Rise From the Humble

Shortly after Chen hour, just after the morning meal, at the time of the Taoist "dragons traveling in the rain", Emperor Jiajing began a fasting ceremony to pray for the people, and soon the entire Xiyuan was enveloped in smoke, candles and fireworks.

Zhu Ping'an and other ministers who were seconded to write Qing Ci were also left to copy Qing Ci at the altar.

Burning incense, transforming talismans, remembering thoughts, chanting mantras, kneading formulas, tapping teeth, writing chapters, chanting sutras, praising, lighting candles, and walking. A series of tedious, solemn and extremely boring fasting rituals lasted until noon.

After the Zhaijiao ceremony, Zhu Ping'an was just like the last time he transcribed Qingci at the altar. With thirteen brushes dipped in gold powder in his sleeves, Shi Shiran walked down from the altar. This is not because Zhu Ping'an is greedy for money, but mainly because he doesn't want to take advantage of Tao Zhongwen, an old bastard. Because after the fasting ceremony, all the gold powder used as ink will belong to Tao Zhongwen.

This old magician was too greedy. During the last "Dragon Bone" incident, this old magician used the pretext of performing a ritual to calm the gods at Jianyuan Mountain in Wudang Mountain and took away more than 200,000 taels of silver from Emperor Jiajing.

He also often instigated Emperor Jiajing to hold various fasting festivals, and every time he held a fasting festival, the old magician made a lot of money.

Zhu Ping'an has no good impression of Tao Zhongwen, an old charlatan. On the surface, this old charlatan looks like a fairy, but in fact he is causing harm to the country and the people, even worse than corrupt officials. Not to mention the costs of alchemy and Taoism, the cost of setting up altars, fasting, and offering rituals often costs seven to eight thousand or tens of thousands of taels of silver each time. This money should have been taken from the people and used for the people, but now it is all spent. Been in trouble.

The gold powder left over from these fasting activities will be in vain if I don't take it. I can't take advantage of this old magician.

"Hehehe, Mr. Zhu, your ears are still cold in this summer. Look at your ears."

After the fasting ceremony, Zhu Ping'an returned to Wuyi Hall and heard a sarcastic voice from behind while walking on the road.

Zhu Pingan turned his head and looked back, and then saw Yuan Wei with an envious and jealous look on his face.

When Yuan Wei saw Zhu Pingan turning back, he pointed at Zhu Pingan's ear. His face was full of envy, jealousy, hatred, and ridicule. The mixture of these expressions made Yuan Wei's face a little distorted.

Zhu Pingan wears a fragrant leaf crown given to him by Emperor Jiajing in the morning.

The most suitable scene for this fragrant leaf crown is Taoist-related activities, such as today's fasting ceremony. If I did not wear a fragrant leaf crown during the fast today, I would have made a political mistake.

This is not just talk.

A few years ago, senior Xia Yan proved this with his personal experience. At that time, Xia Yan was still the chief minister of the cabinet, and Yan Song was only the second minister. Both of them were awarded fragrant leaf crowns by Emperor Jiajing. Xia Yan has always been opposed to Emperor Jiajing's superstitious activities, so after getting this Taoist fragrant leaf crown, Xia Yan never wore it. The difference is that Yan Song not only wore the fragrant leaf crown during Taoist activities such as Zhaijiao, but also put on the fragrant leaf crown every time he went to see Emperor Jiajing. He also wiped it clean and covered it with a gauze. Protects against dust and damage. In contrast, Emperor Jiajing praised Yan Song greatly and became increasingly alienated from Xia Yan. In the end, Xia Yan was abandoned and executed, while Yan Song gained the favor of Emperor Jiajing and became the chief minister of the cabinet.

Therefore, this fragrant leaf crown Zhu Ping'an must be worn.

However, since the fragrant leaf crown is green, no man would wear a cuckold.

Therefore, Zhu Pingan made a cover for the fragrant leaf crown with black gauze by hand before the fasting ceremony.

However, because Zhu Pingan's workmanship was not very good, the cover he made was too big. Before going to the Zhaijiao, Zhu Pingan deliberately stuffed the extra circle into the hat. Unexpectedly, he knelt down and stood up during the Zhaijiao. The half circle of gauze behind the hat fell down. Because the gauze was relatively thin, and the front half circle was always well inside the hat, Zhu Pingan never noticed that the back half circle of gauze fell off, covering most of his ears as if to warm his ears.

Therefore, Yuan Wei mocked Zhu Pingan for having cold ears, ridiculed Zhu Pingan for wearing a fragrant leaf crown, and ridiculed Zhu Pingan for wearing the fragrant leaf crown.

After hearing Yuan Wei's ridicule, Zhu Ping'an discovered that the back half of the hat had fallen down to cover his ears.

"Hehehe, my ears are still cold even in such a hot summer, Mr. Zhu is really embarrassed."

Yuan Wei clicked his tongue twice, pulled the corner of his mouth and shook his head, mocking Zhu Ping'an for being a macaque. Yuan Wei was extremely envious and jealous of Zhu Pingan for receiving the fragrant leaf crown as a reward from Emperor Jiajing. Now he took the opportunity to ridicule Zhu Pingan and naturally he would not miss this opportunity.

Damn it!

Are you sick? !

Did I provoke you? !

Listening to Yuan Wei's sarcasm, which was getting more and more weird every time, Zhu Ping'an was confused about whether he should preach the three sutras or not.

At this time, the surrounding ministers who were returning to Wuyi Hall had stopped in twos and threes and looked here.

"What's wrong, Mr. Zhu, you really have a cold ear. Hahaha, what a coincidence, I know an imperial doctor named Li who specializes in treating..."

Seeing someone stopping to watch, Yuan Wei became more enthusiastic and opened his mouth to sneer at Zhu Ping'an again.

This time Yuan Wei went a step further and directly recommended the imperial doctor to Zhu Pingan, insinuating that Zhu Pingan was ill.

"Haha, Mr. Yuan, my ears are not cold, but your eyes are hot, right?!!"

Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but pull down the corners of his mouth, cupped his hands towards Yuan Wei, and replied lightly.

My ears are not cold, but your eyes are hot.

You pink eye!

Zhu Ping'an's fluttering words immediately silenced Yuan Wei. He opened his mouth several times but couldn't make a sound. His face instantly turned as red as pig liver, and his ears were as red as a flash. Go up.

This scene is ridiculous. Just now Yuan Wei complained about Zhu Pingan with expressive and emotional expressions, but Zhu Pingan just replied lightly, instantly KOing Yuan Wei. Just like a strong man baring his teeth and claws, he punched and embroidered his legs, but the other person stretched out a finger and pinned him down.

Who am I, where am I, my face is so hot...

At this moment, Yuan Wei's mind was blank, his face was red, his face was stiff, he was at a loss, and he was so embarrassed that he wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in.

"hehe……"

"My ears are not cold, but your eyes are hot...hehe..."

This was a typical example of Yuan Wei being defeated instead of being annihilated. When everyone onlookers saw this, they couldn't help laughing.

"Since Mr. Yuan knows Dr. Li, Ping An will not go out of his way to recommend a good doctor to Mr. Yuan. I would like to wish Mr. Yuan a speedy recovery."

Zhu Ping'an bowed his hands to Yuan Wei, shrugged his shoulders, added lightly, and then turned around and left leisurely.

Yuan Wei was left there to receive the attention of everyone.