My life is like walking on thin ice

Chapter 53 Dou Wangsun

"How have you been, mother, in the past few months?"

This was the first question Liu Rong asked after entering Weiyang Palace.

To be precise, this is the catastrophe that Liu Rong has been thinking about for the past few months and has repeatedly sent people to investigate, but he still cannot feel at ease.

Regarding Liu Rong's question, the burly eunuch who followed Liu Rong and looked quite straightforward gave the answer immediately.

"Nothing went wrong."

With just one word, Liu Rong's hanging heart was mostly relieved, but he still had some doubts.

Seeing this, the eunuch said again: "In recent days, Prince Zhan Shi Dou Ying came to Changle Palace several times to talk with his wife."

"I don't dare to listen to what was specifically discussed, and I can't understand it either."

"It's just that since Dou Zhanshi visited the palace frequently and talked with Madam Xun, the entire Phoenix Palace has become much peaceful..."

Hearing this, Liu Rong breathed a sigh of relief, and his tense heartstrings were finally relieved.

Taking a deep breath, he adjusted his uneasy mood, and immediately looked at the tall eunuch beside him with a scrutinizing gaze.

——The eunuch seemed to be in his early twenties, not much older than Liu Rong.

The tall and burly figure is powerful, and he doesn't look like a 'castrate' who has lost his masculinity at all.

The clear and upright eyes are even more like the clear-eyed and stupid college students of later generations...

"Aoigo~"

"well done."

"If you hadn't been here, I wouldn't have been able to worry about my mother these past few months."

Hearing Liu Rong's unabashed praise, the eunuch Kui Wuzou smiled innocently and scratched his head. Then he waved his hand in a belated manner and said politely: "Master's words are serious, this is all a slave's duty." thing……"

Seeing Kuiwu's naive appearance, Liu Rong's love for the eunuch only grew stronger.

It seems that the eunuch Kui Wu is also an old acquaintance of Liu Rong.

Ever since he traveled to this era and became the eldest grandson of the emperor who was only six years old, Kuiwu, a slightly special eunuch, has attracted Liu Rong's attention.

His body was taller and more majestic than his peers, and his mind was relatively late-maturing, or "hard to mature" compared to his peers, making this poor man a common target for everyone in the Phoenix Palace to tease him.

Logically speaking, an eunuch with well-developed limbs, a simple mind, and perhaps even a slight intellectual disability would not be enough to attract too much attention from the eldest son of the emperor.

Until that day;

It wasn't until that day in Qilan Palace that Liu Rong came to settle accounts with the 'Great King Beauty' Wang Quan, eunuch Kui Wu finally showed his unique qualities.

——On that day, Liu Rong raised his hand and clenched his fist, signaling the palace attendants to kill the female official of Qilan Palace with a stick!

As a result, everyone in the palace looked at me and me, with looks of horror on their faces, but no one dared to take action!
In everything, I am afraid of comparison.

Under such circumstances, when all the palace people were looking at each other, Aoi Wu said nothing, didn't even blink her eyelids, and immediately hit the female officer with a stick, completely interrupting the life of the female officer!
Since then, Kuiwu, the former doormat of the Phoenix Palace, has become the one protected by the eldest son of the emperor, Liu Rong.

To be precise, he is the only eunuch who has been blessed by the eldest son of the emperor...

"Where is mother?"

He met Kuiwu who greeted him at the palace gate, and soon arrived near the Phoenix Palace. Liu Rong instinctively asked;
When Kui Wu gave the answer without hesitation, Liu Rong was stunned for a moment, then walked straight towards the front hall of Phoenix Palace - towards the residence of his mother Li Ji.

"Dou Zhanshi is also here today."

"Madam is having something to do with Dou Zhan, talking about... uh, talking about filial piety?"

"Well, it should be filial piety."

Kuiwu said whatever he wanted, but Liu Rong was among them and tasted something intriguing.

But everything can only be understood after meeting Dou Ying.

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"Cousin!"

Stepping into the main hall, Liu Rong arrived before he could see him. With a loud voice, Dou Ying stood up from his seat. When Liu Rong strode into the hall, he was about to step forward and grab his arm, but Dou Ying suddenly turned pale!
As expected, Liu Rong's figure froze for a moment, and then he calmed down a little and bowed to Liu Rong solemnly.

"Prince Zhan, Minister Dou Ying, pays homage to His Royal Highness, the eldest son of the Emperor."

It was an ordinary move, but it made the superior Li Ji burst into laughter, as if she was extremely satisfied with Dou Ying's attitude towards Liu Rong.

But Liu Rong didn't dare to make excuses. He didn't pretend to be carefree and put his arms around his cousin Dou Ying, nor did he say anything like, "You don't have to be so outgoing."

He also walked forward step by step, and raised his hands in a polite manner: "My nephew, I have met my uncle."

Regardless of whether Liu Rong is the crown prince or not, Dou Ying has fully given Liu Rong the dignity of the 'quasi-Crown Prince';

Correspondingly: regardless of whether they were relatives or cousins, Liu Rong treated Dou Ying with the courtesy that a nephew should have towards his uncle.

Liu Rong 'behaved' himself in this way, which made Li Ji feel very confused.

But Liu Rong didn't expect my mother to understand. He just walked forward with a smile, took his cousin Dou Ying's arm, and sat down on the side of the hall.

"How come my cousin is free to come to the Phoenix Palace?"

"——On weekdays, my nephew, I beg you so much, but I never see my uncle nodding in agreement, right?"

"Is it possible that as my nephew, I don't have as much dignity as my mother, my cousin-in-law?"

Liu Rong's teasing was intended to liven up the atmosphere, but it did not bring Dou Ying's smile.

He just raised his hands sternly and bowed slightly to Liu Rong: "The eldest son of the emperor, I am so embarrassed."

"Although the throne of the Han family has not yet been decided, everything in the palace is still running normally - except that there is no prince, everything in the palace is the same as it was during the time of the late emperor."

"As Prince Zhan Shi, I will be called privately: Family Order;"

"Since it is the crown prince's family order, I naturally have to sort out the 'family' affairs in order for the future crown prince and heirloom."

"Of course, I don't have much free time to accept the invitation from the eldest son of the emperor..."

Another polite reply. Although Liu Rong still had a smile on his face, he felt a little uncomfortable secretly.

——Xu is the soul of a time traveler, which makes it difficult for Liu Rong to adapt to such a communication atmosphere. On weekdays, Liu Rong is quite critical of his "courteousness" towards his second brother Liu De.

But Liu De is his younger brother, and no matter how much Liu Rong preaches, no one can make mistakes.

Not so with Dou Ying.

To make the crown prince's family decree in the crown prince's womb without a crown prince - this almost means that when the emperor ascends the throne, a blank check is written for Dou Ying.

Although the blank space on the check was not the amount, but the transfer account number, and Dou Ying did not have the right to "fill it in casually", this was shocking enough.

No matter who becomes the prince, as long as the prince's surname is Liu, the Han family and the world are still surnamed Liu, the prince's family order, Dou Ying, will be untouchable!

Naturally, it is not possible that Zi Qi is so favored today just because Dou Ying's surname is 'Dou' - strictly speaking, Dou Ying's surname may still be a demerit.

What really gave Dou Ying such a transcendent status was Dou Ying's own talent: Dou Ying was a well-deserved great Confucian.

Although he is not as good as Confucius, Mencius and other sages, in this era, if the names of Dou Ying, Dou Wang and Sun are called out, it can still make people give a thumbs up and call them "Mr."

The discomfort that such a great Confucian brought to Liu Rong was naturally the literate way of communication and the pure and pure thinking of the literary youth.

But Liu Rong could bear it.

Because in addition to shaking his head and shaking his head, Dou Ying, a great scholar, also has a trait that makes Liu Rong extremely fond of him.

——As a Confucian scholar, especially a world-renowned great Confucian, Dou Ying, like every pure Confucian scholar, is a staunch defender of the eldest son inheritance system!
If it were just that, it would not be worthy of Liu Rong being so close. After all, defenders of the primogeniture system were not in the minority in this era.

It can even be said that they constitute the majority, or even the vast majority.

But this great Confucian—the great Confucian who resolutely defended the system of eldest son inheritance—was named Dou.

Dou from Dou Yifang...

(End of this chapter)