Chapter 354 Extra Ten
Seeing that the boss's reaction was half a beat slower than theirs, Emperor Taicheng and others suddenly felt less embarrassed.
But at least the boss finally reacted. Emperor Jingwen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw this, thinking that the boss was not completely stupid and could still be saved.
As for the prince standing aside, he had a subtle expression. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that after so many years, the boss not only did not make any progress, but instead went backwards. It would have been fine if he was just slow in reaction, 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. Upon seeing this, Emperor Jingwen suddenly had a heart attack.
"...He doesn't want to live anymore?" Emperor Jingwen looked incredulous, and then uncontrollably brought it to himself. If someone dared to question him like this, Emperor Jingwen narrowed his eyes dangerously, and the answer was self-evident.
The second prince raised his eyebrows slightly when he saw this, and said with great interest: "Oh my, it seems that the boss will be coming down to accompany us soon."
If you try to spy on the emperor's mind, even if the boss has ten heads, they will not be enough to chop off.
The little emperor on the side was not convinced: "The Ninth Uncle is not that kind of person!" The Ninth Uncle would not shout for war and killing because of such a small matter!
Emperor Taicheng pursed his lips. He also felt that Xiaojiu would not do such a thing, but...if his sudden frankness was not for showing off, he might have other intentions.
It was obvious that if Xiaojiu was the kind of person who would be complacent about his own achievements, there would be so many people like them that 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 sounded resentful, angry, aggrieved and angry ["Your Majesty, you have deceived me so much..."], he could not help but shook his shoulders, with an expression that he could not bear to look at.
The second prince was not so polite and rolled his eyes almost to the sky.
“How disgusting!”
The prince put his hand to his lips and coughed softly.
As expected, Xiaojiu in the picture also had an expression as if he had something to say but was holding it back.
[“This…I didn’t mean it.” Unexpectedly, he would suddenly react at this time. Ye Shuo coughed lightly.
"You also know that I was forced by circumstances before, and I had no choice, right?"
Bullshit!
Prince Ding was so excited that he almost cursed. 】
At this moment, the heartbeats of Emperor Jingwen and others and Prince Ding completely overlapped.
Looking at Xiaojiu, whose face almost had the word "perfunctory" carved on it, not to mention Prince Ding, even Emperor Jingwen couldn't control himself and clenched his fists.
Although Emperor Jingwen was old, his martial arts skills had not declined at all.
Then when Xiaojiu said that the locusts appeared 20 years ago, Emperor Jingwen said without hesitation: "Impossible!"
How old was Xiaojiu twenty years ago?
Emperor Taicheng was also shocked and could no longer maintain his expression.
“What exactly does he want to do by raising private soldiers?” The second prince was puzzled. If he had bad intentions from the beginning, why did it only show up now? But if he had no bad intentions, why did he raise so many private soldiers?
Even the Second Prince, who is so smart, 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 was not so brave and dared to ask directly to their face, they would never know the answer to this question in their entire lives. With such a question in mind, the Second Prince felt that he would not be able to reincarnate.
Emperor Jingwen also sat up straight and his expression became serious. It was obvious that he also cared very much about the answer to this question.
Soon, everyone's questions were answered.
[“I originally thought that if a disaster were to happen one day, I would unite with my grandfather and uncles, as well as the family generals and old subordinates of the Duke of Zhenguo Mansion to fight my way out of the siege. After leaving Shangjing, I would go all the way west and never come back.”
At first, Ye Shuo raised private soldiers just for support purposes, but he didn't expect that it would be like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger, and he raised more and more private soldiers, from dozens or hundreds at the beginning to thousands or tens of thousands now.
"And as you can see, it became what it is now."】
Oh, so it’s used for running away.
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, even an emperor as deep-minded as Taicheng didn't know whether to say he was preparing for a rainy day or to scold him for having no ambition. But it was obvious that he was expressing his resistance to the throne from his body to his heart and even his actions. Emperor Taicheng wondered what was so wrong with the throne that made him despise it so much.
Emperor Jingwen felt uncomfortable, thinking that Xiaojiu was too cruel, saying that he would never come back... Emperor Jingwen could see that he was telling the truth, but precisely because it was the truth, he felt suffocated.
"Have I treated him so badly?" Emperor Jingwen was puzzled and felt aggrieved. He felt that he almost gave him his whole heart, so why?
Even the emperor felt sad that his sincerity was betrayed.
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. The things that were out in the open would not make Xiaojiu so alert, unless...
"Unless Xiaojiu knows something else, that's why he did this." said the prince.
Something else... After the prince's reminder, Emperor Jingwen suddenly thought of something, his pupils shrank suddenly, and after realizing what that thing was referring to, he didn't dare to think about it any further.
If Xiaojiu had known this long ago, as he had guessed, then did that mean that from the very beginning, he had…
No, no, how is that possible?
Emperor Jingwen comforted himself in this way, but the expression on his face revealed everything.
No way, is there really such a thing? It must not be a small matter for the emperor to care so much about it and still be worried after so many years...
Guessing something vaguely, the prince saw that Emperor Jingwen seemed a little restless, with a complicated and tangled look that was difficult to discern. The prince, who had never seen this side of his father, felt bitter in his heart, and for a moment he really wanted the two of them to continue misunderstanding each other like this, but in the end, the prince still spoke.
"It's been so long since the time gate. No matter what happened, Xiaojiu must have let it go long ago. Otherwise, he wouldn't be so calm when talking about it."
Looking at Xiaojiu on the screen, he looks relaxed, and even in a good mood. He doesn't look like he is holding a grudge at all.
If some things are still in your heart, you can't easily say them out loud. If you can say them out loud, it means you no longer take them to heart.
Emperor Jingwen was startled, and suddenly thought of the word "Dad" that he heard like a whisper when he was wandering beside his corpse after his death. After a while, he finally let out a long sigh.
Prince Ding didn't think so much about it, and when he mentioned that so many people had been deceived by Xiaojiu, including his father, so he felt balanced, the expressions of Emperor Taicheng and others suddenly became cold.
Oh, I'm so sorry that I didn't realize it was wrong before I died.
How could a man like Prince Ding have the nerve to laugh at them?
Immediately after Xiaojiu's resounding words, ["How dare you say that? If there was one more capable person among you, I wouldn't have done this!"] and ["You all fought fiercely, but in the end it was all just fancy moves and a waste of time."], the usually good-tempered prince suddenly felt his fist harden.
The second prince smiled with a fake smile, and talked to his younger brother across the air: "So, it's still our fault."
What kind of person is this? Are you speaking human language?
The second prince felt his blood boiling and was gnashing with hatred. Looking at Emperor Taicheng and the others, their expressions were also not very good.
But before anyone could curse out loud, when they heard Prince Ding's words, "Apart from this, is there anything else?", everyone subconsciously sat up straight.
Here it comes, the secret hidden by Xiaojiu, whom they care about the most, will soon be answered.
Then, Emperor Jingwen and others heard the young man reading out a long list of things that made them breathless, like 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 hired, and I also contributed to the flood that year. Zou Wu is my student, and the students 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 took office were my people."】
With every word Xiaojiu said, Emperor Jingwen's breathing became faster, and in the end, he almost couldn't breathe.
Emperor Taicheng: "..."
So, I was actually a fake emperor, right?
Fortunately, he did not use force on Xiaojiu. As for his words [“I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I can’t beat Sixth Brother. I won’t fight with Sixth Brother.”], Emperor Taicheng just treated it as nonsense.
If you want to pretend, just pretend as much as you can!
As for when they heard Xiao Jiu's words that Prince Ding was not allowed to tell anyone, otherwise they were afraid that He Xiang and the others would not try their best, everyone was completely numb.
"So there is such a method..." the little emperor thought thoughtfully.
Emperor Taicheng standing by started coughing violently with a distorted expression, and he almost shouted out "Don't learn everything. This method only suits your ninth uncle and not you at all."
The prince was stunned at the moment. He didn't expect that after his death, Xiaojiu would help him clean up the mess. Not only that, he also saved Prince Ding. Otherwise, Prince Ding would not just lose a leg.
Xiaojiu has always hoped that everyone would be fine, but in the end, everyone changed except him, and Xiaojiu's wish was finally unfulfilled.
Compared to the others, the Fourth Prince, who was the least affected at the moment, could no longer hold back and spoke out 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 finally understood everything. Although Xiaojiu seemed easy to talk to, he actually arranged everything very clearly. From the beginning to the end, he would not allow anything beyond his control to happen.
After vaguely seeing through this, the Fourth Prince couldn't help but take a breath and asked from the bottom of his heart: "No, is he sick?"
I feel like I'm not mentally normal.
In an instant, the few people who were included in the consideration range by some pervert fell silent, and the whole courtyard fell into deathly silence.
Soon, something even more abnormal happened.
Xiaojiu said that he wanted to unify the world and put an end to wars in the Great Zhou.
Emperor Jingwen couldn't hold it in after all and covered his chest tightly.
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