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Chapter 1058 Sowing causes reaps fruits
Hua Yan always felt unhappy in the capital. Those rules and those seemingly polite people were like a net that bound her tightly and prevented her from being free.

She preferred to live freely, chasing prey in the mountains and singing duets with young boys by the river.

There are rules, and the rules are simple...don't affect other people's lives.

On weekdays, she led the wolf soldiers in training, and when she met an enemy, she led them to fight. Gradually, she became famous, but also gradually destroyed her marriage.

——Damn you! You are a girl who kills people without blinking an eye. Which boy would dare to marry you?
My grandmother was from Shu, and my mother had a similar temperament to hers, quite aggressive. She wiped away her tears and blamed her father for letting her join the military.

But Hua Yan likes such days. In her opinion, training, going to war, hunting in spare time, or singing songs are happiness.

The mother said, "What will you do without a companion? Singing, can you sing forever? Hunting, there will be less food for you at home? Going to war, when there is no enemy, what else can you do?"

Hua Yan was confused about this, but later she just stopped thinking about it. She lived in a daze until she met Jiang Qingzhi and Sun Chonglou.

Hua Yan felt that Sun Chonglou and herself were of the same kind, and both knew that the other did not like such restrictions. Hua Yan once asked Sun Chonglou if he was willing to follow her to Guangxi.

Sun Chonglou scratched his head and said, "Wherever the young master is, I will be there."

That silly one!

Hua Yan sighed and drew her sword, "Kill them all!"

The wolf soldiers swarmed forward.

The Japanese pirates stared at them blankly, and someone shouted, "Kill your way out."

King Jing asked curiously, "Aren't you worried about committing a sin of killing?"

"What murder?"

"Killing someone is a sin. God will blame you and punish you." King Jing thought this woman was very wild.

"Then why are tigers not punished for eating animals?" Hua Yan asked.

"That's a beast." King Jing said.

"But are humans and animals different?"

King Jing was startled, "Of course it's different."

"Humans and animals are the same." Hua Yan said seriously: "The old man in charge of sacrifices in the tribe once communicated with the gods and said that humans are animals."

King Jing wanted to roll his eyes, but Hua Yan said, "Humans will die. They have skin, flesh, and hair. They eat, drink, defecate, and urinate, and so do animals. When they die, they will rot, and so do animals. The only difference between humans and animals is that humans have more hearts and minds than animals."

King Jing blinked his eyes, "People know etiquette."

"But etiquette is the most hypocritical." Hua Yan said.

"Be careful!" a guard shouted. The two looked and saw a Japanese pirate coming from the side and heading straight for King Jing and Hua Yan.

King Jing was wearing a brocade robe, like a young man who had come to gild himself. Hua Yan was wearing armor but no helmet, and she looked like a woman.

Isn’t this just a young man bringing his beloved woman to play?
The Japanese pirates once heard a story about an emperor who lit a beacon fire in order to please his beloved woman. The princes from all directions saw the fireworks and led their troops to the capital. When they arrived at the foot of the city, they found the emperor and the woman laughing happily.

When the real enemy attacked, the emperor lit the beacon fire again, but this time no one came to help.

"Catch him!" Takeda Gyosai shouted.

If he captured the young man, he could use him as a hostage to force these seemingly skinny but actually extremely ferocious guys to let him go.

As long as I escape, I will quit...Takeda Gyosai thought of his wife.

When he was fifteen, he was struck by lightning when he saw the girl for the first time. From then on, he would look for opportunities to appear around the girl's house every day, hoping to see her.

Occasionally, when he saw the girl, Takeda Gyosai would shyly turn his head away, pretending to be passing by. But after walking a few steps, he couldn't help but look back at the girl.

The girl did not respond, and Takeda Gyosai was quite disappointed.

This continued until he was sixteen years old. Takeda Gyosai learned that the girl was looking for a husband. Thinking that his family was not qualified, he gritted his teeth and joined the army.

In order to marry his beloved girl, he was fearless and brave. Moreover, he was smart and good at planning. Soon he was promoted to a higher position and was allocated dozens of acres of land.

Takeda Gyosai went to ask for marriage with his merits, but was rejected. He asked around and found out that the girl was favored by the illegitimate son of a local powerful family.

Takeda Gyosai felt like he was struck by lightning. He was unwilling to give up, so he sneaked into the girl's house at night and entered her room.

The girl seemed to have known that he would come and said, "You are late."

Takeda Gyosai paced around the room for half the night like a trapped beast. When he saw the light in the girl's eyes, he suddenly came up with an idea.

"Let's go far away!"

"it is good!"

Takeda Gyosai fled with the girl overnight. He knew that the powerful family would not let him go, so he took the girl and hid in the mountains.

The hermits seemed noble and interesting, but their lives were miserable. Takeda Gyosai could not bear to see his master suffer, so when he went down the mountain to cut firewood to sell, he learned that some down-and-out samurai were robbing in the Ming Dynasty and their lives were more comfortable than some daimyo, so he was tempted.

He went back and told his wife about it. His wife said, "That is ill-gotten gains. If you use it, you will be punished. Although we are suffering now, we can earn food by working with our own hands. We are willing to suffer."

Takeda Gyosai felt that his wife was being pedantic, so without further ado, he packed up his things and quietly took her out to sea.

From then on, Takeda Gyosai began his legendary career.

With his sharp swordsmanship and outstanding planning, he quickly stood out among the pirates. Not long after, the leader drank too much and fell into the sea and died. Everyone elected Takeda Gyosai as the new leader. Under his leadership, this group of pirates quickly became one of the top three forces along the coast of Ming Dynasty.

Every time Takeda Gyosai gave the looted property to his wife, she always shook her head and refused to accept it, saying that there were spirits in the property. Takeda Gyosai laughed at her for being pedantic, but his wife did not explain and farmed on the island every day, harvesting enough food for the two of them.

She is right!

At this moment, Takeda Gyosai watched the warrior under his command rushing towards the young man in brocade clothes, and swore that as long as he could escape, he would obey his wife from then on.

The Japanese pirate rushed to a place not far in front of the young man in brocade clothes, shouted loudly, jumped up and swung his sword.

The young man in brocade clothes seemed to be frightened and stood there like a wooden chicken.

The woman next to him, holding a long narrow knife, was ignored by everyone.

The knife flashed like lightning.

The Japanese pirates landed.

He struggled, holding his throat.

The woman put away the knife and frowned, "No way!"

"You are too amazing." The young man sighed, "The majority of women in the palace are docile-looking, all the same. If someone like you were to enter the palace, wow! I think it would be very lively."

"Why am I entering the palace?"

"Yeah, let the stone worry about it!" Takeda Gyosai felt cold all over. He looked back and saw more than a hundred riders approaching not far away.

There is nowhere to escape.

The more than a thousand wolf soldiers had surrounded them, and with the more than a hundred cavalrymen surrounding them on the outside, they could not escape even if they had wings.

Takeda Gyosai rushed forward howling, trying to fight his way out.

I want to go home!

Not for myself!

Just for my wife!

Without him, how would his wife survive alone on the island?
This time he brought all his men out, leaving more than a dozen old, weak, and disabled people on the island. If they were discovered...

In a flash, Takeda Gyosai knelt on the ground with a deep wound on his chest, and blood gushed out like a fountain.

He hit the ground with his Japanese sword, panting and laughing.

“Is this fate?”

“Is this all God’s will?”

"Hanako, you said that there would be retribution for robbery and murder, but I just want you to have a better life."

"Why do those people live in luxury, have so many servants, and can command hundreds of people to respond to their calls? I want to give you everything they have!"

Takeda Gyosai coughed and spat out a mouthful of blood. He looked up at the sky, thought of his wife's gentle smile and the girl from that year.

I thought of the young man wandering outside the girl's house.

am I wrong?

"This is God's will!"

Takeda Gyosai shouted, "I don't accept it. If there is an afterlife, I will still take this path..."

The sword flashed and the head fell to the ground.

The eyes were staring at the sky, as if they still wanted to yell.

On a small island dozens of miles away, a woman was going fishing.

The morning sun was beautiful, shining the sea in golden colors. In the sparkling water, big fish jumped out of the sea, and waves hit the ships on the shore. A few crabs sneakily climbed onto the shore, their eyes rolling.

The woman skillfully picked up the crabs with her tongs. She picked up one and then stopped, saying gently to the crabs that escaped, "I'll only eat one. Let's go!"

She straightened up and looked at the catch in the bucket: a fish and a crab.

"That's enough for today."

The woman returned home and took a hoe to go to the field.

As soon as she stepped out of the house, she looked at the seaside in confusion.

Several ships are approaching the shore.

"Didn't Takeda say he would be back in two days?" the woman asked puzzledly.

The ship docked and more than a hundred armored soldiers went ashore.

The woman was stunned. "This is..."

"The Ming army is coming." someone exclaimed.

More than a dozen old, weak, sick and disabled people exclaimed that according to Takeda Gyosai's rules, everyone on the island had to be useful. In order to survive, these people took the initiative to ask to live near the coast and take turns to be on guard.

More than a hundred soldiers lined up, and someone shouted, "My Lord has ordered that everyone except the women be killed!"

The woman stood blankly at the door of her house, watching the dozen or so people begging in vain as they were beheaded one by one.

Two soldiers came over and rushed into the house behind her to search, "There's a lot of valuables!"

The general leading the team was overjoyed and came over to ask the woman, "Who are you?"

Some people said, "Most likely they are Japanese women."

"If she's not a pirate, spare her life."

The woman looked at the general, "I am...Takeda's woman."

"what!"

The general was startled, then said: "Then come back with us!"

The woman nodded, "Let me clean up."

She turned and went into the house.

Killed the crabs and fish and marinated them simply.

The Ming army was still searching outside.

Someone came in and saw that she was still cooking and couldn't help laughing, "Is this woman a starving ghost reincarnated?"

“This is the rice I grew, this is the vegetables I grew, this is the seafood I picked up…”

The woman placed three plates of food on the table, and served two bowls of rice. She said softly, "Eat! Only when you are full will you have the strength to continue on your journey."

The general just came in and his hair stood on end when he heard the sound.

The woman's body suddenly trembled.

"That year, when I first saw that boy sneaking around outside my house, I knew he loved me. I wanted to smile at him, but my parents said that if a woman smiles at a man for no reason, it's frivolous and will be looked down upon."

"You asked me if I liked you."

The woman suddenly groaned, almost sighing, "I...I like you."

"You have asked me many times whether I regretted following you to the sea. When I said I did, you got upset. In fact, I was lying to you. I just wanted you to stop..."

"I don't regret it!" The woman knelt down slowly, blood flowing from her body.

She bowed her head.

"Wait for me, okay?"

(End of this chapter)