In the afternoon of the same day, in the barracks, several officers finished their day's training tasks and were gathering together to start today's summing up meeting. After the meeting was finished talking, Yoshioka Katsumasa couldn't wait to laugh at several of his colleagues.

"Hey, hey! You guys are really miserable! Yoshioka Katsumasa slapped the table with a smile, as if it was difficult to hide his gloating, "Four big men went to attack a girl, and they were killed on the spot by a little girl who is our dragon." If you tell this story in the future, where will your face go? ”

"So you should shut up! Don't talk about it! Mimasaki Nakahide said with a dark face: "Who knew that this little girl of Longzi actually followed the guards!" Who knows! Besides, we are also kind, all for the faithful brothers! While he was busy explaining to his laughing colleagues, he found Ogawa Yuto sitting in the corner drinking.

"Dead drunkard, what to drink!" Mimasaki Nakahide shouted dissatisfiedly: "You also have a part in this matter, come and help explain!" Do you think that if you are drunk, people will not remember it? With that, he reached out and snatched the bottle from Ogawa Yuto's hand.

"Don't move!" Ogawa Yuto pushed away Nakahide Omaezaki, carefully protected the wine bottle behind him, and said indignantly and loudly: "It's all your bad idea!" I've been fined for half a year! I can't drink for half a year, you pay for it! ”

"Okay, okay, everyone stop arguing." Fukushima Yasunari smiled bitterly and pulled away from the two who were pushing each other, "It's all your fault in this matter, did you go to accompany Mrs. Jing Yi?" ”

"Who's going to bother with that!" Keiji Maeda was the first fire avenue: "Hang our faithful brothers, do you really think you are a princess?" Where are we going to swallow this breath! ”

"You're not right." Hearing this, the water atom refuted dissatisfiedly: "Mrs. Jing Yi doesn't owe anything to the Faithful brothers, and refusing the Faithful brothers is worthy of the Jingyi family!" It's a few of you, this thing is not authentic, and you have to apologize to be worthy of the reputation of our Yuqiu family. ”

"But we just can't swallow this!" Mimasaki Nakahide slapped his thigh and shouted dissatisfiedly: "What does that girl mean by throwing her face at Brother Faithfulness yesterday!" ”

"Don't bite a girl, Brother Faithfulness is still there." Kohata Jiesheng couldn't help but remind.

With this sentence, everyone's attention was immediately drawn to Anayama Nobuyomi, who was sitting alone in the corner of the table, as if he had not heard everyone's conversation at all.

"Okay, okay, don't take a bite and breathless," Fukushima Yasunari said with a smile, "That's it, I'll treat you today, let's go to the whale house and have a good rub, you guys will also dissipate your anger, and tomorrow go and apologize to Mrs. Jingyi!" ”

"Okay!" Mimasaki Nakahide was the first to cheer: "It's still interesting for us to become big brother!" Thank you big brother for your hospitality! ”

"It's okay, it's okay, just order it when you get there, you don't need to save me, please have a good meal for the brothers." Fukushima Yasunari just held the table, got up with everyone, and walked towards the outside of the tent. And Kanamatsu Masayoshi, a newcomer who came to the meeting as a temporary replacement for his sick general platoon commander, is also among them.

"Huh? Won't Mr. Charlie go along? Kanematsu Masayoshi was about to walk to the door of the barracks, but found that Charlie was still sitting on the stool, and he didn't mean to get up, so he asked in surprise.

"New here, I don't understand." Kitabatake Keike smiled and patted Kanamatsu Masakashi on the shoulder and said, "The foreigner brother has been like that since seven or eight years ago, and he doesn't participate in all group activities that have nothing to do with training." Don't believe you, go invite it and give it a try? ”

"Is that so?" Kanamatsu Masayoshi nodded suspiciously, but he still couldn't hold back his usual curiosity, and beckoned to Charlie: "Mr. Charlie, don't you go to the whale house for dinner together?" ”

"I'd love to go, but I'll have something to do later." Charlie glanced at him and calmly refused, "I'm very sorry." ”

"What can Mr. Charlie do?" Kanematsu Masakachi lowered his voice and asked the Kitabatake's family on the side, "Don't even come to the party?" ”

"What else could be done?" Kitabatake Keijia smiled softly and asked, "Except for even the arrows, the foreigner brother is not interested in anything." I even think that he only eats and sleeps to practice arrows with strength. ”

"That's right." Kanamatsu Masayoshi nodded, looked inside the room, and then spoke: "Then the Cave Mountain-sama is also going to practice horseback riding, so he hasn't come to the dinner party?" ”

"What?" Kitabatake Keike was stunned for a moment, looked back, and this time saw that Anayama Nominee was actually sitting in his seat.

"Don't get me wrong, kid," Kitabatake Keike patted Kanamatsu Masakatsu on the shoulder again and reminded, "Faithfulness is not a hard-working person like a foreigner. He is a pervert, he can't wait to soak in the whale house all day long, how can he not go to a party to the whale house? ”

"Faithful!" Kitabatake's Keijia shouted a few times in a row, but Anayama Nobushi still didn't look up. So, he simply walked to the side of Cave Mountain Faithfulness and shouted into his ear: "Faithfulness! ”

"Huh? Uh-huh! Anayama Nominee looked up sharply as if he had just woken up from a dream, looked at the empty table except for Charlie in a bit of a daze, and then looked at Kitabatake: "What's wrong?" Is the meeting adjourned? ”

"Faithful, deserted again?" Standing at the door, Mimasaki Nakahide said loudly: "It's long over, let's go to the whale house for dinner!" I'm waiting for you, hurry up, don't let the girl in the whale house wait! His words immediately caused a laugh from his colleagues around him.

However, everyone expected that the Zhongxue Mountain Faithful Monkey rushed over, but the first scene of rushing to the whale house did not happen. The latter grinned, shook his head a little embarrassed, and said, "Forget it, you guys go, I have something to do today." ”

"What?" Keiji Maeda only felt that his eyeballs were about to fall: "Brother Faithfulness, we're talking about going to the whale house!" Did you hear clearly? What's more important than going to the whale house? ”

"No, there's really something going on today, let's do it another day." Akayama waved his hand in embarrassment, and then got up and ran out of the barracks.

"What's going on? Faithful's pervert didn't go to the whale house? Keiji Maeda frowned, and the lines of the Admirer drawn on his face were crooked. He poked his head out, looked beyond the horizon, and muttered to himself, "The sun is setting in the west." ”

·

The days passed like this, and in a blink of an eye, at the end of the eighth year of Yonglu (1565), everything in the Yuqiu family was also going on in order.

On December 3, Sanada Masayuki came to the office set up by Yuakihei on the third floor of the castle tower with a large pile of information.

"What's wrong, Kibei?" Yu Qiuping had just finished chatting with Shigeharu Takenaka and Keitori Amano about Yu Qiuyu and Yu Qiuyou should start practicing martial arts next year, and was sitting on a chair drinking a cup of hot tea.

"Your Highness, this is some information from Siminon." Sanada Masayuki placed the large pile of paper on Akihei's desk, "Since our caravan and the Tsushima merchants began to trade with Nishimino on a large scale, it has become easier for Hosaku and the ninja to infiltrate. Almost every major town has now been planted in the castle town. ”

"You and Qinggang have wasted a lot of effort in the past few years," Yu Qiuping glanced at the thick pile of information, "almost out of thin air to build our Yuqiu family's intelligence network in Ximeinong, it's really hard." ”

"With so much paper, aren't you going to put hundreds of fine pieces in Siminon?" Yu Qiuping bent down and looked sideways at the thick pile of papers.

"That's not true, it should be divided into three here, these three parts are about the same, but there is a surprise." Sanada Masayuki then stepped forward and divided the information into three parts on the table, "This is for His Highness and our high-ranking officials." Sanada Masayuki shook the copy in his hand, and then pointed to the two piles in his hand, "This one is for the merchants of Oda Hall and Tsushima." The rest is for our Yuqiu family's ordinary officers to understand. ”

"Oh?" Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why is this?" Is there any difference between these three? ”

"That's right." Sanada Masayuki nodded and said, "The reason why we have to prepare an incomplete piece of information for our ordinary officers is because the Nishimino side also took advantage of the time of trade to bribe some people in our caravan, or sent us a fine work. We intend to leak false information to them. Therefore, we did not specify who these details were, and told us about the vast number of officers and ashigaru to prevent leakage. Only our senior officials have access to this information. ”

"Well done!" Yu Qiuping raised his eyebrows and praised excitedly, "Xibei, you really have you!" The evaluation of you back then was really suitable for you! ”

After saying that, Yu Qiuping raised his eyes and glanced at Sanada Masayuki, but suddenly smiled.

"Your Highness? What's wrong? Sanada Masayuki was stunned for a moment and asked puzzled.

"Not much, just a little emotional." Yu Qiuping smiled and snorted, "Since we first met, seven years have passed." Back then, you were a young boy, but now you have grown into a man who stands up to the sky. ”

"Ha, Your Highness still remembers that." Sanada Masayuki smiled, "The first time we met, it was in Imanomiya in Suruga. ”

"Yes, it's in Imanomiya." Yu Qiuping tapped his fingers rhythmically on the table while recalling the past, "At that time, you were really amazing. I and so many people in the palace and the Hojo family have all been tricked by your deception. At that time, I was scared enough by you, I didn't know that sentence was true, that sentence was false, how dare I believe you, hahaha..."

"And now?" Sanada Masayuki suddenly asked coldly.