The Tang Family’s Seven Os - Chapter 169

Tang Qi Yuan nodded at once and decided to follow Sheng Cen to the charity auction, since it was full of hypocrites, he thought it should be interesting.

He quickly finished his nutritious porridge, took a shower and changed into the clothes that Sheng Cen had prepared for him, delaying for a while.

By the time he came downstairs with Sheng Cen, he had cleaned himself up and was no longer the wilted cabbage he had been when he had a fever.

He was wearing a black suit, which made his legs slender and his black hair and eyes bright. Even when he is sick, his complexion looked better than ordinary people.

When Empress Xia saw him coming down, she smiled and asked in a gentle voice: “Xiao Qi, has your fever gone down?”

“En.” Tang Qi Yuan nodded, pursed his lips and smiled, “I’m sorry to trouble you, Auntie, I’ve let you worry.”

Empress Xia patted his hand, “You this child, don’t be so polite to me.”

Tang Qi Yuan smiled and looked down to see Sheng Xi sitting in a wheelchair, wearing a white suit, a little surprised, “Da Ge, are you coming too?”

“En.” Sheng Xi smiled, looked at Tang Qi Yuan and said: “I’m going to join in the fun today.”

“Ge, you……” Sheng Cen wrinkled his eyebrows, crouching in front of Sheng Xi, but then said something, his eyebrows were all worried.

“It’s okay.” Sheng Xi knew what he was worried about and smiled, sighing softly: “I should go out for a walk too.”

He had always hid in this side of the world before, thinking that a positive life would be fine, but he didn’t know that his mother and brother had been taking on the gossip for him, and he couldn’t afford to go soft any longer.

“Ok.” Sheng Cen looked at his determined gaze and nodded gently, standing up and pushing him out the door.

Empress Xia and Tang Qi Yuan followed behind them, smiling uncharacteristically, their eyes all soft and wavy.

By the time they arrived, the guests were basically all there.

Tang Qi Yuan stood in the glorious hall, looking at the crowd of people mingling, he couldn’t help but feel a bit dazed, everyone here had smiles on their faces, but as Sheng Cen said, they all looked hypocritical when they pushed and exchanged glasses.

As soon as they walked in, the crowd’s attention was drawn to them and they all focused their attention on them, whispering after saluting.

When the Emperor saw them, he frowned slightly and lifted his steps, followed by Sheng Lian, who was dressed in a suit and had a slight resemblance to him in his brows, but Sheng Lian’s features looked more like Madame Zhen Wei’s.

Madam Zhen Wei naturally could not appear at such occasions. Even if His Majesty had favoured her, he would not dare to face the gossip of the crowd for her. In the end, His Majesty had always been selfish, if he had not been selfish, he would not have married Empress Xia for the sake of power, and he even more would not have married Empress Xia and then selfishly gone out to philander, leaving his two sons behind.

Unlike his mother, Sheng Lian was after all the Emperor’s own son, so everyone turned a blind eye to him and pretended not to know his identity.

The Emperor has been suppressing the Xia family for the past few years, and fewer and fewer people dare to voice their discontent for the Empress, so the Emperor has been leading Sheng Lian to appear in front of the public more and more often.

The Emperor’s expression was not worried as he approached and several people saluted him according to the rules.

Sheng Lian followed the Emperor step by step, his mouth curled in a nasty smile as he bowed to Empress Xia, who demurely nodded her head lightly, not taking Sheng Lian’s transgressive attitude to heart.

The Emperor looked down at Sheng Xi, his brow furrowed and his tone unkind as he asked: “What brings you here?”

Sheng Xi looked up and smiled, “Came to celebrate your birthday.”

“No need, you go back and rest well.” The Emperor’s face was slightly sunken, his voice implied a reprimand.

“I have rested enough already.” Sheng Xi smiled and looked up at the Emperor, his tone carrying a trifle of insistence as he asked, “Aren’t you happy that I came to celebrate your birthday?”

The Emperor’s brow furrowed even more, he was extremely unhappy with Sheng Xi’s perverse attitude, but there were many people here looking at him, so naturally he could not treat Sheng Xi poorly in front of everyone, so he did not answer, but turned his head to look at Tang Qi Yuan.

His gaze sank, and as if he had found a way to vent his anger, he gave Empress Xia a cold glance, “Who is he, did I let you to bring someone here at random?”

Before Empress Xia could say anything, Tang Qi Yuan stepped forward and said respectfully without being condescending: “Greetings, Your Majesty, my name is Tang Qi Yuan, I am a classmate of the Second Highness. I happen to be at Orchid Palace today and learned that it is your birthday, so I came to congratulate you on behalf of my father.”

“Your father is……” the Emperor looked at him with a hesitant gaze.

“My father, Tang Bo Te.”

“Oh……so you are General Tang’s son.” The Emperor suddenly changed his attitude, revealing a smile, sizing up Tang Qi Yuan and complimenting him: “You are so young and so talented, General Tang is so fortunate.”

The issue of military power had always been a major concern for him, so he naturally did not dare to take Tang Bo Te lightly, and therefore looked at Tang Qi Yuan a little more highly.

Tang Qi Yuan smiled and considered his reply. After the emperor knew who Tang Qi Yuan was, his attitude towards Tang Qi Yuan was even better than Sheng Xi’s. Tang Qi Yuan could not help but feel a little sad for Sheng Xi.

The Emperor stood still and praised Tang Qi Yuan a few more times before he led Sheng Lian away.

After the Emperor left, Sheng Cen couldn’t help but snort coldly, picking up a glass of wine and tilting his head to drink it.

Empress Xia squatted down and patted Sheng Xi’s hand soothingly.

Sheng Xi smiled indifferently and said in a low voice: “It’s ok, I’m used to it.”

Sheng Cen put the wine glass down and took a glass of juice and handed it to Tang Qi Yuan, “My Ge hasn’t eaten yet, you should accompany my Ge to get something to eat.”

He and Empress Xia were going to socialise, and he didn’t want Tang Qi Yuan and Sheng Xi to be bothered by such things.

Tang Qi Yuan did not object and nodded, pushing Sheng Xi to sit on the sofa, many eyes around them were peeking at them, also gauging Sheng Xi’s legs.

The moment they saw the wheelchair, they guessed Sheng Xi’s identity and were naturally curious about the eldest prince who had not been out for a long time.

Tang Qi Yuan and Sheng Xi both pretended not to see their gazes and went about their business.

Tang Qi Yuan picked out a lot of food for Sheng Xi according to his taste and put it in front of Sheng Xi. He himself had just had a fever and did not dare to eat indiscriminately, so he only held the juice that Sheng Cen had just given him in his hand and drank a sip or two from time to time.

He and Sheng Xi, both of whom had a very agreeable temperament and personality, and it was very easy to talk to each other, so sitting here wasn’t boring.

After a while, a young teenage Omega came over and sat opposite them, giving Sheng Xi a leisurely smile, “Greetings, Eldest Highness.”

Sheng Xi nodded, but smiled and ate a cherry with his head down, he didn’t like socialising in the first place, let alone the fact that this teenager was not a good person at first glance.

The teenager nodded to Tang Qi Yuan, looked at Sheng Xi with a fake smile and spoke: “Eldest Highness, I heard about your leg……”

He glanced at Sheng Xi’s leg hesitantly, and with an exaggerated ‘ah’, reached out and patted his mouth, “I mean……I heard that it is inconvenient for you to move around, so you rarely come to parties, I came over to tell you, you must not be reserved, you should eat and drink as you like, you can ask me if there is anything you don’t understand.”

Sheng Xi’s slender fingers squeezing the cup tightened, pursing his lips without speaking, there were many people who talked about him behind his back, but there were very few who dared to find trouble in front of him like this, without any scruples.

The reason this young man dared to do so now was because the Xia family had lost its power, and because Madam Zhen Wei is becoming more and more favoured.

Tang Qi Yuan looked up at the boy’s face and frowned, thinking carefully for a long time before remembering that he seemed to be the child of Madam Zhen Wei’s sister’s family.

Madam Zhen Wei’s sister was a celebrity and often appeared on television, her child looked like her and had also appeared on television a few times. If Tang Qi Yuan remembered correctly, it seemed that his name is Ding Ou, Ding Ou’s father was supposed to be some kind of official of the Empire and that is why he was able to come to this party, but the family’s biggest reliance is still Madam Zhen Wei, that is why Ding Ou had deliberately come to pick a fight and try to please Sheng Lian.

Tang Qi Yuan looked up, and as he had expected, Sheng Lian was standing not far away, looking on with a good look on his face, and beside him stood many men and women, all with the same expression on their faces as Sheng Lian. As Madam Zhen Wei gained power, more and more people curried favour with Sheng Lian.

Tang Qi Yuan brought the cake placed in front of him to Sheng Xi, blinking innocently as he asked: “This is the Eldest Highness’ home, how can the Eldest Highness be reserved about eating in his own home?”

There were only a few people in the empire who could call the imperial palace their home, and these few people did not include Sheng Lian, and naturally, it does not include this Ding Ou in front of them.

The smile on Ding Ou’s face froze instantly when he heard his words, no matter how bad his leg injury was, Sheng Xi is still the legitimate Eldest Prince, his status is unquestionable, and this glorious palace is his home.

Ding Ou paused for a moment with an ugly look on his face before he eased his expression, first glaring at Tang Qi Yuan, then looking at Sheng Xi, he said with a leathery smile” “It is true that the Eldest Highness need not be formal in your own home, it is just that you have stayed in the Orchid Palace for a long time, you do not see His Majesty often and you cannot come to this palace often, it is inevitable that you will be nervous in front of His Majesty and in front of people, and there are also a few rules rules missing. ”

He was alluding to the fact that His Majesty favoured Madam Zhen Wei and did not often visit the Empress’ residence, and was also saying that Sheng Xi rarely went out and therefore did not know the rules.

Tang Qi Yuan listened until he had a burst of fire, Madam Zhen Wei seduced His Majesty when His Majesty had a wife, but Ding Ou was not ashamed of it, but proud of it, it was really unacceptable.

Before Tang Qi Yuan could speak, Sheng Xi, who had been silent, looked up at Ding Ou and suddenly opened his mouth indifferently, “Rules? What are rules? In front of Imperial Father, what he says is naturally the rules.”

Sheng Xi lifted his lips slightly and turned his words around, “In front of you, what I say is also a rule.” He looked at Ding Ou and said word for word: “Now I order you to disappear from in front of me.”

Ding Ou’s face turned white with embarrassment, looking at Sheng Xi and almost too angry to speak, “You……”

On the contrary, he could not retort at all, he could not continue even after half a day of ‘you’, Sheng Xi was the Eldest Prince, in front of him, what Sheng Xi said was an order, and with his status, he could only obey.

Tang Qi Yuan sat aside, pretending to tilt his head back and take a sip of juice, his lips couldn’t help smiling.

He now believed in the saying ‘a rabbit in distress will bite’, Sheng Xi was worthy of being Sheng Cen’s older brother, his temper is exactly the same as Sheng Cen’s, just the sense of oppression on them could make people who were not familiar with them feel breathless.