, and the slave and maid will exchange with Dong Xue to keep vigil for the third lady." As for Sister Meilian and some of the other sisters, they lived in the two rooms next to Mrs. Hou's room. ”

"What about the guards of the Hou Mansion?" Qian Yuning asked.

Xiao Man thought for a while and said, "I heard Sister Meilian say that it was arranged in the last two rooms. ”

"Oh! Xiaoman, you go and tell the guards, from now on, there must be two people guarding the door of this courtyard at all times, lest some pilgrims who come to the temple don't know and break in by mistake and disturb the purity of Mrs. Hou, but it's not good. ”

Xiao Man respectfully agreed, said "yes", and went out to convey the order to the guards of the Hou Mansion.

Qian Yuning relaxed at this time, feeling that his whole body was starting to ache, and he was tired again, so he simply climbed into bed and went to sleep. (To be continued.) )