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"Your Highness Honda, how about we make a bet?"

“？？？？？？”

How did "recruitment" suddenly turn into "gambling"?

"What to bet on, I would like to hear about it."

There was no promise but no explicit refusal, and Honda Masanobu's words were still so leaky.

"How about betting on His Highness Matsunaga Danmasa Tadashi Hisahide of the Great River Country?"

"Huh?"

suddenly mentioned his "old club", even an old fritter like Honda Masanobu didn't react for a while.

"The gambling is ...... His Royal Highness Matsunaga ...... this year Definitely going to die! ”

“……”

Honda Masanobu looked at me stunned, and it took a long time before he burst out laughing.

"What the hell is a young man, Your Highness Akechi, you don't understand," Honda Masanobu shook his head while laughing, "Are you saying that His Highness Matsunaga will die at the hands of Nobunaga?" ”

I nodded, historically, although Matsunaga Shu committed suicide, it still had a lot to do with Oda Nobunaga's hard work.

"Hahaha......" Honda Masanobu laughed out loud as if he had heard some particularly funny joke.

His Royal Highness Matsunaga rebelled against Nobunaga again and again, but Nobunaga appreciated his talent and repeatedly let him live...... If Nobunaga really wanted to kill His Highness Matsunaga, then he could have done it a long time ago! ”

"To modify what I just said," I didn't get angry at his almost rude behavior, and still said there with a straight face: "His Royal Highness Matsunaga died at the hands of an outsider, not an outsider!" ”

"Hahaha......" Masanobu Honda laughed even harder, and I figured that if I wasn't here, he would be clutching his stomach.

It took him a long time before he was relieved.

"Your Highness Akechi, do you think His Highness Matsunaga is a loyal man?"

"It's not."

"So, does His Highness Matsunaga know the way to be honest?"

"He won't understand!"

"Isn't that it?"

Honda Masanobu took a deep breath and spit it out again.

"I have served His Highness Matsunaga for a while, and I know a little bit about his temper, do you know what His Highness Matsunaga values most in his life?"

"Tea ware?" Hearing him ask this, I subconsciously remembered the "flat spider", and Matsunaga Hidehide would rather die than give it to Oda Nobunaga.

"No, no, no......" Honda Masanobu waved his hand, "His Royal Highness Matsunaga is indeed a man who is obsessed with the tea ceremony, but he will never change himself for the sake of one or two tea utensils. ”

"yes......"

"What His Royal Highness Matsunaga values is not tea utensils, nor territory and wealth, nor the so-called 'reputation', there is only one thing he values!"

"What?"

"Life! His own life! ”

“……”

"A man has betrayed his old master many times, and this person will not survive as long as he has a little shame," the tea had been drunk several times, but Honda still refilled the cup with sincerity, as if his stomach was not feeling as good as Ben.

"His Royal Highness Matsunaga is still enjoying happiness in Yamato Province leisurely...... Hmph, if it weren't for his life, he would have survived to this day. ”

"......," I admit, he has a point.

"So, Your Highness Akechi said that His Highness Matsunaga would die, and he couldn't agree with it, and as for him going to cut himself...... Honda Masanobu laughed again, "This bet will be nullified, and I heard a joke at the time." ”

"Hehe," I smiled and looked at the "Viper Division" in front of me, his eyes were indeed vicious, but this time......

"His Highness Honda thinks it's going to be you?"

"What? Does His Highness still want to gamble with Zai? He raised an eyebrow.

"I'm adding a little bit, His Highness Matsunaga will not only die, but he will also be wiped out, and there will be no place to bury him!"

"......" listened to my remarks like "myths", and he didn't even bother to reply.

"Let's talk about the book."

“……”

"If I win, please don't dislike His Highness Honda, the wise family will sweep the bed and wait for His Highness to arrive!"

“……”

"If Your Highness wins, you will be offered a thousand yuan to help Your Highness expand the store of this 'Three Rivers House'!"

"Huh?!" A thousand dollars is enough to repair a small city...... But that wasn't the key to attracting Honda Masanobu, who keenly caught what I was saying.

"Why did Your Highness say this? What does this 'Three Rivers House' have to do with Zaixia? ”

"Hahaha......" I laughed as he did.

At this moment, I finally grabbed the "initiative of discourse" into my own hands!

"Does Your Highness still want to hide it?"

"Hehe......" Honda Masanobu had to use laughter to cover up his embarrassment, this "Mikawaya" is indeed his property, but he himself has never exposed his identity on a formal occasion, except for his family and the guys in the store, no one should know?

"Your Highness Wise has good eyesight, but can you tell me, how do you see it?"

"Oh, that's the bowl of noodles!" I pointed to the bowl in front of him, the "batter" that had become so musy that it couldn't be any longer.

"What does a bowl of noodles say?"

"Your Highness, you just said 'noodles', but you didn't specify what flavor of noodles it was...... If it's another restaurant, it's common to just cook cheap noodles like somen noodles to make you feel good...... And this shop has cooked you a bowl of good noodles with meat and eggs, no matter how you look at it, it won't be cheap...... Is this normal? ”

"I see...... Honda Masanobu looked at the noodles in front of him, "From now on, His Highness Akechi can see that this shop knows my taste...... So I'm not new to this place, and it's my first time here, right? ”

"Not bad," I nodded, "from that moment on, I had some doubts about your identity. ”

"Your Highness is really right...... But that's not enough to say that the owner of this shop is below. ”

"Well...... The guy told me! I pointed to the distance, where the boy who had served us was now busy at another table.

"Him?" Honda Masanobu frowned.

"Actually, you can't blame him, did His Highness Honda remember just now? What did he answer when he was told to do so? ”

"He said please wait a minute...... Wait a minute! Could it be ......" Honda Masanobu reacted suddenly.

"This young man knew at a glance that he was a smart man, and when he talked to other guests, he would use the word 'guest officer', but when facing Your Highness, he omitted such a title, and with this bowl of 'honorable' noodles, I deduced that Your Highness must have a very close relationship with this shop...... Contact Your Highness again, although it is not luxurious, it is quite elegant and imposing...... Do you say, I'll think of you as a bookkeeper or something like that? ”

"I see......"

"So, apart from the boss, I really can't think of anything else worthy of your identity."

"Your Highness Wise!" Honda Masanobu's eyes changed when he looked at me, and his tone became much more serious.

He leaned down slightly, and gave me a salute.

"There are many Meng Lang just now, please don't be surprised, please bear with me!"

Honda Masanobu finally realized that the young man in front of him, although he was young and didn't look smart, but in fact, he was definitely not a fool, but a person who knew how to hide the city and the ravines in his heart!

He put away the slightly contemptuous attitude he had just had, and sat upright, his expression becoming serious.

"It's okay, let's just take it as a joke."

...... "I gave him back what he had just said, which made him look a little embarrassed.

"By the way," I remembered the serious matter, "about the bet just now, is it a bet or not?" ”

"Your Highness is such an interesting person!" Honda Masanobu smiled slightly, but this time, there was nothing negative in the laughter, "Bet! Anyway, whether you win or lose, you won't lose in the next game......"

"Hahaha......" both of us laughed this time.

"Is Matsunaga really going to die?" Seeing my confident look, Honda Masanobu also began to guess.

"If it's true...... However, it seems to be a lot of fun to stay by the side of this wise highness...... "......

Just when Masanobu Honda and I were in "Kan Dashan".

The assessment room in Echigo's Kasuga Yama Castle is filled with an oppressive atmosphere.

"How's going on over there in Kaga?"

Uesugi Kenshin still had that cold tone.

"Back to my lord!" Saito Asanobu replied, "Since March, Oda Nobunaga's Shibata Katsuie, commanding 40,000 horses, has been advancing to the eastern part of Kaga at a very fast speed, and many castles have been defeated along the way, and now even Kanazawa Gobo is almost unable to hold on!" ”

Since the death of the Kakizaki family, Saito Asanobu has become the first fierce general of the Uesugi family with "automatic upgrade", but unlike other people in the past, he has been with Uesugi Kenshin since he was a child, and he has never had a second heart, so he is deeply trusted by Uesugi Kenshin.

"I've read the letter from the master," says Kenshin Uesugi, "I had an argument with him when I was practicing at the temple in, but now that I think about it, it's a friendship." ”

"Is the lord planning to help Kaga?" Saito Asanobu asked Honjo Shiranaga hurriedly, his tone mixed with excitement.

As a military general in the prime of life (thirty-eight years old), his blood is full of belligerence and killing.

"Well," Uesugi Kenshin nodded, "If your lips are dead, your teeth will be cold, and if your household is broken, your hall will be in danger, and there will be a battle between the main family and Oda Nobunaga after all!" ”

As soon as he said this, some "militants" immediately wanted to jump out ......and "take on the mission."

But Uesugi Kenshin quickly interrupted them.

"But before that, I still want to test the attitude of Oda Nobunaga."

"My lord," Naoe Keitsuna, who was almost seventy years old, understood Uesugi Kenshin's intentions best, and he said slowly: "I am willing to go to Kyoto for a trip!" ”

"Well, that's what I mean," Uesugi nodded at him, "Then you go and get ready, and in three days, visit him in Kyoto with your gifts." ”

"Yes."

"By the way, you're old, Xingang has official business, and you can't leave, so I'll let that kid go with you!"

"Concurrently?"

His nephew, Barrel Mouth, has always been very much loved by the lord and His Royal Highness Aya, and the lord has made him the captain of his guard.

Hearing Kenshin Uesugi call his name, Kanesuke Tsuguchi hurriedly walked out.

Xie Dadian (Barrel Mouth Kanesu is the son of Qianxin's retainer Barrel Mouth Kanefeng, not Qianxin's direct minister) is very loving, and Liumust do his best to assist Lord Naoe! ”

"Well, very good, if this matter is done well, after I come back, I will officially accept you as a retainer!"

"Thank you, Great Hall!"