I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 96 The Third, Promise Big Brother (24)

"Ah!"

"Ah Chirp!!"

"Ha~~~~~~吃!!!"

Shen Tujia in the old Anhou Mansion was busy analyzing the mental state of the emperor Liu Qi for the two brothers Liu Pengzu and Liu Sheng. Liu Wu, the king of Liang, was worried for a while.

"Brother, do you have to take care of yourself?"

"These days, Chang'an is really a bit cold..."

Before Liu Wu could express his concern, the Emperor Liu Qi suddenly frowned and subconsciously raised his hand to his side;

Just a moment ago, an old eunuch appeared from nowhere on the side of the imperial couch that was empty, and handed the decoction that had just been prepared to Liu Qi's outstretched hand.

grunt;

Gollum.

Regardless of the hotness and bitterness of the decoction, Emperor Liu Qi just frowned and gulped down the decoction in the bowl in one gulp, then stretched out his hand again with a distorted expression, and took the honey water handed by the eunuch.

This time, Liu Qi was not in a hurry to pour down the honey water, but drank the honey water in small sips as if tasting wine.

Feeling that the bitterness in his mouth and nose was dispelled, Liu Qi still didn't stop taking small sips of honey water, and at the same time he didn't forget to say indistinctly: "Well...it doesn't matter;"

"October is halfway through, and winter is coming."

"I am also an old bone~"

"Gulu, Gulu..."

Liu Qi poured a large bowl of honey water into his stomach. The bitterness of the soup had been completely dispelled. The originally empty abdominal cavity felt a little swollen and painful from this bowl of soup and a bowl of honey water. stand up.

"Sigh~~~"

"call·········"

Then I saw Liu Qi put his hand on his stomach gently, stood up very slowly, took a deep breath cautiously, and then let it out slowly;

Still unable to relieve the abdominal pain a little, Liu Qi started to pace carefully on the edge of the imperial couch like a pregnant woman who had been pregnant for seven or eight months, supporting his waist with one hand and belly with the other.

"Old~"

"It's just such a body, I don't know, I still have a few years to live..."

"Uh!"

"Uh, uh..."

Just after taking two steps, and opening his mouth to say a word, Liu Qi's complexion twisted again;
The eunuch at the side also had sharp eyesight and quick hands, seeing that Liu Qi's expression was not right, he hurried forward, supported Liu Qi's arm, and carefully sat back on the imperial couch.

Almost at the same time when the eunuch helped him onto the imperial couch, Liu Qi also took advantage of the situation and lay down on the couch, but he didn't lie down completely because of Liu Wu's presence;
Instead, he bent his arms stubbornly, supported his upper body with his elbows, and maintained a position of 'lying down, but not completely lying down'.

In front of the imperial couch, seeing his elder brother, who was born in the same mother, was swollen into such a state by a bowl of medicine and a bowl of water, without any regard for the majesty of the emperor, on the face of Liang Wang Liu Wu, bursts of sorrow also emerged immediately.

"Brother, take care..."

"The ancestral temple and the country left by the emperor cannot live without a big brother..."

As soon as he opened his mouth, Liu Wu found that his tone was inexplicably choked;

He lowered his head belatedly, and the tears that had already gathered in his eyes fell vertically on the ground in front of the imperial couch following Liu Wu's movement of lowering his head.

Seeing Liu Wu's appearance like this, the emperor Liu Qi pretended to be relaxed, showing a stiff smile;

Smiling and nodding slowly to Liu Wu, and calming Liu Wu's emotions with his eyes, Liu Qi finally couldn't bear the last part of the emperor's majesty anymore, as if accepting his fate, he lay upright on the imperial couch.

Seeing this, Liu Wu didn't bother to think about it at all, and hurried to the side of the imperial couch, and squatted down, so that the elder brother Liu Qi who was lying on the imperial couch could see him as effortlessly as possible.

"In front of the third child, as the eldest brother, I don't have the slightest dignity to speak of..."

"Since it's all like this, why doesn't the third brother come to my side and lie down too?"

"It's like the winter when we were young, we two brothers were shivering from the cold in the Daiwang Palace in Jinyang, hiding in a bed to keep warm..."

Listening to Liu Qi's inexplicable weakness, and clearly a little stubborn tone, Liang Wang Liu Wu was already sobbing;
Hearing Liu Qi's suggestion again, Liu Wuzi also nodded with tears, took advantage of the time when he stood up, quickly turned his back, and secretly wiped away the tears on his face.

After making sure that there were no obvious tear stains on his face, King Liang Liu Wu patted his cheek again to cheer himself up, and then obediently lay down beside Liu Qi.

It was not until this moment that Liang Wang Liu Wu realized for the first time that the elder brother Liu Qi, who had just turned [-], had the corners of his eyes covered by ravines visible to the naked eye;

The sideburns that should be covered with black silk have also appeared a little white...

"Just now, the debate between Huang Sheng and Yuan Gu, what does the third child think?"

When he was stunned, the emperor Liu Qi's low tone sounded, so Liu Wu had to hurry back to his senses;

But he saw that the emperor Liu Qi beside him had already closed his eyes tiredly, but his brows were still frowning a little intentionally or unintentionally.

Hearing that Liu Qifa asked this question, Liang Wang Liu Wu couldn't help being surprised;
But seeing Liu Qi's expression, and then looking at himself lying side by side on the imperial couch at this moment, the worry in Liu Wu's heart also quietly dissipated...

"My brother thinks that Huang Sheng's knowledge may not be worthy of the name."

"If elder brother agrees, younger brother will go to Changle Palace today and persuade the queen mother not to call Huang Sheng into the palace again."

As soon as the words came out, the emperor Liu Qi chuckled, and although he was still lying flat on the imperial couch with his eyes closed, he shook his head slightly.

"Huang Sheng~"

"Huang Sheng..."

"If it wasn't for being a little older, I would really want to conscript him into the court!"

Seemingly sighing regretfully, Emperor Liu Qi finally opened his eyes slowly, turned his head with admiration, and looked at his younger brother Liu Wu who was lying beside him.

"Huang Sheng, that's right."

"At least for my Han family, courtiers like Shang Tang and Zhou Wu are absolutely unacceptable."

"What my Han family needs is the courtiers that Huang Sheng said;"

"——When the monarch makes mistakes, he can persuade and correct them on the sidelines, never take the opportunity to cause trouble, and try to replace him..."

Hearing Liu Qi's slightly serious voice, and then looking at the seriousness in Liu Qi's eyes looking at him, Liu Wu nodded slowly while thinking about it.

"Brother said;"

"My Han family cannot have officials like Shang Tang and Zhou Wu."

"You can't be like Wu Wang Liu Bi, relying on the status of the elders of the clan, and neglecting the noble and humble ministers..."

Liu Wu's meaningful words also caused Liu Qi to grin involuntarily. He and Liu Wu looked at each other for a while, and the two brothers also looked at each other and smiled.

Feeling that the elder brother's illness seemed to have eased a little, and the grief on Liu Wu's face also dissipated a lot, he immediately propped his head up with his hands, and looked at Liu Qi with a little puzzlement just like when he was a child.

"Since the eldest brother also thinks that Huang Sheng is right, then why did the eldest brother...?"

"Hey!"

But seeing that Liu Wu's voice hadn't finished yet, the emperor Liu Qi laughed jokingly, and the face that had written a little pain just now was full of self-mockery.

"What am I?"

"——The body of the Son of Heaven~"

"It's him, Yuangu, who is also a 'Great Confucian' and a 'famous scholar'~"

"It's still the doctor of "Poetry" appointed by the emperor himself!"

"Just my old bone, what can I do with him?"

Said full of sarcasm, Liu Qi also showed a little displeasure on his face, as if he really had some deep hatred with Dr. Yuangu;
"You can't scold, let alone talk;"

"Anyone who doesn't agree with him just clamors to hang up his seal and leave?"

"He really wants to hang up his seal and leave, I'm also happy!"

"A person like Yuangu~"

"—that mouth screamed like a shatter!"

"There is no gatekeeper at all, he dares to say anything!"

"He dared to say that if no one believed it, it would be no big deal;"

"However, those ordinary people, foolish men and women, still really believe his broken mouth!"

Angrily venting his anger in his chest, the emperor Liu Qicai's brow that had just been loosened, immediately frowned again;

It's just that under the anger, Liu Wu couldn't tell whether the frown was due to illness or pure anger.

"To put it bluntly, with my 'mere' status as the Son of Heaven, a celebrity like Yuan Gu~everyone~"

"—He doesn't look down on him at all!"

"If I don't have good food and drink, and if I am raised by a high-ranking official and rich salary, if I really want to let such a person go back to my hometown, there will be big troubles in this world!"

Listening to the elder brother Liu Qi's indignant complaints, Liu Wu finally suppressed the last trace of sadness on his face, and only smiled slightly, comforting the angry elder brother.

"Actually, big brother, there is no need to get angry for such a person."

"—The principle that chivalry breaks the ban with martial arts and Confucianism breaks the law with literature was pointed out by Mr. Han as early as a hundred years ago."

"It's normal for a Confucian scholar like Yuan Gu to put on a dignified appearance on the surface, but secretly do things that corrupt Gangchang."

"It is also for this reason that our grandfather Taizu Emperor Gao hated Confucian scholars so much, right?"

But when Liu Qi heard the words, he seemed to be very angry and laughed, but also seemed to be emotional, and let out a sigh with a strange smile;
Lying flat on the couch, the eyes looking at the roof of the Xuanshi Hall gradually became a little loose.

"Confucianism has produced a few good courtiers..."

"Xiang Taizu's Fengchang Shusun Tong, not limited to the 'ritual law' of the Lu family's corrupt Confucians, specially formulated a new etiquette for our Han family."

"Earlier, Li Shiqi, the elder brother of Li Shang, Marquis of Qu Zhou, used his penetrating tongue to travel among the princes of the Guandong for Emperor Gao of Taizu;"

"If it wasn't for Han Xin, who fell in love with the wealthy Qi State, Li Shiqi, the king of Guangye who once ruled the Guandong and was praised by the world as 'another Su Qin and Zhang Yi', would not have been cooked to death."

"—and later Lu Jia;"

"I studied under Xunzi and learned "Rituals", but I went to South Vietnam several times, so that Zhao Tuo, an old man, restrained his thoughts that he shouldn't have, and turned to my Han family."

"As for Jia Yi and Jia Changsha, whom the emperor single-handedly picked up, he is a national scholar who is rarely seen once in a hundred years, or even in a thousand years!"

"It's a pity, God is jealous of Jia Sheng's talent..."

With a reminiscing tone, he said in his heart that he had been a Confucian scholar since the Han Dynasty, and Liu Qi's brows also quietly brought a little sadness;
And beside Liu Qi, Liang Wang Liu Wuzi also noticed the abnormality on Liu Qi's face.

He looked at Liu Qi suspiciously, but saw that Liu Qi became more and more annoyed as he thought about it, he simply straightened his upper body, put his hands on his sides, sat up on the couch, and presented his body at a large obtuse angle;
It was also at this moment that the emperor Liu Qi looked at Liu Wu with the seriousness and dignity that an emperor should have.

"Confucianism is just a theory;"

"Confucianism is not good, and I, the Han family, don't worry about not having other prominent schools of thought to use."

"What I'm really worried about is that kid Rong..."

A whisper that seemed to point to something also provoked Liu Wu to sit up from the couch. Although his face was pretending to be calm, he looked at Liu Qi with a little scrutiny immediately.

Liu Qi didn't notice Liu Wu's strange gaze at all, he just raised his head and let out a long sigh.

"Ugh······"

"The matter just now, the third child also saw it with his own eyes;"

"—Ron, this kid is really incompetent..."

"As for the other bastards, they are also very naughty..."

"The second brother is moral, the fifth is not, a rotten Confucian, a reckless man;"

"Old Siyu and Lao Qi Pengzu, the big ones stutter so much that they can't speak clearly, and the young ones can only speak quickly;"

"The third brother, Yu, and the younger Jiusheng, the elder brother is submissive, but the younger brother only causes trouble."

"Old Liufa, old Baduan, one has a crippled mind, the other has a lack of body..."

At the end, Liu Qi already had an extremely worried expression;

Yu Guang saw that Liu Wu didn't respond, so he simply got up from the couch, supported the edge of the couch with one hand, and sighed to himself.

"Before I inherited the land, I gave birth to nine sons in total;"

"A total of nine sons, but none of them are successful..."

"However, these nine bastards are also my sons."

"The blood flowing through the body is also the blood of Emperor Taizu Gao and Emperor Taizong Xiaowen..."

"Ugh·········"

After saying that, Liu Qi took advantage of the situation and turned his back again, shaking his head and sighing for a while, only leaving a lonely back view of his younger brother Liu Qi on the imperial couch, who was extremely disappointed and extremely sad.

Looking at Liu Qi's appearance, and reminiscing just now, Liu Wu's face finally showed a little moved by Liu Qi's heart-to-heart words.

In the past few days, the counselor Han Anguo and his mother, Empress Dowager Dou, have repeatedly emphasized the teachings of "don't act rashly", and at this moment, Liu Wu has unreservedly thrown it out of his mind.

——At this moment, Liu Wu only felt: In the whole world, it seems that only his younger brother can help his elder brother Liu Qi.

And Liu Wu is also very willing to help Liu Qi...

"Brother;"

"The friendship between the two of us, brother, don't have to worry too much;"

"We are brothers who sleep together on the same bed and under the same quilt!"

"Brother, if you have anything to say, you can speak up."

"Even if you let me go up the mountain of knives and into the sea of ​​fire, my brother, I will definitely not blink an eye!"

With a confident Daoming attitude, Liu Wu also stood up from the couch, clenched his back molars, and fought back tears from falling from his eyes.

——From Liu Wu's point of view, big brother Liu Qi, this is obviously to ask Gu!
For this sake, Liu Wu has long forgotten about the fight for power and profit, the ancestral temple, and the community.

At this moment, Liu Wu just wants to be a good brother...
"Uh······"

As Liu Wu's face became more and more resolute, the emperor Liu Qi, who turned his back to Liu Wu and sighed, finally leaned on the edge of the couch with one hand and his lower abdomen with the other, and turned sideways very slowly;
When he saw Liu Wu's tear-filled eyes, the emperor Liu Qi, who was also well-educated and had his eyes wet, showed an extremely bleak and bitter smile...
"sit down······"

"Sit down and talk..."

Caressing his lungs with one hand, he walked to Liu Wu very slowly at a speed of one step every three seconds. Liu Qicai tremblingly stretched out the other hand, pulled his younger brother Liu Wu, and started to sit down on the couch again.

It was at this moment, on the face of the Emperor Liu Qi, there was a look that was so familiar to Liang Wang Liu Wu.

——It was two years ago, when Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, Emperor Liu Heng, was seriously ill and was lying on the couch. He summoned all the officials in the court to explain the things behind him.
"Maybe it's Father, who misses me;"

"It will only be three or two years at the most. I may be going to see my father."

"The matter of King Wu and Liu Bi cannot be delayed any longer..."

The low and mournful tone, like a command transmitted from the brain to the lacrimal gland, caused Liu Wu's lacrimal gland to lose control in an instant, and the tears that had been accumulated for a long time burst out of his eyes in an instant.

"Brother understands..."

A promise mixed with crying made Liu Qi stretch out his hand with a miserable smile, and patted Liu Wu's face tremblingly.

"I have already planned to officially implement the "Strategy to Cut Fans" at the beginning of spring..."

"This winter, the third child will stay in Chang'an well, and accompany my mother and me;"

"After the beginning of spring, the third child will return to Suiyang to make preparations with the weapons allocated by the Shaofu..."

"When the rebellion is subdued and the third child re-enters Chang'an with the merits of 'Anzongmiao Sheji', it will be time for the Empress Dowager to promulgate a decree and appoint a crown prince..."

In the end, Emperor Liu Qi was already in tears, and his hands, as dry as a dead tree, held Liu Wu's arm tightly, as if trembling or shaking.

"Brother, please ask the third child if you need something;"

"No matter what, the third child must promise me..."

Speaking of this matter, Liu Wu only felt a burst of extreme grief welling up in his heart, and he couldn't continue to sit on the imperial couch, so he slid down the imperial couch leisurely and knelt down on the ground.

And the emperor Liu Qi finally put his trembling hand on Liu Wu's strong shoulders.

"In the future, I will go to find my father..."

"—Third brother, you must treat my nine bastards well..."

"Don't let those nine bastards go underground to meet me too early..."

"Don't..."

(End of this chapter)