Chapter 6 Fasting
For nine days, Han Ruzi's life was the same: he got up before sunrise, a team of palace maids and eunuchs lined up to dress him and put on a hat, and then went to another room, where several other eunuchs and palace maids took off their clothes and bathed in buckets. After a quarter of an hour, he put on a new set of clothes and hats, moved to a small room with bright windows and clean windows, sat down on the futon, stared at the clothes left by the founding father, and could not eat his first meal until the afternoon, the waiter serving tea and holding a plate There are more than a dozen people, but the food is only rice porridge and a little pickled vegetables.
Such a life is called fasting.
Strictly speaking, Han Ruzi is not yet the emperor of Great Chu. He has been introduced to the ancestors in the Taimiao Temple, but he has to go through a series of ceremonies to meet the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty. After the whole process has been greatly simplified, it still needs to be It takes half a month to complete.
Inside and outside the palace, the imperial court was all busy with the enthronement. Only Han Ruzi was at leisure. Every day he knelt in the quiet room, his stomach growled, and he checked and counted how many insect eyes there were on the crown of Taizu, or else it was Appreciating the frescoes on the wall, no one explained the contents of the paintings to him. He guessed that it was the previous battles of the Taizu when he competed for the world.
The rich and colorful picture does not look tragic. Taizu's army can always achieve a one-sided victory. The enemy is either corpse or bowing his head. Taizu rides on a white horse and is much larger than others. of heroism.
Han Ruzi, who was very bored, began to make up stories for these murals, and gradually he tasted some flavors, so that the thing he most looked forward to every day was to fast in a quiet room. He would rather sit here alone than face those who come and go. Often strangers.
Since he left the Taimiao, he has never seen Yang Feng, the King of the East Sea, the Crown Princess and the like. Different eunuchs and palace maids have been exchanged, but they have all done the same thing. Except for a few necessary words, they always He lowered his eyebrows and deliberately ignored the new emperor, as if he was serving a moving puppet.
Han Ruzi is indeed not much different from a puppet. Only in his heart can he follow the founding father to gallop across the battlefield.
On the tenth day, Han Ruzi in the quiet room finally welcomed a companion.
Accompanied by two eunuchs, the King of the East Sea walked into the quiet room, his face was sinking like water, he knelt down stiffly, lowered his head, and said, "I see your Majesty."
Just as Han Ruzi was about to get up, he followed Jing Yao, the eunuch who was behind the King of the East Sea, took a half step forward and said, "Your Majesty, don't move, this is the Taizu's clothing room, and the etiquette of monarchs and ministers is inescapable."
Han Ruzi didn't move. These days he was used to everything being handled by others, so he didn't open his mouth. After a while, Jing Yao said for the emperor, "The King of the East Sea is flat."
The King of the East Sea stood up and lowered his head even lower.
Another eunuch walked forward, placed a futon behind the emperor's right, and walked out of the quiet room. Jing Yao said, "The Empress Dowager has ordered that the King of the East Sea will accompany Your Majesty from now on. Please, Your Majesty, concentrate on fasting, from tomorrow onwards. In the morning, watch the ceremony performed by the Ministry of Rites and fast in the afternoon." After speaking, he also retired.
Han Ruzi adjusted his posture on the futon, and continued to face Taizu's clothes and ponder, but this time he couldn't make up stories on the murals. With one more person around, he always felt that his thoughts might be stolen. The King of the East Sea was right behind him, and it was not honest to kneel there. The clothes rubbed against the futon, making a rustling sound, coughing lightly and sighing for a while.
Han Ruzi turned his head and smiled at his brother.
King Donghai was stunned for a moment, leaned forward and put his hands on the ground. This was not kneeling, but to get closer to the other party and convey the voice in his throat, "Don't be complacent, you are not the real emperor, just a fake emperor."
"I know." Han Ruzi said the first sentence in ten days.
The East Sea King was stunned again, and then a trace of contempt appeared on his face, "What do you know? Do you think the real and fake emperors are joking? That's to..." He stopped talking.
Han Ruzi turned around and looked at Taizu's clothes. He knew that he was a puppet, and that he was a puppet that would not last long, but this matter was not an outsider, except for Yang Feng.
Yang Feng had not appeared for ten days. He seemed to have given up on the new emperor, and even avoided him on purpose. Han Ruzi felt that his words in the imperial temple might frighten the eunuch.
"Other people think you're honest. Only I know you're pretending, but it's useless. Even if you are a hundred times smarter, you're still trapped in the palace... a turtle in a urn." Donghai King grinned. There were many things in the palace that scared him of people, including by no means the new emperor who is about to formally ascend the throne.
"Look at Taizu's crown." Han Ruzi said that he finally had a companion, and he hoped to talk a little more.
"What is there to see, I have seen it long ago, and I know its origin: everyone says that the crown is handed down from ancient times, after five dynasties, and now more than a thousand years ago, in fact, there are only a few Orbs may have a long history, and other parts have been replaced long ago, as far as I know, at least seven orbs were replaced when Emperor Wu."
"You know a lot." Han Ruzi said sincerely.
"Hey, this is all common sense that princes must understand. You can only wear the Taizu crown once when you officially ascend the throne, and then you can only wear it several times when you are crowned, married, and crowned prince. It's no fun. That thing is a burden." King Donghai stared at the crown, and even wanted to stand up and touch it.
There are many relics left by the Taizu. In addition to the crown, there are also dragon robes, boots, swords, Ruyi, horse whips, jade pendants, etc. These things are too old to withstand the toss, only the crown can be used occasionally. use.
"The emperor is as admired as this crown, but it is useless." Han Ruzi had been in the quiet room for a long time, and he developed a little affection for these old clothes.
"Ha!" The King of the East Sea laughed arrogantly, the eunuch's coughing sounded outside, he hurriedly knelt down and waited for a long time before whispering: "Yes, you are only useful occasionally, you can still give away the crown after it is used up. Back to the quiet room, you are not treated so well. If I were the emperor, I would never fall into this situation. Tell me the truth, aren't you afraid?"
"I'm afraid, but what's the use of being afraid?" Han Ruzi's eyes turned to the sword on the shelf. Taizu used it to kill many enemies, but now he can only stay in the scabbard, spotless and useless.
The King of the East Sea stood up, glanced back at the door, and walked quietly behind Han Ruzi, "In this case, let me take you on the road ahead of time. You don't have to be afraid anymore, and I can get what you want sooner."
Donghai King's voice didn't sound like he was joking, but Han Ruzi was not afraid of him, and he didn't turn his head, still staring at Baojian, "I thought we should be a group."
"So you left me in the palace as your attendant?" King Donghai gritted his teeth.
"It's your idea."
"My idea?"
"You said that when you became emperor, you would kill me or stay by your side. I didn't want to kill you, so I left you."
For the third time, King Donghai was stunned. He did say something similar, but he didn't expect Han Ruzi to keep it in his heart and use it on him in turn, "Don't be smug, do you think you are the real emperor? No one listens to your words, I I stayed because the queen mother wanted to use me to blackmail the Cui family."
The voice of the King of the East Sea was full of hatred. Compared with Han Ruzi, he hated the empress dowager who manipulated everything behind his back even more.
"So we should be a gang."
"Hey, your royal family has no power or power, so if you want to use our Cui family as a backer, I won't be fooled... unless you are willing to give me the throne."
"I didn't want to be this emperor, I can give it to you at any time."
"No, it's 'return' to me."
"Okay, I'll give it back to you."
There was a sound of footsteps walking outside, and the King of the East Sea immediately returned to his original place. After the silence was restored outside, Han Ruzi said, "Do you have any contact with the Cui family?"
"No, they are watching very closely. Jing Yao, this old bastard, cheated me into the palace, but now he has become my guard. But this is only a temporary situation, and my mother and uncle will definitely find a way to send me a letter."
"Have you... met Yang Feng?" Han Ruzi asked.
"Zhongchang served Yang Feng? I met him once, and ran in front of me, but didn't say goodbye... You don't have any expectations for him, do you? I heard some news in the palace that he negotiated with the minister and sent you Support the throne and send him into the fire pit. He is now the Queen Mother's confidant and favorite. The person who will kill you in the future will definitely be him. Really, he has a face of slaying the king. If I become the emperor, the first thing will be Get rid of him."
Han Ruzi couldn't guess the details of Yang Feng, but the eunuch left him with a deep impression. If he could only choose one person to be his "accomplice", he would rather be Yang Feng.
The last bit of reverence that the King of Donghai had for the emperor disappeared, and he began to talk about the plan endlessly, "You return the throne to me, this is called renunciation, this has happened before, and then you will say that you are sick and unable to carry out the emperor's order. Responsibility, this is very simple, the difficulty is how to bring down the queen mother... It's really strange, there is one thing I have never understood, why did my uncle agree to hand over the seal of the Southern Army Da Sima to the Shangguan family? It was from the capital. Half of the army. And after making such a big concession, it doesn't make sense for me to be the emperor, it's really unreasonable!"
His voice was a little too loud, the door opened, and Jing Yao's white face like dough came in, "Taizu is watching." The old eunuch's posture and expression were respectful, but his tone was unquestionable.
The door slowly closed, and King Donghai squeezed out his voice, "Jing Yao is also a traitor, the master is right, eunuchs are all traitors."
Han Ruzi didn't know who was the traitor and who was the loyal one. He only knew that he was in danger. If there was no miracle, he would never see his mother.
He turned his head and glanced at the King of the East Sea again. He knew very well that just because they were just over thirteen years old, they could not do anything in the palace except to complain about each other's troubles.
The King of the East Sea was much more confident. He suddenly climbed over from behind. He was so excited that he almost knocked Han Ruzi down, "I have a way to deal with the queen mother! And it's very fast, it will be done tomorrow!"
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