Chapter 256: Reasons to Follow
If the water doesn't know, how long will this grave be there until they leave here, and maybe the next sandstorm will be moved to the ground as if it never existed.
Since ancient times, many passers-by have buried their bones here, including peddlers and pawns, exiled criminals, foreign enemy soldiers, and loyal generals. There is another one today, and history may remember him or may forget him, but for him, he will probably never know what the people living in this world feel about him.
What kind of mood does a person have, what kind of courage does he have, to choose to sacrifice his most precious life for a goal, if Shui does not understand, in the eyes of her, who has the opportunity to live again, there is nothing more happier than living.
After burying Xiao Hei, the group of five people got back on the road on foot.
Because everyone had just experienced great spiritual joys and sorrows, and had spent a lot of physical strength, Lu Li, who didn't seem to show much tiredness, spontaneously walked at the front of the team and went to be their pathfinder. Xiaobai was the most seriously injured, and walked at the back of the line with another brother, while Ruoshui could only walk with the remaining middle-aged man with a calm temperament. Fortunately, they had a brief exchange before, and now they don't seem too awkward when they walk together.
Just lost two fresh lives in front of her eyes, and the impact on Ruoshui was very great, so she insisted on gritting her teeth and surviving the dizziness for a while, grabbing the people around her and asking desperately.
"Gurati. What use do you masters want from me? As much as I value my little life, I still have self-knowledge, for you. It shouldn't be worth the lives of your two battle-hardened brothers~"
The middle-aged man, known as "Gulati", replied with a wry smile helplessly.
"Miss Xiao, I've told you many times, escorting you to the master's side, that's our task, for us. Sacrifice for the task is due, you don't have to be burdened, as for the little white ......"
Speaking of which. Gulati glanced back at Xiao Bai, who was not far behind the two, pointed at him, and continued.
"He was carried away by Xiao Hei's death just now, and now he should have figured it out. Maybe it's time for the next resting place. will pick a suitable opportunity to apologize to you~ I just hope that Miss Xiao, you can have a lot of adults, and understand the pain of a child losing his only relative~"
"The only relative?"
Ruoshui is confused.
"Yes, Xiao Hei is the elder brother of Xiao Bai's half-brother, and the two were tragically wiped out when they were still infants, but fortunately they survived thanks to the rescue of their master."
"I ......"
Understanding...... Ruoshui now feels more guilty......
This Gurati is obviously not a person who talks a lot, in addition to answering Ruoshui's questions before, what he said extra is just to intercede for Xiaobai. Now seeing Ruoshui's shocked and even more annoyed expression, he didn't say anything more.
Gulati has a good impression of Ruoshui in his heart. They have done so many escort tasks, and they really haven't met someone like Ruoshui who is kind in his heart and is not pretentious directly. It's just that he has never shown such a good feeling, just because, as he himself said, Ruoshui is just a task for them, whether they appreciate it or like it, and having feelings for the tasker is a big taboo for them to do this business.
If he could, he really wished that this woman could stay away from the most brutal power struggle in the world, but alas, by the time he had the opportunity to meet her and get to know her, it would have been too late.
"Xiaobai, they followed your master for such a reason, what about you?"
Maybe out of curiosity, or maybe just to divert his guilt, Ruoshui had shifted his attention to inquiring about their past.
How to get on this path? Gulati is not afraid to talk about this, otherwise he would not take the initiative to tell Ruoshui about Xiaobai's life experience. The story of these people is not complicated, and there is no need to deliberately keep it a secret, plus he still likes to chat with this girl~ So as long as Ruoshui's question does not involve his roots, he did not answer her in the slightest.
"The country is the world."
He looked at Ruoshui with a smile, and said these four words as soon as he opened his mouth.
"What?"
Ruoshui looked dazed.
"My family and country, for the sake of the Daling Dynasty, and for the sake of thousands of Daling people, I choose to follow my master."
At this moment, Ruoshui understood the meaning of Gulati's words, but suddenly she pulled out great topics such as national righteousness, and she really couldn't turn a corner, so she could only be stunned there.
Gulati didn't care what kind of attitude she had, as if she had finally found such an audience, and she didn't care if Ruoshui asked again or not, so she just cared about herself and continued.
"I went to war because my wife and children were killed by damned barbarians, and in revenge, I volunteered to join the army and went to war."
"It was the most famous battle of the Daling Dynasty, and it was also a battle in which today's great general Wang became famous in the first battle and became a marquis and worshiped the prime minister, but for me, that is the fundamental reason why I firmly chose this path now."
"The 50,000 barbarian cavalry was the strongest force of the barbarian tribes combined at that time, and the general Wang Ji planned to retreat and put the 50,000 cavalry into Aksu City. Under the instruction of the great general king, Aksu City at that time was already a dead city without any food and grass, and without drinking water. In the cold winter, the snow covered the sky, and we surrounded them for half a month, and then opened the door into the city to attack. I thought that I would not encounter any decent resistance, but I found that although their number was less than thirty percent, they were all in good spirits, and they did not look like they had run out of food for half a month. ”
"Nearly 40,000 cavalry fought back desperately, and the life-and-death fight that we had avoided before was still made up for at this moment. Fortunately, we won in the end, but I will never forget what a gruesome scene it was when I was cleaning up the battlefield and saw the bones of men and horses in a large open space in Aksu City~"
"Until that time, we didn't know where the little thirty percent of the barbarian cavalry went, the bones were piled up here so indiscriminately, and the flesh and blood had already entered the stomachs of their own compatriots! A nation that does not know how to respect life and can even eat its own compatriots has completely exterminated humanity! Our Daling Dynasty must not be defeated by such a nation! Absolutely not! (To be continued......)