Li Shimin and Chai Shao came to Li Yuan's study, and the scholar reported for them, came out to salute and smiled: "The master is waiting for you, please come in!" ”

Li Shimin and Chai Shao walked into the study, Li Shimin found that in addition to his father, there was a Taoist priest in the room, the Taoist priest was about thirty years old, with a half-foot black beard under his chin, wearing a bamboo crown, and wearing a Chu-colored Tai Chi Taoist robe, which looked a little shabby, but his eyes were clear and extraordinarily bright.

"The child meets his father!" Li Shimin knelt down and saluted respectfully to his father Li Yuan.

Li Yuan made a special trip back to the capital to visit relatives, in order to eliminate Yang Guang's suspicion of him, he left his wife and children in the capital, and every one or two months to return to Beijing, stay for three or five days and then return to Taiyuan.

"My son is exempt!"

Li Yuan smiled and asked Li Shimin to get up, and then introduced him to the Taoist priest beside him, "This is Daoist Wei, and he is your brother's best friend in Wagang Mountain." ”

Wei Zheng and Chai Shao were very familiar, but it was the first time he saw Li Shimin, and he hurriedly clasped his palms together and saluted, "Poor Wei Zheng, I have seen the second son!" ”

Li Shimin returned the salute and smiled: "It turned out to be Wei Xianchang, I don't know if my brother is good in Wagang?" ”

"He is very good, generous and humble, and everyone in Wagang respects him very much."

At this time, Li Yuan said to Li Shimin and Chai Shao again: "Daochang Wei entered Beijing this time on behalf of Zhai Rang to meet the new head of Wuchuan Mansion, but he just got the news that Yuan Min is going to send his clan Sun Yuanyong to Wagang, and it is obvious that he is also fighting the idea of the Wagang army." ”

Li Shimin and Chai Shao looked at each other, their eyes showed shock, if this is the case, the eldest brother will be in danger, Chai Shao suddenly said urgently: "If this is the case, we must get rid of this Yuan Yong, I suggest setting up an ambush halfway." ”

Li Yuan saw that his second son Li Shimin was silent, so he asked, "What do Shimin think?" ”

Li Shimin bowed down and said: "The child is thinking, if Yuan Yong goes to Wagang, it may not be a completely bad thing, at least Yuan Min doesn't dare to talk about the eldest brother in Wagang." ”

Li Yuan nodded. "But have you thought about it, once the Yuan family takes away the Wagang Army, it will have a great impact on us."

Li Shimin asked Wei Zheng again: "May I ask Immortal Chief, is it possible for the Wagang Army to divide the troops?" ”

Wei Zheng couldn't help but secretly praise the cleverness of the second son of the Li family. He pondered for a moment and said: "It's not impossible to divide the troops, but there is a premise, that is, the arrival of Yuan Yong cannot affect the status of Jiancheng, if it is changed to Yuan Yong to represent Wuchuan Mansion, then Jiancheng will lose the status of representing Wuchuan Mansion." There is no reason to divide the troops, even if General Zhai agrees, the other Wagang generals will not agree, either like Chai Gongzi's plan, get rid of Yuan Yong first, or find a way to delay Yuan Yong to Wagang. ”

Several people looked at Li Yuan, and on this issue, it was only Li Yuan who could decide.

Li Yuan pondered for a moment and said slowly: "The consequences of killing Yuan Yong are too serious, and this plan cannot be adopted until it is forced to do so." Let's do our best! Delay Yuan Yong to Wagang. ”

He stood up and said, "Without further ado, I'll go to Dou Mansion now!" ”

A simple carriage drove out of the Li Mansion under the strict escort of several sword-armed retinues, heading towards the Dou Mansion, this carriage was no different from the usual carriages on the street, and even a little more dilapidated.

Since Li Yuan was severely reprimanded by Yang Guang, he has changed his previous luxury, his life has become very simple, he no longer drinks alcohol, respects the old and the virtuous, and completely restores his image as a good man. It has also won wide praise from the court and the people, and the generous and virtuous Li Gong has returned.

In the carriage, in addition to Li Yuan, his second son Li Shimin was also followed. Although Li Shimin is not very old, he is young and old, and he has maturity and wisdom that is not commensurate with his youth.

Li Yuan has deeply experienced the help of his second son, and he will let his second son do many things that are inconvenient for him to come forward.

"Father, will my grandfather promise to help my eldest brother?" Li Shimin asked with some uneasiness.

Li Yuan smiled at Li Shimin and said, "He will definitely help your brother, he was the one who tried his best to persuade your brother to go to Wagang." Now that the peaches are about to ripen, the Yuan family is going to pick peaches, how can he stand idly by? ”

"The child understands that there are things that we don't do, but let the grandfather do it, does the child understand it correctly?"

Li Yuan nodded, "The son can be taught!" ”

The carriage slowly stopped at the gate of Dou Mansion, and an attendant ran up the steps to negotiate, and after a short time, Dou Kang hurriedly walked out of the mansion gate.

Dou Kang is the brother of Li Yuan's wife Dou clan, about fifty years old, and Li Yuan has a close relationship, in the era of Emperor Wen of Sui, he successively served as the governor of Qizhou and Youzhou.

After Yang Guang ascended the throne, he attacked the Guanlong nobles, Dou Kang was dismissed, and he is currently idle at home, in charge of family affairs, although the head of the Dou family is Dou Qing, but the actual family affairs are fully responsible for Dou Kang.

Dou Kang asked with a smile: "Shude, when will you come back?" ”

Li Yuan smiled, "I just arrived yesterday to see my family, how is my father-in-law, I heard that he is not in good health?" ”

Dou Kang's eyes were gloomy and he shook his head, "Let's go in and talk about it!" ”

At this time, Li Shimin gave his uncle a salute, Dou Kang led their father and son into the house, the two sat down in the inner hall, Li Shimin stood behind his father, Dou Kang sighed and said: "The head of the family is really not in good health, I just fell asleep, I'm afraid I can't see Shude for the time being." ”

Speaking of this, Dou Kang said apologetically: "There must be something wrong with Shude coming here today, you might as well tell me first." ”

"I'm worried that something might happen over there."

Li Yuan roughly explained the news that Wei Zheng had revealed to him, and finally said: "I hope that the Dou family can come forward to prevent or delay Yuan Yong's departure to Wagang, this matter is very important, I hope my brother will tell my father-in-law." ”

"Don't worry! I'll tell you. ”

At this time, Dou Kang suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said: "The head of the family gave Shude a thing, I was planning to go to your mansion in the next two days, and it happened that the virtuous brother came, so I will go and get it, and the virtuous brother will sit down for a while!" ”

Dou Kang got up and went to the backyard, only Li Yuan's father and son were left in the inner hall, Li Shimin whispered to his father: "Grandfather must still be awake and knows that we are coming." ”

"How do you know?"

"Uncle was very hesitant just now, if the child is not mistaken, my uncle is going to see my grandfather now."

Li Yuan nodded silently, his son was right, in fact, he also felt it, it was his father-in-law who refused to see him, and he sighed secretly in his heart.

After a while, Dou Kang hurriedly entered the inner hall with a wooden box, and he handed the box to Li Yuan and said, "This is what the head of the family gave to Shude, let me personally hand it over to Shude." ”

"What is this?" Li Yuan asked puzzled.

"Shude, go back and see!"

Li Yuan understood Dou Kang's meaning, so he put away the box and said, "It's not early, then I won't bother, leave first!" ”

Dou Kang kept sending Li Yuan away, and then hurried back to the inner house.

As Li Shimin guessed, Dou Qing did not rest, at this time he was sitting in the study reading and recuperating, but during this time Dou Qing was indeed in poor health, he has been sick twice in a row this year, and he resigned as the head of Wuchuan, which is more or less related to his poor health.

At this time, the door opened, and Dou Kang walked in, "Family master, they have already left." ”

Dou Qing nodded, "Something for Shude?" ”

"It's already been given."

"That's good, then you can go and rest too!"

Dou Kang hesitated, and then asked in a low voice: "What about the Yuan family's trip to Wagang?" ”

"I'll take care of this matter, you don't have to worry, go ahead!"

Dou Kang knew that the head of the family would definitely go to Dugu Shun, so he didn't say anything more, and Shi Yili retreated.

At this time, Dou Qing asked the scholar next to him again: "What's the matter?" ”

The scholar took out a letter, "It's a quick letter from Miss Zhang from Shandong." ”

"Give it to me!"

Dou Qing took Zhang Chuchen's express letter, he opened the letter and read it, and couldn't help laughing, "Yes, I actually stationed troops in Beihai County and Donglai County, this kid's ambition was exposed so quickly." ”

Dou Qing has been paying attention to Zhang Xuan's every move, he ordered his righteous daughter to go to Shandong, that is, to monitor Zhang Xuan, a few days ago Zhang Chuchen sent a letter to say, Zhang Xuan refused the Bohai Society Gao Hui's wooing, which made Dou Qing very pleased, Zhang Xuan didn't even accept the wooing of the Wuchuan Society, how could he accept the solicitation of the Bohai Society, Gao Hui thought about the problem too simply.

Dou Qing pondered for a moment, he picked up the pen and wrote a short message to Zhang Chuchen, sealed it and handed it to the scholar, "Let Yan Gongzi send this letter to Shandong immediately, don't use the eagle letter, send someone to deliver it." ”

"I see!"

The scholar saluted, took the letter and retreated.

Dou Qing's train of thought returned to Li Yuan's matter, Zhang Xuan's matter is a vision, and Li Yuan's matter is imminent, Dou Qing sighed, this Yuan Min doesn't let himself feel at ease! It seems that he has to find Dugu Shun tomorrow. (To be continued.) )