The emperor's scheming: alluring the world

Chapter 266 The Strange Prayer Bag
Most of the people in Xindu believe in Buddhism. Recently, a new kind of prayer has appeared.Changlong Temple is the Daxin Royal Temple. There is a longevity tree in the temple. It is named the longevity tree because no one knows how old the tree is. Because of its luxuriant branches and green leaves all the year round, it is named the longevity tree.

The common people do not know who has embroidered the names of themselves and their children, as well as their children's birthdays, on the blessing bags opened by the eminent monks of Changlong Temple, hung them on the longevity tree for seven to nine days, and took them off for their children to wear next to their bodies. It can ensure the safety of the children for a lifetime. If the children are not around, they will be hung on the longevity tree and will not be taken down, so as to achieve the blessing of praying for the children and gathering luck.

Once this blessing method was spread, it was widely believed by the people, and the incense in Changlong Temple became more prosperous because of it, and the longevity tree was covered with big red blessing bags embroidered with blessing characters.

Rumors of this kind of blessing also spread to the royal family and nobles. Li Sister-in-law seemed very indifferent to it, but Mrs. Bo was also very interested. She asked for a blessing bag embroidered with Bo Ting's name and hung it on the longevity tree of Changlong Temple. .

When Princess Jingxian heard about this method of praying, she also moved her mind. She personally obtained a blessing bag at Changlong Temple, embroidered the names and birthdays of her children on it overnight, and went to Changlong Temple in person the next day.

Concubine Jingxian has a distinguished status and is a member of the royal family. Master Xuanci, the abbot of Changlong Temple, greeted her personally at the mountain gate.

After Master Xuanci greeted Princess Jingxian, he led the way and led Princess Jingxian to the garden where the Longevity Tree was located.

Princess Jingxian has always kept a low profile. People from the royal family usually go to the temple to offer incense. Changlong Temple will be closed, but Princess Jingxian is different. Changlong Temple was closed, and she was only wearing casual clothes, riding in a plain-looking carriage, and went to and from Changlong Temple many times, but no one had ever discovered her identity as a princess.

After Master Xuanci brought Princess Jingxian under the Longevity Tree, he proclaimed a Buddhist name: "Princess, this is the Longevity Tree. The poor monk will leave."

Princess Jingxian clasped her hands piously and said, "Master, please help yourself."

After watching Master Xuanci leave, Princess Jingxian handed over the blessing bag to the maids beside her, and asked them to hang it on the tree.Concubine Jingxian and King Jingxian are deeply in love as husband and wife. King Jingxian has never taken a concubine. They have four sons and two daughters under their knees. The son of King Jingxian served in Jingzhong, and the other three sons were divided into county kings and served in different military camps.

This time Princess Jingxian brought a total of six blessing bags, all of which were to pray for the six children under her knees.
Watching the two maidservants hang up the blessing bags, Princess Jingxian did not forget to remind the maidservants to fasten the blessing bags and other things to pay attention to. Seeing this, the nurse next to Princess Jingxian said softly: "Princess, these two The girl was trained by you, and they are always cautious in doing things, so don't worry!"

When Princess Jingxian heard the words, a very shallow smile appeared on her face and said: "I hope this blessing bag can keep my son's life safe, smooth and happy."

"Yes, my concubine is kind-hearted, and she always does good deeds on weekdays. God can see your devotion to the Buddha." The nanny on the side actually spoke nice words.

When Princess Jingxian heard this, she smiled and said nothing.After a while, the two maids tied all the lucky bags respectively, and they carefully returned to the ground with the ladder. At this moment, one of the many lucky bags fell on the ground, and it fell at the feet of one of the maids. Instinctively, he looked up at the longevity tree, then bent down to pick up the blessing bag and walked to Princess Jingxian: "Princess, a blessing bag fell from the tree."

Princess Jingxian glanced at the lucky bag casually, and said softly: "It must be because it wasn't fastened, and now that it landed at your feet, maybe God wanted you to do a good deed, so you help them re-tie it." let's go!"

"Yes." The maid answered yes, then turned around and rushed out of a woman from nowhere, judging by her age, she was 37 or [-] years old, and she was dressed plainly, so she should be from a well-to-do family. The woman looked anxious Anxiously snatching the blessing bag from the maidservant's hand, she turned around in panic and was about to run away.

Concubine Jingxian was taken aback by this sudden accident. Out of the instinct of protecting the lord, the guards behind him stepped forward and blocked the woman's way: "How dare you treat Jingxian with such a bold woman?" The princess is so rude, you don't want to die!"

After hearing what the guard said, the woman looked at Princess Jingxian in shock, and at the same time subconsciously turned her hands behind her back, as if she was afraid that others would see the blessing bag in her hand, but the woman's reaction was extremely fast. After a moment of shock, she Then he said respectfully to Princess Jingxian: "The woman sees the princess, I offended the princess just now, I hope the princess will forgive me."

Princess Jingxian didn't believe the woman's words, she always felt that the woman's behavior was too weird, so she asked coldly: "Just now you snatched the blessing bag from my concubine's maidservant, please hand over the blessing bag now."

The woman was startled when she heard the words, and she was silent for a while before she said: "Princess, this blessing bag belongs to a commoner. I just saw that the blessing bag came loose from the longevity tree. I offended the concubine in a moment of impatience. Please forgive me." After that, she was even more nervous to protect the blessing bag in her hand.

In the eyes of Princess Jingxian, the woman's behavior is a guilty conscience, and she believes that the woman's behavior is weird: "Take the blessing bag in her hand and show it to this princess." The princess ordered to the accompanying guards.

The guard got the order, so naturally he would not show mercy to the woman, even though the woman was protecting the blessing bag in every possible way, the prayer bag was still snatched away by the guard.

"Princess, please have a look." The guard presented the blessing bag.

The maid at the side hurriedly took the blessing bag and passed it to Princess Jingxian. Princess Jingxian held the blessing bag and looked at it for a moment. When she saw the name and birth date on the blessing bag, her pupils shrank sharply, and her face She also showed a shocked expression, and after a while she asked sharply: "Is this blessing bag really yours?"

The woman trembled in shock from Princess Jingxian's stern questioning, she stammered and said: "If you go back to Princess Jing, this blessing bag really belongs to a woman."

"Your son is also named Jin Yang!" With narrowed eyes, Princess Jingxian said in a bad tone, "This is really strange, not only the name is the same, but also the birth date is the same. Your son is so lucky that he has the same name as the current emperor." Born at the same time with the same name!"

The woman's face turned pale when she heard the words of Princess Jingxian, and she knelt down with a plop and said: "My lord, it's a coincidence that women don't know Emperor Jin's birth date!"

(End of this chapter)