The white moonlight of the paranoid tyrant was stolen

Chapter 60 Believe in Buddha
"Okay, let's send it here.

He stretched out his hand and patted the hood on the woman's head, "If the Queen Mother sends more things, just let Ruotong come back, and I will give her a big gift. Take good care of yourself, and stay in the room in cold weather." Wait, don't touch the snow."

It rarely snows in Qingxuan, at least in Gu Ruzhen's memory, snow is very rare, so suddenly I saw heavy snow here, and the maids and eunuchs in the mansion were playing around making snowmen and having snowball fights.

She looked at it with envy and wanted to throw away the Tang Pozi in her hand several times and touch the cold snow, but it was Wu Zhu's repeated dissuasion that made her temporarily give up this idea.

Seeing that her whole body was wilting like a frost-beaten eggplant because of these words, the man smiled and lowered his voice, "I will send someone to send it every day, you only enjoyed riding a horse in the yard, and your clothes are well-dressed. Thick, not allowed to touch the snow."

"Okay, okay, I won't touch it, you go back quickly, if it snows again later and it's inconvenient to walk on the road, it will be troublesome."

Seeing the man's figure disappear from her eyes, Gu Ruzhen looked at it for a while before slowly turning back.

When she entered the room and saw the remaining three wives, Gu Ruzhen's footsteps paused slightly, she looked down and said softly.

"I heard that the three wives believe in Buddhism very much, so they must often copy Buddhist scriptures."

The three ladies looked at each other, not understanding why she said this suddenly, but they still nodded.

One of them tentatively said, "That's right. The minister's wife goes to the Buddhist temple to offer incense every month. There is also a small Buddhist hall built at home. Copying... copying Buddhist scriptures is also a common thing."

Except for the last point, everything else she said was true.

Going to Buddhist temples to offer incense, and building small Buddhist halls at home, no matter whether it is useful or not, I feel more at ease.

As for copying the Buddhist scriptures by themselves, it must be impossible. At most, they would ask their servants or concubines who they disliked to do the copying.

"Then do the three ladies have the time to copy the Dajibu a hundred times? Just to offset the guilt, how about it?"

At this time, the ladies who were pretending to speak but looked at them inadvertently couldn't help being stunned, and then stretched their heads in disbelief to listen.

"Why, do the three ladies feel that the guilt is too deep to be offset by hundreds of times, or do they think I don't have the qualifications and power to say this?"

Her eyes fluttered away, and after looking around, they fell on the three ladies.

She just didn't want to argue with these three girls, but she didn't say she wouldn't argue with the perpetrator.

Otherwise, I always feel that she is soft-tempered, like a clay figurine, as if she has to do what they say.

The three wives hurriedly stood up from their seats, then went to Gu Ruzhen and knelt down, "I don't dare, I will definitely do the same and copy the Dajibu by myself."

Gu Ruzhen walked back, facing the probing gazes of the ladies, she responded calmly.

However, every lady whose eyes were facing her all lowered their heads in unison to show respect, not daring to look at her.

She rarely showed emotions, so at this moment, everyone couldn't figure out whether she was angry or what.

"Does your empress also believe in Buddhism?" Madam Shen was really having a hard time sitting in her seat, so she used this to start a topic.

Gu Ruzhen flicked the green jade ring on her wrist out of boredom, and said casually, "How does Mrs. Shen know?"

Mrs. Shen wanted to judge her happiness and anger from her words, but naturally she didn't find anything.

She pulled the corners of her lips embarrassingly, and showed a smile, "I see that my mother knows about Dajibu, and she also asked people to copy Buddhist scriptures, thinking that my mother also believes in Buddhism."

Gu Ruzhen knocked on the table with her fingers, then looked at Ruotong who was standing aside, Ruotong knew what she meant and walked out immediately.

"Madam Shen is wrong, I don't believe in Buddhism."

Maybe she once believed in it, but after searching and searching for nothing, she realized that it is better to ask for someone than to ask for herself.

There are not many people she can trust, and it is even more impossible for her to separate her mind to believe in illusory people or things.

"So that's how it is." Mrs. Shen's face became even more embarrassed, and she couldn't stop squeezing the teacup tightly.

After a quarter of an hour, Ruotong walked in with dozens of court ladies, all holding a square wooden box in their hands.

The wooden box is the size of two palms, and a plum blossom is engraved on the surface.

"I originally invited the troupe to come, but it's cold on the stage in this snowy winter, and their singing is uncomfortable, and we don't enjoy listening to it."

"That's why I can't let the ladies enjoy themselves today."

As soon as her words fell, the people below knelt down.

Gu Ruzhen slightly raised her hand, motioned for everyone to get down, and said in a slow voice, "These velvet flowers are the presents from my first meeting with you ladies."

The maids opened the wooden box, revealing plum blossom hairpins in different poses.

It is a plum blossom made of velvet flowers, and sprinkled with silver powder crushed with silver foil paper, so it looks real from a distance.

According to the ages of these wives and girls, the plum blossom hairpins also have some changes.

For the younger ones, there are three long tassels on the plum blossom hairpin, a golden bell and two pearls hanging from it.

The older ones replaced the golden bell on the tassel with a ruby.

"Mrs. Shen." Gu Ruzhen stopped her when all the wives went to the forest to see the plum blossoms.

Mrs. Shen came over quite eagerly, with a surprised expression on her face, "Your Majesty."

Like other wives, Mrs. Shen's original impression of Gu Ruzhen was completely shattered and disappeared.

This Empress Gu does not need the flattery of their wives. If some of them try to do something, then Empress Gu will not consider their husband's status in the court and directly punish them, just like the three who were punished for copying Buddhist scriptures like Mrs.

"You don't have to worry about the matter about Mr. Xiang before. If it's not Mr. Xiang, it will be someone else. To me, it doesn't matter who you are."

"Niang Niang?" Maybe she didn't expect her to say it so directly, Madam Shen froze in place, not knowing how to answer.

"I... the minister's wife and the prime minister are guilty, and dare to offend your empress." Mrs. Shen hurriedly knelt down when she saw this.

Before she knelt down, Gu Ruzhen held her hand.

"Master Xiang is right to worry, even without me, His Majesty would not drag this virtuous minister out and chop him up just because of a moment of anger."

Although Mrs. Shen didn't see His Majesty many times, she often heard from her husband that she could know exactly what His Majesty's temperament was like.

If Queen Gu didn't intercede, then her husband would definitely die this time.

"Your Majesty, my wife knows that you are a kind-hearted person and that the Prime Minister is confused, that's why she said those stupid words to Your Majesty."

Gu Ruzhen fiddled with the right hand of the jade pendant on her waist. She smoothed the hair that fell down to her cheeks, and said softly, "Mrs. Shen, as I said, the prime minister's concerns are right."

(End of this chapter)