In the ninth year of Yonglu, 1566 A.D., the first month.

Vietnam, the city is born.

At this time, nearly three months have passed since the decisive battle between Li Xiao and Shangquan Xingang.

A snowfall fell on the Hokuriku, looking at the snowflakes flying in the sky, Kohata Yuzhen picked up the wine glass, took a sip of Tusu wine, and suddenly blushed on his face.

Kohata Yusada looked at the big wide room, where it was a lively scene.

Because it was the time of the New Year, all the retainers under Li Xiao in the Daguang room arrived.

In the past three years, as Li Xiao has gained a foothold in Hida in Yuezhong and opened up a territory of 30,000 stones, all the retainers have confidence in their future under Li Xiao.

With the prosperity of Li Xiao's power in Yujia in Vietnam, this New Year's celebration is much more lively than before.

From top to bottom in the castle, both samurai and ashigaru celebrate the festive season with their families and celebrate the joy of the new year.

This time is not only to celebrate the joy of the New Year, but also to celebrate Li Xiao's main room Yumi Kohata, who gave birth to a daughter for Li Xiao, the joy of full-term.

Kohata Yuzhen lowered his head, thinking in his heart that it was another year old, and before he knew it, he had been married to his sister for three years.

When, can I ......

Xiaohata Yuzhen fainted with cheeks, since the two revealed their hearts that day, although the two have been in love for most of the year, Li Xiao has never said anything about marrying her.

This made Kohata Yuzhen entangled in his heart.

Looking at the big wide room, there were retainers who congratulated Li Xiao, and Xiaohata Yuzhen twisted the corners of his clothes angrily.

Where does Li Xiao understand, Xiaohata Yuzhen has the thoughts of his little daughter at the moment, and now he has drunk too much and is slightly drunk, but his thinking in his brain is still clear.

is the so-called happy daughter, which just made Li Xiao happy.

At this time, a letter came from Sanada's house, and the letter was written by Sanada Yutaka himself to Li Xiao, in addition to congratulating him on his joy in making tiles, and at the same time intently asking Li Xiao for marriage.

It turned out that Sanada Masayuki's wife, Kyogozen, gave birth to a son named Genzaburo.

Sanada Yutaka means that he wants the Li Xiao family to marry the Sanada family in order to accomplish this happy thing.

Li Xiao was surprised when he heard this, he didn't expect Sanada Yutaka to ask him for marriage, but a year ago, he met Sanada Masayuki's pregnant wife Kyogozen on the way to the Takeda family's New Year's banquet.

At that time, Sanada Yutaka revealed this meaning in his words.

And a few months ago, when Li Xiao asked Takeda Katsuyori for financial assistance, Sanada Yutaka also funded himself 500 guan.

Now that I want to come to Sanada Yutaka, an old fox, I really won't be untargeted, and this hand is obviously a foreshadowing that has been laid for a long time.

Although Li Xiao is more wary of Sanada Yutaka, he appreciates Sanada Masayuki's eldest son, the future Sanada Nobuyuki.

This person was highly rated by Tokugawa Ieyasu in history.

Of course, as an examining son-in-law, you can't just look at your ability, the most important thing for Li Xiao is the character of the other party, and whether she can give her daughter happiness.

Sanada Nobuyuki is still quite reliable in this regard.

Later, his wife was Honda Tadakatsu's daughter, Honda Komatsu, known as the god of the heavenly bow hime.

Historically, the relationship between the husband and wife was quite harmonious, and after the death of Honda Komatsu, Sanada Nobuyuki was very sad, and wrote in a letter to others, "The light of my house has disappeared."

So no matter from all aspects, Sanada Nobuyuki is the person that Li Xiao can entrust his daughter to.

But in addition to Sanada Yutaka, Takeda Xiaoyaoxuan Nobuyoshi also expressed his intention to marry Li Xiao on behalf of his eldest son Heitaro.

Heitaro is also the eldest son of Takeda Nobuyoru, born in the third year of Eiroku, and is now exactly seven years old.

Takeda Xinlian is currently the pen of the Takeda family, second only to Xinxuan in the Takeda family, if Li Xiaoneng marries him, so the status of the Takeda family will be even further. …,

But his eldest son seems to be an unknown person, and in Li Xiao's mind, this person either died early or was a mediocre talent, so he was unwilling to marry his daughter.

So on the son-in-law, Li Xiao has a little meaning of Sanada Nobuyuki.

However, Li Xiao still doesn't plan to agree to Sanada Yutaka, which has a bit of the meaning of waiting for the price to sell, and at the same time, Li Xiao still has the concept of modern people in his bones, he doesn't want to set his daughter's lifelong event so quickly, and hopes that she can have her own choices and judgments in the future.

After all, her daughter is different from her eldest son, Li Zheng.

Generally speaking, in this era, as the eldest son of Li Xiaoyan, his main room is generally a political marriage.

However, as a man, if Li Zheng has a woman he likes in the future, he can marry another wife.

So Li Zheng just married more than a dozen wives and went home, and Li Xiao couldn't stop it.

But the daughter is different, marriage is a happy thing for a lifetime, Li Xiao must be cautious.

So he decided to refuse the two families, but he didn't tell Sanada Yutaka to die, but hoped to wait for his daughter to grow up before making a choice.

At the same time, Li Xiao also wrote a letter to Yumi Kohata, asking him to give a heavy gift when Sanada Masayuki's eldest son was full of age.

In this way, the future Junjie, whether he is his son-in-law or not, must be married.

Li Xiao was a little drunk, so he decided to go outside to dissipate the wine, and happened to see Yuzhen Kohata, so the two of them slowly walked all the way from Honmaru to Ninomaru.

On today's different day, the two walked in the snow and talked a lot, feeling extra warm.

When he walked to the outer curl wheel, he suddenly heard a noisy sound from the Otemon Gate, which seemed to be the voice of a teenager.

Li Xiao felt slightly strange, so he went to the Otemen Gate with Yuzhen Kohata to see what was going on.

I saw that outside the big hands, a teenager was arguing with the two ashigaru who were in charge of guarding the door.

Li Xiao and Xiaohata Yuzhen watched from the side, although the young man looked only eleven or twelve years old, but his figure was extremely tall, about more than 1.7 meters, a head taller than the two ashigaru guarding the big gate.

The young man carried a vermilion lacquer spear on his shoulder, and a gourd on the gun bar, but his body was dressed very simply, coarse linen clothes, not of a samurai, but of ordinary people.

The young man wiped his nose with a pitch-black hand disdainfully, and then lifted the belt of his trousers again, and whispered to the two feet: "Will you let me in?" ”

"Bastard," said an ashigaru, pointing at the young man with his spear down, "Today is the family's New Year's feast, and the lord sometimes sees a hairy boy like you." If you mess around here again, I'm going to do it. ”

"It's up to you to do it to me?" The young man looked up to the sky and laughed, and said, "I heard that Tajimamoru has the best marksmanship in the world, and he is an opponent who can fight with Kamiizumi Isemomoru, but as his subordinate, you are not enough, so let's replace it with someone else." ”

"Rampant, just by virtue of your appearance, you also want to be a warrior of your own family, so let's hurry home and grow all the hair." Not to be outdone, Ashigaru shouted.

The young man snorted and said, "Whether I can become a samurai of the Takeda family or not, it's not up to you, a little pawn, to say it, I came from Omi all the way, and the money has run out, if I don't see Lord Tajima Mamoru today, I will die of hunger." I'll say it again, I'm going to see Tajimamoru in the end."

"Nope"

The ashigaru roared angrily, and raised the spear in his hand as if he was about to stab.

"Well, in that case, forget it," the young man seemed to admit at once, stretched out his hand to spare his head, and said, "Then I'll come back tomorrow." ”

The difference between the contrast before and after made the two ashigaru stunned on the spot. …,

"You kid...... It's ...... to speak."

The ashigaru had just said half of his words, when suddenly the young man, his whole body rushed, and he rushed towards the big gate with a big gun.

The two ashigaru were caught off guard and were knocked over by each other at once.

"Haha, I'll just say, you're not my opponent."

After the young man put down the two people, he ran straight to the big hand gate, and beckoned to the two of them and said, "Don't send it, after I go back and see Lord Danma, I will make amends to you."

"You little ghost."

The two ashigaru were hit by this force, and the whole person was dizzy, so he could only lie on the ground and hum, while pointing at each other with his fingers, and scolded: "Bastard." ”

Ha ha.

The boy was even more proud, but halfway through he was stopped again.

"What's your name?"

The boy saw a man taller than himself standing in front of him, and he was so cleverly positioned that he was directly at the corner of the road, so that he could not go around the corner.

At that moment, the young man could only stop after a pause, and almost fell to the ground.

"What are you doing...... Blocking my way? The young man wanted to question, but he immediately saw that this person's clothes were different from those of the two ashigaru, and he was embroidered with family crests, obviously a samurai, and he did not dare to speak disrespectfully at the moment, and spoke softly.

The other party did not answer his question, but asked repeatedly: "What is your name?" ”

There seems to be a flavor in the other party's words that is not easy to question, as if only those who have been on the top of the world for a long time should have the tone of speech.

"My name is Fujido...... Why should I tell you? ”

The boy almost said the truth, but then realized that he had closed the sentence, and there was a little more cunning in his eyes.

However, the other party was not annoyed, but smiled casually.

At this time, the young man saw the two guards of the door, holding spears, and hurriedly ran to the front, knelt down to the man opposite, and said loudly, "Meet the lord"

"My lord?"

The young man was surprised, and then he hurriedly dropped the spear in his hand, bowed down and said, "My lord, I beg you to come out?" ”

"Oh? Is it? ”。 Li Xiao smiled.

"I was born in Fujitang Village, Inoujo-gun, Omi Province, and my father Fujido Toraka, who was a samurai, and then the family declined, and I was invited by Yokotani Yukidai to come to Echichu, and traveled thousands of miles to the Takeda family, and I implore Lord Tajima to include it."

"I see, you're Fujido Takatora, right?" Li Xiao nodded.

"Oh," the boy exclaimed, "it's Fujido Takahu down there. ”

PS: In history, the eldest son of Takeda Noburu was named Takeda Nobusumi, and he had no deeds, and he died at the age ......of seventeen.