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

"Excuse me, old lady, what are you doing..." After being stopped by old lady Dugu, Changsun Wuji couldn't help but feel surprised, but on the surface, his attitude was still gentle: "-- Are you here to personally pick up your granddaughter and bring her back home?"

"Bao'er has been kept after school by the teacher recently. I plan to go to the palace to talk to the Empress about this." When old lady Dugu saw Changsun Wuji in front of her, she felt a little emotional: Apart from Wanniang, who would have thought that... the child who was once kicked out of the Changsun family has now become the most promising one in the entire family.

"A strict teacher produces a good student," Changsun Wuji chuckled upon hearing this, "Bao'er will definitely be one of the most distinguished ladies in Chang'an in the future."

"Duke Zhao has misunderstood." - Zhangsun Wuji thought his words of comfort were just right, but who knew that Old Lady Dugu didn't mean that at all: "I want the Queen to find a new teacher for Baoer."

"This... can't be the case, right?" Zhang Sun Wuji's shock at this moment was not fake: "Huang Qi taught an 'excellent' student like the King of Chu..."

"Changsun Wuji, do you feel guilty about saying this?" Originally, it would have been fine if Changsun Wuji had not said this, but as soon as he said this, Old Lady Dugu could no longer suppress her anger - you know, if you really talk about seniority, His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu has to call her "cousin grandmother".

What's more, Empress Taimu and she were good friends back then, and...

When His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu returned from his first expedition and "rewarded all his ministers" by sending Ferghana horses to every household, he actually did not leave out the Dugu family.

However, for some reasons, Madam Dugu later sent the Ferghana horse to a farm in the countryside and ordered people to take good care of it.

As for this matter, the little Dugu Baoer, who was still breastfeeding at the time, has been kept in the dark and has no idea about it.

"Madam, what do you mean by that?" Changsun Wuji saw that Madam Dugu gave him the cold shoulder right from the start. He narrowed his eyes like a cunning fox and said with a half-smile, "Feeling guilty? I was clearly praising the King of Chu..."

"If your son, Chang Sun Chong, also had an uncle like your Duke Zhao, I wonder if you, as a father, would be happy." Old Lady Dugu saw that Chang Sun Wuji dared to reply in such an attitude, she immediately replied: "When people live in the world, there are good years when they are proud and there are bad years when they are unlucky. So in everything, we must know how to advance and retreat, know how to give in, and give up when we should.

Duke Zhao, I think that with my status, what I say to you should be very convincing, right? "

"..." Madam Dugu's words were as sharp as a knife, suppressing the angry Changsun Wuji and forcing him to retreat step by step.

really……

Her husband, Dugu Huai'en, was the cousin of the retired emperor, but he was beheaded by him for treason. This can be considered as a personal example.

With this thought, Changsun Wuji collected his thoughts and said, "Old Madam... I will teach you."

"You won't learn." Madam Dugu heard this with contempt - she wanted to give this bastard a little shock: "When you were young, your family suffered a misfortune, which forced you to live under someone else's roof. This experience also made you become cautious and careful. When you get along with others, you often leave room for maneuver in what you say and do.

This is a good thing.

But when you gradually hold a high position, those moments when you once seemed to have to bow your head and give in become nightmares that you can't get rid of day and night.

When a poor person suddenly becomes rich, he will become addicted to spending money like water.

And you, from a playboy who was not respected by anyone in Taiyuan City, have become the Duke of Zhao who has great power in the court...

——Changsun Wuji, at this point, what will you become obsessed with?

This is really hard to guess..." Old Madam Dugu said this in a mocking tone. While Zhang Sun Wuji's face was full of shock, cold sweat also seeped down his back.

After a long time.

"Old Madam..." Changsun Wuji's mind was very confused now, really very confused - although this was not the first time he was seen through, but even the King of Chu had not analyzed him so thoroughly.

“In fact, most of what I just said to you were said by Wan Niang… Empress Taimu, after the Emperor entered Chang’an more than 20 years ago.

In her correspondence with me, she often mentioned her children - especially the two who she thought were the best, whom she always mentioned repeatedly.

And you, as His Majesty's best friend, are also his brother-in-law.

Wanniang naturally pays attention to you - but she finds out that your essence is actually a glutton that cannot be satisfied with power and wealth.

She had thought of getting rid of you at that time, but killing you would be like cutting off His Majesty's arm.

As a mother, you are not that cruel after all.

In addition, the Crown Prince had just been born at that time, and Wan Niang refused to admit that she was soft-hearted, so she said that she gave up the idea for the sake of her daughter-in-law. "When Old Lady Dugu said this, she couldn't help but sigh: "What a pity... These old things, now only I, an old man, can remember them clearly..."

The last sentence of Old Lady Dugu was not just a simple sorrow - when Empress Taimu wrote to her, she was actually advising her good friend in both explicit and implicit ways not to let her husband - "Dugu Huai'en, who was raised as a fool by Dugu Jialuo and whose brain is not as good as Yuanji" - have any inappropriate thoughts.

But there is no way...

My husband won't listen to me...

When Madam Dugu thought of this, her eyes involuntarily looked towards the Suzaku Gate behind Changsun Wuji, and she was stunned and speechless for a long time.

At this moment, Changsun Wuji no longer had the desire to speak.

Since the matter involved Empress Taimu, he really had no choice.

Go and complain to His Majesty?

It’s good that Your Majesty doesn’t cry, and those words...can Your Majesty know them?

Even if she deliberately concealed it, Madam Dugu was willing to cooperate.

What can I do then?

There was no benefit at all, but the disadvantage was obvious: if Zhang Nanyunshang "accidentally" heard about this, and then "accidentally" told that damned thing Li Kuan...

I must be... miserable!

"Ugh."

Changsun Wuji sighed deeply.

What the hell is going on!

But then, he couldn't help but recall again the way Empress Taimu looked at him when he first met her in the back garden of the prefect's mansion...

Changsun Wuji felt a chill running down his spine.

original……

Even if I have become——

"Uncle Wuji, are you hungry?" Just when Changsun Wuji was lamenting the huge gap between himself and the other party, little Dugu Baoer came to his grandmother and Changsun Wuji at some point. The little girl was holding a box of snacks, standing in front of her grandmother, holding a small snack and trying to jump on the spot, trying to feed her grandmother.

While she was doing all this, she turned around and told Changsun Wuji: "If you are hungry, go home and eat early."

Do you really think I didn’t notice it? You bad guy, you must be complaining to my grandmother!

"Bao'er?" The old lady came back to her senses at this time and looked down at her lovely granddaughter. She immediately rubbed the little girl's head gently, then picked up the cake in her hand and took a bite: "Well, Bao'er is so good."

“Hehehe… Grandma…” Hearing this, Dugu Baoer put his little face on his grandmother’s drooping arm and rubbed it gently: “I have always been very good.”

"Grandma knows." Upon hearing this, Madam Dugu fed the cake to her granddaughter: "Come, dear, have a taste too."

"Awu..." Upon seeing this, the little girl took the lotus root candy in one bite, and at the end she did not forget to give her grandmother a thumbs up, indicating that it was delicious.

As Changsun Wuji watched the scene in front of him, he suddenly understood: Actually, when Old Madam Dugu called him earlier, she did not intend to say those words to him.

The old man just didn't want his beloved granddaughter to get too close to him, the Duke of Zhao, to avoid being involved in any gossip in the future. That was all.