It was dark and the bells from far to near broke the tranquility of the house, and the lights were lit one after another in the courtyards.
Shen Rui sat up and was a little stunned as he listened to the constant sound of bells outside.
"Second Master..." Liu Ya hurried in, her expression of fear and anxiety: "What's wrong? There are bells outside, and several places are ringing..."
Inside and outside the capital, bells and drums kept ringing, which was a national mourning.
Shen Rui was shocked and the divine platform suddenly became clear.
On the seventh day of the fifth month of the 18th year of Hongzhi, Emperor Hongzhi died at this time? As for Empress Zhang, the Spring and Autumn Period happened to be the first time, and he would keep jumping until the Jiajing Dynasty.
"Don't panic, restrain the little maids and mothers, and then follow the butler's arrangements." Shen Rui quickly put on his clothes and said to Liu Ya.
Liu Ya got the words and answered repeatedly.
Shen Rui came out of Jiuruju and hurried to the main courtyard.
The main courtyard is brightly lit, and Xu has already started.
The death of the emperor and the death of the empress are both national mourning, but the mourning system is different. Now, when the death knives in the palace ring, the bells of temples and temples inside and outside the capital are constantly ringing, and it is the emperor's mourning
"The emperor is traveling west..." Xu was not panicked. Perhaps because the Shen family is only in court now, the change of the throne has not had much impact on the Shen family.
Shen Rui thought of Shou Ge, who was fifteen years old, and was a little worried, and then he joked that he had to worry too much. Shou Ge seemed lively and harmless, but if he really wanted to do so, he would not become the Zhengde Emperor who was happy and angry. He grew up in the palace. Even if his child is an only child, he has no worries about fighting for the throne, he is not a pure little white rabbit.
At this moment, the third master's family has arrived.
Brother Lu was held by the third master, with tears in the corners of his eyes and a white face.
It seemed that he was shocked by Zhongsheng. Seeing this, Xu felt distressed and hurriedly took it over and touched Lu Ge'er's head: "Lu Ge'er is not afraid, Lu Ge'er is not afraid..."
"Old lady..." Lu Ge'er shrank into Xu's arms and choked in a low voice.
Xu first asked someone to cook the smudge soup and feed it to Brother Lu, and placed it in the warm chalet. He watched him sleep before he came out and said something else.
The third master looked sad. Although he was a seventh-rank official, he had a senior official and was lucky enough to meet him. Although he had no civil and military achievements today, he could wait for his ministers to be generous and kind. As a benevolent king, I remember that the emperor was in his thirties and was not yet in his forties. The third master felt a little nervous when he thought of himself.
The third wife is the housewife, and she was thinking about it another thing. She asked Xu: "Sister-in-law, do you ask someone to open a warehouse and prepare..."
The country was mourned, and the people of the world had to be mourned. The officials and women were given 27 days, and the soldiers and civilians were given 13 days. The Shen family had just experienced funerals before the New Year, and all of them were ready-made, which was convenient.
Xu nodded and said, "Get ready first..." and said to the third master: "I will start crying tomorrow morning, and I will have to rest for three days. It will take several days to make trouble. You can go and squint first and cultivate your spirit. …”
The third master smiled bitterly and said, "Sister-in-law, how can I sleep..."
Bells are ringing outside, and the funerals are heard inside and outside the capital, and 30,000 bells and snatches are heard in the temples.
Xu no longer advised him, but only ordered the kitchen to prepare vegetarian food. He also gave the half box of ginseng health pills he had collected and handed them to his third wife: "This is made from Korean ginseng, which is the most warm and tonic. How many pills should you put in for three. The master takes it and uses it when he is not energetic outside."
The third wife accepted it and was very grateful. When the national mourning came, the third wife was most worried about her husband's body. She cried, rested in the yamen, and had a vegetarian diet. A few more pieces were added together. Good people had to spend a few pounds of weight, like the third master. I'll get sick if I accidentally do.
Although Shen Rui is also a scholar, he is not a real scholar after all. He felt that Emperor Hongzhi's death was the feeling that the second boot finally landed on the ground, and instead he was relieved. He was not the one who was happy and angry, three
Master and the third wife did not notice his strangeness, but Xu still noticed his strangeness when he saw the worldly love.
When the third wife served the third master and went back to change clothes, Xu said to Shen Rui seriously: "Although you have not entered the court yet, you are also a citizen of the Ming Dynasty. Now the mountain tombs collapse, showing your appearance in front of you..."
Shen Rui stood up and listened, and couldn't help but say ashamed: "It's my son who was wrong."
People in the world value loyalty, filial piety, courtesy and righteousness. "Loyalty" is still before filial piety. Even if they are in their own homes, the superiors and subordinates are watching. If Shen Rui shows flaws, even if no one dares to blame him in person, he will inevitably question and despise him in his heart.
Seeing that Shen Rui understood, Xu looked a little slow and said, "Be careful, there is no big mistake, this is the capital..."
The bells outside continued to ring, and the whole houses were moving. No one who could live in the high-gate courtyard of Renshoufang was white, and they had to be white inside and outside. Like the Shen family, they were from the warehouse.
There are not many things that can be neatly found.
Now it is still curfew, so you can’t leave the shop, and everyone is waiting for dawn.
What the people in the capital are at ease is that this dynasty is the system of inheritance of the eldest son, and the Eastern Palace is established early, and the kings will be granted the throne, so there is no need to worry about the change of seizing the throne. In particular, Emperor Hongzhi had only one living son in the East Palace, and several cabinet ministers had three legs, but no powerful ministers
, don't be afraid of any trouble.
It was dawn, and the third master had already worn a black hat and a black horn belt and went to Sishan Gate to cry. Xu was a lifelong wife, and she was about to enter the palace to cry on the fourth day of the funeral, that is, the tenth day of the fifth month. As for the third day, the third day, he was about to cry.
Although the third master has obtained an official position, he is still in his legitimate mother. The birth mother has not been granted a title for two copies of the birth. It is the third wife who needs to be promoted to the sixth rank.
The door of the house was already covered with white space, and Shen Rui was not idle, so he was sent to Shen Ying's house by Xu. The people who were traveling with him were half a cart of white cloth and two years of management, which were mourning Emperor Chenghua.
Shen Ying was no longer at home after crying, and Shen Rui followed Shen Quan to meet Mr. Hong and Guo.
Both of them have changed into plain clothes, and Master Hong’s eyes are red.
Master Hongda was over fifty years old and had experienced the four dynasties of Jingtai, Tianshun, Chenghua, Hongzhi, Jingtai, Tianshun, and Tianshun. He was still a young man, and he did not know the world. For the good and bad things of the Chenghua and Hongzhi dynasties, only the gentry and people who had experienced it.
Only then did I know the difference. During the Chenghua period, various shows of taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the greed and rampant eunuchs in the custody, even the gentry like the Shen family lived tremblingly. Until the Emperor Daxing ascended the throne, he was a good emperor who cherished people's livelihood, the military, civilians and the people.
The days are really getting better.
Although Master Hong has never served in his life, he also respects this good emperor.
Later, Grandma Ying and Grandma Quansan also came. Knowing that Shen Rui had sent someone and Baibu over, Grandma Ying, who was in charge, was very grateful. Since it was a national mourning, every household had to carry filial piety, and Baibu immediately became in short supply. Although Shen Ying was in Beijing
After several years, it was an outsider. There was no shop in Beijing and the storage of various cloths in the warehouse were limited. Now it was short of white cloth, so people were sent to buy it everywhere.
As for the two years of management, they both experienced the great funeral of Emperor Chenghua and came to help. Shen Ying was not of high rank, but she was an official from the Eastern Palace and was a hot stove. How many people looked at it? It was also wrong at this time.
No.
If it weren't for Xu's warning, Shen Rui would have to comfort Master Hong. Since he had received the warning, he would have to look sad and look at Chen Quan's attention.
When Shen Rui said goodbye, Chen Quan stabbed him and whispered: "Why can you learn it at a young age? My father and others think a lot when they are old. You are sad at a young age. ?”
Shen Rui snorted, "The third brother said this in the academy?"
Chen Quan choked and said for a while: "Is it necessary to tell them this?"
There are all the children of Hanlin Courtyard there. No matter whether they have fame or not, they will engrave loyalty to the emperor and serve the country in their hearts. If Chen Quanzhen disagreed with the emperor and the emperor in front of his classmates, he would be regarded as a villain who was disregarded by his father.
Shen Rui suddenly remembered the look of Xu's eyes just now, which must be the same as when he looked at Chen Quan now, that was "I hate him but not steel", and shook his head and said, "Third Brother, you should be more careful..."
Chen Quan gave Shen Rui a blank look, and Shen Rui said, "Stern brother, don't worry about anything else. Shouldn't you prepare for Enko at this time?"
Chen Quan shook his head and said, "It may not be that there is Enke..."
There was a genocide in the first year of Chenghua, but not in the first year of Hongzhi. It is really a matter of whether there will be a genius next year.
After returning from Chen Ying's house, Shen Rui stayed at the door to keep his filial piety. He had been filial piety before, but now he has repeated it again. The third master has survived the three days of rest, and the others have just followed his colleagues in the yamen to Dian Mao.
During this period, the Ministry of Rites entered the Book of Treasures and ascended the throne of the Eastern Palace.
Although the reign has not changed yet, the court has been in a new situation. However, the new emperor is young, and the government is still decided by the three cabinet masters.
However, these were too far away for Shen Rui, and I just heard a few words from the third master.
Although Shen Rui claimed to have some friendship with Shou Ge, some of these friendships were for use and some were true, and he couldn't tell it clearly. The imperial city and the palace city were separated by two walls. If you don’t leave the palace, the two of you are two worlds. It’s not Shen Rui’s turn to comfort Shou Ge’s pain of losing his father. What’s more, with Shen Rui’s identity, you shouldn’t know Shou Ge’s identity.
Even Gao Wenhu's side, Shen Rui didn't think about looking for him. After all, during his mourning period, he was not a time for friendship. He only thought of Shou Ge's personality, and he couldn't stand the constraints. He was a man who wanted to do whatever he wanted. But several cabinet masters have been in charge of the government for many years, and they are bound to rely on their seniority. The conflict is certain, but they have to wait until the national mourning is over. But they don’t know that the first fire of the new emperor has been burned, not for the cabinet, but for the Zhang, the biological mother who had just been promoted to the throne of Empress Dowager.
In Kunning Palace, Empress Dowager Zhang, who was covered in white, had no old beauty anymore, her eyes were swollen like rotten peaches, her face was pale, her whole body was trembling, and she said, "Is the Emperor accusing me?"
The little palace servant standing at the door wished he could curl up into a quail. The empress dowager is the mother of the emperor, and he is the emperor. He is bound by filial piety and is not qualified to accuse the empress dowager, but the newly released young emperor has not yet waited for the country's mourning to finish his country. I came to the Empress Dowager's harem to "invite the crime". If this spreads to the outside, it will probably cause an uproar.
If it were an emperor who cherished his reputation, even if he was full of doubts and resentment, he would not have done such a thing. If it were Shou Ge, he was personally educated by the former emperor. The father and son had a deep affection. He looked at the former emperor. After the pulse, the heart fire naturally arises.
The old emperor did not die suddenly, but it was almost the same as sudden death. The pulse case recorded the wind and cold. The imperial doctor also asked for pulse every day, but who would have thought that a small wind and cold would kill the life of a generation of Renjun...