"It seems that some of you are not from our Yami Kingdom... I just dressed a little more elegantly. This is the standard attire for male scribes among the nobles of our Yaki Kingdom." The "handsome man" in the car smiled softly. He smiled, with a cunning look in his eyes: "Absolutely no one in the Baqi Kingdom would dare to rob me after seeing my carriage! And it is even more impossible to see this carriage and not know my identity. ”
"My name is Kikukawa Yukinari. I am the youngest son of this generation of general Kikukawa Ieyasu."
At this moment, even the old magician stopped what he was doing and stood beside the carriage, seemingly stunned.
After being silent for a long time, Master Sith sighed, patted Roddy on the shoulder, and whispered: "It seems that we are lucky, really good..."
Rody smiled faintly, and suddenly raised his hand and cut Kikukawa Yukinari's neck with his palm. Seeing that he fainted without saying a word, Rody turned around and asked, "What's wrong? Is this guy of high status?"
Sith didn't speak, and it was Nidis who answered: "His status is just so-so, but he is really not simple. It can be said that in the entire dwarf kingdom, there are probably not many people with higher status than him. ”
Then Nidis and Sith worked together to tell Roddy about the situation of the dwarves.
Although the dwarves also have a dwarf emperor, the dwarf emperor does not have many rights. Although he is very noble in name, he is mostly just an empty frame. The real power of the dwarf kingdom lies in the hands of their generals.
The shogun had his own political institution to control the entire country, called the Shogunate. What's more terrible is that the position of general is hereditary, and when I die, my son will take over.
"Then why don't they just depose the emperor? What's the point of keeping him?" Rody asked curiously.
Nidis and Sith looked at each other and smiled bitterly. They both seemed to find this question difficult to answer, but Nidis continued: "The reason why the emperor is the emperor naturally makes sense. There may be a secret to the existence of the royal family. Inside, even if the emperor is already useless, the shogun doesn’t dare to do anything to the emperor.”
Roddy thought for a while. Suddenly he said: "What about this Kikukawa Yukinari? We just need to get an identity and go to their capital. How about..."
Nidis smiled and said: "That's easy. If you don't succeed, I'll dress you up like Yukinari Kikukawa. Then we'll go back to Kawato to get a few people dressed up as you to escort the samurai retainers. There must be no one along the way. Dare to stop it.”
Rody immediately refused - it would be fine if he pretended to be someone else, but Kikukawa Yukinari looked like a woman, and it was absolutely impossible for Rody to pretend like this.
Sis sighed and suddenly said: "In this case, we might as well take him on the road with us. There are a few of us following us. Are you still afraid of what tricks he will do?"
Rody nodded: "This is feasible... But there is still a problem... I don't understand the language of the dwarves. We have been pretending to be Kikukawa's followers along the way. If I say anything, I will be exposed."
Sis smiled slightly and took out a sparkling gem from his arms. He squeezed it gently in his hand and revealed a green bead: "I have prepared this a long time ago. If you eat this thing, it will be solved naturally." question."
Rody took the green bead and frowned at Sith.
Sith explained: "This is a compound pill that I prepared with magic. The main ingredient is clover. After you eat it, you can speak the language of the dwarves."
"Is it so magical?" Rody opened his mouth and swallowed. It only felt bitter in the mouth, and after swallowing it, I felt an extremely strong burning sensation rushing to my head. It was like a person having a fever, and my face was hot, and my ears were even redder.
Sith suddenly smiled: "It will feel a little uncomfortable now, but it will be fine in a while. The effectiveness of this pill can last for ten days, and it will no longer work after ten days... Now let me speak the language of the dwarves, and see if you can Do you understand?”
Sis coughed slightly, deliberately took two steps back, and then said: "!※￥... %￥￥... %"
After hearing these words, the expression on Rody's face changed immediately. First he was shocked, then full of pain. Then he suddenly groaned in a low voice, turned around and ran to the side of the carriage, holding on to the carriage with his hands and vomited violently.
Sis squinted his eyes and smiled: "It seems to have worked, he understood."
Many years later, when Nicole asked what the words that made Roddy vomited mean when they were adventuring in the dwarf country, Nidis smiled and replied: "The words the old magician said are: The main ingredient of this pill is clover, which is not expensive, but the ingredients are rare. The ingredients are tongues cut from the mouths of living dwarves! "
Thus, Roddy's second robbery in his life finally ended successfully.
After the first robbery, the eldest daughter of the first family of the Bright Empire was robbed, the second robbery, the son of the first family of the Baqi Kingdom was robbed...
"You want to go to Kyoto?" Kikukawa Yukinari woke up. After the three robbers threatened him, this "handsome boy" seemed a little surprised: "What are you going to Kyoto for?"
After asking this question, Kikukawa Yukinari seemed to feel that what he asked seemed inappropriate, and immediately said: "There is a war in the south of the kingdom now, and Kyoto's complete inspections are the most stringent. You guys went..."
That clearly means: The security in Kyoto is the strictest now. If you bandits go to Kyoto, aren't you looking for death
Nidis said coldly: "Then it's nothing to worry about. You just need to cooperate with us honestly."
Next to him, Rody had tied up a group of Kikukawa Yukinari's samurai and threw them in a low-lying place far away from the road.
Immediately, the Sis took care of these people, Roddy and Nidis got into the carriage, and headed to Kawato City with Mr. Kikukawa Yukinari.
They originally wanted to buy a few obedient and honest guys in the slave market to act as followers to show off their appearance. I just looked around in the slave market, but I really couldn't find any satisfactory candidates.
Kawato is the second largest city in the Dwarf Yaqi Kingdom. The slave market in the city is really not small. There are many slaves of all kinds, men, women, old and young. However, after Roddy looked around, he saw many well-built men. Slaves, but most of those people were listless and their expressions were full of fear and shrinkage. These people buy it. Dress them up in nice clothes and carry katana swords. He doesn't look like a samurai either.
In the end, Kikukawa Yukinari couldn't help but said: "If you want to find a few follower samurai, why not directly bribe a few ronin samurai? Kawato City is the second largest city in our Yaki Kingdom, and there are many ronin samurai who have fallen down here."
Rody frowned and said, "If we had money to buy warriors, would we still rob you?"
Kikukawa Yuki looked at Roddy with his mouth wide open, and seemed a little surprised. He finally did not dare to mock the other person, but said cautiously: "Let's go take a look first, and we will naturally find the person by then."
On a street next to the slave market is where the Ronin warriors gather. There are several taverns on both sides of the street. From the open doors of the pubs came the sounds of drunken people shouting and drinking, and faint sounds of fighting could be heard from some places. Apparently someone was drinking and causing trouble.
It seems that the dwarves are irritable by nature and like to drink, just like in the legend.
Rody acted as the coachman and the carriage just entered this street, and he immediately felt countless eyes directed towards it. Those eyes were full of surprise and reverence, but these people just glanced at him and lowered their heads, not daring to look directly at him anymore. Even those seemingly unruly warriors carefully moved out of the way and did not dare to continue to act recklessly in the middle of the street.
After randomly looking for a tavern, Rody and Nidis got off the carriage in the middle with Kikukawa Yukinari on their left and right. Rody also said coldly in a low voice: "You'd better be careful and don't talk nonsense."
Kikukawa smiled bitterly and said: "I don't dare. The samurai under me are all masters. You defeated them so easily, how dare I be so presumptuous... Well, please be gentle, my arm will be broken."
When the three of them just walked into the tavern, the originally noisy lobby immediately fell silent, and everyone turned their eyes towards them.
A man who looked like a shopkeeper ran over and threw himself on the ground. He chirped something loudly. Kikukawa Yukinari's face was calm, but his eyes were full of arrogance.
Just seeing that Roddy and Nidis didn't speak, Kikukawa Yukinari had no choice but to whisper to Nidis: "You guys talk. In this situation, according to the rules, I cannot speak to these untouchables."
Nidis understood and immediately said loudly in the language of the dwarves: "The young master of the Kikukawa family has come to recruit some warriors. Which of you is willing?"
After a moment of silence, the whole place was immediately in an uproar!
People from the Kikukawa family are here to recruit people? These desolate ronin warriors rushed forward with shouts and screams. Many of them rushed forward so fast that they even bumped into each other, causing waves of yelling and curses among each other.
The Kikukawa family is the most powerful family in the dwarves. Being recruited by them as a retainer warrior means a lifetime of glory and wealth. These ronin warriors, who were in despair and had no master, their eyes reddened with excitement, and they all responded with their heads held high and their chests high. drink.
The short-tempered people even drew their katana and glared at each other when they saw that the front seat was blocked by someone.
"Quiet!" Rody shouted: "Quiet, everyone!"
A stocky warrior next to him also shouted in a rough voice: "Quiet down! It's so rude of you to be so noisy!"
This warrior seemed to have quite a lot of authority here. He shouted loudly, and within a moment, the tavern fell silent.
The samurai was obviously a little proud and said loudly: "Of course the people recruited by the Kikukawa family want the best samurai! Why are you so noisy! Whoever thinks he is the bravest samurai will use your katana say!"
After saying that, he suddenly pulled out his long and narrow samurai sword, made a few false blows, and shouted: "Why don't we make some gestures first!"
I think this person is good at swordsmanship. When he spoke, no one in the audience made a sound. He was obviously quite satisfied with everyone's reaction. He turned to look at Kikukawa and the others, and lowered his hands and said, "Sir, my name is Fengcheng Hideyoshi. I wonder if I have the honor to serve the Kikukawa family?"
Rody squinted his eyes and looked at this man. Judging from his appearance, he seemed to be pretty good, so he nodded. Said: "Let's do this. We only need six people. You count one, and you can help me choose the rest."
As soon as Rody's words came out, the whole place immediately became excited. Some people yelled at Fengcheng Hideyoshi for being shameless, and some even wanted to draw their swords in anger. But even more people immediately looked at Fengcheng Hideyoshi with flattering eyes, hoping that he can be selected.
Kikukawa seemed to be accustomed to the scene in front of him. He took out a white jade sign from his pocket and threw it on the ground. He said calmly to Fengcheng Hideyoshi: "After you finish things here, you can go find us outside the city."
Fengcheng Hideyoshi respectfully picked up the piece of white jade from the ground, wiped it twice with the corner of his clothes, and then carefully put it away.
The three of them walked out of the tavern. It was still noisy inside, and everyone was obviously arguing. However, looking at Hideyoshi Fengcheng's appearance, he was quite capable, so he thought he could handle it.
Rody smiled bitterly and said: "It seems that having a good identity really works. If we go find someone by ourselves, they probably won't even look at us."
Kikukawa Yukinari seemed a little proud, but deliberately said calmly: "This is not surprising. Being able to serve our Kikukawa family is a supreme honor in our Yamato Kingdom. Our retainers are walking outside. Even the local officials have to be a little polite. of."
Nidis smiled faintly and said as if unintentionally: "Do you feel proud? That's nothing. They are doing this for the sake of your family's power. Your family's power is not your own. Bar."
As soon as he said these words, Kikukawa Yukinari was shocked and looked at Nidis with complicated eyes, as if countless thoughts were pouring out of his heart instantly.
On the way back, Kikukawa Yukinari seemed to have put away the trace of arrogance between his eyebrows and became taciturn.
That Fengcheng Hideyoshi was indeed quite capable. Before Rody's carriage left the city, he saw six samurai stalking up the long street far behind, and the leader was none other than Fengcheng Hideyoshi.
Rody stopped the carriage, and several people rushed to the front of the carriage and knelt down on the ground at the same time. Then they stood up automatically and divided into two teams to walk in front of the carriage to clear the way.
After meeting the old magician outside the city, Kikukawa's original samurai had already been thrown to an unknown place by the old magician. Rody simply assigned several horses from Kikukawa's subordinates to the newly recruited samurai, and even threw the riding whip to Fengcheng Hideyoshi and asked him to drive the car. There was a hint of anger in Fengcheng Hideyoshi's brows, as if he was quite indignant to drive the carriage as a samurai, but seeing that Kikukawa didn't speak, he silently reached out to pick up the riding whip.
Rody smiled coldly and squeezed his fingers slightly. He actually made a clear five-finger fingerprint on the handle of the riding whip made of pure gold. Fengcheng Hideyoshi looked at the riding whip in his hand, and his face immediately turned into death. Gray looked at Roddy with his mouth wide and couldn't say a word. He believed that he had absolutely no such shocking ability. Especially when he saw that Roddy actually got into the carriage and rode in the carriage with Master Kikukawa, he was a little confused about the identity of this young man.
That woman can be understood as Master Kikukawa's woman, that old man. Seeing that Master Kikukawa is quite respectful to him, she must be his teacher or something, but the young man's identity is unknown. Just seeing his ability to easily create a five-finger mark with a riding crop, Fengcheng Hideyoshi didn't want to do it himself, and he didn't even look at it. For a while, he made various guesses in his mind, and concluded that Roddy was probably some important figure in the Kikukawa family.
Kikukawa Yukinari didn't seem to be a person who didn't care about the lives of his subordinates. When Rody got into the carriage, he immediately asked in a low voice: "My subordinates, what will you do to them..."
The old magician said calmly: "Don't worry, they are not dead, but they can't wake up these days. I left them in the wilderness, and they will wake up naturally after three days. I think there should be no wolves nearby, and there must be no wolves." It will be life-threatening.”
Unexpectedly, Kikukawa suddenly had a stern look in his eyes, and snorted coldly: "They are responsible for protecting me, but now they have neglected their duties. Even if they can come back alive, I will order them to commit seppuku themselves!"
His tone was cold and cold, as if there was a hint of hatred in his heart.
Nidis smiled slightly, knowing that although Kikukawa had no choice but to cooperate with the three of them now, it was because he was being held hostage. Given his status, he was really angry. She smiled slightly and said: "That's easy. Let's kill those people right now. It won't be a difficult task."
Rody leaned back, seemed to glance at Kikukawa, and said calmly: "You're lucky. I'm in a good mood today and don't want to kill anyone."
This sentence seemed to be an understatement, but Kukawa couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart when he heard it. The murderous intention hidden in Rody's words could not be concealed - only the real hands were covered with blood. Only a person can possess such murderous aura!
The expression on Kikukawa's face changed several times. It seemed that after several struggles in his heart, he suddenly seemed to have made up his mind. He sat up straight, rolled up his sleeves with both hands and raised them flat on his chest. He stared at Rody with his eyes and said in a solemn voice: "Sir, I can have a serious talk with you!"