"Sixth Brother, do you think it was really the fifth brother who did it?" Li Zhen looked uneasy on the carriage galloping into the palace. Before he could recover from the panic just now, his white lips were trembling slightly.

"Eighth brother, no matter who did this, we can't control it. We will go to the palace to report everything to the emperor and see how he handles it." Li Yan sat aside with his shoulders in his arms, and replied calmly.

Just now, Li Zhen took Wu Meiniang to find Li Yan hurriedly, and didn't care about being in the Cheng Mansion and told him about Wu Meiniang's kidnapping just now. As a result, not only did Li Yan perform extremely shocked, but even Cheng Huailiang and Li Jingye who followed him changed their expressions, especially when they knew that the other party was not only the daughter of the Duke Ying Mansion, but also was hired into the palace after the Shangyuan Festival. His identity was extremely sensitive, but at this critical moment, he was actually kidnapped. Who has such courage?

Cheng Huailiang and Li Jingye did not know that Li You forced his robbery Wu Meiniang, so they naturally couldn't figure out the key point. However, after hearing this, Li Yan looked at Li Zhen and immediately understood what the other party was thinking. He asked Cheng Huailiang and Li Jingye to keep this matter secret, and then he and his guards sent Xiao Wenxin and Wu Meiniang back to the house, and then they rode into the carriage and ran into the palace.

On the Chinese New Year Festival, Li Shimin naturally would not sit in the palace, and Empress Changsun's body has almost recovered. Therefore, tonight, he and Empress Changsun, Concubine Yang and other concubines, as well as young children such as Li Zhi, Shizi, Qinghe, first climbed to the top of the imperial city to have fun with the people, and then returned to the palace to drink and enjoy the dance and music.

Just as Li Shimin was getting excited and was about to dance a song with Empress Changsun in front of everyone, the palace servant suddenly reported it. Li Yan and Li Zhen asked to ask for a meeting alone, as if there was something important to report. Li Shimin felt strange. After looking at the people around him who were in high spirits, he finally explained to Empress Changsun a few words and summoned the two of them in the side hall next to him.

"Father, my son is guilty. Please punish me!" As soon as I entered the hall, Li Zhen immediately ran up and threw herself to the ground, kowtowed a few times, and cried with tears. Li Yan next to him saluted respectfully, but when he saw Li Zhen's appearance, he suddenly felt a little funny. The last time Li Zhen asked him for this, it seemed that he was also like this?

"What happened? Why did you cry?" Li Shimin disliked his son crying like a woman the most, so before he could figure out what was going on, he immediately scolded Li Zhen angrily.

"You are the father and the emperor. It is an incompetent minister who failed to protect his aunt. Please punish him!" Li Zhen, the boy, was absolutely intentional. He said a few words without any clue. Except for Li Yan, who knows the inside story, no one else can understand it at all, in order to arouse Li Shimin's anger.

Li Shimin was confused when he heard this. When he looked at Li Zhen’s incomprehensible appearance, he was indeed even more angry. He shouted angrily: “Damn it, get up and reply to me, what’s going on?”

"Father, let me tell you!" Li Yan was almost done with Li Zhen's play, and his father became angry. It was time for him to go on stage. So he stepped forward.

"Well, Liulang, you said!" Li Shimin sat down angrily, glared at Li Zhen and cursed, "Nothing is good!"

"Qi Bing, the eighth brother is still young and has suffered a major change just now, so he lost his composure." Li Yan explained to Li Zhen a few words. Seeing Li Shimin's face clear, he said again: "Father, the aunt in the eighth brother's mouth refers to the daughter of Duke Ying, named Wu Meiniang. She and her eighth brother's mother are cousins. She was recommended to the palace by Concubine Yan a few days ago..."

Li Yan first introduced Wu Meiniang's situation, and Li Shimin seemed to remember something. When Concubine Yan did recommend a woman to the palace, she no longer got angry and listened quietly to Li Yan about what happened today. Of course, in order not to let Li Shimin misunderstand why Li Zhen went to Wu Meiniang every day? Li Yan also briefly introduced the little beautiful lady and Li Zhen's affairs.

"What~?" Li Shimin was extremely shocked when he heard that Wu Meiniang was actually kidnapped on the street. He really didn't expect that someone would be so brave, it would be fine if he kidnapped people in Chang'an, but the one who kidnapped was the daughter of the Duke who was about to be hired into the palace. This was simply slapping him, the emperor in the face!

After shock, what followed was rage. Li Shimin angrily slapped the table and roared, scolding the other party for being lawless. After venting for a while, he suddenly woke up and yelled at Li Yan and Li Zhen: "If such a big thing happened, don't you go and help arrest the bandits, why do you run to me to do?"

What Li Shimin said makes sense. Although the person is lost, Chang'an has always been strict in its management of public security. Although it will be relaxed due to the Spring Festival, as long as the various public security departments cooperate and Li Yan and Li Zhen's supervision, there is still a great hope of finding people. As for Li Shimin, it is enough to send someone to report a letter.

Li Zhen wiped away his tears at this time. When he heard his father blame him, he immediately replied: "Your father, after the incident, the child had notified the various yamen in Chang'an, but after so long, he still found nothing. Moreover, there are some hidden information in it, which is really hard for others to know. If the child guessed well, this would be a royal scandal!"

Hearing Li Zhen's words, Li Shimin's face darkened, especially the 'royal scandal', which made him even more heartbroken. He felt a very ominous premonition. He suppressed his anger and asked in a deep voice: "Halang, please tell me if you have any hidden information!"

"Yes, Father!" Li Zhen continued with grief and anger, "Father, do you still remember the fact that the fifth brother led his people to besiege the Sixth brother's mansion?"

"I remember!" When Li Zhen mentioned that incident, Li Shimin suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Several things that seemed to be unrelated to him seemed to be suddenly strung together by a line, but the line was still a little blurry and could not be seen clearly for the time being.

"Father, the reason why the fifth brother besieged the Sixth Brother's mansion was because the Sixth Brother was to help me..."

Li Zhen then regained his usual eloquence and told the whole story of the incident. In fact, in Li Zhen's heart, he had already decided that Li You did it. After all, the Wu family and his daughter had no grudges on weekdays. Maybe Duke Ying had offended someone when he was alive, but now there are two brothers Wu Yuanqing in Duke Ying's mansion. Even if the other party wanted to take revenge, it would not be the turn of the Wu family. Moreover, when the two men in black robbed the people, their goals were very clear. They let him not move, but instead only attacked Wu Meiniang, which was obviously not targeting them.

It was precisely because he believed that Li You had taken action in his heart that when Li Zhen talked about what happened, he deliberately exaggerated Li You's covetousness towards Wu Meiniang, and also explained his own analysis. Anyway, the other party was not retaliated against the Duke Yingguo's Mansion and the royal family, so what else needs to be said?

Li Shimin is not a fool. Since the possibility of targeting the Duke Yingguo Mansion and the Royal Family is ruled out, then there is only one explanation. The other party is Le targeting Wu Meiniang herself. But she is a weak woman, without power and power. Apart from the other party coveting her beauty, there is no other explanation. It can be seen that there are not many people who have been polite and employed by the palace. They are almost half of Li Shimin's woman. Even if ordinary people are so arrogant, who has the courage to move her? Based on the above points, who can have the motivation and courage to attack Wu Meiniang, besides Li You?

Thinking of this, Li Shimin's face was already so gloomy that he could wrinkle out of water. He didn't care about a woman, but what he didn't expect was that the one who stole his own woman was his own son. This could no longer be described as the four words "big rebellious". It was simply worse than a beast. This behavior did not take his father seriously at all. If he could stole a woman today, it would be impossible to stole the throne tomorrow.

"Strange ~, beast!" Li Shimin covered his heart, feeling a sense of depression in his chest, and he couldn't vent anyway. He felt like he was cut from a knife. He wanted to scream in pain.

"Father calms down, now I'm just guessing that maybe it wasn't the fifth brother!" Li Yan saw that Li Shimin's face was bad, and was afraid of making him angry, so he hurriedly comforted him, "And Father, you must take care of your health in everything. If you get angry because of this, it may damage my life forever!"

Hearing Li Yan's persuasion, Li Shimin's face finally looked a little better. It was not that he listened to Li Yan's words, but when he saw Li Yan, he suddenly thought that although he had an unworthy son like Li You, he also had a good son like Li Yan. Although the other sons were not as good as Li Yan, they were also pretty good. It was because of this that Li Shimin felt a little relieved, but at the same time, he hated Li You, the son, at the same time.

Although he was extremely annoyed, Li Shimin is worthy of being a hero of a generation and quickly clarified the situation in front of him. Since this matter involves Li You and the scandal of his son robbing me of his woman, he must not investigate it with great fanfare, otherwise the royal family will be completely lost.

"Liulang, you immediately accompany Balang to various public security yamen in Chang'an to cancel the case. It means that the person has been found, so that they don't need to interfere anymore. In addition, don't make any statement about this matter, and others will be dealt with by their own fathers." Li Shimin thought for a while. Since he couldn't make any statement, it seems that he could only send people to investigate everywhere. Of course, it would be best to find someone. If he couldn't find someone, he had to figure out the whole story of this matter. After all, everything is just speculation now. Although Li You's suspicion is great, there is no definite evidence to prove that the thing was done.

"Son of my duty!" Li Yan and Li Zhen immediately bowed and replied, then turned and left the palace.

After Li Jing accompanied Li Zhen to finish the matter, he returned to the royal palace together and went to the yard of the Wu family's mother and daughter. When Yang learned that Wu Meiniang was abducted, he was so scared that he was unconscious. Fortunately, after the rescue of the imperial doctor, the person finally woke up, but he was still lying on the bed, crying from time to time, while Xiao Meiniang kept crying quietly.

Li Yan seemed unwilling to hear the cry of the mother and daughter. After comforting her, she left Li Zhen behind and even ran away in a hurried manner. Fortunately, Li Zhen's thoughts were all about comforting Xiao Meiniang, but she didn't pay attention to Li Yan's abnormality.

However, after Li Yan left the yard of the Wu family and his daughter, he did not go directly to the backyard of the royal mansion, but went to a small yard in the northeast corner of the royal mansion, where there were people waiting for him for a long time. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!