Long live Emperor Wu!

Chapter 65 Are we brothers?
King Jin was completely stunned when he saw the prince. The prince had never treated him like this before. With such a sudden change of attitude, he felt as if he had been hit in the head. He couldn't believe it for a long time. He just stood there, stunned. Looking at him.

The emperor was not happy to see the prince like this. His expression that had been cheerful just now turned gloomy immediately, and he said to the prince:

"What's wrong with calling you big brother? Aren't you his big brother? Do you still act like a big brother now?!"

The prince did not look at the emperor, but just stared at King Jin, his eyes flashing with snow, and he gritted his teeth and said viciously:

"What my father said is wrong. There is a difference between the king and his ministers. I am the crown prince. I used to let them call me whatever they wanted. That was because I was kind and generous. Now I don't want them to call me, so I can't call them! This is the rule. My father is the one who gives way to the Ministry of Rites." It’s not wrong for officials to argue!”

The emperor's heart suddenly became tense, and his sharp eyebrows were raised. Just when he was about to reprimand, his arm and sleeves were grabbed by Changsun Wuji.

He heard Changsun Wuji whisper to him:

"With so many people watching, the prince's reputation has been damaged. This is the honor he deserves, and he needs it now. If your majesty is angry, teach him in private."

At this moment, King Jin seemed to have recovered. He raised his hand, respectfully saluted the prince again, and shouted:
"I have seen His Royal Highness."

King Wei looked at the prince sideways and said nothing, but there was a sneer at the corner of his mouth.

The prince didn't speak anymore, and the palace attendant who served the prince quickly stepped forward to treat and bandage the wound on the prince's hand.

King Jin returned to the seat in a dignified manner, and he lined up between King Wei and Princess Jinyang.

After he sat down with a gloomy expression, King Wei turned slightly sideways and was about to say something to King Jin.

Wu Rou secretly touched Princess Jinyang, and Princess Jinyang understood it. She quickly attracted King Jin's attention and shouted:

"Brother, look at this hairpin on my head, does it look good?"

King Jin turned his face and carefully looked at the place where her finger was, which was just far away from King Wei. King Wei couldn't talk, so he had to sit back honestly.

Princess Jinyang lowered her voice and said:

"Brother, please stop talking to Fourth Brother under the eyes of Brother Prince, Brother Prince will be unhappy.

Just now he deliberately said that wherever a prince is needed, you will do it for him, so he can just let you be the prince. This was what the prince brother heard, and that's why he became so angry. "

King Jin was startled, and then the sadness and displeasure between his brows and eyes spread. He stopped his urge to turn around and question King Wei immediately, and suddenly smiled at Princess Jinyang. The smile was so gentle and desolate, Say in a normal voice:
"It looks good. Rhinoceros looks good in anything he wears."

Wu Rou felt that Prince Jin's smile hurt her eyes, and her heart ached.

A glint of snow flashed in her eyes, and she thought: These two brothers are fighting, and why are they pulling him in the middle and torturing them?Let’s start a fight in the open!

After a while, the emperor left the court in person and took the generals in the court, most of whom were in their 40s and older, to play polo.

These people are all old friends of the emperor. They have experienced hundreds of battles. They are not as jumpy as young people in fighting, but they are very murderous and solemn when fighting. Everyone looks straight and follows the field. Cheers for the changes, applauding from time to time.

The prince had already left, preparing to go to the palace to rest. King Jin took the opportunity to chase him. Seeing that he was surrounded by people, he was about to call him eldest brother, but he immediately changed his words:
"His Royal Highness."

The prince turned his head and saw him. His expression softened for a moment, but soon he turned impatient. He shouted to King Jin:

"What are you doing here?! You don't need to follow me anymore! I will report to my father later that you will never need to come to the East Palace to do anything!"

King Jin stopped, with a look of pain and confusion on his face, and said:
"Because?...Brother, you don't believe me?"

"What do you believe? I believe that there is family affection under the imperial power, and that you have no intention of seizing the throne?! Ask them if they believe it?" The prince pointed at the palace officials and officials following him.

King Jin glanced at everyone's expressions, and his heart instantly went cold, but he cared more about the prince's attitude than them.

The prince shouldn't doubt him like this, and his eldest brother wouldn't think of him like this. It doesn't make sense.

"Is it just because of the words of the fourth brother?" King Jin asked warmly, "His Royal Highness, in the past, would never become suspicious of others because of a few words of others."

The prince gritted his teeth, tilted his head, and then roared:
"Yes! I've let you down! Now you have the right to dislike me?! Get out of here!"

As he spoke, he smashed the riding whip in his hand. The whip flew in the air. King Jin stretched out his arm to block it, but the end of the whip still scraped his face and hit him hard.

When he put his hand down, there was blood on his forehead.

When the prince saw this, he tightened his grip on the reins, his eyes shook, and he almost turned over and dismounted to look at him.

But he held it back, but his eyes still showed panic.

He can't bear it, but he can't bear it!

"Go away! Do you hear me?" he shouted again.

King Jin's face turned pale, he lowered his head and shook his body, then turned and left sadly.

……

His face was hurt, and he felt extremely uncomfortable inside. He was in no mood to make up lies to deal with people, so he could only lead his guards, change direction, and walk towards the deserted hillside on the other side.

A guard following him asked quietly: "Your Highness, would you like to call a medical officer to come over and treat your injury?"

They didn't dare to say "no" to the prince in front of King Jin. Anything they said would be regarded by King Jin as having ulterior motives, sowing discord and expelled him.

So even though they were behind him, watching everything happen, feeling angry and feeling worthless for him, they didn't dare to express anything, and could only ask him if he could heal the injury.

King Jin sat down on the ground dejectedly, looked at the lake and sky in the distance, and said:

"No, I'll stay by myself for a while."

The two guards looked at each other, then turned and left.

Prince Jin sat there, and when he thought about his always kind eldest brother suddenly treating him like this, he was so sad that he burst into tears and almost cried out in pain.

He had been crying like this for an unknown amount of time, but suddenly there was the sound of the guards saluting King Wei behind him. He quickly wiped away his tears, and casually pulled a grass leaf from the ground and held it in his hand.

King Wei walked to his side and sat down. King Jin felt that the soft earth around him had sunk in a little.

He turned around, went to slap King Jin's face, and said:

"Ouch! Why is your forehead broken?"

King Jin directly pushed his hand away, his tone still gentle, but with a bit of coolness, and said:

"Fourth brother came here after hearing the news, why should he pretend to be so surprised?"

King Wei raised his chubby hands and was embarrassed for a while, and then said:

"Xiaojiu, you are really becoming less and less lovable. My brother feels sorry for you, so he came here to comfort you. Why do you have this attitude?"

King Jin turned his head and looked at him. There was both complaint and transparency in his eyes, and he said:

"None of us brothers are fools. If fourth brother thinks I'm young and looks easy to deceive, I'd better forget it."

King Wei curled his lips boredly and said:

"Who says you are a fool?... My father often praises you. But your heart is too kind, even to the point of being pedantic. You said to yourself, is the prince still worthy of being the prince now? You can't do it because of following He has good feelings, so he entrusts the future of Datang in the hands of such a person."

King Jin interrupted him directly and asked:

"Who do you want to entrust it to, you?"

Under the clear and insightful eyes of King Jin, King Wei felt guilty. He hesitated and said:
"Then...I...although I am not much worse than the prince now, I think you are more suitable."

King Jin sneered, seeming to be laughing at King Wei's lack of honesty.

King Wei looked at his profile and asked tentatively:

"Don't you think...have you ever thought that you could be the emperor of the Tang Dynasty one day?"

"I didn't." King Jin replied almost immediately.

King Wei looked at him suspiciously with the tail of his eyes and said mockingly:
"What you said is dishonest. How can a man not want to be the emperor? He is rich in the world and the supreme in the world."

King Jin was angry, and a slightly twisted look appeared on his usually gentle face, and he said to King Wei:

"When I am an emperor, I see all kinds of people talking about duplicity and what they mean, and they say one thing and think another thing in front of me, and then fight for some rights to a bloody head, like a clown?!"

He bit out two words viciously: "Disgusting."

King Wei's face darkened instantly, and he stared at his younger brother with eyes as sharp as knives, but he soon relaxed again and said in a child-pacifying tone:

"You are still too young and childish. You will know when you grow up. You will stop acting when you are your eldest brother? Isn't it the same for him? He used to be good to you and me. That's because in his heart, we are What a loser, he looks down on us.

Now look, your true colors are revealed, right?He even broke your head, because of what?He just can't bear to see others being better than him! "

King Jin snorted softly from his nose, with a hint of ridicule at the corner of his mouth, and said in a gentle and normal tone:

"You think I'm a fool again... Is it because he can't see others being better than him, or is it that Fourth Brother, you can't see that he's better than you?"

The King of Wei screamed very unjustly, his fat face drooped with eyebrows and eyes, showing innocence and honesty, he said sincerely:
"You were blinded by him because you had a deep relationship with him. You were beaten like this by him, why are you still awake? Then tell me, why did he beat you? Are you stronger than him?"

King Jin wanted to refute, but he couldn't figure it out, so he raised his hands and gently rubbed his temples, as if holding his head. His posture was dignified and graceful, but also filled with infinite melancholy, and he stopped talking.

Seeing that the persuasion was almost done, King Wei whispered:
"You have time to give some advice to your father. My father has always been partial to the eldest son. He always thinks that the prince is his best son. But now that the prince has become like this, he still clings to the old ideas and won't let go. It's not a problem. .”

King Jin's tears fell again. He turned his head to look at his brother in disappointment and asked:
"Fourth brother, we are brothers, born from the same mother-in-law, right?"

(End of this chapter)