Chapter 41: The Stranger
Kojiro, who was very flustered by the words of the 'Oni Blade', was also nervous, and almost at the same time he opened his eyes and saw a silver-haired and red-eyed man leaning against the window and reaching for his sake jug.
"It seems that this man is also a drunkard. β
The man saw that Kojiro was not the slightest flustered, smiled at him, took the flask in his hand, and drank it with his head up.
Looking through the moonlight, the man was slightly older than himself, his face was handsome, not under him, his silver hair sparkled in the moonlight, and with the pair of red eyes, he was very evil and demonic.
The man drank all the wine in the jug in one go, uncorked the bottle and poured the last drop, and then let go of the hair in his mouth and let out a long sigh of relief.
The man asked, "Do you still have any wine?"
Kojiro said in his heart: "It seems that he is also a greedy cup master, I don't know which elder of the Abe family has such no rules, but I like it very much." β
If you want to say what Kojiro likes the most, there may not be anything other than alcohol.
He is a good drinker, and he is a better drinker, and it is natural for him to have good wine to share with others.
He casually picked up the jar and handed it to him, saying, "You let go of the drink, but you have to give me some of it." β
"Refreshing!"
The man's eyes lit up, and he looked at Kojiro carefully with a pair of red eyes, and suddenly a smile appeared on his face, and he threw the silver hair on his face back, picked up the wine jar with one hand and poured a few sips in the air.
The pale yellow rice wine flowed from his mouth, exuding a crisp aroma, and drinking like him did much more than drinking it.
Kojiro was distressed and hurriedly said, "Hey, slow down! β
The man took a few more sips, handed the jar to Kojiro's eyes and said, "It's your turn!"
Kojiro was distressed to see that he had wasted so much, poured the wine from the jar into the jug, and drank it one sip at a time into the spout.
The man laughed out loud when he saw Kojiro drinking.
He pointed at Kojiro and said, "Drinking like you must not be a bold man." You're such a little girl, in my opinion, you look like a. β
Anyone has never said that the famous 'Ghost of Azuchi Momoyama' looks like a girl, Kojiro wiped his mouth, slightly angry, "What do you mean by that? Where do I look like a girl?!"
"Although you were born like a gentleman, and your sword also makes you look like a gentleman, but you are so ...... Tsk but like a full girl, people like you, drinking can't be fun. β
He hugged the wine jar and poured two sips before continuing: "As a gentleman, if you want to drink, you have to drink in a big gulp, if you want to get drunk, you have to get drunk comfortably, and when you are so drunk that you don't even know your parents, that's called drinking." β
Kojiro was provoked by him, and he was not convinced, and he drank it like him.
The wine poured into his face like a waterfall, and the liquor poured into his mouth with his hair gave him an indescribable pleasure.
Kojiro poured several mouthfuls in a row, and there seemed to be a fire burning in his chest. The mouth and throat are hot after the wine, and the feeling is infinite. After drinking, he shook his head violently and shouted, "Good wine!"
He picked up the jar and handed it to the man and said, "It's your turn!"
The man shook his head and didn't take it, sighed and said, "It's a pity, it's a pity." β
Kojiro asked, "What is the pity?"
"It's a pity that you only have a form and no god, like you, it's like a big girl learning to drink, it's not happy at all!"
"You say I'm still not like a gentleman, so why do you think I'm like me!" Kojiro was so excited by him that he even changed his voice.
The man took a closer look at him again, and saw that the broken hair on his mouth was stained with crystal wine droplets, but there was an indescribable sadness above his eyebrows, "A person like you who is so sad in the sky naturally can't drink the pride of the master." β
Kojiro sighed, put the wine jar on the ground with a 'bang', and said leisurely: "You are right, I do have a lot of sorrows, so naturally I can't drink the heroism of the masters!"
"At your age, but which girl do you like? There are thousands of girls in the world, as long as you have the strength, what kind of can't be found, why bother?"
Kojiro sneered, shook his head and said, "You are not a few years older than me, how can you talk so old, and besides, I am not worried about women?"
"Oh, that's weird, what can you worry about if it's not a woman?"
With that, the man came in through the window and sat down across from Kojiro.
"It's a friend. β
Kojiro doesn't know why he casually told his heart to a person who doesn't want to do it, maybe in his eyes, there is no bad person who is good at drinking.
When the man heard this, he was amused, grabbed the jar and took two sips, and said, "What am I, but ...... Friends' words are also a lot of trouble. A man can do without a woman in this world, but he must not be without friends, especially the kind of friends who are heart-to-heart and have a knife in both sides. β
Before he finished drinking, he was snatched by Kojiro, and I saw him take a few big sips without stopping.
The man looked at Kojiro's appearance of drinking to drown his sorrows, and sighed softly: "Children, if you experience more, you will understand, people always need to grow." It's just that there will be sadness, sorrow, joy, and grief in this growth. Anyway, when you get older, you can smile when you look back, and that's it!"
Kojiro unconsciously left tears with the man's words, but he didn't know whether he was drinking wine or his own tears.
The man saw all this in his eyes, and said with a little relief: "Drink, drink." It is more sorrowful to drown your sorrows with wine, but there is something in this world that can relieve your sorrows more than wine? β
Kojiro drank a little too much, and even when he sat on the ground, he staggered, so it's not surprising that he looks like this even if he falls asleep now.
He wiped his mouth and wiped the tears mixed with liquor from the corners of his eyes and said to the man, "What do you say is a friend?"
The man said, "To me, whoever can drink with me like a gentleman is a friend." β
"Can such a friend also sacrifice his life and death with a knife in both sides?"
The man squinted at him, amused by the words. Naive, there are still such naΓ―ve people in this world.
He clapped his hands and said with a smile: "I can be regarded as a defeat to you, how can a friend of wine and meat stick a knife in both sides and forget to die." You will have many friends in this life, some of whom can relieve your boredom, some can drink with you, some can help you become a talent, and some can help you get out of trouble. β
Kojiro was dizzy from drinking, and he really didn't understand what this man was talking about.
Kojiro asked, "What do you mean by that? Do I want to have all kinds of different friends?"
"Oh, why don't you understand. If you want to drink, go to your friends who drink and meat, if you want to relieve your boredom, find friends who can relieve your boredom, if you want to become talented, find friends who can teach you, and if you want to get out of trouble, find powerful friends. Find whoever you need, and that's it!"
The man was a drunkard, but there was some truth in what he said.
Kojiro thought for a moment, "I see, it seems that my friends are much better." β
The man seemed a little impatient, picked up the jar and took a sip and said, "A mother-in-law like you, a crooked and crooked master, I usually don't even look for you for drinking!"
Kojiro stared at the man with a pair of eyes, although they had only known each other for a moment, but they had a feeling that the two seemed to have met somewhere.
Is it breath, or looks? Kojiro tried hard to remember but couldn't remember anything, just like he had seen the 'Oni Blade' for the first time.
Recently, Kojiro has often felt this way, such as when he heard the words 'Toyotomi Hideyoshi', he had an inexplicable sense of closeness.
It seems that there is really a line in this world that brings two strangers together, maybe this is fate.
She, him, them, and this person were originally two people who had nothing to do with each other, but they met because of some things and became confidants because of some things.
Now Kojiro looked at the person in front of him a lot more pleasing to the eye, he picked up the wine jar and poured two sips and said, "Yes, I am indeed a mother-in-law, a crooked and forward-looking master. And I'm still very timid......"
Speaking of timidity, Kojiro thought of Sun Sheng, did he reject Abe Xiaosan several times this morning really wholeheartedly for Sun Sheng's sake?
He asked himself if it was just an excuse.
He is afraid, afraid of the unknown, afraid of uncertainty, and even just afraid of the emotion itself.
Thinking of this, he suddenly raised his voice and said: "I am a coward, I am cowardly, afraid, in order to cover up I even use the pretext of thinking about my friends to avoid some things. β
"Well, that means you're able to look at yourself, and I think you're looking more and more like a gentleman now!" said the man, with a proud appraisal.
Kojiro took another sip and continued, "So I can't blame my friends for approaching me with purpose, because it's okay, because it's not important, because even I can't treat them with a pure heart. β
The faster Kojiro spoke, the more he spoke, the more refreshing he became, and in the end, he felt relieved, even happier than he got a full jar of wine!
The man took the jar and shook it vigorously, sighing, "This wine is running out." Hey, no matter how much you drink, it's not fun. β
Kojiro was very proud at the moment, picked up the wine jar and smashed it to the ground, and laughed loudly: "What are you afraid of!
The man smiled proudly, put all the dregs that had broken the ground and the little wine that was left behind his head, and said loudly, "Okay! Let's go look for wine!"
Kojiro realized at this moment that the estrangement between himself and his friends did not exist in the first place, but his temperament was extreme.
This world is not black and white, where does it come from so much purity? Even if your friends have a purpose for intercourse with you, as long as you are worthy of yourself.
Kojiro struggled, staggered to his feet, and said to the man, "Go! I know a cook who loves to sweat, and he is not only good at making good wine, but also good at cooking." Let's get him another jar of wine and cook two more dishes. β
It's just that before he finished speaking, he got drunk, and shouted to himself: "Go, find wine!"
The man shook his head, sighed softly, dragged Kojiro to the bed and covered him with the quilt again, and said softly, "I didn't expect you to be such a person." Hey, it would be nice if you weren't a medicine guide. β
He gently and deftly climbed out of the window, and the moonlight still shone on his face, but now there was a little more melancholy on this handsome face.
Everyone wants to live as they do when they are born, but I don't know when they have unknowingly put on a mask. When facing family, friends, and enemies, you have to wear different masks and show different faces.
But when is it really who you are? He can't say for sure, and no one can say for sure. Originally, he came to bewitch Kojiro, but he didn't expect to find out that he was not wearing a mask when he drank with Kojiro after a meal.
He walked slowly like this, the white moonlight hitting the pebbles on the ground like a light rain hitting the calm lake, the cold wind blowing lightly, blowing on his face not as cold as winter but more refreshing.
But his steps were very heavy, full of hesitation and hesitation every step of the way. For many years, he has not taken off his mask, and for many years he has not met such a person.
It's just that...... He had to die. Only if he dies can he save his brother, and only when he dies can he bring that person back to life.
Supposedly, how likely it is to bring his brother back to life completely, he can't say this himself.
After all, he only had one head left, and that head hadn't spoken in hundreds of years. If it weren't for the occasional gasp for breath from this head, he would have let go of this thought a long time ago.
Over the centuries, he has tried many ways to resurrect his brother, but unfortunately, no matter what method he used or how much he sacrificed, the head was still in that state of immortality.
He was tired and tired. Even if they insist, who can work hard for hundreds of years to stick to one thing.
But every time he heard the news that he might resurrect his brother, he couldn't help but try his best.
Failure, failure, failure, he lost count of how many methods he had tried, and how many times he had failed. He tried almost all the methods that could be found in the world, almost all the possibilities of the demon world and the human world, but the ending was still those two words - failure!
Just when he was discouraged, he ran into that person, the monk in a Taoist robe.
That person said that the body of the big demon can only be matched by the demon king.,That demon king must be a person.γThat demon king must be a person who fell into the devil's path because of obsession.,That person is Sasaki Kojiro.γ
How difficult it is to go from a person to a demon, if it is not for the great changes in life, the heart has a great obsession, and makes a blood vow never to be a man, how can you go from a person to a demon?
So he colluded with the Abe family, so he became the knife in the hands of Abe Xiaosan, so he gave up the dignity of the big demon to clear the way for the enemies of the blood sea for generations.
But in his heart, he admired this young man very much, because this young man was very much like himself many years ago.
He kept walking, not knowing how far he had gone or where he had gone.
Suddenly, the cold wind blew violently, and he couldn't open his eyes, and after the cold wind passed, a youkai with wings on his back and a terrifying mask descended from the sky, and it was the Great Tengu.
He eased his senses, coughed lightly, and put on the mask again, his eyes as if he didn't care about everything in the world, and his sharp eyes seemed to be able to see through everything.
He casually took out the golden wine glass made of the human head from his chest, and kept playing with it and asked softly, "What is the matter with you coming to me?"
The big tengu said: "Abe Xiaosan just came to the secret room to ask you something, and I came out to look for you when you weren't there." β
The Ibaraki boy said: "It's worth your attention to farting? β
The Great Tengu lowered his head and remained silent, he had long been accustomed to this arrogant and rude fellow.
The Ibaraki boy glanced at him again, his eyes full of disdain and disdain.
He looked at it for a while and then said, "It's nothing, you go down, next time remember to ask them if they have all the blood, didn't you see that my cup is empty?"
The big tengu didn't say anything, he came over to find out who could be blamed for the scolding, and he saluted, flapped his wings and flew away.
The Ibaraki boy looked at his distant back and casually said, "I'm sorry." "Walk briskly towards the chamber.
The Great Tengu is not a reckless person, he will not come for such a trivial matter, and it must be an extremely important thing to be able to impress him.
Thinking of this, the Ibaraki boy quickened his pace again, and his body turned into a lightning bolt and shot towards the secret room.
Although he was extremely far away from the secret room at this moment, his steps were so fast, and he returned to the secret room in a few moments.
Although there were a few houses in the middle, there were even a few people in the houses. But his figure was so fast that he would not be noticed by anyone, and the people in the house only felt a cold wind blowing, and the figure was not seen at all.
He rarely ran with all his strength like this, and he inevitably felt a little out of breath when he ran, so he stood in front of the door of the secret room and eased his breath before pushing the door in.
As soon as he entered the door, he was shocked and shocked by the scene in front of him, only to see a woman lying on the bed where he used to sleep, a woman without clothes. The woman was not shy when she saw him coming, and walked straight over with cat-like steps.
There was no trace of fat on this woman's body, and the two balls on her chest jumped up and down with her steps, and the woman circled around the Ibaraki boy, and finally gently wrapped him from the back, and pressed the two balls on his chest fiercely on his back.
Ibaraki Boy smiled, he neither pushed the woman away nor catered to her, he took out his wine glass and shook it on his chest and said loudly, "Abe Kosan, do you want to sacrifice today's blood for this person you gave me?"
As soon as he spoke, a series of laughter erupted in the chamber. The laughter flickered flickering to the left and right. The sound was still on the left when I heard it, but suddenly it changed to the right again. You think he's on the right, but when you listen closely, he's on the left.
With such a ghostly body, the entire Abe family, in addition to their head, there are only Abe, my grandson, and a few elders.
can put this woman on his bed, except for Abe Xiaosan, there is no one else.
As expected, after a while, Abe Xiaosan slowly walked out from behind the bed with his hands in his hands. With a smile on his face, he said to the Ibaraki boy, "How is this inner female disciple of my family being trained by me?"