Good morning Daming - Chapter 263: Goodbye, never see you again

Chapter 264 Goodbye, never see you again

"Zhao Quan is just an idiot."

After receiving the news, Altan said coldly: "This man is best at playing tricks. If there really is something invulnerable, he would have already entered Datong City."

Tuotuo said: "Great Khan, we must teach the Ming people a lesson, otherwise those fools will be uneasy."

Those idiots refer to the tribes who are dissatisfied with Altan Khan.

"Jineng will do it."

"Yes."

Altan sighed, "He is my Khan's nephew, and you are my adopted son. You two are my Khan's confidants, so you should work together."

"Yes."

Tuotuo walked out of the tent, asked where Jineng was, and went to look for him.

Ji Neng was drinking and Ma Tianlu was accompanying him.

"Zhao Quan just came to see me and said he was planning a night attack on Jiang Qingzhi, but I refused." Ji Neng took a bite of the lamb leg.

"He is testing me." Ma Tianlu said, "If the night attack fails, someone will have to take the blame."

"Are all Ming people so cunning?" Jineng asked.

Ma Tianlu said: "There are many fools."

"So, how many people like Jiang Qingzhi are there?"

Ma Tianlu was silent for a long time, "Not much."

"I like people who tell the truth. You are very good." Jineng suddenly asked, "Who?"

Someone came in from outside the tent. It was Tuotuo.

"Tuotuo." Jineng said with a smile, "If you are not afraid of me poisoning you, then drink a glass."

"I'm thirsty." Tuotuo sat down, poured himself a glass of wine, and raised his glass. "The Khan's intention is to teach the Ming people a lesson and boost their morale."

"Could someone have died?" Jinen asked.

"As long as we don't do it."

Ma Tianlu stroked his beard and smiled, "Remember there is a Jedi nearby?"

"What can be done there?" asked Tuotuo.

Ma Tianlu said: "Before the hunt, both sides will send people to investigate the hunting grounds, and then..."

Tuotuo's eyes lit up and he drank it all in one gulp.

Jinen smiled and said, "How is my counselor?"

Tuotuo put down his wine glass, looked at the reserved Ma Tianlu, and said, "Han'er always betrays his mother clan, so he becomes powerful."

Ma Tianlu's smile remained unchanged.

"You are quite cunning." Tuotuo was a little surprised. "Don't you feel ashamed?"

Ma Tianlu smiled and said, "Whoever can let me show what I have learned will be my master."

Tuotuo laughed, stood up and said, "I understand now. Only by being shameless can one make unscrupulous suggestions... It is much better than those fools who are hesitant and cautious."

"That's right." Ma Tianlu nodded.

Tuotuo looked at him and said, "But I still look down on people like you."

Ma Tianlu smiled and said, "I am from Jineng, I don't need recognition from others."

Tuotuo lifted the curtain, turned around and said, "By the way, looking at Jiang Qingzhi, do you ever feel jealous?"

Ma Tianlu's expression finally couldn't hold back any longer.

"Shut up!" Jinen sneered, "If you come here to provoke me, then I can fight you." He pressed the hilt of the knife and pretended to stand up.

Tuotuo laughed and left.

……

"Uncle, they asked us when we are going to check the hunting grounds."

Someone came to report.

Jiang Qingzhi said: "Let Yan Xu and Qin Yuan send some people to take a look."

The hunting results are related to the success or failure of this mission and no mistakes can be made.

But the person who went there didn't come back until the evening.

Yan Xu and Qin Yuan came to ask Jiang Qingzhi for instructions.

"It must be Altan who did it!" someone said angrily.

Jiang Qingzhi shook his head. "An Da is a proud man. If he wanted to take action, he would not have waited until now."

"So where did they go?"

On the second day, Jiang Qingzhi asked someone to tell Tuotuo that he was going to look for the missing soldiers.

"Just go ahead, your Excellency." Tuotuo was very straightforward.

Turning back, he said to the people around him: "That Ma Tianlu has good methods, but that idiot Jineng didn't make good use of him!"

"There are quite a few Han people in Zhao Quan's place. Why don't we recruit some of them over?" someone suggested.

"Let's wait and see." Tuotuo said.

Over there, Jiang Qingzhi and others entered the mountains along the hunting ground route.

"Be careful!" Someone pointed to the hillside on the right and said, "There are some signs of landslides here."

Jiang Qingzhi saw that a hillside in front of him was suspended in the air, with even the roots of the trees hanging outside.

There is some siltation on the ground, which shows that there has been a mudslide or landslide here.

"They'll leave a mark. Here!"

Following the marks, everyone entered the valley.

The sides of the valley were full of jagged rocks, and the occasional vegetation was also of strange shapes. The stone pillars were round and yellow, like radishes that had been left for a long time.

The ground was covered with pebbles. Mo Zhan suddenly squatted down, "Uncle!"

Jiang Qingzhi went over and Mo Zhan said, "This is wolf feces."

Jiang Qingzhi saw it, he raised his head, his eyes extended...

"There's blood!"

Sun Chonglou ran over and picked up a piece of cloth.

"It's our stuff." Chen Bao's face was solemn.

Going further forward, the road ahead suddenly becomes narrow.

"There's a corpse!"

There were some corpses scattered in front, all of which were Ming army armor.

"There's a wolf corpse here!" Chen Bao ran over and suddenly shouted, "It's Ma Laowu!"

Jiang Qingzhi stopped.

Chen Bao slowly turned around and looked at him, his eyes full of sorrow, "Uncle, he is our brother!"

Jiang Qingzhi's eyes turned.

There were more than thirty wolf corpses around, and more than twenty Ming army corpses, most of which had been gnawed, with bones exposed in many places.

"Master." Mo Zhan came over. "These brothers..." "Someone led them here, and then attracted the wolves. Ma Laowu and his men wanted to escape, but when they ran in, they found that this was a desperate place. They did not give up the resistance, and they are worthy of being the warriors of the Ming Dynasty."

Jiang Qingzhi walked up to Ma Laowu.

Ma Laowu's face was torn into pieces and his eyeballs fell to one side.

"I don't know who did all this, but I will blame it all on the Altan tribe. I will make them pay the price!"

He turned and left, "Gather the bones of our brothers, burn them and take them back."

Three miles west of the main camp was the Ming army’s camp.

Bonfires were burning, and corpses were gradually melting in the flames...

Jiang Qingzhi took a look and turned back into the tent.

Xu Wei and Hu Zongxian looked at each other.

"What's wrong, teacher?" Zhou Xia asked.

"I don't know." Xu Wei shook his head.

Hu Zongxian walked out of the tent and said softly, "Uncle."

"Old Hu!"

Hu Zongxian lifted the curtain and went in.

There was a cushion on the ground, and Jiang Qingzhi sat on it, looking calm.

"I always thought I could control everything, but today I know I was wrong." Jiang Qingzhi said slowly: "The long-term smooth sailing made me lose my vigilance and a little arrogant. Otherwise, I should have asked people to follow those brothers, or asked them to provide more people to accompany me."

"People always make mistakes." Hu Zongxian sat down. "For example, I wanted to get an important position, but I couldn't get it. Later, I made up my mind and thought that as long as the purpose is noble, it doesn't matter if the process is dirty. So I joined the Yan Party...

Everything that happened later was retribution. If it weren’t for my uncle, I would probably still be humiliated by Zhang Da in Datong City.”

"But the price of my mistake was the lives of more than twenty brothers."

Jiang Qingzhi said: "I need some quiet time."

Hu Zongxian stood up and said, "Yes."

He walked out of the tent, Xu Wei pointed inside, and Hu Zongxian came over and whispered, "Master is blaming himself."

Zhou Xia was stunned, "Why is the teacher blaming himself?"

Hu Zongxian shook his head, "I don't know either."

Xu Wei had a strange look on his face. "Everyone says that a general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers. Lord Bo has also experienced several battles. How come..."

……

"As soon as I arrived, I turned the tables and made Altan's subordinates lose face. I was so proud of myself that I underestimated the enemy."

"In the Ming Dynasty, I was also doing well, so I dared to challenge the scholars and officials of the world and ridicule the Yan Party. But I forgot that if it weren't for the Taoist..."

Jiang Qingzhi took out the medicinal cigarette, lit it, and took a deep breath.

"The grass on my grave is probably three feet high."

Jiang Qingzhi felt that this was a hint from heaven.

"Uncle Ding, is this your arrangement?" Jiang Qingzhi always felt that there seemed to be a traceable path to all this.

The mottled patina remains the same.

Jiang Qingzhi suddenly smiled bitterly, "Okay! I don't want to make excuses. Yes, I was a little panicked."

In the dim light, the cigarette butt flashed.

"When I saw those corpses, I was furious. If Altan was by my side at that moment, I would have drawn my sword. But... this is not like me!"

"When I was in South America, I could calmly watch my men die in battle without being moved. Even after coming here and experiencing the battles for the third time, I could still calmly watch rows of soldiers fall under the hooves of the enemy's horses. But today, I found myself losing control."

"I'm a little scared, inexplicably scared."

"I don't know what I'm worried about. I always feel... a little guilty when I look at Xu Wei and the others."

"Master Ding, I feel like a monster that has sneaked into this world. I have always felt out of place. But just before, I forgot that feeling of rejection. At that moment..."

The cigarette butt suddenly flashed in the darkness.

"At that moment, I felt that I belonged to this world."

"But I'm not. I just want to go back. Master Ding, can you prove that I just want to go back?"

In the dim light, cigarette butts kept flashing.

"I have a wife."

"There will be children."

"What will happen to them if I go back?"

"What do I miss in that world?"

"Mom and Dad? They each have their own families now. They will be a little sad about my disappearance. But it's just a gust of wind. I'm not their only child, right?"

"So, what am I going back for? For the WiFi, or for the takeout?"

"But what's here worth staying for?"

The cigarette butt suddenly flashed.

"There is Master Dao, the cunning but affectionate Prince Jing, the shy Prince Yu, and the silly little niece. And... the old dude.

And that old man Xia Yan, and Zhang Da, Xiao Zhuo, Zhou Xia... Of course, the most important thing is, there is also that woman, a woman who likes to go into alleys like me."

"If you don't believe me, Master Ding, I want to cry."

"I don't know why, but I just feel a little sour in my nose. I feel as fragile as a woman. It's embarrassing."

“I think I can’t go back.”

The big cauldron was turning slowly.

"So, stay?"

"But I won't live to be 300 years old, and I won't see the glory of the Ming Dynasty extending to 500 years."

“I could only squat on the grave, looking at the lights of thousands of houses and the people coming to sweep the grave.

What will be written on my tombstone?

Is this the tomb of Jiang Qingzhi, the founder of the Ming Dynasty's revival and the Great Marquis of Ming?

Damn! I suddenly realized that this career seems to be pretty awesome!"

Jiang Qingzhi stood up and walked to the tent curtain.

He turned back slowly and said, "I actually forgot to say goodbye. How rude of me."