"Since Mr. Kamisuke-sama is no longer Lord Sasa's favorite candidate, I wonder if you have considered it?"

Akechi Mitsuhide whispered.

As a close minister of Nobunaga, although he dared to speak out at this celebration banquet, he did not want to be known by others, so as not to spoil the harmony between the two sides.

Cheng Zheng lowered his head and thought about it, and suddenly turned around and bowed shallowly to Guangxiu:

"Thank you for your life-saving grace, if you hadn't commanded the soldiers of the Wise Family to enter the battlefield, I'm afraid that Chengzheng would have already become a ghost under the Inasheng Plain."

Guangxiu Feng smiled and accepted this gift calmly.

"I was originally ordered to escort Lord Sasa back to Cheongju, so what I did was also within my obligation, not to mention...... Lord Sazo is a talent I value, easy to come by, but hard to find. ”

Cheng Zheng also nodded, and asked suddenly:

"I already understand what Wise Lord means, but at the moment, you are just the lord of Mino's county, and even if you have the best iron cannon team in the world, your strength is still too weak at this moment. What basis do you have for me to serve you? ”

"Oda Nobunaga is a man with the ambition to swallow the world, I don't know where the wise man is?"

In the face of Cheng Zheng's series of questions and considerations, Wise Guangxiu's eyes also ignited a long-unseen enthusiasm, and he seemed to remember something, remembering the glory of the empire that had boiled in the blood and was deeply rooted in the bone marrow.

"Maybe it's scary to say."

After a while, Wise Mitsuhide pulled himself out of his remembrance and said with a little self-deprecation:

"My ambition is to be an empire on which the sun never sets!"

The sun doesn't set?

Cheng Zheng's eyebrows twitched, obviously not understanding the origin of Akechi Mitsuhide's words. Was he referring to Great Britain?

He pretended to be puzzled in an instant, and after a while, he made a look of not knowing how to pretend to understand:

"Wise Lord has this ambition, congratulations below."

Guangxiu saw Cheng Zheng's expression, and his heart was also quite gloomy, what he asked for was still too ethereal.

The next day, Chengzheng returned to Hira Castle and hid in his house and closed himself.

Oda Nobunaga, on the other hand, forgave Shibata Katsuie's actions and won Shibata Katsuie's allegiance with a promise that he would not harm Oda Nobuyuki.

As for Akechi Mitsuhide, he actually became a lobbyist for Nobunaga, entered Suemori Castle alone, and persuaded Oda Nobuyuki to surrender.

Akechi Mitsuhide verbally said that the Oda family and the Saito family were friendly neighbors, so it was also appropriate to help each other. But only Narumasa knows that in line with the principle that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, Mitsuhide will definitely help Nobunaga.

Because he wants to plot the world, the first step is to replace Saito Yoshiryu and become the lord of Mino.

Nobunaga and Yoshiryu, on the other hand, are only maintaining a weak balance at the moment, so they have not made a big move.

Therefore, Mitsuhide's motives for helping Nobunaga are self-explanatory.

About half a month after returning to Hira Castle, a guest suddenly came.

"Who's coming?"

Sasa Seimasa leaned against an old tree, but asked without looking back.

"The other party is short in stature and covers his face, thinking that it may be a woman."

Murai Sadakatsu stood aside and said respectfully, he was a ronin from Owari Kami-four Gun, just ten days ago, he was hired by Seimasa with a salary of 10 years to come to Hira Castle to assist Naruma in handling idle affairs.

"Women?"

Cheng Zheng raised his eyebrows, and his heart moved.

"Please come in."

"Hay!"

After Zhensheng left, Cheng Zheng couldn't help but guess, who would be the person who came, could it be Gui Die?

He immediately shook his head again, rejecting the idea.

A few days ago, he had written a letter to Gui Die, sincerely apologizing to her for killing Michizo, and at the end of the letter, he asked for a date - in the name of apologizing in person.

It is true that Chengzheng doesn't feel that he has anything wrong with killing Saito Michizo, but women always need to be coaxed, does he still have to make him and Guidie turn against each other and die because of the dead man of Daosan?

Therefore, Narumasa asked Keiji Maeda to deliver the letter, and after that, he waited for several days in Hira Castle, and now he finally heard back.

Of course, Cheng Zheng was overjoyed.

Considering Guidie's identity, it seems that it is not convenient to leave Cheongju City, so it should be Shenxue who came here to deliver the letter.

Shenxue is the maid who followed Guidie when she married to Owari, although she did not look like a disaster to the country and the people, but she was also quite watery, especially her snow-white complexion and dark eyes, which looked very pleasing to the eye.

In a moment a moment a woman came into the courtyard, dressed in tattered peasant clothes and with a tattered hat on top of her head.

Cheng Zheng looked at the man, and his heart was really her.

"Ah Xue, did Gui Die let you come?"

"Yes, this is the princess's letter, please take a look at it."

The woman took off her hat, revealing a small face as white as jade, it was Shen Xue, the maid of Gui Die, and she took out a neatly folded letter from her bosom and handed it to Cheng Zheng with both hands.

Sazuo Chengzheng couldn't wait to grab the piece of paper, and after opening it, the sight was Gui Die's beautiful handwriting, he first hurriedly browsed it, and then began to read it carefully word by word, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily raised a smile, sweeping away the gloom of the past few days.

"Princess, actually...... I don't hold a grudge against you, but she's nominally Oda Nobunaga's wife, so it's not convenient to meet you. ”

"Of course I know that...... I already understand what it means to return to the butterfly, and I will go to the appointment on time. ”

Sasa Narumasa raised his head and returned to his usual calm expression.

In the letter, Gui Die scolded Cheng Zheng again, but at the end of the text, he suddenly changed his words and said that he had forgiven Cheng Zheng, and asked him to meet in Tsushima three days later.

It worked......

Zuo Zuo Chengzheng's heart blossomed, since Gui Die was willing to come out to see him, he should be angry.

It's just that...... Since you want to see Guidie, I don't know what to bring her?

Cheng Zheng frowned and fell into deep thought.

A few days later, on a sunny afternoon, Guidie rode out of Cheongju City with deep snow.

She told Oda Nobunaga that she would go to see the lantern festival in Tsushima, an annual celebration that was supposed to worship the gods but gradually became a place of joy for people to gather.

Nobunaga didn't fully believe in Guidie, so he sent two ninjas to follow and monitor, but what he didn't expect was that the two ninjas were attacked by unknown people and fainted shortly after they left Kiyoshu Castle.

Gui Die didn't have time to care about why Shenxue was so far behind, she knew that it would be difficult for her to get out of the city once, she just drove the horses, kept running forward, kept running forward.

Her beautiful face tensed, she didn't have to think about anything, she didn't want to think about anything, and her pretty eyes stared ahead, where there was nothing but the earthy yellow road and the verdant fields.

Cheongju Castle has been left far behind, and in the endless dark green rice fields, the dusty road is like a yellow ribbon, and the butterfly is the spirit that travels on this ribbon.

In this still picture, she is undoubtedly the only one, and yet so small.

It's another fork in the road, and there's actually a towering tree.

Do you go to the left, or to the right?

Before Gui Die could make a decision, a figure suddenly flashed from behind the tree.