Continuous battles not only bring serious psychological pressure to the samurai and bandits, but also to the farmers. After all, the village is their home, where their families live. The farmers already have nothing, and the bandits have repeatedly looted and killed.
This is also the reason why the peasant woman said at the beginning that "it would be better for the whole village to commit suicide" because they could no longer survive.
The will to survive burst out from the farmers who were forced to the road, allowing them to fight to the death in all the battles. Even if they suffered more than half of the casualties, even the most timid people like Heping never ran away and retreated. They were really worthy of the army.
This is something that orthodox warriors ignore.
But every time they fight, they lose their relatives, husbands, fathers, wives, or partners. The tense nerve in the farmers' hearts has already reached its limit. They are in urgent need of comfort from their loved ones, even if they just take a look and say something.
What about words.
The same was true for Wan Zao, who was dependent on his daughter. However, when he walked through the village and still couldn't find his daughter Chino, he went crazy. He broke into the agreed trysts of young men and women in the village one after another, even if he disturbed the gentle lovers.
He didn't hesitate to curse loudly.
The first thing Katsushiro saw when he stepped out of this small thatched hut was Manzo with a ferocious expression. Katsushiro, who had already known that the middle-aged farmer in front of him was the father of his lover Chino, lowered his head with a guilty look on his face and did not dare to go with him.
Looking at each other.
Although he has just completed the transformation from man to man, Katsushiro, who is still simple-minded, has no idea how to deal with this situation.
Chino held up her hair and covered her front with her hands as she stepped out of the hut. At this time, her eyebrows were relaxed, her face was flushed, and her eyes were full of lovers. She didn't even see her father, who was close at hand, staring at him with a murderous look on his face.
Own.
"Chi~no~!" A roar of grief and anger pulled her from the sweet flower field into the ice cave. She looked at her father Wan Zao in horror and subconsciously hid behind Katsushiro.
This action immediately ignited Wan Zao's already uncontrollable anger. He ran over quickly with the momentum of a tiger, bypassing Katsushiro who stood motionless, and grabbed hold of him with a skinny hand like an eagle's talon.
He grabbed Chino's clothes and hit Chino on the head and face with his other hand, shouting angrily: "You slut! I'll beat you to death!"
When Chino saw Katsushiro making no move, she could only cry in despair and run away. However, as a newbie, she could barely walk, and there was no way she could hide from her furious father!
Katsushiro's mind went blank at this time, and he watched helplessly as his lover was beaten. If it had been anyone else, Katsushiro would have drawn his knife and gone to fight with his life. But this was Chino's father, and he also knew that it was against morality for him to have an affair before he was married.
, let alone being caught red-handed by his father!
This was what Kanbei and the others saw when they came here. Shichiroji immediately stepped forward and pulled Manzo away, shouting: "Stop, don't mess around!" "How can a farmer's daughter and a samurai be combined?!" Manzo
Zao struggled and cried. Shichiroji was stunned, and Wan Zao immediately broke free from the restraints and chased after him, kicking him again.
The farmers who came one after another formed a circle after hearing the sound, but no one came forward to persuade him.
Kanbei immediately stepped forward and grabbed his arm, using the force to push slightly to the side. He stumbled slightly, and Manzo immediately fell to the ground. Kanbei shouted: "Stop, Manzo, calm down."
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Wan Zaoqing knew that he could not take action at this time, so he could only point at Chino with grief and anger and kept scolding: "You bastard! Slut! Unruly bitch..."
Kikuchiyo burped from wine and asked nonchalantly: "You mean samurai? Which samurai? We are all here... uh."
Only then did this guy realize that Katsushiro's head had almost dropped to the ground. He grinned awkwardly, picked up the wine jar and stopped talking.
Kanbei and Shichiroji looked at each other. Although he already knew that Katsushiro secretly had trysts with women in the village, what he didn't expect was that when the war was about to begin, his usually innocent disciple would actually sleep with that girl...
In Kanbei's eyes, this is really not a big deal. As long as he does not use force, it does not violate samurai ethics. Infidelity between two unmarried men and women who are in love is commonplace in any era and in any region, not to mention that the other woman is from a peasant family.
.However, as the master of the person involved, Katsushiro, he naturally could not say these words. After all, this is not a glorious thing!
How could Shichiroji not understand what his old friend was thinking? He knelt down, patted Wan Zao's shoulder, and said with a gentle smile: "Wan Zao, why bother? When life and death are unpredictable, it is normal for people to be a little unruly.
, on the eve of the decisive battle...this kind of thing often happens in the city. You should understand the mood of young people, it is inevitable!"
"Is it okay to say that it is inevitable?! My daughter has lost her virginity, how can I remain silent!" Wan Zao twisted away Shichiroji's hand on his shoulder and yelled stubbornly.
Chino on the side listened and cried more and more miserably. On the one hand, she felt sad for her father's incomprehension. On the other hand, she felt ashamed to be watched by the villagers. The most important thing was that there was still no sound from her lover Katsushiro.
Come on! Has he forgotten his promise to himself? Is he like the unscrupulous warriors in the city who deceived her virginity and then abandoned her without mercy? All kinds of thoughts came to her, making the woman who had just lost her virginity even more desperate.
At this time, a young farmer who was watching stepped forward and shouted loudly to Wan Zao: "They really love each other, what are they afraid of?! It's not like they are committing adultery with bandits!"
Wan Zao's facial muscles twisted, trying to say something, but in the end he couldn't say a word. What could he do?!
The humiliation caused by the adultery between a daughter and a samurai cannot be compared with the crisis of bandits attacking the village. The farmers still count on the samurai to help them fight the bandits. At this critical period, who will stand up for him?
The young farmer's reprimand just now made Wan Zao understand that even if he continued to be unyielding, all the villagers would not stand on his side.
So what if there are no bandits at this time? As a farmer, you are born to serve the warriors, just like your own chickens and ducks. When you encounter those unreasonable warriors, you can even scold yourself for being "extremely unreasonable".
Then he killed himself with a sword. No one would say that the samurai had done something wrong, and the government would not pursue him. At most, he would say behind his back that "the behavior was inappropriate and unworthy of the samurai."
It is precisely because of his profound understanding of this world that Wan Zao reacted so violently to the union of his daughter and a samurai. Even if Katsushiro, a young samurai with a pure heart, was not someone who deliberately wanted to defraud his daughter, he would never marry Chino.
As a wife, what should I do if my daughter has lost her virginity?
Kazuyo Sorayama stared at this farce and did not express any opinion about it. No matter in modern times or in this era, he is an extremely pure samurai class, but who in the modern era still talks about samurai?
His wife Maki is just the daughter of an ordinary family, and he has not been married to her and lived happily for so many years. In his opinion, as long as they are in love and stay together, that's all, why bother to care so much!
He had always looked down upon Katsushiro, a child with low martial arts, reckless temperament and a bit of cowardice. Yes, in the eyes of Sorayama Kazuha, Katsushiro was far from meeting the standards of a man. This incident only made Sorayama Kazuha even more
Just contempt.
If it were me, I might have taken the girl's hand and announced to everyone on the spot: From now on, this is my woman! Worldliness, etiquette, traditions... are just things that only the weak care about, and some obstacles are nothing.
What? Just cut it open with a knife! In the final analysis, Katsushiro, an incompetent boy, has no ability, no will, and can't control his own desires, which drags down the woman he loves.
Several huge raindrops fell from the sky and hit the bonfire, making a "sizzling" sound. The rain gradually became heavier. Seeing this, the farmers dispersed one after another. Wan Zao, who was sitting on the ground angrily, did not look at the scene anymore.
The two men, hunched over, followed the crowd and gradually walked away. Seeing this, the warriors also left silently under the leadership of Kanbei.
Only Chino was lying on the ground crying, and Katsushiro was dejected. The heavy rain fell on Chino, which seemed to wake her up a little. She got up and took steps towards her lover, but she looked at the man who still lowered his head and said nothing.
Katsushiro seemed to understand something.
Chino's eyes were no longer filled with irresistible tenderness, but with a kind of silent sadness. She took a deep look at Katsushiro for the last time, staggered and ran into the rain and disappeared.