Father Ando suddenly stopped: "Hey~ I really can't help it~~ It's always the same~ Just this once."
The people in the village all rejoiced. They surrounded their father. They changed their gloomy expressions and began to rejoice. It seemed as if the matter had been resolved.
"Don't be too happy~~ I'm just giving you an idea~~ As for whether you can make it happen or not~ that's your own business~" Father An Teng winked and shook his chapped lips a few times.
Everyone hurriedly poured him a cup of hot tea. He used the lid of the tea cup to float the crumbs on the surface pickily: "Is this also called tea? How many years has it been there~~" But he still raised his head several times to pour the tea.
They all drank it.
After finishing the drink, I saw him sitting cross-legged, closing his eyes and motionless. Only his mouth occasionally moved, as if he was using his tongue to sweep out the tea leaves that he just drank.
All the men and women in the village stood motionless around him. A woman carrying a child stopped teasing the child and stared at him intently. Even the child less than one year old on her back stopped.
Ku Nao opened his small dark eyes and looked at these extremely serious adults around him.
Father Ando finally opened his mouth: "There is a village called Fufu Village more than a hundred miles away from us. I remember passing by that village one year and seeing that they were protected by warriors so they didn't have to worry about intrusion by thieves~
~It is said that the lords will rise up to resist when they encounter unreasonable assessments~~ Even the lords dare not mess with them~~"
"You are kidding~ Why would a samurai stand guard for the peasants? They are all very proud~" the wretched-looking man said suspiciously.
Father An Teng glared at him fiercely: "Wrong! Warriors are human beings too! They also need to eat and use money to buy weapons. It's not that they don't want to help us, but that we don't show enough sincerity to invite them.
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The sturdy man also had some doubts: "Dad, you said that villages protected by warriors don't even pay attention to the lord's recruitment order~~ Is this true or false? Do they dare not even listen to the lord's order?"
"Hahaha~" Father An Teng laughed: "Do you think those lords are good people? To be honest, those with poor moral character may not be as trustworthy as the bandits~~ They also have the same virtues as those bandits.
~~Bullying the weak and fearing the strong~~These villages protected by warriors are often colluding. Once the lord sets an excessive tax~~ they will unite to resist the tax until the lord agrees to reduce it~~."
Du Fei listened in rapt attention beside him, and it was not until Hehezi pulled his sleeves repeatedly that he regained consciousness. Hehezi signaled him to follow her back to the house quickly.
"What? Don't you follow and take a look? It seems like something big is going to happen in the village." Du Fei looked puzzled at He Hezi, who lowered his head and was only on his way.
Hehezi just lowered his head and said nothing. After returning to the thatched mud house, she closed the paper sliding door and said to Du Fei: "It's not that I don't want to care, it's just that I can't even fill my stomach~~ It's simply
I don’t have any money to do these things~~ The villagers all know my predicament, but no one has ever come to me when they are trying to collect money. I am afraid that I will be embarrassed if I watch them while they are collecting money, so~
"
After saying that, she started crying, and her thin body was trembling. The suffering of life had taken away her youth prematurely, and her hands were already covered with calluses when she was not even twenty-two years old.
, her face also lost the look that a girl should have due to the wind and sun.
At this moment, Kensu Meng, who was wearing a star helmet, came in: "Sister! You're back! Oh! Uncle is here too!"
After saying that, he quickly came to Du Fei's side: "Wow~~~ Are you wearing a slanted jacket that only warriors can wear? It's still black! Is this~~ this a tachi? It's great!
After saying that, he raised his head with begging eyes: "Can you let me touch it?"
"Kanetsu! That's not polite! A samurai's sword cannot be touched casually!" Hehezi quickly pulled the excited Kantsuki aside.
"Haha~ It's nothing! Kanxu, come here!" Du Fei smiled and nodded to the pouting Kanxu.
Kanesu looked up at his sister with a sullen face, and then stared greedily at the sword on Du Fei's waist. Finally, he shook off Hehezi with a wave of his hand, and knelt down in front of Du Fei, holding the
His dirty little hands wiped hard again and again on the same dirty clothes. Then he carefully and gently touched the sword, whose blade was like a snake.
Du Fei smiled and took out a short knife from behind him (the one thrown away by the thief): "This is a gift for you. I will give it to your sister for safekeeping first. If you are obedient, he will give it to you!"
After saying that, he handed the exquisite short knife to the delighted Hehezi.
"Sister~ I will definitely be obedient in the future~~ Give it to me now~~" Kansugu smiled flatteringly at Hehezi: "By the way~ I'm hungry~ Sister, what should we eat today~"
Hehezi's excited expression suddenly dimmed, and suddenly she jumped up like crazy: "Ah! My bamboo basket and shovel! I forgot them at the beach! I have to get them quickly!" After saying this, she ignored Du Fei's dissuasion and looked like
He ran out like a deer.
Kanetsugu shouted desperately from behind: "Sister, don't go~~ The tide is about to rise."
Rising tide? It’s broken! Du Fei quickly chased after hearing this!
But Hehezi was more familiar with the terrain than he was, and soon left him far behind.
Du Fei saw that the beach not far away had been covered by the surging waves! He secretly screamed! He plunged into the sea and searched for a long time on the sea, but he did not see the figure of Hehezi.
So he plunged into the water, and saw that the water was full of debris that had been swept in by the tide, including dead fish, rotten shrimps, and various pieces of wood that fell from sunken ships~
Suddenly his hand was grabbed by a cold little hand, and he was startled! He looked back in panic, and it turned out to be Hehezi. She actually seemed more flexible under water than Du Fei! She swayed mischievously
With the shovel in her hand, it seemed that she was in the water and safe and did not need anyone else to take care of her.
Du Fei finally breathed a sigh of relief, and when he was about to pull Hehezi to the surface, he suddenly found a black thing at the bottom of the water near the beach.
So he stopped and looked carefully, and found that it was the pirate ship he was riding on. He felt excited and wanted to dive down to see what was going on, but Hehezi grabbed him and kept gesturing to him.
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He looked in the direction of Hehezi's fingers and saw a few blue-gray shadows swimming toward them in the seawater in the distance~
Sharks! Du Fei knew that these guys were very difficult to deal with. It was high tide now. If they were still in the water when the water receded, they would be swept deep into the sea by the huge force of the low tide. Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth.
The cold little hands of Sumihezi floated to the surface of the sea in one breath.
As soon as they walked onto the beach, an anxious Kanetsu rushed over: "Why don't you two adults use your brains at all~~! How dare you run into the sea when the tide is high~~! You scared me to death!"
Du Fei looked back at He Hezi beside him, and saw that her whole body was wet with sea water, and the outline of her body became very obvious. Seeing Du Fei looking at her, her face suddenly turned red.
Du Fei turned his head unnaturally: "Let's go home and dry your clothes quickly, otherwise you will catch a cold~" He felt that his face was also getting slightly hot~
Kansu, this sneaky little guy seemed to have noticed something, and kept looking at the two of them with his small eyes.
Both of them lowered their heads and remained silent along the way, looking a little embarrassed. Du Fei asked casually: "Have you ever heard of the rumors that there are sirens in the sea?"
"Of course I've heard of it!" Kansugu suddenly became excited: "The old people in the village say that the siren is a creature that has lived for tens of thousands of years. She will sing to seduce sailors on passing ships, trick them into the sea, and then suck them out.
Their blood~~~ People who meet her will only die!"
Oh, it would be great if it only sucked blood~~ Du Fei thought silently in his heart. Until now, he still couldn't gather his own vitality, and he began to suspect that the sea monster sucked more than just blood and vitality.
After returning to the simple mud house, they lit a pond fire in the house. Each of them took off their soaked clothes and baked them by the fire. There was only a makeshift coarse cloth between them.
curtain.
For some reason, Hehezi, who has always been talkative and lively, has been silent since he came back from the beach. On the other hand, Kanetsugu never stopped talking, and kept telling Du Fei about the new things that happened in the village in recent days~~
"By the way, I just heard those villagers talking about how the lord's order was too excessive~~ Who is your lord?" Du Fei touched his clothes and still felt a sense of moisture.
Kanetsugu said angrily while playing with a small wooden stick by the fire, "Our lord is now the upstart Uraike Kanesa. His original name was Niijima Sa. This guy is bad! It is said that he was a pirate, but for some reason he
He was appreciated by the general of Omura City, Puchi Yushengren, who not only gave him a surname, but also made him the lord of several nearby villages and towns. He usually only knows how to increase taxes in various ways! In recent years, he has no other skills.
The entire village of this generation has been tortured to death by him!"
"Is that so? He Zhezi?"
Hehezi seemed to be thinking about something just now, but he suddenly woke up when Du Fei suddenly called out: "Ah? What's the matter?"
"Sister, what are you thinking~~ We are talking about our good lord~~" Pu Chi looked at his sister very dissatisfied.
"Oh~" Hehezi said hesitantly for some reason: "That person~~all the villagers in this area will force him away sooner or later~~Now everyone is discussing the matter of hiring samurai~I feel that if I offend that evil spirit
As for this guy, maybe he will do something terrible~~~"
"Well~" Du Fei recalled what the villagers and An Teng's father said, and felt that some soldiers were indeed in danger. If that was a violent and murderous lord, a bloodbath would be inevitable! He Hezi was so worried,
Are you worried about Kansu's safety?
So he suddenly and seriously said to Kazuko: "I have made a decision. It may be very presumptuous, but I hope you will not give up for Kanetsu's sake. Come with me to Jinmachi! Although the place there is not big, the environment is better than here.
It’s also safer.”
Hehezi was stunned for a moment, and Kansugu jumped up excitedly after hearing this: "Really? You're not lying to me?" When he stood up, he accidentally touched the coarse cloth curtain in the middle, and the curtain was suddenly knocked.
Fell!
The naked Du Fei and Hehezi screamed in fright! They were immediately turned away and lowered their heads.