160 Chapter 160: Con artis

To directly set aside the emperor? Only their empress is brazen enough to voice out such a thing.

However, in this group of people, no one was taken aback. The twins have great adaptability while Wei Lian also brushed it off.

"The ones you set aside is the most important ones though..." Jiang Liu voice out weakly. He really just cannot avoid commenting.

Wei Lian eyes swept over the group. He did it in an inconspicuous way and his movement small but fast that no one notice.

Thinking to himself, he kept his mouth shut and proceed forward.

Wei Yi Yi, of course, wouldn't be defeated without a proper fight. She started pestering Wei Lian the whole way and grabbed his sleeves.

The picky young master noticed the creases getting bigger and bigger and his eyes twitched. Wei Lian grabbed Wei Yi Yi's wrist to pull it off.

"A special gathering attended by all noble families, Father, as one expects, would not take this unfilial son in his own accord," he explains while he struggled in a fight of dominance with his sister. "But what choice does he have when it's known that a prince personally requested for my presence and invited me as his close 'friend'? Can he not give face to the sixth prince?"

Wei Lian direct a gaze towards the unsuspecting Jiang Liu and Wei Yi Yi follow after. He then gave the prince his well calculated cheap smile.

It's rare though.

"Since when did I do that?" Jiang Liu felt a need to defend himself.

"Then shall I remind your highness of your visit to the Wei Manor?"

There was no need for a reminder. Jiang Liu clearly went to Wei Manor.

He clearly did it subtly as if he was just passing by and went back immediately. There's no way he carelessly said something that would make people thought he is very close even to the Empress' maternal home.

Why does he feel he should doubt himself?

"The purpose of my visit is to see the youngest young master..." Jiang Liu trails off.

After investigating which family owns the carriage they saw at the southern gates, Jiang Liu was surprised to learn that it belongs to the Wei Manor.

The Prime Minister has a very elaborate carriage issued by the palace. It was not something that could be miss even by Jiang Liu. That is why it never crossed his mind that it was also one of the Wei Manor's carriages.

But after learning all this, it was really silly. How could a manor only have one carriage? The Empress' reaction that time also made sense to him after that. She must be feeling sensitive by that time so Jiang Liu didn't mention it again.

It has been more than a year since the Empress entered the palace. Except for the one time she went back to her maternal home after marriage, Wei Yi Yi never visited the Wei Manor. Even when there is an occasion, as she is the one organizing the palace, she never went back to see her father nor her siblings.

His Big Sister seriously missed her maternal home and Jiang Liu felt he must do something.

Jiang Liu indeed visited the Wei Manor to seek the one who is riding the carriage when they saw it and invite him for a happy reunion. He concluded that the empress must be the closest to this brother.

But clearly... It was not this Wei Lian... And he never voiced it out in the end to avoid suspicions of his relationships to the Weis.

"Yes. Sadly, no one was able to receive the sixth prince when he visited and his Highness was also in a hurry to be unable to inform Father of his purpose," Wei Lian confirmed Jiang Liu's words.

His following words hit the group with an unnatural force and they looked at him as if they went brain dead.

In a tone lack of any ounce of guilt, he said, "As unlucky as it is, except for a few servants, no one knew why or who the sixth prince went out of his way to seek for at the Wei Manor."

"You made up a story!" Wei Yi Yi exclaimed in a natural understanding regarding Wei Lian's personality.

With this much, no one needed to point it out. Jiang Liu himself knew he was used as a mean to scheme and the man he is facing is cunning!

Wei Lian shrugged, "A rumor, when repeated enough, can turn into the truth."

"What logic is that?!"

Jiang Liu is truly angry. He, even as an idle prince, still have a face he needs to uphold! What is this? A gathering of people rejected by the court?! Although he is the one rejecting politics, people would think otherwise!

What would his royal brother say? What if he misunderstood that he is now ready to make connections and be a silly official?!

What close friendship? There is no such thing between the imperial family and the noble families! There are only 'loyal subjects'.

"Your Highness, I think you and I are very close right now. Aren't we scouting together to strengthen our bonds?"

"Who is with you?! I'm with my sister!"

Jiang Liu went and claim Wei Yi Yi as his rightful sister. Wei Lian appears amused.

"You dare admit on framing me up in front of me! You are very brazen! There are punishments for bad people like you!"

As expected of the cunning man who maliciously causes his elder brother to be stuck at the border!

When the prime minister went to the military camp with his heir, it never crossed his mind that he'll be coming back without his eldest son.

Wei Lian, with his fluent use of words, exaggeratedly praised the eldest young master Wei after he assisted on a military matter.

The late emperor, who at that time was starting to become wary of the prime minister, found an opportunity with this to send this eldest and only Di son far away and seal his fate as a military man.

In this time of peace, what merit could eldest young master Wei get? Even with the clan's power and influence, how many years until he could be promoted?

The Heir that the prime minister raised with care by his side was sent away just like that.

It was not known if the late Emperor used the shu son or this shu son calculated well with the emperor's attitude towards his own father and brother.

One thing for sure though, Third young master,Wei Lian, is cunning.