The first spring rain that has been brewing for a long time has finally arrived in the Kushizaki Pavilion.

Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro lay on the tatami mat of the guest house, looked bored at the light rain, took a deep breath of the moist air, and said, "Kai is still not suitable for me, I miss Owari a little." ”

The other person next to him had a straw in his mouth, lying in the same position as Kinoshita Tojiro, looking out the window and saying, "I think you miss Ningning." ”

As soon as the man had finished speaking, he saw a woman with a bumpy figure walk by outside the guest house.

Then he got up and leaned to the edge of the pane, and as he watched, he was still smacking.

Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro casually picked up the clogs on the side of the tatami mat, threw it at this person, and scolded in a low voice: "The Wasuka family is really all thieves, and they don't look like a samurai as a samurai. ”

The man disappreliantly took away the geta that Kinoshita Toyoshiro had thrown on his body, clasped his hands on his chest, resumed his posture of sitting cross-legged, and said, "My lord, don't mention the past, what samurai is not a samurai, if it weren't for the support of me and the Sichuan people, you would still be a mere ashigaru head of the Oda family." ”

This samurai who was thrown by Kinoshita Toyoshiro is naturally the famous Wasuka Masakatsu, and the more familiar name is Wasuka Koroku.

Koroku is the leader of the Namikawa people, and the common name of the head of the Wasuka family from generation to generation.

Kinoshita Toyoshiro heard Wasuka Masakatsu say this, and said angrily: "Do you want to keep mentioning the past to me?" ”

Wasuka Masakatsu laughed and said, "Isn't this what you mentioned first?" ”

Kinoshita Toyoshiro and Masakatsu Wasuka looked at each other like cross-eyed for a while, raised their heads together, and laughed.

Kinoshita Toyoshiro let out a unique harsh and ugly laugh.

Immediately, Kinoshita Toyoshiro squatted beside Wasuka Masakatsu, looked at the woman outside the window, nodded and said, "It's really good, I really want to find a chance to fall in love with this woman." ”

Soon the woman hurried by, and the figure disappeared in front of the two of them.

Kinoshita Toyoshiro and Masakatsu Wasuka both showed regret, and then squatted on the ground side by side, keeping their old habit and putting their hands in their arms to keep warm.

Kinoshita Toyoshiro and Masakatsu Wasuka are poor friends, and the two first met at the Yasaki River Bridge in the territory of Owari.

At that time, Kinoshita Toyoshiro was sleeping on the bridge, and Wasuka Masakatsu happened to step on his head, so Fujiyoshiro grabbed Wasuka Masakatsu's spear and reasoned, so the two did not know each other, and they became friends at the moment.

After that, Wasuka Masakatsu led the Nagawa people to Kinoshita Toyoshiro to help him in the Mino strategy, and became a samurai of the Oda family.

Oda Nobunaga sent Masakatsu Bee to Kinoshita Toyoshiro as a yori.

Kinoshita Toyoshiro and Bee Suga Masakatsu are not samurai, Kinoshita Toyoshiro doesn't say it, Bee Suga Masakatsu says that he is a Chinese if he sounds good, and he is a water thief if he says it is ugly.

And this habit of being a thief was maintained until the descendants of Masakatsu Besuka.

During the Meiji period, the emperor gave a banquet to the Marquis Bee Suka Shigeo, during which the Bee Suka Shigero took the opportunity to steal a silver cup in front of the Meiji Emperor's court, but the emperor found out.

Meiji said unceremoniously on the spot: "It seems that the Wasuka family still hasn't gotten rid of the ancestors' habit of being thieves." ”

Kinoshita Toyoshiro and Wasuka Masakatsu are not as respectful and inferior to each other as the samurai, so they still talk to each other from the bottom of their hearts, and they have no scruples about each other, more like a relationship between friends.

Wasuka Masakatsu sighed and said, "I still miss my time when I was in Kisogawa, but after becoming a samurai, I always feel less comfortable than before." ”

Kinoshita Tojiro stood up and said, "Little Liu, I'm different, I'm a monkey, I must get ahead in this life." Wake me up, remember the mission that the Lord bus has given us? Think about what to do next? ”

Wasuka Masakatsu heard Kinoshita Toyoshiro urging like this, waved his hand impatiently, but instead fell down, lay on the ground, and said lazily: "Isn't there Lord Oda Sabu, who is in charge of this matter?" Let's do our part, or is it more meaningful, eh, what do you say is good for lunch? ”

Kinoshita Toyoshiro stretched out his foot and kicked Wasuka Masakatsu to the side, his hands crossed on his chest, as if he was talking to himself: "Bastard, the Oda family, except for the lord, is a group of rice buckets. After Oda Sabu came to Kai, he only knew all day about attending banquets, and when he took the affairs of the lord to heart. ”

Speaking of this, Kinoshita Toyoshiro Huo Ran stood up and said: "I can't waste any more time, Takeda Yoshinobu's rebellion has failed, and it will be dealt with like this afterwards, presumably Takeda Shingen has not made a final decision at this moment, the alliance between the Takeda family and the Imagawa family must be broken, now is a good opportunity for me to fight for my family, if I perform well and reach the Takeda Oda Alliance, the lord will definitely appreciate me more." ”

"But where is the breakthrough?" Kinoshita Toyoshiro continued to talk to himself, when suddenly he paused, slammed his right hand into a fist on the palm of his left hand, his eyelids rolled up, and he looked refreshed, and his eyes flashed like goldfish.

"Little Liu, come with me, we're going to go out right now." Kinoshita Toyoshiro said hurriedly.

"Is it raining? Where to go? Wasuka Masakatsu couldn't help but ask in surprise.

"Go to Li Xiaodan's mansion."

"Li Xiao, it's the samurai from the Ming Kingdom," Wasuka Masakatsu shook his head and said, "You're not mistaken, didn't he cheat the lord's beloved horse from you last time, and kidnapped your younger brother to become his samurai." What are you going to send this time? Is it ......?"

Then Wasuka Masakatsu showed a look of sudden realization, shook his head and said, "No, I can't let you sell it." ”

After speaking, Wasuka Masakatsu added another sentence and said, "I'm not interested in the way at all. ”

Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro said with a sneer: "If Lord Li Xiao is interested in you, I won't feel sorry for me to send you out, but unfortunately, he is not good at this." ”

After a pause, Kinoshita Tojiro said: "If you lose something from someone else, you have to get it back from someone else, otherwise the previous black forging will not be given away in vain." If I'm willing to give something away, I have to get three times the reward back from someone else. ”

In a low tea room.

Li Xiaozheng sat holding the tea bowl with his left hand and the tea whisk in his right hand, carefully stirring the tea powder and water in the tea bowl.

At this moment, Kinoshita Tojiro and Wasuka Masakatsu were kneeling down on his hands, watching Li Xiao personally order tea for them.

Wasuka Masakatsu, who was born as a rough man, couldn't stand this atmosphere for a long time, and couldn't help but yawn.

But often when he behaves like this, Kinoshita Toyoshiro will turn his eyes horizontally, reminding him not to make mistakes.

So Wasuka Masakatsu smashed his mouth and stared boredly at the top of the low tea room.

"Alright, let's enjoy it."

Li Xiao put the slightly white tea bowl in front of Kinoshita Tojiro.

Immediately, Kinoshita Toyoshiro and Masakatsu Wasuka saluted together.

Kinoshita Toyoshiro said, "Thank you, but Lord Mamori, personally order us tea." ”

After thanking him, Kinoshita Toyoshiro picked up the tea bowl with both hands, slowly turned it around in his palm three times, admired the pattern of the tea set, the tea color in the tea bowl, and finally approached the tip of his nose and gently inhaled on the tea bowl.

After all this was done, Kinoshita Toyoshiro picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, then smiled slightly, nodded to Li Xiao, and passed the tea bowl to Wasuka Masakatsu.

And Wasuka Masakatsu did the same thing as Kinoshita Toyoshiro did, with an acceleration of 50 percent, and after doing it again, he also picked up the tea bowl and took a sip.

Li Xiao watched the movements of these two people, thinking to himself that Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro had just drunk tea, and he did not do a good job at all, not only among the samurai, but also among the ministers.

Historically, it has been said that Kinoshita Toyoshiro loves the tea ceremony, and this is indeed true.

After drinking the tea, Kinoshita Tojiro opened the topic and asked, "Dare to ask Lord Tajimamoru, this tea bowl is a famous thing from the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Li Xiao said with a smile: "It's not from the daimyo, it's just an ordinary imagin, and it's a shame to learn the tea ceremony at the beginning of the day, and there is really no good tea set to entertain you." ”

Kinoshita Tojiro smiled and said: "But Lord Mamori is too polite, but it is already my honor for Kinoshita to have you order tea yourself. ”

Li Xiao heard that Kinoshita Tojiro was going to give him a gift again, and he couldn't help but squint his eyes at the moment, thinking to himself, isn't the lesson you received last time enough?

Li Xiao said lightly: "Kinoshita-sama, it's too polite. ”

Immediately, Kinoshita Toyoshiro took out a box from behind him, and then slowly opened the lid.

Li Xiao saw that a ceramic tea bowl made of vermilion clay was displayed in the lid.

Li Xiao took out the tea bowl with both hands, looked at it carefully in his hands, and wondered what Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro had for sending this tea bowl to himself.

At this time, Kinoshita Toyoshiro smiled and said, "This is our Tokonamei ware of Owari Province, please don't dislike it." ”

"Tokonameyaki?" Li Xiao was stunned for a moment, Tokoname is the ceramics produced in Tokoname City, Aichi Prefecture, and is known as the six ancient kilns.

By the Kamakura period, Tokoname ware was already widely used in the original and became a major use of ceramics.

Because it is widely circulated, the price of Tokoname-yaki is not expensive.

Although the gift is not expensive, Kinoshita Tojiro gave Li Xiao a specialty from his hometown, which is not a rude.

Li Xiao suddenly remembered that the value of Tokonamei to the Oda family, similar to the role of green ramie for the Uesugi family, are all special products in the collar, similar to today's fist products.

In history, the two generations of the Oda family, Oda Nobuhide, Oda Nobunaga, with Tokoname-yaki circulation and sales, accumulated a large amount of wealth, which supported the Oda family's frequent foreign wars.

Li Xiao thought about this, and immediately understood what Kinoshita Tojiro meant, it turned out that he was using this Tokokayaki to metaphorize the power of the Oda family behind him.

(To be continued)