Chapter 185: The Newborn Calf

Clan Zong thought that now there is Maeda Keiji by his side, and Ishikawa Goemon has already sent someone to recruit, this Fukushima Ichimatsu is too young, and it is not of much use for the time being, even if he is by his side, it is a burden, so it is better to let him return to Gujo Hachiman Castle and learn martial arts from Watanabe Moritsuna, thinking of this, I only heard Clan Zong shouting outside the door: "Keiji." ”

The door was opened, and I saw Maeda Keiji striding to the front of the clan, saluting and saying, "My subordinates are here, please give instructions to the lord." ”

"You immediately order someone to send this newly recruited servant to Hachiman Castle in the gun, and hand it over to Watanabe Moritsuna, so that he can teach martial arts, and there must be no mistake."

Keiji Maeda frowned, and after reluctantly answering, his eyes fell on Fukushima Ichimatsu again, and he scolded again and again in his heart, you little bastard, if it weren't for you bastard, the lord wouldn't have slept so late, and he could also take this opportunity to go to the sparrow house to experience the feeling of credit, but now it's late at night, and the beautiful water tea girls must already have a famous flower, even if they go there immediately, they can only choose among those broken flowers and willows, alas, it seems that they can only talk about it another day.

Within three days, under the impetus of Kinoshita Toyoshiro's large sum of money, rumors of bad luck for Ichimatsu had disappeared in the territory of Owari and had been replaced by a large amount of positive publicity, and the resentment of the Oda family's retainers towards the clan had also diminished a lot as the rumors subsided, and the business of the Sparrow House had returned to its former state, and because the samurai of the Oda family had long been accustomed to going to the pastime in their spare time, and in the past few days in order to resist the Takayama clan, they basically did not go, which made them uncomfortable. As soon as the rumors were quelled, they rushed to the sparrow house, so that the money earned in those three days was more than a month's income.

Inside the castle tower, Nobunaga was listening to the report of the ninjas under his command. The ninjas under his command are all over Owari, and when the rumors just spread, Nobunaga has already received a report, but like a fight between retainers, Nobunaga is not the first time he has seen it, as long as it is not to the point of no return, he generally will not make a move, and he also wants to take advantage of this matter to see how the clan clan will deal with it, if he can't even settle this little thing, then his status in his heart will be greatly reduced.

However, even though Nobunaga was used to intrigues, he really didn't expect that this would be the end result in the end. Now that the matter had been settled, Nobunaga put the matter aside and stopped asking about it.

In the samurai mansion, opposite the clan, a ninja wearing a Hachima ninja helmet and a chain steel armor was kneeling respectfully on the ground, and this person was Ishikawa Goemon, now he has a height of one meter five, because of the brutal training all year round, so he looks strong and powerful, just looking at his physique, even compared with ordinary samurai, it is not much. If his martial arts can satisfy the clan, then he can use it.

Thinking of this, I only heard the clan sect shouting: "Keiji"

"The subordinates are here, please give instructions to the lord." Maeda Keiji has been in a really good mood in the last two days, these two nights, whenever the lord is asleep, he quietly goes to the sparrow house to enjoy, and before the sky is bright, and then rushes back, although there is a feeling of unfinished, but in the past I don't know how many times stronger than before. Moreover, when the owner of the sparrow house saw that it was the lord's close attendant coming, how could he dare to be half lazy, let alone the matter of money. Now, Keiji Maeda really can't get back into it.

The clan didn't know that although he was here now, his heart was left in the sparrow house, and he only heard him speak: "Qingci, you go and try his martial arts." ”

Subsequently, the clan came to the courtyard with the two, Maeda Keiji wanted to go back to the room to get the spear, but the clan immediately stopped him, when he and Watanabe Shoutsuna competed, the clan could not care, after all, with Watanabe Shougang's martial arts, he would never hurt him, and it was impossible for Maeda Keiji to hurt Watanabe Shouzuna.

But now it's different, although Maeda Keiji's spear skills are still quite profound, but after all, it has not reached the point of perfection, and Ishikawa Goemon has just debuted now, and how capable it is still needs to be verified, if the two of them use real knives and real guns to take the written test, the clan is really a little relieved, in case of losing one person, then I'm afraid the clan will be able to regret the intestines.

It didn't take long, I saw that Maeda Keiji chose a wooden gun that was still handy, and after wielding it a few times, he set up a shelf, and Ishikawa Goemon chose a wooden sword, he was most accustomed to using a double short sword, but there was no such weapon in the samurai mansion, so he had to use it, and the length of this wooden sword compared to the wooden gun, it would suffer a lot in length, but as a ninja, Ishikawa Goemon was really not very good at long weapons, so he had to push for the second. ,

Because he didn't choose the right weapon, Ishikawa Goemon is a little nervous now, this is the first time he has shown his martial arts in front of the lord, and he can't fail to say anything, otherwise, not only will he be alone with the master's hard work, but he is also sorry for the master's teaching, so that even he is sorry for so many years of hard training.

In the past few years, in order to be able to protect the lord as soon as possible, Ishikawa Goemon has to add additional training content to himself in addition to completing the training tasks assigned by Wasuka Masakatsu, which has allowed his strength to grow by leaps and bounds in recent years.

Compared with the preoccupied Ishikawa Goemon, Keiji Maeda, who stood four or five meters away from him, was much more leisurely, he constantly kept the idea of contempt for ninjas, he looked down on ninjas from the bottom of his bones, in his opinion, a samurai born in ninjas, it is impossible for him to have a high level of attainment in martial arts, let alone the little fart kid in front of him who has not yet been in the Yuan suit.

Now Keiji Maeda only left half of his mind on Ishikawa Goemon, and the other half of his mind had already flown to the Sparrow House.

Seeing that the two of them had already set up a situation, the clan couldn't help but say to Ishikawa Goemon first: "This competition is to test your martial arts, so you can't use hidden weapons, you can't use the side door, you just need to use the wooden sword in your hand to fight, can you hear clearly?" ”

Ishikawa Goemon continued to stare intently at Keiji Maeda as he replied, "It's the lord, and the subordinates will not be alone in the lord's cultivation." ”

For Ishikawa Goemon's rudeness, the clan did not blame him in the slightest, but was very pleased that he could have such a performance, although now it is only a battle between the retainers, but he can be vigilant all the time, if he can have such vigilance when he is protected by his side in the future, this is enough to make the clan feel at ease.

"Alright, we can get started." As the clan's words fell, I saw Maeda Keiji pointing at Ishikawa Goemon with the tip of his gun, and said disdainfully: "Boy, you strike first, I promise I won't hurt you." ”

Ishikawa Goemon saw Maeda Keiji Toto, and he was no longer polite to him, only to see him holding the handle of the knife tightly with both hands, and his footsteps were close to the ground and carefully moved in the direction where Maeda Keiji was, although the distance between the two was only five or six meters, but Ishikawa Goemon was grinding for a long time, and he did not come to Maeda Keiji near him.

Seeing that he couldn't come over, Maeda Keiji was already a little impatient to wait, only to hear him say loudly in displeasure: "Hey, I said that you are still finished, if it goes on like this, it will not be finished tomorrow, do you want the lord to keep waiting like this, if you don't do it, then you are welcome." After saying that, Keiji Maeda waved the spear in his hand and changed from a defensive posture to an offensive posture.

And at the moment when he changed his move and the door was wide open, he saw Ishikawa Goemon run forward a few steps at the fastest speed, raised the wooden knife in his hand and slashed at Maeda Keiji's left shoulder.

Under normal circumstances, Keiji Maeda would be able to easily block it with the wooden gun in his hand, but who asked him to only wave the wooden gun on the side of his body in order to be cool, revealing his left body.

Seeing that the ferocious wooden knife was about to slash at his body, Maeda Keiji had no time to parry, so he had to take three steps back in embarrassment before he could dodge the blow. And after dodging, he couldn't help scolding: "Good boy, you dare to sneak attack, and you have lost all the face of the samurai." Today, I have to teach you a good lesson, and after the province, I will go out to embarrass the Gao Shan family, and look at the gun" After speaking, he raised his hand and stabbed a shot.

Ishikawa Goemon knows that his duty in the future is to protect the lord's safety in the dark as the shadow of the lord, as for the face of Maeda Keiji's mouth, he doesn't care too much, in his heart, if the enemy wants to assassinate the lord, then he only has two days to go, either the enemy dies, or he dies, and he has the responsibility of protecting the lord, and he can't die easily if he says anything, so he can only do everything possible to put the enemy to death.

Although Ishikawa Goemon is not very old, but his heart is very mature, the reason why he will not play according to the routine when he competes just now, in addition to wanting to show his martial arts to the lord, he also wants to take this opportunity to show the lord his alert heart.

But under his own sneak attack, this Maeda Keiji in front of him could be opened, so he didn't dare to be careless, and after seeing the spear stabbing at him, he hurriedly parried with the wooden sword in his hand.

Keiji Maeda has been smoked by the ninja in front of him, and he has never been so embarrassed except for suffering losses in front of his fourth uncle Maeda Toshiya and Watanabe Moruna. I saw that his shot was as fast as a shot, and he kept attacking Ishikawa Goemon, and Ishikawa Goemon because the weapon was not handy, and it was relatively short, it was not easy to turn defense into offense, and at present, he could only see the moves, and constantly block, although he was more passive now, but he had no intention of giving up, but waited for Maeda Keiji to show his flaws, and he would kill with one blow.