196. Manor
Kotaro is a very good-looking person, although Lan En is not a person who likes to chew the root of his tongue, but his appearance is indeed quite 'obscene'.
In particular, in order to imitate the samurai he had seen, he also wore a sparse figure-of-eight beard on both sides of his upper lip.
The majesty of the samurai was not seen much, but it made him a little more treacherous.
But when he led Lan En to Hira, he was very enthusiastic along the way.
Even took out a few wild vegetable and multigrain dumplings and handed them to Lan En halfway through, and he was very calm after being rejected, he was a real person's style, but it was very different from his face.
Lan En could see that Kotaro and the others were walking with him, and part of the purpose was to watch him.
This was normal behavior, after all, even if Lan En had first arrived here, he had already felt the tension of the atmosphere.
A few peasants, who were not even soldiers, rushed up to the shrine when they saw strangers, which was enough to see that the psychological pressure of the inhabitants of this area was already a little hysterical.
And on the way to the flat farm, Lan Enshun also saw many traces of ordnance transfers.
The road is close to the Ryuquan River, so the humidity is high. The rut marks of the heavy ordnance were heavy.
With Lan's ability to trace traces, he felt that these traces were at least three days ago, but they were still not erased by time.
The witcher made no attempt to deduce what the weapons were.
When he first arrived, he thought it was just an ordinary medieval with no magic in the last world, but later learned that there were dragons there.
In this world, he doesn't make any more inferences.
After walking for about three kilometers, Kotaro took Lan En to a gradually gentle-flat area on the edge of the Longquan River.
This country called 'Ashina' is indeed a small country in the mountains, as Kotaro said.
Even along the river, there are many steep elevation differences, and the rock walls grow strong pine trees that seem to be strong enough to support even humans to jump on them.
Thinking about it, Lan En shook his head with a smile.
The pine trees on these rock walls grow at least ten or twenty meters in the air without any support, and they are converted into six or seven floors.
Whoever can run and jump on these pine trees will either die or have great ability.
Even if he fell from that height with his own weight, even if he used the [Alpha Seal] to form a recoil force when he landed, it was estimated that he would break more than a dozen bones.
"My lord, we're here!"
Lan En thought endlessly, and Kotaro's slightly relieved voice rang in his ears.
Looking up, the Longquan River has formed an alluvial plain-like topography in this place, and a large manor is located on this small plain.
The oriental-style architecture makes it impossible to see anything from a distance inside.
It seems that when the manor was built, it fitted the atmosphere of the war era. In order not to reveal the reality in the manor, the height of the main building and even the base is generally higher than the terrain outside the manor.
The manor was built on the other side of the Longquan River, which was connected by a wooden bridge.
Manors in the war-torn era generally served both civilian and military purposes, so the style of this bridge does not have the usual style of Dongying architecture.
On the contrary, the width is enough to accommodate more than a dozen people walking side by side, which looks very imposing.
"This is Hirata So, my lord."
Pedestrians on the bridge are sparsely populated, and most of them look nervous. Most of them were farmers and servants on the manor, and the atmosphere of the war had been shrouded, and everyone was afraid.
Kotaro wore a pair of straw sandals and ran "clicking" on the bridge deck until he reached the gate of Hiratanoso, where he bowed to the two soldiers guarding the gate.
The soldiers of Hiratano were obviously treated better than junior soldiers like Kotaro, at least they had shirts and pants, and they were equipped with more bamboo protection.
After they had spoken a few words to each other, Lan En also came to the gate.
And it wasn't until he approached that the two soldiers guarding the door realized the figure of the person in front of them.
After the coordinated catalysis of genetic seeds, Lan En's height has reached about 190 centimeters, and his body is coordinated, and he does not look crazy.
When he slowly approached the two soldiers guarding the door, even if there was no hostility, he did not make any more movements, and the two soldiers who were about one and a half meters still swallowed their saliva unconsciously and clenched the barrels of the guns in their hands.
"Hey, this figure is not bad with the general, right?"
"Huh?.ahh!"
The general height of the people here is also the reason why Lan believes that it is not an ordinary Eastern Ying Middle Ages.
The height of the people is generally 1.5 meters, and according to Kotaro's reaction, the samurai with high military strength are obviously taller.
In the ordinary Warring States period of Toei, the 'tall' Oda Nobunaga was only 1.6 meters.
Lane smiled at the two soldiers, indicating that he was not hostile, and let their tense nerves relax slightly.
Then he turned his head and asked Kotaro, "How is it, is there an explanation?" ”
Kotaro immediately straightened his body, and then bowed ninety degrees: "Yes, I have already found out where the ronin live, as long as you go and report it, the adults of the Hirata clan will definitely hire it!" ”
"Do I need to disarm?"
Lan En asked more.
At present, the two forces known to the witchers are the Reeda Kingdom and the Inner Army. The Inner Government Army came to plow the court and sweep the caves and kill them all.
Then if he wants to live here until the day when the celestial sphere convergence rift opens again, he will have to rely on the country of Reed.
The current atmosphere is visibly tense, and he doesn't want the other party to have unnecessary jealousy of him.
And even in the wizarding world, it is normal for witchers to enter the homes of powerful people to accept commissions and give their swords to others for safekeeping.
"Huh? May I? ”
The two soldiers guarding the door looked at each other in disbelief.
Ronin, they've seen a lot of them these days, and those vicious guys are counted as one by one, and they all regard swords as life-saving and food-saving guys.
Whoever tells them to unarm, it's not negotiable at all, draw your sword!
A rational ronin like Lan En is too rare in this world.
"So. It's rude. ”
A soldier cautiously stepped forward and held out his hand to Lanne.
Lan En didn't hesitate, unfastened the buckle on his chest, and put Arondette behind his back into the other party's hands.
The other party looked at the exquisite shape of the sword of the lake girl in amazement, and then with a straight look, he held the long sword in his arms and bowed slightly to Lan En.
"Next, please come with me."
Leave a soldier to continue guarding the door, and someone will naturally fill the gap in the future. He took Lan En into the manor, and did not go to the more central manor settlement, which was a more formal residence for the personnel and servants and samurai within the Hirata clan.
Instead, in the wooden houses on the periphery, find a distinctly spacious longhouse. This area was inhabited by tenant farmers and craftsmen of the Hirata clan.
Before entering the door, the soldier first shouted and announced.
"Inokami-sama Inokami! I've brought in a new roin! ”
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