The funeral of the queen of the horse should be the highest funeral of the Ming Dynasty, and Lao Zhu's funeral is far less grand than its scale.

To give an example, before Lao Zhu died, he explained that the funeral was simple, "The subjects of the world are relieved after crying for three days." And after the horse, it was, "All the officials inside and outside the country still follow the system of changing the sun and the moon, and they will be removed on the twenty-seventh day." ”

In ancient times, there were only twenty-seven months of filial piety for three years, and the days and months were twenty-seven days.

Lao Zhu listed as many as sixteen similar rules, each of which exceeded the specifications of his funeral in the future. I believe that there will be no unscrupulous descendants who dare to make the funeral higher than the specifications of Lao Zhu, the ancestor.

Therefore, it is not wrong to say that the funeral of the queen of the horse is the highest standard in the entire Ming Dynasty, and the people are okay to say, but the officials will suffer with it.

Before dawn on the second day, Ma Du and Song Shuang got up and hurried to the imperial city on foot. The city was silent, and every house carried strips of white paper with wooden sticks in front of their doors, and the morning breeze rattled.

Some large families also wrapped the door frame with white paper and white cloth, and the Qinhuai River in the land of dogs and horses was also not spared.

The terrible thing is that there are no people on the street, not even the hawkers set up stalls, if it weren't for the soldiers and horses in plain clothes commanding the envoys to patrol the streets, I would have thought that I had arrived in a ghost town.

Ma Du and Song Shuang broke up when they arrived near the imperial city, according to the rules set by Lao Zhu, the civil officials from the first to the third grade, and the military attache from the first to the fifth rank of the wife should wear linen clothes to go to jewelry and makeup, and enter the palace from the Donghua Gate to the middle palace to cry.

All the officials who entered the flow of Beijing were dressed in plain clothes and entered the palace at Fengtianmen, and they entered the palace outside the Youshun Gate to mourn, and they stopped for three days, and the officials, women, and soldiers and civilians outside Beijing were not exempt.

When Ma Du arrived outside the Fengtian Gate, he was already a group of people who were in charge of the black pressure, and the petty officials who were usually not qualified to go to the court came, although there were many people, they did not talk like before, and they stood one by one waiting to enter the palace.

"Mr. Mourning Change!" Someone approached Madu's side and whispered a greeting.

Ma Du fixed his eyes and saw that it was Qi Tai who was giving a salute to him, and the queen's funeral was reasonable, in addition to the emperor, the prince's son and grandson, the saddest thing should be his uncle, and it was reasonable to mourn him.

Ma Du returned the salute, "Thank you, hurry up and go back and stand, don't be impeached by the imperial history." ”

Just sent Qi Tai to Chen Ying again, it is also troublesome if there are more students and disciples, and the civil officials and military generals also came to salute when they saw this, and when he arrived at the front of the team, he didn't know how much he had returned.

"Today is your first step." Xu Da gave up his position to Ma Du, and he patted Ma Du on the shoulder and persuaded: "People can't be resurrected after death, let go." ”

"Hmm!" Ma Du nodded and looked left and right, "Didn't Gong Li come?" ”

"No, it was said that I had a back problem and couldn't get up." Xu Da asked softly, "You had a conflict with the emperor yesterday?" ”

"How do you know?"

"Look at the wound on your head to know that it is not kowtow, the emperor is sad, you must not touch his moldy head. The queen's funeral day is one less person to intercede with you, and you should be more cautious in your words and deeds in the future. ”

Hearing Xu Da say this, Ma Du felt a pain in his heart again, there was one less person in this world who cared for him, he didn't want to wait quietly, and waited for the sun to rise, and the palace gate was opened.

Hundreds of officials lowered their heads and entered, the palace walls and gates were plain, and the feet were full of snow-white paper money, as if the unmelted snow was one by one.

Ma Du took the hundred officials around the Inner Five Dragons Bridge and walked to the outside of the Youshun Gate, where a huge mourning hall had already been built. Ma Du walked into the mourning hall and immediately mourned and cheered, and there was a huge token on the table, which read: "Filial piety, compassion, Zhenhua, Zheshun, benevolence, emblem, Chengtianyu, saint, and the spirit of the Empress Degao".

There is a huge bronze incense burner in front of the spirit, which is filled with sandalwood more than a foot long, and the curling green smoke overflows the entire mourning hall, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu took three long sandalwood sticks and lit them, and handed them to Ma Du.

With the singing of the officials of Taichang Temple, Ma Du held sandalwood in his hand numbly and took the hundred officials to bow three times and bow nine times, the hundred officials wailed loudly in pain, and Ma Du was silently crying, and knelt on the ground for an hour after three knocks and nine bows before getting up.

Because Lao Zhu dropped out of the dynasty for 100 days, the officials did not have to go to the early court, and withdrew from the mourning hall in turn to return to the office.

Ma Du walked out of the mourning hall and was about to go to the right along the door, but Ashikaga Yoshimitsu hurriedly stopped, "Where is Uncle Guo going?" ”

"Knowingly, my father is going to the Middle Palace to help with the funeral."

"The emperor is really like a god, he has long guessed that Uncle Guo would say this, let the slave and maid bring you a message."

"Oh? What does the emperor have to say? ”

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's lips opened slightly, "Get out!" ”

Get out, let Lao Zhu do the exhaustion by himself, Ma Du threw off the sleeves of his robe and left the palace. Song Shuang, who had already arrived at home, saw Ma Du coming back and asked, "How did the husband come back, didn't he say that he wanted to stay in the palace to help with the funeral?" ”

"The emperor has so many loyal ministers and filial sons, and he doesn't need me!"

"The emperor is still angry with you, today the concubine saw Lu'er in the palace, she told me what happened yesterday, the concubine was in a cold sweat, how dare you fight with the emperor!"

"It's not too late to say this, how is the funeral of the mother?"

Song Shuang replied: "It's already in the coffin, and I heard Lu'er say that the emperor personally changed the clothes of the mother and sent it into the coffin." The jade pendant of half of the yin-yang fish you handed over to me was also handed over to the prince, and it was combined with the mother's piece and made a funeral. ”

"That's good, let's clean up and go back to the country."

"Just go home? Doesn't that mean there's a lot more to come? ”

"Well, that's what I came by train early every day."

At this time, whether he hugged Zhu Biao and cried together, or helped to handle the funeral regardless of fatigue, he could alleviate the sadness in his heart, but Lao Zhu didn't give him this opportunity, which was revenge on himself.

Ma Du didn't want to be immersed in grief in the city and couldn't extricate herself, it was better to go back to the countryside at this time, she and Song Shuang packed up their things and went out of the city immediately.

There was no train at this time, so they went to the dock of the Qinhuai River to call a boat, and just about to go out of the water, they saw a big boat squeeze in and knock their boat aside.

Zhang Wuliu stood on the bow of the boat and jumped on his feet and scolded, "Which bastard doesn't have long eyes, I don't know who is sitting in the boat, if the boat capsizes, wait for a lawsuit." ”

"Don't jump again in five or six, if others can't knock you over, you'll have to jump over."

A head poked out of the big boat and shouted, "Dad, it's me!" ”

"Mid-Autumn Festival? You're back! Where's the little boy!"

Then Xiao Biao poked his head out and said with a smile: "Uncle Wuliu, I'm here!" Can Daddy be on board? Daddy come out and see who the boy has brought back! ”

Ma Du was just about to get up from the cabin when he heard a familiar voice, "Xuanzhong! Xuanzhong! Come out! Unexpectedly, I'm back! Ha ha......

Unexpectedly, I really can't imagine that Mu Ying, who was supposed to be in Kunming, will appear in Yingtian at this moment, listening to his joyful voice, eighty percent still don't know about the death of the queen.

Ma Du was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly began to take off his filial piety clothes.

"You think you can hide such a big thing, I'm afraid he will find out as soon as he gets off the boat."

"I know that I can't hide it, so I can tell him slowly, he can't stand it in his heart." Ma Du ripped off his filial piety clothes and walked out of the cabin, looking at Mu Ying, who was poking out his head from the big boat next to him, and scolded with a smile: "You don't say hello in advance, I thought I saw a ghost." ”

"Hey...... I just wanted to surprise you! The boat boss hurried to the shore! Hurry up! ”

Ma Du also asked the boatman to stop the boat, Mu Ying's big boat just stopped, and before he got down, Ma Du got on the boat, Mu Ying came up and gave Ma Du a bear hug, "I want to die!" Don't you know that I've been thinking about responding to the sky all day long in Yunnan, and I've finally found a reason to come back! ”

"It's good to be back, I'm just wondering how you got together. Xiao Biao, you shouldn't run from Shuixi to Kunming, right? ”

"Shuixi is not far from Kunming, and the child thinks of the deep brotherhood between his father and Uncle Mu, and he goes to visit his father since his generation. Besides, Sanbao hasn't seen Uncle Mu for many years, and he misses it so much, he can't help but go. ”

"I don't care if this reason is okay, hurry up and sail back to Fangshan, I want to catch up with your Uncle Mu!"

Mu Ying waved her hand and said, "Don't worry, wait until I enter the palace to see the emperor before going to Fangshan, otherwise it will not be in accordance with the rules." ”

"What are the rules, you and I are still afraid of impeachment by the imperial history. The boss of the boat hurriedly drove the boat, is there any food and wine on this ship? I can't wait to have a drink with you! ”

Ma Duqiang pulled Mu Ying into the cabin, Mu Ying only thought that Ma Du was too excited to have it, and while ordering someone to serve food, he took out two bottles of liquor from under the desk and poured them for Ma Du, "Xuanzhong tastes the wine made in our Yunnan!" ”

Ma Du took it and took a sip, "It's normal, it's too rushed." ”

"Hey...... It's not a good wine, but if you know what makes it, you won't feel bad, it's made from bagasse! ”

"Oh, and you're going to make wine from bagasse?"

"It's not thanks to you, the students you sent to me a few years ago came to my place, and they planted hybrid rice and sugarcane, and also built a huge sugar mill, and sugarcane can also be used to make wine, but it has helped me a lot."

"Cut, you can make a few bucks here, and you also put it in your eyes."

Mu Ying waved his hand and said: "Making money is a small matter and stability is a big matter, in the past, the barbarians in the mountains did not obey me and sent troops to encircle and suppress them, and your slippery students directly sent them over into a car of wine, and then coaxed them to plant medicinal herbs and sugar cane, which is better than guns, which saved me a lot of heart." ”

"Even if I didn't train in vain, you can't lose them!" Seeing that the boat had not moved, Ma Du shouted, "Why didn't the boat boss start the boat yet?" ”

"Don't shout Xuanzhong, I'm going to enter the palace after talking to you for a while, I haven't seen the emperor's mother for many years, I'll go to Fangshan to see you tomorrow." Mu Ying glanced out the window, "So many people wear filial piety, there is a plague in the city?" Just now I saw that Zhang Wuliu was also wearing a white cloth around his waist, and his family also died? ”

Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Madu quickly organized the language in his heart and told him about this great misfortune in a way that he could accept.

Before he could speak, he heard a sound of knocking footsteps, only to see Xiao Biao come in with red eyes, and asked in a choked voice: "Daddy, Uncle Wu or Six said that his mother was dead, but is it true?" ”