Although it was still early in the middle of the day, the samurai unloaded the wooden boxes containing their luggage from the pack oxen and found a relatively flat open space in the bamboo forest, as if they were planning to start camping like this.

"The road ahead is mountainous, narrow and difficult to walk, and there are bandits. Half a day is not enough, and if we spend the night there, most of us will be taken captive or have our throats cut. Carrying some cooking utensils, he came over and handed it to Yiren with Henry's hand, Narumi explained. Despite the danger of what he said, his tone was flat, as if it wasn't a big deal.

"We are now encamped, and we will rest until the early hours of the morning this evening, and we will set off when the morning star rises. If you don't stop walking for a moment, you'll be able to cross the mountains tomorrow evening. The answer he gave was in line with common sense, so the young lady who was listening to the lecture nodded, and then returned to Henry's side, and then Lulu relayed it to the Yi people.

The stiff atmosphere between the two sides, even if it was temporarily suppressed by the respective leaders of each side, did not disappear. Both Narumi and Temurun agreed that it would be more appropriate to keep their distance for the time being. This makes the message have to be passed on from person to person, which may seem silly, but it is indeed the best option at the moment.

The more troublesome thing is Henry, who has become the middleman, and their party has to be responsible for running left and right.

Strictly speaking, there were three forces present: Yajiro and Narumi were the Wato samurai nobles on the other side, and Temurun led the fleeing Yiren tribe. The rest of Henry, who came from afar, as well as the doctor and the Oiran who did not belong to the Qingtian family, and Lulu, who was a member of the Yi tribe but was not a member of the Temulun tribe, were considered third parties.

Although they currently have the same interests, considering that it was the missionaries' behavior that triggered the hostility of Xinjing towards ethnic minorities and foreigners, which led to the suffering of the Yi people, and the fact that the He people were the ones who carried out the persecution, it is clear that the Yi people could not really be friends with both sides. And even if the remaining two parties are exchanged, as an uninvited guest from outside, Yajiro does not have much affection for Henry and his party. So this really has to sort out who has contradictions with whom the three parties, and if you have to say anything, I'm afraid that there are all of them, but they are still in a state of cooperation.

The relationship between the three members of this team is unequal. This is the most unhealthy state of long-distance group travel.

This is something that even the stunned young man of Galeva understands, and in the first place he always tried to find a job to prove that he was worth traveling with Henry and Mira. And our Mr. Sage and Miss Luo'an, who have a lot of experience as mercenaries and have worked with many people, are even more unlikely to understand this truth.

A good team always has a reasonable distribution of personnel work, scouts have scout work, leaders have leadership work, and logistics work has logistics work. Performing their duties not only makes the team run efficiently, so that the combatants are too tired and lose their combat effectiveness due to unreasonable work distribution, but also helps to maintain a good mentality among team members.

For example, a mercenary would not ask the owner to pick up a sword and fight together. Because the other party pays the money, and they pay the labor.

And the so-called extremely unhealthy state of this hundred-man brigade at the moment refers to the fact that all tasks actually fall on the same group of people, the samurai.

The Yi people do not have much combat effectiveness, although there are some young and middle-aged people, but there are more women and children, and self-defense is very worrying. And although Henry and Mira have some combat ability, they are only two, Kaleva is barely half, and Lulu, Aya and Sakura can also be counted as half together, which naturally cannot be compared with more than thirty people fully armed and with horses.

Therefore, the task of guarding is the responsibility of the samurai.

Moreover, Miss Doctor is a native of Xinjing, far away from here, and with the characteristics of a scholar, she is destined to be closed more often. Although Oiran is from the swamp village, he has been in his comfort zone for a bit of a long time - these two are a family squatting combination. And our Sage and his entourage were born in Rigal, and the Yi people also tried not to interact with people as much as possible, so naturally they were outside the scope of discussion.

In other words, the work of the guide is also the responsibility of the samurai of the Qingtian family.

Guards and guides are all served by them, and even the food and clothing along the way are provided by the city lord Qingtian.

All Henry and the other Gentiles and the Yi men, women and children had to do was to follow them under the escort of the samurai, and then they would provide them with food.

All the work is done by the noble samurai masters, but they, the southern barbarian aliens, the barbarian hunters of the north, eat white rice instead.

This situation is not quite right.

Therefore, it is expected that the ashigaru will react violently, although it is only a half-day march, and this conflict is more due to different cultural backgrounds. But if the journey continues, and Henry and the others and the Yi people don't find something to prove their worth, the samurai will inevitably become more and more dissatisfied due to the imbalance in their hearts.

Although the culture of the people is extremely restrained, they do not easily express this emotion. But even if we don't take into account the mutual cooperation of the critical situation, just starting from the experience of this journey together, not exacerbating the conflict, and finding a way to resolve the dissatisfaction is more important than being angry.

From a personal point of view, if someone gives you a cold face, then you really don't have to swallow it. But what makes experts experts is that they can distinguish between public and private. Even if we can't get along in terms of personal emotion, for the sake of the overall interests of the team, we must show professionalism, overcome conflicts at the individual level, and achieve efficient cooperation and win-win results.

This is also the reason why the sage would put up with the vexatious behavior of the Lamanite scholars and his party, and finally chose to part ways. If it is just personal vexatiousness, then as professional adventurers and professional mercenaries, it is necessary for them to show due quality to treat the work of guards and endure this kind of behavior. But the scholar's mentor, Luo Lan, had other crooked thoughts, and this crooked mind risked drawing them into the vortex, and the sage judged this and chose to cut off the connection.

It's just that even he, Henry Mayer, has no way to predict the future after all.

Loran was only "intended" to involve them, but left him behind to avoid the trouble, but he ran headlong into rebels and monsters, and was chased by thousands of samurai. In comparison, perhaps Luo Lan and the others, who were left behind, found a small boat or something like that, and arrived in the big city safely.

What should come will come eventually, no matter how much you try to avoid it.

It's like Rigal's classical fable about the "man who shelters from the rain", you think you just have to wait until the tree that is now sheltering from the rain is soaked and replaced, but the rain is far more widespread than you think.

Man's horizons are limited, and even if the long years of our sage's life have given him far more knowledge than ordinary people, and a broader perspective and time scale for looking at problems, all he can do is rely on what he knows to choose the most likely one.

Henry could not concoct the unknown out of thin air, nor could he guarantee that what he foresaw would be absolutely correct every time.

Either way, as if fate was playing tricks, they were now in a whirlpool.

Returning to the original point, while some of the ashigaru were setting up the camp, the lunch that had been prepared earlier had already begun to heat up, and it was almost ready to eat.

Among the samurai led by Yajiro, the only high-ranking warriors were Narumi and the other two, all of whom wore ornate armor. Like the wealthy knights of Rigal, Narumi was clearly more than a high-ranking samurai. He did not use the kind of light folding armor he wore when standing guard inside the mansion at this time, a bright and luxurious armor of sea blue and dark green, and a delicate sleeveless vest on the outside, similar to the burqa worn by the Rigal knights, while protecting the armor from being eroded by the moisture in the environment, the embroidered or dyed family crest on it is also a kind of identification.

This garment was only available to high-ranking samurai, and the rest of the samurai, who also rode horses, were significantly inferior in color and workmanship, despite their elaborate armor.

The samurai selected by Aota were very loyal, and because they couldn't be too numerous, they were sometimes too busy to ride horses, and the samurai had to send people to help. Therefore, in addition to a dozen or so experienced samurai, there were a number of young men, most of whom had just risen from the squire class to the gifted and superior. The samurai class of the Lunar Land also had a custom similar to that of the Rigal knight squire, with young samurai accompanying their elders in carrying armor and weapons until they met the conditions before they could obtain their own horses and become full-fledged samurai.

Of course, although they also fought mainly on foot during the squire stage, this young samurai was not a low-level figure like Ashigaru. They also came from a higher aristocratic class, but they were still young and could only fight on foot.

Ashigaru has been ashigaru all his life, and this will not change.

In short, a large black-iron pot hung from a pack ox was added with water from a nearby stream, and the samurai put in the main component of their lunch, japonica rice.

Although rice is also present in Rigal, in the Land of the Moon, this is the real staple food of most Wazu.

The meandering system of the Yongchuan River and its tributaries provided the perfect environment for rice cultivation, and thanks to the wealth of the town of Aochi and the convenience of water transportation, people here could eat rice more often, even if Aochi itself did not produce rice.

Naturally, most of the poor people still feed on potatoes that can be cultivated and grown in the north, but the samurai, who are accustomed to eating rice, will definitely carry prepared rice grains when they have to travel.

Because it is not easy to make a fire in the wild environment, and because the efficiency of the stove is not as good as that of the specially built brick stove, in order to make the lunch of the cauldron mature faster, they did not hesitate to increase the weight of the burden and also brought the stone mortar used for the rice. Sprinkle the rice grains into it and mash them, then add them to a large pot and boil, until the soup has thinned and the rice grains begin to mature and swell, then add some sun-dried spices and a little salt.

The broken rice porridge thus processed and paired with pickled dried radish in small clay pots made up a simple Chinese meal for the samurai.

"......" has been holding back the words since last night's banquet, and Mira finally couldn't help but speak:

"I'm not used to eating things from the Land of the Moon. ”

"Why do they like to eat light food so much?"

I'm used to Rigal's salted meat, grilled meat, cheese and sausages, and I've eaten from the Japanese samurai and the Ito, but they all taste the same and taste light.

We white-haired girls who have always been optimistic.

Finally, I couldn't help but start worrying about the future.

"If I've been eating something like this all this time, I'm probably. ”

She turned her head to look at Lulu, who was feasting next to her, and Miss Doctor, who was afraid of the heat, so she was blowing one by one, and said seriously:

"It's going to die. ”

"No, it won't. The sage shrugged.

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