As soon as Aoki Daizen vented, he returned to silence, not speaking, as if he had never spoken.

Gao Shisheng and the others didn't know the resentment in his heart, but they still chose to listen tolerately.

The rain has been falling like this, and there is no intention of stopping for three consecutive days, Gao Shisheng can no longer sit still, for the past three days, Aoki Daizen will report what he has seen and heard from his inspection every day, but listening to others relay what he has seen and heard, after all, it is not as good as what he has seen with his own eyes.

Gao Shisheng only took Aoki Master and Apprentice and Kimura Heihachi, a group of four, to inspect the villages along the muddy country road.

He planned to first visit the village where Hasegawa and Nagata lived. First of all, the two villages are not far apart, and Hasegawa's family is even poorer, there must be something under the rainstorm, plus Gao Shisheng has also been there once, familiar with the road, and made up his mind to take people to the direction of Pingshan Village.

It was rainy and rainy, and it didn't go far all the way, and even the clothes that people and horses wore on their bodies were wet, and although they took the horses to travel, they did not want to ride, but to rely on them to carry two tables of miscellaneous grains, and to give a point to the refugees who were affected by the disaster in each village.

The two tables of miscellaneous grains are not much, and the converted catties are only one hundred and twenty catties, but it is already the most number that Zhuang can take out, the road is slippery in rainy days, and the horses that are too heavy to carry the goods and horses are also easy to fall, so that the horses accompany themselves out of the rain, which has made Gao Shisheng quite heartbroken, and how can he be willing to suffer from the burden of horse shoes.

During the Warring States period, horses did not wear iron horseshoe, but wore reed-woven mango shoes like people, called horse shoes.

Since the name has shoes in it, the purpose is the same as the shoes worn by people, and it has a variety of effects such as anti-slip in rain and snow, keeping warm, and preventing being bumped by stones and injuring horses' hooves, but horses will feel very uncomfortable wearing consignments.

Things such as horse shoes are also things that Gao Shisheng only knew about saving talents after he crossed over.

Reaching out and tugging at the reed mat on the grain bag, the corner was covered up by the wind, and asked loudly, "How far is it from the village?" "The wind was so loud that it kept whistling and whistling up the rain and whipped it straight at the people.

"It's almost there! And... Ahem! Kimura Heihachi, who was leading the way in front, turned around and shouted the same, but before he finished speaking, he was choked by a gust of headwind, and he couldn't speak, and he couldn't stop coughing.

Beizhuang Manjiro pulled the horse and walked with the master Aoki Dashan, one in front and one left, to shield the head of the village from the wind and rain, and said: "Zhuangtou, why do you have to go to the countryside to suffer this kind of crime, this kind of grain distribution work, we just need to do it." "Because of the rain, he was already soaked all over the hospital not long after he was discharged from the hospital.

"Hey! You can underestimate me, I am a teenager in Junfu, and when I stand guard outside the door on a rainy night, you are still running around the village in the countryside! "These two days of chatting, Gao Shisheng and Wan Jiro are very close to each other, told each other a lot of their childhood stories, learned that Wan Jiro is young and poor, can only change clothes with his brothers, today you are on my body, I am down, and tomorrow I will change over.

"Aha! Therefore, the villain's poor life can only protect you from the rain for such a small village, and you, a son of a martial arts family, ...... In order to have the honor of being a loyal dog guarding the door for the palace of Junfu on a rainy night... Now I have to appreciate it, and I have become an eagle dog lackey on behalf of the Lord and the people! Kitazhuang Manjiro was not polite, and his voice laughed and replied in the wind.

This is not an insult, the head of the house, the Satomi clan, the eight important ministers of the family are collectively called the eight loyal dogs of the satomi, and the eagle dog is a metaphor for the samurai who drive the run, mostly referring to the minions of the powerful and wealthy, who can serve the main hall of the Imagawa family, and it is the dream of 500,000 people of the three kingdoms of Tokaido.

The master and apprentice have completely opposite attitudes towards the daimyo, and they don't know how Aoki Daizen, a strange person who is arrogant and contemptuous of martial arts, would accept Hokusho Manjiro

"So! Young man, you're still far behind... Far that! Gao Shisheng patronized and spoke, and the soles of his feet slipped, but thanks to holding the horse, he did not fall into the side of the road, and the turbulent waterway.

The fields on both sides of the country road have been submerged and become Zebo, and there is no end in sight.

The Misawa and Hamana rivers that flow through the territory of Hirayama Township are not large rivers, but many dense ditches have been dug and crisscrossed to make it easier to irrigate the fields. Because of this, every time the water level of the two rivers soars, these ditches have become the best flood channel, in order to deal with it, the township has dug a large pond, it is for the purpose of flood discharge, last year's flood, Pingshan Township was less affected, because there is a flood pond.

Today, the river water continues to pour into the low-lying fields along the ditches, washing away all the fields and arable land, and it must be that the big pond is full, which also shows that this year's flood is much more serious than last year's.

Gao Shisheng marched forward against the wind, and lamented in his heart: "This thief God, why can't you open your eyes and let the rain stop first!" But he has nothing to do about it, only to complain a few words in his heart, heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs.

Last year and this year, the autumn harvest for two consecutive years was hit by heavy rains, flooding farmland, how can people live? With such worries in mind, he walked slowly, and finally arrived at Pingshan Village, which he had visited on his first day in office.

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Pingshan Village is built on the mountain, the terrain is thick, the rainwater turbulence is like a high-rise building and washes down, rolls with soil, agitates like a tide, flows wantonly, people and horses can step on it and can sink into the small half of the leg. Many nearby trees were struck by lightning and planted on the road, making it more and more clogged and difficult to walk.

Gao Shisheng made a horse of four people, turned left and right, and finally moved to the entrance of the village.

I saw more than a dozen men "hey" and "hey" together, and they worked together to lift the collapsed big fence gate off the ground. Under the gate of Dashilar are gravel and broken wood debris everywhere.

Not long after, a sudden burst of mudslide, from the mountainside half of the slope rushed down sharply, all the way rampage, until the collapse of the village courtyard wall can not be stopped, the place of the collapse is remote, so that it did not hit the longhouse and cause casualties, it is a misfortune.

Among the people who were busy repairing, some of them saw in the distance, and four people approached and shouted, "Yataro someone is here!" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, this kind of bad day can only come out of fools who have committed dementia!" Hasegawa Hayato moved another boulder to the side with the others, and it was the wooden wall that the falling boulder had crashed into just now.

"Then you are better than a fool if you lead someone to carry wood and stones here!" Gao Shisheng was amused by this scoundrel, and he worked hard with himself, and came over in the wind and rain just to listen to him scold this fool, and said angrily: "You can't kill enough people who have been beaten, you should have let your father beat you all over the ground to find your teeth that day!" ”

"The one who doesn't open his eyes dares to scold you for being a father!" Hasegawa Hayato thumped and threw the stone down, shaking it so that the person opposite him didn't hold it for a moment, and he was almost crushed by his hand, and when he turned around, he saw Gao Shisheng wearing a hat and a cape, standing behind him.

"I just said that the head of the village must be here, you see if it is true!" Hasegawa haha, and hurriedly teased his clothes and said: "The villain visits the head of the village, and I ask for forgiveness if I am rude!" "I want to fool the past like this.

Master Sheng Ben was only two or three steps away from him, and at this time, not only was he not as polite as when he first met on the first day, but he took two steps back, looked down, and waited for him to bow down.

Hasegawa prides himself on being a proud man in the village, and he is honest and obedient when they meet on the first day, but it is nothing more than that he broke the law and fell into the hands of the head of the village, and no one had to bow his head under the eaves.

In the past, the nature of the scoundrel was revived again, and the "goodbye" just now was just a polite remark, thinking that the master would block it, and he could get up, who knew that he would be handled like this.

He can bend and stretch, the scoundrels in the township pay attention to their faces in everything, and when they say it, they can't fall to the ground, more than a dozen pairs of eyes look at him like this, and they can't bow half of it, and then stand up with their waists, and there is really nowhere to put that face.

Helpless, he plopped down, knelt in the muddy water, and had to bow down steadily.

Hasegawa Hayato was anxious for justice and righteousness, and the people who came to help were headed by him, and he knelt down, so he had to follow behind him and kowtow respectfully, saying: "I've seen Zhuangtou!" ”

Zhuangtou is low, in the end, he is a servant of Junfu, he eats the money of the Imagawa family, he has the right to arrest people and send them to work, Gao Shisheng is modest, he will not be arrogant, but he will not surrender his identity, and call himself a brother and a brother with a group of scoundrels.

Shishu is different, as a samurai, he can be polite and polite, but it does not mean that he will make a group of people despise him, even if some of them are subordinate to the military service, he may be able to ask for each other in the future.

Hasegawa Hayato is such a scoundrel, Gao Shisheng has seen a lot in Sunfu Castle. are all fearful of the law and ungrateful goods, you reason with him, he talks to you about the rules; You tell him the rules, he talks to you about human feelings, there are always endless fallacies and heresies, only by hanging up the shackles, dragging them back like a dead dog, and taking a good beating, can they talk to you like a person.

"Get up! You and I are acquaintances, so you don't have to be so polite! ”

After kneeling for a while, hearing Zhuangtou speak, Hasegawa Hayabusa got up with his men, deliberately seemed to shake the muddy water, and glanced at the expressionless Aoki Fujiro, the smiling Kitazhuang Manjiro, and Kimura Heihachi who stood at the back and led the horse.

He was also a little discerning, seeing the things on the back of the horse, plus the dismount given to him by Gao Shisheng, he immediately understood that he had something to do when he came to the village today.

Originally, too, the gang of scoundrels who came to accompany him on a rainy day were playing tricks.

After wiping the muddy water off his body, the probe asked: "The heavy rain has not stopped in the past few days, and the head of the village sent someone to summon me to visit the village, why come here in person?" ”

This is heartless and heartless, as if Gao Shisheng came here today to meet him. Gao Shisheng knew his quality, but he was not angry, and said with a smile: "What a nonsense splash...... I didn't arrest you with shackles, of course I came for business! ”

Hasegawa Hayato was at a loss: "Can I have official business in my village?" Turning his face to look, there were a few good splashes behind him, thinking in his heart that he had stayed at home honestly after the rain for the past two days and didn't cause any trouble! Could it be that the previous case was committed? That's hard to say!

"Naturally, it is to help the poor and help the orphans and widows, can I still send you money sincerely!" Gao Shisheng looked at him with a weak heart, and knew that he had never done anything good in the past, and he didn't go around in circles, so he directly shouted: "Hurry up and lead the way, lead me to the village old man's house, when the head of the village stands in the rain and you are so comfortable?" ”

"Hey! Ay! Hasegawa Hayato didn't understand what Zhuangtou was doing to find the village elder, but let him lead the way, beckoned his subordinates to disperse first, and continued to clean up and repair the wooden wall, so he led Gao Shisheng and his party to a single-family house not far away.

"What a coincidence that Zhuang Tou came, it just so happened that I had no chew at home, and I don't know what to do?" Hasegawa Hayato looked at what seemed to be food under the mat, and asked with a big grin, "I don't know how much rice you brought to share!" ”

"How dare you have those good teeth!"

Rice is so valuable, after Gao Shisheng came to the village, he ate grains and grains for two meals a day, and went there to steal rice for him, even if there was rice, he had to keep it for himself. When he was a servant in Junfu, the support rice he gave out every day was not all rice, and more than half of it was miscellaneous grains, of which rice was mostly old rice stored in the grain warehouse in previous years, and the number of new rice in the current year was very small.

Rice is not as shelf-stable as other grains, and the weight will shrink after a year or two of storage, and the taste will deteriorate, but steaming old rice with bitter water has a different taste, so the ronin in Sunfu Castle Town will refer to "eating old rice" when talking about the poor people of the office.

Hasegawa Hayato retorted loudly: "How can the head of the village scold, cattle and horses, donkeys and sheep, only to see whether the teeth are good or bad!" ”

"I see the way you looked when you were working, you were a good brute."

"How can Zhuang Tou praise people be the same as my family, what kind of reason is this!" His father praised and scolded people back and forth, praised him for his ability, and said that he was a good animal; was angry and beat him, calling him a little brute.

"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! Kitazhuang Manjiro shook the whip in his hand to drive the horse, shook a few crisp noises in the air, and deliberately threw a lot of rain on him, imitating the sound of driving the horse in his mouth, "Ride!" Drive! Drive! It seems that he really used him as a cow and a horse, which made the other three people snicker, and even Aoki Dashan was amused by him, and it was rare to change his expression.

Hasegawa Hayato walked in the front, I don't know what was going on behind him, he stopped and turned around, and when Kitano Manjiro saw him stop, he said "Phew!" Stopped! ”

The four of them couldn't hold back anymore and burst into laughter!

Hasegawa Hayato didn't know what to do, but he also knew that a few people were happy with their own homes, and when they saw them laughing happily, they were not annoyed and happy, and they were stupid together, pinching their waists with both hands, and laughing loudly in the sky.

Note 1: It seems that there were no horseshoes during the Warring States period in Japan, and the information found is mainly related to the hilly and mountainous areas of Japan.