Li Zhi wanted to ask more questions, but Wu Meiniang forcibly dragged him aside.
"Don't ask anymore. He's already being very kind of us by saying so much!"
"Sister Wu, it happened the same way last time. Father left without a word, abandoning me all alone!"
While Li Zhi was complaining, Wu Zetian had already put her most powerful brain to work and started thinking.
"His Majesty's closest relatives?"
"Your Highness, do you know if His Majesty has any other close relatives?"
Li Zhi was completely bewildered when he heard this.
"Sister Wu, isn't he closest to me? I'm his own son!"
Upon hearing this, Wu Meiniang rolled her eyes at Li Zhi.
"Your Majesty has more than thirty princes and princesses in total. If you include those who have passed away or died young, there are more than twenty of them. You are just one of those twenty-odd people!"
"But I am the Crown Prince!"
"There have been countless crown princes in history, but how many of them actually became emperors?"
"Did the Sui Dynasty not have a crown prince, or did our Tang Dynasty not have a crown prince?"
"How many of these princes died peacefully?"
"this……"
Li Zhi was completely stunned when he heard this, and for a moment he felt that his status as the crown prince was not so noble anymore.
"Sister Wu, what should we do now?"
What should we do?
"Of course it's cold!"
"Aren't you close to Changsun Wuji? You can ask him to find out who His Majesty is meeting in private!"
Why are you asking about him?
Wu Meiniang sneered disdainfully upon hearing this.
"I always have a feeling that this person might become your biggest competitor in the future!"
"ah?"
While Li Zhi sheepishly went to Changsun Chong to discuss the matter, Li Shimin had already brought Sizi to Sanglin Village outside Xianyang City.
"Father, this estate is so beautiful! It's more beautiful than any other estate we've seen along the way, and it even looks more orderly than the markets and wards in Xianyang!"
"Have you forgotten what I just told you? You are not allowed to call me Father Emperor here!"
Upon hearing this, Si Zi immediately chuckled.
"Father, you just talked about me, hahaha!"
Upon hearing this, Li Shimin immediately realized his slip of the tongue and burst into laughter.
However, after laughing, he still spoke with a serious expression.
"It's not time to reveal the child's identity yet, so we need to be careful what we say and not let that little rascal find out anything!"
"Okay, Dad, hee hee hee!"
Hu Delu spotted Li Shimin and his entourage from afar and hurried over to greet them warmly.
"A distinguished guest has arrived, to visit the eldest grandson again?"
"yes!"
"I wonder if our eldest grandson is in the village?"
"Yes, yes, I'm here!"
"The lord has been staying in the village these past few days, saying he's catching up on the homework assigned by a nobleman, hehehe!"
"Oh oh oh!"
"Please go ahead, sir. I'll have someone prepare food and wine right away!"
The group arrived at Li Jue's courtyard and knocked on the door a few times before hearing Li Jue's lazy voice coming from inside.
Who is it?
"It's me!"
"ah……"
When Li Jue heard Old Li's voice, he felt a chill run down his spine, then climbed over the wall and tried to run away.
Li Shimin waited for a while, but his grandson didn't open the door for him. So he immediately ordered Yuchi Fan to climb over the wall and go in to see what was going on.
Little did he expect that just as Yuchi Fan had climbed over the wall, he saw a big, fat boy sitting on the other side of the wall, preparing to jump down.
"Master, Young Master Zhong is running away by scaling the wall!"
"What?"
"Bring him back right now!"
"promise!"
When Yuchi Fan scaled the wall to capture Li Jue, Li Shimin couldn't help but complain to the people beside him.
"Others go to great lengths to see us, but we don't even care. Now that we've come all this way to see him, how dare this scoundrel run away?"
"I understand, young master must have run away because he didn't do his homework and was afraid of being spanked by his master, hehe..."
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