Li Zhi, don't be a coward

Chapter 1125
The acquaintance between Li Qinzai and Jin Dayan was not good. In fact, it was Li Qinzai who smoked her out.

After being forced to take her back to the Tang army camp, Jin Dayan saved Li Ji and Li Qinzai's grandfather and grandson one after another with her own ability.

For the Li family, this is a great favor.

So when Li Qinzai recovered from his injury, he came up with the idea of ​​hiring Jin Dayan as an enshrinement to the Li family.

He also discussed this idea with Li Ji in private, and Li Ji readily agreed, and even had a dispute between the grandfather and grandson about Jin Dayan's placement.

Li Ji planned to place Jin Dayan in the Duke's Mansion in Chang'an City, but Li Qinzai wanted to place her in Ganjingzhuang.

Talents are in high demand, and the grandfather and grandson almost fell out because of her.

Facing Li Qinzai's invitation, Jin Dayan was a little hesitant.

She is just a commoner in troubled times, unable to change the general situation of the country, and can only try to survive in this troubled world. As a commoner in Goguryeo, she has lived in a barren and impoverished village for these years. She has seen the slaughter of villagers by the Tang army and Goguryeo Looting of villagers by the army.

So if you talk about hatred, the hatred in her heart is not specific to whom, she only hates the powerful people who abuse the common people, no matter Tang Jun or Goguryeo.

Li Qinzai asked her for help at the beginning. Although she and the villagers were smoked out by the fire, it later proved that he kept his word. Not only did he not slaughter her neighbors, but the Tang army gave them a lot of food for survival.

In this way, Jin Dayan no longer has any national hatred and family hatred for Li Qinzai, but is somewhat grateful for his kind treatment of his neighbors.

At the moment when Li Qinzai asked her to return to Datang together, Jin Dayan really couldn't make up his mind.

The main reason is that she doesn't want to be reduced to a foreign country, and she can't give up her hometown after all.

Li Qinzai sat in a wheelchair with his back to her, but he seemed to have guessed her thoughts, and said indifferently: "It's rare to live in a barren countryside. It would be a great waste of your peerless medical skills. There are many things in Chang'an that need your treatment." patients."

"Not only that, but your medical skills also need to be passed on and carried forward. All the talents from all over the world gather in Chang'an, so you don't have to worry about finding someone with extraordinary talent to inherit your mantle."

"The Li family enshrines and receives my Li family's salary for generations, and must be treated as a guest of honor."

These words finally made Jin Dayan tempted.

After a long time, Jin Dayan hummed lightly.

Both Li Qinzai and Xiao Baga heard it, and they couldn't help showing joyful smiles at the same time.

Pointing to the front, Li Qinzai said: "Push me to walk around the camps of the soldiers. I want to see the soldiers who are alive after the war."

Little Baga pushed his wheelchair forward, and walked slowly towards the back of the military camp. There was a camp area where the wounded soldiers rested. In the battle outside Black Bone City, most of the [-] soldiers died in the battle, and only a hundred remained. General Yu lived here.

The closer he got to the camp, the more serious Li Qinzai's expression became.

Leaning on the back of the chair, Li Qinzai slowly closed his eyes, and the tragic scenes of the previous battle flashed through his mind, the smoke of gunpowder, the flames of war, trenches, and corpses everywhere.

Exhaling slowly, Li Qinzai's face gradually turned pale.

A voice of surprise came from outside the tent.

"Shuai Li, it's Shuai Li!" A limping robed man looked at him in surprise, turned his head and shouted, "Shuai Li is here to see everyone!"

As soon as the words fell, many soldiers came out from the various tents. They were slightly or severely wounded, some even had broken arms and legs, and some had criss-crossing knife marks all over their faces, which looked hideous and terrifying.

Li Qinzai in the wheelchair was quickly surrounded by the injured robes. They surrounded him carefully and did not dare to touch him. They happily followed the wheelchair slowly.

Li Qinzai motioned for Little Baga to stop, then looked around at the soldiers with a smile.

"They're all alive, and I'm alive too." Li Qinzai said with a smile, but his eyes turned red unknowingly.

All the soldiers also had red eyes, choked up and nodded.

Li Qinzai laughed: "It's good to be alive, right?"

The soldiers nodded again.

Li Qinzai stretched out his hand slowly, and slapped a tearful soldier in front of him hard: "We have passed the barrier of life and death, why cry! It's not embarrassing."

Looking around at the crowd, Li Qinzai said with a smile: "Let's live a good life. Come on, let's swear to each other that we must live to be 80 years old. If anyone fails, let's go to his grave to pee together as punishment."

All the soldiers laughed with tears in their eyes and raised their hands to swear.

Li Qinzai sighed, his face gradually darkened, he was silent for a long time, and said in a low voice: "The living, don't forget the dead, the glory should belong to them."

All the soldiers choked with sobs and cupped their fists: "I will never forget."

At this moment, Li Qinzai suddenly understood why those veterans who retired from the battlefield in the previous life kept their identities incognito and were willing to remain anonymous all their lives as ordinary people. They locked their military medals in a box and never showed them off until their death.

Those who have really experienced war will understand their feelings.

The living are unwilling to accept this heavy glory, because they unanimously attribute the glory to those who died in battle.

Life and death are meaningless, and future generations pay tribute to them. They are all great.

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After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather is still hot, and there is no cool breeze during the day, which makes people feel more and more stuffy.

Riding a fast horse from the west, he crossed the sea and arrived at the Tang army camp outside Huyi City.

When Li Qinzai was thinking about inventing a new dish in the camp, Bu Qu came to report, and the Chang'an angel arrived, asking Wu Shaolang to go to the commander's tent to receive the order.

Lifting Li Qinzai to the wheelchair, Zhong Buqu hurriedly pushed him to Li Ji's tent.

All the generals gathered in the commander's tent, Li Ji sat in the middle, and when they saw Li Qinzai coming in in a wheelchair, everyone showed approving smiles on their faces.

Since the Eastern Expedition of the Tang Army, if it is said that Li Qinzai is the undisputed first meritorious service in the army, no general can refute it.

The angel of Chang'an's edict is not a civil servant, but a guard.

Seeing Li Qinzai entering the account, the imperial guard took out a roll of yellow silk with both hands.

Li Qinzai struggled to get up from the wheelchair, and was about to bow down when the guards hurriedly stopped him.

"Li Shuai is seriously injured. Your Majesty has an order, so there is no need to salute." The guard smiled, looking at him with reverence in his eyes.

Wufu is different from literati. Wufu only recognizes military exploits and lets you talk about it. They only recognize what you do and never care what you say.

What Li Qinzai did was enough to earn the respect of the imperial guard.

All the generals in the tent bowed down one after another, but Li Qinzai was the only one sitting in a wheelchair.

Unfolding the yellow silk, the imperial guard slowly read out the content of the imperial decree.

The text is obscure, but the meaning is clear.

Li Qinzai, the Duke of Weinan County, handed over the affairs of the army, and set off on the same day, sailing westward on a navy ship, first returning to Tangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, and then entering Chang'an.

After the imperial decree was finished, the generals looked at Li Qinzai with slight surprise.

Li Qinzai smiled wryly, he just fought a battle and was injured a little bit, what kind of national ceremony is so exaggerated, such limelight is really unnecessary.

(End of this chapter)