(a)

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He fell headlong on the bed in despair, tears falling down like a waterfall, and he looked so frightening that neither child dared to come near him.

Ah San warmly brought hot water and wanted to scrub the blood on his face.

Koji Bei pulled up the quilt and covered his head.

Ah San couldn't help but sigh and said: "Although we are husband and wife, I have been alone in the empty room for two years, and I have never enjoyed what a wife should enjoy." Now, I just want to wipe the blood from your face, don't you want me to touch you? It's really ruthless. ”

When Zhibei heard this, he felt very guilty in his heart, so he said to Ah San: "I don't dislike you, it's not that I don't want you to touch me, I feel ashamed, I will never have the face to come back to see you and accept your care in this life!" ”

He said those words of Koharu to Ah San, and said bitterly: "It seems that all prostitutes are ruthless and unrighteous, and there is no exception. ”

He angrily scolded Koharu for her shamelessness and cursed her to die.

He said that when he was in love in the past, Xiaochun swore that he only loved the master alone in this life, and if the two could not be together in the future, she would not want to live in the world anymore, and would rather die for the master.

He said, "What a beautiful word, but I didn't expect it to be a brute in human skin!" ”

Listening to Zhibei's words, Ah San suddenly became uneasy.

Her expression was staggering.

After hesitating again and again, she couldn't withstand the pressure of her conscience, so she told her about her correspondence with Koharu.

She also expressed her worries: "Xiaochun has a deep affection for the master, so he will agree to my request." If she had said that before, now, would Koharu have the will to die? Could it be that he has already decided to die for the love of the master? ”

Originally, Jibei had made up his mind to change his past mistakes and be a good husband and father, but when he heard Ah San say this, his attachment to Koharu came back to life, and he couldn't help but think: "My beloved Koharu is really pitiful." ”

So, he didn't care about the injuries on his body, and tried to get up to find Koharu.

Ah San stopped him, took out a large stack of money from the cabinet and handed it to him, saying, "If you want to save Koharu, you must redeem her immediately with more money than Taibei's bid." You go to redeem her on the spot with cash now, as long as Koharu arrives at our house and becomes a husband and wife with you, no matter how angry Taibei is, there is no way to do it. ”

Jibei was surprised and asked, "Where did you get this money from?" ”

Ah San said: "You don't care, anyway, the road is clean." You can take it to save Koharu first. ”

As soon as the guards took the money, they turned around and were about to leave the house. Walking to the door, he remembered something again. He looked back at Ah San.

He asked, "What will you do after redeeming Koharu?" ”

Ah San was sad for a while, and his tears almost fell. But she lowered her head and held back, and said gently: "It's okay to reward me with a mouthful of food, I can be a maid for you and a nanny for the children." Only, please have mercy on my two biological children, and don't drive me out of the house, leaving the children without the care of their biological mother. ”

When Zhibei heard this, he felt ashamed again. But at this time, he was worried about whether Xiaochun would have found a short-term view, so he didn't care about his bad conscience, and he was about to go out with his feet raised. As a result, a headbutt hit a person.

He looked up and saw Mi's father and his father-in-law, Goemon, standing in the doorway, glaring at him.

(b)

It turns out that people's hearts still have their own justice.

Ah San's miserable life in the paper shop over the years has already been told to Ah San's father.

Goemon didn't believe it, so he came to see it in person not long ago. When I saw it, I was immediately furious.

He blamed Ah San, why didn't he tell his mother's family about this situation earlier? Why do you want to take the children to suffer so aggrieved without saying a word?

He said, although we are not a wealthy aristocrat, we are also a well-off white family. How can the daughter of our family endure such insults from a dissolute and useless disciple?

He said to Ah San, "You must not stay by this person's side anymore. ”

He gave Ah San a sum of money, asked Ah San to pay off the family's debts, end the business in the store, and then divorce her husband, take the children back to her parents' house to live, marry again, start a new life, and never get entangled with people like Zhibei again.

This time, he was also not at ease after hearing about Koharu's redemption, and came to see how his daughter handled the debt and the store, but he didn't expect to see such a scene.

Seeing Zhibingwei's anxious look, the old man was immediately furious. While scolding Zhibei for his shamelessness, he blamed his daughter for her infatuation and confusion.

After a lot of chickens and dogs, the matter was finally resolved like this:

According to his father-in-law's wishes, Jibei mortgaged the houses and shops under his name to his father-in-law, and agreed that his father-in-law would take away Ah San's mother and son, and Goemon also agreed to let Jibei take the money to redeem Koharu, and since then the two families have been cut in two, and let Jibei take Koharu to where to make a living, and his father-in-law's family does not care whether he lives or dies.

After the matter was settled, the father-in-law kicked the guards out of the house.

(c)

Now, the guards have lost everything.

He walked out of the house in a daze, looked back at the sign of the washi paper shop, and felt as if he was in a different world, and his life was back to the beginning of nothing, as if it were a dream.

All the doors of the world were closed to him.

As a man, he has lost his moral morality, his wife's affection, his children's respect, his family's acceptance and social sympathy, and at the same time he has lost his economic resources, his ability to earn a living, his reputation and honor, and his personal security.

The only thing he has left now is the money in his hand and Koharu.

When Koharu's name came back to his head, he sobered up a little.

So he rushed to the brothel and banged on the door of the brothel.

He told the brothel owner about his wish to ransom Koharu.

When the brothel owner saw the money in his hand, he couldn't help but feel greedy.

So, she pretended to agree to Jibei's request, accepted the money, and quietly sent him into Koharu's room to have Koharu bandage his wounds.

Taking advantage of the forgetfulness of the two of them crying, the brothel owner quietly sent someone to inform Taibei's family.

Just when the two of them were complaining about their hearts and vowing to be with each other for the rest of their lives, there was suddenly a lot of footsteps outside and the lights were bright.

The men and horses of the Taibei broke in with murderous rage, shouting everywhere that they were going to kill the guards.

The two were shocked, knowing that they had been betrayed.

Suddenly, all dreams were shattered, and the two fell into a desperate situation.

(iv)

Fortunately, Koharu is a very good person, and he has made many good sisters in the brothel over the years.

In an emergency, the two received help from these sisters.

Under the cover of Xiaochun's maid and her good sisters, Li Zhuang and Shengdong, the two changed into rough maids who washed clothes in the chaos, blended out of the side door of the brothel, and then ran all the way to escape.

But one is a woman, and the other is injured and sick, where can she run past the pursuers behind him.

When they ran into a wood, they were too tired to run anymore, and the pursuers gathered outside the forest and surrounded them.

Taibei roared outside the woods, vowing to arrest a man and woman who had eloped, and slash them with a thousand swords after humiliation.

Now, there is no way out.

Koharu's voice trembled, and he recited the oath he had made to the guard.

She expressed her willingness to die for her lord's martyrdom.

After hearing this, Zhibei also felt that there was no way to avoid the subsequent suffering and humiliation by giving up this way.

So, the two decided to die together in the woods.

In the rush of the horse's hooves of the pursuers, the two hurriedly hugged each other tightly, shed tears, and made a vow together: "We can't be husband and wife in this life, but we can hug each other and die like this." In the next life, we must be born with the lotus, and we will come to each other to find each other, and we will not be able to fulfill our old wishes in this life. ”

In this way, with the last despair and hope, they made such an oath to Heaven.

When the figure of the pursuer appeared in view, Koharu took out the scissors hidden in his arms, and Jibei struggled to split it in half.

The two of them each held a sharp blade, and after looking at each other, they stabbed each other in the chest with their sharp blades!

Stabbed again and again, both of them were soon covered in blood and in pain.

The branches and trunks around the two of them were all splattered with mottled blood, and the grass beneath their feet was stained red.

The attendants who entered the woods were stunned by the bloody scene, and no one dared to approach them.

So, like this, they wept and laughed, and kept stabbing each other, until they both finally collapsed and died.

It was long after they had fallen that their retinue dared to approach the two bodies that had fallen silently.

They saw that when the two of them fell, they hugged each other deadly, their eyes were not closed, and they were still looking straight at each other.