CHAPTER XLIV
On the day of the flower asahi, it was very lively.
Early in the morning, the people of Beijing who love flowers will go out to go out, flutter butterflies, plant flowers, and the girls will often hang the five-colored paper paper on the flower branches, hold a flower appreciation feast, and pick flowers for food.
Legend has it that the god of flowers is in charge of the spring and summer of the plant, in order to pray for the god of flowers to bless this year with good weather and abundant grains, the common people will also worship the god of flowers in the temple of flowers with vegetarian dishes and fruits.
Therefore, not only are the pilgrims of the Flower Temple gathered, but also the outside of the temple was full of fortune-telling and selling gouache sachets.
Every year on this day, the girls who are selected as flower gods and flower fairies are dressed as fairies and parade through the streets. This year, the daughter of the Cui family was selected as the god of flowers, and the men and women who had been waiting for a long time on the Wuli Street leading to the flower temple.
Regardless of gender, most of them have a flower on their sideburns or hair buns, and everyone smiles.
"Coming, coming......"
"Is that this this year's Flower Goddess? Sure enough...... beautiful."
"You read it wrong, that's the flower fairy, and the one behind is the daughter of the Cui family who was elected as the god of flowers this year!"
"Huh!" After being reminded, the man looked at the car behind him, and saw Cui Yuzhu, who had turned into a flower god, as beautiful as a flower, wearing a wide-sleeved fairy skirt fluttering like a fairy, and was holding a flower basket all the way to scatter flower petals to the crowd, causing bursts of cheers.
"There is such a beautiful woman in the world, isn't it really from Xianque Gong'e?"
"yes, it's beautiful!"
"Flower God Niangniang, Flower God Niangniang......"
After this visit, Cui Yuzhu's reputation became an instant hit in Beijing, and she became a celebrity known to everyone, and some literati and artists wrote poems and paintings for her.
For a time, the capital paper was expensive.
There are even those who took the portrait to other realms, and was mistaken for the portrait of the flower goddess Niangniang, and built a temple to shape the body to make a model.
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This year's Flower Dynasty Festival is particularly important for Yunchuan Mansion. Because of the continuous rain at the beginning of spring this year, the harvest was extremely poor, although the imperial court reduced taxes, but the poor people counted on that bit of food, and the flooding would cut off the way of life.
The people of Yunchuan began to wonder if they offended the flower god Niangniang last year, so the new year was not smooth, so this year, the government also held a very large-scale sacrifice ceremony.
The second is a folk ceremony, and Zhu Jingming, as a prince, naturally has to preside over it in person to calm the hearts of the people.
Since he came to Yunchuan, he has sheltered refugees, set up porridge and medicine, set up land to build villages, and rebuilt dams.
Nearly 10,000 people rushed to watch that sacrificial ceremony, and at the same time, many people in Yunchuan also appreciated the demeanor of this King of Qin.
No matter what dynasty they are in, handsome men and beautiful women are always sought after. A noble figure like King Qin, who is still so handsome, is like a god descending to save them from suffering to the people of Yunchuan who are suffering, and the emotions of the onlookers are getting higher and higher.
Zhu Jingming's move won a lot of people's hearts in Yunchuan, which was exactly what he wanted, and the prefect of Yunchuan said that he wanted the imperial court to fund the rebuilding of the golden body of the flower god Niangniang, and he thought about it and finally approved it.
He directly let Wu Shengzhi's people do it, and when he finished repairing, it was already the third day of March, and it was already the tenth day of the first month.
Zhu Jingming has no time to take care of this matter, and when the repair of the Flower Temple is completed, he is invited to see it only to find that the entire statue of the Flower God has been replaced.
Zhu Jingming: "......??" ”
Seeing that he seemed a little surprised, the prefect of Yunchuan hurriedly explained: "This is the statue of the flower god from the capital, and Weichen specially asked the craftsman to build it according to the drawing, what does His Highness think?" ”
The country and the city are shocked.
Zhu Jingming was slightly sluggish: "...... Very good. ”
It seems that this year's god of flowers fell on the Cui family, so it's okay......
Wait, he suddenly remembered that his mother had told him that he would choose a proper family to be his brother's concubine this year, wouldn't he think about it......
Cui Yuzhu.
Zhu Jingming closed his eyes, he couldn't imagine.
It seems that I still have to go back to Beijing, and if I don't go back, too many people are afraid that they will become a mess.
Counting the days, it has been out for some time, and the things on Yunchuan's side are only ending in an orderly manner, and after Zhu Jingming handed over the rights to Zhu Yunhe, he returned to Beijing in a very low-key manner.
After he returned to Beijing, he first slept for a while, and only entered the palace early the next morning to resume his life, and finally went to Funing Palace.
"The Queen Mother." Zhu Jingming saluted solemnly.
Empress Shangguan heard that he had gone to Emperor Jingwen early in the morning, and knew that he would definitely come over, so she had already prepared food and waited for him.
"Ah Zhi......" Queen Shangguan hadn't seen him for a month, so she really missed him tightly, pulled him to look left and right, and then said, "You have lost weight." ”
Zhu Jingming was a head taller than Queen Shangguan, but she pulled her like a three-year-old child to ask for warmth. Although the picture is a little inconsistent, his heart is warm.
After having dinner in Funing Palace, Zhu Jingming went to his grandfather's house to sit down.
Shangguan Ding sat down with him and said a few words, and then called him to the martial arts training field for a few competitions.
The old man's physical strength is not as good as him, but it just so happened that his cousin Shangguan Wei was also there, so he changed Shangguan Yu to play.
Shangguan used the knife, he used the sword, Shangguan used the knife hand to be stronger, but Zhu Jingming's body was more flexible. After such a round, no one bargained in the hands of the other party, and in the end, the two of them practiced sweating.
In the end, Zhu Jingming remembered the matter, and then discussed with his cousin some matters related to the martial arts test ten days later, and talked about lunch time, so he stayed at Shangguan's house for dinner before leaving.
After leaving the Shangguan Mansion, he went to the barracks stationed outside the city again, and ordered someone to send a cart of wine to the past, which was considered to be a condolence. Seeing that it was still early, I went to Shen's house to have a few drinks with Shen Mo.
Until late at night, I always felt that there was something I couldn't leave in my heart, so I thought about it before I asked Cui Yuzhu.
The housekeeper of the Qin Palace's mansion replied: "Back to Your Highness, this time it is indeed the queen mother who personally ordered the daughter of the Cui family to be the god of flowers." I heard that the queen mother originally intended to hire her as a concubine to His Royal Highness King Han, but the Cui family's body was too weak, and I don't know why she had a serious illness since the Shangsi Festival, and she has been sick for a long time...... Only then did the queen dispel the intention of giving marriage. ”
Zhu Jingming was slightly stunned: "You say...... Is she sick? ”
What is wrong with her? Serious or not?
"The minions didn't see it with their own eyes, but it should be true."
Zhu Jingming frowned, waved his hand and said, "I know, you go down." ”
For some reason, as soon as Fang heard that she was sick, Zhu Jingming's heart shrank tightly, and it was difficult to calm down.
Do you want to see her?
As soon as such a thought popped into his mind, he was startled.
There is a difference between men and women, and it would be too reckless to do so, if it ruins her reputation...... It's not appropriate, it's not appropriate.
What to do?
She fell ill after the Shangsi Festival, could it have anything to do with him? The appointment of the peach blossom forest, whether he broke the appointment, was she depressed because of this, and ......
The more he thought about it, the more annoying he became, Zhu Jingming couldn't ignore her, he thought, no matter what, explain it to her, it's not that he doesn't want to go to the appointment, but he really can't be separated.
Just go and see her, and go quietly, it's not too important.