Mu Yan was shocked by what he saw. Su Yi was the same; the two men stood there, staring blankly at the destroyed cliff in the distance.
Mu Jin, smiling, picked up a smaller piece of gunpowder from the bamboo basket and handed it to Mu Yan.
"Brother, don't just stand there like an idiot, why don't you give it a try?"
Mu Yan snapped out of his daze and snatched the gunpowder from Mu Jin's hand. He said in a deep voice, "Jin, am I hallucinating?"
At this moment, Mu Yan's ears still felt a little blocked, so he instinctively shouted loudly to Mu Jin, "Was the mountain in front really blown away by the gunpowder you just fired?"
What he didn't know was that his two shouts at Mu Jin had startled her.
Mu Jin whispered in Mu Yan's ear, "Brother, don't be so loud, I can hear you." Mu Yan grinned at Mu Jin, embarrassed.
Mu Jin said, "Whether it is or not, you'll know once you try it, brother." Mu Yan picked up the gunpowder, looked at the long fuse, and said excitedly, "Ah Jin, big brother is going to light it."
After saying that, he stopped looking at Mu Jin and Su Yi and stared at a river in the distance. He immediately followed Mu Jin's example, lit the fuse of the gunpowder, hung the gunpowder on the bow and arrow, drew the bow, and shot the gunpowder at the center of the river. Then he pulled Mu Jin and hid behind the rocks.
This time, Su Yi covered Mu Jin's ears, and Mu Jin, seeing this, also covered Su Yi's ears. The two smiled at each other.
Mu Yan was covering his ears, his heart pounding, waiting for the explosion from the gunpowder he had just fired. He didn't notice the little actions of Su Yi and Mu Jin beside him.
The gunpowder didn't keep Mu Yan waiting long before another deafening explosion occurred. However, this time the gunpowder was much smaller and didn't have the same impact as the gunpowder Mu Jin had just fired.
The three of them stepped out of the boulder and looked at the river. They saw that the riverbed, which had been destroyed by gunpowder, was now more than twice as wide as before. Along the riverbank, many fish and shrimp had been blown onto the shore and were jumping around.
Mu Yan laughed heartily upon seeing this, "Ah Jin, your big brother will treat you to fish tonight." With that, he turned and rode his horse towards the river.
Mu Jin smiled as she looked in the direction Mu Yan had left, but suddenly found herself in a warm embrace.
"Ah Jin! You're so amazing. If you leave me, I'm really not sure I can win you back. You won't leave me, will you?"
Mu Jin turned around, looked at Su Yi, and laughed, "Did that explosive just now blow up your brain instead of the cliff?"
Su Yi leaned down and kissed Mu Jin's forehead, saying, "Maybe so. Promise me you won't leave me, or you might as well just blow me up with explosives."
Mu Jin buried her head in Su Yi's chest and rubbed against him, saying, "Then it depends on how you behave from now on. If you go around flirting with other women..." Mu Jin's voice was soft and sweet, like a kitten's paws gently scratching Su Yi's heart.
“How could I?” Su Yi immediately retorted, “With you, no other woman can catch my eye.”
Hearing Su Yi's words, Mu Jin felt as if she had drunk a jar of honey. At this moment, the sound of Mu Yan's horse hooves approached from afar, and the two reluctantly let go of each other.
Mu Yan caught a few big fish, picked them up and showed them off to Su Yi and Mu Jin, saying, "Your Majesty, A Jin, look! These fish were stunned by the dynamite. They're quite fresh. Tonight we'll make a fish soup to warm everyone up."
Mu Jin smiled and said, "Okay, thank you, brother."
Mu Yan dismounted, still basking in the excitement of having just ignited the explosives. He said to Su Yi, "Your Majesty, why don't you give it a try? The gunpowder is so powerful that even ten armies from Dongyue would have no choice but to surrender."
Su Yi looked at Mu Jin and said, "Ah Jin, let me try one too."
Mu Jin took out a piece of explosives from the basket, the same size as the one she had just given to Mu Yan, and handed it to Su Yi, saying, "Actually, with this amount of explosives, you don't need to hide behind rocks a hundred feet away."
Su Yi raised an eyebrow, took the explosives from Mu Jin, lit the fuse, and shot them into the same river Mu Yan had just been in. A loud bang followed, accompanied by a mushroom-shaped spray hundreds of feet high rising into the air, resembling a blooming water lily, breathtakingly beautiful in the afterglow of the setting sun.
Seeing the beautiful splashes of water, Mu Jin slowly stopped smiling. Su Yi, whose eyes were always on her, noticed this and took her hand, asking, "What's wrong?"
Mu Jin looked up at him and said, "If I don't give you the gunpowder formula, what will you think?"
Su Yi laughed and said, "If you don't want it, I definitely won't take it."
Mu Jin smiled as she looked at the blasted cliff in the distance, but her eyes held a hint of worry.
"Gunpowder is so powerful, as you have seen, that it can ensure national security and inflict devastating damage on enemy countries, but it can also cause enormous destruction to innocent civilians and the environment."
"Ah Jin, do you not want this gunpowder to be passed down to the world?"
"This is what I think: after this war ends, I will make two boxes and give them to Southern Shu. They will be more than enough to defend the country. I'm afraid that if this formula falls into the hands of someone with ulterior motives, then the world will be plunged into chaos."
Upon hearing Mu Jin's words, Mu Yan frowned slightly.
Su Yi squeezed Mu Jin's palm and said to him, "There's no need to waste your energy making those two more boxes of gunpowder. There are probably not many people in this world who understand the gunpowder formula. Apart from Su Yuntian, I will order that no one else is allowed to research it. Is that alright?"
Mu Jin smiled faintly and said, "That's not necessary. Even if you stop it now, it won't hinder people's use of gunpowder a hundred or a thousand years from now."
"I just don't want the gunpowder formula to fall out of my hands."
“Alright!” Su Yi nodded and said, “Whatever you say goes. After we defeat Su Yuntian and Bei Qi, we’ll destroy all the gunpowder, okay?”
Hearing Su Yi say this, Mu Jin looked at Su Yi, and her eyes regained their smile.
That evening, news came from Dongyue that Su Yuntian was about to set off for Dongmen Pass, showing a determination to seize Nanshu.
Su Yi and Mu Jin, along with the generals and soldiers of Southern Shu, stood beside the map inside the tent, calculating Su Yuntian's current location and predicting how long it would take for the Southern Shu army to catch up with Su Yuntian's Eastern Yue army.
Meanwhile, outside Liangmen Pass, the Eastern Yue army was being counted and organized.
Su Yuntian rode his steed with composure through the army. He wore a golden dragon robe, and his long cloak billowed in the cold wind. His narrowed eyes were so long that they were reduced to two sharp slits, carrying a hint of coldness and an air of certainty.
He stood in front of the army, and General Xiao Chuan of Dongyue, dressed in full armor, stepped forward to ask him for instructions.
"Your Majesty, the three armies have been assembled. Should we order them to march immediately to Dongmen Pass to attack Southern Shu?"
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