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Before Han Ruzi could say goodbye to his wife, she was sent into a carriage outside the mansion and rushed straight to the palace under the escort of a team of eunuchs and guards.

When he came out of the car, he found that the destination was not the Cishun Palace where the empress dowager lived, but a narrow and dilapidated alley, which looked familiar. He suddenly remembered that this was the place where his mother had been imprisoned. He felt a sank in his heart, thinking that he would be imprisoned too.

Several eunuchs rushed the deposed emperor into a small courtyard without saying a word, then pushed him into a small room, closed the door from outside, without giving a single explanation.

In this case, no one can be calm and fearless. What is most scary is not the danger in front of you, but the ignorance. The house is dark and cramped, and the smell of decay is floating. Han Ruzi is like being thrown into a strange crypt. A wild beast may pounce from any direction.

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

"Your descend?" asked a weak voice.

Han Ruzi was creepy and looked closely and found a low bed in the corner against the wall, with the sound coming from it, "The Imperial Concubine?"

"Hey, am I still?"

Han Ruzi slowly walked to the bed and saw the haggard face. After not seen for half a year, it had lost all the luster of the past, but it was sure to belong to the Imperial Concubine.

Han Ruzi was puzzled by being summoned to see the imperial concubine, "I thought..."

"I thought I was dead." The imperial concubine continued on for him, and after a while he continued, "How could the Queen Mother be willing to let me die quickly? She wants to torture me a little bit..."

"You want me to come?" Han Ruzi had some sympathy for the imperial concubine, but she really didn't want to hear her tell the grudges between her sisters.

"Is that true? Oh, yes, I want to see Your Majesty, but I didn't expect her to agree."

Han Ruzi was also surprised and took another step forward, "Is there anything that can help you?"

"You are the emperor..."

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

"The Queen Mother didn't kill you?"

"It seems that I was named Jue Hou and had my own mansion. I was free and lived a good life."

"Free and freedom?" The Imperial Concubine sneered, her breathing suddenly became heavier, and she coughed violently for a while. Han Ruzi wanted to help her up. The Imperial Concubine raised her hand and refused. After a while, she calmed down, "How could she be free and freedom? You thought you had flew into the sky, but in fact you were still tied with a rope on your body. With her gently pulling it, you would fall to the ground."

"That's better than staying on the ground all the time." Han Ruzi said that even if this place is not a palace, he would not be open to the Emperor Taidao.

"That's useless. I came to you because I wanted you to do me a favor."

"I have abdicated." Han Ruzi reminded.

"A little busy, you are not the emperor. Instead, it is easier."

"Why are you looking for me?" Han Ruzi didn't remember that she owed the imperial concubine favors. On the contrary, the imperial concubine once deceived and used him.

The imperial concubine seemed to have forgotten those things, raised her arm weakly, signaling Han Ruzi to walk closer, and suddenly started coughing violently again.

The patient's request was difficult to refuse, and Han Ruzi hesitated to sit down beside the bed. Under her butt was a hardwood board, with only a layer of extremely thin mattress.

"I'm going to die, and I don't have to suffer from the Queen Mother's torture."

Han Ruzi could not see any scars on the face and hands of the imperial concubine. Her so-called "torture" was obviously just a rhetoric. Failure to see the queen mother being punished was probably a torture for her.

"My corpse cannot enter the imperial tomb. It is my biggest regret that I cannot be with Emperor Si after my death." The Imperial Concubine had to stop and rest for a while. "There is a Baoen Temple in the west of the city, where there is a substitute tablet for Emperor Si. It was the one who became a monk to eliminate disasters. It was when he was a child... No matter what, that tablet must be connected to Emperor Si's soul."

The Imperial Concubine raised the hand in the bed and stuffed something into Han Ruzi's hand. "I have my soul here. Please help me hang it on the tablet. Only you can do this. If you have been an emperor, ghosts and gods will have to give you three points."

Han Ruzi looked down and saw a small jade white fish in her palm, but her eyes were red, with holes on her tail, and she was wearing a brocade rope.

"Is it really a soul after death?" asked the Imperial Concubine.

"Yes." Han Ruzi closed her palms, "I can't guarantee anything, but whenever I have the chance, I will go to Baoen Temple and hang it on the tablet."

"That's enough, your words are worthy of trust than anyone in the palace."

Han Ruzi also lied, but it was really not suitable to mention it at this moment. He asked, "That's all?"

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

"The eunuchs may take the jade ornaments away."

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

She seemed to have nothing to say. Han Ruzi stood up without saying goodbye. She walked to the door gently and knocked twice. Someone outside opened the door. He walked out of the dark and depressing hut and breathed the air outside again, feeling a sense of relief.

An eunuch came over and stared at Han Ruzi's palm. Han Ruzi didn't explain, handed over the jade ornament in his hand. The eunuch took it in his hand and bowed, "Please wait here for me."

The eunuch left in a hurry, probably with the jade ornament to meet the queen mother.

Han Ruzi didn't want to go back to the house to see the imperial concubine, so he paced back and forth in the courtyard. Seeing that the eunuchs were not strict, he came out of the courtyard again and stood in the alley and watched from behind. Several eunuchs looked at each other without interfering, but followed him out, stood on both sides, silently setting a range of activities for Juanhou.

Han Ruzi ran around without any intention, just wanted to breathe in a spacious place, but he could not get rid of the idea: this place once belonged to him, even if it was just a nominal emperor, he could mobilize the miserable and Gongmenlang to do things for him, but now he stood here like a prisoner, and his words would no longer have any power to the eunuchs.

An eunuch walked out of the yard next door, dressed in tattered clothes and holding a few firewood in his arms. He suddenly saw the carriage and crowd in the alley. He was obviously startled. He wanted to retreat and left the firewood, knelt on the snow, and shivered his hair.

Just after meeting, Han Ruzi recognized that the man was actually Jing Yao, the former Central Secretary.

The Queen Mother killed the conspirators who had never met before, and seemed to be more willing to go out of the net to the unfaithful people around her, watching them fall from high places and struggle in the soil.

Two eunuchs walked over and scolded and kicked the former boss. Jing Yao climbed back to the yard and never came out. Several pieces of firewood were scattered outside.

After waiting for nearly an hour, the eunuch who asked for instructions hurried back. "Please get on the car with a junior."

Han Ruzi sat in the car, lifted the curtain several times and looked out to confirm that the carriage was really heading out of the palace. It was not until he left the palace gate that he sat steadily, and he felt his whole body weak.

At the gate of Juanhou’s mansion, the eunuch asked Juanhou to get off the car and return the jade ornaments by the way, but he still didn’t say a word.

The Juanhou's mansion was already in chaos and he kept sending people to the palace to inquire about the news. However, except for guarding the palace gate, they could not find a word.

Zhang Youcai kept staying outside, only one step ahead of Juanhou. Almost everyone in the mansion came out, and Cui Xiaojun's eyes were swollen in tears.

Han Ruzi got out of the car and ordered the minister to reward the eunuch who had seen him off. He smiled at everyone, and then took his wife's hand and went back to the back house.

"I thought...I thought..." Cui Xiaojun couldn't stop believing in tears, but this time she cried with joy, "I beg Laojun. But she..."

"It's okay, it's the imperial concubine who wants to see me."

"The Imperial Concubine?" Cui Xiaojun was shocked and finally stopped her tears.

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

"The Empress Dowager actually allowed you to see her. She also allowed you to bring the jade jewelry out!" Cui Xiaojun was even more surprised, "Do you really want to go to Baoen Temple?"

"Since you agree, go there if you have the chance."

"I want to go with you. Bao'en Temple is very famous. It is said that the Bodhisattvas there are the most powerful. I want to burn more incense sticks for you."

"Give it to us." Han Ruzi smiled.

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

"This is hard to say. I must participate in the imperial court's rituals, and the empress dowager summoned me and could not refuse to go..."

"No, I mean you want to 'return' to the palace?" Cui Xiaojun asked this question to his husband for the first time.

Han Ruzi shook her head, "There is a prison there. The imperial concubine and Jing Yao were imprisoned in it. Why is the empress dowager the same? I don't want to go back, I just want to pick up my mother one day."

Cui Xiaojun leaned against his chest and whispered: "That's good. I know how uncomfortable it feels to be despised, but I also know how difficult it is to fight for power. The Cui family is in danger without knowing it. I am really afraid that you will fall into it too."

"I am a real 'lonely' now, and I can't fight even if I want to. Don't worry, I'm not that stupid."

Cui Xiaojun smiled. She liked her current life. The more plain she was, the happier she was. She moved her husband's chest and said, "When the weather is warmer, I will clean up the back garden. The place there is very big, and it would be a pity to waste it."

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

Shortly after nightfall, Han Ruzi went to see Yang Feng, but the only manager did not go to the door to greet Juehou during the day.

Han Ruzi didn't care, and told the matter again, and finally asked, "What the hell did the Empress Dowager think?"

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

In Yang Feng's opinion, Juanhou's entry into the palace this time had nothing to do with the struggle of the court. "Are you afraid?" he asked.

Han Ruzi stared at Yang Feng and said for a while: "To be honest, I was frightened. The king was successful and the enemy lost. But the loser's experience was much worse than the "Guo". In comparison, beheading is more kind."

"Very good." Yang Feng nodded.

"very good?"

"If a person does not understand what the danger is, then his rise is just reckless, not brave. Juehou is afraid of failure, which means you can make the right choice. Remember, no one forces you, even if you only work as Juehou, it is much better than your previous life."

"Can Juehou's life be stable?"

Yang Feng said nothing.

Han Ruzi had already made a choice, "The Imperial Concubine is right. I still have a rope tied to my body. Not only the Queen Mother, no matter who pulls it at the other end, I will fall to the ground."

He paused, "Mr. Yang can't stand being played with in his palms, neither can I."

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