[Red Mansions] Lord Hou's daily routine

In the midsummer of July, it gets dark late, and the sun sets and dusk falls when the You hour is almost over.

Empress Dowager Shen led a group of female relatives to chant scriptures in her Buddhist hall. Since the next day was the lecture meeting, Empress Dowager Shen led the female relatives to stay in the Buddhist hall for an extra quarter of an hour and recited another volume of scriptures. just came out.

The windows in the Buddhist hall are open for ventilation, but sandalwood Buddha lamps are lit on the shelves everywhere, and the room is filled with incense and mist. Even with the windows open for ventilation, everyone is covered in the smell of sandalwood candles .

The Buddhist lamps in the Buddhist hall are kept on all night. For this reason, fans cannot be played in the Buddhist hall, let alone ice. Even if you feel hot, you can just gently wipe the sweat off your face Zhu, the Empress Dowager Shen in front of her was all concentrating on reciting scriptures there, so everyone naturally didn't want to procrastinate too much, let alone being distracted.

The female relatives have been chanting scriptures in the Buddhist hall for so long, and they are all sweaty and hungry after they come out.

The Empress Dowager Shen was quite conscientious, and asked everyone to accompany her to chant scriptures in the Buddhist hall for so long, and did not ask them to go back immediately after the work was done. The maids brought the dinner, and everyone ate together.

Following the Empress Dowager Shen's chanting for more than a month, the female relatives also have some experience. The weather is too hot at this time, and it happens to be in dog days. This toss every few days, and the clothes on the body are soaked/wet once in the palace. No matter how good or bad the body is, the wet clothes are always uncomfortable to wear. The female relatives have experience, and see that Queen Mother Shen treats them kindly, and allows them to change clothes and wash after chanting. Even Queen Mother Shen also needs to change clothes, so The female relatives will bring some spare clothes when they enter the palace.

After eating for a while, the Empress Dowager Shen did not let everyone go.

"The Ai family thought, tomorrow will be the lecture conference. The Ai family heard from King Duan that the venue has been selected and arranged. It's just that it's hot, and the Ai family has never visited it once. Nowadays, because of the sutra lectures, it is very lively, and there are many more people than in the past. At this moment, it just happens to be sunset, and there is still a bit of cool wind outside, which is cooler than the previous few days."

Empress Dowager Shen smiled, "You are all going to accompany Aijia to the lecture conference tomorrow. Aijia has invited many people, but the foreign ministers are all sitting outside, and you are all going to sit in front of Aijia. Thinking, since the weather is cooler and there is nothing left and right, you all go out of the palace with Aijia to see how the venue is arranged. You also take a look at your positions to see what is there It's not good, let's talk about it with the Ai family, and the Ai family asked Duan Wang to fix it at night."

The Empress Dowager Shen wanted to take everyone out, the Empress felt that something was wrong, she said that there were many people outside the palace, and it was getting late, she thought it would be good to send someone to have a look and come back and talk to the Empress Dowager, there was really no need for the Empress Dowager to go out of the palace to see it in person.

Empress Dowager Shen listened to the queen's words with a smile, but she refused to accept the queen's proposal, she said with a smile: "The Ai family has been idle in the palace for a long time, except that every few days I can see you coming into the palace to talk to the Ai family. There are very few people I see every day. Now that there is such a grand event and it is so lively outside, Aijia really wants to go and see it. If I go to see it tomorrow, those monks have come, and most of the people who see it are them. I can't ignore the excitement on the well. It's rare for Ai's family to take heart, so the queen will take everyone to go with Ai's family."

Empress Dowager Shen insisted on going, and saying so, the Empress couldn't persuade her anymore, and finally followed what Empress Dowager Shen said, and led all the female relatives to accompany Empress Dowager Shen out of the palace to have a look at the venue of the seminar.

The empress dowager, empress and concubine went out of the palace together, and many female relatives followed, so it was impossible to go out quietly. This preparation would be a big battle.Even Emperor Chengsheng sent someone to ask.

Empress Dowager Shen didn't intend to ask Emperor Chengsheng to accompany her. As soon as she told her original intention, she asked someone to reply to Emperor Chengsheng, saying that she was just taking people out to look at the venue, and told Emperor Chengsheng not to worry. back to the palace.

Everyone went out of the palace with Empress Dowager Shen. The Crown Princess walked together with Empress Dowager Shen and the Empress first, but because of the relationship between the Crown Prince and Lin Jian, the Crown Princess always paid close attention to Lin Daiyu. Several female relatives accompanied and talked together, and the crown princess quietly walked a few steps behind and walked to Lin Daiyu's side.

The Crown Princess had seen it before, Lin Daiyu came out of the Buddhist hall in a strange way.

Although Lin Daiyu was sitting with everyone, Lin Daiyu talked and joked with everyone as usual, but as long as she was sitting alone, if no one talked to Lin Daiyu, like now, everyone walked together in twos and threes. Talking to the companion next to her, Lin Daiyu's brows and eyes will faintly show some anxiety.

The concubine came to Lin Daiyu and walked with her. Just at this moment, the female companion beside Lin Daiyu moved forward, so the concubine asked Lin Daiyu in a low voice: "What's wrong with you? Is there something at home that you can't worry about?" ? I see that you have been out of your mind since you came to the palace today."

Now Lin Daiyu and the Crown Princess have become close friends who talk about everything. The Crown Princess came here to care about her, but there was no one in front of her. All the mothers have said that my sister-in-law is due to give birth in these two days. There was some movement yesterday, but she is not yet in labor. Today, when I went out, my sister-in-law felt some fetal movement, and the pain was so painful that I couldn’t get up. I was a little worried about her. "

Yan Shi has been pregnant for ten months, and this is the time to give birth.Before Mrs. Qiao left, she had settled the stable mother-in-law and the nanny who served in front of Yan's, and all the necessary items were also prepared. Lin Daiyu had said in front of Mrs. Qiao that when Yan's childbirth She must be by Yan's side, but who would have imagined that she would go to the palace to chant sutras.

Originally, Lin Daiyu was worried about Yan Shi, and when she went out in the afternoon, Yan Shi already showed signs of giving birth, but Yan Shi's first child, the pain lasted longer, Lin Daiyu couldn't accompany her in person when she was going to the palace, so she asked her mother-in-law at home The nuns are very good at taking care of her, she has been in the palace for two or three hours, now it's getting dark, and she doesn't know if Yan Shi has given birth here, so how can she not be worried?

The Crown Princess knew about the affairs in the general's mansion, and she also knew about the fact that the Yan family was raising a baby in the mansion before going to Lingnan. Seeing that Lin Daiyu was concerned about this, she comforted her in a low voice: "Let's leave the palace in a while, let's go to the venue with the Queen Mother, follow me There are too many people, and no one will pay too much attention. Let's quietly send someone to your house to ask and see what the situation is. If you give birth, you can rest assured."

Lin Daiyu only brought Xiangwu with her, if Xiangwu left, there would be no one around her.The princess made the decision, saying that she would leave the palace after a while, and she quietly asked the maid beside her to go to the general's mansion to inquire about the news, and she would inform Lin Daiyu when she got the exact news.

Empress Dowager Shen led all the people out of the palace to see the venue of the lecture, and they might not be willing to let them go on the spot after seeing them. They still wanted to hug the Empress Dowager back to the palace, and they would only let them go when the Empress Dowager returned to Shouan Palace. go.No matter whether Yan Shi was born or not, Lin Daiyu got the news, it was better than worrying about the result without knowing the result.

After leaving the palace for a while, the Crown Princess sent a maid to the general's mansion to ask for news, just as she told Lin Daiyu privately.

Empress Dowager Shen didn't want Emperor Chengsheng to accompany her, and she didn't want to make too much noise, but when she came out to see the venue of the seminar, many people were shocked, and she came out with the queen and princess, the news couldn't be hidden Yes, she specially sent a message to Duan Wang, asking Duan Wang to come and accompany him.

King Duan was just setting up the places where the monks and abbots of various temples were settling down, and finally explained to everyone the procedures and precautions for tomorrow. When he heard that Empress Dowager Shen was coming out of the palace to look for him, King Duan put the matter aside, said a few words to everyone, and then went to see him Empress Dowager Shen.

When King Duan heard the news, he did not avoid those monks. When everyone heard that Queen Mother Shen was out of the palace to see the venue, the abbot monk from Mount Wutai boldly begged King Duan, saying that he wanted to kowtow to Queen Mother Shen.

They said that Empress Dowager Shen had been back to Beijing for several months. When they were in Mount Wutai, they could still greet her every few days and serve her.The Empress Dowager Shen suddenly left Mount Wutai, they all missed her very much, wanted to kowtow in front of the Empress Dowager, and wanted to see if the Empress Dowager Shen was well.

Others would not dare to say that. The ones who made the request were the abbots of the temples in Mount Wutai, and they all met Empress Dowager Shen. When Empress Dowager Shen was on Mount Wutai, they all served in front of her.

They said that the Empress Dowager moved the scripture lecture meeting on Mount Wutai to the capital for preparations, which was of great importance to them, and they must kowtow in front of the Empress Dowager Shen.

After hearing these words, King Duan pondered for a moment and said: "This king can take it for you. It's just that the emperor's grandmother is willing to see you, it depends on the emperor's grandmother. You go with the king first. , wait for the king to accompany the emperor's grandmother to see the venue, and then tell the emperor's grandmother about you. You should wait outside for a while."

Although King Duan didn't give the monks an accurate word, the monks were still very happy, at least they could have a chance to meet the Queen Mother before the seminar.

The monks from Mount Wutai just followed King Duan, but for some reason, the news spread. Not long after King Duan took the talent away, other abbots and monks heard the news and wanted to see Shen The queen mother knew that she was not as respectable as the monks in Mount Wutai, but she still had hope in her heart, thinking that it would be good to go and kowtow outside.

For this reason, quite a few people were gathered. In a short time, hundreds of people left the house where they were placed in such a mighty manner, and followed them to the venue of the seminar.

In fact, the venue for the lecture conference has been set up, and the tents reserved for the ministers and monks have also been set up, but this lecture conference is not closed to the common people, and the rest of the people can find their own places Listen to eminent monks preaching scriptures.

In this way, on the day before the lecture conference, this area outside the earth where people can move freely is extremely lively.

Those ordinary people who couldn't rent private rooms in teahouses and restaurants even came to take up seats outside this place the night before, just to hear the eminent monks' lectures on Buddhism clearly tomorrow.

Empress Dowager Shen went to the stage where the scriptures were being lectured, looked from a distance, and saw that there were dark people under the stage.