"We must take revenge!" Lin Hai shouted firmly.
"Yes, we must take revenge. Xiao Linzi, tell me what we should do."
Hearing everyone's unanimous response, Lin Hai changed the subject: "But we can't take revenge now. We are just a handful of people, without any connections or authority, and we don't even know who to turn to for revenge. The enemy was stationed in Gaotang at the time, and we don't know if it's true or not. Even if it was true, those beasts would have run away long ago. We can't just sneak into Gaotang and kill everyone we see. We won't get revenge that way."
"Moreover," Lin Hai continued, "many of our brothers have been seriously injured and are truly unable to fight again. With so few of us, even if we knew who the enemy was, we probably wouldn't be able to defeat them and would be sending ourselves to our deaths in vain."
"Originally, I planned to rebuild Qinghe County with everyone. But now, as you brothers know, there is no Qinghe County anymore. I don't know why the Empire is unwilling to rebuild Qinghe, but I do understand that as people from Qinghe County, we need a Qinghe County. We, the ninety-nine brothers, plus our adoptive father, plus the brothers who died in battle over the years, plus the tens of thousands of folks who died in vain in the county, need a Qinghe County."
"But the empire refused to rebuild. We went to the gate of the Ministry of Revenue and protested, but we got nothing but a beating."
"Qinghe County belongs to us, not the Empire. The Empire just wants a county seat; they don't care what it's called. But we just want Qinghe County, a Qinghe County that we recognize, a Qinghe County with people from Qinghe County."
"Yes." Wang Liang and Lu You, who had recovered, quickly chimed in, "Even the people of Qinghe County don't have a county town. We don't care what their names are."
"Right!" Lin Hai quickly gave them a grateful look. "So, we have to rebuild Qinghe County ourselves! Since we've lost our home, we'll build another one. With a home, we can rest and recuperate, grow up, and find out the truth. Even if we can't fight, we still have sons, and our sons still have sons. Then we can rebuild Qinghe Camp and wipe out those beasts!"
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