Li Shimin didn't care what they thought. Day in and day out, his eyes were tired from looking at memorial reports.
Damn it, my two eyeballs are meant to look at people!
An hour later, several helicopters took off from Chang'an.
Besides bringing Empress Changsun and Changle along, Li Shimin only brought twenty guards, and his attire had undergone a complete change.
The nine-dragon embroidered robe was replaced with a camouflage suit, his hair was cut short, and it was slicked back with lard until it gleamed. It was estimated that even mosquitoes would slip and do a split if they landed on it.
Empress Changsun, who was traveling with him, could only shake her head helplessly as she looked at him.
She didn't know what madness this man was possessed by.
The next day, they appeared in the city of Bāzhǎ.
Li Tai and Li Ke, the two brothers, had been waiting outside early. Seeing them alight from the helicopter, they smiled and came forward.
"Father, Mother~"
Officials from the Wei Prince's Manor and the Han Prince's Manor also quickly bowed and paid their respects: "Your subjects greet Your Majesty!"
"Hahahaha, good, good! My son Qingque pleases me greatly!"
"Er, Erlang?" Another Empress Changsun stared blankly at Li Shimin.
In the past day or so, she had learned many things from Li Tai and knew that Li Shimin also existed here.
But standing alive and well before her, she was still incredibly shocked.
However, this Erlang seemed a little different from her Erlang!
The other Li Tai, like a ball, "rolled" in front of Li Shimin, raising his proud head and scrutinizing him from head to toe.
"Stupid idiot, what are you looking at? Hurry up and call me Dad!" The real Li Tai saw this and directly kicked him.
Empress Changsun, however, was stunned. She ignored the Li Tai who was kicked away like a ball and stared directly at her other self.
After a long while, she looked at Li Shimin.
"Erlang, wh-what is going on!"
Li Shimin was incredibly happy, stroking his beard smugly as he laughed.
"Hahahaha~ This is all thanks to Qingque and Anzhi, they're the ones who did this good deed~"
"Do you remember what I told you about Liang Hongyu before? That's what's happening now."
Empress Changsun was completely dumbfounded after hearing this. She suddenly turned to Li Tai and roared, "Li Tai, you little brat, do you think you can get away with anything!"
Saying that, she drew a long saber from the waist of a guard behind her with lightning speed and swung it at Li Tai.
"Since there are two of you now, I won't feel bad if you die!"
Li Tai was dumbfounded.
Damn it, why is this script not what I thought it would be?
Looking at the rapidly approaching blade, he was sure his own mother was not joking with him.
"Father, save me~~" he cried out and ran away.
Changle blinked her two large, starry eyes, her gaze shifting back and forth between the two Empress Changsuns and the two Li Tais.
A moment later, she walked up to the ball-like Li Tai and pinched his face.
"Huh? You're Qingque gege too?"
"But why are you as fat as a pig~"
Ball-Li Tai: ......................
Heavens, strike me dead with lightning! This world is too crazy!
It's more unacceptable than a mouse acting as a bridesmaid for a cat!
Li Ke scratched the back of his head, watching Li Tai being chased by Empress Changsun, and looked at Li Shimin in confusion.
"Father, aren't you going to do something?"
Li Shimin grinned and pointed at the ball, "Do something? Isn't there another one here~"
After saying that, he also walked over and asked.
"Little one, tell me, what have you been eating to become such a ball?"
In fact, he already knew the reason. His son had been tempered in the Heavenly Fire Army for several years, while the one before him had always stayed in the palace. This was the fundamental reason for the difference in their physiques.
Seeing that Ball-Li Tai was only staring at him and not speaking, Li Shimin assumed that this guy was a little nervous from arriving, so he stopped bothering with him.
However, his gaze kept drifting towards the newly arrived Changsun Gou.
This world was in the year 631, while she had been brought back from the year 630 of another world by Li Tai.
Logically speaking, she should be younger than the original Empress Changsun. But the reality was the opposite.
Her figure appeared somewhat thin, her complexion was sallow, and she held her right hand over her chest, coughing from time to time. She looked rather frail.
Yet, it was this situation that stirred a protective instinct in the old Li.
He quickly walked over, took Changsun Gou's hand without preamble, and rubbed it against his face.
"Guanyin maid, it's all my fault, I should have picked you up sooner."
"Don't worry, your illness can be cured here. You must all stay by my side~"
"Let go!" Empress Changsun was a little nervous. She broke free from his clutches and quickly retreated several steps. "You, you, you are not my Erlang!"
Old Li froze, his heart filled with a mixture of emotions, not knowing what to say.
He had overlooked one point: the Changsun Gou before him was completely different from Liang Hongyu!
Liang Hongyu had been forcibly summoned to the Tang Dynasty by the system. After years of separation from her beloved, she met Han Shizhong again.
Even though she knew it wasn't the him from her original world, it no longer mattered!
But the Changsun Gou at this moment had been tricked here by Li Tai. In that Great Tang, she still had many attachments!
For example, what would happen to Changle without her mother?
Would Erlang go mad if he couldn't find her?
Without her constant reminders, would Changsun Wuji do anything foolish?
"Erlang! Let Qingque send this concubine to that world to see!" At this moment, Empress Changsun returned, holding a saber in one hand and grabbing Li Tai's ear with the other.
Li Tai was like a defeated quail, his head hanging low, speechless.
Li Shimin asked curiously, "What are you going there for?"
Empress Changsun looked at him righteously, "What do you think! If one day, I mysteriously disappeared, how would you feel?"
Having said that, she turned to look at her counterpart.
"Moreover, there is already a Guanyin maid here, and I seem to be superfluous."
Li Shimin: ..........
Damn it!
What is this?
Am I swapping wives with myself?
After pondering for a moment, he took off his small cowhide military boots and began to hit Li Tai's backside.
"You dog-like brat, you're the one causing trouble. Watch me skin you!"
Li Tai panicked and quickly begged for mercy, "Father, spare my life! Your son only wanted Mother to come and get medical treatment!"
"Your son meant well, but why is it always me who gets hurt~~"
"Slap!"
The sole of the shoe hit his backside, making a loud sound and leaving a clear shoe print.
Li Tai suddenly froze. Damn it, it doesn't hurt?
He instinctively looked at Li Shimin and saw his own father winking at him.
Another sound came from his backside, and he seemed to see his father stomp the ground forcefully.
So, he cried out even more miserably.
"Father, be gentle~ It hurts!"
"Mother, quickly persuade Father, your son's backside is going to be beaten to a pulp~"
Empress Changsun also saw Li Shimin's subtle movements and said, both annoyed and amused.
"Alright, you father and son, stop acting!"
Saying that, she walked up to Changsun Gou, gently took her hand, and felt a pang of distress as she looked at her sickly appearance.
"What year is it in your world? Why does your complexion look so bad?"
"The fourth year of Zhenguan. It's an old problem, and my body gets worse day by day." Changsun Gou felt that this experience of talking to herself was very strange.
Empress Changsun was stunned. The fourth year of Zhenguan. If we were to go by age, she was even younger than herself at this age.
But her condition looked like she was more than ten years older than herself!
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but shudder. If it weren't for the medicine given by Anzhi, wouldn't she be even worse off now?