"I can only help you so much." Tang Ping said to Shanbei's eldest brother, "If they don't want to live, I have no choice."
Meiko and Xiao Luo found a large empty house in the village and cleaned it. The kind-hearted Xiao Luo also laid out bedding and placed the girls there.
"I want to guard here!" Shanbei's eldest brother Wang sat at the door holding his long sword.
This was the first time he had participated in rescuing people. How could he just let them die like this?
He heard Tang Ping say that these girls didn't want to live, so he planned to stay here at night to prevent them from doing anything stupid.
"This guy looks a bit like a prince now."
Tang Ping no longer cared about Shanbei's brother's affairs. If Shanbei's brother hadn't been standing in front of Xiaoluo at that time, he would have taken the people away immediately.
After a night of silence, the next morning, the eldest brother Shanbei woke up when he heard crying coming from the room behind him.
Knocked on the door, but got no response.
After thinking for a while, he opened the door and walked in.
Some of the girls glanced at him and stopped reacting, while others didn't even move.
"That..." Shanbei Brother Wang wanted to speak, only to realize that he had never encountered such a situation at all.
He had absolutely no idea what to say.
"I remember seeing a sentence in a storybook: As long as we are all alive, we can find happiness again."
"There is another book that says that no matter how severe the pain is, it cannot go away, so we can only continue to live, right?"
"As long as you live, you should face everything with a smile."
"You are not wrong, it may be the world that is wrong."
After saying that, he closed the door.
Because he also remembered a sentence: Many times, when we face extreme cruelty and cruelty, we feel that any words of comfort seem so pale and powerless.
Somewhat depressed, he walked to the courtyard where Tang Ping and his friends lived, sat on the ground, picked up the breakfast made by Xiao Luo and stuffed it into his mouth.
As someone who had once competed for the emperor and failed, he realized that he had thought of Fuso's world too simply.
At this moment, Meiko ran over and said: "It's not good, it's not good, yesterday...yesterday..."
"What happened yesterday? Tell me slowly." Xiao Luo handed her a bowl of water.
"The wizard who was tied up last night ran away."
Yesterday, Tang Ping was angry at the actions of the villagers. He decided not to go through the muddy water and took the people back to the village.
The eldest brother Shanbei was also worried about the rescued girls, but did not take care of the wizard.
Unexpectedly, he escaped during the night.
But this has nothing to do with Tang Ping and the others. After breakfast, they plan to continue setting off.
Now that Tang Ping knows the approximate location of the gold mine, he will naturally have a way to ask people to mine it.
Several people were about to leave the village, but a group of soldiers led by several knights arrived at the entrance of the village.
The two sides happened to face each other at the entrance of the village.
"I heard that someone pretended to be a river god in this village yesterday. Could it be you? Are you planning to abscond in fear of crime this early in the morning?"
One of the knights asked arrogantly.
"Who are you?" Brother Shanbei came out of the carriage and looked at the knight and asked.
"Me? Haha!" The knight pointed his riding crop at the eldest brother Yamabei: "I am a general under the lord of Niigata County. As for my name, you are not worthy of knowing it."
"You! How brave!" Shanbei's eldest brother Wang almost revealed his true identity.
"No wonder!" Tang Ping also came out of the carriage.
"No wonder the incident of the river god has appeared here for more than half a year, but no one from Niigata County has ever come to ask about it. It turns out that you are in the same group."
The wizard escaped during the night last night, but the lord of Niigata County sent troops here early this morning.
Yesterday, the leader Fan Mayongci was thrown into the water by Lu Yi as soon as he came. He lost half his life when Lao Cui and the others caught him.
The following things were all confessed by his subordinates. He didn't even have a chance to confess before he was killed.
It is estimated that only he and the wizard knew about this collusion with the Lord of Niigata Prefecture.
This makes sense. In the beginning, Yuuji Fanma was hunted here. Why did he still have the money to arrange all the early stages? It turned out that he was in collusion with the local Niigata County Lord.
The city lord got the gold mine from them and then ignored their crimes.
Now that the wizard knows that Tang Ping and the others also know the secret of the gold mine here, of course they cannot let Tang Ping and the others go.
As for not seeing the wizard, it might be because they were afraid of bringing him to reveal their secrets, or more likely because he was of no use and had already been disposed of.
"Hmph! I, Fuso Law, have always punished lawbreakers who pretend to be ghosts and gods to do evil things. Now you are still talking nonsense here, let me catch them!"
The order from above was to capture these people and then find a remote place to deal with them on the way back.
But what they didn't expect was that the people in the convenience store, who had only three samurai in the wizard's mouth, would have such strong fighting power.
The road at the entrance of the village could only pass one carriage. In such a narrow terrain, the numerical advantage was of little use.
After getting Tang Ping's approval, Lao Cui and others had no intention of showing mercy.
Waving the long knife in his hand, the soldiers with tattered equipment were like chopping melons and vegetables, but in a matter of seconds, there were more than ten or twenty casualties.
When the remaining soldiers saw how fierce the people on the opposite side were, they yelled a few times and planned to run away.
However, there is a river on one side of the village entrance, and on the other side it was blocked by Luyi Li Bai, and Xue Rengui stood on the carriage and kept firing arrows.
Not one of the twenty or so soldiers left ran away.
The knight who spoke at the beginning also wanted to run away, but was stopped by the eldest brother Shanbei.
"You... do you know that our city lord is Su Wo Jianyi? You, you are going against our Su Wo family!"
"It's the Soga family again!" Yamabeko's eldest brother Wang became angry when he heard the Soga clan. It was because of the Soga clan that he did not sit on the throne of the emperor.
Only when I came out this time did I realize that the Suga clan's power throughout Fuso was actually so huge.
I'm afraid that even if he became the emperor back then, Fuso would still be vaguely controlled by the Soga clan.
Their royal family wants to take back the imperial power. I am afraid that only by completely eradicating the Suga clan can they take back their rights.
"Then do you know who I am?" Shanbei Brother Wang pointed at the knight with his long knife and asked.
"You...who are you?"
"I am the grandson of the thirty-first emperor of Fuso, Emperor Yomei, and the son of Prince Shotoku, the eldest brother Yamagata!"
After saying this, Shanbei's brother Wang swung his sword and beheaded the knight who was still in a state of shock from his horse.
He wiped the blood from the long sword on the knight's armor and returned it to the scabbard. Then he looked at Tang Ping and said, "Forge an alliance with me!"
