Volume 2 The Executioner Chapter 81 Human Pig (Part 1)
"My lord," Nanahara said, "Please be patient. We are already in the castle town and will be able to return to the city soon."
"No." Matsudaira Gennai refused without thinking, "I want to drink hot tea now."
Long before Matsudaira Gennai became the new daimyo of Hirose Domain, Nanahara served as Matsudaira Gennai's bodyguard.
Having been with Gennai Matsudaira for such a long time, Nanahara had long been accustomed to Gennai Matsudaira's strong desire for food and drink.
At the same time, I also got used to Matsudaira Gennai's unreasonable insistence on eating and drinking now.
"...I understand." Qiyuan said, "We will try our best to make hot tea for you as quickly as possible..."
Before Nanahara finished speaking, Matsudaira Gennai interrupted him:
"No thanks. I've found a way to get some hot tea."
While saying this, Matsudaira Gennai looked somewhere ahead.
Nanahara followed the gaze of Matsudaira Gennai.
At the end of the sight was a sword hall with lights emitting from it.
The plaque hanging next to the gate of the sword hall reads - Sakakibara Sword Hall.
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Hirose Domain, Kuranaga's residence——
Kuranaga and Ogata were walking one after the other in a corridor of the mansion.
The entourage also included the flying ape.
Tobisaur followed closely behind Kuranaga, walking slightly ahead of Ogata.
Just now, after Kuranaga said, "I'll take you to see how the women in Myohari Village were treated by Matsudaira Gennai," he and Tobisaur led Ogata out of the room and walked towards the depths of the mansion.
Kuranaga and Ogata both remained silent, and no one spoke.
Ogata just followed Kuranaga silently.
Although he remained silent on the surface, Ogata was not at peace in his heart.
He was constantly imagining what he might see in the future, and how the women of Myobari Village were tortured by Matsudaira Gennai...
When he thought about what kind of horrible scene he might see later, he felt goosebumps all over his body...
At this moment, Kuranaga, who was walking in front of Ogata, suddenly asked Ogata behind him:
"Ogata-kun... have you ever read the Records of the Grand Historian written by Taishigong of the Tang Dynasty?"
"I've read some..."
Although Ogata didn't understand why Kuranaga asked him this question for no reason, he still answered honestly.
Although Ogata had not read the entire "Records of the Grand Historian", he had read several articles from the book in the Chinese textbook before coming to the Edo period .
"Then... Ogata-kun, do you know about the human pig...? It is the human pig recorded in the "Records of the Grand Historian: The Annals of Empress Dowager Lü" compiled by Sima Qian..."
"I've heard a little bit about it..."
When Ogata heard Kuranaga's question, a strong and extremely ominous premonition emerged in his heart and expanded wildly.
At this time, Cang Yong just stopped in front of a paper sliding door.
Kuranaga looked at the paper sliding door in front of him with a complicated expression, then turned around and looked at Ogata.
"Ogata-kun... after hearing my question just now, I think you have already guessed something..."
"The old master is a person who attaches great importance to Sinology."
"When he was still alive, he forced the lord to read various Chinese books, mainly the Four Books and Five Classics and the history books of the Tang Dynasty."
"However... when the lord read these Chinese books , he was not influenced by the words of the sages, nor did he gain any special feelings from the history books."
"On the contrary... he found out some things that he shouldn't have known..."
"My lord, while reading the Records of the Grand Historian, accidentally learned about the existence of human pigs..."
"Since then, the lord has developed a strong interest in human pigs..."
"And he is only interested in female human pigs. So whenever the lord has the chance, he will turn any woman who has made a mistake into a human pig..."
"All the women in Miaozhang Village, young and old, have been turned into human pigs by the lord..."
"etc!"
Ogata quickly raised his hand and signaled Kuranaga to stop.
"My dear elder... please stop talking... I can't listen any more..."
Just listening to Kuranaga's words just now, Ogata felt dizzy, and a strong feeling of nausea kept rising from his stomach, making him vomit...
Looking at Ogata, who raised his hand to cover his mouth and looked pale, Kuranaga sighed softly.
"...After the lord got tired of watching and playing with these poor women, he casually threw them out of the city."
"I just can't bear to let them die in the wild."
"So I brought them back to my mansion and adopted them..."
"They are behind this sliding paper door..."
Kuranaga glanced at the paper sliding door next to him.
"Ogata-kun...if you want to take a look at them and are mentally prepared, just open the door and go in..."
"I won't force you to go in. If you don't want to see it, you don't have to go in..."
After saying that, Kuranaga took a half step back, leaving Ogata with a path leading to the paper sliding door.
Looking at the paper sliding door in front of him, Ogata felt his heart beating at a speed rarely seen before.
Cold sweat began to secrete from my forehead...
Before arriving in the Edo period, Ogata had learned about what a human pig was from various channels such as books and the Internet.
Just by reading the description of Renzhu, Ogata felt his scalp tingling and dared not think too much about it...
To enter or not to enter——a fierce ideological struggle was going on in Ogata's mind.
Finally, Ogata decided to reach out for the handle of the paper door in front of him.
Ogata slowly opened the paper sliding door.
Light poured into the dim room through the open door.
Ogata walked slowly into the room, but because his eyes were not used to the darkness yet, he was unable to see the scene inside the room clearly in time.
After his eyes gradually got used to the dim environment, Ogata could finally see everything in the room clearly.
This fairly spacious room was covered with beds and quilts.
Most of the bedding was bulging unnaturally, and it was obvious that someone was lying inside it.
There were six maids either squatting next to some quilts or walking between each quilt.
After seeing the stranger Ogata suddenly break into the room, the six maids immediately cast surprised and vigilant looks at him.
Just as one of the six maids was about to ask who Ogata was, she saw Kuranaga who had entered the room with Ogata.
Kuranaga signaled to the maids not to make any sound, so they could only resist the urge to ask who Ogata was and let Ogata look at everything in the room with a look of surprise and shock.
After taking a quick look at everything in the house, Ogata was immediately caught by a horrifying sight.
On a bed not far from Ogata, there was a "person" lying.
Because this "person" was not covered with a blanket like the others, Ogata could clearly see what this "person" looked like.
