In the thatched hut of Shinkuro's family, the house was a mess, and Shinkuro and his wife Hanako were all lying in a pool of blood with unwillingness and pain on their faces.

"My lord, this guy is dead." A clever peasant soldier in the house quickly replied to the head of the peasant soldier after examining Shinkuro's body.

"Yes! I'm finally dead. The head of the peasant soldier was slightly relieved at first, and then he was a little uneasy to tie the gun on Shinjiuro's body, and when he saw that there was no reaction, he completely relieved himself.

The head of the Ono family's peasant soldiers didn't expect Shinkuro to have the courage to resist, if so, he would have accepted Shinkuro at first, after all, it is really rare for a peasant soldier to dare to fight against a large number of people.

Thinking of this, the peasant soldier said to himself with some regret: "It's a pity, if you were so brave earlier, maybe you wouldn't have to die." ”

"Hmm~~~mm~~~~~~~~" At this time, the sound of a baby crying suddenly sounded in the ears of everyone in the house.

"What's going on?" The Ono peasant soldiers frowned, and then glanced at the peasants and soldiers around him, and the peasant soldiers of the Ohno family soon turned over in the house.

"My lord, there is a child here, it should be the child of the couple in the house!" A moment later, a miserable baby was spotted by a peasant soldier in his eyes from a foot in the hut, and he immediately picked up the baby and reported it to the head of the Ohno peasant soldier in surprise.

There is no doubt that the baby is the child of Mr. and Mrs. Shinkuro, who had been placed in a side of the hut by Hanako because he was asleep. Later, the farmers of the Ohno family broke in, and Shinkuro and Hanako didn't say anything for the safety of their children. Later, there was a great chaos in the hut, although the baby was woken up and cried, but everyone in the house did not pay attention to it because of the chaos, until it was quiet now, and the baby's crying was not discovered by everyone.

"My lord, what should I do with this baby? Why don't you just let me raise it as if it were my child? It just so happens that my family's Zhu Tianmaru also has a companion. "One of the peasant soldiers in this group happened to have a young son named Zhu Tianmaru this year, and when he saw that the baby was pitiful, he just thought of his young son Zhu Tianmaru and felt pity and wanted to save his life.

Adopting the son of an enemy family was the norm during the Warring States period, so the peasant soldier's proposal was not abrupt. However, this situation mostly occurs among samurai to show respect for the enemy, and it is relatively rare for a peasant soldier to make such a request. What's more, most of the ordinary people at the bottom are having a hard time talking now, so his proposal made the rest of the people look a little sideways.

"Pingji, don't meddle with things, you don't have enough food at home."

"Yes, Pingji, don't do anything stupid."

"My lord, Ping Ji is confused, don't care about him." Some peasants in the same village who had a good relationship with the peasant soldier named Pingji saw that he was doing something stupid, and hurriedly gave advice.

The status of the island nation is very strong, although this peasant soldier named Pingji can abandon this child if he can't live anymore in the future. However, he made this request to the head of the peasant soldiers, and if the head of the peasant soldiers agreed and he himself repented, there would be a lot of trouble.

"Oh~~~, adopt the enemy's child? I can't imagine that a mere peasant soldier would do such an elegant thing!" The head of the peasant soldiers of the Ohno family ignored the words of the rest of the peasant soldiers to help the peasant soldiers Hirayoshi cover up, but praised him in a very surprised tone.

"Thank you for the compliment, I ...... I just looked at this child and remembered my family's Zhu Tianmaru. Ping Jiwan didn't expect that the head of the peasant soldiers was not daring, and instead of blaming his own courage, he praised himself, and was suddenly a little speechless.

In fact, unlike the ordinary peasant soldiers who fought in the civil war in peacetime, the peasant soldier leader was already a low-level samurai. Therefore, he understood and appreciated Hirayoshi's respect for his enemies, and although Shinkuro was simply killed by them, his courage in the end won the favor of the peasant soldiers.

After thinking for a while, the head of the peasant soldier spoke to Hirayoshi again, "Indeed, I am touched by your request, and there are people among the common people who are as noble as samurai!" Well, I promise you. If the baby is a girl, you will raise it, but if it is a boy, you can't keep it, but let him be reunited with his family. ”

Unlike women, men are born with the hatred and disgrace of their families. Therefore, the samurai generally treated the heirs of the enemy family by killing the children and keeping the daughters, and the boys would definitely think about restoring their family names and thinking about revenge when they grew up, while the women did not have this concern, but could be used as a reward for marriage. Although it is not uncommon for the samurai to adopt the heirs of the enemy's family, since the emergence of Gen Yoshitsune, the gravedigger of the Taira clan, killing children and keeping daughters has become an iron rule.

Obviously, the peasant soldier Pingji also knew that it was a blessing to be able to do so, so he stopped dwelling on the matter and carefully untied the clothes of the baby in his arms. Lucky! It's a baby girl. "Adult, baby girl! It's a baby girl!" After Pingji confirmed, he hurriedly and joyfully reported to the head of the peasant soldiers.

"Good! In that case, you should raise her well!" The head of the peasant soldiers who had received the report also smiled when he heard this, and participating in such an elegant thing provided him with a good point to talk about.

After solving the matter, the peasant soldiers swept around the hut and saw that they could not find anything, so they ordered: "Hurry up, take away everything you can, and burn everything you can't." After a while, the wheat field will also be burned, and the young master has ordered that all the people of Miki Castle must see the fire in Ohara Village. ”

"Haha." Many peasant soldiers, including the peasant soldier Pingji, hurriedly took the order to withdraw from the house, and after some twists and turns, the thatched hut of Shinkuro's family was set on fire.

Soon, many peasants and soldiers of the Ohno family came out of other thatched huts in Ohara Village, needless to say, they all carried pots and pots, firewood, rice, oil, salt, grain, cloth and other food and goods in their hands. What's more, he walked out of the hut in rags, and what he did during the period is naturally self-evident.

Soon the whole village of Ohara was ablaze, and the peasants were all smiling about the harvest, and the smiles on their faces were so strange under the flames.

Have these peasant soldiers of the Ohno family lost their humanity? Not really, there is still a radiance of goodness in them. On the one hand, there is the brutality and plundering of animal nature, and on the other hand, the kindness of human nature shines, and I have to say that human nature is complex and incomprehensible in troubled times.

In fact, these Ono peasants were weak civilians like the villagers of Ohara Village before they set out on the expedition, and of course there may have been some speculators like the dead Shinkuro who wanted to make a fortune from the war. One moment they may be victims of war, but the next they are all perpetrators. The identity of the victim and the perpetrator changed so quickly, which has to be said to be the sorrow of the weak civilians in the troubled times of the Warring States.