Oda Nobunaga burned Mt. Hiei, and Hayashi Kaze fell into the hands of the monkey Hideyoshi, and since the war was not over, he had to send someone to carry him down the mountain, board a ship from Lake Biwa, and send him to Kyoto.

Wen Tao quietly followed along the way, and found that Lin Feng was placed in the official residence of the Kyoto Commission, so he stayed in a nearby inn, waiting for the opportunity to take his brother away, and waited for many days, but could not find a chance.

Early in the morning, several carriages suddenly came in front of the official residence, accompanied by a large group of guards, Lin Feng walked out of it, Lin Feng, who had been imprisoned for three years, looked very thin, but his face was no longer haggard, they got into the carriage together, and quickly left the official residence.

Wen Tao followed him to the vicinity of Nijo Castle, and suddenly found that a girl came out of the general's palace, and the more she looked at it, the more she looked like Xu Ling'er, so he chased after her.

"Miss Ling'er, Miss Ling'er......"

At this time, Xu Ling'er had already entered an alley, and when he heard the shouting, he stopped and turned to look, and found that Wen Tao, who was dressed as a monk, came over, and immediately lowered his head shyly, and when he got closer, he asked in a low voice: "Wen Tao, why are you here?" ”

"I was just going to ask you, too?"

Seeing that Nanguangfang Tianhai, who was traveling in all directions, was becoming more and more like a monk, and was no longer the Wen Tao who fought side by side back then, Xu Ling'er felt as if he had broken the five-flavor bottle, and sighed without words.

In fact, Wen Tao has long had a love for Ling'er, but he is very inferior, and he always feels unworthy of others, at this moment, he noticed her shy expression, and lowered his head in shame.

Fearing that he would not be able to catch up with those carriages, Wen Tao broke the silence, and Wen Tao said: "Needless to say, I also know that the four warriors on Kagoshima have returned to their hometowns, and only Lu Yunlong's bones are still in the courtyard, you must have come to Ashikaga Yoshiaki for help for this matter." ”

"Although Ashikaga Yoshiaki is grateful to our sister-in-law who saved him, he is really powerless because the Oda army is completely in control of Kyoto, and now, the shogunate's old ministers Hosokawa Fujitaka, Araki Murashige and others are trying to find a way for me."

Suddenly finding that the carriages were out of sight, Wen Tao turned around and was about to leave.

Looking at his unyielding appearance, Xu Ling'er was quite embarrassed and couldn't help asking, "Wen Tao, where are you going?" ”

"The other day, Oda Nobunaga, this bastard, burned Mt. Hiei, and my brother fell into the hands of the monkey Hideyoshi, and they stayed in Kyoto for a few days, and now I don't know where to send him." Wen Tao replied.

At this time, Xu Ling'er also noticed the carriage in front of her, so she chased after him together.

Wen Tao has always had a strong love for her, and now he seized this opportunity to hold Xu Ling'er's hand tightly......

At this moment, Xu Ling'er seemed to be electrocuted, only feeling light, and involuntarily trotted all the way with him, watching the carriage go out of the city, and when they chased out of the city, the carriage was gone.

The shy Wen Tao let go of her hand at this time, and sighed with a red face: "If this scumbag returns to China, I don't know how many people will be harmed!" ”

Xu Ling'er didn't dare to look at Wen Tao's eyes, lowered her head and asked softly, "How do you know that he is going back to China?" ”

"As far as I know, he has not been able to hide the matter of his death in the Ryukyus, and as long as he dares to go back, the prince will definitely inform the government that King Shangyuan will not spare him. Now, the pirates of Iki Island have been eradicated, the monkeys are fighting every day, Shimazu Yoshihisa has also turned his face with him, and I believe that Matsuura Takanobu of the Hirado Domain and Muneyoshijun of Tsushima will not take him in, and he has nowhere to go except to return home. Wen Tao replied.

"Yes, there are dozens of his strongholds along the coast, and he must go back, so, think about it, what channel will the monkey send him away?"

"You mean the monkey will give him to little Nishironzo?" Wen Tao asked.

Xu Ling'er nodded seriously.

"I know, this time, I must not let this demon see the light of day again! Miss Ling'er, you wait for me to come back. Wen Tao said goodbye to Xu Ling'er and went straight to the direction of Sakai Town.

At present, Kyoto is all under the power of Oda Nobunaga, although Hosokawa Fujitaka, Araki Murashige and others are very helpful, they are still controlled by Akechi Mitsuhide and others, and they have no ability to transport Lu Yunlong's coffin out, so Xu Linger can only continue to wait for the opportunity.

Kai Tiger Takeda Shingen secretly contacted Ashikaga Yoshiaki, and he was ready to raise troops to go to Luo and drive away Oda Nobunaga, so that Xu Linger saw a glimmer of hope.

It didn't take long for Wen Tao to return to Kyoto and tell Xu Ling'er that he had tracked Konishi Lonzo's merchant ship to North Korea and controlled Lin Feng in Jeolla Province, and now, he was handed over to Elder Jingcen of Tongdu Temple in North Korea to take care of, believing that this time he would not be able to escape, but Lin Feng was his own brother after all, and he was ready to wait a few more years, and after he completely repented, he would let him go back to Nanjing to reunite with Luo Amin's mother and daughter, and at the same time recover the huge amount of money in his hand.

In the following days, Wen Tao often traveled back and forth between Satsuma, Sakai Town, and Kyoto, and Xu Ling'er found that he was in frequent contact with Guo Guoqiang, Ishikawa Goemon and others, and seemed to be carrying out a mysterious mission, but did not allow himself to participate.

At this time, the Elder of the Moon Sky from Nanjing led the merchant ships to the east, and could run to Japan more than ten times a year, because Sakai Town was controlled by the "Zhonghe", and the continuous supply of goods was mostly brought to the underground town by Lin Wenjing, and Xianru's business became more and more prosperous, while Chen Shen's business became more and more difficult.

Lin Wenjing wanted to expand his business to Kyoto, and he was very taboo about Chen Shen getting involved in his own business, so he pestered Xu Ling'er to help him.

Xu Ling'er knew that Elder Yuekong was raising funds to take Zhu Hui, Song He, Zhang Gou'er and others across the ocean in the future to compete with Westerners in the New World, and now Zhu Hui is in charge of guarding Luo Amin's mother and daughter in Nanjing, Zhang Gou'er saved Xu Kun's daughter and helped Zhu Hui deal with Huang Bingwen, the bully of Dongchang, everyone is looking forward to rescuing Zhu Junwang and Xu Kun as soon as possible, so how can she be in the mood to help Lin Wenjing guard the business?

In order to maintain the honor of the Sibo family, Guo Guoqiang is carrying out a secret operation through Ishikawa Goemon and others, Xu Linger guessed that they were going to assassinate Oda Nobunaga, so he secretly consulted with Wen Tao and looked for an opportunity to avenge Guo Yi.

However, Guo Guoqiang refused to admit it, let alone let Xu Ling'er participate in their actions, ordered her to stay in the underground town to help Lin Wenjing, and sent Wen Tao to travel all over the world to secretly investigate the conduct of the daimyo in various places, hoping to find a kind-hearted, brave and resourceful person as a candidate to replace the Muromachi shogunate in the future.

In this way, Xu Ling'er lived in the town of the ground for a period of time, and was sent to Kyoto by Lin Wenjing, and in the blink of an eye, a year passed, and in the third year of Motokame, the combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Asai Nagamasa and Asakura Yoshikei were still fighting, but as the Asakura family continued to have generals surrendering, the war situation became more and more unfavorable to the Asakura and Asai coalition forces.

(The third year of the Yuan turtle, that is: the sixth year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, 1572 AD)

During his business in Kyoto, Xu Ling'er judged the situation, even if Ishikawa Goemon and others killed Oda Nobunaga, Kyoto was still controlled by Monkey Hideyoshi and Akechi Mitsuhide, both of whom were ambitious fanatics, probably even worse than Oda Nobunaga, and waited until October, and finally saw hope again.

It turned out that Takeda Shingen and Hojo Clan jointly raised troops to prepare for Kamiraku, and together with the combined forces of Asakura Yoshikei and Asai Nagamasa, it was believed that Oda would soon be able to drive Oda's army out of Kyoto.

More than a month later, I heard that Takeda Shingen and the Hojo clan allied forces and defeated Oda Nobunaga's ally Tokugawa Ieyasu, at this time, the dragon of Echigo, Uesugi Keikatsu, also began to raise troops, planning to join forces with the combined forces of Asakura Yoshikei and Asai Nagamasa, and the victory of Kyoto was in sight.

Before the end of the year, there was even more exciting news that the Takeda Iron Cavalry army used the wind forest volcano tactics to defeat the Oda and Tokugawa coalition forces at Mikatahara (historically known as the Mikatahara Battle). However, just after the Spring Festival, the situation suddenly took a turn for the worse, and when it was heard that Takeda Shingen was seriously ill, Asakura Yoshikei and Uesugi Keikatsu stood still, giving the Oda and Tokugawa coalition forces a chance to breathe.

In February of the fourth year of Motokame, the news came that Takeda Shingen was critically ill. In March, the iron rider of the Takeda family retreated to the Sankawa country Nagashino Castle to recuperate; In April, a generation of war gods fell ill and died on the way back to the realm.

When she heard the news, Xu Ling'er, who was waiting in Kyoto, almost collapsed......

Then came the even more surprising news, Oda Nobunaga was finally going to attack Kotani Castle!

Since Xu Yihou was still at Asai Nagamasa's house, in order to save his father, Xu Linger decided to risk his life and go to Xiaogu City, even if he died, the father and daughter would die together.

Now that she had made up her mind, Xu Ling'er returned the shop in Kyoto to Lin Wenjing and quietly went to Kotani City alone.

At this time, Oda's army had surrounded Otani Castle, and Asakura Yoshikage was too busy to take care of himself, and his 20,000-strong army wanted to relieve Asai Nagamasa, but he was trapped under the Great Prison Castle, and his generals also surrendered to Oda Nobunaga.

The hard-hearted Oda Nobunaga, for the great cause of "the world's martial arts", did not show mercy to his own sister, and handed over the task of attacking the city to the monkey Hideyoshi, pointed to Kotani Mountain, and said viciously: "If they don't surrender, they will set fire to the mountain, burn them all to death, and leave no one behind!" With that, he returned to Gifu Castle.

No matter what Oda Nobunaga said, Monkey Hideyoshi understood the truth of intimacy and didn't dare to act rashly, not to mention that he had already coveted Mrs. Aichi, and wanted to find a traitor to help him in Otani Castle by besieging the city, not only to force Asai Nagamasa to death, but also to protect Mrs. Aichi's safety.

While Hideyoshi was preparing for the battle fortifications overnight, he was also eagerly waiting for news from Kotani Castle to see if anyone would come out to surrender in order to formulate a countermeasure and battle plan, so they deliberately set aside a passage near the fortress Kyogokuen that night.

When Xu Ling'er came to Jingji Garden, she thought that she would have to go through a fierce battle before she could enter Xiaogu City, but she didn't expect that she would go up the mountain so easily.

At the same time, Gonzaburo, who was still dreaming of being a samurai, didn't want to die here, so he quietly went down the mountain and surrendered, hoping to become a samurai under Hideyoshi.

Hideyoshi was very happy about Gonzaburo's arrival, agreed to all his requests, and conspired together to let him go back as an internal response, and when the army attacked the city, he looked for an opportunity to kill the two sons of the Asai family.

At dawn, Hideyoshi commanded a large army to attack Kyogokuen and began to set fire to the mountain.

Standing on the top of the watchtower of Kotani Castle, Mrs. Aichi saw the flames under the mountain and the sound of killing shook the sky, and it didn't take long to find that Asai Nagamasa was alone on the mountain, and Kiemon and other retainers were still fighting, and she already knew in her heart that the fortress was about to fall into the hands of the enemy, and her husband had come to say goodbye to his family......

At this time, Xu Ling'er had already arrived at Asai Nagamasa's house, and neither found her father nor Mrs. Ashi, so she accompanied the three Chacha sisters to wait silently in tears......

After a long time, Asai Nagamasa and his wife came back together, and saw Xu Ling'er at this critical juncture, Mrs. Ashi was both shocked and relieved, but at this moment, she didn't know where Xu Yihou was hidden?

Xu Ling'er gave a salute to Changzheng and his wife, only to hear Mrs. Ah Shi ask: "Sister, do you know why my husband wants to confront my brother?" ”

"Nagamasa-kun is a loyal man who is true to his word......"

Before Xu Ling'er finished speaking, Mrs. Ah Shi wiped her tears and said: "My husband hopes that the world is peaceful, and soldiers are useless; And my brother is ambitious and martial, and he wants to replace His Majesty the Emperor and conquer the Ming Dynasty and India in the future. I will follow my husband, sister, please you, Chacha sister and brother will be handed over to you. With that, he held her hands tightly.

Let go of Xu Ling'er, Mrs. Ashi and her husband looked at each other, and the two recalled the previous agreement, they would live and die with this city......

Suddenly, Cha Cha sensed the hint between her parents, stared at them with wide eyes, and held her breath.

Asai Nagamasa revealed his affection for his wife and children, forced a happy face to pull the children closer, and said goodbye to them one by one, in the face of this tragic scene, Xu Linger couldn't help but shed tears......

Then, Mrs. Ah Shi asked Xu Ling'er to take all the children away, and she wanted to go to Huangquan with her husband.

At this moment, Quan Saburo suddenly appeared with Xu Yihou, Xu Ling'er saw his father and threw himself into his arms excitedly......

Asai Nagamasa was about to make mistakes to his wife and children before seppuku, but at this time, he suddenly changed his mind, pushed his wife to Xu Yihou's side, hurriedly bowed down, and begged: "Sir, my whole family will entrust you." ”

(Mischief: In the seppuku ceremony, it may fail for some reason, and the person who intersects the mistake is the act of making up the knife for the seppuku in order to make the seppuku die faster and avoid the pain and suffering.) ）

Quan Saburo had already made an agreement with Hideyoshi, and took this opportunity to take away Mrs. Aichi and Xu Yihou and others without saying a word.

Now there is only Asai Nagamasa in the room, who sits cross-legged on the tatami mat and whispers: Twenty-nine years of life, like a flashy dream......

Sadness and singing came, Mrs. Ashi fainted, the children threw themselves on their mother's body and wept bitterly, Xu Ling'er hurriedly pinched her person, and it took a long time to wake it up.

"Madame, run away with us." Xu Linger persuaded.

"No, I will follow my husband, and my children will follow their father......"

Gonzaburo suddenly found that Mrs. Aichi took out a short knife from her arms, hurriedly reached out and grabbed it, and said loudly: "Madam, the watchtower of Kotani Castle has been lost, and all the retainers have been killed, and Lord Hashiba Chikumae Mamoru has sent me to protect Mrs. ......"

Before Quan Saburo finished speaking, Mrs. Aichi raised her hand and slapped him, scolding: "Damn traitor, why didn't you die?" ”

At this time, the monkey Hideyoshi also arrived, and he bowed to Mrs. Aichi and said with a smile, "Mamoru Hideyoshi met Mrs. Shimoha Shibachiku, and was entrusted by Lord Oda Danmasa Daibi to protect the safety of Mrs. Oda and the children. ”

At this moment, finding that Mrs. Aichi and the children were still crying bitterly, Hideyoshi raised his voice and said loudly, "Madam, for the sake of the children, you have to live." ”

Everyone waited for a long time, a long time, before Mrs. Ashi stopped crying, bowed her head and said, "I want to serve the Buddha wholeheartedly from now on." ”

When Hideyoshi, who had a sad face just now, heard this, his face suddenly bloomed with joy, and he replied, "Listen to Madame's respect, and then send Madame and the children to Gifu Castle." ”

Quan Saburo wanted to escort Mrs. Ashi and the children, the father and daughter of the Xu family and others down the mountain, but Mrs. Ashi refused, scolded him for being a dog, and had to drive him away.

So, Hideyoshi decided to personally escort them down the mountain, because Mrs. Ashi was too sad and could no longer walk, so she had to send someone to carry her in a sedan chair, Cha Cha, Ah Chu and Ah Jiang followed Xu Ling'er, and the two young sons Wanfumaru and Wanshoumaru hugged Xu Yihou in his arms.

When going down the mountain, Quan Saburo and others suddenly appeared, they made a trip to Xu Yihou, and threw him to the ground, Wanfumaru and Wanshou Maru in their arms cried directly, Xu Yihou also fell and injured his leg, and these two young sons fell into the hands of Quan Saburo.

The carriage was already prepared at the foot of the mountain, and after Mrs. Aichi got into the carriage, she suddenly disappeared the two young sons, and began to look for a short time again, and Hideyoshi accompanied her and kept persuading, saying that she would definitely send the two children back, and at this time, she knew in her heart that she would never see her son again in this life, and her heart was like a knife, and she fainted again.

Since it was still very far from Gifu Castle, when it was nearly dusk, Hideyoshi ordered him to set up camp and stay at the bottom of the mountain for one night before leaving.

After setting up the camp, Hideyoshi made a round of inspections and came over to Xu Ling'er and said, "Look at the red clay road, there are purple bellflowers and yellow chrysanthemums everywhere, you can take the children to collect some, weave them into garlands, and let the children present them to their father." ”

Mrs. Ashi had not yet woken up, Xu Ling'er took the three sisters of Cha Cha to pick bellflower and wild chrysanthemums in the miscanthus bush, and after dark, they returned to the tent to weave garlands together.

Under the moonlight, the father and daughter of the Xu family took the three sisters of Chacha to build a fake grave outside the tent, burned paper for Asai Nagamasa together, and placed the wreath on the grave......

Suddenly, there was the crying of Mrs. Ashi, and then, there seemed to be the sound of fighting, asking her father to take care of the three sisters, Xu Ling'er immediately rushed into the camp, only to see that the monkey had pressed Mrs. Ashi to the ground......

Xu Ling'er was furious, stepped forward and grabbed the skinny Hideyoshi, lifted him up, turned around and threw him out of the tent.

The monkey got up from the ground, wiped the mud from his face, and asked angrily, "Do you know that this is exactly what Nobunaga intended?" ”

At this time, a group of soldiers suddenly ran and surrounded Xu Ling'er......

So, Mrs. Ah Shi ran out of the tent and shouted loudly: "Yu Chai Zhuqian can't be rude, let her go!" ”

Everyone turned their eyes to Hideyoshi, only to see that he was still wiping the mud on his face, for fear of annoying Mrs. Aichi again, she was very likely to commit suicide, and let Oda Nobunaga blame it, so Hideyoshi ordered: "If you don't follow Madame's words, let this girl go quickly!" ”

After the soldiers withdrew from Xu Ling'er's side, Mrs. Ah Shi shouted loudly: "Sister, you go quickly, I have taken refuge in Buddhism, and I will not look for a short-term in the future, and my brother will not treat everyone badly." ”

But Xu Ling'er still didn't want to leave, and shouted: "Madame......"

"Please don't worry about Ling Zun's safety, I swear to protect Ling Zun to the death, you can leave quickly." Mrs. Ashi urged.

At this time, Xu Ling'er took a few steps back, waved her hand to Mrs. Ashi and the children, and shouted loudly: "Please take care of Mrs. Please take care, Cha Cha, Ah Chu, you guys be more careful, goodbye! ”

"Aunt Ling'er......" The call of the three sisters of Cha Cha pierced the quiet night sky.