When Yuqiu walked slowly to a hill in the east of Maple Mountain City, he found the figure of a young woman. She was kneeling at the grave, as if muttering to herself. The breeze blew, blowing the green silk in her ears, and also made the kimono on her body wrap more tightly around her slightly thin figure.

Needless to say, it must be Ashi. The hill where she knelt is the place where Yu Qiuping buried Asai Nagamasa last year. Due to Yu Qiuping's almost crazy attitude, Oda Nobunaga's original plan of "human bone wine cup" was forced to be restrained, and Asai Nagamasa was able to be buried with his whole body. Yuakihei wanted to bury him in Omi, but Oda Nobunaga did not allow such an act. In desperation, Yu Qiuping had no choice but to choose his tomb around Maple Mountain Castle, so that he and Ashi's mother and daughter could visit from time to time - apart from them in this world, no one would come to visit Asai Nagamasa.

Yuqiu walked slowly to the grave, and Ah Shi, who was kneeling at the head of the grave, seemed to hear the footsteps behind him, but did not look back. Instead, when Yu Qiuping walked to his side, he whispered: "Brother Hongye, do you come every day?" ”

"Yes, I went to Mingguo for a few months before, and I haven't come to see Changzheng for a long time." Yu Qiuping knelt side by side beside Ah Shi, looked at Asai Nagamasa's grave, and said in a low voice, "I heard that after you got better last year, you also came to visit Nagamasa every day. ”

"Yes." Ah Shi spit out this word in a low voice, and the sorrow on his face was enough to break the hearts of the people in the world. "I miss him, I think about him all the time, sometimes I come several times a day, but I still miss him..."

As she spoke, tears still rolled in the eyes of this woman who had been crying for almost a year. "He's a fool, he's the worst bad guy in the world. He left me, his three precious daughters and his son, and went alone. He doesn't know how much we miss him! Do you know how much the children want to have another meal with him, how much they want him to put them to sleep again..."

"He doesn't know anything, he only has his bright righteousness and martial arts morality in his heart. Is his righteousness really so important..."Ah Shi said, he couldn't cry for a long time, put his hand on the tombstone, and whimpered aggrievedly, "I knew that you were such a villain, why did you treat me so well in the first place, I fell in love with you, and I can't forget you for the rest of my life, but now you abandon me..."

Yu Qiuping, as the matchmaker of the marriage between Aichi and Asai Nagamasa, watched them all the way and understood how deep their relationship was. He also understood that any comfort he had at this moment was in vain. The pain of losing a loved one can only be slowly healed by Ah Shi himself.

But on such an occasion, Yu Qiuping couldn't bear to look at Ah Shi alone, thinking about it, and suddenly said for no reason: "Actually... How could that idiot not understand your feelings for him? ”

"If you really understand, why did you leave in such a hurry and refuse to accompany us for one more day?" Ah Shi shook his head, and the expression on his face looked uncomfortable.

"Man, you always have to leave this world. You said, if Changzheng can accompany you for one more day, for example, let you get married one day earlier, will you feel any difference in Ashi? ”

"There won't be..."Ah Shi didn't know why Yu Qiuping suddenly asked, and replied with some hesitation.

"And two more days?" Yu Qiuping threw out another question.

Ah Shi shook his head and didn't say anything.

"What about five days?"

Ah Shi still shook his head.

"What if it's a year?" Yu Qiuping suddenly stretched out the time suddenly.

After thinking for a moment this time, Ah Shi nodded seriously, "A year will be different. ”

"Then why is there no difference in five days? How can a year be different? What is the cut-off point in between, can you tell me? ”

If other people had talked to him about these things when he was so sad, Ah Shi might have politely responded and left with a few words. But what was talking to her about this was her closest brother Momiji besides her husband, which made her start thinking about what Yu Qiuping wanted to express.

"Maybe it's because," Ah Shi replied in a low voice after a long silence, "in a year's time, you can do something meaningful." I might be able to convince him to treat his family well and live like this. ”

"Yes, Ah Shi, you also said that the time of life itself is not special, and one more day or one less day will not have any effect. But if time can be used to do something meaningful, it's different. Yu Qiuping sighed with emotion and said, "For Changzheng, his ideal is to protect the light and righteousness of the world and the morality of the samurai, and his life is also meaningful to die for this." Otherwise, no matter how long he lives, it will be just a waste of time for him. ”

But isn't it meaningful to be with your family? Isn't it meaningful to grow up with our daughter and son, and grow old with me? Is the meaning of a samurai only those lofty aspirations? Ah Shi whispered a little sadly, "Why is that..."

"Changzheng is such a kind and gentle person, why doesn't he want to spend a good and happy life with you. If he's just a farmer, he'll be enjoying a family with you. Yu Qiuping shook his head, and suddenly remembered what Tokugawa Ieyasu had said to him before, and he felt that his words also had some truth, "But as a samurai, the responsibility on your body is different from that of a civilian." Nagamasa not only wants you to have a happy life, but he also wants all families in the world to do the same. He wants a peaceful and prosperous world, wants to end the cycle of chaos, and wants a world of long-term peace and stability. So that all fathers can accompany their children to grow up and their wives to grow old. Let your mother and daughter live in a world where there will never be war again. That's what he wants, what he wants to be a samurai. ”

Listening to Yu Qiuping's words in his ears, Ah Shi's crystal clear tears slowly fell down his cheeks again, dripping on the land in front of him, leaving a few small black spots on the soil, slowly dipping into the earth.

"Then I'd rather he be a flat-headed commoner..."Ah Shi sobbed and whimpered and whispered, "He is a commoner, and Changzheng is just our family." He is a samurai, and he is the whole world. ”

"Brother Momiji, thank you, Ah Shi understands, and finally understands him." Ah Shi gently wiped his tears with his little hands, slowly put out the wine and other sacrifices he brought, and changed a wreath in front of Asai Nagamasa's grave, and said softly: "I always complained about him in my heart before, but now I finally understand why he is so ruthless." ”

"Why did you bring so much wine?" After Yu Qiuping saw Ah Shi take out a large bottle of wine from the package, he suddenly raised the wine glass that Ah Shi placed on the ground, compared it to Ah Shi, and said in a low voice with a smile, "It's almost the same with so much, Changzheng guy, drinking this is enough to choke and pour." If he's drunk, he won't be able to watch you from heaven all day. ”

"Poof." Ah Shi was so amused by Yu Qiuping's joke that he smiled, and suddenly he was stunned for a moment. This is the first time she has smiled since Asai Nagamasa left, almost a year.

"It's been a long time since you've laughed." Yu Qiuping looked at Ah Shi and smiled lightly, and he also smiled and encouraged, "You have to live well, you still have three daughters and sons." Whether it's for yourself, for them, or for the long-term government of heaven, Ashi, you have to live well. Because the world that Changzheng strives to pursue is a peaceful and prosperous world where all mothers and all children can live a happy life. Only when you are happy and love life again, Changzheng's efforts will not be in vain. ”

"Hmm." Ah Shi smiled with tears, looked at Yu Qiuping, and then looked at the cold stone tablet. For a moment, she seemed to see the image of Asai Nagamasa appearing in front of her, and she was looking at herself with a smile, and whispered to herself:

"Ah Shi, you are so beautiful."

"I love you."

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Yu Qiuping and Ah Shi developed a tacit understanding without words in this way, and they would stay in front of Asai Nagamasa's grave for a while every morning and chat for a while. Gradually, this time has become an indispensable part of the lives of the two.

Until one day, when Ah Shi came, he found that Yu Qiuping had already stayed in front of the tomb - because Imagawa Kaede likes to sleep lazy, Yu Qiuping often sleeps with her for a while, and every time he comes later than Ah Shi.

"Brother Momiji, why did you come so early today?" Ah Shi put down the basket in his hand and asked sideways.

"There will be a guest coming to visit, and I don't know when I want to talk about it, so I can only come early." Yu Qiuping replied while taking care of the current Buddhist shrine for Asai Nagamasa.

"What guest wants to talk for so long?" Ah Shi asked casually, and suddenly felt a little offended, so he added in a low voice, "If Brother Momiji feels inconvenient, it's okay not to tell Ah Shi." ”

"It's okay, Ah Shi is his own person." Yu Qiuping smiled and shook his head, "It's the person from Tosa, it's the younger brother of that ghost Wakako, and the Xiangzong is pro-Tai." ”

"Tosa people? What is he here for? Ah Shi was stunned when he heard this, and replied with some puzzlement.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Yu Qiuping finished his tidying up, slowly stood up, and replied as he turned to leave, "Apparently I came here for the Miyoshi family." ”

In fact, in this time and space, when the Miyoshi family has been greatly strengthened, the Chozong family can still gain a firm foothold in Tosa, which makes Yu Qiuping very surprised. On the one hand, this is because the Oda family continued to put enough pressure on the Miyoshi family in, so that the Miyoshi family had to frequently consume a large amount of troops and food to cross the sea to support. On the other hand, when the Miyoshi family was raiding the rear of, they chose to target Iyo, Harima, and Settsu instead of Tosa. Another reason is that Shikoku Island is full of mountains, and it is not easy to attack. Every time the Miyoshi family tried to attack the Changzong family, the strategy of the head relatives of the Changzong family was to try to delay until the spring ploughing and autumn harvest. The Miyoshi family was attacked on all sides, and it was difficult to mobilize a large army to attack Tosa, so they had no choice but to do so.

However, as Oda Nobunaga focused on Hokuriku Province and Yama**, the Mori family also formed an alliance with the Miyoshi family, and the Miyoshi family finally had the opportunity to free up their hands for many years to solve the problem of Shikoku. Changzong's family is also about to face the catastrophe of annihilation.