I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 97 Brother Just Thinks Too Much~(34)

It was day and night, and the Prince Liang Mansion in Shangguanli, Chang'an was brightly lit all night, but he did not wait for King Liang Liu Wu to come home.

And from the next day, after walking out of Weiyang Palace in a daze, Liang Wang Liu Wu completely changed.

——The cuju match that has been agreed long ago is not played;

The winter hunting that has been talked about all day is not going.

From the day when he walked out of Weiyang Palace, to Chang'an City, when the first heavy snow of this winter came, Liu Wu, King of Liang, always maintained a regular life of three points and one line.

Go to Changle Palace in the morning, visit mother Empress Dou, talk and chat with Empress Dou;

After noon, go to Weiyang Palace, personally supervise the emperor Liu Qi to drink the decoction, and have a follow-up visit by the imperial physician;

At dusk, I dragged my tired body home from Wuyang Palace, locked myself in the study, and suffered from insomnia all night long...
In just over a month, Liu Wu, the king of Liang in his prime, already had a pair of deep dark circles under his eyes.

If a fortune teller sees it, I'm afraid they will blurt out: Oh!

Your Excellency’s Yintang is dark, your eyes are dull, your lips are cracked and your tongue is scorched, and your spirit is lax. You will definitely not meet friends in the near future, and everything will not go well...

It wasn't until the day of the first snow that "the emperor ate two bowls of rice porridge for breakfast" was heard in the palace, and Liang Wang Liu Wu finally felt relieved;

After more than a month, returning to the soft couch in the bedroom again, Liang Wang Liu Wu finally fell asleep with peace of mind.

Contrary to Liu Wu, the king of Liang who was haggard and exhausted, on this day in the Weiyang Palace, brothers Liu Pengzu and Liu Sheng showed what it means to be 'bloody and vigorous'...

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The first snow fell all night until it stopped suddenly around dawn;
But when the sky was fully illuminated by sunlight, the roads in Weiyang Palace had already been cleaned by the palace people.

——Different from most people in later generations, the influence obtained from film and television works is different: the court of the Han Dynasty has no trees or green plants;

Not only are there no trees, green plants, and the so-called 'imperial garden', but any affairs that may hide a person's figure and cause potential safety hazards will never appear in the court of the Han Dynasty.

As for the reason, it is also very simple: Jingke assassinated Qin in the past, only 70 years have passed;

Especially when Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty and ordered Xiao He to build the Weiyang and Changle palaces, it was only a dozen years since Jing Ke assassinated Qin.

Therefore, unlike the royal court in the impression of most people, only two things can be seen in Weiyang Palace.

- buildings, and roads.

To be precise, it is a grid-shaped road sandwiched by buildings distributed in a nine-square grid.

At least the roads in Weiyang Palace only go in two directions, east-west and north-south.

The snow on the roads in the palace was cleared away by the palace people early, so that people who entered and left the palace would not be slipped by the snow.

After all, no matter what, most people who can appear in Weiyang Palace and move freely have two characteristics.

First: older;

Second: high status.

What's more, veteran ministers such as Prime Minister Shen Tujia are a combination of the two.

But the various palaces in Weiyang Palace were not cleaned up so diligently by the palace staff.

At least in the Guangming Hall, which is only a few hundred steps away from the Xuanshi Hall and next to the Xuanming Hall, the snow had not been cleared until the sun was up.

As for the reason, it is naturally because Liu Sheng, the ninth son of the emperor, is building a snowman in the Guangming Hall with his elder brother Liu Pengzu according to the "tradition" every year...

"Hey!"

"It's like this!"

In the back hall of Guangming Hall, even though his cheeks were flushed from the cold, Liu Sheng still completed his 'work' with a joyful expression;
Beside Liu Sheng, his elder brother Liu Pengzu, who was also busy making a snowman, only subconsciously glanced sideways.

It was such a startling glance that made Liu Pengzu stop his movements in astonishment, and 'float' to Liu Sheng's side like a ghost.

"Asheng, the snowman..."

"—Why is it like this?"

Asked with a sluggish face, Liu Pengzu did not forget to stretch out his hand and draw a square on Liu Sheng's snowman, mainly on the head.

"Where is the snowman's head so square?"

"Where is this head..."

"—This is clearly a large mahjong tile?!"

Hearing his brother's questioning, Liu Sheng waved his hand nonchalantly: "Don't worry;"

"It's not finished yet."

As he said that, he saw Liu Sheng step back two times, like a photographer who is choosing an angle in later generations, carefully scrutinizing the snowman he built;
After confirming the problem, Liu Sheng turned around again, trotted into the bedroom, grabbed a wooden stick, and trotted back to the snowman.

"Eh~"

"This way, this way..."

"Ok!"

"That's right now!"

After writing and drawing on the snowman's square head with wooden strips, Liu Shengcai finally turned his head satisfied and invited his brother Liu Pengzu again.

But after seeing Liu Sheng's improved snowman, Liu Pengzu's expression was a little dazed, but it became more and more weird.

"Square head, square face;"

"Inverted 'eight' eyebrows;"

"The mouth is so long, it should be a sharp-billed monkey cheek..."

After a long moment of thoughtfulness, Liu Pengzu finally shook his head.

"Who in this world looks like this?"

"Asheng, who is this snowman?"

As he spoke, Liu Pengzu also turned sideways in doubt;
But at some point, Liu Sheng retreated to a position about five steps away from the snowman.

Only this time, Liu Sheng's posture was not like a photographer choosing an angle, but like an athlete preparing to start.

Adjust the distance, take a step back, start slowly, and gradually accelerate...

"—I'm just a jué when I go up!"

Following Liu Sheng's run-up, take-off, and soaring into the air, and not forgetting to let out a very appropriate call sign, the snowman who looked like a square man was kicked in the head by Liu Sheng with a flying kick!
Looking at the 'headless snowman' in front of him, Liu Sheng still didn't seem to be enjoying himself, and he threw several punches one after another, smashing the remaining body of the snowman into pieces.

After a while, when the area where the snowman was located was "razed to the ground", Liu Sheng finally raised his head contentedly, and rubbed his thumb lightly on the other side;
"hiss!"

Originally, he wanted to imitate the martial arts masters of later generations to play cool, but found that there was really snot in his nose, Liu Sheng stopped messing around, and turned around carelessly;
He walked to the recliner outside the bedroom and sat down, then stretched his hand to the stove in front of the recliner, and started a fire by himself.

"Who else could it be?"

"—The dog thief Chao Cuo!!"

A low growl full of resentment finally solved the doubts in Liu Pengzu's heart.

Turning around, looking at the "Chao Cuo" scattered all over the ground, Liu Pengzu couldn't help but shook his head and smiled, and walked to another reclining chair beside Liu Sheng;

Sitting down, following Liu Sheng's appearance, he stretched out his hand to the stove to light the fire. Liu Pengzu did not forget to ask: "That matter..."

"Ah Sheng is still brooding?"

Asking indifferently, Liu Sheng looked at Liu Pengzu in surprise.

"—damaging the wall of the Supreme Emperor's temple, what's the difference between this and digging my Liu's ancestral grave?"

"It means that Chao Cuo is a thief!"

"In the future, whenever I get the chance, I will kill Chao Cuo all over the house!!!"

Clenching his teeth fiercely, Liu Sheng raised his head full of doubts: "What?"

"Brother, don't you remember to hate Chao Cuo?"

Hearing this question, Liu Pengzu smiled wryly and shook his head.

After thinking about it again, he sighed a little, and slowly lay down on the recliner.

"Of course I felt angry when I heard that Chao Cuo had dug open the wall of the Supreme Emperor's temple;"

"——If it weren't for this, I wouldn't have gone to Chao Cuo's mansion with Ah Sheng and those guards of the Northern Army."

"But looking back now, and thinking about that incident at that time, I feel more and more..."

"Tsk, what should I say..."

In the middle of speaking, Liu Pengzu's brows knit together quietly, pondered for a moment with a thoughtful expression on his face, and then sat up again.

"Look, Ah Sheng;"

"—The reason why we two brothers are of the Liu family's blood is because we are the heirs of the father."

"right?"

"As for the incident in the Supreme Emperor's Temple, regardless of whether the father knew about it in advance or whether he did it deliberately, at least the father doesn't care."

"What about us?"

"Obviously they are filial sons and virtuous grandchildren who stand up for their origins regardless of everything and protect the face of their ancestors, but in the end, they are punished by the emperor instead."

"So the more I think about it, the more I feel, at that time, why should we stand up?"

"Father and emperor don't care about the Supreme Emperor's Temple, why should we care about it as sons?"

"—Even if you care, it seems that there is no need to stand up and be punished by the emperor for nothing..."

In the end, Liu Pengzu's volume also became lower and lower, and it was obvious that the more he spoke, the more confident he became.

It seems that Liu Pengzu knew in his heart that his own statement could not convince others at all, even Liu Pengzu himself was hard to be convinced by his own statement;

But recalling the cause and effect of that incident, Liu Pengzu couldn't find any other reasonable explanation.

As soon as the words came out, Liu Pengzu frowned tightly, not at all relieved after expressing his views, on the contrary, the color of worry deepened.

Seeing that his elder brother got into trouble because of this matter, Liu Sheng shook his head without thinking, and explained Liu Pengzu's problem in one word.

"If you want me to tell you, brother, you are clever but you are mistaken by cleverness;"

"Brother is too smart and knows how to weigh the pros and cons, so he feels that we did something wrong."

"—The ancestor's temple was destroyed by someone. Is it necessary to weigh the pros and cons of this matter?"

"It doesn't matter who he is, as long as this kind of thing happens, then he won't talk about it!"

"As long as you catch the dog thief, you're going to die, it's just a saying 'I will never die'!"

"If you don't even have this principle and persistence, do we brothers still deserve the surname Liu?"

"Is it still worthy of claiming the identity of 'Emperor Taizu Gao, grandson of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen'?"

After asking several questions one after another, Liu Sheng's tone gradually became agitated;

Obviously the younger and more naughty brother, but he began to preach to the older and more 'sensible' brother.

"Father doesn't care about the Supreme Emperor's Temple, it is unfilial father;"

"As sons, we can't accuse the father, but it doesn't mean that the father is unfilial, and we can only be confused."

"—Could it be that one day in the future, the emperor will sever ties with our brothers, and we will not be the descendants of the Liu family?"

"—The Supreme Emperor Liu Taigong, isn't our great-great-grandfather?"

"Blood is thicker than water, brother!"

"Father is confused, that's his business; we should be filial, or we have to be filial."

"The son does not speak of his father's faults. It means that as sons, we cannot blame the father, not the father's shortcomings. Let's learn from him!"

Liu Pengzu shook his head and smiled wryly after being lectured by Liu Sheng so half-talking and half-swearing;
Looking up thoughtfully, looking at Liu Sheng's slightly annoyed expression, Liu Pengzu couldn't help showing a little shame in the end.

"After that incident, Ah Sheng has done a lot of duty and grown a lot;"

"I originally thought that it was that incident that made Ah Sheng grow up."

"Looking at it now, it's that incident that made me, an older brother, live longer and come back?"

Seeing that Liu Pengzu's mood improved a bit, Liu Sheng also turned away his anger a little bit, took a deep breath, and let out a sigh with a little embarrassment.

"It's impossible to say that the matter of the Supreme Emperor's Temple didn't teach me a lesson."

"But the lesson I have learned is not to admit my mistakes;"

"But from that incident, I understand a little bit."

"—In this world, there is nothing that can be rewarded without giving."

"No matter what you want to get, you have to lose something accordingly, so that you can successfully exchange for what you want."

As he spoke, Liu Sheng smiled wryly and stretched open his skirt, revealing the collarbone that was still slightly bruised.

"Just like my younger brother;"

"Using a wishbone, I exchanged my father's knowledge of returning from a lost journey—at least temporarily, pretending to return from a lost journey."

"There is also a high probability that the teacher's life will be exchanged."

"As for the actions of the two of us that day, we won a lot of reputation, but it also aroused the suspicion of the elder brother."

"This is giving and receiving;"

"If you give up, you will gain, and if you have gain, you will have to give up."

After saying that, Liu Sheng loosened his clothes, and pointed in the direction of the Xuanshi Hall not far outside the hall.

"It's like my father;"

"I want Uncle Liang to work hard for the ancestral temple and the country, so I took out the 'Prince Crown Prince'..."

"Oh no;
"It's the bargaining chip of the 'Emperor Crown Prince'."

"Although there is a high probability that this bargaining chip is fake, it is still a bargaining chip."

"Father can take fake chips because it is Father."

"But even the royal father has to take out chips in order to get what he wants;"

"What's more, what about those princes like us who have no power and influence, and who have not yet been crowned kings?"

"There is also Chao Cuo's "Strategy to Cut Fans"..."

As Liu Sheng's tone became calmer but more confident, Liu Pengzu's originally somewhat depressed face also showed a more obvious smile.

After Liu Sheng used "Strategy to Cut Fans" again as an example, Liu Pengzu finally stood up with a smile, half joking, half serious arched his hands, and bowed slightly to Liu Sheng.

"Brother Yu, thank you for your teaching..."

Surprised by the sudden action of the elder brother, Liu Sheng only shook his head and laughed when he realized the reaction. The two brothers sat opposite each other, tacitly silent.

For his elder brother Liu Pengzu, Liu Sheng's feelings are not very complicated.

Liu Sheng sincerely respects this brother who has taken care of and loved him since he was a child;
As for Liu Pengzu's accurate insight, which is obviously different from his peers, Liu Sheng is not jealous or wary, but full of projects and pride.

——Although I am not very smart, my brother is not stupid!
As for the current vicious circle that Liu Pengzu has fallen into, Liu Sheng also understands: Liu Pengzu has fallen into the trap of egoism that only considers gains and losses, and does not consider principles.

But according to Liu Pengzu's ingenuity, such a horny person, as long as Liu Sheng reminds him a little, Liu Pengzu will definitely be able to react.

"In this way, the two of us brothers paid the price of spending a few days in prison in exchange for the concession of the father;"

While thinking about it, he saw Liu Pengzu raised his head again, only slightly jokingly pointing at the 'Chao Cuo' behind him, who was disintegrated by Liu Sheng.

"What about this?"

"A Sheng broke up the snowman he built so hard, what did he gain?"

"—happy!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as Liu Pengzu finished speaking, Liu Sheng stood up excitedly from the reclining chair, and pointed to "Chao Cuo's body" with a happy expression.

"I devoted my time and energy to making a snowman Chao Cuo;"

"What I want is to kick Chao Cuo on the head, that joyful and relieved energy!"

"I spent time, I made a snowman, I kicked Chao Cuo's head, and I felt happy."

"There is something to give, isn't it?"

It was just a casual question, but seeing Liu Sheng give such a serious answer, Liu Pengzu shook his head and smiled wryly.

"It seems that the Taimiao incident really improved Ah Sheng."

"At least I know that the head of a real person cannot be kicked;"

"Learn to build a snowman to lie to yourself first, and then kick the snowman's head?"

A joke full of playfulness caused Liu Sheng to put himself back on the reclining chair nonchalantly, and swing the reclining chair leisurely and contentedly.

"Fighting and killing, what kind of skill is it?!"

"If I really want to kick Chao Cuo in the head, then I won't be a reckless man like Fifth Brother..."

"Ok?"

"Then what is Ash going to do?"

"—Borrowing a knife to kill someone!"

"Whose knife do you want to borrow?"

"—I didn't think so!!!"

"..."

Amused by Liu Sheng's serious and eccentric appearance, Liu Pengzu finally lay back and enjoyed the warm winter sun.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Liu Pengzu lay down, he saw Liu Sheng stand up from the recliner, sniff his nose, and then walked into the bedroom.

"Brother, let's bask in the sun, brother, I really can't hold it anymore;"

"If you don't hide under the blanket again, if you catch a cold, you won't be able to go to tomorrow's Nuó."

"It's hard to reach the age of drinking. I really want to miss this drink. I don't know how long I will regret it..."

"The emperor's grandmother is also true;"

"The grand Nuo that I haven't thought of for so many years, but I think of it again this year..."

"Oh! It's cold!"

Seeing Liu Sheng shivering and hiding back in the bedroom, Liu Pengzu still had a smiling face at the first moment, watching Liu Sheng clenched the inner room tightly before leaning back on the recliner;

But when he heard Liu Sheng's last intentional or unintentional murmur, Liu Pengzu, who had just been 'taught' by Liu Sheng, frowned again involuntarily and fell into thought.

"yes······"

"The Nuo exorcising ghosts has not been done for many years;"

"How come this year..."

"Um·········"

(End of this chapter)