In the afternoon of the same day, people from the palace cleaned up the Zhulin Courtyard of Jiqing Temple as a temporary resting place for the Queen Mother. As the main temple in Beijing, and the royal border, and the scenery is good, it has naturally become a place for the powerful and wealthy in Beijing to worship the Buddha, so many annexes were built for these princes and nobles to live in, and also for those ladies to do the place to practice. The place where Zhu Lin Villa and Zhao Yu live is actually separated by a wall, and it used to be the residence of the ministers who accompanied the driver, and the conditions were naturally not too bad.

After the selection, the palace guards searched inside and out, and sealed off all the surrounding areas of the temple, prohibiting everyone from approaching. And Zhao Yu, as a 'landlord', naturally wants to follow Zhang Yu to show filial piety. In fact, Wang Dezai naturally doesn't need him to do it, or even move his mouth, he just needs a look, and he just shows his sense of existence, and naturally someone sings 'praise' for him in front of the Queen Mother.

Zhao Hao watched the entire courtyard quickly change under the busyness of everyone, the walls of all the rooms were covered with plain silk again, and lanterns were hung everywhere in the courtyard. The residence of the Queen Mother has also been carefully arranged, and all the things used are new, or taken from the palace, and the old things in the temple are discarded. This made him very unhappy, just resting his feet was so costly, and it was too wasteful, but the Queen Mother was not so extravagant in the past!

"Li Gan, don't you know the rules of the palace?" Seeing that the little emperor's brows were getting tighter and tighter, he knew that the master was not happy in his heart. And the reason is self-evident, His Majesty has lived in the temple for so many days, and the room he lives in is all old things in the temple except for the things he uses, and he has not added a single thing, so he must have felt distressed, so he called the inner servant in charge of this matter.

"Meet the officials! I've seen a big official, but I don't know what to order? When Li Gan heard this, he immediately trotted over and said.

"Li Gan, you are also an old man in the palace, there has long been customization in the palace, the Queen Mother and Your Majesty travel everything is simple, not extravagant, and extravagant. Don't you understand! Wang De pointed his finger at his head and said sharply.

"Big official, small self-knowledge." Li Gan bent deeper and replied in a loud voice.

"Knowingly, your ass is itchy, right? Do you want to sprinkle a household whip to scratch you! Wang De sneered and patted his shoulder.

"The big official spares his life, please listen to the small reply!" Li Gan heard that it was originally a snow-white eunuch face, and instantly turned into iron blue, and hurriedly knelt down and said, "This time the Queen Mother has already made an edict, and this time to worship the Queen Mother, everything is arranged by the newly elected girls in the palace, and such an arrangement is definitely not a small idea!" ”

"Then why don't you want to persuade them and let them do what they do?" Wang De glanced at the little emperor when he heard this, but when he saw that his brows were furrowed deeper, he still said with a straight face and anger.

"The little one has said everything, but the girl Cheng who presided over the arrangement said that how can the place where the Queen Mother walks be simple, and these don't cost much money, and it is not as expensive as the cost of traveling at home!" Li Gan said with a bitter face.

"Which Miss Cheng?" Zhao Hao asked out loud.

"The official family, whose name is Cheng Su, is a show girl who has passed the second election!" After Li Gan gave the salute, he looked left and right, and pointed to a little girl in the crowd.

"Oh, that's it, it seems that this Cheng is not a vegetarian!" Zhao Yu looked in the direction of his finger and saw a little girl in a light green dress pointing everyone to hang the curtain, and nodded.

"Official, little ......" Li Gan was stunned for a moment, not knowing what His Majesty meant.

"Since the Queen Mother has already made arrangements, don't say more, let them go!" Zhao Yu waved his hand.

"The official family has already ordered, what are you still doing in a daze, looking for a fight?" Wang De stepped forward and kicked him, and Li Gan listened to the hurried resignation and quickly slipped away.

"Official, what does the Queen Mother mean? Let these little girls do whatever they want! Wang De looked at the little emperor, although his eyes were still on Cheng Su, but he didn't have a little joy, and asked carefully.

"You're better than a monkey, don't you know what it means?" Zhao Yu twisted his face and scolded with a smile.

"Little stupid, how can you understand what the Queen Mother thinks!" Wang De smiled and said.

"You......" Zhao Hao stretched out his hand to point at him, and the master and servant looked at each other and smiled, and left the courtyard......

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The next day, the queen mother arrived at Jiqing Temple, Zhao Yu led the monks in the temple to welcome the temple outside, but saw the vast team, there were really a lot of people coming. After he stepped forward to salute, the queen mother got off the car and transferred to the shoulder into the temple, he held a sedan chair to accompany him, and went straight to the queen mother's spiritual place, only the attendants and palace maids accompanied by him. But behind the sedan chair, there were palace maids dressed differently, but he clearly saw that Chen Shuer and Li Sanniang were also among them, and he understood that this was also a selected show girl, of course, it was impossible for all of them to be his concubines, and some of them would serve as female officials in the inner palace.

"Sister Su, why is the Queen Mother dressed up like this today?" When he just met the Queen Mother, Zhao Yu saw that the Queen Mother was dressed in a coarse white dress, with no grease powder on her face, and a wooden hairpin inserted in her bun. After leaving the lonely mountain, she turned back to the palace, and it was inconvenient for a female dependent to live in the temple, so she did not drive with her for a while.

"The official family also knows that the Empress Dowager's name has been cut off, and she is a sin woman, and the Empress Dowager is inconvenient to come to worship with her own identity, so she can only show her filial piety as the daughter-in-law of the people!" Su Lan replied in a low voice.

"This ...... In this case, I will not slap myself! Zhao Hao muttered when he heard this. Although he insisted on cutting off the titles of a group of people, he was the supervisor of the country, and it was the Queen Mother who was the 'master', but he was currently doing things for the Queen Mother in the temple as the emperor, and he was so withdrawn that he was dried.

"Official, this is not the queen mother's idea, it was the Wu girl who admonished her, thinking that the mother could not worship the sinner as the queen mother, so it would mess up the etiquette." Su Lan shook her head slightly.

"Which Miss Wu?" Zhao Hao asked as if he didn't understand.

"Is the official really not aware of the recent events in the palace?" Su Lan chuckled.

"Hehe......" Zhao Yu smiled awkwardly, Su Lan can be said to have grown up with him, and some confidential things are not shy about it, she naturally knows that she also has eyes and ears in the palace, and how to hide things in the palace.

When they arrived at the small temple where the Empress Dowager sent her spirit, Empress Dowager Yang got off the sedan chair as long as Zhao Yu accompanied her, and everyone else stayed outside. When the two stepped into the temple gate, the temple gate was immediately closed, and the chanting sound immediately sounded. Empress Dowager Yang took a few steps forward, her face was already full of tears, and she cried in the coffin, and it took a while to stop crying. Zhao Yu stepped forward to hold it, lit three sticks of incense and handed them over, and the Empress Dowager Yang bowed three times and inserted the incense into the incense burner.

At this time, the Empress Dowager Yang took the paper money and lit it in front of the spirit, knelt on the futon and burned it while chanting. She started from leaving Lin'an that year, and she went through hardships to escape to Fuzhou with her two princes, gathered the ministers, collected the defeated army, and set up her youngest son as the emperor with the support of the ministers...... grinded until the young son died of illness, and then Lixinjun cried again.

Zhao Hao didn't persuade much, just waited silently on the side, he knew that this woman was not easy enough. After entering the palace, although he gave birth to a prince, he was not favored, and after the emperor's death, his son did not have a chance to take the throne. After the national disaster, she fled to the rivers and lakes with the two little princes, and experienced the death of her parents and children, but she was able to establish herself as the emperor again and support the dynasty, but she suffered too many difficulties, and no one could tell. It's been suppressed for too long, and it's time to vent.

After crying well, Empress Dowager Yang's mood gradually stabilized, and then moved to the side hall to wash and change clothes again. Only then did he summon the presiding officer, who donated 20,000 yuan of incense money, and gave him 500 copies of scriptures. Although Zhao Yu is distressed, he can't say that he can eat the money by himself, but he is afraid that he will not be able to eat it back for a year and a half, and these monks will be cheaper.

After the memorial service, Zhao Yu sent the Queen Mother to another courtyard for a rest, and accompanied her to lunch, and the two talked for a while. He thought that the Queen Mother should also return to the palace, after all, there were only two of them in the palace at the moment, and one of them must sit in the palace to prevent changes. But after waiting for a while, the Queen Mother still had no intention of going back. And he can't ask, he can only talk with him. Seeing that the sky was getting dark, the Queen Mother said that she would accompany her for the Mid-Autumn Festival tonight, worship the moon together, and be deacon by him.

Zhao Yu was stunned when he heard it, he knew that there was a saying in later generations that 'men do not sacrifice to the moon, and women do not sacrifice to the stove', and he also understands that the present is different from the future generations. The ancients regarded the moon as the opposite of the sun, so they naturally worshipped, and the Song Dynasty wrote the sacrifice to the moon god into the ritual chronicles, heaven and earth, the five emperors, the sun, the moon and the stars, and the sheji, and the edict had the division to hold sacrifices at the right time.

And the people also worship the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and all the people in the city, whether rich or poor, who can walk, until they are twelve or thirteen years old, put on adult clothes, climb the stairs or in the courtyard, burn incense and worship the moon. Men wish to be admitted to the imperial examination as soon as possible, enter the official career, and soar, while women wish themselves to be as beautiful as Chang'e and plump as the white moon. What is said here is that both men and women should worship the moon, which is very different from the custom that only women worship the moon in later generations, and men do not worship the moon.

After coming to this dynasty, Zhao Yu remembered that he seemed to have never had a serious Mid-Autumn Festival, because this season in Qiongzhou is the end of the rainy season, and when the dry season comes, it is also the best time for the enemy to attack. And where is there so much attention in the army, at most it is a big meal, and there is no such thing as worshipping the moon at all.

In the past, every time a ceremony was held, an official from the Ministry of Rites would give a lecture on the procedures and tell him what to do and what to say. We will rehearse in advance, and we will also remind ourselves when the ceremony is held. But today's sudden attack caught Zhao Yu a little off guard, he didn't know what to do or what the procedure was. So in the name of bathing and changing clothes, he called Su Lan to make up for his evil, so as not to be embarrassed.

Su Lan is really considerate, and in a short period of time, she concisely explained the procedures for the little emperor and explained the precautions. Zhao Yu only then knew the formal Han nationality moon sacrifice ceremony, according to the record of the "Book of Rites" "autumn twilight and sunset", which means to worship the moon god, at this time to hold the cold and sacrifice to the moon, set up incense cases. In the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night was held to welcome the cold and sacrifice the moon.

When worshipping the moon, they do not stand up, but sit on the table in the traditional "prayer sitting" of the people, and do not stand and bow when worshipping, nor do they put their hands together to make a prayer. When worshipping, it is the formal "worship" of the Han people. When you pray twice in a row, it is called "Bow Again". Sit with your knees together, your hips on your heels, your instep on the ground, your hands on your knees, and your eyes looking ahead. For Hu sitting, the principle is the same, upright, the legs must not be crossed, and the hands are placed on the knees. You can make a fist with both hands and rush forward; It can also be tucked away and held on the abdomen. If you are tired, you can only relieve the fatigue by slightly raising and lowering your knees.

The formal prostration is to stand upright, raise the hand and raise the forehead as if bowing, bow 90 degrees, and then straighten up, although this section is also called bowing, but it is very different. At the same time, the hands were raised again. Then both knees on the ground at the same time, slowly bow down, palms on the ground, forehead on the palms, this is called worship, and then straighten up the upper body, and the hands are eyebrows, called 'xing'. Finally, according to etiquette, flatten or bow again...... When flattening, put your hands together with your eyebrows, get up, and put your hands down when you stand upright. The second prostration is to perform two consecutive prostrations, that is, "prostration-prostration-worship-rejuvenation-flattening".

Of course, there should be sacrifices to the moon, set up a large incense case, put moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums, grapes and other things, among which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable, and watermelons should be cut into lotus shapes. Under the moon, the statue of the moon god is placed in the direction of the moon, the red candle is burned, the whole family worships the moon in turn, and then the chief priest cuts the reunion moon cake. The person who cuts it calculates in advance how many people are in the whole family, and those who are at home and those who are in other places must be counted together, and they cannot cut more or less, and the size should be the same.

There is also a saying why the moon worship is prevalent in the palace. According to legend, the ugly girl of the ancient Qi country had no salt, and when she was a child, she worshiped the moon devoutly, and when she grew up, she entered the palace with superior morality, but she was not pampered. On August 15 of a certain year, the Son of Heaven saw her in the moonlight, thought she was beautiful and outstanding, and later made her the queen, and the Mid-Autumn Festival moon worship came from this. And Chang'e in the moon is known for her beauty, so the girl worships the moon and hopes that she "looks like Chang'e and her face is like the bright moon".

In addition, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is also the custom of lighting lamps to help the moonlight. Ten days before the festival, each family uses bamboo strips to tie lanterns. Make fruits, birds and beasts, fish and insects and the words "Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival", and paint various colors on paste-colored paper. In the Mid-Autumn Festival night light, the candle is tied to a bamboo pole with a rope, erected on the eaves or terrace, or built into a glyph or various shapes with a small lamp, and hung on the height of the house, commonly known as the 'tree Mid-Autumn Festival' or 'vertical Mid-Autumn Festival'. The lamp hung by the rich house can be several feet high, and the family gathers under the lamp to drink and have fun, and the ordinary people erect a flagpole and two lanterns, and also enjoy themselves.

Zhao Yu listened to the explanation, thinking that the Queen Mother insisted on putting the moon worship ceremony here tonight, it was definitely not a momentary interest, which must have been planned for a long time, and the deep meaning made him quite moved, and it made him have some expectations for this full moon night, but it was held in the temple but it made him feel strange in his heart......