The princess of the Shibu Seien Kii Domain? Where does this begin? Isn't Jing Ji still on her way to Kyoto with the letter Jing Xun Donghime? I suddenly had a bad feeling in my heart, and then I thought of Yoshimitsu's previous sentence of "being related to the Imperial family and the Ashikaga family of Genji's lineage".

Obviously, the Imperial Family refers to the Kira family, including the three Imperial Gate families: and the Ashikaga family, there is no one else except Yoshishu's daughter Akiko.

In other words, what Xinjing agreed with them was not Jing Ji, but the daughter born to Zhou Jing and Mingzi?

So, which one did Xinjing Xu marry? If it's the eldest daughter, Takehime, I can still shirk it, because I've already promised her to Kamo Nobuhide and Mitsu's eldest son, Tsuru Chiyo. However, Shinjing also knows about this matter, and there is no reason to give Takehime to others again.

Then only Natsu, who I adopted as an adopted daughter, and as the elder of the Genji clan as Shinkage, he can indeed decide all the marriages of the clan family, the Goto family, and the Reneda family. But he should also know that since Yujin committed suicide with Oda Nobutaka, I have never let my daughters marry a daimyo other than the Pedro family, and Xia Jin is still young, and she has lived in the warm Jinai region since she was a child, with my love for her, I will never be reluctant to let her marry in the bitter cold land of the Northeast!

Unless he blamed me for forcing him to take a back seat, so that he wanted to make me angry and sad, I clenched my fists tightly, and I wanted to summon Xinjing immediately and ask him face to face about his intentions. However, Shinkei has not yet arrived in Kyoto, and there are two father and son of the Mogami family in front of me.

With a fluke mentality, I calmed down my emotions and asked Mogami Yoshimitsu quietly: "You want to go to the Kii Domain to visit" There are two princesses in the Domain, one is Naganaka Takehime, and the other is Xia Jin, who was adopted by me as an adopted daughter, I don't know which one Minister Zuo promised to marry? ”

"Naturally, it's Princess Xia Jin, so I will ask the Dongshan Hall about the princess's interest in the future!" Mogami Yoshimitsu explained with a smile, "His Royal Highness Zuofu once mentioned when he promised to marry, "Princess Natsutsu has always grown up by the side of Dongshan Palace, and she has won the favor of Dongshan Palace......"

"Smack!" I clenched the sandalwood rosary in my hand violently, "Xinjing really did it on purpose!"

In an instant, several thoughts passed through my mind. The first knee-jerk reaction was to call Shinkyo over and scold him harshly, making him change his promise to Mogami Yoshimitsu. However, not to mention that Nobuyai is not in Kyoto, even if he is, as a contemporary Genji elder and a former shogun, "it is not easy to change the promise rashly, after all, this is an extremely important marriage between the shogunate and the Kunichi daimyo, and it cannot be changed at will like those invented scripts in later generations." What's more, the head of the Mogami family and his sister-in-law set out at the same time, swaggering all the way to Kyoto, this movement is not insignificant, not to mention the northeastern feudal domains around them, I am afraid that most of the eastern kingdoms along the way know the news, and their father and son are also happily ready to welcome their relatives. At this time, if I hastily change my decision, not to mention the damage to Shinkage's personal prestige, the entire Kira family will have a bad reputation.

But "Is it just a concave sheep to let Xia Jin marry far away?" Can Xia Jin be happy like this? Can I bear it again? When I think of Xia Jin leaving the place where I grew up and going to the northeast, where the climate is very different, facing a husband and retainers who are completely strangers, and being separated from my homeland and relatives for several miles, and rarely seeing each other again, I can't help but feel a faint pain in my heart......

Xinjing, you have really grown up, and you can play tricks to make your father sad!

My strange performance is naturally not difficult to see by Yoshimitsu Mogami. He stopped talking knowingly, and lowered his head deeply.

"Ahh I came back to my senses and smiled apologetically" "I'm so sorry, suddenly a little distracted, that's how people get older...... What did you just say to Yikang? ”

"Back to the Dongshan Palace, it's ...... "Mogami Yoshiyasu is a little younger after all, I heard me mention him"

Hurriedly volunteered to explain to me, but was stopped by the old and sophisticated Yoshimitsu Mogami.

"Dongshan Palace, thinking about things naturally has to be talked about, they are all under the eyes, disturbed for too long, tired of the spirit of Dongshan Palace!" There was a look of sudden realization on his face, "Then retire first, and come to visit and ask for advice next time!" ”

"Really, it's a little tired," I sighed slightly, "so how about you come back in three days?" "Zhou Xin, send out Lord Yushou for me."

"Obey the instructions of the Dongshan Palace." Mogami Yoshimitsu and his son bowed deeply, stood up from the floor, and walked out of the abbot's hall with Zhou Xin.

……，……

Back in the room, I frowned and thought for a while, still feeling very embarrassed. Perhaps, the only way to do this is to wait for Shinkage and Keihime to arrive in Kyoto, and then Sī calls both of them to Higashiyamaji Temple, so that Shinkyo changes his decision, and unifies that Keihime will marry Keihime, and let Mogami Keihime and Mogami return to the territory together after getting married in Kyoto.

Now that Nobuyai and his entourage have arrived in Minami Omi, I don't believe how long he can linger: if he is impatient, I can immediately send someone to get him over as soon as possible.

As for Keihime, although it is outrageous for the two-year-old princess to leave the cabinet immediately after she gets engaged, she usually waits until she is five or six years old (Tokugawa Chihime is six years old, Oda Tokuki is seven years old, and Natsu is six years old this year), and I have decided not to interfere in the affairs of the shogunate, but now in order to keep Natsu, I can't care about that.

If so, things may be reversed. The Mogami family may be a little disappointed, according to their meaning, they are probably more willing to marry the princess of the Ashikaga family, after all, the Mogami clan is from the Osaki clan, the Osaki clan is from the Si bō clan, and the Si bō clan is the Ashikaga branch, marrying a princess of the Ashikaga family is far more able to suppress the Awaga family than marrying a princess of the Oda family. However, in the face of my personal request, they will still accept it......

I was a little relieved when I decided on this relatively reluctant plan, but another unexpected thing followed, and my plan immediately turned into a phantom.

The day after the Mogami family arrived in Kyoto, the head of the Ishitani family of the Kawachi Domain, Ninagawa Kinmitsu, also came to Kyoto. He is the son of the former shogunate government office on behalf of Ninagawa Kinaga, and he is also the nephew of Ishiya Yorita, and his mother is Nana's half-sister, so although Ninagawa Kinagatsune is against me, he himself has no credit, and I still gave him the status of a branch domain lord, and now I am replacing my cousin Ishiya Nobumasa to stay in Iimoriyama Castle and serve as the son of Ishiya Bekuro Gokuro.

Like the Mogami family, "the first thing he did after settling down in Kyoto was to visit me at Higashiyamaji Temple, and then told me the very unexpected news: Shinkei had married Kei Ji to the nine-year-old Ishiya Beskuro in the Kanto region, and the head of the family, Ishiya Nobumasa, had no time to be separated, so he was appointed as the agent of the Kawachi Domain, and participated in the engagement ceremony between Beskuro and Keihime.

Under normal circumstances, this is a non-semi-suitable marriage, and it is a common habit of this era for the Shigu family, as the mother of Xinjing, to marry the daughter of the aunt family as an uncle (some ethnic minorities in China even have the custom that the daughter of the aunt must marry the uncle's family). When Shinkage's eldest daughter, Wakahime, was born, Ishitani Nobumasa once asked Bee Suga Keikatsu and Akitsuo Fù to propose marriage to Shinkage. Xinjing also agreed, but it was a pity that Ruoji soon collapsed, so that the marriage could not be completed.

However, if Keihime and Ishitani Kikuro marry, then my plan will be completely shattered.

Aside from Jing Ji, where can I find a princess who can marry into the Mogami family instead of Xia Jin? If you want to redeem it now, you have to overturn your promise to both the Mogami family and the Ishiya family!

"When is this happening!" I'm a little angry.

"Returning to the Higashiyama Palace, it was half a month ago" Facing my uncle's yīn heavy face, Ninagawa did not dare to slack off and quickly explained the whole thing, "His Royal Highness Zuofu was stationed in the hot spring village at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Izu Province, and met the Kamiraka greeting team of the Mogami family, and then made this decision The news reached Kanto, and the feudal lord was very happy when he learned about it, and asked him to rush back to the domain and entrust him to enter Beijing to meet His Royal Highness Safu and Princess Keihime, and be sure to arrive in Kyoto before the two of them, in order to show the sincerity and gratitude of the family...... ”

I sighed in my heart, the power of resentment is really powerful. In order to calculate me, "Xinjing can be said to be extraordinary, and Plan 1 and timing are perfectly coordinated this time, so I can't cope with it at all."

This long-lost feeling of frustration suddenly crossed my mind: if Xinjing's prestige was high enough and he had mastered an elite force, and then calculated what would happen to me with this kind of energy? I shook my head slightly, but fortunately, I had already revoked Xinjing's title of leading the world's martial arts, and he couldn't have grown to that point: and he wasn't so decisive now, even if he resented me, he would only play tricks to hurt my feelings.

But in any case, since he chose resentment and hurt, it is impossible for me to fully trust him anymore, and it is obviously impossible for us to return to intimacy between father and son. Realizing this, I felt even more helpless and sad in my heart, even more drastic than Xia Jin had to marry the Northeast.

"Got it, you go down!" I waved weakly, got up and went back inside.

Inside, there are three things I hold dear to me the most.

The first is undoubtedly the Haiyue Knife, this knife is not only the bridge I came to this era, but also has been guarded by Xiao Xia for many years, it is the biggest thought she left me, and after I pass away, the court will definitely grant the god name, and the Haiyue Knife will also be enshrined in the Yongzhen Shrine as my god.

The second is the notes I am writing, which are divided into three parts, the first part is called "The Tale of Kira", which is the deeds of the Kira family before me, starting from the exile of Minamoto Nobuyoshi to Tosa Province by Taira Kiyomori, until Kira Nobunao was attacked and killed on the bank of the Niyodo River: the second part is called "Taizheng Junjian", which is my experience in governing the army, governing and using strategies for more than 20 years, and is ready to be handed over to the current general Kira Hirokei to be passed down from generation to generation as the general's family motto: the third part is called "Higashiyama Gossip", which is ready to record my spiritual journey of cultivation, I handed it over to the retired general Kira Shinkei so that he could understand my feelings.

However, now that I look at "Dongshan Gossip", which has just begun, I suddenly feel very ironic.

What can I record in this notebook? Nostalgia for a deceased relative? The helplessness of being forced to marry his adopted daughter Xia Jinyuan? Or is it the sadness of being calculated by the eldest son who has high hopes? Or is it the contradiction of resolutely preventing the expansion of his heirs after unifying and developing the "Japanese" capital?

"Zhou Xin, bring the brazier." I turned around and instructed Zhou Xindao.

The letter took the order and left, and in a short time he took the brazier and lit the refined smokeless silver frost charcoal.

I picked up the manuscript of "Dongshan Gossip" and threw it into the brazier without hesitation, and a fire immediately rose in the brazier.

"Dongshan Temple! Cannot! Zhou Xin couldn't help but exclaim. He knew very well that these three manuscripts contained my life's experience, which had taken me several years of painstaking work since my seclusion, and that they were not only of great significance to me, but also expected to be the treasure of the Kira family and even the whole of Japan, and their value was immeasurable.

"Don't worry about it!" I scolded him, gritted my teeth and tore open the "Taizheng Junjian", and threw it into the brazier part by part. Zhou Xin didn't dare to stop me, so he had to look at the brazier as if he was fascinated, his face full of regret, as if watching a peerless treasure being smashed and destroyed by me.

When I finally picked up "The Tale of Kira" and was about to tear it open and burn it, I hesitated for a moment and decided to keep it. This notebook is not written by me alone, but also includes the efforts of Motonobu Katsugano and the late Yasunojo Hayama and Akiyoshi Akiyama, and some of the contents were relayed to me by his grandfather. Therefore, I have neither the power nor the reason to burn this rare family history to the ground.

"Give this to Kishu Daiyan," I handed the Tale of Kira to Shushin, "This is the history of the Tosa Yoshira family, and it is also the history of the Kamikawa, Katsugano, Hayama, and Akiyama four generations of generations, and it should be inherited by him." ”

"Yes," Zhou Xin finally breathed a sigh of relief, "I'll send it over." ”

"Go ahead!" I said lightly, then turned and picked up the third treasure.

One is the feather board I gave to Xia Jin, and the "soapberry" that I secretly hid back then

Ball.

With a feather board and soapberry balls on my sleeve, I came to the edge of the cliff outside the temple. Looking down from here, you can see not only the road where Mogami entered Beijing a few days ago, but also the Shisei Garden where Xia Jin lived.

And it won't be long before Xia Jin will be escorted by the Mogami family and leave Shisei Garden for the northeast.

I barely hit it a few times, but my eyes gradually moistened and my eyes slowly blurred. And one of them didn't pay attention, and the soapberry ball actually broke out of my control and fell straight down the cliff.

"Oops!" I exclaimed, looked at the feather board with great regret, and tears finally welled up in my eyes.

"Dongshan Palace!" Hearing my exclamation, several monks who followed not far away hurriedly ran behind me, "Dongshan Temple!" What's going on?! ”

"No," I tucked the feather board into my sleeve, turned around and said calmly, "It's a little windy here, and it hurts your eyes, so you all stand down, and I'll go back to the abbot's hall." ”

The monk bowed to the side and made way of the middle path.

I slowly walked back to my lodgings, took off the Sea Moon Knife, and laid it flat on top of my knee. At this moment, I have no sorrow or joy, my mind is extremely clear, I close my eyes, and the memories of most of my life come flooding back, like a marquee flowing back in my mind, and finally freeze at the moment when I first saw Xiao Xia Jing. In front of her, still young and lovely, her clothes were shabby, she was holding a hunting bow, the bow and arrow were aimed straight at my neck, and she tilted her head and asked, "You guy! Now come into my house and do what you want! ”

It turned out that this was my deepest memory, and my eyes couldn't help but moisten again.

Xiao Xia, the biggest possibility that I came to this era may be for you! The rest of the deeds, the rest of the glory, are nothing more than a pile of ashes in the brazier.

It's just a pity that I can't understand until now.!.