"Convince the uncle and the son to take back their fate for a long time? Although it is suggested that the marriage between Quanjiu and Qianjia can defeat the support tendency of Qianjia and Beidao and eliminate the possible party struggle in the future, it is difficult to make the trip due to its limited persuasiveness and operability. ”

"Convince the cheap father Niko Hisayuki to come forward to mediate? Although he was a powerful and influential man, he had always been a long-standing advocate for my uncle and son, and it was unlikely that he would support my private affairs; Secondly, it is a great plan for the family to stabilize the situation in Izumo by co-opting the two families of the Izumo Taisha Shrine, and it is extremely taboo to meddle in this matter without being the head of the family, and this idea will not work. ”

"Stand up in front of the Kitajima clan and make them realize my potential and give me the crane instead? Even if I try my best, even if I have great potential, I am not as good as the grandson who has been optimistic for a long time and has great hopes of inheriting the position of family governor is suitable for entrusting the family, and the hope of persuasion is almost zero. In addition, the performance in front of thousands of families when he was apprenticed may not have been spread for the time being; But if the Kitajima clan is in the limelight again, and there are many adults in the family who can't sleep well, I'm afraid that I'm going to 'accidentally' fall into the water again, so I can't help it."

……

It was only a few miles from Hirotaka's residence to the Kitajima clan's residence, and the journey that could normally be crossed without much effort was now extraordinarily long. Between the emergence and annihilation of various methods, Jingzhen gradually fell into a deep shame.

As a child, he is a giant like the Izumo Niko clan or a powerful man like Senjia and Kitajima, but shrimp is not worth mentioning at all to the sea. But after only relying on a modern way of thinking and a little historical knowledge to make a few mouths, this shrimp has already felt that Nizi is long-lasting, Nizi Jiuxing, Qianjia and other powerful factions in the sea are just like this, and subconsciously regard it as a game character that can be manipulated and fiddled with at will, and finally received a heavy slap in the face of reality. Always thinking about three or two thousand catties, obviously there is no three taels of capital on his body, but he doesn't put a thousand catties in his eyes. usually thinks that he is strategizing and scheming, but he is already vulnerable when he really encounters a big man's instructions.

If you can usually be down-to-earth, make one or two henchmen, and raise three or five dead soldiers, you can also have one or two desperate ways to take risks at this time, so as not to be helpless.

Finally, the inner sanctum of the Kitajima clan came into view. The guards laughed and talked freely, and the attendants came and went from time to time, and everything was unusual. It seems that the crane has not been exposed and there has been no accident, and Jingzhen can't help but breathe a sigh of relief. So he took out the towel sent by the crane in a no-man's land, wrote on the back "The Monkey King Learns Art and Waits for the West Chamber" (Note 1) and then tied it into a ball and carried it in his arms, Shi Ran walked up to the guard and said loudly,

"I am the messenger of His Royal Highness Yanye Xingjiu (Note 2), and I hereby present a letter to the relatives of the Thousand Families, please report on my behalf!"

The guard frowned and said, "You must be coming to my Izumo Taisha for the first time, this is the residence of the Kitajima family, not the residence of the relatives of the thousand families." ”

Jing Zhen looked at the window corresponding to Hezi's bedroom, and saw that there was no movement for the time being, so she raised her voice and continued to entangle:

"You don't want to be coaxed, I asked all the way, and they all pointed me here. Isn't it intentional to come to you and say no? ”

The guard was also provoked, and said angrily, "You rammer really can't know how to do it, if I coax you to send the wrong letter, you naturally won't be able to escape the punishment, why bother yourself!" The residence of the thousands of adults faces three miles to the east, you just go quickly, don't make trouble here! Otherwise, I will take you down and wait for your family to redeem you!" ”

Jingzhen finally waited until the crane opened the window and poked his head out, and after secretly glancing at it, she then smiled at the guard, "Then it seems that I made a mistake, I will leave without disturbing the honorable driver", and then turned to leave.

After turning left and right in the vicinity and circumventing a stick of incense, Jing Zhen quietly returned to the residence of the Beidao family, avoided the direction of the Shouwei line and walked directly under the window of the crane, coughed lightly twice, and quickly threw the towel tied into it after the window opened, and then left with his hands.

Returning to his residence, Jing Zhen hurriedly sent Wakamaru to the town, while he read and practiced calligraphy normally. After a meal, Wakamaru secretly turned back and told him that everything he had ordered had been done. After Zhen checked the details of all parties, he sent him and Hu Song back to rest, and turned off the lights to rest without mentioning it.

Silently counting the time on the bed before and after the first watch, Jingzhen got up in the dark. In the dark, he packed up the gold and silver and packed them into three parts, gently woke up the sleeping Tiger Song and Wakamaru next door, and told them to quietly get dressed, take a piece of soft each, and act according to the instructions before going to bed. Among them, Wakamaru immediately took the back mountain trail to leave the company, and went to the town to lead the agreed troika to the exit of the back mountain trail to wait; Hu Song took the croton to wait near the stable in the company; He wore his clothes, swords, and soft items on his back and went straight to the North Island home.

In the dead of night, the usual intention to eat liver to avoid night blindness played a role in the end, Jing Zhen avoided several shifts of night guards, and arrived at the crane window without any twists and turns. After observing that there was no one around, he pretended to be a wild cat and "meowed" three times after a short pause.

After a while, the window opened silently, and seeing the crane poking his head out, Jingzhen hurriedly took out the sheet that had been knotted in advance and the letter informing him of the specific action, and crumpled it into a large ball, and then threw it into his arms with great skill, and then waited quietly under the window.

After another moment, the sheet that had been thrown up hung down from the window again, and Jingzhen pulled it a few times with all her strength, and was satisfied when she saw that the sheet was still firm and motionless, and motioned to the crane, who had already been dressed neatly, to slowly descend, and before her feet touched the ground, she quickly took it into her arms.

The two quietly hugged Wen Cun for a while, and Jingzhen led the crane to the stable, and at the same time whispered,

"I have no choice but to make this decision, I want to wronged you to leave your hometown and wander with me."

"Marry a chicken with a chicken, marry a dog with a dog. That's what I'm happy to, you don't have to say much! ”

Hezi's straightforward and sincere speech directly made Jingzhen unable to hold back, so she could only say clumsily: "Now that the situation is in chaos, neither of us will make great efforts to search for the whereabouts of the two of us." Let's go to first, and then depending on the situation, whether you are going out or going around, I will do my best to give you stable happiness! ”

"Tsuruko believes in His Highness!"

As the two looked forward to the future, they gradually dispelled their worries and fears about the uncertain future, and walked to the stable to meet Tiger Song.

After taking the croton that Wakamaru had bought out in the afternoon, Jingzhen sent Husong to join Wakamaru on the back mountain trail and left as a suspect in the carriage prepared in advance. Then pour a layer of croton that Wakamaru bought out in the afternoon, according to the understanding of the horses in the company when he usually rides, select the most docile and suitable one, and untie the horse bell in turn while soothing his emotions, wrap the horse's mouth and hooves, untie the reins, turn over the horse and pull the crane into his arms, and gallop towards the main entrance.

Hurry up, and after a few breaths, the two of them have arrived at the gate of the Taisha Shrine. Just as he thought he had escaped and was about to pass through the door with a long sigh of relief, a sudden fire broke out at the door, and many guards surrounded the head of the North Island clan and a young man and slowly lined up. The young man was two heads taller than Jingzhen, about seven or eight years older, with handsome eyebrows and arrogant faces, and looked at the two of them with a little arrogance, and said:

"The two of you are in a hurry, where are you going to enjoy the moon?"

Anger was mixed with a little fear like a hot current suddenly poured out, and the memories that belonged to this body made Jing Zhen tremble, and the broken images of insults, bullying, and being pushed into the water began to flicker in his mind, making him squeeze a name out of his teeth.

"Niko Quanjiu!" (Note 3)

Note 1: In "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong listened to the preaching of the Bodhi Patriarch and danced with his hands, the patriarch asked him how many skills, but he refused to learn them, and finally the patriarch knocked him on the head three times and left angrily. Everyone else thought that the patriarch was angry, but only Sun Wukong realized that this was the patriarch who asked him to go to the third watch to learn art, and finally learned seventy-two changes. In "The Legend of the West Chamber", the most famous one is the matchmaker who connects Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying, leading them to a private meeting under the moon. So the two sentences are a metaphor for the elopement of the three watches in the middle of the night.

Note 2: Yanye Xingjiu, that is, Nizi Xingjiu, the third son of Nizi Jingjiu, in order to consolidate the rule of the Nizi clan, was succeeded to the powerful Hao clan Yanye clan, so he changed his name to Yanye Xingjiu, and was enshrined in the territory of 3,000 stones near Yanye, responsible for the defense of the western side of the Nizi clan. Around 1532, he was not satisfied with his existing territory, and asked his father Nizi to add his 700-stone domain to the former county for a long time, but was refused, so he rebelled, and soon after was defeated and committed suicide. When Jing Zhen pretended to be a messenger from any company during the investigation, he would offend people a little afterwards, so he had to open a clairvoyant and pretend to be Yan Ye Xingjiu, a dying person.

Note 3: Niko Tanhisa, who later received the word "Haru" from the shogunate Ashikaga Yoshiharu, changed his name to Niko Haruhisa. The grandson of Nizi is also the next governor of the Nizi clan after Nizi has been enduring for a long time. He devoted his life to expanding the power of the Niko family, and after repeated tug-of-war with the Ouchi family and the Maori family, he finally created the largest ruling territory of the Niko family. He had many victories and defeats in his life, and in order to strengthen the centralization of power, he eliminated the Shingong Party headed by the family's number one fierce general and uncle Niko Kunihisa, so later generations had mixed reputations for him. In 1561, Niko Kanhisa died at Getsan Tomita Castle, and after that, the Niko clan declined rapidly, and it fell into extinction after just five years.