"The elder brother may have been very worried that the Tokugawa family would come to the door, but in fact, the Tokugawa family did not have any empirical evidence in this regard, and if there was any evidence, then they would have been looking for trouble two years ago. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"Moreover, brother, you are the former governor of the family who has lived in seclusion, and you are no longer the master of the Maeda family, so the Tokugawa family should not have the right to interfere with the issue of a stepchild of the governor of the old family, right?"

"Even if you ask, there is a reason to use as 'for the stability of the Maeda family's inheritance' as a shield. If this is the reason, those retainers in Kanazawa Castle will definitely support it, and they will also be responsible for explaining the matter. ”

After explaining her own realization, Ho Ji went on to explain why she didn't have to worry.

Hao's tone was imposing on her brother's refusal, recalling her waywardness and strength when she was a child competing with her for her favorite things.

Although almost 30 years have passed, Li Chang still remembers it vividly.

Ah Hao, are you forcing me......

Richaga's expression now became very embarrassed, as if he had swallowed something jerky.

Although it was clear that his sister's request could not be granted, at this time, the governor could not refuse as decisively as before.

Obviously, he was so decisive and happy when he abandoned Sun Shiro a few years ago, but now he would retreat like this.

While thinking, Li Chang secretly laughed at himself a few times.

If it were his former self, if it wasn't his sister Haohime who was asking in front of him, he would have vetoed it and revealed this information to the Tokugawa family in exchange for the best interests of the Maeda family.

But now I don't seem to be able to do what I used to be.

Is it because of the pain? Or is it because several of my siblings have died? Or is it because of Aman's birth?

Family affection is really a painful and heavy thing, but it is difficult to let go.

When there was an accident in the Uki family a few years ago, when my sister cried to me, when I chose to live in seclusion, when Manhime was born, maybe I didn't know what to do about this kind of thing.

What would my deceased father do if he were in the same situation as me?

As soon as he thought of his deceased father, the Li family, Li Chang instantly thought of his mother Fangchunyuan.

"Ah Hao, have you told your mother about this?"

Richo suddenly diverted the topic and asked the question.

Houkie didn't know what her brother was thinking about now, nor did she know his intention to ask so, but she answered him anyway:

"Nope. Before leaving, I wrote to my mother to tell me that I was going to visit my brother in Echichung, but I did not tell my mother about the Xiu family. It's just that at the very end of the letter, I mentioned that I wanted to ask my brother for something. ”

"Yes."

"Why is my brother asking this?"

"Ah, it's nothing, it's just a little bit of a reminder of some of the questions my mother asked me before."

"Questions? I haven't heard of it from my mother. ”

"Haha, of course you haven't heard of it. Because at that time, Ahao, you weren't born yet. ”

Faced with his sister's confusion, Li Chang smiled faintly.

At that time, His Royal Highness Taiko was just a smiling monkey who lived next to our room in the Great Nagagaya. As soon as he thought of this, he couldn't help but laugh.

At that time, my mother was still a young woman known as "Ah Song". When I was a child, playing in the small vegetable patch in front of the longhouse, my mother inadvertently asked herself this question as if she were joking:

"Inuchiyo, what are your dreams for the future?"

Ordinary samurai children, after hearing this question, probably will answer such bold words as "I want to be a general in the future" and "I want to become a daimyo in the future". Looking back now, he feels that his answer at that time was really unusual.

But Toshinaga, who was still called "Inuchiyo" at the time, did not answer so. Much calmer than ordinary children, after thinking about it, he said to his mother:

"I want to live happily with my father, mother, sister, and sister in the future! It's best to be a family together! ”

Mother Ah Song laughed after hearing this, and then praised Li Chang well.

My dream at that time was very simple. I just want my family to live happily together.

But this dream seems to have quietly changed after adulthood.

When his father and mother asked about his dreams again during a casual conversation, he replied like this:

"It is my greatest wish for the Maeda family to be firmly established in the world."

And he did. At the time of the Sekigahara battle, he decisively abandoned his younger brother Rimasa and brother-in-law Hideya, and after Sekigahara, there was no pleading or action for the two. The reason why Li Zheng and Xiujia were able to live in seclusion and escape was actually the move of their mother Fangchun Yuan Asong.

Under his decision, the Maeda family successfully increased the number of 1,040,000 koku to 1,225,000 koku, and their status became more and more peaceful under the prudent rule of the governor. This is the foundation of today's Kaga Million Stones.

After this, Toshinaga had his adopted heir, Toshimitsu, marry Tokugawa Hidetada's second daughter, Suhime, to further stabilize the Maeda family's position in the shogunate, and then relinquished his position as the governor of the family a year earlier.

Looking at it this way, it really makes my dream come true.

Your dream has come true, right?

Well, it's already happening. The stability of the Maeda family has been guaranteed, and he has also given up the position of the family governor, and he can finally recuperate in peace.

The current chief asked himself and answered.

So...... Has your original dream come true?

It's not my dream as the governor of the Maeda family, but my dream as a person like Chiyo Toshinaga Maeda.

It doesn't seem to have materialized.

I am sick and dying until now, maybe I won't be able to live for a few years, and this dream has not been realized at this time.

The sisters are gradually passing away, the younger brother of the same mother is living in seclusion in Kyoto, and the brother-in-law has suffered to varying degrees since Sekigahara.

The Maeda family is becoming more and more stable, but it seems that the relationship between the family is gradually falling apart.

This doesn't seem to be the result you want to see, does it?

Li Chang is looking at his own life and the problems he is facing now.

Is he now the "Governor of the Maeda Family" or the person "Maeda Inu Chiyo Toshicho", coming and going to face his sister Haohime?

The responsibility of the family governor was relieved last year. My dream has also come true. My own task has also been accomplished. So, why can't you try to fulfill that dream of your childhood?

Let the family live happily...... I can also let my sister's family live happily, right?

Under this kind of thinking, he was slowly relieved, and at the same time, he also felt his old age and helplessness, which also made him laugh at himself again.

Sure enough, in the end, I still couldn't break free from the shackles of family affection.

Li Chang looked at his sister's still young face, and for some reason wanted to cry.