They all say I'm a puppet

The New Year's Eve was getting closer, and the weather was getting colder. Fortunately, Fu Yu, who was enthroned as the emperor, no longer had any worries about eating and living.There is plenty of charcoal fire in Changle Palace, so he and Cheng Zhong don't have to lean against each other shivering like in previous years but be reluctant to light a brazier.

Chen Yuan has been away from Beijing for more than half a month, and it is very likely that he will not be able to return to the capital before New Year's Eve.Without Chen Yuan in Fuyu, he feels a lot easier every day. Although he has to go to Xingde Palace to pay respects to Empress Dowager Chen on time every day, but fortunately, Empress Dowager Chen doesn't want to see him very much, so he saves contact with her .

However, he still hasn't found a good way to escape from the imperial city.

Before Chen Yuan left, he took away several trusted guards, including Xun Cheng who looked different from the others.There are still a few guards outside the gate of Changle Palace, but they seem to be more fooled than Xun Cheng.It is not difficult to leave Changle Palace while they are negligent, but if they fail to succeed once, the consequences will be disastrous.

Apart from going to court and going to Xingde Palace to pay his respects every day, Fuyu spends most of his time in Changle Palace planning this matter, but he still has no clue.

Fu Yu threw away the pen in his hand, glanced at the piece of paper he had scribbled on indiscriminately, grabbed it and threw it into the charcoal stove beside him, watched the flames slowly swallowing it, and sighed heavily.

"Your Majesty." Cheng Zhong came in with a food box in his hand, with a little snow on his shoulders, "It's been cold recently, I made some soup, you drink it to warm yourself." He opened the food box , took out the earthen jar that was still steaming inside, filled a bowl and handed it to Fuyu.

Fu Yu sniffled, already smelling the fragrance, and the little bit of surprise just now had dissipated, holding the soup bowl and drinking slowly.

Seeing that he was satisfied with his drink, Cheng Zhong felt a little better, and tidied up the messy book case that Fu Yu made: "Your Majesty was practicing calligraphy just now?"

Fu Yu twitched the corner of his mouth: "Uncle Zhong, you are laughing at me, I don't know a few words at all, what's the point if I don't practice it."

Cheng Zhong laughed and tidied up the book case: "Anyway, there are a lot of books in Changle Palace. If you want to, Your Majesty, someone will teach you."

Fu Yu shook his head hastily: "It's okay, I don't plan to take the No. [-] Scholar Examination, so it doesn't matter if I know a few more words." He put down the soup bowl in his hand, and said with a bitter face, "Uncle Zhong, what's the point?" It's almost New Year's Eve, but I still haven't figured out how to get rid of those guards and leave the imperial city, and if I keep procrastinating like this, I'll have to wait till Chen Yuan comes back."

When this question was mentioned, Cheng Zhong couldn't help but sigh. If he didn't particularly approve of Fu Yu's departure at the beginning, but now that he's in this situation, he has no other choice.Chen Yuan brothers and sisters controlled the government, and now they still need a puppet surnamed Fu. I'm afraid that in the future, when he really overshadows the sky and decides to replace him, Fuyu's life will no longer be tolerated.

And they, the old and the young, were like ants under the hands of the Chen brothers and sisters, vulnerable to a single blow.

He is old and doesn't care so much about life and death, but Fuyu is still young after all, he can't...

Fu Yu was just complaining at first, but when he saw that Cheng Zhong was also melancholy, he cheered up and comforted him: "Uncle Zhong, I just want to say that there is always a way, maybe, maybe something will happen tomorrow It gave me a chance."

Cheng Zhong glanced at him, and finally reached out and patted his shoulder: "Okay, I believe His Majesty will find a chance."

"That's it!" Fu Yu bent the corners of his eyes, but the smile on his face slowly collapsed again, "Uncle Zhong, what time is it, are we going to greet the Queen Mother?"

Cheng Zhong looked at him like this and couldn't help but shook his head with a smile: "It's snowing outside, I'll get a fur coat for His Majesty."

It rarely snows in the capital, and I have only seen Fuyu grow so big a few times.Cheng Zhong was afraid that he would catch a cold, so he wrapped him tightly in a fur coat, leaving only his eyebrows and eyes exposed.

Snowflakes floated down from the sky profusely, and after a short stay on the fluff of the fur coat, they melted slowly.Snow also accumulated on the originally clean bluestone road, and the entire imperial city turned into a vast expanse of whiteness.

Fu Yu abandoned the imperial chariot, followed by several servants including Cheng Zhong and the bodyguards who stayed with him all day. The group walked through the white snow, leaving a long series of footprints.After walking for a while, he finally couldn't hold back anymore, stretched out his hand from his sleeve, bent down and grabbed a handful of snow and held it in his hand.

The cold touch made him shiver, but he still refused to throw away the snow in his hands. While walking, he rolled his hands together on the snow, as if he wanted to squeeze the snow into something.

Cheng Zhong should have reminded him, after all, this is the inner courtyard of the imperial palace, and he is the king of a country, so many eyes are fixed on him, it may be heard by the Empress Dowager Chen in the next moment, and it will inevitably be a scolding.But when he saw the smile on Fu Yu's face, he couldn't open his mouth. After all, he was only a boy and a half, so let him be happy.As for the Queen Mother, there will always be other scoldings if there is no such thing. The Queen Mother Chen just doesn't like Fu Yu, no matter what he does.

Since Cheng Zhong didn't open his mouth to stop him, others naturally wouldn't persuade Fu Yu.Since those few servants came to Changle Palace, they hardly ever spoke to each other. As for those few servants, they were only responsible for making sure that Fuyu was there, and they never interfered with the others.

So a group of people followed Fuyu to play in the snow all the way to Xingde Palace. When they arrived at the gate of the palace, Fuyu's hands were slightly red, and there was a snow rabbit with standing ears in his palm. Send it to Cheng Zhong: "Uncle Zhong, help me find a place in the snow to put it away, and I will take it back to Changle Palace when I come out later."

Cheng Zhong picked up the rabbit carefully: "Don't worry, Your Majesty."

Fu Yu shook his hand and walked in happily.

Same as every time before, Xingde Palace did not show any welcome to Fuyu from inside to outside, no one greeted him, and no one served tea, and he couldn't even see a person for a long time.

But Fu Yu has long been used to all this. He stood quietly in the hall, looking down at his red palms. After a long while, a servant came out from the room and glanced at Fu Yu faintly from the corner of his eye: "The Queen Mother is here today!" I feel unwell, Your Majesty will go in and say hello before going back."

Fu Yu didn't expect to have any real mother-child friendship with Empress Dowager Chen, and he didn't bother to bother. Hearing this, he was even more happy, and followed the servant into the inner room. He could vaguely see the figure inside through the bed curtain, and saluted: "My son Greetings to the queen mother."

There was a soft hum from the bed tent, indicating that Fu Yu knew.Fu Yu just got up, thought for a while and said: "I heard that the queen mother is not feeling well, did you call the imperial doctor?"

The Empress Dowager Chen didn't answer, nor did she order to see off the guests, so Fu Yu had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to find the topic. Just as he was about to speak again, a servant suddenly rushed in: "The Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, it's not good! It's not good! "

A soft voice came from inside the bed curtain: "Why are you so reckless?"

The waiter couldn't care about the others in the house, so he hurriedly said: "Duke Qin, Duke Qin is back! Now the capital has been surrounded, and they are about to enter the city at any time!"

The bed curtain was lifted abruptly, and the Empress Dowager Chen looked shocked and angry: "What did you say?!"

"It's true, my lord. The court is in chaos. Now the left and right guards are defending the capital, but compared to Qin Guogong's tiger and wolf division who has been stationed at the border all the year round, it probably won't last long." The servant replied in a panic.

The Empress Dowager Chen was stunned in place, and she came back to her senses after a while, gritted her teeth and ordered to the servant: "Order, order someone to go to Duke Qin's mansion, arrest his whole family and bring him into the palace, and send someone to find a way out of the city to take care of him." The Taiwei sent the urgent report, and..." She realized that Fuyu was still in the palace after speaking halfway, and said angrily, "Why are you still here? Go back to your Changle Palace!"

Fu Yu bowed and backed away slowly: "I obey the order."

Fu Yu retreated step by step to the door of the palace, and he was relieved until he could no longer hear the voice of the Empress Dowager Chen inside. Cheng Zhong, who had been waiting at the door, immediately stepped forward to put on the fur coat for him: "Your Majesty, are you going back to the palace?"

Fu Yu glanced at the gate of the palace, nodded lightly, walked forward a few steps before remembering something and said to Cheng Zhong: "Uncle Zhong, where is my little rabbit?"

Cheng Zhong smiled, and pointed to the outside of the palace gate: "It was placed at the gate by the old slave."

Fu Yu twitched the corner of his lips: "Then I'll get it myself."

When Fu Yu just came out, he was still full of thoughts. He was a little happy when he mentioned the little rabbit, and walked outside happily. When he reached the gate of the palace, he found that there was only one place where the little rabbit should have been. The crushed snowball looked extremely pitiful lying on the snow.

The smile on Fu Yu's face disappeared without a trace, and Cheng Zhong beside him was even more frightened and angry: "Why, how did this happen? It's the old slave's fault. The old slave should see it himself .”

Fu Yu stretched out his hand to support Cheng Zhong, who was about to kneel down, and shook his head slightly: "Uncle Zhong, it's okay, anyway, I probably don't need this rabbit now." He raised his eyes and looked at the other few steps away. Personally, lowered his voice and said, "He Hongyi finally made a move."

He Hongyi, the general of the Zhu Kingdom, commanded hundreds of thousands of troops from Nanxia to garrison the northwest. He held nearly half of Nanxia's military power in his hands.When the first emperor was in power, he gave him three points of comity, made him the Duke of Qin, and gave him a large area of ​​land in the northwest of Hexi as a fief, without having to pay taxes to the court.

That day Fuyu didn't care about these things, all he knew was that He Hongyi was besieging the capital, Chen Yuan was not in the capital, and Empress Dowager Chen was too busy to take care of herself, the opportunity he had been looking forward to finally came.

Fu Yu walked all the way to Changle Palace, and found that the palace was also in chaos.Everyone in the Palace of Prestige and Prosperity of the Great General He Hongyi of the Shangzhu Kingdom had already heard about this man, who was warlike and bloodthirsty. After every big victory, there was a massacre.

And the people left in the palace are more or less close friends of the Chen brothers and sisters, even if some people are reluctant, but He Hongyi doesn't care about it at all.Once he really entered the palace, the imperial city might change its color.

As for him breaking into the palace, it only takes time.How can the Lingwei imperial army with less than [-] be the opponent of the Northwest Army with [-] bloody soldiers?

Looking at these flustered servants, Fu Yu suddenly had a thought in his heart, so many people want to escape, there is always their own way, as long as he follows these people, he will be able to escape.

Thinking of this, the haze in my heart just now slowly dissipated, and I couldn't help speeding up the pace of returning to the palace.

Compared with the panic in the palace just now, Changle Palace seemed much calmer. Fuyu took off his fur clothes and got into the room, and everyone else dispersed. No one noticed what the little emperor was going through in his heart just now. plan.

Cheng Zhong followed into the inner room, locked the door with his hand back, watched Fu Yu go straight to his pillow to find out the money bag hidden there a few days ago, sat on the bed and counted for a while, his eyebrows and eyes raised slightly , raised his head and said to Cheng Zhong: "Uncle Zhong, how long do you think these silver taels are enough for us to live outside the palace?"

Both of them have never been out of the palace, in fact, they don't have much idea in their hearts, they just think that the more money they have, the better, after all, they are old and young, and it is very difficult to make a living for a while.

The two studied the silver for a while, and then began to look around the hall, looking for something that was valuable and did not take up much space, but they found nothing after searching for a long time.Cheng Zhong stared at the silver for a while, and suddenly said: "Your Majesty, otherwise, this time, you go out and have a look alone, old slave, after all, this old slave is different from you, after you go out, this old slave will hide Our old residence. When He Hongyi enters the palace and finds that you are not there, he will not think of the old slave. When the dynasty changes in the future, naturally no one will pay attention to the old slave living in this imperial city."

After hearing what he said, Fu Yu's eyes widened: "I agreed to take you out together, even if the money is not enough, we can go out of the palace and think of a way, how could I leave you alone in this palace, if, If He Hongyi can't find me, maybe he will blame you, then I did harm to you."

Cheng Zhong looked at Fu Yu, with a smile slowly showing on his face: "The life of this old slave should have been gone 20 years ago. At that time, I accidentally annoyed Concubine Xiao Gui and suffered dozens of blows." Throw it to the back garden to die, it's your mother who can't bear to see it, she quietly comes to feed water and deliver food every day, and steal some gold sore medicine from Concubine Xiao, that's how I saved my little life, Let me live these 20 more years."

"Uncle Zhong..." Fu Yu called out in a low voice.

Cheng Zhong patted Fu Yu's head, like an elder: "14 years ago, this old slave failed to save your mother's life, so I swore to raise you well, after all, you are her only flesh and blood. I have no ability, but I managed it anyway. In this palace, the old slave may not die, but you will definitely die if you stay for a long time. So you can go at ease. As for the old slave, stay in this palace. It’s good to have someone light an incense stick for your mother during the New Year’s Eve.”

Fu Yu was dumbfounded, and his eyes turned red. He stared at Cheng Zhong for a while, and then said in a low voice: "I have never seen my mother since I was a child. I have no father. As for the blood of other relatives, there is no one." If you are willing to recognize me, of course I don’t care about them. To me, Uncle Zhong, you are my father, and since you raised me, it’s up to me to take care of you.”

Having said that, he clenched his right hand into a fist and said firmly, "Since I want to take you out of the palace, I will definitely arrange everything properly, or do you mean, Uncle Zhong, don't you believe me?"

Cheng Zhong looked into the clear but firm eyes of the young man, and couldn't help but sigh: "Although you look like the Fu family in appearance, your temperament is more like your mother." He raised his hand and patted Fu Yu gently. "You were raised by me, so I naturally believe in you."

Fu Yu stood up, he had grown quite a bit in the past two years, at this time Cheng Zhong suddenly realized that, before he knew it, the child who was not around his waist had grown to be almost as tall as him now.

Under Cheng Zhong's watchful eyes, Fu Yu walked to the window, opened the window, and the snow was blown into the house by the cold wind. Fu Yu stretched out his hand and watched the snowflakes fall on his hand and then turned into snow water , with a smile on his lips, he turned his head and said to Cheng Zhong: "Uncle Zhong, I will definitely take you outside the palace on New Year's Eve this year."