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

"It was fine, how come the sky suddenly changed..." Fifty miles southwest of Yangshou Mountain, Shan Tianchang, who had sent Xiong Wushuang to His Majesty the King of Chu, looked at the dark clouds above his head with a somewhat surprised expression. He said to Xie Yingdeng beside him: "Foster father, I remember that when we came here just now, the sky was still clear..."

"Tianchang, come with me." Xie Yingdeng saw that there was a pre-arranged meeting place not far away. He thought for a moment and then said to Shan Tianchang, "There are some things I think I should let you know."

"Godfather?" Shan Tianchang had already sensed something was wrong in Xie Yingdeng's tone: "What can't we just say here?"

"Just follow me." Upon hearing this, Xie Yingdeng glanced at the other party, then rode his horse ahead and headed towards the pine forest on the opposite hillside.

"You just wait here." Shan Tianchang saw that Xie Yingdeng had already walked away on his own. He could only helplessly order his men to wait there. Then he followed the other party's figure and walked towards the pine forest.

After a while.

"Tianchang, that is the leader of my Dou family's retainers, Dou Shilun, Lord Dou." Without any nonsense, Xie Yingdeng waited for Shan Tianchang outside the pine forest, then he led him into the forest, and then the two of them saw Dou Shilun sitting quietly under an ancient pine tree.

"Mr. Xie, it has been more than ten years since we parted at Tongguan. You are still as strong as ever, but you look more like an immortal. This is a little surprising to Shi Lun." Dou Shi Lun looked at his old friend with a smile, and then he turned his gaze to Shan Tianchang, whose face had changed drastically: "Little brother, don't do anything stupid. There are more people in this forest than just me."

"Humph, I think it would be better if he killed you with one blow!" As a powerful voice sounded above the three people's heads, Dou Shilun felt a headache: "Mr. Jiang... I didn't mean to deceive Your Highness..."

"Heh..." Seeing that Dou Shilun was about to explain to him again, Jiang Qu simply jumped down from the tree trunk, then turned his wrist slightly and hit Shan Tianchang's hand that was quietly reaching for the hilt with the pine cone he had just picked up: "Boy, my prince can beat someone like you with one hand, so don't bother yourself by teasing me."

"Mr. Jiang!" When Xie Yingdeng saw Jiang Qu, he was immediately filled with fear and trepidation: "I haven't seen you for many years, Mr. Jiang is still as elegant as ever!"

"You're not bad either." Upon hearing this, Jiang Qu glanced at Xie Yingdeng lazily - when he went to Longyou to pay a visit to the old lady for the first time, Xie Yingdeng happened to be there too, and he was not very convinced of himself at that time.

But the good thing is that warriors - the real test is shown in their own hands. As long as they can defeat the opponent, the opponent will be convinced.

"Godfather, what on earth is going on?!" Shan Tianchang really couldn't describe his inner feelings at this moment - betrayal? Teasing? Deception?

"Tian Chang, I have never hurt you from the beginning to the end." Xie Yingdeng sighed after hearing this, and then he took out two old envelopes from his arms: "Take a look for yourself..."

"..." Upon hearing this, Shan Tianchang silently took the envelopes. Then, he opened one of the envelopes with "Thank you, brother" written on it and started reading.

After a long time.

"This is impossible... This is impossible..." Shan Tianchang never thought that his father would bow to the late Queen Taimu for him before he died.

"Tianchang, your mother passed away early, and when your father died, you were only a child of ten years old, so he naturally worried about you." Xie Yingdeng sighed silently after hearing this: "Back then... me, Wang Bodang, and Shan Xiongxin, although the three of us made different choices, there was still a friendship between us after all.

Wang Bodang was the first one to leave among the three of us, and Shan Xiongxin eventually followed in his footsteps... Their deaths made me understand that sometimes people can only choose the right path if they take a step back first." Xie Yingdeng said this and suddenly sighed: "Tianchang, the old lady... is actually someone your father admires. It's a pity that he didn't listen to the advice and always felt that the old lady's words were just to win him over. But when he was really at the end of his rope, he realized that the words the old lady said to him back then were all good advice..."

"I don't believe it... I still don't believe it!" Although Shan Tianchang recognized his father's handwriting on the letter, he just couldn't understand why his father would beg his adoptive father in the letter to go to Longyou to find Queen Taimu. Could it be that... I can be where I am today because of that person's grace? !

"You haven't read the second letter yet." Jiang Qu suddenly pointed to another letter in Shan Tianchang's hand: "Maybe there is the answer you want in it."

"..." At this moment, Dan Tianchang really wanted to curse at Jiang Qu.

But...looking at the moment when the other party flicked his fingers to shoot the pine cone, he knew that he'd better not be impulsive.

If pine cones in May can be used as hidden weapons, then if they were replaced with stones, one of my hands would probably be crippled.

"Remember to return the old lady's letter to me after you read it." Xie Yingdeng suddenly said, "I have never received a great favor from anyone in my life, except the old lady."

"..." What else could Dan Tianchang say...

Then he carefully opened the second letter and began to read.

A long time passed.

"Mr. Dou..." After reading the letter, Shan Tianchang's voice was a little hoarse, and his tone was no longer as arrogant as before: "Is everything in this letter true? The Black Mountain bandits...are all members of the Dou family?"

"Yes." Dou Shilun nodded when he heard this: "It was a long time ago."

"As expected of a family with a history of nearly a thousand years... they are indeed good at it..." Shan Tianchang didn't know what he should think at this moment: "So... I am where I am today... It is indeed thanks to the care that the old lady gave me..."

"The old lady had a little kindness towards you back then. Firstly, it was because Shan Xiongxin respected her back then. Secondly... it was because His Royal Highness the King of Chu was seriously ill at that time. The old lady wanted to do good deeds for her grandson, so she asked Xie Yingdeng to take you to Taihang Mountain." Dou Shilun sometimes had to sigh at the fate of all this: "Shan Tianchang, it's a coincidence that not long after this incident, His Royal Highness the King of Chu, who was originally on the verge of death, actually gradually got better under the treatment of the old Taoist priest and Taoist Sun. For this reason, the old lady specially issued an order to allocate one-third of the land in Taihang Mountain to you."