Chapter 646 The big sword Jiguang bone food and people who are hard to die [5200]
"Although things have changed, Aruo still remembers me as my brother."
"Fortunately, Aruo is still alive and still remembers me. Otherwise, I really don't know how to prove to Xiaolin and Xiaolin's mother that I am part of their family."
"After listening to Aruo's explanation, I realized that Shengyi had already died of illness when Xiaolin was born."
"Katsuichi also suffered from poor fertility. Until he died of illness, he and Aruo only had one son, Kinoshita Yoshimichi, whom I have never met."
"With Katsuichi's careful cultivation, Yoshitomi has become a person who has been deeply affected by the 'curse' of 'reviving Toyotomi'..."
Yuan Yi paused.
It seems that he is thinking about measures.
After a long while, he continued quietly:
"……poor guy."
"Not only do you have strict requirements on yourself like you are obsessed with it."
"At the same time, I also have strict requirements on my own children."
"His fertility is better than that of his father. He gave birth to a son and a daughter."
"His daughter is naturally Xiaolin."
"And his eldest son...is Nobuhide, who is 6 years older than Xiaolin."
"According to Aruo, Nobuhide is a very smart and intelligent person."
"His original name was Kinoshita Nobuyuki."
"He was able to speak when he was less than six months old."
"When he gets a little older and can go to school, no matter what he is taught, he will be able to understand everything."
"Yoshitomi and Katsuichi are different. Katsuichi thinks that swordsmanship is useless, but Yoshitoshi feels that although swordsmanship can only be used against ten or a hundred enemies at most, it can cultivate character."
"So when Nobuhide was old enough to practice swordsmanship, he spent a lot of money to send Nobuhide to the best local swordsmanship hall to let him learn swordsmanship."
"In terms of swordsmanship, Nobuhide also showed great talent. It only takes 2 or 3 days for him to master the moves that a normal person would need a month to master."
"Nobuhide showed extremely high talent in both learning and swordsmanship, which made Yoshitomi overjoyed."
"Nobuhide's outstanding performance made Yoshitomi conclude that Toyotomi's revival is expected to be achieved in Nobhide's generation."
"Yoshitomi put all his hopes for the revival of Toyotomi on Nobuhide, made greater efforts to cultivate Nobuhide, and changed his name."
"The name 'Nobhide' was formed by taking one character from each of the names of Oda Nobunaga, the overlord who almost ended the Warring States Period and unified the world more than 200 years ago, and his ancestor Toyotomi Hideyoshi."
"Let Nobuhide change from the original Nobuzhi to the current Nobuhide."
"Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, these two names each have one character, which can also be seen from how much Yoshitomi hopes for Nobhide."
"Jitong devoted all his efforts to Nobuhide."
"But...it's just another face for Xiaolin."
"Jitong is... a very typical person who despises girls."
"He thinks women are just tools to help men carry on their family lineage."
"So I have always adopted a...neglecting attitude towards Xiaolin."
"Unlike Jitong, Xiaolin's mother A Ning is a gentle person."
"The same is true for A Ruo. A Ruo is also a very gentle person."
"Ji Tong doesn't care about Xiao Lin, only the gentle A Ruo and A Ning are good to her."
"Although they are very gentle, they are also very weak."
“I dare not say ‘no’ forcefully to my husband.”
"Aruo didn't dare to say 'no' forcefully to Katsuichi, which led to Katsuichi training Yoshitomi as a qualified successor to the 'Revival Toyotomi'."
"Ah Ning did not dare to say 'no' to Jitong, which led to the same outcome in Xiaolin's generation."
"Both of them have tried to persuade Yoshitomi not to care about anything other than 'reviving Toyotomi'. Unfortunately, they have had little effect."
"Although I have never met Yoshitong, I can imagine that Yoshitong is very similar to Shengyi, and what a stubborn and stubborn person he is."
"Yoshimitsu has always wanted to have another son, so that the Toyotomi clan can flourish and have more sons, so that they can have more 'insurance' if something happens to Nobuhide."
"However, no matter how much he longed for it, Aruo's stomach never moved again."
"Disappointed that he didn't have a second son, Yoshida often said to Xiaolin: 'It would be great if you were a boy'... Ugh!"
Before Yuan Yi finished what he just said, he let out a low cry of pain. Lin, who was sitting next to him, had just secretly stretched out his fingers and gently pinched the flesh of Yuan Yi's waist and abdomen with his nails.
Then gently twist in a counterclockwise direction.
"Uncle, there is no need to explain this in detail too quickly." Lin said calmly.
"Okay..." Yuan nodded, then cleared his throat, "Yoshitomi ambitiously hopes to see the revival of the Toyotomi clan in Nobhide's generation."
"But he has the heart, but he doesn't have the fate."
"When Xiaolin was 7 years old, which was exactly 2 years before I returned to China, he died of illness."
"Soon after... when Xiaolin was 8 years old, Nobuhide, who was already 14 years old... left home."
"Under Yoshitomi's education, Nobuhide also became a person who... would make the revival of Toyotomi his highest cherished wish in life."
"'Staying here, I can't learn anything. If I stay here any longer, even if it takes a hundred years, I won't be able to revive Toyotomi. Please take care of yourself. I'm going to go outside to experience and explore how to revive Toyotomi.
This is what Nobuhide said to his grandmother, mother and sister when he left home."
"After saying these words, Nobuhide ignored his family members, left home, and then... never came back."
"When he left home, Nobuhide also took away the Yoshimitsu bone sword, the heirloom of our Toyotomi family at that time."
"More than a hundred years ago, our family, the Toyotomi family, was prosperous and had saved a lot of money. At that time, the head of the Toyotomi family spent a lot of money to find and buy Yoshimitsu Kushishi, a sword that was once worn by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
A purple-handled knife."
"After Yoshimitsu Bones returned to the hands of the Toyotomi clan, the family head of that generation designated this sword as a family heirloom that must be passed down from generation to generation."
"As a member of the Toyotomi clan, I have been fortunate enough to wield this sword several times. It is indeed a sword that cuts through iron like clay, and is both sharp and tough."
"Nobuhide not only took away Yoshimitsu's bones and food, but also took away all the family's savings at that time."
"There were only two strong laborers in the family. One died of illness and the other left home. The one who left home also took away all the family's savings and the only valuable family treasure. Lin's life immediately fell into an embarrassing predicament."
"In the past 200 years, the fate of our Toyotomi family has been ups and downs."
"Our generation happens to be in a situation where family fortune is not good."
"In terms of financial status, they are just an ordinary family."
"Jitong has a fairly good skill at making pottery. He relies on his skill to support his family. He is the only breadwinner of the family."
"After the collapse of the only pillar, Xiaolin and the others directly lost their only source of income."
"The departure of Nobuhide, the only remaining young and strong man, has made matters worse."
"After Xinxiu ran away, Ah Ruo was old and frail at that time and could no longer do any work, so the burden of supporting the family fell on Ah Ning's shoulders."
"She has no skills. All she can do is make umbrellas and do some simple handicrafts."
"Ah Ning works very hard to support her family, but she...has never been in good health."
"After only two months, she fell ill due to overwork."
"Because of Jitong's neglect of Xiaolin, Xiaolin, who had been looked down upon by Jitong since she was a child, had to turn into a precocious child."
"At the same time, because Yoshitomi ignored Xiaolin, Xiaolin was not too deeply poisoned by the 'curse' of 'Reviving Toyotomi'."
"After her mother fell ill due to overwork, Xiaolin, who was only 8 years old at the time, resolutely took on the burden of supporting the family."
"It was also at that time that Xiaolin's business talent blossomed."
"Our hometown is near a small town. There is a pharmacy in that small town that sells pills such as 'Yue Nu Pills'."
"What is 'Yue Nu Pill'? You should be able to guess what it is from the name, so I won't go into details."
"Xiaolin found out after investigation that this shop was sparse. The reason is that many people feel ashamed and dare not approach this kind of shop."
"Xiao Lin, who discovered this business opportunity, took the initiative to find the owner of the store and made an agreement with the owner. She agreed to help him sell as many Yue Nu Pills and other pills as possible, and then he would get a certain share of the profit.
With a medicine box half as tall as her body, she sells these pills door to door."
"Xiao Lin, who keenly seized this business opportunity, finally succeeded in supporting this shaky home by herself."
"Although because of Xiaolin's brains, the family has no financial worries for the time being, but...you should also know that a family without a young and strong man is easily bullied."
"Xiao Lin and the others were often harassed and laughed at by some boring guys."
"She suffered too many grievances at that time, but Xiaolin was also very strong. Even if she was laughed at, she could still wipe away her tears while continuing to run to raise food money for her family and money for her mother's medical treatment.
It proves that even though she is only a girl, she can still do many things that men cannot do...ah!"
Yuan Yi let out a cry of pain again.
Lin reached out and grabbed the flesh of Yuan Yi's waist and abdomen again, pinching it with much more force than before.
"Why do you keep talking more and more about my past..." Lin frowned slightly, with a very obvious look of displeasure on her face.
"Okay, okay..." Yuan Yi said while rubbing the place where he was pinched just now, "I understand, I understand."
"In short, with Xiaolin's hard work, she finally managed to survive until I returned to China when she was 9 years old."
"After I returned to my hometown, with my help and assistance, Xiaolin and her family finally lived a life where they no longer need to eat a grain of rice as two meals."
Having said this, Yuan paused for a moment, then changed to a half-joking tone:
"At that time, it took a lot of effort on my part to make Xiaolin accept me as her uncle, whom she had never met before..."
"I still remember everything very clearly... Xiaolin threw herself in my arms, crying, beating me hard, and crying: 'My mother fell ill and I was working hard to support the family alone.
Where is your so-called uncle?'."
"Well..." Lin's face turned slightly red at this moment, and then whispered, "I was still young and ignorant at that time, so I almost forgot about this embarrassing thing..."
After saying that, Lin raised her hands and patted her cheeks, as if she wanted to brush away the red glow on her cheeks. Unexpectedly, it actually worked.
After gently patting her cheeks a few times, the redness on Lin's cheeks gradually dissipated, and her expression returned to its usual stern look.
"My so-called brother only has 'Revival Toyotomi' in his mind." Lin looked directly into Ogata's eyes and said unhurriedly, "For the so-called 'Revival Toyotomi', I sacrificed my grandmother, mother,
My sisters have all been abandoned."
"Leaving home alone, and being a bastard, he took away all the family's savings."
"And after leaving, he never came back."
"Grandma, before mother and the others passed away, they always wanted to take a look at that bastard again..."
"That bastard's behavior makes me want to draw my sword and cut him into seven or eight pieces."
"I hate him so much that I don't even want to mention his name."
"I don't want people around me to know that I have such a wretched brother, so I have never mentioned him or his affairs to outsiders."
Speaking of this, Lin turned her gaze and looked directly at Ogata.
"He wears a purple-handled sword on his waist and calls himself 'Kinoshita'. He is still very young. This is completely characteristic of that guy."
"The purple-handled sword he wears on his waist is probably Yoshimitsu's bone food."
"Although I'm not 100% sure, the 'Kinoshita' who sent firearms to the Red Moon Fortress and is suspected of researching 'immortality'... is very likely to be my brother."
"If it were him, using such a crazy method as human trafficking to study 'immortality'... it really seems like something he would do..."
"He has always been...a beast with a smile on his face, but without blood or tears..."
Lin frowned slowly as if she recalled something very bad...
"In order to 'restore Toyotomi', he started researching 'immortality'... If it were him, it would not be surprising at all to do such a thing."
After saying that, Lin took several deep breaths as if she wanted to suppress her emotions.
At this time, Ogata lowered his head, thinking.
Mouthing in his mouth:
"Toyotomi..."
This was not the first time he heard this surname.
Just now, when he heard Rin announce her and Genichi's real names as "Toyotomi Rin" and "Toyotomi Genichi" respectively, past memories flooded into Ogata's mind.
He thought back.
He recalled that he had heard relevant information about "Toyotomi" as early as half a year ago.
From the mouth of Shuntaro, the leader of the "Four Heavenly Kings" in Shiranui.
Back then, on the eve of leaving Edo, when he went to visit Shuntaro who was hiding in Yoshiwara to recuperate, Okonon heard information about the "Toyotomi remnant party" from him for the first time...
After a moment of silence, Ogata slowly said:
"...If that 'Kinoshita' is really your brother...then in order to 'restore Toyotomi', he did more than just research 'immortality'..."
"More than half a year ago, the gang of lunatics who tried to blow up Kyoto... must be inextricably related to your brother."
As soon as Ogata said this, the expressions of everyone in the Calabash House darkened, especially Makimura.
A few days ago, when exchanging information with Mamiya and others, Ogata told them all his previous experiences in Ezo, including the whole story of the destruction of his human skin mask.
What Miyabe once said to Ogata, "I just want to find out your true face under this human skin mask and why you have this human skin mask that we sold to Kunieda Junroku.", Ogata.
Fang also told the whole group of people in Calabash House.
Junroku Kunieda was the mastermind who planned to blow up Kyoto more than half a year ago. The human skin mask he used was provided by the forces behind Miyabe. Anyone with a little brain can deduce: the bombing of Kyoto more than half a year ago
Behind the terrorist actions, there must be traces of this organization that studies "immortality".
"In addition to trying to help those madmen blow up Kyoto..." Ogata continued, "your brother also tried to take Shiranui as his own..."
"Shiranui?" Lin's brows twitched slightly, "How do you say this?"
Ogata recounted the series of information he had heard from Shuntaro that "Toyotomi's remnants had secretly planned to take Shiranui Rito as their own" early on.
Regarding this matter, Ogata briefly mentioned it to Amachi.
At first, when he knew that there was such a force behind Shiranui, A-Machi was worried.
After all, people are always afraid of the unknown.
But as time went by, Amachi's worries gradually faded away.
After learning that Shiranui had such a close connection with the "Toyotomi Remains", the expressions of the Gourdiya group changed.
"... Toyotomi's remnants... Heh, we are becoming more and more certain that Kinoshita, who studies 'immortality', is my bastard brother..."
Lin raised her hand and rubbed the center of her eyebrows with a tired expression.
"Okay...don't you have a total of 2 questions to ask me?"
"Your first question, my uncle and I have already said everything we can."
"Tell me about your second question."
As soon as Lin finished speaking, Xu Fang said:
"...The second question is also a question I have been wanting to ask for a long time."
"It's just that I considered this issue too private, so for the sake of politeness, I never asked."
"But now, both you and we are willing to work together to investigate the 'immortal'."
"So now that both parties are interested in cooperating on this matter, I feel it is necessary to clarify this issue."
After Ogata paused for a while, he said every word:
"Ms. Lin, why on earth is your Calabash House investigating the 'Immortal'?"
"Don't tell me that the reason why you're 'investigating' yourself is to restore your body to a normal person like me."
"...Should I say that I have keen intuition?" Lin smiled very rarely at this time, "I actually guessed that you wanted to ask me this question."
"On that subject... the story is relatively brief."
As Lin spoke, she slowly turned her gaze to look at Yama placed next to her.
"It all started when I planned to go to Hongxiang Temple to buy Yama."
“I first met the ‘man who is hard to die’ at Honjoji Temple three years ago.”
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After writing this chapter, the author was surprised to realize that this paragraph was probably the last large-scale literary drama in the book.
After this section, until the end, there is no drama in the book. There are only killing and being slashed.
The way Xiaolin earned her first pot of gold in this chapter is not the author’s guess. In the Edo period, that kind of medicine could always be sold openly, but because many people were too proud to go to the store to buy it,