Chapter 60: People go to tea and cool

There is a very realistic saying that people go to tea and cool, which means that the human feelings are warm and cold, and the world is hot and cold.

This sentence is most suitable for this seemingly solemn and sacred but full of bloody and evil Forbidden City, which is probably both a distortion of human nature and a moral degradation.

Wanli's coffin had to be placed in the Qianqing Palace for 27 days before it could be buried, but Zhu Changluo, who had been waiting for 38 years, was tired of his father, and found an excuse for the hot weather to be buried immediately, at least out of sight and out of mind.

But this practice was unanimously opposed by the Ministry of Rites and the ministers, firstly, this is not in line with the ancestral system, and secondly, after all, Wanli has been their boss for so many years, so they have to worship.

But Zhu Changluo's attitude is too hard, and he also argues with reason, after all, it is a dog day in the scorching heat, let alone twenty-seven days, it is estimated that it will stink if it can't last for seven days. Twenty-seven days later, maggots were not born, and even maggots must have turned into flies by then.

The Manchu Dynasty had no choice but to think of a compromise solution, first bury Wanli, hold a simple funeral, and put an empty coffin in the Renshou Hall of the Qianqing Palace, which contains the dragon robe of Wanli before his death, and use the crown to accept everyone's worship, and wait until 27 days later to carry out a grand state funeral.

Zhu Changluo reluctantly agreed, he didn't expect his decision to save a lot of money for the Ming Dynasty, because when you pick up grass, you can also catch rabbits, fish and shrimp can also be caught together.

On the afternoon of Wanli's burial, the originally gloomy and gray Qianqing Palace began to be lively, and Zhu Changluo's concubines, ladies, and servants in Ciqing Palace began to move in one after another and bustlingly.

This should be the best portrayal of people taking tea and cooling, it stands to reason that the emperor died, and the people in the capital were very depressed, although they had a heavenly household registration, they couldn't eat meat and drink alcohol at this time, and they needed to be vegetarian! It is not easy to buy money because it is forbidden to slaughter livestock.

Of course, there are chickens, ducks, fish and geese at home, but you have to pay attention, you have to sneak and touch, don't be discovered by the Jinyi Wei and the official family, otherwise the crime is not small, enough to make you have to go around if you can't eat!

The time to be vegetarian is not one day or two days, nor three days or five days, the minimum is seven days and forty-nine days, you can definitely eat you like a wolf, and you can see the meat glowing green!

The most blood-vomiting thing is that during this 7749-day national funeral, no marriage is allowed! Hehe, I have booked the wedding date, notified relatives and friends, and bought wine and food in vain, who told you to meet this good time, no matter how anxious it is, let's change the day, buddy! Forty-nine days later.

According to the rules of the ancestors, the family members of the new emperor have to wait for the burial of the old emperor in 27 days and the completion of filial piety on 7749 days before they can move into the Qianqing Palace, but this is the ancestral training and can be reformed.

Therefore, on the third day after Wanli's death, Zhu Changluo's wives and concubines, children, relatives and friends, and guards moved into the Qianqing Palace one after another.

This may also be that Zhu Changluo really hates his father and is not allowed to eat meat? Haha, joke, the meat of every meal of the family has never stopped.

Not allowed to drink? Haha, it's even a joke, I killed my dad while drinking, and I drank a soul wine the night I died.

If you don't have to go to court, if you don't have to block the eyes and words of outsiders, how can you be so happy and have to get drunk for three days to be happy, uh, shh..., this can't be heard by others, it has to be said to be nice, it should be said that it is borrowed to drown sorrow and grief, and you can only drink and get drunk alone to numb the sad feeling of missing your father.

It is estimated that there will be no way to set off fireworks, if he can, Zhu Changluo will definitely go and light them himself!

In the early years, the landlords had three wives and four concubines, not to mention His Royal Highness the Prince, although Zhu Changluo was not favored, but he was much more pompous than ordinary officials, until the evening, all the guest concubines, all the ladies, all the elected servants, sons and daughters, as well as some cronies and palace maids and eunuchs, etc., had just moved half.

Zhu Changluo was really tired, he went back to the Dongnuan Pavilion of Ciqing Palace to lie down and rest, he was so tired today, although it was just a simple funeral for Wanli, it had already made him dare not touch his feet on the ground.

Fortunately, although the eyes were red and swollen, the ministers thought that they were too sad and cried all night, but they praised their filial piety in unison!

When he put on his clothes, he was even more depressed, with a black gauze hat, a black belt, white bast shoes, and a white dragon robe, Zhu Changluo greeted the eighteen generations of his ancestors in black and white in his heart, although he didn't know what color their ancestors were.

As soon as he arrived at the Daming Gate, Zhu Changluo almost vomited blood, and the civil and military officials and guards kneeling at the Daming Gate were all black and white, so they followed up with the flower pigsty, Zhu Changluo began to greet the women of the black and white family in his heart, of course, there must be a few dirty words mixed in it.

Zhu Changluo speechlessly turned back from the main gate of Daming Gate and walked towards Renshou Palace, and a group of civil and military officials hurriedly followed back and forth according to the size of their official positions, and entered from the left gate of the Daimyomen.

When he arrived at the door of Renshou Palace, Zhu Changluo took the lead in kneeling on the ground and led everyone to cry bitterly, Zhu Changluo really couldn't shed tears, he could only cover his face with wide sleeves and howl, and the ministers of civil and military affairs behind him cried heartbreakingly one by one, and it is estimated that their father and mother were not so sad when they died.

Sixteen strong, carefully selected Xiaoling guards walked out slowly carrying Wanli's coffin.

A group of people began to slowly follow the coffin behind, and all the princes and princesses, the three palaces and six courts, the emperor's grandson, and so on, these nobles began to curse, because they had to be sent to the Desheng Gate on foot.

Outside the Desheng Gate, the direct descendants of the old emperor can ride horses and cars, and the civil and military officials can rest.

It's over, right? No, it's still early, the old emperor's direct descendants have to be sent to Juyong Pass before they can return, eighty kilometers, three dog days, woo woo, this fake cry has become real crying.

This is not the end, starting from Juyong Pass, escorted by the crown prince himself, until the dedication hall of the imperial tomb, and then the Yu ceremony, first offering the nostalgic brocade silk (a bit like the elegiac couplet on the wreath), then sprinkling wine, then reciting the sacrificial text, sprinkling wine twice, and finally bowing to the crown prince four times before returning. There are still some cumbersome etiquettes in the middle, so I won't mention it.

The civil and military officials are not able to rest at Desheng Gate all the time, and after resting for a while, they have to rush forward, because they have to be greeted along the way back by the crown prince, and the crown prince is all the way back with the old emperor's tablet, so when he sees the crown prince, he has to hurry up and bow three times and knock nine times.

The crown prince put the old emperor's tablet into the Forbidden City's several feast halls, and then carried out the tranquilization ceremony, which was similar to the Yu ceremony in the imperial mausoleum, that is, the wine was sprinkled and the sacrificial text had to bow and so on, and the civil and military officials also needed to salute outside the Sishan Gate.

This is just a simple state funeral, but this simple state funeral has seriously overdrawn Zhu Changluo's physical strength, and he didn't even eat dinner and fell asleep on the bed in Dongnuan Pavilion.

Ren Hongfei looked at the group of eunuchs and palace maids who were busy moving in the evening, laughing, and hummed in a low voice in Shajiabang: "As soon as people leave, the tea will be cold, what else is thoughtful, not thoughtful!" ”

The sky gradually darkened, and the mystery of the night began to envelop the Qianqing Palace, which had just changed its owner, Ren Hongfei sighed, turned around and slowly walked towards the Hongde Hall where he lived, his back looked very weak and small, Ren Hongfei's words were a little lonely and a little helpless: "As soon as people leave the tea, it will be cold, not cold but abnormal, as long as the true feelings are left, even if it becomes ice, what does it matter!" ”