Chapter 029: Drink Blessing
There were many accidents when he made a memorial ceremony, which made Zhao Hao very annoyed, so that he couldn't help but suspect that God looked at him differently and opposed him everywhere, and that today's scene was not chaotic enough. But when he came to the scene, he couldn't cry or laugh, only to see a group of ragged and dirty children scurrying around in the field, competing for offerings in front of the spirit, and the people in the house of course refused, and stepped forward to block them, but those children were nimble and dodged left and right and took things and ran. Chasing here and running there, it is natural that chickens and dogs jump into a pot of porridge.
"Stop, how can you hit people at will!" The children disrupted the festival, the people in the house were very angry, grabbed the person and stretched out their hands to beat, Zhao Yu was a good young man in his previous life, how could he tolerate this kind of bullying behavior that happened under his nose, and hurriedly shouted.
"Your Highness, I don't know where so many 'little monkeys' came to make trouble, scramble for offerings, and can't leave!" As soon as Zhao Yu shouted, the people on the field stopped chasing and stood on the spot, and Zhao Mengliang, who was responsible for maintaining order, replied, but he was still carrying a child's neck and did not let go.
"Who are you, and why are you disrupting the festival?" Zhao Yu waved his hand to let Zhao Mengliang let go, and asked the child.
"Your Highness, we are the children of the generals of the army, and we are here to 'drink blessings', and we didn't mean to make trouble, but I didn't expect the Weiwang Mansion to be so stingy." The other children were so frightened that they drooped their heads and didn't dare to say anything when they saw a group of people hugging Zhao Yu coming out violently, but this child stood up and dusted off the dirt on his body, and said with a salute, listening to his tone, not only did not admit his mistake, but had the intention of blaming.
"Drink Fu?!" Zhao Yu was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, there didn't seem to be this item in the ceremony, and he didn't know what it meant.
"Your Highness, drinking blessing is ......" Zhuang Shilin looked at His Highness with an ignorant face, and hurriedly leaned down and explained in his ear.
Zhao Yu then figured out what was going on, it turned out that the people of the Song Dynasty have always attached great importance to the sacrifice, and the offerings placed are naturally very rich, there are wine, meat and fruit plates, and the larger festivals are also accustomed to using the 'head of the three animals', that is, the head of the pig, the head of the sheep and the head of the cow, these three are all raw, and they are taken home after the memorial, if the weather is too hot, the memorial ceremony is too long, and it is easy to stink halfway. So the people of the Song Dynasty made improvements, and while sacrificing, they also 'smoked and burned the heads of animals' - roasted pig's heads, sheep's heads and ox heads. At the end of the ceremony, the roasted animal is cut open and eaten and drunk on the spot along with the offerings, which is called drinking blessings, which means that eating the offerings and drinking the offerings will bring blessings to the living.
"Oh, in that case, everyone shares ......" Zhao Yu wanted to laugh when he heard it, the Song people were really romantic enough, there was an offering table in front of the grave, and a charcoal oven was placed next to the offering table, the fire was blazing, roasting the "head of the three animals", roasting the aroma in the cemetery, and then everyone gathered around the spirit to drink and eat meat, that scene must be full of reverie.
"Your Highness......" As soon as His Highness's words came out, he was interrupted by Zhuang Shilin, and he gave him a look.
"......" Zhao Yu listened to and looked at everyone and immediately realized that he was going to commit 'public anger', a few days ago everyone was hungry and afraid, and now they have just eaten a few days of full food, but there is still very little oil and water, in order to prepare for the festival, they have prepared a lot of offerings without sparing money, plus there are a lot of people sent from all over the place, everyone expects to satisfy their hunger after the festival, but now a group of people who share food are of course not happy.
"Hmph, I said why Wei Wangfu is so stingy, it turns out that there is a stingy master." The young man saw Zhao Hao's eyes flickering as if he was hesitating, and said coldly.
"To slander Your Highness like this, if it weren't for the fact that you were a child, I would beat you half to death first!" Zhao Mengliang was furious when he heard this, and shook his fist and said.
"Let's go, you still said that King Wei is righteous and squandering money, the most generous, he has to come to beg for food, now you understand, he is just a stingy ghost." The kid wasn't afraid, stretched out his hand to pull away Zhao Mengliang's fist, and beckoned to a group of children on the field.
"Hehe, your temper is not small, even if you came to participate in the blessing, did you bring an offering, a ceremony, or did you pay a sacrifice before the spirit? It's clear that you are not polite yourself, but on the contrary, we are stingy, and there is such a reason in the world!" Zhao Yu didn't get angry when he heard this, and laughed back.
Zhao Yu looked at the child in front of him as he spoke, he was only eleven or twelve years old, surrounded by everyone but not afraid, he could still talk eloquently, tell some crooked reasoning, and faintly be the leader of this group of children. Looking at the clothes on his body, although they are old, they are brocade robes, which are by no means worn by ordinary people, they should be the children of wealthy people, and he said that he was lying if he couldn't eat enough, but it seemed that he was deliberately making trouble. But now he has damaged himself for a long time, and the purpose has been achieved, but he said that he would go, but he did not move, which was strange, so that Zhao Hao had to suspect that he was deliberately provoking himself, of course he couldn't fall for it, otherwise he would lose his life in the hands of a child.
"This ......" The child obviously didn't expect this young prince to ask him so rhetorically for a while, but he didn't give up, his eyes rolled and said, "I said that Your Highness's stinginess is not a matter of drinking blessings, you only take in those officers and soldiers of your own fiefdom, but it is also stingy to ignore our cold, warm and hungry." ”
"Your Highness, the soldiers have their own food and salary to take home for use, this little monkey is clever and clever to set up a bureau for His Highness, there is no need to reason with him, just blast it out." Even an honest person like Zhao Yu could see that there was a ghost in it, and of course the old Jianghu Zheng Huchen saw through his trick and waved his hand to let the guards do it.
"Your Highness, this is not the case, we are really the children of fallen soldiers in the army, although the court has regulations, but it has not been distributed in full for several months, everyone has been hungry for a long time, and here we just want to borrow a drink to eat a full meal!" When the boy saw that his trick had been discovered, he was a little anxious and shouted as he dodged.
"Your Highness, this ......" Zheng Huchen found that His Highness's face became ugly, and he thought badly, but he was interrupted before he could say anything.
"Nonsense, why do you dare to slander the court like this?" Zhao Yu suddenly turned his face when he heard this, and shouted, "Come on, quickly take them all down, send them to the West Courtyard, and wait for disposal!" ”
"Your Highness, they are just children, so ......" His Royal Highness suddenly reversed his mind and changed his mind, which surprised Zhao Mengjin very much, he meant to blow these people out, but he didn't expect to take people, but he thought in his heart that His Highness's children couldn't listen to bad words, so he was annoyed for a while, and hurriedly reminded.
"General Zhao, didn't you understand His Highness's words?" Without waiting for His Highness to answer, Zheng Huchen, who was standing on the side, gave Zhao Mengjin a look and said.
"Ah...... Yes, subordinates obey! Although Zhao Mengjin didn't understand what it meant, he knew that Zheng Huchen would never hint at him for no reason, so he replied, and held down the child first, but Zheng Huchen was also relieved, and Zhao Yu flicked his sleeves and went back to the house with a calm face......
Then there was a burst of chickens and dogs jumping in the house, those children were just able to get their hands on it but they were unprepared, and now that everyone was prepared, they were no match for the adults no matter how much they could toss, so it didn't take long for all the hundred and ten children to be caught and locked up. In the eyes of everyone, this was just an episode, and they didn't take it to heart, and began to prepare for the drink, and everything quickly returned to calm.
"Your Highness, those children have been locked up, what should I do with them?" Zhao Mengjin entered the main hall to report that those children were very capable of tossing, especially the leader one, even if he was locked up, he was still noisy, he couldn't beat him, and he wasn't afraid to be scared, which gave him a headache.
"Your Highness, they are still children after all, and most of what they say is the truth, so let them go after a lesson!" Huang Xianyao bowed to His Royal Highness and said, judging from his own experience these days, everyone knows that what the children said is definitely true.
"Well, you can't put it for the time being, let someone send them some food first!" Zhao Hao nodded but did not agree.
"Your Highness, why are you ......" Huang Xianyao said in surprise when he heard this, and most of the people in the hall were also puzzled, obviously also puzzled, this was very different from His Highness's usual behavior.
"Major General Huang, don't ask again, Your Highness is very considerate, and if you let it go now, it will probably harm them and us." Cai Wanyi, the Quanzhou city official sitting on the side, interjected.
"Lord Cai, why is this?" Huang Xianyao was even more puzzled, and couldn't help but ask again.
"Alas, you don't want to think about it, this morning the imperial court just issued an order to posthumously crown the martyrs who were killed, and to enshrine you, which is an act of grace. But suddenly, a group of children in the house claimed that the imperial court withheld military dependents and rations, which made His Royal Highness explain, and the mixed fish and dragons in the house will inevitably have ears on the wall, and once the holy hearing is conveyed, it will inevitably cause trouble. Cai Wanyi sighed and said.
Zhao Yu didn't say anything more after hearing this, as if he acquiesced in what he said, but he nodded secretly, thinking that there were still people in the house who could understand his thoughts. Although he had no experience in politics in his previous life, he also experienced office struggles, and at that time he struggled to win a bonus in order to encourage his subordinates, but as soon as it was issued, some people complained that they did not meet their personal expectations, and the result reached the ears of the boss. The matter had nothing to do with him, and it was not his instigation, but in the end, he was scolded and didn't say anything, and a few people who complained were fired and squid. Therefore, when he heard the child say 'the truth' in public, he realized that it was not good, and he could only reprimand him in public to show his gratitude, and put them in protective confinement
"Oh, I see!" Everyone in the hall was stunned when they saw that His Highness recognized it, if those children went out to talk nonsense when they were full, wouldn't it be just a slap in the face of the emperor and the court? If it is investigated, the prince may be fine, and they will probably have to be accused of 'not repaying their kindness and slandering the court'. Thinking about the key to this, everyone looked at His Highness with complicated eyes, especially the latecomers......