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"Speaking of which, how is the old man of the guard? I heard that his health is not very good! ”

Remembering the watery Masanori, while drinking wine, he asked Nagamasa, who was still blue-faced.

"Ah, Father, it's not going to be very good."

Changzheng showed a mixture of helplessness and irritability on his face, lowered his head and leaned into Zhengzheng's ear and said this:

“…… It's been half-dead since a few years ago...... To be honest, I would rather see my father return to heaven soon. ”

"Hey, Changzheng, how can you say that about the old man of the guard!"

Masanori looked at the gloomy-looking friend in surprise and patted him on the shoulder.

Since the Battle of Sekigahara, this friend seems to have become more and more dark, and he is sometimes frightened by some of his unscrupulous heartfelt words.

After Edoyashiki was burned, Nagamasa's mood became even darker and darker than before.

"Justice, you don't know that the old retainers who followed him in my father's time and the other younger retainers who belonged to my faction have been messing around."

"Eh, is there such a thing? None of my retainers will be like this! ”

"That's your retainers! Although my father has been unable to sleep all the time, he has not died. Those old ministers relied on their father's still alive, and they didn't regard my Changzheng as the real lord all day long. …… Therefore, my father might as well return to heaven as soon as possible, so that I can deal with the problems at home. ”

The resentful expression on Changzheng's face became more and more obvious with the onset of alcohol.

"You guy, don't drink if you don't drink well! You're not my Fukushima Masanori! ”

"It's okay, it's okay! Hey, hey! Over there! Fill me up! ”

Seeing that this friend, who was obviously not good at drinking, was still desperately calling for the attendant to serve wine, Zheng Zheng was also very helpless.

……

……

In the courtyard where the young people live in Fukuoka Castle, there is a teenager practicing his marksmanship.

He was tall and muscular, shirtless, and was constantly doing the practice of wielding a spear and piercing.

"Oooh!!"

As he stabbed the spear several feet long, there was a sharp sound of breaking wind in the air from time to time.

The boy had been practicing for a long time wielding such a heavy spear, but he still didn't look tired. As he raised his gun, the muscles of his arms, which were so strong and undulating, reflected a beautiful halo in the sunlight.

After a long time, when the sun had risen directly above his head, the boy finally finished his marksmanship training.

He went back to his roof and sat down in the hallway near the courtyard and began to maintain his gun.

While wiping the tip of the gun with a cloth, he raised his hand and waved away the beads of sweat that were dripping from his head and thick chin.

Suddenly, the boy frowned, stopped wiping his hands, and his sharp eyes shifted slightly to the side, as if he was alert to some uninvited guest who suddenly appeared from the right.

"Hey, Kize!"

Coming from the right was a group of teenagers about his age. Their faces were full of pride and disdain, and they seemed to be mixed with jealousy and hatred for the young man in front of them?

"What's the matter?"

The sturdy young man known as "Kize" didn't even raise his head, just rolled his eyes slightly, and then continued to lower his head to care for his gun.

This young man is the eldest son of Goto Matabei Kiji, one of the Kuroda Eight Tigers, and Goto Kinori.

Kino inherited his father Youbei's sturdy figure and thick chin, and the father and son looked very similar.

As the son of Matabei, Kize's marksmanship is also very superb, and he is very diligent and diligent in practicing marksmanship, so he has been highly praised by many old ministers. Kino is not only very good at marksmanship, but he is also known for being good at drumming, and is known in the Kuroda family.

Kinori's personality is more calm than that of his father Matabei, and he doesn't talk much, but every sentence carries a lot of weight.

Now he also maintained this calm, facing these uninvited guests without any waves.

The group of arrogant teenagers who appeared in front of Ji Ze were the same as him, and they were the little surnames of the lord and the ruler. Most of them are the sons of Changzheng's cronies and retainers, that is, they belong to the side of the retainers of the Qingzhuang faction.

Because Kize's father, Youbei, was a retainer who belonged to the old minister's faction, and was disgusted, excluded and hated by Changzheng. Therefore, these young people are also very disdainful and rude towards Ji Ze, but relying on the protection of the lord and the long government, their attitude towards Ji Ze is becoming more and more unscrupulous.

There is an old saying that there is a dog with a good owner. Now it seems that this sentence is really true.

None of them are comparable to Ji Zhi in martial arts, all of them are mediocre people, and they are very inattentive to martial arts training, and laziness is the norm on their weekdays.

Because of this, they are very jealous of the basic rules who are not only skilled in spearmanship, but also extremely diligent in training. They kept suppressing him, bullying him, and secretly slandering him behind his back or in front of the lord and ruler.

For these rude young people, Ji Ze has always been dismissive. But under their long-term slander and suppression, even the basic rules that once disdained this and were very calm will inevitably become angry.

So it can be said that the days that Ji Ze spent by Changzheng's side as a small surname in the past few years were not pleasant.

But now in the face of these young people, Ji Ze still kept his calm for the time being.

"Hey, what, hey! Lord Nagamasa called you over! Honmaru over there! ”

The leader shouted loudly at Kize. Several others chimed in.

"Lord Nagamasa?"

Ki stopped what he was doing, nodded silently, and then calmly put the spear in his hand aside, and suddenly stood up with a "pop".

The little ones almost took a few steps back in fright, thinking that the tall Ki was going to do something to them.

"I see, I'll be right over."

But Ji Ze didn't even turn his head, didn't even look at them, just responded lightly.

"Know, know, good!"

"Yet, don't hurry yet, hurry over!"

"Be careful, be late, be scolded to death by Lord Changzheng!"

The little ones yelled at him in a bit of frustration, and then fled in a hurry.

Kinori ignored them, but turned around and carefully put away the spear, then straightened his clothes, left his room, and walked quickly towards Honmaru.

Behind the corridor that Ki Ze had just walked past, the group of young people were snickering strangely.

"There's going to be a good show to watch, well done!"

"Haha, let's see how he will be punished by Lord Nagamasa later......"

"It's obviously the son of the guard, how dare you be so arrogant, wait a minute to make him look good!"

"Yes, yes, that's what happens to those who don't obey us!"

It's obviously still a group of teenagers, but when they start to talk, they are as cruel and disgusting as adults.

They stared at Kize's back and snickered at their own cleverness.