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

"Mother..." His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu began to sweat profusely at this moment.

"Now you know how to call me 'mother'?" Seeing that her son seemed to beg for mercy, Empress Changsun put down the envelope in her hand and frowned slightly, saying, "This matter..."

"——There must be something fishy about this!" For the sake of his own reputation, His Royal Highness the King of Chu was willing to risk everything: "Mother, I think you have fallen into the trap set by that tyrant king..."

"Hmm?" Empress Changsun found that her son was really good, and could always put the blame on his father: "Kuan'er, how could this matter be related to your father?"

“Mother, is there a possibility that the letter in your hand is just a cover-up—” His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu saw that his mother had finally been fooled… bah bah bah… fell into the trap, he immediately took a serious attitude and analyzed in all seriousness: “In the past, the letters sent by the Queen of Silla to my father were all embroidered on the bellyband, and this time… Mother, is there a possibility that the reason why my father gave you this letter from the Princess of Silla was to divert your attention… and then he… is probably still admiring the bellyband right now!”

“Kuan’er…” Empress Changsun looked at her own eldest son. She finally understood why her husband was so helpless when he mentioned this brat: “You really understand your father…”

"That's right, don't you see who is more heroic than who..." His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu was halfway through his words when he suddenly realized something was wrong, so he quickly corrected himself: "Of course, mother... my father's lustful habit... is a legacy of my royal grandfather... and has nothing to do with me..."

“Oh…” Seeing her son’s way of rounding off his words so beautifully, Empress Chang Sun didn’t know what to say anymore. She just let out a helpless bitter smile: “Okay, okay… Kuan’er, if you put it that way… Mother really can’t find any fault with you…”

"Alas... Mother, everyone says that my father was a great ruler, but I am the only one who knows that without you, the wise queen of all ages, his reputation would be doomed to be greatly reduced. Hiccup~~" After His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu finished speaking, he suddenly burped to suppress the rhyme.

It's a stroke of genius.

"You kid... you ate too much outside, and you have indigestion?" Empress Changsun was no longer surprised by her son's flattery. "I'll ask the Imperial Food Bureau to make you some medicinal soup to help you digest your food. Remember to drink it."

"Hmm, hmm, hmm..." His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu nodded hurriedly, and pointed carefully at the envelope on his mother's lap: "Well... Mother... Can your son ask a question?"

"Do you want to know what is written on it specifically?" Empress Changsun narrowed her eyes when she heard this.

"No, no..." His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu's ability to sense danger has been magnified to the extreme at this moment: "My son just wants to know... Mother, are you really not going to check whether my foolish father has hidden a bellyband? He is a habitual offender in this matter! Have you forgotten that I went to Taiji Hall to bring him dinner before..."

"You just mentioned your father as a 'great ruler'..." Empress Changsun found that her son was really... hard to describe at times...

"Oh, that was just now. Now he is a tyrant." After hearing his mother's words, His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu did not feel guilty at all: "The kind of tyrant who loses his mind due to lust!"

Hehehehe... Who asked that tyrant to stab me in the back?

Anyone who stabs me in the face will be exiled to Lingnan. How can anyone who stabs me in the back have a good ending?

In other words, I don’t have the power to banish that tyrant king now. Wait for me... Oh, that’s not right...

It seems... it should be... unlikely that I can possess such strength.

This is quite sad...

"When your father asked Zhang Nan to deliver this letter, he also told her that if you see this letter, you will definitely try to drag him down, so she told me not to believe you..."

"Mother... this is a guilty conscience!" Upon hearing this, His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu immediately complained for himself, "Besides, my son and you have a deep mother-son relationship, so I don't believe that you won't believe me!"

"Kuan'er...you're calling me 'mother' again..." Empress Changsun saw through her son's habit of being "righteous" and chose to strike back: "I want to ask you, are you really not interested in the princess of Silla?"

"Mother... my son can't even handle things in Chang'an now..." His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu didn't know what to say at this moment: "Why would I consider things outside Chang'an? Besides... my son really doesn't have any interest in those foreign princesses. Only a tyrant like my father and my royal grandfather would..."

"——that's why you can't forget those beauties, right?" It happened so fast. When the voice of His Majesty Li II just reached the ears of the King of Chu, the alert King of Chu had already strode to the side of Empress Changsun and protected her in front of him: "Mother, you have to make the decision for your son..."

"You, stop doing mischief!" Upon hearing this, Empress Changsun patted her son's head on her shoulder and said lovingly, "According to my opinion, you should learn a lesson!"

"How can you blame me for this!" Upon hearing this, His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu stood up immediately and angrily said to his parents, "Who did I offend? Ah?! I have never treated the Queen of Silla well from the beginning to the end! When I was in the northwest, the letters I wrote were all aimed at the lower three generations of the rulers of various countries. I... I have a loyal heart for our Great Tang, which can be seen by the heavens, the earth, the sun and the moon!"

"You don't need to make such a rude thing sound so tragic!" When His Majesty Li Er saw that this brat still had time to show him his talent, he immediately put on a stern face and teased him, "I guess the Silla princess heard about the heroic deeds of our Tang Dynasty's Prince of Chu and her love was aroused, so she made such a bold move."

"Is she so bold?" His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu thought that his father was really stupid. Didn't you see that mother's face had turned cold? "She was looking for death!"

"Are you trying to get me to say something?" When Emperor Li II saw his son trying to wink at him after he said this, how could he not understand what his son meant, but...

Emperor Li II then used his actions to prove what “your father is still your father” meant.

"Kuan'er..." The men of the Li family seemed to be born with the ability to be romantic. At this moment, His Majesty Li II did not even look at his wife, whose pretty face was already frosty. Instead, he began to reprimand his son in a serious tone: "Do you think your father does not know what the Queen of Silla is planning? But your father also has his own difficulties. If Goguryeo swallows up Silla and Baekje, it will be more troublesome for our Tang Dynasty to destroy it in the future. Therefore, I will be patient and nauseous, and pretend to be friendly with the Queen of Silla, in order to find a way to temporarily preserve these two countries, so that when necessary in the future, they can play a role in helping the Tang Dynasty defeat Goguryeo..."