There are precedents in the history of the Red Chamber

Shi Zhongzhu accompanied the Supreme Emperor every day, or accompanied his lovely wife and daughter. The days passed quickly. In a blink of an eye, the saint had been on the throne for three years, and his position was stable. The Supreme Emperor had a clear mind and rarely interfered in the government. , or ceremonial decree.

The sage reciprocated naturally, and often went to Huangzhuang to stage a show of fatherly kindness and son filial piety. Shi Zhongzhu privately said it was too fake.The Supreme Emperor laughed and said: "If you have money in your hands, you will have the confidence to save the poor; if you have a name, you will dare to say that you are not in harmony with fame and fortune; you are a true saint who cares about the world regardless of yourself. Most of the people in the world are When you are rich, you have the confidence to share it with others.”

Shi Zhongzhu was taught, the Emperor Taishang was right, he couldn't have enough to eat, so why did he bother to seek to help others.The sage took back the power in his hands before he dared to play the scene of father and son's deep love.

If you know it, you know it, but just thinking about the fatherly heart of the Supreme Emperor, he will always hold grievances for him.

The Supreme Emperor smiled and said to Shi Zhongzhu: "Sure enough, he is still young and has little experience. Shi Ding can't say such words in front of me again."

Shi Zhongzhu murmured in his heart: A person as cautious as my father would naturally not.

The Supreme Emperor seemed to hear his voice, and said: "It has nothing to do with temper. Shi Ding knew Lao Liu many years ago. At that time, he was as difficult as Lao Liu. One was loved by his father, but he himself had The flawed eldest son naturally feels sympathy for each other. I am afraid that in Shi Ding's eyes, the sixth child has suffered too much grievance, so he naturally feels that it is reasonable now."

"It was only in 42 years that I found out that Shi Ding voted for Lao Liu. That means he is no longer a prince. It's just that...the world is in the hands of such a self-restraining and tolerant Lao Liu. I am also relieved. Since I wronged him back then, I will give him back now. That's it."

"The emperor... grandpa..."

Shi Zhongzhu didn't know that there was such an inside story about the past, and after thinking about it, he understood that the prince can be both obsolete and independent, so he will naturally be favored and prosperous, and his thoughts are all on one son, and the other son must be neglected.

"Yaoyun knows it, but there is another saying: the ass determines the head, Yaoyun sits next to you, and naturally his heart is toward you."

"Sure enough, he's a silly boy. How do you know that I don't have any grudges against the Shi family?"

"Yaoyun can't care so much, you treat me well, and I want to treat you well..."

"I have many heirs in my life, and over a hundred children and grandchildren. I didn't expect that when the end comes, you are the one who suits you best." The Supreme Emperor sighed.

Shi Zhongzhu also sighed in his heart, when he grew up to be 20 years old, Shi Ding took care of him loosely, it can be said that he doted on him, and his relationship was both a teacher and a friend.It is the Taishanghuang, who was in awe of the imperial power at the beginning, and the understanding of "respect" in the father-son relationship appeared in the Taishanghuang for the first time. The Taishanghuang was often the object of his imitation, and he had a lot of feelings in his heart.Now this person who he usually calls "Shanghuang", occasionally nicknamed "Grandpa", and actually regards as "Father" is getting old, just like the lion on the African savannah. One-third of the prime of life was starved to death.

Now that the Taishanghuang's body is gradually unable to support, and his back is bent, Shi Zhongzhu seems to be able to see a male lion, dying like this in the hot rainy season, with no relatives around him, only mosquitoes and flies that can't be chased away.

Shi Zhongzhu's words became a proverb, and in April of the second year, the Supreme Emperor completed his final life journey.

When the Supreme Emperor was on his way, Shi Zhongzhu was not qualified to kneel in the inner hall. Later, Eunuch Gao Wei came out to call him, and when he entered the inner hall, the Supreme Emperor was speechless, and Shi Zhongzhu only had time to touch the Supreme Emperor, who was cold and thin. hand, the Supreme Emperor stopped breathing.The imperial doctor shouted that the mountain collapsed, and the filial sons and grandsons of the royal family naturally rushed to the bed and cried loudly. What qualifications does Shi Zhongzhu have?

Shi Zhongzhu was pulled aside, and was dragged away in a daze. When he came back to his senses, he was already kneeling outside the hall.

In this way, he followed the crowd through the funeral of the Supreme Emperor.The Taishang Emperor said in the will that he "regarded Shi Zhongzhu as his grandson" and hoped that after his death, he would put peonies outside the underground palace. Congratulations, what is there to congratulate when someone close to you dies?

The emperor's first seven days have passed, and the general etiquette procedures have been completed. Except for the prohibition of marriage for a year, the people of the world are living as usual.

Relatives or Yu Bei, others have already sang, Shi Zhongzhu couldn't bear the disappearance of the person he respected and loved, and once again wrote a letter out of his glasses.

Since Chen, he has received too much favor from the late emperor, and is willing to perform filial piety for the saint, and to guard the mausoleum of the late emperor for three years, and begs the saint for permission.The sage was naturally deeply moved, and he was promoted to Shi Zhongzhu as the fourth-rank Taichang Temple Shaoqing, and went to guard the mausoleum of the late emperor.

What Shi Zhongzhu said about doing filial piety for the saint, in fact, Shi Zhongzhu doesn't like the saint very much, and the saint just tolerates Shi Zhongzhu for the sake of historians and Shi Ding. The imperial mausoleum has gone.

When Shi Zhongzhu returned home, he first went to plead guilty with Shi Ding and Zheng. He did such a thing without discussing with his family, and it was easy to lower the status of historians in the hearts of saints.Fortunately, Shi Ding also knew that he was born with a literati temperament, and he valued emotions above all, so he didn't blame him and let him go back.

Back at the Autumn Festival Courtyard, Shi Zhongzhu saw that Wei Zhenniang was teasing her little daughter Mingzhu by the window. In April and May in the north, the weather was still very cold. Mingzhu was wrapped in a thick swaddle, struggling to get out of the swaddle with both hands, to grab Wei Zhenniang's hand. toys on.

"Zhen Niang."

Seeing her back, Wei Zhenniang handed her daughter to Qiu Ju, who was accompanying her, and said, "Yaoyun, what's wrong, I'm in a bad mood."

"No, I didn't discuss it with you... I wrote a letter today requesting to guard the mausoleum of the late emperor for three years..." Shi Zhongzhu felt embarrassed. At that time, he felt sullen in his chest, and he did it on impulse without discussing it with his family. Now that he thinks about it, he was too impulsive !

"Oh, what should I do?" Wei Zhenniang asked calmly.

"You don't blame me, don't you?"

"What's so strange, I knew what kind of person you are before I married you. Since the collapse of the emperor's mountain, you have been tense. I am afraid that you will do something irrational, but I'm not surprised to go to guard the mausoleum."

"Zhenniang, Zhenniang, thank you, thank you for understanding me, thank you..." Many courtiers said they were fools, and some people ridiculed that they had gone too far and put themselves in it. My own self, why do such a thankless thing.No one believed it, but it was purely for...for feelings, for the admiration for the late emperor.

"I'm sorry, Zhenniang, I've been away from you two for a while, and I wanted to watch Mingzhu grow up." Shi Zhongzhu regretted that he was really impulsive and punished, and he didn't think about his family at the time.

"I didn't say that I'm not allowed to bring my family members, so our mother and I can just go along."

"The filial piety couple live apart..."

"Separation of husband and wife, what is said is not the etiquette of the Duke of Zhou, not that they have to live separately. If it is according to what you said, what should the poor people do?"

Shi Zhongzhu couldn't argue with her, and begged for mercy: "I'll go read the classics, and then I'll ask Taichang Temple Zhengqing, he knows a lot."

Zhengqing of Taichang Temple suggested that it is best not to bring family members, but without saying no, Shi Zhongzhu pretended not to understand, and took the two of them with him.

Guarding the mausoleum is not the guarding cemetery of the previous life. The scope of the mausoleum is very large.The mausoleum of the first emperor is large in scale and majestic in architecture, and its shape is improved by referring to the tombs of previous emperors.The high wall encloses more than 3 mu of land. Inside the wall, there are majestic temples and magnificent pavilions. More than 30 temples and Taoist temples are surrounded by forbidden gardens.There are 5000 pine trees planted in the mausoleum, and [-] deer are raised. There is a silver medal on each deer's neck that reads "The one who steals the slaughter will die".In order to protect the mausoleum, there is a palace supervisor inside and a mausoleum guard outside, with more than [-] soldiers guarding it day and night.Specially set up two mausoleum supervisors and forty mausoleum households, and allocate some to Si Xiangtian.

Therefore, the mausoleum is a place with a wide range of activities. Seeing such a situation, Shi Zhongzhu didn't even understand why the prince who failed to win the heir was sent to guard the mausoleum, so he would rather commit suicide. With such a large site, there is no sense of confinement at all. ah?

Shi Zhongzhu couldn't figure out whether he hadn't changed his mind as a philistine, or whether the prince who had failed to seize the heirloom was unwilling to live his life without power and power.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand, the most important thing is to settle down.The imperial mausoleum is not in the wilderness, there are garrisons and families, Shi Zhongzhu did not bring any servants with him this time, only Shi Zhongzhu, Wei Zhenniang and Mingzhu's family.Shi Zhongzhu studied abroad for several years, took care of himself, knew medicine and medicine, Wei Zhenniang cooks, and does housework. The two of them discussed it and lived a plain and simple life of farming for a few years.

Shi Zhongzhu's family is not a member of the Forty Tombs, and the garrison also has its own system. The two mausoleum guards know that Shi Zhongzhu was born in a famous family and has the title of earl, so they dare not neglect and leave the best house to their family , provide convenience everywhere.

Shi Zhongzhu is not a poor and polite person. Among the houses in Linghu, he chose the largest house with its own yard, and planned to grow some flowers, plants, fruits and vegetables in the yard.Although there are so many people in the Imperial Mausoleum, compared to its size, it can be regarded as vast and sparsely populated.Shi Zhongzhu settled down in his home, reported the safety of his family in the capital, and carefully planned his own life.

The yard is very big, and Shi Zhongzhu opened up the back of the house to grow peonies. The sage said in his will that he wanted peonies to cover the road when he went there. Peony, only living things are worthy of the emperor and relatives who teach and tolerate themselves.

In the front yard, Wei Zhenniang asked Shi Zhongzhu for advice, and also asked the neighbor's aunt to help her plant some side dishes.When he was young, he could still breastfeed, but when he was one and a half years old, Shi Zhongzhu decided to wean him, and what he ate was rice porridge, custard, etc., and he didn't know what meat was like until he was four years old.

When Shi Zhongzhu saw his daughter's small face, he realized what a stupid thing he had done. Now there is no turning back, so he can only study more nutritious vegetarian dishes to supplement his daughter.

On the third anniversary of the late emperor's death, the emperor's mausoleum was full of peonies besides the pine trees.From the main hall to the gate, the entire [-]-acre mausoleum is filled with bright peonies everywhere. Such a colorful color that is incompatible with the mausoleum makes people feel more solemn than the tall trees, and moves the saint's heart even more.

Dai Quan, the eunuch next to him, replied: "Bo Zhong Jiabo brought his wife and daughter to guard the mausoleum of the late emperor and abide by the rules. He didn't bring anyone to serve him. I heard that except rice was sent from Beijing. In the past three years, food Everything is grown by myself. The peonies in the mausoleum of the late emperor were also planted by Zhong Jiabo himself."

The saint listened silently to Dai Quan's return. The court ceremony has not yet officially arrived. The saint is only visiting in disguise this time. Through the low wall from a distance, he looks at the peonies planted by Shi Zhongzhu and the vegetables planted by his wife. What is the saint? Without saying anything, he returned to the palace silently.

There is such a person in the world who has been guarding your mausoleum for three years sincerely regardless of his status, Father, you are not in a bad position.The saint sighed in his heart.