Forced to Ascend the Throne after Transmigrating

Chapter 138: Ignore

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It must be fake…

This thought flashed through the minds of Zou Wu and the other eight people at the same time.

However, before Ye Shuo came in, Zou Wu and her companions had already observed all the princes and nobles in the Luanqing Palace, even the concubines and princesses were not spared.

However, because valley patterns, snake patterns, coiled dragon patterns, etc. were popular in the Great Zhou Dynasty, flowers and plants did not seem so solemn, so few people chose them. Even if they did choose flowers and plants, they were mostly golden lotus, peony, and peony. The existence of Lilly valley flowers was pitifully rare.

Zou Wu and her friends searched around but couldn’t find him. At first, they wondered if their teacher hadn’t come at all.

Until the Ninth Prince appeared, the string of jade hairpins on the jade pendant on his waist was so eye-catching that it was difficult for Zou Wu and the other eight to ignore it.

No wonder Master Zeng was so confident before, saying that they could recognize people by their jade pendants.

Zou Wu and the others were still thinking that the jade pendant itself was not a very eye-catching thing, and the lily of the valley flower was even more ordinary. Even if there were eight of them, it might not be easy to identify them. What if they missed it?

As a result…it turned out that it was not a lily of the valley flower, but a bunch of lily of the valley flowers.

With other gorgeous flowers guarding it, it is so eye-catching that you can see it almost at a glance.

The eyes of Zou Wu and the other eight people were wide open.

As if he had guessed what they were thinking, Ye Shuo looked down at the jade pendant on his waist and couldn’t help but have the urge to tease them. Then he took it off openly in front of everyone in Luanqing Palace, held the jade pendant in his hand and walked closer, shaking it in front of the eight people.

“These flowers were drawn by me personally, and I specially asked the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs to spend half a year to carve them. Aren’t they particularly beautiful?”

The Ninth Prince must have piled up all the most beautiful flowers of all varieties in the Imperial Garden. Fortunately, the jade craftsmen employed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs have good skills, otherwise what a mess it would have been.

The jade pendant is hollow, with densely packed flowers on all sides, each more eye-catching than the other.

Not to mention Zou Wu and the other young men, even He Xiang and the others nearby were attracted by this thing when they looked over after hearing the Ninth Prince’s voice.

But the amazing thing is that such a fancy thing does not look out of place at all when worn by the Ninth Prince. The Ninth Prince’s face, which inherited all the good qualities of the Emperor and the Imperial Concubine and is now becoming more and more handsome, plays a significant role in this.

When ordinary people wear this thing, it is like matching cow dung with flowers, but when the Ninth Prince wears it, he is more beautiful than any other flower.

What a waste of such a good-looking face, how could you have such a temper?

They soon came to their senses and couldn’t help cursing in their hearts. The Grand Tutor and Lord Cen felt ashamed to face people and to admit that the Ninth Prince was their student.

Seeing that his son scared eight young men who had just arrived in Shangjing and made them change their faces in one breath, Emperor Jingwen couldn’t help but feel a headache.

Now, the four brothers Ye Yan are almost crying.

How could this Ninth Prince be so troublesome? On such an important day, he even dared to be late.

Being stared at by so many people in the hall, Ye Yan and his three companions, who usually prided themselves on being generous and unselfish, felt extremely uncomfortable.

Looking at Ye Shuo again, he seemed fine, still with his usual cheerful look.

Seeing Huyan Jue and the others’ increasingly ugly faces, Emperor Jingwen finally felt relieved.

After waiting for his son to show off enough, Emperor Jingwen slowly rebuked his son: “How can you behave in this hall? Go back to your seat!”

My cheap dad is really good at pretending. He didn’t say a word when he came in.

Ye Shuo thought so in his heart, but his expression immediately changed to one of submissive submission. He did not dare to refute at all. He put away the jade pendant and returned to his seat in dejection.

At this point, the ministers had a deeper understanding of how favoured the Ninth Prince was.

He was late for the state banquet and was let off with just a few words of reprimand without even a decent punishment. This was an honour that even the crown prince had never had, and only the ninth prince in the world had it.

Beside Emperor Jingwen, the Queen’s eyes changed.

However, even though it has come to this, there are still some people who are blind.

For example, when the uncle saw that his sister looked unhappy, he immediately said, “If I remember correctly, the Ninth Prince is already eleven years old. How come he is still so ignorant?”

“Since the Ninth Prince knew that the envoys would be coming today, he should have made preparations in advance. It would have been fine if it was a normal day, but how could he be late on such an important day? It is really wrong.”

The king’s uncle is the queen’s younger brother, and the queen is like a mother of all the princes and nation. Now the king’s uncle is acting like an elder.

If this happened before, there was nothing wrong with the old Duke Zhen when he was not favoured by Emperor Jingwen. Emperor Jingwen at that time would like to find faults even if there were none, and the actions of the uncle just suited his wishes.

But things are different now. Emperor Jingwen no longer has as much objection to the Duke of Zhen as he did before. Moreover, it would be strange for Emperor Jingwen to be happy when his uncle-in-law blames his son so easily.

As the saying goes, family disgrace should not be made public. Even if the Ninth Prince was wrong, he should not be spoken out on such an occasion. The King’s uncle has really brought shame upon himself.

He Xiang and other discerning people couldn’t help but shake their heads in their hearts.

However, before Emperor Jingwen could speak, the eldest prince spoke first: “Then according to your uncle’s opinion, what should we do if we are late?”

The uncle didn’t think too much about it and answered casually: “At the very least, they should reflect on their mistakes behind closed doors to correct the atmosphere.”

With a “dong” sound, the eldest prince put the wine glass on the table.

“In that case, according to what the uncle said, Yan’er and the others will also come along?”

The king’s uncle was stunned, and then he realised that the eldest prince’s group of sons seemed to be with the ninth prince, but the ninth prince was too ostentatious, causing others to ignore the grandchildren behind him.

“…That’s not what I meant.”

“My uncle, you may have drunk too much. If that’s the case, then just say less and don’t make a fool of yourself.” Others care about the queen, but the eldest prince doesn’t. The queen’s legitimate son is only a little old. It will never be his turn to take the position.

If the queen was safe and sound, the eldest prince might have given her some face, but the queen was obviously not safe and sound, so the eldest prince naturally would not take her seriously.

The series of scoldings from the eldest prince made the uncle’s face turn red. Seeing that he wanted to say something else, Emperor Jingwen’s patience was completely exhausted. Then he gave him a look and the uncle stopped talking on the spot.

After Ye Shuo sat down, looking at his expression that he had no idea he was doing anything wrong, Princess Jian Jian couldn’t help but put her hands on her hips and cursed, “Bad brother!”

Sure enough, what is meant to come will come.

It would have been fine if it was just Jianjian, but when Ye Shuo saw Ye Xun next door staring at him with a resentful look on his face, he felt even more uncomfortable.

Before Ye Xun could speak, Ye Shuo quickly said, “I called you first, but you didn’t want to go. You can’t blame me for this.”

After hearing this, Ye Xun didn’t feel comforted, but even more unhappy: “So I rejected you once, and you went to find them, right?”

What’s more, the other party was the eldest uncle’s son. Ye Xun suddenly felt particularly wronged.

“Before they came back, you only looked for me!”

hiss…

Why does this conversation sound weird?

Ye Shuo’s face was serious: “What else? You are so busy, I just want to find someone to accompany me, is there anything wrong with that? I don’t have any other thoughts, can you not be so petty?”

“I, I…” Is he really so petty?

As if he didn’t notice Ye Xun’s confusion, Ye Shuo continued, and he spoke more and more fluently: “Before, you insisted on playing with me, and when I really played with you, you said you didn’t have time. Don’t you think you are being too much and overbearing?”

No matter how smart Ye Xun was, he was only a seven-year-old kid. How could he withstand such rhetoric? He couldn’t stand it after a while.

Thinking about it, it was indeed he who broke the appointment first, Ye Xun was soon surrounded by guilt.

“I’m sorry, Uncle Nine, I shouldn’t have lost my temper with you just now…”

Ye Shuo nodded: “Well, it’s good that you know.”

“Although I am very angry, you are my closest nephew after all. For this reason, I will forgive you no matter what you do. Don’t act so unreasonably in the future, otherwise I will be sad.”

Ye Xun was so moved when he heard these words that he almost cried: “Ninth Uncle…”

“Cough, cough, cough!” The Crown Princess next to him couldn’t stand it anymore. She covered her lips with a handkerchief and coughed violently, then glared at her brother-in-law angrily.

What the hell is going on? Ye Xun can’t hear anything wrong, but how can the Crown Princess not hear it?

“You just bully him.”

Seeing that he was exposed by the Crown Princess at a glance, Ye Shuo blinked, quickly closed his mouth, and looked embarrassed.

As for what happened next, Ye Yan and the others had already pricked up their ears when Ye Xun opened his mouth.

Since the fathers of both sides don’t get along, it’s natural for the sons to follow suit.

Just like the eldest prince regards the crown prince as his biggest enemy, Ye Yan and the others can’t help but compare themselves with Ye Xun in everything.

Seeing that Ye Xun cared so much about the Ninth Uncle and even made a fuss if the Ninth Uncle didn’t take him out, Ye Yan and the other three immediately became excited.

Doesn’t this mean that if the four of them snatch the Ninth Prince away, then they would have won against Ye Xun in disguise?

But the Ninth Prince’s words “closest” are really an eyesore.

But it doesn’t matter, as long as they stay with the Ninth Prince, they will be the ones to be called the closest sooner or later.

Ye Yan and others, who were reluctant and felt extremely painful at first, suddenly changed their mindset.

Huyan Jue watched helplessly as the attention that was originally focused on him quickly dispersed after the Ninth Prince appeared. He waited for a long time but received no further news, and his face turned ashen.

Emperor Jingwen, who was sitting at the top of the table, seemed to have just noticed it and said, “My son is young and naughty. I’m sorry to have made you laugh.”

Even now that the seventeenth prince has been born, His Majesty still thinks that the ninth prince is the youngest son, as if the tenth to seventeenth princes did not exist.

The Queen could barely keep her expression.

Hu Yanjue snorted coldly: “It’s okay for the Ninth Prince, he is a prince, but the guards in this palace are really ignorant. If it were in our Beiting, a small guard would offend the royal family and his tendons would be cut off and dragged out to feed the wolves!”

Emperor Jingwen frowned, then looked at the commander-in-chief below him and asked, “Who is on duty at the gate of the imperial city today?”

The commander-in-chief called out the man’s name very fluently.

Ye Shuo’s ears twitched.

Hu Yanjue was certain of this, but before he could smile, he heard Emperor Jingwen speak, “Come here, give him a reward!”

Huyan Jue’s expression changed immediately.