"Yun'er, you really don't know the matter of passing the edict for the father?" After a long silence, Li Shimin spoke again. He did not pretend to be an emperor, like ordinary people. He spoke in a father-son relationship, with a strong affection in his tone. .
"Baby knows!" Li Kuan answered truthfully. Li Shimin was not surprised by the result. He had guessed that Li Kuan deliberately avoided him. He looked at Li Yuan's wall portrait with a faint sadness in his eyes, and then said, "You don't want to come back?"
"I don't want to!" Li Kuan replied affirmatively, "Nowadays, the wind is surging, and the child does not want to be involved in it, nor does he want to be a thorn in the eyes of others. As for fame and fortune, it is not my goal. The reason is repeated again and again. There is too much helplessness in entering the dynasty."
Li Shimin sighed. Li Kuan looked at Li Yuan's wall portrait, and his tears slipped quietly. "I almost drowned when I was six years old. My grandfather stayed with me and taught me carefully. The only relative in my heart is my grandfather."
"In the ninth year of Zhenguan, my grandfather left me. There are no more people and things worthy of me in the huge capital. You are my biological father, but I know you never regard me as a son in your heart, and I have never been the same. Think of you as my father."
Li Shimin felt a little bit sorrowful in his heart, his eyes were moist and he wanted to talk, his heart felt like a needle pierced by pain in his heart. But Li Kuan’s statement was true. It was the first time Li Shimin heard Li Kuan’s sincere thoughts, so he did not interrupt and listened quietly, as if the first emperor Li Yuan was by his side.
"At that time, I had only deep resentment and hatred for you. Grandfather knew that I was stubborn and persuaded me more than once. But I still couldn't let go of the past, and the resentment in my heart grew deeper and deeper. Until my grandfather was gone, I was the only one. Alive."
"When I knew that I was sent to Jingzhou, I was really happy. It was like a bird flying out of the cage and never coming back. However, my fate made me come back to Beijing again, and the condition of Empress Changsun made me return to Beijing again. It's your father's disgust, so I asked the three of them to leave with me."
Li Shimin has never spoken to Li Kuan so peacefully. Li Kuan, who is always chatting and laughing, has a depressed mood that makes him still reluctant to talk. Li Shimin knows that he did too much in the past, and now it is too late to regret it in the past.
"I met the love of my life in Jingzhou, and then inexplicably returned to Beijing for the coming-of-age ceremony. In fact, I didn't want to come back. However, my grandfather had repeatedly told that the coming-of-age ceremony must return to Beijing, so I had to come back."
"The things that followed gradually exceeded my imagination. I didn't want to enter the court and just wanted to be a idle prince. It was enough to have no worries in my life. However, when I entered the court, too much helplessness made me unable to withdraw and leave. It's easy to leave and naturally don't want to go back."
Li Kuan said his true thoughts, he really did not want to continue to be an official, and did not want to live a life of intrigue. At the same time, Li Shimin also knew that Li Kuan was in pain, and he opened his mouth to speak but didn't know what to say. After a moment of silence, Li Shimin looked at Li Yuan's portrait and sighed: "If you really don't want to come back, then I will promise you!"
Perhaps I feel sorry for Li Kuan and Li Shimin wanted to make up for his fault; perhaps it was Li Kuan’s father who awakened the family love sleeping in Li Shimin's body. For him, Li Shimin once wanted to make Li Kuan a lone minister. To put it plainly is to cultivate him as a constraint The power of the court minister, in short, was aimed at Changsun Wuji.
The influence of the eldest grandson family in the dynasty is so great that he, the emperor, has to worry about it. Even the aristocratic family cannot be compared with the eldest grandson family. Li Shimin is worried that it will affect the inheritance of the Tang Dynasty throne in the future.
The current situation is very delicate. Changsun Wuji was reused by Li Shimin, but he didn't dare to give it all to him, but he couldn't use it. In short, Li Shimin felt a little tricky. Now that Li Shimin learned of Li Kuan's thoughts, Li Shimin decided to let him live his own life, so that Li Kuan should not be involved in the struggle in the court.
Since the birth of Li Xi and Li Tun, Li Shimin’s thoughts have slowly changed. Li Kuan can also see that his attitude towards himself has changed, and he is no longer just like it. This makes Li Kuan a little doubtful whether Li Shimin did it deliberately, or It is to make up for the debt that year.
"Father, I have a question that has been lingering in my heart. Today I want to ask you in front of my grandfather, why did you hate me so much?" Li Shimin was stunned when he heard the words. He didn't dare to look directly at Li Kuan, Li Kuan thought eagerly. To know what caused Li Shimin to ignore the life and death of his son, he asked again: "Is it because of my mother?"
"..." Li Shimin chose to remain silent.
"Who is my mother?" Li Shimin's silence seemed to Li Kuan as a tacit consent. Even so, Li Kuan still wanted to know who his mother was. He had been holding this question in his heart for more than ten years, and he asked hoarsely again. Why does everyone know who my mother is, but never tell me who she is?"
"Your mother is an extremely beautiful woman from a famous family!" Li Shimin finally let go, and talked to Li Kuan for the first time about his mother's deeds. "Your face looks like me, but your eyes have inherited your mother's Dan Fengyan, she smiles really beautifully."
When talking about his mother, Li Kuan saw the tenderness and sweetness in Li Shimin’s eyes. Li Kuan’s eyes only appeared when Li Shimin looked at the eldest grandson queen, and he was even more puzzled: “If that’s the case, why didn’t I mention anything about my mother? thing?"
"Perhaps it was a mistake, or God's will!" The tenderness in Li Shimin's eyes disappeared, regret appeared on his face, the memory seemed to go back to the past, "At that time, I was not the emperor, and I placed your mother outside all the year round. I sent someone to take care of me at Chengqing Hall. When I came back, your mother was about to give birth. At this time, it was rumored in the palace that you were not my own birth, but that your mother had sex with others. I was angry and sent someone to investigate. The result is just as rumored."
Li Kuan was stunned, his emotions lost control again, and he said coldly, "You believe it, don't you?"
Li Shimin nodded bitterly, if he didn't believe that he would agree to adopt Li Kuan to Li Zhiyun as his heir, no matter what his life is like. It is precisely because the evidence found that Li Kuan’s mother was arrogant to others. Li Shimin was the King of Qin at that time, and his family ugliness should not be publicized. This incident was also completely blocked. All relevant personnel were killed. This order was given by Li Shimin himself.
"Then what happened to my mother?" Li Kuan asked angrily.
Li Shimin said bitterly: "Your mother went there on the day you gave birth!"
"Haha!..." Li Kuan did not expect such a result. His mother died of a dystocia, and he wailed up to the sky. His laughter was mixed with too much unwillingness and pain. It was not worth it for his mother, but also for the sake of his mother. The mother's sorrow and humiliation is also a mockery of Li Shimin's stupidity. (End of this chapter)