Civilization Guardian Front

The Heimu family did not answer, but there was some emotion in their hearts.

(Why are we so miserable that we can't even eat enough to eat, but those damn bastards can live on enough to eat and drink...)

The words of the young man in front of him were like dark and malicious seeds, which took root, germinated, and thrived in their hearts, and grew into a ferocious giant tree overnight.

Chios didn't need to ask any more questions. Just looking at the distorted expressions of the Kuroki family, he understood the answer to the question.

"How about this, those people who don't care about your life and death are drinking heavily now, and I believe they will get drunk soon..." Chios tapped his fingers on the hilt of the sword, and continued after a while:

"You go and kill them. If you kill one person, the life they bought will be transferred to you. If you kill them all, you will all survive. How?"

Eleven Heimu family members felt their breathing stagnated for a moment.

Inuchiyo and Ashigaru felt their backs go numb.

Only then did they understand that Chios didn't want those who paid for their lives to survive from the very beginning...

"I... how do we know that you will really spare us?" a Kuroki family member asked courageously.

"What I give is the right not to be executed by me. If those Heimu family members die, it is also "you" who killed them, not me. "Chios shrugged and said with some regret:

"You are only given one chance. If you give up, I will behead you all tomorrow, and the Kuroki family who bought their lives will drink wine and watch you be beheaded. If you want this, I don't care."

A few seconds after finishing speaking, a Heimu family member immediately stood up and asked:

"I will do as you say, if only you spare my life!"

Everyone took a closer look and found that the person who made the request was the young man who had been flogged before.

"Zong Wu! Are you going to kill your own family for an uncertain opportunity?" an older Kuroki family member asked in surprise.

"When I was beaten, who sympathized with me and pleaded for me?" The young man named Zongwu said bitterly:

"Even if I die, I will drag them along!"

"I, I accept it too!" Another person stood up.

"And I! "

"I..."

In the end, everyone including the older Kuroki family members joined the ranks of killing those who bought their lives.

"Very good..." Chios had a meaningful smile on his face.

"I'll keep you alive."

an hour passed...

In the Minami Wakaguri Townguchi wine shop, except for the Kuroki family who unfortunately suffered a snake bite and the head of the family were not present, the six Kuroki family members who paid for their lives were all drunk and lying on the ground.

Each of them was given at least two buckets of dirty wine by the Ashgaru who brought them here. The inferior wine entered their stomachs and quickly rushed to their heads with dizzying intoxication, making them drunk one after another. fell to the ground.

However, the ashigaru who got them drunk were no longer in the restaurant, and even the boss left silently at some point.

In the dimly lit wine shop, another eleven guests came in quietly. They tiptoed around in fear of waking up the sleeping people.

It's just that what they did was not out of concern, but for a purpose.

These intruders slowly approached the drunk Heimu family, took out the strong straw ropes that had been prepared, put them around the drunken man's neck, and pressed the whole body on it to ensure that the other party's struggle would not cause any accidents. Tighten it!

The six intruders were busy strangling the neck, while the other five pressed the victim hard to prevent him from struggling.

Uh uh uh uh! ! !

There were several crow-like crowing sounds, which were the whimpering, howling, and roaring of the strangled person.

Especially when they saw clearly that the person strangling them turned out to be their familiar close relatives, siblings, wives and daughters, the dry and ugly cry became a little more powerful.

This did not bring them any better treatment. The people who strangled their necks looked at their family members who were powerless to resist with ferocious hatred, and their eyes were filled with the pleasure of revenge, the anger of witnessing crimes, and a little nostalgia and regret. ..

Even though their emotions were complicated, their strength to rein in the straw rope remained undiminished, and they did not want these parties to survive such an inhuman act of killing relatives. It would be a nightmare that they could not escape for the rest of their lives.

crunch...

The strength of the straw rope continued to increase, and the flesh and blood made a toothache sound.Drunk people were already weak all over, unable to breathe, flailing their limbs in the air, their entire faces flushed or even purple, and their bloodshot eyeballs almost protruding from their sockets, but their family members did not feel the slightest bit of pain. mercy.

what…

Unwilling to take his last breath, the sound was like a sigh, appearing in the wine shop in succession.In the trembling hands of their own family members, six members of the Kuroki family died with their eyes open.

At the moment before they died, they were all hating their family members.

Outside of restaurants...

"Sure enough, they are a group of hopeless people..." Chios exhaled lightly, without much surprise in his eyes, and ordered to the ashigaru:

"The living Kuroki family members, including Kuroki Zongzhen, all had their limbs broken and thrown into the mountains with the dead bodies."

"I said don't kill them, let them fend for themselves."

Just after ordering the cruel treatment of the Kuroki family, Chios looked at the starry sky above his head and added lightly:

"Tomorrow morning, send five people to Qingzhou City to report back to Shengjia and Changxiu, and ask them to inform His Highness Nobuna that I have successfully captured Nan Ruoli, and I will return to Qingzhou City in two days."

Chapter 41? Territorial Affairs

into the night...

Kurokiyama Castle was burned down, and Minamiwakaguri Town did not set up a lord's house. Only then did Chios realize that he had made all kinds of calculations, but he hadn't thought about the problem of accommodation.

The local townspeople really don't know whether it's better to be simple or ignorant.

Their lord came to the village and had no place to live for the time being. No townsman thought of making any arrangements. At least one private house should be vacated for Chios to use.

(I don’t know what the system of nine citizens and one people is like?) Such thoughts flashed through Chios’s mind, but he snuffed them out as soon as they appeared.

With his capacity, he would not care about such trivial matters with the common people, he could only shake his head helplessly.

So Chios, Inuchiyo, and Shizukyou could only sleep in the Machimae wine shop for one night.

When he made this decision, Inuchiyo stared at Chios almost instantly with dead fish eyes, and she was once again convinced that the shrewd young man in front of her was definitely a crippled person when it comes to the details of life.

The piercing look in the girl's eyes made Chios secretly decide...he didn't plan to share the wormwood ash he used to repel mosquitoes before going to bed.

The season has entered mid-spring, the second month when everything is revived.

Although the night of mid-spring felt a little cold, it was not too cold, but it was inevitable to be bitten by mosquitoes and flies. Ashgaru, who was mostly a farmer, was used to it, but it was hard for Inuchiyo, who had delicate skin and tender flesh.

Her family, the Maeda family, is also a wealthy family with two thousand stones Zhixing in Owari, but because of her young age, she serves as a small surname next to Oda Nobuna.

If she hadn't set foot on the road of a warrior, she would have been a daughter of a wealthy family. She collapsed in a country restaurant with loose doors and windows, and unexpectedly, the harm of mosquitoes was far greater than that of Qingzhou City.

But life will always find a way out. Inuchiyo was harassed by mosquitoes all night, but he noticed that there was not even a flying mosquito around Chios, nor did he subconsciously turn over and wave his hands when he was bitten, as if It's like sleeping under the protection of mosquito nets in the dormitory.

Although he couldn't figure out why this happened, Inuchiyo, who had been wandering between falling asleep and waking up all night, took action unbearably, quietly approached Chios, pulled his arm away, and squeezed his petite body into it. .

The heart was beating wildly, and Inuchiyo even felt that everyone in Quannan Ruoli could hear her throbbing.She was curling up in the arms of a man, the man her lord liked...

Oda Nobuna's practice of backing away when he sees Chios is not a qualified cover-up at all, it is just a manifestation of the girl's shyness, and it is impossible for Inuchiyo to be unaware of it as a small surname who serves Nobuna's daily life.

(If Her Highness the Princess finds out, what will happen to her?)

Inuchiyo was both scared and inexplicably irritated, and after thinking wildly for a while, he fell asleep in a daze.

overnight...

When Chios opened his eyes, he saw Inuchiyo sleeping soundly on his shoulder.

He had already noticed that Inu Chiyo got into his arms last night. He thought the girl would run away by herself soon, so he didn't respond, but he didn't expect that Inu Chiyo not only didn't escape, but fell asleep all at once...

Seeing that the other ashigaru in the restaurant were about to wake up, Chios quickly shook Inuchiyo's body.

"…Um?"

Inuchiyo slowly opened his eyes, the normally clear brown eyes were hazy at the moment, he rubbed his eyes with his little hand, and it took a long time before he realized who it was who woke him up.

"... Odd woo..."

Before he had time to say the other party's name, Chios covered Inuchiyo's small mouth, and whispered close to her ear:

(Don't be so loud...do you want to wake up others?)

Inuchiyo rolled his eyes, and when he saw the Ashgaru sleeping a few steps away, there was a rare look of panic in his eyes, and he shook his head quickly.

If there are any rumors spread by the ashigaru, she doesn't know how to face the princess.

(Then get up quickly and go out quietly.)

"…(nod)"

Chios opened his left arm, and Inuchiyo let go of the hand that grabbed the corner of Chios's clothes, and cautiously supported the ground to get up without any accident.

(Very well, just leave silently...) Inuchiyo relaxed slightly.

"Hmm... tsk tsk..." An ashigaru smacked his lips when he turned over.

"!!!" Inu Chiyo, who had a ghost in his heart, was taken aback by this movement, and his foot that stepped out couldn't stand firmly, and he jumped forward...

Chios got up almost instantly and pulled Inuchiyo back from behind, but Inuchiyo reflexively hugged Chios' waist because of panic.

The ashigaru who were already showing signs of awakening, a few of them opened their eyes by coincidence.

"Oh oh oh... I didn't see anything!" Ashigaru with a bad mind covered his eyes and pretended to be an ostrich.

"Snoring...snoring..." the clever ashigaru snored and pretended to be asleep.

"Wake up everyone who is already awake." Chios patted Inuchiyo's little head to let her let go, and at the same time said to the ashigaru.

"Ahaha... Good morning, Mr. Chios."

"Oh! Good morning, Mr. Chios."

"Good morning." Chios didn't look embarrassed, but advised everyone with a smile:

"Don't talk nonsense, no matter what you think in your heart, just keep it in your heart."

It was clearly a very gentle and gentle smile, but the ashigaru were like a cold wind blowing across their backs, their eyelids twitched, as if there was some natural disaster in front of them.

"Of course, Lord Chios, the villain didn't see anything."

A foot lightly wiped his cold sweat and said, the others also nodded.

"That's good..." Chios walked to a low table and sat down, and Inuchiyo returned to his usual expressionless face, and sat beside him.

"I'm hungry, get ready for breakfast, don't you have food for your waist?" Chios patted the table, like a guest who just entered a wine shop.

"""yes!"""

The ashigaru people responded energetically, and knowing that Chios was not too angry, they let go of their worries and went to the kitchen of the restaurant to light a fire to cook.

An episode in the early morning did not affect everyone's mood.

At dawn, the residents of Minami Wakaguri woke up from their sleep. The women lit firewood in the ground stove, and hung the pot on the iron hook suspended from the patio. A small amount of millet was cooked in the pot, and some radishes were cut into pieces to serve with wild vegetables. Throw it into the pot, add some salt, and you have a simple breakfast.

Smoke rises from the houses, and everyone is full of vigor to face a new day, but they don't know that just last night when they were sleeping soundly, the Kuroki family that once ruled this place for a hundred years has completely become history.

The townspeople had breakfast as usual, and when they were about to go to the fields to plow, they found a sign board temporarily erected in the middle of the street, with some words written on it, and two ashigaru standing quietly beside the sign holding short guns.

Most of the rural people are illiterate, so they just come around curiously.

The crowd of onlookers increased, and there were about 20 people watching the two ashigaru, waiting for their commentary.

"Master Chios is recruiting ten ashigaru people, with an annual salary of ten kan and five shimi!"

"The age limit for recruitment is 30 to [-] years old. Interested citizens, please come and register your name!"

The two ashigaru shouted the contents of the bulletin board with full of air.

The townspeople looked at each other in blank dismay. In the past, only the Kuroki family had real power in Minamiwakari, so what is the standing ashigaru?They don't know.

But with an annual salary of ten guan qian and five shi of rice, it is no less than what they earn from hard work, perhaps even more.Besides, there is also the risk of poor harvests in farming, and the salary that is always light enough seems to be stable.

...That is the salary. When it comes to salary, there is a feeling of being an official or a warrior. It sounds superior.

Quite a few people showed curiosity, but seeing the two ashigaru in midriff and holding short guns gave them great pressure, they whispered constantly, but no one came forward to ask.

The townspeople looked at each other, and finally an old man with a hunchback came forward, saluted the two ashigaru respectfully, and asked:

"My lord, what is the job of standing ashigaru?"

"Good question." Ashgaru enjoyed the feeling of being respected, and did not blame the townspeople for their lack of knowledge, but explained to the other party in detail:

"Standing ashigaru is a person who specializes in fighting for the samurai, like me. We don't go to the fields to farm. We are paid by the samurai, and we protect the territory and fight for the samurai."

"Will it be dangerous to fight?" The old man looked at Ashigaru worriedly.