"Yaoyao."
"Daddy?"
Liu Mingzhi placed the folding fan on the desk, turned his head and pursed his lips at the windows nearby.
"My dear daughter, go and open all the windows and let the air in."
"Hey, Yaoyao knows."
Liu Mingzhi glanced at the beauties taking their seats one after another, crossed his legs casually, and leaned on the chair with a lazy expression.
After Qi Yun and the other sisters sat down one by one, Young Master Liu looked at Liu Chengzhi who was standing next to him and waved.
"Chengzhi, stop standing. Sit down."
"yes."
"Tell me, what's the matter?"
Upon hearing his father's question, Liu Chengzhi turned to look at his mother and aunts.
"Mother, aunts, who should speak first, or the children?"
Qi Yun and the other sisters looked at each other, and then their eyes fell on Liu Chengzhi. They all smiled and shook their heads.
Qi Yun tidied up her sleeves, looked at her son and said with a chuckle: "Chengzhi, what you want to talk about is the official business of the court, while what my mother and your aunts want to talk about are private matters.
Business is more important, so you should speak first."
"Hey, the kid knows."
When Liu Mingzhi heard what the mother and son said, he directly turned his attention to the second child, Liu Chengzhi.
"Chengzhi, during the time when my father was no longer in the capital, what major events happened in the court?"
Liu Chengzhi took out a document directly from his sleeve, stood up and walked towards his father.
"Dad, six days ago, a letter was sent to the imperial court from Ganzhou.
The 100,000 elite soldiers and horses of the Second Route Western Expedition Army have left Yumen Pass in the west and have officially embarked on a ten-thousand-mile expedition."
Liu Mingzhi's expression suddenly became excited. He raised his hand and slapped it on the desk in front of him, his face filled with unbearable joy.
"Great, great, we are finally out on an expedition.
Duan Dingbang, this young man, did not disappoint me!"
Mr. Liu praised him without hesitation, stood up and walked out of the desk, wandering around the study room with his hands on his waist.
After wandering back for a long time with a look of joy on his face, the excitement on Young Master Liu's face gradually calmed down.
"call."
Young Master Liu breathed a sigh of relief, stopped and looked at his son.
"Besides the official departure of the army for the expedition, what else did the letter say?
Have any of the one hundred thousand soldiers suffered any damage due to the unsuitable climate?"
When Liu Chengzhi heard his father's question, he nodded with regret.
Sighing softly, Liu Chengzhi said in a low tone: "My child is preparing to report this matter to dad!"
Young Master Liu couldn't help but frown when he saw his son's regretful look, already understanding something in his heart.
He raised his hand and rubbed it on his face for a long time. Young Master Liu let out a long sigh with a complicated look on his face.
"Oh, let's just tell you how many soldiers were lost in total."
"Reply to Dad, during the march of one hundred thousand soldiers in the Western Expedition, a total of 3,622 soldiers developed malaria... and other diseases due to the unaccustomed climate and soil.
Under the treatment of the army doctors, most of the soldiers recovered.
However, sixty-seven soldiers suffered from severe symptoms.
finally.
In the end, he died."
Hearing the number that his son said, Mr. Liu trembled, and his face instantly became solemn.
"What? Sixty-seven soldiers were lost? How come there are so many?"
Liu Chengzhi saw the solemn expression on his father's face and handed over the document in his hand with a low gaze.
"Dad, I don't want to say so much, but this is the fact.
The specific situation in the letter has been described one by one in the document. Please take a look at it."
Liu Mingzhi frowned and was silent for a long time, then took the document from his son with a stiff arm.
Holding the document and tapping it a few times in his hand, Liu Mingzhi walked to the table next to Qi Yun, reached out and picked up the tobacco bag on it.
Qi Yun frowned slightly when she saw her husband's actions, and quickly stretched out her hand to press on the back of Young Master Liu's hand.
"Husband, your throat was dry from sniffing just now.
Stop smoking."
Liu Mingzhi sighed melancholy, and looked at Qi Yun who looked worried and shook his head gently.
"Oh, Yun'er."
Qi Yun felt her husband's melancholy mood, pursed her lips and remained silent for a moment, then slowly released her delicate hand holding the back of his hand.
"Husband, then you should smoke less."
Liu Mingzhi nodded to the beautiful woman, gently opened the tobacco bag, pinched a handful of tobacco from the inside and stuffed it into the pot.
He lit the tobacco with a fire stick, and took a long puff of tobacco. Holding the tobacco bag in one hand and the document in the other, he slowly walked towards the huge map hanging next to the bookshelf.
Young Master Liu stopped, looking at the map in front of him with a frown, his eyes became silent.
After a long time, Liu Mingzhi exhaled the smoke from his mouth, held the document in his hand, and walked gently on the map.
"One hundred thousand elite soldiers have just left the border for an expedition and have already lost 67 of them before they actually set foot on the battlefield.
All of them are my good sons and daughters, Da Long, and I, Liu Mingzhi.
I’m ashamed of their wives, children, and children!”
Qi Yun and the other sisters looked at each other with complicated eyes after hearing their husband's words full of self-blame and guilt.
All the beauties pursed their lips for a long time, and finally sighed silently.
The third eldest brother, Liu Chengqian, poured a cup of herbal tea for his mother and all his aunts. He walked gently to the side of his second brother, Liu Chengzhi, and coughed under his breath.
"Uh-huh, second brother."
Liu Chengzhi withdrew his gaze and looked at his third brother standing next to him with a puzzled expression.
"Lao San, what's wrong?"
Liu Chenggan poured a cup of herbal tea from the pot and raised his head to signal to his father's back.
"Send it to dad."
"Why don't you go."
Liu Chengqian thrust the tea cup into his second brother's hand and shrugged helplessly.
"Second brother, Sister Yaoyao and I went to investigate the list of Qiu Hou Wenzhan, and we don't know what the situation of the letter from Ganzhou is.
Brother, I don’t know anything. I’m going to deliver tea to dad, what do you want me to say?”
Liu Chengzhi's expression froze, and he nodded with a wry smile.
"That's right. Come on, I'll go."
Liu Chengzhi replied softly, picked up the tea cup and walked towards his father who was standing in front of the map.
"father."
"Um?"
"Have a cup of tea to quench your thirst."
Liu Mingzhi nodded lightly, pinned the document in his hand to his waist, took the herbal tea from his son's hand and took a sip.
To be continued...