My life is like walking on thin ice

Chapter 19 Being the Big Brother
As Liu Rong finished speaking, the card table, where the sound of the collision of wooden blocks could still be heard, fell silent for an instant.

The second eldest brother Liu De looked at his eldest brother Liu Rong with a smile and nodded in agreement.

The third brother Liu Yu didn't know whether he had lost too much or still couldn't regard his fourth brother Liu Yu as one of his own. He looked at Liu Yu with a vague look at him.

As for Liu Yu, the fourth child, under Liu Rong's sincere gaze, his expression changed from gloomy to bright for a long time before he finally smiled freely.

"Yes……"

"In this world, things in this world are many, difficult, and balanced;"

"Fish, fish and bear, bear's paw, no, can't have both, have both."

"There must always be a choice, a choice, a choice..."

After saying this, Liu Yu seemed to have made up his mind, nodded with a smile, and pushed the cards in front of him forward.

The most common butt, it can be regarded as expressing the position of Liu Yu and the princes and brothers behind Liu Yu: the eldest brother eats meat, the second and third children gnaw bones, and we brothers just drink some soup.

Realizing Liu Yu's profound meaning, Liu Rong only looked into the depths of Liu Yu's eyes with a meaningful smile.

After a long while, Fang let out a long, boring sigh and stood up from the card table.

"That's it for today."

"It's time to get down to business~"

As he said this, Liu Rong also picked up the fist-sized bag in his hand and placed it in front of Liu Yu, neither light nor heavy.

"The late emperor advocated simplicity. I'm afraid my brothers' life will not get any better."

"Lao Wu has always been good at martial arts, and he shouts all day long. He doesn't have a strong bow."

"——Take this money and go to the Young Mansion to buy a good bow for Lao Wu."

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"Oh, right;"

"Second brother..."

With a greeting, Liu De, the second oldest brother, stood up in response. When Liu Rong nodded slightly towards him, he turned away and came back with a few bamboo slips not long after.

Then Liu Rong took the bamboo slips and handed them to Liu Yu one by one like a treasure from his family.

"The fortune tellers say that the art of physiognomy can distinguish between earth, people, and animals."

"I heard from the second child on weekdays that the fourth child likes dogs?"

"Here, this volume of "Xiang Dog Sutra" should be able to relieve the boredom of the fourth child in his spare time."

"——But chickens and dogs are not the right way."

"Lao Si can be used for pleasure, but you must not be addicted to it."

Before Liu Rong finished speaking, Liu Yu's face, which was still a little embarrassed, suddenly burst into ecstasy!
Just as he was about to express his gratitude, he saw Liu Rong lowering his head and grabbing another scroll of bamboo slips, like a clerk sorting out books.

"Lao Liu is afraid of strangers, doesn't talk to people much, and doesn't know what he likes."

"I happened to get a fragment of "Secrets of the Qin Court", so I thought it would be a storybook."

At this time, not only Liu Yu's expression changed drastically, but also Liu Yi, the third child beside him, couldn't resist the urge to reach out and ask for it.

"Secrets of the Qin Court" was not written by any famous person, and I don't even know who wrote it at all, and how much of it is true;

But for the princes and concubines who are trapped in the palace and theoretically have no chance to get out of the palace walls, this kind of novel with unknown origin and telling the secrets of the previous court is not worth mentioning, but it is at least affordable. You can't ask for it.

Under Liu Yu's grateful gaze and Liu Yi's slightly resentful gaze, Liu Rong stuffed the last two bamboo slips into Liu Yu's arms.

"Lao Qi likes to argue. I don't know where this fragment comes from. It's about the famous debate about 'a white horse is not a horse'."

"As for Lao Jiu..."

Halfway through his words, Liu Rong only touched the tip of his nose with a hint of shame, and raised his head towards the last scroll of bamboo slips in Liu Yu's arms.

"Ahem, you're over nine years old, not young..." "I know a little bit about men and women... Ahem, cough..."

As soon as these words came out, Liu Yu immediately understood, and looked at Liu Rong with a bit of complexity.

But this complexity is just due to Liu Yu's concern for his younger brother, and his confusion about the collapse of his eldest brother Liu Rong's stalwart image.

——As the eldest brother, do you write pornographic books for your younger brother?

That's a bit presumptuous, right?

But from another perspective, although this is not something that the eldest son of the emperor would do, it is very suitable for being an eldest brother...

"That's it for now. If you want to play, you can just stay and play."

"I have to go to the press room."

"——The Prime Minister has entered the palace to pay his respects, but it has been several hours~"

"If I don't go there, I don't know what the trouble will be..."

Speaking lazily, Liu Rong even stretched out regardless of his image, then straightened his clothes and walked towards the Xuanshi Palace.

In front of the card table, looking at the departing figure of his eldest brother, the fourth prince Liu Yu tightened his grip on the bamboo slips in his arms, and the corners of his mouth quietly curled up with a slight arc...

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Weiyang Palace, Xuanshi Palace.

Except for Emperor Qi and Prime Minister Shen Tujia, there was no third figure in the entire Xuanshi Palace.

On the imperial couch, Emperor Qi Man rubbed his forehead tiredly, but he still couldn't suppress his twitching temples;
In the center of the hall, Prime Minister Shen Tujia knelt on the ground with his hands folded, his face full of sorrow.

Obviously, the frank communication between the monarch and his ministers did not achieve any positive results.

I don't know how long the silence lasted, but Emperor Qi finally lowered his hand from his forehead and exhaled a long breath of exhaustion.

"Prime Minister, why don't you understand?"

"——Wu King Liu Bi will definitely rebel, right?"

"——I will definitely avenge the Crown Prince!!"

"The enemy who killed the crown prince is currently sitting on the royal couch in the main hall of the Xuanshi of Weiyang Palace!!!"

"How could he, the King of Wu, Liu Bi, not start a rebellion?!"

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"The King of Wu, Liu Bi, was the powerful vassal who supported his father after he succeeded to the throne. He also allowed him to harvest salt from the sea, and allowed him to open mountains to obtain copper and cast copper for money!"

"The country is rich, the people are strong, and the army is strong!!!"

"For such a major matter related to the ancestral temple and the country, if I don't take the initiative, do I have to wait for Liu Bi, the king of Wu, to knock on Hangu before attacking later?"

After saying both good and bad things, Emperor Qi's mouth was already dry and he could only swallow the non-existent saliva irritably.

But Shen Tujia still had the same look of kneeling on the ground and holding his hands, his eyes full of sorrow, as if he was still praying for the emperor's enlightenment.

"It is precisely because it concerns the ancestral temple and the country that your Majesty has to be extremely cautious..."

"If we are fully prepared, there will be no need for His Majesty to plan the layout. The veteran will take the lead and advocate for the implementation of the policy of reducing the vassal status."

"But today's Han family cannot afford a rebellion involving most of the princes, or even the entire Guandong..."

This is the second difference between Emperor Qi and Shen Tujia.

The first difference is that Emperor Qi thought that it would be better to strike first and strike later to suffer disaster, but Shen Tujia thought that planning should be planned before taking action, and that one should strike later;

The second difference is that Emperor Qi believed that after the implementation of the "Fans Cutting Policy", only Wu King Liu Bi would definitely rebel, while the other vassal kings would mostly wait and see.

It's just that as the prime minister - as the actual manager of the Han Dynasty, Shen Tujia knew more deeply what the thoughts of the kings of the Qi and Huainan families were; The state of Kanto under Chang'an's supervision has become horrifyingly bad...

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