For nine days, Han Ruzi's life remained unchanged: before sunrise, a team of palace maids and eunuchs lined up to dress him and hat him, and then went to another room. Several other eunuchs and palace maids took off their clothes and went into a bucket to bathe. After a quarter of an hour, they changed into a new set of clothes and hats, moved to a small room with bright windows, and knelt on the futon, staring at the clothes left by the founding Taizu, and could not have the first meal until the afternoon. There were more than a dozen waiters who served tea and plates, but the food was only rice porridge and a little pickled vegetables.

Such a life is called fasting.

Strictly speaking, Han Ruzi is not the Emperor of Chu. He has been introduced to his ancestors in the Taimiao, but he still has to go through a series of rituals to meet all the civil and military officials of the court. After a large simplification, it still takes half a month to complete.

Inside and outside the palace, the court was busy with the ascension of the throne. Only Han Ruzi was idle and knelt in the quiet room every day, roaring in her stomach, and checking over and over again how many insect eyes were on Taizu's clothes and hats, otherwise they would have admired the murals on the wall, and no one explained the contents of the painting to him. He guessed that this was the battle between Taizu and Taizu for the world.

The scenes with thick ink and heavy colors do not look tragic. Taizu's army can always win one-sided victory. The enemy may be corpses everywhere or surrender. Taizu rode on a white horse, and his body was much larger than others, and his spirit of heroism was full of heroism.

The bored Han Ruzi began to make stories for these murals, and gradually she tasted some tastes, so that the thing she most hoped for every day was to go to the quiet room to fast. He would rather sit here alone than face the strangers coming and going.

Since leaving the Taimiao, he has never seen Yang Feng, the King of Donghai, the Imperial Concubine, and the different eunuchs and palace maids, but they do the same thing. Except for the necessary words, they always lower their eyebrows and look straight, deliberately ignore the new emperor, as if they are serving a moving puppet.

Han Ruzi is indeed not much different from puppets. Only by following the founding Taizu in his heart can he gallop on the battlefield.

On the tenth day, Han Ruzi in the quiet room finally welcomed a companion.

Accompanied by two eunuchs, King Donghai walked into the quiet room, his face was as deep as water, and he knelt down stiffly, lowered his head, and said, "I will meet your Majesty."

Han Ruzi was about to get up, and followed the eunuch Jing Yao, who was behind the King of Donghai, and said, "Don't move your Majesty, this is Taizu's clothing room, and the etiquette of the king and his subjects is not to be ignored."

Han Ruzi didn't move. These days he had become accustomed to everything being managed by others, so he didn't speak. After a while, Jing Yao said to the emperor: "The King of Donghai is flat."

King Tokai stood up and his head lowered.

Another eunuch bowed forward, put a cushion on the right back of the emperor, and stepped out of the quiet room in a small step. Jing Yao said: "The Empress Dowager is decree to the King of Donghai to accompany His Majesty to the left and right. Please concentrate on fasting, and watch the Ministry of Rites performing ceremony in the morning and fasting in the afternoon." After that, he also retreated.

Han Ruzi adjusted his posture on the cushion and continued to contemplate Taizu's clothes and dress, but this time he could no longer make up stories about the murals. There was one more person around him, and he always felt that his thoughts might be stolen. King Donghai was just behind him, and he was not honest when he knelt there. The clothes rubbed against the cushion and made a rustling sound. He coughed lightly and sighed.

"So you left me in the palace as your servant?" King Donghai gritted his teeth.

"This is your idea."

"My idea?"

"You said that after you become emperor, you will kill me or stay by your side. I don't want to kill you, so I leave you behind."

The third time King Donghai was stunned. He did say similar things. Unexpectedly, Han Ruzi remembered them in his heart and used them on him. "Don't be so beautiful, do you think you are the real emperor? No one listened to your words. I stayed because the Queen Mother wanted to use me to threaten the Cui family."

The voice of King Donghai was full of hatred. Compared to Han Ruzi, he hated the Empress Dowager who manipulated everything behind his back.

"So we should be in the same group."

"Hey, your Wang family has no power and no power, so I want to use our Cui family as a backer, so I won't be fooled...unless you are willing to give the throne to me."

"I didn't want to be this emperor at first, and I can give it to you at any time."

"No, I'm going to give it back."

"Okay, I'll give it to you."

There was a sound of footsteps outside, and Donghai King immediately retreated back to his original place. After the quiet outside returned to his senses, Han Ruzi said: "Do you have any contact with the Cui family?"

"No, they were watching very tightly. Jing Yao, the old bastard, tricked me into the palace, but now he became my guardian. But this is only a temporary situation. My mother and uncle will definitely find a way to deliver me a letter."

"Have you... seen Yang Feng?" Han Ruzi asked.

"Yang Feng, the Central Constable? I saw it once. I ran over in front of me and didn't pay my respects... You don't have any expectations for him, right? I heard some news in the palace that he negotiated with the ministers and helped you to the throne and sent you into the fire pit. He is now the queen mother's confidant minister. He must be the one who kills you in the future. Really, he has a face that is monarchic. If I become the emperor, the first thing I do is to get rid of him."

Han Ruzi couldn't guess Yang Feng's background, but the eunuch left him a deep impression. If he could only choose one person to be his "accomplice", he would rather be Yang Feng.

The last bit of awe of the emperor disappeared and he began to talk about his plan incessantly, "You return the throne to me. This is called abdication. There was such a thing in the past. At that time, you will say that you are infected with a bad disease and cannot execute the responsibilities of the emperor. It is very simple. The difficult thing is how to defeat the empress dowager... It's strange. There is one thing I haven't figured out. Why did my uncle agree to hand over the seal of the Grand Sima of the Southern Army to the Shangguan family? That's half of the army in the capital. And after making such a big concession, he didn't let me become the emperor. It's so unreasonable!"

His voice was too loud. When the door opened, Jing Yao's dough-like white face came in. "Taizu is watching." The old eunuch's figure and expression were respectful, but his tone was unquestionable.

The door slowly closed, and King Donghai squeezed out a voice from his throat, "Jing Yao is also a treacherous minister, the master is right, the eunuchs are all treacherous ministers."

Han Ruzi didn't know who was a treacherous minister or a loyal minister. He only knew that he was in danger. If no miracle happened, he would never see his mother.

He turned his head and looked at King Donghai again, and knew very well that just because they were just over thirteen years old, they could not do anything else except complaining about each other's worries and could not do anything else.

Donghai King was much more confident. He suddenly crawled 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 soon, it will be realized tomorrow!"
Chapter completed!