Chapter 4 Mountains and Forests

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In this day and age, if you want to have a name, you must at least be a samurai, otherwise you must be a farmer, a merchant, a robber, a hunter, a fisherman, a woodcutter, or a foundry...... All of them are the same, they are all commoners, they have no names, and if they take their surnames privately, they will be executed on the spot.

And the three brothers of Inu Luoluo, Inu Dou Maru, and Inu Takemaru are not biological brothers, but the common leader of a group of robbers, and later they were subdued by Yan Shou Li Kawada as a retainer, and after discussion, they took a name and surname together, and the surname Dog together.

This can not only show the heartfelt heart of the head of the family, but also let people know that they have a good relationship, so as to ensure status, but in reality, their relationship is not very good.

The rank of the cottage is divided into four classes, the first being the Grand Commander Yan Mori Kawada, the second Commander Teng Monotori Bell, the third Commander Nine Pathoshi Honta, the fourth Commander Nine Ways Honkatsu, and the fifth Commander Nine Ways Yoshisaburo, all of whom are said to be nobles who fled after losing their land during the Onin War.

Among them, the three brothers of the Nine Daoyi families were all retainers of the strict Shouli Kawada, while Teng Wutori Zhong was a mage with a transcendent status.

The second class is some of the robbers led by the three brothers of the Inu family and some other retainers who strictly guard the Rikawada, and Cheng Li is also a part of the people by virtue of his identity as the son-in-law of Inu Takemaru and his outstanding performance in the past, there are a total of nine people, and they are the nine leaders.

The third class is the remaining robbers, who work as guards in the cottage.

And the fourth class is the common people, who have a variety of occupations such as farmers, craftsmen, and hunters.

Where there are people, there are entanglements of interests, disputes, intimacy, affection, and hatred......

Although he is a retainer who strictly guards the Li family, the cognition of the three is biased, and Inu Luo Luo thinks that he should do things sincerely and strive to be able to fight against the Nine Dao Yi family, while Inu Doumaru has attracted the rest of the leaders and guards to take refuge in the Nine Dao Yi family, as if he has become a pawn, as for Inu Wu Maru, he will do things for Teng Wu to take the bell.

The three of them divided the rest of the leaders and guards, forming three forces, ostensibly in order to suppress the rest of the leaders, so the relationship between the three of them seems to be very good, and they go back and forth every day, talk about interesting things in the past, and play with women together, but Kasaku is a confidant of Inutakemaru who knows the truth.

Of course, Kasaku and the next generation of the leader get along well.,Maybe Kasaku will come forward to care about Inu Shengyi when he sees this situation.,But now Chengli doesn't have the intention of intrigue in this small place at all.。

Even if something happens to his family, it has nothing to do with me, so there is no need to find trouble and ask for trouble.

Although the economy and culture of Japan in the world have developed very well in the past, basically in the hearts of every Chinese, the Japanese are just Japanese, which is the psychological advantage of thousands of years of cultural heritage, and the same is true of inheritance.

Since they are Japanese, why bother to solve their problems?

For lunch, Cheng left Muduo's house, and the meal was ready, three or four side dishes, four or two meals.

After Chengli went in, he said hello, and sat there cross-legged to eat, only Mu Duo knelt and sat with him, but he only ate dry rice and didn't dare to pick up a little food, as for his wife and sister, they were women, so they didn't even have the qualifications to eat.

His wife's craftsmanship is good, but it is too bad for the inheritance that is now used to in modern society, the rice is lilac, and a few side dishes look only a little oil and water, dry.

Some of them are good to eat, but what do you want? Cheng Li thought so.

However, after swallowing a few bites in a hurry, his throat became dry - Chengli really couldn't eat this bowl of rice that had not even been cleaned of the chaff.

Putting down the bowl and looking at the brown terracotta bowl with about half of the lilac rice left on the small table, Cheng Cheng thought to himself, even the poorest people in modern society don't eat this kind of rice, right?

However, I am a scholar, grinding, licking and the like, I don't know anything at all, and I am really useless as a scholar.

Cheng Li left the wooden family and walked south, looking at the surrounding wooden and mud houses, smelling the warm smell of earth and grass in the sun, and sighed in his heart.

However, Chengli quickly made up his mind: "What I am pursuing is a wonderful world of demons and monsters, so why bother with these trivial matters of life." ”

Chengli soon came to the agreed place, by the bridge to the forest on the other side of the river, and there were already people waiting there.

Looking east, a long river runs from the east to the north and into the southwest of the jungle, and this boundary is located in the section of the river into the jungle.

To the west, there is the place where the pontoon water flowing from the mountains merges into the river, and the water is particularly turbulent due to the difference in terrain.

On the other side of the stream, Chengli can see the house of the Yan Shouli family, and further west is the courtyard of the Tengwu family. A few dozen steps north of the two of them was the house of the three brothers of Jiudaoyi.

The residence of the three leaders of the dog family and several other leaders was a hundred steps away from the forest to the north of the Jiudaoyi family, and they were separated from their current residence.

This stream divides the hierarchy quite sharply, and the dwellings of the adults in the west and the houses of the commoners in the east can be seen at a glance.

This is just the effect of force, it still belongs to the category of human power, what about those supernatural forces?

Chengli is very yearning, and Teng Wu takes the clock, the wild monk who has a son and a daughter at the age of thirty, and has to play with women every night is Chengli's goal, no matter how much he knows, the title of a mage is destined to know absolutely a lot.

The people had arrived, and there were seventeen of them together with Chengli, four of whom were guards, about thirty years old, three of whom were old hunters, forty years old, and experienced in their experience, and the rest were only one or twenty years old, and were new hunters.

The identity of the hunter among the common people is good, but because of this, the people who are picked out are relatively strong and powerful, so Cheng Li looked around, although a few of them were only a little older than him, but he was still the youngest in comparison.

This caused a lot of inconvenience to Chengli, so he only became a civilian leader, but it also had benefits, Chengli looked at the young man who walked in front of him at the signal of the old hunter.

This gives others a good excuse to stammer.

After his flattering words, Chengli handed him the burden with arrows and miscellaneous items, and refused the request to carry another burden for himself, "I'll do this myself." ”

Just in case, Seori decided to carry this package on his back, which contained dry food prepared by Kazuko for himself.

After crossing the bridge, the group drove the carriage down the river and slowly into the forest.

There are a total of nine horses in the cottage, five adult strong horses, a young horse and three old horses, the old horse can not ride people, but it can also pull the car, but considering the condition of the old horse, it can only pull the empty car when it goes, and load the goods when it comes back, all of which must be pushed by someone behind.

So the luggage can only be carried manually.

The team was quiet, there were no superfluous words, or rather, with Cheng Li, the nominal leader, the atmosphere was very oppressive, only some whispered conversations, Cheng Li looked at the young hunters who were nodding around the old hunters, knowing that they were imparting experience.

The road was very calm, and there was no turmoil, such as someone jumping out to express their dissatisfaction with their status as a leader, or suddenly a wild beast such as a tiger and wolf jumped out to attack, or something from heaven and something fell to cause everyone to fight.

Not at all, just following the river, Chengli saw that there were several mountain streams along the way that merged into the river, and the river was significantly wider.

Sure enough, the river and the sea do not choose a trickle, so it can be deep.

I rested twice on the road, almost two hours and a quarter of an hour, all to take care of those guards, and I was so tired after only walking for a while, Chengli saw the contempt in the eyes of several young people, the old people were not tired, they were still adults, they were still guards, and they were adults.

Cheng Cheng was vigilant.

From thrift to luxury, after the guards bid farewell to their previous robber life, they have obviously relaxed in recent years, slept and played with women, and their physique has decreased a lot.

And although Chengli is not as indulgent as them, he has also relaxed in the past few years, he found that after walking so many ways, he was already very tired, and rest was also necessary for him, but Chengli still pretended to be relaxed.

For the leader, they must be strong, age is not an excuse, not to mention that Cheng Li became the leader, to a large extent, by virtue of outstanding bravery, without a strong body, how can you talk about bravery?

I can't see it without comparison, and seeing that the others are only slightly tired, Chengli found that his physique is much inferior to the past for the first time.

Looks like it's time for a workout.

In this kind of world without legal principles, the only thing you can rely on is your own body.

It was getting late, and a faint red light had appeared in the originally blue sky, and those old hunters came over to say that they could choose a site to set up camp, but Chengli still only nodded coldly in agreement, and there was no conversation.

has always been cold, this is in line with the identity of the leader, if a leader and the common people are smiling, there is no majesty at all, then something is wrong.

The speed of the crowd slowed down significantly, and the novices, led by the old hunter, began to search for camp and firewood.

Soon the experienced old hunters had chosen their camp, and on the gentle slope of a riverbank, twenty paces away, there were bushes, and everyone was busy, making fires, feeding horses, and setting traps......

Cheng Li found an open space, untied the long knife on his waist and sat cross-legged, his feet were already very sore, Cheng Li watched those people busy preparing to cook soup, rubbing his legs quietly, and then looked at the other side, the three guards were already lying down panting.

It was surrounded by boundless trees, all forty or fifty meters high, firmly enclosing the riverbank, leaving only a small sky dome overhead, which was already dark blue on one side and crimson on the other.

Chengli looked up, first the light around him became darker and darker, and slowly, the whole sky darkened, the sun went down, although it was blocked by the trees, Chengli still looked to the west, as if he wanted to see the sunset through the trees.

Of course he couldn't see it, but as the light grew darker and darker, and finally melted into the boundless sky, there was a sense of amazement in the Chengxuan.

He felt lonely.

At the beginning, the confusion that came to this world, the subsequent excitement, and then the pride and ambition all dissipated with the disappearance of the light at this moment, and at this moment without the interference of others, when the heart was full of thoughts, the first thing that came to my heart was boundless loneliness.

Being alone in a foreign land as a stranger, let alone a different world.

There was a fire behind him, and Cheng Li turned his head to look, and the bonfire had been lit, and a clay pot was boiling soup on it.

The moon also quietly hung in the sky, a layer of silver glow shrouded the heavens and the earth, and the black woods also had a soft light, Chengli looked at the grass swaying in the breeze under the moonlight, and heard the laughter and laughter of those people in his ears.

"According to me, if you encounter a pack of wolves, then wait for death, if it is a lone wolf, then remember ......"

"I think when I was on a night trip, I came across such a deserted village......

“…… The bear was as tall as a house and as strong as a few people. ”

“…… The big bird was dragged away by the nobles, otherwise ......"

……

Boring.

Chengli lay down, but he couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, and after thinking about it, he didn't waste time, so he picked up his katana and went into the jungle.

For Japanese swordsmanship, Jori doesn't know much.

But the basic moves are known, Tang Zhu - head straight split, robe slash - right oblique cut, reverse robe - left oblique cut, against the wind - bottom up, left cross-cut, right cross-cut, left cut up, right cut up, and a type of thrust.

However, the original addition has not even learned these nine moves, let alone the most important footwork of the knife technique.

Like the ancient Chinese nobles who studied their own ethnicity, the Japanese samurai class also kept the sword skills strictly secret, which was the foundation of their existence, and there was no truth to pass it on.

A simple book in modern society is a treasure in ancient times, and some common sense may be the secret of which dynasty and generation.

But Cheng Li doesn't plan to practice these, there is no footwork matching, there is no difference between sword moves and not, what he wants to practice is the sword drawing technique.

Drawing the sword can be said to be the representative of Japanese swordsmanship, and some people believe that it is the strongest sword art in Japan, because its core idea is "one blow kills", using the increasing acceleration when slashing through the scabbard, the strongest lethality explodes after the sheath is unsheathed.

Of course, it also has special grips, capacity skills, footwork and the like, but these are all things that can be explored by themselves with experience, just need to be faster, can be stronger, as long as you practice more, you can naturally find the most suitable way to exert power.

Chengli walked into the forest, constantly selecting targets, although his physique had declined, but Chengli was still clear and clear, and quickly adapted to the environment in the dark, and the moon in the sky was full.

Three years of knife practice, ten years of sword practice, the knife is not like the sword in general, to master the routine, speaking of knife practice, for beginners is three words, fast and accurate.

The eyes should be fast, the heart should be ruthless, and the hands should be accurate.

Eyesight, which needs to be cultivated by experience, and ruthlessness, it is necessary to fight.

The only thing that can be exercised is to have a steady hand.

However, after turning around, I didn't find a suitable tree, either crooked or too thick, Chengli was a little disappointed and a little bored.

But that's the way it is, and it can't be everything as it should be.

Since you can't practice the sword drawing technique, then practice the basic sword moves, whether it is useful or not, it is better to practice than not to practice, just like one thing, if you do it, it is better than not doing it well.

Cheng Li walked to a fairly empty place, slowly pulled the knife out of the sheath, listened to the clear sound of metal friction, looked at the cold knife light under the moonlight, threw down the sheath, stroked the blade of Sen Han, and a chill spread from his hand to his heart, which lifted Cheng Li's spirits.

Concentrated, and in an instant, a burst of cold sword light flashed in the forest under the moon......

"How can this be? absolutely! Definitely get out of here!" Yan Shou Lisheng's face was distorted, his eyes were wide open, and he rushed out of the mansion with a rolling belt, his clothes were disheveled, and he was completely calm and calm, the folding fan was gone, his clothes were torn apart, and his right arm was still oozing crimson blood.

"Can't look back, can't, ho-ho-ho... Absolutely not!" Yan Shou Lisheng was dressed roughly, completely lost his mind, couldn't see the river in front of him, and rushed into it all of a sudden, without the resistance of the water, he still rushed forward, his center of gravity was unstable for a while, his body leaned forward, and he fell into the river with a "bang".

"Ahh Yan Shou Lisheng's whole face crashed into the river, the water flowed into his throat, and he suddenly got up, coughing constantly, so soaked in cold water, he also calmed down.

Turning his head, Yan Shou Lisheng looked at his family's mansion, the mud wall under the moonlight was hit by a hole in him, and everything inside was pitch black, as if it was the throat of a giant beast, containing great fear.

"No, as the eldest son of the strict Shou Li family, the future head of the Yan Shou Li family, how can I just run away from the wilderness?" Yan Shou Lisheng gasped, trying to suppress the fear in his heart, "How can I run away like a defeated dog!"

"Huh, footsteps?" he immediately thought that he had just moved too much and attracted the attention of others.

If you go back, you can't go back, Yan Shou Lisheng looked at the mountains and forests opposite, and his heart moved, swimming across the river.

For now, I can only hide in the forest, waiting for my chance.

Hearing the footsteps getting closer and closer, Yan Shou Lisheng did not dare to delay, and hurriedly went into the jungle after crossing the river.

When Kudoyi Bundo rushed to the riverbank with his brothers and guards to scatter and search, he found that there was no one around, and only one person looked at the opposite bank by the moonlight, but found that there was a trembling branch and leaf, but soon it was calm again.

It's the wind, right?

The man shook his head and searched carefully near the riverbank, there were already people waiting on the other side of the stream, and no one had been found yet, so it must be nearby.

I don't know which family's common people ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, and dared to go to the commander's house to make trouble, isn't this looking for death?

But if I find it, I'll be able to have a big face in front of the Commander.

Thinking of this, he became more positive. Can't miss any clues!" he said to himself.

Just thinking like this, a gust of wind blew, "Ah, ahhh ”

It's really windy tonight.

Another gust of wind blew and shook a grove of trees.