Kyoto at night is particularly oppressive, and sins begin to play out in all corners, with women crying and men wailing.

Katsushin took Hachiro and others with his friend Konoe Mingxi through the stinking shantytown, and saw the hungry and crying children who couldn't sleep at all, and also saw a slightly beautiful woman being humiliated for a rice ball; The people around him have become accustomed to it, and there is no hope in their dull eyes.

Maybe it's just those fires that bring them a little warmth and make them feel alive.

This is the world where the princes and nobles sing and dance, and the samurai fight to grab the country, how ridiculous.

"The number of displaced people in the capital has increased again! Alas ~ I don't know how long this chaotic day will last"

Konoe Mingxi sighed with pity.

Shengxin looked at Mingxi, who was three years older than him, and suddenly thought of a sentence in his heart: Obviously he is not doing well, but he can't see the suffering in the world.

But he knew that his friends were really complaining about these people, a prince who couldn't eat and dress well, but used his meager fortune to help the homeless, which was the first among the "noble sons" in Kyoto.

Shengxin said a little bluntly: "We are just a drop of water in the river, drifting with the current; Maybe someone will appear to end this troubled time, Oda Nobunaga... Or anyone else, but until then, let's take care of ourselves! ”

When Konoe Mingxi heard this, he smiled bitterly, his own affairs have not been solved yet! The old mistake of compassion has been committed again.

In fact, Mingxi asked Shengxin to come out tonight, mainly because he couldn't go back to Konoe's house, and he didn't have the cheekiness to go to other relatives and friends, because he would inevitably be preached and ridiculed.

After the group passed through the shantytown, the surrounding houses were also much cleaner, and the lights were not far away, and the crowds were surging, and it was needless to say where the most people were at night.

They walked straight into the Sea Butterfly House, and Butterfly Ji saw Katsushin from afar, rushed up and grabbed his arm directly, and stared at Katsushin with a smile on his face:

"Why did Shengxin have time to come over tonight, I think of Ah Die!"

Katsushin winked at Diehime and pointed at Konoe Mingxi, who was thinking about his thoughts: "Can't you see His Highness Konoe?" ”

Diehime smiled and hurriedly ran to Konoe Mingxi's side and hugged him, sticking it to Xiaozhi's arm: "It turned out to be the son of the Konoe family!" ”

Konoe Mingxi was taken aback by Diehime's enthusiastic appearance, and it took a while to react, his face turned red, and he resisted trying to get Diehime attached to him away, and looked at Katsushin quite embarrassed;

Shengxin looked at Konoe Mingxi's embarrassed appearance and laughed, this guy is still the same! smiled and said to Butterfly:

"Spare His Highness the Guard! Find us a tea room and some more wine and food. ”

"Do you want Ah Taki and Ah Chun to serve? I'm also available. ”

Butterfly looked at Katsushin expectantly, but Katsushin waved his hand: "His Royal Highness is different from other princesses, let's have some wine." ”

Diehime looked at Katsushin, and then at Konoe Myeong-hee's handsome appearance, with an understanding expression.

Yes!

Katsushin tapped Butterfly's head: "What are you thinking!" Turn back and clean you up. ”

"Hehe, no thoughts, let's go! I'll take you up. ”

Katsushin and Mingxi followed Diehime up the stairs, and Evil Hachiro and the others had already consciously gone to find their old friends.

In the room, Konoe Mingxi had a sad face, kept pouring wine into his mouth, and Shengxin looked stupid, is this still the elegant and self-disciplined noble son he used to be? How does it feel like I'm here to cheat on drinking.

"What the hell is going on? Can make His Royal Highness the Major General so embarrassed. ”

Faced with Shengxin's inquiry, Mingxi put down the wine bowl and began to complain.

It turns out that Konoe Mingxi has recently fallen in love with a young lady from a samurai family, and it is not uncommon for a martial arts marriage to be in this era of collapse of etiquette, and it is logical if it is a woman of a certain daimyo; But it was a woman from a low-level samurai family, and I heard that she didn't have much money, which made Mingxi's father Konoe Haru angry and resolutely opposed this marriage.

What's even more terrifying is that this guy also swore a poisonous oath: one couple for the rest of his life, and he will never accept a side room.

Free love is absolutely impossible to exist in the nobles of this era, coupled with this poisonous oath, so that his father Konoe Qing was so angry that he almost didn't mention it in one breath, and drove him out of the house directly, and he was not allowed to go back if he didn't take back these ideas.

After all, Konoe Harumi is the one who has been the Minister of the Interior, and the Konoe family is the head of the Five Families, isn't this a slap in the face of your father? We ministers are already poor enough, we all rely on this face to support us, and you don't even want a face together, right?

Shengxin was a little stunned when he heard this, good guy, his thoughts are avant-garde enough! Free love + monogamy, worthy of Konoe Mingxi, progressive and enlightened!

"That's why I'm here to join you, and you know, I can't get along with the other children of my family, and those guys will only make fun of me about it."

Konoe Mingxi said rather pitifully; Shengxin touched his forehead: "Actually, this matter is not a big deal. ”

"Do you have a way?"

Mingxi looked at Shengxin with anticipation as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.

"Ahem!"

Katsushin cleared his throat and said solemnly: "Leave the Konoe family and build a mansion independently." ”

Mingxi was a little shocked when he heard this, his face flashed with joy for a moment, and he was immediately replaced by distress, he put his shoulders on his shoulders in frustration, and said for a long time:

"If I leave the Konoe family, I won't even be able to scrape together the money for the banquet of the marriage, let alone buy a mansion."

Shengxin looked at his friend's sad appearance and smiled: "So you found me?" ”

"No, no, no, I don't have this meaning in the next, it's a big deal that I'm looking for a big name or a wealthy family, and the song and the military strategy are still a little bit familiar, and it's not difficult to eat with a mouth."

Shengxin looked at Mingxi like this, he knew that his character was not the same as that of other ministers, so he was willing to befriend him;

The current situation of the Konoe family is not easy, since Mingxi's cousin Konoe Maehisa became the elder of the Kamito clan and Sekihaku, the Konoe family actively participated in the affairs of the samurai, and even formed an alliance with Uesugi Kenshin to deal with the affairs of Kanto and other places; But Konoe was an anti-Nobunaga faction for a long time, and after the Oda army went to Luo, he ran away with oil on the soles of his feet, and fled to Ishiyama Honganji Temple for refuge, and the other clansmen of the Konoe family who stayed in Kyoto were not happy, and those who should have been arrested were arrested, and those who were dismissed were dismissed, and even Konoe Mingxi, who was not a descendant of Konoe's sons, was also deprived of his official position as Major General Konoe, and his life was even more miserable.

Shengxin picked up the wine bowl and said to Konoe Mingxi: "Over the years, you have taken me like a younger brother, and I also regard you as a brother. When you enter the university with the teacher, you are the one who teaches carefully; I accidentally killed the boy of the Eagle Division's family, and it was you who ran around for me to take care of the court; Now that it's your turn, do you want me to stand idly by? ”

"Victorious ......"

Mingxi may have drunk too much, and his eyes were a little moist; I only listened to Shengxin continue: "We are friends, and we are all in this life, so I will help you; Leaving the Konoe family is also good for you, and the current imperial court will not be peaceful. ”

Konoe Mingxi was so moved that he didn't know how to speak, he could feel the sincerity of Katsuna, there are friends like this, what regrets in this life?

"No matter when and where, if he is in need every day, he will do his best to help, as long as he does not dislike my position and speak lightly."

Shengxin and Mingxi each picked up the wine bowl and drank it all, and then laughed heartily, life is always a confidant is hard to find, how many people can be called close friends?

Butterfly, who had been kneeling outside the door, wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief and smiled with satisfaction.