The Child Emperor

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Han Ruzi had no time to say goodbye to his wife, so he was sent into a carriage outside the mansion, and went straight to the palace under the escort of a team of eunuchs and guards.

When he got out of the car, he found that the destination was not the Cishun Palace where the Empress Dowager lived, but a long and narrow dilapidated alley, vaguely familiar, and suddenly remembered that this was the place where his mother was imprisoned. You have to be imprisoned yourself.

Several eunuchs involuntarily rushed Emperor Fei into a small courtyard, then pushed him into a small room, and closed the door from the outside without a word of explanation.

Under such circumstances, no one can be calm and fearless. The most frightening thing is not the imminent danger, but ignorance. The house is dark and cramped, with a smell of decay floating around. Han Ruzi seems to be thrown into a place. In an unfamiliar crypt, beasts may rush from any direction.

He stood at the door for a while, really wanted to turn around and smash the door, begging the eunuch outside to let him out, but he knew it was useless.

"Your Majesty is coming?" a feeble voice asked.

Han Ruzi was terrified, looked intently, and found a low bed in the corner against the wall, and the voice came from above, "Emperor Dowager?"

"Hey, am I still?"

Han Ruzi walked slowly to the bed and saw that haggard face, which had lost all its former luster after not seeing him for half a year, but it definitely belonged to the empress dowager.

Han Ruzi was puzzled when he was called into the palace to meet the imperial concubine, "I thought..."

"Thought I was dead." The imperial concubine continued for him, took a break and continued: "Why is the queen mother willing to let me die quickly? She wants to torture me a little bit..."

"You asked me to come?" Han Ruzi had some sympathy for the imperial concubine, but he really didn't want to hear her talk about the grievances between the sisters.

"Really? Oh, that's right, I want to see His Majesty, but I didn't expect her to agree."

Han Ruzi was also surprised, and took another step forward, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

"You are the emperor..."

"No, I'm not the emperor, I've been abdicated for a month."

"The Queen Mother didn't kill you?"

"It seems not. I was granted the title of Marquis of Juan, and I have my own mansion. I feel free and live a good life."

"Freedom?" The imperial concubine sneered, her breathing suddenly became heavy, and she coughed violently for a while. Han Ruzi wanted to help her up, but the imperial concubine raised her hand and refused, and she calmed down after a while, "How can there be freedom? ? You think you are flying into the sky, but in fact you are still tied with a rope, if she pulls you lightly, you will fall to the ground."

"That's better than staying on the ground all the time." Han Ruzi said, even if it wasn't the palace, he wouldn't be open and honest with the empress dowager.

"It's useless to say these things. I came to you to ask you to do me a favor."

"I have already abdicated." Han Ruzi reminded.

"A small favor, you are not the emperor, but it is easier."

"Why did you find me?" Han Ruzi didn't remember that he owed favors to the Empress Dowager, on the contrary, the Empress Dowager had deceived and used him.

The imperial concubine seemed to have forgotten those things, and raised her arm feebly, motioning for Han Ruzi to come closer, and suddenly coughed violently again.

The patient's request was hard to refuse, Han Ruzi sat down beside the bed hesitantly, with a hard board under his buttocks and only a very thin mattress.

"I'm about to die, and I don't need to be tortured by the Queen Mother anymore."

Han Ruzi couldn't see the scars on the face and hands of the empress dowager. Her so-called "torture" was obviously just a rhetoric. Not being able to see the empress dowager was punished was probably a kind of torture to her.

"It is impossible for my bones to enter the imperial mausoleum. It is my greatest regret not to be with Sidi after death." The empress dowager had to stop and rest for a while. "There is a Baoen Temple in the west of the city, where there is a piece of Sidi's The stand-in tablet, used to ward off disasters for him as a monk, was when he was a child... No matter what, that tablet must be connected with Sidi's dead soul."

The imperial concubine raised the hand on the bed and stuffed something into Han Ruzi's hand, "Here is my soul, help me hang it on the tablet, only you can do this, you have been an emperor, Ghosts and gods have to give you three points."

Han Ruzi looked down, and in his palm was a small white fish made of jade, with red eyes, holes in its tail, and a brocade rope.

"Is there really a soul after death?" asked the Empress Dowager.

"Yes." Han Ruzi closed his palms, "I can't guarantee anything, but as long as I have the opportunity, I will go to Baoen Temple and hang it on the tablet."

"That's enough, your words are more trustworthy than anyone else in the palace."

Han Ruzi also lied, but it was really inappropriate to mention it now, he asked, "Just this?"

"Well, sorry, I hurt you, but I asked you for help."

"The eunuchs may take the jade ornaments away."

"If that's the case, I'll accept my fate." The Empress Dowager sighed.

She seemed to have nothing to say, Han Ruzi got up, without saying goodbye, walked to the door lightly, knocked twice, someone opened the door outside, he walked out of the dark and oppressive hut, breathed the air outside again, and felt a burst of relief.

An eunuch came over and stared at Han Ruzi's palm. Han Ruzi handed over the jade ornament without explaining.

The eunuch left in a hurry, presumably taking the jade ornaments to see the Queen Mother.

Han Ruzi didn't want to go back to the house to meet the imperial concubine, so he paced back and forth in the small courtyard. Seeing that the eunuchs were not strictly controlling him, he went outside the gate of the courtyard again, stood in the alley and looked back and forth. Several eunuchs looked at each other. He didn't interfere, but he came out and stood on both sides, silently setting a range of activities for Juanhou.

Han Ruzi had no intention of running around, he just wanted to take a breath in the spacious place, but he couldn't get rid of the idea that this place once belonged to him, even if he was only the emperor in name, he could mobilize poor people and palace men to do things for him, Now he is standing here like a prisoner, and his words will no longer have the slightest power to the eunuchs.

A eunuch walked out of the next yard, dressed in ragged clothes, holding a few sticks of firewood in his arms. He was obviously startled when he suddenly saw the carriage and the crowd in the alley, and it was too late to go back. On the ground, trembling with drooping hair.

Just by meeting each other, Han Ruzi recognized that the man was Jingyao, the former superintendent of the middle division.

The Empress Dowager slaughtered the rebels she had never met before, and seemed more willing to spare the disloyal people around her, watching them fall from a high place and struggle in the mud.

The two eunuchs walked over, scolded and kicked their former immediate superiors, Jing Yao crawled back into the courtyard, but never came out again, a few sticks of firewood were scattered outside.

After waiting for nearly an hour, the eunuch who asked for instructions hurried back, "Please get in the car when you are tired."

Han Ruzi sat in the carriage and lifted the curtain several times to peep out to confirm that the carriage was really driving out of the palace. He didn't sit down safely until he left the palace gate, only feeling weak all over.

At the gate of Juanhou's mansion, the eunuch asked Juanhou to get off the car, and returned the jade ornaments by the way, but still did not say a word.

The Marquis Juan's mansion was already in chaos, and they kept sending people to the palace to inquire about news, but apart from guarding the palace gate, they stomped their feet anxiously, and they couldn't hear a word.

Zhang Youcai stayed outside the whole time, only one step ahead of Juanhou, almost everyone in the house came out to welcome him, Cui Xiaojun's eyes were swollen from crying.

Han Ruzi got out of the car, ordered the eunuch to reward the eunuch who was seeing him off, smiled at everyone, and then led his wife's hand back to the back house.

"I thought... I thought..." Cui Xiaojun couldn't hold back his tears, but this time he wept with joy, "I beg Laojun, but she..."

"It's okay, it's the empress dowager who wants to see me."

"Emperor Dowager?" Cui Xiaojun was taken aback, and finally stopped crying.

Han Ruzi took out the jade ornament and briefly explained the matter.

"The Empress Dowager actually allowed you to see her, and even allowed you to bring out the jade ornaments!" Cui Xiaojun was even more surprised, "Are you really going to Baoen Temple?"

"Since you agreed, let's go there if you have the chance."

"I want to go with you. Baoen Temple has a great reputation, and everyone says that the Bodhisattva there is the most spiritual. I want to burn a few more sticks of incense for you."

"Give it to us." Han Ruzi smiled.

"You won't... go to the palace again?"

"It's hard to say, I have to participate in the court ceremonies, even if the Queen Mother summons me..."

"No, no, I mean do you want to 'go back' to the palace?" Cui Xiaojun raised this question to her husband for the first time.

Han Ruzi shook his head, "It's a prison, the imperial concubine and Jing Yao are imprisoned in it, why not the queen mother? I don't want to go back, I just want to get my mother out one day."

Cui Xiaojun leaned against his chest, and said softly: "That's good, I know how uncomfortable it is to be underestimated, but I also know how difficult it is to fight for power. The Cui family is in danger without knowing it. I'm terrified that you'll fall in too."

"I'm a real 'lonely man' now, and I can't fight even if I want to. Don't worry, I won't be so stupid."

Cui Xiaojun smiled, she likes her current life, the more ordinary the merrier, she moved her husband's chest, she said: "When the weather is warmer, I will clean up the back garden, there is a lot of space, it would be a pity to waste it."

"Okay, let's clean up the garden together."

Not long after nightfall, Han Ruzi went to see Yang Feng, only the manager didn't go to the door to greet Juanhou during the day.

Han Ruzi didn't care, he said the matter again, and finally asked: "What does the Queen Mother think?"

Yang Feng shook his head, "Don't ask me about women's concerns, I don't understand."

In Yang Feng's view, Juanhou's entry into the palace has nothing to do with the court struggle, "Are you afraid?" he asked.

Han Ruzi stared at Yang Feng, and said for a while: "To be honest, I was terrified. The winners and losers, but the losers suffered much worse than the 'bandits'. In comparison, beheading is even worse. Be kind."

"Very good." Yang Feng nodded.

"very good?"

"If a person does not understand what the danger is, then he is only reckless to stand up, not brave. Tired of fear of failure, it means that you can make the right choice. Remember, no one is forcing you, even if only Being tired is also much better than your previous life."

"Can Juanhou's life be stable?"

Yang Feng was silent.

Han Ruzi had already made a choice, "The imperial concubine is right, there is still a rope tied to my body, not just the queen mother, no matter who pulls at the other end, I will fall to the ground."

He paused, "Mr. Yang can't stand being played with by others, and I can't either."

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