I directed the Xuanwumen Incident

Chapter 109 I just beg my father not to treat my fourth brother like a beast! (45)

Crash.

Tick ​​tock.

The outside of the hall was overcast, and the pouring rain made Li Yuan frowned, feeling a little worried in his heart.

"How long has it been raining?"

he asked softly.

"It's been four or five days since I returned to Your Majesty." The eunuch beside him lowered his head and responded.

Da da.

"It has been four days since Erlang led the troops to leave Chang'an. Since the second day after his departure, it has started to rain continuously."

Li Yuan tapped the chair lightly with his fingers, and murmured,

"This is not a good sign..."

"I told my subordinates to save on military equipment, food, grass, etc., and supervise them more closely. Don't delay it because of the weather."

"I can't give Erlang too many troops. There can be no shortage of supplies."

"Follow the order." The eunuch took the order and left.

Li Yuan stared at the heavy rain outside.

Under the scorching heat, the next rain will be cool and cool, so he is naturally comfortable hiding in the hall.

But for the soldiers trekking and fighting on the front line, it is the greatest hardship and obstacle...

"Your Majesty, His Highness the Crown Prince seeks an audience."

The eunuch shouted from outside the hall.

"Ah."

Li Yuan pulled back his thoughts, hummed softly,

"What is he here for? To intercede with Yuanji again?"

"Call him in!"

Da da.

Li Jiancheng entered in response.

"See father." He looked respectful and saluted.

Li Yuan waved his hand, motioning him to excuse himself.

"What's the matter?"

Li Jiancheng got up and said earnestly:
"Father, the son is still here for the matter of the fourth brother."

"My son thinks that although the fourth brother is guilty, the crime does not end there."

"Father sent him to Zongzheng Temple to be imprisoned forever. This punishment is really too much. My son did not ask Father to release him immediately, but at least... the punishment should be reduced."

Li Yuan's face suddenly turned cold when he heard this.

"Isn't that the crime?"

He said coldly,

"You mean, framing your brother, ordering others to abuse him, and even murdering his life! This kind of animal behavior is not a serious crime?"

"Then tell me, what is a serious crime!"

Facing Li Yuan's questioning, Li Jiancheng lowered his head.

"Father, calm down, this son-in-law didn't mean that!"

He kept saying,

"My son just wanted to say that the father really misunderstood the fourth brother! He is not as vicious as the father thinks!"

Li Yuan glanced at him and reprimanded:

"Misunderstand?"

"Okay, then I want to hear, how did I misunderstand him!"

"you say!"

Li Jiancheng bowed again.

"Father said that the fourth brother framed the brother, but the phrase 'I have a destiny' was indeed said by the second brother himself. This can't be regarded as the fourth brother spreading rumors, right?"

He looked at Li Yuan and said seriously,

"At most, he added oil and vinegar, and added his own imagination."

"Think about it, when a person says he has a destiny, what does he want to do? There is only one person in this world who can have a destiny, and that is you, Father!"

"So what the second brother said is treasonous in itself, no matter whether the fourth brother adds fuel to it or not, it can't change this fact!"

"Father was angry, and it was reasonable to order him to be escorted. No one can fault him! It's just that your second brother fell ill later, and you felt sorry for him, so you changed your words..."

"But you can't put all the blame on the fourth brother because of this, it's not fair!"

After hearing these words, Li Yuan's expression softened a little.

The prince's words are not a forced defense for King Qi.

"Go on, sit down and talk," he said.

"Thank you, Father."

Li Jiancheng looked a little excited when he saw the drama, and hit the railway while it was hot.
"Secondly, the father said that the fourth younger brother ordered someone to abuse the second younger brother, and even killed him, and this son also thinks it is impossible."

"No matter how much the three of us don't get along, we grew up together. From my son's point of view, the fourth brother and the second brother are like brothers and sisters. I believe the two of them think so too."

"Our discord is mostly due to political opinions, but in private, our relationship is still very good."

"If you want to say that the fourth brother doesn't like the second brother, I don't object here. They have always been at odds. But if you want to say that the fourth brother wants to kill the second brother, he is definitely not so vicious, and he definitely doesn't have the courage. Guaranteed him with my life!"

Li Yuan nodded slightly.

He loves to hear these words.

"Besides, even if the fourth brother gives the order, does the little guard really dare to abuse Tiance Admiral Qin Wang Li Shimin? If you lend him ten guts, he might not dare!"

Li Jiancheng said again,
"Father Rong Erchen said a conspiracy theory...could it be that the second brother was really sick due to abuse? Is there a possibility...he is trying to win the mercy of the father?"

"Although my son doesn't understand medical principles, I have heard that it takes a hundred days to hurt a muscle and a bone, let alone a dying serious illness?"

"Think about it, when you visited your second brother that day, he looked extremely weak, but on the day of the expedition, he turned out to be majestic and heroic. How could he be weak and sick at all?"

"This is not in line with common sense!"

Hearing this, Li Yuan frowned slightly.

"You mean...he's pretending?"

He shook his head and said,

"It's unlikely, then Sun Simiao has made a conclusion that it is indeed a serious illness."

"Could it be that the well-known doctor Sun is also cooperating with him to deceive me?"

"What's more, what I saw with my own eyes that day, Shimin's complexion and state are definitely weak, and I can't pretend that situation!"

If it is pretend, it is too similar!
He has lived for decades at least, how can he be so easy to deceive?
"I'm not saying that Sun Simiao lied, nor did I say that my second brother pretended to be ill. What I mean is..."

Li Jiancheng said in a deep voice,

"He may be really ill, but it's not as serious as it appears!"

"The reason why he behaved so seriously is to win the sympathy of the father. On the one hand, he can clean up Lishan's crimes, and on the other hand, he can also beat him back and frame Yuanji!"

"If that's the case, then his goal has been achieved. In a fit of rage, the emperor imprisoned the fourth younger brother into Zongzheng Temple and imprisoned him forever!"

"Hehe... Maybe after the father left that day, the second younger brother was all laughing."

The last sentence, he shouldn't have said it.

But the depression in his heart was hard to calm down, so Li Jiancheng couldn't help but confide it.

King Qi is his right-hand man. Now that King Qi is broken, he is the most uncomfortable, and Li Shimin is naturally the happiest!

"What you said...maybe partly true."

Li Yuan thought for a moment, then shook his head and said,

"But in the final analysis, it's just your guess, and there is no real evidence to prove your words!"

"So, I can't accept it."

Li Jiancheng's expression changed.

"Father! I don't want you to listen to me, I just want you not to treat my fourth brother as a beast!"

He said anxiously,

"He is by no means a beast, nor does he have a vicious heart. He...is my fourth brother, your direct son!"

"Father..."

With a plop, Li Jiancheng knelt down on the ground, sobbing with grief from his heart!
ps: There is another chapter around 12 o'clock.

(End of this chapter)