Chapter 16: The Spirit of the Samurai 2
In this kind of idle storytelling.
Someone asks a question, which is undoubtedly a recognition for the storyteller.
After all.
Once you ask a question, it means that someone is listening to your story. And it's also interesting to see what the story will turn out of.
That night, the men went to Kurokimaru's house with their faces covered.
They beat Kurokimaru hard.
And.
He also used a knife to carve a word on Kurokimaru's face......"
"What's the engraving?"
The sturdy old man looked at Chen Beibei and asked him. When the old man speaks, he is full of energy, even if he is just chatting, he can still give people a sense of majesty.
"It's a farmer, and they want to use it to let Kurokimaru know that he's just a farmer. And if this word is engraved on his face, Kurokimaru will probably not have the face to continue walking outside as a samurai in the future. ”
Chen Beibei replied.
"It's too much, even though Kurokimaru is just a gangster, he doesn't do anything really bad. And it's all good things that are uneven. Since such a word was engraved on his face, this must be a very big humiliation for Kurokimaru. ”
The old man said.
It can be seen that this old man has indeed deeply felt Kurokimaru's injustice.
Maybe.
This old man is a samurai himself.
Even if such a word is engraved on the face of an ordinary man, it can be regarded as a kind of humiliation.
What's more, it's still a person who has always regarded himself as a samurai?
Since then, Kurokimaru has never considered himself a samurai in the village again.
Kurokimaru just started farming in order to make a living.
However, Kurokimaru's strength has always been very strong, and his body is okay, so if someone in the village asks Kurokimaru to do some physical work, Kurokimaru will also go.
After all.
Relying on farming alone, I can only eat enough. If you do manual work, you will be able to earn some money and live a more comfortable life. ”
"I've become an ordinary person completely. However, it's okay to live like this, live a peaceful life, don't have to worry about those messy things, and there are no other worries. ”
The sturdy old man picked up his tea, took a shallow sip, and then said.
Apparently.
The old man was very satisfied with Kurokimaru's transformation, after all, Kurokimaru did not collapse and did not bent on revenge on those who bullied him.
In this way, that incident didn't seem to have much of an impact on Kurokimaru either.
At least.
Kurokimaru is still living a relatively stable and comfortable life.
"But then the story seems to be flattened, how can it be turned into a strange story?"
The young man asked.
"It's going to turn out to be weird soon, and Kurokimaru lives a peaceful life.
And then.
One day, he received a job to help people demolish an old house.
In such a village.
If you want to build a new house, you will basically build it on the foundation of the old house. So the demolition of the house is just a very ordinary thing.
Kurokimaru immediately agreed.
I thought to myself that I could make a little more money, and when I was done with my work, I would have a good meal, buy a good bottle of wine, and treat myself.
In the days that followed, Kurokimaru had been demolishing the old house.
Compared to other people who demolished the house, Kurokimaru was still very diligent.
Always the first to go every morning and the last to leave in the evening. Because they are all priced on a daily basis, the homeowner also praised Kurokimaru and appreciated it very much. ”
"Such a person should easily become rich."
The young man said.
"I can only say that it is average, compared to the rest of the people in the village, Kurokimaru is only at a very average level. After all, such work is not often available. And Kurokimaru makes money, and he will always go to eat and drink a good meal. ”
Chen Beibei replied.
Chen Beibei looked at the people who listened to his story, and their appearance was still very satisfied.
I don't know if Chen Beibei's story suits their taste.
Or is it because of the winter sunshine, and the laid-back atmosphere of the teahouse, that they are so.
Chen Beibei knew that chatting in such a place was relatively casual.
And even if it's a game like taking turns telling stories.
Everyone is not too demanding on the storyteller, as long as they can hear a very ordinary story, they are actually very satisfied.
Chen Beibei couldn't help but feel more confident.
After all.
The story has not yet entered the climax, and everyone has already followed their own rhythm and entered the story. Every now and then, someone will come up with some ideas of their own.
Even care about Kurokimaru.
"On the third night of the house demolition, it was almost dark, and the other people who had demolished the house had already gone home.
Kurokimaru was the only one still working.
Because Kurokimaru had already planned to tear down a small house that was originally used for miscellaneous items and go home.
And.
According to Kurokimaru's prediction, it shouldn't be too late to finish demolishing this small house.
At least you can go home before dark.
There's one more point, and you can call it a day and go home." ’
Kurokimaru thought that he would be able to call it a day and go home right away, and then he would be able to buy some good food and a pot of good wine on the way. I couldn't help but be happy, and when I worked, I was more energetic.
Kurokimaru stacked the dismantled bricks neatly on the side, and some of the places where they were tightly bonded could only be removed by relying on tools. Most of these bricks can come in handy when building a new house, so Kurokimaru is more careful.
Try not to break those bricks in two.
After Kurokimaru took down a brick that was difficult to remove, Kurokimaru saw through the crack that there was a dark green glow on the inside of the wall. ”
Speaking of this, Chen Beibei deliberately paused.
Because in the midst of weird talk, once these things appear, it means that there may be ghosts and other things.
And.
This is also the most attractive part of the strange talk.
"A faint green glow...... Could it be a ghost fire? ”
The sturdy old man asked.
Apparently.
Earlier, the young man said that he wanted to tell a strange story about cats, and the old man told the story that the young man was going to tell first.
And he also said that he had seen cats when he was young.
It can be felt that this old man should still know more about some strange things.
The faint green glow is indeed very similar to the ghost fire in the strange story, and it is normal for the old man to think.
"It's not a ghost fire, ghost fire usually appears around people's corpses, how can there be corpses in the walls."
Chen Beibei said.
"That's right."
The old man looked at Chen Beibei, nodded, and replied.
Although there are corpses hidden in the walls, they are all modern stories.
The date in which Chen Beibei lived was 1564.
In this day and age, there was almost no such thing as a corpse in the wall, and almost no one thought about it.
"What's in there?"
The old man picked up the tea, took a sip, and then looked at it and said slowly: "If Kurokimaru is wrong, it will be too disappointing." ”
Apparently.
The old man has always been predicting what direction the story told by Chen Beibei will develop.
This is very common in this kind of turn-based storytelling game.
After all.
Once you predict that the other party will talk about the plot next, it will be praised by others.
"I even know this......
"It's worthy of ...... so-and-so"
Even if you don't praise someone verbally, you will feel that person is really powerful.
And for storytellers, there are people who have been discussing the direction of the stories they are telling. It's also a very happy thing, after all, in this way, it proves that your story is attractive.
Kurokimaru wasn't mistaken, there was indeed a faint green glow inside the walls.
See this unusual sight.
Kurokimaru was still a little scared in his heart, but if he left like this, he was afraid that he would be unable to sleep because he would keep thinking about what was inside the wall when he returned.
At last.
Kurokimaru still chose to remove the bricks that covered the light source.
Kurokimaru saw a katana inside.
This made Kurokimaru look at the katana in a daze, and the dark green light was emitted by the katana. Katana is something that is almost impossible for ordinary people like them to obtain.
The owner of this old house is just an ordinary person.
Kurokimaru felt that it was given to him by the god of beauty.
As for the reason.
Kurokimaru didn't think much of it, maybe it was just as a reward for working late into the night. ”
"The gods don't reward people for such small things. However, Kurokimaru was able to get this katana, and he probably had some fate with this katana. ”
The old man said.
At this time, Chen Beibei saw a black-sheathed Ugin Tai knife beside the old man.
This made Chen Beibei more sure of the identity of the old man.
Must be a samurai!
And the identity of the old man should also be relatively noble, at least not comparable to those ordinary samurai.
Samurai and swords are inseparable, and being able to get a famous sword is something that almost every samurai dreams of.
And.
This kind of thing is often unattainable, and everything can only depend on the individual's creation.
After all, a famous knife is not just a well-forged and good sword, it cannot be bought with money.
"It can also be said that there is fate. After all, it was obtained in such a situation. It feels a little incredible. ”
Chen Beibei replied.
……
The sun shone in the sky, dispelling the cold of winter. The leisurely tea house is filled with an elegant fragrance.
Chen Beibei was telling a strange story about a famous knife.
"After Kurokimaru got the knife, he gave it a name, and it was called Utama.
In the days that followed.
Kurokimaru enshrines Uta at home and has been waiting for the opportunity to be able to use Uta.
Kurokimaru has always believed that Uta is spiritual.
Because Utai has always exuded that strange dark green light, even ordinary people will not think that it is just an ordinary katana when they see it. ”
"Looks like Kurokimaru is still very religious. However, for samurai, even if it is only an ordinary sword that accompanies them. It is also necessary to believe that one's knife is spiritual, only in this way can one better understand one's knife and use it more smoothly. ”
The old man said.
"Hmm."
Chen Beibei nodded.
Chen Beibei took a sip of tea and thought about how to tell the next story for a while.
And then I went on and on.
"Although Kurokimaru got Utama, life is still just going on as always.
It's no different than before. Farming, hard work, drinking......
Utai has always been kept at home by Kurokimaru, never taken out, and never used it.
But.
Even so, it was still known to the people of the same village that Kurokimaru had a strange knife.
It happened in a tavern.
Kurokimaru finished his work, and because it was still early, he went to the tavern to drink.
I ran into a few people who usually work together.
People began to brag about how much they had drunk, and this kind of thing often happened in the tavern. It can be seen almost every day, and Kurokimaru doesn't care.
But this time, it's a man named Three Ghosts, and everyone is bored with him.
Because when he brags about himself, he always looks at others with a look of disdain. It's like saying that you're all garbage and don't drink at all.
"Kurokimaru, you and the three ghosts compare the amount of wine. ’
One person proposed.
The Three Ghosts are very good drinkers, and will often boast that they are very drunk and unmatched.
And that's exactly what happened.
The three ghosts have tried many times against others in the tavern, and each time the other party is unconscious, and the three ghosts still look like they haven't drunk enough.
'Garbage...... Garbage ......'
After the three ghosts competed, they shook their heads and said so.
Kurokimaru actually had an opinion about the three ghosts for a long time, and Kurokimaru's alcohol consumption is also very good.
"Yes, yes, Kurokimaru, you can try it with the three ghosts. You're drinking well, aren't you? ’
Although I saw others say this, Kurokimaru rarely stayed outside for too long since he had Utama. Because, Wu Tai is already a very important thing for Kurokimaru.
If you test the amount of alcohol with the three ghosts, Kurokimaru is worried that it will be difficult to tell the winner for a long time.
And Kurokimaru has never been drunk so far, and no one has ever been drunk. It is said that the amount of alcohol of the three ghosts is a bottomless pit, and they will not get drunk even if they are the same as the previous day and night.
If that's the case.
Kurokimaru is also worried about his wallet, after all, Kurokimaru has earned money by working hard to sell his physical strength. Almost all of it was used for eating and drinking, and I haven't saved much until now.
"Kurokimaru, you can compete with the three ghosts. If you're willing, how about I treat you to the two of you for today's competition? ’
The owner of the tavern saw that everyone was letting Kurokimaru and the three ghosts compete, so he also came over to join in the fun.
Hearing the tavern owner say this, Kurokimaru began to waver a little.
After all.
If you can have a good drink for free, it will be a luxury dream for Kurokimaru.
I also wanted to see how much I was drinking, so I agreed if I could drink for free. ’
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