After Empress Dowager Cixi listened to politics, many court ministers were afraid of her, not because she was arbitrary in power, but because she was moody and heartless. Cixi had a eunuch named Li, who was not only clever, but also good at improvising. Since Empress Dowager Cixi has mastered the power of the imperial court, it is determined that Empress Dowager Cixi is the second Empress Wu Zetian in China. If you want to get ahead, you must have someone like Empress Dowager Cixi as your backer, otherwise there will be no bright future. It's easy to find Cixi as a backer, but it will be difficult to really do things. As the saying goes, a companion is like a tiger, not relying on it, just following Cixi's ass all day. I don't know what happened, but my head moved.
On this day, Li Zheng was sitting in his room, worried and thinking hard about how to please Cixi. A little eunuch came running in a hurry, saying that Empress Dowager Cixi told him to go into Cining Palace at once and tell her jokes to make her happy. Li Dao: "Since Tianer said so, I don't have so many jokes to tell! What can I do! " The little eunuch said, "You usually have a good brain. Let's walk slowly. Wait until you get to the Empress Dowager Cining Palace, and then make up jokes. " The little eunuch's words awakened the dreamer, and Li suddenly had an idea in his head.
Li Yilu was speechless. When he came to Cining Palace, he congratulated Empress Dowager Cixi: "Empress Hongfu is in heaven, she is happy!" Cixi was puzzled by Li and asked Li, "Where does happiness come from? Stop being glib and tell a joke. Li immediately said, "I deserve to die. I am not a chatty slave. The queen mother is really happy from the sky. " Empress Dowager Cixi saw Li kneeling on the ground pretending to be angry and said, "Well, forget it. It's not hard to mourn for you. Get up! Tell me something new that you met along the way? "
Li knelt on the ground and said that he drank the good tea sent by the queen mother last night and was too excited to sleep for half a night. In the middle of the night, just a little hazy, I saw the room suddenly flashing red light and full of lights, thinking that the room was on fire, and I was scared to sit up at once. Strangely, the Buddhist Tathagata came to his bed. When Li saw the Tathagata, he hurriedly bowed down, bowed three times and knocked nine times, and asked why the Tathagata had come. Tathagata, with a bright smile and a loud voice, said, "There are stars in the Qing Dynasty, and everything will bathe in great compassion." Li didn't understand what this meant, so he asked the Buddha to explain it clearly. Tathagata smiled and said, "The lucky star is pyrophyllite. This is the reincarnation of Guanyin Bodhisattva in the South China Sea. Only the Ye He Na Lashi of the Qing Dynasty can bring peace and stability to the country. " Li was so grateful that he kowtowed to the Tathagata and asked him, "Why didn't you tell the Queen Mother?" ? What will the people call the empress dowager in the future? Tathagata Buddha said with a smile, "The secret can't be revealed. Let's call it the Empress Dowager Lafayette. "
Hearing this, the ladies-in-waiting of Cining Palace fell to their knees with a shout and shouted, "Lafayette is chitose, chitose, and Qian Qian is old"!
When Empress Dowager Cixi saw this scene, she laughed and said, "Heaven forbid, send a message. From now on, it will be called Ai Jia Galeries Lafayette. On the third day of March every year, the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva in Nanhai is the day of Aijia Lent. Ai Jia will bathe and change clothes, and fast and chant Buddhist scriptures. "
Because Li Faming told the story of the arrival of the Tathagata, he became the eunuch in one step.
After the Empress Dowager Cixi got the name of Lafayette, in addition to the usual days of fasting and chanting Buddha, on the third day of the third lunar month, she had to bathe, change clothes and fast for one day with great fanfare. Empress Dowager Cixi felt fresh because she was a vegetarian all day, but after a long time, she got tired of eating. No matter how much the chef of the imperial chef cheered her up, she could not satisfy Empress Dowager Cixi. Therefore, the fasting day of Empress Dowager Cixi naturally became a disaster day for chefs. Less than two years after Empress Dowager Cixi was a vegetarian, three chefs were beheaded because vegetarian dishes were not to her taste.
In a blink of an eye, the third day of March this year is approaching again. Empress Dowager Cixi issued an imperial edict, asking the royal chef to carefully prepare vegetarian meals. Whoever does vegetarian dishes well will be rewarded, and whoever does badly will be severely punished. An imperial edict not only frightened many cooks, but also frightened the eunuch who was in charge of rice. Nobody is afraid of such a big thing. Therefore, the eunuch in charge of rice received a lot of money from the chef and gave it to Li as a gift, in order to ask him to be smart when dining with Empress Dowager Cixi.
Since Empress Dowager Cixi handed the imperial edict to the royal chef, Li felt uneasy as if she were pregnant with a rabbit. He knew that Empress Dowager Cixi was moody. On Lent Day, if any dish really doesn't agree with her, he will be punished, not only for the chef, but also for himself. Think about yourself for many years and finally come to this step. You can't just give up all your efforts. You must think of a way to kill two birds with one stone. Li thought hard and stayed up almost all night. The next day, he secretly summoned famous chefs from all over the world to help the royal chef tide over this difficulty. Li soon found ten skilled chefs and secretly enriched them to help prepare vegetarian food in the royal chef. To be on the safe side, Li looked over the food samples in advance. He carefully sorted out the vegetarian dishes that he thought were creative and reported them to Empress Dowager Cixi. After seeing them, Empress Dowager Cixi did not show a trace of joy, which made Li Ru on pins and needles.
In a blink of an eye, Lent has arrived. On this day, Empress Dowager Cixi bathed and changed clothes. After reading the scriptures, she sat in the main hall waiting for the eunuch to pass the rice. Li Dasheng passed the meal, and the eunuch waved his hand. All the chefs walked into the hall carefully and respectfully with long queues and trays in their hands, and walked slowly past Empress Dowager Cixi. As long as Empress Dowager Cixi says "put it down", the dish will pass, otherwise the chef will have to stand by and wait with the dish. I saw Empress Dowager Cixi staring at every dish with wide eyes. How about "Flying Snow Thousands of Miles", "Jade Birds Singing" and "Beautiful Mountains and Rivers" ... In a blink of an eye, most of the 66 vegetarian dishes have passed, and Empress Dowager Cixi has not taken a fancy to any of them. Her face turns ugly from time to time, scaring the chefs from breathing. The whole hall was silent, horribly quiet. Some chefs are so scared that their legs are shaking and they can't even stand. The eunuch in charge of the dinner peeked at Li again and again, thinking, Say something, and if this continues, we will die!
Before long, sixty-five courses passed, and Empress Dowager Cixi stood up slowly, with a scowl on her face. She was about to say something. Suddenly, drum music was everywhere in the hall, which startled Empress Dowager Cixi. Empress Dowager Cixi looked up at the door, but saw the Tathagata coming to her with a big bowl in one hand. Empress Dowager Cixi was shocked and bowed down. She was quickly pulled by Li: "Lafayette, this can't be done. Let us bow down for you. " Before Li finished, all the people in the hall had already knelt down.
Tathagata walked into Empress Dowager Cixi and handed the sea bowl to Cixi. Empress Dowager Cixi said "thank Buddha" and took the bowl in her hands. She put down the bowl gently and suddenly felt a refreshing fragrance. At this moment, the red light flashed in the hall, and there was no sign of the Buddha, and the hall was exclaimed. When Li went to see Empress Dowager Cixi, he saw a bowl of fruit with red meat and green skin in the sea bowl. The sea bowl is fragrant, and the fairy dust on the fruit block is curled up.
Empress Dowager Cixi felt that the arrival of the Buddha was the result of her long-term concentration on fasting and chanting Buddha. She was in a very happy mood and immediately pardoned all the chefs. Empress Dowager Cixi was so happy that the chefs told her all the names of the fruits and vegetables given to her by the Tathagata. The chefs who just calmed down suddenly became nervous again. After reading it, no one dares to speak out of turn, for fear that it will not be in the heart of Empress Dowager Cixi and lead to fatal disaster. They just say that they are stupid and don't know what fruits and vegetables the Buddha gave them.
Because Cixi was so happy, she didn't punish the cook and asked Li instead. Li hurriedly knelt down: "Lafayette, the Buddha gave me a dream last night, saying that I would give you a bowl of' red powder' on the day of your lent. I think this is the' red flora'. "
Empress Dowager Cixi was even happier when she heard Li say this. Plus, after all this time, she's hungry. The "red flora" in front of her exudes an attractive fragrance, which makes her spleen and stomach wide open. She ate most of the "red plants" in a sea bowl and gave all the rest to the royal concubines to taste in advance. People who have eaten "safflower" say it is particularly delicious, crisp and refreshing, and the fragrance is overflowing.
After the Empress Dowager Cixi ate "Red Flowers", she could not live without this dish any more. She ordered the chef to add a "red flora" to every meal. Empress Dowager Cixi ate this dish until she died.
In fact, the so-called "red flower" eaten by Empress Dowager Cixi is "the beauty in the heart". On the day before the Lent Festival of Empress Dowager Cixi, Li was particularly worried when she saw that the royal chef could no longer cook new vegetarian dishes. She is worried about how to get through this. While hesitating, she looked up and found herself strolling to the Imperial Chef. Suddenly she saw a newly recruited and deadly cook. This man is kind-hearted and potbellied, such as Tathagata! Li's eyes rolled and the plan came to her mind. So on March 3rd, the day of Lent of Empress Dowager Cixi, she risked her life to stage a "red blessing" drama given by the Tathagata Buddha.
Can this kind of deception fascinate the eyes of Empress Dowager Cixi and so many people in the main hall? Don't they see the flaw? Li is very clever here. He knew that when the Tathagata Buddha appeared, everyone in the hall was bound to bend down and kneel down, afraid to look up. The Tathagata carries another sea bowl, and everyone's attention in the hall will naturally shift to this sea bowl. After all, everyone will think that saving lives is more important than distinguishing between true and false buddhas.
According to doctors' records, heart radish moistens the lungs to relieve cough, strengthens the spleen to stimulate appetite, and is also rich in the effect of beauty beauty. If eaten raw for a long time, it can prevent diseases and prolong life. The longevity of Empress Dowager Cixi has a lot to do with her eating carrots in her heart for most of her life. But she didn't know until her death that "Hong Fu Luo" was a poisonous trick set by Li, who used her competitive and self-centered. No one dared to disobey her psychology and use carrots skillfully.