I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Chapter 506: The Great Hunting Festival at the Red Moon Fortress [6,600 characters]

   Ai Soma dragged her tired body and walked on the way home.

   She has returned to her life smoothly just now, and reported the news that she "successfully wiped out the gold thief" and all the things that must be reported on the way back and forth have been reported to an old man named "Pelechnope".

   This old man is also one of the veterans of their Red Moon Fortress. His status and prestige in the Red Moon Fortress are extremely high, and she is often entrusted with important tasks by her father, Chanup.

   After discovering the gold thief, Chanup gave Pellehnope the responsibility of destroying the gold thief.

  Pellehnope decides who is going to send to extinguish the gold digger, when to set off...These things are all decided by Pellehnope.

Pellehnope had planned to lead Esuma and the others to deal with the gold diggers, but Esuma and others considered that Pellehnope was 64 years old this year, so for safety reasons, Ai It took a lot of effort for Suma and others to persuade Pellehnope to stay in the fortress and stop wandering like these young people.

After smoothly reporting the news of "Great Victory" and "Safety for All" to Pellehnope, Aizuma, who was walking on a certain road in the fortress, noticed that the surrounding residents were quietly discussing the fact that they had just arrived here. The villagers of Kina Village, as well as Ogata and Amachi.

   Asoma had her own memory, she began to learn various hunting techniques. He started hunting at the age of 12.

   In this hunt after hunt, Essuma has developed good eyesight and hearing.

   Izuma, who was somewhat interested in the discussion of Ogata and others among the surrounding residents, pricked her ears, and quietly listened to the discussions of the people around her.

   Relying on good hearing, the discussion of the surrounding people clearly reached Esuma's ears.

   "It is said that the person from the village named China Village arrived here just now."

"Really?"

"Yeah. It's true. I just followed to join in the fun, and I went to watch the villagers in Jina Village. Just like the rumor, it is a village with few men. I counted. The young people in their village There seem to be around ten men..."

   "It's so miserable... There are not many men in the village... It must be very hard..."

   "I have heard something about that village before. It is said that a few years ago, many men in their village disappeared somehow, and have not returned."

   "It's horrible... how can people disappear so well..."

   "I don't know what happened. Originally, after the'disappearance incident', there were very few men in that village. Some time ago, they were attacked by white-skinned people... alas..."

   "No wonder the village is moved to our place, there are only so few males left in the village...even self-protection is a problem..."

   "Those white-skinned people are really the same as others, they are not good things."

   "Speaking of Kazuto...Do you know? It seems that two Kazutos have come to our Heyezhe with the villagers of Qina Village."

   "Really? Two Kazuto?!"

   "Well, a man and a woman. The man has two knives hanging from his waist. It should be a samurai among the people."

   "Samurai...Why would there be two Kazuto and the villagers of China Village entering our Heyezhe?"

"The two Kazutos seem to be the life-saving benefactors of the villagers of Qina Village. The two of them are very skilled. After the white-skinned people attacked Qina Village, the two Kazutos assisted the villagers in Qina Village. We repelled the attacking white-skinned people, but...why did those two and people come to us? I don't know..."

   "To be with people...I hate being with people the most...because of them, my husband's hometown was burned down..."

   "I don't like being with people either. From the beginning to the end, I never thought about getting along with us in peace."

   "You can't say that...not all people are annoying."

   "It is said that the reason why the two Kazuto came to us was given the permission of Chanup."

   "Got Chanup's permission? What is Chanup thinking? Why do you want 2 Kazuto to come to Heyezhe for no reason."

"Hush, Hush ... Hush, docetaxel Mary is not far away yet."

   One of these women who were discussing Ogata and others in a low voice found Aizuma not far away, so he hurriedly reminded the friends around him in a low voice.

   The woman who just uttered "What is Chanup thinking about?" The kyogen woman closed her mouth and glanced at Esuma not far away with a somewhat embarrassing look.

   The content of their discussion just now has been picked up by Esuma.

   Regarding what they just said, Esuma just sighed lightly, and then quickly walked away from the women.

   "Sister! Are you back?"

   Just then, a hearty voice sounded from behind Esuma.

   Hearing this hearty voice, Esuma was taken aback for a moment, then smiled all over her face, turned her head and looked behind her.

   "Otunpuyi. I'm back."

   While yelling "Sister", the person who rushed towards her from behind Esuma was a teenager who was only about 13 or 4 years old.

   This young man yelled his sister while rushing towards Esuma's figure, which naturally attracted a lot of attention.

   But some of the passersby around looked at the boy's gaze, something... weird.

   Some passers-by were looking at the teenager who was rushing towards Esuma with a bit of disgust.

   Before and after coming to Esuma, the young man threw himself into Esuma's arms.

   After several rounds of greetings with Esuma, and after asking Esuma whether he was injured or not when he went out to kill the gold diggers, the young man asked Esuma in an impatient manner:

   "Sister! I heard that Goro Majima came to our Heye Tetsu! Is this true?"

   "Hmm." Esuma nodded slightly, "He and his wife seem to be with his father now. During the time I'm away from home, have you seriously hone your archery skills?"

   "The'Hunting Festival' will begin soon."

   "If you fail to perform well in the'Hunting Festival', you will be embarrassed."

   After hearing the word "hunting festival" from Esuma's mouth, the young man immediately shrank his neck as if he had heard something terrible.

   "I, of course I am honing my archery..."

   "Hmm." Esuma nodded, "That's good."

   "Although I have honed my bow skills..." the young boy's weak voice sounded again, "but I have never been able to find a companion who is willing to join me in the hunting festival..."

   Esuma was taken aback, and then sighed heavily.

   "...Otunpuyi, why don't you go make good friends..."

  Otunpuyi didn't make a sound, just lowered his head and was silent.

   And Esuma raised her forehead, feeling helpless.

   "...Forget it, let's talk about it later, let's go home now."

   Esuma grabbed the boy's arm and strode back home.

   As the daughter of Chanup, her home is naturally Chanup’s home.

   After returning home with a quick walk, Essuma saw her father who was sitting in a circle with Chepke and others.

   The two of them happened to pass by Ogata.

   When they got home, Ogata just left their home and went to find Lin Ziping.

  ...

  ...

   While Lin Ziping stared straight at Ogata with a serious gaze, the expressionless Ogata also looked straight at Lin Ziping.

   No one said any more.

   In the end, Lin Ziping seemed to be unable to bear this silent atmosphere anymore. He grabbed his hair first, and then broke the silence.

   "...How about that?"

"If you can help me get out of this ghost place as soon as possible, besides taking you to the village where the strange doctor is, I owe you one more favor. If you encounter anything that needs help from others in the future, you can just come and find it. I!"

   "I specialize in military, geography, history, etc."

   "Although I am only a scholar, I can still help a lot."

   "In order to study academia, I traveled north and south, and went to many places, and I was quite knowledgeable!"

   "I can cherish all the geography and history knowledge of the three places of Ryukyu, Korea, and Ezo!"

   Lin Ziping still wanted to sell himself again, but Xu Jian suddenly sighed slightly, and then interrupted Lin Ziping's conversation.

   "Okay, stop talking."

   After interrupting Lin Ziping's words, Ogata approached Lin Ziping with a serious face.

   The two people looking at each other across the window, their faces are so close that they can spray each other's faces.

   "...I will believe you for the time being."

   "I will try my best to help you get out of here as soon as possible."

   "I hope you can honor your promise with me after you come out from here."

   "Otherwise—the knife on my waist..."

   Ogata raised his left hand and placed his left palm on the handle of Dashaten's knife.

   "It's not a wooden knife."

   Ogata threatened Lin Ziping very directly.

   Lin Ziping did not show any panic in the face of Ogata's threat. After nodding vigorously, he said:

   "Don't worry. I won't break my promise."

   "I am afraid to speak big words."

   "But I still dare to pat my chest to say'extraordinarily keeping promises'."

   At this time, Amachi was casting a somewhat surprised look at Ogata.

   "Are you really going to help this person?"

   "This person has information that might be useful to us. I don't want to just leave this rare and useful information away."

   Ogata said softly.

   "Let's try...Anyway, even if we fail to get this person out in the end, there is no substantial loss for the two of us."

   "Please don't say that!" Lin Ziping protested immediately, "Please do your best to rescue me!"

   "I also told you just now that my friendship with the seniors of the Red Moon Fortress is not good enough to say a word to them, and they will let them go."

   "I met their leader for the first time just now."

   Ogata put his hands on the handle of the Dashaten sword on his left waist, and asked Lin Ziping in an interrogating tone:

   "I have to figure out the true purpose of your coming here. Otherwise, if I want to persuade the senior officials of the Red Moon Fortress to release people, they will be'no way to speak'."

   "You can tell me first-what are you doing here in Ezo? Why are there so many hand-drawn maps on your body?"

  Ogata never imagined that after he came to this Edo period, he would become a "defense lawyer", collect information and evidence, and then fish out people from the prison one day...

   "I just said that it is for academic research." Lin Ziping said, "I mainly study geography."

   "I came to Ezo Land to survey the topography of Ezo Land and study the geography of Ezo Land."

   "The shogunate has always paid no attention to Ezo land, so few people study the history and geography of Ezo land."

   "For us scholars who specialize in geography, Ezo land is a treasure house with a lot of knowledge waiting for us to investigate and study."

   "The reason why I came to Ezo land and hand-painted so many maps is just to conduct academic research! Study the geography of Ezo land!"

   "Did you come to Ezo land alone?" Ogata asked.

   "Well. I came by myself." Lin Ziping said, "I wanted to hire a few ronin as my guard, but I don't have much money, and it's not safe to hire a ronin who doesn't know the details."

   "You are so courageous..." Ogata couldn't help but looked at Lin Ziping several times. "Obviously he is a lot of age, so he dare to come down to Ezo land without even a companion..."

   Ogata, who has been here in Ezo land for a while, has a clear understanding of the danger of Ezo land.

   He and Ah Ding first encountered a giant cannibal bear and then a brutal Cossack.

   And this Lin Ziping dared to come down to Ezo land without a guard or companion... Ogata didn't know if he should be brave or stupid.

   "I also know that it is dangerous to do this." Lin Ziping smiled wryly, "But compared to this danger, I am more afraid of not being able to complete my academic research."

   "And I am not without the ability to protect myself."

   "For the sake of academic research, I have been running around, going north and south, and have developed a strong physique. I can guarantee that most of the samurai may not be as strong as me."

   "And I'm still the owner of the'catalog' in the middle stream."

   "I also know a lot of hunting knowledge. I know what to do to avoid encountering beasts."

   Directory—The level of the swordsmanship genre of this era.

   Most of the swordsmanship genres are divided into three levels from low to high: paper cutting, catalog, and exemption.

   If the assessment conditions are not mixed in, then the person with the "catalog" certificate is indeed a very capable person.

   After listening to Lin Ziping's words just now, Ogata said silently in his heart:

  —I’m an academic maniac...

   Lin Ziping's sentence just now, "Compared with this danger, I am more afraid of not being able to complete my academic research", which exudes an academic madman's breath from beginning to end.

   Ogata sees many people who are obsessed with improving their martial arts.

   But this is the first time Ogata has met this kind of person who is obsessed with improving his academic level.

   "Then in Ezo land, do you have any Ainu friends you know? If you know any Ainu friends, you can find him and ask him to help clear your suspicion."

   Lin Zi shook his head flatly.

   "Although I have passed through many Ainu villages, I still live in many villages temporarily, but I don't know any Ainu friends..."

   "...It's difficult to do this." Ogata suppressed his sigh, "There is no physical evidence to prove that you are not a spy for the shogunate..."

   "What you have now is only the words of your side..."

   Ogata lowered his head, thinking.

   After a while, Ogata slowly said:

   "...Let’s do this for now—I’ll go to Chanup now."

   "Go talk to him about you."

   "We may not buy the evidence we find useful."

   "You have to know what kind of evidence is useful in the eyes of the people in the Red Moon Fortress and can prove that you are not a spy of the shogunate."

   "After discussing your affairs with Chanup in detail, slowly think about how to get you out of prison."

   "Who is Chanup?" Lin Ziping asked.

   "The person who commands this Red Moon Fortress should be regarded as the supreme ruler of the Red Moon Fortress."

   "Oh oh..." Lin Ziping whispered, "Should we talk to the supreme ruler of the Red Moon Fortress..."

   After thinking for a moment, Lin Ziping nodded gently:

   "Well then... I can only do this first..."

  ...

  ...

   Ogata and Amachi walked side by side on a certain street in the Red Moon Fortress.

   The "leader" who was responsible for taking the two of them to Lin Ziping just now is walking in front of them.

   Just now, this "leader" took Ogata from Chanupu's house to the hut where Lin Ziping was detained.

   But now it’s the other way around.

   Now this "leader" brought the two of Ogata from the hut where Lin Ziping was detained to Chanup's house.

   "...I don't think there is any way to prove Lin Ziping's innocence."

  , walking beside Ogata, Amachi said nonchalantly.

   "There is no physical evidence, nor anyone trusted by the senior officials of the Red Moon Fortress to help identify him as a spy."

   "With just a few words between us, I don't think we can persuade Chanup to let them go..."

   "Try it first anyway." Ogata shrugged with a wry smile, "If it is really impossible to get that Lin Ziping out of prison as soon as possible... Then wait until that time is true."

   Soon, Ogata and the others returned to Chanup's house.

   "Leader" shouted something in Ainu.

   After that, Ogata and the others heard Chanupu's response, but because Chanupu spoke in Ainu, Ogata couldn't understand what Chanupu was saying.

After    Chanup's response fell, the "Leader" turned around and nodded towards Ogata and Amachi:

   "You can go in now."

   After obtaining permission to enter, Ogata and Amachi entered Chanup's home again one after another.

  Chipke village chief and they are still present, there should be important things to talk about.

   But compared to when Ogata and the others left, there are 2 more people here.

   These two extra people sat on the left and right sides of Chanup.

   One of these two people is Asoma, whom Ogata is familiar with.

  Beside Esuma, there was a boy whom Ogata didn't know.

   After seeing Ogata and Amachi entering, the boy was taken aback first, and then looked at Ogata with joy.

   "Mr. Mashima, Ms. Amachi, you are back." Chanup said to the two first, "How? The old man in the cell, but the one you are looking for?"

   Ogata shook his head: "That person is not the one we are looking for."

   "It's so...it's a pity... Ah, Mr. Majima, Miss Acho, let me introduce you to you."

   Chanup pointed towards Esuma and the boy who were sitting on his left and right.

   "This is my eldest daughter-Asoma."

   "You should know each other too. So I won't introduce it too much."

   Chanup had already known the details of how Esuma and others were in a team with Ogata and they returned to the Red Moon Fortress with Ogata's group.

   "And this is my eldest son-Otunpuyi."

  —The eldest son?

   Ogata looked at the boy.

   Ogata was not surprised by the sudden emergence of Chanup’s eldest son.

  Whether it is the Japanese society that has entered the feudal age, or the Ainu society that is still in the tribal age, they have one thing in common-lack of entertainment.

   It's okay during the day, but at night it really can't do anything.

   Therefore, in this era, making children has become the only entertainment that the general public can do at night.

   After leaving Edo with Amachi, working hard to hand over the ancestral chromosomes to Amachi has also become an important pastime for the two of Ogata and Amachi to spend the long nights.

   So in this era, it is common for a household to have 7, 8, or even a dozen children.

   If Chanup had only one child, Asoma, Ogata would be surprised.

   After carefully observing the boy named Otunpui, Ogata found that the boy's facial features were indeed somewhat similar to those of Esuma.

   This boy looks like he is 13 or 4 years old. He and Esuma should be siblings.

   Xu gave a salute to Otunpuyi:

   "Meeting for the first time. (Ainu

  Ogata first said "the first meeting" in the not-so-standard "plastic Ainu", and then switched back to Japanese.

   "In Shimo Majima Goro. This is Uchiko Majima Town."

   This sentence is too complicated for Ogata to speak in Ainu.

   After Ogata’s self-introduction fell, Otunpui seemed a little nervous and stammered:

   "We first met for the first time. I am Otunpuyi."

  Otongpuyi speaks Japanese.

   and it is a much more standard Japanese than his sister and his father.

  On the standard level-if you only listen to the sound, the owner who can't hear the sound at all is an Ainu.

   Although Ogata is no stranger to Ainu who can speak Japanese, after hearing Otunpui's unusually standard Japanese, Ogata couldn't help but cast a surprised look at him.

   Otun Puyi caught the surprised color in Ogata’s eyes and smiled shyly:

   "I have studied Japanese seriously, and I may speak a little badly. Please forgive me."

   "No, no, no." Ogata shook his head, "Nothing. Your Japanese is very good."

   After greeted briefly with Otunpui, Ogata returned his gaze to Chanup.

"Mr. Chanup, do you have something to discuss with Chief Chepke? I have something to tell you now. If you and Chief Chepke have something to discuss, then I will first Wait a moment."

"Huh? You have something to tell me?" Chanup cast a surprised look at Ogata. "I have finished talking about the important things that should be said to Chepke and others. I have been talking to Chep just now. They’re just chatting, if you have something to tell me, you can tell me now."

   Seeing that Chanupu said so, Ogata was not hypocritical, and directly told Chanup about Lin Ziping.

   After Ogata’s voice fell, Chanup raised his eyebrows: "Do you want that old man to be free again?"

   "Yeah." Ogata nodded. Just as he wanted to say something, Chanup suddenly said with a wry smile:

   "That might be difficult."

   Chanup picked up his pipe and took a hard puff of cigarette.

   "Many people have asked that the old man be executed."

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   Did you watch the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games last night?

   Regarding the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games last night, the only thing I feel about UU reading www.uukanshu.com is: I don’t understand, but I was shocked...

Five years ago, when I saw various ACG images in "Eight Minutes in Tokyo" at the closing ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, I was very excited and looked forward to seeing classic characters such as Doraemon and Mario at the opening ceremony. Said...

   It turned out... this is it?

   The "Eight Minutes in Tokyo" 5 years ago was a scam! Fraud!

   There is a saying, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games last night really gave me a cheap feeling...

   There is a feeling of outsourcing the program to outsiders.

  Although there are many people who analyze the artistic level of those programs, as an ordinary person, my most intuitive feeling about the opening ceremony last night is that it is so bad...Why do you want to show such a stream of consciousness program at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games...

   For me, the only two highlights of the opening ceremony last night were the classic BGM of each classic game when the athletes entered the stadium and the "super-changing" program.

   (It would be great if the BGM of the athletes from our country when they entered the stadium was the "Proof of Heroes" of "Monster Hunter", and Beier had the momentum)

   Aside, I’m going to see my country’s Olympic opening ceremony to wash my eyes.

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