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Chapter 729

When they arrived at the Qinzheng Hall, Li Beichen exposed the other party's weakness with just a few questions.

The real Li Beizhi has been replaced, and the one in front of us is a fake.

The most difficult thing in this era is the lack of surveillance.

All the jailers were immediately detained in solitary confinement, and all the senior officials of the Northern Pacification Division were arrested and brought back to the Jinyiwei for secret interrogation. The vacant positions were arranged to be taken over by the Ministry of Personnel, and the Executive Yuan was reviewed and the two prime ministers signed the major reshuffle.

The Northern Pacification Division was specifically responsible for the imperial prison and was under the jurisdiction of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, but was directly under the control of the emperor. The chief of the Embroidered Uniform Guard had no right to interfere in the actions of the Northern Pacification Division.

The jailer's interrogation soon yielded results. After a lot of agony, he confessed everything in tears. About two months ago, someone bribed the jailer and used a substitution trick to replace Li Beizhi.

But the senior officials of the Northern Pacification Office testified that the one who bribed the jailer was none other than a captain of the Jinyiwei who disliked them. After an interrogation, it was found that the officials were in collusion with each other.

Li Beizhi's former aide Cheng Xuewang used his connections to find one of the two pacification envoys, who then found his trusted captain, who then found the jailer in the imperial prison and bribed him with a large sum of money.

The pacification envoy secretly accepted a lot of bribes in the form of beauties because he was lustful and liked to keep beautiful women. Cheng Xuewang used these hard evidences to threaten him and gave him a large sum of money, which made him take the risk and let Li Beizhi go.

People have been on leave for more than two months. It was the days when Li Beichen gave everyone a break from summer vacation. No matter how good the welfare is, there will always be people who treat it as a bad person.

The death penalty, confiscation of property, exile, and conscription of family members were all in one. It was just that exile to Lingnan and Hainan was popular before, but now it was exile to Jilong. The three clans of the jailer suspected of switching the prisoner were executed, and the women of the nine clans were exiled to Jilong, and the men were exiled to the northeast.

A large number of people died last year, and a new generation of young and middle-aged people will take more than ten years. Li Beichen is now trying to kill as few people as possible and mainly exile them.

Li Beichen ordered the Ministry of Personnel and the Inspectorate to make a plan overnight and publicize it to all ministries, urging them to report any abnormal situations by sending confidential documents to the exclusive mailbox outside Xuanwu Gate or the reporting mailbox outside the Inspectorate to directly report illegal activities.

There was a strong wind at night, and Li Beichen had a severe headache. The veins on his forehead were bulging, and his face was as pale as paper. Jiang Yue was so scared that she was almost dead. She immediately summoned Jiang Xian to come and see him. Jiang Xian didn't say anything after seeing him, but prescribed some brain tonic and pain-relieving medicine, and then acupuncture and massage. Li Beichen gradually calmed down.

Jiang Yuebai thought, it would be great if there was a CT scan.

She asked Jiang Xian if it was possible that the insect had entered her brain before, and that the brain was damaged and had not recovered when the insect was forcibly removed.

Jiang Xian hesitated for a long time before he made up his mind to answer, "It is very likely the damage caused before."

He looked out the window and said solemnly, "Maybe you can't see the wind, so you'd better wear a hat."

Jiang Yuebai thought for a moment and asked, "Master Jiang, can I learn acupuncture or massage?"

"I'll find a female doctor from the clinic to teach you." Jiang Xian said respectfully.

Li Beichen glanced at Jiang Xian and said, "If the queen wants to learn, just come and teach her every day."

After Jiang Xian left, Li Beichen told Jiang Yuebai that he had had this condition before, but it was not too serious. It got worse after the poison was removed. But it was fine normally, but he just couldn't get anxious.

Imagine that your head is full of holes, it must be painful. Jiang Yuebai didn't even know why Li Beichen was still alive.

Maybe not many have entered my head? Just a few?
Jiang Yuebai hugged Li Beichen's head distressedly and leaned him against her stomach, "That must be very painful."

"It's much better with you here." Li Beichen leaned against Jiang Yuebai with his dying breath, and asked in a teasing tone, "You learned massage, can you massage my whole body in the future? Massage my shoulders and back."

"I can also learn acupuncture. If you don't listen to me, I will prick you," Jiang Yuebai finished his voice bitterly.

"what happened?"

Jiang Yuebai lowered her eyes, put her hands on Li Beichen's shoulders, and kneaded them gently, "It would be great if Jinxiu was here. She has learned massage from a professional doctor. She also wanted to learn acupuncture before. My father was afraid that she would cripple me, so he didn't let her."

"Did you learn this technique from Jinxiu?"

"Jinxiu often practices on me, so I know a little bit." Jiang Yuebai's nose still felt sore and she wanted to cry when she thought of her sister, but she didn't cry as uncontrollably as before.

Li Beichen pulled Jiang Yuebai's hand down, held it in his palm, and gently rubbed it with his thumb, "You are such a good wife."

He lay on the bed like a tired white elephant. Jiang Yuebai felt a little sad.

No matter how much power you have, it is nothing in the face of disease.

She silently nestled into his arms and put her hand on her belly.

Li Beichen did not tell Jiang Yuebai about Li Beizhi's escape. If he knew, he would worry about it all day long like him and have a headache.

He hoped that his Jiaojiao could sleep peacefully every night.

The next day, Li Beichen personally wrote the gate plaque of Fengyi Palace and sent it to Jiang Yuebai. He also ordered the Jinyiwei to list the family situations of the twenty people on guard for Jiang Yuebai. He ordered Liang Xiaobao to visit each family and give them some gifts, express some caring words, and hold a small meeting with these guards about loyalty and responsibility.

Later, he found a young man from a noble family, Yue Jiping, to be Jiang Yuebai's personal bodyguard together with Meng Shu, to protect him at all times.

A few days later, at the end of September, King Anbei Li Beihong returned to the city.

When he saw Li Beihong, Li Beichen couldn't believe that the person in front of him was his own brother. He looked so different.

The man who used to be pale, thin and sickly has now become dark, strong and steady, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. He really looks like a general returning from the battlefield.

Jiang Yuebai was wearing a dark red dress, with phoenix hairpins on her head and a bulging belly. She accompanied the emperor to greet him. Li Beihong could not hide his surprise and bowed solemnly, "Greetings, sister-in-law."

On his way back, he heard about many changes in the capital, including the deaths of many people in the harem, and he was secretly worried about Jiang Yuebai.

Seeing that she was not only safe and sound but also became the queen, I was sincerely happy for her.

Li Beichen did not hide the truth from his brother, and told him everything about the Baili tribe's revenge and Li Beizhi's escape, asking him to protect himself on the grassland.

"Brother is still too merciful. Li Beizhi should have been killed in the first place."

"I had my own considerations at the beginning. Are you a cruel person?"

"Neither do I."

"After curing the poison, marry her."

"Okay. Why don't you show me one, brother?"

Jiang Yu used the same prescription for Concubine Yu to cure Li Beihong of the poison. Although Li Beihong was poisoned by the Gu at the same time as Li Beichen, his symptoms were much milder than his, and not many Gu worms were excreted. But he was completely cured in just one week. Li Beichen let him stay for another half a month.

During this process, Li Beichen arranged a marriage for his younger brother and betrothed Jiang Yuebai's niece Jiang Xue to his younger brother as a princess, and the two brothers became closer. He also agreed to the marriage between the Tatar and Jurchen tribes in the northeast region and gave two minority noble women to his younger brother as concubines.

Li Beihong agreed without thinking.

He searched for Shen Shixi for half a year with great fanfare, but there was no news. If she was not dead, then she just didn't want to see him.

Since this was the case, he gave up and accepted his brother's arrangement. As a member of the royal family, he had to take on the corresponding responsibilities.

Although Li Beihong said that everything should be kept simple for a second marriage, the emperor still held a formal wedding for them, offered sacrifices to the Taimiao, and recorded it in the Jade Book, without missing a single one.

Jiang Xue is the eldest daughter of Jiang Bingqian, a member of the Ministry of Industry. When Jiang Yuebai was crowned queen, Li Beichen promoted Jiang Bingqian from the sixth rank to the fifth rank.

Jiang Yuebai had never seen this niece before, but Jiang Xue was modest and gentle, making it very comfortable to get along with her. She was obviously a good wife and mother.

She gave Jiang Xue an exquisite wooden box, saying it was a special wedding gift from her and the emperor.

Inside were several thick stacks of poetry and an exquisite jade pendant with a coiled dragon pattern.

Jiang Xue gently flipped through the poetry collection, thinking that it was written by the Empress, and read it with great interest. She often praised the Empress's poems to Li Beihong, saying that they were sometimes grand and majestic, and sometimes humorous and interesting, as if she were a man.

Li Beihong always smiled and said a few words casually, not taking it to heart. He has learned to hide his deepest feelings in the deepest part of his heart and conceal his emotions.

Until one day, when he accidentally saw a familiar cover from his bed, his heart started beating wildly. He couldn't wait to open it, and it turned out to be the poetry collection that he had forced on Jiang Yuebai. No wonder when the princess talked to him before, he always felt very familiar with it, and was secretly happy that he and Jiang Yuebai had such similar tastes. The result was such a misunderstanding.

He felt embarrassed when he thought about his childish and abrupt past. He didn't expect Jiang Yuebai to bless him and Jiang Xue in this way. He couldn't help but admire Jiang Yuebai's kindness.

After thinking for a while, he told Jiang Xue that this was a collection of poems that he had lost at his brother's place. He had made up all the poems at that time, but he did not expect that his brother and his wife would help him preserve it.

Jiang Xue blushed because she had praised him so much before. After Li Beihong understood the whole story, he remembered Jiang Xue's appreciation and praise of the poem before, and fell in love with this smart and gentle woman.

Li Beihong solemnly presented the Panlong jade pendant to Jiang Xue as a token of love. He told her that it was a symbol of the prince's status and each prince had only one. Jiang Xue wore it close to her chest and cherished it very much.

Thinking back to when he had deliberately placed the jade pendant that symbolized his status as a prince in the cabinet of Taorui Palace to show that he had made up his mind, he felt so embarrassed that he wanted to hang himself.

In the meantime, Li Beichen arranged a family dinner for the four of them. The family was harmonious and very close.

By the time Li Beihong set out for his return journey, it was already the end of October. Jiang Yuebai was already seven months pregnant and her belly was very big, so she did not go to see Li Beihong off.

Before leaving, Jiang Xue sent a letter, hoping to pass it on to the Queen.