Chapter 124 The Missing Relief Food
Chapter 124 The Missing Relief Food
"One thing is strange. The Tianling Bugyo are said to be the executors of the Eye Hunting Order. Why would they attack their own companions?"
Ying adjusted her mood and her brain came back online.
Hines shook his head and shrugged his shoulders in one breath,
"That's a coincidence, I didn't know that either."
Ying rolled her eyes at Xines, too lazy to continue talking to him with useless words.
"I say, are you not going to give us this month's relief food?"
"Our whole family depends on this food to survive! If you don't give us an explanation today, you can't leave!"
Two young, plainly dressed men stopped a man dressed as a samurai, with a hint of anger in their words.
The warrior did not choose to use his weapons to drive the two away for their unreasonable behavior. Instead, he said,
"I have told you so many times, I don't know what relief food is..."
Hines and Ying, who were passing by, naturally noticed this scene. Hines pointed at the map and tilted his head at Ying.
Ying nodded slightly and put the map away. It seemed that they had found their target, but they still needed to confirm it specifically.
After all, the word "I don't know" sounds too much like something that someone who has lost the Eye of God would say.
Hines and Ying walked towards the three people. The three people who were still arguing did not notice their approach at all.
The man on the left snorted coldly, folded his arms, and looked at me with obvious disgust.
"Still lying? That's life-saving food, not for you warriors to fill your pockets!"
The other one did not give up denouncing the warrior in front of him.
"Does this mean a samurai can do whatever he wants? I'm going to the Tenryo Bugyo to report you!"
When Hines heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly. The last time he saw similar words was in an emoticon package.
After experiencing what happened with Mr. Teshima just now, Ying didn't dare to say which side was right or wrong.
Just like the villagers didn't want Teshima to leave, they certainly had selfish motives, but it was also thanks to their selfishness that she and Hines had the opportunity to find the amulet and the letter, and awaken Teshima's love for the unknown girl.
So the first thing Ying asked was,
"What do you mean by relief food?"
The two young men then noticed that there were two more people around them. They were still angry at the time and had no good feelings towards the strangers who suddenly appeared.
"Who are you? Are you in cahoots with Kurosawa?"
Ying noticed the hostility in their eyes and shook her head helplessly.
"We are just travelers passing through."
After learning that the two were not accomplices, the young man's eyes became friendly.
"Then you two can be the judge! This samurai named Kurosawa is from the shogunate army. The shogunate army is distributing relief food nearby, and he's the one in charge!"
"We used to be able to get food as long as we found him, but now he suddenly stopped giving us food!"
"He must have become greedy and wanted to keep all this food for himself. But without this food, we will starve!"
The other person also nodded vigorously.
"So no one considers our feelings at all... I used to think he was a man with a conscience, but now it seems he's just as bad as the other warriors!"
"No wonder the Eye of God was taken back. General Lei Dian wouldn't want someone like this to help him govern the country!"
When Ying and Xines heard this, they looked at each other and nodded to each other.
You are right, he is the warrior that Linghua mentioned!
But Ying thought about what the two had just said and frowned slightly. If what the two said was true, then this Kurosawa did have problems with his work style, and this reminded her of the remote island's Kanjo Bugyo.
All crows are black.
Of course, Ying did not directly question Kurosawa for embezzling the relief food. After all, it was too one-sided to only listen to one side, and how could one be sure that what they said was the truth?
So Ying pulled the samurai named Kurosawa aside, a little away from the two young men.
"Is what they said about the relief food true?"
Kurosawa only found Ying's question funny.
"What relief food? I haven't even heard of it!"
"I don't know where these people heard some rumors from, so they came here to blackmail me."
"It's ridiculous! If I had relief food to pocket, would I still be this poor?"
Kurosawa said this and suddenly looked at Hines.
"Also, traveler, you are not unaware of the Eye Hunting Order, are you? How dare you so brazenly appear before a law enforcer like me, wearing the Eye of God."
Hines smiled slightly and took the initiative to extend his hand to Kurosawa.
"What? Are you going to catch me?"
Kurosawa shook his head.
"It's a good thing you met me, because I vaguely remember that I didn't seem to agree with the Eye Hunting Order either."
His eyes were slightly confused, and he just stared quietly at Hines's Eye of God.
Ying was originally a little confused as to why the Eye of God was confiscated from him as a law enforcer. Now that he heard that he actually did not agree with the Eye Hunting Order, his curiosity grew even more.
"Why don't you agree with the Eye Hunt Order?"
Kurosawa came back to his senses a little, and said awkwardly,
"This... To be honest, I can't remember clearly."
......
"It seems that anyone who loses the Eye of God will lose their memory."
"Then why did Kurosawa forget about the relief food? Could it be that the relief food was his wish?"
"It's a bit outrageous, but since he lost this memory, it means the relief food issue must be related to his wish!"
"Listening to your words is like listening to a speech. Nonsense literature makes you understand."
......
Kurosawa scratched his head, trying hard to recall relevant things.
"I just remember that at that time, I seemed to do something every month, but now I don't want to do it at all."
When he said this, Kurosawa sighed softly and shook his head.
"Not only do I not remember, but I also vaguely feel uncomfortable... as if someone owes me something."
Ying thought about what the two people said about Kurosawa embezzling the relief food, so she wanted to use this opportunity to make Kurosawa recall more related memories.
"Could the thing you forgot be related to the relief food?"
Kurosawa suddenly became annoyed, and even his voice became louder involuntarily.
"I told you, I didn't embezzle the relief food! If there was relief food available, who would want to live a hard life like I am now?"
"And my house was just robbed by a group of treasure thieves... Oh, right, I just came here chasing the treasure thieves and was suddenly stopped."
"If you don't believe me, you can go ask the treasure-stealing group over there and ask them if my family has any relief food!"
Kurosawa said this not only to Ying and Hines in front of him, but also to the two young men who had just been questioning him not far away.
Hines walked over to Kurosawa and patted him on the back gently.
"We're willing to believe you, but to silence them, I'd better go with my companions to catch a treasure-stealing group."
Kurosawa was a little overwhelmed by this sudden trust and just nodded silently.
He didn't understand why some people believed in themselves so easily, while some people were unwilling to believe in themselves no matter what they said.
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