Wu Hao's disappearance has become an unsolved case in the history of Xixia, but he seems to be an insignificant figure in history. The history books of both countries only give an understatement to his ending.
Liang Chuan took Tianxiong's army to Suizhou on a borrowed road.
An old friend died because of me.
The old beggar didn't even dare to entrust his mother to him when he was dying. He still knew about this from Song Youcai and the others. It was so important to entrust someone with his life. The old beggar didn't dare to harm himself until he died. Every time he thought of this scene, he said Unforgettable sadness.
The scenery in Suizhou is not much different from that in Fuzhou, except that it is luckier than Fuzhou. It has preserved more historical sites from the previous dynasties. There is little life in the city, and the loess is a lifeless piece of land.
The arrival of the Tianxiong Army caused a sensation in the city.
When Song Youcai and the others recruited soldiers for the first time, they recruited people here. Many of them were brothers, and the young members of the family were serving in the Tianxiong Army. When Liang Chuan came to Suizhou, he specifically allowed them to go home to visit. After receiving the death order, there is a time limit for visiting relatives. If he cannot return to the army by then, he will be removed from the Tianxiong Army.
If you take this opportunity to cause trouble and disturb the people in the city, you will be dealt with according to the same military law without mercy.
Most of the people in the Tianxiong Army were selected from honest peasant families, and some of them had been kicked out of the team long ago during training. What Liang Chuan wanted was for the whole army to be united and to fight where to fight according to the orders of their superiors. People who obey.
When everyone returned home, they first visited their parents and relatives, and then talked about their situation in the army. Now being a soldier is not the drudgery of building city walls and doing farming. It is the kind of people who actually pick up swords and guns and go into battle to kill the enemy. Liang Chuan It was also very fair. He paid them salaries as soon as every month came. Although he paid for them with personal money from his own pocket first, this was a capital crime. Fortunately, Xin Wubing hid it for him.
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Taking this opportunity, everyone took a lot of money home, which at least allowed the family to buy rice and oil. How many years of war have the children of Guanzhong fought, and how many of them are lucky enough to take the money home?
It turns out that when you serve in the army, you can return to your hometown with honor!
How many sons came out of the Yellow River, and how many sons were buried in the soil. The sons were not greedy for life and death, but the sons were supposed to serve the country!
That day in Suizhou City, it was like being a groom and a waiter, with lanterns and colorful decorations making people look particularly enchanting.
Liang Chuan took Song Youcai, Song Tiegen, Qin Jing, Yuchi and other close people, dismissed the others, and found the old beggar's hometown of Xianglongsi Village.
Xianglong Temple Village is located on a small hill not far away. There is an Xianglong Temple built in the first year of Taixing in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After three martial arts and one sect, this thousand-year-old temple does not even have a mountain gate left, only a name to let the world know it. There is such a place.
"Can we still produce food in this land? It's not like our great place in the south of the Yangtze River. Even the low mountains in Xinghua are better than the loess here."
Even a rough man named Yuchi couldn't bear the desolation in the northwest, but how could the land of his ancestors be lost so easily?
"The courage to leave one's hometown is no different from the courage to die generously."
Liang Chuan said calmly.
"That old lady, the old beggar." Several people stood at the entrance of the village. Before entering the village, Song Youcai pointed at the old man not far away and said to Liang Chuan.
Everyone looked in the direction that Song Youcai pointed, and saw an old lady leaning against an old tree at the head of the village as if she was dying, holding a broken basket covered with a rag in her hand. Occasionally someone would look for her - —Buy steamed buns. The old man's eyes didn't work very well, and he looked like he was blind. When the money was handed to him and he weighed it, he could clearly tell whether it was enough or not.
Most of the people in the northwest are genuine men. No one would deceive a blind old lady over a matter of one or two copper coins. That is not considered a skill.
Liang Chuan hesitated when he got here. How could he speak? Tell the old man directly that your son is dead and I am taking you back to enjoy your happiness?
Isn't that a stab in the heart?
"Song Youcai, go and tell him..."
"General, how does this make...?"
Liang Chuan walked around the entrance of the village for a long time, but still did not dare to take a step.
Take that step.
"Why don't we go and bury the remains of the old beggar first?"
"That's good too!"
Song Youcai continued: "The old beggar would never have imagined that he would return to his hometown in this way. In the village, he is considered an old man in the military camp, and he has not become a human being. I can't support myself after wasting decades."
"Do you want to go home and have a look?"
"There has been no one in my family for the past few years. I took the time to put incense on the old ghost's grave. Those who can return home are buried in the same cemetery. I'd like to stop by."
The cemetery in Xianglongsi Village is not big. There is a dying gray cypress tree with a few noisy black crows hanging on it. No one who can be regarded as a distinguished person is buried in the low grave.
Without soldiers around, these men had no choice but to dig a big grave and send the old beggar to another world. Song Youcai and the others were calm. They had seen many farewells, but Liang Chuan's mood was complicated. One day he couldn't go back, and when he died in this world, there would be a few people who would remember him. Would it be the same? Only this little person would remember him. 's grave.
The old beggar was an admirable person, but he died too low-key. With so many people around him, he was one of the unlucky ones. He never had a good day, and even took his own life. Liang Chuan was playful. , but he will not play with other people's lives. He has always been worried about the death of the old beggar.
Even as Su Wei said, what he did in the northwest still had elements of being a beggar.
The old beggar's grave was no different from anyone else's. There was no place to carve a monument at the moment. A piece of wood was chopped and it said Song Hua's tomb, and there was no epitaph to describe his life. After death, everything becomes one, but it is nothing more than a handful of loess.
Song Youcai raised a white paper flag and smiled with his mouth as if to summon the souls. This is a unique ritual for Suizhou people. Another Song Tiegen burned paper money on his grave and muttered "Old beggar, old beggar, old beggar, old beggar, old beggar". Don’t worry about running out of money.
Liang Chuan sighed, feeling uncomfortable in his chest.
Among those who follow him, the old beggar is one of the few who has never experienced happiness.
This cemetery is not big, and the grass on the graves is taller than a human body. Except for one cemetery, the weeds on it are clean, which is particularly eye-catching in this desolate place.
Liang Chuan glanced at the tombstone.
“Let’s examine the tomb of Li Gong Chuyi first.”
Liang Chuan's heart trembled at first, Li Chuyi! My eyes went to sign the signature and I saw Li Yunyun, a native of Fengshan. .
No way, Liang Chuan's pupils shrank suddenly. There should be many people named Li Chuyi in the world. There is definitely only one person with the same name as Fengshan!
Besides, this Li Chuyi is still alive and well, who has eaten the tomb that was erected for him? That’s not the way disgusting people work!
Who is Li Yunyun? Li Chuyi kept thinking to himself that he still had a daughter in this world. . ?
When Liang Chuan was confused, a cadre of the Tianxiong Army hurriedly came to Liang Chuan. The Tianxiong Army promoted a large number of grassroots cadres. Liang Chuan knew this newcomer, named Yao Yuan. He was down-to-earth and willing to work. The key is to be obedient. For Chen Fugui and others in Golden Mountain Orders are never compromised.
"The general is not good, the yellow sand is flying outside the village as if there is an army approaching!"
"Go and find out whether it's a party member or someone else's army, and tell the brothers in the city to return quickly. No one from anywhere is here to give us gifts. Only by being careful can you sail the ten thousand year ship."
Qin Jing said coldly: "I was just wondering whether these party members have three heads and six arms!"
Yao Yuan ran very fast with his legs, and turned back after a while: "The generals have gathered their troops and are waiting outside Suizhou City. They have also found out that this group of troops is not a Dangxiang or a Khitan, but a traveling merchant from the northwest." The private armed forces disguised as party members came to rob homes and homes!"
Yuchi Tian said: "I wonder how the party members knew our identities so quickly. We are these traitors! My hands are itching and I want to see some blood!"
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He said angrily: "The people in my hometown have suffered miserably from these traitors. The party members also know the principle of cutting off the grass and leaving the roots to cut again next year. Every time the armed caravans rob the cottages in the state capital, they will kill them, including the elderly and children." Don’t let it go either!”
"Our Tianxiong Army happens to be practicing their skills, just to avenge the elders in their hometown. Yao Yuan, Song Youcai and Song Tiegen, go, you lead the team to kill them, capture a few alive, and ask them about the location of their caravan!"
Yao Yuan followed Song Youcai, Song Tiegen and the others rushed out. Qin Jing, Wei Chi and Tian also wanted to go into battle to kill, but Liang Chuan stopped him and said, "Let's go to the entrance of the village to fight!"
This caravan was the one that had escaped from Xixia after receiving rumors overnight. Li Yuanhao was suspicious and erratic, and sooner or later he would have to take action on merchants like them, but he didn't expect that the action would come so quickly.
In the northwest, there are not only businessmen who make money from party members, but also traitors who make money that is difficult for their own country!
During the War between Song and Xia, they smuggled green salt from Xixia, grain, iron, and medicinal materials from the Song Dynasty. They sold whatever they needed to whoever needed it. They had no position and no country. They made a lot of money without conscience. It was their specialty to make the country difficult to make money. With money, The guards under his command are even more powerful.
They do business when there is a war, but when there is no war, they stir up trouble between Xixia and Song people. They pretend to be Han people and kill Dangxiang people, and they pretend to be Dangxiang people to kill Han people. Peaceful days have no meaning for their existence. What they want is to keep the war going. Traveling merchants are used to killing and looting continuously, and they rely on this to maintain their income when they are not doing business! If you encounter a wealthy village, your income will be more than doing business!
The Song Dynasty was afraid of being ambushed by Li Yuanhao in the northwest. When it came to stragglers, they were often reluctant to pursue the enemy too deeply for fear of being ambushed by the enemy. The consequence of this was that they often turned a blind eye to small-scale 'bandit troubles' and allowed these miscellaneous fish to roam. The northwest erodes the hearts of the people of the Song Dynasty!
Liang Chuan returned to the entrance of the village. The arrival of the horse thieves turned the village into chaos. Every household closed their doors tightly and dared not go out. The old beggar woman was blind. She knew that the world was in chaos and wanted to run away, but she was helpless. She leaned against the cypress tree tremblingly. Down, neither running away nor hiding, calmly waiting for the last moment to arrive.
A little girl suddenly ran to her side, took the old lady's hand and said, "Ah, let's run away, soldiers are coming to attack the village!"
The old man hugged the little girl and said, "Poor child, what are you doing here? Go home and hide yourself. Don't show your head in the kiln!"
"Po, come with me! I'll support you!"
"I'm useless with my feet half in the ground. Why are you holding me back? Baby, run away! Don't fall into their hands."
Liang Chuan saw a red birthmark on the little girl's arm, and then thought of the grave built by Li Yunyun, and suddenly remembered something in his mind! God, what kind of fate is this? Are everything in the world such a coincidence?
"Auntie, Song Hua asked me to pick you up. I am his soldier!"
When he heard Song Hua's name, the old man's body seemed to be struck by lightning and he froze in the air, murmuring: "Who...?"
"Song Hua!" Liang Chuan repeated loudly.
"My son...!" The old man did not cry because of the approaching death, but because of his son. He thought that he would never see the miserable baby again in this life. He thought that he would be given away by someone with white hair. Black haired person. .
"My son, why didn't he come by himself? Where is he now?"
"He is in the military camp. He is well fed and clothed, and he is an official. He is the one who asked us to pick you up!"
"He... why... didn't come...!" The old man's voice was choked with sobs. Naturally, he could understand everything he said after living for a long time.
Liang Chuan endured the pain in his heart. He was an optimistic person, and he couldn't bear to see the old man crying like this in front of him.
"There are so many military affairs in the army that he has to take care of, so of course we can take care of this little thing! Girl, is your father's name Li Chuyi?"
The little girl was originally on guard, but her eyes widened when she heard an unexpected name!
