Xu Keyue originally stayed in a safe stronghold, but when she heard that Liang Da and Jiuniang had been ordered to stop Wanyan Jun no matter what before Shen Shi, she felt a little uneasy in her heart.
It may not be easy to stop Yan Jun. If a fight breaks out, some companions will inevitably be sacrificed.
Xu Keyue thought that she might have some more advantageous advantages.
While Liang Da and Jiuniang were out, she took the initiative to bump into Wanyan Jun.
She knows how to make him angry so well that he will definitely stop for her. He had to take her out of the laundry despite all the odds and taking huge risks, but after rescuing her, he unscrupulously trampled on and ravaged her dignity. In the great pain, she had long realized that To men's excessive possessiveness. He loves her.
He thought he could handle it with ease, but she had already seen all his weaknesses.
She just didn't have the opportunity, she just wasn't strong enough, so she learned to flatter, learned to be duplicitous, and she stayed dormant every time.
At this moment, she finally sent out the knife. She couldn't remember how many moments of confusion she had imagined this scene in her mind. She did what she had wanted to do but couldn't do for a long time.
She hated him so much.
"You——" Wanyan Jun's eyes quickly became bloodshot, and his facial features looked ferocious due to pain. Anger and regret filled his dying consciousness, and he didn't expect it to be her.
"I treat you well!"
He clearly gave her the rare kindness he had! How could she!
This boneless woman turned out to be a viper who repaid kindness with revenge.
"It was you who taught me to repay kindness with hatred." Xu Keyue looked at him numbly and pushed the dagger in his hand another inch.
Wanyan Jun vomited blood profusely, and he used his last bit of strength to hold onto Xu Keyue's hand.
"You too...don't even think about living...together..."
Wanyan Jun fell to the ground suddenly, and the soldiers surrounded him with surprise.
Xu Mengyue closed her eyes calmly, waiting for the sword of revenge to come to her. However, she heard a clang and the harsh sound of soldiers clashing into her ears. The expected pain did not come, but instead someone screamed. Pulled her up.
"Walk."
Xu Keyue looked blankly, and it was Song Muchuan who came with someone.
Two groups of people fought in the courtyard, and Song Muchuan escaped while protecting Xu Keyue. Only then did she realize that she was shaking so hard that she staggered after running a few steps.
All these changes were so fast that it seemed as if they had never happened. Only the blood on her hands reminded her of what she had just done. Human courage is far beyond the limit that humans can imagine. It may be a trace of divine power left in the body when Nuwa created humans. It can make humans become jade-attacking stones in a moment. But after a moment of magical power, humans are still like that. With a weak and ordinary body.
Song Muchuan stopped and asked with concern: "Can I still leave?"
Xu Keyue didn't want to be held back, but she was really exhausted.
Song Muchuan didn't say much, squatted down, picked her up and ran out.
Xu Keyue lay on the man's generous back. This angle, which was higher than usual, made her feel a little dazed. She thought she was standing on an isolated island in the angry sea, but it turned out that it was just a piece of land submerged by the high tide. When the tide recedes, the land remains connected to the land.
She looked towards the horizon. It was getting dark.
On the far bank of the river, there seemed to be a row of huge creatures moving down the river.
She murmured in surprise: "The keel boat has been launched..."
Song Muchuan's footsteps suddenly stopped.
"What did you say?!"
All the Qi soldiers had already boarded the boat. Xie Queshan ordered the helmsman to drive the boat up the river without waiting for Song Muchuan to bring the people up. There should be dead soldiers on each ship to light the fuses, but the situation changed and it was too late to implement the original plan. He arranged for the largest main ship to be in the center of the fleet, surrounded by ships in front and behind, so that when one main ship explodes, the aftermath can affect the surrounding ships.
He wanted to detonate the gunpowder himself.
The mixed powder of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal has long been poured into the hollow bamboo joints used in shipbuilding. From the outside, no clues can be found. The whole ship is a huge and exquisite powder keg.
Song Muchuan is a unique craftsman.
He was ready to die with his masterpiece, but someone took his place.
Song Muchuan finally realized something belatedly and chased towards the river like crazy.
The keel boat was going down the river, getting farther and farther away from Lidu Mansion.
"Xie Chaoen—Xie Chaoen!"
Song Muchuan shouted in vain towards the ship, but his call was soon drowned by the mighty river water.
He lied to everyone again.
……
Xie Queshan entered the weapons warehouse in the cabin. He had seen Song Muchuan's drawings and knew that the place where the gunpowder was detonated was here. When Song Muchuan was designing, he left a chance for escape. It would take about a cup of tea to burn out all the fuses. If someone outside the ship responded, he could leave after lighting it.
If everything goes according to the original plan, there will be a grand ceremony on the ship, and no one will notice if there is one more person or one less person. But now the whole army is on alert. Xie Queshan is the supreme commander on the ship, and his presence is noticed by everyone.
Therefore, he did not prepare an escape route for himself. The number of Qi soldiers on the ship is overwhelming. Once the clues are discovered, everything will be lost.
Xie Queshan said that he wanted to check the weapons and let people guard them outside. He walked into the warehouse alone and took down the candlestick from the wall.
The firelight danced in his pupils, and he walked inside step by step.
The slightly trembling hands revealed the turmoil in his heart.
In fact, he didn't necessarily want to die. He loves some people in this world, and he knows that those people also love him, and there will be nothing after death.
However, love, hate, anger and ignorance, Huang Liang Yi Meng, his hand is still empty. If everything ends here, maybe it can give everyone a new beginning.
The flames slowly approached the fuse, and the sparks crackled and burned. The fuse that had been dormant on the ground suddenly came to life, and it meandered towards the depths.
But at this moment, he almost went crazy and thought of Nan Yi unwillingly. He never expected that the thought of being together that had been extinguished would resurrect.
At the moment of death, her voice and smile are all in the memory. People who are in love are like holding a torch against the wind, and they are bound to have their hands burned. He was still in the world, but at this moment it was like he was burning in a sea of fire, and endless pain was boiling in his heart.
He even deceived himself. In fact, he also wanted to grow old with her, but at this moment, he had no chance to look back.
That faint fire was like his lifeline, illuminating his path in a flash.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise, and Xie Queshan was shaken. The time came faster than he imagined? He closed his eyes, but did not wait for the destruction he imagined. Just a moment later, the sounds began one after another, and it was noisy outside. This was not an explosion.
He quickly opened the window and looked in the direction of the sound, and saw that someone had set off huge fireworks on the river.
Everyone had rarely seen such bright fireworks, and they were all attracted by the fireworks. Some people were alert, some were panicked, and some stopped. The deck was noisy.
Xie Queshan realized something was wrong and was about to walk out when he saw the two guards at the door quietly falling down.
There was a man wearing Qibing's clothes, leaning on the ground with a scabbard, limping closer - this familiar and annoying face, wasn't it Zhang Yuehui?
How could he show up here by himself? In this absurd scene, Xie Queshan thought it was reasonable. No one except him could be so generous and set off such extravagant fireworks.
Zhang Yuehui saw Xie Queshan and tilted his head: "Leave it to you."
Xie Queshan took action smoothly and dealt with the tail that followed Zhang Yue after he turned around.
"How did you come?"
Zhang Yuehui looked around the weapons arsenal: "Are you alone?"
Xie Queshan didn't know what Zhang Yue's reply meant, so he asked inexplicably: "What else?"
Zhang Yue pointed back to the guiding line: "How long will it take to explode?"
"A cup of tea."
Zhang Yue spat back: "Poor scholar, if you put more cutting leads, you can kill him."
"Did you set off the fireworks? What are you going to do?" Xie Queshan didn't regard Zhang Yue as an enemy, but he was really confused by his appearance and asked in a huff.
"Come here, let me tell you." Zhang Yuehui stood by the window and hooked his hand towards Xie Queshan.
Xie Queshan walked over without thinking much.
"Get down." Zhang Yuehui pushed Xie Queshan unprepared and pushed him out of the cabin.
With a plop, the heads fell into the water one after another. At this moment, fireworks exploded, and the loud noise in the sky covered up the movement here.
Zhang Yuehui took off his heavy armor, stuck his butt out and climbed up the side of the ship with difficulty, and also jumped off.
The surface of the river looked calm, but inside it was a surging current, pushing people in the opposite direction one after another.
"Where's the raft?" Xie Queshan struggled to maintain his figure on the river.
"Who prepared the raft for you? Do you really think I am the King of Heaven?" Zhang Yue scolded back, "Of course I will swim back!"
"I'm sick, so I have to find a troublesome way to die." Xie Queshan cursed, but he still didn't give up this glimmer of hope. He swam forward and noticed that Zhang Yue's legs were inconvenient, so he calmly grabbed him. He took off his clothes and dragged him forward.
Fireworks illuminated the river surface, and a shadowy figure could be seen on the black water, an inconspicuous raft paddling across at an alarming speed.
Song Muchuan rushed towards the dead zone with all his might. He knew it was a long shot, but he had to do something. He could not let Xie Queshan die alone up there.
Just as he was struggling to move the water, he suddenly felt that the raft was being pulled by a force. He looked back warily and saw a man holding on to the edge of the raft.
"Scholar, you are of some use."
Zhang Yuehui climbed onto the raft panting, probably because his legs were weak. There was someone in the water who supported him, and then that person also leaned out.
Song Muchuan has never been good at forbearing. The moment he saw Xie Queshan, two lines of clear tears streaked down his stunned face.
God knows how many scenes of life and death passed through his mind in the short period of time just now.
"Why are you dazed? Paddle quickly."
The raft had just docked, and before people had time to get ashore, there was a huge explosion behind them. After the sound, a series of explosions followed one after another, deafening.
Fireworks in the sky, sparkles on the water.
The flame of death rises on the river. It is the flame of the Phoenix's Nirvana, and it is the last glimmer of hope for the declining dynasty. Since ancient times, countless emperors have been obsessed with the art of elixirs and accidentally refined gunpowder. The ancestors probably did not expect that they would eventually become a handful of loess, but their obsession with ascending to immortality unexpectedly gave future generations such destructive power. In the equal fight between flesh and blood, the weaker side reversed life and death for the first time.
The amplitude of the explosion spread to the shore, setting off huge waves, and the water splashed all three people back into the water.
They lay exhausted on the shore, not even having the energy to look at the explosion on the river, and let the river wash over their bodies.
The loud rumbling sound continued, and after an unknown period of time, it finally calmed down. This seemingly impossible task was a relay of countless lives that finally passed the power into their hands. They succeeded.
This surging eastward river has witnessed tonight's life, death, rise and fall, and the land nourished by the river will usher in the real sunrise.
And these three men briefly stood on the same front in an unprecedented situation.
"Where is Nan Yi?" Zhang Yuehui gasped and looked at Xie Queshan with a bit of resentment.
"I still want to ask you." Xie Queshan asked strangely and anxiously.
He had some reaction. Zhang Yuehui showed up here today because of Nan Yi. He thought Nan Yi was with him and just saved him on the side?
But he didn't know where Nan Yi was.
Zhang Yue looked back at Song Muchuan: "Have you seen her?"
Song Muchuan shook his head in confusion.
"I'm going to die." Zhang Yuehui's expression changed and he struggled to get up from the ground.
He was determined to go to Shu by himself and no longer care about other people's affairs, but after traveling for only an hour, he hurriedly ordered Luo Ci to turn around and go back.
He is really worthless, and he finally understands that he is just a toiler with duplicity.
He searched all the way and only found Yajiu's body on the road, but not Nan Yi. He thought Nan Yi had returned to Lidu Mansion to find Xie Queshan, so he hurried back.
But obviously no one in Lidu Mansion has seen her, so where could she be?
At this time, Nan Yi had just arrived at the gate of Lidu Prefecture. Her clothes were ragged and covered in blood, and she looked like a savage who had come out of the mountains.
After killing Yajiu, she was so tired that she had no strength at all, so she found a nearby cave and slept in darkness. After waking up, she walked to Lidu Mansion, perfectly missing Zhang Yue's return trip.
"Nanyi!"
Xie Queshan rushed over on horseback. When he saw the little figure, he dismounted and ran towards her anxiously. Zhang Yuehui followed closely behind and shamelessly tripped Xie Queshan with his walking stick.
Just as the two men were rushing towards Nan Yi, a figure suddenly rushed over and hugged Nan Yi tightly.
"Sister-in-law!"
Xie Sui'an's loud cries echoed throughout the city cave: "Wow, sister-in-law, why have you become like this!"
"Um...Xiao Liu...I can't breathe..." Nan Yi was almost suffocated by Xie Sui'an's hug.
Xie Sui'an let go of Nan Yi with runny noses and tears, and laughed again after a while.
"Great, you're all alive."
