In mid-February, the weather has begun to warm, people have taken off their thick winter clothes and put on lighter spring clothes, the withered yellow earth has begun to glow a little green, and the wheat seedlings in the fields seem to have awakened.

Li Xiu and his entourage were also ready to leave, but he never expected that Li Shimin would agree to Li Zhi to go to Liaodong with them, and in the name of collecting the bones of Li Shao, the king of Dongping, Li Shao is Li Shimin's cousin and Li Daozong's father, and it just so happened that Li Zhi also needed to send a confidant general to protect him, so Li Daozong also went with them, after all, to collect his father's bones, he had to go as the eldest son.

"Don Ma, what do you think of Your Majesty, so many people died in Liaodong back then, I don't even know where my father died in battle, how can I find the bones of his old man?" As soon as he left Chang'an City, Li Daozong found an opportunity to come to Li Xiu and asked, he had made great contributions in Liaodong, and had presided over Li Chengqian's wedding before, and was preparing to recuperate at home for a while, but he didn't expect to suddenly receive a holy decree from Li Shimin, asking him to go to Liaodong to find his father's bones, but he was still in a state of confusion.

"Ahem, when King Dongping went to Liaodong, he should have brought a lot of intersections, didn't he survive?" Li Xiu did not directly answer Li Daozong's words, but asked Li Daozong with great interest.

The Li family is also a great family of the former Sui, Li Shao, as a general in the former Sui army, must also have a lot of tribals, the so-called trilogy, in fact, is like a domestic slave, but the status is far higher than that of a domestic slave, these people are proficient in martial arts, bow and horse proficiency, when the master goes to the battlefield, they act as the master's personal guards, the interests of these people are tightly tied to their respective masters, so there is no problem with loyalty, when the master encounters danger, the trilogy will definitely try his best to protect, with the identity of Li Shao at the beginning, there must be a lot of trilogies around him, It is likely that someone will survive.

However, what Li Xiu didn't expect was that Li Daozong slapped his thigh when he heard his words and said: "Don't mention it, our family was not treated by Yang Guang at the beginning, when Yuwenshu was defeated and retreated, he arranged my father's army to the end, and as a result, the whole army died in the Liaoshui River, and none of the troops around him escaped back, at that time, it was said that 300,000 people died in the battle, and it is estimated that my father was in those thirty corpses, even if we couldn't find it, so we could only set up a mound for my father!" ”

Speaking of the big war that year, Li Daozong was also angry and gritted his teeth, Yang Guang was incompetent, hundreds of thousands of troops died in battle, and their families couldn't collect the bones for them at all, including their family, fortunately, he broke Goguryeo in Liaodong before, and he could be regarded as avenging his father.

"If King Jiangxia wants to find the bones of General Li Shao, maybe Uncle Ma and I can help, but there is not much hope of finding the bones of King Dongping." As soon as Li Daozong's words fell, he suddenly saw Qin Qiong riding a horse to their side at this time.

"By the way, I remember Uncle Ma and General Qin, when you attacked Goguryeo for the first time, you were also arranged to break behind the army, do you know where King Dongping appeared last?" Li Xiu's eyes lit up when he heard Qin Qiong's words and asked.

"Qin ...... General Qin, do you really know my father's whereabouts? Li Daozong couldn't help but be excited when he heard Qin Qiong's words, although he had long given up hope of finding his father's bones, but as a son of man, deep down he naturally hoped that his father could enter his ancestral grave after his death, instead of being a lonely ghost outside.

"I can't say I know, it's just that the 300,000 army was disrupted on the bank of the Liaoshui River, and we fell behind, and at that time Brother Ma and I all died in battle, and we just encountered a larger defeated army, so we also followed for a while, and the defeated army was the subordinates of the king of Dongping, but at that time the king of Dongping had already died, and it is said that the boat was broken by the Goguryeo people when crossing the river, and the result was ......"

When Qin Qiong said the end, he didn't say any more, because needless to say, others also know that Li Shao, as a general in the army, must be wearing armor, you must know that the armor of ordinary generals is iron armor, which together weighs dozens of catties, and if you fall into the water wearing such heavy armor, even if the water is good, you have to sink to the bottom.

"That'...... Does General Qin know where my father crossed the river? Li Daozong heard this and said excitedly again, his voice also became a little trembling, if he could find his father's bones, then he would be at ease in the future.

"This ......" Qin Qiong showed an embarrassed expression when he heard this, it seemed that he didn't know very well, after all, at that time, the Sui army of 300,000 people was in chaos, and rumors were flying all over the sky, and it was already a very coincidence that he could happen to meet the old department of King Dongping.

"King Jiangxia, don't embarrass us, but although Shubao and I don't know where your father crossed the river, we remember the location when we met your father's old department, and combined with the direction of their escape, we should be able to find an approximate range, but even so, it's tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, so don't get your hopes up." At this moment, I saw that Ma Ye also rode over and said.

"As long as I can find an approximate location, the two generals have already done me a great favor, and I can't repay it, but there will be a dispatch in the future, and I will never shirk it!" Although Li Daozong was a little disappointed when he heard Ma Ye's words, he was still very grateful.

Originally, Li Daozong didn't have any hope at all, but Qin Qiong and Ma Ye provided a very useful clue, and they suddenly expanded their hopes a lot, even if they couldn't find their father's bones, as long as they could find the place where their father died in battle, they could take their children and grandchildren to worship in the future.

Unexpectedly got the news of his father, Li Daozong was also very excited, especially on the road, he had been looking for opportunities to chat with Ma Ye and Qin Qiong, but there were people in the team who were even more excited than Li Daozong, that is, Li Zhi who left Chang'an City for the first time, speaking of which he was really pitiful, he has been growing up in the palace walls since he was a child, even if he went to Li Xiu, he was also strictly restricted, and now he finally walked out of Chang'an, and the whole person was like a fetus who had just come to the world, and he was curious about everything.

"Sir, look, the boat on that river is so big, I heard that the boat on the sea is bigger, and the Liaodong side is not far from the sea, can we go and see the sea?" Li Zhi pointed to a merchant ship on the river in the distance and asked excitedly, in front of Li Xiu's house is the Yellow Canal, but the Yellow Canal is too shallow, and occasionally you can only see some small fishing boats, and Li Zhi is the first time to see such a large merchant ship.

"Liaodong is indeed facing the sea, if the time is not urgent, you can go to the beach for a turn, with your age, it is also good to see the sea." Li Xiu also smiled at this time and said, maybe for children growing up along the coast, the sea is not unusual, but for children growing up inland, the sea is full of mystery, remember his previous life, when he was a child, he was full of yearning for the sea, until he went out to study later, he really saw the sea.

"Great, I've never seen the sea, but I often see the Yellow River, but I heard that the water in the Yellow River eventually converges into the sea, I really can't imagine how big the sea is?" Di Renjie also said with yearning when he heard Li Xiu's words, he used to be in Zhengzhou with his father, and it was next to the Yellow River, and even sometimes the Yellow River flooded, and it would affect them.

"I remember seeing the sea with my father once when I was a child, but after all these years, I almost forgot what the sea was like?" Ping An Lang also said at this time, what he said was actually that he hated his son to marry and went to the south with Shangguanyi to take up a post, but Qi Niang also secretly ran over, and finally Li Xiu took his family to chase after him, and Ping An Lang also went that time, so he could see the sea, but he was still young at the time, and his impression was not particularly deep.

Hearing that Ping An Lang had actually seen the sea, Li Zhi and Di Renjie also showed envious expressions, and then pestered him to talk about the sea, but unfortunately Ping An Lang had only seen it once, and he was not very impressed, and he was speechless after a few words, and finally he could only ask Li Xiu for help, fortunately, Li Xiu had not only seen the sea many times, but also knew a lot of knowledge related to the ocean, so he told them while walking, which can be regarded as supplementing some extracurricular knowledge.

Because there was one more Li Zhi in the team, Li Shimin for the sake of his son's arrangement, so Li Xiu and their team to collect the bones of the Sui army soldiers this time expanded to 5,000 people, and there were supplies from all over the country along the way, and at the same time, local resources could also be mobilized to facilitate their passage, for example, when they arrived in Zhengzhou, Li Xiu and they simply took the boat and went downstream, until they got off the boat near Qizhou, and then rushed through Hebei to Liaodong.

In fact, according to Li Xiu's original plan, he originally planned to go directly to the sea from the Yellow River by boat, and then cross the Bohai Sea directly to the mouth of Liaoshui, and then go north along the river from there, and the Jingguan made of Sui army's bones is in the middle of Liaoshui.

However, because of the addition of Li Zhi and Di Renjie, Li Xiu had the intention to let these children experience the hardships of the people, so he deliberately abandoned the waterway and took the land route, which can also give them the opportunity to contact more people at the bottom of the society and increase their life experience.

Although they have walked a lot more, and it is much harder to take the land route than the water route, but along the way, Li Xiu feels that everything is worth it, Li Zhi and Di Renjie have also undergone great changes at a young age after seeing the suffering of the people, for example, Li Zhi has begun to think about what he can do for those poor people, although the answer he came up with is still very naïve, but it is very worthy of encouragement.

After several months of hard marching, Li Xiu and his party finally came to the bank of the Liaoshui River, and Li Xiu and his party also came to the vicinity of the new city on this day, but they did not see the city wall of the new city, but they saw the tall and strange hill on the north side of the new city at a glance.