Chunman Palace

Chapter 30
In the early morning of the next day, the frost was thick and the dew was heavy, the cold wind was blowing, the branches were shivering, and there was a hint of coolness in the air.

When Lin Qingyu arrived at Ganquan Hall, the Empress Dowager got up and was about to go out. Seeing her coming, she invited them to Linxian Hall to pray for blessings.

Linxian Hall is a place built in the northwest of Xuanming City to worship gods and pray for fortune. The hall is empty and holy, no one is allowed to enter and leave at will, and there is a fixed time for visiting and praying. No one is allowed to set foot at night, otherwise they will be punished by God.

Seeing that she was getting closer and closer to the golden-red building, Lin Qingyu felt more and more conflicted in her heart, until she entered the shining golden light, and when the candle red and agarwood filled her eyes and nasal cavity vigorously, she let out a long breath.

The Empress Dowager was cleaning her hands with the "Lotus Pond" in the basin, when a priest in lavender robes handed her the incense in his hand, and then his eyes fell on Lin Qingyu.

His eyes are deep and black, like a pool of clear water in the Moon Canal.

Lin Qingyu was a little nervous, and leaned against the Queen Mother.

Suddenly, the priest narrowed his eyes slightly and smiled at her.

Lin Qingyu immediately turned cold, and returned a surprised look.This feels similar to the god grandma she saw in her hometown when she was a child. Could it be that this kind of people are all pretending to be ghosts...

The queen mother noticed something strange, and asked lightly: "What's wrong with Lin Changzai?"

Aunt Yu set up the incense table, took a few sticks of agarwood, walked to Lin Qingyu and said, "Once, please wash your hands first, remember to be sincere when making offerings and prayers."

Only then did Lin Qingyu heave a sigh of relief as if she had caught a life-saving straw, and followed the people, offering incense and praying scribbledly.

This priest is the person who receives the decree of the gods and conveys the will of the gods. He usually takes care of the Immortal Hall and the Observatory, and goes to the Observatory every night to perform sacrifices to the gods, so he also has the status of the high priest every year.

Lin Qingyu has never had a good impression of these gods and ghosts, and she doesn't believe in them at all.

If it wasn't for the Queen Mother's invitation this time, she probably wouldn't have set foot here.

After half an hour, the blessing ended.

Yu Dai slowly helped the queen mother up, and the queen mother chatted with the priest about the offering of fragrant fruits to the gods, and then asked Lin Qingyu to go back to Jianzhang Palace together.

"Sit down." The Empress Dowager was in a good mood, caressing the string of mysterious jade beads in her hand.

"Thank you, Empress Dowager." Lin Qingyu sat down as he said, and smelled a faint fruity fragrance, which was very fresh, and couldn't help asking: "What kind of incense is burning in the Empress Dowager's Palace?"

"Incense?" The Empress Dowager was startled, and then burst into laughter, "I seldom use incense in this palace, only Tibetan incense is burned every festival. The fragrance you mentioned may be those citrons on the desk."

citron?Lin Qingyu looked suspiciously, and saw a few pear-shaped fruits on the plate.

The Empress Dowager took a sip of tea, and said: "The Linxian Palace will prepare these things, take fresh ones every four or five days, and put them in the palace. The fragrance can last for a long time. Lin Changzai also likes this fragrance, so he took one back. Bar."

"Thank you, Queen Mother." It turns out that the Queen Mother likes the fresh air of citron fruit. Although it is not as fragrant and long-lasting as burning incense, it makes people feel very refreshing.

The Empress Dowager said somewhat casually: "These days the emperor is apart from Concubine Min's Palace, and you and Jin Gui are the most diligent. It is good to be favored in this palace, but you must have a sense of proportion, otherwise you will cause trouble to your upper body."

Lin Qingyu froze for a moment, she couldn't quite understand what she said.

"The empress dowager means..."

"Lin Changzai, you will be confined for half a month from tomorrow. If you don't understand, you will understand when you go back to the palace and think about it carefully." The queen mother knocked on the tea cover and said lightly.

"The empress dowager...!" Lin Qingyu wanted to say something, but the empress dowager turned her back with a look.

Since it was the empress dowager's oral order, she couldn't say anything more, and returned to the palace after staying in the Ganquan hall for a while.

After going through all this, Lin Qingyu didn't even want to have dinner, and quietly stared in a daze in the room.

Mo'er couldn't see it, and complained: "Master, we used to go to Jianzhang Palace to pay respects to the queen mother every day, and we couldn't even see each other, but now the queen mother is willing to see the master and invites you to Linxian Hall to pray. We have been banned for half a month. We really suffered a big loss."

Even if the Empress Dowager said that she had to occupy the favor for too long, it would attract people's attention, but why did she have to wait until after the blessings were finished to tell her that the Empress Dowager also said that apart from Concubine Min, the Emperor belonged to Yaohua Pavilion and Fujingxuan the most? , but why did he restrain himself alone?
So suddenly, it seems to have listened to someone's slander.

When she went to Linxian Temple this morning, she noticed that the priest looked at her in the wrong way, as if a hunter had found a prey with a playful meaning, but as a concubine, how dare this priest provoke her so bluntly?It can be seen from this that the emperor attaches great importance to matters of the gods, and the priest's words also have some weight.

And the queen mother worships God, so it is naturally the same.

She suddenly understood something, fixedly looked at the citron on the table and said, "No, this is not what the Queen Mother meant, but the oracle."

Mo'er looked at her puzzledly: "What oracle?"

"Come out with me." Lin Qingyu stood up and went out to confirm her conjecture. Mo'er was worried that she would catch cold, so she picked up her cloak and hurriedly followed behind.

Because the lights were not turned on, the palace road, which was fairly bright in the past, became darker than ever. Lin Qingyu stepped into the darkness as if possessed by an evil spirit, and walked extremely fast.

"My lord, my lord, wait for your servant." Mo'er struggled to keep up with Lin Qingyu's footsteps, and tied the cloak on him.

"My lord, where are you going at this late hour?"

Lin Qingyu stopped and turned her head abruptly: "Shh, keep your voice down." Her eyes melted into the night, like thick black mist.

Seeing this, Mo'er really thought that Lin Qingyu was a ghost, and was so frightened that she didn't dare to speak for a long time, and followed people shiveringly.

The palace road was long and long, and after walking for an unknown amount of time, a black shadow suddenly crossed in and blocked the two of them.

Lin Qingyu also stopped at this time, making the atmosphere even more weird, and Mo'er felt that she was going to scream in the next second.

Lin Qingyu took a closer look, it was a cat, or a black cat, very similar to the one that Tian Lingqiao held.

Although there are no palace lanterns around here, the location and the decoration of rope colors also prove that this is the Linxian Temple without a doubt.

After confirming the location, she stepped forward and walked forward, noticing that Mo'er was still in a daze and did not follow, thinking that Mo'er was afraid of the dark, she comforted, "Don't be afraid, it's just a cat."

The inner door of Linxian Hall is closed, only a small path on the outside is planted with flowers and plants, and various items for praying to gods are placed. On the Marriage Tree, the prayer lines blown up by the wind are chaotic, and the rattling is a bit scary.

A voice came from the small door behind the tree: "I know that Lin Changzai is coming, so I am waiting here specially, does Changzai have anything to ask?"

It was a man's voice, Lin Qingyu secretly thought, maybe behind the door is the priest whom he saw during the day?
Although she wanted to ask the Empress Dowager if she had anything to do with him, she would not admit it, so she put it another way: "I thought that gods would not eat the fireworks of the world, but I didn't expect that such a status as a priest would actually take money." Disaster relief."

The man behind the door smiled, and spoke righteously: "Money can turn ghosts, wealth can reach heaven, and power can overwhelm people. This is an eternal truth, not to mention that I am still in the mortal world."

Seeing that the person was not hiding anything, she said again: "Can the priest explain it in more detail?"

"Someone bought Lin Changzai's fortune for 1000 taels of silver. How about it? Does Lin Changzai feel anything unusual?" He asked knowingly, if nothing happened to Lin Qingyu, he wouldn't come here now.

Seeing that there was no response outside the door, he said again: "If Lin Chang is rich in his hands, this seat can also help you with affairs. If you are interested, you can come to the observatory at Sishi every day."

Buying her luck with 1000 taels of silver was really a big deal.

Lin Qingyu's face was serious, she was silent for a long time, and finally turned around and left without saying a word.

(End of this chapter)