Long live Emperor Wu!

Chapter 66 This is the way it is

King Wei was stunned for a moment, seeming to think of Queen Changsun. His calculating thoughts stopped for a moment, and then he agreed firmly:

"Yeah...why not?"

King Jin asked in tears;
"Then why do you have to press hard on your eldest brother? ... He is sick, has lost his healthy body, and has become disabled. It is already miserable enough, and now you want to take away his identity? Do you want to His life?

I especially want to ask, when did he offend you?Or did he do something heinous?Um? "

King Wei looked at his brother's tearful face and was shaken for a moment. He felt that his innocent face was even more heart-wrenching when he cried, as if he had really done something heinous.

After a while, his eyes flickered, he looked away, and said coldly:
"I am also doing this for the good of Datang."

King Jin eased the pain in his heart. He raised his hand to wipe away the tears on his cheeks and said:

"Even if it is for the good of the Tang Dynasty, and because he has always been tolerant and kind to us in the past, you can wait for the courtiers to come forward, or wait for him to offer to give up the position of crown prince. In short, you can't force him."

King Wei thought for a while, sneered and said:
"What's the difference?"

"Of course there is a difference. If he loses everything, at least his close relatives have not made matters worse. Fourth brother, you give him a little hope of survival, for the sake of past friendship." King Jin said.

But what he didn't know was that the affection in his eyes, in King Wei's eyes, was all the darkness set off by the prince's dazzling light. It was his low self-esteem, cowardice, and constant fear of being abandoned.

Where does the affection come from?
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After Tian Lie returned to the palace, the prince and the emperor had a big fight and refused to let King Jin go to the East Palace to receive errands again.

So King Jin was obviously free and spent more time with Princess Jinyang.

Wu Rou can also see him often.

One day, after it rained, the sky was clean, and the air outside was filled with the fragrance of the fields where all things are growing.

Prince Jin, the princess, and Wu Rou sat in a row on a hill behind the inner garden, looking at the undulating palaces in the distance, chatting and eating snacks.

The terrain here is higher.Can see far away.

The green tiles of the palace are one after another, hidden among the green garden trees, flower walls and grass, and set against the blue sky and white clouds, just like a vast and magnificent painting.

On the stone bridge not far away, a group of low-ranking palace maids in pink dresses walked past in a procession, quiet and beautiful. The lake under the bridge shone with sparkling waves in the sun, dotting people like stars, like a dream.

Princess Jinyang held a small piece of pastry, held it up to her face, licked off some pastry residue from the corner of her mouth, looked at the scenery in the distance and said:

"The scenery in the palace is very good, but it is still less lively than outside the palace. Sister Changle and sister Chengyang took me to many places. There are many delicious and fun places that are not available in the palace. It would be great if you could go together. ”

King Jin looked at Wu Rou through his sister, then quickly moved away, and said softly:
"Let's talk about it when we have a chance. I can't go out at will."

Wu Rou smiled and said:
"The princess has been born in the palace since she was a child. She is used to seeing luxury and magnificence, so she finds it strange among the people. I came from the folk world, and I think the palace is better."

Princess Jinyang smiled and said:

"Maybe. It's boring to stay in the palace all the time anyway. There are only those people...and most of them are wooden figures and decorations. When I leave the palace to build a mansion in the future, I will go out to play in the streets every day."

She suddenly thought of something, and turned to ask King Jin, saying:

"Brother...when can you leave the palace? Fourth brother has a mansion outside the palace and a big garden. Did my father mention building a mansion for you?"

King Jin thought for a while and said:
"I never mentioned it... You know what my father is thinking. After my mother passed away, he has been feeling lonely and doesn't want us to leave him. If he doesn't tell me, it's hard for me to mention it."

Wu Rou stretched out his head and asked:

"Does Your Highness want to go out and live on your own?"

King Jin moved his eyes away, looked at the scenery in the distance, and said calmly and seriously:

"I can do it, it doesn't matter if I want to or not."

His eyes were so far away, ethereal and empty, and it seemed that the whole world was contained in his eyes, which was innately indifferent.

Wu Rou couldn't help but smile, seeing the light in his eyes, she turned to Princess Jinyang and said:
"Princess, I have never seen anyone like your Ninth Brother. He makes us look like ordinary people."

Princess Jinyang laughed out loud, with big eyes and a small red mouth, smiling silly, holding up the cake and saying:
"I have never seen anyone like my brother, hahahaha..."

Jin Wang Li Shan turned his head and saw his sister and Wu Rou looking at each other, laughing so hard that their branches were trembling. His eyes were a little gentler and his cheeks were a little red.

After a while he said:
"I will go out soon, I guess it will only be in the next year or two. Maybe I will go out with you."

"Really? It would be great if it were true. Let's go play together then." Princess Jinyang said with her eyes wide open.

A little melancholy appeared in King Jin's eyebrows again, and he said:
"The prince's brother's situation is not very stable. If it were normal, there would be no major problems if the fourth brother lived in the palace. Everyone would just think that the father was doing what he wanted. It's different now. He would be nicer to the fourth brother. The courtiers will think that the father has the intention to abolish the establishment. The father knows it very well, so when Mr. Wei said that the fourth brother should go back to live, the father agreed. It would not have been so easy before. You are like someone before. Do you think he has taken it to heart to advise him to allocate less land to Fourth Brother?"

Princess Jinyang nodded, turned to Wu Rou and said:
"It's true. You don't know. This time when I left the palace, my two sisters complained to me, saying that the fourth brother's garden had already caught up with the palace. Although my father loved them, he could only give them more. In terms of dowry, a prince is a prince, not the same as a princess..."

When King Jin heard this, he reached out and poked her arm, and seriously advised her:
"Don't talk nonsense. If you turn around, others may overhear your nonsense."

Princess Jinyang raised her face and said, "Don't be afraid. Sisters dare to say this in front of the father. They will be listened to."

King Jin shook his head and said, "It is better to be cautious in your words and deeds. People's hearts will change. It is inevitable that decisions will depend on your mood, and my father is no exception.

There is no guarantee that one day, he will get angry and look down on his two sisters, and then he will remember the complaints he once spared. The more he thinks about it, the angrier he will become, and then he will punish them severely. "

After Wu Rou heard this, she raised her head and looked at him in surprise and said:
"Your Highness, Prince Jin, grew up with the favor of your parents, and no one ever bullied you. How did you develop such a reserved temperament?"

King Jin's eyes flashed, he looked away, smiled softly, and said in a gentle voice:

"Hmm... I heard that Wu Cai people have endured hardships and been bullied a lot, but after you entered the palace, you are still bold and bold, and you make shocking remarks from time to time. It can be seen that your nature is like this, and it is difficult to change."

Wu Rou felt a little innocent and asked Princess Jinyang:

"When did I become so bold? Princess, did I act boldly? No, right?"

Princess Jinyang laughed and said:

"You must be very bold in my brother's eyes. My brother has complained to me a lot, saying that you are a little talented person and you just don't know his identity. After knowing his identity, you always treat him as a younger brother and keep trying to get close to him. …”

King Jin quickly stretched out an arm and covered Princess Jinyang's mouth with his backhand. Her ears turned red, causing Princess Jinyang to giggle, but the laughter was muffled by his hand. .

Wu Rou glanced at King Jin with her eyes and saw that he was still dignified and calm. Even though he was so anxious that he covered his mouth, he sat up straight with one arm stretched out. The posture was really beautiful.

King Jin was "stabbed in the back" by his sister in front of him. Under Wu Rou's gaze, he lowered his head in embarrassment, then slowly moved his arm away and said:
"In short... I predict that after I turn 15, the courtiers will ask me to leave the palace, and my father will probably agree by then."

Princess Jinyang said happily:

"When the time comes, I ask my father to let me take Wu Cairen out. Then the three of us can still be together."

King Jin thought for a while, nodded and said:

"It's not impossible."

At this time, an eunuch serving the emperor ran over from a distance. From a high place, they could see the eunuch in a hurry.

In the palace, especially the high-ranking chambermaids, they are required to remain calm at all times. If someone runs like this, something serious must have happened.

For a while, several people were silent, and they watched the servant running up from below, then saluted to them, took a breath and said:
"Your Highness, Princess, His Royal Highness the King of Wei was assassinated outside the palace. He is not sure whether he is alive or dead. His Majesty has just rushed over with the imperial doctor. Please tell the two leaders to hurry up."

All three were startled.

"Assassinated?! Who did it?" King Jin asked in shock.

The eunuch in charge said with a bitter face:
"The people who heard the report from Prince Wei said that the assassin did it on the street and ran away with one blow. They didn't find out who it was."

King Jin turned his eyes for a moment and said:

"Rhino, let's go take a look first."

After saying that, he took the first step and walked on.

The two of them left one after another. Wu Rou looked at their leaving figures on the hillside and fell into deep thought.

……

……

The King of Wei was stabbed, but it was far from the point where he knew whether he was alive or dead.

When the imperial doctor went over to diagnose and treat him, he reported back to the emperor that the assassin used a short dagger, and the King of Wei was too fat. The knife only cut through the arm that the King of Wei was resisting, and penetrated his chest, but did not even damage the bones. Yeah, it's a skin injury.

After hearing this, the emperor breathed a sigh of relief, and then the expression on his face was awkward for a moment, and he said after a while:

"It's okay. I didn't expect his body to be saved."

When King Jin arrived, he heard that his fourth brother was fine, so he went with the emperor to listen to the guards protecting King Wei outside explaining the details.

"How did you act as guards? Not only did you let the bad guys get close, but you also let them run away?" the emperor asked sharply.

(End of this chapter)