Shortly after the morning meal, at the time of the Taoist "dragons traveling in the rain", Emperor Jiajing began a fasting ceremony to pray for the people, and soon the entire Xiyuan was enveloped in the smoke of incense, candles and fireworks.
Zhu Ping'an and other ministers who were seconded to write Qing Ci were also left to copy Qing Ci at the altar.
A series of complicated, solemn and extremely boring fasting rituals including burning incense, transforming talismans, remembering, chanting mantras, kneading teeth, chanting sutras, chanting sutras, praising, lighting candles, and walking, lasted until noon.
After the Zhaijiao ceremony, Zhu Pingan was just like the last time he wrote Qingci at the altar, with thirteen brushes dipped in gold powder in his sleeves, and Shi Shiran walked down the altar. This was not because Zhu Pingan was greedy for money, but mainly because he did not want to take advantage of Tao Zhongwen.
This old magician, because after the fasting ceremony, all the gold powder used as ink will belong to Tao Zhongwen.
This old magician is too greedy. During the last "Dragon Bone" incident, this old magician used the pretext of performing a ritual to calm the gods at Jianyuan Mountain in Wudang Mountain and took away more than 200,000 taels of silver from Emperor Jiajing.
He also often instigated Emperor Jiajing to hold various fasting festivals, and every time he held a fasting festival, the old magician made a lot of money.
Zhu Ping'an has no good impressions of Tao Zhongwen, an old magician. On the surface, this old magician looks like a celestial being, but in fact he is causing harm to the country and the people, even worse than corrupt officials. Not to mention the expenses for alchemy and Taoism.
The cost of setting up an altar for worship and worship alone often costs seven to eight thousand or tens of thousands of taels of silver each time. This money should have been used by the people, but now it has been a disaster.
If you don't take the gold powder left over from these Zhaijiao activities, it will be in vain. You can't take advantage of this old magician.
"Hehehe Master Zhu, your ears are still cold in this summer, look at your ears."
After the fasting ceremony, Zhu Ping'an returned to Wuyi Hall. As he was walking on the road, he heard a sarcastic voice coming from behind him.
Zhu Pingan turned his head and looked back, and then saw Yuan Wei with an envious and jealous look on his face.
When Yuan Wei saw Zhu Pingan turning back, he pointed at Zhu Pingan's ear. His face was full of envy, jealousy, hatred and ridicule. These expressions mixed together made Yuan Wei's face a little distorted.
Zhu Pingan wears a fragrant leaf crown given to him by Emperor Jiajing in the morning.
The most suitable scene for this fragrant leaf crown is Taoist-related activities, such as today's fasting ceremony. If you did not wear the fragrant leaf crown during today's fasting ceremony, you would have made a political mistake.
This is not just talk.
A few years ago, senior Xia Yan proved this with his personal experience. At that time, Xia Yan was still the chief minister of the cabinet, and Yan Song was only the second minister. Both of them were awarded fragrant leaf crowns by Emperor Jiajing. Xia Yan has always
They were all opposed to the superstitious activities of Emperor Jiajing, so after getting this Taoist fragrant leaf crown, Xia Yan never wore it. The difference was that Yan Song not only wore the fragrant leaf crown during Zhaijiao and other Taoist activities, but also every time he visited Emperor Jiajing.
, Yan Song would put on the fragrant leaf crown specially, wipe it clean, and cover it with light gauze to prevent dust and damage. In contrast, Emperor Jiajing praised Yan Song greatly and became increasingly alienated from Xia Yan. In the end,
, Xia Yan fell to the point of being abandoned by the city and executed, while Yan Song gained the favor of Emperor Jiajing and became the chief minister of the cabinet.
Therefore, this fragrant leaf crown Zhu Ping'an must be worn.
However, since the fragrant leaf crown is green, no man would wear a cuckold.
Therefore, Zhu Pingan made a cover for the fragrant leaf crown with black gauze by hand before the fasting ceremony.
However, because Zhu Pingan's workmanship was not very good, the hood he made was too big. Before going to the Zhaijiao ceremony, Zhu Pingan deliberately stuffed the extra circle into the hat. Unexpectedly, he knelt down and stood up during the Zhaijiao ceremony.
The half circle of gauze on the back of the hat fell down. Because the gauze was relatively thin, and the front half circle was always well inside the hat, Zhu Ping'an never noticed that the back half circle of gauze fell off, as if his ears were warm.
Covering most of the ears.
Therefore, Yuan Wei ridiculed Zhu Pingan for having cold ears, ridiculed Zhu Pingan for wearing a fragrant leaf crown, and ridiculed Zhu Pingan for wearing a macaque crown.
After hearing Yuan Wei's ridicule, Zhu Ping'an discovered that the back half of the hat had fallen down to cover his ears.
"Hehehe, my ears are still cold even in such a hot summer, Mr. Zhu is really surprised."
Yuan Wei clicked his tongue twice, pulled the corner of his mouth and shook his head, mocking Zhu Pingan for being the macaque. Yuan Wei was extremely envious and jealous of Zhu Pingan for receiving the fragrant leaf crown as a reward from Emperor Jiajing. He can be caught now
The opportunity was given to ridicule Zhu Ping'an, so he naturally would not let this opportunity pass him by.
Damn it!
Are you sick?!
Did I provoke you?!
Listening to Yuan Wei's sarcasm, which became more and more sinister and sarcastic every time, Zhu Ping'an's heart was filled with doubts as to whether he should preach the three sutras or not.
At this time, the surrounding ministers who were returning to Wuyi Hall had stopped in twos and threes and looked here.
"What's wrong, Mr. Zhu, you really have cold ears. Hahaha, what a coincidence, I know an imperial doctor named Li who specializes in treating..."
Seeing some people stopping to watch, Yuan Wei became more enthusiastic and opened his mouth to sneer at Zhu Pingan again.
This time Yuan Wei went a step further and directly recommended the imperial doctor to Zhu Pingan, insinuating that Zhu Pingan was ill.
"Haha, Mr. Yuan, my ears are not cold, but your eyes are hot, right?!!"
Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but pull down the corners of his mouth, cupped his hands towards Yuan Wei, and replied lightly.
My ears are not cold, but your eyes are hot.
You pink eye!
Zhu Ping'an's fluttering words immediately silenced Yuan Wei. He opened his mouth several times but couldn't make a sound. His face instantly turned as red as pig liver, and his ears were as red as a flash.
Go up.
This scene is ridiculous. Just now Yuan Wei was full of expressions and emotionally complained about Zhu Ping'an so many times, but Zhu Ping'an just replied lightly, and instantly KO'd Yuan Wei. He just bared his teeth and claws with a strong man and used fists and embroidered legs. As a result,
The other party stretched out a finger and pushed him down.
Who am I, where am I, my face is so hot...
At this moment, Yuan Wei's mind was blank, his face was red, his face was stiff, he was at a loss, and he was so embarrassed that he wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in.
"hehe……"
"Your ears are not cold, but your eyes are hot...hehe..."
This was a typical example of Yuan Wei being defeated instead of being annihilated. When everyone onlookers saw this, they couldn't help laughing.
"Since Mr. Yuan knows Dr. Li, Ping An will not go out of his way to recommend a good doctor to Mr. Yuan. I would like to wish Mr. Yuan a speedy recovery."
Zhu Ping'an bowed his hands to Yuan Wei, shrugged his shoulders, added lightly, and then turned around and left leisurely.
Yuan Wei was left there to receive the attention of everyone.