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

"Subordinates..." Faced with such a dangerous situation, the guard could not help but obey orders.

"Forget it, let's just wait a while." Wang Gui realized that he had lost his composure and suddenly sighed. Then he led the Xue brothers to stand outside the Suzaku Gate and began to wait silently.

But while waiting, the old man's hand gently brushed the scroll in his arms more than once, and his eyes were filled with unspeakable sadness.

After a while.

"Prince, and General Xue, what are you doing?" Chang He, who had hurried over after hearing the news, looked calm at the moment, but his heart was already beating like a drum - Xue Wanjun... actually dared to leave his post without permission? !

Damn it... If it weren't for these three people coming, Chang He even felt that he would have to defend the palace gate to the death today!

"I and others have important matters to attend to and need to see Your Majesty. Can you please let us pass?" Wang Gui turned slowly upon hearing this. He glanced at Chang He indifferently, his tone somewhat cold.

"..."For some reason, Chang He felt that Shangshu Wang had become a little strange to him today.

The old man who used to be friendly to everyone he met, today was like a sword unsheathed, with a terrifying aura surrounding him.

"Not saying anything? That means you tacitly agree." Wang Gui didn't give Chang He much time to think. After he finished speaking, he ran away.

The Xue brothers followed closely.

"..."Chang He was left there by the three of them.

Meanwhile, in the Taiji Hall, His Majesty Li Er, who had received the news, was already furious: "How dare Xue Wanjun leave his post without permission, abandoning his military duties and returning to Chang'an alone? And what is Wang Gui trying to do? Is he going to die in protest?! I'll satisfy him!"

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..." Zhang Nan, who had delivered the news, leaned forward on the ground, sweat dripping down his forehead. "Minister Wang and General Xue... are of high status. Commander Chang meant that your Majesty needs to make clear instructions on how to deal with them..."

"Let them come in! I want to take a look..." The anger did not cloud the mind of Emperor Li Er. At this time, he already had a clear understanding of the identities of the three people.

However, Emperor Li II might not have expected that once the veil of family affection was torn apart, what awaited him was not what he thought was "under control".

"Your Majesty seems to be very angry today..." - Just when His Majesty Li II had just given the order to meet the three people, Wang Gui had already brought the Xue brothers into the Taiji Hall.

"You have entered without permission... Are you planning a rebellion?" - As the chief eunuch, Zhang Nan was in charge of the palace. He was almost unconscious about what he should say and do at this time: "Someone..."

"Who is coming?" Xue Wanche was a man with a very bad temper. Seeing that Zhang Nan was about to make trouble, he raised his foot and was ready to kick him.

"Wan Che, don't be rude!" Seeing his brother was about to make trouble again, Xue Wanjun quickly pulled Xue Wan Che's arm and scolded him, "If you have your own temper today and hurt Zhang Zongguan, it will be strange if His Royal Highness the King of Chu doesn't punish you later!"

"..." Upon hearing this, Xue Wanche touched his nose and said nothing.

"Your Majesty, your servant Xue Wanjun pays homage!" - After scolding his brother, Xue Wanjun turned around and paid homage to His Majesty Li Er.

"Xue Wanjun, when did I let you return to Chang'an from Lingzhou?" Emperor Li II looked at Xue Wanjun in front of him with a gloomy expression. While he was speaking, a large number of soldiers had rushed into the hall from outside and surrounded the three people.

"I am following orders to return to Chang'an." Xue Wanjun remained calm when he heard this.

"Whose order is it? The King of Chu?" Emperor Li II was in a very bad mood.

"I am following the orders of the last Dou family priest, the old Heavenly Master Zhang Yun!" Xue Wanjun slowly raised his head upon hearing this and looked at His Majesty Li Er, who was now in shock: "I am originally a servant of the Dou family!"

boom!

Even though Emperor Li II had been mentally prepared, he still couldn't bear the blow when he learned the truth.

After a long time.

"You all retreat!" Emperor Li II first waved away the soldiers who entered the hall, and then looked at Zhang Nan on the ground: "You, guard outside the door, and don't allow anyone to approach!"

"Yes...Yes!" Zhang Nan stood up tremblingly after hearing that.

Even a eunuch knows how terrible today's events are...

General Xue...is actually a retainer of the Dou family...

This... this, this, this...

After the irrelevant people dispersed, His Majesty Li II turned his gaze to Xue Wanjun again. The first sentence he said was about the Xuanwu Gate Incident: "So... at the beginning, you two brothers attacked Xuanwu Gate first, and then when you saw that Xuanwu Gate could not be breached, you turned to attack the Qin Palace... Was that all acting?"

"Your Majesty, sometimes the loyal ministers you think are not necessarily loyal ministers, and the treacherous people you think are not necessarily treacherous." Xue Wanjun smiled when he heard this, and then continued: "When Feng Li saw that Li Jiancheng was killed and the Xuanwu Gate could not be captured for a long time, he insisted on turning to attack the Qin Palace. He had a lot of troops under his command at that time, and my two brothers had no choice but to take the initiative to take on this matter, but in fact..." When Xue Wanjun said this, he stopped talking silently, which was considered to be the end.

"..." The expression on Emperor Li II's face was unpredictable at this moment. He vaguely knew the purpose of the three people's trip.

"Are you here to persuade me to stop?" His Majesty Li II sat back on the throne, his tone full of anger: "I... will not be coerced by anyone!"

"In that case, then Your Majesty..." Wang Gui, who had been silent all this time, suddenly took a few steps forward and came right in front of His Majesty Li Er. Then he raised the scroll in his arms high and unfolded it in front of him.

"Wow..." As the scroll unfolded, Emperor Li II, who was about to say something, stopped talking again.

In fact, the scroll in Wang Gui's hand is not a masterpiece of a famous artist. It is just a portrait of a grandfather and grandson painted by an old man who asked a painter to paint for him and his grandson after his grandson recovered from a serious illness.

The old woman in the painting is sitting in the garden, holding in her arms her darling grandson who has just recovered from a serious illness and is wearing a tiger-head hat - the well-behaved Prince of Chu in his childhood. In his hands, he is also holding a bronze dove cart - that is the toy his grandmother just gave him. He treasures it so much that even when the painter came to paint a portrait of him and his grandmother, he was reluctant to put it down.

His Majesty Li II looked at the happy grandparents and grandchildren in the painting, and he didn't know what he felt. Especially when he learned that his mother finally sided with him... and now he...

His Majesty Li II's eyes unconsciously lingered on the doting look that Empress Taimu gave her grandson, and...

and many more……

"What is that?" His Majesty Li Er slowly stood up and pointed at the white jade ring on Empress Taimu's hand in the painting and asked, "How come this ring... is in my mother's hand?"

"I thought Your Majesty was going to ask where the bronze chariot in His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu's hand came from?" Wang Gui sneered upon hearing this, as if he was deliberately trying to provoke His Majesty Li II. "Your Majesty, you don't know that the bronze chariot was originally a pair. It is said that it was a birthday gift given to her grandson by Empress Dou of the Western Han Dynasty. In terms of origin... this chariot is bigger than any white jade ring..."