My life is like walking on thin ice

Chapter 69: Have I changed?
The Xuanshi Palace has become a happy place for the Han Dynasty's courtiers, officials, ministers and nobles.

The nobles exchanged cups, their faces glowing red;

The courtiers whispered to each other and smiled happily.

As for the protagonist of this reception banquet: Liang Wang Liu Wu, after three rounds of drinking, at the invitation of the emperor's brother, he went to the distant platform outside the palace to enjoy the breeze.

Although they had eaten some wine, the two brothers looked a little drunk, but they were still sober.

The Emperor Qi walked forward with a smile on his hands, and Liang Wang Liu Wu followed closely behind with a smile. The two brothers walked along the guardrail of the far platform and walked slowly away from the palace gate.

The two brothers couldn't help but burst into laughter when they talked about their childhood experiences in Daiwang Palace and playing around and messing around in Sanfu in Guanzhong.

However, as the palace gate was gradually left behind, most of the smiles on the faces of the two brothers disappeared.

"His Majesty."

"——Call me Emperor Brother."

After walking out in silence for a long distance, Liang Wang Liu Wu thought about it again and again, and finally decided to speak up and talk about what happened outside the city today.

But as soon as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted and corrected by the emperor's brother. Even though Liu Wudang felt warm in his heart, he felt that the words on his lips were suddenly unable to be spoken.

I could vaguely feel that Liang Wang Liu Wu was about to speak, but Emperor Qi shook his head and let out a chuckle.

After walking for a while, he stopped inside the guardrail.

Putting one hand on the stone guardrail, the other hand pointed towards the palace in the distance.

"There;"

"Awuko, do you remember?"

Hearing this, Liang Wang Liu Wu looked in the direction pointed by Emperor Qi, and then nodded with a smile.

"The Chess Pavilion outside Shiqu Pavilion."

"When the late emperor was still alive and the palace of the crown prince had not yet been built, the emperor's brother and his ministers still lived in Jiaofang Hall with their mother and queen."

"At that time, my favorite place was the chess pavilion."

"——Even the late emperor would occasionally go to the chess pavilion to play chess with the emperor's brother."

"Later, when the Crown Prince's palace was built, the emperor's brother moved outside the palace, and my younger brother also became a prince and a vassal, and went to the outside of the pass..."

Following Liang Wang Liu Wu's rather sentimental words, a trace of reminiscence gradually appeared on Emperor Qi's face.

After he succeeded to the throne, the late emperor took his wife and entire family into the Weiyang Palace.

The late emperor lived in the Xuan room, Queen Dou lived in the Jiao room, and the other concubines and princes also had their own residences;

The two brothers Emperor Qi and Liang Wang Liu Wu lived with their mother Dou in Jiaofang Hall.

Later, as Emperor Qi grew older, people inside and outside the court began to advise the late emperor: a new palace should be built outside Weiyang Palace for the prince to live.

It was not until that time that people inside and outside the court realized that Prince Qi was actually the first crown prince of the Han family!

——Emperor Xiaohui Liu Ying ascended the throne at the age of fifteen and died at the age of twenty-two.

Until the day Emperor Xiaohui died, the capital of the Han family, Chang'an, had not been completely built.

Xiaohui Liu Ying died before the city of Chang'an was even built. Naturally, she could not have her own palace.

After Emperor Xiaohui, the deposed young emperor Liu Gong came to the throne at the age of four. He died at the age of eight because of the saying "I am not strong, and strength means change", and it is even more impossible to leave the palace and live separately.

As a result, the palace where the emperor had lived for more than ten years became the only "large-scale construction" project of the late emperor's dynasty, and the first and only palace since the Han Dynasty.

The brotherhood between Emperor Qi and Liang Wang Liu Wu was roughly marked by an ellipsis as Emperor Qi moved out of Jiaofang Palace and moved into the Tai Palace, and Liang Wang Liu Wu was granted the title of vassal...

"In the blink of an eye, Awu became a vassal, and it has been thirteen years..."

"The former young man is now the pillar of our Han family..."

"——I'm old~"

"Awu, he is already nearing his age..."

Feeling the loneliness in Emperor Qi's tone, Liang Wang Liu Wu also quietly lowered his head, inexplicably feeling sad for the emperor's brother. Empress Dowager Dou, the master of pottery Liu Guo, and even the emperor's eldest son Liu Rong were all in Chang'an and beside Emperor Qi. They could often see Emperor Qi, so they could not notice it clearly.

But Liang Wang Liu Wu entered the court every few years, and he felt more intuitively about the changes in Emperor Qi's mental and physical state.

In Liu Wu's view, from the time he became a vassal to the present, Liu Wu did not feel that Emperor Qi had changed much during the first five times he entered the court.

You are just a few years older than last time, more stable and down-to-earth.

But that vitality and spirit have never weakened at all.

But this time, only one year later - only one year after sitting on the throne, Liu Wu discovered that his brother, the emperor, was already visibly older.

"Ugh……"

"The heavy burden of the ancestral temple and the country..."

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For a moment, both brothers sighed.

After a while, everyone was a little tired from standing. Emperor Qicai leaned forward slightly, rested his elbows on the guardrail, and fixed his gaze on the chess pavilion from a distance.

"Back then, I was really young and energetic, but I really couldn't grasp the importance."

"If Liu Xian's son hadn't died in Chang'an and Weiyang Palace, the old thief King Wu would have found no reason to raise his troops to rebel..."

"——I am the sinner of the Han family~"

"It was I who caused such a military disaster for the common people of our Han family..."

In fact, when Emperor Qi brought the topic to the chess pavilion, Liang Wang Liu Wu had already anticipated what Emperor Qi was going to say.

But even so, when he heard the words of Emperor Qi himself - especially when the name 'Liu Xian' was mentioned, even Liang Wang Liu Wu, who had been mentally prepared, couldn't help but become a little angry.

"Brother, you don't have to blame yourself so much!"

"Then Prince Wu Liu Xian relied on the power of the old thief King Wu to show off his power and be arrogant and domineering all day long."

"How dare you say in front of my two brothers that the late emperor was so stupid that he allowed the old thief King Wu to open a mountain and mint money?!"

"Not to mention the imperial brother, even my younger brother almost wanted to draw his sword and pick on the thief!!!"

Within a few words, Liang Wang Liu Wu was already breathing heavily with anger, and his face was flushed.

After Qiang Zi calmed down for a while, he suppressed his raging anger. A wave of regret also appeared on the face of Liang Wang Liu Wu.

"I only regret that I couldn't take action before my brother!"

"If my brother draws his sword, this will be the enmity between Wu and Liang. If the emperor's brother is in the middle to mediate, then the old thief King Wu will not be able to cause trouble."

"Now, it has become a grudge between the imperial brother and the old thief Liu Bi, and in an instant there is a confrontation between the Chang'an court and the kings of Guandong;"

"Brother Huang is really too passive right now..."

But when Emperor Qi heard this, he only paused slightly when he wanted to lift his elbow from the guardrail, and narrowed his eyes thoughtfully.

After a long time, he shook his head and smiled pretending to be carefree.

"What has happened, no matter how much you regret it, there is no way it can go back to the beginning."

"Now that we have forged this grudge and caused this catastrophe, we can only find a way to solve it and face it."

After saying this, Emperor Qi finally raised his elbows from the guardrail, put his hands behind his back again, and looked into the distance.

I don't know how long it took before he turned sideways and smiled at Liang Wang Liu Wu.

"Just now, Ah Wudang wanted to talk to me about what happened outside Chang'an City today, right?"

"——Do you think what I did today was inappropriate?"

"Or maybe it seems that someone has changed, so that Prince Liang of the Han family can't even recognize his brother?"

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(End of this chapter)