Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

The queen showed a rare smile and held Qin Zhaoyue's arm to help him up.

"How?" she asked briefly.

Qin Zhaoyue shook his head slightly.

Perhaps afraid that this would irritate his mother again, Qin Zhaoyue stood closer and whispered, "The Hidden Dragon Guards under my father's command are independent of each other. I'm afraid he still has a backup plan. If he can't convince the people, I'm afraid someone will take advantage of the situation."

The queen lowered her eyes and frowned, and asked, "Who is it?"

Qin Zhaoyue said: "Mother, please don't interfere."

"Our honor and disgrace are tied together. How can we, as mother, just stand by and watch?" the queen rebuked softly.

"No, this matter is dangerous. If we are not careful, we will lose everything." Qin Zhaoyue said, "I have my own arrangements. If the Queen Mother acts rashly, it will only make the situation more complicated."

He paused and said, "I have already contacted Zhao Kong. If...she will take you away."

When the queen heard the name, she was stunned for a moment.

Qin Zhaohong, her daughter, she hadn't had a proper conversation with her for decades, and even her face looked a little blurry.

"I know." The Queen said, "But you have to tell me who it is. The Mu family has fallen, and the other families are all under the Queen Mother's nose, and there is no unusual movement... Could it be the ones who were sealed off?"

Qin Zhaoyue shook his head: "It's King Yin."

The queen's face suddenly became serious, and after a moment, she said with a mocking tone: "I knew it. When your father ascended the throne, his eyes were not like those of a peaceful person..."

Qin Zhaoyue said, "We found out too late. We have not yet found out how many arrangements Qin Shu has made. Mother, you must not act rashly. This man is best at playing power games and watching the tigers from the mountain. Then we will fall into his trap."

"I know the importance of this," said the Queen.

"There is one more thing." Qin Zhaoyue said, "It is better to decide on the Crown Princess as soon as possible."

The queen was surprised: "Have you chosen between the two sisters?"

The prince nodded.

"Who will be the principal wife? What position will the other one be given?" the Queen said, "You have to give me a definite answer, so that the Jing family knows that it was your idea... not me, the Queen Mother, who is trying to bully them."

"I will only marry Jingsang." Qin Zhaoyue said.

"What about Jingyu?" The queen was very surprised. "What about Jingyu? You want to marry your sister, so as the queen, I can't leave Jingyu alone. I have to find a good marriage for her."

"I've made up my mind." Qin Zhaoyue said, "It would be a waste for me to have both of the Jing family's beauties to myself. Jing Yu is a perfect match for Gu Xu."

The queen was startled and frowned as she thought carefully.

Behind Gu Xu is the Su family, which is walking on thin ice. They have been powerful for several years and now have the hope of becoming a member of the new emperor's bloodline and continuing their glory for decades. They will not refuse.

"Well, that... Marquis Dunxin..." The queen had heard some of the rumors outside and was unsure for a moment.

"He's dead." Qin Zhaoyue smiled. "Such a smart person... It's a pity, but it's beneficial to us."

The Queen looked somewhat helpless: "Mother will go and draft an invitation to invite Madam Jing to the palace...but what's the excuse?"

"We'll talk about it later. Let's discuss this matter with the Jing family first." Qin Zhaoyue rubbed his brows. "I still have things to deal with. Mother, I'll leave this matter to you."

"Okay, I'll see to it." The queen nodded.

……

Jiangnan Road.

"This group of disaster victims came from Chongyang County. They are the last group there." Yu Weishuang put the thick list on the table. "Thanks to the prescription sent back from the capital, otherwise the epidemic would not be so easy to control. What are you looking at?"

Qin Zhaohong put the letter on the table: "Qin Zhaoyue wrote to me, asking me to return to Beijing to look after my mother."

"I think of you now." Yu Weishuang said, "What are you going to do?"

Qin Zhaohong shook his head: "It doesn't matter, no one would deliberately harm my mother, she is hiding very well behind the scenes."

Yu Weishuang sat down at the table: "In my opinion, we should finish the many things here first, and then go back to Beijing to talk about the palace."

Qin Zhaohong asked: "Yes. Have you received the supplies that Su Muying brought?"

"Of course." Yu Weishuang said, "He... hasn't discovered yet that we are behind the scenes. But the reputation of the Chamber of Commerce has been established. He once proposed to meet with the owner of the Chamber of Commerce, but I refused."

Yu Weishuang flipped through the papers on the table and said, "The matter of King Yin has been dealt with. When does Your Highness the Princess plan to make her name known?"

Qin Zhaohong took over the papers, flipped through them page by page and began to review them without answering.

Yu Weishuang took the ink stick lying in the inkstone, added some water and started grinding it.

The room was silent for a while, and Yu Weishuang said, "King Yin, Qin Zhaoyue and the Emperor, these three parties are now hoping that the other two parties will fight so that they can benefit from it. It all depends on who loses patience first."

Qin Zhaohong whispered, "Therefore, we should be patient."

"Yes... If the emperor was in good health, he might have taken some action by now." Yu Weishuang said.

Qin Zhaohong paused and said, "Gu Xu has taken action."

"It wasn't him before, why this time..." Yu Weishuang was surprised.

"According to the information spread everywhere, Lord Dun Xin died in Yunxi." Qin Zhaohong frowned: "He has to speed up his actions."

Yu Weishuang was silent for a while.

"Princess, I've been having dreams since three years ago," she said. "I dreamed that Gu Xu was the prince's right-hand man, helping him defeat Mu You, Qin Zhaoning, and King Yin, and finally assisting Qin Zhaoyue in ascending the throne."

"Gu Dashi was just a stumbling block at the beginning of his life. He kicked it away and killed it, and there was no news of this person in the world anymore."

"I didn't know who he was at first," Yu Weishuang said, "so I was very surprised when I saw him and Gu Dashi near the town... I dared to approach him and talk to him, and he actually showed me a way."

Qin Zhaohong looked up at her: "Oh? Then, what do you want to say?"

"I was wondering if there really is such a magical thing as past lives and present lives, but why is the prediction in the dream completely different from reality? Gu Dashi died just like in the dream." Yu Weishuang smiled, "I'm not surprised at all."

She said to herself again: "But in the dream, Gu Xu had nothing to do with the Su family, and he had never even investigated the matter... How could I know? Why did I dream about these things, as if I had seen them with my own eyes..."

When Qin Zhaohong saw that she was talking incoherently, he knew that she had fallen into the devil's trap again, so he kept reviewing her papers, waiting for her to sort out her thoughts.

Yu Weishuang ground the ink for a while and then stopped.

She looked out the window at the moonlight. There were lights on in the houses over there, and the bitter smell of medicine wafted through the window.

After a while, she smiled and said, "That's all, it's just a dream. After all, I am living in reality, by your side."

Qin Zhaohong continued to write silently, his brush leaving neat marks on the paper, but the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.

The candlelight flickered gently.