Chapter 195: Chapter 195
"Ning Ning, don’t be willful, be good." The Crown Prince patted Jun Ning’s head and said, "Trust your brother, your brother won’t deceive you, it’s for your own good."
"Brother, if you really want what’s best for me, you should stay out of this. I can definitely defeat that Ninth Prince." Jun Ning said with a determined tone.
The Crown Prince thought Jun Ning was being stubborn, "Ning Ning, don’t be stubborn."
Jun Ning said nothing further.
The Crown Prince didn’t want to continue delaying the competition from starting.
He pressed his lips together, holding Jun Ning’s little cloak, and returned to his position. Meeting the questioning gaze of the Imperial Censor, he helplessly shook his head.
Could not be persuaded.
Forget it, let the little girl play if she wants to!
Once she’s truly exhausted and can’t stand or is brought to tears by defeat, then we’ll talk.
"Little princess, are you ready?" asked the Bei Xia Ninth Prince opposite Jun Ning.
Without a moment’s hesitation, Jun Ning said, "Ready, let’s start!" After a pause, she added, "But before we begin, I want a plate of sunflower seeds, is that okay?"
To just sit and wait for someone else to solve the nine rings with nothing else to do would be quite boring, better to snack on sunflower seeds while waiting.
Upon hearing Jun Ning’s ’outrageous’ request, the Eldest Prince, who previously dared not speak under Emperor Yongning’s stern gaze, couldn’t hold back and sarcastically remarked, "At a time , you still have the mind to eat sunflower seeds?"
Doesn’t know the appropriate setting for anything.
Does she even know that our three cities of Dong Chu are about to be lost because of her? And she still has the mind to eat sunflower seeds?
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But before he could finish speaking, he felt Emperor Yongning’s deadly gaze fixed on him once more.
The Eldest Prince was anxious and fearful under that gaze, yet he still couldn’t help but want to express his thoughts, to scold Jun Ning harshly once more, or even spank her.
It was clearly courting death.
But he didn’t want to die and found it hard to control his emotions.
In the end, he found an excuse to leave and stay outside.
He really didn’t want to watch Jun Ning’s pitiful defeat.
Jing Shu, cheerfully brought her plate of sunflower seeds over to Jun Ning and said, "Ning Ning, I believe you will win, go for it."
Jun Ning glanced at her sideways, "Call me ’Little Aunt’?"
"Hmmph!" Jing Shu pouted and walked away.
She refused to call her that.
"This girl," Jun Ning thought, "One day, she will definitely call me Little Aunt."
The Bei Xia Fifth Prince had already sat down at a small table prepared by the servants, ready to start solving the nine rings. Jun Ning didn’t delay, sitting down with a plate of sunflower seeds, watching the child prodigy solve the nine rings while snacking.
The so-called solving the nine rings is to untangle all the rings that are locked together until they are no longer interlocked.
Watching the Fifth Prince work on that thing, it seemed quite troublesome. Quite some time passed, yet he hadn’t solved a single one.
Jun Ning wasn’t anxious, slowly snacking on sunflower seeds while waiting.
As for her own nine rings, she placed them on the small table in front of her without even glancing at them.
The ministers watched the princess snacking on sunflower seeds without even sparing the nine rings a glance, almost fainting from frustration.
"What is the Eighteenth Princess doing? Not solving the nine rings is one thing, but to start snacking on sunflower seeds?"
"Does she think we haven’t lost enough face for Dong Chu?"
Listening to these comments from above, Emperor Yongning sneered inwardly, "Bao’er is so small, certainly can’t solve the nine rings. If you don’t let her happily wait by snacking on sunflower seeds while others solve it, would you rather have her cry over her inability to do it? If she starts crying, let’s see who can calm her down?"
The ministers didn’t know what Emperor Yongning was thinking, nor did they have the time to care.
They kept their eyes on Jun Ning, but the more they saw her leisurely snacking on sunflower seeds, the more anxious they became, wishing they could take her place.
"Oh my dear princess, even if you can’t solve the nine rings, at least pretend to look at them a few times!"
"This outright giving up, not even glancing at the nine rings, what does it mean?"
Time flew by swiftly, and soon the time it takes for two sticks of incense to burn had passed.
Jun Ning, seeing that the Ninth Prince across from her had only managed to untangle one ring, sighed and lay down on the table, preparing to take a nap.
Watching the Ninth Prince solve things so slowly had made her sleepy.
Moreover, at the Ninth Prince’s current speed, it would take another two hours to solve it completely.
Thus, there was no harm in her taking a nap.
Jun Ning lay on the table and quickly fell asleep with light snoring.
Emperor Yongning: "......"
The ministers: "......"
The Ninth Prince, who was working anxiously on the nine rings, looked up briefly when he heard the little girl’s gentle snores: ".........................."
This, isn’t this too much giving up!
Why not just admit defeat and go back to her palace to sleep? Sleeping here is tiring!
The Ninth Prince shook his head and continued to focus on solving the nine rings.
When Jun Ning awoke from her nap, she rubbed her sleepy eyes and looked towards the Ninth Prince across from her.
Seeing that after such a long time, the Ninth Prince had only solved four rings, she gave him a disappointed look.
This Ninth Prince truly let her down. She thought he’d have solved most of it by the time she woke up, but who would have thought he was still so far off?
Angry, she stomped over to the Ninth Prince, observing his focused attempt at the nine rings, and said, "How much longer do you need to solve all these rings? I’m growing impatient."
Her stomach was growling, she wanted something to eat.
Yet evidently, no place was prepared for her at the banquet, so naturally, there was nothing for her to eat.
She couldn’t possibly ask someone else for food, she would have to return to the Weiyang Palace to eat.
So, this matter needed to be settled quickly so she could go back to satisfy her hunger.
After hearing Jun Ning’s words, the Ninth Prince gave her a disdainful look. He thought, this brat, can’t solve the nine rings herself but dares complain about his speed?
Even if he was slow, at least he could solve it.
What’s more, all the officials and envoys observing were attempting to discern some technique from his method of solving the nine rings.
Those people would only complain if he were solving the rings too fast for them to see clearly, they would never complain about him being too slow.
Only this brat... utterly oblivious...
The Ninth Prince almost let loose a storm of curses.
But before he could say anything, Jun Ning impatiently interrupted, "By the time you’re done, it will be dark, and I’ll have starved. Let this princess handle it."
The crowd: What? Did the Eighteenth Princess say what we think she said? She will? She’ll do what? Solve the nine rings? Can she really solve them?