I've only had one experience with such a large ingredient. On weekends a few months ago, the class organized a camping trip, and in the afternoon, we bought a sheep to make a barbecue, and I and two other classmates were responsible for handling the ...... I thought, this moose is about the same as a sheep. This statement is not wrong, but the tools are far from perfect. The sea moon in his hand is very sharp, and it is also a famous knife, but the work used to make kitchen knives is not so easy. I don't know how this girl named Xiaoxia usually deals with it? Anyway, she's still hurt, so I won't bother, and I didn't seem to see any knives in the house before.

Thanks to Haiyue's sharpness, I finally managed to dispose of the fur and internal organs of the elk, and as for the appearance, of course, it was not very good, and I almost cut myself two or three times. I took my cleanly washed moose, thought about it, and put on the fur again.

Back at the cabin, Natsu was still awake. I smiled, hung the peeled fur on a wooden peg in the wall, and went to the corner to find flint.

"You're using the sea moon to deal with the elk?" Xiao Xia asked, looking at the fur.

"Yes." I looked at the torn fur a little embarrassed, "Uh, this can't be exchanged for money, right?" ”

Xiao Xia showed a miserable expression, and reached out to take out a handful of ribs from the back of his calf: "You use this, Haiyue is the family treasure of the Kira family!" ”

"Huh!" I had to take it with a smile and put Haiyue next to her. I went to the corner of the wall with my rib in hand and picked up the flint, and I realized that I couldn't use it at all. I had no choice but to trouble Xiao Xia again.

"Xiao Xia, ...... this flint?"

"Just let me come." Natsu struggled to get up from the mat.

"Is the wound okay?" I tried to dissuade her, but I really wouldn't start a fire. Xiao Xia is still hungry, so it's not good to make her wait too long.

"It's okay, it's just that my hands and feet are a little weak. There was no samurai who was not injured, and there were even more serious ones in the past. She stood up, her steps a little weak, and I hurried over to help her.

The fire was finally lit, not far from the wooden house. Then, it was also Xiao Xia who grilled the elk meat, her face was a little pale, but her movements were very skillful.

"Please." She handed me half a moose leg.

"What about the rest? If the weather is bad, just leave it alone, right? Salted? ”

"Is that okay? But...... How much salt does that cost! ”

"And what do you usually do?"

"Smoke it and hang it in a ventilated place."

I nodded, it seems that there is still a lot of work to learn. However, the atmosphere is very good now, and in a trance, I almost thought I was camping now.

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Xiao Xia's senses are very keen, which should have something to do with the fact that she has been hunting since she was a child. For the next few days, she worked hard to serve me despite her injuries. Her attitude made me feel more and more pity for her. Even though I was very uncomfortable with this kind of mountain life, and she was at ease, I did try my best to help and take care of her. I think she must have felt my feelings, and gradually, her attitude became more comfortable, and the smile on her face grew. I think she was originally very lively, but she suppressed her surname a lot of the time.

She always had a lot of respect for me, and I got used to it. However, during the break, I insisted that she sleep on a straw mat on the grounds that she was still injured. For the first night or two, I was a little unaccustomed to sleeping on the thatch, and there was a beautiful young girl in the room, but I quickly got used to it. I try to think of her as my own sister.

During the day, I wander around the mountains to get acquainted with the environment as soon as possible. As for going back, I have no clue, so I won't think about it first, Hengzhu is still in the summer vacation, so I think I'm really camping. And Xiao Xia always insisted on following with a bow and arrow, saying that he wanted to protect me. At this time, she was always very stubborn, and I had no choice but to talk to her if I had nothing to do, or just make up stories to tell her, from fairy tales to history, from famous books to idol dramas. I found her to enjoy hearing that. I even think that at first she really wanted to protect me, but later it was probably more about my story......

Then, I gradually got used to letting Xiao Xia follow. Looking at her cat-like light figure and beautiful smile like flowers, I felt more than once that this strange era was also good. I guess I'm a little bit of a haunter.

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It was only when I was hunting that I felt how unfit I was to this era. Natsu briskly crawled through the woods in the mountains, and I followed behind panting. After a while, Natsu had to stop and wait for me for a while, or turn around and pull me up the hill.

"I said, your physique is really not enough to see!" She spoke more and more bluntly, "It's worthy of staying in the monastery for more than ten years......

So far, I don't bother to refute anything, and I don't have the strength to refute it now. I'm leaning on the trunk of a tree to slow down. I usually love sports, but it's too hard for me to run a marathon in the mountains. And I'm still wearing the formal samurai dress that I crossed over, so I can't help but be affected by the action. It is also thanks to this set of clothes brought by modern times, the quality is naturally better than the hand-woven cloth clothes of this era, otherwise it would have been hung into strips of fine cloth.

Of course, this dress was naturally also a little damaged, not to mention the hanging in the mountains, I also cut several by myself, the first one was to wrap Xiao Xia's wounds, and then two made a cloth towel for each of the two, and later cut some to make leggings. Now, the hem of the dress is knee-short.

"Why don't I go back first?" Breathing a sigh of relief, I was ashamed to say, "Let me follow, it's really a drag on you." ”

"I don't worry about you alone, four or five miles away is the high city of the Benshan family. Also, as a samurai, you need to train a lot, and you can't ...... like you do in a temple."

"Well, I'd rather be a monk than a samurai." I sighed.

"That's too ...... you say The great cause of the Kira family's revival is still waiting for you to complete! ”

"Don't go so far just yet." I waved my hand.

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On about the ninth day of my visit to the mountains, I found a pair of fishing tackle in the house, the hook and line were rudimentary, and the bamboo rod was yellow. Xiao Xia saw it and said that it was left by her grandfather, but she really couldn't learn it. When I was a child, my grandfather fished, and when she sat for a while, she couldn't help but make trouble next to her, so I don't know how many times she was drawn by this fishing rod. Later, when her grandfather died, she left her fishing rod in the house.

"Well, are you okay?" When I said I was going fishing, Natsu expressed her skepticism.

"Wait for the fish!" I said with confidence. Then I dug up some earthworms in front of and behind the hut, took a broken pottery bowl and put it in it and went to the river. Xiao Xia followed me suspiciously, and I let her go, just telling her not to shake around at the water's edge, and not to make too much noise. After about twenty minutes, Xiao Xia saw that I hadn't gained anything yet, and couldn't help but be quiet. She picked up the rib and scratched on the bark of a large tree by the water's edge. I looked a little away from where I was fishing, and ignored her. After a while, she stopped rowing and began to practice martial arts by the river, and kept "drinking" to "hi" in her mouth.

"Well, Natsu-chan, can you be quieter?" I now have a rough idea of why her grandfather was pumping her with a fishing rod.

"Yes!" She was still obedient and obediently stopped. However, seeing her becoming more and more uncomfortable, I also felt uncomfortable for her.

"Why don't you go back first?" I have to say.

"But your safety ......," Natsu hesitated.

"It's okay! You see, there is no road nearby except in the direction we came. ”

"Then I'll go back first. Be careful yourself. Xiao Xia thought about it too, so she stopped insisting.

I went to the troublemaker, and my catch soon came: a carp more than half a foot long. About half an hour later, another fish was hooked. When it comes to fishing, I've finally found some confidence.

Considering that there are no tools for holding fish in the wooden house, well, there is a water urn, but you can't use the water urn for drinking water to raise fish! Moreover, these two fish can already fight tooth sacrifices. So I took my fishing rod, put a few stalks of grass in my gills, and hummed all the way back to the cabin.

There are still more than two hundred meters away from the wooden house, and Xiao Xia has already greeted him.

"Look!" I handed her the fish.

Xiao Xia didn't pick up my fish: "What song are you humming?" That's good! Can you sing it to me? ”

"Okay!" I cleared my throat, "私の帰る家は,あなたの声のする街corner...... Do you want me to teach you how to sing? ”

(Note: My place is the corner where you call...... Miyuki Nakajima "Walking on the Road of Life", Teresa Teng covered it)

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I feel like I'm getting used to it, and even hunting is starting to keep up with Natsu's pace. Of course, only when walking in general. Counting the time, it's been almost a month since I came here.

I know Natsu still has her thoughts. Maybe it's because of the difference between the master and the slave, she didn't say it directly. I was happy to run away from some of the troubles first, and many times, I deliberately ignored her anxious and urging eyes.

Finally one day, when we were taking a break halfway, Xiao Xia couldn't help but mention:

"So, when did you decide to go out of the mountain?"

"Natsu-chan, are you starting to get bored with me?" I said it on purpose.

"No, no! But the Kira family ......" Xiao Xia hurriedly denied it.

"Do you think the Kira family can really be restored?" I looked at her.

"Yes! The retainers believe that as long as you return to Kira Castle, the retainers will definitely abandon the usurper Motoyama Shigechen and fully support you! Xiao Xia sat down cross-legged solemnly.

I smiled wryly. First of all, I really don't think like that. Even if I wanted to, it wasn't easy. Besides, I'm not the true heir to the Kira family, and even if I did, what if I had the support of Kira's former ministers?

As far as I can remember, the Motoyama family was still very strong at this time, occupying the Tosa, Agawa and northern parts of Nagaoka. Until 5 years later, in the fifth year of Yonglu, he still fought with the Changzong family. Later, with the support of the Ichijo family who occupied Hata and Takaoka, the head of Chomune and Ibu finally destroyed the Motoyama family in the 11th year of Eiroku (1568).

According to Konatsu, in addition to the Kamikawa family, where she is located, the Kira family's genealogy is also Katsugano, Hayama, Nishiwada, and Akiyama, but I don't remember any capable people in these families.

Or even that Kira's former retainers will really turn to support me? In a way, no one knows this era better than I do. In this troubled era, almost everything follows the law of the jungle for the survival of the strong, and in order to keep the family name or get ahead, father and son are hostile, and fratricidal killing is a common occurrence. The loyalty of Xiao Xia's family is really commendable. Only Xiao Xia will be so optimistic if he lives with himself.

I have thought about these questions a lot, and I have thought about them very deeply. Perhaps, many people will feel that crossing is a lucky thing and look forward to showing their skills. However, due to my family relationship, my surname has always been relatively deep, and I am used to thinking more deeply. And the more I thought about it, the more helpless and uncertain I felt about the troubled times of the Warring States outside.

In this era, human life is the least valuable thing, not to mention anything else, several repressions have always been a beating, which time has tens of thousands of civilians not been slaughtered by the village? There are young and strong, old people, women and children, and young girls like Xiao Xia, all of whom are just a pile of bones in the end. In the book, it's just numbers; In the game, that's just a piece of data, but since I'm in this era, what I see will be a living person. And Xiao Xia and I, once we are in it, we can only live like duckweed.

I don't want to talk to Xiao Xia about this. She's carrying a heavy enough load. In my personal opinion, this place can be called a paradise compared to the outside. If she can continue to live peacefully in this mountain, it may be the happiest thing for her. Moreover, according to history, she should be like this, otherwise how should the ancestral house of the Kira Hiroshi family be explained?

"Xiao Xia, I want to ask you something, you must think about it." I also sat down cross-legged and said seriously.

"Command." Xiao Xia's expression became more solemn.

"Do you think it's better to talk about it now, or to go out and fight and kill?"

"Fight and kill?" Xiao Xia asked suspiciously.

"yes. As you said, the ancestor hunted in the Niyodo River, Motoyama Shigechen raided, and more than 70 people in his entourage were killed, and then your grandfather fled with your mother and finally settled here...... If you go out, something similar will definitely happen, and even more painfully. Do you think you'd like to live like that? ”

"Well," Natsu hesitated slightly, his attitude becoming firm again, "Grandfather said that as a samurai, you must have the consciousness of sacrificing your life. If he is said to be a subordinate in Rendian River, he will definitely be like his father, and he will protect the ancestor at the cost of his surname. This is the duty of a samurai. ”

"But what if you had another choice? Not even a samurai?" I felt a little uncomfortable in my head and wanted to scratch my hand.

"It's okay to forbear for a while...... I heard that my grandfather wanted to rescue you, but he felt that his strength was a little insufficient, so he had to leave the house first. As for the retainer, even if he is not a samurai, as the daughter of a samurai, he will assist his grandfather! Xiao Xia said very seriously.

"Forget it, what do you think...... Alas! I shook my head, "What do you think of it now?" Have you ever thought about going on forever? ”

"It is an honor to be able to follow you. You're also very good to your subordinates......" Xiao Xia was a little hesitant this time, "but...... However, you are the head of the Kira family after all, how can you be trapped in the mountains all the time...... That doesn't work, right? ”

Yes, the attitude is finally a little loose. I felt a little more confident that maybe after a while, I could convince her to give up those illusory responsibilities and so on. Such a girl like her own sister (well, although she is stronger), I really can't bear to watch her live so heavy, and even get involved in the right and wrong and killing outside.

"Hey! What a big badger! Xiao Xia suddenly jumped up quickly, which startled me who was thinking about the problem. And she quickly rushed past me, jumping down the hill in three steps and two steps. While shouting, "Where to escape!" "I chased him out.

After all, I don't have such agility, and if I jump like this, I'm sure I'll have to break my foot. So I just stayed here and tried my best to follow her with my eyes. I saw Natsu rush into the woods below like a leopard, and in a few moments she emerged from the woods with the unlucky badger in her hand. The badger has two arrows stuck in its body, one in its neck and one in its flank.

"Look, it's enough to eat for another three days!" She lifted her prey with some triumph.

Naturally, the serious atmosphere of the conversation disappeared. Okay, let's do it for now! Moreover, when Xiao Xia proudly lifted her prey, I vaguely felt that maybe her mood was also a little conflicted. I think according to her heart, at least she won't hate the current day.

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