Chapter 1490
The Final Battle, Husband and Wife
Chapter 1490 The Final Battle, Husband and Wife
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The city, including Wuyuan, was shrouded in a tense atmosphere before a major upheaval.
Only the Mushan Weapon Workshop remained busy and orderly producing long and short cannons, converting gunpowder, combining gunpowder, and cultivating bacteria to make medicine.
However, Qin and Jiang received a new message every hour.
The message contained the latest military and civilian information from both inside and outside the city.
Although there was no good news, they needed to know how the situation inside and outside the city had developed in order to prepare for the next step: whether to continue manufacturing weapons and medicines or to go out and fight a decisive battle.
Jiang Dalang would go to the depths of Mushan Mountain every morning, noon and evening to see Qin Xiaomi, but he could only see Qin Xiaomi when exchanging information.
At other times, you rarely see them, except during breakfast and dinner.
The Qin and Jiang families, who worked in Mushan, ate breakfast and dinner together every day... It was Qin Xiaomi, who disliked Jiang Dalang, who suggested it.
She did this to appease Grandma Qin.
Grandma is getting old, and because of the enemy's fierce feint attacks these past two nights, she has been awakened several times during the night and is almost developing panic disorder.
Qin Xiaomi could only appease her by doing the most ordinary family things, such as having breakfast and dinner together.
Grandma Qin didn't want to be a burden on her family, so she always greeted Qin Xiaomi and the others with a smile and would often say, "Go and do your own thing, don't worry too much about this old woman. When I was young, I was involved in many things. I even helped your grandfather guard the city. If you don't believe me, just ask the old man."
On the morning of the tenth day of the lunar month, Grandma Qin said these words while having breakfast.
Qin Xiaomi and the others asked Grandpa Qin in a very cooperative manner, "Grandpa, was Grandma really that brave when she was young?"
Grandpa Qin laughed: "Of course it's true. I wouldn't dare say it's fake, or your grandma would beat me."
"You old man, you're deliberately saying things to slander me!" Grandma Qin angrily slapped Grandpa Qin's arm with her chopsticks, then handed him another pair: "Here, hurry up and eat your breakfast so you can get to work. You're already old and slow, why don't you get up early and do more work? Otherwise, how will you face receiving your military merit after we win? Don't let your old comrades laugh at you!"
"Yes, yes, I'll eat now, and then I'll go back to work." Grandpa Qin complained again, "You old woman, you get more and more prone to hitting people as you get older. When you were young, you spoke softly and handled things gently and gracefully, you were so elegant."
The second half of the sentence was addressed to the younger generation in the family.
Jiang Dalang listened attentively, filled with envy, and then glanced at Qin Xiaomi... Su Su longed for a marital relationship like that of Grandpa and Grandma Qin, right?
The affection between the father-in-law and mother-in-law is just like that of the two elders in the Qin family.
In his previous life, however, he scoffed at this, believing that overly intense romantic feelings were detrimental to his decision-making as an emperor.
He also felt that Su Su's idea of learning from her parents-in-law's mutual loyalty, honesty, and working hand in hand was too ambitious.
He even told Su Su that the interference of the empress dowager in politics was the beginning of great chaos in the dynasty.
He still remembers Su Su's disbelief after hearing these words... It was disbelief at the antiquity of his thinking.
But at that time, Su Su's feelings for him were still very intense. She found him adorable and even made a bold statement, saying that she would reform him and make him like Qin's father, a man who respected and loved his wife and was willing to share everything with her.
He was shocked by these words and stormed off in anger.
Why?
Since he is the emperor and shares everything with his wife, who owns the empire?
Looking back now, he and Su Su were both very naive, so naive that they both wanted and thought they could change each other... Little did they know that the best way for a couple to get along is not to change each other, but to accept, integrate, and complement each other.
Unfortunately, both he and Su Su realized this too late.
However, he was still the one who made the most mistakes.
*Slap slap* Uncle Qin slapped the table and called to Jiang Dalang, "Wake up! Xiaomi has finished eating and left. Hurry up and eat!" I'm very happy that you're so devoted to my niece, but don't let your infatuation lead you to foolishness.
Someone like you, let alone Xiaomi, would scare us.
"I'll eat now." Jiang Dalang picked up his chopsticks and ate the noodles in the big bowl... He knew that Su Su had finished eating and left, but he couldn't chase after her, otherwise Su Su probably wouldn't eat breakfast and dinner with him anymore.
"What a worry!" Uncle Qin said helplessly. After putting on two flatbreads and his overcoat, he went to catch up with Qin Xiaomi and Aunt Qin.
"I'll leave the matters within the city to Grandma Guan," Jiang Dalang said to Grandma Guan after finishing his meal.
"Don't worry, it won't cause any trouble," Madam Guan assured her.
After finishing her meal, she got up and left the room, returning to her own quarters to continue helping her grandson deal with the surrender faction who couldn't bear the fear and wanted to open the city gates to the enemy.
On the tenth day, the atmosphere in the city became increasingly tense, like a fully drawn bowstring, ready to snap at the slightest disturbance!
On the night of the tenth, the enemy launched another feigned attack.
During the daytime of the 11th, instead of stopping, they dispatched 50,000 enemy troops, pushing their baggage train, to formally attack the west gate.
Jiang Qianshi immediately reported this military intelligence to General Chu.
Strangely enough, within a quarter of an hour, the Wei people in the city knew about this latest military intelligence.
"The enemy has officially launched their attack on the city. They're targeting the west gate. Right now, the west gate is the only place where the rat plague hasn't broken out. If the west gate falls, all of our hundreds of thousands of healthy Wei citizens who are hiding from the plague in the west district will die!"
"Look! Something is falling from the sky!"
"Quickly hide inside! This might be a source of infection; if you get near it, you'll get infected!"
However, what fell from the sky was not a packet of toxic substances, but a bundle of book pages hanging from a leather bag.
If not tied tightly, they will fall in all directions when a strong gust of wind blows.
The pages of these books, written in the Great Wei script, state: "The Eastern Desert suffered heavy losses in this battle, and therefore intends to cease hostilities. If Qin Jiang and Qin Shu are handed over to the capital city by 9:00 AM on the 13th, the Eastern Desert army will immediately retreat back to the Tianmang Prefecture pass after receiving them!"
These pages, like snowflakes, drifted down from beneath each vesicle.
"This time, the enemy isn't poisoning us; they actually want to negotiate?" a Wei citizen exclaimed in surprise.
"What do you care what the enemy wants to do? In short, my family does not agree to the marriage alliance, and my family will not hand over our meritorious officials. This is a divisive tactic by the enemy!"
"Bah! Handing over two people will save the lives of everyone in the capital city. Why shouldn't we? My family agrees to hand them over, and even if His Majesty blames us in the future, I, Old Master Lou, will accept it!"
Old Master Lou shouted the loudest, and everyone on half of the resettlement street heard him.
Because of the report from Master Tan's family, red strips have been posted at the entrance of Master Lou's resettlement house, but the old man, having given up all hope, directly made a public statement.
Dangdang Dangdang!
"Quiet! Quiet! Wei Min, go back inside, close the doors and windows, and don't come out. These blister-like pages may carry germs!"
"Elderly righteous man, come and collect the pages of this book and report it!"
In the western part of the city, the patrolling soldiers and elderly volunteers are busy.
Soon, the King of Ye, Qi Tianshi, and Mushan learned of the situation.
Qi Tianshi held the book pages, looked at the words on them, and laughed out loud: "Those who betray the enemy are really bold."
General Chu hurriedly said, "The Qi envoy should be careful with his words and not accuse the people of Wei of such a serious crime."
Qi Tianshi retorted, "At a time like this, deliberately forging and disseminating the contents of such pages to coerce the people of Wei into forcing the government troops to hand over their meritorious officials—isn't that treason?"
"No need to wait, arrest them. After arresting them, take them to the intersection of Wuyuan Street and execute them."
"After we kill these troublemakers who have defected to the enemy, we'll reply to the Wei people in the city about whether or not to have a marriage alliance."