After Yi Huaiyu stopped fighting in old age, Yi Chenjing, the seventh prince who was once called the most similar to Yi Huaiyu by Shen Junfang, took over the war horse and spear, and once again set off the wolf smoke and flames of the Zhongzhou Continent, and there was countless noise.

In addition to Yi Chenjing, who is known as the prince general, the fifth prince Yi Chenxuan is also a bright star in the limelight, gentle and elegant, with a wide range of contacts, and full of economic strategy, so that many people, including Yi Huaiyu, have extremely high expectations for Yi Chenxuan, as if there are only a few people who are not so enthusiastic.

Sima Tulan is one of them.

"The five princes have been sleek and shrewd since childhood, and they are quite loved by the emperor, how can Jing'er compare. wants to compete with the five princes for the throne, Jing'er is too far behind. But you don't have to worry, there are still a lot of forces in the hands of this palace, and if you want to help Jing'er, the end may not be defeated. ”

In the deserted Huanqing Palace, Sima Dilan had several secret conversations with the princess Bai Qige, and there were many shocking remarks like the above. Every time she talks about these, Sima Tulan's eyes will have a strange luster, and she can't tell whether she is worried or expectant or crazy, but almost no one in the palace from the concubine to the prince to the subordinates can't see it, and the queen, who has been neglected for many years, seems to be planning to interfere in political affairs again.

"In the past, you were thrown into the cold palace in the name of interfering in government affairs, and now you want to repeat the mistakes of the past. The world is my world, you only need to take care of the harem, and you don't need to ask about the rest. ”

During the period when Su Shiyun was stabbed by Yi Chenxuan to recuperate, Yi Huaiyu once stepped into the Huanqing Palace with a black face to warn Sima Tulan, but Sima Tulan didn't pay attention to what he said at all, and still probed everywhere, trying to find evidence of Yi Chenxuan's great rebellion.

"Bai Qige is intelligent and knowledgeable, Jing'er has the world in mind, a prince and a princess, isn't it an excellent candidate. The palace just didn't want to see the emperor get older and more confused, so he made some wrong decisions. In the face of occasional Suiliang's inquiry, Sima Tulan behaved very calmly, "Yu'er is not the emperor's material, and he has no complaints about removing him from the palace, but the throne is very important, and the emperor must not be allowed to be emotional, because of a mistake, he will lose everything." ”

Even Suiliang smiled bitterly: "Does the queen mean that the fifth prince is not qualified to be the crown prince, and it is all up to His Majesty's partiality." That's ......"

"Isn't it, you know better than I do."

After Sima Yuan's death, even Suiliang didn't see Sima Tulan for a long time, and I heard that she was depressed for a long time, but now it seems that she is no different from when she was young, and she is still the kind of straightforward character who does her own thing and dares to say and do.

"The five princes do have the ability to govern the country, of course, I'm not saying that the seven princes don't have them, it's just that these two princes are very good and have their own strengths, it makes sense for His Majesty to choose whichever one, why should the queen upset the emperor." Occasionally, Sui Liang moved the corners of his mouth, wanted to laugh but couldn't laugh, and his helpless expression was in Sima Tulan's phoenix eyes.

Yi Chenxuan's life experience has always been a mystery, and it is unknown what the other concubines think, but Sima Tulan's suspicions are increasing day by day, so she is very dissatisfied with many of Yi Huaiyu's practices, and when she set out on the expedition, Yi Chenxuan sent killers to hunt down Yi Chenjing and Bai Qige, and hurt Su Shiyun after they returned to the palace, despite this, Yi Huaiyu was still bent on covering up and favoritism, what reason would make an overly rational king so indistinguishable. In the distant past, something happened that she didn't know.

Sima Tulan understood that she couldn't get any answers from Sui Liang, so she simply didn't ask, and secretly investigated under the risk of being punished by Yi Huaiyu again in the cold palace.

Similarly, Yi Huaiyu also knew that Sima Tulan was more inclined to Su Shiyun's child Yi Chenjing, but he didn't stop it, and even was inexplicably happy when he saw Sima Tulan gradually regain his former vigor.

That's what he wants to see, the wife he loves, hurts, and still hasn't lost his grace.

Changes are happening quietly, the alternation of the old generation and the new generation, the contradictions are constantly staged, assassinations, traps, conspiracies, tricks, when the truth slowly emerges, and the ending is silently approaching, an irreparable tragic tragedy occurs.

Sima Tulan never thought that Su Shiyun would go before her and Yi Huaiyu.

The poor concubine, who was gentle and shy, always showed the soft side of the women in the water town, closed her eyes with regret, and also took away a promise belonging to the lonely emperor, as well as eternal thoughts.

When the news reached the Huanqing Palace, Sima Tulan was suddenly stunned, and big tears slipped silently.

"How could she ...... die"

That is the woman Yi Huaiyu only loves in her life, and it is a distant existence that she envies for the rest of her life and can't look at it, as soon as Su Shiyun dies, isn't Yi Huaiyu's heart hollowed out.

His body is decayed and broken, and if his spirit is struck again, he will be ruined.

After wiping away her tears, Sima Tulan did not delay for a moment, and hurried to the Dust Xuan, and when she stepped into the Dust Xuan, Su Shiyun's corpse was already cold, Yi Huaiyu coughed up blood and fainted and was sent back to the dormitory, leaving only the depressed Yi Chenjing and the tired Bai Qige.

Sima Tulan didn't alarm anyone, and quietly came to the Purple Cloud Hall accompanied by Yuzhi, and after briefly asking the imperial doctor, he retreated from everyone and walked to the sleeping Yi Huaiyu couch alone.

Here, she hadn't been here in years.

In the last few years, each time it ended in a violent dispute, and the relationship between her and Yi Huaiyu was stiffened and broken in the contradictions and disputes, and then she broke her heart and drowned, even if she heard that he was sick and injured, she refused to come and take a look, and ruthlessly made herself an irrelevant passerby.

How many years have passed quietly, when he is no longer young and she is getting old, she suddenly looks back, those grievances, love and hatred, suddenly faded and faded.

"Huaiyu." Trembling fingertips caressed the emaciated and withered cheeks, Sima Dalan called in a low voice.

Yi Huaiyu didn't wake up, but his palm tightly grasped Sima Tulan's sleeve, and the bones were blue and white, and he was abruptly disbursed.

He is old, thin, and haggard, not at all like the cold and cruel cold-blooded emperor in his memory, nor like the young and handsome prince who once made her miss the heart of spring.

As time passes, people change, don't they?

That's why she was able to give up countless resentments to come to him, because she was reluctant, because she couldn't deceive herself into deep love.

"Niangniang," I don't know when, Tao Shihai walked in lightly, added a smock to Sima Tulan, and then lowered his head with his hands, "Niangniang accompany the emperor more, the emperor's body is not as good as a day, and now the concubine is in mourning, and the emperor is even more sad, how can he do it without a caring person to take care of him." ”

Sima Tulan sighed: "Where does he need me to take care of." I'm afraid I wish I would never see me, and I would be quiet,"

"Niangniang don't blame the slave for talking too much, but if the slave doesn't say some things, maybe the mother will never know it for the rest of her life," Tao Shihai could hear the complaint in his faint tone, shook his head and smiled, there was a little sadness in his eyes, "Back then, Niangniang had just been beaten into the cold palace, and the wind and cold could not bear for several months, and the emperor was with Niangniang like this every night, but the emperor didn't allow anyone to mention it, and Niangniang didn't know,"