Chapter 544: Dream Hunting
On the morning of November 13th, Yu Qiuping set off early from the inn as usual, and wandered around the market with a group of guards. However, Yu Qiuping no longer has the good mood of the previous ten days. Because he knew that no matter how nostalgic he was for his homeland, he would return to Japan sooner or later. Until then, he needs to find someone he can trust and give him the "Future Outline" he has brought.
But it's not easy to find such a person. The content of this book is something that most of today's ancients could not understand, let alone believe and use. A person who claims to be from the future writes something unreasonable, most people will scoff at it, right? And if you want to use the content of this book, it is not something that can be done by the people in the market, you must be rich and powerful. Such people are all very smart, they have long formed their own values, and they have their own stable life tracks, how can they go back to believe these nonsense words of Yu Qiuping and then put them into practice?
Yu Qiuping even came up with an extreme solution, which was to print hundreds or thousands of copies of this outline and distribute it to the north and south of China, and someone would always be inspired by it, right? Even if it's the Huangshi Heavenly Book, there is Zhang Liang who can understand it, right? Or disguise him as a book from heaven, bury it in the ground, and wait until someone accidentally excavates it, and then treat it as an ancient divine book, so that there is no longer any doubt about the content on it?
Just when Yu Qiuping was in a fugue, Honda Tadakatsu, who was following him, suddenly coughed in a low voice. In order to avoid being obsessive, Honda Tadakatsu they can't swagger as they do in Japan, wearing katana and combing Tsukiyo's head. Because on the southeast coast of China, the Han Chinese, who have suffered from the Japanese pirates for decades, are very repulsive to this disguised Japanese ronin, and will even be arrested by the government. Therefore, Honda Tadakatsu did not bring a katana with them on this trip, but only with a rib to defend themselves.
Yu Qiuping's afterglow noticed that Honda Tadakatsu had slowly put his hand into his arms to store the ribs, and he suddenly became nervous. The few guards he brought with him now, except for Honda Tadakatsu and Mori Kolong, had no combat effectiveness. Matsuchiyo and Mori Ranmaru are still children, and the girl of Haya Suiko can't lift anything heavier than a brush. said that she was a maid, but she couldn't even take care of her own life, which added a burden to Moran Maru and Matsuchiyo.
"Nabe Nosuke, what's the situation?" Yu Qiuping lowered his voice and asked in a low voice to Honda Tadakatsu in Japanese.
"Unidentified... Ninja? I don't know what Ming Guo calls this. Honda Tadakatsu hesitated, but still used the word "ninja", "There are a lot of them." โ
"Coming at us?" Yu Qiuping confirmed in a low voice again.
"It's not." Tadakatsu Honda closed his eyes, as if sensing the change in the aura around him.
"In short, it is not advisable to stay here for a long time, after all, we are smuggling, and it is troublesome to be found." After thinking for a moment, Yu Qiuping waved his hand and said, "I don't know what the government is going to do, anyway, let's leave early." โ
Yu Qiuping and his party walked away quickly in the crowd, but suddenly found that there were many freshly pasted notices on the pillars and walls of the market, and a portrait of a person was painted on them, as if it was a reward order. It seems that the people who suddenly appeared just now are here to put up the notice.
Yu Qiuping took a closer look, but was surprised. Because on that notice, coincidentally, there are four big characters written on it:
Autumn foliage in rain.
And the picture accompanying the notice is what Yu Qiuping was wearing when he went out in Japan. The upper body is a feather weaving, and the hair and hairstyle are also the same as Yu Qiuping. Although the facial features of the face are very strange to draw due to the unique painting techniques in ancient times, and they are completely different from the realistic portraits painted by Hatani Suiko, but the appearance of Yu Qiuping can also be vaguely seen. What's even more exaggerated is that the rain and autumn flat in the painting are still wearing his signature red leaf shawl.
And the text under this picture says that it is not a wanted warrant or a bounty warrant. Instead, I asked the residents near Nanzhili to report to the government as soon as they saw this man called Yuqiu Hongye, who was very urgent to find him.
"What's the situation?" Not only Yu Qiuping, but several guards around him were also taken aback.
"Do you need to be so active to arrest smugglers?" Yu Qiuping's heart instantly had 10,000 grass and mud horses rushing by, "Did the Ming Dynasty attach so much importance to customs?" Fake it. Not long after I smuggled in, you put up a notice to arrest me? โ
"Wait..."Yu Qiuping suddenly realized that things were a little delicate, he looked at it again, and finally found what he thought was strange.
Ever since he came to Mingguo, he had been dressed as an ordinary businessman. Even if the government wants to arrest him, it should draw the outfit of an ordinary businessman, why do you paint him wearing a feather weave and a momiji shawl? This is obviously his outfit in Japan, how can the Ming Dynasty government know? Could it be that a Japanese came here and leaked Yu Qiuping's whereabouts to the Ming Dynasty government?
But according to the mood of the Ming Dynasty government, how could it be possible to help a small country that it regarded as a barbarian state to arrest people within its own borders? Even if the emperor personally came to ask for help, the Ming Dynasty government might not be willing to help.
However, Yu Qiuping didn't have time to think about it, he just wanted to leave the place of right and wrong quickly. No matter why, anyway, the Ming Dynasty government is going to start arresting him, and it is the best policy to slip away quickly. However, he passed through several towns and bazaars along the way, only to find that they were all plastered with portraits of Yu Qiuping. Some people even began to point at Yu Qiuping, as if they had found something, which made Yu Qiuping even more frightened, urging everyone to speed up their pace.
However, before they could go far, they heard the sound of horses' hooves. Hundreds of black-clothed men on horseback outflanked them from several directions at a gallop, with a clear goal - to go straight to Yuqiuping. Seeing this, Honda Tadakatsu and Mori Kolong had to draw their knives in their hands, but how could these small ribs stop a hundred or so black knights.
Yu Qiuping raised his hands and motioned for them to put away their ribs and not make a gesture of resistance. The more than 100 people immediately surrounded Yu Qiuping, and the leader took out a portrait of Yu Qiuping that he had seen countless times just now from his arms and compared it to Yu Qiuping.
"Rainy autumn and red leaves, huh?" The man asked in a low voice in a standard Beijing accent.
After hearing that it was the Beijing dialect, Yu Qiuping was really stunned for a moment - is it actually a person from the capital? Why are you going to do so much?
"Don't worry, it's not a bad thing." The man shook his head after seeing Yu Qiuping's reaction, and he turned over and dismounted, walking towards Yu Qiuping. Seeing this, Honda Tadakatsu took a step aside, blocked between that person and Yu Qiuping, and scolded in a low voice: "Stop! โ
When that person heard Honda Tadakatsu's Japanese, he was also stunned for a moment, looked at his subordinates in surprise, and said in a low voice, "Is it actually a Japanese coward?" Is there a mistake in someone? When they know the news, let's kill them all. โ
"No, I'm Han." Seeing that the situation was developing in an unpredictable direction, Yu Qiuping hurriedly interrupted in a low voice in Chinese, "A few of them are my guards, not Japanese robbers. โ
"So you're a rainy autumn foliage?" The man asked in a low voice again.
"It's not." Yu Qiuping subconsciously denied, "The rain and autumn red leaves you are talking about, is it the person on the notice in the market before?" Could it be some kind of Jiangyang thief? โ
"No, it's not a bad thing." The man smiled playfully, "I don't care if you say it or not, I'd rather catch 10,000 by mistake than let one go." Come with us first. โ
"Where are you going?"
"Kyoshi."
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Five days ago in the morning.
"It's just nonsense." After listening to her child's request, a graceful and luxurious woman reprimanded in a deep voice with great annoyance, "If you don't study how to govern the country well, you are thinking about something every day!" Are you worthy of the Emperor like this? โ
"The queen mother forgives her sins, but the child never said half a lie just now." The young man was so scolded that he couldn't raise his head, but he still whispered unrelentingly, "I ask the queen mother to answer." โ
"Do you want to send Jinyi Wei to Yingtianfu to find an ethereal person for one of your dreams?" After hearing this, the woman shook her head again and again, and said in a serious and low voice, "Wu'er, you are no longer the prince who is at ease, you are now the Emperor of the Ninth Five, you are the emperor, you can no longer act according to your own likes and dislikes like this." โ
"But..."The young man still spoke a little unwillingly, and after hesitating for a moment, he whispered under his mother's dissatisfied gaze, "That same dream, the child has been doing it for so many years, and the child has finally remembered the content of the dream now, it will definitely not be wrong, that person will be in Yingtianfu in the next few days!" โ
"While you are talking about how important the person in the dream is, and at the same time you refuse to tell the mourning family about its important reason, are you going to be angry with the mourning family?" The woman shook her head a little annoyed, "Don't make a fuss. โ
"I really can't tell my mother... In a dream, the child swore an oath to the gods and Buddhas. The boy shook his head very resolutely, "But please believe that the queen mother, that person is really, very, very important!" โ
"Shut up, Master Zhang has been waiting for you for a long time, follow Master Zhang to deal with official business." The woman shook her head and motioned for the minister, who had been waiting for a long time, to come and lead the boy away. The young man was very resistant and unwilling to leave, but under the forced gaze of the minister's majestic gaze, he could only do it obediently in the end.
That night, the young man who returned to the dormitory sighed at the candlelight, and a middle-aged man in eunuch clothes next to him suddenly whispered: "Your Majesty, are you still worried about dreams?" โ
"Otomo, what do you think should be done about this?" The young man shook his head again and again when he heard this, and even his eyes were a little red with grievances, "Only I know that this matter is not trivial, but this matter is related to the gods and Buddhas of the Heavenly Court, and it must not be revealed, otherwise there will be five thunderstorms in the sky." But if I don't say it, how can the queen mother and the teacher agree? โ
"Although the Queen Mother and the bachelor don't believe it, the slave believes it." When the eunuch heard this, he knelt down in front of the young man and said very sincerely, "If you can share your Majesty's worries, you will not hesitate to go to the soup and go to the fire." โ
"Otomo?" The young man was stunned for a moment, and then chuckled helplessly, "After all, it's just a dream." Such a strange and chaotic thing, I myself sometimes doubt, why is Otomo convinced? โ
"Because Your Majesty is the true dragon son of heaven, he has the destiny of heaven. Since it is a dream of the gods, it must involve heavenly opportunities. The eunuch solemnly said word by word, and at the same time bowed deeply, "The will of the gods, how can the slave not believe it?" โ
"Otomo, is there anything you can do?" When the young man heard this, he instantly came to his senses, stood up at once, and walked quickly to the eunuch's side.
"Although Jinyiwei can't move, the minions of Dongchang are willing to serve His Majesty."