In mid-February, the weather began to warm up. People had taken off their thick winter clothes and changed into thinner spring clothes. The withered earth began to turn a little green, and the wheat seedlings in the fields seemed to wake up. As a spring rain fell, the wheat fields were full of vitality, and many farmers also began to be busy in the fields.

Li Xiu and his group were about to leave, but he never expected that Li Shimin would agree to Li Zhi go to Liaodong with them, and also in the name of collecting the bones of Dongping King Li Shao. Li Shao was Li Shimin's cousin and Li Daozong's father. 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 the bones of his father, he as the eldest son had to go there.

"Mr. Prince Concubine, what do you think about His Majesty? There were so many people in Liaodong that year, and I didn't even know where my father died. How could I find his corpse?" As soon as I 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. He was about to recuperate at home for a while, but he suddenly received an imperial edict from Li Shimin, asking him to go to Liaodong to find his father's corpse. As a result, he was still confused.

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

The Li family is also a great family in the former Sui army. As a general in the former Sui army, Li Shao must have maintained many divisions. The so-called divisions are actually like family slaves, but their status is far higher than those of family slaves. These people are proficient in martial arts and are proficient in bows and horses. When the master goes to the battlefield, they act as the master's personal guards. The interests of these people are closely tied to their respective masters, so there are no problems with loyalty. When the master encounters danger, the division will definitely strive to protect it. With Li Shao's identity, there must be many divisions around him, and it is very likely that someone will survive.

However, what Li Xiu did not expect was that when Li Daozong heard his words, he slapped his thigh and said, "Don't mention it, our family was not favored by Yang Guang at the beginning. When Yuwen Shu was defeated and retreated, he arranged my father's army to the end. As a result, the entire army died in the Liaoshui River, and no one of the troops around him escaped. At that time, it was said that 300,000 people died. It was estimated that my father was in those thirty corpses. Even if we were asked to find them, we could not find them, so we could only set up a tomb for my father!"

Speaking of the battle back then, Li Daozong was so angry that he gritted his teeth. Yang Guang was incompetent. Hundreds of thousands of troops were killed in battle. Their family could not collect the corpses for them, including their family. Fortunately, he had defeated Goguryeo in Liaodong before, which was considered to avenge his father.

"If King Jiangxia wants to find General Li Shao's corpse, maybe Uncle Ma and I can help, but there is little hope to find the corpse of King Dongping." Just as Li Daozong finished speaking, Qin Qiong suddenly rode to them and said.

"By the way, I remember that when Uncle Ma and General Qin attacked Goguryeo for the first time, they were also arranged to cut off the back of the army. Do you know where King Dongping finally appeared?" Li Xiu couldn't help but lit up his eyes when he heard Qin Qiong's words.

"Qin... General Qin, do you really know the whereabouts of my father?" Li Daozong couldn't help but say excitedly when he heard Qin Qiong's words. Although he had long given up the hope of finding his father's body, as a son, he naturally hoped that his father could enter his own ancestral tomb after his death, rather than being a lonely ghost outside.

"We can't say we know, but when the 300,000 army was disrupted on the banks of the Liaoshui River, we fell to the end. At that time, my brother Ma and I were all killed in battle, and we happened to encounter a larger defeated army, so we followed for a while. The defeated army was the subordinates of King Dongping, but King Dongping had already died in battle at that time. It is said that the ship was broken by the Goguryeo people when crossing the river, and the result..."

Qin Qiong didn't say it any more, because no one else knew 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 weighs dozens of kilograms in total. If you wear such heavy armor and fall into the water, even if the water is good, it will sink to the bottom.

"Then... General Qin knows where my father crossed the river?" Li Daozong said excitedly again when he heard this, and his voice became a little trembling. If he could find his father's bones, he would be at ease in the future.

"This..." Qin Qiong showed a embarrassed expression when he heard this. It seemed that he was not very clear. After all, the 300,000 Sui army was in chaos at that time, and rumors were flying all over the sky. It was a coincidence that he could have met the old subordinates of King Dongping.

"Don't make things difficult for us, but Shubao and I don't know where your father crossed the river, but I remember where your father met his old subordinates. Combined with the direction of their escape, we should be able to find a rough range. But even so, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. Don't have too much hope." At this moment, Master Ma also rode over and said.

"As long as you can find a rough location, the two generals have helped me a lot, and I can't repay you. If you have any questions in the future, I will never refuse!" Although Li Daozong was a little disappointed when he heard Mr. Ma's words, he still said gratefully.

Originally, Li Daozong had no hope at all, but Qin Qiong and Ma Ye provided a very useful clue, which expanded the hope a lot at once. Even if the father's body could not be found, as long as he could find the place where his father died in battle, he could take his children and grandchildren to worship in the future.

After unexpectedly getting news about his father, Li Daozong was also very excited, especially looking for opportunities to chat with Ma Ye and Qin Qiong on the way, but there were some people in the team that were even more excited than Li Daozong. That was Li Zhi, who had left Chang'an City for the first time. 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 strictly restricted. Now he finally walked out of Chang'an, but he ended up like a fetus who had just arrived in the world. He felt curious about everything.

"Sir, look, the boats on the river are so big. I heard that the boats on the sea are even bigger, and Liaodong 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. There was a yellow canal in front of Li Xiu's house, but the yellow canal was too shallow, and occasionally he could only see some small fishing boats. This was the first time Li Zhi had seen such a large merchant ship.

"There is indeed a sea in Liaodong. If time is not urgent, you can go to the beach to take a walk. At your age, it is also beneficial to see the sea." Li Xiu also smiled and said, perhaps the sea is nothing strange for children who grew up along the coast, but for children who are growing up inland, the sea is full of mystery. I remember that when he was a child, he was full of yearning for the sea when he was a child. It was not until later when he went out to study that he really saw the sea.

"That's great. I've never seen the sea before. I often see the Yellow River, but I heard that the water in the Yellow River finally gathered into the sea. I really can't imagine how big the sea is?" Di Renjie also said with a yearning look when he heard Li Xiu's words. He used to be in Zhengzhou with his father, and there was the Yellow River there. Sometimes the Yellow River even caused heavy water, which would affect them.

"I remember seeing the sea with my father once when I was a child, but so many years have passed, I almost forgot what the sea looks like?" Ping Anlang also spoke at this time. What he was talking about was that Hener got married and went to work in the south with Shangguan Yi. As a result, Qi Niang also ran over secretly. Finally, Li Xiu took his family to chase him. Ping Anlang also went there, so he could see the sea. However, he was still young at that time and the impression was not particularly deep.

When he heard that Ping Anlang had seen the sea, Li Zhi and Di Renjie also showed envious expressions, and then he pestered him to talk about the sea. Unfortunately, Ping Anlang had only seen it once, and he was not very impressed. After saying a few words, he lost his words. In the end, he could only ask Li Xiu for help. Fortunately, Li Xiu not only saw the sea many times, but also knew a lot of knowledge related to the sea, so he told them while walking, which could be regarded as adding some extracurricular knowledge.

Because there was one more Li Zhi in the team, Li Shimin expanded Li Xiu and his team to collect the bones of Sui soldiers to 5,000 for his son's arrangement. There were supplies from various places along the way, and local resources could be mobilized to facilitate their passage. For example, when arriving in Zhengzhou, Li Xiu and others simply took a boat and went downstream, and got off the boat until they reached near Qizhou, and then crossed Hebei to Liaodong.

In fact, according to Li Xiu's original plan, he originally planned to take a boat to the sea from the Yellow River, then cross the Bohai Sea and directly reach the outlet of the Liaoshui River, and then go along Hebei from there. Jingguan made of bones of the Sui army was located in the middle of the Liaoshui River.

However, because of the addition of Li Zhi and Di Renjie, Li Xiu was determined to let these children experience the sufferings of the people, so he deliberately gave up water and changed to land. This would also give them the opportunity to contact more people at the bottom of society and increase their life experience. It can be said that Li Xiu really put in a lot of effort to cultivate these children.

Although I have walked a lot of roads and it is much harder to go by land than to go by water, Li Xiu felt that everything is worth it along the way. After Li Zhi and Di Renjie saw the sufferings of the people, they also changed a lot at a young age. For example, Li Zhi has begun to think about what he can do for those poor people. Although the answers he has come up with are still very naive, they are very encouraged.
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