When Sun Doudou saw Sun Kui coming back, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Master, you are back."
Sun Kui nodded lightly, then looked at His Highness King Dai and Kong Taichang who had walked away, and asked Sun Doudou: "What happened? Why do His Highness King Dai and Kong Taichang look so ugly?"
Sun Doudou shook his head and said, "I don't know."
When His Highness Prince Dai and Kong Taichang were in the imperial study just now, Sun Doudou was guarding the door and did not hear clearly what they were saying inside.
"Master, as soon as you left, Kong Taichang came to ask for an audience, and not long after that, His Highness King Dai came."
Sun Kui probably guessed what was going on, "I'll go in and wait on you. You can guard the door."
"Yes, Master."
Sun Kui walked into the imperial study quietly, bowed to Emperor Wu of Zhou, and then said, "Empress Zhaoyi asked my servant to thank you on her behalf."
Emperor Zhou Wu said "hmm" and didn't say anything.
When Sun Kui saw that Emperor Zhou Wu didn't ask, he didn't dare to say anything more. As for His Highness King Dai and Kong Taichang, whose expressions were ugly, he did not dare to ask any more questions. He quietly stepped aside and waited.
After a while, he walked out and asked Sun Doudou to bring him a cup of hot tea.
Sun Doudou quickly brought hot tea, and Sun Kui brought it in and brought it to Emperor Zhou Wu with both hands.
"Your Majesty, please take a sip of tea and rest."
Emperor Wu of Zhou put down the memorial in his hand and took the tea cup from Sun Kui. When you open the tea lid, the aroma of tea leaves hits your nostrils.
In the past, Emperor Wu of Zhou Dynasty did not drink this kind of tea, but the kind of tea that was made into powder. The tea he drinks now is steeped tea, which he learned from Liang Zhaoyi.
Liang Zhaoyi's steeped tea suited Emperor Wu of Zhou's taste. Because Emperor Wu of Zhou liked it, the entire palace switched to drinking this tea. Later, the ministers of the DPRK and Central Government also followed suit and drank steeped tea. Then, drinking this kind of tea became popular throughout the capital.
This kind of soaked tea was learned by Zhao Yao from Zhao Yao in his dream. Zhao Yao in the dream likes drinking tea very much and is very particular about drinking tea.
After Emperor Zhou Wu took a few sips of tea, he asked Sun Kui: "Are the things to worship the late empress ready?"
Sun Kui replied respectfully: "Everything is ready."
Emperor Zhou Wu put down the tea cup and sighed softly: "In a blink of an eye, she has been gone for seven years."
"Your Majesty..." Sun Kui saw a sad look on Emperor Zhou Wu's face and didn't know how to comfort him.
"I owe her so much." Thinking of the late queen, Emperor Zhou Wu felt full of guilt. In this life, he has been sorry to two people. One is the eldest brother, and the other is the first queen.
When the late empress married Emperor Wu of Zhou, Emperor Wu of Zhou was away at war all year round, so she took care of everything at home, and he didn't have to worry about it at all. Not only that, she also helped take care of the relatives of his soldiers, so that they did not have to worry about their families and could follow him to fight in peace.
"She never told me what she had done, and she never asked me for anything." When Emperor Wu of Zhou was young, he was relatively careless and rarely cared about family affairs. If his mother hadn't told him what the late queen had done for him, he would never have known that she had silently done a lot for him. "When she was dying, she never asked for anything from me. She always considered me and never asked for anything for herself or the prince."
Sun Kui said: "The first queen is a wise queen."
"She would rather embarrass herself than let me embarrass herself." Among the people around him, only the late empress never asked him for anything. "She doesn't even want me to know that she's sick or let me worry about her."
In fact, the late Queen became ill nine years ago. At first, the late queen was not seriously ill. In order not to let Emperor Wu of Zhou know about it, she ordered the imperial doctor to conceal it. Later, when the late queen was seriously ill and could no longer hide it, she let Emperor Wu of Zhou know.
"The First Empress also doesn't want you to be distracted by her affairs." When the First Empress was seriously ill, the Emperor had just ascended the throne a few years ago. At that time, the world was not peaceful and there were many things going on in the court. The emperor often reviewed memorials until midnight, and sometimes he even stayed up all night.
"If I had known about her illness earlier, maybe she would not have left so early." Emperor Wu of Zhou was always worried about the death of his late queen. He always felt that if he had discovered the illness of the late empress earlier, perhaps the illness of the late empress could be cured in time.
"Your Majesty, the first empress deliberately hid it from you and didn't let you know. How could you possibly know." I have to say that the first empress can really hide things, and she can hide them airtight. If the emperor hadn't accidentally caught the first empress vomiting blood that day, I'm afraid the first empress wouldn't have let the emperor know about her condition.
"I neglected her." Emperor Wu of Zhou respected the late queen very much, but he didn't care much about her. Sometimes, when he was so busy, he even forgot about the existence of the late empress.
"Your Majesty, do you want to be the Queen?" Sun Kui only served Emperor Zhou Wu when he was granted the title of Crown Prince. At that time, he realized that Emperor Wu of Zhou had no love for the late queen, only respect.
"I feel I owe her." Although Emperor Wu of Zhou was not keen on love between men and women, it did not mean that he was a hard-hearted person. Although he didn't like the late queen, he knew how much the late queen had done for him. Now that the person is dead, it will be useless for him to talk about his debt.
"Your Majesty, if you feel you owe the late Queen, please ask the eminent monks from Hulong Temple to pray for the late Queen."
"This is the seventh year since she left..." Emperor Wu of Zhou thought for a while and said, "On the anniversary of her death, I personally went to Hulong Temple to pray for her."
"As long as you pray for the late Queen, the late Queen will definitely live a good life in the Western Paradise."
"On the anniversary of her death, let's just go to court early in the morning."
When Sun Kui heard this, he was shocked and exclaimed: "Your Majesty, won't you go to the morning court that day?"
"No." The seventh year after the death of a relative is a very important year, and a grand ceremony is usually held.
Sun Kui suppressed the shock in his heart and said with a respectful expression: "Yes, Your Majesty."
Emperor Wu of Zhou lowered his head and continued to review the memorial without saying a word.
Sun Kui stepped aside and stood quietly. However, his heart was in turmoil.
The emperor actually wanted to stop court on the anniversary of the death of the late queen! This is amazing!
Although when the late empress passed away, the emperor stopped going to court for three days, but since then, the emperor has never stopped going to court. Unexpectedly, after seven years, the emperor would have to take a break for the sake of the late queen.
The emperor chose this time to take a break for the late empress. Could it be for the sake of the prince?
Could it be that because of the marriage of Kong Taichang's youngest daughter to the king, the emperor felt that he owed the prince and wanted to make up for it?
Or maybe it was because the death anniversary of the first empress was coming, and the emperor felt that he owed the first empress, so he softened towards the prince.
Forget it, this is not something that a slave like him should care about.
"Your Majesty, would you like to add something to the anniversary of the death of the late Queen?"
"Let the monks from Hulong Temple copy more Buddhist scriptures for the late queen."
"Your Majesty, do you want to add anything else?"
Emperor Wu of Zhou said: "There is no need to add more." After saying that, he waved his hand and asked Sun Kui to retreat.
At this time, Liang Zhaoyi was talking to Poppy and the others about copying Buddhist scriptures in Kunde Hall.
"In a few days, it will be the death anniversary of the late Queen. Starting from tomorrow, we will bathe and fast for three days, and then copy Buddhist scriptures for the late Queen." Every year on the death anniversary of the late Queen, Liang Zhaoyi and Yu Meiren would copy Buddhist scriptures for the late Queen.
"Sister, this is the seventh year since the late Queen left. Do we only copy Buddhist scriptures?" asked the poppy.
"What's your idea?"
"Actually, according to the rules, a lamp must be placed. This lamp must be made by one's own hands, and Buddhist scriptures must be copied on the lamp." Poppy said, "The Buddhist scriptures on this lamp must be copied with the blood of relatives, so that the deceased can receive it. Lamp. However, we are not relatives of the late Queen, so we do not need to use blood to copy Buddhist scriptures."
Pan Cairen asked: "Then if we put out the lanterns, can the Queen receive them?"
"I probably won't receive it, but this is our sincere wish."
Liang Zhaoyi asked: "What kind of lantern, a lotus lantern?"
"Buddhist scriptures cannot be written on lotus lanterns. They are just ordinary lanterns, but you can draw lotus flowers on them."
Liang Zhaoyi nodded and said: "Then we will make lanterns after copying the Buddhist scriptures."
She asked again, "What else needs to be done?"
"We can't do anything else." Poppy said, "According to the rules, the prince should go to the temple to pray for the late queen for seventy-seven and forty-nine days."
"Where are the other princes?" Liang Zhaoyi said, "Yao Yao and the others are also the children of the late empress. Do they need to do anything for the late empress?" The late empress is the legitimate mother and the mother of all the princes. Zhao Yao and the others should pray for the late empress.
"In an aristocratic family, a concubine has to pray for his aunt's mother, but in the palace... I don't know." Poppy is a native of the capital and is quite familiar with the rules in the capital.
In the seventh year after the death of the Queen Mother, Emperor Wu of Zhou followed the rules and went to Hulong Temple to pray for her for forty-nine days. As for the other princes, there was no such thing. There is no other prince.
After the late emperor ascended the throne, although a talent show was held and many daughters from aristocratic families entered the palace as concubines, they did not give birth to any heirs for the late emperor.
The Queen Mother and the late Emperor had more than one son, Emperor Wu of Zhou. Emperor Wu of Zhou originally had four brothers and two sisters. He was the elder son of the late emperor and the queen mother. Before the late emperor founded the country, his four brothers and two sisters were gone.
His two sisters died in the war when he was a child. Four of his brothers died on the battlefield.
After the late emperor ascended the throne, he was already quite old. In addition, he was injured in battles for many years, leaving many sequelae, and he has long been unable to have children.
Fortunately, there was still a younger son named Emperor Wu of Zhou, otherwise the late emperor would have adopted a child from someone else. However, Emperor Wu of Zhou almost died once. Fortunately, he was lucky enough to survive.
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