Work overtime

Hearing that Jiang Yuebai's fever had not gone away, Li Beichen hurried to the West Side Hall without taking rest.

The house is filled with a spicy and sour smell, which doubles your appetite.

Jiang Yuebai was lying on the bed with his eyes closed.

Li Beichen dismissed everyone and ordered Han Ziqian to guard the door. He sat in front of the cave and stared at Jiang Yuebai.

His eyebrows gradually relaxed, revealing a sad and tired look.Here, he no longer had to hold on and could relax a little.

He reached out to Jiang Yuebai's forehead and frowned slightly. He didn't feel hot, it seemed like he was no longer burning.

I touched my forehead again, and it seemed to be pretty much the same.

Just when he was puzzled, Jiang Yuebai secretly opened one eye and looked at the emperor.

He happened to catch Li Beichen's confused and anxious gaze.

When Li Beichen saw Jiang Yuebai's cunning look, the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up slightly, and he instantly understood Jiang Yuebai's trick.

But he immediately put on a straight face and said forcefully, "What crime do you deserve? How dare you deliberately deceive me and let Jiang Xian say that your fever has not gone away?"

Jiang Yuebai opened her eyes, shook Li Beichen's hand, and said coquettishly, "Your Majesty, I know I was wrong~"

Li Beichen's stern face was about to melt. He pretended to be cold and said, "Since you are wrong, how should you be punished?"

Jiang Yuebai looked at Li Beichen with a smile, "Of course the emperor will punish him as he says~"

"Then come and have something to eat with me." Li Beichen also relaxed his eyebrows and looked at Jiang Yuebai with a smile.

To be honest, he really had no appetite.But having to stay up all night for three consecutive days to observe filial piety, and not eating well, is simply too much to bear.

After entering this room and smelling the aroma of food that had not yet dissipated in the room, I felt a little hungry.

Jiang Yuebai responded without hesitation, "Okay."

Li Beichen called Han Ziqian in and ordered some simple food. He ordered wolfberry and yam porridge for Jiang Yuebai, plus some tofu and vegetable side dishes.I ordered a bowl of Yangchun noodles for myself, and asked for them to be cooked exactly like Jiang Yuebai's.

Jiang Yuebai moved inside the cave, and without giving any indication with his eyes, Li Beichen tacitly took off his shoes and lay side by side on the bed, carefully keeping a distance for fear of touching Jiang Yuebai's injured left arm.

The two sat side by side, looking at each other with slightly tilted faces.

Li Beichen couldn't help but pecked Jiang Yuebai's lips, stared into Jiang Yuebai's eyes, and said deliberately:
"You arranged for Jiang Xian to tell me that you still have a fever. Are you jealous?"

Jiang Yuebai's eyes flashed towards Li Beichen, and he said with a smile, "Your Majesty, smell it and see if the room is filled with the smell of jealousy."

Li Beichen couldn't help but feel excited after hearing this. He tapped the tip of Jiang Yuebai's nose with his finger, "You, you, you."

"What's wrong with my concubine?" Jiang Yuebai pursed her lips and smiled.

Li Beichen said helplessly and dotingly: "It's nothing, just very bad."

"What's wrong with me? How come I don't know?" Jiang Yuebai asked innocently, and said seriously, "I'm obviously trying to confuse the enemy."

Li Beichen's face returned to the seriousness when talking about business, "I know. I also have such worries. King Pingxi is leading the peasant army to attack the capital. Although I have dispatched the army from the camp on the outskirts of Beijing to respond, I can't guarantee that the palace will be safe. There are also internal responses to cooperate with him from both inside and outside."

As he spoke, he pulled Jiang Yuebai's right hand over and groped in it, "There may be another tough battle tonight. I need you to face it with me."

Jiang Yuebai turned his head, blinked his left eye at the emperor, and smiled slyly, "That's natural. I am a personal guard of the emperor, and of course I will protect the emperor at all costs."

Li Beichen loved Jiang Yuebai's little gesture.Every time she blinked like this, his heart skipped a beat and he couldn't help but squeeze her hand, "Naughty."

Jiang Yuebai straightened his expression, "Your Majesty, I have been thinking about it for a long time. If there is an internal agent in the palace, the best time to take action is probably when I was in the middle of the night. After the Empress Dowager's body was encased, she was transferred to the funeral palace. That section. It's the time when people are exhausted and they are most relaxed. I wonder if my concubine's idea is correct?"

"I think so too."

"Everyone wears linen clothes at night, making it harder to distinguish each other. The linen clothes are loose and easier to hide sharp blades. Your Majesty, you must be careful."

"I am the emperor. No matter how dangerous it is, I cannot retreat. I can only hope that the Imperial Guard will play its role by then."

Jiang Yuebai felt a little sad when he thought of Xu Fuhai, "I'm afraid the emperor needs to find someone who can protect him as closely as Eunuch Xu. This person must be absolutely loyal and have strong martial arts skills."

Li Beichen said deliberately: "Does Jiao Jiao have a candidate in mind?" Jiang Yuebai shook his head: "Liang Xiaobao's martial arts is too weak. Luo Shan can do some kung fu, maybe he can."

Li Beichen said quietly: "So this is a difficult problem. It is difficult to find someone who is loyal, strong in martial arts and knows how to behave among eunuchs. It is difficult to find someone with strong martial arts among guards who can guarantee absolute loyalty."

"Then is it appropriate for the emperor to visit my concubine? Can I disguise myself as a man and become the emperor's personal chamberlain? I was still thinking just now. I can claim to the public tonight that I suffered a sword wound in my arm and was still in bed with a high fever. In fact, I pretended to be a man. The little eunuch mingled with the crowd to protect the emperor."

Li Beichen was just teasing her, but now he was made dumbfounded by Jiang Yuebai's sincerity, "Do you know what a valet has to do?"

Jiang Yuebai suddenly blushed when he thought of how Eunuch Xu stayed in the corner of the room the day he and Li Beichen had sex for the first time.

Li Beichen suppressed the excitement in his heart and quickly changed the topic: "Since you plan to dress up as a little eunuch tonight and no longer rest in bed, will your arm be okay?"

Jiang Yuebai blushed and turned away: "It should be fine. Jiang Yuan's skills are very high, and he should be almost healed by the time he gets there. It's not even close now. How is the emperor's hand?"

Li Beichen rubbed her palms and said with a smile, "Same as you. It should be almost as good by the time I get pregnant."

"Is the emperor's wound itchy?" Jiang Yuebai asked curiously, because she was itching uncomfortably at this time.

Li Beichen looked deeply at Jiang Yuebai and slowly said two words, "It's okay."

Jiang Yuebai let Li Beichen knead his palms, lowered his eyes and stopped talking.

After a while, Li Beichen took out his hand from the palm of his hand, took out the "imperial edict" token and handed it to the emperor, "This is the token that the emperor gave to my concubine yesterday. Now give it to the emperor."

Li Beichen pushed the token back, "Take it. You might need it tonight. Be careful at night."

"I understand." Jiang Yuebai stared at the emperor, then suddenly came forward and kissed Li Beichen gently on the mouth, "The emperor should also be careful."

Li Beichen was stunned for a moment.

Just then, Li Chun led a team of young eunuchs to bring the food in, put it on the table, and tested it one by one with a silver needle. After finding that there was no problem, she left.

Jiang Yuebai had been silently observing the people who came in, and suddenly called out to them: "You all stay and try the dishes."

Something went wrong as soon as I tried it.

The little eunuch chosen by Jiang Yuebai to taste the food vomited blood and fell to the ground.

But Jiang Yuebai didn't stop there and ordered the remaining people to try other dishes.Another little eunuch fell down and rolled on the floor with a stomachache.

The remaining living palace residents shivered in front of the two fresh corpses.

Li Beichen suddenly lost his appetite and ordered a thorough investigation.

Fortunately, I ate some of the golden jade soup sent by Xi Ronghua before, so I didn't feel hungry.

While drinking the ginseng soup, Li Beichen felt warm in his heart when he thought of Xi Ronghua's gentleness and consideration.

After a while, Han Ziqian got a large bag of butter pumpkin steamed buns. Li Beichen ate two, brought two to his younger brother, and the remaining doctors shared the food.

Returning to the east side hall, the Sixth Prince knelt upright in front of the cave with his head lowered.Li Beichen gave his brother two butter pumpkin steamed buns, and he knelt in front of the collapse.

Seeing the emperor taking the lead in kneeling in mourning, everyone did not dare to slack off and immediately returned to their positions.

Everyone had been kneeling and crying for about a day. They were all a little tired and were waiting to perform well during the Zishi ceremony. There was almost no crying at this time.

They all seized the opportunity to close their eyes and relax.

Xironghua returned to the palace and changed her underwear before returning to Cining Palace. She knelt beside the emperor according to her position in the harem, the position that originally belonged to the queen when she was present.

Although the body is tired, I feel very satisfied to be able to sit next to the emperor's brother on such a grand occasion.

In the eyes of Mrs. Xie, who was kneeling at the back as the second-grade imperial wife, Xi Ronghua looked particularly dazzling.

In a blink of an eye, it was approaching midnight, and it was dark outside the house.There was silence in the room, and everyone was fighting with their eyes, but they were holding on, keeping their spirits up, and waiting for the upcoming ceremony.

Today is the seventh day of April, and the semicircular moon looks like a piece of melon.At this time, it was covered by clouds all over the sky, and it was so dark that the brilliance could not be seen.

Jiang Yuebai put on men's mourning clothes, tied her hair into a men's bun, put on makeup, and stood under the porch, sighing to herself, "I'm afraid it's going to rain."