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

"Your Highness..." Wang Xuance did not expect that His Highness the King of Chu would bring up again the somewhat heavy topic that the two of them had tacitly put aside earlier.

"Of course, ordinary teasing doesn't count." His Royal Highness the King of Chu didn't wait for Wang Xuance to be moved for even three or two breaths, and turned around and shouted outside: "Yuwen Qing! Wang Xuance called you an ugly freak and said that you didn't look for the tiger, but picked up a mountain cat. It's really cheap. Yuwen Qing, can we tolerate this?"

“No, Your Highness…” Wang Xuance really wanted to curse now—he had only said an idiom, but His Highness the King of Chu had “annotated” it so “detailedly”…

how to say……

This old man really likes to watch the fun...

"Wang Xuance!" - Sure enough, Yuwen Qing's roar was heard outside the door at this moment, and the mountain cat cub that he had originally held in his hand had now been put on the ground. After eating and drinking its fill, the cub lay obediently at the feet of its owner and began to look curiously into the bamboo building.

"Wang Xuance, you wait for me..." - When Yuwen Qing was ready to avenge his previous humiliation in front of His Royal Highness the King of Chu, suddenly, Niu Yong's voice came from a distance: "Brother Yuwen, is Brother Kuan here? Someone is coming from Chang'an! Tell him to come to the meeting hall quickly!"

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"Who is it? It's so big that I have to go to see him in person?" His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu was strangling Wang Xuance's neck and trying to drag him out of the house. However, after hearing Niu Yong's shout, he couldn't help but stop what he was doing: "My father came in person? Impossible..."

“Your Highness… Your Highness…” Wang Xuance finally broke free from his restraints, but he was not indignant for a moment about his fate: “Your Majesty is definitely unable to come in person, but from Niu Yong’s tone, it seems that the matter is very urgent…”

"What's the emergency?" Upon hearing this, His Royal Highness the King of Chu glanced at Wang Xuance and said, "Don't act so smart, Niu Yong is just running and panting."

“……”Wang Xuance was speechless for a moment.

"Let's go, let's go," His Royal Highness the King of Chu suddenly put his arm around Wang Xuance's shoulders and said, "Let's go meet that dog..."

"——Oh, Lord Wei! Why is it you?!" When His Royal Highness the King of Chu saw that the person coming was Wei Zheng, he immediately put away his previous arrogance and domineering attitude: "Speaking of Lord Wei, they say that a day without seeing you is like a long time, but when I saw you today, why do I feel that you are more handsome than before?"

“Haha…hahaha…” Wei Zheng was a man who never smiled, but His Royal Highness the King of Chu…he looked quite funny: “Your Royal Highness the King of Chu, I just want the concierge at home to stop receiving strange gifts – for example, roast goose from Yunlangxuan, lamb tripe from Yuhualou, Sanlejiang from Zuiyunjian…”

"Oh..." His Highness the Prince of Chu saw that if Wei Zheng continued to talk, his little thoughts would be exposed, so he simply said it himself: "The roast goose is for your wife, and the lamb tripe is what Shuyi likes to eat. As for Sanlejiang... I heard that Lord Wei likes to drink with vinegar and celery, and Sanlejiang is the best wine..."

"Then why didn't His Royal Highness the King of Chu send me vinegar celery?" Seeing that His Royal Highness the King of Chu had admitted it voluntarily, Wei Zheng directly asked the biggest doubt in his heart in front of the younger generation such as Li Huairen who had just walked in.

"Shu Yi told me...your wife, that is, my Aunt Pei, doesn't like you to eat that stuff, so I had no choice but to send you Sanlejiang..."

"Wow..." Niu Yong, who had listened to the whole thing, put away his usual aloofness. He gave a thumbs up to His Royal Highness the King of Chu: This is... full of knowledge points...

You deserve it, Kuan Ge'er, you have so many peach blossoms...

"..." Wei Zheng had never thought that His Royal Highness the King of Chu could really live so purely: "Your Highness, I have rarely obeyed anyone in my life, but from today on, you will be one of them."

"Did you hear that?" Upon hearing that, His Royal Highness the King of Chu immediately turned around and said to his brothers, "When we return to Chang'an, you guys will know what to do, right?"

"Ahem... um..." Upon hearing this, the members of the Chang'an Bandits began scratching their ears and looking at each other. Anyway, no one dared to meet the eyes of His Royal Highness the King of Chu at this time.

But there are two exceptions.

"Cousin, you shouldn't be so arrogant..." Chai Lingwu knew that his father had a good personal relationship with Wei Zheng, but he believed that as a cousin, he had the obligation to remind his cousin at critical moments to keep a low profile in front of his future father-in-law.

Of course, he was only responsible for giving reminders - if Kuan Ge'er didn't give Wei Zheng face, Chai Lingwu certainly wouldn't give it either.

"Understood! Brother Kuan!" - Compared to Chai Lingwu, Li Huairen was even braver: "Within three days, within three days! I guarantee that everyone in Chang'an will know that Duke Wei holds you in high esteem!"

"You bastard!" Wei Zheng had not expected that Li Huairen would be so honest. "You only listen to the tone of my words? Is that what I mean?!"

“Lord Wei, please calm down… Actually… I have also studied hard… But I feel… there doesn’t seem to be any other meaning in what you said… You just admire my brother Kuan…” Li Huairen knew how to confront the big guys: be very timid, but not completely timid.

"Forget it, forget it..." Wei Zheng didn't come here to argue with a bunch of little talkers this time: "Your Highness, the King of Chu, His Majesty asked me to ask you, do we still need to suppress the bandits in Taihang Mountain?"

"Alas!" When His Royal Highness the King of Chu heard Wei Zheng say this, he knew that his father probably knew everything. Now he was waiting for him, the real leader of the Taihang Mountain bandits, to express his opinion: "Mr. Wei, this is wrong! After all, you are also a famous minister in the Zhenguan period--"

"——Is I now a famous minister in the Zhenguan period?" Wei Zheng did not expect that His Royal Highness the King of Chu would be so flexible.

"If I need you, Duke Wei, you could also be a treacherous minister during the Zhenguan period, right?" Upon hearing this, His Royal Highness the King of Chu launched a counterattack.

"It was my fault just now. I shouldn't have interrupted you... Your Highness, please continue..." Wei Zheng felt uncomfortable when he remembered that his daughter would run to his study every now and then, hug his arm, and hesitantly say good things to him about the brat in front of her.

The cabbage I have worked so hard to grow for more than ten years will eventually be sold to this little wild boar...

"Bandits, where are the bandits? Duke Wei," His Royal Highness the King of Chu's intelligence and wisdom were fully demonstrated in his next words: "Just tell my father that there are no bandits in the Taihang Mountains. They are just some people who have been displaced and forced to hide in the mountains to survive because of successive wars in the past few hundred years of turmoil. Now that the prosperous Tang Dynasty is about to begin, these people who grew up in the Taihang Mountains and died in the Taihang Mountains for generations should also leave the mountains again, let the court register them as residents, and give them hope to start a happy life again.

As long as we handle this matter properly, I believe that this will not only be a great achievement that will shine in the long river of history, but it will also largely eliminate the resistance that the people of Hebei Province had towards the court because of my royal grandfather's order to execute Dou Jiande. Duke Wei, what do you think?"

"..."Wei Zheng was dumbfounded at this moment.

Not only him, but everyone in the meeting hall was also dumbfounded.

No...is this still the familiar King of Chu (Kuan Ge'er)?

Why do I feel so unfamiliar...