Splendid Pastoral: The Strong and Hot Wife

Chapter 188 House arrest
It was drizzling at dawn, and after an unknown period of time, Chen Hezhe's legs went limp, and the eunuchs who recited the sacrificial oration had finished their chanting, and the sound of the drum music stopped.

He walked to the altar and saw that the incense candle that was lit had been soaked by the rain for some time.

Chen Hezhe knelt down in panic and kowtowed to the sky while shouting loudly: "Ah! God bless you! God bless you!"

After hearing this, all the ministers looked at their emperor nervously, wondering what the hell was going on with him?

After Chen Hezhe finished worshiping the sky, he stood up and said solemnly to the ministers: "My dear friends! You can see that this incense candle has been extinguished by the rain. This is God's dissatisfaction with me Da Zhou!

My lords, look!In order to avoid disasters for the people of Dazhou, we have to fast and pray for 49 days.

To show our sincerity, our monarchs and ministers will recite Buddhist scriptures and eat vegetarian meals in this ancestral temple from today on!They will not be able to return home until the 49th day of July or July is over! "

Hearing what he said, all the ministers could only silently accept his shocking remarks!

Only the three generations of the Qiu family and Mu Yuanqing knew the reason.

After Chen Hezhe finished speaking, he glanced at all the ministers with his deep eyes, and found no objection.

He walked up to Qiu Zhongxiang and the others again and said, "Qiu Qing's family, you can stay in the palace with peace of mind during this time, and pray for the Great Zhou and the people together with me! In Dingzhou, I will send someone to help manage it." !

There are also two major generals, Ling Hai, and I will send someone to help take care of them!You all stay at ease!

It stands to reason that you have killed too much, you should pray wholeheartedly for the people of Dazhou! "

Hearing what he said, Qiu Zhongxiang, his father and son could only bow their heads and stand in front of him humbly, saying: "What the emperor said is exactly!"

Seeing that he had achieved his goal, Chen Hezhe turned around and said to all the ministers: "My dear friends! Please follow me to the ancestral temple! The rain is getting heavier and heavier!"

After Chen Hezhe finished speaking, he led the ministers to the three tall ancestral temples with gray walls and blue tiles and vermilion doors.

There is only one door to enter these three big tile-roofed houses. Directly opposite the door is a divine table, two meters long and one meter wide. Tablets for emperors and princes.

The room on the left is the same as the main hall, but inside are the tablets of the queens of the Great Zhou Dynasty, princesses and concubines with children and concubines.

The one on the right is the tablet of Chen's lineage and the official wife Chen married before he became the lord of the country.

As soon as Chen Hezhe entered, he took three sticks of incense and lit them on the divine table, muttering something, and kowtowed to the tablet of the divine table.

Then, insert the incense into the big bronze incense burner.He made three more bows, and then retreated to a straw futon and sat down, closing his eyes and muttering words.

The ministers looked at it, burned incense one by one like him, bowed and finally sat on the futon.

At noon, the eunuch who was chanting the sacrificial oration walked into the ancestral temple, came to Chen Hezhe, lowered his head and put his mouth in his ear, and whispered a few words, Chen Hezhe opened his eyes and glanced at him, and said a few more words to him Sentence, that's too much monitoring, nod!
After the eunuch retreated for a while, there were a few maids in palace attire, dragging trays in their hands, and the first ten trays contained a stack of blackened sesame seed cakes.

On the tray in the hands of the ladies in the back was a large blue and white porcelain jug.

The maids came to the ancestral temple, took trays and walked up to their emperor Chen Hezhe first, and asked him to take sesame seed cakes and water first, and then gave the ministers one sesame seed cake and four pots of water one by one.

Martial arts practitioners eat a lot, Qiu Qiming saw that his son and grandson couldn't eat a single pancake, so he divided his own into three and shared it with his son and grandson.

At this time, Chen Hezhe saw Qiu Zhongxiang, Qiu Yongyu and Qiu Yongqi father and son, just took the cake that Qiu Qiming gave them and put it in their mouths.

He asked loudly: "What? Old General Qiu isn't hungry? With the piety to the heavens, we can't waste a grain of food. If the order goes down, we won't prepare any food for Old General Qiu tonight!"

After Qiu Zhongxiang heard this, he really wanted to take out the dark, cold biscuits that had just been stuffed into his mouth and throw them on his face.

"Cough...cough..."

After Qiu Yongqi and Qiu Yongyu listened, what Chen Hezhe said almost choked to death!
Qiu Qiming hurriedly patted their backs with his hands. Seeing his son with tears in his eyes and an angry look on his face as he lowered his head and wanted to go mad, he remembered what Mu Yuanqing said when he just came here, and hurriedly reached out his hand on his sesame seed cake pat.

Instruct him not to be impulsive, but to wait patiently!

Wu Qian heard what Chen Hezhe said, when he didn't feed his old father tonight, he wished he could throw the hard sesame seed cakes in his hand on his face.

Regret that I shouldn't help him with this matter, what kind of ghost sacrificial ceremony.This day was also chosen by himself. He didn't expect it to rain today, so he really wanted to find a hole to get in.

However, when he saw Qiu Qiming's calm eyes, he understood!No matter what the weather is like today, their emperor will let them stay in the palace.

Mu Yuanqing took a small bite of the black biscuits and looked at the situation in the hall.I thought: what is he sitting on?Isn't there 49 days?Why is this just the beginning, are people going to starve to death?

Zhou Kelei, the commander of the imperial forest army, and Lu Quan, the commander of the Ouchi guards, were both gnawing on the hard-to-eat sesame seed cakes.

The two looked at each other with wide eyes and communicated with each other. Lu Quan looked at Zhou Kelei and asked, but Zhou Kelei didn't understand what Lu Quan meant, so he shook his head.

Lu Quan thought to himself: What is he doing?Are you too impatient?When there is war in the frontier, you want Qiu's army to charge forward. Now, the frontier has only been stable for less than three months, right?Why do you want to hide everything?
Zhou Kelei is a rough man, even his name was given by Qiu Qiming when he was in the army.

He thought to himself: This Chen Hezhe is really a white-eyed wolf!Back then when they were conquering the world, the Qiu family's army made the enemy fearful. For Da Zhou and for the Chen family's country, they threw their heads and blood!
Today, is the country stable?Don't want these heroes?Are you crossing the river and tearing down the bridge?

They looked at Qiu Qiming who was standing there, and just as they were thinking about asking if they were going to make a fuss, they picked up Chen Hezhe in the ancestral temple?

At this time, the civil servants in the main hall did not hear what Chen Hezhe said just now.

They were all gnawing at the black, hard and cold sesame seed cakes that the servants didn't eat, and drinking the astringent water with a lot of salt in it.

At this time, needle dripping could be heard in the hall, and when this undercurrent was surging, a eunuch's characteristic high-pitched voice suddenly sounded outside the door.

"Prince is here!"

The ministers heard the originally harsh and unpleasant voice, but at this moment, it became like the sound of nature.

Everyone was busy getting up to pick him up, when he heard Chen Hezhe say: "The place where the ancestral temple is worshiped, how can children be allowed to mess around here? Take the prince back to the manor!"

"Father! My son is no longer a child. My son is already sixteen. In a few days, my son will get married. The queen mother said that after getting married, I will be an adult."

The prince, Chen Xu, didn't wait for the eunuch to announce the singing, so he hurried in and said with a smile as he walked in.

After hearing what the prince said, Chen Hezhe shouted loudly without even raising his head: "Zhang Desheng! Is this how you guide the prince? This is how you teach the prince to disobey his father? Come on! Drag Zhang Desheng out to me to mess with the stick kill!"

I saw a young eunuch in his twenties, holding Buddha dust in his hand, walked into the door, and knelt on the ground with a plop, and the shrill voice just now sounded: "Your Majesty! You are wronged! Your Majesty, you are wronged by this slave! Please enlighten me!" !"

At this time, two imperial guards in silver and potassium walked in from the door, and each of them took Zhang Desheng out with one hand.

Zhang Desheng begged in a hurry: "Your Majesty! I beg your Majesty to be merciful! I beg your Majesty to spare your life! The slave is wronged! Your Majesty! Ah! Prince, help me! Prince, help me! Ah... Prince, save me! Prince, help me! Ah... Ah ……ah……"

Chen Xu heard Zhang Desheng's pitiful wailing, and knelt down on his knees looking at his father with a plop, wanting to plead for Zhang Desheng!

However, his father never raised his head from the beginning to the end.In the end, Zhang Desheng's voice was never heard again.

Chen Xu stood up abruptly, turned around and ran out of the palace gate, Chen Hezhe said to his back: "Go back to your Prince's Mansion and be confined for three months!"

At this time, all the ministers saw it, and he was afraid that the prince was here. If the ministers caught the prince and threatened him, he would be unable to cure anyone!Today, Zhang Desheng sacrificed for the prince.

Just like that, none of the ministers in the room said a word.Because they know that from today onwards, when their emperor is happy to let them go back, when will they be able to go home and reunite with their families.

Therefore, during this period of time, it is better to be smart, so as not to be like Zhang Desheng, who is a good person and disappears like this!
It was the morning of September [-] in Jinquan County. Qiu Yongzheng was awakened by the sound of birds singing outside the window as usual.

The first thing he did when he opened his eyes was to look at the peaceful Xu Xiaomi who was sleeping beside him.

Apart from being asleep, he didn't find anything unusual about her, so he raised his head and rubbed his numb arms together.

Stretch and stand up!Ready to go out the door to get water to wash.

When he got up, Qing Wu who was dozing off was awakened.Seeing that Qiu Yongzheng, who had been waiting all night, finally woke up, Qingwu hurriedly shouted: "Master!"

Qiu Yongzheng suddenly heard a sound in the room, so he pulled himself together and turned around to find out where the sound was coming from.

"Morning, master!"

This time, Qiu Yongzheng finally saw clearly that the familiar big black bird was standing beside Xu Xiaomi's pillow.

He said in surprise: "Qing... Wu... why is it you? The soldiers asked you to come and find me?"

"No, master, something happened! Something big happened!" Qing Wu said loudly.

(End of this chapter)