The climate here is warmer than where Qiu Yan and the others are.
Walking through it, Qin Xiaowei was covered in sweat.
He used his large hands as small fans, waving them in front of his forehead.
"General, let's stop and rest for a moment. The soldiers are too tired to walk any further."
"Alright." Gu Qian waved his hand. "Stop and rest for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn before we set off again."
Not to mention the soldiers, he was also somewhat tired.
The soldiers were grateful to Commandant Qin. Some sat on the ground, while others simply leaned against a tree trunk and closed their eyes for a short rest.
Among the soldiers, Qiu Dayu, Xia Minhan, and others also went to Qidu.
During the army's rest period, Qiu Dayu plopped down on the ground, panting heavily.
He looked enviously at the cavalrymen in front of him and sighed inwardly, wondering why he was just an infantryman.
He put his hand on Xia Minhan's shoulder and asked, "Minhan, did you write home for the New Year?"
Before long, Dongjin will be engaged in a life-or-death battle with Northern Qi. Whether they can return alive is still unknown.
Therefore, the soldiers all missed home.
Qiu Dayu, of course, also missed home.
"No, I don't know many characters, and I don't write very well." Xia Minhan shook her head, feeling a pang of sadness as she thought of her parents, older sister, younger brother, and younger sister who were far away from home.
For the first time in my life, I left my hometown; for the first time, I joined the army.
Everyone is afraid that it will be gone forever.
"And you? I saw you writing a letter home the other day. What did you write?" Xia Minhan asked with a smile.
"I did write it, but I didn't send it." Qiu Dayu thought of his elder brother's last letter home.
When the village chief delivered the letter to the Qiu family, the second brother was working away from home.
At that time, the whole family was illiterate.
His third brother didn't even look at it, and just said, "Why write this stuff? We can't understand it anyway."
"This is written for Qiu Dafu, not for you to see," Third Sister-in-law glanced at it, made a sarcastic remark, and walked away.
Her mother simply grabbed it in her hand, kneaded it into a ball, and threw it into the stove, where it burned.
He didn't even have time to stop them.
Actually, that letter home read:
'To my second brother!'
He learned this later from the village chief.
After his second brother returned, no one in the family ever mentioned the family letter to him.
He dared not mention it, for fear of angering his second brother.
However, the second brother still heard about the family letter from the village chief.
When the second uncle pressed his mother for an answer, he asked, "Where is the eldest brother's letter?"
His mother dismissed him with a simple, "It was on the table in the yard; it probably got blown away by the wind."
To avoid unnecessary family conflict, he did not tell his second brother the truth.
But since then, the second brother's attitude toward his mother has become increasingly cold.
Now, it seems he has already guessed the contents of the letter.
Qiu Dayu was homesick; he missed his family and Yuanyuan.
Xia Minhan was puzzled and asked, "Why not send it?"
Qiu Dayu: "Second brother and Xiaoyan are both busy with business. If this letter falls into the hands of third brother, he will burn it."
He was unaware that his third brother's family had been removed from the household registration in Lingnan Village, and that his house had been rented out to the Wu family by his second brother.
Qiu Dayong's family wanted to come back, but they didn't dare to.
Because if someone with ulterior motives reports you, you could go to jail.
Xia Minhan shook his head: "How could that be?" In his view, family members were the closest people to him, and they would never do such a thing.
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