In the council hall of the Yomiko family.

"Again Guard, what do you think about this?" Huko Otomo, who was sitting on the main seat, said to Tomomitsu Oishi with a calm face. His calm expression was as if it was not his sister-in-law who was being captured now.

"My lord, I'm afraid it's not just the bandits?" Oishi said with a frown.

"Huh?"

"After the last attack on the Sashi family, the young master secretly instigated the Taijiu family and the Nagasura family to sneak attack the Luo family, but in the end they failed. The young master is worried about this, and this time he personally led the team to the Ishida family, and he had the idea of continuing to suppress the Luo family," Oishi Tomomitsu said.

"The sneak attack, Taro told me before he went to secretly contact the two families, and Taro tried his best to say that the Luo family was a potential threat to his family, and more importantly, the young head of the family should not be taken lightly, and now it seems that this is indeed the case. If the Luo family was willing to obediently give in and hand over Cangshan City last time, they could have let him go, but what he didn't expect was that he would be so arrogant and openly disobey the mediation of his family, and now it is necessary to suppress it," Huzi Otomo said.

"The people who followed Monk Xuanru to Cangshan City have not heard from them yet, I'm afraid that the family's plan has been seen through by that young man," Oishi Tomomitsu said slowly.

"Send a few more people in to see what's going on. Well? Are you saying that this matter may have something to do with the Roche family? After thinking for a while, he suddenly realized what Oishi Tomomitsu really meant, and Tomiko asked rhetorically.

"My lord, although the place where the young master was attacked was in the territory of the Ishida family, it was also very close to the territory of the Luo family. Now there are rumors outside that the last attack on the Luo family was ostensibly done by the Taijiu family and the Nagasura family, but it was actually the instruction of the family. I think these rumors are also the work of that young man. Now this matter is likely to be his counterattack against his own family," Oishi said with a sigh. Although it was a hostile camp, Tomomitsu Oishi had to express his admiration for the strategy of the head of the Luo family.

"The Luo family can't deal with it openly for the time being, otherwise it will attract the reproach of the Bojia family. But we must continue to strengthen the suppression of the dark side, and the soldiers, during this time, you secretly contact the little local tyrants around the Luo family, and you will definitely not be able to make the Luo family peaceful", Huzi Dayou commanded.

"So, where is the young master?"

"Grant the bandits' requests. Whether it was the real bandit or the Luo family, after receiving the ransom, Taro would definitely be able to come back. Otherwise, even at the risk of offending the Hakata family, the family will destroy a few small tyrants and bandits there," said Yoko-Otomo confidently, "As for the dead samurai, give them some compensity to their families." Just recruit a few more wandering samurai from the territory to replenish it. ”

"Yes, sir." ……

At the same time, the Luo family was in the city of Jiubao.

"How's that guy doing?" Masarashi asked as he drank his tea and knelt in front of him.

"Your Highness, that guy has passed out after his leg was broken, and he has found someone to help him treat his wounds, but he hasn't woken up yet," Cloak Crowd reported.

"Hmph, get some water to wake him up, I'm going to return it to the other party tomorrow, take advantage of this opportunity, let him have a good time tonight" Masarashi said through gritted teeth. If he didn't think about the overall situation, Zhengliang would like to immediately dismantle Huzi Zhengyou, and see how this guy will plot against the Luo family in the future.

"Also, in the middle of the night, I asked the guards to pretend to be drunk and reveal that the Matsuura clan from Hirado was behind the scenes," Masarashi continued. With the resourcefulness of the retainers of the Yomiko family, after obtaining this information, they will definitely suspect that the Hirado Matsuura family intends to use this to provoke the conflict between the Yomiko family and the powerful forces around them, and then secretly covet the water army of the Huko family. Although some people will be skeptical about this, this is enough, and the purpose of Masahiro is only to disturb the Huzi family's vision of him. …,

"Yes, Your Highness." ……

Hisaishi Castle of the Ishida family.

"Quick, let me check again, find out who did it for me anyway?" In the small chamber, Ishida roared at his retainers.

Originally, after receiving the news that the young master of the Huzi family had sent 500 stone of food aid today, Ishida Jibu was full of joy. The response of the Huzi family not only means that his dream of plotting the territory of his family for too long has strong support, but also that he can use it to climb the big tree of the Huzi family. Therefore, after receiving the report from Yokoko Masanto at noon, Ishida Jibu not only immediately let his youngest daughter bathe and change clothes to prepare to serve Yoko, but also personally led more than a dozen samurai to greet him.

However, after waiting for a long time at the exit of the mountain road, there was still no trace of the transport team of the Huzi family, so he hurriedly led people into the mountain road to search, but only saw more than 20 corpses of samurai, and other than that, not even a single Taiji was left. Seeing this situation, the fool knew that the transport team had been attacked. In a panic, Ishida immediately sent people to search around. By the end of the evening, all those who had sent out had found nothing. Ishida Jibu couldn't help but panic, the young master of the Huzi family was attacked on the territory of the Ishida family, no matter what, the Ishida family couldn't get out of the relationship, I didn't expect the big tree to be next to it, but it caused a commotion......

August 23, 9th year of astronomy.

There was a typhoon last night, and although it had weakened a lot in the morning, there was still a drizzle on the vast sea. In the morning, a small merchant ship and several early mornings drove up on the deep blue sea. It was at the request of the bandits that these ships came to ransom Huzi Masato. The small merchant ship that accompanied the group was loaded with a total of 3,000 pieces worth of coins.

After waiting for nearly half an hour, Ashigaru, who was in charge of watching from the bow of the ship, suddenly shouted, "My lord, look, they are coming."

Hearing this, a samurai walked quickly to the bow of the ship, looking in the direction pointed by Ashigaru, only to see that in the drizzle, several small mornings drove in the distance, and in one of them, it was the young master of the Huzi family, Yoko Masayo.

"Do as promised," said the samurai. According to the agreement, this time the Huzi family could not lead the navy to come, otherwise the other party would immediately kill the young master. After the samurai's order was given, the small merchant ship and the two Kozao slowly continued to sail, while the other Kozao stayed where they were.

"Hehe, chief, there is news from the shore that the Huzi family is not hiding a navy nearby, this time we really knocked on the tiger of the Huzi family," a sailor said excitedly. In the past, when they were pirates, they often clashed with the Huzi family's sailors because of interest issues, but they often ended in failure, and this time they were able to knock a sum of money from the Huzi family, which made the opponent's sailors swallow their anger, and these pirate-born sailors were excited.

"Get out on the bow of the boat and watch the wind," shouted Sun Wulang, the general of the Luo family's navy who was in charge of this exchange. Although he was also greatly relieved in his heart, he definitely couldn't take it lightly when dealing with a strong man like the Huzi family. What's more, this time it came out secretly, and it can't let other people know the purpose of this trip. Looking at the few excited subordinates around him, Sun Wulang secretly decided to tell them to pay attention to secrecy on the way back.

"Chief, their ship has already started moving," another sailor in charge of the lookout reported Ashigaru.

"Very well, send our men" Sun Goro ordered. As soon as the words fell, the two Xiaozao, who had been prepared for a long time, quickly left the fleet and headed towards the small merchant ship opposite.

Seeing the bandit ship approaching on the opposite side, the boatmen on the small merchant ship jumped to the small morning boat that followed closely behind. Leaving behind a small merchant ship and a small morning queen, they rowed back to the fleet of the Huzi family in the distance. …,

After the personnel on the merchant ship left, one of the two bandit ships that came on, one of Xiao Zao approached the small merchant ship, and then several people from Xiao Zao jumped on the small merchant ship, leaving two people to guard and wait, and the rest of the people climbed into the cabin. After about ten minutes, several people who climbed into the cabin walked to the deck again, and after some discussion, they began to row the small merchant ship left by the Huzi family and another Xiaozao into the bandits' fleet.

"How?" Seeing that the person who sent out Lu finally approached, Sun Goro immediately asked.

"Chief, there are more than a dozen boxes of coins in the cabin, about 3,000 yuan, and the number is correct," replied one of the children. This was the first batch of students trained in the Roche school opened by Zhengliang, and they learned simple arithmetic. This time, in order to quickly confirm the tree of the coin, he was selected by Masato to participate in this operation.

"Very good, carry that guy to the small morning middle left by Huzi's house, and the rest of the people will immediately prepare to evacuate with me" After confirming that it was correct, Sun Goro immediately ordered.

Soon, after leaving the scarred Yokoko politician with his mouth stuffed in rags at the Huzi family, the Luo family's sailors escorted the small merchant ship and left quickly. In the distance, the fleet of the Yoko's family, who saw the bandits leaving, immediately rowed quickly to Kozao carrying Yoko's friends.

"Ah, young master?" The samurai led by Dang took the lead in jumping up to Kozao, and when he saw the tragic situation of Yomiko Masatomo, he immediately exclaimed. It's not that this samurai hasn't seen a big scene, it's really that the current appearance of Yobuko Masato is too miserable. The whole body was ragged, the cloak was scattered, and from the cracks in the torn clothes, scars could be faintly seen, and the right leg was thickly bandaged. The current state is as miserable as it is.

"Young master! Damn it! Someone, quickly notify the navy army behind to come and chase those thieves" After taking out the rags from Huzi Masato's mouth, the samurai led by him shouted. Although he also knew in his heart that Lu Dao would not be able to catch up with those Xiao Zao who were full of thieves, he should at least shout it out, so that the young master could know his loyalty.

"No... No... Fast... Get back... Notice... Father... My Lord... Hirado... Matsuura treacherous scheme" gasped and said this, and Yomiko Masayo finally passed out. In fact, he had been in a coma several times on the way here, each time he was woken up by the bandits splashing with seawater, and this time he was finally able to fall into a coma.

"Young master?" Seeing that the young master was unconscious, the surrounding Huzi family immediately became busy.

At the same time, the Luo family's fleet, which had been far away from the hostage exchange place, was jubilant.

"Haha, a lot of coins!" After seeing the fleet of the Huzi family gradually disappear from sight, Sun Goro immediately led people into the cabin of the small merchant ship and carefully checked the situation of the coins once again. The head of the family is waiting for this to be more useful than money, and he must not be sloppy. When a wooden box full of gold was opened, the crowd behind him immediately cheered.

"Get out" Sun Wulang turned around and kicked his subordinates behind him away, shouting, "Do you want to be entertained by Lord Junmu Fu after you go back?" ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately quieted down, and when they thought of Lord Sasuke, who was temporarily serving as the head of the naval army, everyone immediately broke out in a cold sweat. Oh my God, it was so harsh that everyone in the cabin had been punished several times by him for not paying attention during training.

"My lord" At this time, a sailor in charge of the lookout walked in, "The front is Mukaijima, we are going to bypass Mukaijima, and then turn back to Itaya Bay." But there seems to be a gang of pirates looting shipwrecked fishermen on the island. ”

"Huh? Leave them alone, just spare Mukaishima and continue sailing," Sun Goro ordered. This trip must not be overdone. Ashigaru took his order and left.

But soon, Ashigaru walked in again, "Big... My lord, those pirates are coming to our side. ”…,

"What?" Sun Wulang was furious, they were always the only ones who robbed others, but this time it was the other way around, and he was remembered by the pirates?

"Little ones, prepare for me immediately, good people, those damn fellows see how good we are," Sun Goro immediately shouted.

"Yes, Chief," the crowd shouted.

The battle lasted less than half an hour, and the Luo family's naval army, which had the advantage of all-round strength, defeated the pirates, and in the end, all the captured pirates were thrown into the sea and fed to the sharks.

"My lord, in addition to a few fishermen found on the pirate's boat, a strange person was also found," an ashigaru hurriedly reported after clearing the battlefield.

"Huh?" Sun Wulang was a little stunned, who could make these of his subordinates who had been robbing on the sea for a long time feel strange?

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