Chapter 10 10. The Road to Success Is Unknown

After a sleepless night, Xiao Pingtai still couldn't think of any way to abandon Hideyoshi's difficult-to-replicate path.

Kosaka Danzheng was also from a wealthy peasant family. With his red lips and white teeth, he could also earn 75,000 koku. Watari Fujido Takatora was also from a wealthy peasant family. He finally earned 329,000 koku, but when he died, his body was covered with holes and scars. Xiao Pingtai was afraid of death and didn't dare to be so fierce.

Patting his head and not thinking about these things, thinking about how to avoid going to the muddy field and facing the loess with his back to the sky, the village chief sent his old family to find Xiao Pingtai.

Xiao Pingtai had to roll over and go to see the village chief. It turned out that the village chief had just married a concubine, and the little girl needed someone to take care of her. The old family was old and there were not enough people at home, so they hoped that Xiao Pingtai would come to his house as a long-term worker. Xiao Pingtai agreed immediately, as long as he didn't have to farm.

So he helped chop wood, boil water, do chores and cook, and worked for more than a month. Xiao Pingtai was temporarily familiar with this kind of life. At least the long-term worker village chief can get two meals a day. The food at the village chief's house is not that good, that is, they don't have to eat coarse grains every day, and occasionally they can see some fish.

One afternoon in late autumn, Xiao Pingtai was pounding rice as usual, and then grinding rice flour to make dumplings. Then he boiled water, cooked soup, and made pickled vegetables and fish with the village chief's wives.

At this time, the sky, which was originally good, began to rain. Xiao Pingtai looked outside and estimated that it would snow after two rains, and the weather was getting colder. Thinking of this, it was still warm in the kitchen, and it was also happy to do odd jobs.

The village chief's wife saw that her daughter ran out again and had not returned yet, so she ordered Xiao Pingtai to go out to find her daughter.

Xiao Pingtai had to open an umbrella and then went out, and found that the village chief's daughter was hiding under a bare tree by the river. It couldn't block much rain at all, and she would definitely get wet. So she walked in a little and told her to go back quickly, but she responded and continued to squat by the river.

Just as Kobayata was about to drag her home, a group of warriors on horseback jogged into the village in the rain at the entrance of the village. After seeing Kobayata, they hurriedly called Kobayata a few times. When Kobayata ran closer, they asked Kobayata where the village's lord was. Kobayata hurriedly bowed his head and saluted, and then said to take them there.

After entering the house, he found that five followers were escorting Yamauchi Yoshiharu (a wild 160,000 koku daimyo) wearing hunting clothes and a bamboo hat on his head.

When the village chief saw him, he immediately saluted Yamauchi Yoshiharu with his family. Yamauchi Yoshiharu looked at the village chief and asked: "Kawabe Saemon?"

The village chief immediately answered yes, with a look of joy on his face that the boss knew me. He immediately ordered people to take the hunting clothes that Yamauchi Yoshiharu took off to dry, and arranged six horses to enter the stable, and ordered Kobayata to feed them with fine feed. He also asked his wives to help Yamauchi Yoshiharu change into a dry inner garment, and other attendants were also asked to warm themselves by the fire.

He also asked Kobayata to get hot water for Yamanouchi Yoshiharu to wash his hands and feet, and made Kobayata run around in circles.

Finally, Yamanouchi Yoshiharu and a close attendant sat down in the hall, and they served hot tea and freshly made rice cakes, and arranged for the others. The village chief knelt down carefully beside him, and it was good enough that Kobayata could stand in the corridor waiting for orders without getting wet.

Yamanouchi Yoshiharu was not so restrained. He looked around the house and asked about the harvest this year, whether the wheat had been planted, how many military servicemen there were in the village, how the military servicemen lived, and so on. The village chief answered them one by one in great detail, and even seemed a little long-winded.

But Yamanouchi Yoshiharu listened very carefully and didn't think it was redundant at all.

It was also because Yamanouchi Yoshiharu came here to hide from the rain when he came out hunting. Looking closely, Xiao Pingtai also felt that this man had the air of a wise leader. He treated the samurai and foot soldiers who were loyal to him with a pleasant face and no regard for their status (nonsense, any daimyo who left their names in history would give their kindness and tolerance to the samurai who were loyal to them, and other ordinary people should be nothing in their eyes).

Then he ate the snacks and fruits at the village chief's house. He ate them quickly and didn't care about the taste, proving that this man was not someone who was easily tempted by food and wine.

Xiao Pingtai secretly observed in the corridor. Yamanouchi Yoshiharu and the village chief had already talked about the battle of Ichinomiyayama Castle 17 years ago. They were both in the first battle that year.

It turned out that they were still friends who had carried guns together. The village chief slowly let go and talked about how he and his father chopped people under the city. Yamanouchi Yoshiharu suddenly realized that it was you and your father who took the enemy's arrow oars.

Slowly, they talked about the war not long ago. The village chief mentioned that Koyata helped Hosokawa Saemon to raise the first spear and was the first to rush to the Ninomaru of Ejiri Castle with a flag.

Yamauchi Yoshiharu looked at Koyata, who was kneeling at this time, with some consideration, and told him to look up. As if he remembered something, he pondered for a moment: "Are you the envoy who presented the head of General Shirakawa to the mountain castle representative Kodama Yorihide?"

"Damn, my chance to get rich has finally come!" Finally, it was Koyata's turn to speak, and he immediately agreed.

The manuscript is 150,000, very stable, don't worry!