noffsinger Chapter 229: Son Demands Father's Debt
Chapter 229: Son Demands Father's Debt
"Then why aren't Zuo Santong and the Qin army soldiers suffering? Why are we the only ones suffering so much?"
It was still this damn Li Ergou who continued to question the captain and made him speechless.
why?
Because Zuo Santong's army was looting! They had strict military discipline, how could they loot?
This is a taboo! It's against discipline!
But what about Li Jize?
How can this be explained? Their military discipline is very good, and they don't take anything from the people! In fact, many soldiers are directly recruited from the children of ordinary people.
This this……
This problem is really difficult for me.
Why? Yes! They say that all soldiers in the world are equally miserable, so why aren't other soldiers the same?
After all, it is still a cognitive error!
Li Jin was very foolish to still hold on to his blind loyalty in the troubled times. He thought that by doing so, he was being loyal to his country and sharing the worries of his emperor.
But what?
But it makes the people closest to you suffer!
This person is either his child or his disciple.
However, Li Jize and other people in troubled times had a very normal understanding of the chaotic times and war.
The essence of war is plunder!
The difference is that, as an official soldier, Zuo Santong didn't dare plunder the wealthy, landlords, and gentry; he could only plunder the common people. Li Jize, on the other hand, was more clever, doing the opposite. He either plundered the gentry and landlords or the barbarians, but never harmed the common people. As for the rebels, they plundered both the common people and the wealthy!
The poor ones are Li Jin and his soldiers. If they want to abide by military discipline, they cannot rob the people. If you want the court and the gentry to pay money and salaries, you are daydreaming!
As for robbing the enemy?
Sorry! He couldn't even defeat the bandits, let alone the barbarians?
Therefore, these people are the Kong Yiji who knows the four ways of writing the word "回"!
On the one hand, he is proud of being a "scholar", but on the other hand, he can't even afford to eat, so where can he put his knowledge?
It's just ridiculous to pretend!
The captain was at a loss for words. He didn't know why life was so hard, why they were all like beggars...
To put it bluntly, my pants are almost torn to pieces! How am I supposed to live now?
"Poverty and humbleness cannot move us, and power and might cannot bend us. This is not how we should live as human beings!"
The captain is still acting like "Kong Yiji" and needs to instill in these soldiers some ideas about how to be a human being and the awareness of loyalty to the emperor!
pity……
"We can't eat the cake you painted!"
"What we want now is to eat, to have enough food! We also want our families to have enough food too!"
The crowd was so excited that they were getting more and more angry as they talked. Why were all the soldiers suffering so much?
"What? Are you really planning a rebellion? Are you really planning to join the rebels and barbarians? Aren't you afraid that your parents back home will be scolded and criticized?"
In the end, it seemed that there was no way to rekindle the ambitions of these soldiers by instilling the ideas of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism.
This guy simply used threatening words to tell them what the consequences would be if they became traitors!
Aren’t you afraid of having your entire clan executed?
Unexpectedly, these words could not stop them. Someone shouted, "Let's go to the King of Qin! Let's join the Qin army!"
"Let's go! Fight the barbarians like the Qin army!"
"Go and join the Qin army!"
Then, in a flash, everyone present ran away, one after another.
The captain was dumbfounded.
Damn it! These bastards are really going to be traitors.
How can that work?
He immediately shouted, "Give me..."
Before he could finish his words, the soldiers who had already walked out turned around with murderous intent and looked at him viciously.
The meaning is obvious...
What do you think?
If you keep complaining, I'm afraid these soldiers will send you to death immediately!
"Gudong!!"
After swallowing his saliva, the general immediately put down the knife in his hand, changed his expression and said, "Well... I'll go with you!"
……
Inside the Prince of Qin's Palace.
At this moment, Li Jize, Li Jin and Huang Suqiu, a family of three, were eating at the dinner table.
He saw a table full of food, with a dense mixture of meat and vegetables. General Li Jin was eating rice frantically with a bowl, like a starving ghost.
Li Jize held up the chopsticks and was about to reach out to pick up something symbolically, but he quickly and quietly put them back.
He didn't need to eat this meal, he felt full just by watching his old father eat!
In a short while, with the sound of ding-dong, a bowl full of rice was finished.
"Another...another bowl!"
As he spoke, he handed over the empty bowl. Huang Suqiu, who was standing next to him, always had a smile on her face as she served him another bowl of rice.
He ate the rice back and forth, and stopped after finishing three bowls in a row. I thought he was full.
But what I didn't expect was...
Li Jin threw away the small bowl and used one of the large bowls for vegetables. He quickly emptied the vegetables inside and handed it to Huang Suqiu.
“Use…use this!”
Huang Suqiu: “…”
Soon, helpless, she poured a bowl of rice and handed it to him, saying with a smile, "Eat slowly! Also, the food won't run away. Be careful not to choke if you eat like this!"
But who would have thought that Li Jin ignored him completely, and just lowered his head again and started eating.
Huang Suqiu looked embarrassed. She looked up at Li Jize and found that he had stopped eating with his chopsticks. She immediately persuaded him, "Jize, why don't you eat? There is so much food, why don't you eat?"
Li Jize: "..."
So much food? Judging from the way he eats, it's probably not enough, right?
Thinking of this, Li Ji smiled and said, "Father, just eat it! I..."
He had just said half of his words when he accidentally glanced at the garden and saw Chen Yingyuan coming back.
Li Jize was stunned. He said respectfully to Huang Suqiu and Li Jin, "Father, Mother, I have some official business to attend to. I'll excuse myself first!"
Li Jin didn't say anything either, just buried his head in a pile of food. In response to his son's question, he raised his hand and waved.
As for Huang Suqiu on the side, she looked at Li Jize with concern. Could it be that her son had some ideas?
It wasn't until he saw the palace's chief official standing in the garden that he confirmed that there was indeed official business to be handled. She smiled and said, "Go! Official business is important."
After getting the consent of the two elders, Li Jize stood up and went straight over there.
Poor Li Jin, he doesn’t know that “there is no free lunch in the world”, and he has to pay a price for a meal.