The silent room was brightly lit, and Tokugawa Nobuyasu was alone, sitting in front of the chessboard of five sons, silently watching...

"Uhh Hosokawa Nobumoto stretched his waist and looked at Tottori Castle in the sun.

"Isn't there any news of the Maori family sending troops yet?" After moving his muscles for a moment, he turned his head and asked Honda Masanobu.

"Back to the lord, not yet." Honda Masanobu bowed his head and handed over a glass of warm water.

Now more than a month after the siege, the Maori family is said to be still arguing over whether to send troops to help. Among them, Yoshikawa Motoharu strongly demanded that troops be sent, while Kobayakawa Takakei firmly opposed it, and the two sides argued endlessly.

"Then keep around! This Yoshikawa family really has a set, it stands to reason that he should have run out of food a long time ago, he can still insist on it like this, what is eating on this mountain? "Hosokawa Nobumoto only caught some small shrimp like local wealthy families in this month, and the big fish Maori family refused to enter the net for a long time.

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"Mine! It's mine! "On Mt. Kumatsu in Tottori Castle, there are two ashigaru fighting for something, pulling each other.

"Go away! It's mine! Find it for yourself! As he spoke, one of them kicked the other and began to hurriedly nibble on what was in his hand, a handful of weeds that he didn't know what they weed.

"My... I found it..."The ashigaru on the ground looked aggrievedly at his companion who was gnawing on the weeds.

"Bastard! What are you doing! It's not about gathering everything you can eat! And then boil it together into porridge! You two are stealing food! Bastard! Bastard! Suddenly, a samurai ran over and angrily punched and kicked the two ashigaru, who were responsible for collecting edible food.

"Nope! I don't! Woooooo I didn't get it! Woooooo The person who couldn't eat the weeds and was beaten together was even more aggrieved, and his eyes were full of tears.

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"Lord, the edible wild vegetables on the mountain are almost gone, but there is not even a leaf in the wild vegetable porridge every day, so it is not possible to go on like this." Morishita Michiyu followed Yoshikawa and inspected the situation in the castle together.

"If you don't have wild vegetables, you can gnaw on the bark! Aren't there still so many trees! "The Yoshikawa family is now stubbornly guarding here, whether there are reinforcements or not, they are on the same line with the Hosokawa army.

"But... But... What if the bark is gone... Speaking of which, Morishita Daoyu didn't dare to think about it anymore, it was a hell of a nose.

"Let's eat!" With a shout, the defenders rushed to the cooking class as if they were crazy, and every day it seemed that only this sentence could arouse their interest.

"Damn! What is this? Do you boil clear water? Even if you have a little green hair, you're better than this! A Ashigaru yelled dissatisfied.

"That's it for today! Love to eat or not! Don't eat the fuck off! Don't stand in the way of those behind! The cooks were also angry, and it was difficult for the clever women to cook without rice, and the things they brought to them every day could not be cooked well.

"What an attitude do you have! The rice looks like this, and you are embarrassed to bark at me! I don't even wonder if you swallowed it privately! Look at your ruddy complexions! You must have eaten all the good stuff in your stomach! ”

"What do you say! I'm hot! Tired! t I get up early and cook for you every day, and I still suffer from your eyes! Who are you referring to? Whom do you mean? ”

"It's you! It's you! Brothers! He must have stolen it! Beat his out! See if it's dry or wet! As he spoke, he went up and shoved it.

"I'm going to beat you out of the first!" As he spoke, he flew up and kicked the other party out directly.

"Holy! Beat! Call me! There was a crackle, and the two parties started to move directly, and the pot was also knocked over, and the vegetable soup inside flowed to the ground.

"Damn! Bastard! What are you doing! Do! Morishita Michiyu and other samurai hurriedly went up and pulled them away, looking at the mess all over the place, Yoshikawa Kiyashi frowned.

"My lord! They steal to eat! One ashigaru yelled unconvinced.

"Bastard! No evidence, no nonsense! Otherwise, it will be punished as a disaster to the army! Nakamura Harutsugu stepped forward and scolded angrily.

"Yes! Look what they're dropping! Another ashigaru covered his injured head and pointed to a patch of green on the ground that had fallen from a cook during the fight.

"What is this?" Morishita Michiyu bent down and picked it up, it was a piece of wild vegetables.

"Look! Look! Stolen goods and seizures! What else do you guys have to say! The others immediately heckled.

"Enough!" Nakamura Harutsugu stopped their denunciation, turned around and asked the cooking class: "Can anyone explain, what is this?" ”

"Back... Back to my lord, this... It could be time to cook carelessly... Accidentally scraped on the clothes. A foreman came out of the column and knelt down, trembling and stumbling to say something that he didn't even believe.

"He lied! There are teeth marks on it! Will your wild vegetables take a bite of themselves? Will it! A sharp-eyed ashigaru saw the difference and immediately shouted loudly.

"Your Excellency!" With a plop, a cook knelt down and wept bitterly: "My lord! That's what I hid, what I hid! But... But... If we can't even eat, how can we cook for them? How else..."

"Shut up! Is that why you steal food! Damn it! Morishita Michiyu stepped forward and slashed him on the spot.

"Oops!" The ashigaru were so frightened that they retreated.

"That's it! That's the end of it! Who will make trouble again in the future! The end is the same as him! Morishita Daoyu waved the bloody sword to intimidate his subordinates.

"Okay, okay, let's all disperse, let's all disperse!" Nakamura Harutsugu was like a duck chasing a duck, and the onlookers were scattered.

"My lord." Morishita Michiyu put away the sword and returned to the side of Yoshikawa's house, wanting to speak again.

"Don't worry, the Maori family will send reinforcements, and they're already on their way." Yoshikawa Kiya casually told a lie.

"Really? That's great. When Yamana Yuhiro heard this, the coke was bad, and the wild vegetables he had eaten recently were difficult to swallow, and the bitter fasting he ate as a monk was a hundred times stronger than this.

"It's true, it's true, okay, let's continue to defend the city, I'll go see if reinforcements come." With that, the Yoshikawa family left the place alone.

He walked through the streets and alleys to the back mountain, and then continued to climb up... Climbing up, everything that is bare in the mountains indicates the crisis of Tottori Castle.

Eventually, he came to a hill and looked at his hometown: "It seems... I can't go back in this life..."

The siege continues, and the horses have begun to be slaughtered, and together with the bark, they are made into porridge with preserved eggs and lean meat...