November 5, 14th year of astronomy.

Ueno Castle in Dewa Kawabe County.

The weather has begun to cool, the fallen leaves are scattered to the ground in the wind, and the whole land is golden.

In this year's autumn harvest, the Tsugawa family harvested a total of 264,000 koku of grain throughout the domain, and the lords of each castle collected the grain harvested in each area into agricultural taxes, and then shipped it to Ueno Castle.

Since there was a lot of grain this year, the three warehouses in Ueno Castle could not fit it, so Tsugawa Soharu could only say that some of the grain was placed in Tsugawa Castle and Hiyama Castle. This also has certain advantages, and if there is a need for food in these places in the future, it can be distributed nearby, and there is no need to distribute it from Ueno Castle.

Seeing that the year was about to pass, Soji Tsugawa held an evaluation meeting in Ueno Castle, and almost all the retainers of the Tsugawa family rushed to Ueno Castle to participate in the evaluation.

After nearly a month, the fighting on Sado Island has long since ended. Ichiro Yamamoto and others also returned to the territory, and at present, Sado Island is temporarily guarded by Kira Ieyasu, and the navy also left some ships on Sado Island.

In this year, the harvest of the Tsugawa family is not small!

First of all, he defeated the southern family of the Northern Okuwa overlord, and by the way, occupied the territory of the Takamizuji Shiba family, and developed the power of the Tsugawa family to the Mutsu country. Secondly, Sado Island was captured, and the Asariya family in the Binai region surrendered to the Tsugawa family under pressure from the Tsugawa family.

Yes! On October 20, Totoki Yoshimori of Antler Prefecture and Akechi Mitsuhisa of Akita Prefecture attacked the Asari family and the Okaku family in the Binai region left and right.

In the face of the aggressive offensive of the Tsugawa family, the lowly Daikata family and the Asari family symbolically resisted for two more days before surrendering Kaejo. At present, Daikata Katsuyori and Asari Noriyu have been escorted to Ueno Castle to wait for the fate of Tsugawa Soji.

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Inside the castle tower of Ueno Castle, the retainers of the Tsugawa family sat in three rows on the left and right, waiting for the arrival of Tsugawa Soji.

And today, because of the assessment, Soharu Tsugawa also got up early in the morning. Originally, I was going to come to the castle tower early, but before leaving, something happened in Tsukawa Yashiki, and Tsugawa Soji had to stay at home.

"Yukihime is sick? Is it badly ill? Looking at Xiaolan beside him with an anxious face, Tsugawa Soji said with a worried face. Since Soji Tsukawa stayed in Lola's room last night, he didn't know much about Yukihime's situation.

Xiaolan said in a panic, "I don't know why, early this morning, the concubine was originally going to look for Xue Ji to go to the castle town together." As soon as Xue Ji and her concubine walked out of the room, Xue Ji covered her heart and said that it hurt, and then she lay on the ground with a pale face. ”

"What?" As soon as he heard Xiaolan's words, Tsugawa Soji was also anxious, this symptom sounded unusual, and Tsugawa Soji couldn't care about anything else, so he hurriedly said, "Go and call a doctor!" With that, Soji Tsugawa strode towards Yukihime's room.

As soon as he walked into Yukihime's room, Soji Tsugawa saw Yukihime lying on a tatami mat.

At this time, Yukihime closed her eyes tightly, and there was no blood on her face, Soji Tsugawa gently came to Yukihime's side and reached out to touch Yukihime's forehead.

"It's not hot, it doesn't seem to be a fever!"

"I didn't sweat and I was breathing steadily, what was going on?" After all, Tsugawa Soji is just an ordinary otaku, although he was baptized in the environment of the Great Celestial Empire in the later generations, but he also knows some common daily diseases at most.

If it's a cold or fever, Tsugawa Soji still knows, but looking at Yukihime's current situation, Tsugawa Soji is at a loss.

"How has Yukihime been doing in the last few days?" Soji Tsugawa said to a maid standing beside him at this time.

The maid hurriedly knelt on the ground and whispered, "The hall, Madame has nothing abnormal in the past few days, but she suddenly fainted this morning." ”

"Fainted?"

"How can a good person faint?" Soji Tsugawa looked back at Yukihime, and his heart was very worried.

In such an era, a small illness can kill a person if he is not careful! There are diseases that may seem small in later generations, but they may be incurable in this era. The quality of the doctor is one thing, and more importantly, the root cause of the disease cannot be found. Without those sophisticated medical machines, it's hard to find something that works these days.

Soji Tsugawa sat anxiously beside Yukihime waiting for the arrival of the healer, while several maids in the room stood aside tremblingly, not daring to catch a breath.

Half an hour later, Xiaolan finally entered the room with the healer.

"The main hall, this is Yutaro Matsumoto, the best healer in Ueno Castle." Xiaolan pointed to an old man in his forties and fifties beside him and said slowly.

Yutaro Matsumoto also hurriedly bowed to Soji Tsugawa, and then said nervously, "Villain Yutaro Matsumoto, I've seen an adult!" ”

"Yutaro, help the family to see what kind of illness Madame is suffering from!" Soji Tsugawa didn't wait for Matsumoto Yutaro to say more, so he directly pulled Matsumoto Yutaro to Yukihime's side, and said eagerly.

Yutaro Matsumoto didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly took out a piece of filament cloth from the box he was carrying, put it on Yukihime's hand, and then stepped forward to check the pulse.

After about half an hour, Matsumoto Yutaro raised his eyes, then stood up from the ground and whispered, "Can you take a step to speak?" ”

Hearing Matsumoto Yutaro's words, Tsugawa Soji's heart sank, isn't this Nima the usual comfort Dafa of those doctors in later generations......... Could it be that my Yukihime has some serious illness? Soji Tsugawa's heart tightened, but as the head of the family, sometimes he had to stand up, and if he panicked, then the others couldn't calm down.

Took Matsumoto Yutaro out of the room, and after coming to the porch, Tsugawa Soji said, "Yutaro, if you have anything to say, don't worry, this family can stand it!" After saying that, Soji Tsugawa showed a resolute look, ready to accept the bad news.

"Forehead......." looked at the appearance of Tsugawa Soji, and Yutaro Matsumoto felt a pain in the egg, "My lord, Mrs. Xue's illness is not very serious, and she only needs to recuperate for a period of time and it will slowly improve." ”

"Huh?" Tsugawa Soji was stunned for a moment, and then said with a happy face, "Is this true?" Is Yukihime really okay? Tsugawa Soji thought he had misheard, and suddenly asked excitedly.

Yutaro Matsumoto nodded, "Madame Snow is breathing steadily, but her body is a little weaker. It should be that the child has just been born, and he is weak after giving birth, and he only needs to pay attention to rest to recover slowly. ”

"Woo ........." After listening to Yutaro Matsumoto's words, Soji Tsugawa breathed a long sigh of relief.

However, Soji Tsugawa immediately had another question, "But even if you are weak, you shouldn't faint?" And I can't wake up for a long time, why is that? ”

After listening to Tsugawa Soji's words, Matsumoto Yutaro looked around for a while, and then said with a solemn face, "My lord, when the villain took the pulse, he found a trace of abnormality, and then looked at Mrs. Xue's face, I'm afraid that Mrs. Snow has a reason in addition to her weak body." ”

"What is the reason?"

"Poisoned!"