Chapter 54: Courage

"Teacher, I killed this snake on the side of the road, hehe, am I very brave?" In the setting sun, a little girl with a black appearance with an extremely delicate appearance picked up a dead little snake with a bamboo knife, and boasted to the old monk with a smile.

The meaning of the little Lori can be seen by anyone at a glance, and the expectant expression on her face seems to be about to say to the old man: "Come and praise me, come and praise me." ”

This old monk is a kind old man, and in Xiao Lori's heart, this monk is a little incompetent.

In Lori's imagination, she prefers to learn from her father's brave generals.

In the East, a girl who likes to fight is not popular, and it is easy to be called barbaric by the people around her, and she does not know the etiquette, and the mother of the little Lori has a headache about her character.

On the contrary, little Lori's father didn't care about it, and always liked to laugh and comfort his wife: "The child doesn't know anything, and when she grows up, she will change sex." ”

Even the unqualified father agreed to Lori's request to learn swordsmanship.

And this old monk was the swordsmanship teacher recommended by his father.

Little Lori is very dissatisfied with this, not to mention that the old monk's monastery is in a poor countryside, surrounded by rude and dirty subordinates and farmers, the temple is also dilapidated, only the old monk is alone, what's even more hateful is that the little Lori has been coming to the temple for more than a month, the old monk has not taught her any swordsmanship, but let her sweep the floor all day long, carry water, water flowers, plant vegetables, meditate...... In short, I haven't taught him any combat skills!

Little Lori's father is a very authoritative name in the country.,Little Lori was born with fine clothes and fine food.,Where can I stand such torture.。

When her father came to visit her, little Lori cried and told her her grievances, and took the opportunity to sue the evil monk for her crimes.

But the father just stroked the little Lori's head lovingly, and said gently: "Zen Master Kongming is the most powerful swordsman I have ever seen, and he is also the bravest person I know, if you want to learn the most powerful swordsmanship." Then obediently listen to the teacher. ”

In the end, under the coaxing and deception of her father, little Lori still reluctantly continued to stay.

It's just that after that, little Lori had bad thoughts, and always ran to play quietly when the old monk wasn't paying attention, and the old monk didn't even notice it at all - it's really bad!

However, one day, little Lori's thoughts about the old monk changed.

It was one afternoon, the sun was setting, and the little Lori and the old monk were dining. To be honest, little Lori really doesn't have much appetite for the food in the temple, vegetarian dishes and white rice, not even a little oil. If it weren't for the daytime, it would be too tiring. Little Lori's stomach was already growling, otherwise she would never have had the slightest appetite.

Still, dinner is a treat for little Lori.

At this time, the old monk suddenly put down the bowl in his hand and looked into the distance: "There are guests coming, Sakura, you avoid it first." ”

Listening to the old monk's words, Xiao Lori was very puzzled, and she followed the old monk's gaze. But there was no one present, but the old monk was a teacher after all, and Xiao Lori obediently followed the teacher's advice and entered the inner room.

Soon after. With the chaotic footsteps, it seemed that someone had really entered the temple, and there were quite a few people.

Out of curiosity, little Lori peeked into the lobby through the crack in the door. I want to see what happened.

More than a dozen tall and burly men came, and the face of the man was hideous and terrifying. The group of men was dressed in army armor. He had weapons in his hands, but the armor seemed to be a little shabby.

From the style of the armor, little Lori recognized that it was the soldier's uniform of the daimyo who had been defeated by her father before, and if you guessed correctly, this group of guys was a group of rogues!

There were not only men in the crowd, but also many women.

And these women, Xiao Lori also recognized, were young women in the village.

When she first came, Little Lori looked down on these people very much, but with the contact with these people, Little Lori is now very simple and enthusiastic.

Even Lori felt that these villagers seemed to be safer than her relatives, and she gradually let go of her lofty posture and lived in harmony with these people. She even became friends with a few village children, and played in the fields and mountains all day long, and was extremely happy.

Seeing that the person she knew was hijacked by the rogue, Xiao Lori's heart couldn't help but tighten, and she almost wanted to scream out.

"Hey, old man, we want to stay here for one night, no problem?!" The leader of the Liukou was ostensibly asking, but in fact, a group of people had already surrounded the old monk, which was more like a threat.

The old monk is a little shorter than these sturdy men, and he looks too thin, and Xiao Lori even suspects that as long as those men blow their breath, the old monk will be blown down immediately, for this reason, her heart hangs high, and she is secretly worried about the old monk.

"It's okay to borrow it, but those villagers, can you let them go?" The old monk was still able to bargain slowly in the face of such coercion.

"You idiot! These are our after-dinner dishes tonight!" The rogues looked at the old monk with idiotic eyes, and laughed, "Do you know who our boss is? He is Kinoshita Saburo of the Inen family, known as the Wild Boar Saburo! Is he impatient to speak in such a tone?"

Hearing this name, little Lori trembled, she had heard of the name Wild Boar Saburo, because she used to think this nickname was very interesting, so she paid a little attention, remembering that this samurai was a very brave enemy general in the eyes of her father, and there was a record of fifty people on the battlefield.

The old monk's body did not shake at all, he just said lightly: "It's a pity." ”

Hearing this, Kinoshita Saburo's face changed greatly, he could feel the old monk's momentum suddenly rise, he immediately didn't think much about it, pulled out the long knife on his body, and slashed at the old monk.

Before little Lori could react, it was already over.

The more than ten big men all lay on the ground without exception, unable to move, and only Kinoshita Saburo could barely sit up.

"You, you ......" Kinoshita Saburo stared at the old monk deadly, trembling even when he spoke, as if he felt that this old man was terrible.

Little Lori's worry was only a little ridiculous after half a beat of worry, she didn't think that the enemy in her father's mouth would be so frightened, like a frightened crow.

"It's sad that you wouldn't have been so weak at least a year ago. The old monk picked up Kinoshita Saburo's knife from the ground and looked at the sharp weapon with a sad gaze, "Pathetic, Shouzo, the famous sword of the Ineng family, I can feel your sorrow, is it because the master has lost his courage?"

"Sad, the strength of losing courage, like a carved dragon without painted eyes, will never take off. The old monk didn't look at Kinoshita at all, but said to himself, "In order to be loyal to the lord, how powerful you were, courage instilled in your soul and carved your immortality. Now you can only oppress the weak, what an irony, you have lost your courage, you don't deserve to be called martial arts at all, you are just pathetic people who are weaker than those villagers. ”

After that, the old monk silently returned the knife to Kinoshita, not at all worried that this big man would attack again.

And to the surprise of little Lori, Kinoshita did not take the sword, but was so frightened that he crawled and fled, leaving his companion and the sword in the temple......

After that day, little Lori finally recognized the strength of the old monk and began to be willing to accept the guidance of the old monk in her heart.

This time, taking advantage of the opportunity to go out, Xiao Lori killed a small snake on the side of the road with a bamboo knife, the purpose is to hope that the old monk will see his "courage" and admit his "courage".

But after the old monk looked at the little Lori for a long time, he smiled helplessly and shook his head: "This is just a vegetable snake, harmless to people, one of thousands of living beings, you shouldn't kill it." ”

"But don't you think I'm brave?"

"I don't think so. ”

"What is the so-called courage? Is it that I don't have that kind of thing at all?" Thinking of Kinoshita's pathetic and pitiful appearance, little Lori was about to cry, she was afraid that she didn't have the "courage" thing, and she couldn't become stronger.

"Sakura, do you like the people here?"

"Hmm!" Lori nodded violently

"Do you like your parents?"

"I like it!"

"Do you like your little friends?"

"I like it the most!"

"Then you have the seed of courage, and one day you will feel it, you will feel it. The old monk smiled and touched little Lori's head, "Come, let's bury this snake properly and recite longitude for it." ”

"Okay!" Although the little Lori didn't understand what the old monk meant, she seemed to feel that she had been recognized by the old monk, and nodded with a smile.

"By the way, in order to give the little snake degree, you need to copy the scriptures three times. ”

"Woo......"

......

When Sakura opened her eyes again, she wanted to stretch, but suddenly remembered that she had lost her limbs. A moment of gloom flashed in Maori Sakura's eyes, but then that strong look appeared in her eyes again.

At this moment, the door was suddenly pushed open, and a smiling ninja walked in, his face flushed and seemed quite excited.

"Sakura, I have good news!" (To be continued!)

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