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Jiang Yuebai glanced at Su Su and Xiao Luo Zi, as well as the three personal guards who were staring at the surroundings warily with wounds on their sides.

It seems that they were outnumbered in the previous fight, and one of their personal guards was lost.

She hesitated for a moment, then slowly approached the emperor and leaned against him gently, for fear of affecting his left hand.

He whispered, "Don't move your left hand."

The emperor put his hands on her waist, put his forehead lightly against her abdomen, and said in a low voice: "Jiao Jiao. Jin Xiu is gone."

At this moment, the emperor had tears in his eyes, exposing his pain and vulnerability in front of Jiang Yuebai.

Jiang Yuebai felt a sharp pain in her heart. She thought tears would come out like before, but she just felt a little wet.

The emperor exhaled a long, long breath, "I'm sorry, I didn't protect her well."

Tears welled up in Jiang Yuebai's eyes a little more, but still not much. She smiled bitterly and said nothing. She held the emperor's head with her hands and said sadly, "It's not safe here. Go in and talk."

At this moment, she understood why her little sister didn't die.Because the emperor kept his promise on the sedan chair, no matter what wrong thing she did, he would spare her life.

I also understand why Jinxiu died, because the younger sister used all her strength to assassinate the emperor, but Jinxiu withstood it with all her strength.

She lowered her eyes and said, "Jinxiu her."

She didn't know what she wanted to ask, her body was shaking and her heart was full of sadness.But this was not the time to be sad, she thought sadly.

Li Beichen was caught up in the memory of Jinxiu's departure, but he rationally pulled himself back to reality, thinking that now was not the time to be wantonly sad.

Li Beichen: "You go and prepare the mourning hall first. Dress up Concubine Chun in accordance with the concubine's etiquette and make it as grand as possible."

After a pause, he adjusted his mood, "Jiaojiao, I have something to say to you. Your hands are cold. Go change your clothes first, and then talk."

Jiang Yuebai blinked his eyes, forced back tears, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and responded in a low voice, "Okay."

Looking at Li Beichen's left hand, it was green with a hint of purple. It looked like his blood was not flowing smoothly or he had been poisoned. He asked with concern, "How is the recovery of the Emperor's hand?"

"Just now." Xiao Luozi was about to speak out, but was interrupted by Li Beichen, "Why don't you go and arrange the mourning hall?"

Xiao Luozi kept silent, lowered his head and left in a hurry.

Li Beichen said with a faint smile, "Dr. Jiang came to check and said that he couldn't believe that there is such a miraculous medicine in the world that can instantly set bones. The healing is good, but he can't move."

Jiang Yuebai recalled that when he reattached Xiao Luozi's severed finger, he had to remain motionless on the table and endure the heart-gnawing itching of the bones and raw meat. "Does the Emperor feel itchy?"

"Well, a little bit." Li Beichen said deliberately and relaxedly. In fact, he was suffering from the unbearable itch at this moment, but he still had to grit his teeth and hold on, keeping his hands motionless.

Itching is a feeling that is more unbearable than pain, but in order to recover at this time, I can only force myself to overcome it with my mind.

Before Jiang Yuebai arrived, Susu and Xiao Luozi fixed their wrists and palms at the same time to prevent displacement.

Li Beichen was worried that Jiang Yuebai could not defeat King Wei, and was also worried that King Wei would kill the Queen Mother, so he was anxious to get out. As a result, his hand seemed to be connected but not securely, and it broke once and fell to the ground.

It was really heartbreaking pain.It hurt even more than when King Wei had his hand cut off before.

Su Su told the emperor that Jiang Yuebai was in pain yesterday and was not willing to use the healing ointment because his face was injured, just to save it for the emperor in case of emergency.

But she was favored for the first time yesterday, and because of her greed, she picked it up again and again, so she must have been in great pain.After working hard last night, we were fighting and running around today without any rest.

Li Beichen couldn't help but hold Jiang Yuebai's hand and said gently, "Jiaojiao, you have suffered."

Jiang Yuebai shook his head, "Now is not the time to talk about this. I will bandage and fix it for the emperor first."

She planned to make a simple splint for the emperor and hang it around his neck.In this way, the joint between the palms will not be displaced, and the emperor can move around easily.

"Don't worry. I can't go anywhere at the moment." Li Beichen's eyes were heavy, "Jiaojiao, go to Cining Palace for me to check on the situation of my mother. Lao Liu will deal with it alone there, I can't Don't worry. We just sent Jinwu Guards away to Cining Palace as a temporary expedient. Mao Yuliang is from Prime Minister Chen, so go and have a look."

Jiang Yuebai nodded and whispered, "Okay."

She took a step back and knelt down at Li Beichen's feet, "I am not with you to protect the emperor. The emperor cherishes me."

"I will. You must also cherish yourself." The emperor squeezed Jiang Yuebai's palm hard, "What did the Prime Minister say to you alone just now." He did not see the scene when the Prime Minister and Jiang Yuebai were chatting, only watching See the back of the Prime Minister riding away alone.

Jiang Yuebai said slowly, word by word, "He captured my brother. He threatened me not to hurt Concubine Jing and the child in her belly, nor to kill him, otherwise he would double harm my brother." "

"Hateful." Li Beichen couldn't help but hold his breath tightly in his right hand, "Did he put any conditions on how to let your brother come back?"

Jiang Yuebai lowered her eyes and said calmly: "I will give birth to a prince and make him a queen."

Li Beichen couldn't help but sneered, "This is absolutely impossible. Jinxiu, I will definitely help you find your brother."

After saying that, both of them were stunned.Li Beichen unintentionally called Jiang Yuebai Jinxiu.

Pain, excruciating pain.

Jiang Yuebai just said "hmm" briefly and said rationally and calmly:

"As long as Concubine Jing is not moved, my younger brother will be of use to Prime Minister Chen, and he will be safe for the time being. I hope the emperor will immediately send more manpower to protect my parents. They are outside the palace, and I am very worried."

There are still too many important things to do, and they must be done one by one.

My brother's matters are very important, but relatively speaking, they are not that urgent, so I can put them aside for now.

In times of crisis, if you want to be able to handle situations with ease and turn crises into opportunities, you must be prepared in advance and have a robust crisis response routine.

The mentality cannot be panicked, the emotions cannot be broken, and the arrangements cannot be messed up.

Whether it is normal or in a crisis, we must sort and classify the complicated and overwhelming pile of things according to the two dimensions of urgency and importance.

Arrange the urgent and important things first, and then alternate the urgent and unimportant things with the important and non-urgent things, and don’t neglect one over the other.

For things that are neither important nor urgent, just hand them over/push/assign them to others, or pay someone to do them, or simply stop doing them and give up on things that take up time, energy, and are of no value.

"Okay. I will make arrangements now," Li Beichen looked into Jiang Yuebai's eyes and said with concern, "Don't kneel down, get up quickly and change clothes."

Jiang Yuebai just stood up and was about to go back to the main hall to change clothes. Suddenly, she thought about another thing from her brother's matter.

It turned out to be the case.

She said quietly to Li Beichen: "Your Majesty, the reason why Prime Minister Chen did not rebel and took the concubine's brother hostage is because the emperor's grandson he held hostage may have died of poison in the past few days. He would have no chips in his hand. Otherwise In this way, he mobilized troops and took the Minister of War and the commander of the Jinwu Guard to take such a big risk. If he failed to achieve his goal, Prime Minister Chen will never give up like he is now."

Therefore, the emperor is not in danger of his life for the time being.

"Yes." Li Beichen nodded, his eyes flashing slightly, "Not only that, Xiang Chen made two preparations. One hand held the emperor's grandson hostage as a puppet; the other hand supported the King of Wei. So he set up a trap to marry his eldest daughter to Tatar. If Either the King of Wei was killed in advance, or he came to cooperate with the King of Wei in raising an army to rebel."

"That's exactly it." Jiang Yuebai said bitterly, "He guessed that King Wei failed. Your Majesty, you will react quickly, and you might kill him tonight, so you made a plan in advance to capture my concubine's brother. "

Looking at it this way, capturing Jiang Yuebai's younger brother to hold the emperor hostage was the emperor's biggest violation, but it was just the last resort of Chen Xiang's incompetent man.

Li Beichen: "I will definitely make the decision for you, rescue your brother, and make the Chen family pay the price. Now, you go to the Queen Mother immediately to protect the Queen Mother. If the Queen Mother is held hostage, I will be very passive."

His previous plan was indeed to give Chen Xiang a glass of poisoned wine tonight so that he would die in his sleep. This would temporarily stabilize the Tatars and continue to use the chess piece of Chen Xiang's eldest daughter.

Jiang Yuebai nodded, knelt down and kowtowed respectfully to Li Beichen.

She understood that rescuing her brother would require a massive amount of resources that were far beyond her capabilities, and ultimately it would be up to the emperor to take action.

There’s no shame in looking for a boost.

Li Beichen stretched out his right hand, touched the cloak on her body, and said with a smile: "The late emperor's cloak looks particularly good on you, and you have a heroic appearance. I like it very much."

Jiang Yuebai also smiled, "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will fulfill my mission."

Li Beichen lowered his head and looked at Jiang Yuebai with gentle eyes, "Be careful."

After Jiang Yuebai returned to her room, the moment she tentatively opened the closet, someone inside stabbed her with a dagger.

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