My life is like walking on thin ice

Chapter 14 The cheating father!

On the imperial couch, Empress Dowager Dou reminded Emperor Qi in a gentle voice: cutting down the feudal vassals will cause turmoil, and Liang Guo is the key to ensuring that the turmoil will not spread indefinitely. As an elder brother, you must help your younger brother Liang Guo.

Emperor Qi nodded in response from time to time;
Liang Wang Liu Wu repeatedly patted his chest and promised that as long as he was here, Suiyang City would be impregnable, and even if the Guandong princes made trouble, they would never make much noise.

Liu Piao sat with him with a smile on his face, his eyes darting around, wondering what he was planning.

But in the palace, the princes and concubines sitting at the east and west seats did not dare to join this topic at all.

——In the final analysis, these topics go around and around, but they cannot get around the word "cutting down the vassal";
Although it is said that the princes and vassals are destined to be inseparable from the prince, the word "cutting down the vassal" still belongs to the category of government affairs.

Today, the new emperor is about to be established, and the throne is pending. This means that none of the princes, including Liu Rong, has the power to participate in political affairs;
Among the concubines in the harem, Queen Bo, the only one qualified to join this topic, had no such intention at all.

It is a foregone conclusion that the Bo family's relatives will go to the west mountain at sunset.

The Empress Dowager retreated to the deep palace and seemed to be indifferent;

The previous generation of Zhenhou Bo Zhao had died long ago, and the current generation of Zhenhou Bo Rongnu was not invited to today's family banquet.

On the surface, Queen Bo of Jiaofang Palace is alone, supporting the final glory of the Bo family;

But in fact, it was Empress Dowager Bo, who had taken refuge in the deep palace, who was supporting her grandniece so that she could still live in the Jiao Fang.

With Empress Dowager Bo here, no one dared to say there was anything wrong with Empress Bo living in Jiao Fang.

But as the concubine of Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang, the Empress Dowager Bo may not have a few more years to live...

"The day the Empress Dowager passes away, our Han family will have a new queen."

"And the new queen also means that the crown prince will be established soon..."

Thinking like this, Liu Rong looked at the opposite table with some pity. Looking at Queen Bo's helpless figure, he couldn't help but sigh.

But he never thought that his fourth brother Liu Yu was also paying attention to the theoretical mother of all the princes: Queen Bo.

"Brother, are you thinking about the future?"

For Liu Yu, his younger brother, Liu Rong could not be said to be unsympathetic.

——He is a noble prince, but he is born with a stutter, which can be considered a disability in this era.

Because of his stutter, Liu Yu never talks much;

Come to think of it, perhaps it is precisely because he talks less that Liu Yu has more time and energy to think.

"Ok?"

Hearing the metaphor in Liu Yu's words, Liu Rong subconsciously followed Liu Yu's gaze and looked at the opposite table again, Queen Bo, who was staring blankly with her head down.

Then he smiled and lowered his head, sipping the tea and pretending to be casual, "Is it possible that the fourth child also wanted to go with me?"

Seeing that Liu Rong did not object to talking to him, the smile on Liu Yu's face finally reached his eyes.

However, due to his stuttering, he is always unable to say what he is thinking immediately. Instead, he has to word his words a little and simplify his sentences as much as possible.

"Although, although we are not siblings from the same mother, we are ultimately connected by blood..."

With just these words, Liu Rong understood Liu Yu's thoughts, and immediately turned sideways and glanced in the direction of the imperial couch without leaving any trace.

After confirming that no one of the mother and son on the imperial couch turned their attention to him, Liu Rongcai lowered his head with a smile again.

"The third child's schoolwork has been delayed a lot recently."

"Although the fourth child is the younger brother, he is not much younger than the third child."

"It just so happens that my second son and I have been so busy recently;"

"Now that I have some free time, the fourth child still needs to walk more to the Phoenix Palace so that he can help the third child."

"——After all, they are all brothers;"

"Although they were not born from the same mother, they still call Your Majesty, Father, and Jiao Fang, Queen Mother?"

In just a few words, the two brothers reached an initial tacit understanding and did not communicate too much on this occasion.

However, Liu Rong could not have imagined that while Emperor Qi was dealing with his aggressive mother, the Empress Dowager Dou, and paying attention to his sister Liu who had "ulterior motives", he still did not forget to cast his peripheral vision in the direction of Liu Rong from time to time. Emperor Qi has no way of knowing what Liu Rong and Liu Yu said.

But Tianzi Qi knew very well: the two brothers were not conducting a simple and pure greeting.

"None of these boys can make anyone worry..."

Although he thought so in his heart, Emperor Qi's focus was always on the eldest son Liu Rong.

In the end, for no apparent reason, Emperor Qi raised his hand without warning and struck Liu Rong.

"Come here, Grandma Huang has something to ask you."

As soon as these words came out, all the princes and concubines in the palace, including the underage Liu Shi, and the Queen Mother Dou herself, all looked at Emperor Qi with doubts.

Empress Dowager Dou's face was full of wishes that it could be written clearly: Me?

Have something to say?

Want to ask the eldest son of the emperor?
Why don’t I know...

After all, it was Empress Xiaowen Dou who had served Empress Dowager Lu and was used to strong winds and waves;

Seeing Emperor Qi's behavior, Empress Dowager Dou was puzzled for a moment, and then she obeyed and looked towards the center of the palace.

When Liu Rong came forward respectfully, he saw Emperor Qi turning sideways with a smile, one hand covering Queen Mother Dou's hand, and the other hand pointing towards Liu Rong in front of her.

"Speaking of the Prime Minister, I think of it: If the eldest son of the emperor had not intervened, I don't know what I would do to make the Prime Minister change his mind."

"Now, although the Prime Minister still refuses to let go, he is not as helpless as before..."

Sure enough, upon hearing the Emperor Qi's words, Queen Mother Dou's calm expression immediately sank.

"The emperor's eldest son has lived in the palace for a long time, but he still has a close personal relationship with the prime minister?"

"I didn't realize that the emperor's eldest son has already defeated the emperor before he was crowned???"

The two questions without any warmth immediately made Liu Rong break into a cold sweat. It happened that the person who cheated him was the emperor's father. No matter how angry he was, he couldn't get angry.

Without hesitation, she put aside the urge to complain to her father, and while her brain was running rapidly, her body had already bowed down.

"Report to the Imperial Grandmother."

"In the past, there was no personal relationship between my grandson and Marquis Gu'an."

"Yesterday was the first time that my grandson had a private conversation with Marquis Gu'an, and it was also the first time that he saw clearly what Marquis Gu'an Shen Tujia looked like from a distance of only three or five steps..."

Empress Dowager Dou has hidden needles in her hair, and Liu Rong firmly believes that the most powerful nirvana is sincerity.

"The eldest son of the emperor, what did you say to the prime minister?"

"——My grandson advised the prime minister: Rather than risking his life and property to act like a chariot in front of his father's plan to cut down the vassal vassal, it is better to keep him useful and help his father put down the rebellion that King Wu Liu Bi is bound to launch."

"Apart from that, you didn't say anything else?"

"——Never..."

Seeing Liu Rong being so magnanimous, Empress Dowager Dou's inexplicable anger disappeared.

I vaguely felt something was wrong, but finally I didn't forget to ask again: "Where did the eldest son of the emperor and the prime minister talk?"

"Besides the eldest son of the emperor and the prime minister, is there anyone else here?"

Hearing this, Liu Rong breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but admire Shen Tujia's seemingly rough but actually extremely brilliant political wisdom.

But he didn't waste any time and replied respectfully: "We met inside the palace gate. After leaving the palace gate, we walked along Hao Street for a while."

"Stop sitting in the arsenal and talk on the ground."

"Although there was no third person present, the grandson and the prime minister were talking outside the arsenal, and guards patrolled by from time to time."

"Come to think of it, it's not difficult to find witnesses for the content of the conversation between my grandson and the prime minister..."

(End of this chapter)