The good times of Fujin

On a certain day in June of the fifth year of Qianlong's reign, the first live funeral with the Prince's classmate gradually kicked off amidst methodical preparations.

It was a sunny day, but everyone who passed by He Prince's Mansion trembled and broke out in cold sweat.Because the red lanterns were always hung high at the gate of Prince He's Mansion, but a white flag was pulled up.who diedEveryone is baffled.Concubine Geng has always been healthy, and Fujin has never heard of chronic illness!One of the two little elder brothers goes to school every day and is never late, the other is young but healthy and lively, and is well-known in the circle of married women.And the prince...he provoked two children from aristocratic families to fight in the street at Dengshikou yesterday!Of course, one of them must be named Fucha!

Not everyone can talk about this with the white banner of the Prince's Mansion. Except for these few people, when the others die, it is just an annoyance to others.Could it be that something really happened with the prince's mansion?Everyone was at a loss, and went forward to inquire one after another, and got a post in black and white, which stated: something happened with the prince, please come to the funeral.

This morning, the court was in chaos, and many people were at a loss with Hong Zhou's funeral invitation in their arms.The emperor's only adult brother died, what a big deal!But the emperor sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, as if nothing had happened, and what to do was confusing.

Can the emperor not be prudent? As soon as the gate of the palace opened in the morning, the funeral post from the prince's mansion was delivered to the palace.Hongli took the post and asked the clerk who came to report the funeral quite calmly: "Is your prince holding a living funeral or a dead funeral?"

"Going back to the emperor is a living funeral." The clerk looked at the calm emperor and admired him in his heart: this is the emperor!Don't be chaotic in the face of danger, and don't be surprised when things change!Compared with the group of noble ministers chattering like headless flies in front of the palace gate, the emperor's adaptability is not a little bit higher!The old man actually knew that the prince was organizing a live funeral?It really is a brother!

"Go back and tell him, I really know, he is indispensable. Just let him toss around for a day, and he will come to work for me tomorrow." He also knew that it was his younger brother who suffered a loss because of King Shuo, so he took the money Find a balance!Think about it, what he cheated was not only his own private treasury, but also the treasury and pockets of countless princes and ministers in the capital, the emperor was balanced.

Then I was afraid that the news would spread to the harem and make the two empress dowagers suspicious, so I hurriedly called Wu Shulai to inform Jingxian: "Hong Zhou is holding a funeral, so ask her to hold on to the two empress dowagers, and don't let the two empress dowagers be frightened or disturbed." I'm so angry." Well... Anyway, Niu Gulu doesn't really care, at most he would say that Hongzhou was messing around like a child who didn't grow up.It's hard to predict the reaction of the Empress Dowager!

Let's not care about how the palace handled the shocking news of Hong Zhou's live funeral, let's just talk about the things with the prince's mansion.Hong Zhou wanted to organize a live funeral, of course the cooperation of the whole government was needed.The mobilization meeting was going to be held on the first day, and the participants included everyone from He Prince's Mansion, and even Concubine Geng participated with the mentality of joining in the fun.

The meeting finally decided that Hongzhou's funeral must be held in a spectacular manner, so that those princes and ministers who paid for it would be convinced!Hey, you are not doing product promotion, you are holding a funeral for the prince!Concubine Geng, as her own mother, decided to sponsor a scripture in friendship, and Er Linbu decided to maintain order in the venue by wearing hemp and mourning.Others can only obey the leader's arrangement.

"Tomorrow, I'm going to have a live funeral. You all need to be more energetic. Just cry as if I really died. If the crying is not sad enough, I will treat you as if you are not happy in this prince's mansion. Just stay." In this palace, Hong Zhou's words are imperial decrees.

Hearing this, everyone in the palace had mixed reactions.His family's prince danced the shaman exorcism dance enough to be ostentatious, and now he started to hold a funeral?This is really something that challenges the cognition of feudal society, and all the concubines express that they cannot accept it.But as concubines, they were still looking forward to gaining the position of deputy and being favored by them, so they didn't dare to refute anything.Seeing that Fujin beside the lord did not say anything to refute, these concubines could only agree nonchalantly, and planned to act according to Fujin's state the next day.

On the first night, as soon as it got dark, the inside and outside of He Prince's Mansion were quietly arranged, just waiting for the group of guys passing by He Prince's Mansion to have an extraordinary visual impact the next day .Unsurprisingly, they were all shocked, and the only ones who were calm and composed were the emperor and Jing Xian who had been prepared for a long time.

In the early court that day, the emperor also gave Hong Zhou a face-saving announcement, "Play early if there is something to do, and leave the court if there is nothing to do!" He tried his best to make the funeral of his fifth younger brother grand and lively. (?) In order to ensure the number of participants in the funeral, he also specifically asked the ministers: "You all have to attend the funeral with the prince in person." He is also wicked, he didn't tell others and the prince It's a funeral!

Of course the emperor listened to what the emperor said, so all the ministers hurried home, brought their name cards and their wives, and rushed to Prince He's mansion with the gift booklets they had prepared.Everyone retired at the same time, and they lived not far from each other, so they almost all returned home at the same time.When they went to the palace for the funeral, they waited for each other, so they came to the gate of Prince He's mansion together by coincidence.

In front of the gate of Prince He's Mansion, what the ministers saw was a tearful concierge.The concierge cried so hoarsely that his own mother wasn't so sad when she died, didn't she!The concierge's performance made everyone feel uneasy, but they had to follow the concierge to move forward.Go around the screen wall, pass through the corridor, and come to the mourning hall of Prince He.That scene almost made the slightly older veteran gasp and choke himself to death.Because what they saw was sitting in the coffin, waving a fan and chewing the offering fruit, and the prince Hongzhou was alive and kicking.

What the hell is going on!Even the editors of the most pedantic and pretending to be 13 can't help but swear.

The situation is such a situation, and the prince is having a funeral.The scene, the audience, and the actors are all in place!

The mourning hall was well arranged, and the white flags made of white cloth fluttered in the wind.He and the servants of the Prince's Mansion were all sad, each with a standard white handkerchief of different materials, as soon as the handkerchief was close to the corner of his eyes, tears would flow down his face, more sad than the crying of a dead father.

On the wall just to the north of the mourning hall, there is a large Chinese character "Dian", and on both sides there are some eternal elegiac couplets written in black and white.On the altar table below are wine and fruit offerings, and a large incense burner is lit with fine sandalwood.The scriptures sponsored by Concubine Geng were also placed on the table as one of the offerings, which was somewhat nondescript.

Not far from the altar is the coffin of Prince He.The high-quality golden nanmu coffin still had lace, and Hong Zhou sat in it healthy and lively, with a thick quilt under his buttocks, and a cushion filled with cotton on his waist.The coffin board was half covered, and he used the upper coffin board as a table, with tea and fruit snacks on it. While drinking tea and snacks, he watched his concubines and servants perform at his funeral.

He and the prince's concubines did not directly face the gate of the mourning hall, but were blocked by a four-panel large white screen, kneeling near the coffin and crying to death.The eunuch who was able to work with the prince was burning paper money in a charcoal basin a foot away from the coffin, and wailed while burning: "My lord! Why did you go..."

Yongying, who didn't go to school early this morning, lit incense himself, adding three sticks of incense to the incense burner in front of Hong Zhou's coffin and the incense burner on the altar table every half an hour.Not only that, but his homework for practicing calligraphy today is ten pages of scriptures in large characters, and he needs to burn them ten times to his "deceased" Ama, so that he can be reincarnated there as soon as possible, and be reincarnated into a good family.

As for Elinbu, she just came out for a stroll in a plain cheongsam when she was free, to see if Hong Zhou's fruit offerings were enough to eat, whether the concubine's servants were crying enough, whether the people coming and going were disciplined and orderly, and I didn't participate in the crying spirit activities that are very detrimental to the image.

This group of officials have all seen funerals, live funerals, who has seen them!This is a funeral, a funeral for a prince!It's fine for him to attend the funeral, and his wife supports her too!His brother, the emperor, also agrees very much!What's even more rare is that he doesn't shy away from this person at all!The shroud is well worn on the body, and the coffin is made of high-quality golden nanmu carved with the patterns of the six cycles of reincarnation!When the officials were about to spit out gibberish characters, they still came to add to the chaos.

In the first wave, the elder brother Yonghuang and the third elder brother Yongchen came to the Prince's Mansion to "worship" the fifth uncle with curious faces.Behind them, Gao Wuyong brought Xiaoluzi and thousands of taels of silver, jade and other things to represent the emperor and the prince to attend the funeral...

In the second wave, Hong Zhou's uncles, under the emperor's effective explanation, sent their most powerful butlers and eunuchs to bring various forms of money to the funeral for the prince...

In the third wave, the two empress dowagers in the palace sent nuns and eunuchs to distribute the funeral expenses. The empress dowager even wrapped a large bag of grapefruit leaves and wormwood leaves for Hong Zhou, and told him: "Enough is enough." Just get out of the coffin, take grapefruit leaves and wormwood leaves and wash them well to get rid of bad luck."

After the third shock wave, everyone will understand that Hongzhou's live funeral is approved by the superior and has passed the Ming road!Reminiscent of the time when I spared no effort to find all kinds of famous masters and princes, everyone finally understood, and Prince Hongzhou, this is a lack of money to spend... Thinking about my thick gift list, these officials are very happy. My heart hurts, if I had known that this prince was holding a funeral, I would not have followed such a heavy hand!

As for the wives who came to participate in the "funeral" with the prince, after hearing that the prince and the prince had a live funeral, they put away their inner gloating and sympathy.Please believe that in an environment where most people prefer younger wives to older wives, Elinbu is still envied and hated by many people because he and the prince "only favor" Fujin.

However, there were also some people who expressed contempt and contempt for Erinbu's unconventional funeral arrangements with the prince, instead of dissuading Hongzhou with harsh advice, but fanning the flames to help.Representative: Shuojun Wang Fujin.Well, maybe her "noble and dedicated" husband, King Shuojun, Fucha Yueli.