Chapter 106 Flipping the Table
Seeing Shen Qingyue's mournful face, Shangguan Jin immediately burst into laughter.
Judging from her expression, she wasn't this dejected when Ding Guogong held his funeral a few months ago!
"What's wrong? Tell me! Your mother is waiting!"
"It's alright, just say what's on your mind. We need to face reality positively." Shangguan Jin continued to encourage Shen Qingyue.
It's not that she enjoys tormenting Shen Qingyue.
Rather, Shen Qingyue was a thoughtful person. Being betrothed to someone she didn't like by an old woman left her with some resentment.
So, Shangguan Jin thought of finding something for this girl to do, so she wouldn't always be thinking about such trivial matters.
Compared to matters of life and death, those other things are nothing!
Shen Qingyue sighed, as if her previous confidence had vanished in an instant.
After thinking for a while, Shen Qingyue finally mustered up the courage to speak.
"Mother, I've been thinking about it."
When I first read what you wrote, I thought the situation was a three-way power struggle.
Upon closer reflection, I realized it was actually the Chu-Han Contention.
"Our family and the Seventh Prince... can't even get onto the table..."
Shen Qingyue's words made Shangguan Jin burst out laughing.
Yes, judging from the current situation, the Seventh Prince is indeed the first one to be excluded.
If the Duke of Dingguo were here, things would be alright.
Now that everyone thinks the Duke of Dingguo is gone, probably not a single official in the court would think of the Seventh Prince!
They probably never even dreamed of this.
It wasn't just Shen Qingyue who thought this way; even Emperor Xiao Jing himself probably never intended to push the seventh prince to the throne!
And what about those civil and military officials...?
Therefore, Shen Qingyue's statement that the Seventh Prince and the current Duke of Dingguo's family couldn't even sit at the table was quite apt.
"Then what do you suggest we do?" Shangguan Jin continued to ask.
Shen Qingyue originally wanted to shake her head.
Let it be! I'll just coast along and wait to die, and enjoy a few good days first.
It would be nice if, when Father returns someday, we could secretly take everyone to the North...
The situation is so obvious. If you still refuse to admit defeat, aren't you just courting death?
I'd rather just close the door and have a few days of peace...
No, Mother is so smart, how could she not see these things?
My mother must have thought of all this, but she still brought it up anyway...
This shows that the mother definitely has something on her mind.
Thinking back to what I said before, there is no game of chess that is guaranteed to be lost...
Shen Qingyue calmed down immediately.
Looking at the names of the people on the paper again, Shen Qingyue still couldn't come up with a solution.
Oh, if only she were as clever as her aunt, Consort Xian.
The virtuous concubine, Aunt, single-handedly thwarted the plans of the Duke of Anguo and the Empress Dowager.
It also saved the lives of hundreds of people in the two prefectures...
But that was something that Consort Xian's aunt had risked her life for.
"Mother, I still can't figure out how to solve this problem," Shen Qingyue said with a bitter smile.
Shangguan Jin patted Shen Qingyue's shoulder approvingly.
It's already quite impressive that she could think of so much. When she was sixteen, she was still secretly reading romance novels in bed every day!
"Since it's a game of chess, and we can't join the game, let's just watch others play."
If you're not happy with what you're seeing, just flip the chessboard over, and nobody can play.
It's like a banquet.
We were going to be hungry anyway, and we could have eaten the leftovers to fill our stomachs.
Suddenly, the two people eating at the table were not allowed to eat even a single scrap of food.
"In that case, let's flip the table and nobody eat!" Shangguan Jin said slowly.
Shen Qingyue seemed to understand but not quite.
That makes sense, but if you want to overturn the table, you need to have the ability to do so!
If you want to overturn this table, it's not something that the Duke of Dingguo's mansion can do by going to the palace to complain a few times, or by the Shangguan family impeaching a few people.
This requires real, hands-on skills.
"Mother, what are you thinking?" Shen Qingyue asked directly.
What else can we think? Let's just wait and see!
Aren't they fighting the Chu-Han Contention? Do they want to fight to the death?
Didn't they say they had a lot of chess pieces as gifts?
Let them play their pieces. Once everyone has placed their pieces, we can clear the table of food.
As you just said, they have a lot.
We basically have nothing.
Okay, so what we need to do now is to see how what they had in their hands disappeared.
Once they've run out of food, we can sit down at the table.
"Now that we're at the table, it's up to you whether you take the white pieces or the black pieces," Shangguan Jin said patiently.
Shen Qingyue seemed to understand something.
Isn't this just patiently waiting, lying low, or waiting to unleash something big, taking advantage of your illness to kill you!
“Mother, actually we have a major advantage that they don’t have,” Shen Qingyue suddenly said.
"What?" Shangguan Jin asked, a little curious.
"Behave yourself!"
In everyone's eyes, we are now well-behaved and can't cause any trouble.
All eyes were on the two people.
"So, with this advantage, we can do a lot of things," Shen Qingyue said earnestly.
Shangguan Jin tapped Shen Qingyue's forehead.
"My daughter is smart. She not only encourages herself, but also discovers the strengths of her family from other perspectives."
"Not bad, not bad!" Shangguan Jin was very pleased.
Shen Qingyue's eyes crinkled into two crescent moons as she smiled after receiving the praise.
"Mother, what should we do next? What can I do?" Shen Qingyue asked eagerly.
"Wait!" Shangguan Jin uttered a single word.
"Wait? Wait for what? Wait for Father..." Shen Qingyue was a little confused again.
Does Mother want to wait until Father returns before discussing important matters?
Will I still be able to participate then...?
"Wait for an opportunity! Wait for them to make a mistake."
Or rather, we're waiting for an opportunity to make our move.
Of course, before that, we need to hear what the Seventh Prince has to say.
He wants to compete? Very well, we'll devise a plan for him.
He doesn't want to compete; he just wants to be a carefree prince. Fine, we won't interfere too much.
At worst, Mother will start looking for a way out for everyone now.
Perhaps we could ask that young master Lian if there are any other mountain strongholds in their martial arts world that someone else wants to transfer.
Let's build a mountain villa and roam the world like others.
The worst-case scenario is that we take our families and head north.
Go to the North to find your father.
Over the years, he has managed to find three or five rooms in the north, just enough to have a place to stay.
"In short, I won't let everyone sit idly by and wait to die!" Shangguan Jin said earnestly.
Upon hearing this, Shen Qingyue nodded seriously.
"Mother, I will listen to you. Our family must stay together. No one can bully us anymore."
Shangguan Jin put her arm around Shen Qingyue's shoulder and watched her little head rest on her shoulder.
I finally feel a little more relaxed.
In fact, she had already considered this situation.
Before, she thought about things on her own, but now she has this girl thinking about things with her.
Good, that's good, you've made progress!
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