Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai will stay here tonight.
As mentioned in the previous article, the Shimadzu family in this universe has unified Kyushu Island for many years. Thanks to the geographical advantages of this place, the economy of the Shimadzu family has developed relatively prosperously, so some shops and hotels here are more precarious than those in the mainland.
The area is quite luxurious.
According to the plan, Shuang Xie only needs to spend the night peacefully in Huawu tonight and set off early tomorrow morning to reach Nagasaki within one day.
However, just when their journey to Japan was about to come to an end, an unexpected and reasonable ambush finally came...
The person who set up the ambush was none other than the ninja who once had a relationship with Shuanghe, Genki Murakami.
Now that I mention this person to everyone, many readers may have forgotten it, so I will mention it here...
When Shuanghehe and Keijiro passed through a village in the south of Mine, they encountered two travelers who were robbed by the villagers at night but successfully fought back and killed them: one of them was named Araki Sushin, and the other was this one.
Gengyi Murakami.
Let’s talk about Arang Mu Lujin, whose real name is Hu Wenzhi. He is an out-and-out Central Plains native and an old friend of the Cao Gang leader Di Bujue when he was young. He wandered to Japan many years ago and stayed here for twenty years, and became a
A retainer of the Miyoshi clan.
However, people from the Central Plains are Central Plains people after all. Even if they are nominally retainers, they will not get much reuse in reality. Therefore, Hu Wenzhi is often assigned shady jobs that highly overlap with the work of ninjas; for example
The "Chuanpengzhuang Murder Incident" was an assassination carried out by Hu Wenzhi and Murakami in cooperation, using "ear power positioning" and "suspended sickle attack".
It was a coincidence that night. After Hu Wenzhi and Murakami repelled the villagers who came to rob them, they accidentally clashed with Shuanghe and the others. The main reason for the conflict was that Murakami Gengi's intelligence was a bit low and
A guilty conscience...
In the end, the two were easily subdued by Shuangxie, and they were able to leave with their lives saved on the premise of "providing some information as a guarantee."
Of course, we all know that Shuangxie was not interested in the information about the separatist struggle between the big names. At that time, Sun and Huang just felt that everything was caused by a misunderstanding, and the two sides themselves had no deep hatred, so they directly reported this
Killing the two of them seemed a bit excessive, but they couldn't let them go so easily, so they resorted to this formality. Later, Hu Wenzhi and Murakami were indeed restrained from entangled with Shuang Xie, so the matter was over.
Unexpectedly, a few months later, things changed again.
Not long ago, Gengyi Murakami made a mistake in a mission and found it difficult to explain to his superiors. So this stupid and bad old ninja thought... How about I find a reason to shift all the blame to Hu Wenzhi?
Right? Anyway, I've been unhappy with this Central Plains man being my "boss" for a long time, so I might as well take this opportunity to appeal to a higher level and defeat the superior.
Then he thought about it...and remembered what happened the night he was "interrogated" by Shuangxie.
Murakami thought about it, this time he could take the opportunity to reveal this humiliating matter that only he and Hu Wenzhi knew about and had not been reported to the superiors, so that Hu Wenzhi would take all the blame, while he would bear the burden of humiliation, but he still suffered
to the role of betrayal by the boss.
After making up his mind, Murakami used his not-so-smart mind to quickly make up some excuses, and then without telling Hu Wenzhi, he ran to his superiors to file a complaint first.
The general statement is...the failure of this operation was all due to Hu Wenzhi leaking information to two Central Plains people in a certain village last time, and he refused to obey at that time, but was forced by Hu Wenzhi's pressure
, and because I have feelings and righteousness, I didn’t report Hu Wenzhi’s behavior.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is impossible for any adult with some social experience not to hear problems like this, which is illogical and self-centered.
However, just like the investigation of the Nachuan Shengzhuang incident in the previous document... many times, the truth is not important, what is important is the result.
Therefore, even though the superiors knew that most of what Murakami said was nonsense, after weighing it carefully, they still accepted it all.
To put it bluntly, this is a choice between "a Japanese ninja with some sect background" and "a Central Plains disciple who is just a loner"...
As a result, Hu Wenzhi inexplicably took the blame for Murakami's personal failure. In order to convince the public, the Miyoshi family also agreed that Murakami could lead a team of fellow disciples to "sort out" the Shuanghe problem.
It’s a full set of acting.
Just like that, the time has come tonight.
At 2:00 a.m., Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai were eating supper in a comfortable guest room, when suddenly!
Snapped--
A figure broke through the Japanese-style sliding door of the room and was "thrown" directly into the house.
Boom——
A second later, as the man fell heavily to the ground, Sun Huang also turned around and saw that the man who was thrown in was Hu Wenzhi, who had been tied up, gagged with rags, and covered with bruises.
"Do you still remember this fellow of yours? From the Central Plains." Murakami Xuanyi's voice immediately sounded.
When he finished speaking, his figure happened to appear outside the broken door.
Some people may want to say that this guy is here to set up an ambush. Instead of hiding in the dark and directly attacking, what kind of trouble is he showing up in such a high-profile manner?
Then I have to criticize you. People think that the advantages are infinite. What’s wrong with pretending?
Thinking from Murakami's point of view: The humiliation I suffered at the hands of these two Central Plains brats must be repaid twice as much today! If I and my companions launch a sneak attack from the dark and kill them quickly, then they will not even be able to do it themselves.
I don’t know how he died or by whose hand he died. Isn’t it easy for them both?
"Where did this come from?" On the other side, Huang Donglai, who had already discovered that there was an ambush everywhere, calmly answered, "Is it a trick? But we are not familiar with him either..."
As he spoke, he glanced at Hu Wenzhi on the ground, "By the way, brother, what's your name?"
His question was just a casual comment, and he didn't expect Hu Wenzhi, who had a cloth stuffed in his mouth, to be able to answer.
Hu Wenzhi also remained silent at this time, lying there motionless without even a look in his eyes begging for mercy.
It is conceivable that as a person who has been struggling in a foreign country for twenty years and finally managed to become a human being, Hu Wenzhi's heart was broken after everything he owned was easily destroyed by a stupid and incompetent villain like Murakami.
It must have been cold.
He finally understood that no matter how hard he tried to integrate here, he was still a rootless outsider, so the only thing he could think about at the moment was: If he was going to die, it would be better to leave some dignity for himself instead of dying in an ugly way.
"Hmph...it's no use pretending to be calm." Murakami said as he slowly stepped into the house, "Tonight you are like turtles in a urn, you can't escape with your wings."
Bang bang bang bang...
A few seconds later, the four walls and even the roof of the house were broken open by weapons, and more than a dozen ninjas holding ninja swords appeared in Shuanghe's sight.
"Hey~ there are quite a lot of people, but Mr. Murakami, aren't you from the Miyoshi clan? How come you can have such a big battle in this Shimadzu territory?" The previous time, it was Sun Yixie who was in charge of the trial Murakami
, so he also has some understanding of Murakami’s situation.
"We Shinano Ninjas have cooperated with many famous names. Today I am here in my personal capacity with my brothers. Shimadzu will naturally give us some face." Murakami replied in a rather proud tone.
Of course, what he said was not a leak, it was just common sense at the time.
During the Warring States Period, the affiliations of various ninja organizations were extremely complicated. It was common for the same sect to have different streams, and for the same organization to work for different forces. For example, a certain sect may have several branches, and each sect may have several branches.
It is divided into several large and small organizations. Some of these organizations are loyal to only one daimyo, but some are mercenaries and will send people to work for different daimyo... Then they go out and report to the sect that it is the same one.
Anyway, what Murakami did today was of the nature of "with the permission of the daimyo to whom he was mainly loyal, he brought a group of fellow disciples to the territory of another daimyo who had certain cooperation with the ninja organization to which he belonged to seek personal revenge." So what he did was
It didn't matter what he said, even in his opinion, it sounded like a young and Dangerous guy bragging about how awesome his gang was.
"Oh...that's it." Sun Yixie muttered thoughtfully, then changed the topic and asked jokingly, "Hey, I heard a saying, 'Shinano kunoichi is the best in the world', is it?
Isn’t it true? Are there a few here today? Let me also open my eyes?"
As soon as he said these words, Murakami was still confused. Huang Donglai smiled strangely and said next to him: "Ah... As expected of Brother Sun. I have only been in Japan for such a short period of time and my knowledge has expanded to this extent. It's you."
How come this doesn’t sound like a common saying to me, but rather a slang that I made up?”
"What the fuck! Shut up!" Upon hearing this, Sun Yixie immediately tilted his face and mouth, turned around and scolded him, "I want to ask what's wrong? What if it really happened?"
"In case you're a hammer, I'm afraid you've watched too many cartoons. Are you the kind of female ninja who specializes in fighting monsters?" Huang Donglai answered.
"Mao! I haven't seen it!" Sun Yixie's tone became louder at that time.
Seeing these two guys talking to themselves, they started talking about Mancai, and Murakami, who was standing aside and being left alone, immediately became angry.
He did have a reason to get angry, because in his understanding, he came well prepared today and was sure of victory, so according to his imagination, at first he threw Hu Wenzhi into the room, and then the moment he made his handsome appearance,
The other party should be stunned and at a loss on the spot. Then, when the other party recognizes him and feels that two versus one has an advantage, his dozen or so ninja accomplices make another appearance, and the other party's emotions immediately change.
He will fall from the peak to the bottom, be frightened immediately, and begin to desperately beg for mercy. Then, he only needs to mock these two people again, torture and kill them, and the revenge will be avenged.
But what Murakami didn't expect was that the reality had nothing to do with his prediction. The two Nakahara boys seemed to have no brains. They were clearly surrounded by more than a dozen of Shinano's elite ninjas, and they were still making jokes as if nothing had happened.
...then can his mentality not collapse?
"Asshole! Please clarify the situation for me! Don't ignore me!" Murakami, who was a little angry, kicked Hu Wenzhi on the back while yelling and scolding him, and lifted Hu Wenzhi's whole body up like a crossbar.
, and kicked towards Shuang Xie.
But the next second, Huang Donglai just quickly stood up from the table, took a small step forward, blocked and raised his hand, and then spun two times, then firmly caught Hu Wenzhi, put it down again, and placed it in front of him.
On the ground next to you.
"Damn! Just say it, why did you throw someone here suddenly?" Huang Dong said, and sat back at the table, "This table of food and wine is not cheap, will you pay if I knock it over?"
"You two..." Seeing that the other party still didn't take him seriously at all, Murakami was so angry that he gritted his teeth. He almost instinctively took out his set of scythes from his body and waved them,
At the same time, he shouted to his accomplices, "Brothers! Kill them for me!"
Following his order, the ninjas ambushing all sides of the room swooped out like a group of hungry beasts... In an instant, the room was filled with swords and shadows weaving the sky, swords and shadows weaving the earth, Sun and Huang, and
Hu Wenzhi on the ground was swallowed up by a black figure in the blink of an eye.
But, in the blink of an eye, all I could hear was...
boom--
A loud sound shot straight into the night sky.
When the sound fell, the large group of ninjas who came forward to fight were all blown away to all directions, and almost all of them died on the spot due to severe internal injuries the moment they were blown away.
However, Sun Huang and Hu Wenzhi, who were at the center of this "explosion", including the table of food and wine in front of them, were not affected at all.
Murakami, who stood on the spot swinging his sickle and did not come forward, finally saved his life.
After a few seconds, Murakami recovered from the shock. At this moment, he took a closer look and saw that there seemed to be another person next to Sun, Huang and Hu Wenzhi.
An old man who doesn't look amazing.
I think many readers have guessed it, so we won't be too careful here. This old man is none other than the father-in-law of Wei who came to Japan with Shuang Xie - Wei Qian.
Originally, during the period when Shuangxie was searching for the Xunlong Bi, Eunuch Wei's duty was only to stay in Nagasaki, to inquire about the movements of Sun and Huang through the intelligence network, and to keep in regular contact with Dashu, among other things.
He doesn't need to worry about it.
But because this left-behind job was really a bit idle, and most of the time was just waiting, Eunuch Wei used his spare time to learn a lot of Japanese in a few months. Anyway, there were business travelers from various countries in Nagasaki at that time.
, he looked like a harmless old man from the Central Plains, chatting with people everywhere and no one took him seriously.
Then a few days ago, Eunuch Wei received the news that Shuangxie had started his return journey and was about to arrive at Kyushu Island. He thought for a while: Our family can speak a few sentences in Japanese now, so "moving around" a little bit shouldn't be enough.
Question, why don't we take two steps to the northeast and pick up these two guys in advance?
And his decision resulted in the current scene...
"Haha, my father-in-law came at the right time. Thank you so much for saving my life!" After a breath, Sun Yixie saw that the crisis was over, and immediately bowed to Eunuch Wei with a mean smile.
"Okay, okay, why are you pretending to be a grandson? Just wait for our family to come to rescue you, right?" Eunuch Wei didn't show politeness to him and made it clear.
"Hey, father-in-law Mingjian." Then Huang Donglai stopped pretending.
What Eunuch Wei pointed out in these words actually refers to: When Sun and Huang first stepped into Huawu today to move in, Eunuch Wei and the two of them discovered each other, but... they also noticed at the same time that there were a group of people here.
The men and horses were waiting in the dark, staring at Shuangxi... So Wei Qian and Sun Huang both chose to ignore each other tacitly and did not make any contact.
After that, Sun Huang pretended not to know anything, eating and drinking when he should, and waiting to see what those people hiding in the dark were going to do, while Wei Qian lay dormant, ready to use the "oriole behind" at any time.
"Ah——" Just when they said these two sentences, Gengyi Murakami finally made another move.
After going through a lot of ups and downs, he had a bit of a mental breakdown, and his intelligence was not very high. At this moment, he chose to use his special skills and launched an attack on Eunuch Wei as if he had lost his mind.
call--
A second later, Murakami threw out his iron stick that locked the sickle and hit Eunuch Wei in the face.
Pong!
But this blow was easily deflected by Eunuch Wei with just one finger.
What's even more exaggerated is that the pulling force generated by the iron lump that was bounced away far exceeded the force of Murakami's own throwing... Before Murakami could realize what was going on, his body was actually transformed by the iron lump.
Xiang was pulled by the chain and moved, staggering to the ground, and finally fell at Eunuch Wei's feet.
"What on earth do you do?" Eunuch Wei looked down at Murakami and asked in Japanese with a heavy accent and a very disdainful tone.
"I...I..." Murakami hesitated, not knowing what to say. His body was limp and trembling with fear, and he couldn't even muster the strength to escape.
"Don't you think that a mob like you can pose any threat to these two young heroes?" Eunuch Wei said again, "Even if our family is not here today, or if we don't take action, you are still dead.
"
"Please...please forgive me!" Murakami seemed to have suddenly awakened his survival instinct at this moment. He immediately let go of the weapon in his hand, turned over and switched to the Doge seat posture, and then bowed his head and kowtowed.
His ugliness was already funny enough, but I didn't expect that there was something even funnier.
He kowtowed a few times, and when his father-in-law ignored him, he felt like having a fit again. He raised his hand inexplicably and pointed at Hu Wenzhi, who was lying not far away, and said loudly: "It's him! It's all his fault! It has nothing to do with me!"
"
"Haha...hehehehe..." At this time, even Hu Wenzhi, who had been gagged and had not moaned even when he was kicked away, laughed.
When Huang Donglai saw this, he reached out to remove the cloth from Hu Wenzhi's mouth and asked, "What is going on? Why don't you tell us about it so that we can enjoy it too?"
At this time, Hu Wenzhi slowly sat up with his body covered in bruises and multiple fractures.
"Alas..." He sighed first and then said, "Let me take a sip first."
Until now, no one was afraid that he would make a sudden attack or something, so when he finished speaking, Sun Yixie, who was sitting on the other side of him, had picked up a Ninja sword on the ground and pulled the rope off Hu Wenzhi's body.
It was cut open.
After Hu Wenzhi was released, he poured himself a glass of wine, drank it in one gulp, and then summarized in a few words all the bad things Murakami had done.
After hearing this, Sun and Huang still felt a little unbelievable. Although Hu Wenzhi didn't look like he was lying, and there was no need to lie at this time, it was true that Murakami could pull off such a stupid "lower to defeat the upper".
It's a bit outrageous.
So Sun Yixie immediately turned around and asked Murakami: "Hey, is this true or false?"
"No...yes...no...I...I have no choice but to..." And Murakami's attitude is still so clownish - he can neither deny nor want to admit it, nor can he make up a reasonable explanation.
And he is extremely unwilling to memorize the consequences of things.
At this time, even Eunuch Wei couldn't help but sneer. He first looked at Hu Wenzhi: "Ha... It's really unlucky to be like you." After saying that, he turned to look at Hu Wenzhi who was still lying there.
Murakami said, "As for you, such an incompetent and shameless person...it is rare in the world to be as good as you are, and even stepping on you to death would be dirty to our family."
"Then... are you willing to let me go?" Unexpectedly, Murakami, who had been insulted to this point, looked happy when he heard this, because when these words fell into his ears, the main information captured was that the other party
It's like he doesn't want to kill himself.
"Go away, mother!" As a result, in the next second, Sun Yixie's trident suddenly came out and thrust straight in. Murakami was stabbed to the core with one strike.
Obviously, for Shuangxi, in addition to supporting Hu Wenzhi's remarks, people like Murakami have no value in living and should have died long ago.
"Hmph..." Hu Wenzhi didn't have much reaction to Murakami's death. When the other party died, he just snorted coldly, without even shaking the hand holding the wine glass.
For Hu Wenzhi, Murakami was not even qualified to be his enemy. At most, he was a dog that bit him, not even a dog. And the only value of this dog may be the bite that bit him, which made him realize
The fact that I don’t belong “here” after all.
"Then... what should we do now?" After a few seconds, Hu Wenzhi said calmly, "Do you want to kill me too?"
"If there is no injustice or enmity, why should I kill you?" Huang Donglai asked.
This is true. Although Hu Wenzhi was involved in this matter with Murakami, he actually had no intention of taking the initiative to oppose Shuanghe, whether it was the last time or this time. What's more, this second time he was simply kidnapped by Murakami.
If Murakami succeeds as a "tool man who kills enemies with dignity", Hu Wenzhi will also be killed later.
"Well..." Hu Wenzhi heard this and thought for a few seconds, "In that case, Hu has a request."
"Do you want us to take you back to the Central Plains together?" When he said this, Eunuch Wei also came to the table and sat down slowly. With his experience and eyesight, he could see through Hu Wenzhi's thoughts at once.
"But I don't know if my father-in-law is willing to make it happen?" Hu Wenzhi did not deny it and continued to ask.
"It doesn't matter to our family, we have to go back to Dashu anyway, and you are not too much." Eunuch Wei continued, "But I don't know what the two young heroes mean?"
"Ha...I can do it. Now I can have a table of mahjong." Sun Yixie didn't know what he thought of, but a smile suddenly appeared on his face.
Huang Dongzi knew what Sun Yixie was planning, so he just looked to the side without saying anything or revealing anything.
How they dealt with the aftermath of this night will not be described here.
Just two days later, the four of them boarded a ship in Nagasaki, preparing to return to...Otsuo.