In the midst of the incessant quarrels, a group of several people left the castle town of Takato Castle and walked in the direction of Lake Suwa. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The land of Minami Shinano is very barren, so there are not many people in Shitaka and there are only a few scattered villages around the huge Lake Suwa, and you can see Kuwabara Castle on the other side of Lake Suwa. Although the castle has been abandoned, it has not been demolished because Minami Shinano has been unified for a long time. From a distance, it is still a relatively large city. When Ishikawa Goemon was a guest at Takato Castle, he heard Suwa Hall tell many interesting stories about her childhood at Kuwabara Castle.

"Shinano is so desolate, even the lake is such a dry sandy land. The people here must be living a hard life. Yuka Okabe looked at the scenery in front of her and said with some concern.

Oda Nobuyuki also stopped, looked around, and said to Lin Shinjiro beside him: "Shinjiro, let's go around the village in front and see if we can get some useful news." ”

"I'm going too!" Ishikawa Goemon and Yuka Okabe spoke at the same time.

Lin Xinerlang hurriedly smiled and came out to play a round and said: "Two young ladies, what about this matter of inquiring about the news, it's not good if there are too many people, or I and the lord and the two of you will go, a few young ladies will take a rest here, and wait for our news." ”

Yuka Okabe saw that Oda Nobuyuki also had a deeply agreed expression, and knew that he would definitely not take him with him, so he snorted, came to Izumo Aguo's side, pulled Izumo Akoku's arm and said: "Sister Izumo, then you accompany Yuka to the village at the east gate to find out the news, there are several villages here, you can't let Nobuyuki brother investigate, Yuka also has to help Nobuyuki brother." “

Although Izumo Akuni has been trying to stay out of the war between Ishikawa Goemon and Yuka Okabe, although she doesn't know what kind of feelings she feels about Oda Nobuyuki, Ishikawa Goemon always gets involved in this complicated matter without concealment, which makes her very upset. On the contrary, Yuka Okabe always shouted along the way, but there was always an Izumo sister on the left and an Izumo sister on the right, so Izumo Akuni still had some good feelings for this thirteen or fourteen-year-old little witch, and when she saw that she proposed to go all the way with her to find out the news, she didn't object, nodded her head, and promised: "Okay, I'll go with you." ”

Ishikawa Goemon saw that they were in a team of five people in twos and twos, and just excluded themselves, and immediately became angry, and said hatefully: "What's the big deal, isn't it just to find out the news?" Mother, I took care of the rest of the village by myself! Let's see who's the pro! With that, he turned around and walked towards the village west of Lake Suwa without looking back.

Oda Nobuyuki looked at Ishikawa Goemon who was gradually moving away, smiled helplessly, and said to Izumo Akuni and Okabe Yuka: "You must be careful, you will gather here after the investigation." With that, he took Hayashi Shinjiro and walked to the village by Lake Suwa.

Seeing that the other two groups of people had already set off, Izumo Akuni also said to Yuka Okabe beside him, "They're all gone, let's go too." “

Yuka Okabe nodded and said firmly, "Hmm! “

Nobuyuki Oda and Shinjiro Hayashi soon arrived in the small village on the south side of Lake Suwa. The village is not large, with about dozens of families. Farmers can also be seen working in the fields outside the village. As soon as you enter the village, you can hear the laughter of the children like silver bells, and from time to time there will be a few barking dogs, which is really full of life. The old people basking in the sun in the village looked a little trembling and didn't know what to do when they saw two old men dressed as samurai with katanas hanging from their waists walking into the village. The children who were running around in the village chief, playing and playing also took refuge in the arms of several old people or behind them.

Just as Oda Nobuyuki looked around, about to find a villager who seemed to understand more and asked about something, a middle-aged man who was short in stature, but still quite strong, hurriedly ran over, first saluted Oda Nobuyuki and Lin Xinjiro, and then said: "The next is the head of the local village, I don't know what the two masters are doing when they come to our Hunan Village?" “

Lin Xinjilang looked the person who claimed to be the head of the village up and down and asked, "Are you a samurai?" “

The head of the village smiled and said, "Yajiro Shimota is a samurai in the Suwa family, and he is also the head of this Hunan village. “

Lin Xinjiro nodded and said, "Since you are a samurai, it is easy to talk." We are wandering ronin, and we heard that there is a demon remnant village near Lake Suwa, so we came here to subdue demons. I wonder if Yajiro knows where the village of this demon remnant is? Although Lin Xinjiro is now a ronin, he is also a general, and he is from a samurai family, so he naturally doesn't look at this little Samurai of the Suwa family, and still asks arrogantly.

Na Tanashita Yajiro can also see that Lin Shinjiro is not an ordinary ronin, not to mention that Oda Nobuyuki who looks like the master on the side is even more extraordinary, even if Lin Shinjiro is a little arrogant in his tone, but he does not dare to have the slightest slackness, so he said: "Back to the two ronin masters, the demon village you asked about is a legend that has been passed down for a long time in our Suwa Lake generation, but it is just a legend, but no one has really seen this village." I've lived here for more than 30 years, and I haven't seen it, so I'm afraid the two ronin masters are going to run this trip in vain. “

Oda Nobuyuki listened to Tanoshita's words, nodded silently, and said, "Then no one in the villages around Lake Suwa has ever found the demon village?" “

Tanashita Yajiro thought for a while and said, "At least our Hunan Village, Huxi Village and the two villages further west should not have been discovered, but the Fog Village on the east side of the lake is not known." “

"Oh? Why is that? How can the other villages be so sure, but you don't know about the foggy village to the east? Oda Nobuyuki asked, puzzled.

"Don't you know this ronin, our land in Ina Prefecture is barren, and there are often times when the harvest is poor, and they are all under the rule of the Suwa family, so several villages around us often help each other, so we know each other very well. It's just that the people of Nawu Village rarely go out on weekdays, and even in broad daylight, they are willing to stay at home, and there is less contact with each other, and over time they cut off contact, so I don't know about it. Yajiro Tanashita explained.

"I see, thank you." Oda Nobuyuki nodded secretly, thanked Yajiro Tanoshita, and left Hunan Village with Lin Xinjiro.

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