Chapter Ninety-Four: Return to Dust
The sun was scorching, and the weather in July was hot and stuffy. The dreary air pressed down on the school grounds, and in the barracks, a business was reading aloud.
"Brave in battle, repeatedly breaking strong enemies in the battle formation, and making several contributions, yes, each person will be rewarded with two acres of cultivated land, and one gold and one Yi to prove the heart of our army."
"In addition, because the trapped army is less than 300, it is difficult to form a formation, so the army is temporarily ordered to be dismissed, the soldiers can return, and the trapped forces must not be passed on to others. One day he will become a new army. β
"That's it." Gu Nan put away the paperwork in his hand: "Do you understand?" β
In front of her, scattered soldiers stood there, as if they had unloaded all their strength, and they couldn't stand up straight.
"General." A soldier raised his head and smiled bitterly: "Really let us go?" β
"Do you still want to go back?" Gu Nan asked lightly.
"General!" A person with red eyes roared: "The trapped army will become the first army in the world!" β
"I don't dare to leave if I don't get paid!"
The other man's hands trembled: "Trap army, let everyone remember, and everyone dare not forget!" β
"Otherwise."
"I haven't become famous, I don't dare to see my old people!"
"I haven't become famous, I don't dare to see my old people!"
Gu Nan's face darkened, and in the midst of that roar, he said angrily: "Wait, you really don't deserve to be human!" β
"Remember the fame, what about the relatives at home? Uneducated? β
"It's all from the bloody road!"
He pointed to the empty sign on the wall: "Those people are dead!" That's why I'm going to let you come back! What do you want to do, go back and die!? β
No one, I can talk back.
"Let you go back, don't be incomprehensible!"
"After taking care of it myself, I went to get the paperwork!"
He took a deep look at everyone.
"Live your life."
With that, he turned and left.
Only two hundred people were left standing in the barracks, standing there unwillingly, but what if they were unwilling?
Until he wiped his face, knelt down, bowed down to the wall, and got up to leave.
One by one, bow down and leave.
Gao Jin laid out his quilt neatly for the last time, tied up a few pieces of loose luggage, and carried them on his back.
Taking a deep breath, he walked out of the barracks door and glanced around, and the figures were scattered.
Inexplicably there was a sour look in his eyes, and he grinned.
The ambition to fall into battle has finally become a joke, is it not true?
After all, it's just a joke.
There was a feeling of emptiness in my heart, as if there was nothing missing.
Carrying your luggage, you left alone.
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The country roads are mixed with the smell of dirt, and the simple paved roads of bluestone slabs are not carable, and a lonely figure walks alone.
Stepping on a falling branch on the bluestone slab, Gao Jin looked at the village not far away in a trance.
It seemed that I saw the foul-smelling death row in front of me, and then saw the night when the brazier was burning in the army, and I heard the sound of swords and soldiers shouting and killing. It seems that the wolf smoke is everywhere.
Coming back?
He asked himself, that place that he once didn't dare to come back to in his dreams, did he really come back?
Walking all the way, it rained last night, and the morning air still smelled of dew.
There was no one on the road, and no one recognized him.
Standing in front of a simple gatehouse made of a few logs, Gao Jin stretched out his hand and was about to knock on the door, but his hand stopped in mid-air.
He didn't know what to say or say when he saw the people inside.
"Bang bang."
Gao Jin finally knocked on the door, and it was an old woman who opened the door.
His hair was gray, he was wearing a gray cloth coat, and his eyes couldn't see clearly, and when he saw the person standing in front of his door, he was stunned and familiar.
Squinted his eyes at him, but the whole person was stunned.
"Enter?"
"Mother..."
On the edge of the dilapidated fence, tall soldiers in armor stood in front of the rickety woman, their lips trembling, and a smile that was more ugly than crying.
"I'm back."
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"Come, come in, eat." The wrinkles on the old woman's face were all laughing together.
Holding a bowl of bean rice in his hand, he handed it to his child.
"Ahh Gao Jin took the bowl, took two pieces of wood and pulled them into his mouth, and the bean rice asked very badly and with a heavy fishy astringency.
But it was as if he was eating the most delicious food in the world, and he devoured it, and some water couldn't stop leaving in his eyes, which also fell into the bowl and swallowed it into his mouth.
"Eat slowly, eat slowly." The old woman stretched out her trembling hand and touched Gao Jin's cheek.
"It's good to come back..."
It's all mixed with dried fishy rice.
Gao Jin's iron-cast face couldn't hold back any longer, wrinkled together, and tears flowed down.
He felt like he was back in the flames of war.
His brother brought him the sword.
Seeing him fall there, Gao Jin wanted to save him.
But the creature scolded.
"What can you save, kill Lao Tzu!" His eyes were full of anger: "Kill all these turtle grandchildren!" We are in the army, we want to be famous all over the world! β
And the guy who was hit by a few arrows and sat in that corner.
No matter how much he pulls him, he can't get up.
He just said: "Gao Jin, I'll tell you that my mother-in-law is really the best woman in the world." β
"It's a pity." His face was full of tears: "I can't go back." β
"You've got to live well... The old lady in your family has no personal care. β
One day, he asked the general: "General, is there really a world without war?" β
"Who knows?" The general smiled casually: "No, let's kill one." β
"Hahaha." The trappers who followed behind all laughed, and the laughter startled the jackdaws on a dead tree by the roadside.
"Good! Kill one! β
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"Smack." Gao Jin stopped the wood in his hand, and the hand holding the bowl paused there.
Red eyes.
reluctantly showed a smile: "Mother, I have received military merits, but I have two acres of land, so I don't have to live like that anymore." β
Hundreds of years later, a man named Gao Shun made the name of the trap re-known in the world, and 800 traps were called the strongest army in the world.
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In the empty school field, Gu Nan stood under the black military flag against the wind, she dug a pit in the school field, put the jars that could not go back into it, and then slowly buried them with sandΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·