"'I want to eat meat', what does this mean?" Donghai Wang was at a loss, looked at the people in the room one by one, and finally looked at the emperor, and suddenly realized that Ruzi had changed his "clothes and edicts" on his back. Content, anger instantly kicked Caution out of his heart, swooped over, and shouted: "You dare to play with me!"
Although Jing Yao is old, his hands and feet are very agile. He hurriedly hugged the King of the East Sea, and scolded: "The King of the East Sea is self-respecting, this is the palace!"
The King of the East Sea was startled, knowing that he had made a big mistake, and his attitude softened immediately, "I'm sorry, I'm just... Please forgive me..."
Han Ruzi nodded slightly, indicating that he didn't care.
"Is this really that note?" Jing Yao was still confused.
"Your Majesty left a lot of calligraphy treasures yesterday, and a pair of handwritings can tell the truth." Yang Feng carefully put away the note. The Queen Mother already believed that other people's opinions were not important.
"How did you get it?"
"Master Yuan took the initiative to give it to me." Yang Feng said calmly.
The Minister of Rites was "smarter" than expected, but Jing Yao was embarrassed but did not dare to become angry, and said with a red face: "The fast will end soon, and your Majesty will eat meat more days, why should you tell the ministers about such trivial matters? ?"
"It's hard for me to find someone to talk to in the palace." Han Ruzi walked back to the bed.
Jing Yao and Zuo Ji looked at each other and didn't know how to answer this sentence. They murmured a few words and resigned in unison. The King of the East Sea stared at the emperor and didn't let go until he heard Jing Yao's urging, and then he said goodbye bluntly.
Yang Feng stayed where he was and did not move, and the three people who had already retreated to the door stopped again, not wanting to leave the emperor alone to the cunning and cunning Zhong Changshi.
"According to the will of the Queen Mother, from today onwards, I will serve Your Majesty." Yang Feng said.
The three did not stay any longer and left in a hurry.
Yang Feng walked to the bed and said, "You are very smart. You didn't write any secret edicts. You are also very lucky. The Queen Mother is magnanimous and thinks this is just a child's nonsense, and she doesn't want to pursue it too much."
Han Ruzi looked up and asked, "I almost killed a lot of people, didn't I?"
"Your Majesty has been thinking too much. Inside and outside the palace and in the courtroom, everyone has their own way of protecting themselves. Those who need His Majesty's protection are those who are not worthy of protection."
Han Ruzi thought of the two eunuchs who had been beaten. Their way of protecting themselves was to scream.
After finally seeing Yang Feng, he wanted to ask some things clearly: "What is the benefit of being an emperor? The King of the East Sea wants to be an emperor so much, but you don't agree. I have never thought of this, but you have to push me up, listen. It is said that when my grandfather Wudi was in power, he was so angry that he bled thousands of miles, and when it came to me, he didn't even dare to admit his biological mother."
Yang Feng took a step forward, some words should not have been said, but some characteristics of the emperor moved him, Yang Feng was willing to take a risk, "Do you want to know what an emperor is?"
Han Ruzi nodded hesitantly.
"Emperor Wu bleeds thousands of miles in anger, but there are still thousands of miles away. The army of Da Chu has never been able to exhaust the world, and Emperor Wu also has troubles around him. The prince of three changes, the seven executions of important ministers, and the spoils of the inner palace are countless. Emperor Wu's life He has encountered at least five dangers, three times in the micro-service, once in the court, and once in the palace."
Han Ruzi's eyes lit up, "Mother never... I have never heard of these stories."
"This is not a bedtime story." Yang Feng's tone became stern, "I'm telling you a truth."
"No matter how powerful the emperor is, there are times when things go wrong?" Han Ruzi guessed.
Yang Feng said coldly: "I'm telling you what the real emperor looks like. The most real appearance is not the one claimed by the so-called learned Hongru."
Han Ruzi thought for a while, then murmured: "A thousand miles away, the emperor can't control, within ten steps, the emperor is no different from ordinary people, so the emperor's power is only ten steps away, within a thousand miles... And I, by Trapped within ten steps."
This child is very smart. If the situation is a little better, Yang Feng is sure to train him to be a generation of Ming Jun, but the current situation only allows him to talk on paper.
"How can we break the predicament?" Han Ruzi raised his head and asked.
Yang Feng shook his head, "There is no way, the time is, the situation is, how many heroes and heroes throughout the ages have been unknown all their lives because they were born at the wrong time. Your Majesty should rest in peace."
Yang Feng retired, he didn't need to serve the emperor at night, let alone teach the emperor everything.
Han Ruzi was lying on the bed, someone entered the room, blew out the lights, and fell into the small couch by the window.
"Ten steps away, within a thousand miles." Han Ruzi pondered Yang Feng's words, thinking that his "time situation" would not come and when he would arrive. Suddenly, Yang Feng had some words that he didn't say clearly. There are ordinary people inside, why can't I do something within ten steps
He looked sideways at the blurred figure on the chair, and found that he had only been looking at the Queen Mother and Quan Huan from the distance these days, ignoring too many details around him, "Cough... What's your name?"
There was silence in the darkness. The new waiter seemed to have learned the lessons of the first two eunuchs and was reluctant to talk to the emperor. After a while, a woman finally said, "My name is Meng E, is there something wrong?"
This voice was cold, neither calling himself a "slave" nor honoring "Your Majesty", which was even more rude than Jing Yao and Zuo Ji, who had come to ask the teacher for guilt.
Han Ruzi met a tough opponent in his first attempt "within ten steps". He tried hard to recall the appearance of the palace maid, but he couldn't remember it. There were too many people coming and going these days, They all have the same expression, it's really hard to identify.
"What happened to those two?"
"Which two people?"
"The two people who were beaten because of me."
Meng E in the dark was silent for a while, "They deserved what they deserved."
"If I am guilty, I am more guilty."
"There is a difference between honor and inferiority, and there is a difference between noble and lowly. Since masters and slaves are separated, they will not have the same sins."
Han Ruzi wanted to win the favor of the maid next to him, but she was speechless by the other party's words. Meng E didn't move, as if she fell asleep immediately.
Early the next morning, Han Ruzi finally saw Meng Mo's true face. She looked about twenty years old, not much taller than the thirteen-year-old emperor. She was neither ugly nor beautiful. There was no difference between the others, and Han Ruzi couldn't remember when she started serving him.
The young emperor was not thwarted by this defeat. Instead, he made up his mind to pay attention to everyone "within ten steps", but to avoid the mistakes when writing the "secret edict", and never to implicate others.
He soon discovered that the eunuchs and maids around him were not the same, and behind the dull expressions, everyone's careful things were hidden: the old eunuch holding the crown peeked at the maid in the robe from time to time, and the maid in the robe quietly paid attention. The companion holding the pendant box... Meng E is also in the chain of mutual surveillance, but her status is slightly higher, and no one dares to look at her.
Yang Feng didn't participate in these small games. He waited outside the door and didn't look at anyone. When the time came, he escorted the emperor to see the queen mother and attend the ceremony, and he was almost inseparable.
At first, Han Ruzi thought that these people were in conflict with each other. On the way to meet the officials of the Ministry of Rites, he suddenly realized that the eunuchs and the maids were actually their masters and were jealous of each other.
The Minister of Rites did not come today, and a servant took his place. He kept a distance from the emperor at all times, and tried not to open his mouth if he could.
The afternoon fast was still normal, Yang Feng did not kneel at the door, he stayed outside the door according to the rules, and never came in to disturb the emperor and the East Sea King.
Donghai King was very surprised by this, and waited for more than an hour before speaking, "It's really strange that no one is watching us."
Han Ruzi didn't say anything and didn't look back.
Donghai Wang coughed twice, and finally couldn't help but say what was in his heart, "It's not that I told the secret, it's that you were too careless and exposed yourself. But your move is bad enough, 'I want to eat meat', You want to try whether the Minister of Rites is trustworthy, right? Well, it's really cautious, a little too cautious."
Han Ruzi's last bit of trust in the King of the East Sea has long since disappeared, but this person is within ten steps. He doesn't want to have a dispute, so he said: "Anyway, this can't be done anyway."
"If you were more courageous, maybe the Minister of Rites could take action yesterday, but you wrote a sentence 'I want to eat meat', of course the ministers would not take it seriously. Dare to take risks only to gain, like you, you will never endure Don't start."
"I didn't want to 'get ahead' in the first place, and now it's no worse than before."
"You can lose your head at any time now!" King Donghai was surprised by the emperor's calmness, but he was relieved when he thought that his earlier threats had not had any effect on his brother, "I understand what you mean, your mother and son used to be It's been really... It's too miserable, without a king's name, without a master, it's worse than the ordinary clan children. If I tell you, the queen mother must hate your mother and son very much, she doesn't even want to see your face. "
"Have you met the Queen Mother?"
"I've seen her before, she's not a simple person..." Donghai King lowered his voice even lower, "As long as she's there, the royal father's eyes will never look at anyone. It is said that she can - witchcraft."
When the word "witchcraft" was mentioned, Donghai King himself was frightened first, he kneeled down honestly, and murmured: "Maybe we are talking here, she can hear it, or she will be caught by her own sorcery. I was hurt, so I hid and didn't dare to see anyone."
Han Ruzi didn't believe much in witchcraft, so he turned slightly, looked at the King of the East Sea, and asked in confusion, "Why did the Queen Mother let you be my attendant and allow us to be alone?"
"In order to humiliate me and the Cui family." Donghai King said angrily, making no secret of his anger at the Queen Mother and his coveting the throne.
Han Ruzi didn't think so, and even suspected that the King of the East Sea was pretending to be stupid. Anyway, if he was the King of the East Sea, he wouldn't be in a hurry. Since the Cui family is a big family, they will never surrender to the Queen Mother lightly, and the King of the East Sea still has a chance.
"We still have to find a way to deal with the queen mother. This time, we will send a letter to our Cui family." King Donghai couldn't guess the emperor's thoughts, and he enthusiastically put forward new suggestions.
"No." Han Ruzi simply refused, "I don't want to deal with anyone, especially the queen mother. If I stay on the throne for a long time, it will also be my life."
Han Ruzi turned around, and the King of the East Sea looked at him in surprise, and after a while, he showed a look of extreme resentment.
There was one more dish for dinner, and it tasted meaty after the entrance. Han Ruzi was surprised. He was still fasting, and he must not touch the meaty food. After chewing a few bites, he found out that it was a mushroom. It seems that his complaint is still useful.
After the meal, Han Ruzi used every opportunity to talk to the eunuchs or palace maids around him, but the results were very small. They were confused by the change in the emperor's character, and soon became vigilant, trying not to answer as much as possible. After careful consideration, those words were not intended to be addressed to the emperor, but rather to be conveyed to someone who was not present.
What everyone felt from the emperor was not kindness, but pressure.
Yang Feng went in and out, heard some conversations, did not object, and did not take the opportunity to make suggestions. He was like a half-hearted herdsman. Occasionally came over to see if the cattle and sheep were still grazing in the same place, and then went to work on his own.
After a whole day, Han Ruzi was exhausted, and all he got was a few answers, and within ten steps of him was still desolate.
When lying on the bed at night, Han Ruzi recalled the experience of the day and found that he did not gain nothing, at least he understood one thing: the power of the Queen Mother is not the only one in the palace, and there are dark tides around him.
But this didn't help the current emperor. He couldn't control it within ten steps, and he couldn't find a "time situation" that was beneficial to him. Until at night, when he was about to sleep, a trivial matter gave Han Ruzi some confidence.
At that time, he was about to fall asleep when the voice of the palace maid Meng E suddenly came from under the window, "I asked, those two people were sent for treatment and they won't die."
Han Ruzi's drowsiness suddenly disappeared. He cared about the life and death of the two eunuchs, but he didn't care about them all the time. He was happy because someone finally answered his question directly, and the pool of stagnant water within ten steps was finally a little bit. Moved a bit.