Farming

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Over the next few days, Li Qinwu stayed with Genpei's family. Whenever he had nothing to do, he wandered around outside the village.

The villagers treated him with great respect. Whenever they met him on the road, they would respectfully bow to him.

They assumed he was Genpei's relative, after all, he was just as tall and powerfully built as Genpei.

As for why they respected Genpei so much, it was because he was the only armored samurai in the village.

Every winter and autumn, Big Monsters would crawl out of the caves to hunt humans, and villages like theirs had to organize their own armed defenses.

During the winter and autumn seasons, Genpei would don his armor, take up the samurai sword passed down by his ancestors, and patrol the village alongside the spear-wielding militia organized by the villagers, preventing Big Monsters from entering and killing people.

Genpei was about the same height as Li Qinwu, standing at 2.2 meters. Wearing a full suit of heavy armor and wielding an oversized samurai sword, one could only imagine how imposing he looked.

At that height, he was even bigger than the shortest Big Monsters, which stood around two meters tall, making him a mainstay of Bamboo Forest County's resistance against Big Monsters.

Today, while Li Qinwu was taking a walk through the county's farmland, he encountered an old man—the county magistrate.

Li Qinwu asked the county magistrate, "Has Bamboo Forest County ever been attacked by Big Monsters?"

After bowing to Li Qinwu, the county magistrate said:

"My lord, Bamboo Forest County is right next to Kyoto, and we benefit from its protection. Kyoto's samurai patrols often pass through here, so we have not suffered many Big Monster attacks.