Chapter 149 Chapter 02 Running the Bulls

The road winds up along the Tsukase Stream.The further up the mountain, the more rugged and difficult it is.After the winter snow melts, few travelers set foot here, and even fewer people come here to enjoy plum blossoms. "Ugly assistant, do you have to pass here from your village to the street?" "right." "If you want to do business, if you come out of Araki Village, it will be closer to the castle of Ueno than to the castle of Yagyu!" "But Ueno doesn't have a martial arts gym like the Yagyu family!" "Do you like swordplay?" "Ok!"

"Farmers don't need to learn swords!" "Although my family is a farming family, it was not before." "A samurai?" "That's right." "Do you want to be a warrior too?" "yes!" After Uginosuke replied, he dropped the rope and ran to the bottom of the stream. It turned out that the single-plank bridge fell into the stream. After he went down to build the bridge, he ran back again. At this time, the ronin walking behind had already crossed the bridge first.On the bridge and after crossing the bridge, the man still turned his head several times, looked at A Tong impolitely, and then went into the mountain.

"Who is that person?" Sitting on the back of the bull, A Tong muttered to himself as he felt uncomfortable.Uglyosuke smiled and said: "Are you afraid of that man?" "Not afraid, but..." "That's the ronin who were driven here from Nara. They live in the mountains ahead. There are a lot of them!" "is it a lot?" A Tong wanted to turn back, but hesitated.The plum blossoms in full bloom here come into view.But the cool breeze in the canyon hit her body, and she was worried about the Cheng family, so she didn't want to appreciate the plum blossoms.

Uginosuke continued to walk forward, holding the rope, and said: "Sister Atong, please ask Mr. Kimura to hire me to work in the city, whether it is sweeping the floor and carrying water." This is Uginosuke's usual wish.His ancestor's surname was Kikumura, and the name of Mataemon was passed down from generation to generation.So if I can become a samurai myself, I have to change my name to Andemon.After the name of Kikumura, there have been no great figures among his ancestors, so he expected that he could establish a family with swordsmanship, and use the name of his hometown "Araki" to name Araki Mataemon.Uginosuke's lofty ideals don't match his appearance at all.

After hearing the boy's dream, Atong thought of Jotaro who was like a younger brother. What happened after the breakup? He was probably nineteen or twenty years old. Counting Jotaro's age, a feeling of loneliness hits my heart instantly.Because she also thought of her own age.The plum blossoms in Tsukase are still flowers in early spring.But when a woman is over twenty-five years old, it means that youth is about to pass away. "I want to go back, Uginosuke, please go back." Ushinosuke seemed reluctant, but he obediently turned the cow around.At this moment, a voice of "Hello!" came from the front.

It turned out that the ronin just brought two ronin with the same costume as him.The three of them gathered around and stood beside the bull that Atong was riding with their arms folded. "Uncle, what is your business?" Ushinosuke asked, but no one paid any attention to him, and the three of them stared at Atong with evil eyes. "It's really good!" All three exclaimed. One of them added: The man said bluntly: "Hey!" He also turned back to call his companions. "I seem to have seen this woman there! Probably in Kyoto!" "It must be in Kyoto. It doesn't look like a country woman."

"I don't remember seeing her on the road, or at the Yoshioka martial arts school, but I'm sure I saw this woman." "Have you stayed at the Yoshioka martial arts school?" "Of course I stayed. After the Guanyuan Rebellion, I ate there for three years!" I don't know what happened to these three people.After stopping people, they even started talking about these topics, and everyone looked up and down at A-Tong maliciously. Uglyosuke was angry. "Hey! Uncle in the mountains, I have something to say, it's getting dark, and we have to hurry home."

It was only then that a ronin noticed Uglyosuke. "Oh! Aren't you the little firewood seller in Araki Village?" "Did you come here for this?" "Shut up, it's none of your business, you go back to me quickly." "You don't need to tell me, I will go back by myself. Get out of the way!" After finishing speaking, he was about to pull the cow rope. "Give me!" A ronin suddenly snatched the ox rope and glared at Uginosuke with terrifying eyes. Uglynosuke held onto the rope tightly. "What are you going to do?" "We have something to look for her."

"Where are you going?" "You control where we go! Shut up and hand over the rope obediently." "no." "How dare you say no." "That's right." "This kid doesn't know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth, so he dares to talk." The other two also glared and threatened, putting on a posture. "What did you say?" "What do you want?" The three surrounded Uglyosuke, raised their fists and roared at him. A Tong was so frightened that his whole body trembled, and he hugged the bull's back tightly.Seeing that Ugly Suke's eyebrows showed anger, he was about to stop him, but he had already yelled:

"Pooh!" Ugly assistant simply ignored Atong's stop.Suddenly raised one foot and kicked the ronin in front of him, then hit the ronin's chest with his iron head, drew the long knife from the man, turned around and slashed at the person behind him. Atung thought Uglynosuke was probably crazy.Because he was like a fearless newborn calf, pounced on the tiger in front of him. Facing the three adults who were taller than him, he had no fear at all.The action at this moment just now gave the opponent a heavy blow, which is no less than that of an adult. Maybe it was his subconscious reaction, or it could be said that the teenager didn't play the cards according to the rules, which made these adults unable to deal with it all at once.

Just now he swung his big knife to the back, just in time to hit the ronin behind him.Atong screamed when she saw this, and the cow she was riding was also frightened by the screams of the Ronin. Not only that, when the ronin fell to the ground, the blood from his body sprayed to the bull's horns, and sprayed on Atong's face like mist. After the injured man screamed, the cow also howled.It turned out that it was Uginosuke's second knife that just hit the cow's buttocks. The cow kept roaring, and suddenly ran wildly with Atong. "Humph!" "Brat!" The other two ronin hurried after Uginosuke.Ugly assistant jumped into the stream and escaped by stepping on the rocks in the stream. "I'm not bad!" The adult's hands and feet are not as agile as his. At last they realized that chasing him was foolish. "Leave that kid alone." The two immediately turned their heads to chase after the cow that A Tong was riding. Seeing this, Uginosuke turned around and chased after them, and shouted: "You want to escape?" "What words?" One of them was irritated and wanted to deal with Ugamisuke again. "Leave that kid alone." The other man said it again, and hurried after the running bull.Now the cow refused to go on the original main road, but ran away from the stream like a headless chicken, and rushed along the mountain road to the small road of Lizhi Street. "--etc!" "wait!" They were quite confident that they could catch up with the running bull, but unexpectedly, the running bull ran to the vicinity of Liushengzhuang in one breath, no, it should be said that it was already close to the streets of Nara. "..." Atong closed his eyes tightly along the way, but fortunately there was a saddle for charcoal and firewood hanging on the ox's back, otherwise he might have been thrown down a long time ago. "Look!" "A cow galloped past." "Go and save her! That woman is so pitiful." Niu ran to the crowded street, and Atong heard the exclamation of people who passed her by. "There!" But the passers-by could only shout, and the commotion caused by the running bulls was left behind, gradually drifting away. The bull ran to the vicinity of Prajna Field. Ah Tong was determined to die, because this running bull was running blindly all the way. What happened? Passers-by turned their heads and broke into a cold sweat for A-Tong.At this moment, a man with the appearance of a servant with a leather bag on his chest walked towards the cattle from the intersection in front of him. "Danger!" He was warned, but the servant continued on.As a result, the running bull's nose seemed to collide with the servant. "Ah! He was held up by the horns." "Fool!" The passer-by was too worried, and instead blamed the servant for walking without eyes. However, it was a mistake for passers-by to think that he was held up by the bull's horns.When they collided just now, there was a bang, and it turned out that the servant slapped the cow hard on the side of the face. It seems that this slap was quite heavy, the bull's thick throat was lifted up suddenly, and turned more than halfway.Passers-by thought that the bull might attack people again with its horns, but it ran even more frantically. But this time, before running ten feet, the four feet of the running bull unexpectedly knelt down with a snap.It was foaming at the mouth, its huge body trembled up and down due to its endless panting, and finally calmed down. "Girl, you'd better come down quickly." said the servant behind the cow. Passers-by witnessed this astonishing move, and immediately swarmed over.When everyone saw the servant's heel, their eyes widened in surprise, because he stepped on the ox rope with one foot. "..." Whose servant is he?It looks neither like a samurai nor like a shopkeeper of a merchant. All the onlookers showed bewildered expressions, and when they saw the servant stepping on the ox rope, they couldn't help but gasp in amazement: "It's as powerful as an ox!" A Tong climbed off the bull's back, went to the servant and saluted to thank him, but he hadn't recovered from his fright.The many onlookers of Taekwondo deterred her even more. She was physically and mentally exhausted and could not calm down for a long time. "Why is this docile cow going crazy?" The manservant picked up the ox rope and tied the ox to a street tree.Then with a suddenly realized expression: "Oh! The cow's butt is injured! It seems to be cut by a knife... No wonder it is so." When he was watching the cow's butt talking to himself, he heard someone scolding the onlookers and dispersing them. "Ah! Isn't that the caretaker of the straw sandals of Baozangyuan who always stays with Young Master Yinshun?" The speaker is a samurai. The man seemed to be chasing from behind, out of breath as he spoke.He is Kimura Sukuro of Yagyuso. The caretaker of the straw sandals at Treasure Academy said: "It's great meeting you here." As he said that, he took down the leather bag hanging on his chest, and said that he was about to send the letter in the bag to Liu Shengzhuang under the order of the master of the hospital. Send the letter to the other party. "Is the letter for me?" After Sukuro asked carefully, he opened the letter.It was written by Yinshun who just met yesterday. The content of the letter is as follows: About the samurai who haunt Tsukase, after I mentioned it to you yesterday, I sent people to investigate again, and learned that those people were not samurai from the Todo family, but ronin gathered there for the winter.What the humble monk said before was wrong, and I hope to correct it, so hereby. Zhu Jiulang put the letter in his sleeve: "Thanks for your hard work! What you said in the letter coincides with the results of my investigation, so I am relieved now. Please convey your thoughts and don't worry about it." "Yes, sorry for bothering you by the side of the road, then I take my leave." Just about to leave. "Ah! Wait a minute!" Sukuro called the other party to stop, his tone changed slightly. "When did you become a servant of Treasure House?" "I just went in recently, I'm a newcomer." "What's your name?" "Yin Zang." "what?" Sukuro looked at the other party carefully and said: "Could it be that you are His Excellency Tonosuke Hamada, the teacher of the shogun's family and the disciple of Jiroemon Ono?" "Ok?" "Although I haven't seen you before, everyone in the city is rumoring that Master Yinshun's sandal manager seems to be Toanosuke Hamada, a high-ranking disciple of Ono Jirouemon." "This……" "Did I recognize the wrong person?" "...To be honest..." Hamada Toronosuke blushed, lowered his head and said: "Because of some reason, I swore an oath before, so I lived in the Treasure House as a servant. I am really ashamed of my teacher. It is also my own shame... Please don't spread it anymore." "Hey! I didn't mean to pry into your privacy... I just thought, maybe my guess is right..." "I think you've probably heard that for some reason, my family teacher, Jiroemon, gave up the martial arts school and went back to the mountains. I want to live in Baozangyuan to cultivate my body and mind. Alas! I am so ashamed." "The reason why Master Ono lost to Kojiro Sasaki was because of Kojiro's instigation, which caused Master Ono to be demoted to Buzen. Everyone in the world knows this. It seems that you want to avenge your family's shame!" "Yes... someday." With a blushing face, Yin Zang hurriedly bid farewell as soon as he finished speaking.