Chapter 237: The Edict Begins

"What the hell is this old Huang doing, invite me to come over to play on a cold day?" Wu Jie couldn't help but shake his head.

In recent days, it has become colder.

Since the first snowfall, the sun has been shining for more than ten days.

Until last night, goose feathers and heavy snow suddenly fell in the sky, and the entire capital was covered in silver, which looked extremely enchanting.

Wu Jie was originally a northerner in his previous life, and he only felt refreshed, but unfortunately his calf still hurt a little, otherwise he would have gone out to see the snow a long time ago.

"Perhaps, the scenery of Beiding Niangniang Temple is good, Lao Huang wants to invite me to enjoy the snow!" After being stuffy in the house, Wu Jie suddenly couldn't bear it.

In addition, Huang Gong is invited, and he is the chief internal minister, so it is not good not to go.

immediately asked Lian Laosan to hire a carriage and was about to go over.

"Wait, Childe, your leg injury hasn't healed yet, how can you run around. Even uncle, you are really. The moth complained, which made even the third child a little embarrassed.

In the past few days, Wu Jie finally didn't run around, and stayed at home all the time. Mozi saw Wu Jie's injured leg, although he was sad in his heart, but he felt a lot more solid, and he only felt that he was guarding Gongzi like this, but he was the best foot in the world.

Wu Jie didn't know what she was thinking, so he smiled: "Moth, if you don't worry, just go with me." It's also boring to stay in the house, don't you want to go out for a walk? ”

Moth snorted: "I really want to go out to play with you, Childe, I can't rest assured of you!" Although she said it fiercely, there was a hint of joy between her eyebrows, and she immediately jumped into the carriage.

I thought that Beiding Niangniang Temple should have a good snow scene, but it really went to the ground, but it made Wu Jie a little disappointed.

This place is located at the northern end of the central axis of Yanjing, near Jiandemen. In later generations, it happened to be located in the most prosperous area of Yanjing City. But in this year, this place is still very remote, full of farmland, you can see a small river in the distance, but to the north of the river is a black and oppressive forest, and the ecology looks good. It's a pity that it is the middle of winter, and the ground is covered with snow in the east and yellow weeds in the west, which looks like a dysentery. As for the trees, they have lost their leaves, and they are bare in the cold wind, and they look very bleak.

Speaking of which, this place is also very famous in later generations, it is the Olympic Sports Center of the 2008 Yenching Olympic Games, next to the Beiding Niangniang Temple is the famous Water Cube and Bird's Nest.

Of course, these two landmarks will not appear until more than 400 years later.

During the Yanjing Olympics that year, Wu Jie also cared about it for a while and knew about the situation of this Beiding Niangniang Temple.

This is a Taoist temple, which was built in the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty. Covering an area of more than 10,000 square meters, there are magnificent buildings such as the Mountain Gate Palace, the Tianwang Palace, the Niangniang Palace, the Dongyue Palace, the Jade Emperor Palace, etc., and there are four surprisingly large courtyards in total.

But when I really went in, I found that it was very simple inside, and it was not as magnificent as that of later generations. Several of the main halls have not yet been completed, and many places are also a little dilapidated, not much better than the Yuxi Palace, the residence of Emperor Jiajing in Xiyuan.

However, once he saw the red walls and blue tiles of the Beiding Niangniang Temple, the moth seemed very excited. He even stood in front of the mountain gate and looked at the pine tree at the door for a long time.

The little girl was originally from the south, and this time she came to Yanjing for the first time to see the snow in the north, and the yellow scenery of everything, everything was fresh.

Huang Jin asked Wu Festival to come here to play, but he didn't see anyone. On the contrary, there were a few eunuch-looking people who changed into civilian clothes and stood one by one, looking unintentional, but vaguely guarded.

Thinking about it, it is understandable that Eunuch Huang is the prime minister after all, and when he goes out to play, this preservation work must naturally be done to the extreme.

Wu Jie, the eunuch of Yuxi Palace, knew him, and these people looked at their faces, which made him feel strange in his heart.

stepped forward and asked, "Is Huang Gong here?" ”

The eunuch who was questioned had a cold face: "Huang Gong hasn't fallen yet, you are waiting in the watch by yourself." ”

Wu Jie had no choice but to take the moth into the Taoist temple, play around, and read the four courtyards in just a moment, feeling quite boring.

The weather was too cold, and there were no other tourists in the view, not even a Taoist boy could be seen, and it was dead and silent.

He felt a little cold on his body, so he wanted to go to the back to find a room to shelter from the wind, and drink some hot soup or something.

But the moth didn't follow, and ran straight into the newly renovated Niangniang Palace, looking at the statue of Bixia Yuanjun on it up and down, left and right, with a smile on his face, and muttered in his mouth: "So that's it, so it's like this." ”

Wu Jie was surprised and asked, "What is the case?" ”

Moth: "Childe, although I haven't been here before, people have heard about it here. There are a total of five Niangniang temples in this capital, which are called five tops. Maizhuang Bridge is the west top; The grass bridge is called the middle top; Outside the Dongzhi Gate, the top of the east; Outside the Anding Gate, at the top of the North Roof.

Three of these five Niangniang temples are dedicated to the flesh of Niangniang. They are all teenage girls, and they are sisters born to the same mother. One day, the mother took her three daughters to visit Nanding, and the eldest girl had to sit on the incense table in the main hall, but the mother couldn't stop her. The Taoist priest in the temple persuaded her: 'If she wants to go up, she must have a foundation, and there is no need to stop her.' Who knew that as soon as this girl sat on the golden Buddha shrine, she immediately sat down and became a mother in the flesh. The mother was sad and took the remaining two girls to visit Beiding, and the second girl sat in the Buddhist shrine and became the mother of Beiding. The mother had to take the third daughter home, who knew that on the way back, the three girls were noisy to visit the Xiding Temple, and the mother agreed, but the three girls sat in the Xiding Temple again and became a flesh mother. ”

At this point, the moth took a step forward, curious and fearful. He asked, "Childe, you say, is this idol really flesh?" ”

Wu Jie laughed: "How is it possible." ”

At this time, two people turned out of the back door behind the statue, and one of them also laughed loudly: "Taoism pays attention to ** ascension, once you get the Tao, not to mention the body, even the chickens and dogs in the family will also go to the sky together, how can you leave the cicadas?" The bodhisattva of the flesh is a Buddhist saying, and we Taoists don't like this. ”

Wu Jie turned his head and saw that it was Emperor Jiajing and the Governor of Dongchang, and Chen Hong, the chief eunuch of the chief eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor.

Emperor Jiajing was wearing a wide Huzhou cotton robe, very thin, with only a silk shirt inside, which was very cold, and it was chilling to see people's hearts.

This guy is really frost-resistant.

Jiajing also wore a crown on his head, and held a handful of floating dust in his hand, which looked extremely elegant in the cold wind through the hall.

As for Chen Hong, his eyes are cloudy, and he looks like a ruthless person, and he also dresses up as a Taoist priest, but unfortunately he is dressed very thickly, like a snowman, bloated and ridiculous.

Wu Jie was shocked in his heart, and immediately understood: what came to Beiding Niangniang Temple to play, it was clearly the emperor's edict.

Beiding Niangniang Miao was built in the Xuande period, which is just an ordinary Taoist temple. But in the early years of Jiajing, because Jiajing's mother liked the scenery here very much, she often came here to burn incense and make wishes. He also asked the emperor to allocate a large sum of money to repair it from the new, and over time, this place became a royal Taoist temple. This point can be seen from the plaque on the gate of the Taoist temple: the "edict" in the construction of the Beiding Niangniang Temple.

No wonder he was able to meet Emperor Jiajing here, and he thought that the emperor wanted to discuss the matter of Li Jin by himself.

However, Wu Jie was still strange, if the emperor wanted to see that he would directly send someone to call him into Xiyuan, why bother so much?

Wu Jie hurriedly said: "Wu Jie has seen Daojun and Chen Gong. Wu Jie received Huang Gong's order to let me come here to play, but I didn't want to meet the Daojun Immortals, which was really scary. ”

Probably seeing the doubts in Wu Jie's eyes, Jiajing waved his sleeves lightly, and the cold wind stirred up made the moth shrink his neck: "Huang Jin can't come if he has something, there is a volume of Zhang Sanfeng's handwritten "Tao Te Ching" here, this Daojun said that he came to read the scriptures today, and I heard that you arrived, so I came to take a look." I originally wanted to pass you to Yuxi Palace, but it was all demolished. Even Ben Daojun has moved away, and the surname Suo is here to meet you. ”

Before Jiajing finished speaking, the moth next to him exclaimed: "Wow, you are an immortal, you are really a fairy!" ”

He stepped forward and knelt on the futon and kowtowed: "Immortal boss, I must bless my son-in-law with great wealth and good health, and he will enter high school." ”

Seeing the moth pounce and kneel, Wu Jie was shocked, and then remembered that he hadn't had time to let her avoid it, and now he was afraid that it would be worse.

Next to him, Chen Hong's face also changed, and his eyes were full of murderous anger: "Bold!" He clenched his right hand into a phoenix-eyed fist.

Like Huang Jin, he is also a master of boxing, otherwise it would be impossible for him to be in charge of a powerful institution like Dongchang.

Jiajing waved his hand at Chen Hong, and asked Moth: "Where did you see that this little girl is a fairy?" ”

The moth raised his head and looked at Jiajing with admiration: "Old fairy, the moth is dressed in three layers inside and three layers outside, and it has been frozen to the point that its hands and feet are woody. It's cold like this day, ordinary people wear such clothes like your old man, it only takes half an hour to stiffen, and an hour is absolutely frozen to death. But you talk and laugh freely, thinking that it must be cold and heat, isn't that the fairy in the book? ”

This sentence just scratched the itch of Emperor Jiajing, he took the elixir all the year round, and erysipelas had already penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and he couldn't feel hot or cold. Therefore, when it is a hot day, he always likes to wear cotton clothes, and when it comes to the cold winter, he is wearing wide clothes and thin shirts, just to show that he is different from ordinary people.

At that moment, the emperor laughed: "You little girl is sharp-eyed, what's your name?" ”

Wu Jie hurriedly said: "Back to Daojun's words, her name is Mozi, she is my personal maid, and she is not sensible." ”

"Yes, yes, a smart girl, a bit like the loyal Qiao Qingwen in your book." After complimenting him, Jiajing smiled and said to the moth: "That's right, I am a god, and I have heard your prayer just now." Your son-in-law is rich and healthy, and he can't be blessed. Everything is fixed, not human. ”

Moth's eyes were red with joy: "Please also ask the gods to bless you, if the son will be a jinshi in the future, I will come over every year to burn incense." ”

Jiajing smiled more happily and waved his sleeves: "Moth, it's good to get this name." The moth fights the fire, although he dies without regret. In the flames, the disk may not fly out of a golden phoenix. Go down, I still have something to say to your son-in-law. ”

"Yes, in accordance with the law." The moth kowtowed again and retreated.

Chen Hong also retreated.

The temple fell silent.

Jiajing sat cross-legged on the futon and looked at Wu Jie: "Your article Chen Zhen has already read it, and I have been thinking about it for a while. Wu Jie, you are so bold, you actually came up with such a bad idea? Wealth, glory, longevity, and longevity or something, I can bless you. But if you don't tell a reason, everything will have to be stopped. ”

(To be continued)