As the old saying goes: 'The major affairs of the country are in the worship and Rong'. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In other words, the matter of sacrifice is even more important than foreign wars, so the complexity of this annual ritual can be imagined.

From the time the sixteen-horse-drawn dragon stopped at the Daxiong Treasure Hall, it took Song Huizong more than an hour to finally walk to the altar two miles away.

On the way, it's called an inkblot, and just reciting the flow chart during the reciting can make people vomit on their backs!

Fortunately, Wu Kai had already discussed with Kongwen, and all the ceremonies today were arranged by Kongwen, and he himself only needed to be the mascot, and he didn't need to work hard.

When Song Huizong arrived on the altar, it was where Wu Kai came in!

But when it came to the altar, Song Huizong was wearing a fiery red imperial robe [Song Dynasty Shang Huode, so the red imperial robe was used for formal occasions], standing solemnly in front of the tribute table, and Liang Shicheng next to him immediately sang and shouted: "The auspicious time has come, long live the Lord please incense!" ”

Wu Kai immediately took thirteen thumb-thick sandalwood sticks from Fahai's hands, and presented them to Song Huizong with both hands.

According to the rules of Buddhism, the upper three incense sticks are to pray for oneself's blessing, the six incense sticks are to pray for the blessing of two generations, and the nine incense sticks represent the three generations, and these thirteen incense sticks are the high incense with complete merits.

Ordinary people generally use three incense sticks, but Song Huizong prayed for the blessing of the entire Song Dynasty, so he naturally wanted to have high incense with complete merits.

Song Huizong took the sandalwood, took two steps forward to the offering table, swept left and right, but was suddenly stunned - but it turned out that on the tribute table, there was nothing to ignite, but how did he light the sandalwood in his hand?

He also thought that this was Wu Kai's first time presiding over the ceremony, so there was an oolong incident, so he hurriedly lowered his voice and reminded: "Zen master, there is nothing prepared on this tribute table to cause fire, but how to ask the widow to offer incense and pray?" I also asked the Zen master to have a few red candles lit......"

"It doesn't matter."

Wu Kai interrupted him indifferently and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, just offer sandalwood." ”

Song Huizong hesitated for a moment, and saw that Wu Kai didn't seem to be joking, so he had no choice but to bow three times, and then inserted the thirteen incense sticks into the incense burner in the order of three, three, three, three, and one.

After inserting the sandalwood, Song Huizong began to be at a loss again, according to this step, it was time to kneel down and kowtow, but the sandalwood was not lit at all, but how to carry out this next step of kneeling and worshipping?

At this moment, I saw two men dressed in forbidden army service holding golden scepters and carefully aiming their heads at the sandalwood.

Song Huizong was wondering what they were doing, so he heard a soft sound of sneer~, and two of the sandalwood sticks actually ignited a flame!

"Your Majesty."

Song Huizong was surprised, so he listened to Wu Kai explain beside him: "The day before yesterday, when he was facing the saint, the poor monk saw that His Majesty seemed to be disturbed by the yin qi, so he specially made two magic sticks that can attract the true fire of the sun. ”

As he spoke, Xie Zhen and Xie Bao had already used their staff to ignite the sandalwood one by one - of course, it was impossible to ignite the sandalwood by focusing in an instant, what they ignited was actually the medicinal powder applied to the top of the sandalwood.

"Wait."

After the two lit all the sandalwood, they were about to bow down and retreat, but they were stopped by Song Huizong, but they saw him come forward and ask for a scepter from Xie Zhen's hand, put it under his nose and looked at it carefully for a while, and asked, "But I don't know how to use this thing?" ”

Xie Zhen secretly glanced at Wu Kai, and when he nodded in agreement, he hurriedly told Song Huizong how to focus the magnifying glass.

Song Huizong curiously aimed the crystal piece at his fingers, tried to adjust the angle, and was immediately grinned by the hot teeth.

"Hooray, hooray! Take care of your dragon body! ”

That Liang Shicheng was startled when he saw this, and he was about to step forward to check, but Song Huizong handed him the magic staff, turned his head and smiled at Wu Kai: "Zen master, there is also a lack of this thing in the widow's palace to suppress evil, I don't know if Zen master can cut love?" ”

Everything is already in Liang Shicheng's hands, what else can Wu Kai say?

Fortunately, Zhao Ji didn't serve the two staffs in one pot, and the remaining crystal was divided into two pieces, which was enough to make a telescope.

After this small episode, the ceremony returned to normal, Song Huizong bowed three times and bowed nine times on the altar, and the important ministers in the audience also acted together.

When the ceremony was over, Zhao Ji couldn't get up, Liang Shicheng next to him greeted him, and the waiter of the Ministry of Rites immediately presented a dozen green words for sacrificing to the sky, all of which were carefully created by the ministers, striving for neat form and gorgeous words.

It seems that the appearance of Wu Kai, although it changed Song Huizong's prejudice against Buddhism, did not make those Taoist priests fall out of favor.

Liang Shicheng recited for a long time, and finally finished reciting the green words one by one, according to the previous steps, then all the monks should chant and pray together.

However, this year is naturally different from the past, but I saw Song Huizong kneeling on the ground, straightened up and asked with a hopeful face: "Zen master, can you ...... now?"

Wu Kai pretended to be serious and looked around a few times, then nodded and said: "The auspicious time has come, and the poor monk will go to the sky to pray for my Great Song Dynasty to eliminate disasters!" ”

As he spoke, he bowed again and said, "Please also ask your nobles to come forward to help." ”

Song Huizong was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered: "Liang Companion, hurry up, call Concubine Wei Xian quickly!" ”

Liang Shicheng hurriedly passed the order, and after a while, he saw Concubine Wei Xian, accompanied by several palace laves, appear under the altar - but he didn't mean to step forward, because as a woman, she was still a woman who was judged to have a very strong yin qi, and it stands to reason that she could not approach the altar, and now this is an exception.

Seeing this, Wu Kai bowed to Song Huizong and said, "Please wait here for Your Majesty." ”

As he spoke, he strode down the altar, and when he got closer, he saw that Concubine Wei Xian was wearing an apricot skirt and a fur hood on her head.

Under the eyes of everyone, Wu Kai didn't look at it much, and hurriedly clasped his palms together and said: "Amitabha, there is Concubine Lao Xian." ”

"Don't be polite to the Zen master, for the sake of the country, it's not a pity for the concubine to die."

Concubine Wei Xianying bowed down, a pair of wonderful eyes only swirled on Wu Kai's face, and her eyes were full of gratitude-she was now more and more sure that this monk was the noble person of her mother and son's fate, otherwise she would be slandered by Mr. Wang this time, and I am afraid that she would have to spend the rest of her life in the cold palace.

Wu Kai looked up and saw that she was quite excited, for fear that this woman would show her feet, and he didn't dare to stay in front of everyone for a long time, so he hurriedly led her to the small courtyard on the west side of the altar.