Volume 1: Re:Zero -Starting Life as a Samurai Chapter 11 Ah Fu
"You bastard!" one of the drunks shouted, "Don't you have to apologize for hitting someone?!"
The girl said in a timid tone:
"But, but I just touched you lightly... Are you hurt?"
clang!
The sound of porcelain breaking was heard again.
One of the three drunks picked up a wine bowl on the table again and threw it at the girl's feet.
"Ah!" The girl was startled.
"How dare you talk back!"
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Although he was not very clear about the cause and effect of the incident, Ogata understood that the best thing to do was to let the three drunkards behave themselves first.
At this time, Asaki, the proprietress of the Ruya, had hurriedly entered the Ruya with a lantern in her hand.
At this time, Ogata strode towards the three drunkards.
And said in a calm tone:
"Guest, please don't be unreasonable."
As soon as Ogata finished speaking, the three drunkards immediately turned their heads towards the sound.
"What's it got to do with you...Gu!"
One of the drunks wanted to yell at Ogata, but when he saw that he needed the katana and wakizashi at his waist, he swallowed back the curse that was about to come out of his mouth.
It can be seen that these three drunkards are not as drunk as the four drunkards just now. They can still recognize the samurai sword on Ogata's waist and remember the horror of the samurai.
The three drunks were sobered up by the fright of the samurai sword at Ogata's waist.
The three people, who no longer had the energy to drink, hurriedly left their money for the drinks, stood up, and wanted to leave the room.
But they had only taken a few steps when they were stopped by Ogata:
"Wait for me, the three of you!"
The three of them shuddered, then turned their stiff necks and looked at Ogata with trepidation.
Ogata pointed at the two pieces of broken wine bowl at the girl's feet.
"If you break something in someone's store, don't you have to pay compensation?"
“Okay, okay…”
The three drunks rummaged in their pockets, pooled together some money, and handed it respectfully to Ogata.
After receiving the money, Ogata showed it to the girl:
"How is it? Is this enough to buy two new punch bowls?"
The girl did not know Ogata.
I also don't understand why Ogata would help them for no reason.
Although she had not yet recovered from her shock, the girl still obediently counted the money in Ogata's hand.
"Something is not enough..."
"Did you hear that? Your money isn't enough to pay for the wine bowls!"
"But..." one of the drunks said with a sad face, "We have no money anymore..."
Ogata was too lazy to listen to these people's explanations.
Push the thumb of your left hand, which has been resting on the mouth of the scabbard, forward to pull the katana out of the scabbard with a loud "click" sound.
As soon as the loud "click" sound landed, the three drunks said hurriedly:
"Yes! Yes! We are rich!"
"Ah! I remember! I have some of my own private money here!"
"Master Samurai! Please wait a moment, we will collect the money right away!"
The three drunks fumbled in their pockets again and finally found some money, which they handed to Ogata.
Ogata gave the money to the girl:
"How is it? With this money, is it enough to buy three new wine bowls?"
"Yeah." The girl nodded obediently, "That's enough."
Ogata nodded and sheathed the katana that he had just pulled out of the sheath.
"Since the money is enough, please leave slowly, three guests."
As soon as Ogata finished speaking, the three drunkards immediately fled from the house in a hurry as if they had been pardoned.
After the three drunks escaped from the house, Asaki, who had been standing aside and watching Ogata deal with the incident, came over to Ogata and his friends with an excited look on her face:
"Master Ogata, you just did a great job!"
"I didn't do anything actually." Ogata smiled, "I just showed the samurai sword at my waist and said a few words."
"I hired you to guard the Flow House, and it turned out to be the right hire!"
"That... the boss lady..."
The girl who was ignored by Ogata and Asaki asked timidly:
"Who is this samurai?"
"Ah, I was so busy chatting that I forgot to introduce you two to each other."
"Lord Ogata, this is the only maid in our Ryuya, Afu, whom I just told you about."
Ogata was busy dealing with the three drunkards, so he didn't have the spare time to take a good look at the girl.
She has a petite figure - converted into modern Earth's length units, the girl should be only about 1.45 meters tall.
Therefore, it would be very difficult for the girl to look directly into Ogata's eyes.
Because if Ogata's height is converted into modern Earth's length units, Ogata's height is as high as 170cm.
In ancient Japan, people were generally not tall due to diet and genes.
Ogata's height of 1.7 meters was considered quite astonishing in the Edo period.
During the two days since arriving in the Edo period, Ogata has been paying attention to the heights of the people around him.
As expected, Ogata had not seen anyone taller than him in the past two days.
The girl's facial features are fairly delicate, and she is considered to be of the pretty type.
But this girl is too thin and seems to be malnourished. It seems that any gust of wind could blow her down.
The girl looked Ogata up and down with her big black eyes , then bowed politely and said:
"Good evening, Samurai-sama, my name is Afu."
"Good evening." Ogata also hurriedly bowed in return, "My last name is Ogata. Ogata Yisei."
After introducing himself to the girl named Fuku, Ogata paused and then asked Fuku:
"Miss Ah Fu, may I ask you a question - how old are you this year?"
Ogata was really curious about Afu's age, because from the outside, Afu's facial features seemed not to have fully grown, so he should not be very old.
"Me? How old?" Ah Fu pointed at himself, "I'm 13 years old."
13 years old... a little younger than Ogata expected...
Ogata turned his head and gave Asaki beside him a helpless smile:
"Ms. Asaki, you are employing child labor..."
"Child labor?" Asaki looked at Ogata with a puzzled look on her face. "What does child labor mean?"
"ah……"
Knowing that he had said something wrong, Ogata uttered "Ah" softly, then waved his hand:
"Nothing, just forget what I just said."
After casually answering Akane, Ogata thought to himself:
——It seems that... I still need some time to get used to the customs and practices of the Edo period...
There was no such thing as child labor during the Edo period.
Because people's average life expectancy is generally not long, children usually become independent early - this was the case in all ancient countries.
In the Edo period, girls aged 14 were no longer considered children and could be considered adults.
Many girls get married at this age.
Some girls who get married early are even married at the age of 12.
