On a dark and windy night, in a hidden hut in Maple Mountain Castle.

"It's coming, it's coming." A small child at the door whispered.

"Is there anyone coming with you?" An older teenager sitting in the room whispered a little warily when he heard this.

"No, just the two of them." The child at the door looked at the wind a few more times and whispered very firmly.

"Okay." The older boy smiled and nodded, "It's good that no one is coming." ”

"If you do these things, you will be scolded if you are caught." On the side, a young man who was not very old, but who had already landed with some heroic spirit, whispered, and at the same time looked at the food in his bowl with some uneasiness.

"Don't worry, I'm here, I'll be fine!" Another casually dressed teenager sat at the table, casually tapping the cauldron with chopsticks, "I'm so lucky, I've never been caught doing bad things!" ”

"It's coming, it's coming!" At this time, the child at the door screamed excitedly again. He opened the door with a "swoop", startling the two little girls who were about to knock on the door. When you look closely, it is Yuqiu Cen and Chacha.

"Matsuchiyo, why are you here?" Yu Qiucen saw that Asahina Matsuchiyo actually ran out secretly, "Aren't you supposed to be on duty at my father's place?" ”

"I'll let Ranmaru help me with it! Hey! Asahina Matsuchiyo rubbed her hands excitedly, "Brother You'er said that there is a hot pot to eat, how can this not come!" I've never eaten it before! I've heard from you that it's delicious! ”

"Second brother, how did you do it, take the bad children?" Yu Qiucen sniffed his nose, smelled the fragrance in the house, and immediately judged what was boiling in the pot, and glared at Yu Qiuyou with some dissatisfaction, "It's beef and pork, you violated the meat ban like this, and let my mother know that I will scold you!" ”

"My father said it, and my mother's set is a fallacy and heresy."

"Mother said, Dad's set is a fallacy! These are unclean things! ”

"My father said that eating beef and pork can strengthen your body!"

"Oops! It doesn't make sense! You're all like this! Yu Qiucen snorted, no longer paying attention to Yu Qiuyou, but went directly to Naoe Dengping, who was sitting at the table, and glanced at his bowl - several large slices of beef, mutton, and pork meatballs.

"Ping-kun! How do you eat these again! Ah, I've said you so many times! ”

"What's the matter, haven't you eaten Yucen several times! I'm embarrassed to say about us! Naoe Dengping laughed evilly, put another piece of mutton into his mouth, and made a very enjoyable chew towards Yu Qiucen, "How delicious!" ”

"I'll eat a little bit at a time..."Yu Qiu Cen just wanted to explain, but Naoe Dengping suddenly got up, held a small piece of beef with chopsticks, and brought it to Yu Qiu Cen's mouth, and at the same time whispered very gently: "Ah-"

Naoe Dengping's actions made the words on Yu Qiucen's lips come to an abrupt end, and two blushes rose on her pretty face. She pouted and hesitated for a moment, then quickly took the beef off her chopsticks.

"Badass." Yu Qiucen said sweetly in his heart, but Naoe Dengping seemed to read her heart from her eyes, and said with a smile, "Don't you say I'm a bad guy?" ”

"It's not." Yuqiu Cen turned her head coquettishly, pretended to be angry and walked to the door, patted Chacha on the shoulder and said, "Cha Cha is a good boy!" Only fish, shrimp and vegetables are allowed, not those dirty things! ”

"Uh-huh." Cha Cha nodded again and again, but her eyes moved through the crowd - as if she was looking for someone. After a while, she regretfully found that Yu Qiuyan was not in the house, so she lowered her head a little unhappily by nodding her head.

"Come in, come in, hurry up and eat, I'll cook it later." Yu Qiuyou keenly noticed Cha Cha's expression, and greeted with some sourness. A few juniors sat around the steaming cauldron, excitedly watching the food rise and fall as the bottom of the pot boiled.

"Tiger Song, are you going to go on another expedition recently?" Yu Qiucen was eating, and suddenly remembered Yu Qiuping, who had been busy in the past few days, and asked with some doubts.

"Yes." After hesitating for a while, Naomasa Ii still felt that there was no need to conceal this information - the whole army knew about it, so it was nothing to tell everyone, "When the autumn harvest is halfway through, we will go out to attack Kii." ”

"Kii? Is it to fight the people of the country who support the Honganji family? Yu Qiuyou immediately took over the conversation and asked in very professional terms, as if he wanted to show himself in front of Cha Cha, and turned his head to glance at Cha Cha.

"Your Highness didn't say it, but I think it should be." Naomasa Ii frowned again, and then gave an ambiguous answer.

"Those people are very bad, and the good Kii will not wait, so they have to go to Shishan City to be our enemy." Yu Qiuyou put down his chopsticks and began to explain his views on the overall situation to everyone, "Before, they relied on Shishan City and caused us a lot of trouble. When they arrived in Kii this time, they didn't have that kind of good luck. ”

"Kii also has many fortified castles built on the mountains, and their iron cannons will still cause us a lot of trouble." Naomasa Ii shook his head - Shigeharu Takenaka has been organizing the army to conduct exercises lately, and the content of the exercises is how to attack the mountain castle with a large number of iron cannons.

"That's why I said, I should have gone straight south at that time! Taking advantage of the fact that the Zaga people and the Genlai people were still in Shishan City, they didn't go back, so they directly served Ji Yi in a pot! Let them become rootless and can't set off any waves. When Yu Qiuyou said this, he shook his head very depressedly, "I've told my father many times, but he just doesn't listen to me!" I also conducted a war game deduction with him on this issue, and I won many times, but my father just couldn't listen! ”

"We didn't know much about Kii before, we didn't survey the local terrain, and the staff didn't specify a plan for a large-scale invasion of Kii." Naomasa Ii shook his head again and objected, "If you act blindly, you may encounter unexpected risks. ”

"You've all been taught by your father not to fight." Yu Qiuyou was refuted twice in a row by Naomasa Ii, and his face was a little unbearable, and he couldn't help but raise his voice, "Father has always only been defensive. I don't know anything about attacks, raids, or raids. Obviously, it's okay to deduce war chess, but my father still looks ahead and backwards. ”

"Brother You'er, fighting a war is not the same as playing chess. If you want to talk about playing war chess, I guess even Takeda Shingen can't play me, but this war..."Naoe Noboru smiled and gestured a few times in the air with chopsticks, "Give me 10,000 guts and don't dare to fight against Takeda Shingen." ”

"Actually, I think that His Highness didn't send troops to Kii immediately, and there are other considerations." After a pause, Naoe Noboru spoke again, "Our artillery crew has been on standby at Kishiwada Port a few days ago, and it was not until many new coastal guns were built and sent to the fort that we were transferred back. Your Highness must have been worried that the Miyoshi family and the Mori family's navy would attack Kishiwada Port and destroy our shipyard, so he didn't dare to act rashly. ”

"Yes." Ii Naomasa nodded approvingly, "So His Highness dragged on until the autumn harvest, and after the Awaji Navy and the Maori Navy had to retreat, they would go south to attack Kii." ”

"Alright, alright, I see." Yu Qiuyou saw that Naoe Nobohei and Ii Naomasa seemed to disagree with his opinion, and couldn't help but stop the topic with some embarrassment, "I hope that when you talk to my eldest brother, you will also contradict him like this." ”

"I want to fight against Brother Yan'er, but Brother Yan'er won't give me a chance." Naoe Dengping laughed, and was pinched by Yu Qiucen beside him, and the pain was not light. "It's just that every time I discuss these overall situations with Brother Yan'er, he is not interested at all, and he spends his days practicing swords and martial arts."

"Alas, the eldest brother is really, I don't listen to what I say no matter how many times." Yu Qiuyou shook his head when he heard this, with an expression of hatred that iron is not made of steel, "He will not be a pawn who charges into battle in the future, he is going to inherit his father's position and command thousands of troops." Where can you only practice those sword kung fu, you must learn the art of war and play war chess. ”

"The young master is learning the art of war, but he just doesn't like to play chess." Hearing that Yu Qiuyou seemed to be a little dissatisfied with Yu Qiuyi, Jing Yi Naomasa immediately retorted, and seemed to have a lot of respect for Yuqiu Yan, "The young master spends a long time studying the military book every day. ”

"Big brother, I have memorized those military books he reads a long time ago, what's the use of just reading those books?" Yu Qiuyou talked about his proud memory, and couldn't help but dance with his eyebrows, "I've already memorized it all in my head!" ”

"Yes, yes, Brother You'er is amazing." Naoe Nobohei grinned and added a ball to Yu Qiuyu's bowl. However, Yu Qiucen, who knew him, could hear that Naoe Dengping's words were obviously insincere. She knew that Naoe Dengping had always admired Yu Qiu the most.

"No, I don't think so." However, Ii Naomasa did not have the easy-going temperament of Naoe Nobori, but objected without humility or arrogance, "Second son, and Chengyuan Maru, I think what the young master did is what the heir of the Yuqiu family should do." My mother and the late Anayama-sama always told me that famous generals came out of pools of blood after one battle after another. It is impossible to become a famous general without being on the battlefield just by relying on military books and war chess. The young master knew that his experience and experience were not enough to command the troops, so practicing martial arts diligently was actually fulfilling his duty as a soldier. ”

"Not to mention anything else, the prestige and popularity of the young master in Tokiwa are probably second only to Lord Fukushima." Ii Naomasa paused and praised sincerely, "During the time I joined the army, every time I heard the seniors of Tokiwa Bei mention the performance of the young master in Mikachi, they are full of praise. They all said that the young master took the lead, was not afraid of life and death, and was able to stand up and boost morale at a critical moment, which was something that His Highness could only do back then..."

"Well, what about eating, what are you talking about?" Before Ii Naomasa could finish speaking, Naoe Noboru suddenly opened his mouth and forked, while quietly glancing at Yu Qiuyou's expression, he also gave Ii Naomasa a pill, "Tell me quickly, what did you do in that exercise a few days ago!" I'm all in Kishiwada Port, and I don't know anything. ”

"Just teach us some tricks." Although Naomasa Ii was interrupted, he was not very angry, "If you are suddenly attacked by iron cannons during the attack on the mountain castle, how can you find cover or lie down on the spot?" ”

"Speaking of which, where did those Zaga people, the Nelai people, and Honganji get so many iron cannons?" Hearing what Naomasa Ii said, Naoe Noborihiro asked casually, "They can't make a few by themselves, so they must have bought them." ”

"Hmph." Yu Qiuyou was happy when he heard this, suddenly put down the dishes and chopsticks, smiled mysteriously at everyone, and said in a low voice, "Do you want to know the answer?" ”

After attracting the attention of everyone present, especially Chacha, Yu Qiuyou stopped playing tricks with satisfaction and said softly: "It was sold by Sakai Town." ”