Chapter 354: Extra 10: The Underworld
Seeing that the eldest brother’s reaction was half a beat slower than theirs, Emperor Taicheng and others suddenly felt less embarrassed.
But at least the eldest brother finally reacted. Seeing this, Emperor Jingwen couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that the eldest brother was not stupid at last and could still be saved.
As for the crown prince on the side, his expression was subtle. He didn’t know if it was an illusion. He always felt that after so many years, the eldest brother had not made any progress, but was getting worse and worse. It would be fine if he was slow to react, but he actually asked so bluntly.
Before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, he saw the eldest brother confronting Xiaojiu on the spot. Seeing this, Emperor Jingwen had a heart attack instantly.
“…He doesn’t want to die, right?” Emperor Jingwen looked incredible, and then uncontrollably brought it into himself. If someone dared to question him like this, Emperor Jingwen narrowed his eyes dangerously, and the answer was self-evident.
Seeing this, the second prince raised his eyebrows slightly, and said with interest: “Oh, oh, it seems that the eldest brother will come down to accompany us soon.”
Peeping into the emperor’s heart, even if the eldest brother had ten heads, it would not be enough to chop off.
The little emperor on the side was not convinced: “Uncle Nine is not that kind of person!” Uncle Nine would not shout for war and killing for such a small matter!
Emperor Taicheng pursed his lips, and also felt that Xiaojiu would not do such a thing, but… if his sudden honesty was not for showing off, he might have had other intentions.
Obviously, if Xiaojiu was a person who would be complacent about his achievements, so many people would not have failed to notice his abnormality.Thinking of this, when Emperor Taicheng looked at the eldest prince again, there was a hint of pity in his eyes.
The scene continued. When the fourth prince heard the eldest prince’s words that seemed to be resentful, angry, wronged and angry [“Your Majesty, you deceived me so hard…”], he couldn’t help shaking his shoulders, with a look of unbearable to look at.
The second prince was not so polite, and his eyes were almost rolling up to the sky.
“How disgusting!”
The prince put his hand on his lips and coughed softly.
As expected, Xiaojiu in the picture also had an expression that he had something to say, but he still held it back.
【“This… I didn’t mean it.” Not expecting him to suddenly react at this time, Ye Shuo coughed lightly.
“You know, I was forced by the situation before, and I had no choice, right?”
Bullshit!
Prince Ding was so excited that he almost cursed. 】
At this moment, the thoughts of Emperor Jingwen and others overlapped with those of Prince Ding.
Looking at Xiaojiu, who almost had the word “perfunctory” engraved on his face, not to mention Prince Ding, even Emperor Jingwen couldn’t control himself and clenched his fists.
Although Emperor Jingwen was old, his martial arts had not regressed at all.
Then when Xiaojiu said that the locusts appeared twenty years ago, Emperor Jingwen said almost without hesitation: “Impossible!”
How old was Xiaojiu twenty years ago?
Emperor Taicheng was also shocked and could no longer maintain his expression.
“Raising private soldiers, what exactly does he want to do?” The second prince was puzzled. If he had bad intentions from the beginning, why did he only reveal it now? But if he didn’t have bad intentions, why would he raise so many private soldiers?
Even the clever Second Prince couldn’t figure out what he was trying to do.
At this time, the Second Prince and Emperor Jingwen no longer despised Prince Ding for being bold. After all, if Prince Ding wasn’t so bold and dared to ask directly, they would never know the answer to this question. With such a question in mind, the Second Prince felt that he would not be able to be reborn.
Emperor Jingwen also sat up straight, and his expression became serious. Obviously, he was also very concerned about the answer to this question.
Soon, everyone’s questions were answered.
[“I originally thought that if a disaster came one day, I would unite with my grandfather and uncles, as well as the family generals and old subordinates of the Duke of Zhenguo’s Mansion to fight out of the siege, and after leaving Shangjing, I would go all the way west and never come back.”
At first, Ye Shuo raised private soldiers just for support. Unexpectedly, it was like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger, and the number of private soldiers increased, from dozens and hundreds at the beginning to thousands and tens of thousands now.
“And as you can see, it became like this now.”
Oh, so it was used to escape.
Now that Xiaojiu is the emperor, there is no need for him to lie anymore, which means that these are indeed his true words.
For a moment, Emperor Taicheng, who is as thoughtful as he is, didn’t know whether to say that he was prepared for a rainy day or to scold him for being so unambitious, but it can be seen that he expressed his resistance to the throne from his body to his heart and even his behaviour. Emperor Taicheng was puzzled. What was wrong with the throne? Why did he despise it so much?
Emperor Jingwen felt a little uncomfortable. He felt that Xiaojiu was too cruel and said that he would never come back… Emperor Jingwen could see that he was telling the truth, but it was because it was the truth that he felt suffocated.
“Am I that bad to him?” Emperor Jingwen was puzzled. Emperor Jingwen felt wronged. He felt that he almost gave him his heart, so why?
A sincere heart was betrayed, and even the emperor still felt a little sad.
The prince was stunned for a moment, then frowned: “Logically speaking, this shouldn’t be the case.” Although his father was indeed very wary of the Zhenguo family when Xiaojiu was a child, he never showed it, and never implicated the imperial concubine and Xiaojiu. The only traces were the struggles in the court. Things that were only on the surface would not make Xiaojiu so vigilant, unless…
“Unless Xiaojiu knew something else, that’s why he acted like this.” The prince said so.
Something else… After the prince’s reminder, Emperor Jingwen suddenly.
Thinking of something, his pupils shrank suddenly. After realising what that thing was, he didn’t dare to think about it any further.
If Xiaojiu knew it a long time ago, as he guessed, does that mean that from the beginning, he…
No way, no way, how could it be possible?
Emperor Jingwen comforted himself like this, but the expression on his face revealed everything.
No way, is it true? It must not be a trivial matter to make his father so concerned and still worried after so many years…
He vaguely guessed something. Seeing that Emperor Jingwen seemed to be a little restless, his eyes were even more tangled and complicated and difficult to distinguish, the prince, who had never seen his father in this way, felt bitter in his heart. For a moment, he really wanted to let the two of them misunderstand each other like this, but in the end, the prince still spoke.
“It’s been so long, no matter what happened at the beginning, Xiaojiu must have let it go a long time ago, otherwise he wouldn’t be so calm when talking about it.”
Looking at Xiaojiu’s expression on the screen, he looked relaxed and even in a good mood. No matter how you look at it, he doesn’t look like he is brooding over it.
If some things are still in your heart, they can’t be easily said out loud. If you can say something out loud, it means you don’t care about it anymore.
Emperor Jingwen was startled, and suddenly thought of the word “Dad” that he heard like a whisper when he was wandering around his corpse after his death. After a long while, he finally let out a long breath.
Prince Ding didn’t think so much, and when he mentioned that so many people had been deceived by Xiaojiu, including his father, so he felt balanced in his heart, the expressions of Emperor Taicheng and others suddenly became indifferent.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
Oh, I’m really sorry for not finding out that something was wrong before I was alive.
How can Prince Ding, with such a brain, have the nerve to laugh at them!
Immediately after Xiaojiu’s words [“You still have the nerve to say that, if there was one of you who was willing to do well, I wouldn’t be like this!”] and [“You all fought fiercely, but in the end it was all just empty talk and internal consumption.”], the prince, who was always good-tempered, suddenly felt his fist hard.
The second prince smiled but didn’t smile, and talked to his brother across the air: “So, it’s still our fault.”
What kind of person is this! Is he speaking human language? ?
The second prince felt his blood boiling, and he was so angry that his teeth itched. Looking at Emperor Taicheng and others, their expressions were not much better.
But before everyone could curse out loud, when they heard Prince Ding’s words [“Besides this, is there anything else?”], everyone subconsciously sat up straight.
Here it comes, the secret hidden by Xiaojiu, which they care about the most, will soon have an answer.
Then, Emperor Jingwen and others heard the young man read out a lot of things that made them breathless like reading out the names of dishes.
【Ye Shuo saw that there was no one around, so he counted on his fingers: “Of course there are. Lucheng is mine now, and the distilled liquor that Beiting relies on is also mine. Commander Li is my man, Zeng Mohuai is a teacher I invited, and I also contributed to the flood that year. Zou Wu is my student, and the disciples of He Xiang and others are also my people, and there is also the current salt transport envoy. By the way, big brother, do you still remember the group of prefects and county magistrates that I asked Yan’er and others to execute on the spot? After they died, most of the people who came to power were my people.”】
Every time Xiaojiu said one, Emperor Jingwen’s breathing became faster, and in the end, he almost couldn’t breathe.
Emperor Taicheng: “…”
So, he was actually a fake emperor, right?
Fortunately, he didn’t force Xiaojiu. As for his sentence [“I’m sorry to disappoint you, I can’t beat Sixth Brother, and I won’t fight with Sixth Brother.”], Emperor Taicheng just took it as a fart. If you want to pretend, just pretend as much as you can!
As for the next words that Xiaojiu forbade Prince Ding to tell anyone, or else they might not try their best, everyone was completely numb.
“So there is such a method…” the little emperor seemed to be thinking about something.
Emperor Taicheng on the side started to cough violently, his expression twisted, and he almost yelled out “Don’t learn everything, this method is only suitable for your ninth uncle and not for you at all.”
The prince was stunned at the moment, he didn’t expect that after his death, it was Xiaojiu who helped him clean up the mess. Not only that, he even saved Prince Ding, otherwise Prince Ding would not just have one leg missing.
Xiaojiu always hoped that everyone would be fine, but in the end, everyone changed except him, and Xiaojiu’s wish finally fell through.
Compared to the others, the fourth prince, who was the least affected at the moment, could no longer hold back and said the truth: “So, the way he protects himself and others is to keep everything firmly in his own hands, right?”
At this point, the fourth prince had completely understood that Xiaojiu seemed easy to talk to, but in fact, he had arranged everything clearly. From the beginning to the end, he did not allow anything beyond his control to happen.
After vaguely seeing through this, the fourth prince could not help but take a breath and asked from the soul: “No, he is sick, right?”
It seems that he is not particularly normal mentally.
In an instant, the few people who were considered by a pervert fell silent, and the whole courtyard fell into a deathly silence.
Soon, something even more abnormal came.
Xiaojiu said that he wanted to unify the world and make the Great Zhou no longer have wars.
Emperor Jingwen couldn’t help it after all, and covered his chest tightly.