Chapter 133: Threat

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Although Ye Yan and his brothers are young, they are very strong.

The four children, each stronger than the other, stood guard at the door of the upper study room like an iron tower. When Ye Xun saw them, he subconsciously asked the eunuch beside him to pass the message to the Ninth Uncle.

Obviously Ye Xun also heard about what happened yesterday.

Although Ye Xun didn’t quite understand how the Great Uncle could compete with the Ninth Uncle, as there was obviously such a huge gap between the two, but when he thought about the Ninth Uncle’s ability to get into trouble, Ye Xun suddenly didn’t find it strange anymore.

As the Ninth Prince, it’s not surprising that he would have conflicts with anyone.

The other side.

At the hour of Chen, Ye Shuo slowly woke up from his sleep, washed up and finished his meal, and then at the urging of Princess Jianjian, Ye Shuo reluctantly prepared to go find Lord Cen.

Well, the Grand Tutor has been worrying a lot about flood control lately, and his body is a little exhausted. He needs to take a break before he can continue to endure teaching the Ninth Prince.

As it happened that it was soon to be Lord Cen’s turn, Lord Cen simply asked the Ninth Prince to report to him two days in advance.

These two people who had been fighting for most of their lives actually began to sympathise with each other because of Ye Shuo.

Now, the ones who are most afraid of something happening to each other are the Grand Tutor and Lord Cen, because if one of them falls ill, the Ninth Prince’s studies will be completely placed on the shoulders of the other person.

Therefore, when the two meet now, they are no longer sarcastic to each other, but are caring about each other and worrying about each other’s health every day.

The Ninth Prince will graduate in four years. If he persists a little longer, he will be free in four more years.

In this case, Lord Cen will naturally take better care of the grand tutor.

While teaching the Ninth Prince, other princes also cannot slack off on their studies. In this case, Ye Shuo will definitely have to run to the upper study.

For fear of affecting the mentality of other princes, Ye Shuo usually stayed in Lord Cen’s tea room.

Xing Yucheng never thought that the Ninth Prince would get into such trouble just because he hadn’t been here for a short time due to the holiday.

The eldest prince has now returned to the court and is in the limelight. How can the ninth prince go against him directly?

Xing Yucheng suddenly felt that his decision to take part in this year’s imperial examination was so wise.

Ye Shuo was furious when he heard the news.

“What? You’re going to take the imperial examination? Why don’t you wait until I go to court and then I’ll arrange a position for you? Don’t you trust me?”

Xing Yucheng choked, and that weird expression almost made him say “Can I trust you?”

If I rely on the arrangements made by the Ninth Prince, I guess I will have no future in this life.

Xing Yucheng will be seventeen this year, and he is still neither high nor low. It is impossible for him not to be anxious.

But in order to take care of the Ninth Prince’s self-esteem, Xing Yucheng naturally could not say it clearly. He just said: “In reply to Your Highness, I have studied for so many years, and I also want to see how good my level is.”

It is said that his mother has good taste. The study partner she chose is so motivated. Ye Shuo almost forgot that when he was young, his mother wanted to give him the best of everything.

My own affairs don’t seem to be very important.

Xing Yucheng reacted and said, “Ninth Prince, why don’t you tell us about yourself…”

Xing Yucheng has been with Ye Shuo for so many years, so he said directly if he had anything to say: “Forgive my frankness, but it is really inappropriate for you to conflict with the eldest prince right now.”

“What’s appropriate or inappropriate about this?” Apart from the fact that Jianjian crying made him very angry, Ye Shuo didn’t take this matter as a big deal at all.

Now that his revenge has been taken, doesn’t Ye Shuo feel relieved?

To be honest, even though these brothers are not easy to deal with, they are not so intolerant that they cannot tolerate others.

Of course, the main reason is that it is not cost-effective to make enemies through small fights. As long as their core interests are not really touched, generally there will be no problems.

To put it bluntly, as long as it does not involve party disputes, the rest are just matters between brothers.

It is true that Ye Shuo’s goal is to live, but he also wants to live freely and happily. If he has to endure and give in to such a small thing, then what’s the point of living?

It would be better to kill himself than to let him try to please these brothers.

“Don’t worry, nothing will happen. Maybe my eldest brother has already forgotten about it.” Ye Shuo vowed.

result……

Before Ye Shuo took a few steps, he was stopped by the young eunuch beside his nephew.

Then Ye Shuo learned that the Eighth Prince had four more bodyguards.

…This is what the Ninth Prince said, nothing will happen.

The Ninth Prince is indeed unreliable.

Xing Yucheng twitched his lips, feeling that it was as he expected. Just as Xing Yucheng was thinking about how to ease the situation, Ye Shuo suddenly became interested.

Big brother is on guard against himself!

The eldest prince is only two years older than the crown prince. When Ye Shuo was in the palace before, he had never seen the eldest prince’s children, let alone heard of them. This means that the eldest prince’s eldest children were all born at the border.

If you calculate it this way, the oldest one is only ten years old, a little younger than me.

Ye Shuo understood that the eldest prince was planning to “bully the strong with the weak”.

Did he think that as an uncle, he wouldn’t do anything?

“Brother, brother…” Jianjian couldn’t help but tug at his brother’s clothes after hearing this.

The next moment, the Ninth Prince made the decision, “Let’s go, I’ll take you to meet these nephews!”

Seeing the Ninth Prince so excited, Xing Yucheng couldn’t help but feel dizzy.

Finished.

Xing Yucheng looked very familiar with this performance.

But there was no way. Xing Yucheng and the others couldn’t stop him at all. Even the little princess, who had the highest status and the most influence, tried her best to stop him, but still couldn’t stop Ye Shuo.

The little princess almost hugged his thigh.

The little princess was about to cry.

Just like that, under the desperate gaze of Xing Yucheng and Xiao Luzi, Ye Shuo came to the upper study.

It was after school hours and the second class in the upper study was about to end. Since the Sixth Prince left, the Seventh Prince also left the palace to build his own residence. Now the only people in the upper study that Ye Shuo was familiar with were the Eighth Prince and the little grandson Ye Xun.

Ye Shuo was not very familiar with the rest, like the tenth prince, the eleventh prince, the twelfth prince, and even the queen’s sons.

Normally at this time, Ye Shuo would usually walk around and then go to the tea room for fear of hurting their young hearts, but today, because the eldest prince’s sons were there, Ye Shuo just swaggered over.

When he saw his figure, Ye Xun’s eyes widened.

Wait, didn’t he send someone to inform the Ninth Prince? Why did the Ninth Prince come anyway?

Didn’t receive it, or…

Ye Xun was not stupid. Seeing the bitter look on the face of the eunuch behind Ye Shuo, he quickly realised that his actions might have had the opposite effect.

Ye Xun could not help but take a breath.

From a distance, Ye Shuo saw Ye Yan and the other three who were as strong as calves. Looking at their facial features similar to those of the eldest prince, he immediately realised that these were his other good nephews.

Not bad, not bad. This physique looks very healthy.

It just so happened that Jianjian was about to start practising martial arts, and he was in need of a few sparring partners. These four men were obviously martial artists, and they were worthy of being the sons of the cheap eldest brother, and they looked to be quite tough.

Ye Shuo was afraid that if he practised for an ordinary person, it would not produce any effect. These four nephews came at the right time.

For some reason, Ye Yan suddenly felt a chill on his back when being stared at by the Ninth Prince.

Perhaps it was because Ye Shuo’s eyes were too explicit, the other party’s eyes kept scanning him as if he was selecting goods. Ye Yan couldn’t hold it back any longer, and said, “We brothers are here today, we won’t let you bully your eighth uncle!”

Ye Shuo couldn’t help but look at the Eighth Prince standing beside him.

Seeing this, the Eighth Prince waved his hands repeatedly: “Xiaojiu, you know this is not my idea.”

Ye Yan was stunned. Eighth Uncle, this was their real uncle, their father’s brother, how could he surrender so quickly?

The Eighth Prince didn’t want to do this, but he felt this was the best way.

However, the four nephews were kind-hearted after all, and the Eighth Prince could not bear to see them being entangled by Xiao Jiu, so he hurriedly said, “Don’t talk nonsense!”

Then the Eighth Prince turned his head again and said sincerely: “Xiao Jiu, since they are still young and can’t stand the tossing, please let them go.”

“I want to, too, but look at them yourself, they themselves are unhappy about it.”

Ye Shuo blinked, then imitated the eldest prince yesterday and took a step forward.

Ye Yan thought he was going to attack, and the kids panicked and immediately surrounded Ye Shuo.

Of course, Ye Yan and the other three knew what was right and wrong. They knew that Ye Shuo was their uncle and did not dare to really take action. So they thought of using their bodies to stop him outside.

Just as Ye Yan and the others thought, Ye Shuo was indeed embarrassed to fight with his nephew.

But there are always more effective solutions than taking action.

When the Eighth Prince fell into Ye Shuo’s hands again, he suddenly had an urge to vomit blood.

Perhaps what my elder brother said was right. I should indeed strengthen my practice in martial arts and horse riding and archery.

Otherwise, no matter how good his temper is, he won’t be able to bear being treated as a hostage all the time.

Ye Shuo cleared his throat, then his face became serious: “Everyone stand still, if anyone dares to disobey, don’t blame me for being rude.”

Ye Shuo just didn’t believe that they could watch their own uncle get beaten.

Before Ye Yan and the others could react, they watched Uncle Eight being arrested. Then they heard these words and for a moment they didn’t know how to react.

The youngest of the four was the smartest. When he saw Ye Shuo holding the eighth prince hostage, he followed suit and rushed forward, also holding hostage the little princess who was still overwhelmed by what was happening before her.

Ye Shuo was startled at first, but then he thought of something and felt relieved.

In war, the key is to capture the leader first. As long as the key person is in your hands, you have the bargaining power.

As if he saw what the other person was thinking, Ye Shuo almost laughed out loud.

“By the way, have you forgotten something?”

“cough……”

“Well, I dare to hit my brother, do you dare to hit your aunt?”

Even though Jianjian is young, she is still the aunt of several people.

Jianjian finally reacted and pursed her lips. A layer of mist quickly filled her eyes and tears kept rolling in her eye sockets, as if she was about to cry in the next second.

When Ye Yan saw this, he was immediately dumbfounded.

“Now because of your disobedience, I have decided to let your Eighth Uncle take the blame for you.” Ye Shuo’s eyes turned cold, and then he punched the Eighth Prince in the stomach without hesitation.

What does this have to do with me!?

The Eighth Prince was about to curse, but then he realised that it didn’t seem to hurt.

The Eighth Prince turned his head subconsciously and met Ye Shuo’s eyes.

“Real fight or fake fight, you choose one.”

The Eighth Prince: “…”

What choice does he have?!

The Eighth Prince is indeed a smart man. After he understood what he meant, his expression immediately twisted, and then he covered his stomach and cried out “ouch ouch ouch”.

“Let me make it clear first, you can’t tell this to your elder brother.”

If my eldest brother knew that I sold my nephews out of fear of physical pain, je would break his legs.

Ye Shuo patted his chest, meaning that you can trust me to do the job.

The eighth prince weighed the issue for a long time, and finally “reluctantly” sold out his nephews.

It was the eldest brother who originally caused the trouble. It is only natural that the son should pay for the father’s debts. He had already taken a beating for his eldest brother before, so he couldn’t just be the only one to be beaten, right?

Seeing this scene, Ye Yan and the others dared not resist at all.

Ye Shuo couldn’t help but reveal a mysterious smile.

The other side.

After the morning court session ended, Emperor Jingwen seemed to be hesitant to speak, and finally called the eldest son alone, and briefly mentioned what happened yesterday afternoon.

The eldest prince was stunned, and then seemed a little unbelievable.

My father actually cares so much about his ninth younger brother!

“It’s not what you think.” Emperor Jingwen was such a smart man that he immediately realised that his eldest son had misunderstood.

Emperor Jingwen couldn’t help but sigh: “I’m just afraid that you will be entangled by Xiaojiu.”

Emperor Jingwen knew how powerful his son was. If he was targeted by him, there would be no escape.

“You still have time to say a few soft words now.”

Emperor Jingwen made this suggestion with good intentions.

However, no matter how wonderful Emperor Jingwen’s words were, they were all biased in the eyes of the eldest prince.

He used to favour the crown prince, and now the ninth prince. How could my father do this?

Just when the eldest prince’s heart was surging with grief and indignation, and he could not control his emotions for a moment, Wang Ziquan suddenly came over from outside. As he walked, Wang Ziquan shouted, “Your Majesty, eldest prince, it’s bad, the ninth prince and the emperor’s grandson, they–“

For a moment, Wang Ziquan really couldn’t find the right words to describe the scene.

However, Emperor Jingwen and the eldest prince misunderstood.

The eldest prince: “Yan’er and the others beat up the ninth prince?”

Emperor Jingwen: “Shuo’er used his tricks again?”

Oops, things seem to be more serious than I thought.

“Hurry, hurry up!” After all, those are the royal blood!

Before Wang Ziquan could finish his words, the two fathers had already hurried to the scene of the incident.

When Emperor Jingwen and the eldest prince arrived, they saw Ye Shuo supervising several imperial grandchildren jogging with great interest.

It would be fine if I lost in a one-on-one fight, but the key is that I haven’t even started to fight yet and I have to listen to him in everything. If I don’t listen, he will beat my own uncle.

The more they thought about it, the more aggrieved they felt. Ye Yan and the others couldn’t stop crying, and their tears kept pouring out.

Emperor Jingwen was silent for a moment, then couldn’t help but look at his eldest son.

Tell me why you provoked him. Now look what happened, several of your sons have been lost.

As for the eldest prince, he was obviously unable to react when he saw his sons running and wiping their tears.

“Ninth brother, please don’t go too far!” Perhaps because he was too angry, the eldest prince lost his composure.

Seeing his cheap elder brother pulling the Eighth Prince aside and then standing in front of him, Ye Shuo was stunned for a moment, then he was a little bit unbelievable: “Brother, are you threatening me?”

The eldest prince did not say anything. He just stared at him with a fierce look. The throbbing veins on the back of his hands showed that he was not at peace.

“It’s indeed a threat.” Ye Shuo understood.

“Just wait for me!”

The eldest prince felt that these words sounded particularly familiar, but before he could react, he saw Ye Shuo suddenly running in front of Emperor Jingwen.

Just when the eldest prince thought that the ninth prince was going to exaggerate and make the first move to complain, he heard him say this –

“Father, it has been a month since my nephews came back. It was fine before because of the flood, but now that the flood has stopped, shouldn’t my nephews go to the upper study to study?”

“No matter what happens, we can’t delay our children’s studies.”

When they go to the upper study and stay in the palace every day, won’t they be at his mercy?

Ye Shuo thought so in his heart, and his face showed that he was very worried about his nephew’s future, as if he cared more about him than the eldest prince, his biological father.

How could the eldest prince not understand his plan? As soon as he finished speaking, his expression froze.

If the emperor nodded, wouldn’t that mean… from one hostage at the beginning, it suddenly became five? ? ?

The eldest prince’s heart suddenly stagnated.