Chapter 1118 It is better to take a false alarm than to gamble with the overall situation
He raised his hand to help, but the other person dodged sideways, and half of his sleeve hung in the damp night mist.
The sound of the brocade shoes rolling over the blue bricks suddenly stopped, and Jiang Yuyin suddenly turned around and looked:
"You were not by the bedside when the bell rang at three o'clock in the morning. I just dreamed that the blood outside Chengtian Gate soaked Wuyou's swaddling clothes, and when I woke up..."
She rolled her throat twice, digging her nails deep into her palms: "How many secret sentries are hidden in the bamboo forest of Nanyuan that need General Zhenbei to investigate personally?"
"But the wild cat knocked over..." The voice stopped abruptly.
Su Chang looked at the moonlight between them and found that his wife was looking at him with the same eyes as when she was inspecting the soldiers in the parade ground.
He had seen this kind of look before in the northern snowfields - it was the last scrutiny of the trapped mother wolf before she tore open the trap.
"How about swearing on Wuyou's life?"
Jiang Yuyin suddenly pulled the almanac from the desk and pressed her red knuckles on the cinnabar annotation "All things are unfavorable":
"If you secretly communicate with Huangfu Shang tonight, my child and I will be struck by lightning tomorrow and our bodies will be exposed on Suzaku Street."
The bronze candlestick flickered in the night wind, and Su Chang's shadow on the wall was split into several pieces.
He stretched out his hand to hold his wife's thin shoulders, but his hand dropped when he felt her trembling body: "Seven days ago, a secret messenger came with my younger brother's silver lock..."
The clanking sound of the iron horses on the eaves covered up the trembling of the ending sound.
Jiang Yuyin suddenly felt a chill on her neck. She looked down and saw Su Chang's tears falling on the edge of her collar embroidered with a golden phoenix.
The man who had fought his way through the Turkic camp single-handedly, now rested his forehead against her collarbone and said in a muffled voice: "Huangfu Shang promised that after the city is captured, he would allow us to return to Lingnan with Wuyou..."
The orderly footsteps of the patrol guards could be heard outside the window, startling all the sleeping birds in the yard.
Jiang Yuyin stared at the flickering candle wick on the dressing table, and suddenly thought of the moonlight that was shattered in the wedding wine on her wedding night.
At that time, the red candles were shining brightly, and the man in front of her vowed to protect her forever.
Jiang Yuyin's fingertips trembled as she touched the silver sheath. The twin lotus flowers carved from green jade glowed coldly under the candlelight. "Back then, you said this dagger could protect me, but did you expect this to end like this?"
She looked at Su Chang's pupils which suddenly shrank, and his cuffs which were soaked in blood fluttered in the night wind.
"Did you really spread the defense map of the twelve cities in the northwest?"
The sword blade penetrated another half inch, Su Chang staggered and held onto the window frame, the moonlight reflected the newly tied heart-shaped tassel on his waist, which she had tied with her own hands three days ago.
The sound of pigeons fluttering could be heard in the courtyard, and Jiang Yuyin suddenly chuckled: "The gray-feathered messenger you let go half a month ago should be in my elder sister's hands now, right?"
She suddenly started coughing violently, with a rusty taste in her throat. "You always say that the Tianshui Army has secret weapons, but did you know that I had already swapped the blueprints for the Thunder Bombs?"
There was a flash of shock and pain in Su Chang's eyes, but he instinctively reached out to help her when she staggered.
The warm blood flowed along the clasped wrists and soaked the unfinished "Changgan Xing" on the desk.
"That year during the Lantern Festival, you disguised yourself as a flower seller and sneaked into the palace..."
His breath gradually weakened, but he struggled to hold the person in his arms: "In fact, I should have died in the Weishui Alliance five years ago..."
There was the sound of armor colliding in the corridor, and Jiang Yuyin suddenly bit his shoulder fiercely, and the salty blood mixed with tears rolled into his throat.
Su Chang groaned and held her knife-holding hand, and the tip of the sword suddenly turned to his heart: "Silly girl, this is the way to stab..."
His last body temperature was transmitted through the blood-stained silver ring, which was the hundred-day gift they prepared for their unborn child.
The broken moonlight shone through the carved window, illuminating the secret letter intercepted in Jiang Xue's hand.
Under the four characters "The Emperor's Star Will Fall" whose ink had not yet dried, there was half a verse of an old poem - it was "Partridge Sky" that they had casually written on the wall of a tavern when they sneaked out of the palace when they reached the age of 15.
As the dusk deepened, the candlelight flickered in the draft.
Su Chang looked at the bloodstains winding on the bluestone bricks, and a taste of rust rose in his throat.
He knew that Jiang Xue and Xiao Zhan's secret guards had already sealed off the entire courtyard, and the truth would eventually come to light.
As a spy of the enemy country, he had long disregarded life and death, but when his eyes fell on Jiang Yuyin who was holding the baby in the corner, he still felt a slight pain in his chest.
If I implicate her and charge her with treason, even if I were to turn my bones into ashes it would not be enough to atone for my sin.
"Eldest sister..."
Jiang Yuyin clenched the swaddling clothes with trembling fingertips, and tears fell on Wuyou's sleeping face.
She watched Su Chang stagger and kneel beside the bronze candlestick, his black clothes already soaked with dark red.
"Princess Yuyin has nothing to do with this matter."
Su Chang used his last bit of strength to look up at Jiang Xue. The palace lanterns under the eaves cast a cold light on the princess's silver armor: "I beg Your Highness to understand..."
"Now you think of protecting your wife and children?"
Jiang Xue's sword clanged out of its sheath, the cold light reflected on the corner of her lips as she sneered, "When you used Yu Yin as a chess game to cover up, did you ever think about today?"
Blood overflowed from Su Chang's lips. He raised his hand as if he wanted to touch the goose yellow figure in the distance, but his hand fell down in mid-air.
Jiang Yuyin suddenly broke free from the maid's support and rushed forward, the startled cry of the child in her arms mixed with the suppressed sobs.
Xiao Zhan held down his wife's sword-holding hand and watched Jiang Yuyin bury her face in Su Chang's blood-stained chest.
They didn't say anything, how familiar this scene was. Five years ago on a snowy night at the border, when Jiang Xue thought she had killed him by mistake, she had hugged his gradually cooling body like this.
"Wuyou is still in his infancy."
Jiang Xue took off her fox fur coat and put it on her sister's shoulders. Her voice softened rarely, "Tomorrow at 11:00 a.m., I will send someone to take you to the temporary palace to stay."
Jiang Yuyin suddenly raised her head, her tears were still wet but her expression was cold and solemn: "The Huangfu family secretly developed a fire thunder cannon, and the blueprints are hidden in the residence of the Shaoqing of the Taichang Temple."
She took out half of a tiger talisman from Su Chang's collar: "This is the token to open the secret room."
"If this thing really existed, it should have been used on the battlefield of Yanmen Pass long ago."
Jiang Xue stroked the dark patterns on the tiger talisman and suddenly felt her palms getting hot.
Xiao Zhan took over the conversation: "Unless... they are still lacking the key ignition material."
As the night deepened, the guards standing outside the courtyard heard the baby's crying gradually stop.
Jiang Yuyin handed Wuyou to the wet nurse and knelt alone beside Su Chang.
The bronze mirror reflected her action of pulling out the golden hairpin, and four dark shadows in the dark immediately tensed up.
But she just put the hairpin into her late husband's hair and murmured softly: "Someone has to teach Wuyou to read and practice martial arts..."
The copper bell on the eaves rang suddenly, and Jiang Xue stopped and looked back.
The moonlight shines through the red screen window, stretching my sister's thin figure very long.
In a trance, she seemed to see the little girl who grabbed her sleeve and asked for a candy man under the wall of the Ye Ting Palace fourteen years ago.
The candle tears condensed into coral on the bronze goose and fish lamp. Jiang Xue tapped the paperweight on the desk with her fingertips: "If what Su Chang said is true, Huangfu is still not moving his troops at this moment, it must be that the terrifying weapon is still on the way."
Jiang Yuyin gripped the jade belt hook until it became hot: "Even if Ah Chang has made a thousand mistakes, he has always been honest with me."
The third watch gong rang through the meeting room. When Xiao Zhan unfolded the cowhide map, the candlelight cast a swaying shadow between their brows.
"It is better to take a false alarm than to gamble with the overall situation."
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