Ministers Begging Me to Ascend the Throne

Chapter 552: Chapter 291: Prince Chu Misses His Tenth Brother_4

"Your Highness, you won’t catch a cold, will you?" Tong Xi said with a worried face, "I’ll have the kitchen make you some ginger soup."

"No need, I’m fine, not catching a cold." Zhao Yao pouted, "It must be fourth brother talking about me, I wonder if he realizes his mistake."

"Your Highness, you’ve written a letter saying you want to break ties with Prince Chu, he must realize he’s wrong." Tong Xi thought to herself that Prince Chu must find it amusing when he receives the letter, "Prince Chu will definitely write to apologize and might even send something to cheer you up."

Zhao Yao snorted arrogantly, "Don’t think just by writing an apology letter I’ll forgive him! And don’t think I’ll stop being angry just because he sends me something! I’m very angry this time; it’s not so simple to coax me."

"Your Highness, if Prince Chu really begs you to go to Liangzhou, you really won’t go?"

"Won’t go, I said that even if fourth brother begs me, I still won’t go." Of course, if sister-in-law and Xiao Baozi invited him to Liangzhou, he would definitely go. He quickly remembered what the emperor said before, his expression immediately turned downcast, "Father doesn’t agree with me going to Liangzhou." That rotten father won’t let him leave the capital for other places.

"Prince Chu begs the emperor, and the emperor still doesn’t agree?"

"No, Father says I’m too young, doesn’t allow me to go far." Speaking of this matter, Zhao Yao was full of anger, "I’m already eleven, not a kid. And besides, Father went to the battlefield with grandpa to kill enemies when he was eleven, why does he say I’m a kid at eleven?"

"Your Highness, if the emperor doesn’t agree, then you really can’t go to Liangzhou."

"That rotten father won’t let me go, I’ll just sneak away." Zhao Yao said rebelliously, "I’ve already thought it over, once Mr. Meng leaves, I’ll have uncle help me shake off the Hidden Guards sent by Father, then I’ll leave the capital without anyone noticing."

Tong Xi was shocked, "Your Highness, you’re planning to sneak away?"

Zhao Yao nodded, "That’s my plan."

"Your Highness, I’m not trying to dampen your spirits, but you probably can’t sneak away."

"Why?" Zhao Yao looked puzzled, "With uncle helping me, I can definitely succeed."

"Your Highness, uncle can help you shake off the Hidden Guards, but if you’re gone for several days, the emperor will definitely find out you’ve sneaked away, then he will surely send someone to catch you." Tong Xi analyzed, "With the skills and abilities of the Hidden Guards, they should find you quickly, then bring you back, and the emperor will certainly be angry enough to spank you."

(⊙o⊙)...

He hadn’t thought of that.

Zhao Yao lay on the table listlessly, feeling a bit hopeless, "So I can’t sneak away?"

"Yes, you better not think about it anymore." Tong Xi said, "It’s getting late, Your Highness, you should wash up and go to sleep."

"Father’s Hidden Guards are so annoying." Zhao Yao knew that as long as he left the palace, the Hidden Guards would follow him. Although he hadn’t seen those four Hidden Guards since that assassination incident where Noble Princess Consort Ying got him involved, he knew that those four Hidden Guards had definitely been by his side over the years.

"Your Highness, the emperor placed Hidden Guards to protect you."

"But with them around, I can’t sneak away." Zhao Yao pouted unhappily, "I was thinking of escaping the capital, then traveling to many places to play."

Tong Xi very considerately didn’t expose Zhao Yao’s little thought about going to Liangzhou, "Your Highness, if you truly want to go out and play, better obediently ask the emperor to agree, otherwise you can’t go anywhere."

"Ask Father, ha..." Zhao Yao sneered, "I might as well ask God."

"Your Highness, tomorrow you need to attend Mr. Meng’s lecture, you should quickly wash up and sleep."

Zhao Yao stood up and stretched.

"It really is better to sleep early, otherwise waking up early tomorrow, I’ll definitely get sleepy during the lecture."

"Your Highness, I’ll prepare a pot of strong tea for you tomorrow morning, drink more when you feel sleepy."

"Alright, you prepare it for me." Zhao Yao said again, "Go find Yu Hai later, tell him to prepare more food for me in the morning, I need to eat a lot so I won’t be hungry during the lecture." Most of the time, Zhao Yao ate breakfast and dinner with the eighth prince.

"I will go right away."

Zhao Yao didn’t say anything further and turned to the side room to bathe.

After he finished bathing and came out, he climbed into bed to sleep. When he was sleeping soundly, he felt something pecking his face and calling his name in his ear.

Zhao Yao groggily opened his eyes and saw a Sea Eagle perched on his chest, its round little eyes staring right at him.

He was a bit stunned, then realized, reaching out to stroke the Sea Eagle’s head.

"Xiao Qing, why did you come?" Xiao Qing was the Sea Eagle he gave to the eighth prince. "Did something happen to eighth brother?"

Xiao Qing said, "Someone wrote a letter to the eighth prince, named Ji Bochang."

Zhao Yao sat up, leaned against the headboard and asked with a puzzled expression, "What did Ji Bochang write?"

Xiao Qing couldn’t read, only able to relay what it heard.

"The eighth prince said the task was completed successfully."

"The task was completed successfully, what task?"

"The eighth prince and Yu Hai didn’t say." Xiao Qing tilted its head, continuing, "The eighth prince and Yu Hai were very happy."

"Anything else?" Zhao Yao asked, "Did eighth brother mention anything about Southern Wei?"

Xiao Qing said, "No."

"What did eighth brother have Wuwei do?" Zhao Yao muttered, "Whatever eighth brother instructed Wuwei to do, it definitely wasn’t a small matter."

"Didn’t say, don’t know." Xiao Qing was very clever; as long as what was said between the eighth prince and Yu Hai, it could roughly remember, then relay to Zhao Yao.

Zhao Yao gave Xiao Qing a peck on the head, laughing, "It’s okay not knowing, later eighth brother and the others are sure to mention it, then when you hear, let me know."

Xiao Qing nodded, saying, "Okay."

Zhao Yao yawned, "I’m so sleepy, I’m going back to sleep, you go find Xiao Jin." Xiao Jin was the golden eagle given to Zhao Yao by Liang Run.

Xiao Qing nuzzled Zhao Yao’s face with its little head, then flew off to find Xiao Jin. It and Xiao Jin liked to catch things to play with at night.

Zhao Yao lay back in bed, yawning again, muttering, "Eighth brother is up to something again?"