It's mid-January, and it's not long before the Spring Festival of the lunar calendar. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info It was probably a beautiful day, the winter of that year was not cold, although the snow was falling, but every household still had enough food to survive the winter.

At the port of Settsu, a caravan from China slowly docked, and with the sound of hustle and bustle, the workers on the dock braved the icy sea breeze to start their day's work.

Half a year has passed, but for Emmiwei, it seems that it was still yesterday, and she escaped from the bunker in a thrilling way, in exchange for the current stable life. So stable that even her usual dagger rusted.

Because it was in Japan, Elias also asked Kujou Takanobu to give him a Japanese name. Giles This is Elias's abbreviated reading, and Kujo Takashin helped Elis choose Jiayu (いえちみ) as the name.

So Emmivi shouldn't expect a Japanese to come up with a name for the right one in Latin, even though Ieyu sounds decent, much better than Yasu.

Kitamura Iego.

The surname is naturally said casually by Kujou Takanobu.,There are so many surnames on the rotten street in Japan.,There is no household registration system in Japan at present.,It's easier for a ronin to change his name and surname than to eat.。

"What about Miss Emmy, take one too, Sakurako, Unyoko?" Kujo Takanobu was more active than the two of them in this regard.

After half a year, Elias learned a mouthful of British Japanese mixed with Chinese, and Emmywei was friends with Kujo Takanobu because of her relationship in shogi. Kujo Takanobu is indifferent to outsiders, and he is very enthusiastic about friends and subordinates who agree with him, and he must be a good boss for office workers in the future.

"Too ...... It's cute. "If you want Emmyway, a witch who kills people without blinking, to give her a Yamato Nadeshiko-like name, it's better to kill her. "Anyway, you have to take one?"

Looking at Kujou Takanobu nodding and the "Kitamura Family" on the side can't just give me a shameful look, Emmiwei called on her little memory of Japan, and patted her head with a good name.

"Was the full moon last night?"

"Well, what is Miss Emmiway doing here?"

"Well, sixteen nights of love. Japanese surnames are also all thought up with a pat on the head, and the surname "Sixteen Nights", which seems strange to foreigners, is full of literary conception in the eyes of Kujou Takanobu, a Japanese.

"Good. Yes, Miss Emily. Your literary talent is no worse than that of the Ming Dynasty. Kujou Takashin did not hesitate to praise himself, and personally sacrificed the four treasures of the study brought by the Ming Dynasty, and wrote a picture in the Japanese kana of the two.

Soon after docking, Kujou Takanobu's subordinates ran to report the situation, and when Takashin was not stupid enough to shout, "This is Kujo's boat, let me go", everything was handled according to the usual procedures. Don't look at the peace on the surface in Japan, God knows how much gold Takanobu's head can exchange for on the black market.

"Report to your lord, everything is normal. The team that will pick you up is already waiting outside the dock. ”

Kujou Takanobu's bodyguards are all loyal people, especially this time when he returned to China without bringing foreigners except for Emmyway and Elis, he was very relieved about this.

The form in Japan is not good from the letters, the Kujou clan is now at the bottom of the five major families, Konoe has a family background, and he has an attitude of loving whoever dies; one and two collude to see the decline of the Kujo family, and by the way try to see if they can fall into the ground; the rising star of the Eagle Boss family, as long as he gives benefits, he can still be friends, and he can barely be regarded as a helper.

And the biggest enemy is the newly built Muromachi shogunate, and the name Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is a nightmare in the Kujo family.

"Let's go, from now on, an assassin may kill us at any time. ”

Kujou Takanobu was the first to step out of the cabin and beckoned a group of guards outside. Emmiway and Elias followed, both wrapped their hair in headscarves and gauze. Kujou Takashin said that he contacted the disguise master, and when he got to their territory, he dyed the hair of the two of them to avoid exposing their foreigner identities and adding trouble.

There was light snow in the sky, and the weather before the beginning of spring was good, and everyone was wearing a thick coat, and they couldn't see their specific identities.

"Aiwei, what's wrong? Why stop?"

Not long after the group stepped onto the docks, Emmiway slowed down, apparently having something to say. "Xiaoxin, a few of the cargo workers at the dock have been paying attention to our side, and it seems that there is a third party who knows the contents of the letter you sent out. ”

From the first moment of returning home, he was targeted by the enemy, and Kujou Takashin really couldn't cry or laugh, this treatment simply means that he will not give up without destroying the Kujou family.

"How many people?"

"There are obviously five. This time it was Elias who replied, and he also noticed several of the delivery workers who were looking in an unreasonable direction. He secretly pointed out which five people with a gesture, and Kujo Takanobu's subordinates immediately remembered the target.

"When I'm in the carriage, go grab two live mouths, and remember not to expose them. Walking out of the dock, Kujo Takanobu gave orders to the two subordinates behind him. "We got in the car. ”

The convoy is just outside the docks, and there are no obvious signs, just borrowing the name of a small nobleman, and it is no problem to pass the checkpoint.

"Lady Hyoshin, congratulations on your return to Japan. From here, I'll keep you safe. A man about the same age as Hyoshin in the convoy stepped forward and personally picked Hyoshin into the carriage.

Kujou Takanobu didn't forget to beckon Emmiway and Elias into the carriage. "This is my hair child, Tsunesuke Yamada. ”

From the perspective of Japan at that time, a height of 1.7 meters is considered a tall man, and this man named Yamada Tsunesuke has a straight face, and there are two well-made katana swords on his waist.

"He is a swordsman from a martial arts family, and he is a very reliable person. ”

"Lord Hyoshin has won the prize. ”

It can be seen that Kujo Takanobu's enthusiastic personality is too obvious, and he sits generously on the side with Yamada Hengsuke, and he doesn't have the superior attitude of the aristocracy at all. By now, Elias also knew that Kujou Takanbu was the most famous person in the family.

"Lord Hyoshin hasn't returned to China for 5 years. Ling Zun is very concerned about you. ”

"5 years and 8 months. The last time I left was late spring. Kujou Takashin said as he pulled out a book from his bosom. "Da Mingguo's hand-copied "Analects", you can take it. ”

This book can only be regarded as a hardcover teaching book in China, but in the eyes of the Japanese at that time, it was the essence of culture, and Confucian books with pure Chinese characters were all accessible and elegant in high society. To put it in layman's terms, this kind of book is calculated in gold.

"Lord Hyoshin, such a valuable book......"

"I've copied one myself. I said that to send you is to send you, needless to say. ”

There was also a short road from Settsu to Beppu in Osaka, and the convoy was a little slower than it had been when it had snowed lightly.

Settsu, the area around Kobe in the future, is a relatively prosperous area adjacent to the political center of Japan. Along the way, you can also see bustling passers-by outside the curtain, and it is not uncommon for convoys like Kujo Takanobu to be seen, and the concept of hierarchy is even deeper here. Passers-by saw that the carriage consciously kept their distance, and in their eyes, only the big people had the material resources to travel in the carriage, which was not as rich as the supplies of the Ming Dynasty.

"Miss Sixteen Nights is also from the Ming Kingdom?" Yamada Tsunesuke knew that Takanobu had a friend of Western descent in China, that is, the boy who sat opposite him under the pseudonym Kitamura Ieyu, and the other girl's emerald eyes were rarer than emeralds in Yamada Tsunesuke's eyes. "I beg your pardon for taking the liberty of being down, Miss Sixteen Nights' eyes are prettier than the snow outside. ”

"I came with Kitamura-kun, and of course I also came from the Ming Kingdom. Compared to Elias's broken Japanese, Emmivi speaks pretty well.

At this time, Takanobu's subordinates brought the hot food they had just bought, and even in Settsu Castle, there were not many shops that still operated in winter, only a few simple noodles. Tsunesuke Yamada prepared two fresh fish in advance, and the four of them could eat some meat during this season.

After lunch, the convoy also walked out of the boundaries of Settsu City.

"Yamada-kun's chess skills have not grown a lot in a few years. "Kujo Takanobu became addicted to chess again after the meal, and it was also thanks to Yamada Tsunesuke that he had already prepared a pair of Go and put it under the seat cushion.

"Concession is a ploy that Lord Kujo has fallen into. ”

The two of them went back and forth, and soon one side was full of chess feet. Elias was lying on the sidelines for a lunch break, while Emmiwei was sitting next to him watching chess, and the road to Osaka was a long way away.

Suddenly, the chessboard shook, and the black and white pieces were scattered all over the ground, and Kujou Takashinobu, who was still thinking and meditating just now, suddenly became angry, and he was the most likely to be angry when he played chess.

"What's going on?!"

Tsunesuke Yamada lifted the curtain and reprimanded the groom outside, "Why did you stop suddenly?

"Warning, snow and dry wood suddenly fell in front of me, blocking the mountain road. ”

The groom was taken aback, but the guards around him stepped forward to explain.

"Go and send someone to clean it up. Don't delay the adults. ”

Inside the carriage, Kujou Takanobu was still sighing and halfway through the game, muttering that he would be able to come up with a brilliant move right away.

"My lord, the snow-covered landslide has blocked the mountain road, no wonder the groom. ”

Emmivi could hear it very clearly just now, it was not the snow and debris that slipped down first, but the carriage stopped first, and the groom outside was afraid of dying.

"You protect Xiaoxin, I'll go outside and take a look, don't do it yet. Elias, who had pretended to be asleep, had woken up at some point, whispered a few words to Emmyway in Chinese, and then stepped out of the carriage with a katana.

The enemy is in the dark, so it is a wise choice not to startle the snake first. Hyoshin's guards are all highly credible, and it is obvious that there is a problem with the groom borrowed by the convoy, and it is more likely that they were informed by the nobles who borrowed their names.

Loading off the carriage, Elias walked into the woods, the convoy was forty meters away, and half of the guards were busy clearing the road.

The Assassin in the shadows had already been caught by Elias, who had just untied his trousers when the sound of leaves rubbing against the snow was heard behind him, a slight but deadly sound.

The moment he turned around, Elith threw a throwing knife out of his hand, and a masked man dressed in white fell to the ground.

Another masked man, carrying a short knife, was taken aback when he saw his companion dead. When he turned to Elith again, he was greeted by a sharp blade.

A knife slashed, and blood was sprinkled on plain clothes. The first battle after arriving in Japan began.