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

Yu Hu's hand was held tightly.

Qin Zhaoyue bent down and looked at this friend whom he hadn't seen for a long time, with a trace of complicated guilt in his eyes.

"He's fine. Don't worry." Qin Zhaoyue said.

Yu Hu closed and opened his eyes repeatedly, looking clearly at the tent above his head and feeling the cool and smooth bedding under his hands.

The injured parts of his body were tightly wrapped. Yu Hu tried hard to focus his vision and saw his hands wrapped in white cloth.

"Your Highness..." Yu Hu said with difficulty.

"You are safe now." Qin Zhaoyue comforted him, "There is no need to say anything unnecessary now, just take good care of your injuries."

"No." Yu Hu shook his head slowly. He held Qin Zhaoyue's hand tightly with his backhand: "It's not... the Third Prince, it's, the Prince."

"Prince?" Qin Zhaoyue was stunned.

"The jailer once said, Your Majesty." Yu Hu's voice was hoarse, "They were following Your Majesty's orders..."

Qin Zhaoyue pressed his shoulders: "I understand. I will investigate."

"Lu Tianyun, how is it?" Yu Hu asked with difficulty.

"You're still unconscious, but you won't die." Qin Zhaoyue patted his shoulder gently.

Yu Hu stopped talking and his expression seemed to be a little more relaxed.

Qin Zhaoyue's expression did not relax. He stood up and walked out of the room where Yu Hu was recuperating. The room next door was where Lu Tianyun was.

General Lu has been here.

This man had fought on the battlefield for half his life, and he did not shed a single tear when he saw his son's miserable condition. He just took on the task entrusted by Qin Zhaoyue and returned to Luoyang without even taking a second look.

But Qin Zhaoyue was well aware of his desire for revenge.

Lu Tianyun’s condition is… not good.

The cause of the coma was unknown, and the imperial doctors Qin Zhaoyue brought from the capital were helpless. However, through force-feeding medicine and acupuncture, Lu Tianyun was no longer in danger of life, but he became as thin as a bag of bones.

There is no way that face can be restored.

After the wounds heal, Lu Tianyun will become a terrifying figure with scars all over his face. The handsome young man who was famous in the capital will eventually become a thing of the past.

This is more than just a facade...

This almost blocked Lu Tianyun's future official career.

Qin Zhaoyue smiled coldly.

Your Majesty...

Princes in the current dynasty are not uncommon, but when it comes to princes, the first person Qin Zhaoyue thinks of is the bloodline of a different royal family that has been wiped out in public - Prince Shen.

The ancestors of Prince Shen were founding heroes, and the honor was inherited from generation to generation. By the time it came to the generation of the old Prince Shen, the family owned a huge mansion in the capital, with a fief of thousands of households, and their words carried a lot of weight in the court.

The old Prince Shen provided a lot of assistance to the late emperor in his bid for the throne.

However, the old King Shen retired at the height of his career. Soon after the previous emperor ascended the throne, he and his family retired to his fiefdom in the south of the Yangtze River. He also voluntarily handed over all his military power and enjoyed his old age. His only son, Gu Shen, became famous at a young age, but after following the old King Shen back to his fiefdom, he became obscure and never participated in the imperial examination.

His real name was taken from his title, which shows how much King Shen loved him.

Gu Shen became the king and married the only daughter of the Su family. They were very affectionate in their fiefdom in Jiangnan and had a son. However, more than ten years ago, King Shen was involved in a rebellion and his family was killed.

Others may not know the whole story, but Qin Zhaoyue knew very well that the rebellion was designed by the late emperor against the marriage between the Gu and Su families.

Rumor has it that Prince Shen still has a brave army under his command. They are not part of the imperial court's organization but are Prince Shen's private soldiers, who only obey the Gu family's bloodline.

Therefore, Prince Shen was feared by the previous emperor, and because of his marriage to Gu Su, he brought disaster upon himself.

It has been eight years since Prince Shen died before the emperor ascended the throne.

Qin Zhaoyue lowered his eyelids.

He should start among the existing princes.

The emperor had just ascended the throne, but his brothers were all very well behaved.

It was really because it dragged on for too long. The late emperor did not abdicate until he was seventy years old. The emperor was already in his forties when he ascended the throne. His brothers were also very obedient to the late emperor, and on the surface they were truly brothers in a friendly and respectful manner.

If we must say there is doubt, then the Prince Ping, born to Concubine Su, is one of them. The emperor is the youngest legitimate son, and the eldest illegitimate son did not survive his biological father, dying in his fifties. The second brother is still alive, but his status is one step lower than that of the emperor.

After the emperor ascended the throne, he named his only brother King Ping.

The previous emperor's empress had only one son, the emperor. There were quite a few princes born to the concubines, but they were all quite old. They were given official positions and stayed with their wives and children for many years, and gradually lost their ambitions.

The youngest, Prince Yin, was the most favored. He was the son of the late emperor, born in his old age, and the result of a difficult birth by the most favored concubine. Therefore, he was raised by the empress and had a close relationship with the emperor.

The Queen had deliberately taught him many ideas about being indifferent to fame and gain, so after the Emperor ascended the throne, the King of Yin chose a fiefdom he liked and ran away.

The remaining……

Qin Zhaoyue returned to the study in his private residence and began to grind ink and write a letter.

Attached with a letter was a picture - this was the common feature of the two guards of Yangshu Town and the man in black who assassinated General Lu at that time. They had the same tattoo on their little fingers, with a simple pattern that looked like a pair of wings together.

Qin Zhaoyue dried the ink over a candle, rolled up the letter paper and stuffed it into the bamboo tube.

He called Jingcun into the room and said, "Send this to Lu Jinbing, hurry up."

Jingcun accepted the bamboo tube and said, "Your Highness, the doctor named Wuye has come with us from the capital."

Qin Zhaoyue was stunned.

He had been so busy for so long that he had forgotten about these two people. Wu Yue's face appeared in his mind and Qin Zhaoyue shook his head.

"He came here?" Qin Zhaoyue asked.

"Yes, he said he had something urgent to tell you." Jingcun said.

"Let him meet me in the flower hall." Qin Zhaoyue said.

……

Wu Ye was sitting on a chair in the flower hall. When he saw Qin Zhaoyue coming in, he immediately stood up and said, "Your Highness the Crown Prince!"

Without waiting for Qin Zhaoyue to speak, Wu Ye scolded him, "How could you be away for so long! If I hadn't heard from the maid that you didn't take the medicine I gave you, would you have to become a puppet with an empty head before you remembered to look for me? Nonsense, really nonsense!"

Qin Zhaoyue choked up. How could he have been scolded like this before? But he was indeed guilty. He didn't take Wu Ye's talk about the poison seriously at all.

There is no other reason, there are really no symptoms at all.

Wu Ye pulled him to sit down and rolled up Qin Zhaoyue's sleeves to take his pulse.

His expression gradually became serious.

"What's wrong?" Qin Zhaoyue asked.

"This shouldn't be the case." Wu Ye said without any context, and continued to touch with his other hand, "...This shouldn't be the case."

"What shouldn't be done? Please explain it clearly." Qin Zhaoyue frowned.

"It's good news. Judging from the pulse, your Highness hasn't taken any medicine in the past month, and the poison has not continued to develop." Wu Ye said.

"Then what shouldn't happen?" Qin Zhaoyue asked.

"I'm afraid my previous judgment was a little off." Wu Ye took out a porcelain bottle from the medicine box he carried with him, uncorked it and placed it in front of Qin Zhaoyue, "Your Highness, take a shallow breath of the gas in the bottle."

Jingcun was standing nearby and reached out to stop him.