This place is close to Tokaido, and the nearby woods are cut down every year for the safety of the town, and Kira Manmatimaru's mount is a Kiso horse who is good at mountain walking, and he easily surpasses the samurai of the brigade, and he scares Yamaoka Zenjiro into the woods and yells at him, and chases after him on a bad horse.

After chasing for a few hundred meters all the way, I didn't see the shadow of the governor, and the horse warriors were busy scattering around to look around, but fortunately, the woods were not too big, and after a while, there were horses to report, and in the woodland in front of them, I saw the horses of the owner of the hall, and Yamaoka Zenjiro whistled to gather the horse warriors and chase them along the direction of the guide.

He didn't go far before he found the figure of the mount in the depths of the woods, this carefully selected house governor mount was tethered to a tree and leisurely chewing leaves, not far away in a simple campsite where Kira Manmatsumaru was sitting and talking happily with a child of a similar age, and another young boy of only four or five years old dozed off with the sturdy black eagle in his hands, as if he was not interested in this uninvited guest.

"Your Excellency!" Yamaoka Zenjiro hurriedly turned over and dismounted and trotted all the way over, and the dozen or so horses behind him immediately dispersed to block the roads everywhere, making a sabre-rattling motion, and the older child immediately changed his face, pulled up his younger brother and knelt down without daring to speak.

Kira Manmatsumaru raised his eyes and looked at everyone's posture, and said with a smile, "Zenjiro? What are you doing here? Don't freak them out, and put your weapons away! ”

"But the origin of these two people is unknown, for the safety of the hall owner, let's let Zenjiro investigate and then lift the guard!" Yamaoka Zenjiro stubbornly refused his request, stared at the two children with a grim expression and asked, "What's your name?" What does it do? Where did it come from? Why did you approach the owner of the house? ”

The older child was quite calm, and replied with a slight perk-heartedness, "The villain's name is Honda Yahachiro, and this is my brother......"

"Yahachiro! Sanmi! There was an anxious shout in the distance, and a middle-aged man was blocked out of the circle by the horses of the Kira family, and Kira Manmatsumaru glanced at the nervous expressions of the two brothers and said, "Let him come in!" This man was supposed to be the father of the brothers. ”

"But your safety, Lord Dam, ......," Zenjiro Yamaoka was about to argue.

"The safety of this family is entrusted to you, let this man come over now!" Kira Manmatsumari glared at him, shrank Yamaoka Zenjiro back, and hurriedly stepped aside to let the middle-aged man in.

This middle-aged man is more knowledgeable than his two children, as soon as he saw more than a dozen samurai with strong bodies and strong waists and hips, and strong bows on their backs, he knew that this group of people had a great background, and first bowed his head twice, and said vaguely twice in his mouth, "Adult", his eyes were always staring at the two children, and after making sure that the two children had no problem, he said cautiously: "The villain's name is Honda Toshimasa, he is a native of Ogawa in the county, and the villain is a hawkmaker. I wonder if they ran into this adult or? ”

"They didn't run into me, your family is an eaglesmith? Or the Honda clan? What is the relationship between Tadataka Honda, who died in Anxiang Castle this year, and you? At first glance, hearing the word Honda, Kira Manmatsumaru frowned and pondered for a moment: "Hawksmith is a scarce profession, and there are still people in Mikawa who have been eaglesmiths?" This Yahachiro's young name is quite familiar, but I haven't heard of the name Toshimasa Honda at all! ”

"Honda Heihachiro is the same clan of the villain, and he serves as the leader of the Honda clan." It's also a little embarrassing to mention this Honda Toshimasa, as a member of the Honda clan, look at what the Honda Tadashi of the clan is mixed into, and then look at what his own family is mixed into, in the Matsudaira family, he is not Honda Toshimasa, and he can only win the favor of the family governor with the skill of raising eagles, which is really a bitter tear.

"Honda Heihachiro, Honda Yahachiro, a very familiar name, isn't Honda Tadashi Heihachiro? So this Yahachiro is Honda Masanobu? "Kira Manmatsumaru suddenly realized, this guy must be Honda Masanobu's father, so this Yahachiro is his son Honda Masanobu?

"Aren't you from the Honda clan? How did you become an eaglesmith? Kira Manmatsumaru still asked very gossipy.

"This ...... In the next clan, there are many branches, in addition to the Honda Tadashi of the Heihachiro family, there are also many times of the Shiro family, and the Hikozaburo family of the branch is filial piety, and the villain's family is only a concubine of the family, so there is no qualification to serve the public in the same hall with the clan. Honda Junzheng felt that his old face was about to be lost, and he still didn't know which nobleman the beautiful little boy opposite was, so he had already shaken off all the furniture, and he really wanted to give himself a mouth now.

"So you're just an underground man, and you're doing a job as a hawker to support your family, aren't you?" Kira Manmatsu Maru immediately realized a little, no wonder Honda Masanobu has been mixing with the turtle very well, and he has not returned home for decades, it turns out that a few branches of the Honzong family have been pressed and can't raise their heads.

"It is the skill passed down from the villain's grandfather Tadamasa, the villain's ancestors had learned falconry in Kyoto, so the villain's falconry Mikawa is also very famous, so the Zentokuin temple Matsudaira Kiyoyasu also specially gave the ancestor forty stone Zhixing, the villain was also promoted to the head of the ashigaru group because of falconry, Zhixing rose to eighty stones, and the villain's eldest son Shigesada also became a samurai of the Matsudaira family." Speaking of this, this Honda Toshi was extremely excited, and seemed to be very excited about the Matsudaira family's favor, and his red old face danced with his hands.

"You also have a firstborn son? What about these two children? ”

"Yahachiro is the second son of the next, because his brother Honda Yahachiro Shigesada became a samurai of the Matsudaira family, and inherited the villain's position as the head of the Ashigaru group, so the villain also changed his young name to Yahachiro, and planned to pass on the skills of the Honda eagle craftsman to him in the future, and he will have a skill to make a living in the future, and Miya is the fourth man under him, and he followed Yahachiro out to release eagles for the first time." Hondajun nodded and said.

"I see, I understand!" Kira Manmatsumu nodded and ignored him, turned his face to the two children and asked, "I give you a chance, whether you want to live your life as an eagle maker or a farmer, or follow me and become an excellent samurai in the future to serve your family, you can make your own decisions!" ”

"This ...... What's going on? "Honda Toshi was so scared that he couldn't figure out why he jumped to make his two sons become samurai all at once? Who is this nobleman? Feeling that his head is a little insufficient, all kinds of questions come to him, he wants to ask for help from the people around him, but who will pay attention to him? Yamaoka Zenjiro squatted beside him very resentfully, staring back and forth at the father and son like a falcon.

In this era, the samurai class was extremely strict, and in front of the samurai with a higher status than himself, many words would be scolded and humiliated, and anything could happen, so Honda Toshimasa didn't dare to say more words even if he was obviously in a hurry, and he couldn't wait to kneel down and pray to the gods and Buddhas to let this group of people leave quickly.

A child named Yahachiro pulled his five-year-old brother Sanya to the ground and bowed down: "I, Yahachiro Honda, would like to follow Kira Miyakata-sama!" ”