Chapter 447: Is It Just Gold
In late May of the twelfth year of astronomy, it is already the last season of spring ploughing. Two cherry blossom trees full of cherry blossoms stand in the middle of Quanxian Castle.
Stepping on the cherry blossoms that had fallen to the ground, Arima Harumi came to the wooden house where Kikuchi Yoshitake was resting. At this time, two of Kikuchi Yoshitake's men stood outside the wooden house, who were in charge of guarding. More than ten meters away, more than thirty other subordinates of Kikuchi Yoshitake also gathered together, as if discussing something. When these people saw Arima Qingchun coming, they all got up and saluted.
After accepting the salute calmly, Arima Harumi left a few of his own samurai who had followed him outside the wooden house, and then pushed open the wooden door alone and walked in.
"Yiwu, what are you?" The moment Arima Harumu entered the wooden house, he saw Kikuchi Yoshitake, who should have been injured, sitting on the tatami mat refreshed, and his eyes were also looking at him intently, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
"Arima-sama, we've been waiting for you here for a long time." At this moment, a cold voice came from behind him. Arima Harumu was about to turn around, but a cold blade behind his head stopped him. He realized in an instant what had happened to him.
"Yiwu, what are you doing here?" Arima Qingchun asked with bloodshot eyes, and then coughed involuntarily due to overexcitement. There's no way, people in their sixties look like this when they get excited.
It's just that the people behind Arima Qingchun don't respect the old at all, just when Arima Qingchun coughed excitedly, the blade on Arima Qingchun's body has been untied. Even Arima Qingchun's hands were tied behind his back. Obviously, Arima Harumi has completely become someone else's captive at this time.
"For what. What is it for? Harumi Arima, who had recovered his breath, still didn't believe why Yoshitake Kikuchi, who had always been favored by the Arima family, would make such a move.
"For the sake of the fat queen." Kikuchi Yoshitake replied firmly. At this time, Kikuchi Yoshitake's expression was like the two cherry blossoms in the courtyard outside the wooden house. Looks arrogant and self-admiring.
"You...... You ......" Arima Harumun, who instantly understood Kikuchi Yoshitake's meaning, didn't know what else to say at this moment. Everything can only be blamed for his carelessness. In such a situation, he did not take any precautions. Yes, how can a seriously injured person be in danger? And for a while, he was carried away by the victory, which led to the final carelessness.
"Okay, if there's anything else you want to say, let's talk about it when we get on the boat." The person behind Arima Qingchun said coldly. This person was ordered by Masato to come to assist Kato Duanzo, the first ninja of the Luo family, who came to assist Kikuchi Yoshitake. For this kind of thing of the yin behind the back, Kato Duanzo has done it many times. That's why Arima Qingchun will be subdued in an instant.
Kikuchi Yoshitake, who had already prepared the skull, nodded, and then gently pushed open the wooden door and walked out of the door first.
Outside the door, the retainers of the Arima family, who followed Arima Qingchun to come, saw a person suddenly walking out of the wooden house that the head of the family had just walked into, and quickly fixed their eyes, and they couldn't help but froze. Isn't this Kikuchi-sama Yoshitake? Didn't you say you were seriously injured? Why does it look like nothing is going on now?
Just when the retainers of the Arima family were stunned, the two subordinates of Kikuchi Yoshitake who were originally guarding in front of the wooden house instantly stood in front of Kikuchi Yoshitake, and at the same time, more than 30 Kikuchi Yoshitake's subordinates who were more than ten meters away also quickly rushed over, and instantly protected Kikuchi Yoshitake and others.
"What is this doing?" The surrounding soldiers of the Ma family were suddenly blinded. But some of the retainers have already noticed that something is wrong. Why is the head of the house gone?
"Kikuchi-sama, where is the head of the family?" Junshige Shimahara, a retainer of the Arima family who was the leader, immediately asked. After being reminded by Shimahara Junshige, the rest of the retainers also immediately discovered the problem.
"Your lord is here." This time. The wooden door of the wooden house was pushed open, and Kanzo Kato pushed out with his hands tied.
"Huh? The head of the house? "What? Damn it. "Hurry up and release the head of the family. ”
Suddenly, the soldiers of the Arima family who reacted around shouted and scolded. The people who reacted quickly had even begun to slowly surround them.
"Hmph, I advise you not to move, otherwise your master's life will not be guaranteed." Kato Duanzo shouted. Nearly forty of Kikuchi Yoshitake's subordinates, disguised as warriors of the Luo family, raised their weapons and had the momentum of dying together.
And poor Arima Qingchun seemed to want to say something, but he was gagged by a handful of thatch, and he couldn't speak for a while.
"What the hell are you trying to do?" Junshige Shimahara, who was old and serious, immediately asked.
"Don't worry, we won't hurt the head of your family, we just ask him to go back to our place as a guest, and then as long as you hand over enough money, we will let him go." Kato Duanzo said. This is what Masahiro should say in his letter. At this time, it is true that it is the Luo family who should not be allowed to kidnap Arima Qingchun by the Arima family, otherwise the soldiers of the Arima family may be resentful of the enemy, and in this way, the final effect of Zhengliang's secret move is likely to be lost.
The soldiers of the Arima family saw that the head of the family was being controlled, and they were really angry, and some people directly scolded Kikuchi Yoshitake. But they did not dare to act rashly, lest they force the thieves to harm the head of the family.
"Let's go!" Seeing the scruples around him, Kato Duanzo immediately pushed Arima Harumi and began to walk forward. The samurai of the Luo family, who were in charge of guarding the surrounding area, also surrounded Kato and Duanzang and the three of them and began to walk towards the city gate.
"Stop them!" Junshige Shimahara immediately ordered.
"Arima-sama, offended, hiss!" Seeing that the soldiers of the Arima family were gradually surrounding and blocking the way out of the city, Kato Duanzo decisively tore the clothes on one of Arima Harumi's shoulders, revealing Arima's somewhat fair skin and flesh.
"Damn. So old, still so good skin? Kato Duanzo said from the bottom of his heart, and then directly used the coacher in his hand to lightly slash Arima Harumun's shoulder. Suddenly, a striking blood mark appeared on Arima Harumu's shoulder.
"See? If there is any obstruction, they will cut a knife on your household governor without mercy. Kato Duanzo shouted as he held up the still blood-clinging constellation.
All the soldiers of the Arima family around suddenly did not dare to move.
"Let's go!" Under the order of Kato Duanzang, everyone escorted Arima Harumun, who seemed quite calm all the way, out of the castle.
In this way, along the way, under the pursuit of a large number of Arima soldiers, everyone came to the dock by the sea.
Kanzo Kato looked up at the azure surface of the Ariake Sea. It had rained this morning, and when I looked out from the pier, I saw smoke on the sea. In this thick fog, several small ships quickly passed through the fog, and then came to the dock.
"Here we are." After seeing the ship appear, Kikuchi Yoshitake beside him finally breathed a sigh of relief. According to the agreement with Zhengliang, as long as Arima Qingchun is sent on this boat, then the future affairs of the Arima family will no longer have anything to do with him.
What's more, after a while, he will be separated from these Luo family retainers who have been with him, and he will no longer have to be monitored by them. Since then, he can use the money and food provided by the Luo family to freely develop his strength in Feihou. Seeing that he was about to swim in the sea, Kikuchi Yoshitake couldn't help shouting in his heart: After fattening, I, Kikuchi Yoshiwu, are back.
"Hurry up and get on board!" At this time, those few children had already come to the shore, and a teenager led by them shouted. This person is Takeshi Murakami, who came to the third standing water army and became a military officer.
In the past few days, they have been secretly wandering in the Ariake Sea almost every day, just waiting to pick up Kato Duanzo and the others. Of course, at this time they were all dressed as pirates.
"Father?" Just as Arima Qingchun was escorted to the boat, there was an exclamation from the shore.
Arima Qingchun turned his head and saw that it was Arima Yoshisada who was in charge of leading the troops to pursue the rout of the Saigo family outside the city. Originally, he planned to take the opportunity to let Arima Yoshisada take on such a cheap errand, so that Arima Yoshisada could establish his prestige in the eyes of his retainers as soon as possible, so that he could stand alone. I really didn't expect that the timing of Arima Yoshizhen to take on such a responsibility would be so hasty, and after he left, the burden of the Arima family would fall on him. Arima Qingjun, who had remained calm even if he was stabbed in the shoulder before, couldn't help but get excited at this time.
"Okay, as long as you prepare the 30,000 gold sentence, we will naturally return your family governor at that time, let's go, hahaha." Kato Duanzo shouted with a smile.
It's just that all the Luo family needs is a 30,000 gold sentence? (To be continued......)