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Chapter 26 This is reputation

Tsuda Nobutora is truly a filial person.

After the Obon Festival, everyone in Furuno Castle knew about Tsuda Nobutora's deeds. At a young and vigorous age, he could endure women's sex, not consummate the marriage with his wife, and keep filial piety for his mother. What kind of perseverance it was.

Nobutora's behavior just adheres to one of the samurai's principles, which is to restrain desires and be patient.

Even though Nobuhu arouses the jealousy of many people, in terms of moral character, most people will admire Nobuhu.

Although this was a chaotic era in which rituals collapsed and the subordinates overcame superiors, Japan was deeply influenced by Confucianism. Basically, the knowledgeable samurai studied the Four Books and Five Classics and were influenced by the tenets of benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom, and trust.

People with filial piety will always be looked down upon.

Nobuhu didn't expect that because of this incident, he would no longer be ostracized by his colleagues as before, and everyone began to try to accept Nobuhu.

Nobuhu also breathed a sigh of relief. If you really have a bad relationship with your colleagues, you'll be lucky if you don't hold you back on the battlefield. If you shoot someone unexpectedly, it will really cost you your life.

Recently, the relationship between the mother-in-law and him has become much closer. When he was training the iron artillery team, Sasaki Narimasa even came up to talk to him.

Nobutora reciprocated the favor and talked with Sasaki Narimasa about some of his own experiences.

The sun was setting, another day of training was over, and it was busy farming time. Nobutora got Nobunaga's permission to go back to the village during this time.

Nobuhu packed up the iron cannon and walked all the way home.

Axia had already prepared dinner, and the family was sitting in the main hall together, eating dinner.

Xinhu said to Axia and others: "We will clean up tonight. We have to go back to the village tomorrow to see this year's harvest."

Jiro immediately wailed: "Brother, do I also want to work in the fields?"

Xinhu nodded and said: "Of course, don't think about being lazy, I will help you when the time comes."

"I understand." Jiro replied listlessly and continued to eat with his head down.

After Axia finished eating, she immediately went to pack her things.

Early the next morning, Nobutora left Nagoya Castle with his family and his brother-in-law Mouri Shengqing.

Soon, they arrived at the nearby Xiaotian Village in Yamada Township.

The servants of the Tsuda family had already informed the village chief in advance, and the old village chief immediately came with his people to greet him.

In the past, the head of the Tsuda family served here as a local servant, and the village chief was served by a samurai who served the Tsuda family. After the order of the chief, all the samurai moved to the city. Now they can only choose to hold the position of ashigaru with a gun.

The old village chief and the whole village knelt on the dirt road outside the village to greet him. Nobuhu had never accepted such a scene, and he couldn't bear to see young children or frail old people kneeling on the ground.

He could only pretend to hold on for a few seconds, and then immediately said: "Sunbalang, let everyone get up, let's seize the time to cut the rice, and don't delay the important event."

Xinhu took the lead and went down to the farmland to cut rice with a sickle. The old village chief immediately took the others with him, but everyone did not dare to be presumptuous.

But he remembered that when he was a kid, when he was harvesting rice, everyone would relieve their fatigue by singing and chatting, so he thought about it and remembered one or two lines of folk music.

He straightened up and said loudly: "Don't be restrained, everyone, I will sing a few lines first."

With that said, he took the lead in singing. When everyone saw that Nobuhu was a very tolerant person, he became more courageous and started singing. The children immediately became active and followed the adults to help.

Cutting rice requires you to bend down all the time. Even though Nobuhu practices martial arts all year round, he still suffers from backache for a long time and needs to rest.

Xinhu, who was tired from cutting, sat directly on the ridge, and Axia immediately brought cold water.

"Gurgling...refreshing!"

After drinking a lot of cold water, Nobuhu felt that the heat in his body had dissipated a lot. At this time, on the roadside, a man who looked like a ronin came over. Nobuhu looked up and asked: "My friend, are you thirsty? Come and have a drink of water."

Ronin was obviously confused for a moment, but he came to sit next to Nobutora, took the cold water in his hand and took a few sips.

Xinhu was in a very relaxed mood. He was the first to bring up the topic: "Friend, where are you from? It's not easy to walk under such a scorching sun."

Ronin was silent for a moment and asked: "Is your Excellency Tsuda Nobutora?"

"good."

Now it was Nobutora's turn to be confused.

Ronin glanced at Axia who was not far away, and said with some admiration: "It seems that the rumors are correct, your Excellency abides by filial piety."

Xinhu said with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty, you are so complimentary. This is what you should do as a son of man. You don't deserve such praise."

The ronin was a little dazed when he heard the words. Then he took out his sword and put it in front of Nobutora and said: "I am a villain who gets paid to do things. Someone paid me to assassinate you. I entered the Furuno Castle and learned from the wandering girl. I know your filial piety.

Just now, Your Excellency did not look down upon me because of my status, but welcomed me warmly. This is really admirable.

If I kill people like you for money, then I can only go to Abi Hell after death.

I took other people's money, failed to complete the commission, and had no face to go back, so please excuse me. It is my honor to have someone like you to excuse me. "

Nobuhu looked surprised. He really didn't expect that this person was here to kill him. Who actually paid to kill him.

After much thought, he found that the only suspect was Lin Xiuzhen, what a ruthless old man!

He looked at the ronin in front of him who claimed to be a villain, stopped his movement, and asked: "How much did that person give you?"

"Three-Guan deposit, five-Guan deposit after completion."

Ronin replied truthfully.

It turns out that his life is worth Yakanuki Oda's bad money.

Xinhu turned his head to look at Axia and shouted: "Axia, bring me eight strings of money."

Axia didn't ask, she just got up and went back to her ancestral home to get the money.

Ronin said in surprise: "Master Tsuda, what are you doing?"

Nobuhu explained: "Because you admire my character, you don't want to kill me and are willing to die. How can I watch you die now? I will use these money to repay you for not killing me."

The ronin was very ashamed. He saluted and said, "Your Excellency is truly a warrior I have never seen in my life."

The Ronin took the money and left.

Nobuhu looked at Ronin's leaving figure and felt a little sad for a moment. He only hoped that his actions today could save him from some bloody disaster.

He watched the ronin leave, put away his thoughts, and continued to harvest rice.

The ronin returned to Guye Castle and told the story to the wandering girl who accompanied him. The wandering girl then told the story to other benefactors.

When everyone heard this, it was really strange. An assassin was moved by Nobutora Tsuda's filial piety and would rather break his promise than commit suicide. Nobutora then gave the assassin money and asked the assassin to return it to the client.

This kind of behavior is eye-opening, and everyone who hears it praises Nobuhu's character.

But when Lin Xiuzhen learned about this, she was furious. She spent money to assassinate Nobu Hu, but in the end, she helped Nobu Hu become famous. What kind of thing is this!
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