In a blink of an eye, at the end of the year, there was news in the capital that the Empress Dowager was injured in Baoxiang Temple during the Laba Festival.

This news was heard by Aji in the teahouse.

Feiyuwei is fat, Xu An and Lu You have saved a lot of silver, except for the ones left to their families, they still have a surplus on hand.

Since they had a plan to bring their family to the northwest, they wanted to set up two shops in the west. Therefore, they are not idle these days, in addition to being familiar with the customs of the northwest, just to see what business they can do.

Therefore, Azhi is in the teahouse restaurant almost every day, and he hears people say that it is a short and long-term thing.

Every year during the Laba Festival, Laba porridge will be cooked in the Baoxiang Temple in the capital. The porridge and dry firewood are transported from the palace to Baoxiang Temple, and after the abbot of Baoxiang Temple recites the scriptures, the monks in the temple cook Laba porridge.

There is a copper cauldron six feet wide and five feet deep in Baoxiang Temple, which is used to cook Laba porridge, and it is said that the cauldron has been around for more than 200 years.

During the reign of Emperor Taizu, every year during the Laba Festival, the crown prince would be sent to Baoxiang Temple in person to thank heaven and earth, pray for good weather and abundant grains in the coming year, and give Laba porridge to Wang Sun Xungui and civil and military officials.

Since the funeral of Emperor Taizu, the copper cauldron in Baoxiang Temple has cooked Laba porridge every year, but only this year, it is the members of the royal family who come to preside over the ceremony, and it is the Queen Mother who comes.

For this reason, the palace and Baoxiang Temple as early as a month ago to make detailed preparations, in order to prevent accidents, from the palace to Baoxiang Temple all the way, three steps and one post, five steps and one post, Baoxiang Temple is even more precautionary like an iron bucket.

In the capital, the city gate was closed three days in advance, whether it was out of the city or into the city, it had to stay until after the Laba Festival, and the temple gate was also closed until the early morning of Laba.

Whether it is the Yang family, Feiyuwei, Jin Wuwei, or Yulin Army, they are all fully prepared, in order to prevent assassins, Yang Min, the protector of the country, is in the honor guard of the Empress Dowager's attendant, hiding more than 20 extraordinary martial arts masters, and even the four female officials of the Shang Palace who went to Baoxiang Temple with the Empress Dowager are all disguised by women with strong martial arts.

But no one thought that it was useless to defend against copper walls day and night, and in the end it was destroyed on the cauldron.

This cauldron has to cook six pots of porridge, and the first pot of porridge is offered to the Buddha; the second pot of porridge was given to the emperor, the empress dowager and the concubines in the palace; the third pot of porridge was given to the kings, grandsons, nobles, and monks; the fourth pot of porridge was given to the civil and military officials and the officials of the feudal territory in Beijing; The fifth pot of porridge is given to the elders who are invited; The sixth pot of porridge was given to the monks of Baoxiang Temple.

The Empress Dowager is a body of ten thousand gold, of course, she will not cook porridge herself, after the sacrifice to the heavens, the Empress Dowager grabs a handful of rice from the golden bowl and spills it into the cauldron, which is considered to be cooking porridge, the Empress Dowager will return to the palace, and the rest will be handed over to the abbot monks and officials of Taichang Temple.

The change occurred when the Empress Dowager sprinkled rice on the pot.

The firewood under the cauldron burns very strongly, and there is a circle of knee-high stone edges, which separates the fire from the inside, and when the Empress Dowager sprinkles rice, the stone edge is separated by her feet, not far or close, just enough to sprinkle the rice into the pot.

The water in the copper cauldron has been boiled, and when the first handful of rice is sprinkled in it, the monk will start cooking the porridge.

The Empress Dowager grabbed a handful of rice from the golden bowl and sprinkled it into the cauldron, but before she could withdraw her hand, she heard a loud bang!

The loud noise came from the cauldron, and the inner supervisor and the guards immediately escorted the empress dowager backwards, and just a few steps away, they heard an exclamation: "Pot...... Pot ......"

I saw that on the copper cauldron that has a history of more than 200 years, a huge crack is spreading upwards from the bottom of the pot!

In addition to the kings and grandsons, civil and military officials, and the long-lived elders over sixty years old in the capital, those who were close saw it with their own eyes, and those who were far away could not see it, and they also heard an exclamation, the cauldron was cracked, and the copper daimyo, which had been standing in the Baoxiang Temple in the previous dynasty, was cracked!

Although he was ordered to keep his mouth shut, this matter still spread, and on the ninth day of the lunar month, there was only one thing that people in the capital were quietly talking about-

The Empress Dowager spilled a handful of rice into it, and the cauldron in Baoxiang Temple cracked!

The first pot of porridge is for worshiping the Buddha, scooped into a bowl, and offered to a Buddha and Bodhisattva, but before the pot of porridge has begun to boil, the cauldron of cooking porridge will crack.

This is the Buddha and Bodhisattva who refused to accept this bowl of porridge, and the Buddha and Bodhisattva were angry!

Baoxiang Temple has been around for more than 200 years, and this cauldron has been around for more than 200 years, whether it is the mediocre Emperor of the previous dynasty or the Emperor Taizu of the Great Qi Wenzhi martial arts, or even the prince who died early, as well as the monks who presided over the cooking of porridge in previous years, no matter who sprinkled the rice, no matter who cooked the porridge, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas all gladly accepted it, blessed the people, and blessed the common people.

And now the Buddha and Bodhisattva refuse to accept the offering anymore, is this no longer to protect the Great Qi?

It is not the monks who annoy the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, let alone the common people, but the Empress Dowager Yang, the Supreme Mother of the World!

"The Buddha and Bodhisattva are compassionate, and his old man is not worshipped because the Empress Dowager has blood on her hands."

"Emperor Taizu won the world with martial arts, and he also had blood on his hands?"

"But the blood on Emperor Taizu's hands is for the common people in the world, but the Empress Dowager is not, the blood on her hands is ......"

"But no, the prince of King Qin just died a few days ago."

"Not only the prince of King Qin, aren't King Yan, King Gui, and King Yu all dead? Those are all the descendants of Taizu. ”

"Then it's no wonder that the Empress Dowager, it was ordered by the emperor."

"Are you stupid? How old is the emperor? So far, there is no pro-government, and it is not all the Empress Dowager and the Yang family. ”

"Now that you have angered the Buddha and angered the Bodhisattva, is this going to be sent by heaven?"

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However, on the 20th, what happened in the Baoxiang Temple on the day of Laba, it spread out of the capital, spread all over the world, Xi'an City talked about it, the people were uneasy, if this is the curse, then it is the people of Li who are affected, I heard that many places have suffered disasters this year, as far as the eye can see, the vicinity of the capital is full of displaced people, and now even the beggars in Xi'an City are much more than before.

If there is a disaster in a few places, there will be a disaster in other places, and then they will also become displaced people, beggars, precarious, and displaced.

Shen Tong was also taken aback when he heard Azhi finish speaking.

At this time in her previous life, she had just arrived at the camp of the dead, and she was in a state of confusion and lingering on the sickbed, and she didn't know if the Empress Dowager had gone to Baoxiang Temple to cook porridge, and whether the cauldron of Baoxiang Temple had cracked.

But Shen Tong knew that the reason why the Empress Dowager wanted to go to Baoxiang Temple to preside over the Laba Festival was to calm the people's hearts, at that time, the congratulatory gifts sent to the capital were repeatedly robbed, and the people in the capital were panicked, and the Empress Dowager had to make a decree, and let the folk elders also participate in the ceremony, which successfully diverted the attention of the people, and everyone was proud to have elders in the family to participate in the ceremony.

But now it seems that this is not a good thing.

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