Chapter 252: The Great Feast
In the early morning of the next day, the woman in purple came to her senses, and Emperor Guangen and Shen Xizhen were overjoyed, and hurriedly moved her to the special nursing room of the imperial doctor to be watched by the doctor day and night.
Emperor Guangen, who was finally relieved, took Shen Xizhen's hand and said, "Empress, let's have a good dinner tonight and call the three princes and the three princesses." ”
Shen Xizhen nodded again and again and said, "Okay." ”
She hadn't seen Chu Ziyao and Jiang Weibai for a long time.
After more than ten days of worry, Chu Ziyao and Jiang Weibai, who learned the news that the emperor and the queen had returned safely, were naturally very happy, and the two entered the palace early to attend the banquet.
Jiang Weibai and Chu Ziyao's child is more than two months old, and she is a daughter, named Chu Lingqing, who is carried by Jiang Weibai.
Shen Xizhen also hugged his son Chu Lingen, pulled the fourth prince Chu Zixun, and Hua Yueyu sat down with Chu Lingshuang and Chu Lingxuan, the children born to the first emperor.
Three of the five children still need to be hugged, so it is really bitter for Jiang Weibai and Shen Xizhen to eat a meal. But everyone was in a good mood.
However, after eating, looking at Chu Lingshuang, Chu Lingxuan and Chu Zixun, who lost their parents at a young age, everyone's hearts were inevitably a little sad.
"Anyway, let the past pass, and we have to look to the future." Emperor Guangen said with a smile.
"Yes, Your Majesty, Wechen is ashamed that he has never been able to share anything for you." Chu Ziyao said with a face full of shame.
Emperor Guangen waved his hand: "Your character is like this, I won't force it, if only you could take care of your family, of course." You can't be absent when there is something important in the court. ”
"That's nature." Chu Ziyao hurriedly said.
Emperor Guangen looked at the third brother who had already become a child's father, and then looked at the fourth brother who was less than a year old, and suddenly felt a sense of desolation for no reason in his heart. It's as if he's been living for hundreds of years.
Personnel changes!
He never imagined that his father and mother would die at such a young age, but this has become a fact, and he can no longer change it.
He thought of his brother Emperor Guangxuan again, his brother used to be so eager to be the emperor, and after becoming the emperor, he was in pain to death, and he didn't know if he felt at ease under the nine springs now.
From his father and brother to him, there have been three emperors in just a few years.
What a vicissitudes of the world! The world is impermanent!
The corners of Emperor Guangen's eyes suddenly moistened.
Chu Ziyao's eyes also reddened.
Jiang Weibai lowered his head. So you can't see her expression.
Only Shen Xizhen forced a smile.
Emperor Guangen looked at her, and his mood was slightly better.
yes, anyway. He still has her, after so many years of birth and death, she and he can still sit here peacefully, it's a miracle to think about it.
But in fourteen years she would leave him.
Thinking of this, Emperor Guangen's mood suddenly became a little irritable. He hurriedly said, "I went back to the Zichen Hall to approve the performance." ”
Everyone hurriedly got up to send each other off.
Chu Ziyao and Jiang Weibai were full. Shen Xizhen chatted with them for a while.
When the sky darkened, Chu Ziyao and Jiang Weibai said goodbye with humor, and Shen Xizhen went to the Zichen Hall to see Emperor Guangen.
Since Emperor Guangen became emperor, he often asked Shen Xizhen to accompany him to criticize the folds.
First, the two can accompany each other, and second, they can exchange views on political affairs.
And Shen Xizhen himself is a person who has seen the world and has a big picture in his heart, so he can always give him strong help in political affairs.
Emperor Guangen liked the feeling of her being by his side, so when he saw her coming, his mood slowly calmed down.
Shen Xizhen gently made him tea. His eyes looked at him tenderly, not letting go of any expression.
In her eyes. His joys, sorrows, and sorrows are a qiē.
A smile appeared on the corner of Emperor Guang's mouth.
"What did the emperor think of? Why did you suddenly laugh? Shen Xizhen asked deliberately.
"It's nothing, I just feel that every moment with you is so calm and happy, so I think it's good to have a day like this."
"So are the concubines." Shen Xizhen handed him a cup of tea and said with a smile.
After Emperor Guangen finished drinking a cup of tea, Shen Xizhen made him another full cup, but this time he didn't hand it to him again, but said with a smile: "Your Majesty, since you are safe and sound now, the concubine will mention a proposal." ”
Emperor Guangen immediately came to his senses and asked with a smile: "What is built?" ”
"The concubine once read in a book that there was a sutra banquet in the ancient imperial palace, but I don't know why this tradition was not continued later."
After hearing this, Emperor Guangen slowly put down the pen in his hand.
The banquet is a form of giving lectures to the emperor, the crown prince and high-ranking officials to the emperor by scholars or highly learned officials of the Hanlin Academy, and the content of the lectures is mainly based on the Confucian philosophy of governance, which is intended to cultivate the monarch's moral integrity, academic accomplishment and ability to govern the country, etc., and is also a very formal way of monarch education.
However, this type of education was interrupted more than 100 years ago and has not continued since.
Now hearing Shen Xizhen say this, Emperor Guangen's eyes couldn't help but light up.
"Although the emperor has learned five cars, if he can often listen to the lectures of highly learned ministers, this can not only play a role in reviewing the past and learning the new, but also effectively rectify the pride, corruption and other tendencies of officials, which is really beneficial and harmless." Shen Xizhen explained.
Emperor Guangen smiled and nodded: "The queen's words reminded me that now our Xi Kingdom is already a great country that unifies the Central Plains, and there should indeed be such a system." ”
Therefore, Emperor Guang'en immediately ordered the restoration of the system of the Great Sutra Feast, and held sutra banquets in the palace three times a month.
The civil and military officials who heard the news were very happy -- this was a rare opportunity for the scholars of the Hanlin Academy to show their talents, so they buried themselves in their studies as soon as they released the government, so as not to be asked by the emperor at that time.
Emperor Guangen and Shen Xizhen, who were busy with this matter, did not visit the woman in purple for a few days.
When he finally remembered the time in the evening, Emperor Endi hurriedly said, "I want to go and see her." ”
"Then the concubine will go too." Shen Xizhen said busily.
However, when they arrived at the door of the nursing room, they happened to meet an imperial doctor who rushed out of it in a panic, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”
The imperial doctor pounced and knelt down towards Emperor Guangen and Shen Xizhen: "Emperor Qiqi and Empress, just now, just now, the woman in purple disappeared in an instant. ”
It's gone?
Shen Xizhen and Emperor Guangen looked at each other.
"That's supposed to be where she wants to go." Emperor Guangen said faintly, and there was emotion in his eyes.
"This is not a simple fox!" Shen Xizhen said sincerely, and the respect for her in his heart suddenly increased. (To be continued......)