Chapter 735: His good brother is probably hoping for his death more than we do.
"Qi Jing can't jump around for too long?" Gu Yanchen's voice suddenly became low, and his fingertips unconsciously clenched the corner of the quilt.
"What do you mean?"
The candlelight in the tent flickered, making Ran Qingxuan's face appear bright and dark.
Her long eyelashes drooped slightly, casting a shadow under her eyes. After a long silence, she said softly, "Well, there is something...I have never dared to tell you."
Gu Yanchen's heart suddenly tightened, and he saw his wife slowly lift the hem of her pajamas, revealing the criss-crossing scars on her round pregnant belly...
One of the wounds seemed to be very deep, with the scab about to fall off, and the pink new flesh looked particularly glaring under the candlelight.
"This is..." Gu Yanchen's throat choked, his fingers suspended in the air, hesitating to touch.
"The Black Feather Guard's sword." Ran Qingxuan's voice was terrifyingly calm.
"Qi Jing knew that I could disappear suddenly, so he ordered them to hold a knife to their stomachs and threaten our children every day to prevent me from escaping into space."
She stroked the scar with her fingertips: "They calculated it very accurately. The tip of the knife was only three inches into the flesh, which would not hurt the fetus, but also made me feel the pain and dare not move rashly."
With a click...
The edge of the bed under his command was crushed by Gu Yanchen. His eyes were bloodshot, veins bulged on his forehead, and his whole body was like a fully drawn bow, stretched to the point of almost breaking.
After a long while, he squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "How dare he..."
Ran Qingxuan held her husband's trembling hand and guided him to touch her abdomen: "It's okay now, look, the baby is still moving."
Feeling a slight fetal movement under his palm, Gu Yanchen suddenly leaned over and put his head on his wife's belly, his broad shoulders trembling slightly.
Ran Qingxuan felt a burst of damp heat penetrating through his clothes. This man who had killed countless enemies on the battlefield shed tears at this moment.
"It's all my fault..." Gu Yanchen's voice was muffled by the fabric, his tone full of self-blame.
"If I had insisted on sending you back that day, maybe..."
"Don't say that..." Ran Qingxuan stroked his hair gently.
"Qi Jing has been planning this for a long time. Even if it doesn't work out that day, he will find another opportunity."
She held up Gu Yanchen's face and looked into his eyes filled with pain: "The important thing is that I got into Hulu Pass through this."
Ran Qingxuan raised a cold smile and said slowly, "Qi Jing originally wanted to imprison me outside the pass and force me to pay him food, but he didn't know that when I threatened him that day, the tip of the knife against his neck was tempered with 'silk'."
"Silk entanglement?" Gu Yanchen's pupils suddenly shrank.
"The ghost doctor's secret poison?"
"Well, it will melt as soon as it enters the skin and will break out in March." There was a cold light in Ran Qingxuan's eyes.
"Even if someone gets the throne, he won't live to see the day he ascends the throne."
The candle flame crackled and half of Ran Qingxuan's face was hidden in the shadows.
Gu Yanchen tightened his palms with some complicated feelings. His wife was originally a doctor who saved people, but now there was murderous intent in her eyes...
"These should be done by me..." Gu Yanchen's Adam's apple rolled and his voice became hoarse.
Ran Qingxuan shook his head and stroked his furrowed brows with his fingers: "Doctors have a kind heart, but they also have reverse scales."
She pressed his hand on her swollen belly: "Qi Jingqian shouldn't have threatened our child's life."
The wind was howling outside the tent and Yuanbao was snoring softly at the door.
Gu Yanchen sighed, took his wife into his arms, and rested his chin on the top of her head: "So Qi Jing's plan of killing three birds with one stone is really brilliant."
“You discovered it too!”
Ran Qingxuan sneered and said, "Let me take care of the food supply at the border, and with your help, I will help him win the war. Finally, I will use your merits of 'defending the country against the enemy' to pave the way for him to seize the throne."
She traced her fingertips along the lines on her husband's chest and suddenly sneered, "It's a pity that he missed two points."
"What is it?"
"First, I dare to fight with my life..." Ran Qingxuan raised his eyes, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.
"Second, he has no idea of the power of hot weapons."
Gu Yanchen suddenly laughed softly, and the vibration of his chest reached Ran Qingxuan's ears.
The laughter soon died down, and he said seriously: "But the situation in the court is complicated. If Qi Jing suddenly died..."
"don’t worry."
Ran Qingxuan had a plan in mind.
"The attack of 'Chansi' is like rheumatism. Apart from the Ghost Doctor and Qu Feng, I am the only one in the world who can cure it. The Ghost Doctor gave it to me secretly before.
I originally thought it was useless, but now it seems that it would be better to use it on Qi Jing, not to mention..."
There was a hint of sarcasm in her eyes: "His good brother is probably hoping for his death more than we do."
At this point, Gu Yanchen suddenly remembered something: "By the way, after this battle, Qi Jing might have known about the existence of thermal weapons. Why did he allow the victory report to be sent back to the capital in the name of 'heavenly punishment'?"
Ran Qingxuan stroked his abdomen and smiled meaningfully: "Because he is afraid... He is afraid that other countries will know that there is such a killing weapon in the world, and he is even more afraid that others will know that the killing weapon is in my hands."
She looked at the candlelight in the tent and said, "The most terrifying thing in this world is to possess a treasure and not know it."
Gu Yanchen understood and lowered his head to kiss his wife's forehead: "That's why he is so eager to plot for the throne. Only by sitting on that position can he be qualified..."
"Only then are you qualified to control me legitimately!" Ran Qingxuan replied, the coldness in his eyes becoming even stronger.
"It's a pity that he didn't have this opportunity."
Gu Yanchen couldn't calm down for a long time, and he couldn't fall asleep peacefully until the second half of the night, even though Ran Qingxuan was in his arms at the moment.
Yuan Bao suddenly growled outside the door, and then a soldier reported: "Mr. Gu, General Chang wants you to come over."
Gu Yanchen responded and tucked the quilt in for his wife: "Sleep a little longer, I'll be back soon."
How could Ran Qingxuan not feel the emotions of the person beside him? Seeing him getting up to leave, he quickly grabbed his hand: "Yan Chen, you...you won't blame me..."
Gu Yanchen turned around, looked at Ran Qingxuan's slightly uneasy eyes, and suddenly leaned over and kissed her wound: "I only blame myself for not being able to protect you."
His fingertips lightly touched the outline of the scar, and his voice was as light as a sigh: "But from now on, your enemies are my enemies, and your knife... must be filled with my poison."
Ran Qingxuan felt a pain in the tip of her nose, and before she could open her mouth, the fetus in her belly suddenly kicked hard, hitting Gu Yanchen's palm.
"Go to sleep, the child is sleepy too!"
Gu Yanchen gently opened the curtain, and Yuanbao immediately looked up at him, with its golden animal eyes glowing faintly in the darkness.
Although this jet-black leopard is less than one year old, it has already shown extraordinary intelligence.
"Yuanbao..." Gu Yanchen squatted down and rubbed the soft fur behind the black panther's ears.
"Keep an eye on the mistress, okay?" His voice was so low that it was almost just the vibration of air flow.
"No one can be put in except the mistress's friends and me..."
Yuanbao let out a low snore from his throat and nudged Gu Yanchen's hand with his head, as if in response.
The pair of pointed earphones turned alertly, taking in every slight sound around.
Gu Yanchen signaled to the soldier, and the two of them left quickly.
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