When Zhu Xu brought Zhu Heng to the sacrificial platform, he actually expected what the women in the harem would think, but he couldn't take care of it, so he himself faced a lot of interrogation.

Zhu Xu brought Zhu Heng into the Daxiong Treasure Hall to worship the Buddha, and everyone couldn't say anything, this was a royal private matter, and they had no right to ask, but Zhu Xu wanted to take Zhu Heng to pray for rain together.

Under normal circumstances, only the crown prince has the right to stand by the emperor's side or complete the ceremony in place of the emperor, although Zhu Heng is the eldest son, he is not the prince, let alone a normal person.

Therefore, when Zhu Heng stepped on it, no, when Zhu Heng was carried onto the sacrificial platform and sat beside Zhu Xu, several courtiers stood up, most of them were military generals.

After all, the current queen is from the family of the Marquis of Zhenyuan, and the queen also has a son under her name, Zhu Heng is like this, and it is very likely that the person who will sit in that position in the future will be the son of the queen, so they try their best to drive Zhu Heng off the stage, and the reason is also ready-made, Zhu Heng can't even kneel, what if the gods and Buddhas blame him?

At a critical time, Zhu Heng himself spoke, "My lords, half a month ago, I and the old man of the Queen Mother once came to Puji Temple, at that time, the abbot master once said to me, the most important thing to pray to God and worship Buddha is the heart, as the saying goes, sincerity is the spirit, if the heart is not sincere, even if you kneel for ten days and a half months, I am afraid that it will be useless." ”

"Back to the Second Highness, the officials dare not agree with this, what is sincerity? Who is more sincere, a person who can kneel for ten days and a half months, or a person who kneels for half an hour? "It was Weiyuan Hou Gu Han who asked.

"Gu Hou, since the abbot master has spoken first, and His Royal Highness has also helped the queen do a great Dharma before, he must be competent, let's not delay the work." Xu Fushan was afraid that Zhu Heng would not be able to cope with it, so he tactfully helped him shift the target.

"Lord Xu, the emperor is not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry? As the saying goes, there are no rules, and since there are rules, we should act according to the rules, isn't it, Lord Sun? "This time it was Wang Bai, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, who spoke.

He also held his breath in his heart for a long time, so he didn't open his mouth, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he hit three families.

If he was jealous of Xu Fushan before, he had become jealous since yesterday, if it weren't for the Xu family's support for the little girl in the countryside, the little girl would have been bought to be Chu Chu's maid, how can there be these troubles now, not to mention the loss of the reputation of the Wang family, but also the queen was taken over as the power of the inner chamberlain, don't underestimate this power, with it, the queen can control the inner chamberlain, and then grasp the emperor's movements.

This surnamed Xu didn't know how to restrain himself, and spoke for Zhu Heng again and again, as if who didn't know that this Zhu Heng had fallen in love with the little girl in the countryside, to put it bluntly, it was not still due to interests!

and Zhu Heng, really when the surnamed Xu gave a few good words, he regarded himself as Sun Bin's second? I don't want to think about whether I have that talent or that fate! Hmph, a yellow-mouthed child who has not dried up dares to say something in front of everyone, as the saying goes, which of these people present has walked no more bridges than the roads he has walked, and he can choke to death with just two sentences.

The last one is naturally that old thing Sun Shi, relying on his own reading a few books and posing a stinky shelf of a defender every day, today's ancient rites and tomorrow's legal system, but this will be the most important to talk about the legal system and etiquette system, but he kept his mouth shut, isn't it still eccentric?

"The prince is right, it is indeed to act according to the rules, the second prince is the first queen to descend, the eldest son of the authentic emperor, according to the ritual system and the ancestral system, can stand beside the saint, this is one, second, today is not a formal prayer for rain in the traditional sense, naturally it is not a traditional ceremony, even so, it does not matter who the emperor wants to take, or what kind of identity the participants need to have. Because to put it bluntly, today's prayer for rain is just a rehearsal. Sun Shi pointed to the people on the platforms or sheds around Minghu Lake.

Originally, the official prayer for rain is to specifically ask the shaman to choose the day and direction, need to make an altar from the ground, take the soil to make a green dragon, and the person who presides over must fast for three days before leading the crowd to pray for rain, if the rain comes, then send the green dragon back to the water, to announce the Quartet, if not, then you need to continue to pray.

But today's prayer for rain, both the day and the place, let alone the creation of any green dragon, are all simple, and even the emperor's fasting is omitted, so it is not so much praying for rain as the emperor leading the courtiers to have fun.

If it's fun, why care about those rules and etiquette?

Of course, it seems a bit blasphemous to talk about fun, so Sun used the word "rehearsal".

"The minister seconded Lord Sun." Xu Fushan stepped forward.

"Stop, stop, this is not the court, don't fight one by one, come here today, although it is to pray for rain, but also to bring you to loosen the loose bones, but you are good, just after saying that you don't cry and chirp, this will be noisy again, it is difficult to come out, you can't enjoy your holiday happily?"

After speaking, Zhu Xu didn't wait for everyone to speak, and directly ordered Sun Shi to pray for rain.

The altar has been prepared for a long time, livestock, wine, and firecrackers have long been in place, so Sun Shi heard the emperor say that he started, and made a gesture to his officials, and then, the firecrackers sounded, the master of ceremonies stood in front of the altar, read the sacrifice, and the emperor also led the civil and military officials to kneel down, and Zhu Heng was carried out by Jiangnan, half kneeling and half sitting on the mat, supporting his upper body with both hands, and completing the big ceremony of three kneeling and nine knocking.

After kneeling three times and knocking nine times, Zhu Heng did not still kneel like others, but was picked up and put into a wheelchair, with his hands folded, his eyes closed, and words in his mouth.

Soon after the ceremony, the altar and offerings were removed, and a number of low tables and cushions were brought in, and then the wine was served.

This means that dragon boat racing should begin.

There are a total of ten teams in the dragon boat race of Puji Temple, which are composed of royal guards, guards, eunuchs, young officials of the six departments, members of the Imperial City Division, students of the country, children of the family, etc., don't look at some of these people are scholars, but they also have a crazy and wild energy to play.

Zhu Heng had never seen such a scene, so he was really taken aback when he watched those scholars or students who had just taken off their robes and changed into short brown and ran towards the dragon boat with a smile.

Zhu Xu rarely saw his son like this, thinking about the ten years that the child had been trapped before, he was distressed again, and simply ordered Jiangnan to take Zhu Heng out, sit in front of the first short table on the left side of his hand, knowing that he couldn't drink, he ordered someone to pour him a cup of tea, and asked him to toast the ministers with tea.