My wife has a secret

Chapter 224: Relic
"Tianji Xingjun only blew up the yard and used the vibration to damage the structure of the house to intimidate us. He never threw the thunder bomb at us from beginning to end... Moreover, he used his true ability at the last moment to block the rain of arrows for us."

Shen Shuangxu frowned and said with caution: "So the purpose of Tianji Xingjun should be the story he told us, but I don't understand what is so special about this story."

Xu Qing and Shen Shuangxu had roughly the same idea, and they also felt that the appearance of Tianji Star Lord must have a purpose.

But the White Lotus Sect has been playing tricks all the time, causing him to be unable to figure out the real purpose of Tianji Star Lord.

"Moreover, compared to the reminder, the more mysterious thing is Tianji Xingjun himself. The Yang family opened the household register to me, and Chengxuanfang also transferred many files, but I still haven't found any clues."

Behind Shen Shuangxu's soft voice, there was a hint of confusion.

"According to common sense, since he knows so much about Huangling Pass, he should be a local resident of Huangling Pass or a member of the Yang family, but I don't see him in any records related to it."

The records of Huangling Pass are extremely detailed. Because the battles usually took place in the surrounding areas, the number of missing people here is very small compared to other armies.

Shen Shuangxu did not find any people from Huangling Pass who were familiar with thunder and fire.

"But there are still some files left. My husband can go back and wait for the news."

I don’t know if she was used to this address, but Shen Shuangxu blurted out the word "husband" as if they were an old couple who had been together for many years.

Although Xu Qing noticed this abnormality, he would not deliberately point it out to the other party.

After realizing that he wouldn't be able to help much if he stayed, he simply bowed and returned to the guest room along the same route.

After running around outside all day, Xu Qing was a little tired.

What's more, after going through so many things, the shouts and screams outside the city rose from time to time, accompanied by the flames shooting into the sky, which oppressed people's nerves.

This situation is inevitable when you are near a battlefield.

After opening the door of the guest room, Xu Qing suddenly found a petite figure sitting in the room. The other person had bright eyes, like a flower in bud, and her appearance was beautiful and charming.

"Yang Caiyun? Shouldn't you stay in your room? It's so dangerous outside, how can you walk around the mansion casually?"

Unconsciously, Xu Qing revealed the face of an elder.

He was very fond of this clever little girl, but when they were parting, Yang Xianning had specifically warned him that his little sister was a bit playful and he should pay more attention to restraining her.

Yang Caiyun looked outside the house and saw that the patrolling guards were quite far away, so she made a "hush" sound towards Xu Qing.

Then she pulled him into the room and said in a very soft voice: "Brother-in-law, come in, I'll tell you a secret..."

"Ok?"

Xu Qing entered the inner room with a confused look on his face, wondering what this little girl was up to.

"Brother-in-law, I might know the identity of that weird guy today..."

"what?"

Xu Qing never expected that the Tianji Star Lord, who even Shen Shuangxu was helpless against, would be seen through by the younger sister of the Yang family.

He asked eagerly, "What do you know?"

Then Xu Qing seemed to have thought of something, and after a pause he asked, "No, since you knew the identity of Tianji Xingjun, why didn't you tell your second sister clearly at the time? Why did you have to tell me secretly?"

Yang Caiyun paused for a moment, and her expression looked a little strange. "It's not that Caiyun doesn't want to talk about it, but this matter involves the Yang family's dirty laundry."

Hearing the words "family disgrace", Xu Qing vaguely realized something.

"Before the first year of the previous year, or even earlier, one hundred and fifty years ago, when the Yang family first came to guard Huangling Pass, a branch of the family escaped and rebelled. Although this matter was considered top secret, I happened to find the records in my second uncle's study."

Yang Caiyun whispered, "It is recorded that the branch family was entrusted with an important task by the head of the family at that time, responsible for building a secret weapon called the fire gun. However, because the product was too flawed, it would most likely explode, harming many of the guards, so it was destroyed by the head of the family, and the branch family was also implicated and executed."

"Firegun?"

Xu Qing heard a term that did not belong to this world.

Although the ancients called metal tube-shaped shooting firearms firearms, he had never heard of the existence of this thing, either in the current Liao-Qi battlefield or in battles in other places.

Therefore, when Yang Caiyun suddenly mentioned the word "musket", he almost failed to react and thought he had heard it wrong.

"I didn't understand the meaning of this thing at the time, until... today when I saw the thing in that weirdo's hand, which was similar in shape to the musket bullet left behind, I vaguely realized the connection between the two."

Yang Caiyun was obviously well prepared for this trip. She signaled Xu Qing with her eyes to look at the table.

After the latter lowered his gaze, he noticed that there was a square box on the table, which was beautifully decorated and seemed to contain an incredible good thing.

"Is this the fire gun left behind by the Yang family?"

Xu Qing opened the box tentatively. The moment the lock opened and the lid popped open, the air froze.

A trace of shock flashed across his face, as if he had been struck by lightning. His eyes stared straight ahead, and his hand holding the box trembled slightly, as if he couldn't believe what had just happened.

How can this piece of iron with exquisite craftsmanship and complete shape be a musket made of metal copper tubes?

It's clearly a pistol.

……

The battle at Huangling Pass had been going on for three consecutive days, with both sides deploying heavy troops at the pass.

The corpses were piled up several feet high under the city wall, forming one pile after another. Even though the Yang family army poured oil and set fires every night to prevent the spread of plague, the piles of corpses did not decrease but increased instead, and more and more Liao soldiers died in battle here.

The rotating defenders on the front line had their swords basically bent from being chopped.

"For three whole days, we haven't even been able to break into the gate of Huangling Pass. If the Huangling Army continues to hide in the city and doesn't come out, we will be the ones to suffer when reinforcements arrive."

Inside the marching tent, an aide resisted the oppression of Prince Xiao Chong and mustered up the courage to give him advice.

Although some of his colleagues who had predicted the war were killed by Lieutenant General Xiao Chong, he felt that he had an obligation to sacrifice his life to tell the truth about the quagmire in the war.

After all, the vanguard troops of the past two days had been wiped out, and the Liao army sent those Khitan men in their prime to the battlefield.

What is the difference between letting young descendants line up to die and committing the destruction of a country?
Xiao Chong was still sitting in the center of the big tent, staring at the sand table motionlessly.

No one dared to disturb his thoughts, but after this aide's commotion, he gradually regained his clarity of mind, his pupils focused, and became dark and translucent inside.

(End of this chapter)