Chapter 58 I asked you to go back after Chang Sui left...
After Changsui left, the tent fell into silence again.
Yan Heng lowered his eyes again to look at the map, maintained this posture for a long time, and finally put it down and looked up.
Sparse light came in through the gaps between the tents, with a faint yellow hue, revealing signs that dark was approaching.
Just a short distance outside, Ji Yunchan was stopped. Yan Heng stared out, his eyes etched with longing.
Only when his eyes became sore did he close them and look away. Raising his free hand, Yan Heng pinched the bridge of his nose, thinking that the situation was uncertain, and he was injured again. This place was too dangerous, not a place she should be.
Who asked her to come?
When he regained his senses, he should be angry with her, but when he thought about how this girl, who had never seen the wind and frost, had relied on her courage and her little riding skills to get deeper into the cave, and how much she had suffered for him, Yan Heng could not harden his heart.
"Yan Heng, why don't you see me?"
Ji Yunchan's voice came from outside the tent. Yan Heng raised his eyes suddenly... He had never heard her yelling before, and she ignored people in a bloated and frustrated way. This way, she was like a rabbit that bites when it is cornered.
But Yuanyuan, I'm in such a mess right now, I don't want you to see it. Yan Heng's Adam's apple moved, but he remained silent.
The people outside did not give up. They seemed quite angry that he did not say anything even after being like this, and scolded him for being treacherous.
You are right to scold me.
The dim candlelight reflected Yan Heng's dark outline, and he lowered his hands and closed his eyes.
As long as you can leave, I can scold you in any way I want.
......
The insults were getting more and more outrageous. Betrayal was one thing, but he even brought up private matters. Yan Heng knew without thinking that the soldiers in several nearby tents were all listening attentively to him.
He underestimated Ji Yunchan and overestimated himself.
He took a deep breath and was about to hold it back when he heard her continue to call him a liar with a choked voice, saying that he didn't even spend her birthday with her as promised, and he even kept her out of the tent on her birthday and refused to see her even once.
After listening to this, Yan Heng felt that he was really a piece of shit.
He was almost laughing out of anger. How come he didn't know that today was her birthday?
He was about to speak when he caught a glimpse of his chest wrapped in white cloth and stopped abruptly.
There was no bronze mirror in the barracks, so General Yan couldn't look at himself in it. But as proud as he was, he didn't want his beloved to see his vulnerable side.
…
"I'll divorce you when I get back, and marry the top scholar of that year tomorrow!"
This sentence seemed to strike a thorn in Yan Heng's sore spot. She did it on purpose! She had to confront him and refused to leave.
Yan Heng was so angry that he couldn't bear it any longer after enduring for a long time: "Come in!"
He stared at the crack in the door with a bad look on his face, and saw that since he said this, there seemed to be no sound outside. After a while, the door curtain was lifted from the outside, and the person he had been thinking about day and night walked in calmly, as if the person who had just been scolding outside was not her.
Her slender figure was against the light, and the expression on her face could not be seen. It was not until the door curtain was closed again that Yan Heng saw her tearful expression.
The anger in his stomach was so intense that he watched her expressionlessly as she walked over to him and sat down. He looked closely at her current appearance, tears already welling up in his eyes, which were red and about to fall.
Yan Heng couldn't bear to see her cry, so he ordered coldly, "Don't cry."
Ji Yunchan felt a lump in her throat and tears started to flow out.
Yan Heng: ...
Ji Yunchan wiped her tears and said with a nasal voice: "Ah Heng, you are seriously injured..."
Yan Heng was in a state of mixed emotions. Seeing her concerned expression, he couldn't bring himself to say a single word of reproach. He raised his good arm and moved it, motioning for her to see: "Look, I'm fine."
After a pause, he asked again, "Who was the ungrateful person who gave you the news and asked you to come here?"
"Liar." Ji Yunchan glared at him, afraid that he would seek revenge later, so she refused to mention who had given her the letter.
Yan Heng sneered, his eyes softened, and he pulled the person into his arms.
Ji Yunchan didn't dare to move, her body stiffened, afraid of touching his wound.
After a moment of tenderness, Yan Heng finally let go of her hand. "You still say I'm a liar, but you haven't ruined my reputation outside? Today is your birthday? Just open your mouth."
Ji Yunchan tugged at his sleeve guiltily and whispered, "Since you won't see me, I have no choice but to resort to this."
It would have been better if we didn't mention this. Yan Heng immediately remembered why he had let her in after losing all patience. He pulled back his sleeve, not letting her hold it, and leaned back, looking at her with a half-smile: "Is this your last resort?"
Ji Yunchan's hands were empty, and she followed his movements to look at his face.
The candlelight was too dim, and she had blocked most of it earlier, but now that it was visible, she could see his face clearly. It was pale, haggard, and had a faint sense of being forced.
Yan Heng, from childhood to adulthood, always seemed to be omnipotent. He was adept at everything he did, safe and reliable, as if wherever he was, one could feel at ease.
But he is obviously also a mortal being, and he can get sick and get hurt.
Ji Yunchan looked at his pale face, her heart clenched in a knot. Her voice was hoarse, and she raised her head gently, "Ah Heng, you've lost a lot of weight."
The corners of Yan Heng's defiant mouth slowly drooped. He lowered his gaze and turned away, not looking at her. His temper had completely vanished. He said quietly, "It will be all right in ten days or half a month. It's okay."
He made a negotiation: "Now that you see I'm fine, why don't you go back?"
Ji Yunchan didn't move and called his name: "Ah Heng."
"I told you to go back." Yan Heng's voice turned cold. He was forced to look at her with no choice but to do so fiercely.
"I won't leave." Ji Yunchan stared at him stubbornly.
The two men were in a stalemate for a moment. From outside the tent, they could hear two people talking, one lightly and the other anxiously. The anxious voice sounded like Chang Sui, who was trying to stop someone from going in: "General Zhou, you can't come in this time."
The light voice was tinged with doubt: "Why can't I come in? The general told me to do whatever I want."
"...The lady is inside."
"Madam? Miss Ji?" the man asked.
After getting Chang Sui's affirmation, his tone rose: "It's just right. I haven't seen you for many years. I'll go say hello to my sister-in-law."
"General Zhou, you can't come in!"
At this point, the door curtain was suddenly lifted, and Zhou Jing walked in. Before he even looked up, he called Yan Heng softly: "Brother Shi'an, I heard that my sister-in-law is here..."
Halfway through the conversation, he saw the two of them were on the verge of a fight.
When Ji Yunchan heard the voice, her pupils trembled violently.
"Hey, did you have a fight?"
Zhou Jing had no sense of being an outsider and had already walked between the two of them, acting as a peacemaker.
He first said to Yan Heng, "Brother Shi'an, are you chasing her away? Miss Ji is such a good-tempered person, you need to change your bad temper."
Yan Heng was annoyed with him, but because Ji Yunchan was present, he couldn't get angry and gave him a look.
The latter understood and patted Yan Heng's good shoulder, acting very politely: "I know, I just called you that out of habit and couldn't change it for a while, sister-in-law, sister-in-law."
Yan Heng: ...
Zhou Jing turned to Ji Yunchan, who had been stunned by the word "Shi'an", and smiled: "Sister-in-law, he is injured and can't go out to command in person. He can only stay in this tent. It's inevitable that he is in a bad mood. Don't argue with him."
Ji Yunchan's eyes flickered slightly, and she spoke uncertainly: "...Mr. Zhou?"
"Hey, it's me." Zhou Jing nodded with satisfaction, and bent down warmly to get closer, as if Yan Heng didn't exist. "Sister-in-law, let me tell you, he was seriously injured, and it's all thanks to you that he didn't die..."
"Zhou Jing!" Yan Heng called out the name with a hidden warning.
Zhou Jing stood up straight and looked at Yan Heng, whose face was as cold as ice.
"Get out."
His eyesight seemed to have returned after Yan Heng got angry. He walked swiftly towards the door, but his tone was filled with the amusement of watching a show: "Get out now, get out now."
Like a gust of wind, it comes and goes quickly.
......
Without the noisy people, the tent fell into silence again.
Ji Yunchan hadn't moved much since then, still looking at Yan Heng.
Yan Heng paused for a moment, then finally spoke first: "He's right, thanks to you."
Ji Yunchan didn't understand, so she rolled her eyes and waited for him to continue.
"If I didn't have that heart-protecting mirror, I would have died here." Yan Heng laughed at himself, speaking lightly as if it were someone else's business. "That hidden arrow was only a few hairs away from my heart. I almost couldn't sit here with you..."
"Ah Heng!"
Before Yan Heng could finish his words, Ji Yunchan couldn't help but hug him. She carefully avoided the injured parts of his body and hugged him tightly.
Yan Heng smiled softly, with a hint of helplessness, and asked in her ear: "Aren't you going to call me Shi'an? You were the one who chose this name."
Ji Yunchan's eyes flickered, and she called out with a choked voice: "...Shi An."
As Yan Heng listened, it seemed as if the young and immature girl who had just come of age appeared before him.
"Shi'an...Yan Shi'an." Ji Yunchan hugged him and murmured his name.
Now, she should have her hair in a bun, crying bitterly in his arms. The two figures overlapped, and Yan Heng hugged Ji Yunchan tighter.
Fortunately, he thought, fortunately she was still by his side.
"Ah." He murmured softly, feeling for the first time like he had survived a catastrophe. He just held Ji Yunchan in his arms, the girl he had grown up with, the wife he had shared life and death with, the love of his life.
As long as she is around, Yan Heng feels safe.
......
When Yan Heng realized this, he lowered his eyelashes, shielding his eyes. He thought for a moment and said, "It's a pity that the breastplate was broken. I told them to throw it away when they pulled out the arrow."
"I'll give you a new one." Ji Yunchan gently stroked his chest with trembling hands, raised her eyes and asked, "Does it hurt?"
Yan Heng had something hidden in his mind and shook his head.
"It must have hurt. You lied to me again."
Ji Yunchan couldn't even bear to blame him, and said softly: "I'm not made of iron, I'm just a mortal, how can it not hurt?"
"Yuanyuan." Yan Heng did not answer, but just called her name. He stroked her cheek with his hand and asked her to look at him.
Under the candlelight, Yan Heng's eyes were deep.
It was as if something was struggling to break out of the body.
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