In March of the first year of Eiroku, the Seto Inland Sea was beautiful and the warm climate in the southern part of Settsu was many times more comfortable than going to the northern country, and on this day Akutagawa Yamajo was going to hold an important evaluation meeting, and most of the samurai of the Miyoshi family gathered together, and the samurai greeted each other while the governor was still in the stall.

Naito Sokatsu followed behind Matsunaga Hide, compared to a few years ago when he mastered the country of Tanba, the high-spirited appearance has changed greatly, the original fair complexion has become dark, a hideous scar from the forehead straight to the corner of the mouth, the whole person's temperament from a pampered general to a murderous middle-aged samurai, presumably he has experienced a lot of ups and downs over the years.

The ministers soon saw this important minister who had not been seen for many days, and they were very surprised to see his appearance, and after a moment of embarrassment, they heard Ichinomiya Chengsuke greet with a smile: "Hehehe, welcome to the return of the former guard!" In the past few years, the pacification of Tamba has been fought thanks to the application of Bizen Shou, and it is said that the Hatano family has surrendered, which is really gratifying! Come, please sit here! ”

The surroundings inadvertently swept Naito Sokatsu's left arm, stayed for a moment and quickly looked away, Naito Sokatsu has long been accustomed to this, his left arm has been hanging weakly, it is still the arrow wound received in the battle of Katsurakawa, until now his left arm still can't exert much strength, at most daily life is not affected, pulling the bow and shooting arrows is destined to be with him.

Since the defeat of the Katsura River, the Miyoshi family has changed a lot in recent years, the most obvious is that the Miyoshi family retainers are not as eager for quick success as before, after repeated thinking, the samurai of the Miyoshi family realized that they had neglected the most important background, and what was lacking was the cohesion of the people of the country to the Miyoshi family.

Before the rise of the Miyoshi family, although there were many samurai families who rose one after another, such as the Asakura family and the Saito family. Nearby ones such as the Rokkaku family and the Ouchi family are successful examples. But all of them have a distinct exception. They are either the foundations laid by the British lord who have painstakingly managed a generation, or they are the nobles of the famous families who have been entrenched in several countries for hundreds of years.

The rise of the Miyoshi family was very late, and when Funaokama fought together, he was only the head of the Awa Hosokawa family, and it was not until Hosokawa Harumoto annihilated the Hosokawa Takakoku in the collapse of the Great Things, that Miyoshi Motocho jumped up with his identity as the head of the house, and it has been twenty-five or six years since then, not to mention that Miyoshi Motocho was killed quickly, and Miyoshi Nagakei's boyhood was dormant for more than ten years. The battle of Taiheiji Temple jumped into the eyes of the heroes of Kinai.

It has only been fifteen years since that moment, and the Miyoshi family has risen so fast that it has not had time to complete effective integration and quickly expanded, and the bloated mechanism and the foam all over the body make the Miyoshi family look like an unstoppable behemoth, until the appearance of the Kira family gave them a head-on blow, and this big fat man woke up.

"Are you really awake? I don't think so! Matsunaga smiled and greeted the samurai who came and went, since the eight years of Shihe Yicun's death, Miyoshi Changqing has relied more and more on him, and now everyone in the Miyoshi family knows that this is a powerful speaker in the Miyoshi family, in addition to Miyoshi Yixian, Anzhai Dongkang, Miyoshi Kangchang, Miyoshi Changyi and other elders, he is the leader of the spectrum.

It didn't take long. Miyoshi Changqing appeared with a young nobleman, and it seemed that Miyoshi Changqing was in a very good mood. He was also in the mood to smile back at his subordinate retainers, but the aristocratic young man next to him was a little embarrassed, and he looked like he had just died of his father, and the name of this nobleman was Hatakeyama Takamasa.

The sovereign sat down at the meeting and immediately began, and after the approval of the daily government affairs report, Sanhao Changqing knocked on the chief to remind the governor that he was about to speak, and the ministers hurriedly sat down solemnly until he nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "Gentlemen! This is the high house hall of the three leading families, the humerus of the pillar stone court of the shogunate, but now he is exiled by the rebel minister An Mi Zongfang for no reason, how can such a perverse thief let my generation of hot-blooded sons and daughters endure, this family decided to send troops to Hanoi to crusade against the unsubordinate An Mi Zongfang! ”

"Yes!" The spirit of the Miyoshi retainers group was shocked and leaned over to promise, as for Hatakeyama Takamasa's expression of disgust and disgust was directly ignored, everyone knew that this guy's head was not very useful, otherwise he would not have been exiled by the family leader An Jian Zongfang, let alone hit a fatal blow by the attributes of his teammates in the Hexagonal Yixian Pit.

There is another point that the samurai here are reluctant to mention, when they all know today that the Miyoshi family started by doing business of betraying the lord and usurping the rebellion, the lord of the Miyoshi family, Hosokawa Harumoto, was locked in a small courtyard in Pumen Temple and could not leave forever, Miyoshi Changqing brazenly talked about benevolence, righteousness, loyalty and bravery, what psychological burden did they have as samurai? It's not them who are scolding behind their backs, the sky is falling, and there are tall people on top of it.

Hatakeyama Takamasa barely managed to survive the assessment meeting, spat at Miyoshi Changqing's departure, and said to his entourage with a gloomy face: "If I tell you that this bastard actually wants his family's Hanoi country, do you dare to believe it?" I really ate puffer fish gall and didn't look at what I was, the stall in Hanoi couldn't hold it, and this guy dared to take it! Bah! ”

The attendants hung their heads to hold back their laughter, but the staggered appearance still exposed their original intentions, what did you say from a family governor and ask us if we believe it or not, it must not be a glorious thing for our own Hanoi country to hold it, is it sure that there is no problem in saying it so openly?

Seeing that the situation was not good, Tange Sheng Zhi coughed heavily and calmed the attendants who behaved frivolously, but fortunately, the governor of the house still scolded Miyoshi Changqing's back and didn't notice the movement behind him, he knew very well that the Miyoshi family was monitoring Hatakeyama Takamasa's words and deeds all the time, and abuse of this level just now had appeared countless times in the past few months, and the Miyoshi family was stunned that there was no punishment action.

"The Miyoshi Repair Hall probably thinks that the Lord is a very ...... Funny people! Danxia Sheng Zhi wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, unable to understand why the governor was so funny, and dared to scold in front of Miyoshi Changqing's back, it seemed that Miyoshi Changqing must be able to hear it.

More than a dozen masters and servants of this line slowly left, and Matsunaga Xiucai slowly walked out of the corner, looking at the quiet and silent Shikiya collection around him, it was the time to rest in the afternoon, and there was not a single pedestrian on the trail, and he slowly walked along the stairs to a quiet Shikiya near Sannomaru in the mountain city.

The interior of the house is simply decorated, there is only a fire pit with a few cooking utensils, the fire in the fire pit is dancing to indicate that it is inhabited, and a rope hanging from the roof holds a soup pot. I don't know what ingredients are boiling, and when I walk from afar, I can ask a tangy aroma. The owner of the house doesn't seem to have returned. Matsunaga Xiu was not in a hurry, and calmly sat by the fire and waited.

After a while, the soup pot boiled and made a "gurgling" sound, Matsunaga Xiu suddenly felt a wave of hunger in his stomach for some reason, and he stood up and stretched out his hand to open the soup pot in a gaffe, and at that moment the steaming white gas hit his face, and then look at what kind of delicious food was in the soup pot, a pot of boiling snow water boiled a human head, and the human head was exactly the same as Matsunaga Xiu! The two dim eyes were constantly bleeding. And grinned at him.

"Ahh Matsunaga threw off the lid of the pot in surprise and stumbled a few steps, and suddenly there was a miserable laugh in his head, this laughter was so familiar like the sound he involuntarily made when he was planning evil things, and it was so uncomfortable to hear his own laughter at this time.

The room that was originally unmisseefly changed its appearance, the place that belonged to the entrance turned into a mass of thorns sticking out of the barbs, the surrounding darkness exuded an ominous aura, and the strange figures that could be seen at any time dangled in the room, the laughter became more and more strange, and a cold breath spread from the tail vertebrae to the back of the head, making Matsunaga Xiu couldn't help but shiver.

Then the laughter grew worse and worse. It's like the screeching noise of a steel knife scraping a cow bone quickly, making Matsunaga Shu can't help but scream and get up. Jumping to his feet in anger and scolding: "Guoxin...... Fruit Heart...... The old man knows it must be you! You come out for me! Come out! ”

The shrill laughter suddenly stopped, the eerie room regained its former tranquility and tranquility, the warm sunlight fell on his face through the cracks in the roof, and the feeling of the aftermath of the catastrophe made him a little happy, at this time, the melodious shakuhachi sound slowly came into his ears.

In the room, there was a figure dressed as a nihilistic monk with a head on his head, and the shadowy figure became clearer and clearer, playing very beautiful music and dancing hand and foot, giving people a particularly ridiculous feeling.

Matsunaga Xiu didn't make any moves, sat quietly in place and listened to a piece of music, and was in the mood to applaud lightly and thank you, and then immediately lowered his face and waited for the void monk, and threatened: "Fruitful monk, please remember!" The family gave you money and food, not to let you use this ability to scare the old man, let alone try to use your illusion to deceive people! ”

“…… Lululu...... Hehehe! The Void Monk let out a strange laugh, like some unknown bird calling, and sat down on his knees as if listening to his instructions.

"It's disgusting! Raising a dog also knows that when he sees the owner waging his tail, why did the old man raise such a group of white wolves! Matsunaga Xiu's eyes were about to erupt with anger, and finally swallowed this evil breath, and said coldly: "The old man told you two years ago that it will be of great use to keep you in the future, and now it's time to use you, prepare to go to Kyoto tomorrow, and try to sneak into the Nijo Imperial Palace, I have a decoction here for you, your task is to add it to the food of the Imperial Palace, don't ask why and don't talk too much, do your thing, after the deed is done, the old man will definitely give you a reward." ”

The Void Monk nodded and stopped moving, and Matsunaga held back his anger and put a thick paper bag on the tatami mat, and snorted coldly and brushed away.

After a while, the boiling soup pot overflowed a little soup and dripped into the fire, and a masked girl in black unconsciously appeared in the room, her long hair was tied up high and simply tied into a knot, because her facial features were covered by a black silk scarf, and she could only see her eyebrows and eyes.

Picked up the bowl and spoon and fished out the fresh mushroom stewed fish soup from the soup pot, gently lifted the corner of the silk scarf and tasted it, a satisfied smile appeared in the corner of his eyes, and said crisply: "That old bastard still wanted to occupy this girl last time, this time he must be scared!" Look if he dares to mess with me! Giggles! ”

If Matsunaga Shu were here at this time, he would definitely find that the dialect used by the girl was not an accent from the Kinai area, and the words and sentences had the unique temperament of the Kitakyushu region, and the voice of others sounding southern and northern tones would become a natural sound when it came out of the girl's mouth, and there was even a feeling of intoxication that made people fall into it.

At this moment, the Void Monk took off his hat, revealing the face of an old man who was about to die, coughed a few times and said slowly in a hoarse voice: "Do you remember what you just ordered?" Mixed into the Nijo Imperial Palace with the decoction, put the medicine in the food of the Imperial Palace, this time you must be cautious, he didn't explain the time, don't be too anxious to do it, be careful not to show the horse's feet and ruin the big thing. ”

"Got it. Master, you are so long-winded! It's not a good thing that guy told us to do it. Hum! The girl took the fragrant white rice and ate it with a fish soup stewed with mushrooms. After a while, he ate a small bowl of rice, and finally licked the soup bowl like a greedy kitten.

The Void Monk coughed for a while, his eyes swept on the girl's silk scarf, and he seemed to be able to see the flowery jade face hidden under it through the silk scarf, and said coldly: "My name is Guoxin, your name is also Guoxin, your future is burdened with my past mission, you should know the situation of our clan." I have traveled thousands of miles to bring you from Kyushu for the mission of our family, I don't care how much your national enemies and family hate, you must not mess up our affairs, otherwise I will never spare you. ”

The girl's body shook and her movements returned to normal, and she was silent for a while, picked up the paper bag and glanced at the void monk: "This paper bag contains a cold decoction, if the Imperial Observatory only takes it for a long time, most of them will not be able to give birth to a boy and a girl, even if you are lucky enough to give birth to a child, you will have a serious illness, does Master know?" ”

"What if you know? I don't know what? The Void Monk glanced over as if he didn't care, his eyes revealing a cold indifference and an unreachable sense of distance.

The girl frowned slightly: "That's the general's imperial station, the sister of Guan Bai today." Aren't you afraid of causing trouble? Did you know that doing so would ruin the future of the shogunate and the imperial court? ”

The Void Monk smiled and said, "Isn't that what you want?" The eighth grandson of Prince Huailiang, you should rejoice if you have a deep hatred of blood. ”

"There are so many sac balls in the family, and the men have resigned themselves to their fate. What revenge can I take as a little woman? The little girl sighed, and Gu Ying said with self-pity: "And my ruthless parents, they actually sold their own daughter for fifty times, they are so vicious and ask me to avenge the country's hatred!" Master, your attitude is very strange, why did your clan do this? The shogunate has finally stabilized its foundation, if it is so easily overthrown, is there anyone in the world who can calm the troubled times? ”

"Humph! You don't have to worry about that! Seeing the girl's eyes flashing with disbelief and suspicion, the void monk knew that if she didn't explain clearly, she would probably have bad thoughts, and coughed embarrassedly and sighed: "You also know what kind of people our clan is, born to do the next business, from scavenging and collecting corpses, killing pigs and slaughtering dogs, working hard to be a white beat witch, and even acting as a wandering girl, the river plain is what those nobles call us, we are like maggots hidden under the flashy society, symbolizing dirty and ugly things, and it has lasted for a thousand years, A thousand years!

In this millennium, whether it is the change of power of the Regency, the Imperial Court or the samurai shogunate, we have been watching coldly, neither participating nor getting any benefits, the world has been in turmoil for hundreds of years, fighting and killing or those people are nobles, or those people are ministers, we can only be untouchables forever, just because our ancestors were defeated by the imperial court and captured and reduced to slaves? Why should the old man feel sorry for this shogunate? ”

The words of the Void Monk reveal an important message, the force he represents is a force hidden in Japanese society for more than a thousand years, the Kawahara people are the so-called untouchables, their composition is almost like the caste system in India, the untouchables of the Ming Dynasty are all Zhang Shicheng's old subordinates, all of them are the victors and the losers are reduced to untouchables.

Since the Nara period, the large-scale military campaign of the imperial court against Ezo brought many defeated Ezo captives, most of whom were sent to mines or places with poor conditions as slaves, and a small number were reduced to untouchables.

By the middle of the Heian period, the group of Kawahara people gradually stabilized, and the grandson of the left minister Minamoto Masanobu, the official to the Senate, mentioned for the first time in the "Zuo Ji Ji" that the group of Kawahara people was mentioned for the first time, and the untouchables who lived by slaughtering livestock and other lowly industries could be mentioned by the high-ranking ministers, which shows that this group is no longer an insignificant existence.

From the middle of the Heian period to the present, it is more than 500 years, the ruler of the world has experienced the imperial government from the ruling minister, and the samurai shogunate has come to the end of the second shogunate era, and the Kawahara people, a group of people who are not counted in the household registration and are not accepted by the world, are also quietly multiplying, they are bystanders of each era, no matter how they struggle, they cannot get any forgiveness, so they naturally hate everything in this world, and this is the case with the Void Monk Fruit Heart Layman.

The name of Guoxin lay monk originated from the troubled times of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and he belonged to one of several branches of the Heyuan group of temples and shrines, and only the temples and shrines could accept people of unknown origin. Generations of fruit-hearted laymen have traveled the world under this name to practice the illusion of Middle-earth. The secret methods of Tianzhu and Siam gradually developed to the point where they have become an extraordinarily powerful major force among the Kahara people in the Kinai River.

The girl's brow did not stretch because of this. After thinking for a while, he suddenly giggled, and the piercing laughter gradually made the mourning expression of the Void Monk unable to maintain, and changed back to the drooping face that had not changed for thousands of years, and smiled gloomily: "The old man is not afraid that you don't believe it, as long as you know that we are cooperating with Namatsu Nagasu, and do your thing according to his instructions, after the matter is completed, it will be a good thing for both you and the old man, you are so smart that you must be able to understand this truth, right?" ”

The girl's eyebrows twitched slightly. There was a shallow smile in those big watery eyes: "Does Master fancy the potential of Matsu Nagaxiu?" Do you think he has the hope of overthrowing the Sanhao family and being the second of the Sanhao Changqing? But he's too old, his wastewood son is not as capable as his father, don't blame the ugly words in front, he will be the first unlucky person after the end of the three good families! Giggles! ”

The Void Monk sneered indifferently, "Don't you understand this truth when you are an old man? It's just an expedient measure at the moment, and it's so easy to find powerful samurai to bet on, these samurai have great prejudices against our clan, and even if they bet for more profit, where will they swear allegiance like those stupid samurai, we in Kawahara don't believe in gods and Buddhas...... Besides, the power of this Matsunaga Show is huge. We use his big tree to take advantage of the shade, and when we see a more potential martial artist in the future, we will kick him off. Let's take advantage of this moment to think about how you can sneak into the Nijo Imperial Palace. ”

After a while, the void monk explained a few words and left, leaving the girl staring at the medicine bag in a daze, and sighed after a long time: "We are all women, I have no grudge against you in the past, and I have no enmity in the near future, but I want to attack your child...... Don't blame me for being ruthless! It's really like this in this world, don't blame me! ”

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Echigo spring mountain town, Kira Yoshishi is like a hard-working little bee running in the flowers, and the decadent life of sleeping with a beautiful woman in his arms until the afternoon is simply heaven, and the retainers of the genealogy are also happy to be familiar with human affairs, no one disturbs his interest at this time, and it is understandable that young people are greedy for freshness, and they will always feel tired and gradually get better after a long time.

On this day, he hugged the straight tiger in the west pavilion and turned the clouds and rain, only to hear the laughter from the secret room: "A few days ago, I heard that Xiao Ahu's marksmanship and archery swept the Mutsu Qunhao, but Xiao Ahu didn't know that there were two big guns, one battlefield killing the enemy is invincible is for the dead, and the other is for the living. ”

After a while, I heard a fierce battle starting, and the man who was fighting between the two sides made it unprecedented for the woman to change to a female position, patted the straight tiger's buttocks and joked with a smile: "Let your rouge horse also taste the taste of a female knight, but I don't know if you, a female knight, can conquer my fierce horse?" ”

The red glow of the straight tiger bit her lip and moved slowly, and after a while, the sound of a cat barking came from her mouth, the man slapped a few times from time to time and was ashamed that she closed her eyes and did not dare to raise her head, and the delicate double pill on her chest was gently held by the man, so she heard him sigh and say: "Speaking of which, Xiao Ah Hu's chest is quite considerable, it seems to be bigger than sandalwood's, I don't know if it will be more fruitful under the massage in the future." ”

"Your Highness...... Boom! The pattern of the straight tiger made him feel unbearable, until the end of the battle into the halftime break, softly lying in his arms and whispering, this cloud and rain fought straight for more than an hour, and when he freshened up and walked out of the door, the sun was already setting in the west, looking at the brilliant and beautiful sunset.

Suddenly, I heard a voice from my back: "Your Highness! ”

"Who is it? Hey, it's you! Kira Yoshitoki turned around and looked at the short Lori with a double ponytail standing behind him, looking at him with big watery eyes, and asked ignorantly: "Why did Your Highness use that thing to deal with Sister Zhihu!" Why is Sister Zhihu's face red like a fever, isn't Sister Zhihu in pain? And why did His Highness and Sister Zhihu hug each other naked? It's weird! ”

“…… Nani! What do you see? Kira Yoshishi panicked and threatened: "This is the secret of me and your sister Zhihu, and you are absolutely not allowed to tell anyone about it?" The gods and Buddhas said that the little girl who talks nonsense is not tall and tall, do you know? ”

"Hmm! The Chiyo girl didn't tell anyone, not even Sister Tiger Ji, Sister Sandalwood, Sister Aju, Sister Aya, and Ah Yuan and Ah Zhu...... But, but Chiyonu also saw Her Highness use that thing to do the same thing to Sister Tiger Ji and Sister Sandalwood! Why isn't there a Chiyo girl? Is it because Chiyo is too short? But Chiyonu has worked very hard! The stupid Lori muttered a bunch of things that were not there, and made Kira Yoshishi dizzy.

"When did you start peeking?"

"From the very beginning! It's your weird appearance in the first month, Chiyo Nu went to sneak a look at your movements, and then I saw His Royal Highness repeatedly doing strange movements, Sister Tiger Ji's cry is so strange and different from usual, but it's very light and crisp, Sister Sandalwood's voice makes people so shy, and Sister Straight Tiger's voice is so gentle and soft! And why do the three sisters lick that ...... with their mouths?"

Speaking of this, Chiyo Nu's face was red and she didn't dare to talk about it anymore, although she still looked curious and ignorant, but she subconsciously felt that it was strange, but she couldn't tell how strange it was, and when she raised her head to look at Kira Yoshi, she found that his eyes became brighter, and she nodded thoughtfully and said, "Chiyo Nu is also fourteen years old this year......

Chiyo Mochizuki blushed and whispered, "Fifteen! After the New Year, Chiyome will be fifteen years old! ”

"Uh-huh! The fifteen-year-old is indeed fifteen, and this head looks like a big girl, your tiger sister followed Yu at the age of thirteen, and the fifteen-year-old eldest girl should also be included in the side room......" Ji Liang Yoshishi's face showed a strange smile: "Didn't you just ask Yu why he wanted that?" Follow Yu to teach you slowly, don't worry! Several of your sisters have tried it before. ”

……

A few days later, a simple Natsuga-to-room ceremony was held in Kasugayama Castle, and the bride was Chiyo Mochizuki, who had already been decided, and on that day Chiyo Mochizuki officially changed her name to Mochizuki Yoshino, announcing the first step of this silly Lori to a married woman.

The Koga ninja represented by the Mochizuki family shouted long live, which was regarded as the first step for the Koga ninja to surpass the Iga ninja, and Mochizuki Izumo Mamoru Mamoru Yoshito, who was far away in Omi Koga as the gundai, also expressed his gratitude in a special way, and at the same time secretly sold the information inside and outside the Rokkaku family through the truth, and Kira Yoshitoki was very satisfied with the acquaintance of this cheap father-in-law, and made some promises to make him happy to do secretly. (To be continued......)

PS: I forgot to mention it in the previous chapter.,Uesugi Keishin's son Little Mage Maru is in.,But there are people in history.,Its Yuan is named Uesugi Keimatsu.,WikiJP is unreliable and there is no information about Uesugi Keishin's heirs.,As long as you scrutinize it a little, you will think that this family can't have no heirs.,Look at their family changed the seedling word Uesugi.,You know that the status of Echigo is prominent.,But this is true that he still died under the butcher's knife of Uesugi Keikatsu.。