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The boundless darkness is like a quagmire, once you are trapped, you can't struggle, and the pervasive pressure is like a huge palm on the neck that suffocates people, wanting to shout, wanting to cry, but no one can hear it. 173

“…… Empress? The Queen? ”

A gentle and eager voice woke Sima Tulan from the nightmare, and opened her eyes in fright, her young and delicate face very close.

"Why haven't you left yet?" Sima Tulan got up, wiped the sweat from her forehead weakly, and looked at Shen Junfang with some unease.

"I took some herbs from the Imperial Doctor's Mansion, all of which can alleviate the toxicity of Monroe grass." After Shen Junfang said this, Sima Tulan noticed the faint fragrance of medicine, and when she raised her eyes, she saw that herbs were boiling on the small stove in the center of the room, and Shen Junfang was sitting aside. Seeing that Sima Tulan noticed the medicine furnace, Shen Jun smiled shyly: "I haven't found out who is doing evil in secret, and those subordinates in the palace can't believe it." General Sima wanted to stay and take care of the queen's mother, but without the emperor's decree, the ministers were not allowed to spend the night in the palace, so I volunteered to take on this task - don't look at me, I don't know kung fu, and it's very fierce to fight people. ”

Will the appearance of the weak scholar also have something to do with the word "fierce"? Sima Tulan couldn't help laughing, the distance she deliberately kept suddenly disappeared, and she smiled beautifully and softly in the dim light.

At this time, she needs someone by her side, she doesn't need to kiss her or talk sweetly, and it is enough to be quietly with her.

"Monroe grass is non-toxic to make spices alone, but I am afraid that it will be mixed with the fragrance of the bird's tongue, once the two incense are mixed together, it will be toxic, at first it is dizzy and weak, and the heavier ones will be malignant vomiting and limbs. I went to check when the queen mother was resting, and sure enough, someone put a bird's tongue incense in the mother's pillow, so everyone in the palace was fine, but the mother was poisoned unknowingly. Fortunately, it can be removed if it is found early, but it will take some more time to recuperate, and the mother must not be tired and running around these days. ”

Shen Jun chattered endlessly, his eyes never left the medicine furnace, and his meticulous and serious expression was engraved on his sweaty face, which made Sima Tulan feel a little moved for no reason.

"You don't have to do these things yourself."

"How's that going to work? I don't feel at ease when others do it. Shen Jun wiped his sweat, not realizing that his eyes were staring at him, and he was still tirelessly fanning the fire, pouring medicine, filtering the residue, and until a cup of clean and warm decoction was delivered to Sima Tulan's hand, and his pure smile bloomed comfortably.

Sima Tulan sat back with the medicine bowl in her hand, a little stunned, not knowing what she was thinking.

"The gossip outside has just stopped, aren't you afraid of being talked about again? You also know my relationship with the emperor, too much contact is not good for you. ”

Shen Junfang glanced at Sima Tulan, and stood by the bed stiffly, with a shy expression unique to a teenager on his face: "Compared to the safety of the queen's mother, what is the gossip?" There is not much I can do for the emperor, and now the emperor is busy with the southern and northern wars and has no time to take care of here...... It's also a piece of my own heart. ”

In the end, he is young, or he is a genius, and that reckless and reckless impulse still can't erase the imprint of immaturity. Sima Tulan couldn't blame Shen Jun for anything, she just looked up at him, serious and thoughtful: "I used to think that you looked like whom, hazy in my mind but I couldn't see clearly, but now I finally understand that the original feeling is not wrong at all - Shen Guoshi is very similar to General Even, very, very similar." ”

"General Even?" Shen Junfang smiled in surprise, "Where can I compare with General Even?" If you want to say anything like this, it is probably only trusted by the emperor. ”

"Not only do you have the emperor's trust, but you are very similar to him in many ways. Kind, gentle, and willing to follow the emperor until death...... Even the responsibility of being alone is exactly the same. Sima Tulan coughed a few times, and took a mouthful of the medicinal juice and looked up.

In fact, Shen Junfang and Lian Suiliang are far more similar than she said, but there are some words that she can't say.

She still remembers the gentle eyes that have never changed in the years from youth to maturity, the slight surprise and admiration when she first stood between her and Yi Huaiyu, the politeness when she was alone with her for the first time, and the imminent departure as always. She once thought that it was the nature of Sui Liang, or that he had other choices, in order to fulfill Yi Huaiyu's great cause, so he was good to her, and even knew that she was already Yi Huaiyu's person, but when Shen Junfang appeared, she gradually understood something that she had never noticed before.

They treated her very gently, but she was Yi Huaiyu's fierce pawn to monopolize the imperial power; They had a thousand calculations and thousands of thoughts in their hearts, but they were all honest with her; They are busy with the world's plans, but they will always appear when she is tired, dazed, and sad, giving her the warmest comfort.

They are so alike.

So it made her feel guilty and contradictory.

"The Queen?" Shen Jun looked at Sima Dolan in a daze, her face was haggard, half crying and half laughing, a big tear overflowed in her phoenix eyes, and quietly crossed the corners of her lips.

Complaining about who lives up to his heart and doesn't know love, but he doesn't want to be the blind and ruthless person.

"The emperor and the puppet general...... When will they return? Gently closing his eyes, a meaningless inquiry drowned in the bitterness of the medicinal fragrance.

Yi Huaiyu was fighting abroad, Sima Tulan couldn't work during his illness, and Shen Junfang had no real power as a national teacher, so the matter of tracking down the murderer had to be put aside for the time being. Although Sima Yuan was annoyed that his sister was suffering in the palace, he was helpless, but fortunately, with Shen Junfang's careful care, Sima Tulan's poison was getting better day by day, but for some reason, his spirit was always not as good as before.

A month and a half later, Yi Huaiyu returned early.

"All the female eunuchs of the Huanqing Palace were imprisoned, and no one was allowed to contact them without my order; Let the treasurer count the spices in the treasury within three days and understand how much the two incense has been taken, how much has been used, and how much is left, and it is not enough to report it, not a penny. Also, Suiliang, you pick a team of people from the guard camp to guard the Huanqing Palace, and the palace gate must also be guarded, so as not to let any suspicious people have a chance to escape, understand? ”

As soon as Yi Huaiyu stepped into the palace gate, he simply arranged it neatly, and without waiting for the attendant eunuch Tao Shihai to speak, he waved his hand and said in a low voice: "You go to the dust Xuan, let Concubine Jing rest earlier, the queen needs to be taken care of, and I won't go to her tonight." ”

Tao Shihai was stunned, and trotted to the Chenxuan in response, but he was puzzled in his heart - Yi Huaiyu's alienation of the queen Sima Tulan is well known, and the first place he goes to every time he comes back from the expedition is also the Chenxuan, why is this exception? Is it because the queen was poisoned? It's not that you don't like it, so why bother to be anxious?

It is said that the heart of the monarch is unpredictable, and it seems that the pile of wall grass of the harem concubines and even the ministers of the former dynasty is about to sway with the unpredictable monarch's heart again.

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