Chapter 70: The Delicate Girl
Watching Oda fall to the ground and die, Lan Yue and Shen Chaixing set their eyes on the last of the widows, Oshima Senbei, only to see him holding a short knife, kneeling on the ground, with his chest and abdomen exposed, his expression nervous, his head sweating, and his mouth full of words.
Shen Chaixing thought that he was doing a spell to harm people, and was about to step forward to stop it, but was pulled by Lan Yue.
Shen Chaixing looked at Lan Yue with questioning eyes, and Lan Yue said in a low voice: "I have long heard that Japanese samurai have a custom of seppuku, and it is rare to see it today. ”
I saw that after Oshima Senbei finished reading, he cut it from left to right with the short knife in his hand, and then picked it up, and suddenly the internal organs burst out, and the scene was terrible.
Lan Yue said indifferently to Shen Chaixing: "This is called 'Ten Character Cutting', which is said to be an early cutting method. ”
Oshima's actions frightened the captive women into screaming and hiding in a corner, but a few bold men whose families had died tragically at the hands of the Japanese came forward and spat and cursed at Oshima, who was not yet dead.
At this time, Oshima made a sound of "kill me" to Lan Shen Chaxing due to extreme pain, Shen Chaising pushed Lan Yue, and saw that Lan Yue was completely indifferent, so he had to step forward and kill Oshima.
After the incident, Lan Yue saw that Shen Chaixing was still stunned on the spot, so she stepped forward, took off the long knife in his hand, threw it aside, deliberately diverted his train of thought, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to be his mischief in the end." ”
Shen Chaixing came back to his senses and asked, "What is the wrong person?"
Blue Moon explained, "The earliest samurai seppuku was just his own personal behavior, but later it was changed due to the long and painful time, and after seppuku, relatives, friends, or retainers acted as intermediaries and took their own lives. Later, it was simply used to use a wooden fan to draw in front of the abdomen, and then the wrong person did it, which was called fan cutting. Saying this, Lan Yue showed a sneering expression.
Shen Chaixing sighed: "What kind of people can develop such perverted customs? They are so cruel to themselves and have no respect for life, you can imagine how they will treat others!"
Lan Yue snorted and sneered, "They think it's an honor, an honor, but in my opinion, it's shameful to go to someone else's house to do this kind of thing! ”
Turning around and thinking for a while, he said to Shen Chaixing: "Xing'er, you have a pure heart, a kind heart, and a bodhisattva heart, which may be related to the Buddhist exercises you practice, or maybe your nature is like this." But you must remember that you can't be a good person or a good person because of your compassion, and sometimes you can only promote good by eliminating evil. You couldn't bear to look at the samurai's miserable appearance just now, so you solved it for him, but have you ever thought about the souls who died tragically under the katana?"
may feel that what he said is too heavy, Lan Yue changed her relaxed tone and said: "Also, you are too interested in feelings, one day you will do what you are not willing to do because of emotions or face, and as a result, you will be deeply involved and unable to extricate yourself, and the ending may be the last thing you want to see." ”
Lan Yue was eighteen or nineteen years old at this time, Shen Chaixing was thirteen or fourteen years old, Lan Yue had no younger brother, seeing that Shen Chaixing was sincere and kind, and he was sincere to himself, so he had always taken care of him and loved him like a big brother, and the two were always happy when they were together, this was the first time that Lan Yue said such serious words to Shen Chaixing. Shen Chaixing's face turned red and white for a while, and he whispered after a while: "I know." After saying that, he was silent.
Seeing that he was not in a high mood, Lan Yue knew that he was talking seriously, so he pretended not to remember and said, "Oh no, I forgot what we were doing!"
Shen Chaixing came back to his senses and said with a smile: "I almost forgot! Also, what about these women?"
Lan Yue was helpless, and sighed: "This is the price of being a hero! In this way, let's divide the labor, you are a good person, so you are responsible for appeasing those poor women." I'm a wicked person, so I'm in charge of interrogating the prisoners. ”
"Prisoners, where are the prisoners?" said Shen Chaixing.
Lan Yue pointed at Araki who fainted on the ground, and Shen Chaixing remembered that there was still a living mouth here, and he wanted to say that he had no experience in appeasing women, but when he thought that he would not torture prisoners, he sighed and went towards the group of women.
Lan Yue grabbed the Araki on the ground, and a breath of true qi penetrated into his heart, and Araki immediately woke up. Blue Moon pulled him to the dead body of Oshima, threw him on the ground and said, "Give you a chance to learn from him." As he spoke, he stuck a short knife beside Araki. Araki had just woken up from a coma, and before he was fully awake, he suddenly saw the terrifying and tragic state of Oshima's broken stomach and intestines, and he was so frightened that he vomited.
I almost vomited, and then I climbed to the feet of Lan Yue, kowtowing and begging for mercy. Only then did Blue Moon ask the questions she wanted to ask, and Araki answered them one by one. Lan Yue was afraid that he would lie, so after asking some questions, he repeated them after a while to see if his answers were consistent, and finally came to a general conclusion: their group of Japanese robbers originally numbered seventy or eighty people, and they had been plundering Korea, China's coast, Ryukyu, Java and other places for several years, and the leader was Oshima Senbei. Last year, Oda Nobuo approached them and told them that the Northern and Southern dynasties in Japan had come to an end, that the Northern Dynasty had won its final victory, and that Ashikaga Yoshimochi was now in power. Oda promised to return to Japan and restore his past industry and honor as long as he did a few things for him. And then they were given the location of the place. There were indeed some Taoist priests here, but they were all killed. As for how Oda knew about this location, Araki doesn't know. Also, they discovered the secret passage here, but it was empty. A few days ago, Oda sent a message that they had lurked in Taihu Lake to kidnap a man, and gave them the exact time and place, and also prepared a boat for them to use in action. Later, the operation failed, and only Oshima escaped alone.
Lan Yue saw that she couldn't ask anything for the time being, and wanted to kill him with one palm, but she was afraid that if there was anything else to ask, she clicked on his acupoint and tied him to a pillar.
Lan Yue greeted Shen Chaixing, who was still trying his best to appease the women, and the two came to the outside of the hall and quickly exchanged information, Lan Yue thought that although the would-be Kou had discovered the secret passage, they had not found the treasure of King Wu, so the two of them had to search this place carefully. Shen Chaixing originally thought that giving these women silver taels and letting them go home would solve the problem, but when he inquired, most of them were far away from here, some of them had never gone out and couldn't find a home at all, and what was even more bizarre was that there were foreigners here, from North Korea, Annam and other places, and it was impossible to send these people back to their hometowns. Shen Chaixing said that his head was big when he thought of them!
Lan Yue said with a smile: "What should I do, you hand over these people to Qi Shiliang of the Salt Gang to deal with, he has never been to the Salt Gang, he still has a boat, these people who are willing to go home can be sent away, and those who are unwilling can also stay in the Salt Gang, and even marry those men who have never been married to the Salt Gang, just treat them well." Lan Yue knew that Shen Chaixing was soft-hearted, so she said so much to comfort him.
Shen Chaixing nodded and said, "Yes, the friend of the rich sixth man should not be far behind." Besides, his name sounds reliable-Shiliang, the conscience of the world!"
Lan Yue deliberately asked: "According to what you say, I don't feel at ease, Qi Shiliang, Qi is 'bullying', that can also be interpreted as 'deceiving the conscience of the world'?"
The two talked and laughed, and returned to the main hall to comfort the women, saying that they would be properly arranged as soon as the morning dawned, and that they would stay in the main hall for the time being, and not be impatient.
The two of them left the main hall and came to the back row of houses to search, for fear of missing a clue.
At this time, it was the middle of the night, the sky was dense with clouds and the moon, the earth was dark, and the dozens of mountain houses behind the Arctic Palace looked eerie and terrifying.
The two of them held torches, searched room by room, and when they walked more than ten houses, the golden pill in Lan Yue's body suddenly moved, and they just wanted to say something to Shen Chaixing, but they saw that Shen Chaixing also frowned, looked at himself, and at the same time stretched out his hand to a room in the northeast corner.
When they came to the house, they opened the door, and a foul smell came to their faces.
The two raised their torches to watch, only to see that the room was full of white bones, and the skeleton's hollow eyes revealed endless resentment. It can be seen from the clothes that have not yet decayed that these people were wearing Taoist robes before their deaths, and they should be Taoist priests from the original place. Blue Moon speculated that because of the large number of rooms here, these would-be robbers killed people and did not bury them, but just piled them up in an empty room. Lan Yue couldn't help but sigh in her heart: I can hide from the affairs of the world, but I can't hide from the wolves in the mountains!
The two of them exited the house, Shen Chaixing gritted his teeth with hatred, but Lan Yue couldn't comfort him.
Further west search, after more than a dozen empty houses, the two of them sensed the abnormality at the same time, if it was the sense of death just now, then it is the sense of life at this moment, there are signs of life in the third room not far ahead, is there still a wolf hiding in it?
The two of them mentioned light skills, Blue Moon was in front, Shen Chasing Star was behind, and they floated towards the house without a sound.
Blue Moon gently pushed the door open, and the dry doorshaft made a piercing "rattle" sound. When I entered, I found that although the room was large, there was nothing but a carved bed in the innermost part.
The two slowly approached, and a faint fragrance came from the bed. The two of them raised their torches, and when they looked closely, it turned out that there was a person lying on the big bed.
I saw that this person was beautiful and lovely, with a delicate and petite figure, and it turned out to be a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl. At this time, his eyes were closed, and his hands and feet were bound by ropes, and he was motionless.
Lan Yue probed his snort with his hand, and found that although his breathing was slow, he still had vitality, but he might have been restrained in the acupoint, so he nodded at Shen Chaixing. Blue Moon untied the ropes she had tied up and held him aside.
Lan Yue said: "She should have been ordered by someone, and she was in a state of turtle breath in front of her." Your internal strength is the most abundant and gentle, which is suitable for ventilating and relieving her acupoints. ”
Hearing this, Shen Chaixing hurriedly sat cross-legged behind the girl, transporting two great Wuxiang True Qi, which entered the meridians in the body from the left and right lung Yu acupoints, sank from the top of the head to the Ren vein, and then returned to the back to supervise the vein, and after the breath traveled for thirty-six weeks, the girl coughed lightly and slowly opened her eyes.