Yiyin raised his head in pain, tears flowing from the corners of his eyes to his ears, feeling like he couldn't breathe.
He could imagine how those greedy Kanto warriors would deal with the villagers who usually regarded them as pigs and dogs.
They will first collect all the food and let the villagers wrap their bellies with wild vegetable bark. After the Kanto warriors robbed them of their food, they again robbed the villagers and took away their seeds and food.
The villagers are struggling to survive and would rather starve to death than eat the seed grains, which is their last hope. As long as some people starve to death, the remaining people can sow hope in the coming year.
And this last hope will also be taken away, leaving them to slowly starve to death in despair. This means starvation and even cannibalism. .
Shiba Yiyin felt that he was about to suffocate. He originally thought that he had no bottom line in his life. But at this time, I was still trembling.
It is normal for the Wu family to grab food in disaster years.
However, the Kanto strategy he planned was well-prepared, and with slight modifications, it could turn into a planned large-scale food grab by the Echigo samurai family, causing an unprecedented human tragedy.
In troubled times, people are worse than dogs, and people die every day.
But his own sin, which caused people in several countries to starve to death, still caused Yiyin's mental breakdown.
When Teruhora Uesugi saw Yoshigin crying, he felt panicked and congested. She stretched out her hand to wipe his tears, but Yiyin slammed her hand away.
Uesugi Teruhu looked at his opened hand at a loss.
"Mr. Qianxin, you have to understand. Problems have to be solved, and we need to make choices."
Yoshigan wiped away his tears, looked at Uesugi Teruhora, and laughed.
"Yes, I understand, I should have understood a long time ago. What kind of people the Wu family is, and how they will choose in a famine.
What I don’t understand is myself.
I strive to integrate into this world and become a real martial artist. Do I just want to become a beast? A beast who takes away the last morsel of food and the last glimmer of hope from others? "
Uesugi Teruhora looked at Shiba Yoshigan in confusion, and Yoshigan was looking back at her with a cold heart.
Uesugi Teruhu doesn't understand, and all the martial arts families don't understand. Because they never treat civilians as human beings. Even the lower-level Ji warriors are expendable in their eyes.
Yiyin once thought that he could be so cold. But today, he completely understood that he couldn't do it.
The nine-year compulsory education he received in his previous life did not teach him to rob seeds and grains from disaster victims.
What has he been doing these past few years? If you keep company with animals, will you eventually become an animal? Does everything he insists on really make sense?
Yiyin thought that if he could pick up a sword and kill people, he would be a true martial artist. But now, Terutora Uesugi tells him, it's not enough.
She didn't even understand why Yiyin was crying, so she could only try her best to understand and comfort her.
"I know that as a man, you have suffered a lot. It's understandable that you don't want to be a warrior anymore. Men are not warrior Ji after all.
I am willing to share your burden, Sibo Yiyin, I love you, I really love you.
If you don't want to, I can do it. I will complete the Guandong Strategy, I will capture the Guandong Plain, and propose to you as a betrothal gift.
I don't want you to go back to Japan, I want you to marry me, and I can help you revive the Sibo family. Even in the future, when we are fully fledged in Guandong, we will go to Shangluo.
Your and my descendants will become new generals and the most noble people in the world. So please don't cry anymore. "
Uesugi Teruhora let go of his guard amid Yoshigan's tears. She no longer uses honorifics in conversations, but instead acts like a woman making the most sincere confession and commitment to a man.
But at this moment, this sincere feeling was a big joke in Yiyin's eyes.
"Uesugi Terutora, you don't understand me at all, you and I are not from the same world.
There is no longer a guide to Kanto, even if it turns out to be an ugly b, I will admit it! Even if I go back and marry Ashikaga Yoshiki, I won't be with you! "
Uesugi Teruhora said angrily.
"In order to marry you, she tried every means to force you, and her methods were extremely despicable.
Why are you still marrying her? She is a beast! "
Yiyin smiled coldly.
"Even if I marry a beast, I will not marry you. If you rob the victims of their seeds and grains, you are worse than beasts."
Teru Uesugi's eyes were red and his fists were clenched. If the person in front of her was not her sweetheart, she would have killed her with a knife.
But it’s the one you love that makes your heart hurt like it’s being torn apart. A true show of love was met with such humiliation and grief.
Yiyin said goodbye, stopped looking at her, and whispered advice.
"Sister Uesugi, please, don't rob those poor people of their food, okay?"
Teru Uesugi sneered.
"A person like me is worse than a beast. There is nothing I can't do."
Shiba Yiyin closed his eyes, feeling desperate.
How many times, as long as he calls Uesugi sister, Uesugi Teruhu will compromise.
But this time, his emotional and reckless words deeply hurt the heart of the Echigo Lord, and this effective little trick did not work.
There was silence in the room, speechless for a moment.
Uesugi Teruhora couldn't figure it out no matter what. The two of them worked hard for more than a year and finally sorted out the rear area and could concentrate on conquering the Kanto Plain.
Why would Shiba Yiyin give up the Kanto strategy because of those untouchables?
Doesn't he care about the family business? He endured so much hardship in order to revive the Sibo family, which was far beyond the limit that ordinary men could endure, but he never gave up.
But why, he was crying so sadly today, not at all like him in the past.
Shiba Yiyin felt that his whole head was going to explode. His head was so empty that he had no way to think anymore.
After an unknown amount of time, Uesugi Teruhu spoke dryly.
"Those untouchables, are they important?"
Yiyin smiled miserably, pointed at his heart, and said.
“It’s not important, but I can’t accept it.
I used to think that I could do anything. I took out my conscience and fed it to the dogs, and I no longer had any worries.
But today I realized that I can’t do it, and my heart hurts so much. I just found out today that I still have a bottom line.
Consider it my last conscience. "
Terutora Uesugi was silent for a while and said.
"The Uesugi retainers will not approve of your idea."
Yiyin said with a cold face.
"I have been in Guandong for more than a year, and I have been thinking about compromise day and night. Give them benefits, make them obedient, and follow us to fight in the Guandong Plain.
But when have these greedy wolves ever been satisfied? I take one step back and they take two steps forward.
This time, I will not retreat again, never! "
Yoshigami stood up, glanced at Terutora Uesugi faintly, and said.
"Even if the Kanto strategy fails and causes endless troubles, I will never compromise on this matter!"
Uesugi Teruhu lowered his head, unable to see her face, only hearing her voice.
"What if I did it? What if I completed the Kanto Strategy alone and robbed food?"
Sibo Yiyin turned around and walked away, saying as he walked.
"I hope you won't. Please don't make me look down on you."
Just as Shiba Yiyin's hand was on the sliding door, he was about to leave. Uesugi Teruhora behind him sighed and said.
"I won't do it."
Yiyin's body trembled, he stopped opening the door, and slowly looked back at her.
Uesugi Teruhu looked tired and looked up at him, but his eyes were firm.
“I would never do anything to make you sad, although I don’t understand why you are so persistent.
In troubled times, what difference does it make whether you die by sword or gun or by famine? If I don't rob them, those untouchables will still die, and others will rob them of their food.
I don't understand what you think. Your stubbornness will only put us in danger. I really don't understand. "
