The weather in the capital is different from that in Gangnam, with little rain, and the sun is still blazing during Obon, but at the end of July, the sky is high and refreshing.

The Yongji Temple puja on the first day of August is a grand event in the capital.

In fact, there are not only Yongji Temple in the capital where incense is flourishing, but also Jing'an Temple and Tanzhe Temple. The first emperor re-emphasized the Buddha, and often called the monks of the three temples into the palace to preach the scriptures, and the queen mother also looked at the three temples differently. Tanzhe Temple is far away in the Tanzhe Mountain of Mentougou, the Queen Mother goes to a trip too much to move the public, and Jing'an Temple is near the official eunuchs, but Yongji Temple is more quiet, therefore, for more than ten years, the Queen Mother will go to Yongji Temple several times a year.

The incense of Yongji Temple is also more and more prosperous, the annual large and small puja, it is a grand event in the capital, one or two months in advance will send incense silver to Yongji Temple, so that at the puja, when listening to the monks' lectures, their own family can have a decent seat.

However, this festival was different from the previous ones, and it was not until a few days ago that Yongji Temple announced that it would hold a meeting on the first day of August.

Although in a hurry, but the families are not surprised by this, as we all know, a few days ago, the Queen Mother had just been to Yongji Temple, and Huo Sijin, the daughter of Huo Jiang, the head of the Hanlin Academy, became famous.

Peng Chengbo Mansion had an accident, the Queen Mother was unhappy, who knows if this festival is specially held by Yongji Temple for the Queen Mother? Who knows if the Queen Mother will come to the Festival on a whim and also come to the Festival?

Therefore, on the first day of the eighth month, all the nobles and eunuchs in the capital came.

Since the last time, Huo Sijin has not been to Yongji Temple again, and the words of the Queen Mother that day, although they did not spread, were like a thunderbolt in the sky for her.

Over the years, she has grown up in the nunnery, although her grandmother has taught her about human accidents, but after all, she has little contact with the outside world. There is no mother at home, and her father rarely talks to her, thanks to an aunt Huo Yuan who is waiting to be written in the family.

The Huo family is a big family in Longxi, the ancestors have produced seven or eight Jinshi in the previous dynasty, and there are many talents, but it is a pity that in the early years of the founding of the country, the plague in Longxi, the Huo family has withered since then, and now, there are only two heads of the Huo family, less than 20 people.

But almost all of the Huo family are reading seeds, except for young children who have not yet grown up, the boys of the Huo family are all famous.

Huo Jiang is the champion of the last years of the first emperor, his younger brother Huo Hai is the nineteenth in the second list of Jinshi, and his only son Huo Yuan won Xiucai at the age of fifteen, and now he is studying in Taishan Academy, studying under Kong Zhaoming, the second son of Confucianism and Yan Shenggong.

Huo Sijin first returned to the capital, unfamiliar with the place, heard that Yongji Temple suddenly had a way to meet, her heart was up and down, she wanted to go to the festival, but remembered what the Queen Mother said, and she was at a loss.

She had no choice but to ask her aunt Huo Yuan.

Old lady Huo died five years ago, and now the old lady Feng in the house is the stepfamily, she only gave birth to Huo Yuan, Huo Jiang, Huo Hai, and the deceased Huo family's aunt and grandmother Huo Xiang are all from the Yuan and Jiao families.

Old Madam Feng is more than ten years younger than Old Lady Huo, and now she is only in her early forties, her body is tough, her eldest daughter-in-law died early, and her second daughter-in-law Meng followed Huo Hai to take office, so Huo Mansion is still presided over by Old Madam Feng.

Huo Yuan is the youngest daughter, and she is the only biological flesh and blood of Mrs. Feng, and it is inevitable that she will be picky about family affairs, and now Huo Yuan is seventeen years old and is still waiting for her to be in the boudoir.

When Huo Sijin came to find Huo Yuan, Huo Yuan was trying on clothes in front of the mirror, and when he saw Huo Sijin, he asked with a smile: "Sister Jin, take a look, how about I wear this dress to Yongji Temple?" ”

She was wearing a parrot green makeup gown, and underneath was an apricot-yellow Hunan skirt.

Huo Sijin's eyes were attracted by the Hunan skirt: "This skirt is so beautiful, when did my aunt buy it, I haven't seen so many Hunan skirts." ”

Huo Yuan said: "Didn't I go out with my third sister and fifth sister-in-law yesterday, this skirt was bought ready-made in the newly opened color embroidery workshop, and it's no wonder that you haven't seen it, these twenty-four Hunan skirts are just emerging from Jiangnan." ”

Huo Sijin smiled: "Auntie, I know about the color embroidery workshop, I heard about it when I was in Jiangnan, but I didn't know that there was one in the capital." ”

Speaking of this, her eyes lit up: "Auntie, are we going to Yongji Temple to have a puja too?" ”

"Go, of course go, if all the other families go, only our family doesn't go, wouldn't it not give face to Yongji Temple?" Huo Yuan said as he held a golden butterfly and gestured on the Hunan skirt.

Huo Sijin pretended not to see it, and hid his face behind the fan to hide his smile.

Where is the fear of not giving face to Yongji Temple, the Yongji Temple's festival is missing the Huo family, and it is just a few more futons, and my aunt is afraid that she will not have face in the boudoir

The festival of Yongji Temple is not for nothing, but everyone who wants to listen to the scriptures must send a considerable amount of incense money, and some people just can't take out the silver, so they don't go.

"Is the old lady going?" Huo Sijin asked.

Huo Yuan said: "Of course the old lady wants to go, if you want to go, just go with your aunt, by the way, don't you know how to make snacks?" Bring more of the Buddha fruit you made at Yongji Temple, I heard that Yongji Temple doesn't do it either. ”

Huo Sijin's face stiffened slightly, the Queen Mother had already said that those Buddha fruits in the shape of Dharma objects could only be worshiped in front of the Buddha, and ordinary people could not eat them as snacks.

Of course, Yongji Temple did not do it, although it was a person outside the party, but Yongji Temple received the emperor's grace, and would never ignore the words of the Queen Mother.

Yongji Temple didn't dare to do it, she was a small daughter of the head of the courtyard, and she didn't dare to disobey it.

But what the Queen Mother said that day, Huo Sijin didn't want anyone to know, because she accompanied the Queen Mother to the Fazhu Forest, and her status in the house also rose.

Old Madam Feng was originally just polite to this granddaughter who had no slightest blood relationship, but since Huo Sijin met the Queen Mother, Old Madam Feng looked at her differently, and when a good relationship with a female family visited, Old Madam Feng would call her over.

But if she told Mrs. Feng that the reason why she didn't go to Yongji Temple later was not because she was unwell, but because the Queen Mother didn't let her go, the Queen Mother not only didn't let her go to Yongji Temple, but also didn't let her do Buddha fruit anymore.

What happened that day, except that she was fortunate enough to help the Queen Mother go to the Bamboo Forest and see the child of the Huo family, she had nothing to be proud of.

Now seeing that Huo Yuan wants her to make dim sum, he knows that Huo Yuan wants to use the dim sum she made to show off to those ladies.

There are no dim sum in Yongji Temple, but the Huo family has, who has a little lady in the Huo family who is favored by the Queen Mother.

Huo Si thought about it for a while, and said to Huo Yuan: "Auntie, why don't I make a few other dim sums, that day in the French bamboo forest, the Queen Mother once praised her niece, and asked her niece to think of some new tricks. ”