I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

A while ago, he was just in the Ou area, and he came across a plan to write a kabuki script that would be handed down forever based on his story of Ogata Itsei.

And now in the ice and snow land of Ezo, he unexpectedly encountered a similar incident again.

If you are lucky, the epic based on the story of his pseudonym Mashima Goro will probably be passed down from generation to generation among the Ainu people, at least in Kina Village for a long time.

Ogata didn't mind others telling his story.

Just don't change it.

"Aizan, if you want to tell the story of me to the young children in the village in the future, I have no objection."

"But remember not to talk nonsense. If you say that I am some kind of samurai with a beautiful Tsukiyo head, or if you say that I am some kind of beautiful Ji samurai, I will be very troubled."

Aizan laughed a few times.

"Don't worry. I've seen what happened to you Mashima with my own eyes, so I won't talk nonsense."

"Aizan!" Ah Ding said at this time, "Tell us more about your heroic epic!"

"I'll tell you later! Let's eat now. The meat is already cooked."

After finishing speaking, Aizan lifted the lid of the cauldron in front of him.

The moment the lid was lifted, a seductive aroma rushed towards Ogata and the others.

Ogata and the others took out their respective bowls, and each put a large piece of venison into their own bowls.

He picked up the venison in the bowl with chopsticks and handed it to his mouth. With just a light bite, he easily bit off the meat.

The venison was cooked just right, even an old man with bad teeth might be able to bite the meat easily.

Because the meat is boiled with the mushrooms, the taste of the meat and the umami of the mushrooms will spread in the mouth after the meat is bitten open.

The unique flavor of the mushrooms is wrapped and integrated by the fat of the meat, making the tongue feel a pleasure that cannot be explained by any words.

After getting along with the Ainu people during this period, Ogata has deeply realized that although the Ainu people are still in a backward tribal civilization until now, their food culture should not be underestimated.

Ah-machi, who only recently started to eat meat, is now gradually able to experience the beauty of meat, although her stomach has not been completely used to meat until now, so she can't eat too much meat at every meal.

After finishing his lunch quickly, Ogata took off the saber from his waist, held the knife in his arms, and leaned against a big tree next to him.

After lunch, there will be a short break.

Many people choose to take a nap during this time.

Ogata also likes to take a nap.

So after lunch, Xu conveniently hugged his knife carelessly, leaned against a big tree, and planned to take a nap.

By the way, when Ogata was about to take a nap, A-Machi was washing her and Ogata's dishes and pots not far away.

Just as Ogata was holding his knife, leaning against the tree trunk and sitting on the ground, closing his eyes, he suddenly heard a series of footsteps approaching him at a fast pace, quite unfamiliar to Ogata.

Ogata remembered the sound of A-Machi's footsteps very clearly.

The people who were approaching him were not Machi, and they were not the right number.

Ogata opened his eyes and looked forward.

Walking towards him were 4 girls.

And these 4 girls, Ogata is no stranger to them, they are the 4 girls with different colored headbands tied on their heads.

After the Cossacks who attacked the village were beaten back, although Ogata could occasionally see these four people in the village, he never had a chance to communicate with them again.

Ogata does not remember the name of the girl with the red, purple, and blue headbands, but he still remembers the name of the girl with the orange headband. Ogata remembers that her name is "Ahili".

These 4 girls with an average age of less than 15 walked quickly to Ogata, and then lined up.

"What's wrong?" Ogata asked in Ainu.

Ogata had relied on the "Ainu Commonly Used Guide" to lay the foundation of the Ainu language.

Then during this period of time, I also frequently contacted and communicated with the Ainu people, so before I knew it, the Ainu language of Ogata had advanced by leaps and bounds, and I was able to use the Ainu language to communicate with the Ainu people. exchange.

The four girls lined up in front of Ogata looked at each other for a while.

Then, as if he had rehearsed in advance, he bowed nearly 90 degrees to Ogata.

Aki, who was wearing an orange headband, stuttered in very non-standard Japanese: "Thank you very much!"

However, just halfway through her words, she accidentally bit her tongue, let out a low cry of pain, and raised her hand to cover her mouth, showing a painful expression.

Ogata felt pain just looking at it.

When he was about to ask "Are you okay", Ashley resisted the pain of biting his tongue, and continued to speak in very non-standard Japanese:

"Thank you so much for saving us."

As soon as Ahili finished speaking, the other three girls with red, purple, and blue headbands followed closely behind, thanking Ogata in the same non-standard Japanese.

After all four of them thanked Ogata in Japanese, they bowed deeply to Ogata again, and finally ran away in a hurry, and quickly disappeared from Ogata's field of vision.

When Ashley and the others left, A-Ming just came back after washing the dishes and pots, and happened to see the back of Ashley and the others.

"I remember that girl's name is Ashley." A-Ming asked Chao Ogata, holding the freshly washed dishes and pots, "What are they here for?"

"Nothing." Ogata said, "I just came to thank me."

Speaking of which, Ogata showed a helpless smile.

"Maybe it's because their Japanese is still poor, they left immediately after saying a word of thanks."

at this time

"I finally thank that Kazuto." said the girl with the red headband walking in front.

"Finally, I don't have to learn the language of Japanese people anymore." The girl with the blue headband stuck out her tongue, "I don't want to learn any more words of Japanese language in my life."

"Ahili, you seem to have bitten your tongue just now." The girl with the purple headband cast a worried look at Aheli, "Are you all right?"

"It's okay." Ashley protruded her little tongue, and gently stroked the biting place with her fingers, "There is no bleeding."

"It feels so embarrassing." Ashley blushed slightly, "I have practiced many times, but I still bite my tongue"

On the night when the Cossacks attacked, Ogata rescued Ashley who wanted to die with a certain Cossack.

If you don't even say thank you to others for this kind of life-saving grace, it is really unreasonable.

So since the Cossacks were beaten back, Ashley has been thinking about thanking Ogata.

To this end, Ahili found a Japanese-speaking villager in the village and asked him to teach her how to thank people in Japanese.

And her three close friends, wearing red, blue, and purple headbands, are learning Japanese with Ashley, and plan to go with Ashley to thank Ogata.

These three people and Ashley are close friends, and their best friend was rescued by someone, and they also want to thank the person who saved their best friend.

In addition, the reason why these three people intend to thank Ogata is another very important reason, in order to alleviate some of the guilt in their hearts.

The three of them thought that Ogata looked ordinary, maybe he was not as powerful as the extremely strong men in their village, but it was this ordinary-looking Kazuto who saved their village.

This sense of guilt drove them to thank Ogata as well.

Since the Cossacks were repulsed, they devoted themselves to learning Japanese.

The four of them thought that Japanese was easy to learn. After they learned Japanese, they thanked Ogata cracklingly.

But after they really started to study, they found out whether it was because of their lack of talent or because Japanese is so difficult.

Since the Cossacks were repulsed to the present, they have practiced for such a long time, and they can speak standard Japanese, just saying "Thank you very much for saving us".

They really couldn't learn the rest of the words, so they had no choice but to thank Ogata with the only Japanese sentence they only learned.

Fortunately, the thank you to Ogata went smoothly, except for the small accident where Ahili, who was in charge of the beginning, accidentally bit his tongue.

"It's okay!" The red-headed girl comforted Ashley, "It was just a little accident, didn't you finally thank him smoothly?"

After the girl with the red headband finished speaking, the girl with the purple headband and the blue headband also comforted Ashley.

"Ahili! Finally found you!"

At this time, Ahili's grandmother's voice suddenly sounded from their side.

Ashley's grandma walked towards Ashley slowly with her stooped back.

"I've been looking for you just now, where have you been?"

In the fierce battle with the Cossacks that night, Yashili's mother and grandmother were very lucky not to suffer any serious injuries.

Seeing grandma asking them why they went there just now, Ahili immediately answered.

After learning that they were going to thank Ogata, a slight look of regret appeared on Grandma's face.

"Look, I didn't say that, did I? That man is one in ten thousand good man."

"It's a pity that the man has already married."

"If he doesn't have a family, he can just let Ahili marry him in the name of repaying his life-saving grace."

"If we can make him a member of our family, no one will dare to offend our family in the future."

"Forget it. Since that Heren has nothing to do with our Ashley, then that's fine. I hope there will be an excellent man worthy of being my grandson-in-law on Heyezhe's side."

"Grandma, please don't say such nonsense." Ashley said angrily with a blushing face.

Since Ahili's age grew to 14 years old, Ahili's grandmother often talked about her marriage with Ahili.

Just when Ashley was about to continue preaching to her grandmother, a clear female voice suddenly sounded from behind her:

"Ahili!"

Ashili turned her head and looked back. The person who came was the well-known "huntress" in their village: Hippari.

Hippari is one of the up-and-coming Huntresses since the appearance of "The Disappearance".

She has a good relationship with Ashley. When Ashley was learning bow and arrow, he asked Hippari for advice, so Hippari was half of Ashley's teacher.

Hippari walked quickly to Ahili and said:

"Ahili, we're running out of food."

"I have just briefly surveyed the surrounding woods, and there are a lot of prey. I plan to hunt for tonight's dinner while I have time now. I am short of manpower now. Would you like to come with me?"

Hippari looked again at the three girls with red headbands, purple headbands, and blue headbands.

"Do you want to come together?"

"Okay!" The girl with the red headband immediately replied excitedly, "Let's go hunting!"

The girls with purple headbands and blue headbands nodded one after another, expressing their willingness to go together.

After hesitating for a while, Ashley finally nodded.

: A reprinted version of the translation and annotations of the document Aizan mentioned in this chapter is from the bibliography of Kinseong’s transcript by Kyosuke Kindaichi, Sanseido, 1993, p. 3738.

Because the story found by the author is an incomplete version, some stories may be wrong, so I would like to inform you.

2: In order to write this chapter, the author has spent an unimaginable amount of time to search for information. Just the papers related to the Ainu people on China Knowledge Network have been read countless times. The money for buying the papers alone may have Hundreds of dollars

After the automatic pen began to serialize the seventh volume, I checked HowNet more often than when I was writing my graduation thesis.

The author checked the information for a long time, and finally found a real heroic epic of the Ainu people.

And this hard-earned heroic epic is still incomplete.

The reason for this situation, on the one hand, is that it is extremely difficult to find relevant information even on the Internet because of this extremely unpopular knowledge.

Another reason is that the Ainu culture suffered a devastating blow.

Many people may not know that it was not until Japan passed a new law that for the first time recognized the Ainu as an "indigenous people" in law and created a subsidy system aimed at maintaining and revitalizing their unique culture.

In other words, it was not until 2 years ago that the Japanese government officially recognized the existence of this nation in their country.They have never recognized this nation in their country before.

The Ainu people have long been at the low end of the chain of contempt in Japan. Anyone who has an Ainu face and speaks the Ainu language will be discriminated against and excluded.

In such an environment where the whole country excluded the Ainu people, the culture of the Ainu people was castrated and obliterated, and the whole nation was assimilated with people.

Today, there are not many Ainu who can speak Ainu fluently.

At the same time, because few people still remember the heroic epics that have been circulated in their nation for thousands of years, a large number of heroic epics have been lost now, and no one remembers them anymore.

To be honest, although there are still many Ainu people alive, the "Ainu" people are basically half of their bodies in the coffin.

I hope this nation will not just disappear in the long river of history.

Chapter 501 What blinded the view?Oh, it’s Oupai【6200 words】

Ahili held her bow, lowered her body's center of gravity, and slowly moved forward in the snow.