Chapter 6 Dapeng

Kato was sleeping in the room with the short lamp behind him.Warriors who are in the war day and night, occasionally go home to rest, but at home, they feel uneasy because they are too peaceful and stable. "Ido!" "In!" The answer came from a distance, and it was his wife who just walked in the door a year or two ago. "Is someone knocking on the door?" "Is it a squirrel again?" "No, someone is here." "...Really!" Yi Du wiped his hands and walked towards the door, then came back immediately. "It's a monk from Guangming Temple, bringing Riji to see him." She said with a slightly sad face on her delicate face.

After hearing this, Tanzheng said, "Hahaha, the monkey is on vacation!" He laughed as if he had expected it. The Kato family is related to the Kinoshita family of Nakamura, and Hiyoshi is the son of his wife's sister.Because Hiji was a witness when he entered the temple, after hearing the reason, he said: "Since he is not suitable to be a monk, then there is no need to force him. Let's send him back to Nakamura's parents. If we can't help, please help." You are causing trouble!" The couple apologized together and left Riji behind that night. "Then, to his parents, please apologize for us!" After finishing speaking, the monk of Guangming Temple went back as if he had let go of his burden.

Riji was left alone, looking around the room curiously, thinking: "Whose house is this?" When I entered the temple, I was taken there directly and did not come here.And they were also afraid that Riji would become arrogant and unable to endure hardship if he knew that there were relatives around him, so when Yidu married, they didn't let him know. "Little guy, have you had dinner yet?" Riji immediately sat in front of Tanjong and said with a smile, "I've eaten." "Let's have a snack." He gave Riji a lot of sweets. While eating, Hiyoshi looked up at the gun hanging by the door, and at the family crest on the armor cabinet.Then, Hiyoshi stared intently at Kato Tanzheng in front of him, as if trying to see a hole in his face.

"Is there something wrong with this kid's mind?" Tan Zheng wondered. Why do you think so?Because he kept looking at himself, and when he was trying to stare at him intently, Hiji's eyes neither turned aside nor looked down.However, it's not completely unresponsive like an idiot, just laughing. "Hahahahaha!" Danzheng looked away first. Tanzheng smiled and asked, "Unknowingly, you have grown up so much, Riji, do you still remember my face?" After saying this, Riji showed a vaguely remembered expression: "This is when I was seven years old. , the uncle who touched my head by the river."

Because as a samurai, her husband Danzheng almost always lives in Qingzhou City or spends the night on the battlefield.The two have been married for a short time, and there is almost no time to enjoy family fun with their wives. "...What a troublesome child." Yi Du frowned in annoyance. Although the house is separate, the husband's mother and other relatives also live in this house. Such a child is her sister's child! "I don't feel ashamed to be thought of like that. However, Hiyoshi has been making loud noises in her husband's room since just now." "Ah, Uncle, you used to be by the river, you were with a group of warriors, and you even rode a horse. Are you there?"

"Well, remember?" "I remember." Hiji suddenly said in a coquettish tone, and then said informally, "Then, you are a relative of my family, my mother's sister, and you are engaged to my uncle." Yidu and the maid put the food in the tea room together.Hiji's voice was as loud as she was speaking in the wild, which made her uneasy. "The meal is ready." Yidu opened the partition and called out to her husband, and saw that her husband was wrestling with Hiji.Riji's face was flushed, his butt pouted like a bee, and Tanzheng was playing with him like a child.

"……that." "Eat?" "It will be cold in a while." "Wait...don't wait, you can eat by yourself first, this little guy is always serious right away, interesting. Hahahahaha, what a strange little guy!" Tanzheng replied ecstatically. Danzheng has been attracted by Hiyoshi's innocent and innocent character.Hiyoshi, who is easy to get close to people, is already playing with Danzheng.One by one, he showed Tanzheng the games that children often play, such as puppet ventriloquist, and Tanzheng was also laughed out loud. The next day, when we set off for Qingzhou City, Tanzheng said to his unhappy wife: "If his parents agree, how about raising Riji in our house? Although he can't do much, it's still better than raising a real monkey." .”

But Yidu was not happy, he sent her husband to the door, and said as he walked, "No, let's send it back to Sister Zhongcun. What if he is unreasonable to my mother-in-law? Don't let him offend my mother-in-law." "Then, you can do whatever you want, and you can do whatever you want." Dan is a man who doesn't know if he will come back alive after leaving home, and only has the lord and the battle in his heart. He is a husband who doesn't care much about his wife. "For a man, is fame the only thing that matters?" Yi Du looked at her husband's back, thinking that he would not be able to see each other for a few months.After the housework was done, she took Hiyoshi to Nakamura early.

On the way, Yidu met a man who greeted her cordially. "Ah, isn't this Mrs. Kato's wife? Where is this going?" This person is probably a businessman, and he must be the master of a wealthy family.He was in his forties, wearing a gorgeous short burqa, a waist knife in his waist, and small cherry leather shoes on his feet. He was an amiable man. Sensing the kindness, Yidu took Hiyoshi in his arms and went forward and replied, "Go to Nakamura's sister's house and send this child off." "Oh...is this young master, who was kicked out by Guangming Temple?"

"You have heard that too." "Actually, today I also went to Guangming Temple for this matter." For some reason, Hiyoshi felt uncomfortable and looked around.It was the first time since he was born that someone called him the young master, and he blushed with embarrassment. "Ah, did you go to the temple because of this child?" "Exactly, the monk from Guangming Temple came to the house to apologize and asked the reason. It turned out that the incense burner I enshrined broke." "Really, this naughty boy has caused you trouble!" "Why does your wife even say that? Porcelain will break, isn't it normal?"

"However, I heard that it is a very precious treasure..." "It's a pity that this incense burner is the work of the late doctor Ito Goro who lived with me in the Ming Dynasty for a long time." "Is the one called 'Xiangrui' the one you mentioned?" "He has passed away due to illness. Recently, blue and white porcelain is often engraved with the words 'Made by Dr. Xiangrui Goro', which is done by later generations. Dr. Goro who really went to the Ming Dynasty to study and teach us how to make blue and white porcelain is no longer here. gone." "I don't know if everyone's rumors are true. The young master Yu Fu raised by your family is said to be a child brought back from the Ming Dynasty by Lord Xiangrui?" "It's true. How did you know that? When children play around, they always tease him like 'Chinese children, Chinese children'. Now he doesn't go out very much." The owner of the porcelain shop, Shijiro said. Saying that, he looked at Hiji with a smile.After hearing his friend's name, Hiyoshi wanted to know who this person was. "However, it seems that only Young Master Riji has been helping Yu Fu. I heard that Young Master Riji was kicked out by the temple, and even Yu Fu came to intercede with me. In fact, I asked them to forgive me when I went to Guangming Temple just now, but just now they said it seems Not only about the incense burner, but also all kinds of problems, I can’t agree to my request. I’m walking back, hahahahaha!” Shijiro said with a big laugh, and then added a few words, "Of course, his parents have their own ideas, but if they still want him to work somewhere, if they think a place like my house is suitable, they can come anytime. Anyway, this child still has merit. "Then Shijiro greeted him politely and thoughtfully as he did when he met, and then left.After separating from that person, Hiji tugged on Yidu's sleeve and kept looking back. "Auntie, who was that person just now?" "Jijiro of the porcelain shop is a merchant who wholesales porcelain to various countries." "Ah, that's why I'm called the owner of the china shop." Then Hiji quiets down and walks non-stop with Yidu.After a while, Riji recalled what he had just heard, and suddenly asked: "Mingguo, where is it? Mingguo..." "It's Datang." Yi Du simply replied. Riji asked again and again: "Where is it?" "How big is it?" "Does Ming also have castles? Are there warriors? Are there wars?" "Ah, it's so noisy, don't talk, just walk!" Yi Du pulled out his sleeves and said. However, my aunt's reprimand, like a breeze, has no effect.Hiji raised his head vigorously, frequently looking towards the sky.He felt very incredible.Why is the sky so blue and so vast, but people only live on the ground?If people can fly like birds, then the Ming Dynasty painted on the incense burner can fly to it.Looking at the painting on the incense burner, the appearance of the bird is no different from that of the Owari bird, although the clothing and the style of the boat are different.However, the birds are the same.There is no distinction between birds, no, there is one big country between heaven and earth. "I really want to see different countries." For him, the smallness and poverty of the home he was sent back to was not a consideration at all.Arriving home soon, Hiyoshi and Ito peeked into the depths of the cellar-like home, which was dark even in daylight.Maybe something happened, Chikuami was not at home. After listening to Yidu's words, the mother looked at Hiji's indifferent face and kept sighing, "What a worrying child!" Her eyes were full of blame. Hiyoshi showed a surprised expression at the baby who was nursing in the mother's arms.When will there be another child in the family?Suddenly he took the child's face in his hands and pulled the child away from the nipple to look at it. "Mother, when was this child born?" "You are already an older brother, so you can't be good." "What is your name?" "Little Bamboo." "Strange name." Although he said it casually, he also felt something deeply——that is, the consciousness of being an older brother that his younger brother gave him. "Starting tomorrow, I'll carry you behind my back. How about it? Xiao Zhu, Xiao Zhu." Unable to stand his teasing, Xiao Zhu started crying. After Ito went back, she returned with Chikuami whom she had missed.At this time, Chikuami was a little tired of improving the family's poverty, and just drank all day long.He heard Riji's mother's complaints about Yidu, and when he saw Riji, he immediately said angrily: "You bastard, have you been kicked out again?" It has been more than a year since I got home.Hiji is twelve years old. "Monkey, is the firewood ready? This guy, why did you throw the bucket in the field again?" Tsukuami roared and looked for Hiyoshi as soon as he couldn't see Hiyoshi for a while. "Now, I'm about to do it." If he retorted, "Huh? Talking nonsense again, making excuses!" Then the palms that were very rough due to farm work would immediately greet Hikichi's face. At this time, mothers who have to pick cotton, pick malt, and cook with their children on their backs will turn away holding back tears.But there was a more painful look on his face than when he was beaten. "It's already twelve years old. At this age, children of other families have naturally helped the family. If they have been thinking about avoiding their parents' eyes and playing secretly, they will not be of much value." In this way, Chikuami kept ordering and abusing Hiyoshi.In fact, Hiyoshi seemed to be a different person after returning from the temple, very hardworking.This does not come from a feeling of maternal preference. "After eating other people's food, why did you suddenly change?" Mother looked at Hiyoshi like this with heartache, and occasionally came out to defend him, which in turn caused Chikuami to treat Hiyoshi more roughly.Therefore, whenever she saw Hiji being treated harshly, she pretended not to see it.Unlike before, Chikuami seldom went to work in the fields, and seldom stayed at home.He often went to the streets, got drunk, and when he came back, he would reprimand his children and beat his wife. "No matter what you do, this poor family will not get better. There are too many foodies in the family, and the annual tribute has increased. If there are no such hungry ghosts in the family, I will join the wild warriors and drink some good wine. So many drag... ..." After cursing, he asked his wife, who had no money at all, to raise money, and asked Ayou and Riji to go out to buy wine even at night. "Mother, I still want to go out to work." While his stepfather was away, Hiji expressed his thoughts to his mother. Mother hugged Riji and said: "Stay here, if you are not in this house now..." The words behind have turned into tears and flowed down.Naga turned his head and wiped his eyes. Seeing that tear from his mother, Hiji couldn't say anything.The thought of running away from home, the injustice and hardship in my heart, all disappeared.However, it is the nature of teenagers to have such pitiful thoughts. They want to have fun, to eat well, to gain knowledge, and to go far away—the sprouts of all kinds of desires grow like weeds. Knowing that talking to his mother would be fruitless, the fist he swung at his head made him even more impulsive.Thinking "the big deal is like this", all this made him fearlessly say to the terrifying stepfather: "stepfather, I want to go to work, rather than staying at this house, I want to go to work." "What? I want to go out to work. Well, let's go eat at someone else's house. However, if I get kicked out this time, I won't even think about entering this house." Zhuami also compared with Hiyoshi, Although he knew that Hiji was still a child, he might really have a discordant personality. He unconsciously demanded Hiji as an adult, and was as angry as ever. Hiji went to work in the red flower shop in the village.The old workers in the store said, "You can only talk, you are arrogant, you don't know how to measure," and rejected him.Soon the boss said, "It seems that you can't help much." Let Riji go home. Chikuami stared at Hiyoshi and said, "How is it? Monkey, no one will support you for a waste like you. Now you know that you should thank your parents." Hiji was full of anger, and with an expression that was not my fault, he stared back.Instead, he said: "Stepfather, you don't farm, so it's better not to go to the horse market to gamble and drink. Others say that mother is very pitiful." "What are you saying to your father?" Although Hiyoshi stopped talking because of Chikuami's angry shout, Chikuami also felt that Hiyoshi had become difficult to deal with.Every time you go to work elsewhere and then come back, the child will change dramatically and become different from before.His views on his parents and family will change, as if he grew up suddenly.Seeing Hiyoshi-sama's eyes looking at her, Chikuami felt terribly bored, frightened, and disgusted. "Hurry up and find a place to work, and get out of here." The next day, Hiyoshi found the next place to work, which was a barrel making shop in the village.The proprietress said, "Such a child with a worrisome future, here we are..." After only one month, Riji was dismissed.Riji's mother doesn't understand why people say that Riji's future is bleak.Since then, Riji has helped the masons, sold boxed lunches in the horse market, and visited the blacksmith shop.But no matter where it is, it is only three months to half a year.Hiyoshi's body gradually grew, but in Nakamura, people gave him such a conclusion-"The kid from the Chikuami family can only talk and can't do much." No one is willing to hire him.Faced with everyone's evaluation, my mother cringed in shame.If she heard people talking about Riji, she always said first: "That child, I don't know what to do anymore, people don't like him, and he can't calm down at home..." It seems that Riji is a villain who does all kinds of evil, Made her humbly apologize all the time. The time came to the spring when Riji was fifteen years old. The exhausted mother called Hiji to her knees and said earnestly: "You must be more patient when you go out this time. If you are driven back again, even your aunt will have no face to face your uncle. Everyone will laugh at you again... this time If you make another mistake and get kicked out like before, my mother will never forgive you." After the instruction, the next day, Yabuyama's aunt took him to a rich family in Xinchuan to see a job.It was the home of the owner of the porcelain shop that he went to, which was also Yu Fu's home.Yu Fu is already a white and clean youth of seventeen or eighteen years old. He helps his adoptive father Shijiro manage the family business. As the young master of the porcelain shop, he directly participates in the family business. Although it is a merchant's house, the master-slave relationship is very clear.When he went to see the worker, Hiji knelt respectfully and sat on the wooden floor.The young master Yu Fu was sitting in the living room covered with mats, eating snacks and drinking tea with his adoptive parents, chatting happily. "Ah, isn't this the little monkey from Yaemon's family? I heard that after your biological father passed away, Chikuami from the same village became your stepfather. This time he came to work at my house, so it's okay if you don't work hard. "Yu Fu's speech and behavior have matured as if he had changed himself. "Yes." Hiji was immediately taken to the servant's room.The laughter of the owner's family in the tea room can still be heard here.My friend Yu Fu didn't show the slightest expression of seeing a friend at all.Hiji felt a little lost. After a long time, after getting used to handling Riji, Yu Fu also began to be rude verbally. "Hey, little monkey, get up early tomorrow and go to Qingzhou. Because you want to send imperial porcelain to the government, so you can push the trolley there. And when you come back, go there by boat and ask about it. Have the goods delivered by Hizen arrived? Also, if you delay on the road and come back in the middle of the night like last time, you will not be allowed in." Hiji's answer to this is always "yes" and "ah", not as respectful as those old servants who say "I see". Hiji is often sent to Nagoya or Kiyosu.Every time he looked up at the white castle and the high stone wall and thought silently: "What kind of people live in it? How can they live in such a place?" His young heart was as small as a mole cricket. The miserable self was a little annoyed. When Riji pushes a cart loaded with heavy goods and walks on the road, there will always be some beauties in quilts, fashionable street girls, and young and beautiful ladies whispering: "Oh, the monkey is here." Walking in the car." At this time, Hiji had reached the age at which he could distinguish between beauty and ugliness in women. What made him most sad was the strange eyes those beautiful women looked at him.At that time, the Muromachi daimyo Shiba Yoshitomo lived in Kiyosu as the lord of the castle, and Nobutomo Oda Hikogoro was the head of his retainers.From the moat to the Wujo River as the center, the long-standing Ashikaga culture has been passed down, and it still maintained prosperity during the war. It is worthy of the title of the first city in the country. Go to the hotel to buy wine, go to the tea shop to buy tea, go to Sugaguchi in Kiyosu to find beauties.There are many brothels and teahouses in Sugakou.During the day, the prostitute's maids beat the ball back and forth and sang. The boy Riji pushed a trolley full of goods, passed by in a daze amidst the singing, thinking absently: "How can I make a difference?" But he couldn't think of any answer, just a thought: "Do well now." He silently With hope, I paint various images in my mind. Delicious food, wealthy families, and shops selling exquisite and splendid samurai equipment, harnesses, clothes, gems, etc., these things that have no relationship with Hiyoshi, are really dazzling in this city. Every time he passed by the steaming steamed bun shop, Hiyoshi would think of his gray-faced elder sister in Nakamura’s family, thinking: “I really want to buy it for my elder sister!” When passing by the old pharmacy, he looked at those herbal medicine bags and thought: “ If mother can always take that medicine, she will definitely be healthier." But he never thought about Chikuami.The fundamental reason why he wants to succeed is that he wants his poor mother and sister to live a good life more than anyone else in the world.So, whenever he was in town, his usual desires and fantasies were stronger than ever.He thought to himself, "What to do now? What to do now?" He walked forward with this thought in his heart as before. "Idiot!" Hiji was suddenly reprimanded by someone.It turned out that at a bustling intersection, he collided with more than a dozen samurai on horseback and some entourages holding horses and guns.The food utensils wrapped in wheat straw fell apart and fell to the ground and shattered.Hiyoshi was also knocked over with the trolley. "You are blind!" "Fool." The entourage scolded and creaked away on the broken porcelain.None of the passers-by on both sides stepped forward to help.After picking up the debris, Hiji pushed the cart and continued walking.The injustice and anger of society made his blood boil. "How can I make those guys kneel at my feet?" He seriously thought about this somewhat childish question.However, after a while, when I thought of the reprimand and Yu Fu's cold face when I returned to my master's house, the fantasies that swelled like a big roc with wings disappeared without a trace.He was a little worried.

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