Chapter 2 second quarter

After Xin Ding was the only one left, he suddenly felt weak all over, and he was secretly taken aback. Xin Ding finally stepped onto the Qiqu Road from the northern end of his house.As Hyun Soo said, only Yamazaki Shimamori's house was burned down.Most of the Owari people and Mino people living nearby were busy fleeing, and people on the Qiqu Road were screaming and making a lot of noise. As the name suggests, the Qizi Road is a long and thin road that winds along the mountainside and leads to the waterway on Lake Biwa. In the middle of the road is Xinding House, with a simple shape and plant fences on both sides of the entrance.The entire house covers an area of ​​300 square meters, which is the size of a medium-sized samurai's house. It has an entrance, two rooms with six stacks, one room with eight stacks, one room with ten stacks, kitchen, bathroom, toilet, stables...

On the surface, his salary was only fifty guan, but his special official position allowed him to be exempted from military service, so he didn't need to hire a large number of servants. Instead, he could help others to keep records, which gave him some extra income, so his family was relatively prosperous. The self-made library is located in the shade at the north end of the house. It is built of stones and is about the size of four stacks. The diaries and wooden boxes over the years are stored in it. He had no family, his wife died early, and his two children—the eldest son, Koyousuke, and the second son, Youqi—were looked after by Kiyosu's sister-in-law.Xinding married late, and both children are underage.

Xinding first summoned the servants of the men and women, gave them a certain amount of money, and asked them to go home on vacation.All the servants are from Omi.Through the mouths of the servants who fled back from the Honnoji Temple one after another, they all knew clearly what had happened to Nobunaga.Everyone wants to escape here as soon as possible, so Xinding's arrangements are going well. Only two father and son servants remained, Naosuke and Koyata.Naosuke was originally a ninja from the Koka area. Because his right hand was injured by a musket, he could no longer hold a weapon, so he withdrew from the ninja team.

He trained Koyata desperately, and seemed to want him to take over.Koyata was sixteen years old. This bright young man was tall and tall, even taller than his father.He is a self-motivated child, and he is definitely allowed to borrow "Six Secret Teachings", "Three Strategies", and "Sun Tzu" from the library's collection to study hard by himself. Xinding pays close attention to him, even more so than his own children. Xin Ding summoned the two of them to the study room of Badida University, looked at them back and forth, and expressed his thoughts on how to dispose of the wooden box.

Because he had to prepare the horses and pack the luggage before, he had told them about the matter-in the past two days, as long as he received the order, he would immediately send the wooden boxes entrusted by Mr. Nobunaga to Kyoto.Now, with the death of the important owner, everything falls by the wayside. "These things are currently unowned, but until the Oda family determines the successor, I don't want to give these things to anyone, and I don't even want to say anything about receiving these things. You must keep them in mind!" The father and son nodded silently, looking nervous.

"So, within a day or two before the attack of the wise army, I plan to move these things to a safer place. I hope you can help. Is it okay?" Both father and son replied at the same time: "I listen to you." "It's great that you are willing to help me." Xinding breathed a sigh of relief.Those boxes are too heavy to be handled by one person, but if you ask someone you have never met to help, it will be difficult to handle if the other party has a thief. Although I don't know what is contained in the wooden box, but judging from the size and weight, Xin must think it is a large number of gold nuggets.

Although Xinding had already planned out the new location, he didn't make it clear.The father and son didn't ask too much. "Before I start this work, I have something to trouble you. There are my diaries and my collection of historical materials and rare books in the study. I want to hide these things well. These things are precious to me, but they are not worth it. The world is watching and scrambling, so just put it in the temples in this area. By the way, how about please, Elder Zhenan? His temple is surrounded by paddy fields, even if the city is on fire, nothing will happen there."

In May three years ago, the Jingyan Temple in Antu held a debate meeting. The abbot of the local Xiguang Temple was one of the commentators of the Pure Land sect, known as Zhen'an.At that time, the Fahua School was an aggressive sect, often defeating its opponents.The Pure Land Sect, who is not good at debate, had to ask the Oda family for help.Nobunaga ordered Xinding to summarize and sort out the conceived arguments of the Fahuazong in advance, and put them together into a problem set and hand them to Zhen'an.It was by relying on this improvised method that Zhen'an barely won the debate.Later, Zhen'an received various favors from the Oda family, and was even more convinced by Xinding.As long as it is a matter of faith and request, he will definitely agree.

Xin decided to ask the father and son to help, first spread oiled paper on the two paulownia boxes, and then spread paper coated with persimmon lacquer, from bottom to top, fill them up in the order of diaries, historical materials, and rare books.Even if someone opened it, they would probably only take away the rare book on it.Xin decided to arrange it this way, hoping that the following diary would not be taken away. Finally, he looked around the study room, and put the tea utensil given by Lord Nobunaga on the shelf into it.In order not to break it, he wrapped it several times with rags.

He planned to have Koyata use a cart to transport the wooden box to Xiguang Temple before dark. Just when everything was ready, an uninvited guest came - Jirozaemon Kimura.He was the official in charge of building the castle tower of Azuchi Castle, and his face, which was usually tanned, looked dark and sad at this moment. Xinding hurriedly led him into the study, and after asking, he found out that Hyunsu will send the female relatives out of the city tomorrow, and Azuchi Castle was entrusted to Jiro Zaemon.A moment ago, Xin Ding had just finished talking with Hyun Soo about "Tianshu Art Theory", but the ball seemed to be kicked at the architect himself.I definitely don't feel a little guilty.

Staying would almost mean death, yet Jirozaemon seemed unafraid of his situation. "This presumptuous visit is not to discuss my personal affairs——I am concerned about the whereabouts of Maemon." What he meant was——he was so heartbroken, that's why he visited rashly. Okabe Mataemon was originally a craftsman of Owari Atsuta Shrine, and he was a talented man.When Nobunaga decided to build Antu City, he was summoned at a high price of two hundred guan.The original space structure of the castle tower is the joint masterpiece of Nobunaga and Youemon.Of course, from a technical point of view, it is fundamentally the original creation of Youemon. Nobunaga went to Beijing this time, and this person was ordered to accompany him. On the night of June 1, he stayed at the Honnoji Temple.In this way, Matemon probably died with Nobunaga. "Why did my lord take Maemon to Kyoto, I really can't figure it out." Jirozaemon seemed very angry. Xinding could only vaguely say: "You ask the reason, where am I..." After deciding to go to Beijing, Nobunaga suddenly added Matemon to the list of entourage.He originally said that he would only take the servant boy, so this change of mind would naturally make people around him feel strange.Some people say that it was Nobunaga's whim, while others say that it was to praise Maetemon for his contribution to building the castle tower, and granted him permission to visit Kyoto. All ideas are wrong. (Take Mataemon with you. Nobunaga needs him to explain about Azuchi Castle when he enters the palace to meet the emperor! This has a lot to do with the five wooden boxes. But, I can't just say those things... ) This is the reason why Xinding is vague. "Not to mention the shrines and Buddhist pavilions in Kyoto, but the structure of the minister's house and even the merchant's house, Maetemon knows everything. He wouldn't want to visit Kyoto until then. Moreover, this person has no interest in the layout of the city at all. He told me several times that he didn't want to go..." Jirozaemon emphasized. "Is that so? But I think he seems very happy, after all, he visited Kyoto again after several years." Nobu must be sloppy, but he knows he can't help avoiding Jirozaemon's eyes. (I'm really not good at lying...) He deeply felt so. "I've never seen him act like that..." Jirozaemon tilted his head, looking serious in thought. It's unbearable. "Forget it, forget it, let's forget about that matter. Mataemon sometimes needs to take a breather and rest. But in this way, I don't understand even more. Why did he put the important "Tianshu" when he went to visit Kyoto? Schematic "Take away?" "Huh? That picture was taken away?" This was like a bolt from the blue for Faith.It was a top-secret design drawing, which included the design of the castle tower, Honjo, Nimaru, etc. There is only one copy in the entire Azuchi Castle, and it is not allowed to be taken out. Even Xinding, who can freely enter and exit the library, has never seen it . "Today, in order to deal with the attack of Akechi's army, I went to the library and thought about what to do with the blueprint, only to realize that it was gone. It must have been taken away by Mataemon before he entered Beijing. He will not take it out at will. I went, so there must be instructions from the lord." In this way, it shows that Mataemon's visit to Beijing is obviously not a tour of mountains and rivers. "Master Ota, do you know these things?" Jirozaemon moved closer, and Shinsou panicked. At this time, someone whispered behind the sliding door: "My lord, the appointed time has come..." It was the direct assistant who came to the rescue. "Oh! You have a date? Then I'll take my leave." Feeling embarrassed, Jirozaemon stepped back a bit. "It's okay. I'm going to leave. I plan to deposit the rare books and other things in Xiguang Temple. It's just the time for me to go to Elder Zhen'an. There's no way, who made that elder fall asleep at dusk." Xinding deliberately said in a brisk tone. "Oh? You want to store the documents in Xikoji Temple?" Jirozaemon thought for a moment, and seemed to have made up his mind, and said solemnly, "Then how about this——I have some documents here, which take up a lot of space. Can I trouble you? and store?" He spread out more than a dozen sheets of broadsheets and showed them to Xin. "These are not the design drawings of Mataemon, but the sketches of the "Schematic Diagram of the Castle" that I hand-drawn." It is a sketch, but a layman like Xinding thinks it is a very delicate and professional design. "Why did you give these to me..." Halfway through, Xin Ding suddenly realized.I saw Jirozaemon smiling slightly, from his lonely smile, Shin must intuitively feel that he is determined to die! "The designs that Maemon took away may disappear with him. If so, these blueprints of mine are the only thing that can pass on the masterpiece of Maemon to future generations. Not to mention the next ten years, Twenty years, that is, fifty years, one hundred years, there will be no craftsman who can design such a masterpiece in this world. I will die soon, and of course these things should not be kept. How? Ota-sama, can you trouble me? Will you help store it? I hope you will tell future generations that there was an outstanding craftsman during the Tensho era——Okabe Mataemon. I hope you tell them that the castle tower designed by this craftsman once stood awe-inspiring, straight Pierce the sky!" Jirozaemon begged and bowed down.His shoulders trembled, Shin must know he was crying. "Follow your order." Xinding opened the box on the spot. "I plan to store the box in the temple, and now I have decided to design a partition for the bottom layer of the box, and put these blueprints in it for preservation. And, Jiro Sa-kun, I swear to the gods, I must fulfill your wish. As long as I If you are alive, you will take good care of these blueprints and try to pass them on forever!" Shinsaka hugged Jirozaemon's trembling shoulders, "But Jirozaemon, don't talk too soon. We must meet again , sooner or later, we will talk about everything like this evening. Okay? Jiro Zuo!" Unknowingly, the corners of Xinding's eyes became moist. (Maybe this is the last meeting in this life.) No, it won't... Faith is strongly self-suggesting.