Traveling west from Harima Province to Bizen Province, it is not far from Izumo Province, less than 200 miles in a straight line, but it takes more than 300 miles to go around the rugged mountains, to Bichu, Bigo and then to Izumo.

Fujiwara Yoritada was sent to the Harima border, and sent an attendant to accompany Lu Ning and others to the west with the guide, and to show the way; Second, it is also to prove the identity of Lu Ning and others.

One day later, we arrived in Mino-gun, the westernmost part of Harima Province, a fertile plain that was not only the economic center of Harima, but also the political and economic center of western Japan during the Warring States period because it was located at the throat of transportation.

Mino Castle is not far from Okayama Castle, which was famous during the Warring States period, and is a huge village.

In fact, Bizen Kuni Lu Ning smelled a hint of something unusual.

This was especially true when they arrived in Ono County, where the peasants in the fields saw the horse caravan and immediately fled in all directions.

Those who want to ask for directions or go to Ono Castle in advance to deliver a letter will not be able to find it.

Yuye City, it is even more like a big enemy, maybe Lu Ning and his party got the letter from a long distance, there is no one in the farmland of Qianmo, the city fence is closed, behind the fence, the shadow is full and very chaotic, as if they are preparing for defense.

Ono Castle is so large that it can be seen that many sections of the fence have been built not long ago, and more than 1,000 households have been enclosed in the fence for protection.

Lu Ning vaguely guessed that it should be the pirates between Bizen, Bichu, Bigo and Shikoku Island that were a little fierce.

The narrow stretch of water between these countries and the island of Shikoku is dotted with reefs, and it can be seen as almost the inland sea of Japan, and later it was indeed called the Seto Inland Sea.

Water thieves have been rampant here, and the officers and soldiers are powerless to recruit and fight, which is also an important reason why Heiankyo began to grant local powerful pursuit envoys and other foreign officials to take the thieves.

Even today, because the economy is far less developed than in later generations, there are many islands and reefs, and the exploration of water maps is unknown, the Daiki merchant ships are from Kyushu Island to Kyoto, and it is also the outer sea of Shikoku Island, and it is heard that pirates are still rampant in the Seto Inland Sea.

There are even occasional people who go around to the open sea and want to plunder the merchant ships of Daqi, but their small boats are difficult to succeed.

Looking at the situation now, could it be that the coast of the Seto Inland Sea has been so harassed by it that the land of the country has to be so vigilant?

……

Like Harima Province, Bizen Mamoru was the minister of Kyoto, and he held his post from afar, and he was not in Bizen, and domestic affairs were handled by Bizensuke Ohara Shinsehei.

Ohara Zhen's lineage, is a prince turned courtier in the Nara period, but Ohara Zhen's family, many to the west, the descendants have nothing to fight, gradually obscure, and vine, flat, orange, source is completely different.

Nowadays, the Ohara real clan is in this western land, and it is also in great decay, and the world that can be appointed to the former introduction is still one of the better ones in the Ohara real clan.

Shiping now has his own family name, that is, the name of the place where he was born in the local area is the family name Miao, which is called Matsuda Shiping by the outside world.

He is in his forties, has been serving as Bizensuke for more than ten years, and looks extremely stable A middle-aged man, however, he has a boxy beard, much like the Ren Dan Hu of later generations, which made Lu Ning stunned for a while, after all, this is the first time he has seen Ren Dan Hu in Dongying, the Secretary of Kyoto, and the popular one is the eight-character beard now, but it is also very Dongyinghua.

Lu Ning even curiously asked him why he had a square beard, and the reply he got was that there had been more and more disputes with pirates in the past few months, and such a beard was easy to take care of.

Nowadays, Dongying, the place where Qi people set foot is faintly a precursor to troubled times.

The Ono Army recruited volunteers from all over the world, and in a way, it made the western country even more chaotic.

Some unemployed peasants armed themselves in response to the Emperor's call to fight in the Kanto region, but in fact they soon became bands of thieves, burning and looting along the way.

Ono was defeated, and instead of following Ono to Echizen, the armed ronin who fled back to the western country without permission became a source of turmoil.

As for the pirates in the Seto Inland Sea, they are also unprecedentedly strong, entrenched in various islands, and often land and plunder Shikoku Island, Bizen, Bichu, Bigo and other places.

Recently, it seems that the water thieves seem to have a unified leader, calling themselves "the general of the pirates", which also makes the Seto pirates extremely powerful, and even not long ago, I heard that the Sanuki country defense city that broke through the island of Shikoku was very plundered.

Listening to Matsuda Shiping's narration, Lu Ning couldn't help rubbing his nose.

Speaking of which, Dongying pirates are not a derogatory term, because with the rise of the powerful and powerful, some heroes on the water call themselves pirate generals, that is, warlords with relatively strong water power.

But nowadays, pirates are pirates, and they burn, kill, and plunder, and they do the things of bandits.

Obviously, the "One Piece" of the Seto Inland Sea has not yet left this stage, and does not yet have the mentality to become a local ruler by separating the land and population of one side.

"Lord Ban, rest here for a day today, and get on the road tomorrow, if not, when those water thieves hear the news, they will come and plunder." Matsuda Shihei sighed, "The Western Kingdom is in turmoil, and the Ban-sama escorts the envoy, so you must be very cautious." ”

Lu Ning shook his head and said, "Originally, I wanted to go to the Guanyin Temple of Xida Temple to take a look." ”

The Guanyin Temple of the Great Temple of the West of Okayama is one of the oldest temples in Dongying, and in later generations, there are more particularly bizarre programs such as the naked sacrifice of a thousand people, Lu Ning is very curious, and he really wants to see its current appearance.

Matsuda Shihei gritted his teeth, "It's too unfortunate that Lord Ban came, the water thieves just ransacked Saida Temple, I don't know if they left." The tone of his voice was even more indignant, "The Master of the Primal Sky and many mages were actually killed by them, and only a few small novices fled to Mino Castle, and I was worried that the thieves would attack, so I made more preparations, but I almost misunderstood Master Ban and the others." ”

Outside the gate of Mino City, Lu Ning waited for a long time, and the guide who called the door almost finished explaining that his saliva was dry, and finally made Matsuda Shihei open the gate.

Lu Ning bowed slightly, the Guanyin Temple of the Saidia Temple is about thirty miles and forty miles away from this Yuye City, and those pirates attacked the Saida Temple, it is indeed difficult to say whether they will get up and run to attack and plunder the Yuye City.

"Master Ban, it's not early, let's rest, hurry early tomorrow, so as not to encounter danger." Matsuda Sehei looked at the sky outside, and it was already dusk.

Lu Ning coughed, he hadn't eaten dinner yet, and now Dongying people have two meals, one at about ten o'clock, and one meal at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, even most of the ministers of Kyoto are like this, and they don't have the habit of eating at night.

However, I won't talk to him much.

……

Although Matsuda Shiping arranged a good residence for Lu Ning to settle in, Lu Ning was still ready to stay on an ox cart.

What made Lu Ning feel good was that the soup house provided by Matsuda Shiping was good, and the wooden barrel was specially provided with a brand new one, and Lu Ning also ran comfortably for a shower, and then went back to the car to rest.

The carriage is relatively narrow, almost the most shabby car Lu Ning has ever ridden, there is no couch, the carriage is covered with straw mats, and after Lu Ning deliberately thickened it with a lot of Qi cotton cloth underneath, it is comfortable to sit up.

The bright moon outside, the oil lamp hanging in the car can naturally be used without it, Dongying vegetable oil, and the tribute oil used by Lu Ning in the Central Plains are naturally heaven and earth, and when burning, not only the smell is pungent, but also the black smoke is more.

In fact, because the carriage is very narrow, during this time, Lu Ning gave up the entire space to Zhendong Ji at night, went out by himself, walked during the day, and occasionally leaned on the carriage to take a nap.

Today, I don't bother to go around, and when I come to Mino Castle, the gate is now closed twenty-four hours a day, and I have to sneak in and out like a thief; Second, if you encounter thieves outside, you are afraid that you will not be able to help but kill and injure people, and you will not be too lazy to participate in things that have nothing to do with you, and you will not be able to see them.

However, when he got closer to the carriage and looked at the narrow space inside, Lu Ning couldn't help but scratch his head.

Because of the westward journey, along the way, many roads are very narrow, belonging to the field paths, which are the usual style of the local wealthy families used by these ox carts, and the carriages are relatively narrow and long, and the width is seriously insufficient.

When rushing during the day, Lu Ning and Zhen Dongji each sat sideways on one side of the carriage, and their feet could step on the other side of the carriage.

Lu Ning hadn't really spent the night on the ox cart for the past few days, so he felt that in this case, he would already have a spring in his heart, and he was afraid that he would inevitably spoil this little girl.

Those young women, wives, and dewy love, Lu Ning felt that it didn't matter, but the girl's words still had to be considered.

After all, in this day and age, it is a bit unreasonable to take someone's virgin body and leave it behind.

Although the Dongying people have a relatively weak concept of chastity, and may even be inferior to the grassland tribes, from their own point of view, this kind of thing cannot be done.

And in the capital, the harem concubines, lovers outside the palace and the huge grassland tribe Madame Hu, if you count them, there are twenty or thirty people, from Dongying, it would be good to bring back Youji alone, so uncontrolled, I am afraid that I will become the most absurd king of all dynasties.

It's just that whenever I have the idea of giving myself a red line, I can't help but have some extravagant hopes, if I can sing every day in the capital, I am a normal man, right?

Nowadays, my life is actually very abnormal, and I often have to forcibly hold it for a year and a half, not because I often do it in person, but when I am in the capital, the concubines often pamper themselves once, and it will take more than half a year to rest their bodies, and it seems that as they get older, the longer the interval between them need to cultivate their bodies.

And even if there are more than a dozen beautiful young women and beautiful girls from the grassland tribe in Mrs. Hu's mansion, when they get there, they have a lot less restraints, and they really become their own silver caves.

It is precisely because of this that in fact, I live an inhuman life, it seems that there are many concubines, and the beauty is on the side, but I want to be a normal young man who can't get the warmth of a normal family by holding his wife every day.

Most of the time, they have to rely on manual work such as striking iron and scouting, and exert their strength at night.

The heavens thundered twice and gave such a physique, I don't know whether it is happy or sad.

Sometimes, I will feel that I am a little irritable, and I have not become a murderous demon by my own concentration, maybe it is, like all male animals, most of the time, if my desires are not satisfied, I will inevitably become aggressive.

If this continues, I really don't know if I will become a tyrant in the future.

But having said that, people can't really become animals, and when they can restrain themselves, they still have to restrain themselves.

Therefore, when he saw that in the carriage, if he really lay down and rested upright, it was much tighter than he expected, Lu Ning turned around and wanted to leave.

And Zhen Dongji, who was a little surprised when she saw Lu Ning lift the curtain and come in, bit her lip, "Brother Ban, let's go, I'll go change her mother!" ”

Lu Ning was speechless, glared at her angrily and funny, didn't call her "Youji", but gritted her teeth and said "Jizi her mother", is he angry that his big brother next door has become a pervert and is hungry and will not let go of his little sister's mother, or is he jealous that he would rather achieve good things with his mother than be kind to her?

Although, in love and love, Lu Ning has long been like a floating cloud, a stunning beauty, everyone likes it, and when he sees it, he wants to possess it, but it is just love, to say that the real emotional warmth that can make Lu Ning miss is nothing more than the queen, the three princesses and Xiao Zhouhou, who is both like his daughter and his lover, they all have their own good, and they all occupy a very important position in his heart.

However, although I don't care about anything about love for a long time, I can still feel it more or less in the mind of the real winter girl.

Like, she doesn't know why, but she likes her ugly bastard.

It's not about Kyoko Fukada's use of herself and Yuhime's reliance on herself as a lifesaver.

Zhendong, this little girl, seems to be very simple in her feelings.

Maybe it's because of the beginning of love, no matter how much her father wants to train her to be an excellent craftsman, a spy or even an assassin, her nature is indelible, especially since she is at the age when she first fell in love, and she met herself.

Thinking about it, as an ugly monster with a potholed face, it is still very complacent and a little touching to attract such a beautiful girl to treat her differently.

Of course, many men will have childish thoughts in their hearts, if they have no money and no power, what they like is true love, and it is their own inner attraction that attracts her.

But in fact, it is the combination of the inside and the outside, including the economic conditions, etc., that form your entire personality and your own whole charm.

The same is true for Zhen Dong Ji, Lu Ning also knows that if he is an ordinary ugly monster in the countryside of Dongying, who does not show extraordinary control and martial arts over all events, where can he make this beautiful girl take a look?

Thinking wildly, Lu Ning didn't know what he wanted to do, and looked at Zhen Dongji and smiled: "Forget it, I'll go out for a walk, besides, the residence prepared by Matsuda Shiping seems to be not bad." ”

Zhen Dong Ji is wearing a red and white witch dress, her hair is like the eyebrows of later generations, and she has a long black ponytail behind her, pure and beautiful, biting her lip at this time, she may not know what she is depressed, and she is even more cute.

Lu Ning was reluctant to leave for a while, and said with a smile: "What are you angry about?" I have twenty or thirty wives and concubines, you don't really want to become more than thirty, do you? ”

After speaking, Lu Ning himself felt speechless.

In the past and present lives, they will not coax women.

Not to mention now, it has always been a woman who changes her ways to please him and communicate with a girl who is just starting to fall in love? It doesn't exist, it will completely become a chicken and a duck.

Zhendong Ji's beautiful little face immediately turned red, "What more than thirty, what did you say?" ”

Lu Ning coughed, feeling that he had failed to leave like this, so he sat down sideways as if he were daytime, and said, "Alas, you know, I don't know how to communicate with you, but ......"

I was about to say that what I said was true, and I talked to her seriously, although I felt that I might get worse and worse the more I talked, but I haven't really talked to people for a long time, as if from the genes of human social interaction, not communicating with people for a long time can easily cause some psychological diseases.

At this moment, a woman's soft voice came from outside: "Is Master Ban here?" ”

Soft, almost weak, peculiar delicate, it is Fuko's voice.

Before Lu Ning could respond, Zhen Dongji had already answered: "Here!" As if he was a little angry, he lifted the curtain and said angrily: "You come in and say." ”

On the contrary, Prince Fukonai, a deformed product who has been educated and raised in the deep palace, is not much older than Jizi and Zizi's psychological personality, and he didn't feel the emotional abnormality of Madong Ji at all, but he was busy saying "thank you".

Then, she really stepped on the wooden ladder in an elegant posture and went up to the wheel, thanked Madong Ji very politely and entered the carriage, a pair of jade rope clogs had been left on the wheel.

Zhendong Ji was stunned for a while, she could only helplessly, and there was no place to sit horizontally, so she could only kneel side by side with Fuzi next to Lu Ning, although the two of them were not as tall as Lu Ning and occupied space, but the carriage with almost no width also made the two of them, shoulder to shoulder, from psychology, both invaded each other's extremely intimate distance.

Lu Ning is funny, the real winter Ji is more like a modern cos beautiful girl, it's just that she has no makeup, and her beauty is already incomparable to those cos beautiful girls with full filter beauty, and Fuzi is a typical Heian era beauty, two strands of long hair in front, long hair shawl under the exquisite bun behind the head, but the habit of white powder on the face has been corrected by Zizi, but the teeth are still painted black and black, but in Lu Ning's opinion, Juan Xiu is a delicate classical beautiful girl, with a row of black teeth, but there is a strange beauty.

Lu Ning can only laugh at himself in his heart, maybe he has seen too many beauties, and his aesthetics are a little abnormal, but he just thinks that this prince is quite cute.

"Is there anything that matters?" Except for listening to her thank you when they met for the first time in the teahouse, Lu Ning never had contact with her again, and she came to ask to see her, thinking that there was something urgent.

"Fuko has always wanted to solemnly thank Banda, thank Banda for taking care of my sister Zizi, thank Banda for taking me in, but, Fuko is embarrassed, can only thank you in words, too pale and powerless, Fuko has always hoped that he can do something for Banda, but it seems that there is no chance anymore."

Fuzi spoke, his hands on the ground, and said loudly: "Thank you, Lord Ban, Aria is enough for Imas!" ”

Although she is "loud", her weak voice is afraid that she can't hear it when she is close to the carriage outside.

Lu Ning smiled: "It's nothing." ”

Zhen Dong Ji muttered in a low voice beside him, "What can't I be thankful for, marrying Big Brother Ban, being the thirtieth little seat of Big Brother Ban, it's impossible to be a political office." ”

Lu Ning glared at Zhen Dongji angrily and funny, the so-called political office is the honorific title of the wives of the current ministers, and the small seat is the side room.

Fuko looked up in surprise when she heard Madonghime's words, and asked, "Ban-sama, are you going to marry me as a side room?" ”

It seems that some people are relieved, and there is less confusion in their eyes.

Lu Ning was speechless for a moment, the people who were educated by the Dongying Palace were really freaks.

Of course, the Tang Dynasty is relatively open, but the princesses of the late Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty rarely have independent personalities.

Then he smiled and said: "You are a golden branch and jade leaf, but His Royal Highness the Inner Prince, where is the reason to be my side room?" When I get to Izumo, I'll buy a piece of land there, and your sisters will help me take care of some accounts, and if I have a sweetheart in the future, I'll marry him by myself. ”

I want to know that Zizi and Jizi are young and don't think too much, but Fuzi must be very confused, although she follows her all the way west freely, but her life has been arranged by someone since she was a child.

And after all, she is older, and she will think about the future, and she will inevitably be confused, not knowing how she will live after she leaves and returns to China.

As for the so-called asking their sisters to take care of their own accounts, that's it, even if they have an arrangement, do they really want Fuzi to supervise the accounts for themselves? The person who met the ill-intentioned management of Yinshan, didn't treat Yinshan as private property and call her to carry all the black pots?

Actually, what happened to her, she didn't care, Zizi and Jizi wanted to meet their relatives, and she looked at the two little girls at the time and was soft-hearted, so she agreed.

And Zizi instigated her not to go back to the palace but to go to Kiyomizu Temple with Zizi, and she didn't care about it, it was a very casual thing.

But since she brought Xiguo, before she left, she also had to make arrangements for her future life, so as not to harm these girls who are like blank papers.

However, Yu Ji and Jizi are already ready to bring back to the Central Plains, and Zizi's little girl, she really wants to bring them back to the Central Plains, Nan'an and Nanping, two little girls, four years younger than Jizi and Zizi, are now less than five years old, and they are six years old.

And when it comes to upbringing, Jizi and Zizi are good examples, except that they don't want Nan'an and Nanping, they have also become a boring life state that can spend a day as a noble.

But if you take Zizi back to the Central Plains, leaving Fuzi alone, it seems too inhumane, this kind of woman who is difficult to survive on her own, and has no only relatives around her, how can she feel too pitiful.

While pondering wildly, Fuko was a little stupid and muttered: "When you meet someone you like, do you want to marry him?" ”

Obviously, this is too incredible for her, and it is difficult to imagine how to do it.

Lu Ning waved his hand helplessly, "Okay, you came to see me, not just to express your gratitude, right?" What's the matter? ”

Fuzi came back to his senses at this time, and immediately fell to the ground with his hands on the ground, and said: "Lord Ban, Fuzi saw the novice who escaped from Saida Temple, he was so pitiful, he cried to me for a long time, the people there are suffering, please Lord Ban, save them, please!" ”

Lu Ning was stunned when he heard it, and then laughed dumbly, in the future, if this scene is made into a TV series, I don't know how many barrages will scold Fuzi for being the White Lotus and the Holy Mother, and he has no ability to survive, and he begged the protagonist to save irrelevant people.

However, Lu Ning felt that the Holy Mother was much better than a person with a cold nature, and it could be seen that the education of the Dongying Palace, at least in form, must also teach more noble people, love the people, and love the common people.

But in fact, if the ministers of Kyoto were less expropriating and extortionate, the people's lives would be much better, and there would be much fewer thieves and thieves.

"Do you think I can save them? Can you drive away the water thieves? Then, Lu Ning asked with a smile.

Fuzi was immediately a little stuck, probably, she hadn't thought about this problem, and she felt a little that this "class adult" was omnipotent.

After all, the marriage of a powerful minister arranged by the imperial brother, "Ban-sama" just casually took him out of Kyoto, and no one cared about it and no one asked, so where was there anything that "Ban-sama" couldn't do?

Lu Ning didn't wait for her to answer, and said with a smile: "Okay, anyway, I don't know how to spend tonight, so I'll go to Xida Temple for a turn." And Zhengse said: "It also just declares my way of benevolence and love, and the suffering of the people in the world is in my eyes." ”

said high-sounding words, and there was a feeling of shame in my heart, and I didn't bother to pay attention to it at all.

Regardless of the fact that it is necessary to manage, it is natural to establish the image of Daqi in upholding fairness and justice.

Fuzi was immediately overjoyed, and the head of the joke was repeated, "Aria is enough for Imas!" ”。

Zhen Dongji rolled her eyes, obviously following Lu Ning all the way from Kanto, she has been educated in conspiracy and the like, and she has some points in her heart about what the "big brother class" is doing.

Today's "big brother" is righteous and strict, and he can only deceive those stupid ministers, ignorant people, and the stupid beautiful princess in front of him.

：。 ：m.x