Chapter 208: The Night Is Dark
In the early hours of the morning, in a wooden house, the dim lights open up a small space in the dark night.
In another hour it will be dawn.
Keiko sat in front of the bronze mirror in the house, a narrow room with only two tatami mats, and the two of them were a little cramped.
Keiko looked at the mirror silently, her long black hair was combed smoothly by her mother, this is a festive day, but it makes people sad and want to cry.
The mother standing behind her was the same, sorting out the green silk and constantly wiping away the tears that rolled down.
"Mother-sama......" Tsukeiko cried.
"Don't be afraid, Keiko......" The mother stroked Keiko: "This is your blessing, don't be reluctant, just look at this samurai who has a hundred pieces of gold if he drops a gold bag, he is not a liar." ”
The Kurokawa shogunate opened a money base and minted copper coins of "Kurokawa Tongbao", and later "Kurokawa Ginbo" and "Kurokawa Jinbao"
Traditionally, the "Kurokawa Ginbo" is one tael, also known as the silver judgment, and the "Kurokawa Jinbao" is the same as one tael, also known as the gold judgment, all of which are round.
But in reality, only the samurai class circulated internally.
One tael of gold in Fuso can buy three stone rice (the Kurokawa shogunate stipulated one stone and one hundred catties, instead of the original three hundred catties), which is three hundred stone rice!
This dowry is rich even for the samurai class.
So her mother continued in a slightly trembling voice: "I heard the samurai-sama say that you used to marry the younger brother of the governor, and you are a member of the family, you will live better, even if we can't see each other, I will be at ease!"
As he spoke, he burst into tears again.
Keiko just shed tears and couldn't even speak.
Time passed very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, dawn cut through the darkness and silence.
"Keiko, let's go out!" the mother wiped away her daughter's tears, and only pulled Keiko out until she could see no traces of crying.
In front of me, my father was still holding a sake jug in his hand, drinking sake, and when he saw it, he said, "Go, don't delay, your lord is waiting for you outside." ”
"Yes, father. Keiko bowed to the ground with her hands on the ground, ignoring the dirty floor.
She didn't know if this was the last goodbye, the daimyo family was unusual.
When I went out, I saw a carriage, and in front of it was Sasaki Kojiro, who had changed into a brand new samurai uniform, and his body was straight, and there was no trace of dust, showing his strength.
"Please get in the car!" Seeing Keiko come out, Kojiro Sasaki said politely, the younger brother of the original head of the family is not his own lord, but depending on the situation, the son of this girl will be the heir of the Omada family.
"Yes, my lord!" Keiko listened, thinking to herself, not long ago, she was the daughter of this small shop, but now she is sitting here alone in gorgeous clothes, feeling indescribably lonely and uneasy in her heart!
The most important moment in this life, whether it is a blessing or a disaster, all started here, turned around, and saw tears flowing from the corners of my mother's eyes, I couldn't help but feel a pain in my heart, and suddenly grabbed my mother's hand tightly and shed tears.
"You can go with you!" said Kojiro Sasaki to Keiko's mother.
Leaving the place where he grew up since childhood, going to a strange family, and leaving the relatives who have accompanied him since childhood, this feeling can still be understood by Kojiro Sasaki!
"My lord, can I go too?" Keiko's mother was a little incredulous when she heard this.
"Madam, we are a Zhengda marriage, and we have Sakura Pavilion in Jiezhen and Shikoku, and this time I went to Sakura Pavilion in Jiezhen, and we will live for a while for bridal training. Sasaki Kojiro said, "It's not far from Kaizhen here, it's three days away, you can go with you" This is really good!" Keiko's mother was a little incoherent and quickly thanked her.
"Please!" Sasaki Kojiro asked Keiko and Keiko's mother to sit on it, and disappeared all the way down the road.
On May 11, Keiko arrived at the Sakura Pavilion in Kaizhen, and a group of women and children solemnly went out to greet them, but there were no male samurai, and after greeting them, they were immediately brought inside.
Keiko had never seen such a luxurious residence, the fragrance of high-quality wood came faintly, the cherry trees in the courtyard, and the blue lanterns hanging in the corridor.
Keiko has three rooms, and the main room is the size of twelve tatami mats, which is very spacious and can be stretched out into the garden.
Keiko was a little dizzy, this kind of luxury was unimaginable, even the occasional princess's house was far inferior to this cherry blossom house.
After learning this, she couldn't help but show troubled eyes, and when she got inside, two more men saluted, one was Sasaki Kojiro and the other was Kangi Kurojiro, sitting on the left and right respectively.
There were also two ladies and two children who bowed down.
"This is the Matsumae family and the Sakuragi family, although the men died in battle, but when these two children grow up, they will become samurai and continue to die for the Omada family, please accept their bows!" Sasaki Kojiro said quietly.
Seeing the two children who were only a few years old bowing down seriously, Keiko felt that she couldn't stand it, but she sat up straight like a lost soul and greeted their bowing.
It was night, the light in the prison was very dim, only a few oil lamps were faintly shining, a little forest, the warden squinted and stared, and his face was calm and silent.
Now the situation has deteriorated, and it is not only the business of one prisoner, but hundreds of prisoners in the prison have colluded to escape through this incident.
"Xiao Sha, it's not impossible for you to go out, you let Master Cai go, let's talk carefully, there will always be a chance!" the warden said after a pause.
"Hey, who are you coaxing with this? Let go of this dog officer, I guarantee that you officials will pounce on you immediately!" This Xiao Sha stared at the warden coldly, with a cold smile, and said fiercely: "Look at my legs, on the clamp, this is the fate of believing you, do you think I will believe it a second time?"
Although Xiao Sha is unkempt, his eyes are flickering fiercely, which makes people frightened, even the warden does not dare to force his eyes, this person is a so-called martial arts person, but he has offended someone, and he is planted here, and the means inside are naturally "needed for law enforcement", very dirty, and do everything!
The warden was furious in his heart, his lips tightened, but at this time, he could only suppress his anger, squeezed out a little color on his face, and said to Xiao Sha: "You let Master Cai go, there is still room for it, if it is reported to the above, and then the order is given, you will all die, and your family will be harmed!"
"Haha, if you let it go, you will die, if you don't let it go, you will die, as long as you dare, I don't care about this life! Lao Tzu has found out, a total of one six-grade official has been arrested, and more than a dozen prison errands, they are all going to die, so they can't hide it, and you will all bury me with you!" Xiao Sha said this, and suddenly laughed happily.
Even if you die, you have to bring someone to bury with you, and if you have read some books, it will be useful at this time, and if you don't know anything, you will be fooled!
The warden looked at the crazy look in Xiao Sha's eyes, he didn't dare to be stimulated anymore, he secretly hated it in his heart, he knew that this was the case, when this kid came in, he would have broken his tendons first!
At this time, in a dark place, a shallow shadow stood quietly, it dissolved in the darkness, quietly watching what it needed in this tense environment.
After a while, the black shadow did not stay, and turned into a dark wind and swept out of the prison, rolling up the withered grass on the ground.
This strange scene, the jailer and Xiao Sha were all chilled in their hearts!
"What an evil door!" "If you stay in prison a lot, you will easily see some unclean things, they all have human lives on their hands, and because they have seen a lot, they all understand it in their hearts.
"It's okay...... It's just a ghost, we're a prison errand, and we're afraid it won't work?" The warden made up his mind, and the evil spirit suddenly floated up, and immediately put this matter aside, and now the headache is this big thing, as for whether it is clean or not, it will be enough to sacrifice to the prison god when it is solved.
A river beach, here is a small mooring point, in the dark there are a few boats moored in the river, not far away there is a hometown hotel, these businesses are carried out, let the moored sailors, merchants, and boatmen buy some food and drink, and as for sleeping, they all sleep on the boats.
The people on the deck were sleeping or going ashore, and Wang Cunye sat alone on the deck, drinking a few small dishes, with rice wine, under the moon.
It only cost a piece of broken silver, and he has this enjoyment, and now Wang Cunye will not be reluctant.
For Daomen real people, although it is impossible to have a million taels of silver, but the annual allowance of the ghost fairy is several thousand taels, if it is a real person of the earth immortal, it is natural to have tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, and you don't have to pay for food, clothing, housing and transportation out of your own pocket.
Not to mention some privileged economy, except for the Taoist who is consumed by profit, can be satisfied, but the person who is consumed by profit can achieve the earth immortal has really not seen.
A black shadow turned into a yin wind, passed through the space, and rushed towards a boat, and before he reached a hundred meters, he saw Wang Cunye stunned and looked up.
This yin wind is one of the grass-headed gods, and only one of the three thousand six hundred grass-headed gods survives, and the others have all been annihilated and returned to the underworld.
Wang Cunye has no pity, as long as one is a seed, to put it mildly, when it is appropriate, he can naturally cultivate an army, but what is the quality of the surname, he is still waiting for himself to become an earth immortal, and waiting for the turtle shell repair to be completed.
As soon as he changed his hand, this pearl appeared in Wang Cunye's palm, mellow and faint in the moonlight, exuding a quiet and warm light, and there was no ghostly aura on the outside.
"Come back and tell me what's going on. Wang Cunye said to himself, and the yin wind turned into a black light, and in a flash it escaped into the pearl.
Wang Cunye closed his eyes, sank his heart, and one after another information was transmitted from the sea of knowledge of the grass head god.
After a while, Wang Cunye opened his eyes, and he already knew what was going on in prison.
"Xiao Sha, a martial arts man, was counted in prison, and he killed the prison warden in anger, and Cai Pingdu was taken as a hostage?" Knowing the situation, Wang Cunye frowned: "It turns out that Cai Pingdu's robbery fell here." ”
As for Xiao Sha, there will never be a shortage of such people in the world, not to mention anything else, he almost fell into Xiao Sha's situation back then.
I took the pearl into my arms casually, looked at the sky, and saw that the night was thick, and it was actually not far from Changqing County, but now it stopped in the middle of the night, and it would not arrive until tomorrow.
A piece of broken silver was dropped, and a gust of wind blew, and there was no figure on the deck.
(To be continued)