A farmer's help

The area now called Hino is Musashi Country, which was divided into four villages: Miyagaya Village, Kin Imura, Yoshiwara Village, and Miyashita Village, and it was on the border with Shimo Noba and Kami Noba in Sagami country.
Hino, there were only a few places where the remnants of a long time ago, but it was a hilly area with mountains and valleys. The villagers lived in this valley village as a peasant.
The peasant said that the peasiest rice planting and harvesting rice was called the busy season. Even after the war, for a while, the school was closed for a while, and the children were also helping the house. I did it.
In Kin Imura, from some time on, during the busy season, a large number of people came across the border every year, and every year.
It seems that the villagers had decided to start farming after them.
The villagers were really grateful because they always came and worked hard at the worst and hard times.
"I've done it very well, I've put a little extra money, so I'll take it away."
And it seems that they have taken away the money.
But his head collected all the extra money;
"It's a change,"
I've always returned it.
They were not so good, but they didn't seem to be looking for money, and if they got only a fixed amount of money, they would go to the next village.
Anyway, the mysterious people told me a lot of things they saw and heard, while eating rice with the villagers, and sang and danced.
This is a great pleasure for the people of the mountainous villages, and I am looking forward to the day.
It's a mystery how they were, who and for what they were walking for.
Some people said, "Maybe the monks gathered for training at a temple in Kamakura for training?"

This is a story recorded in "Hometown Konan's Old Story".
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