As he spoke, the mournful death knell rang in Cining Palace and spread throughout the imperial city. The voice is desolate and hits people's hearts.

"Do you know what that sounds like?" Su Jin winked at the third prince, and there was a hint of girlish playfulness in his eyes, and said, "This is the bell for our time to come." ”

"Our era ......" the third prince repeated silently, then shook his head violently, turned his back and said, "I don't want to have anything to do with you anymore!" ”

The third prince originally thought that Su Jin was just a flashy villain who tended to be inflammatory, and could be used to extract some intelligence information, so that he could use some small conspiracies and tricks to bring down Xiao Mochen. Now it seems that he overestimated himself too much, and he really underestimated Su Jin.

"That old thing has already announced in court this morning that Xiao Mochen was canonized as the crown prince, right?" Su Jin smiled and walked a few steps towards the third prince, as if he was whispering to the root of his ear and said, "Do you think you can live a few more days?" ”

"What a joke." The old emperor laughed twice, but the laughter revealed infinite desolation, and said slowly: "What kind of mediocre monarch am I, who speaks the truth in front of me, but has become a chaotic minister and thief? ”

The old emperor also knew his body very well. However, by this time, he himself had seen it.

"Your Majesty......" The empress was a little deflated, and gently held the old emperor's arm on the side and said: "Don't forget the bad things and think about it, as long as you take care of your body, the pain will naturally be solved." ”

The queen knows very well that her only backer in this palace is the old emperor.

"Queen, you are my wife, and I hope you can fully put yourself in my shoes." The old emperor looked at the queen with a calm face, and slowly got up with her support and said: "Since the queen mother has left such a decree, as a son, you can only try to meet her wishes." ”

The queen's heart was cold, and she understood that the old emperor was determined to canonize Su Jin as the imperial concubine, so she couldn't help but feel a little sad on her face, and said hesitantly: "But the queen mother died, so she shouldn't be able to hold a canonization ceremony." ”

It is precisely because of the etiquette that the ceremony of canonizing Xiao Mochen as the crown prince had to be postponed. The queen thought that moving out of the ancestral rules would shake the old emperor's determination, but she didn't expect that this stimulated him to complete the matter as soon as possible. At this time, in the eyes of the old emperor, it was for the queen mother, so it was naturally necessary to complete it as soon as possible.

"Solemn and extravagant ceremonies can't be held naturally, but with the etiquette in place, all simple ceremonies can still be held immediately." The old emperor glanced at the queen lightly and said, "This is the wish of the queen mother, and she naturally doesn't care about minor matters." ”

"Yes......" The words have already reached this point, and the queen can only bow her head helplessly in response, and her heart is desolate.

An indescribable strange feeling surged up in Su Wan's heart, although she didn't care whether Su Jin would succeed in sealing the concubine, but out of her sixth sense, she always felt that there should be something strange about this matter, which made her very uneasy.

"Where is Su Jin?" The old emperor looked around and found that there was no Su Jin among the kneeling concubines, so he frowned and looked at the queen and asked, "Hasn't she been serving in Cining Palace?" Why is there no one in sight? ”

From this point of view, it is very inappropriate.

How dare the queen say that she drove her out, and hurriedly explained: "The concubine remembered that Su Xiaozhu was sick and tired, so she specially asked her to go back to the room to rest for a while, and come back at night to keep an all-night vigil for the queen mother." ”

"Well, everything is arranged by you, I'm relieved." The old emperor stretched out his hand and pressed his eyebrows, and said lightly: "I'm tired, go back to the Heart Cultivation Hall to rest first, and come back again in the evening." ”

"Yes, the concubine sends your majesty." The queen bowed slightly, and respectfully helped the old emperor to walk out of the door.

Walking outside the palace, the old emperor turned around leisurely, looked at Xiao Mochen and Su Wan and said, "Go back to the palace, there is no need for people here for the time being." ”

For now, Xiao Mochen, who has been crowned king, is equivalent to cutting off the family relationship with the palace, as a courtier, he naturally does not need to personally guard the spirit of the queen mother.

"Yes, if there is a place where the sons can help, the sons are ready to wait for their father's dispatch." Xiao Mochen bowed his head slightly and replied respectfully.

"There are other brothers of yours in the palace, and they should be able to handle these little things." The old emperor sighed, looked at Xiao Mochen and said, "After the queen mother's affairs are completed, I will start to deal with the matter of replacing the prince." ”

"Yes." Xiao Mochen answered, and watched the old emperor's steps slowly leave with a calm face.

Su Wan stood beside Xiao Mochen, sighed leisurely, and said with a complicated expression: "It's just a night's work, but such earth-shaking changes have happened. ”

Xiao Mochen was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Su Wan for a moment, and said lightly: "Wan'er, is it accurate that you said that your father only has three months?" ”

Su Wan's eyes darkened, she lowered her head and thought for a moment, and replied truthfully: "Three months may have been too much...... Judging from the situation I gave my father today, he is already on the verge of dying. ”

"In such a critical period for my father, the Queen Mother died mysteriously." There was a thick mist in Xiao Mochen's eyes that could not be dissolved, and he said slowly: "This is probably a bigger blow to my father." ”

As he was talking, the old emperor's steps in front of him suddenly stopped, and then the panicked shouts of the little eunuchs came: "Come on, Your Majesty vomited blood and fainted!" ”

Su Wan and Xiao Mochen exchanged a look, and then quickly ran forward. Su Wan immediately examined the old emperor's pulse, raised his head and said to Xiao Mochen, who was full of worry: "My father's situation is not optimistic, I'm afraid I have to stay by his side every inch." ”

"Then I'll be with you." Xiao Mochen immediately answered. From the bottom of his heart, he wanted to do his filial piety to the old emperor in his last time, and besides, he didn't worry about letting Su Wan stay alone in the deep palace.

"No, what you have to do now is not to stay by your father's side and be anxious, but to quickly deal with the political affairs of the previous dynasty." Su Wan looked at Xiao Mochen with a serious face and said, "In the next time, my father may not have the energy to deal with the government anymore." ”

Xiao Mochen glanced at Su Wan with a complicated expression, then looked at the old emperor who had fainted on top of the chariot, nodded slowly and said, "I know." ”

"Let's go our separate ways." Su Wan stretched out his hand and squeezed Xiao Mochen's hand tightly, and immediately ordered his subordinates to raise their steps again and quickly rush to the Heart Cultivation Palace.

After some intense rescue, the old emperor's condition was finally controlled, and his pulse stabilized. Su Wan didn't care about wiping the sweat oozing from his head, so he began to pack up the medicine box on the side.

"Princess, this is the prescription that His Majesty has been using, please take a look." Imperial Physician Jiang walked over with a stacked prescription in his hand and handed it to Su Wan respectfully.

Originally, Imperial Physician Jiang, who had a lot of qualifications, still had a lot of disdain for Su Wan, a fledgling daughter, but since he witnessed her rescue the old emperor on the verge of death, he sincerely admired the medical skills of this young man, and was willing to cooperate with her to complete the treatment.

Su Wan quickly checked the prescription at a glance, and then asked the housekeeper to bring her a pen and paper from the side, dipped in cinnabar, she took the pen and sketched a few strokes on the original prescription, and said solemnly: "From today on, the Tai Hospital will distribute the decoction medicine for my father according to my changes, and there must be no mistakes." ”

"Yes." Imperial Physician Jiang took the prescription, looked at Su Wan's changes, and couldn't help but show a look of amazement on his face. Although Su Wan is young, he has his own mature understanding of the pharmacology and medicinal properties of traditional Chinese medicine and many pathologies, and he is really a medical genius.

"Ahem." While speaking, the old emperor had woken up leisurely, slowly opened his eyes, and saw Su Wan next to him, and suddenly said a little unnaturally: "Why are you?" Shouldn't you have gone back with King Chen? ”

Imperial Physician Jiang has left, and now only the old emperor and Su Wan are left in the inner room of the Heart Cultivation Palace. The atmosphere instantly became a little subtle, after all, they were once enemies of each other.

Su Wan pursed his lips, tucked the quilt for the old emperor, shook his head and sighed, and said, "I'm sorry to inform you, I'm afraid that in the next few days, I will be by your side every day." ”

The old emperor's eyes sank, and he said with some displeasure: "Oh? Don't I even have the power to choose a physician for myself? ”

"Father, you know that I am the only person in this world who can save you, why do you repeatedly rush to push me away?" Su Wan looked at the old emperor with some incomprehension, and asked slowly: "If I can participate in the treatment team of your condition earlier, I will definitely be able to help you extend a lot of time." ”

The old emperor smiled mockingly, lowered his eyes slightly, and said, "What's the use of extending the time?" What the empire needs is not an old man who is struggling to survive, but a new monarch who is full of vitality. ”

These words were quite shocking, Su Wan was stunned for a moment, looking at the old emperor speechless.

"Besides, I don't like you as a daughter-in-law very much." The old emperor looked at Su Wan with a smile, but his eyes, which were extremely similar to Xiao Mochen, were full of tiredness, and he said slowly.

This sentence successfully aroused Su Wan's interest, and she took the opportunity to ask, "Why don't you like me?" Is it because my father was a henchman of the former crown prince? ”

"Yes, not all." The old emperor's smile was even more meaningful, and he said slowly: "It is true that the princelings of the previous dynasty made me suffer a lot back then, but now they have no threat to my country. ”

Su Jin stretched out his hand to support his chin, half-tilted his head and asked, "Is there any other reason?" Is it because my temperament is too unruly? ”

Su Wan's temperament has always been incompatible with this social environment that pays attention to etiquette and male superiority and inferiority, even if she has tried to restrain her light, she has violated the supreme authority of the old emperor more than once.

"I really didn't expect that you have a fairly clear understanding of yourself." The old emperor looked at Su Wan for a moment with a smile, sighed softly and said, "The main reason is that King Chen is too fond of you. And love will become the death hole of the successful. ”

Hearing this answer, Su Wan was a little speechless. She had heard a long time ago that one of the "seven sins" of abandoning his wife in ancient times was that "the husband loves his wife too much", and she thought it was ridiculous at that time, and she did not think that there would be a day when it would be her turn.

"A successful emperor must be distracted." There was a hint of chill in the old emperor's smile, and he said lightly: "Every step of King Chen's growth is under my strict control, and only you are an accident. ”

"Even if there is no me, there may be other women who will make Xiao Mochen tempted." Su Wan looked at the old emperor with a complicated expression, and said with a serious face: "If the person Xiao Mochen loves is Fu Yanran, would you still object to it like this?" ”

"I know that child's mind best, he can only achieve 'respect' for Fu Yanran, but never 'love'." The old emperor raised his eyelids and said lazily: "Even if the situation you said really happened, I would treat Fu Yanran like you." ”

"Don't you feel too cold and ruthless in this kind of life?" Su Wan frowned, bit her lip and said, "Everyone's yearning and pursuit of happiness is a power that no one can be taken away. ”

"Why are you always full of strange ideas, you kid?" The old emperor smiled dumbly, slowly closed his eyes and said, "I'm tired, I don't want to talk to you more about it first." ”

After saying that, the old emperor fell into a deep sleep. It can be seen that his current physical strength is on the verge of overdraft, and he has exhausted all his strength just to maintain the dialogue.

Su Wan tucked the quilt for the old emperor, and then got up and went to the stove in the side hall to check the progress of the imperial doctors boiling the medicinal soup.

In Cining Palace, Su Jin walked in from the gate with a plain sound. To put it ironically, this morning she was sent out of here by the queen.

In the main hall, in addition to the tablet of the queen mother, only the queen was waiting there, which was obviously a scene of interest in asking for guilt.

Su Jin's face was not flustered at all, and he did not salute the queen, but walked forward dignified and generously put a stick of incense on the queen mother, and then knelt straight on the most central cushion - that is a position that only the most noble person in the same room can have.

Sure enough, this move successfully provoked the queen's anger, and she immediately stepped forward and said sharply: "Presumptuous, the palace is still here, you dare to be so arrogant?" ”

Su Jin was unmoved, stretched out a finger to her lips and silenced, and said softly: "The Queen Mother has always loved tranquility the most, why does the Queen want to shout in her mourning hall, is it unseemly?" ”

"You!" The queen never thought that Su Jin would dare to use such an attitude towards her, she was trembling with anger for a while, pointed at her and said: "You haven't been named a concubine yet, you dare to kick your nose in the face like this, this palace will never condone you!" ”

"You can go to your majesty and sue me." Su Jin smiled softly, a fox-like sly light flashed in her beautiful eyes, tilted her head and said, "Let's see if Your Majesty believes in you or me?" ”。

Su Jin has always been weak and cowardly in front of the old emperor, on the contrary, the queen has always been graceful and luxurious