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Yesterday, a book friend asked me, saying that he went to Du Niang, and after checking it, Izumo Akuni was born in 1572, and the description in this book is wrong.

Actually, there are not many historical accounts about the life of Izumo Akuni, and there are more than ten theories about her birthday from 1529~1572!

A few years ago, there were some brick houses in Japan called beasts: Izumo Aguo is not a person, and Izumo Taisha has several generations of more outstanding witches who are called "Akoku", so there may be several people in history.

This is not surprising, historically, many titles have been passed down from generation to generation by families or organizations with this as the core. For example, Yanagi Jiayan, Yanagi Zongyan, Yanagi Zongju, and Yanagi Sanyan are all known as Yanagi Shibei, but only the last one is the more familiar one-eyed swordsman.

"Meet the Lord (the main hall)!" Our family of three (no fifteen lang had anything to do, so he didn't use it) saluted Oda Nobunaga in the main castle tower of Nijo Castle.

The entire main castle tower is made of more than 400 tatami mats, which can be said to be very large, but except for our family, there are not many people, except for a few small surnames such as eleven-year-old Moriranmaru, and the Konoe samurai are all retired by Oda Nobunaga.

By the way, there is another person who is also at the scene, she is Princess Xiang's mother, Mrs. Nonghime. She is not only Oda Nobunaga's house, but today's event is also related to the lifelong event of her only daughter, so she can't be there if she is not present.

The Lantern Festival has finally arrived, and the Japanese do not eat rice balls after the Lantern Festival, but the red bean porridge they eat is said to have also been passed from China.

Oda Nobunaga is a person who knows how to combine work and rest, with the strength of his legions growing, many things no longer need him to do it personally, so his whole life is becoming more and more regular, he prefers to settle all government affairs in the morning, while the afternoon can better "enjoy life", which reminds us of the Ashikaga clan in the past, when the Southern Dynasty was not yet surrendered, he was in a hurry to enjoy luxury, and the result was ......

So he arranged an audience for our family in the afternoon.

"Okay, let's be free of courtesy, today is the Lantern Festival, let's just talk about family affairs......" Oda Nobunaga's interest was quite high, and he showed a teasing smile at his father, "But then again, Shibei, you must have received a lot of New Year's gifts in the past ten days, monkey, Yonegoro and their sum are not as many as yours, haha......"

The lord smiled. My father's face was very embarrassed, although it was very common to give gifts for the New Year, but when Oda Nobunaga said this, he felt guilty that he was 'taking bribes'.

After saying that, Oda Nobunaga turned his head at me again: "Your Highness Akechi Nobumitsu, we meet again." ”

"Yes...... Oh, yes...... It's nice to meet you, congratulations...... I wish you invincible and calm the world as soon as possible! "I didn't know what I said anymore because of his sudden blow, and I almost said something like "Wishing you prosperity, bring the red envelope".

The embarrassment in my words was heard by him, "Invincible, calm the world? Let's make up the words first, it seems that your adaptability is not high, haha......"

Oda Nobunaga was there smiling to himself, regardless of the embarrassment of the two of us.

"Okay, Kogoro, relax, don't be too nervous," just as my face flushed, a soft and sweet voice picked me up, it was Mrs. Nohime.

Mrs. Nohime was over forty years old, but her face was still beautiful, and she looked like a young woman in her twenties, and even I couldn't help but look at her twice.

The reason why she called me "Kogoro" instead of "His Highness XX" when she first met me was because in terms of kinship, she was also my father's cousin, my cousin.

With this relationship, today's "blind date" is nine out of ten, after all, for a mother, her nephew is always the most reliable.

Lady Nonghime smiled and said; "After all, I'm still your aunt, so you don't need to be so nervous and scared today."

"That's right!" Oda Nobunaga also said loudly: "As a general of my family and my son-in-law, I can't be cowardly and incompetent!" Didn't you behave very well when you killed the rebels in Echizen, even though you showed the courage to face me at that time! ”

Showing the courage to kill you? Do you want me to slaughter you? I complained in my heart.

After listening to their words, I straightened up and said loudly: "The little incompetence made the hall and the lady laugh." ”

I have a big voice, a loud tone, and a very bold look.

"That's right!" Oda Nobunaga was satisfied, "As a samurai, how is your art of war practice?" ”

As a reminder, in Japan, the "art of war" does not refer to theories such as military strategy, but to "martial arts". And the real art of war in China is called "military science" and "martial arts" in Japan.

"Although the little one has also practiced for several years, it is a pity that his talent is dull, so he has not made any big progress, and it can only be said that it is so-so."

"Is it ~" Oda Nobunaga's voice dragged on for a long time, obviously not believing.

"Reach out!"

"Yes." I honestly put my left hand in front of him.

Oda Nobunaga didn't speak, but suddenly quickly took my hand with his hand.

Do you want to shake my hand? No, he's testing my strength.

My face changed, and the sound of fine bones at the junction of my hands came out, and I asked myself that I also have a bit of martial arts, and if I tested my strength, it should be more than enough to deal with Oda Nobunaga, but I didn't expect Oda Nobunaga to be in his forties, and he could still have so much strength, and my hand was a little painful!

No, I have to do my best, under the contraction of my five fingers, the cold hair on my whole arm stands on end, the blood vessels under the skin are bent like earthworms, the muscles are immediately tense, and my shoulders shake and grit my teeth and exert all my strength.

As soon as I was so serious, Oda Nobunaga's originally relaxed expression suddenly became difficult to look at. He gritted his teeth and increased the strength in his hands.

Both of us used all our strength, and for a while, we were evenly matched, and neither could overpower the other, and neither could go further.

For a long time, I felt that the hand I was holding suddenly lost its strength, and I quickly withdrew my strength.

As a result, the two red hands suddenly parted.

Oda Nobunaga shook his hand and said, "Very good, with a little strength, I'm afraid your art of war is no worse than your father." ”

"Xie Dadian praised, the small one has a deep cultivation of the art of war, and he doesn't dare to stand side by side with his father."

"You can have this kind of courage at a young age...... I heard that your bow skills are good, can you take away a bow of ten stones (two hundred catties)? ”

"Barely possible! Do you need ......?"

"No need!" Oda Nobunaga interrupted me, "Your art of war is not bad, I'm more satisfied." I just don't know how your cultivation is, can you sing and sing? ”

"My father has taught me, but I haven't been able to learn a little one......" I said with a red face.

"What about the tea ceremony?"

"A little, but miserable?" My face turned redder.

"That's not going to work!" Oda Nobunaga was a little dissatisfied, "Now the form is different, in addition to going into battle to kill the enemy, samurai also need to communicate a lot with cultural people such as ministers and monks, and if you don't learn something, it will be difficult to get along with them in the future...... But your father is very educated, and you must have learned something from him. ”

"The little one barely knows how to play Go, and Keju knows a little, and there are ...... And also...... That's right! A flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, "The main hall, the little one knows a little calligraphy!" ”

"Calligraphy?" Oda Nobunaga was a little surprised, "Is it written in a kana?" ”

"No, it's kanji! The small ones can write articles in full kanji! ”

"Really?!" In this era, although there are many people who know calligraphy, and there are many kanji in Japanese, even the masters who know the most about Sinology do not dare to say that they can write articles in kanji.

"Kogoro, don't talk big! The main hall will be angry! My mother reprimanded me that she still knew a little bit about my "level of learning."

"Can you really?" Oda Nobunaga said with a skeptical expression; "I hate people who only talk big."

If I can't even write Chinese characters, then I'm really sorry that I have been a Chinese for more than 20 years in my previous life.

I buried my head: "The little ones don't dare to talk about it, please teach the main hall." ”

"Good! That's what you said! Oda Nobunaga said to Mori Ranmaru on the side;" Go get the pen and ink! ”……

"Boy, I don't expect you to write too much, it's such a waste of time!" Oda Nobunaga looked at me with blazing eyes and said, "Just write a few sentences, what to write...... By the way, you can write Liu Mengdegong (Liu Yuxi)'s "Burrow", that article is just right. ”

"The little one is ugly!" I dipped my brush in some ink and was about to pick up the pen and write on the white paper.

"By the way, there's one more point," Oda Nobunaga smiled sharply, "Since you just said that you can write, then write this character for me, if you can't write well, hum ......"

"Yes, yes!" I shuddered, a drop of ink fell onto the snow-white paper, and I hurriedly began to write.

Seeing that I was in a hurry, my father and mother couldn't help but cover their faces with their hands, and in their opinion, my performance was shameful enough.

"The mountain is not high, the name is immortal, the water is not deep, and the dragon is spiritual...... I slowly settled down and fixed the Chinese characters on the paper with the brush in my hand.

I studied calligraphy in my previous life, and I won an award for calligraphy in junior high school, but after I came here, I haven't written for a while, but in addition to the basic skills, the most important thing about calligraphy is the "feel".

At the beginning, because I had almost forgotten the short essay "The Burrow", I wrote it stumblingly, and I even had to rely on Mrs. Nonghime's kind reminder to write it downward, but later, as I felt better and better, I wrote more and more fluently.

I didn't notice that while I was writing, the mouths of the people around me were opening wider and wider, especially my father, although he also taught me calligraphy, but he didn't teach much Chinese characters, and many of the Chinese characters I wrote didn't even know him!

"It's written." After writing the last word, I put down my pen and handed the paper to Oda Nobunaga.

"Very good, very good." Oda Shin praised as he watched. My handwriting is really good, although it can't be compared with those ministers and monks of this era, but it is still beautiful.

Oda Nobunaga didn't know much about kanji, but he collected a lot of calligraphy from merchants from all over the country from the Ming Kingdom and Korea, and one of the calligraphy books was written "Burrow Ming", which he liked very much and copied several times, otherwise, he might not be able to understand the full text.

"It's good to write, it's good to be able to write calligraphy, and you won't be embarrassed in front of those 'nobles' in the future, right!" He patted his head, as if he had just remembered something, "I originally arranged for you to meet Ah Xiang today, why did you delay it for so long...... Ranmaru, go and invite Princess Xiang over! ”