He Jian is forty-five years old this year. He has lived in Goguryeo for twenty years from Daye Ten to now. Sometimes, he can hardly remember where he is from.

Of course, I don’t know whether I can’t remember it or I don’t want to remember it.

He Jian lives in a mountain village thirty miles northwest of Seoul, and lives by hunting and digging ginseng.

There was not much land in Goguryeo, and there was even less that could be cultivated. As a Sui native, it was naturally impossible for him to be allocated any good land.

"Ginseng is on sale, and the best ginseng is sold cheaply!"

I am a lonely person. One person has enough to eat and the whole family is not hungry. However, there are several people in the village who followed me to fight in Liaodong and already have their own wives and children. If the wild ginseng I brought out this time cannot be sold at a good price.

Yes, life is going to be difficult again this year.

It is now July, and winter has come relatively early in Goguryeo, so we are about to start thinking about stocking up on food for the winter.

"Hey, how do you sell this wild ginseng?"

He Jian suddenly heard a familiar Jiangnan Dao accent.

Most of the soldiers and horses that conquered Goguryeo in the Sui Dynasty came from the counties in Hedong and Hebei. There were not many from Yangzhou like He Jian.

Since settling down in Goguryeo, He Jian has never even heard anyone speak Tang with a Jiangnan accent.

Suddenly, a familiar local accent sounded in his ears. He Jian couldn't help but feel a sore nose and burst into tears.

I am from Yangzhou. I started following General Mai Tiezhang on his expeditions at the age of fifteen. Now...

Scenes from the past, those past events that he couldn't bear to look back upon after waking up from a dream in the middle of the night, all came to He Jian's mind.

Why have I always refused to remarry?

Why do I still summon the old subordinates in the village to practice in the mountains and forests every month?

Why...

Now, after holding back the emotions for so many years, I was defeated by such an ordinary question.

"Old man, I want all these wild ginsengs. Why don't we find a place to sit down, and you can tell us how to eat these wild ginsengs most nourishingly?"

Wang Xuanwu saw He Jian's reaction and suddenly felt that these Sui people might be a breakthrough for the Investigation Bureau in Goguryeo.

"It made several noble people laugh."

He Jian wiped his eyes with his sleeve and showed a complicated smile on his face.

"If the noble man invites you, I will naturally be willing to do so."

There are inns, restaurants, warehouses, and all kinds of places in the market.

Wang Xuanwu and others found an ordinary restaurant and found a place by the window with few people to sit down.

That He Jian was probably a knowledgeable person when he was young. Although he followed behind in ragged clothes, he was not embarrassed at all.

"The old man's accent sounds like he's from Jiangnan?"

The forty-five-year-old He Jian looked like he was in his fifties or sixties; after sitting down, He Qingquan took the initiative to speak.

He Jian drank a glass of wine and sighed: "Are you from the Tang Dynasty?"

The Sui Dynasty was dead and the world was now dominated by Li and Tang. He Jian still knew this information.

He Qingquan looked at Wang Xuanwu and saw him nodding towards him, and couldn't help but said: "That's right, I happen to be from Yangzhou too. I didn't expect to hear the accent of my hometown in a foreign land. It's a bit surprising."

"There are not 70,000 or 80,000 Sui people living in Goguryeo, but there must be 20,000 or 30,000 people, but most of them are already old. Some of them were left behind when they first conquered Goguryeo and have been there for two years.

It has been more than ten years, but how many people still remember their own accent?"

He Jian talked to himself, as if falling into some kind of memory.

"Most people were unwilling to stay in Goguryeo in humiliation and hoped to find an opportunity to return to the Sui Dynasty. However, the few who escaped from Liaodong were regarded as... Well, some people returned to Liaodong again.

"

"Old man, I don't believe that the people of Goguryeo who became foreigners would really treat the Sui people well. With so many people, wouldn't there be any resistance?"

He Qingquan asked a little dissatisfiedly from the side.

"Resist? Why resist? For Yang Guang? For the Sui Dynasty?" He Jian showed a sarcastic smile, "Goguryeo scattered everyone across the country, and by the time everyone had a little contact, the Sui Dynasty was gone.

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Wang Xuanwu watched He Jian carefully from the side. The prince said that the details in a person's behavior can reflect his true inner thoughts.

Especially the eyes.

Just now, He Jian's eyes showed pain, confusion, hope, determination, and disappointment many times...

Wang Xuanwu was also surprised to see such complicated looks from the same person in a short period of time.

This is a character with a story!

This is a poor man who is not satisfied with the status quo!

"Old man, if you could return to your hometown one day, would you be willing?"

Wang Xuanwu interjected softly from the side.

"Go back to your hometown? Haha! On the surface, the Goguryeo people treat us equally, but in fact they won't let us move freely at all. Like me, it's okay if we don't leave Seoul. Once we leave Seoul, there are no roads... Around Seoul, there are many

If you are familiar with the geography, you may have a chance to avoid interrogation, but once you enter Liaodong... you can't go back."

He Jian's eyes lit up, but soon his eyes dimmed again.

"There is more than one way to go back to Datang from Seoul to Liaodong. If we can get here, we can naturally leave here."

Wang Xuanwu showed a confident expression, which surprised He Jian a little.

These people don't seem like ordinary businessmen.

He Jian: "May I ask some of you why you came to Seoul?"

"Clang!"

Wang Xuanwu took out a fish charm from his arms and placed it in front of He Jian.

"Prince Chu's Mansion?"

He Jian picked up the fish charm on the table and looked at it for a while. Although he didn't know exactly what was going on in Prince Chu's Mansion, there was no doubt that the people opposite him were from the Tang Dynasty, and they still had official status.

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu is the Prince of the Tang Dynasty and is deeply trusted by His Majesty. The prince once said: There will be a battle between the Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo. So, I am here."

Wang Xuanwu squinted his eyes and stared at He Jian. If he didn't understand current affairs and knew something he shouldn't know, he couldn't blame himself for killing innocent people indiscriminately.

"How can I believe that you can really take us back to the Tang Dynasty?"

Wang Xuanwu: "We?"

"That's right, there are at least a thousand people like me in Seoul. There should be no less than five hundred people alive today. Excluding some who have already taken root, there are at least one or two hundred people who want to go back."

Wang Xuanwu: "If you want to go back, you can go back with me in a few days. I think this is more convincing than any other excuse, right?"

Goguryeo was very wary of the Tang people. If someone like He Jian, who had lived there for twenty years, could help find out the information, it would definitely get twice the result with half the effort.
Chapter completed!