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Chapter 727

When Li Beichen came back, Jiang Yuebai was sitting on the bed playing Go, having a lot of fun by himself.

He had only drunk a little wine and was not drunk at all, but he pretended to be drunk on purpose. He opened the curtain, overturned the chessboard, lay down beside Jiang Yuebai, smiled and pulled her down to hug her.

The Go piece fell to the ground and bounced twice, making a crisp sound.

Jiang Yuebai was stunned. Is he really drunk?

Li Beichen stubbornly grabbed Jiang Yuebai's hand, leaned in front of Jiang Yuebai, twirled her hair with his hand, and looked like a playboy, "Call me husband."

"I'll ask Xiaobao to help you wash up." Jiang Yuebai's cheeks turned red.

"No. I want my beloved concubine to help me bathe." Li Beichen said deliberately without being clear.

Jiang Yuebai was still very gentle, "I'm pregnant and it's inconvenient. What if I slip? Go wash up, I'll give you a head massage."

Hearing this, Li Beichen smiled and solemnly kissed Jiang Yuebai on the forehead, "Then I'll go take a shower. Love you, my wife."

"Just pretend to be drunk." Jiang Yuebai poked his chest, but was caught by Li Beichen.

"If you keep poking me, I won't wash it." Li Beichen said teasingly.

Today is a good day to be crowned queen, but not a good day to get married, because there is no grand wedding night.

I wanted to express my feelings of successfully marrying her and making her my queen through some intense movements, but because of the pregnancy, I could only suppress it.

Only one candle was left, the light flickering.

When he had showered, changed his clothes, and adjusted his mood, and just wanted to sleep, Jiang Yuebai undressed him and touched his skin with her slender, white hands.
He turned around and faced her in surprise.

The delicate kisses fell on his neck, and the pleasure made him make an intoxicated sound, and his whole body was trembling. It turned out that just kissing and caressing could make people so indescribable.
He could no longer utter anything, he only felt waves hitting him.

“Bright!!!”

He hugged Jiang Yuebai tightly.

When he soaked in the warm water in the tub, he felt like he was floating on the sea, his whole body light and soft. What he wanted to do most at this moment was to hold Jiaojiao in his arms and fall asleep in such sweetness.

When he woke up again, it was still midnight and not yet dawn. He turned his head to look at Jiang Yuebai.

She was sleeping soundly and quietly, with a faint smile on her face.

"Are you tired?" he asked softly, touching her soft cheek.

Suddenly thinking of something, he stood up and got a pair of scissors. When he was about to cut a lock of Jiang Yuebai's hair, Jiang Yuebai suddenly woke up, his eyes wide open with anger, and he suddenly stepped back in an instant, holding a dagger in his hand, so agile as if he didn't have five babies in his belly.

After recognizing that it was the emperor in front of him, Jiang Yuebai put down the dagger and breathed a sigh of relief, "What is the emperor doing?"

Fortunately, since falling off the bed last time, Jiang Yuebai not only installed two layers of tents, but also practiced the distance of retreating, to ensure that the next time he retreated, he could be on the bed if he wanted to be on the bed, or on the ground if he wanted to be on the ground.

Li Beichen looked at Jiang Yuebai in amazement, who was still so sensitive and quick during pregnancy. How fast must her reaction speed be?

Seeing the emperor looking at her with an unclear expression, Jiang Yuebai quickly explained, "I'm sorry to disturb Your Majesty. I was just afraid that someone would assassinate me in the middle of the night, so I've practiced before."

Li Beichen smiled and showed the scissors in his hand, "I just want to tie your hair and mine together."

"Don't scare me in the middle of the night. Didn't we tie him up once a few days ago? Give me the scissors." Jiang Yuebai said casually in a daze.

Li Beichen turned the scissors and handed them over.

He thought about it and realized that, yes, on the birthday celebration day, they really did tie their hair together with a red rope.

So they can borrow each other's lifespans because they have prayed to God and they are a married couple who live and die together?

But Jiang Yuebai had already cut a lock of hair and handed it to him.

It shouldn't be a problem to tie it one more time to strengthen the binding, right?

Li Beichen tied two strands of hair with a red rope, placed them in an exquisite sachet, and solemnly hung it on the hook of the tent.

He held Jiang Yuebai's hand, looked into her eyes, and said solemnly, "We are married and in love. Jiaojiao, I am very happy to marry you."

Jiang Yuebai smiled sleepily, "Okay."

Her smile is sweet, charming and heart-warming.

Li Beichen couldn't help but say, "You have to believe me, okay?"

Jiang Yuebai said without hesitation, "Okay."

Li Beichen held her in his arms, interlocking their fingers, "I really want to leave this palace with you. I don't care about anything else."

"Okay. As long as you can let go of everything, I'll go wherever you go." Li Beichen coughed lightly and kissed her cheek, "Jiaojiao, I love you. I want to grow old with you and stay with you forever."

Jiang Yuebai hummed for the rest of his life and closed his eyes.

The harder the promise, the more painful it is, because it means both parties know the outcome.

Just as Jiang Yuebai was about to fall asleep, she suddenly heard Li Beichen say in a very soft voice:
"I'm going to ask Master Yuan tomorrow where we go when we die. Will we go to another world, or will we be reborn in this world? Will we meet again in the next life?"

In the darkness, Li Beichen took her hand and interlocked their fingers.

Jiang Yuebai didn't say anything, feeling a little irritated. She didn't know what she was irritated about.

*
The next day, Li Beichen went to the Hall of Supreme Harmony for the morning court session. Jiang Yuebai went to the Hall of Jiaotai to receive worship. This was quite a dual-income family.

Both of them got up very early. Li Beichen was in a hurry. Jiang Yuebai was because according to the rules, the queen should help the emperor change clothes and wash up today to show the love between husband and wife. After seeing Li Beichen off, she started to dress up.

Jiang Yuebai sat at the head of the hall, and the palace maid in charge of etiquette directed the ladies in formal attire to wish the empress good luck, say congratulatory words, and perform the ritual of kneeling down and bowing.

Then it was time for the ladies to introduce themselves to Jiang Yuebai, talk about their families, and say polite words. The ladies all wore respectful smiles, trying to leave a good impression on the new queen.

Among the ladies of the nobility was Xie Zhili's mother. With her petite and delicate appearance, one could tell she was a southern woman. She stared at Jiang Yuebai for a long time, and when Jiang Yuebai turned his head to look over, she looked away.

Jiang Yuebai thought that the other party must be unhappy and unwilling. The one who was originally sitting here high and mighty to receive congratulations should be his daughter.

But, her unhappiness has nothing to do with me. I can't make everyone in the world happy.

After meeting the noble ladies, the wet nurse brought the eldest prince to pay homage, and the wet nurse performed the greetings and said auspicious words.

That's the whole thing over.

Then Liang Xiaobao came to tell her that the emperor wanted her to go to Liangyi Palace. When she arrived at Liangyi Palace, it turned out to be her adoptive mother Lu, her uncle Lu who was summoned by the emperor to open a teahouse in the capital, her eldest cousin Jiang Bingqian who worked in the Ministry of Industry, and her cousin Jiang Binglian who worked in the Inspectorate.

Mrs. Lu looked very healthy, and her belly was not as big as Jiang Yuebai's. She gestured at her belly and said with a smile, "It's probably a dragon seed, so it should be bigger."

It made everyone laugh.

Lu took out some children's clothes she had sewn and gave them to Jiang Yuebai. There was no one in Jiangnan who couldn't embroider, it was just a matter of skill. Lu's embroidery skills were actually very good, but she didn't have to go out to work.

Jiang Yuebai was a little embarrassed for a moment, not knowing whether he could see his family today and forgetting to bring gifts. He quickly ordered Lichun to go back to the palace to get them.

As a result, Lichun turned around and came back with a plate of rewards, saying that it was specially prepared by the emperor.

Everyone immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed as if they were meeting the emperor.

After meeting her family, Jiang Yuebai felt a little tired. Xiao Yinzi came over and told her that Li Beichen asked her to go to the Qinzheng Palace to meet Yuan Jianzheng together.

Jiang Yuebai thought of what he had heard in a daze last night. Would the emperor really ask Yuan Jianzheng this question? Even if he did, it would probably be just a guess? After all, he himself had never died. Just like in the real world, everyone just guessed that there was a place called the underworld after death, and that they would be reincarnated. No one knew where they would go after death.

When Li Beichen asked about it, Yuan Jianzheng said that some people will reincarnate in this world after death, while others will go to another world after death.

Li Beichen asked what it depended on.

Yuan Jianzheng said he didn't know either. He knew that many worlds were interconnected. He speculated that a high-dimensional thinking mode might be needed to break through the boundaries between different worlds.

Li Beichen asked Yuan Jianzheng again whether he believed that this world was a book and that all people and things were fake.

Yuan Jianzheng said that this is a high-dimensional way of thinking. It is what Buddhism says that everything is like a dream, an illusion, or Zhuangzi's dream of a butterfly. The truth or falsehood of things depends on how you look at it. It may be a book, or it may be a dream. Everyone understands the true appearance of the world from it.

Li Beichen asked again whether Yuan Jianzheng came from another world.

Yuan Jianzheng said he didn't know either. He was an orphan who had no parents since childhood and was born with the ability to predict the future.

Li Beichen asked again, is it possible to see where he would go if he died.

Yuan Jianzheng said, "We will return to our original world. We will return to where we came from."

After listening to Yuan Jianzheng's words, Li Beichen actually felt comforted. Death might not be that scary, it was just returning to another world and starting another life.

Li Beichen asked about Jiang Yuebai again.

Yuan Jianzheng, "It's not easy to live well in this life, so don't think about the next life. The Queen's fate, I can't predict it."

After Yuan Jianzheng left, both of them felt a little sad.

It turns out that people in every world do not think that their world is fake, unless they have special abilities or come from another world and retain their original memories.

If you haven’t seen it, you won’t believe it. But even if you have seen it, you still may not believe it. Those lives that are full of cheats may really be “full of cheats”. But he won’t tell you.

There are too many coincidences and loopholes in everyone's world, but ordinary people don't notice the unreasonableness in it.

Because knowing that this world is fake is not a relief for most people, but a pain.