He handed the soldier the jade token. "Take this. Go to the eastern province. Start again."
While other men sought fortune on the Silk Road or glory as swordsmen, Gao tended to the unloved dead. He washed the bones of bandits, buried stillborn children in silk scraps, and every evening, he lit paper lanterns for ghosts who had no family to pray for them. tang dynasty good man
Gao stepped between them. "This man is not a soldier anymore. He is a guest in my house. In the Tang Dynasty, even a criminal who shares your salt is your brother." He handed the soldier the jade token
In the twilight of the Tang Dynasty, under a sky smeared with the color of old blood, there lived a man the villagers called "Foolish Gao." His real name was Gao Renshi, and he was a gravekeeper. Start again
The captain laughed. "The Tang Dynasty is dying, fool. Its laws are ash."