The Tang Family’s Seven Os - Chapter 171

“Do you have something to auction too?” Tang Qi Yuan looked at the stage and gently bumped Sheng Cen’s shoulder.

Sheng Cen shook his head and asked in a low voice: “If I had something to auction, would you bid on my item?”

“Of course not.” Tang Qi Yuan didn’t even think for a second before answering without hesitation.

Sheng Cen looked down, giving Tang Qi Yuan a look with accusatory eyes.

“……” Tang Qi Yuan pursed his lips and felt a little guilty in his heart, reluctantly adding: “I don’t have money.”

“If you had money, you would have bid?” Sheng Cen raised his eyebrows, wondering why he was suddenly so obsessed with this matter.

Tang Qi Yuan followed his heart and shook his head again, “That depends on what you are auctioning off.”

Sheng Cen couldn’t help but pinch his face, “Can’t you just coax me?”

Tang Qi Yuan blinked his eyes, full of innocence, “As students, we can’t lie.”

Sheng Cen helplessly let go of his hand and murmured: “What a little nerd……”

The auction continued, and after Sheng Xi’s auction was finished, the next item on display was a handwritten letter from Sheng Lian, and when his name appeared on the big screen, everyone was surprised, and Sheng Cen’s face darkened for a moment.

Sheng Lian’s donation followed that of the Emperor’s son, and with this move, the Emperor could be said to have acknowledged Sheng Lian’s identity, and to have done so in front of Empress Xia and Sheng Cen.

As the auction began, the crowd was somewhat sceptical and did not open their mouths to bid, for to bid now would be to openly antagonise the Xia family, and not to bid would be to disrespect the Emperor. It’s like openly making them choose a side, for a while, they were all in a dilemma and looked at each other, wondering how to react.

The Emperor seemed to have anticipated this and did not make things difficult for everyone, but raised his own hand and bid on Sheng Lian’s work at a very high price.

By doing so, he had given Sheng Lian enough face, so to speak, to make his attitude completely clear, and after today, Sheng Lian’s status would be recognised by many more people.

Empress Xia blinked indifferently, it was similarly a prince’s exhibit, how could the emperor’s differing attitudes not make one’s heart grow cold.

Sheng Cen face was sullen, not uttering a word, but his lips were tightly tensed, his eyes dark and icy cold as he stared at the Emperor and Sheng Lian’s back.

Sheng Lian had long since returned after sending Ding Ou away just now, and was now standing by the Emperor’s side, talking and laughing, whispering from time to time, putting on an appearance of father-son love.

Tang Qi Yuan silently looked at the characters written by Sheng Lian on the stage, and suddenly spoke, “The writing style is weak, the strokes are hesitant, and the closing strokes are not clean enough, his writing is far worse than yours.”

Sheng Cen was suddenly amused by his serious tone, Tang Qi Yuan would rarely speak ill of people, now that he was so unrelenting in his assessment of Sheng Lian’s writing, it could be said that he hated Sheng Lian to the extreme.

“Are you complimenting me?” A smile curved around Sheng Cen’s mouth, “My writing is indeed good, if you want to learn, I can teach you.”

Tang Qi Yuan raised his eyes, “Table mate, modesty makes people improve.”

Sheng Cen laughed lowly twice, his mood soothed a little, but not wanting to stay and see the Emperor and Sheng Lian in a disgusting display of father-son love, he led Tang Qi Yuan and turned to the balcony. Anyway, all the drama he was supposed to do with the Emperor today had been done, he was no longer needed here.

He went to the balcony, took out the cigarette case from his pocket and drew out a cigarette.

Tang Qi Yuan followed his example and dug around in his pocket before handing him a lollipop, “My Ge said that when you want to smoke, you can use a lollipop instead.”

Sheng Cen raised his eyebrows slightly and put the cigarette case away, taking the lollipop and looking at it, “Your sixth Ge?”

“En.” Tang Qi Yuan nodded, “My sixth Ge is going to be a big doctor in the future, what he says is right.”

Sheng Cen hooked his lips, looking at Tang Qi Yuan’s look of total trust in his brother, he couldn’t help a little smile in the corners of his eyes.

He looked down and opened the candy paper and put the lollipop in his mouth, the taste was a little sweet but not unpleasant.

He had been taught since he was a child that a prince should behave like a prince and maintain his royal manners in every word and deed, so he rarely ate such lollipops with sticks when he was a child, nor did he eat the snacks that children would eat. Later on, when he grew up, whether he was faking it or was already at a rebellious stage, he was no longer bound by his status as a prince, but he did not eat these little snacks anymore.

Now standing on the balcony like this with the wind blowing and the candy in his mouth, it had a different taste.

Sheng Cen and Tang Qi Yuan stood on the balcony on the first floor, quietly admiring the palace at night, occasionally saying a few words, but it was much more leisurely than usual, and the air was filled with a faint sweet smell.

After an unknown amount of time, the auction seemed to have ended and the crowd gradually came out. Standing upstairs, they were able to see Empress Xia herself pushing Sheng Xi out and was walking in the direction of Orchid Palace, her back stubborn and well mannered, she never felt that her son would be disgraced, on the contrary, she was always proud of her son.

Yan Fei followed them, holding Sheng Xi’s painting in his hands, moving carefully and looking like he treasured it a lot.

Tang Qi Yuan looked down at them and couldn’t help but ask: “Does Yan Fei know Da Ge very well?”

“En.” Sheng Cen bit the candy to a crunch as he looked at the backs of Sheng Xi and Yan Fei and said: “My Ge used to be engaged to Yan Fei’s Ge, Yan Fei and his family live abroad all the time, only Yan Fei lived in China with his grandfather when he was a child, so he often came to Orchid Palace to play, he liked to stick to my Ge since he was young and was extra close to my Ge.”

Tang Qi Yuan was stunned, “What about his Ge?”

He had never heard about this fiancé from Sheng Xi’s mouth, Sheng Xi is an Omega, if he had a fiancé, he should have been unconsciously attached to him.

Sheng Cen sneered, biting the sugar even louder, and said with a bit of anger: “Although his Ge and my Ge had a marriage contract, his Ge always disliked my Ge after he knew my Ge’s leg was injured, and never willing to return to see my Ge, and then his Ge had a child with a Beta when he was not yet eighteen years old abroad, and things got so big at the time that the parents of both families knew about it, the marriage contract was then broken off.”

Sheng Cen’s voice paused and he gave a low snort: “Even when the marriage was broken off, his Ge refused to come and see my Ge himself, it was Yan Fei who broke off the marriage instead of his Ge.”

Tang Qi Yuan couldn’t help but frown and said with righteous indignation: “This man is too much! Sheng Xi Ge is so good, and he doesn’t even know how to cherish it.”

“En.” Sheng Cen smiled lightly, looking down at the way Yan Fei was walking away with Sheng Xi’s painting in his arms, and whispered, “But this younger brother is not bad, he’s always been respectful to my Ge, he has no bad intentions, and he comes to visit my Ge every time he returns to China.”

Tang Qi Yuan nodded, feeling slightly relieved in his heart, Sheng Xi is such a nice person, luckily he didn’t marry someone like Yan Fei’s brother, it was good to be able to see his brother’s true colours in advance and stop the damage in time, it was better than Empress Xia who only clearly saw her pillow mate after getting married.

Sheng Cen finished the candy, threw away the stick, smiled faintly and said: “Go back ba.”

Tang Qi Yuan stayed at the Orchid Palace for another night, this time sleeping in Sheng Cen’s room, as the guest room had been taken over by Yan Fei, who had also stayed in the Orchid Palace.

When Tang Qi Yuan woke up in the morning, he did not leave the room alone, but sat by the bed after washing up and waited quietly for Sheng Cen to wake up. After all, his table mate’s wake-up temper was really unpredictable, and it was better for him not to provoke his table mate.

The sunlight from outside the room shone through the curtains on Sheng Cen’s face, and Tang Qi Yuan could see every pore on Sheng Cen’s face, and he couldn’t help but sigh at how good his table mate’s skin is. Just when he was so bored that he started to count his table mate’s eyelashes, his table mate finally woke up and opened his eyes like a sleeping beauty.

Of course, the comment ‘sleeping beauty’ was something he only dared to whisper in his heart, if his cranky table mate knew about it, he would definitely have a black face again.

When Sheng Cen saw Tang Qi Yuan sitting next to him, he was stunned for a moment and sat up from the sofa, reaching out to rub his messy hair, his face was a little ugly in the morning because of his wake-up temper, but this time he didn’t get angry and his temper was a few points better than usual.

He somehow found it pleasing to open his eyes in the morning to see the little nerd, as if it were a pleasant thing to see.

He sat awake for a moment, got up, washed up and came out again, his expression as relaxed as usual.

Tang Qi Yuan looked at his series of actions and couldn’t help but shake his head and sigh softly, “Wake-up temper is an illness, do you want to consider curing it?”

“Heh……” Sheng Cen gave him a glance and sneered threateningly, “Tang Qi Yuan, are you seeing that I’m too good-tempered this morning? Do you need your dear table mate to help you sober up a bit?”

“No need, no need……” Tang Qi Yuan shrank back in fear and hurriedly trotted downstairs.

The sun was shining outside the house, Yan Fei had already woken up and was doing exercises with Sheng Xi outside the house, from a long way away, Tang Qi Yuan could hear him acting coquettishly with Sheng Xi, Tang Qi Yuan couldn’t help but smile, he had never seen such an Alpha that liked to act coquettish before.

Empress Xia was cooking breakfast in the kitchen, the house was filled with the faint smell of sweet milk, permeated with the smell of sunshine, nice and cheerful.

Sheng Cen and Tang Qi Yuan had breakfast and came to school together by car. They walked into the classroom and found Chen Zi Zhan, not only blue and pale after yesterday’s devastation, but also bruised and swollen, sitting shakily in his chair, looking simply more fragile than Lin Mei Mei1妹妹 (mèi mèi): younger sister. Not quite sure who exactly this is referring to…could be the character Lin Dai Yu from ‘Dreams of Red Mansions’..

When he saw Tang Qi Yuan, he stood up at once and walked excitedly to Tang Qi Yuan, bowing his head and apologising repeatedly, with a snotty nose and a tearful face, almost kneeling down directly to Tang Qi Yuan in front of everyone.

Tang Qi Yuan looked at his face like a panda with two black and blue eyes and couldn’t help but ask in confusion: “Did you fall down in the pool yesterday?”

“……” Chen Zi Zhan reached out in silence and touched his eyes, shrank back in pain, forced a smile and said, “After your Ge Ge found out about the situation yesterday, he came to teach me a bit about ‘the way to get along’ with classmates, after I heard it, I really benefited and gained something, so I decided to clean up my act, behave properly, and listen to you, Class President, and not let you get hurt, from now on, I will say whatever you tell me to say, and I will do whatever you tell me to do!”

When Tang Qi Yuan heard his last sentence, his eyes instantly lit up, he reached out and took the sports day registration list out of his seat and looked at Chen Zi Zhan expectantly and said: “In that case, Classmate Chen, I see that you are very talented in sports, why don’t you sign up for the 3,000 meters run.”

The sports day held by the school was about to start, and the reason he had delayed in the office for a long time yesterday was because the teacher had given him the registration items for the sports day and asked him to submit the list today.

“This……” Chen Zi Zhan looked at the registration list and couldn’t help but hesitate, everyone knew that running the 3,000 meters in the sports day was a chore, every time there were very few people who signed up for this event, 3,000 meters was a tiring and long run, and afterwards they were all sweaty, it wasn’t convenient for him at all. It’s better to sign up for a sport like long jump.

“……En?” Sheng Cen saw him hesitate to say yes and raised an eyebrow coldly from the side.

Chen Zi Zhan gave a jolt and immediately agreed, “Ok, ok, ok…… 3,000 meters then 3,000 meters, as long as you, Class President, say something, even if it’s 30,000 meters I’ll run too!”

Tang Qi Yuan filled in Chen Zi Zhan’s name on the registration card with great pleasure, reached out and patted him on the shoulder, saying in a serious tone: “Classmate Chen’s athletic motivation is really good, please keep it up, but 30,000 meters is already beyond the limits of the human body, Classmate Chen you still have to live within your means, running 3,000 meters is fine.”

Chen Zi Zhan nodded and wiped the cold sweat from his head with a smile, he now felt that the Class President was the most terrifying person in the class, more terrifying than the Second Prince, he now hated that he couldn’t take a detour when he saw Tang Qi Yuan and would never dare to easily provoke him again.