Chapter 677: Death Without Turning a Blind Eye
Among smart people, some things don't need to be said too clearly, and Liu Bei's answer has laid the groundwork for everything that will happen in the future.
Guan Yu's death was indeed just an excuse for him to send troops to Eastern Wu, but his real idea was not to defeat Jiangdong, but simply to fight this battle.
This is also the epiphany that Liu He had after lying on that bed for an afternoon, because for other reasons, it was impossible to support the absurd act of sending troops to attack Wu.
A man who has escaped for half his life and pretended to be crazy and stupid for half his life, before he dies, he always has to leave something, regardless of the cost, regardless of the consequences, but it must be vigorous.
Liu Bei did it, and the Battle of Yiling he launched, together with the Battle of Guandu and the Battle of Chibi, was called the three major battles of the Three Kingdoms period by later generations.
It is really famous through the ages, and it has left a strong mark in the history books.
But why is it still blind?
This is impossible to know, Liu He can't guess, and he doesn't want to guess, he has tried his best to understand Liu Bei's thoughts, but even so, he still can't accept it, the so-called Tao is different and does not conspire with each other, it is exactly like this.
Liu Bei's death in the White Emperor City accelerated the pace of Liu Chan's accession to the throne, and the enthronement ceremony was held as scheduled.
The low-level officials who came to participate in the new emperor's enthronement ceremony could not see through this hidden mystery, and only the high-level Shu Han who sat in a position like Zhuge Liang and was on an equal footing with Mr. Tianji or even slightly higher could see through it at a glance, which was all due to someone's interest.
Liu He, who was still dressed in white, stood with his hands behind his back, silently watched the whole ceremony, and when the last link was over, he turned around without any sluggishness, not impatient, but didn't want to stay longer.
The people of Tianji Camp still can't resist Liu He, let him be outside the city, why don't they set up a new clothed mound, one person does not erect two graves, this is a rule that everyone living in that era does not dare to disobey, there is no disrespect for the deceased, just the person who set up the grave, don't want to be reincarnated into a good family in the next life, but Liu He doesn't care, he is not a person of this era.
The grave was erected, but on the tombstone, Liu He still didn't know what to engrave.
Ding Zhan was like this at the beginning, and now He Bushun is like this again, these two Jianghu warriors who were unlikely to have an intersection with Liu He have become the most indebted people in Liu He's heart.
Leaving from the enthronement ceremony of the apprentice Liu Chan, Liu He went out of the city non-stop, the tomb that was originally reserved for the soldiers of the Tianji Battalion, after a few spring rains, countless wild flowers bloomed around, which was not beautiful, let alone amazing, but it made people feel very relieved to look at.
He had already left Chengdu, and the head of the Zhao family, who was thousands of miles away, sighed when he heard about it, and wrote down four words, like a fish in his throat.
The deep meaning behind the four words of the head of the Zhao family, who has no three thousand but two thousand disciples, was not guessed at the time, but these four words were secretly rubbed down, quietly circulated among the students, and they rushed to copy, and it became a trend for a while.
An experienced old spy under Guo Qing is not sure whether this news is useful or not, and the old spy who has never wavered in the face of the enemy's siege of more than a dozen people when he was young thought for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and reported these four words to Chengdu.
When these four words were handed over to Liu He's hands, it was half a month later, the previous wildflowers had been defeated, and now the flowers in front of the grave were in the second season, which made the gardeners in the city who had dealt with flowers all their lives very surprised, and they all said that they had never seen such a short flowering period, but the second stubble was connected so quickly, just like the soldiers of the iron battalion, one wave left, and the next wave came as scheduled, and no one went to the empty building.
Liu He read the four words written by the head of the Zhao family, only praised a good word, put it on the desk, pressed it with a stack of official documents, and never read it again. On the same day, someone saw that Mr. Tianji was carrying two jars of wine out of the city.
The people of Chengdu seem to have figured out this habit of Mr. Tianji, and when they go to worship the deceased, they always like to bring two jars of wine, one jar to sprinkle in front of the grave, and one altar to keep for themselves.
Sitting in front of the grave with a wordless monument, Liu He sprinkled an altar of three immortals on He Bushun's grave as usual, and his own altar was the most ordinary inferior rice wine.
"I know that you are in a hurry, so I poured it directly on your head, I guess you won't mind, this wine is good wine, the altar that has been drunk for the longest time among the three immortals of the Hua family, Hua Chi's kid himself is reluctant to drink it, but he said it, give it to you, he is not distressed." Liu He said, drank a big sip of rice wine, the strength of the wine is really great, it is not as good as the soft and mellow fragrance without losing the stamina of the three immortals, so that Liu He's wine power is choked with red eyes.
Xiaodouzi stood behind Liu He with a solemn expression, holding the rippleless sword entrusted to Liu He by He Bushun before he died, silently watching Liu He drink most of the inferior rice wine, and said softly: "This sword was given to you by Brother He, I don't want it." ”
Liu He held the hand of the wine jar and paused slightly in the air, what Xiaodouzi looked like before, everyone in the army knew it, so Liu He was even more surprised that after He Bushun's death, Xiaodouzi showed this unusual firmness.
When He Bushun died, Xiaodouzi didn't look back, but walked out of ten miles alone with the first emperor Liu Bei on his back, not that this thin child was ruthless, but he was entrusted with loyalty, why not Shun handed over the task of escorting the first emperor to Xiaodouzi's words that seemed like a joke, which sounded ridiculous to others, but to him it was an entrustment.
Based on this alone, Liu He is ashamed of himself.
If it weren't for the news that the chasing soldiers of Eastern Wu had received the news, the 20,000 defenders of the White Emperor City had already rushed to the rescue, and it was estimated that it would only be a matter of time before they broke out of the West City Gate and rushed out of the West City Gate.
Liu He sometimes thinks that the blood he learned from comic books when he was a child now seems to be nonsense, and the things that come out of the hot brain can always do what he wants, which is nothing more than a miracle relying on the halo of the protagonist, if those protagonists come out of the comics, they will definitely be torn to pieces on the spot by reality, gnawing to the point that there is not even a bit of bone residue left.
The quiet appearance of an old man made Xiaodouzi hide to the side very knowledgeable, and before leaving, he returned the rippleless sword that belonged to the old man to his original owner.
Old Man He sat down beside Liu He, picked up Liu He's wine jar very familiarly and took a sip, spicy and spicy, also frowning, but when he put down the wine jar, his face was already calm.
Liu He, who was ashamed in his heart, didn't speak, and didn't even say hello, but the old man with a kind face took the lead and said softly: "You don't want a sword, why don't you even engrave the name of my apprentice?" ”