Regarding the question raised by Yanai Katsuto, Li Yan Tourmaline didn't come up with any good solution in the end, after all, they couldn't really blow up the bridge now, and even if they blew up the bridge, it wouldn't necessarily solve the problem, and maybe things would become more troublesome at that time.

As a last resort, Li Yan Tourmaline and Yanai Katsuto decided to cross the bridge first, and go to Yoshino Village on the opposite side to stay first, and then ask the people in the village about the Kusho Bridge, and then make a decision later.

After paying attention, Li Yan Tourmaline and Yanai Katsuto did not delay any longer, and quickly crossed the bridge at the moment, heading towards the village on the opposite side where a little fire could be faintly seen.

As the saying goes, Wangshan runs a dead horse, and the faintly visible fire standing on the bridge, Li Yan Tourmaline and Yanai Katsuto took more than ten minutes to come to the outside of the village.

As soon as Li Yan Tourmaline and Yanai Katsuto came to the entrance of the village, they heard a burst of cheers from the village, with adults shouting and scolding, and children chasing and laughing, a lively scene.

Listening to the laughter in the village, Yanai Katsuto, who was standing at the entrance of the village, couldn't help but sigh: "It's more than nine o'clock at night, and there are still so many people in this Yoshino Village, which is more lively than many villages we have met along the way, and it is really a popular village." ”

Regarding Liu Jing Katsuto's emotion, Li Yan Tourmaline did not reply, but directly raised his feet and walked towards the village.

Li Yan Tourmaline is now full of things about the Jiusheng Bridge, he is not interested in other things now, now he just wants to enter the village as soon as possible and find someone to know about the bridge.

Seeing that Li Yan Tourmaline threw himself down without saying a word, Yanai Katsuto couldn't help but pout. I secretly muttered in my heart, 'boring person', and finally sighed and raised my heels.

Around the campfire sat a circle of villagers, all with cheerful smiles on their faces, clearly looking forward to tonight's event.

Shota Yoshino, who was sitting at the top of the crowd, looked at the smiling faces of the villagers below, and a happy and satisfied smile appeared on his own face.

Although for several years the country has been fighting continuously. The taxes levied were very heavy, and the villagers' lives were quite difficult, but that's it, the monthly bonfire dinner celebration in Yoshino Village has not been stopped, after all, this is a custom left over from the founding of their village, and this custom cannot be interrupted by his Yoshino Shota.

So even if life is difficult, at the end of every month, on this day, Yoshino Shota will squeeze out some food from the public property in the village for the villagers to enjoy.

If there is really nothing to eat. Nayoshino Shota would let the young people in the village go out hunting, and the women would go to the Takigawa River and fishing, and then go out to eat a little food from each family, relying on this method to make the bonfire party in their village stunned for a while.

Looking at the crowd sitting in front of several fires below, Yoshino Shota coughed lightly, and then said loudly: "This day is going forward day by day, and it will be the end of the month again before it is too late." ”

"This morning, I asked my wife, 'Is it really the end of the month again?'. I was saddened to receive an affirmative answer. Because the public warehouse in our village is about to be scraped off again, which really distresses me. ”

After finishing speaking, Yoshino Shota stroked his chest and made a sad and sad affection.

"Coax ......"

"Hahaha......"

With Yoshino Shota's crying opening remarks, the villagers gathered in front of the bonfire immediately responded enthusiastically, and both adults and children laughed loudly, obviously praising the old village chief.

Look at the villagers who are coaxing in response below. Yoshino Shota also showed a smile on his old face, he was actually very happy to be able to make the villagers happy, and as for the food consumed in the village, he really didn't care too much about it.

In the opinion of Shota Yoshino. As long as everyone in the village is happy and happy, then he, the village chief, is qualified, it seems that he is doing a good job, all the villagers in the village are very happy, even if life is a little hard now, no one complains.

Compared with the villagers in other villages who complain about the government all day long, their Yoshino Village has more centripetal cohesion, and if any family is short of rice and can't open the pot on weekdays, there will be other villagers to help them, so that their Yoshino Village will become like a whole, enjoying blessings and suffering together.

The villagers of Yoshino Village are closer to each other than other villages through this bonfire, and it is for this reason that Yoshino Shota often admires the ancestors who founded the village in the first place, leaving such an event that can unite the village.

"You boys, when you work in the fields on weekdays, you don't see how hard you work, and you all know that you are lazy and slippery, either hiding under a tree or hiding in the field to sleep. ”

"But at the end of the month, when the bonfires meet, you are more active than anyone else, and you see that the biggest bonfires have all been robbed by you bastards, and we old fellows and women and children can only get some small bonfires, which really off the old man and me. ”

In order to reconcile the atmosphere more relaxed, Yoshino Shota teased all the young men in the village again.

In fact, it is not as Yoshino Shota said, but since Yoshino Village had this bonfire event, the old and young men, women and children have been sitting separately, after all, the old and the young do not sit together, and the rule that men and women do not sit at the same table has existed since ancient times.

In Japan, dignity is very important, and even in the countryside, it is not completely devoid of etiquette, so the founder of Yoshino Village left this rule when he formed this event.

Yoshino Shota's words were not in vain, and as soon as he finished speaking, all the young men sitting around began to make a noise, and even the women and children were laughing, which made the whole bonfire party have a small climax before it even began.

Listening to the coaxing below, Yoshino Shota didn't scold those young people, today's bonfire party is to let the villagers relax, if you take out the usual dogma and rules, it will be too disappointing.

When the noise of the crowd gradually subsided, Shota Yoshino spoke again: "We have had a hard time in Yoshino Village in the past two years. As for the reason, I think everyone should understand, so I won't say more. ”

"But now that the war has stopped, our lives will be better, although I heard that there is famine everywhere in the city now, and many people are not able to eat. There are many people who have been starved to death, but we don't have those things in the countryside, no matter how poor the people are, they can be half-full, and starvation will not happen. ”

Speaking of this, Shota Yoshino said in a formal tone: "There is a national famine, and we can still have a bonfire party once a month, I hope that everyone present will cherish such a day, do not forget that the happiness in front of me is not easy to come by, and do not waste food, I don't want to wait for the end of the field to see uneaten food thrown on the ground." ”

After saying these words. Yoshino Shota changed his smile back to his face, and then said briskly: "Okay, let's talk about that, if I continue to talk about it, those babies will scold me behind my back, and now I announce the start of the bonfire party at the end of Yoshino Village." ”

"Good ......"

As Shota Yoshino's words fell, there was a sound in the room, and the villagers began to roast food around the campfire. The scene was very enthusiastic.

Walking into the village, Li Yan Tourmaline saw such a lively scene, and was a little infected for a while. He felt like he hadn't seen a hilarious scene like this a few times since he was a child.

Like Liyan tourmaline, Yanai Katsuto was also infected by this hilarious scene, although as a monk, he needed to worship the Buddha quietly, but this did not mean that he did not like the lively scene between the world. It's just that he hadn't seen it before.

Just when Li Yan Tourmaline and Yanai Katsuto stopped in place to watch the villagers laugh, the two outsiders were also discovered by some people in the field.

Shota Yoshino, who had just had a glass of sake with the elders, had not waited for the barbecue in front of him to be grilled when he heard his villagers come to tell him that there were outsiders in the village.

As the head of Yoshino Village, if there are visitors from outside. Then he had to come forward, so he could only put down the wine glass in his hand and follow his villagers to see the two unexpected visitors who came in the dark.

The distance was not very far, and after a while, Yoshino Shota met the two foreign visitors under the leadership of his villagers, and immediately he stepped forward and said: "Hello two guests, it is Yoshino Shota below, the village chief of this Yoshino Village, I don't know what is the important thing to come to Yoshino Village late at night, is it a journey, or is there something to come to do something?"

After saying this, Yoshino Shota set his eyes on the two outsiders, and the clothes of the two made him feel very interesting, because one was dressed as an ancient samurai armor, and the other was dressed as a monk, such a strange combination came to their Yoshino Village, and he was really a little curious about why the other party came.

When Li Yan Tourmaline and Yanai Katsuto on the side brought an old man over by a young villager, they knew that the other party should be the village chief of this village, Su Lao, and after listening to the other party's introduction, it really proved that their guess was not wrong.

Hearing the inquiry of the Yoshino village chief on the other side, Yanai Katsuto, who has been in charge of diplomacy, stepped forward and said: "Amitabha, the little monk is Yanai Katsuto, and the one next to me is Liyan Tourmaline, the two of us are people who go out to practice, and we just walked to your village tonight, so I want to stay here for a night, I don't know if Yoshino Village Chief can make it convenient, of course, the necessary tariffs and the two monks will pay." ”

Yoshino Shota, who had been watching the two of them, listened to the words of the little monk named Yanai Katsuto opposite, and Lang smiled and said: "Looking at the two of them, they should not be ordinary people, they should be people who practice Buddha." ”

"Although we are a little poor, we still have the ability to entertain passing guests for a meal, so please don't mention the tariff again, if you let the people of other villages know that our Yoshino Village collects the tariff of passing guests, then our Yoshino Village will have no face. ”

Speaking of this, Yoshino Shota had a smile on his face, and pointed behind him: "The two of you can come to our Yoshino Village today are also blessed people, our Yoshino Village will hold a bonfire party every month at the end of the month, today is the end of the month, and now there are a lot of delicious food, the wild boar that was just hunted the day before yesterday is roasting, come over quickly." ”

After finishing speaking, Yoshino Shota stretched out his hand and took the lead in leading the way towards the crowd, and then Yanai Katsu and Li Yan Tourmaline also followed quickly.

Everyone in Yoshino Village noticed that the village chief had brought two strangers, but no one took it seriously, and even Yoshino Shota himself didn't think to introduce the two young people who passed by on the journey to the whole village, because there was no need for that, and he couldn't stop the young people who had already started to eat the seaweed.

"Come on, come on, taste the taste of this mountain delicacies and mushroom porridge, the countryman's food is rough I hope the two don't mind, the wild boar will be roasted in a while, and the two of them will cut it with a knife when the time comes, don't be polite. ”

As soon as he sat down, Yoshino Shota politely greeted Yanai Katsuren and Li Yan Tourmaline, and even personally served a bowl of mushroom porridge for the two of them.

Yanai Katsuren and Li Yan Tourmaline took the mountain delicacies and mushroom porridge handed over by Yoshino Shota, and after saying thank you, the two picked up the bowl and began to eat.

After tasting it, I felt a thick delicious taste invade my mouth, and such a delicious taste immediately made the eyes of Li Yan Tourmaline and Yanai Katsuto brighten, and then quickly ate a bowl of thick porridge into my stomach.

Hearing a 'squeak' sound coming from the mouths of the two guests, Shota Yoshino immediately laughed, obviously very happy.

Because in Japan, the louder the guest eats, the better the host's meal, and now the two young passers-by are eating so loudly, obviously very satisfied with the mushroom porridge made by their village, which makes Yoshino Shota, as the host, feel very bright on his face.

"Two guests eat slowly, we have prepared a lot of food in the village tonight, and we will definitely let the two of you eat enough. ”

Hearing Yoshino Shota's words, Yanai Katsuto spoke: "Amitabha, the little monk is also a person who has traveled a lot of places, but today the little monk still has to say that the porridge with wild vegetables and mushrooms boiled by Yoshino Village Chief in your village tastes really good, and after eating it, it is even more appetizing." ”

Yanai Katsuto's words made Yoshino Shota laugh for a while, and after breathing a sigh of relief, he said, "It's really happy for me as the host to be able to get such praise from the guests for the rough food in the countryside, and since the guests like our food so much, then we must eat more tonight." (To be continued......)