After finishing the meal, Yu Qiuhei and Kondo Yasuso saw that there was not much firewood in the hostess's house, and despite the hostess's objections, they also had to go to the hill on the side to help the hostess chop some firewood and come back.

On the way up the mountain, Yu Qiuping held the somewhat bulky wood knife, looked at the simple katana on Kondo Yasuzhuang's waist, and asked curiously: "Kangzhuang, I looked at more than a dozen of you, each of you has a katana?" ”

"Of course, we're samurai," Kondo said proudly, "and the katana is a symbol of samurai status." He shook his katana as he spoke, then turned around again, revealing another short knife at his waist, "This is called a rib, it's a shorter katana, and it's also a symbol of samurai status." ”

"A long knife, a short knife, is it to prevent you from being able to wield a long knife when the terrain is narrow?" Yu Qiuping asked curiously.

"I guess so, I don't know much about this, after all, my kendo is not very good," Kondo Yasuso said with a smile, "Because I am a concubine, I have to help with odd jobs most of the time, and I haven't practiced kendo for long." ”

"That's... You Japanese samurai..."Yu Qiuping remembered the disgusting pictures he had seen in Japanese movies before, and couldn't help but shudder, "When you cut your stomach..."

"Seppuku?" Kondo's expression suddenly became serious, "If there are conditions, I will use a sword." If it is inconvenient, it will be seppuku with ribs. ”

"Well," Yu Qiuping nodded, "Well, actually, my question is." ”

"Can you lend me your katana for chopping wood? This hatchet is too blunt. ”

Kondo Yasujo almost didn't faint with a fierce son.

The two of them were busy until the sun was setting west, and the firewood basket on their backs was already full. In the end, Akihei was unable to borrow Kondo Yasuso's katana to chop wood, and the blunt knife tired him enough. I thought that I loved physical exercise in my previous life, and my body was already very good. Who knew that chopping wood would be so tiring.

Yu Qiuhei and Kondo Yasuso talked and laughed and went down the mountain, and when they came to a small hill where they could see the village, Kondo Yasuso suddenly stopped, and the firewood knife in his hand fell to the ground.

"What's the matter, Kang Zhuang," Yu Qiuping couldn't help but look at him with a dull gaze.

I saw that the village, which was originally peaceful, was now crying and jumping, and it was chaotic. Several thatched huts were already on fire, and the smoke obscured the smoke that should have existed. The residents fled on the road through the village, screaming and screaming for help with their children in the middle of the village.

In the village, you can see samurai and ashigaru with red papaya patterns on their backs. They were laughing and scolding into every house, smashing and looting, dragging the honest peasants out and pressing them to the ground, then robbing them of all their finances, and then setting fire to the house. Many villagers who fled in all directions were also caught by the ashigaru one by one, but whenever anyone tried to resist, they were shot through. The screams of the residents and the laughter of Ashigaru were mixed together, and it was so piercing.

Akihei, who has played the "Nobunaga no Nobo" series of games countless times, recognized the family crest at a glance.

Oda papaya.

"What's going on!" Relieved, Yu Qiuping almost roared and asked Kondo Yasuso, "Why is there an Oda Army here!" Why would they do it to the people! Those people are not enemy troops! ”

Kondo swallowed his saliva and explained with some heaviness, "This is called indiscriminate hunting. ”

"Random catches? What do you mean! Yu Qiuping asked urgently.

"Heijun may not have known that he has not been in Japan for a long time," said Kondo Yasujo with a heavy expression, "During the war, when a daimyō, the so-called princes of the Ming Kingdom, invaded the territory of another daimyō, he would often connive with his subordinates to wantonly destroy the enemy's territory, burn and loot, plunder the people's property, and coerce them to leave. This is called indiscriminate hunting. ”

"That! But! Yu Qiuping was stunned as the peaceful village just now turned into a hell on earth, "Wasn't this the territory of the Oda family before?" They even have their own..."

"Now that they are controlled by the Imagawa family, they naturally don't care." Kondo Yasuso tugged at Yu Qiuping's sleeve, "Let's go, let's go quickly." The Oda family dared to scatter the army and arrest indiscriminately, which means that there are often Oda army activities in this vicinity, and we are too unsafe here, so hurry back to the castle. ”

Yu Qiuping's Adam's apple squirmed up and down, and the streets of the village were full of dazzling blood stains and corpses, a tragic situation that was a little difficult for this 17-year-old high school student to accept. Originally, when he first saw the tragedy in front of him, this teenager, who had lived a peaceful life for more than ten years, still subconsciously regarded him as a picture in the TV news. But Kondo's words made him realize that he himself was in crisis. The slightest carelessness is death.

Death, something so far away, suddenly so close.

He only felt a churn in his stomach, and his body began to tremble slightly. He wished to turn around and flee into the woods now, never to look back again, as if there were already a few fierce Oda troops chasing after him.

"Look there," Kondo said, pointing to the farmer where they had just settled, at the westernmost edge of the village, "there is no fire in the house, I guess it's fine, our horses are tied there." Kondo said softly, "We're going to get the horse now, and then we'll leave right away." Otherwise, if we are caught up, we will be dead. ”

"Okay." Yu Qiuping responded weakly, and in a panic, he had almost lost the ability to think independently, and just obediently obeyed Kondo Yasuzhuang's meaning.

"That farmer has already run away, right?" He muttered as if to comfort himself.

"Hopefully." Kondo Yasuso didn't have the heart to say more, but just responded.

After they came down from the mountain, they walked hunched over the bushes and quietly touched the farmer's backyard. Open the fence and go into the backyard, where they can already see where they are tethered their horses. Across the wall is the farmer's home.

Get on your horse and you're good to go.

Those Oda armies had no cavalry and could not catch up with us.

It's safe right away.

The Oda army was gathered in the center of the village, and no one would come here.

Yu Qiuping's breathing suddenly became rapid, and his heart was beating fast. He kept silently saying "it's okay", trying to calm down, but in vain.

Suddenly, a scream rang out from inside the house. This was followed by the cry and begging of the hostess, and the cry of the two little girls.

Yu Qiuping's heart suddenly tightened. He and Kondo turned slightly to the side where the horses were tethered, and through the gap between the wall and the door, they could see what was happening inside.

A man he had never met before was dripping with blood from the corners of his mouth, a big cut had been made in his chest, his washed yellow white clothes were red, and his right foot was heavily bandaged. It is estimated that it is the male owner of this house, and he is no longer alive.

Moving his gaze slightly to the left, he could see an Oda family ashigaru wearing a bamboo hemp armor, carrying a little girl in one hand and smashing it against the wall next to it. The older one whimpered and stopped making a sound, and the smaller one cried with his head covered, and was kicked by the foot, and was silent.

The mistress of the house was now pressed to the table at which they had eaten at noon·····

"Damn, these brutes," Kondo Yasuso scolded in a low voice, his other hand holding the hilt of the knife, "Hei-kun, let's rush up and kill them." ”

However, he did not get a response.

Yu Qiuping's eyes were red, and every part of his body was constantly trembling. It was as if a big bell was constantly striking in his head, and he couldn't hear anything, it was buzzing. The sense of touch in the limbs is almost intangible. The man's dead black eyes, the wounds that kept oozing blood, the two young girls who fell by the wall, and the bamboo spear with the Oda family resting lightly in the corner of the wall, and the tip of the gun still stained with blood, all impacted Yu Qiuping's fragile nerves.

Murder, rape.

Two murderers.

Me, what should I do.

Suddenly, he felt a throbbing pain in his inner thigh. He looked back blankly and found that Kondo Yasuso had pinched himself, and when he looked up, he only saw Kondo's resolute eyes.

"Go up now, those two little girls and the hostess may still be saved." He whispered in Yu Qiuping's ear, "I'm afraid I can't do it alone, you go with me." ”

Kondo's words made Yu Qiuping tremble even more, and his lips turned white. Witnessing this hell was already too much for the teenager's spirit to bear, let alone rush into it.

"I'm going to die," he said, his lips trembling as he trembled in a mosquito-like voice.

Die. What is death?

Loss of body, loss of memory, loss of spirit. Nothing. I can't even think of anything that I once existed in this world.

I don't want to die, I don't want to die.

"Run." He trembled and tried to get up, but he couldn't, "Don't ride the horse, the horse will make a sound, let's hide in the woods..."