Chapter 326: Anger

"What? Qian'er is injured? As soon as Li Shimin heard the report of the chamberlain, he suddenly panicked. Although he was a little dissatisfied with this son's leisurely behavior of abandoning school, after all, it was his own son, and he was just playful, and there was nothing wrong with it, so when he heard the waiter say this, Li Shimin's heart panicked for a moment.

"Back to Your Majesty's words, this matter is absolutely true. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is being treated in the Tai Hospital! The chamberlain replied with some trepidation.

Li Shimin pondered for a moment, and shook his sleeves suddenly: "Let's go, call a few people, and follow me to the Tai Hospital to have a look!" ”

"But Your Majesty, it's ...... day."

Glancing at the palace lights that were gradually lit up outside, Li Shimin said, "What's wrong with this day?" Back then, when I was galloping on the battlefield, it was common to steal camps at night! Less nonsense, go ahead! ”

The chamberlain stepped back and summoned a few guards.

Li Shimin strode out of the palace gate and walked in the front. The chamberlains and guards hurriedly followed.

When I came to the hospital, I saw that the lights were bright and the voices were boiling. From time to time, people would run down the hall with hot potions or other plasters.

Li Shimin stretched out and grabbed a young boy who was running towards the hall.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he grabbed it, the boy shouted without looking back: "What are you doing?" I'm going to deliver medicine to the prince, and if it's delayed, you'll be guilty...... Ah, Your Majesty! Speaking of the back, the boy finally turned to look at the person behind him, and when he saw it, he was startled and couldn't help shouting.

Hearing the boy's shout, everyone in the courtyard who was still running suddenly froze as if they had been immobilized, and their eyes looked in the direction of Li Shimin at the same time.

"Greetings to Your Majesty, villain!" After a while, I don't know if it was the sleep leader, everyone in the courtyard bowed down.

Li Shimin said "um", and said lightly: "You don't have to be polite, just keep busy!" ”

Although Li Shimin said this, these people did not move at all.

Seeing this, Li Shimin no longer spoke, but walked directly into the hall.

At the moment when Li Shimin was in the hall today, these people kneeling in the courtyard slowly got up, and then gathered together excitedly, and talked nonsense: "See, the one just now is Your Majesty!" Wow, what a majestic and upright figure! ”

"Yes, yes, Your Majesty's eyes swept away, and that kind of momentum made me wait for the little people to raise their heads in horror!"

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Entering the hall, the first thing that caught my eye was Li Chengqian, who was dressed in a black robe, lying on the bed, his eyes slightly closed, not knowing if he had fallen asleep. The ankle of the left foot was wrapped in a thick gauze cloth, and the yellow medicine and red blood were mixed together, giving it a strange brown color.

"Weichen see Your Majesty!" At the moment when Li Shimin entered the hall, a group of imperial doctors bowed to the ground at the same time.

"No need to be polite, get up!" Li Shimin said with a smile.

However, several imperial doctors still fell to their knees and did not get up.

Seeing this, Li Shimin frowned slightly and said, "Why are you still kneeling on the ground?" ”

"The minister is guilty!" These doctors who specialize in orthopedics buried their heads even deeper.

Hearing this, Li Shimin's heart couldn't help but flash a trace of uneasiness, but he still forced a smile in his mouth and asked, "What kind of crime are you waiting for?" ”

"The ministers are incompetent, and they are powerless to save His Royal Highness the Prince!" The imperial physicians knelt on the ground and quickly exchanged glances, and an elderly man replied helplessly, "Your Highness's left ankle was hit by a heavy object, the flesh was broken, and the ankle bone was shattered, and it was no longer incurable......

"What will happen to the prince in the future?" Li Shimin's calm voice could hardly hide an uncontrollable surprise and anger.

The old imperial doctor was silent for a moment, gritted his teeth, and finally said, "The prince will leave footprints in the future, and he will have difficulty moving!" ”

It was like a bolt from the blue, Li Shimin only felt that his brain was blank, and he only recovered after a while. He slowly walked to the bed, sat down slowly, and looked at Li Chengqian, whose eyes were slightly closed, starting from his face and scanning all the way down to his ankles.

At this moment, he suddenly felt that the brown patches on the gauze were so dazzling and so shocking.

After a few moments, he stood up again, his face regaining its majesty. He slowly glanced at the people in the hall, only to see that in this hall, except for the imperial doctor and Li Chengqian, he didn't even see a single guard of the East Palace, and immediately shouted angrily: "What about the guards of the East Palace? ”

It was the old imperial physician who replied: "Back to Your Majesty, there are a total of eleven guards in the East Palace, two of whom are seriously injured and are being treated on the side, and the rest are in the side hall!" ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he immediately moved and prepared to walk towards the door. However, after not taking two steps, he suddenly seemed to remember something, turned around, and asked the old imperial doctor: "By the way, the Qing family just said that Qian'er's leg was hit by a heavy object, I don't know if the Qing family can see what the heavy object is?" ”

The old imperial doctor's lips trembled for a moment, and finally he uttered a sentence: "When the prince was sent, there were two cow hoof prints on his left ankle!" ”

As soon as he heard this answer, Li Shimin's face suddenly became difficult to look at.

Turning his head, he stepped out of the hall and headed for the side hall.

The chamberlain who was walking behind saw Li Shimin, who was walking in front, clenching his hands into fists, and between his feet, a killing intent gradually emerged, and he immediately knew that those East Palace guards in the side hall were afraid that they would suffer.

Coming to the side hall, Li Shimin's gaze swept over every East Palace guard who knelt on the ground, and his eyes were cold: "Which of you tells me what is going on?" Why was the prince injured, or was he trampled by a cow? ”

Hearing Li Shimin say such a sentence coldly, these guards, along with Yun Ping, couldn't help but tremble slightly at the same time, and buried their heads deeper.

"You say!" Li Shimin urged.

Finally, one of the guards spoke: "Your Majesty wants to ask the Yun guards about this matter, from the very beginning, he has been staying with His Highness, and we were called halfway!" ”

Li Shimin suddenly snorted coldly: "Which one is the cloud guard?" ”

When Yun Ping heard this, he was shocked, and said tremblingly: "Villain, villain is!" ”

"Don't tell the truth about the whole thing!"

Yun Ping hesitated for a moment, slowly spoke, and told the whole story of the incident. Of course, his wife and children were taken captive, and he still kept it a secret.

After Li Shimin heard this, he laughed angrily, and said in a loud voice: "What a good Su Gan Chengji, good you are a Yunping, and my good son, even doing such a thing as stealing cattle is simply ridiculous!" Come on, take all these people down for the time being, and when the prince wakes up, I will deal with these people in front of him! ”

Several guards poured into the house, scattering around the kneeling guards of the East Palace in the house.

The prince's theft of cattle is a big scandal, so at the court meeting, Li Shimin said two things, and the focus was on the punishment of the people in the East Palace. Among them, Su Gan Chengji once said that he would prevent Li Chengqian from leaving the palace, but he was demoted by two levels and ordered not to talk about Turkic affairs. And the ten guards were all expelled from the East Palace. Among them, the two guards who worked hard to save Li Chengqian were transferred to the palace by Li Shimin, and the remaining eight were arranged into Yulinwei, which can be regarded as a reward for meritorious service, and punishment for mistakes. And the heaviest punishment was Na Yunping, because it was he who directly pushed Li Chengqian out of the palace and caused this incident to happen, so Li Shimin directly put this person in the prison and prepared to be beheaded after the autumn.

After listening to Li Shimin's verdict, the ministers of civil and military affairs below were speechless. Only Li Chengqian, who was sitting on a stool on the side, buried his head and didn't know what he was thinking.

Opposite Li Chengqian, Li Tai was wearing a dark red robe, looking at Li Chengqian's left foot, his eyes radiating a light of schadenfreude.

When Zhang Yunwen saw Li Tai's eyes, he was also angry.

Just after he met Li Chengqian's carriage on the street and heard Li Chengqian's voice, he sent several of his own soldiers out early the next morning to inquire about the news.

It took most of the day for these people to finally find out some scattered information. For example, the two ploughing oxen that were slaughtered by the guards of the East Palace were taken away that night, and when they asked the surrounding peasants, they were told that they had never seen these two ploughing oxen, and they did not know where they came from. Another example is the small tree with two cows tied to it, although there are signs of breaking on it, but the color of the break is lighter, not like it was broken yesterday, but like it was broken this morning. In addition, they also found a lot of sawdust at the base of the small tree, which was left after the saw sawed it.

There's a whole bunch of news like that. After handing it over to Zhang Yunwen to sort it out, Zhang Yunwen quickly saw the mystery. All clues show that Li Chengqian was trampled on by a ploughing ox this time, and then left a foot disease, which was not an accident, but was deliberately arranged by someone. As for the carcasses of the two cows, I am afraid that those people moved the carcasses of the cows in order to prevent the people of Dali Temple or the Criminal Department from finding forage in the stomachs of the cows that were easy to cause the cows to be irritable!

Who will benefit the most from this incident? Li Tai, of course. Li Shimin was originally a little dissatisfied with Li Chengqian, and as soon as the cattle theft incident came out, I am afraid that Li Shimin would be even more dissatisfied. If Li Chengqian becomes a cripple, what will happen to Li Shimin's attitude towards the East Palace? There's a lot going on here.

No wonder Li Tai invited me to a cultural meeting that day, first, to take the opportunity to solicit, and secondly, to gather all his cronies here, but there is no meaning of letting Zhang Yunwen testify for him. If someone finds traces of Li Chengqian's injury, he can push it all away, and let Zhang Yunwen testify for him.

Thinking of this, an inexplicable anger came out of Zhang Yunwen's heart, and this feeling of being calculated made people quite unhappy. While pacing in the house, he was thinking about whether to tell Li Shimin about these situations.

Finally, he made a decision. Instead, he crumpled up the information he had gained and threw it into the incense burner next to him.

A moment later, a flame rose from the hollow incense burner, and it didn't take long for the incense burner to be dark again, and the paper had been burned.