Chapter four hundred and seventeen the joys and sorrows of the confidant
The ladies were all waiting inside the city gate. The officers of the Tang army who stayed behind were led by Zhao Chongxun. Officials from the Shule Dudu Mansion were also waiting at the scene. There were two drinking carts and two vehicles filled with biscuits on both sides.
Come and reward the troops.
General Li Siye personally carried his flag and entered the city gate with two horses, then came the personal troops, and finally the Shule Army officers and soldiers entered with their horses and animals. The queue was huge and the flags were flying. Fortunately, the city gate opened
There was an open space inside, where everyone stopped and formed a square formation, waiting for the general's next order.
Ambassador Li Zhen waved his hand and ordered: "Disband on the spot and return to each battalion and regiment at Mao tomorrow to order Mao!"
The crowd dispersed with a roar, and the whole scene was like a pot boiling. The ladies started to lead their oxen and horses to look for ladies among the crowd of onlookers, while the ladies without ladies rushed directly to the wine cart where the troops were being rewarded, pushing each other.
They were grabbing the wine. The officials of the Dudu Mansion stood on the car and waved and shouted: "Don't grab it! Come one by one!"
The soldiers took out the wooden bowls from the ration bags and raised their hands high. The officials in the car directed the soldiers to open the seal of the wine jar and pour the wine slurry into the bowls one by one.
“There’s not much drink, only one bowl per person!”
The soldiers who had poured out the wine crowded in front of the cake cart, and dozens of arms grabbed the cakes. After grabbing the cakes, they found a corner and squatted on the ground. They raised their heads with their left hands to drink wine. With their right hands, they put the cakes into their mouths and tore off a piece.
Chewing with his right cheek. After eating dry-fried noodles and biscuits and marinated meat and roasted lamb for more than two months, I feel full now when I see the biscuits and marinated meat. There is still the long-lost aroma of Sanlejing and Hu pancakes, the kind that exudes the brown color.
The smell of wheat and millet mixed with the sour and sweet wine really brings you back to the human world from the wilderness.
Zhao Chongxun led the subordinates in the army to receive the seizures. Next, he was busy. He had to count the military merits and report them to General Li, and he was also responsible for distributing the seizures. For the deputy envoy of the first army, only when these were shared fairly can he be considered qualified.
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The leader of the march, Bo Feng Changqing, registered and carried the head roll on the battlefield, and personally handed it over to Zhao Chongxun before leading his horse and following Li Siye.
The ladies who were looking forward to their husbands' return beamed with joy. They held their arms, untied Alang's cold armor robes with their own hands, and walked home leaning on their shoulders.
Mrs. Hu Bing stood anxiously in the crowd, watching the soldiers leading the animals back and forth. She kept turning around to analyze their faces with wide eyes.
"Kuro!"
She was not the only one who made such a cry. The widowed women searched among the crowd, looking for their robes, looking for their captains, and asking questions.
"Zhao Sanlang, have you seen our Jiulang?"
"Jiu, Jiulang didn't come back."
Many soldiers did not dare to meet their eyes. Shi Chang came over with a bowl wrapped in cloth, held it in his hands and lowered his eyes and said: "Kuroro... the body has been burned, and it is in this bowl. 2
Madam, I'm sorry."
The woman lowered her eyelids and took the package numbly with both hands. Usually, after giving the ashes to the other person's family, she would run away. But these women could only turn around with a dull expression, carry these things back, and return to their homes.
After closing the door in the room, she started to cry loudly.
The death rate of Shule Army's expedition to Suiyechuan was not high. A total of one hundred and thirty people were injured, and sixty-three people were killed. Excluding those bachelors without wives, it is estimated that more than twenty women will become
Widow. As Twelve Niangs said, the joy of those who returned home to be reunited stung the hearts of the women who had lost their husbands even more. Their hearts were as desolate as dry wormwood on the Gobi Desert, and were eventually blown away by the wind.
Off the ground, without roots or support.
Li Siye witnessed all this while riding on his horse. Whether he was happy or sad, everything was reflected in his eyes like a clear spring in the reeds. The more he saw it, the more he became numb and no longer shocked. He just felt a little guilty for a while.
Being occupied by other things, when I think about it again, it’s like yesterday’s dust.
He lowered his head and said to Zhao Chongxun: "When the rewards are distributed the next day, give more to the families of those who died in the war."
Pei Guoliang, the governor of Shule, led his entourage and stood not far away. He raised his hands and congratulated him: "Congratulations to the general on his return after victory."
He turned over and dismounted and hugged back: "It's worth being happy to be able to come back alive."
"I have prepared fine wine for the general at my house, especially to welcome him back from his expedition."
"Ha, okay, let me go home first to make sure you're safe. I'll be there shortly."
Pei Guoliang nodded with a smile and said, "Then I will go back to my home to honor General."
He led the soldiers along the way and saw Twelve Niangs and Li Meier standing outside the gate in the distance. Each step was as fast as one step. When he stopped and stood in front of them, Twelve Niangs just curled up her lips and smiled.
Laughing, he turned around and ordered his servants: "Remove Ah Lang's armor quickly."
Li Siye waved his hands repeatedly, "Go back first, go back first and then talk."
Li Meier took his brother's bag and held it in his arms, but suddenly he looked behind Li Siye. Yan Xiaosi and three other soldiers each held a swaddle in their arms, and their arms were wrapped around it and they were shaking it gently.
She opened her mouth in surprise and said: "I haven't seen you for two and a half months. How did you give birth to three children?"
Li Siye twitched the corner of his mouth and criticized mercilessly: "How do you talk? Can you give birth to a baby in two and a half months? This is what your brother and I picked up from the battlefield."
The Twelfth Mother glanced at the three babies, but did not go over to see them with her own eyes. She still held her husband's hand and said, "Let's go home and rest first."
She turned around and ordered sharply: "Xiao Si, take the child to the house first. Madam Wu, later go to the city to find three wet nurses for the child. The price is easy to negotiate, so hire them to the house first."
"Here."
Li Siye felt much more at ease. It seemed that Twelfth Mother did not approve of his behavior of picking up the child, but she did not object to it either. Reluctant acceptance was considered an attitude.
They flocked back to the house, and before entering the house, they would dip willow branches into the rootless water that Twelve Niangs had prayed for from the temple, and pat the front and back of their bodies lightly to remove the evil spirits brought from the battlefield.
unlucky.
The servants came up with wooden trays. Twelve Niangs and Li Meier personally took off Li Siye's armor, from the chest to the back, to the skirt, armor, and shin guards, and placed them one by one on the tray.
He was like a puppet being manipulated. Just as he was about to move, he was stopped by a look: "Don't move, let's figure it out."
"Ms. Xu, has the fragrant soup been heated up?"
"To my wife, it's neither cold nor hot, just right."
"Please ask Alang to take a bath and change clothes."
This was the first time that Li Siye was served like this, and he felt a little uncomfortable. Twelve Niang personally dismissed the people, and went to the side room where the barrels were held with her husband. She took the water ladle and personally adjusted the water temperature. She waited for Li Siye to take off his clothes and sit in the water.
During this time, she rolled up her sleeves and lay on the edge of the barrel. She personally dipped the sheepskin in acacia water and rubbed it on his shoulders and back, while talking to Alang to prevent him from being bored.
"Li Lang doesn't have a biological son yet, but he has an adopted son first."
"Well, I'll try harder tonight."
"Death," Twelve Niang huffed and patted the towel on his shoulder. A look of embarrassment flashed across her cheeks, but she did not turn red.
"I'm not telling you this, I'm telling you, what are you going to do with these three children?"
Li Siye thought for a moment, thinking about how to speak so as not to offend his wife, and slowly said: "An adopted son is an adopted son, which is of course different from a biological son. I heard that many generals in the court have adopted sons who will be able to fight in the future.
A father-son soldier is not bad either."
The Twelfth Mother smiled again: "People only recognize their adopted children after they are adults. There is no one who takes them in right after they are born. If they grow crooked or disabled in the future, wouldn't you have wasted your efforts?"
"You don't know the origins of these three children." After Li Siye hesitated, he told the twelve mothers about the process of picking up the children. She didn't say anything for a long time, and the movements of her hands scrubbing her shoulders became gentle unconsciously. After a long time, she finally
He spat at them and said, "These barbarians have no humanity at all."
"In any case, I have never thought about it in a utilitarian way. The purpose of saving them is not to let them die in the belly of wolves before they have experienced the world. We only give them a chance to be human beings. As for whether they will become physically disabled in the future
, it doesn’t matter, but the soul will never be disabled forever.”
"How do you know not?"
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