Nijo Castle is said to be the most powerful name in the Warring States period, the city built by Oda Nobunaga of the world's Bubu, the Honnoji mutiny Nobunaga died at the hands of traitors, Nobunaga's retainer Kinoshita Toyoshiro is Toyotomi Hideyoshi raised the banner of revenge for Nobunaga, led Nobunaga's various forces, embarked on the road to unify the world, the feudal lords submitted, Toyotomi Hideyoshi then led the coalition army to invade Korea, which is the beginning of his own overseas use of troops.

Nijo Castle is almost as large as the Kyoto Imperial Palace, and the Ninomaru Garden is very elegant and elegant.

Ye Zhao lived in the dormitory of the Ninomaru Garden, and outside the wooden gate was a craggy mountain stone and a pool of clear water.

The morning was shining, and Ye Zhao was pacing on the wooden steps outside the dormitory, breathing in the fresh air.

The wooden gate was opened, and a beautiful kimono beauty walked out, kneeling elegantly, holding a small tea tray on the wooden floor, an ebony tea tray, on which were placed a few sweet and fragrant snacks.

Purple dotted with pink flowers, the kimono is charming and gorgeous, the ice skin is snowy, the beautiful bun is like a flower, and the snow-white cloth socks make it difficult to describe the beautiful and beautiful temperament.

In fact, the dark purple and crimson kimonos were exclusively for the royal family, but the brand-new kimono of Iori Reedsuki was sent by the lady-in-waiting official of the palace, and it was obvious that they no longer regarded Iori Reedsuki as a woman.

Ye Zhao sat down cross-legged, smiled, and said, "It's been a few days since I came here, and my arms and legs can't be straightened." "But no, every day I either sit or kneel, let alone sofa seats, I am directly facing the floor tatami mats, and I am not used to it for a long time.

Wei Yue Iori listened to Ye Zhao's words, then got up and stepped into the colorful clogs, squatted lightly in front of the wooden platform, reached out and gently grabbed Ye Zhao's ankles, the strength was just right, and naturally put Ye Zhao's feet on her knees, and gently helped Ye Zhao massage the soles of her feet and legs.

Ye Zhao admired in his heart, but it was really a little magical, how did he practice kung fu? Not only is the half-squatting posture quiet and elegant, the demeanor is thousands, but the squatting is extremely stable, as if sitting on a wooden bench, probably only the woman who has been with tatami mats all the year round can have such a delicate state.

"Iori, Emperor Tongren is visiting Nijo Castle tonight, tell me, what etiquette should I pay attention to?" Ye Zhao pouted at dessert and asked.

Tongren is the name of Emperor Xiaomei, and Xiaoming is the name of the year, but in fact, the two words can not be shouted casually, but should be called Emperor Xiaomei as the emperor today, and call Emperor Tongren directly, just like in China, directly call the emperor's name and add the word emperor to the general, what a taboo thing to do? However, Ye Zhaozi will not avoid these.

Iori Reeduki didn't seem to react for a moment to who Emperor Tongren was, so she was stunned and said, "Is the Emperor coming to visit you?" ”

Ye Zhao snorted.

Wei Yue Iori gently pinched the soles of Ye Zhao's feet and said, "He is a guest, and he should follow your etiquette." ”

Ye Zhao said with a smile: "In my country, how can I say that I am also a guest, but what you said is also right." ”

When the shogunate was at its strongest, he asked the emperor to go to Edo to meet with the shogun, although it failed to make the trip, but the imperial family had several trips to Nijo Castle, called "out patrol", but he came to the shogunate's palace to meet with the shogun, and the shogunate was stripped of his face and the inside, and it was not until in recent years that there were more and more daimyo who supported the emperor's confrontation with the shogunate, and the shogunate did not dare to treat the emperor so frivolously.

Today, the emperor took the initiative to visit Ye Zhao in Nijo Castle, and he was grateful that Ye Zhao did not see him in Edo and left the book by boat, otherwise he would write the most humiliating page in the history of the royal family, foreign princes, came to the palace, the emperor had to go to Edo to meet him, and when the summons were completed, the emperor returned to Kyoto again, especially, no matter how powerful this prince is, it is not the emperor, but the prince of China, and this shame can not be washed away.

Although the emperor personally welcomed Ye Zhao to Kyoto, but in any case, Ye Zhao also gave him enough face, the first visit, it was also Ye Zhao who went to the imperial palace to visit him, in the East that attaches great importance to etiquette, Xiaoming naturally knew that this Chinese regent had saved his royal face, how could he not take the initiative to show goodwill? This led to Emperor Komei's trip to Nijo Castle.

"Iori, what do you think of Emperor Tongren?" After using desserts, Reedyue Iori also went to wash his hands and took a white towel to help Ye Zhao wipe his hands, Ye Zhao asked.

Wei Yue Iori didn't squeak, just quietly wiped Ye Zhao's hands.

Ye Zhao also knows that his question is a bit acute, even if in the current world, national thought has not yet emerged, and the national identity is far inferior to the youth educated and cultivated by later generations, but the emperor is the emperor after all, and his status in the eyes of the people should be very high, of course, it is not specific to the individual emperor of filial piety, but refers to the symbol of the supreme ruler generally accepted by the people in this society.

Now that he has clearly overpowered Emperor Xiaomei in momentum, he is more or less bullying him, I don't know what Iori thinks in his heart, but if he accuses the emperor of wrongdoing, then her cuteness will be reduced a few points immediately, and her surname is not this kind of person.

Ye Zhao smiled, then changed the topic and asked, "Who else is in your family?" It's been a long time since you've seen you, right? ”

"Father, mother, and a younger brother, I haven't seen them for ten years, only my younger brother came to see me last year." Iori said calmly, as if she was telling someone else's family.

Ye Zhao sighed and said, "They are all from Nagasaki? ”

Iori said, "It's from Edo. ”

Ye Zhao secretly said ashamed, he thought she was from Nagasaki, and said that too, this art museum is quite big, and it should be looking for potential little girls everywhere. But looking at Reedstake Iori, I don't care that I don't know anything about her.

He picked up the teacup and said, "When I go back to Edo, I'll take you to see your family." ”

"They all moved to Kyoto, and last year my brother went to Nagasaki to see me and gave me the address. ”

Ye Zhaoqi said: "That's a coincidence, do you remember the address?" Write it out, and I'll have someone pick them up. ”

Regardless of whether Wei Yue Iori wanted to see her relatives or not, after listening to Ye Zhao's words, she went indoors to find a pen and paper and wrote the address of her parents.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Send it to the performer, and ask him to send someone to pick up your family to Nijo Castle." ”

In Nijo Castle, there were also some maids, attendants, and shogunate officials who served the Chinese regent. The sorcerer is an official position under the shogunate and is in charge of ceremonies.

When Wei Yue Yi's slender figure turned, Ye Zhao stood on the edge of the pond and watched the goldfish in the water, just lit a cigarette, and he had not smoked for several days.

Itori has obviously never seen a cigarette in the south, after all, she didn't dance for the first time, let alone accompany the guests, otherwise there are many smokers among the merchants of the southern country.

The clogs clicked, crisp and good-sounding, and a beautiful person in an elegant kimono walked over, standing beside Ye Zhao in the pond, looking at the paper scroll in Ye Zhao's mouth with a little curiosity, a bright and dark firelight.

"Is it a Ya film?" Iori asked.

Ye Zhao smiled: "No, you've seen hookah, this is called dry tobacco." ”

Reedyue Iori snorted.

Spit smoke rings in Nijo City, Ye Zhao was in a little trance, and after a while, he looked at Reedyue Iori and said, "In a few days, I will go back to Jinling directly from Edo, you came with me, right?" ”

Beauty nodded gently.

There was some ambiguity between the words, and when she nodded goodbye, Ye Zhao's heart couldn't help but wave, turned his head, took a puff of cigarette, and said: "This time, I don't know when I will return to my country, so you, a relative, no matter what you think in your heart, you must see each other, so as not to regret it later." ”

Iori snorted softly.

However, what Ye Zhao didn't expect was that Iori Reed's younger brother turned out to be a samurai, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, with his hair pulled up high, a dark brown samurai suit with wide sleeves, a slightly childish face, but the edges and corners were also very tough.

Kneeling between the empty and spacious envoys, the young man was a little restrained.

Ye Zhao sat on a low wooden square platform similar to a small bench on the top, and accepted the young man's court, but in fact, the envoy was originally the place where the general received the imperial court envoy, and the tiger and leopard were painted on the screen, symbolizing the might of the general's family.

There is a small tea table next to the wooden square platform, and after making tea, Iori Reedyue sits on his knees beside the lower head.

On the other side, kneeling guards.

"Your name is Ichiro Watanabe?" Ye Zhao asked.

"Yes!" The young man lowered his head slightly, straightened his chest, and replied loudly, but he secretly looked at his sister out of the corner of his eye.

Back then, if it weren't for his sister's deed of sale, the family would not have had the money to do business, and he wouldn't have earned some money to buy him the status of a samurai, his parents have always felt ashamed of his sister, he missed his sister even more, last year, he got the field rice after the Chengren ceremony, and then couldn't help but go to Nagasaki, wanting to help his sister redeem herself, who knows, when he arrived in Nagasaki, he knew how naïve he was, and the owner of the art hall opened his mouth to ask for three thousand taels of gold.

When he saw his sister that day, he couldn't help crying, he grew up, but he was so useless, just like when he was a child, he could only wipe his tears and watch his sister being taken away.

Today, I never thought that the musician of Nijo Castle would personally drive to his house, saying that His Royal Highness the regent of China wanted to see him, and brought the mark of his sister, he was very excited, but he was helpless, he didn't know what was going on, his parents were so frightened that they hid out, even if they were, they wouldn't come to see their sister, it was a thorn in their hearts, they didn't want to pull it out, and they didn't know how to pull it out.

In this coercive palace, Watanabe Ichiro was terrified and helpless, he was only the lowest-level samurai, the ashigaru infantry of Kyoto's shoshidai, and he never dreamed that he would be able to enter Nijo Castle, let alone be summoned among the envoys of Nijo Castle.

Sister, how can you be with His Royal Highness the Regent of China?

"Talk." Ye Zhao got up and walked out.

Surrounded by green water outside, this is a swimming water garden, the water surface is curved, the spring flow is clear, and the lake stones are arranged along the pond, and the forms are different.

Ye Zhao lit another cigarette, and in about ten minutes, the wooden gate was gently opened, and Watanabe Ichiro walked out with red circles in his eyes, knelt down towards Ye Zhao, and bowed his head: "Sister, please Your Highness!" Although the other party was so unattainable, Watanabe Ichiro still mustered up the courage to make a man's request, although his voice couldn't help but tremble slightly.

Ye Zhao smiled, although he didn't understand his words very well, but he also understood what he meant, and walked up two steps, Watanabe Ichiro's head hung lower, Ye Zhao said to Wei Yue Iori, who was standing quietly aside: "Tell him, I promised him." ”

Iori Watanabe whispered a few words to Ichiro Watanabe, Ichiro Watanabe bowed his head and answered a few words loudly, Ye Zhao could understand "Aliado", patted him on the shoulder, and walked into the inner room.

(To be continued)