The member of the Odd Soldier nodded, grabbed the jaw of a government prisoner, swung his dagger, and cut the throat of the opponent.

Seeing his movements, the other members of the Odd Soldier team who were in charge of "cleaning up" did the same, and after a while, all the captives had their heads cut off, but the difference was that no one of them made even a single shout.

Natalia stared blankly at the bloody scene, and almost fainted again.

"I'm sorry to frighten you." Lin Yiqing took out the soaked hand from the basin, Kaori Mochizuki on the side handed over the towel, Lin Yiqing wiped the blood off his hand, got up and came to Natalia.

"What will you do with us?" Natalia asked, distracted, "Did you kill us like you did?" Or is it a more brutal ......"

"We never kill women and children." Lin Yiqing interrupted her coldly, "However, in order to prevent you from revealing our whereabouts, I need you to go with us." ”

Natalia hesitated, then turned her gaze back to the wounded government soldiers, many of whom had been treated by Natalia.

"Don't look at it, Miss Natalia, I don't want to do that either, but there are some things we can't do anything about." Lin Yiqing looked at her and whispered, "You are a person who has had a painful experience, you should be able to understand." ”

Natalia's heart seemed to have been hit by something, and it hurt so much that she sighed and hung her head. Don't look at those miserable things anymore.

Kumamoto Castle, castle tower.

Saigo Takamori in his sleep started that dream again......

…… Above the reckless primeval forest. Containing a faint layer of smoke and water, from time to time a few white birds flew by in a daze, screamed a few times, and flew away. The climate here, since the beginning of October, has always been so hazy and hazy, making people's hearts burn. Saigo Takamori carried a long musket alone. Standing alone on a high hill, a person alone looks out of thin air.

When he was free, the hunter's instinct surrounded him again. He couldn't help but want to come to the mountains and forests here to hunt some game.

Saigo Takamori raised his hand and stared at it for a long time, then put down his hand and slowly walked down from the lonely cold mountain top. When he is alone, he always likes to stand on a high place and look at the sea and sky world beyond the sky.

He slowly walked towards Lin Hai, and the gray cloth faintly dissolved into the dark green sea. In a New York minute. Only the boundless green ocean makes the deep roar of the sea in the cold air.

Unlike the mountains, the woods below are much warmer, and although the air is still damp and cold, the occasional sunny time feels like spring has arrived. Walking down the mossy slope down the deep forest, Saigo Takamori put down his musket and prey bag and looked at the sky with a frown. At the moment, the sky is always gloomy and the sun is invisible, and the moisture mixed with the cold air characteristic of winter hits the face. The damp and cold are extremely uncomfortable. Saigo Takamori wiped his cold cheeks vigorously with a silk scarf. After a while, my cheeks warmed up a lot. When it comes to this gloomy winter climate, Saigo Takamori prefers the sunny spring of Moss Bay with fresh morning air. Saigo Takamori always felt that the weather was actually a person's mood, and the gloomy weather was his current extremely unpleasant depressed mood. He breathed a sigh of relief in the dreak, and once again cast the hunter's gaze into the verdant distance.

There's also a nice nest of prey with green shrubs. The deep trees above covered the sky and the sun like an umbrella on the bushes, the dark and blue barrel of the spear in the shadows slowly stretched out among the thorny weeds and bushes, and the front sight quietly searched and moved in the darkness everywhere, and gradually, the front sight stopped moving, stopped, and stared at it motionlessly. Suddenly, the trigger was pulled and there was a "bang", and a crisp gunfire rang out in the mountains and forests. In the distance, a reddish pheasant was shot and fell into the green bushes ahead. Saigo Takamori stood up and walked over with his gun. He, the hunter of the harvest, reached out and picked up his prey, looked left and right, and contentedly tossed it into the canvas prey bag. Counting this pheasant, this is Saigo Takamori's third prey today, and there are already two wild hares in the canvas prey bag, both of which were single-handedly shot this morning, and they are still warm to the touch. After packing up the prey, Saigo Takamori looked up, it was only half of the morning, it was still early before dark, he didn't plan to call it a day early and go back, even if he went back early, the station was very cold, and there was no one to talk to and chat with. It's hard to hunt once, and walking and running more is also a way to relax. Saigo Takamori picked up his musket again and began to wander around the deep forest stream again.

Although the rucksack behind him was almost full, Saigo Takamori still had no intention of stopping.

At this moment, Saigo Takamori quietly hid himself behind a bush of branches and leaves, and the tender green branches and leaves were reflected in Saigo Takamori's face, and under the slender black eyebrows, his eyes flashed, and a layer of black sea receded, leaving only the glow of the deep water. He was stout and steady, wearing a well-fitting set of grey canvas hunting pants, a pair of buckskin boots on his feet, and a white sweat towel delicately wrapped around his neck to prevent his face from being scratched by branches.

The branches and leaves suddenly trembled, and Saigo Takamori quickly stood up, but it turned out to be a wild lynx sweeping through the woods, a gust of wind. But at the same time, a beautiful pheasant came into the sight of the crosshairs: what a beautiful pheasant! In front of the crosshairs, it was proudly spreading its wings, and it was so proud. The pheasant did not know that he was now in a very dangerous situation. Just as it had just gotten up in the morning and walked out of the bedroom, now it was lazily trying to spread its red and green wings to show off its male beauty and pride, and like the first yawn of the morning, it puffed out its chest and took a big breath and then opened its mouth comfortably to exhale. Saigo Takamori stared at it intently, he had never seen such a beautiful and shockingly beautiful pheasant! Just as he hesitated to pull the trigger, the pheasant flew away with its wings "poof".

Saigo Takamori sighed. Putting down the gun, he was a little reluctant to shoot it, it was really a wild pheasant that couldn't be more pretty! He had never seen such a beautiful pheasant. I was stunned for a long time. He found himself a little tired, and finally put away his shotgun and carried the prey bag.

In the gloomy forest, a group of people slowly walked down the mountain road in the distance, and when they got closer, they saw that they were five Taiwanese Fanmin women.

The women were startled at first when they found him, but when they saw that it was a hunter, the look of surprise on their faces faded slightly.

Saigo Takamori at this time. His eyes were completely drawn to the young woman among them.

Like a man who walks down from the painting of the most beautiful lady; She is different from ordinary Moss Bay women, her eyes are large and bright, and there seem to be rippling water in her eyes. It seems that he is silently pouring out something all the time; The resolute and straight nose bridge has both the beauty of a woman and the heroism of a man; The slightly thin and soft cherry lips show an almost transparent ruby red, which is delicate at any time as if it can make people intoxicated at a glance; Long shiny hair as soft as water. Pouring down like a waterfall. It is just right to drape over the slightly sharpened shoulders. Presumably it is a long-term labor exercise, so that her figure has an overall upward uprightness, just the right crisp chest and hips, which is the most suitable model for the good development of women of appropriate age; With long legs and a thin waist, with a slender figure, it is really fat if you increase one point, and thin if you lose one point.

Even if her face is tired and servant, you can still see her petite face and delicate facial features. With a peculiar and dazzling beauty; Delicate and fair skin like curdled milk, because of the relationship between the sun. Like transparent crystal-colored grapes, it was so crystal clear that people couldn't bear to look at it, for fear that the gaze would be realized and her face would be hurt.

Saigo Takamori has seen a lot of beauties, although the woman in front of him is not as beautiful, but the deepest impression to him is that there is a kind of quiet beauty between her eyebrows that surpasses her age, the faint willow eyebrows are clearly and carefully modified, the long eyelashes flickering like two small brushes, bright enough to make people feel that a pair of beautiful big eyes that palpitate, unusually smart and energetic.

The moment she looked at Saigo Takamori, Saigo Takamori was like a lightning strike, and he stood on the spot, unable to make a sound.

Saigo Takamori couldn't remember how he looked lost and depressed, and followed her to her home.

"Lotus......" he whispered her name, and he remembered her name!

Saigo Takamori repeated the name, fearing that if he hesitated, he would forget it.

Soon, the familiar cottage appeared in front of me.

Probably hearing his hurried footsteps, the door of the hut opened, and a boy less than two years old poked his head out of the door, and when he saw Saigo Takamori rushing all the way, he was a little frightened at first, but when he recognized who the person was, a smile bloomed on his face, and he staggered towards Saigo Takamori.

Saigo Takamori affectionately lifted the child up, and the child let out a giggle and opened his immature little hand to him.

Who is this child? Why are you so affectionate with him?

The figure of a young woman named Roju reappeared, and a slight smile appeared on her slightly melancholy face as she watched Saigo Takamori affectionately hug her child.

Saigo Takamori took her child in his arms, came to her, looked at her steadily, smiled, bowed, and invited him into the house.

Saigo Takamori entered the house, put down the child, took off the shotgun, rucksack and katana on her waist, she took it and hung it on the wall, Saigo Takamori noticed that when her hand touched the katana, the brilliance in her eyes became a little dim, and her heart actually hurt a little.

"What's wrong?" Saigo Takamori asked, "If you don't like it, I won't bring it next time I come." ”

She shook her head and let out a soft sigh.

"What happened?" Saigo Takamori saw that the room was still the same as the last time he came, and he didn't see the male host, so he asked again.

She didn't answer, turned to look at him, and forced a smile to herself.

"He hasn't come back yet?" Saigo Takamori looked at her faintly sad eyes and asked again.

She shook her head, probably knowing that she would not understand what she said, so she did not speak, but took a bamboo chopstick and gently scratched it on the table.

Saigo Takamori saw that she was marking Middle-earth characters, and immediately looked at it intently.

"He hasn't been back in a long time."

"I don't know when he'll be back."

"It's good for you to come."

"Where did he go? Why not come back? Saigo Takamori also took a bamboo chopstick. Scratched on the table like her. The boy came to the table and watched curiously as the two adults wrote on the table with bamboo fast.

She didn't write again, but put down the bamboo chopsticks. Silently got up, came to the inner room, and opened the door.

She turned to face Saigo Takamori, bowed again, and held out her hand to make a gesture of please.

Saigo Takamori came to the door and looked inside. In one corner of the room, there was a katana identical to the one he was carrying.

Saigo Takamori turned his head to look at her, a faint sadness on her face.

"It's ...... Whose knife? Saigo Takamori asked.

She didn't speak. Instead, he took his hand and wrote softly.

What she wrote was "Liu Sheng" in two Chinese characters.

Liu Sheng? Whose name is this? Why does the name feel so familiar?

"By the way, that's what I brought you." Saigo Takamori remembered the prey he had hit. As he spoke, he walked over to the wall. He took his rucksack and opened it, took out the prey he had hunted and some steamed buns inside, and handed them to Radius.

Luo Zhu took the prey and steamed buns, stared at Saigo Takamori, and showed a sweet smile, when the boy ran over, she gently tore off a piece of steamed buns, and put it in the child's hand. The child's face was filled with a happy smile, and he hurriedly put the steamed bun into his mouth. Jumped and ran away.

Radius sent the prey and steamed buns into the kitchen, came to the wardrobe by the wall, opened the cabinet door, took out a neat stack of clothes that had been washed clean, and sent them to the front of Saigo Takamori.

Seeing that the damaged parts of the clothes had been sewn, and some places were even embroidered with flower patterns, Saigo Takamori couldn't help but feel a warm heart.

The boy ran over again at this time, and threw himself in front of Saigo Takamori's lap, Saigo Takamori smiled and picked up the child, and unconsciously touched his hand to the pocket, trying to find something from it that could be played with for the child, but only found a few copper coins. Saigo Takamori then threw the copper coin back and forth in his hand as if he was doing a trick, and the child watched his movements with wide eyes, obviously never seen or seen, until Saigo Takamori finished a round of throwing and took all the copper coins in his hand, the child came back to his senses and giggled.

Saigo Takamori put a copper coin in the child's hand and taught him to play with it, as if a father was teasing his son. Saigo Takamori and the boy had a lot of fun, and the room was filled with laughter for a while. At this time, Saigo Takamori didn't notice the gentle gaze of the cardiaw in the kitchen from time to time looking through the small window of the wooden wall.

After a while, accompanied by the smell of food, Saigo Takamori turned his head and saw Radius coming over with a wooden plate, placing the plates of fragrant food on the small table.

Seeing Saigo Takamori looking at him intently, Roju smiled a little shyly, turned around and went back to the kitchen.

Looking at the busy appearance of Roju and the children playing happily around him, Saigo Takamori was in a trance, and he actually felt like he was living in his own home.

Wrong! This should be his home!

His home in Moss Bay!

This child is his son!

All of a sudden, the past came flooding back into my memory.

He remembered it all.

When he was twenty-two years old, he was ordered by Shimazu Saibin, the lord of the Satsuma domain, to go to Moss Bay to investigate, but because the cadres were heavily guarded, they could not land in Jilong Harbor, so they had to go ashore from a beach in Nanfangao, falsely claiming to be a shipwrecked Japanese boatman, and were taken in by a family surnamed Liu and settled down.

This family surnamed Liu was originally from the Pingpu clan in Moswan, and later naturalized in Qianguo and took the surname Liu, and Luo Zhu was his daughter.

Luo Zhu set up the meal, brought him a pot of wine, and bowed to Saigo Takamori, and asked Saigo Takamori to sit down, Saigo Takamori sitted, seeing the exquisite and fragrant food, I couldn't help but have a great appetite, and I was about to lift it, but I saw that she didn't sit down, and I couldn't help but be stunned.

Roju took the child's hand and stood there, looking at him with a gentle glint in her eyes.

"Come and sit." Saigo Takamori understood why she didn't sit down, and immediately beckoned to their mother and son, "Xiaobao is here too." ”

According to Moss Bay's customs, she may not be allowed to eat at the same table with her husband in this family.

Lotus hesitated, took the child's hand, and sat down on the side of the table. She reached out and poured a glass of wine for Saigo Takamori, then lowered her head and raised the glass to the height of her eyebrows, and handed it to Saigo Takamori.

Saigo Takamori took the wine glass with both hands and drank it all.

The wine is a kind of local rice wine, the entrance is slightly bitter, with a faint burnt aroma, Saigo Takamori drank a glass, feeling warm in the abdomen, very comfortable. He took the flask and tried to pour her a glass, but she stopped him.

She smiled and shook her head at him, took a piece of meat for him, put it in the bowl, and then took a small bowl, put some of each dish, put it in the bowl, and handed it to the child, who obediently snuggled up to her and ate the dishes in the bowl by himself.

"You eat too." Saigo Takamori said to her when he saw the gentle gaze when he looked at the child as if he were looking at himself.

She pursed her lips and smiled, nodded, and only after Saigo Takamori moved her chopsticks did she follow and pour wine for him from time to time.

The child was soon full, and he took the copper coin that Saigo Takamori gave him, and ran to play.

Saigo Takamori had drunk a lot of wine, and at this time there were only the two of them in the room, and he impulsively held Rodiu's face.

Probably remembering the past, tears suddenly flashed in her eyes, and then, big tears flowed down. (To be continued......)

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