Ebina nodded slightly.

"Well, when we came to look for you, we found my grandson's body halfway."

At this time, Nishino was surprised to find that both the elders Ebina and Ichinose, and the young Akutsu, all had calm faces...as if my grandson's death in battle was a trivial matter to them.

Ebina saw through Nishino's inner thoughts and smiled slightly:

"'Comrade Sacrifice' - we have long been accustomed to this kind of thing. It is no exaggeration to say that this is what we, the people of the Great Salt Party, have been most used to in the past 20 years. It is probably better than eating and drinking.

We still need to get used to water. If we all cry every time a comrade dies, then we don’t have so many tears to shed."

Suddenly, Phoenix House Yataro's pleading voice attracted everyone's attention.

"Please, please let me go!"

Everyone looked around and saw Phoenix House Yataro curled up and trembling all over.

Let’s take a closer look at Phoenix House Yataro’s experience tonight… In less than half an hour, he experienced the ups and downs of his life—and several ups and downs.

First, he was kidnapped by Nishino and my grandson. He finally saw the opportunity to escape, but was caught up by Nishino again.

Fortunately, Sakai Kingo showed up in time and thought he was saved. However, Nishino turned out to be like a mad dog and would not let go of Sakai Kingo and others even if he was an enemy.

Immediately afterwards, three more mysterious people wearing bamboo hats and unknown origins popped out and asked him by name.

And now, he was kidnapped by someone he didn't know at all...

Even a novelist would not dare to write about such a tortuous experience, which almost caused him to have a nervous breakdown.

"You, you, you, who are you? Please let me go! Do you want money? As long as you are willing to let me go, I will give you any amount you want!"

"Let you go?"

Akutsu laughed out loud as if he heard some funny joke.

In the next breath, he used his left leg as the axis and swung his right foot like a whip, hitting Phoenix Yataro's face right in the face.

A very nice side kick.

Several broken teeth flew out of Phoenix House Yataro's mouth, and blood mixed with saliva flowed all over the floor.

"Uh! Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Phoenix House Yataro covered his swollen cheeks and screamed like a slaughtered pig.

"Are you kidding?! Why don't you let us go when you, the bastards who have killed thousands of people, are hoarding goods and would rather let the rice in the warehouse rot than sell it to the hungry people who are about to starve to death at a low price?

ah?!"

After roaring, Akutsu tried his best to kick again.

Ebina quickly dashed to Akutsu's side and stretched out his hand to hold his shoulder.

"Akutsu, that's enough, calm down."

Akutsu turned his eyes sideways and cast an indignant glance at Ebina.

"Ebina-sama, I am a farmer, so...you should be able to understand how I feel, right? Asking a farmer to remain calm in front of a privileged businessman is too much, right?"

Ebina sighed "Alas".

"Akutsu, I am also a farmer, and I am a farmer who has experienced the Tenbao Famine... Of course I understand how you feel."

"If possible, I would also like to torture all the unkind beasts in this world to death."

"However... we'd better bear with it for now."

"If you kick Phoenix House Yataro to death, then all our efforts and sacrifices tonight will be in vain."

Akujin was stunned.

After a moment of silence, he slowly lowered his lifted leg.

Ebina patted Akutsu on the shoulder. Just when he was about to say some words of comfort, his expression suddenly changed.

People who also changed their expressions were Ichinose and Akutsu.

The three of them turned around at the same time and faced the southeast. What caught their eyes was a thick darkness that could not be illuminated by the moon.

"...Uninvited 'guest', please show up."

After saying this in a calm tone without sadness or joy, Ebina stretched out his hand to hold the sword at his waist.

As soon as he finished speaking, the darkness they were staring at began to "squirm".

After a while, Qingden, Souji and Sanako walked out of the darkness.

"You guys are so amazing. You can run so fast even when each of you is carrying one person on your back."

With that said, Aomori walked leisurely to the front of Ebina, his arms hanging naturally without any fighting posture.

After hearing that someone was taking advantage of the chaos to take Nishino and Phoenix House Yataro away under the cover of thick smoke, Aoto immediately led Sanako and Souji to pursue them.

The moving speed of Ebina and others is indeed unexpected. Each one carries one person... no, to be precise, each carries "two people and one corpse", but they can still run so fast.

Qingdeng almost lost track of their footsteps several times.

Fortunately, we managed to catch up with them in the end.

Perhaps because he saw that Seito was not hostile, Ebina's facial lines relaxed slightly, but his eyes were still full of vigilance.

"May I ask who your Majesty is?"

Qingden shrugged:

"I still want to know who you are."

Although he said so, Qingdeng actually knew these three people.

Just half a year ago, after watching the fireworks with Sanako, he encountered these three people on his way home, and briefly had a battle with the guy among them who was playing with a sword.

He later learned that these three people were loyalists of the Great Salt Party.

Although they all covered their faces at that time, Qingden still remembered their voices and weapons - after all, Suokama was an uncommon and unpopular weapon.

Why are the people from the Great Salt Party here?

Why does Hosejiro Nishino hang out with members of the Great Salt Party?

Why are they carrying my grandson's body?

All kinds of questions made Qingdeng feel confused.

Especially the body of my grandson... To be honest, Qingdeng can't believe his eyes until now...

Although my eyes have confirmed countless times that the body carried by Ebina is indeed my grandson, and I have accepted this reality rationally, my emotions cannot keep up with the current situation...

The first colleague Qing Teng met in the Huofu Thieves Reform was my grandson.

They have worked together, shed blood, and fought bandits... The friendship between the two parties is not very deep, but it is not shallow either.

In addition, Qingdeng also learned from my grandson how to lead the army, control logistics, and manage organizations. In addition to being colleagues and comrades-in-arms, the two also had a teacher-student relationship.

Although my grandson always gives people a mysterious feeling, Qingdeng has always liked this colleague who speaks in a strange way.

My grandson died in a mysterious way... Faced with this cold fact, Qingdeng had mixed feelings for a moment and didn't know what expression to make...

Seeing that Aoden had no intention of revealing his identity, Ebina didn't force him and asked instead:

“I’m not satisfied and I’m here, so what do you want?”

Since the other party got straight to the point, Qingdeng was not polite.

He suppressed the surging emotions in his heart, adjusted his mood, and said slowly:

"I don't want to be your enemy. The reason why I'm here is just to recover that fat man. Also, I want to ask you two questions: Why do you have the body of the leader of the first team that was changed by a bandit? Why do you want to

Take away the concentric spirit of Kitaban's chosen town?"

As soon as Qingden finished speaking, Akutsu's thick eyebrows shrugged at the bulging corners of his eyes.

"Ah? Who are you? What are we doing..."

Akutsu was about to explode, but Ebina stretched out his hand to stop him.

Ebina stared at Qingteng.

"What do you want this fat guy to do?"

"What a coincidence, I also want to ask you: Why did you catch that damn fat man?"

Neither side gave in.

Negotiations reached a deadlock...

In this solemn atmosphere, Ebina sighed suddenly.

"If this continues, there will be no end... Okay, let us show sincerity first."

After saying that, Ebina took the initiative to lift the hat on his head and pulled down the black cloth from his face.

He took off his hat and showed his face so quickly and resolutely that Ichinose and Akutsu couldn't even stop him.

"We are patriots of the Great Salt Party, and our name is Ye Zong."
To be continued...