My vicious dog, my horse, I can do whatever I want with it

"Hmm..." Zong Yanli turned around with the wine in his hand, a rare look of confusion appearing on his face.

She hadn't been here for a few years. The terrain had changed, trees had grown, and shrubs had covered large areas of the road. She was actually a little disoriented.

When the Northern Kingdom invaded, it conspired with the Jin Kingdom to attack Daqian, and Dong Haoqiang died in battle here.

She remembered the oath she had made that when the world was unified, she would come here to carve a monument for General Dong.

She came today.

but……

"Is this really the direction?" Lu Hao and Monkie came back after turning around, also confused.

"When General Dong was buried, didn't you go there in person?" Monk turned his head and looked at Lu Hao and said, "Now you can't even find his grave?"

"..."

Lu Hao cried out that he was wronged. The battle situation was fierce at that time, and no tombstone was erected when Dong Haoqiang was buried. They just found a place to bury him. He himself was also seriously injured, and he was dragged there by his relatives. How many years have passed now?

How can I remember it clearly?

Zong Yanli interrupted the two of them and pointed in a general direction, saying, "Go over there and take a look."

As the war subsided and Jin surrendered, roads were opened up everywhere and the terrain changed. Good fields were replaced by canals, and it was common to lose track of where they were for a while.

Although I didn’t remember them, fortunately there were so many of them!

Sure enough, we found it after a short while. The grave was covered with grass and vines, and at first glance it looked like a bush. There was no tombstone, only a stone pressing on the bulging grave mound.

"That's it!" Lu Hao was overjoyed. He had carried the big stone here himself. No monument had been erected at the beginning, so leaving this stone behind could serve as a pressure.

"Bring some wine." Zong Yanli waved to Gao Feilin.

"General Dong, we are back from a victorious battle!"

"We're here to take you home!"

"Look at the green grass all over the ground and the pleasant scenery. I think you have had a great time here these years..."

People who were familiar with Dong Haoqiang in the past and those who were not came up to him to toast him with a glass of wine and burn a stick of incense.

Zong Yanli asked someone to bring the stone tablet that had been prepared long ago. He held the carving knife and personally carved the words on the tablet, carefully carving every stroke. Finally, he reached out and wiped the lime off the stone tablet, and stood the stone tablet upright in front of the grave.

Zong Yanli stared at the stone tablet for a long time with deep eyes, then smiled and said, "The world has just been settled, and there are still many things waiting for me. I am afraid I can't stay any longer today."

"I'll come to see you next year." Zong Yanli put away the carving knife, reached out to pick up the wine jar in front of the stele, raised his head and drank two mouthfuls, suppressed the burning feeling in his chest, lowered his eyes and smiled, and said loudly: "Cheers to the heroic spirit of Daqian!"

"We're home!"

“I’m going home—!”

At this moment, the soldiers all felt deeply excited. The journey home that they had been looking forward to for so many days and nights, and the fact that only the few brothers around them were left made them extremely sad.

This way, we can go home together.

After entering the territory of Daqian, whenever he passed through villages and towns, countless people would rush to kneel down and hold egg pancakes to send him off, so that Zong Yanli had to replan his route and go through the deep mountains and forests to take a detour.

After all this trouble, almost two months had passed when the army arrived at the imperial city of Kyoto.

Han and others looked forward to it day and night, and finally the day of the army's triumphant return came. Zong Yanyin and Wei Songhe brought their two children and accompanied Han to wait outside the door of Zong Yan's mansion early, looking forward to the end of the street.