It was day and night, and the Liang Wang's Mansion in Chang'an Shangguan was brightly lit all night, but he did not wait for Liu Wu, the king of Liang, to go home.

And from the next day, after walking out of Weiyang Palace in a dejected spirit, Liu Wu, the king of Liang, has completely changed.

- The Keju game that has been agreed for a long time will not be played;

The winter hunt that has been on my lips all day long is not going.

From the day he walked out of Weiyang Palace to Chang'an City, which attracted the first heavy snow this winter, Liu Wu, the king of Liang, has always maintained a regular life of three points and one line.

Go to Changle Palace early in the morning, visit her mother, the Empress Dowager Dou, and accompany the Empress Dowager Dou to talk and chat;

After noon, he went to Weiyang Palace, personally supervised Liu Qi, the son of heaven, to drink the decoction, and was re-examined by the imperial doctor;

At dusk, dragging his tired body home from the palace, locking himself in the study, and insomnia all night long······

In just over a month of hard work, Liu Wu, the young and powerful Liang King, has also put on a pair of deep dark circles under his eyes.

If you let the fortune teller see it, I am afraid that I will blurt out: Oops!

Your Excellency's Yin Hall is black, your eyes are blank, your lips are cracked and your tongue is scorched, and your spirit is scattered······

It wasn't until the day of the first snow that it was rumored in the palace that 'the Son of Heaven had eaten two bowls of rice porridge for breakfast', and Liu Wu, the king of Liang, finally settled down;

After more than a month, returning to the soft couch in the bedroom again, Liu Wu, the king of Liang, finally slept with peace of mind.

is completely different from the haggard and exhausted Liang King Liu Wu, in the Weiyang Palace on this day, the two brothers Liu Pengzu and Liu Sheng show what 'blood and strength are strong'······

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The first snow, which fell all night, did not stop abruptly until around dawn;

But when the sky was completely lit up, the road in the Weiyang Palace had already been cleaned by the palace people.

——Different from the influence that most people in later generations obtained from film and television works: the court of the Han Dynasty had no trees and green plants;

Except for trees, greenery, and the so-called 'Imperial Garden', anything that might hide a person's figure and cause a safety hazard would never appear in the Han court.

As for the reason, it is also very simple: Jing Ke's assassination of Qin has only been seventy years;

Especially when Emperor Taizu Gao Liu Bang established the Han dynasty and ordered Xiao He to build the two palaces of Weiyang and Changle, it was only more than ten years since Jing Ke assassinated Qin.

Therefore, unlike the royal court in the impression of most people, there are only two things to see in Weiyang Palace.

- Buildings, and roads.

To be precise, it is a grid-like road sandwiched by buildings distributed in a nine-square grid.

At least the roads in Weiyang Palace only have two directions: east-west and north-south.

The snow on the roads in the palace was cleared by the palace people early, so as to avoid people entering and leaving the palace from slipping and falling by the snow.

After all, no matter how you say it, most of the people who can appear in Weiyang Palace and move freely have two characteristics.

First: old age;

Second: high status.

What's more, old ministers such as Prime Minister Shen Tujia are a combination of the two.

But the palaces in Weiyang Palace have not been cleaned up so diligently.

At least in the Guangming Palace, which is only a few hundred steps away from the Xuanming Hall and next to the Xuanming Palace, it has not begun to clear the snow until the third pole of the sun.

As for the reason, it is naturally because Liu Sheng, the ninth son of the emperor, is building a snowman in Guangming Hall with his brother Liu Pengzu in accordance with the 'tradition' of the past every year······

"Hey!"

"It's like that!"

In the apse of Guangming Palace, even though his cheeks were red from the cold, Liu Sheng still completed his 'work' with a joyful expression;

Beside Liu Sheng, Liu Pengzu, who was also busy building a snowman, only subconsciously glanced sideways.

It was such a shocking glimpse that Liu Pengzu stopped his movements in amazement, and 'floated' to Liu Sheng's side like a ghost.

"Ah Sheng, this snowman ······"

"—why is this the case?"

With a sluggish face, Liu Pengzu did not forget to stretch out his hand and draw a square on Liu Sheng's snowman, mainly on his head.

"How can there be a snowman's head, so square?"

"What the hell is this······"

"-This is clear, it's a large mahjong tile?!"

Hearing his brother's questioning, Liu Sheng waved his hand nonchalantly: "Don't worry; ”

"I'm not done yet."

As he spoke, he saw Liu Sheng retreating two times, just like a photographer who was choosing an angle in later generations, and carefully looked at the snowman he had built;

Determining what the problem was, Liu Sheng turned around again, trotted into the bedroom, grabbed a wooden stick casually, and trotted back to the snowman.

"Eh~"

"And so, and so ······"

"Hmm!"

"That's it!"

After writing and drawing on the snowman's square head with a wooden stick, Liu Shengcai finally turned around with satisfaction and invited his brother Liu Pengzu again.

But after seeing Liu Sheng's improved snowman, Liu Pengzu's already somewhat stunned expression became more and more eccentric.

"Square head, square face;"

"Inverted 'eight' eyebrows;"

"The mouth is so long, it should be the gill of a sharp-beaked monkey······"

After a thoughtful moment, Liu Pengzu finally shook his head.

"In this world, how can anyone look like this?"

"Ah Sheng, this snowman, who is it piled up?"

As he spoke, Liu Pengzu couldn't help but turn sideways in confusion;

But seeing that Liu Sheng didn't know when, he retreated to a position about five steps away from the snowman again.

Only this time, Liu Sheng's posture is not like a photographer who chooses an angle, but like an athlete preparing to start.

Adjust the distance, take a step back, start slowly, and accelerate gradually······

"—I'm going up there with a jué!"

As Liu Sheng helped run, jumped, and rose into the air, and did not forget to make a very appropriate call sign, the snowman who looked like a square man was kicked in the head by Liu Sheng's flying legs!

Looking at the 'headless snowman' in front of him, Liu Sheng still didn't seem to be happy, and then threw a few punches one after another, knocking the remaining body of the snowman to pieces.

After a while, when the area where the snowman was located was 'razed to the ground', Liu Sheng finally raised his head in satisfaction, and gently wiped his thumb on the other side;

"Shhh

originally wanted to learn from the martial arts masters of later generations to be cool, but found that there was really snot in his nose, and Liu Sheng stopped messing around, and turned around with a big grin;

He walked to the recliner outside the bedroom and sat down, then put his hand on the fire in front of the chaise longue, and took care of the fire himself.

"Who else could it be?"

"-Dog thief mistake!!"

A low roar full of resentment finally solved the doubts in Liu Pengzu's heart.

Turning around and looking at the 'Chao Wrongs' scattered all over the ground, Liu Pengzu couldn't help but shake his head and smile, and walked to another recliner next to Liu Sheng;

Sitting down, following Liu Sheng's example, he stretched out his hand to the stove to test the fire, and Liu Pengzu didn't forget to ask: "······What is that matter?"

"Ah Sheng is still lingering?"

asked indifferently, but Liu Sheng looked at Liu Pengzu with surprise.

"——Damaging the wall of the Emperor's Temple, what is the difference between this and digging my Liu's ancestral grave?"

"That is, the wrong dog thief has a big life!"

"In the future, if I get the opportunity, I will kill the wrong people!!"

Gritting his teeth viciously, Liu Sheng couldn't help but raise his head full of doubts: "What? ”

"Brother, don't you remember your mistakes?"

Hearing this, Liu Pengzu shook his head with a wry smile.

After thinking about it again, he sighed a little and slowly lay down on the chaise longue.

"Of course I was angry the moment I heard that Chao was wrong and chiseled the wall of the Taishang Emperor's temple;"

"-If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have gone to Chao Cuo's mansion with Ah Sheng and those left-handed Northern Army jailers."

"But now that I look back and think about that incident, I feel more and more ······."

"Tsk, how do you say it······"

Halfway through his words, Liu Pengzu's brows quietly froze together, and he groaned thoughtfully for a moment before sitting up again.

"Ah, Ah, look;"

"——We two brothers, the reason why we are the bloodline of the Liu family is because we are the heirs of our father."

"Right?"

"And the incident in the Taishang Emperor's Temple, regardless of whether the father knew about it in advance or deliberately, at least, the father didn't care."

"What about us?"

"Obviously he is a filial son and grandson who stood up desperately and maintained the face of his ancestors, but in the end, he was punished by his father."

"So the more I thought about it, the more I thought, at that time, why did we stand up?"

"My father doesn't care about the Taishang Emperor Temple, so why should we, as sons, care?"

"-Even if you care, it seems that there is no need to stand up at all, and you will be punished by your father in vain······"

In the end, Liu Pengzu's volume is getting lower and lower, and it is obvious that the more he talks, the more he loses confidence.

It seems that Liu Pengzu understands in his heart that his own statement cannot convince others at all, and even Liu Pengzu himself is difficult to be persuaded by his own statement;

But recalling the causes and consequences of that incident, Liu Pengzu really couldn't find any other reasonable explanation.

As soon as the words came out, Liu Pengzu's brows furrowed tightly, and he did not feel relieved after expressing his opinion, but his worry deepened.

Seeing that his brother was on the tip of his horns because of this matter, Liu Sheng shook his head without thinking, and solved Liu Pengzu's problem in one word.

"If you want me to say, brother, this is clever but clever and misunderstood;"

"My brother is too smart and knows how to weigh the pros and cons, so he thinks that we did something wrong."

"-The ancestral temple was destroyed, is there still a need to weigh the pros and cons of this matter?"

"It doesn't matter what kind of cow ghost and snake god he is, as long as this kind of thing happens, then he won't say it!"

"As long as the dog thief is caught, it will be done to death, and it is a sentence of 'never die'!"

"If you don't even have this principle and persistence, our brothers, are you still worthy of the surname Liu?"

"Do you still deserve to claim the identity of 'after Emperor Taizu Gao, the grandson of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen'?"

asked a few questions one after another, and Liu Sheng's tone gradually became a little excited;

It's obviously a younger and naughtier younger brother, but he began to teach an older, more 'sensible' brother.

"My father doesn't care about the Taishang Emperor Temple, it's my father's unfilial piety;"

"As sons, we can't blame our father, but it doesn't mean that our father is unfilial, we can only follow and be confused."

"-Could it be that one day in the future, my father and the emperor will cut off the relationship with our brothers, and we will not be the descendants of the Liu family?"

"-Emperor Liu Taigong, isn't he our great-grandfather?"

"Blood is thicker than water, brother!"

"My father is confused, that's my father's business; We should be filial, or we have to be filial. ”

"The son doesn't talk about the father, it means that we are sons, we can't blame the father, not the shortcomings of the father, let's also learn from the same!"

was preached by Liu Sheng half-said and half-scolded, Liu Pengzu also shook his head and smiled bitterly;

Raising his head thoughtfully, looking at Liu Sheng's slightly annoyed face, Liu Pengzu's eyebrows couldn't help but feel a little ashamed.

"After that incident, Ah Sheng has done a lot of duty and grown a lot;"

"I originally thought that it was that incident that made Ah Sheng grow."

"Now it seems that it was that incident that made me, as an elder brother, go back more and more?"

Seeing that Liu Pengzu's mood had improved, Liu Sheng also suppressed the anger on his face a little, took a deep breath, and sighed a little embarrassed.

"The incident in the Taishang Emperor Temple, if you want to say that there is no lesson for me, it is naturally impossible."

"But the lesson I have learned is not to admit mistakes;"

"But from that incident, I learned a little bit."

"——In this world, there is nothing that can be rewarded without paying."

"No matter what you want to gain, you have to lose something to succeed in getting what you want."

As he spoke, Liu Sheng smiled bitterly and opened his shirt, revealing the collarbone that still had a little bruise.

"It's like my brother;"

"With a wishbone, in exchange for the father's lost way - at least temporarily, pretending to be lost."

"There is a high probability that the teacher's life will be returned."

"As for the actions of our two brothers that day, they have won a lot of fame, but they have also attracted the suspicion of the eldest brother."

"This is giving and taking;"

"If there is giving, there will be gain, and if there is gain, there will be giving."

After speaking, Liu Sheng loosened his shirt and pointed to the direction of the Xuanshu Hall not far from the hall.

"It's like my father's father;"

"I want Uncle Liang to work hard for Zongmiao and Sheji, so I took out the ······ of 'Prince Prince'"

"Oh no;

"It's the bargaining chip of the 'prince and emperor'."

"Although there is a high probability that this chip is fake, it is also a chip."

"My father can take fake chips because it's my father."

"But even if it's my father, I have to take out the chips in order to get what I want;"

"What's more, what about us princes who have no power and no power, and have not yet been crowned kings?"

"There is also the wrong "Cutting Domain" ······"

As Liu Sheng's tone became more and more calm, but more confident, Liu Pengzu's still somewhat depressed face also swelled with an increasingly obvious smile.

After Liu Sheng took "Cutting Domain" as an example, Liu Pengzu finally stood up with a smile, half-joking, half-seriously arched his hand, and bowed to Liu Sheng.

"Foolish brother, and thank you for the teachings of the virtuous brother······"

was stunned by the eldest brother's sudden move, and when he reacted, Liu Sheng only shook his head and laughed, and the two brothers sat opposite each other, silent.

For his brother Liu Pengzu, Liu Sheng's feelings are not very complicated.

Liu Sheng sincerely respects this brother who has taken care of himself and loved him since he was a child;

As for Liu Pengzu's accurate insight that is obviously different from that of his peers, Liu Sheng is not jealous or guarded, but full of projects and pride.

- I'm not very smart, but my brother is not stupid!

As for the current strange circle that Liu Pengzu has fallen into, Liu Shengzi also understands: Liu Pengzu, this is falling into the trap of egoism that only considers gains and losses and does not consider principles.

But according to Liu Pengzu's ingenuity, such a bull's horn, as long as Liu Sheng reminds him a little, Liu Pengzu will definitely be able to react.

"In this way, the two of us brothers paid the price of squatting in prison for a few days in exchange for the concession of our father;"

After thinking about it, I saw Liu Pengzu raise his head again, and only pointed behind him with a slight jokingness, and was disintegrated by Liu Sheng.

"What about this?"

"Ah Sheng broke up the snowman he worked so hard to build, and what did he gain?"

"-Happy!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as Liu Pengzu's words fell, he saw Liu Sheng get up from the recliner excitedly, and pointed to the 'wrong corpse' with a happy expression.

"I put in the time, I put in the energy, and I made a snowman mistake;"

"What I want is the joy and relief of a kick on Chao Cuo's head!"

"I spent time, I built a snowman, I kicked the wrong head, and my heart was happy."

"Isn't it right to give and take?"

was just a casual question, but seeing Liu Sheng give such a serious answer, Liu Pengzu shook his head again and smiled bitterly.

"It seems that the incident in Taimiao really made Ah Sheng grow up."

"At least you know that you can't kick the real human head;"

"Learn to build a snowman to fool yourself before kicking the snowman's head?"

was full of playful ridicule, but Liu Sheng didn't care about returning himself to the reclining chair and swaying the reclining chair leisurely.

"Fighting, killing, killing, what kind of ability is it?!"

"If I really kick the wrong dog thief in the head, then I won't be a reckless man like the fifth brother······"

"Huh?"

"Then what is Ah Sheng going to do?"

"-Kill with a knife!"

"Whose knife to borrow?"

"-I didn't think about !!"

“······”

was amused by Liu Sheng's pretended to be serious and eccentric, Liu Pengzu finally lay back and enjoyed the warm winter sun.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Liu Pengzu lay down, he saw Liu Sheng get up from the recliner, suck his nose, and walked towards the bedroom.

"Brother, let's bask in the sun, brother, I really can't hold it;"

"If you don't hide back in the bed, if you get caught the cold, you won't be able to go to tomorrow's nuó."

"It's finally reached the age of drinking, I really want to miss this drink, and I don't know when I will regret it······"

"The Imperial Grandmother is really;"

"I haven't thought about it for so many years, but I remembered it again this year······"

"Hmm! It's cold! ”

Seeing Liu Sheng shivering and hiding back in the bedroom, Liu Pengzu still had a smiling face for the first time, and saw Liu Sheng clenching the back room before leaning down on the recliner again;

But when he heard Liu Sheng's last mutter, intentionally or unintentionally, Liu Pengzu, who had just been 'taught' by Liu Sheng, frowned involuntarily again and fell into thought.

"yes······"

"Da Da exorcism, but I haven't done it for many years;"

"Why is it ······ this year?"

"Uh-huh·········"

(End of chapter)