Chapter 63 His past is your waste
After a pause, Luo Wan realized that Jiang Cichen was talking about the topic before leaving the military camp.
When he spoke again, he talked about an old story.
"When I was little, I heard everyone in the capital say that my parents died on the battlefield, heroes of the Northern Kingdom. For a clan steeped in military service, dying on the battlefield was perhaps the best possible outcome. So, I never blamed them for abandoning me when I was young. But that doesn't mean I don't feel sad when I see other families reunited. The battlefield once claimed the life of someone closest to me..."
A few dragonflies landed on the water, causing ripples. Luo Wan couldn't see his expression clearly.
His tone was as calm as usual.
Although he didn't say it explicitly, Luo Wan still vaguely understood the hidden meaning of his words. The battlefield is a cruel and brutal place. It's not that he is prejudiced against women, but he wants to protect the people around him to the best of his ability.
But she didn't understand why Jiang Cichen would take the extreme path of treason if he was afraid that the people around him would die.
She wondered, "Why did you choose this path?"
"Because later, the people around me no longer died on the battlefield, but on the execution ground," he murmured. "After the Jiang family was wiped out, I realized that my parents were never heroes of the Northern Kingdom. On the contrary, my father was a deserter from the Northern Kingdom. To escape the conflict with my mother, he shirked his duties as a general and ignored the people of the Northern Kingdom."
Luo Wan's thoughts were a bit confused. At the palace banquet, Kunyi had clearly said that Jiang Cichen's father, Jiang Shu, had died for his country. Pei Shaochuan had also told her that Jiang Cichen's parents had died at the hands of the Yun people. Why would Jiang Cichen now say that his father was a deserter from the Northern Kingdom?
Why did Jiang Cichen choose to fight for the Yun Kingdom that killed his parents?
What kind of truth is hidden in this?
"I've been deceived for twenty years." When he said this, his tone seemed relieved, as if he had been struggling in his heart for a long time and finally accepted this fact.
Luo Wan had a guess at this moment. It was originally sinking to the bottom of the river, but now it was gradually floating up.
Jiang Cichen whispered, "My parents didn't die at the hands of the Yun people. They died at the hands of Kunyi, the eldest princess whom I have respected since childhood. My mother is from Yun, and I attacked her homeland for three years on behalf of her enemies."
Luo Wan asked in shock: "She killed your parents, why would she still support you?"
Isn’t Kunyi afraid of raising a tiger that will become a threat?
Jiang Cichen said: "Her kindness to me comes from her love for my father."
The truths wrapped in mud and sand finally became clear after being washed by the river water.
She guessed that Jiang Cichen was deceived. The truth was that his parents died at the hands of the Northerners, but she didn't guess that they died at the hands of Kunyi.
A man was filled with hatred when he saw the person he loved getting married and having children. Driven by power, he made the most irreversible decision.
He killed loyal ministers and then pinned the blame on the enemy country, deceiving everyone.
"So you..." Luo Wan paused, a little at a loss for words, "Is it because of this?"
Jiang Cichen said calmly: "Maybe."
This was the first time Luo Wan heard such an ambiguous answer from him.
Because in his memory, he couldn't quite remember how heavy the snow was. Maybe it was so heavy that General Jiang's head was covered in snow when it rolled in front of him.
In a battle at the border, Jiang Cichen and Xie Yan were surrounded. They had long anticipated that Bei Yeji would use despicable means in this expedition, so they arranged their confidants in advance to prepare for any eventuality.
Chen Nanyuan led his troops to tear a bloody hole in the iron wall encirclement, protecting Xie Yan and Jiang Cichen to break out of the encirclement and retreat first.
The wind and snow were howling in the sky, and it stung my face like a knife.
On their way back to Beijing, the two met Gu Zhuohan who had been waiting there for a long time. Behind him, a group of black-armored guards stood in a dense crowd, filling the narrow snow path.
The heavy black iron armor reflected against the white snow, looking dazzling and out of place.
Gu Zhuohan sat high atop his fierce horse, casually holding a blood-soaked black package in his hand. He said in a sarcastic tone, "Jiang Cichen, how are you? I've been waiting for you here. Tsk, even a thousand troops can't take your life. You're really tough."
Jiang Cichen looked at him coldly: "That's you trash."
Gu Zhuohan smiled and said, "Really? Why not take a look at what this is before making a conclusion?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he flicked his wrist, and the package was hurled into the air. The heavy ball rolled several times on the snow, leaving a glaring scarlet trail before finally stopping a few steps away from Jiang Cichen.
An ominous premonition gripped Jiang Cichen's heart. He was about to step forward when Xie Yan suddenly grabbed his arm and said, "Ah Chen, be careful, there's a trap."
Gu Zhuohan laughed heartily and said, "How could it be a trick? It's just the head of your great grandfather, General Jiang, who spent his whole life in the military!"
Laughter immediately erupted from the black armored guards.
Xie Yan's eyes widened in disbelief.
Jiang Cichen remained eerily silent. He stepped forward, knelt down, and with a barely perceptible tremor in his fingertips, he untied the blood-stained package.
A face covered with frost and blood came into view, and the hair crown that was once majestically tied up was now in disarray.
Xie Yan clenched his fists and cursed, "You beasts! If you have any complaints about us, just come at us. Grandpa Jiang has fought for the Northern Kingdom his entire life, and now you have to humiliate him like this!"
Gu Zhuohan snorted and laughed, "After a lifetime of fighting, it's time for him to die. But it's a pity that after a lifetime of fighting for the Northern Kingdom, he was finally charged with treason."
Jiang Cichen narrowed his eyes: "What do you mean?"
"Oh, Young General Jiang doesn't know yet, right?" Gu Zhuohan said word by word. "The whole capital is going crazy, right? You, Jiang Cichen, are collaborating with the enemy and treason! The entire Jiang family must be executed! Otherwise, how could your grandfather's head have traveled thousands of miles to meet you here?"
"All of this is the result of your own actions. Do you know why you sent someone to my bed but still haven't heard anything about this? She rebelled." Gu Zhuohan said with a grim smile, "If it weren't for this incident, I might have advised His Majesty to leave General Jiang's body intact. After all, he taught me martial arts in the past, so he was half my teacher."
Jiang Cichen said word by word: "You don't deserve it."
In a flash, Jiang Cichen flew up. Gu Zhuohan smiled slightly, jumped off his horse, and met the fatal blow!
"Bang!"
The energy exploded!
Gu Zhuohan only felt a surge of huge force coming at him, his palms shaking violently, and he was forced to stagger back repeatedly, leaving deep footprints in the snow with every step.
The surrounding black-armored guards reacted extremely quickly, and their bowstrings hummed and fired!
Arrows rained down like locusts, overwhelming Jiang Cichen in mid-air. He twisted his waist in mid-air, narrowly avoiding the dense stream of arrows and spinning down.
Jiang Cichen and Xie Yan stood back to back.
“Gu Zhuohan, f**k you!” Xie Yan cursed, “You’re just like your master, you’re a disgusting bastard!”
Gu Zhuohan steadied himself and smiled instead of getting angry: "For the sake of our friendship, I'll tell you a secret. Kunyi is the murderer of your parents. Yunguo is just a scapegoat!"
Jiang Cichen looked calm.
In a trance, Gu Zhuohan felt that those dark eyes were terrifyingly calm, but they did not stop mocking him. "Kun Yi has considerable influence in the court. She should be able to protect the Jiang family from the new emperor. But why didn't she do this? She has been unable to take care of herself for a long time. Recently, the eldest princess's headaches have become more and more serious. It is so serious that she has to be imprisoned in the princess's mansion to prevent her from going crazy. This is all due to the root cause of the murder of Jiang Shu years ago. People are really contradictory. She loved Jiang Shu, but she could still have the heart to kill him and end up like this."
Jiang Cichen stared at Gu Zhuohan and said coldly, "Gu Zhuohan, you've lost your mind."
"I've never been a normal person. Jiang Cichen, you're not either." Gu Zhuohan asked, "Have you really never doubted it? Why does Kunyi only favor you so much?"
Have you ever doubted it? Jiang Cichen asked himself.
When he was a child, he also heard a few stories about Jiang Shu and Kun Yi from the people in the Jiang family, but they only talked about their childhood friendship.
Jiang Shu has a wife, who is his mother, so he naturally would not associate another woman with his father in this way.
Even if I doubt it, it shouldn't be like this.
Gu Zhuohan said, "And you, thank you for staying with the son of the man who killed your parents every day! If your parents hadn't saved Jiang Cichen from Kunyi, they wouldn't have learned the truth and brought about their own deaths."
Xie Yan said: "You fart!"
Jiang Cichen said coldly, "You don't have to sow discord like this."
Gu Zhuohan: "As long as you don't feel uncomfortable."
Jiang Cichen said, "Why did you go to so much trouble to fabricate rumors of my treason and then come all the way here to tell everyone the truth? Go back and tell everyone in the Northern Kingdom that I, Jiang Cichen, will never set foot in the Northern Kingdom again, except to lead the troops to attack the city and take Bei Yeji's head."
"That's what I wanted you to say. Okay, now you've finished talking." Gu Zhuohan smiled and waved his hand fiercely, "Catch these two traitors!"
The flash of swords and the shadow of sabers rang out again, the cries of killing shook the sky, and the black-armored guards surged forward like a tide, layer upon layer.
Xie Yan blocked several incoming long swords and said urgently, "If this continues, I'll be exhausted to death!"
Jiang Cichen threw the blood-stained bag in his arms towards Xie Yan and said, "Ah Yan, you go first, I'll cover your retreat!"
Xie Yan gritted his teeth, took the bag, and taking advantage of the gap created by Jiang Cichen's sword, he forced his way through a bloody path and quickly rushed away.
A leader of the Black Armored Guards asked anxiously, "Sir, should we give chase?"
Gu Zhuohan, however, calmly reined in his horse: "What's the rush?"
He slowly pulled out a wolf-tooth arrow from the quiver beside the saddle, drew the bow, and aimed at the small black bundle in Xie Yan's arms!
The arrow flew out at great speed. Xie Yan heard a sharp sound of it piercing the air from behind him and instinctively spun to avoid it. The tip of the arrow brushed past the edge of the bundle and pierced through a piece of rag.
Gu Zhuohan frowned, and in an instant, three sharp arrows were put on the bowstring.
Three arrows were fired simultaneously, blocking Xie Yan's retreat.
Xie Yan's body shape changed suddenly, and he barely avoided two arrows, but the third arrow pierced into the black bundle!
The huge impact force caused the bag to fly out of his hand, drawing an arc and falling straight into the bottomless cliff beside the road!
Jiang Cichen's pupils suddenly contracted, and the long sword he snatched in his hand turned into a cold light and was thrown out, stabbing straight at Gu Zhuohan, and then broke out of the encirclement.
Gu Zhuohan leaned back hastily, and the sword blade brushed past his cheek, leaving a glaring blood mark.
Gu Zhuohan covered the wound on his face, his voice distorted with rage: "Chase him! I want him alive or dead!"
After escaping, they returned here and tried to find General Jiang's head, but it snowed heavily at night and everything was white, so they could not find anything.
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Author's thoughts: ramblings (not related to the plot): I applied to change my pen name backstage. I don't know what I chose when I registered, so I took one character from each of the male and female protagonists' names. After changing the name, it says it will be reviewed on Friday. Maybe it will be changed tomorrow? (I don't know either╮(╯▽╰)╭
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