Traveling through the Gaowu Tang Dynasty, Li Kuan and Li Shimin became the second sons of the Prince

If Li Kuan were present at this moment, perhaps she would not immediately want to help her father clear up the misunderstanding.

After all, it was rare to see the emperor's grandfather call Li Er a "stupid son", so His Highness the King of Chu's element of gloating over his misfortune would only increase.

But at the moment, Li Er still felt that the Supreme Emperor's behavior was out of embarrassment.

"Father, Kuan'er performed a wonderful feat a few days ago. During this locust plague, he raised a total of three million stones of food for me!" At this time, Li Er did not show his usual submissiveness in front of Li Yuan. There was a sense of sadness and indignation: "Yes, I originally wanted to punish Pei Ji, and it was also the reward Kuan'er asked for from him, which was to pardon Pei Ji. He didn't want to lose this sworn friend who had been with him since childhood. Father... ...I don’t understand, why do you treat Kuan’er like this?”

"You..." The expression on Li Yuan's face at this moment was wonderful. At first he was surprised, then angry, and then moved. But while he was moved, Li Yuan inexplicably had the same feeling as his grandson Li Tai, that is, when did Li Kuan carry his back? Thinking that he had done such a big thing.

"Wait a minute." Li Yuan, who realized the seriousness of the matter, had regained the wisdom of a superior. He stared at Li Er and said word by word: "Raising food? Where are these three million stones of food raised?" Yes? What does it have to do with Pei Ji?"

"Father, things have come to this, you still want to..." Li Ergang wanted to say that you don't have to act, but he saw Li Yuan slowly loosening the belt around his waist...

At this moment, His Majesty Li Er, who had become accustomed to controlling his son's fear in the same way, suddenly felt that his childhood fear had returned to him.

Sure enough, this person is most afraid of the "boomerang" of the past.

"Father, do you really not know about this?" Li Er did not dare to use a suspicious tone at this time.

"Tell me what it is first." Li Yuan said with a straight face. He stopped untying his belt and pointed behind the screen: "The living roommate you arranged for me is still here."

"Yan Shu, get out." Li Er directly ordered without thinking, "You don't need to know what I will discuss with the Supreme Emperor next."

"Wei!" - Yan Shu may not understand what it means to know how to advance and retreat, but he understands the King of Chu.

The King of Chu's ability to make meritorious service was far inferior to his ability to cause trouble. This was the common understanding of all the historians in the palace.

Therefore, after learning the unprecedented news about the King of Chu's meritorious service, Yan Shu could almost conclude that the method of this uncle's meritorious service must be so unnatural that His Majesty, for some reason, did not dare to allow it to appear in the palace. In history books.

After Yan Shu retired, Li Er considered it again and again and recounted the entire cause and effect of the matter.

Including later, according to Li Kuan's account, he used the glazed wares left by the imperial grandmother to him in exchange for these grains, so he just bought the Guanlong family, which was eager to lose Li Tang, under the condition of equal exchange. The three million stone grains in hand are not intended to be sold at all.

By the time Li Er finished talking about these things, a full half hour had passed.

"So..." Li Yuan, who had no intention of arguing anymore, seemed to have aged ten years at this moment: "It was Pei Ji who had evil intentions and lured Kuan'er into the game, and Kuan'er, after seeing through all this, took Ke'er to play against them? "

"That's right," Li Er nodded, and then said: "The Yushan Villa that Guanyin gave to Kuan'er now contains the one million stones of grain he bought pretending to be Shan Ling. Now among the three counties of Chang'an, The 1.2 million shi of grain that they had previously promised to Kuan'er had been piled up in the warehouses of all the wealthy merchants and squires who had attached themselves to the five surnames and Qi Wang. Later, Kuan'er pretended to be Shan Ling again and obtained the goods from the Wang family, the Zheng family, and the Lu family. The millions of stones of grain purchased by the three families will arrive in Chang'an in the same way in a few days, and by then it will be time to close the net."

"Send someone to keep an eye on those wealthy merchants and squires," Li Yuan raised his head and glanced at his son: "As long as you keep an eye on the 1.2 million stones of food that are in your mouth, you can survive the locust plague safely. The 1,000,000 stones of food that have not yet arrived can be overcome safely. Ten thousand stone grain is just the icing on the cake, it’s good to have it, but it doesn’t really matter if it’s not..."

"My son knows." Li Er put on an expression of being taught. At this time, he looked at Li Yuan who was sad but still reminded him. He no longer had the confidence to come to question him in the first place.

For a moment, Li Er didn't know what to say.

So it was Li Yuan who opened the conversation first.

"Pei Ji really wants to help the heads of the Guanlong family, support Ke'er to rise to power, and play a trick of 'holding the emperor to order the princes'?" Li Yuan looked at his son, with a certain emotion in his tone that was not easy to detect. .

"Father..." Li Er felt a little regretful now. Maybe that Shuzi suddenly went crazy, and he couldn't tell if he slapped him...

"Yes..." Seeing that Li Er was unwilling to say it, Li Yuan simply revealed the truth himself: "I am old and can't be his supporter Pei Ji... Haha... a lifelong friendship..."

With a dejected face, Li Yuan slowly sat back down, his voice gradually became lower and his eyes seemed to sparkle with tears.

"Father," Li Er couldn't bear to say at this time, "don't be too sad. At least, that kid Kuan'er is sincerely filial to you. Pei Ji'erchen plans to allow him to grow old when the time comes."

"Oh!"

"Assign him to Chang'an. Don't stay in Chang'an. I don't want to see him again in this life!" Li Yuan slammed the table: "I have not sorry for them! Since none of them want to live a peaceful life, then get out! Get away!" Earth! Don't let him appear in front of me again and make me upset!"

"I would like to listen to my father's arrangements for this matter!" Ever since he realized that he had misunderstood Li Yuan, His Majesty Li Er no longer had the courage to contradict his father. Moreover, from Li Yuan's previous words, the meaningful "they" , but it really reveals a certain meaning: those mediocre officials who were kept in high positions by Li Yuan because of his old feelings may have reached the time to retire.

"So who slapped the mark on Kuan'er's face?" - Maybe it's because Li Kuan is so annoying and painful. Even when the emperor was sad, he still didn't forget his precious grandson. After being so humiliated, Li Yuan waited for Li Er with a somewhat sulky expression: "Could it be that you, the thief, are shouting to catch the thief?"

"Father..." Li Er didn't know what to say at this time: "Have your son ever done such a thing?"

"Ha," Li Yuan suddenly sneered: "I didn't know who it was at first, but I heard that I had arranged a marriage for him. The man was worried that the woman would be ugly, so he pretended to be a disciple and climbed over the wall of Gao Shilian's house. , was later caught by the nurse, and shamelessly said that he saw the thief enter the Gao Mansion with his own eyes. He was worried about Mr. Gao's family, so he went in to protect him. He is really warm-hearted..."

Listening to his father talking about his childhood embarrassment, His Majesty Li Er blushed first, then his eyes.

Maybe the relationship between father and son is so strange. They respect each other as guests rather than advance like soldiers: sometimes it is much better to have a quarrel with each other than to get along with each other in a polite and polite manner.

"Father," Li Er's voice was a little hoarse at this time: "I have to thank you. If you hadn't come to ask for mercy several times afterwards, Gao Shilian might not have been willing to marry Guanyin to his son. In this way, I may have more regrets in this life..."

"Are you sorry?" Li Yuan suddenly asked Li Er.

"It's a pity." Li Er looked at Li Yuan seriously and took this opportunity to express what was in his heart.

"Do you regret it?" Li Yuan asked again.

"My son..." This time, Li Er knew that "regret or no regret" was not the answer Li Yuan wanted.

Suddenly, Li Yuan stretched out a hand and patted his son's shoulder heavily: "Regret or not, the Tang Dynasty is now on your shoulders. Be a good emperor and an emperor respected by all people! Otherwise, you will let your father How can the Queen go down to see your brother and mother..."

"Father!" The father and son were just separated by a desk. His Majesty Li Er, who called Li Yuan "Father", suddenly knocked his head heavily on the desk. He refused to get up for a long time, and was even more speechless.

And Li Yuan was just a helpless father at this time. The old man's big hand caressed his son's head, just like his wife Dou used this silent method to slowly comfort her sad son many years ago after he was punished for getting into trouble. .

Now that your mother is gone, only I, the father, can still comfort you like your mother did back then.

Son, maybe I will never be able to forgive you for the mistakes you have made.

But I will always be your father.