The big wedding of 72

  "Ladies and gentlemen!" Ma San waited until all the dishes on every table, including those "earth buns" in the hands of the people sitting on the long benches outside, each had a piece of braised meat and two white steamed buns. Then he raised his wine cup towards the people around him and said: "Fellow villagers and seniors, thank you for giving me, Ma San, face by attending my wedding. Thank you also to the comrades from the Heavenly Guard. And I especially want to thank my superior officer, Lieutenant Colonel Takashi Kiyoharu, for being my witness. I have no way to repay him, so let me just offer a toast to all of you."

  He grasped the wine cup with both hands, nodded slightly to the four directions, and then drank it all in one gulp. He poured three cups of wine on the table, placed them on a tray, walked over to Takashi Kiyoharu, and knelt down with a "thud".

  "What's the meaning of this?" Kōki Jun'ichirō said, trying to dissuade him, but his hands didn't make any movement to deceive Motobu.

  "Captain Kao, I'm Mao San, an orphan without parents. Since arriving in Qingyang Town, you've given me a second chance at life, letting me understand what family is like and also making me realize what it means to make a name for myself. Today, please drink these three cups of wine on behalf of my parents whom I've never met, it's also a way for me to show filial piety."

  "This doesn't seem right?" Takagi had thoroughly researched the local customs and practices here, including how to decline.

  "Commander, there's no one more suitable than you. You're the highest-ranking officer of our team and the most respected person here. This wine is only worthy of being drunk by you." Zhang San said from the side.

  "Then I'll drink?"

  "It's none other than you." The people around him also responded with certainty. After a round of modest refusals, Takashi Kiyooka downed the three cups of wine. "Also taking this cup of wine as an opportunity, I, Takashi Kiyooka, have been in battles for half my life without any descendants, and today I take this chance to announce something - Mao San is now my adopted son."

  "Huh?" Everyone including Mao San didn't understand what Takagi Junichiro meant by this sentence.

  "What's wrong? A bit unwilling?" Takagi Junichiro smiled and looked at Mao San, who was still kneeling on the ground and hadn't reacted yet.

  "Ah? Alright, alright, I agree." Mao San hastily replied. Zhang San gave Mao San a push from the side, and Mao San wasn't stupid either. With that one push, he immediately understood what was going on. Originally already kneeling, Mao San promptly knocked his head against the ground three times with a "thud thud thud".

  "My foster father is above; I pay him a bow."

  "Good!" Takagi Junichiro helped Mao San up. "Well, in your words, it means that I have a child after half a lifetime of war."

  Gao Jiancheng and Liu Jun sitting at the bottom couldn't hear what was being said above, but seeing Mao San and Takemura's actions also made them guess eight or nine out of ten.

  "This kid won't be taking the enemy as his father, will he?" Liu Jun said.

  "This is for sure, if a pile of gold was placed in front of a poor man, with only one condition, that the poor man calls him 'dad', would you be willing? " Gao Jiancheng made an analogy beside him, without waiting for Liu Jun's response, he continued to say, "Now Gao Muping is like that pile of gold, Mao San is that poor man. Gao Muping can bring Mao San everything he wants and needs, power, beautiful women, money, which one isn't a temptation that men want to possess? And in this world, including you and me, who can say they are completely immune to these things?"

  Liu Jun wanted to say something, but Gao Jiancheng interrupted him again. "Including you and me, we are now soldiers, fighting to repel the invaders. But if we think about it carefully, once these people retreat, what awaits us? There will be a large number of people who will be promoted and enfeoffed. Isn't this a temptation? Isn't there a saying that a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier?"

  Liu Jun was left speechless by Gao Jiancheng's words, and he had always thought that he was simply driving out the invaders, but he didn't expect to have such thoughts in his heart. Liu Jun even began to regret himself.

  "Don't be too pedantic, what I'm talking about is temptation in a broad sense, all these things are temptations, including your eating, drinking, defecation and sleep."

  "Commander Lian, I..."

  "Let's keep watching, didn't our Third Grandfather give us some meat? I took a bite and the taste is not bad." The two continued to watch what would happen next.

  Takagi Jun'ichirō helped Mō Sān up and stood up himself, looking around.

  "Today is the wedding of my subordinate, Motou, and also the day I, Takagi Junichirou, gain a new adopted son. This is a double happiness, if I don't bring out something like a decent gift, everyone present will probably laugh at me." The soldier following behind Takagi Junichirou opened the box he was holding in his hand.

  Another soldier took out a scroll from the box and opened it with a "whoosh" sound. On the three-foot-long, one-foot-wide mounted scroll were written four characters: "Loyal to the Emperor".

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