Forced to Ascend the Throne after Transmigrating

Chapter 271: Murder

Ye Shuo came at the right time, as Ye Xun was at home when he arrived.

“You seem to be free, but things are going haywire outside. Didn’t you say you just got an errand? Why didn’t you go today?”

At that time, Ye Xun was practising calligraphy in the study. When he heard the noise outside, his hands trembled and the words he wrote were almost ruined.

“Tsk, the word ‘?’ is written very well.” Ye Shuo looked down and couldn’t help but praise him. Unconsciously, the young man in front of him had grown from a teenager to a real adult.

Looking at the person who suddenly appeared, Ye Xun shouted helplessly: “Uncle Jiu.”

“Uncle Jiu, next time you come in, could you please give me a heads up or ask someone to let me know? It’s really scary.”

Ye Shuo didn’t care: “What’s the matter?”

Ye Xun had long been accustomed to his lazy behaviour and was now too lazy to correct it. He carefully lifted the word “?” and looked at it carefully. Still not satisfied, Ye Xun crumpled it into a ball and threw it aside.

As he threw the ball, he said, “The court has been in a mess lately, and the superiors couldn’t take care of me, so they asked me to come back first.”

“What nonsense are you talking about? Your uncle is so busy. I just came back from my eldest cousin’s place and happened to pass by here, so I wanted to hide away for a while.”

The handsome young man seemed to be very tired. Indeed, so many things had happened in the palace recently, which really kept him very busy.

These things shouldn’t be his business.

Hearing this, Ye Xun couldn’t help but sigh: “Thank you for your hard work, Uncle Jiu.”

“So, just ask Uncle Jiu to stay here and be lazy for a while, just half a day.” Ye Shuo couldn’t help but put his hands together.

Ye Xun was extremely helpless.

But then Ye Xun thought again, didn’t he go to the Duke of Zhen’s Mansion just now? Why didn’t he rest there? Also, the long sword in his hand is——

Noticing that his eyes fell on his right hand, Ye Shuo couldn’t help but shrug: “It’s beautiful, right? I just snatched it from Wei Wen’s study.”

Ye Xun was stunned: “You and Lord Wei are…”

“Oh, don’t mention it. We just had an argument and almost got into a fight. But I snatched his knife, so it wasn’t too bad.” Ye Shuo put the long knife on the table next to him with a clang. ???????

Ye Xun couldn’t help but sweat.

In the morning, Ye Shuo watched helplessly as a huge fire burned the little emperor’s body to ashes. He did not even have time to eat lunch before going to look for his eldest cousin. Now, after such a delay, it was already the afternoon and it was almost evening time. It was almost dark. Ye Shuo felt hungry all day.

Now that he had arrived at his nephew’s house, Ye Shuo collapsed all of a sudden.

“Hurry up, ask someone to prepare some good wine and food. Your uncle will starve to death if he doesn’t eat.”

Ye Xun was just about to say that no eating was allowed in the study, not even cakes or snacks, let alone good wine and delicious food.

But before he could open his mouth, Ye Shuo closed his eyes and even started snoring. Ye Xun immediately closed his mouth.

…Forget it, just this once.

About half an hour later, Ye Shuo heard someone calling from the side: “Uncle Jiu, Uncle Jiu, the food is ready, get up quickly.”

Ye Shuo opened his eyes and saw that the table not far away was filled with hot food.

“Come on, come on, sit down and eat together.”

Ye Shuo was sleepy and yawned. Then he pulled the reluctant Ye Xun to sit down without saying anything.

Ye Shuo never drank alcohol before, but today he drank for the first time in his life, as if he wanted to swallow down the pain in his heart along with the liquor.

As Ye Shuo drank more, he talked more. He couldn’t help but put his arm on Ye Xun’s shoulder and kept mumbling: “Tell me, why are all of you leaving in such a hurry?”

From the Crown Prince, the Fourth Prince, the Second Prince, the Thirteenth Prince, and later Emperor Taicheng and the Little Emperor, even he was plagued by illness and pain in the few months before his father’s death. It can be said that none of them had a good end.

Especially Jin’er.

“He is still so young, he doesn’t know anything, he is still a child. Xun’er, you don’t know, Jin’er was still calling my name when he died. He asked me to save him, he asked me to save him!”

“But not only did I fail to save him, I couldn’t save others either.” There were so many people, and he couldn’t save any of them.

When he said the latter part, Ye Shuo was trembling all over.

Feeling the alcohol smell coming towards him, Ye Xun subconsciously said, “Uncle Jiu, you are drunk.”

Ye Xun wiped his face, then put the drunkard Ye Shuo on the table, and then stood up hurriedly: “Uncle Jiu, you stay here first, don’t move, I’ll go to the kitchen to bring you a bowl of sobering soup.”

Having said that, Ye Xun hurried out.

The moment Ye Xun walked out of the yard, a black shadow appeared in front of him.

This person was none other than one of the assassins that the crown prince had raised before. Emperor Jingwen suspected that the assassination was done by the crown prince because of these people, which shows that the crown prince also had extraordinary means in private.??

Since the crown prince committed suicide, the matter of the assassins has been left unresolved. As the prince’s only legitimate son, Ye Xun, after the prince’s death, everything eventually fell into his hands after several twists and turns.

The black shadow was like a secret guard, kneeling as soon as he saw them.

“Your Highness, I have indeed found out that only the Regent came here.” He has been alone since he entered the door, and more than an hour has passed, but no one has come to look for him, which shows that the Regent has indeed not suspected anyone else.

Uncle Jiu has always been like this, always trusting the people around him.

Ye Xun grew up beside him, so he was naturally familiar with his personality and all his little hobbies and habits.

But now, the time has come to make a choice.

The tenth king, the eleventh king and the twelfth king planned to launch an uprising tonight. If they could not make a decision in time, all their previous plans would be in vain.

The only way for him to get his hands on that position is to use the banner of clearing the court of emperors. By then, he will be the righteous one and the princes will be the rebels. As long as he shows his power at the right time, it will be enough to intimidate the officials of the royal family. Who can deny him by saying that his father was deposed?

As for the Fifth, Seventh, and Eighth Kings, they are now just useless people without any power, and have long been driven out of the competition. Speaking of this, we have to thank the Sixth Emperor uncle. If the Sixth Emperor uncle had not held them to death with his last breath, all this would not have been so easy.

Ye Xun didn’t learn anything else from his uncle, but he learned patience and endurance completely.

As long as one waits patiently and prepares carefully, the opportunity will always come. Facts have proved that after waiting for so long, he finally got it.

The only thing that caught Ye Xun off guard now was the sudden appearance of the Ninth Prince.

Ye Xun had made a thousand calculations, but he could never have expected that the little emperor would leave behind such a will before his death. With the will in hand, the Ninth Prince suddenly became a more legitimate and orthodox person than anyone else.

If the Ninth Prince is not removed, all other matters will be in vain and only empty talk will remain.

If it were anyone else, it would be fine. Ye Xun was no longer the dotted grandson of the emperor and he could kill him without blinking an eye. But the Ninth Uncle… Ye Xun really couldn’t bring himself to do it.

However, now that things have come to this, it is too late to ask him to stop now.

As if seeing the prince’s dilemma, the man in black couldn’t help but urge, “I have received news that the bandits outside have already started to gather half an hour ago. They will come to Shangjing at night. I hope your highness will not be soft-hearted and make a decision early!”

Now that they have such a good opportunity, they can simply push the death of the regent onto the Tenth King, the Eleventh King, and the Twelfth King. Then their trip will definitely be more legitimate. If they accidentally miss it, they will never have it again.

Behind the Regent stood the Zhen Mansion, General Wei, the former retainers of the Zhen Mansion, and even the eldest prince was standing behind him. Although some things were not what he wanted, he was innocent until he was found guilty of possessing a treasure.

“Young Prince, if you don’t take action, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will have died in vain!” Even people like them will be buried with him. The arrow is on the string and must be shot.

Maybe it was the word “Crown Prince” that touched him, but after a while, Ye Xun spoke in a hoarse voice: “In that case, then… let’s do it.”

The reason why his father died might not be because he was too soft-hearted. Even if he had the chance, he would never kill his brothers. So in the end, it was him who died and not others.

Uncle Six wins because he is ruthless. Not only is he ruthless to others, he is even more ruthless to himself.

Ye Xun will not make the same mistake twice.

As for Uncle Jiu’s kindness in the past, I can only repay it in the next life.

“Uncle Jiu, don’t blame me…”

When he noticed the unusual movements around him, Ye Shuo, who was leaning over the table, couldn’t hold back his tears.

Ye Xun could even kill him, let alone the little emperor.

And if he wanted to kill me, it couldn’t be without reason, unless… he knew that the little emperor left a will for me.

As for the matter of the will, up to now, only the Empress Dowager He and my eldest cousin knew about it. If anyone else knew about it, they must have deep roots in the palace.

How many people in this world can hide the truth from the Empress Dowager and Wei Wen in the palace?

The former crown prince had been the heir to the throne for thirty years, so how could he not have some foundation in the palace? It was no big deal for Ye Xun to find a few spies.

Maybe I should have thought of it earlier.

The long sword narrowly grazed Ye Shuo’s cheek, and a few strands of hair were cut off. The uncle-nephew relationship between Ye Shuo and Ye Xun was also cut off like the hair.

Ye Xun and Ye Shuo are uncle and nephew after all, so he naturally couldn’t bear to see his closest uncle die under the knife of the assassins, so he wanted to leave when everyone started to attack.

But what did he see the next moment?

When Ye Xun turned around, he saw only the flash of swords all over the sky.

Gorgeous, beautiful and… endless murderous intent. With just one knife, the first assassin who rushed into the study was killed on the spot.

One drop, two drops, three drops, in just a moment, a small pool of blood had gathered under Ye Shuo’s feet, but he was still walking steadily towards Ye Xun’s direction.

When he saw this scene, Ye Xun’s pupils suddenly shrank.