"I..." The girl looked at Zhao Tong and said solemnly: "Maha, you are my eagle."
Zhao Tong shook his head, leaned forward slightly, and said with a half-smile: "It's mine now. If you want to take it back, you have to use money to redeem it!"
The girl lowered her head, then raised it again, as if she mustered up her courage: "I don't have fifty taels of gold...can it be cheaper?"
Zhao Tong looked her up and down, and the girl took a step back and whispered: "I... only have money."
"Silver?" Zhao Tong said with disdain, "How much is it?"
"Two, twenty taels..." The girl was afraid that Zhao Tan would think it was too little, so she took out a jade pendant from her body and held it up with both hands: "Can I pay more for this?"
Zhao Tie took a look and saw that it was an ordinary jade pendant with cloud patterns and cherry blossoms carved on it. It was not even white jade, but an ordinary sapphire. It was a good thing for Japan in this era, but it was really worthless in the Song Dynasty. .
"Please accept." The girl lowered her head slightly and refused to take back her hands holding the jade.
Zhao Tong thought for a while, no matter how few mosquitoes there are, they are still meat. He took the jade pendant and found that there were Japanese characters engraved on the back. He recognized it, Utsunomiya Fengwu, which seemed to be a name.
He asked: "Which Japanese family are you from?"
The girl didn't expect him to ask this question, but she still answered: "The Utsunomiya family."
"The Utsunomiya family?" Zhao Tong thought for a moment, is it the Utsunomiya family from Kanto...
"Is this your name?" He raised the jade pendant and pointed at the words on the back.
"Yes!" The girl glanced at it and lowered her head: "Please give me your advice."
Zhao Tong smiled and fell into deep thought.
According to time calculation, Japan at this moment should be the Kamakura shogunate era. The Kamakura shogunate is the beginning of the Japanese shogunate regime. The founder is the military general Minamoto Yoritomo. At this point in time, the Kamakura shogunate has just been established for about ten years.
The establishment of the Kamakura Shogunate marked the end of the era in which the central aristocracy held the actual ruling power in Japan.
The samurai, who had a low status in the aristocratic era, have since stepped onto the stage of history. They despised the sluggish life of the nobles of the Heian Dynasty, and advocated "loyalty to the emperor, justice, integrity, bravery, and perseverance" as their core ideas, combined with Confucianism, Zen Buddhism, and Shinto , formed the spiritual pillar "Bushido" of the samurai, and was the beginning of Bushido.
Zhao Tao touched his chin. The current head of the Utsunomiya family should be Utsunomiya Chaosuna, but he seems to be dying and will not live for a few years.
In the last few years of Utsunomiya Chaosuna's life, he served as captain of Zaemon, which was not a big official position, but this is not important. What is important is that the Utsunomiya family is the imperial family, the general is the imperial family, and the imperial family maintains a direct master-slave relationship with the general. warrior.
Utsunomiya Chaotsuna followed Minamoto Yoritomo in the war. He had an extraordinary status and was a direct line guard of the general.
The Kamakura period was the rising period of the Utsunomiya clan. Not only did they retain the positions of Futarasan Inspector and Shimono Mamoru that they had held for generations, but they also held the positions of Chief Director, Oshu Inspector, Hitachi, Echigo, Ueno, Kamizou, and Mei The guardianship of Nong, Iyu, Bunzen, Chikugo and other places.
Later, the sixth-generation repairman Ryo Yasutsuna, the seventh-generation Owari Kagetsuna, and the Hatta family's Hatta family branch became members of the highest decision-making body of the shogunate.
The Utsunomiya family produced beauties, just like the Utsunomiya City in northern Kanto in later generations, where beauties abounded.
Zhao Tong thought of this and said, "Raise your head."
Utsunomiya Fengwu raised her little face in confusion. Zhao Tao looked at it for a moment, stretched out five fingers and shook it: "You have twenty taels of silver now. This jade pendant can be worth twenty taels. You can get another ten taels." , a total of fifty taels, take it away, Eagle!"
"I have no money." Utsunomiya Fengwu looked at Zhao Tao, his eyes kept peeking at the half-dead eagle behind him, and he was about to cry: "Please, sir."
Zhao Tong smiled: "The Utsunomiya family is the general's bodyguard, so it's not like they can't even get ten taels of silver out of it, right?"
Utsunomiya Fengwu was stunned when he heard this: "How do you know?"
Zhao Tong held the eagle in front of him and gently stroked the eagle feathers with his hand: "Utsunomiya Fengwu, you don't want to see the eagle turn into food, do you?"
After he finished speaking, he walked out. He didn't have the slightest interest in the chance murals. They were all deceptive things.
As for this Japanese girl, he has no interest at all. She is just a little girl. She doesn't know how high the world is. She actually sent someone to steal the eagle last night. If it weren't for the big deal to capture Fang La, he didn't want to attract attention and cause unnecessary trouble. What happened last night? He punched the kunoichi who sneaked into the room to death.
It is obvious that this eagle is not valued by the Utsunomiya family. Otherwise, even if Japan is not rich, it will not be able to afford dozens of taels of silver? As for the identity jade pendant to redeem the money?
The direct descendants of the rich families in Japan will have a personal token to prove their identity. Common people do not have such things.
Utsunomiya Asatsuna followed Minamoto Yoritomo to join the army and conquer the world, and took the post of Utsunomiya's inspector. This was the intention of the head of the Utsunomiya family, and he entered the ranks of the rich family, so he had a family token.
Zhao Tong was only interested in silver at the moment, and was not in the mood for anything else. Utsunomiya Fengwu watched him walking outside, thinking about chasing him, and then thinking that he wanted ten taels of silver, so he timidly stepped forward and just stared blankly. .
But the eagle must be taken back. Although Maha is stupid and it is difficult to become a ninja eagle, he saved her life after all.
At this time, a man walked up from the crowd. He was a man in his thirties, dressed in Japanese clothes, and his face was a little gray. Apparently he had finally struggled out of the temptation of the mural and said, "Xiao Wu, what are you doing?"
Utsunomiya Fengwu lowered his head, crossed his hands, and whispered: "It's nothing."
The man rubbed his eyes, as if he was a little tired from watching the opportunity just now: "Xiao Wu, don't think about that eagle. It often causes trouble in Naniwa, attacking passers-by from the sky. It must have been like this this time before it was caught. But this is the Song Dynasty, surrounded by Song Dynasty ronin, Ritsuka was already injured yesterday, don’t try to provoke them again, there are only twenty of us, we will be torn apart.”
"Only, as long as there are ten more taels of silver, Maha can be redeemed." Utsunomiya Fengwu said in a low voice.
"Is that so, only ten taels of silver?" The middle-aged man frowned and thought for a while: "I'll go to the Hojo family to borrow it, but you also know that the people in the Hojo family are very proud, so they may not be able to borrow it!"
Utsunomiya Fengwu said nothing. The middle-aged man sighed, shook his head and left her here, and went to watch the opportunity again.
Everyone in the hall was looking at the murals at the moment. Utsunomiya Fengwu walked outside silently. After exiting the stone hall gate, the sunlight outside was very dazzling. She was a little dizzy, but she immediately saw Zhao Tao standing not far away. at.
Zhao Tong also saw her at this time and stretched out his hand to wave.
Utsunomiya Fengwu ran over excitedly: "Sir, do you want to return the eagle to me?"
Zhao Tong did not look into her eyes and said calmly: "I think you should give me the twenty taels of silver as a deposit first, otherwise it will cost me a lot to raise this eagle. If you are not willing to redeem it by then, I will Didn’t you raise them for so long in vain? It’s better to kill them earlier and eat them.”
Utsunomiya Fengwu looked at Zhao Tao. She opened her small mouth but said nothing. How could there be such a bad person in the world? No, no, it was Maha who attacked him first, so he can't be said to be bad. It should be because he is too poor, right? Otherwise, why would he always think about eating eagles and steal things from the banquet? Doesn’t he have money to eat? "
"Sir, you... don't have money to eat?" Utsunomiya Fengwu asked: "But as for the deposit, my lord has already taken my jade pendant."
Zhao Tong's expression changed, he snorted and turned around to leave. Could a little Japanese girl see his embarrassment?
Utsunomiya Fengwu hurriedly caught up: "Sir, I can give you twenty taels of silver first, but can you let me touch Maha?"
Zhao Tong paused and stretched out his hand. Utsunomiya Fengwu carefully took out a small bag from his arms. After opening it, there were twenty taels of silver ingots inside. They were made in the Song Dynasty. I don't know where they got it.
After taking the silver, Zhao Tong handed the eagle forward. The eagle was already too hungry and could only blink at Utsunomiya Fengwu.
Utsunomiya Fengwu touched the eagle's head, then touched its body, and said: "Maha, don't be anxious, I will redeem you right away."
Zhao Tong grabbed Ying back and turned around to leave. Utsunomiya Fengwu followed reluctantly. Zhao Tong wondered: "Why are you following me if you don't raise money?"
Utsunomiya Fengwu shook his head: "I want to see Maha again."
Zhao Tong ignored her and went straight to the wine shop. He ordered a few dishes and a bottle of wine. He complained that the restaurant was really a scam and he had spent five taels of silver and started eating and drinking.
Utsunomiya Fengwu sat opposite and watched him eating deliciously, with the eagle behind him as if dead, and couldn't help but said: "Sir... feed Maha."
Zhao Tong said nothing and didn't even look at her.
Utsunomiya Fengwu begged: "Sir, an eagle cannot go without food for a long time, it will die."
Zhao Tong sneered: "The things on this table are all cooked food. Are you sure it can be eaten? Will it not shed its hair and turn into a vulture after eating it?"
Utsunomiya Fengwu thought he was reluctant to part with it, so she gritted her teeth and said, "If it's edible, I often feed Maha cooked meat at home."
Now that Zhao Tong has money, he doesn't want the eagle to starve to death. After all, the other party wants a live eagle, and it's hard to explain if it dies. Japanese people deserve to die, but they can't bully a little girl too much. These are two different things.
He said: "Are you sure?"
Utsunomiya Fengwu nodded vigorously. Zhao Tong knew that birds should probably not be fed cooked meat, as they would suffer from gastrointestinal problems or hair loss, but he didn’t know much about the Japanese side. He wondered if there was a special method to train falcons and the Song Dynasty. It's different here.
Then he opened the cloth strip on the eagle's beak and picked up a few pieces of meat with chopsticks. The eagle's eyes were already red with hunger. At this moment, he didn't care about whether it was raw or cooked. He was afraid that he could eat even a piece of grass, so he immediately started gobbling it up.
After drinking and eating, Zhao Tong stood up and left. This time Utsunomiya Fengwu did not follow, but silently returned to the stone palace.
Zhao Tong rested for a while in the wooden house. He wanted to go to the beach, but he thought it would be troublesome to carry an eagle on his back, so he moved a stool and sat in front of the door and looked at the sky, wondering why Fang La never showed up if he was really on the island. Fang La's identity may be favored by the old island owner, but why is he not even seen?
He thought about it, and felt that he should explore around, but there are crouching tigers and hidden dragons on this island. It is hard to say whether there are any masters among the disciples who have resigned as Light Envoys. It is a bit too much. Live an unexpected adventure.
But waiting for Wang Zhen to lead the navy to find him, I don't know when. If Huang Jue was in Fuzhou, he would be able to come earlier, but if the affairs of the Pu family in Guangzhou are not settled, Bai Ao may not be able to find Huang Jue in Fuzhou.
At this time, the surrounding houses were empty, and all the heroes were in the stone hall to examine the opportunity. Zhao Tong was bored and began to think about the mural.
Except for one poem, there is no annotation on the mural. Even the poem about the heroic line has no explanation. Everything can only be imagined. What kind of martial arts can be learned from this?
However, when things go wrong, there must be monsters. Such a large mural on an isolated island must be labor-intensive and labor-intensive. What was the purpose of the original owner of the island leaving such a painting?
It couldn't be to commemorate anything. After all, when the old leader of the Ming Cult came over, he saw dead bodies all over the place, as well as a lot of gold and silver jewelry. It can be seen that this island is not peaceful as it seems at the moment. It is probably a place where pirates hide treasures. No one would have time to paint murals in a place like this.
Zhao Tong recalled it, and apart from the shocking scenes, he really couldn't think of a place where he could realize the profound martial arts.
As night fell and the moon hung on the treetops, the three of them came back.
Both eyes were blood red, it was obvious that they had been staring at the mural for a long time and their eyes were too tired.
After the ceremony, the three of them casually ate some dried scallops and leftover crabs from lunch, and then began to talk about their impressions of the murals.
The more Zhao Tong listened, the more unreliable he felt, so he gave them ten taels of silver and drove the three of them away with a wave of his hand, leaving his family in peace.
In a blink of an eye, the next day, he did not go to the stone palace, but lay on the bed until the sun was high, thinking about how to spy on the island to find traces of Fang La, when there was a knock on the door outside.
He asked lazily: "Who is it?"
A timid voice came from outside the door: "Sir Samurai, I'm here to redeem the eagle."
It turned out to be a Japanese girl, Zhao Tong said: "Come in!"
I pushed it twice from the outside but it didn't open, and the door bolt inside was still stuck.
Zhao Tong sneered: "Wouldn't it be possible to open it when I came to steal the eagle that night?"
Utsunomiya Fengwu was silent for a moment and said: "I wasn't the one who came that day. I don't know ninjutsu."
Zhao Tong got up helplessly and opened the door. He saw that the Japanese girl was still wearing a white top, but she changed into a maple leaf red skirt underneath. She had a small face, snow-white skin, long black hair, and looked at him with a confused expression.
Zhao Tong took a deep breath and said, "Have you brought the money?"
Utsunomiya Fengwu nodded, but took a step back. She felt that the Song Dynasty in front of her looked at her in a strange way.
"Where?" Zhao Tong stretched out his hand.
"Here, here you go..." Utsunomiya Fengwu took out a piece of silver and put it in Zhao Tong's hand.
Zhao Tong weighed it, then turned back to the house and lay down on the bed again.
It took Utsunomiya Kaedewu a while to come in from the outside, carefully looking around, and then saw the hanging eagle, and hurriedly ran over, picked it off and held it in her arms.
"Go and close the door." Zhao Tong said calmly.
"I..." Utsunomiya Fengwu took a few steps, then suddenly stopped and said: "Samurai-sama."
Zhao Tong glanced sideways at her: "What else can you do?"
Utsunomiya Fengwu was a little embarrassed, lowered his head and said: "Fengwu please don't sell that jade pendant. Fengwu will redeem it later."
"Jade pendant?" Zhao Tong raised his eyebrows: "I know, but when will you come to redeem it? I can stay on this island for up to three months, and I might have to leave early."
"I, I will definitely redeem it!" Utsunomiya Fengwu said categorically.
"Definitely?" Zhao Tong knows that Japan's family token is very important, but you can't even raise enough fifty taels to redeem the eagle, so what can you use to redeem this jade pendant? When you return to Japan and have money, you will also return to the Song Dynasty.
"One thousand taels of silver!" Zhao Tong smiled: "Don't wait for me to go back to Song Dynasty. You will have no place to find me then!"
"What? One thousand taels of silver?" Utsunomiya Fengwu's slender body trembled, and he looked at Zhao Tong with a look of disbelief: "I, I only paid twenty taels of silver for the jade pendant."
Zhao Tong said slowly: "The money you paid is mine. This is not a redemption, it is a purchase from me. I can sell it to you for as much as I want."
"You, you..." Utsunomiya Fengwu realized at this moment that the Song man in front of him was indeed a bad person, a very bad, very bad person. It was not his eagle that attacked him. He had resentment in his heart, but He is so bad.
Zhao Tong fiddled with the jade pendant in his hand and said with a smile: "What am I?"
"I will definitely buy it back!" Utsunomiya Fengwu ran out of the wooden house, her tears couldn't be stopped anymore, like pearls dripping with broken strings.
Zhao Tong was lying on the bed without even raising his eyelids, showing his pity for the beauty? Don't even think about it, it would be nice if you don't kill these Japanese people.
In the evening, when Du Bo and his wife came back, Wu Song said, "Master, I discovered something."
"What's going on?" Zhao Tong asked.
"My eyes hurt during the day, so I didn't continue to look at the mural. Then I went to the small stone room to rest. I vaguely heard a banging sound coming from the mountain."
Zhao Tong wondered: "Didn't it come from other stone chambers?"
Wu Song shook his head: "My subordinate wanted to sleep quietly, so he walked to the deepest stone chamber. There was no other stone chamber inside. The sound came from the mountain wall and should have come from the heart of the mountain."
Zhao Tong thought for a while and said, "Erlang means that there is a secret in this mountain?"
Wu Song nodded: "I think that side of the mountain should also be empty."
Zhao Tong pondered, the stone hall was built on the mountain side in the center of the island, and there were several small stone chambers inside. It was because of the murals. If that side was also empty, what was it for?
The owner of Hero Island has been running this place for decades, so it is impossible that there are no secrets, but being in the same mountain as Chance, it is obviously important.
Zhao Tong said: "Can you hear someone's voice over there?"
Wu Song thought: "I didn't hear anyone's voice, it was just the sound of something hitting the wall. There was no pattern. It would be lighter and heavier."
Zhao Tong frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "Take me to see it tomorrow."
Early the next morning, after eating, the four of them went to the stone hall in the center of the island. They saw that there were many people inside, all watching the murals. Some of them must have stayed in the stone room for the night before they got up. Just come over and take a look.
Zhao Tong looked at his hands behind his back for a moment, then said: "Erlang, lead the way."
Wu Song hurriedly led the way. When he reached the entrance of the cave, Zhao Tong suddenly turned his head and his eyes suddenly fell on the stone wall...
(End of chapter)
