Lu Yunlong's blood spilled in Kyoto, Xu Ling'er protected the shogun's wife, and came to the Ichi-in-in, where the brother of the shogun Yoshiki Yoshiaki became a monk, he was the adopted son of the Sekihaku Konoe family, and the emperor, Sekihaku and many old ministers of the shogunate family came forward to drive the rebels such as Matsunaga Shu and Miyoshi Sanzhong out of Kyoto.

(From Hanshu? The Biography of Huo Guang Jin Riyan "Everything is closed to the white light first, and then the Son of Heaven is played" meaning)

Ashikaga Yoshiaki and the shogunate ministers thanked Xu Ling'er and others for their righteous deeds, buried Lu Yunlong's bones in Ichi-chan Temple, and escorted Xu Ling'er back to Ishiyama Honganji Temple.

With great grief, Xu Ling'er arrived at the mountain gate of Honganji Temple, and suddenly found that a merchant was walking towards him.

When the merchant approached, he quietly asked in the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty, "May I ask you, girl, are you Lord Lu Yunlong's subordinate?" ”

Xu Ling'er was quite surprised and asked, "Sir, who are you?" ”

"My name is Chen Shen, I am a native of the Ryukyus, doing business in Sakai Town, since the Lin shopkeeper's house was destroyed, the imperial court's palace newspaper is now sent to my house, recently, the Son of Heaven has not been able to find the national treasure and angry, in the palace newspaper sternly declared Lord Lu, now it has passed the May Festival (May Dragon Boat Festival), if the August Festival (August 15) can not send the national treasure back to the capital, I am afraid that even the old prince of Chengguo will have to suffer."

"Lord Lu, Lord Lu......" Hearing this, Ling'er couldn't make a sound, and said intermittently: "Lord Lu has already died in his post. ”

Chen Shen was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "How many of you still have now?" ”

"The old prince of Chengguo sent nine people back and forth, only four people remained, Brother Chong and Sister Yi'er are still chasing and killing Lin Yiguan, and there is also a Lord Guo, who is now a samurai in the Shimazu family in Satsuma, I went to Kyoto with Lord Lu to look for national treasures, but I didn't expect Lord Lu to be killed......."

Chen Shen said: "I went to find Guo Guoqiang, and I learned that you and Lord Lu are in Honganji Temple. The people of Akimepo were sent away, only a very few married Oriental women, or married Oriental men, leaving a few, Lin Wenjing and I went to Sakai Town, lived in my house, this child is very smart, is a material that can be made, the six officials Wentao scattered the family wealth, and now he has disappeared. Miss Ling'er, what are your plans now? ”

"I'm going to take my father back to my hometown!" Xu Linger replied crying.

Chen Shen sighed and replied, "If you go back like this, I'm afraid you will be questioned by the imperial court." Since we arrived at Honganji, let's go to Xianru to say hello, and let Xianru send a few people to find Wang Chong and Guo Yi back, and go back to Sakai Town with me, let's discuss it well, now that there is war and chaos here, if you want to complete the task assigned by the imperial court, you can't do it brutally. ”

"Will the imperial court continue to send people?" Xu Ling'er asked.

Chen Shen shook his head and replied, "It can be seen from the Di newspaper that it won't be for the time being." ”

At this time, Xianru was already standing outside the mountain gate and shouted loudly: "Sister, come in, I already know the situation in Kyoto, and Honganji will definitely avenge the shogun and Lord Lu and help you find the national treasure." ”

So, Chen Shen and Xu Ling'er walked into Honganji Temple together.

At the same time, Wang Chong and Guo Yi were still chasing Lin Yiguan in Owari Kingdom.

They first found the monkey's home, found that Hideyoshi was just a ashigaru, and ploughed the land by himself every morning, and then went into the city to follow Oda Nobunaga on an errand, looking for the women and children in the village to spy on them, and someone told them that Hayashi Ichiguan had indeed arrived in Owari, and then he was hidden by Oda Nobunaga somewhere.

So, they came to Cheongju City again, and after some inquiry, they didn't get any news about Lin Yiguan, so Wang Chong prepared to return to Shishan Honganji Temple, but Guo Yi had a heart of revenge and was unwilling to leave easily.

This place is Guo Yi's hometown, with nostalgia for his hometown, in this season of cherry blossom dance, and his husband traveled all over the four counties of Owari and Upper and Lower Counties, and even went to Kotani Castle, not only did they not find Lin Yiguan, but also did not find the opportunity to assassinate Oda Nobunaga, unknowingly, it was late May.

*(The upper four counties of Owari Province are Chita-gun, Aichi-gun, Kasugai-gun, and Niwa gun, and the lower four counties are Yeturi-gun, Nakajima-gun, Kaito-gun, and Kaisai-gun, and they are the only places to enter Gyeonggi from the Kanto region.) ）

In the end, as they prepare to return to Satsuma by boat from Ise Bay, facing the vast sea, Guo Yi exudes infinite sadness, recalling the past when she fled from here to sea in her mother's arms......

found Guo Yi painting on the beach, and saw that the person she painted had a horse face, thick eyebrows, and slender eyes, so Wang Chong asked, "Who is this person?" ”

Guo Yi picked up a branch, poked it on the ground, and said fiercely: "I must kill you, kill you!" You're the biggest wedge! Chong'er, we can't come in vain, it's better to kill this madman first. ”

"Could it be that this is Oda Nobunaga, who is called a fool by the world?" Wang Chong asked.

"Chong'er, I am already a member of your Wang family, but you don't understand my feelings, it's really sad, do you know why my surname is Guo?" After asking, Guo Yi shed tears.

"Yi'er, our mission is to destroy the pirate group and find the national treasure, not to assassinate Oda Nobunaga, in case of trouble, it is a big deal, we must be cautious." Wang Chong replied.

Finding that Guo Yi didn't pay attention to himself anymore and began to sobb in a low voice, Wang Chong comforted: "Yi'er, I can understand your feelings, the errand is important at the moment." ”

Guo Yi, who burst into tears, replied: "Chong'er, you don't understand me at all, these days, everywhere I go, my heart is bleeding, and now, my hometown is no longer a thing, and the Spoo clan is finished!" ”

Wang Chong took her in his arms, gently helped her wipe away the tears on her face, and said: "Yi'er, don't bury everything in your heart, if there are any problems, let's face them together, and tell the words in our hearts." ”

So, Guo Yi talked about the sad past:

"My mother and I were exiled to Liaodong, not long after, she joined the Qi family army under the Washi Lady's Army, went to the southeast coast to fight against the Japanese invaders, I was eight years old, my mother before leaving, hugged me and cried bitterly, explained my family background, I hope that when I grow up, I can avenge my father Oda Nobuyuki and my mother's Spo family."

"Chong'er, you know what? Spoburn's surname is Genji, is the blood of the Emperor, in the 'battle for tribute', the imperial court took in the descendants of his family, and gave preferential treatment, therefore, the Spo family is grateful for the kindness of the imperial court, my mother participated in the war against the Japanese invaders, but she is too naïve, like Oda Nobunaga such a wolf ambition people, in the future will be the biggest Japanese invaders! ”

"Yi'er, don't be so excited, why do you say that Nobunaga is the biggest widow?"

Guo Yi continued: "Owari was originally the territory of my mother's mother's mother, the Sibo family. My grandfather's name is Oda Nobuhide, originally just a retainer of Owari Province to pursue Oda Nobuntomo, Oda Nobunaga is the eldest son of his grandfather, this is a guy who you let him go east, he goes west, you let him pick up dogs, he picks up chickens, it's an out-and-out bastard! Not only was he not sad at his grandfather's funeral, but he also threw incense on the altar and laughed, and his teacher Hirate Masahide did not hesitate to commit suicide in order to persuade him, he was such a disloyal, unfilial, unkind and unrighteous person, if he took the world, how could the world be safe? ”

"No wonder people call him a madman and a fool, Yi'er, I want to know, since the Sibo clan is the queen of the Heavenly Emperor family, what is the relationship with the Oda clan?" Wang Chong asked.

"My grandfather Nobuhide, one of the three commissioners who guarded the Oda Nobutomo family of Owari Yamato, this is a diligent old man, with the power of the Oda family greater than the Spo family, later, the power of grandpa Nobuhide surpassed his lord Oda Nobutomo, and in the end, it was the grandfather who won the dominance of the Oda family."

"In order to stabilize Owari Province, under the leadership of my grandfather, his eldest son, Nobunaga, married the daughter of Mino Daimyo Saito Michizo, and the third son, Nobuyuki, married the daughter of Owari chieftain Yoshitoshi Shiba, which is my mother."

"Nobunaga was unruly and uneducated; However, my father Nobuyuki behaved very politely, so he won the love of my grandfather and grandmother, and because my grandfather died young, everyone was ready to nominate my father to succeed him as the governor, but Nobunaga, who was not favored by the family, suddenly became troubled, and in order to prevent the family from killing each other, my father took the initiative to give up the position of governor. ”

At this time, Oda Nobutomo was unwilling to be defeated, and he sowed discord between my father and Nobunaga, which my father refused. So, the faithful planned to murder Nobunaga, and my grandfather Yoshitoshi Spo got the news, and he informed Nobunaga of the news, how do you know? This Nobunaga was wolf-hearted, and took advantage of his uncle Yoshiin Spo to go hunting, and sent someone to break into his grandfather's mansion and kill him. His uncles Yoshigin, Mori Hideyori, Tsugawa Yoshito, and others learned of the bad news, but because they did not know the truth, they fled to Nobunaga's house to seek protection, and at this time, Nobunaga put the blame for killing his grandfather on the head of Oda Nobuyomo. ”

"At Nobunaga's instigation, my uncles joined forces to destroy Oda Nobuno, and in this way, Oda Nobunaga effortlessly eliminated all the opponents of Owari Province and became the real leader of Owari, and then, he still extended his black hand to my father."

Wang Chong sighed: "These stories are really complicated, what is the 'Inao Battle' that Yajiro said? ”

Guo Yi continued: "There is a pond in the middle of the west of the ancient no castle (now Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture) and the east of Hira Castle, ten years ago (the 35th year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, the second year of the reign of Nihongji, and 1556 AD), someone found a snake-like monster inside, the head of the strange snake is like a five-colored deer, the eyes can shine, the tongue sticks out as red as a fire, but the body is as thick as a wooden barrel. ”

"When Nobunaga heard the news, he took people to catch snakes, but he only caught a big fish, not a monster, and the strange thing is that when he returned, he said that the defender of Kira Castle, Sasa Naimasa, had set up a deception and was going to murder him when he caught the monster."

"Sasa Narumasa is a general under his father Nobuyuki, Nobunaga immediately launched a provocation to his father, so, they fought a big battle in Inao outside the castle of Kiyoshu, and his father's generals Hayashi Tongkatsu, Shibata Katsuya and others were captured, at the behest of his grandmother, Nobunaga let his father go, but my father knew that this matter was far from over, in order not to affect me and my mother, I asked someone to send our mother and daughter to Ise Bay in front of us overnight, and from here we boarded a ship and drifted across the ocean to Liaodong."

Wang Chong asked curiously, "Why can't your uncles Spo Yoshigin, Mori Hideyori, and Tsugawa Yoshito take you in?" Why was Guo Guoqiang born in the Ming Dynasty? ”

Guo Yi replied: "That's a long story, the Spo family is one of the three leaders of the Muromachi Shogunate, after the Onin Rebellion, the power of the Muromachi Shogunate fell, the Hosokawa family controlled the real power of the shogunate, and the Spo family submitted to the Hosokawa clan. ”

"In the third year of Dayong (the second year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, 1523 AD), the Ouchi family sent an envoy and led three large ships of more than 300 people to pay tribute."

"The Hosokawa family was not far behind when they got the news, and sent a delegation headed by Si Bo Yikang to lead a fleet to Ningbo under the leadership of Song Suqing, a merchant of the Ming Dynasty."

"Although the tributary ship of the Ouchi clan arrived early, it failed to open the joints of the city ship division, and the officials of the city ship department delayed giving them inspection and survey, and after Song Suqing arrived, they were quickly verified by the city ship division."

"Later, when the imperial court sent eunuchs to inspect it, they found that there were two surveys, and they had doubts, thinking that there must be a difference between truth and falsehood, so the envoys of the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan had a dispute."

"The city ship division set up a banquet in the guest hall to receive these two groups of tributary envoys, and arranged for the envoy of the Hosokawa clan to sit at the top, the Ouchi family was unwilling to be in the second place, and the two sides started a weapon fight in the guest hall, the Ouchi family was mostly pirates, they actually set fire to the guest hall and killed the officials of the city port division, so Song Suqing led the Hosokawa envoy to escape."

Under the protection of the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, Song Suqing and others fled to Qingtian Lake; The Ouchi pirates pursued all the way, burning and plundering along the way, and many Ming generals were killed in battle, and when they arrived at the city of Shaoxing, they were exterminated by the officers and soldiers. ”

"The head of the Hosokawa Clan's mission, Sibo Yikang, is the father of his uncle Guo Guoqiang, and also our grandfather, after this turmoil, Lord Yikang was very disgusted with the war and conquest, and felt the favor of His Majesty the Emperor, so he stayed in the capital and settled down, and changed his surname to Guo. My father, Nobuyuki, fearing that something would happen to my mother and me, secretly contacted Lord Spoikan and sent our mother and daughter to the Ming Dynasty, and sure enough, two years later, my father was killed by Nobunaga for no reason. ”

Wang Chong became more and more interested in this story, and then asked: "When you arrived in Daming, didn't you go to see your uncle Guo Guoqiang?" ”

Guo Yi wiped the tears from his face, shook his head and replied, "No." We drifted across the ocean to Liaodong, was taken in by the Xianshan general Li Chengliang, not long after, Li lost his official resignation, so, the imperial court sent someone to take our mother and daughter into the capital, at that time, it was the southeast coast when the Japanese were rampant, because Mrs. Wa's female battalion was in urgent need of generals, my mother entrusted me to the old prince of Chengguo, placed in the Flying Fish Camp for training, she joined the Qi family army without hesitation, and later died outside Hangzhou. ”

After listening to this legend, Wang Chong sighed, understood his wife's life experience, and also understood her mentality, and secretly sighed that he had married a descendant of the Oriental Emperor.

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Let's remember these historical unsung national heroes

In the war against the Japanese in the late Ming Dynasty, in addition to famous generals such as Qi Jiguang, Yu Dachief, and Tan Lun, we must not forget the unknown national hero in the official history - Mrs. Washi

Mrs. Wa, surnamed Cen Minghua, Zhuang nationality, born in 1496, a native of Zhili Prefecture, the daughter of Cen Zhang, a native official, was smart and studious since childhood, studied with his father, practiced martial arts, proficient in the art of war, and when he grew up, he married Cen Meng as his wife in accordance with the practice of "marriage between the official family and the official family" and "marriage does not avoid the same surname" prevailing among the local officials of the Zhuang nationality. At the critical juncture of the invasion of the southeast coast of our country, regardless of the 58-year-old age, she personally led more than 6,000 soldiers in Guilin, galloped thousands of miles, rushed to the front line of the anti-Japanese invasion, charged into battle with the spirit of "swearing not to live with thieves", even annihilated the enemy soldiers, broke the myth of the invincibility of the Japanese invaders, and made great achievements for the protection of the country and the people, and was named the second lady by Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty. It is always worth remembering and remembering by the Chinese!