[Haha, what a sage, what a countryman? …… I am a country man, wise man, you are a contemporary celebrity, what am I! 】

[Hehe, even if you are a rural villager, you are also a hermit like Zhuge Wuhou, seeing the dragon in the field, if you don't fly, you will soar into the sky! 】

It's not a boast, Wise Kogoro can really feel that the middle-aged man in front of him is by no means an ordinary general. No matter how much you persuade yourself, this person is not willing to go out, otherwise......

However, even so, Akechi Kogoro didn't feel too discouraged, his retainers were enough, and the demand for talents was not particularly strong, and Takenomiya Hataro would naturally be best if he was willing to join in, but even if he didn't come, there wouldn't be much of a loss.

Takenomiya Hataro smiled wryly and said:

[Wise lord, I thought you were a real person and could make friends, but you praised me like this, but it was not sincere enough. 】

[I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. 】

Wise Kogoro smiled and toasted him with a glass of wine, and said with a smile:

[I really didn't expect that Mr. Takenomiya, you are not only strategic, medically skilled, but also a sincere person, count me wrong, punish yourself! ] 】

That is, a mysterious but absolutely unprovoked person like Takenomiya Hataro, who can make Wise Kogoro talk like this, if Maeda Keiji dared to kick his nose in front of him, he would have been slapped by him a big slap.

[Well, that's it, the higher you hold me up, the more I can't get off the stage, let's just communicate according to the usual means. If you don't treat me, a ronin, as a [pariah], I'm already content. 】

said. Takenomiya Hataro drank the wine.

Interacting with people is a science.

Most people like to listen to pleasant words and wear high hats. I don't like to listen to words that go against my ears.,So it's rare and great to be able to smell it.,Takenomiya Hataro obviously doesn't buy high hats.。

[Actually, if I help, it's not for nothing.] 】

Takenomiya Hataro said suddenly.

Wise Kogoro's heart moved, and he hurriedly said:

[Whether it is the previous time or this time, I have already owed too much favor to you, sir, if there is any need that I can do, please be sure to tell me. 】

[Huh.] Your Excellency, you misunderstood me again. 】

Takenomiya Hataro smiled bitterly, this wise Kogoro is a well-versed person and a smart person, he can guess the other half after only half of his words, it's really amazing, and the future is limitless!

This time, though, he didn't guess right.

"I didn't mean to ask you for help. 】

[Hmm?] 】

You didn't owe me any favors before. But I, who owe you a lot of favors, have never had a chance to pay it back, through these two times. It's finally over. 】

What do you say? Do you still owe me a favor? …… Have we seen this before? 】

When he asked this sentence, Wise Kogoro also took a special look at Yamazaki Maku, but found that the latter didn't understand what was going on.

[Sir.] Can you be clearer? I don't understand, we didn't know each other before. How could I ......]

[Haha, adults should know what [grass retribution] is. Sometimes, a noble person like an adult, maybe just an inconspicuous act made by accident, will change the fate of many people, maybe those are nothing to you, but to us ordinary people......]

As he said this, Takenomiya Hataro's voice choked up, and he suddenly held Akekogoro's hand tightly.

[Back then, under the hesitant city, if it weren't for the kindness and compassion of the adults, if they had brought life-saving food to the people in the city who were about to starve to death, I am afraid that our family would have ......]

He was so excited, but it startled the wise Kogoro.

This person was obviously very personable just now, why did he burst into tears in the blink of an eye?

Come to think of it again, he just mentioned [Hesitation Gasaki]...... Well, I have a little impression that two years ago, in the [Takeda Expedition], I and Tokugawa Ieyasu attacked from the Enoe of Kaido, and captured Suruga without bloodshed, and then fought all the way north from Suruga until the Takeda family's old nest hesitated...... It's all in the past, and although the process during this period is worth talking about, it doesn't seem to be anything special...... Hmm, no, I think it's a bit impressive.

When attacking the city, it was not the soldiers of the Takeda family who defended the city, but a group of people who had experienced a long period of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and then caught up with the previous year's Kai harvest and were so bad that they had to accept the miserable treatment of lack of food and clothing.

There were three or four thousand militia defending the city, but even this could not be faced, and the well-trained Akechi Tokugawa coalition army, which numbered more than 30,000, finally offered to sacrifice the castle as long as they were given enough food to eat.

It would be great to be able to take the castle without bloodshed, and Tokugawa Ieyasu was very happy to bring life-saving food from Suruga, and everyone was [grateful] and laid down their weapons, and a war ended in such a sad but heartwarming ending.

Thinking of this, in the mind of the wise Kogoro, a little girl with ragged clothes, thin face and yellow skin but a small face is quite delicate and cute, Ayano.

Her father was a samurai of the Takeda clan and died on the battlefield, but it seems that he did not die in the battle with the Oda family or the Tokugawa family, because the little girl did not have any hatred for me and Tokugawa Ieyasu, but was full of gratitude...... Wait a minute! That's not right!

Wise Kogoro shook his head.

No, I remember that the food was transported by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and after entering the city, the food was distributed, the people were pacified, and the law and order in the city was maintained, and Tokugawa Ieyasu was also doing the work, and I always held a kind of [Anyway, no matter what I do, Oda Nobunaga will not be able to seal this city to me, so I will not be positive] mentality, I didn't do anything, to make it clearer, I just handed over a soy sauce bottle and watched the excitement on the side.

If there's one thing I've done, it's to help the little girl named Ayano get a job helping out at the hot spring hotel, and nothing else...... Well, I can't remember what I did.

Could it be that the Takenomiya Hataro in front of him is a relative of Ayano...... It's not that coincidental, and the Ayano family doesn't seem to have any other relatives.

Hesitating? Or who?

Wise Kogoro didn't know what he had done, but some time ago, before he was injured, when he was chatting with Sakuma Morimasa, the latter inadvertently said that his reputation in Kai was not bad, and the people who hesitated to stumble regarded themselves as benefactors back then.

When Wise Kogoro first heard it, he didn't understand it very much, but then Sakuma Morimasa's explanation made him smile bitterly -- after the Oda family occupied Kai, Oda Nobunaga and Shibata Katsuya changed the concept of Kai people's hatred of the Oda family, so they made the Oda family [makeup] as the savior of the Kai people, the great benefactor, and the Oda family did not come to invade, but to save the Kai people from the tyranny of the Takeda family.

As a result, the wise Kogoro, who had appeared in the hesitation at the beginning, was used without his knowledge.

Anyway, those city-dwellers felt good about this young general, at least, the latter had not implemented any policies similar to [Sanguang] under the city.

It is precisely because of this that Tokugawa Ieyasu's efforts in the hesitation of the country have all become the generals of the Oda family, the credit of wise Kogoro.

That's what it is.

Every time I think of this, Wise Kogoro always feels a little strange -- he has not done anything, but he has become a great benefactor, and Tokugawa Ieyasu is busy and tired, and in the end, he still doesn't get anything.

As soon as he thought of this, Wise Kogoro immediately understood, dare to love this Takenomiya Hataro is not exactly a wise man, what others say, he thinks it is, people, it's all like this.

[Okay, okay, sir, please don't look like this, I just can't bear to see everyone starve to death, besides, I'm not a person who knows how to repay kindness, you are like this, but it makes me feel like I am out of sight. 】

Since others have to regard themselves as benefactors, then they should be [shameless] for a while.

Besides, how embarrassing it would be to tell Takenomiya Hataro that he was not his benefactor.

[Yes, yes, it's me who is too abrupt. 】

Takenomiya Hataro let go of Akechi Kogoro's hand, wiped his tears and said:

[However, the grace of dripping water, when the spring reciprocates, the kindness of adults, I will not be finished in my life, not too much, I will leave tomorrow, so, my lord, if there is anything else I can do, please tell me more. 】

[Well...... this]

Hearing that Takenomiya Hataro was leaving, Wise Kogoro was very reluctant, but soon, his eyes lit up and said:

[Sakuma-sama conveyed Shibata-sama's message that I could be invited to Kanto...... Haha, what a coincidence, since it's Mr.,I'm definitely going to go there.,If Mr. isn't too troublesome.,Please prepare food and drinks at home.,I'm ......]

[Adults want to come to Kanto? 】

When Takenomiya Hataro heard this, he also became excited.

[Then what are you going to hesitate about?!] My lord, my family moved to Covered Bridge City a few years ago, and if you want to come, you have to come to Covered Bridge City! 】

【Covered Bridge City? Okay, I'll definitely go. (To be continued.) )