A barbecue made the eight members of the Tsugawa family (Takizawa Lora's belly and the infant spring snow pills not counted) extremely happy.

Just when Soji Tsugawa was planning to take advantage of today's good opportunity to accompany his family, Tadashi Yajima appeared in front of Soji Tsugawa very inappropriately.

"My lord! Nozawa-sama has returned to Ueno Castle and is now asking to see the lord in the castle tower! As if feeling the dissatisfaction in Tsugawa Soji's eyes, Yajima Tadabei said very carefully.

The last time the Tsugawa family held an evaluation, Yajima Tadabei had asked the "old-timer" Takahashi Koke about some things, Yajima Tadashi knew very well that Tsugawa Soji would be angry in that situation, but sometimes the development of things did not allow Yajima Tadabei to call the shots.

Soji Tsugawa found out that he was really going to scold his mother, it was like this when Takahashi Xingjia was here, and now it's still like this with a different person! Are all young people in this era so upright?

"That's it! Xue Ji, you call a few maids to clean up this place, and then you can go back to rest, it's too cold, you can get a few more stoves! With a helpless look on his face, he cast an apologetic look at Yukihime and the others, and then Tsugawa Soji said angrily to Yajima Tadahei, "Let's go, go to the castle tower!" ”

"Hah!" Yajima Tadabei turned around and saluted Yukihime and the others, and then hurriedly followed in the footsteps of Tsugawa Soji towards the castle tower.

Looking at the back of Tsugawa Soji leaving with a reluctant face, Xue Ji, the housewife of the Tsugawa family who has always understood righteousness, is unprecedentedly a little surprised.

Seeing Xue Ji's unhappy face, Xiao Lan on the side hurriedly comforted and said, "Xue Ji, don't be unhappy, didn't His Highness only accompany you for a day yesterday." Originally, it would have been better to go to the castle town to see if there was any newly shipped Ming silk, but in the end you didn't go with me, I was really angry! As she spoke, Xiaolan, who had been comforting Yukihime not to be angry, suddenly began to be unhappy.

"It snowed so heavily yesterday, and I was still pregnant with His Highness's flesh and blood, of course I couldn't go out with Sister Xiaolan!" Lola Takizawa also spoke.

"Why don't you let Tsubaki accompany Xiaolan to go shopping?" At this time, Kikuhime, who was sitting on the side, smiled and said, "I heard that Yoshino-sama has recently made a lot of deals with merchants in the western country, and obtained a lot of silk and porcelain from them, and now there is a new merchant house in the castle town that specializes in selling Ming Kingdom artifacts, why don't you go and see it first?" ”

"If it's really good, let's go shopping together another day?"

Ju Ji's words made Xiaolan, Xueji and the others suddenly light up, and then Xiaolan, who is usually the most "idle", immediately said happily, "Okay, good!" Then Tsubakihime, you'll accompany me to the castle town to have a look.,By the way, Sister Kikuhime.,Tsuruhime will ask you to help take care of it! As she spoke, Xiaolan winked at Ju Ji mischievously.

Ju Ji shook her head helplessly, and then resigned herself to her fate: "Xiaolan, why are you always like this....... I can't tell now if you're Tsuruhime's mother or I'm it! ”

"Hee-hee! In the words of His Royal Highness Mingguo, they are all a family, and the fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders! ”

"Xiaolan, this sentence can't be used here!"

"Cut, I don't care!"

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Inside the castle tower of Ueno Castle, Nozawa and Kuro sat in a corner of the castle tower with nervous expressions, raising their heads from time to time to look outside the castle tower to see if Soji Tsugawa had come.

Nozawa and Kuro's mood at the moment is very complicated, originally this errand was very smooth, and the arrest of Nakano Yoshikiyo and others was unusually smooth. But something unexpected happened to Nozawa and Kuro.........

Just when Nozawa and Kuro were bored, with Yajima Tadahei's voice, "The lord has arrived!" Soji Tsugawa, a man with his own "BGM", slowly walked into the castle tower.

Tightening the bearskin jacket he was wearing, Tsugawa Soji sat on a cushion, and then pushed aside the various decrees, documents, and letters stacked on the desk in front of him, revealing half of his head.

"With Kuro, how was this trip? How's it going?" Soji Tsugawa asked.

Nozawa and Kuro lowered their heads and said in a deep voice, "My lord, fortunately, I am not dishonored, the retainers of my family who participated in this matter have been captured, and the enemy personnel have also been captured!" ”

"Tell me, who are the people involved in this?" Soji Tsugawa continued to ask.

"The retainers of this family are led by Kiyoyasu Kasai, the leader of the third squad of the Minezawa Castle garrison, Ichiro Kosaki, and the leader of the fourth squadron, Samurai Jiro Ando, and others. However, the families of Jiro Ando and Kasai Kiyoyasu did not rebel with Kasai Kiyoyasu, and they are now missing. ”

"As long as the mastermind catches it, these little miscellaneous fish can't make any waves." Soji Tsugawa said disapprehantly, "But the family is very curious, who is fighting the idea of this batch of muskets of the family?" ”

As soon as Soji Tsugawa finished speaking, Nozawa and Kuro said loudly, "Back to the lord, after investigation, these people who were captured are all samurai of the top family!" The person at the head is the head of the Nakano family, Nakano Yoshikiyo. ”

"Mogami House!" Tsugawa Soji couldn't help but let out an exclamation, to be honest, Tsugawa Soji had suspected Mitsunohe Harimasa and the Date family, and even half of his son-in-law, Nagao Keiho, but he had never suspected the Mogami family!

After all, in the eyes of Tsugawa Soji, the current Mogami family can't even take care of the rebellion of the split family, so how can they have any experience to do these things?

"It's the best home! Yuzawa Castle Lord Shimizu Naoqin and Nakano Yoshikiyo are old acquaintances, and Nakano Yoshikiyo's identity is also known thanks to Lord Shimizu. In addition, at that time, these people had chased and killed Shimazu-sama, the lord of Minezawa Castle, and one of them was killed by Hirata Hiroshi, the commissioner of the Ahin Mine. A handkerchief printed with two citations and two lines was also found on his body! ”

"In the Ou region, the only forces that are slightly stronger and use the Nichiji as a family crest are the Mogami family, the Takamizuji Shiba family, and the Osaki family. Combined with Nakano Yoshikiyo's identity, it is certain that Mogami planned this incident! Nozawa and Kuro added.

"Hmm." Soji Tsugawa nodded slowly, "I didn't expect the Mogami family to have thoughts about the family's musket that they shouldn't have." As a result, the relationship between the main family and the Mogami family had to be reorganized. ”

"What about the muskets that were stolen? Where do you put it now? "Soji Tsugawa has already planned to place these muskets in Ueno Castle, after all, this is undoubtedly the safest place for the Tsugawa family.

After hearing Tsugawa Soji's words, Nozawa and Kuro showed hesitation, then gritted their teeth and said, "Please forgive me for my incompetence, at that time, I thought that the matter of catching Nakano Yoshikiyo was over." However, when I arrived at Omori Castle, I found that the musket was long gone. ”

"And as early as November, the family had already lost a batch of muskets......... At the same time, the lead pellets and gunpowder that were hoarded in the Arase Pavilion were also found to be missing by Shimazu-sama later.........." After saying that, Nozawa and Kuro fell silent.

For a while, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became a little weird.........