The Child Emperor

A few months ago, when Han Ruzi was taken away by Yang Feng in the middle of the night, Wang Meiren was full of hopes and fantasies about the future, but now, all of this has disappeared. For her, only one thing is important.

That is to keep the son alive.

Han Ruzi was taken aback. Strangely, his first reaction was not "I'm not the emperor", but his mother's name for him, "You called me by my name."

"Well, I'm your mother, so of course I want to call you by your name."

"So, the queen mother still wants to abolish me?"

Wang Meiren shook her head, "I asked her to do this."

"Why?" Han Ruzi was at a loss. If it had been a while earlier, even before the palace change, he might have happily accepted his mother's decision. The puppet state, he felt that things were getting better, a group of "miserable people" were willing to swear allegiance to him, and the palace gate order who had only met once strictly implemented his will...

"You heard what the concubine said, I don't want my only son to die in the palace."

"Her words are not necessarily true, besides... I won't let the queen mother kill me."

Wang Meiren smiled again, raised her hand and gently wiped a piece of dust off her son's face, "Of course, my son is so smart, how could someone just kill him?"

Han Ruzi suddenly woke up, "Mother, did Yang Feng bring Cui Hong's condition to make the East Sea King proclaimed emperor?"

Wang Meiren shook her head, "Master Cui doesn't have the guts, he asked Yang Feng to ask for peace, as long as the Queen Mother does not pursue the Cui family's guilt in this palace change, and returns the position of the Southern Army Chief Sima to him, he is willing to be loyal to the Queen Mother. As for the King of the East Sea, Taifu Cui did not mention this nephew at all."

The King of the East Sea must be very disappointed after knowing this, but Han Ruzi is even more disappointed now, but this is his mother's request. He has never opposed his mother, so he can only bow his head and say nothing.

Wang Meiren was so gentle that her heart ached, her son bowed his head exactly like when he was a child, she stepped forward and whispered into her son's ear: "The queen mother will definitely fight with the Cui family, who is the emperor and who is the victim, the king of the East China Sea. Self-righteousness, there will be no good end, you just sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and there will be opportunities in the future."

"Chance?" Han Ruzi raised his head in surprise.

"The court of Great Chu is already rotten to its roots. Luo Huanzhang is right. What matters inside and outside the court is housework. I don't want you to get involved. In the future, you will not only be an emperor, but also a clean emperor."

"But...but..." Han Ruzi wanted to say that he would never have the chance to be emperor again.

"There will always be opportunities. I will stay in the palace to help you create opportunities."

Han Ruzi was shocked and didn't care about being the emperor. "No, mother, you have to go out of the palace with me. I am not the emperor, and you should not stay with the queen mother. She... she is very dangerous."

"It doesn't matter, as long as I don't fight for anything, there will be no danger. Don't worry, I won't risk my life to give you a chance. I'm just here to watch for you. Once the opportunity comes, someone can notify you immediately."

"No, I will never be the emperor, as long as my mother leaves the palace with me."

Wang Meiren's face turned cold, "You are no longer a child. I begged the Queen Mother in exchange for this abdication. You must cherish it."

Han Ruzi dared not oppose his mother again, "When... let me abdicate?"

"It's not clear, it should be soon, in short, remember my words: don't trust anyone, and don't offend anyone."

Han Ruzi nodded and began to seriously consider his life as an emperor, "What about the 'hard people'? If they only save me but not the queen mother, will they be retributed?"

"You underestimate the queen mother, she even fights with a group of servants, but if you are worried, I will find a way to send them all out of the palace." Wang Meiren laughed again, "You did a good job, even your mother ate it. Surprised, you are a good emperor, but the timing is wrong, no good fruit can grow on a rotten tree, you have to wait for the tree to germinate again."

"What if... can't wait?" Han Ruzi asked cautiously, for fear of annoying his mother.

Wang Meiren was not angry this time, she smiled and said, "If God doesn't give you a chance to become emperor again, I would rather you be an ordinary person, with no worries about food and clothing, with your wife and children by your side."

Han Ruzi felt that he was about to cry, so he forcibly held back, "I really hope my mother is with me..."

"No." Wang Meiren refused very succinctly, "Even if there is only a small chance, I will stay in the palace to watch for you. And I also have to learn. In the past, I thought it was too easy to be the emperor and followed the queen mother. I can learn a lot around me.”

Han Ruzi was a little terrified.

Wang Meiren stroked her son's cheek and said with a smile, "Silly child, I want to learn the Queen Mother's technique of controlling ministers, not the way to kill people, and I don't believe that Si Di was killed by the Queen Mother."

"What about Emperor Huan?"

Wang Meiren's smile gradually disappeared. Emperor Huan was considered her husband, but she no longer had any impression of that man, "Don't ask too much, be careful after you leave the palace, it's a good thing that you can gain the allegiance of your servants, but you There are a lot of people who are offended.”

"It's not that I want to offend..."

The door opened again, and Yang Feng walked in, looked at the mother and son, was silent for a while, and said, "The Queen Mother, please come over."

The queen mother sat alone on the couch, staring blankly at something in front of her. Yang Feng motioned for Wang Meiren to exit, leaving only three people in the room.

Han Ruzi stood in front of the queen mother. Since he was about to be abolished, he did not intend to perform the ceremony of the son of a man again.

"Tell him." The queen mother said coldly, without even moving her eyes.

Yang Feng came to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty knows that he is going to abdicate, right?"

"Well." Han Ruzi's impression of this eunuch also deteriorated. Yang Feng only values ​​the emperor. Once he abdicates, he will probably never have anything to do with him again.

"Your Majesty has to write an edict of abdication. Your Majesty will write it yourself, or should I draft it for His Majesty?"

"Please ask Yang Gong to make a proposal." Han Ruzi did not want to argue, and after agreeing to abdicate, his heart began to decline, but after the initial shock and confusion, he felt relieved and left the palace, which was his original goal. The only regret is that the mother can't go out together.

Things went well, and Yang Feng bowed respectfully and stepped back.

The queen mother finally turned her attention to the emperor, "Wang Meiren thinks that you can't survive the chaos that follows, and would rather keep you away from the throne, what do you think?"

"I believe in mother." Han Ruzi said.

"Wang Meiren thinks that you still have a chance to become emperor again, but I want to tell you that this is impossible. No matter who wins or loses from the Cui family and I, we will not let a deposed emperor re-enthrone."

"I have no luxury."

The queen mother waved lazily, indicating that the emperor could retire.

Han Ruzi turned to leave, but stopped again, "Can I ask a few questions?"

The Queen Mother nodded.

"Who is Jing Yao?"

"You're about to abdicate, do you still care about this kind of thing?"

"I have doubts in my heart, and I panic."

The empress dowager sneered disdainfully, "Jing Yao is of course my person. He is in charge of Baoxi as the supervisor of the central division. He has reached the peak of the eunuch's power. What benefits can he gain by relying on the imperial concubine? Knowing the imperial concubine's After the conspiracy, he always wanted to inform me, but he was isolated by Zuo Ji, so he had no choice but to make a fool of himself. Prime Minister Yin Wuxian was able to escape from the Palace of Diligence and Political Affairs, and the officers and soldiers were able to enter the palace.

"In that case, it's superfluous for me to send the sword out of the palace."

"That's not true. Jing Yao is loyal to me, but he doesn't dare to act rashly. If he waits, the traitor will most likely kill me."

"Luo Huanzhang is really a strange person." Among all the conspirators, Han Ruzi was the most incomprehensible to this master of national history, "Sometimes he wants to rebel, another moment he surrenders, and another moment he says it's useless to kill the queen mother and the emperor. , the ministers outside will immediately elect a new emperor, and will stop the traitors from killing people, saying that they do not want the world to be in chaos."

The queen mother nodded to Yang Feng and asked him to explain to the emperor.

Yang Feng was not in the palace before, but he knew Luo Huanzhang very well. He bowed and said, "Luo Huanzhang is a famous scholar in the world. He thinks he is asking for the life of the world. No one has a firmer position than him. At the beginning, he was high-spirited, but once he found that things were different from what he expected, he would be disappointed. For him, things were either accomplished in one fell swoop, or he was willing to accept his fate, and there was no other choice. It's just a little mess, it doesn't help; when he is willing to accept his fate, the little mess turns into a big mess in his eyes, so he wants to stop it."

"At the beginning, he was high-spirited, and he was willing to accept his fate when things went wrong..." Han Ruzi looked at Yang Feng and felt that these words were reminding himself.

Yang Feng had nothing to do with him anymore, and Han Ruzi got rid of the thought, "After I abdicate, will the King of the East Sea be the emperor?"

Yang Feng did not answer.

Han Ruzi asked again: "Cui Hong has mastered the Southern Army, and the King of the East Sea is the emperor, how can the Queen Mother defeat the Cui family?"

Yang Feng made a gesture of invitation, "Your Majesty knows enough."

Han Ruzi knelt down suddenly, kowtowed to the queen mother, got up and said, "Thank you."

When Han Ruzi came out of the house, the queen mother said, "It may be a mistake to let him out of the palace. This kid is threatening me and asking me to take good care of his mother."

Yang Feng bowed, "His threat is nothing to be afraid of." After a pause, he said again: "Does the queen mother really want me to leave the palace?"

"Inducing Cui Hong into the capital is a serious crime you committed, and expelling you from the palace is the lightest punishment. Besides, there is no one in the palace that you can be loyal to, so go out and catch your hopeful person."

Yang Feng also knelt down and kowtowed, "Please allow me to say a maddening statement in front of the Queen Mother: I was the one who brought Ruzi into the palace. If I leave the palace, I will spare no effort to bring him back."

"Okay." The Queen Mother yawned.

Yang Feng got up and exited the room.

The queen mother sat alone for a while, reaching out and knocking twice on several cases.

The Meng brothers and sisters came out of another warm pavilion.

"You didn't catch Chunyu Xiao?" the Queen Mother asked.

Meng Che took a step forward, "Meng E saw that there was a fraud ahead, and insisted on returning to the palace, but the palace really changed."

This was something that Prime Minister Yin Wuxian did not mention or knew. A large number of officers and soldiers killed the swordsman guarding the gate, but the swordsman in Cishun Palace was killed by the guards. Therefore, Luo Huanzhang's persuasion was more effective. Therefore, Bu Hengru did not dare to kill, and finally knelt down and begged for mercy.

"Your sister is in a hurry to come back, the person to save is not me, but the emperor." The queen mother stared at Meng E, "You should have been loyal to the emperor for a long time, this is your decision, or your brother and sister's decision. Common idea?"

Meng E knelt down immediately, "It's my decision alone, my brother doesn't know about it."

Meng Che looked surprised, and then sighed. He had already seen the signs, but he didn't expect his sister to actually do it.

"In this case, the younger sister leaves the palace and the elder brother stays." The queen mother waved her hand and ordered the two to leave.

Meng E also kowtowed, Meng Che hesitated, now is not the time to speak to the queen mother.

There was really only one person left in the room, and the queen mother was so tired that she inexplicably remembered a sentence and murmured, "I am a lonely man."

These words gave her some kind of magical power, and she was ready for more bloodshed.

(End of this volume)