Chapter 33: Mid-Autumn Festival
On the tenth day of the first month of August, the news that the Imagawa family went out to Nishimikawa has spread, and the unresponsive Oda family finally reacted, and the lord of Anxiang City, Oda Okuma, took out the retainers to contact the Kira family, hoping that the Kira family could come out to aid Anxiang City again, because in the past few years of the Anxiang City battle, the Kira family will symbolically send three or five hundred people to fight soy sauce every time, and Oda Nobuhiro's request is not too much.
But this time the Oda family must be disappointed, because Okochi Nobusada blocked the messenger as the queen of Kira Manmatsumaru, the old man of the Kira family, the reason is that it is very ridiculous "The autumn harvest is not over", the autumn harvest of the Kira family is not over, even after harvesting the grain, it still needs to be dried and shelled, counted and stored, so I can only say sorry to Oda Okumamori.
It is said that the face of the messenger of the Oda family changed at that time, and he froze there for a while and no one paid attention to him for a long time, and finally scolded and rode a horse and turned his head back, in short, the Oda family probably also knew that the Kira family had plans to watch the play, as for the secret agreement with the Imagawa family or something, the Oda family thought it was unlikely, after all, the Kira family and other famous families regarded face as more important than life.
The Kira family knows that Yamamoto Kansuke is Kira Manmatsumaru's very relied on minister, and at the same time he also serves as Kira Manmatsumaru's assistant, and there is no territory in the Kira family, but he receives 500 Kan Wennian as his direct retainer, and everyone knows that he will definitely follow Kira Manmatsu Maru Shangluo, so the small assessment meeting quickly passed the appointment, as Kira Manmatsumaru's handpicked as the auxiliary retainer of Kamiraku Fenggong, responsible for the preparation of Shangluo Fenggong.
This appointment decision is very good, but things are not easy to do at all, especially Kira Manmatsumaru, the hand-off shopkeeper who handed over the matter to him and didn't ask anything, Yamamoto Kansuke could only go to Saijo Castle to rummage through the old shrine of Kira's family, but as soon as he found out, he knew how complicated the preparations of Kamiraku Fenggong were, first to write a book to the shogunate, and then stipulate what things to bring and what gifts to prepare, the route along the road to Luo, where to rest, and so on.
And the most outrageous thing is that these preparations have to be done half a year in advance, when Kira Manmatsu Maru appointed him as an auxiliary minister, it was already the beginning of August, Kira Manmatsu Maru and Chrysostom set for August 28 to go to Luo, how to do it in such a hurry? I almost didn't kill Kansuke Yamamoto.
In the end, the famous generals of the Warring States period were different from others, he immediately decided to arrange everything simply, so he cut off more than half of the preparatory work with a stroke of the pen, and all the things were compressed to be done in fifteen days, so the retainers in Saijo Castle were unlucky, and the ministers were transferred to help, and the warriors were also called, and then they felt that these guys were really in the way and returned to them, and ran to the Pudaizhong to catch the strong men, and the Pudaizhong tossed the immortals to death.
August 15, the Mid-Autumn Festival of the lunar calendar, in Japan is called the Tsukimi Festival, according to legend is the Mid-Autumn 15th night moon see festival, the royal family and the ministers of the Heian period like to boat and rivers and lakes, hold a huge drinking feast, the banquet is decorated with daylilies, the activities between the banquet are mainly sung with songs, Bolu play, white beat dance, the banquet also has glutinous rice made of moon rice dumplings, taro, branch beans, chestnuts and other foods, in addition to this time can also drink the imperial wine.
There are many waka songs with the theme of moon viewing on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and they are divided into a variety of names based on the change of the moonlight of the night, such as the clouds rising on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival and the moon disappearing, the autumn rain falling on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival is called the "rainy moon", and the night of August 14, 15 and 16 is called "Waiting for the Night" and "Sixteen Nights" respectively, to show the affection for the famous moon before and after.
On the night of this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, only Aju accompanied him to admire the moon and felt very lonely, Yamamoto Kansuke was busy all day and couldn't see anyone, Yamaoka Zenjiro was still addicted to the world of the art of war, Honda Yahachiro was also caught by Yamamoto Kansuke to do things, plus Kira Manmatsumu let the little surname who was not on duty go home to reunite with his relatives, so that the whole Honmaru became empty.
"Aju, we're going to Luo, are you happy?"
"Uh-huh! Aju is so happy! Ah Ju would like to thank His Highness! "This question has been asked many times by Kira Manmatsumaru, and the answer she gets every time is always so similar, Aju is like a confidant sister who responds to requests, as long as Kira Manmatsu Maru needs it, she will appear as soon as possible.
"Ah Ju is really happy, His Royal Highness should prepare a gift for His Royal Highness in the Middle Court." Ah Ju took out a small jar like a trick, the jar was full of thousands of paper cranes, Ah Ju picked up a thousand paper cranes, gently pulled the head and wings of the paper crane, and there was a happy smile in her eyes: "Your Highness's stacked thousand feather cranes, Ah Ju has finally learned it!" Ah Ju has stacked a thousand and one! Ah Ju wants to give these thousand feathered cranes to His Highness. ”
"Huh? Do you want to give it to me? But what is the meaning of a thousand paper cranes...... "Kira Manmatsu Pill unconsciously thought a little crooked, he folded a thousand paper cranes completely because of boredom, medieval Japan is too boring, don't find some fun to die, and then somehow was discovered by Aju, and then pestered him to learn how to fold a thousand paper cranes, as for why he was called a thousand cranes, he didn't know very well, and the thousand paper cranes were called a "winged bird" by him, and I don't know if it was accepted.
"I wish Your Highness good health! All wishes come true! Your Highness must have thought the same thing! The smile on Aju's face became brighter and brighter, making Kira Manmatsumu feel a little chill down his spine, so he decisively rubbed his head and yawned: "Speaking of which, I'm a little sleepy!" Anyway, get some rest! ”
"Kana!" Kira Manmatsu Maru dropped the word goodbye and ran away decisively, and even forgot to take the small jar.
The bright moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival sprinkled a little silver light on her body, making her look more like a witch praying under the moon, Ah Ju looked thoughtfully at the little figure who fled in embarrassment, and showed a knowing smile on her face: "Your Highness, grow up quickly!" There are so many beautiful women in Kyoto waiting for Your Highness! ”
The Mid-Autumn Festival passed in plainness, and the next day Tojo Castle sent a messenger, Tominaga Bizen Mamoru Shihiro personally went out and visited with Kira Yoshiyasu's letter, and in the Daihiroma of Saijo Castle, Kira Manmatsumaru read the short letter at a glance, and a faint smile appeared on his face: "Has my brother decided to switch to the Imagawa family?" ”
"Yes! Because the people of Hohan County switched to the Imagawa side to prompt the lord to make a decision, before coming out, the lord had blessed the next must ask Miyakata-sama to toss and turn in it, and I, on behalf of the ShimoKira family, please ask the lord! "Tominaga Shihiro didn't look up for a week, and it seemed that he had made up his mind when Kira Manmatsumari would agree, and when he would get up.
"Fueiden is really an honest man! In that case, let the family pass on the information on their behalf! Kira Manmatsumu agreed a little reluctantly, and it was so easy to get the messenger, so that the old man of the Shinara family worshiped and worshipped happily, and rushed back to Tojo Castle with good news.
"It's obviously my wish, why do you always feel awkward?" Kira Manmatsumu smiled bitterly, shook his head, took a pen and paper, wrote a few lines, and attached Yoshiyasu Kira's letter, called Yamaoka Zenjiro, and instructed him to send the letter to Okazaki Castle Taiyuan Snow Zhai.
Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Mikawa country ushered in a large-scale rainfall, in order to make a strong momentum, Kira Manmatsumaru specially ordered the Ma Hui samurai to make a cameo as a messenger, compiling dozens of letters and sending them to the Mikawa country, inviting the Mikawa to serve the public together in Luo to protect the public.