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Chapter 83 The benevolent

On February 11, Danxia Village.

The village where they were already preparing to escape from famine, but because of the old man's desperate persuasion, they all stayed.

"The adult from the Imakawa family said he wanted to give our village food." The old man assured the people around him. In the past few days, people always sent food that could barely be enough for the whole village to eat for half a day so that everyone could survive.

The village has not had enough food since last fall. A small half of the people in the village originally lived in Nakashima Town. Since Oda and Imakawa started fighting around Nakashima Castle, they fled and left there and came to Danshima Village. This made the fields that were not many in Danshima Village tighter, but the enthusiastic villagers still gave up some of their fields for these refugees to cultivate.

Last autumn, the Oda family sent troops to fight during the autumn harvest and collected a large number of people from here to serve as auxiliary soldiers for the Oda army. However, the seized food was not distributed to these temporary food. When these strong men returned to the village, they found that the hard-working farmland was not harvested on time and encountered a locust plague, and the harvest of the year fell into vain. The village had to live on the few remaining grains in previous years and a little grain collected by women and children. The villagers who had only eaten two meals were forced to change their food to one meal a day. During the winter, the village starved to death and froze to death.

In the spring of the following year, although the middle-aged people in the village were not full, they also planned to work hard to plow the spring to make a good harvest this year. However, before they could finish the planting, the Oda family's samurai footmen rushed into the village and snatched away all the remaining grain. No matter how the village chief begged, it would be useless. Several farmers who refused to pay the grain were killed, all their families and their houses were burned.

The whole village was completely in despair, and they could not even ensure the seeds and grains for spring plowing. The whole village went out and digged wild vegetables in the wild fields and dug all the roots of the wild vegetable trees around the village, making it difficult to make a living. Children and elderly people starved to death every day. The remaining people were also skinny.

However, a few days ago, the farmers who fled famine returned to the village, saying that a kind-hearted adult would use military rations to help them - to help the people of hostile countries.

Although more than a dozen cavalrymen brought a few bags of food every day, the honest farmers were used to the samurai's domineering and cold-bloodedness. Few really believed that the kind-hearted adult would really come. Even so, they placed all their hopes on the illusory relief, and the whole village was looking forward to it at the entrance of the village.

In the early morning of February 11, the villagers gathered at the entrance of the village suddenly had a commotion. Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen young men rushed into the village chief's home excitedly.

"Village Chief, someone is here! Someone is here on the Sanhe side!" The young men cried with joy with excitement, "See! I saw! The convoy holding the red leaf flag can see so many bags of food on it from afar!"

The elderly village chief, regardless of the old bones, rushed to the entrance of the village with the young men. At this time, the Yuqiu family's ox carriage had already arrived near. For a heroic young man, he was looking at the farmers with sympathy with slightly red eyes. Behind him was a half-aged child, holding a maple leaf flag straight. Behind them, each member of the convoy was wearing a flag with red leaves printed on it. The ox carriage was filled with bags of round grain.

The hungry villagers rushed up in a swarm and surrounded the convoy. They wanted to pull the food off the car immediately, as if the food would fly away later.

"Don't hurry, don't rob!" The footmen in the convoy tried hard to maintain order.

"Friends, don't worry, the food is absolutely enough!" Yu Qiuping shouted while standing on a ox cart, "Every household reports the number of people. Adults receive a large bag of food, and children receive a small bag, it's enough! Don't worry!" Yu Qiuping pressed his hands and signaled the villagers not to rob, "The food here is for you, and all the extra ones will be placed in your village chief later!"

"Thank you, my benefactor!" "Thank you, Lord Samurai!" The farmers realized that there was also a warrior in front of them, and stopped robbing food and kowtowed on the ground.

"All up, get the food soon!" Yu Qiuping smiled, "Everyone line up in five places!" Yu Qiuping pointed to the location of his five FC generals, "The FC there will help you move the food that cannot be moved back to your home. Tell them directly if you have any requests, don't be polite!"

"The little man's family has five people and two children." The old man who was met by Yu Qiuping a few days ago came to Ansei in Fukushima, and the first one was to arrive.

"Okay, three big pockets, two small pockets!" Fukushima Ansei shouted, and several feet immediately brought food from the carriage, "Old man, do you want us to send it back for you?"

"No, no, how dare you bother all the soldiers!" The old man nodded and said, but it was difficult for the five people who were already hungry to move these five bags of food.

"Shui Atomic Sutra, Ziping, you guys help them move back." Fukushima Ansei bluntly, and he immediately greeted the few sluts next to him, and the sluts immediately warmly helped the old man carry the bag and followed the old man's family to the village.

"If you have any requirements, just say it!" Fukushima Ansei said to the farmers lined up, "Our two hundred brothers also lived a poor life before. It's a bit difficult for everyone to help each other!"

"Sir, you're right!" The surrounding foot gaze responded loudly.

"Grandma, are you sick?" Mimaezaki Nakahide looked at the middle-aged woman in front of her and kept coughing and asked.

"It's okay, sir, this samurai," the woman couldn't help but cough a few times.

"Kohayakawa Yasuke, go and help the grandma get some herbs and send them back together." Mimaezaki Nakahide said to the foot of his side, then turned his head to face the grandma, "Grandma, you have to take care of yourself." He said as he smiled and looked at the grandma's son and daughter-in-law, "I'm still waiting for you to hold your grandson!"

The young couple turned red, and the whole family took the foot that helped transport home with great gratitude.

...

It was almost noon, and the relief was basically completed. Every household received food. The excess grain was sent to the village chief's house. Yu Qiuping wrote a note and handed it back to the messenger named Suishan Shishi, so that the left-behind Tadhipei Naojiang would release another prisoner. Then, he took the convoy to leave.

However, before the convoy could turn around, the people in the village rushed out to surround Chang Panbei's lieutenants, and found the lieutenants who had just helped them carry it, without listening to the gratitude.

The old man talked for a long time and suddenly saw Yu Qiuping sitting on the back of the ox cart, smiling. He suddenly bowed to Yu Qiuping and said in the most sincere tone: "Thank you for your help! You will live a hundred years and have a safe life."

Although this sound was light, several farmers around him hurriedly knelt in the direction of Yu Qiuping: "Sir, I will live a hundred years and have a safe life."

The wave of kneeling and worship spread rapidly throughout the crowd. In a blink of an eye, more than 200 people in the village knelt down. Yu Qiuping suddenly realized that he had become the center of kneeling and worshipping. Whether it was the old man who had already seen the truth, the strong young man with strong spirit, or the children who were not well-educated in the world, they all bowed to him devoutly.

"Adults live a hundred years and have a peaceful life."

Yu Qiuping hurriedly jumped off the ox cart and thanked him, but the gratitude from hundreds of people made his voice seem so small. Yu Qiuping ordered Chang Panbei's teenagers to come forward to help the people, but then he helped this and that one kneel down again. Nothing can stop these honest friends for the rest of their lives and the people who dig food in the soil sincerely thanked Yu Qiuping.

They are both warriors and superior people, but the people can distinguish between good and evil.

The samurai of the Oda family ignored their livelihoods and robbed people's wealth one by one, and they always fisted each other, without taking the life of a gangster in the eyes of the villagers, forcing the whole village into a dead end.

The adults in this family are kind and kind, and they use their own military rations to help the people of the local people they have never met. The warriors in this family are very gentle and have no airs. They sincerely help everyone like good brothers.

"Everyone, stop kneeling! Get up!" Yu Qiuping shouted with tears in his eyes, "You shouldn't thank me, I should apologize to you!"

As soon as Yu Qiuping said this, the audience immediately became quiet, and farmers looked at Yu Qiuping in confusion.

"You are all honest people. You have been working and farming for the rest of your life, and you should have enjoyed a happy life." Yu Qiuping sighed and said apologetically, "It is us samurai who fought against each other for their own personal gain, and they have brought the innocent you into the war, causing you to be displaced and hungry and cold." Yu Qiuping bowed vigorously with tears in his eyes: "I'm sorry to you! I will definitely try my best to relieve your pain. I, Yu Qiuping, do what I say!"

Yu Qiuping bowed, and the people who had originally stood up knelt down again with tears in their eyes, and their gratitude became stronger.

"This Maeda," Yu Qiuhei pulled the Maeda Taki family, who was also moved and a little stunned. "He is a confidant of Oda Konomiya. He came here to give the villagers a guarantee!"

"Uh... well!" The Maeda Takiya was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he was speechless when he saw countless eyes looking at him. In the simple and sincere eyes of the people, he really could not make a promise as casually as Oda Nobunaga said and would break the contract in the future.

He thrust his chest and promised with great sincerity: "Representative Oda Koichiro promised the villagers that, like before, the forced robbery of food will never be reborn! I am willing to guarantee it with my life!"

After the matter came to an end, Yu Qiuping was really ready to leave. However, the people in the village followed him reluctantly and insisted on leaving Yu Qiuping's name.

"Every family and every household will erect a monument to pray for the adults, at least you must know the adults' name." The village chief held Yu Qiuping's reins and prevented Yu Qiuping from leaving.

"Okay." Yu Qiuping smiled slightly, pointed to his horse seal and Chang Panbei's flag, "Seeing this red leaf means my Yu Qiu family. My name is Yu Qiuping, you can call me Yu Qiu Hongye."

"Sir, I dare to ask those three words... which ones are?" the village chief asked again.

"It rains, autumn, peace, peace," Yu Qiuping whispered, "With abundant rainfall in the year, the harvest of the year is guaranteed. I hope you can be safe this year." After that, he rode his horse away. Behind him was the overwhelming thanksgiving voice of the people like a tide. Although Chang Panbei's footmen sent military rations transported through hardships and gave up the captives captured by hard-working battles, their morale was unprecedentedly high at this moment.

Behind him, Keido Amano looked at Yu Qiuping's back, and his heart was filled with indescribable throbbing.
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