Chapter 28 fourth quarter

In mid-July, Niu Yi, accompanied by Tashi, returned to Osaka Tenma from Settsu Sanda via Kunyang. He sent a message to Saizo of Fushimi, and at the same time wanted to meet Qingru as soon as possible. He must have secrets to keep.what is that?Thinking of this, Niu Yi thought for the first time to seriously investigate the history of Amitabha Temple in Kyoto. In the temple management office of Osaka Castle, there are many colleagues from the past, and this kind of investigation is very easy.Because it was so easy, Amitabha Temple was neglected in the past.After investigation, Niu Yi discovered that he had been too careless before, and his knowledge of this temple was too limited.

In the tenth year of Tianzheng, Qingyu, the founding abbot of Amitabha Temple, was only forty-two years old. He transferred his position to Yuan Yi, the second abbot, and passed away suddenly on September 15, the thirteenth year of Tianzheng.And, for a short time thereafter.The position of abbot rotates very quickly, from the second generation of Yuan to the third generation of Zhenshun, the fourth generation of Yuanyu to the fifth generation of Zhen'an. Niuyi knew Zhen'an, the abbot of the Five Dynasties.He was the abbot of Xiguang Temple at that time. When Niu Yi fled Antu City, he stored his "Antu Diary" there.Later, I heard that he held an important position in this mountain, but I didn't realize that he also served as the abbot of Amitabha Temple.He is a monk with rich social experience. Since he became the abbot of the fifth generation, the post of abbot of Amitabha Temple has been stabilized.

Prior to this, the position of abbot frequently alternated, which made people feel abnormal no matter how they thought about it.Moreover, in addition to the fact that Amitabha Temple cremated Nobunaga is puzzling, why Hideyoshi rushed to Amitabha Temple to search for the remains is also puzzling.Why did Hideyoshi only aim at Amitabha Temple, so persistently seek the remains of Lord Nobunaga?The meaning is unknown.Niu conducted some investigation on the incident. In June of the tenth year of Tianzheng, after Hideyoshi defeated Mitsuhide Akechi at Tenwang Mountain, he began to contact Amitabha Temple.On June 27, during the Kiyosu Conference held by the Oda family ministers, he also issued many instructions from distant Qingzhou. After returning to Beijing, he hinted three times to increase the funds for Amitabha Temple.Ask them to hand over Nobunaga's remains.There is an inside story behind this.The only one who knew these inside stories was Qingru who escaped by chance.

(Meet him anyway.) Niu Yi seriously considers the meeting with Qingru.However, despite the persuasion of Zouhei and Afeng, the key person Qingru still ambiguous about the face-to-face interview, saying that we should wait for the opportunity to talk about it.Now, where Qingru is and what she is doing, relatives including Afeng are silent. "However, Uncle Aquan..." Duozhi seemed to feel a little sorry for Niu Yi, "It's not that he hates Mr. Ota, he kept saying that he would see you soon." Recently, Dazhi looks good and has a good appetite, and he has begun to look like a mature woman.Only when she said these words, she looked sad.

"Having said that, I still want to know the general situation. Moreover, I will go to Sanyang Road to investigate next." Niu Yi couldn't restrain his anxiety. In order to find out the truth about Hideyoshi's "Great Return to China", he has to start again as soon as possible. "Uncle must be looking for an opportunity, please be patient. There will be good news soon." Niu Yi can only believe what Duo Zhi said. During the period, Caizang came to report, and laughed as soon as he opened his mouth. "First, let me report what happened there." He held his head high, "I'll look for the women in Shuiwei first, and after careful searching, I did find a few women that meet your requirements."

"It still exists. In the villa of the tea house. What are the names of the host and guest?" "It's clear that Konoe-sama is in charge of hosting, but I don't know the name of the guest. By the way, I found out the name of the samurai who went from Mount Atago to Mizuo." "Yes. What's it called?" "I heard it's called Lord Rizhou." "Rizhou? Sure enough. What's the name of the person leading the way?" "It's Yasuke, and he's the servant of Mizuo village head Heizawaemon." "Hirazaemon is indeed involved." Niu Yi felt that the daydream at that time had found the answer.

"Great. You've done a great job, hard work." Things move forward.The next step is to search for the whereabouts of the imperial decree issued by the imperial court to "pursue Nobunaga".Cai Zang was praised by Niu Yi, and he became more motivated. "Last time you mentioned sneaking into shrines and temples, what do you say?" he leaned forward and asked. "Yes. At present, you don't have to sneak into the temple, but you still sneak into the shrine as scheduled, okay? But I can't arrange someone to transcribe it." Duozhi is pregnant, and Niu Yi doesn't want her to hold on.

"If so, I'll come and find it." "That's the best way. But that person must be able to understand cursive script of both Chinese characters and Japanese cursive script. Even if it's slower, it needs to be shorthand." "Understood, can you tell me the name of the shrine and the manuscript?" "The shrine is the Yoshida Shrine in Sakyo. You sneaked into the library of Miyashi Yoshida Kenmi, stole Tensho's ten-year diary, and then asked someone to copy all the records from May to June. If you can copy it on the spot, then It's the best. If it doesn't work, just get it out temporarily, don't be found out. After copying it back, it's all old documents, and he shouldn't notice it in a short time."

"I totally get it." Cai Zang showed a fearless smile, and saluted: "Finally, I would like to report to you by the way. The house built by the tea house in Shuiwei was demolished this spring." "Demolished? Why? It's a very special house in that remote country place." It was demolished without mercy, there should be something hidden in it. "I heard that he is building a new house in Edo. It seems that it was suggested by the lord of the inner government-there is plenty of land in Edo, you can use it to build villas. The big businessmen in Kyoto and Osaka also followed the tea house and rushed to demolish the one at the end of the water. Villa, go to Edo. There are only some very small hermitages left there. Oh, yes, that Atago Shrine above Mizuo..."

"What happened to the shrine?" Niu Yi missed the palace official there——Tian Wuming. "It is said that Atago Shrine also built a branch in Edo." "Master Neifu is really capable." The cow clicked his tongue.In order to win the world, Tokugawa Ieyasu is steadily implementing a conspiracy in private. After Caizang mentioned the Ming people, perhaps it was "Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here"—a few days later, the Ming people came to visit unexpectedly. He casually opened his linen clothes and sat down on the porch of Niu Yi's residence. He opened his mouth, didn't say a few words, and laughed out loud.

"Gee, Osaka is so hot, it's like hell." His body reeked of sweat. He said he had returned from Edo by sea.There was a merchant ship from Osaka that delivered food and groceries to Edo, and the Ming people boarded the returning merchant ship and came back almost without spending a penny, but the clothes on his body had not been changed for more than ten days. "Oh, the bottom of the boat is full of spices and soy sauce, and you will get seasick. I can't bear it." He seemed to think of those smells again, he pinched his nose, which made Niu Yi and Duo Zhi laugh. After taking a bath by the well in the backyard, he walked into the study and saw that the poems he had written had been well preserved by Niu Yi, and he was overjoyed. The meals and grilled corn cooked by Tazhi made him smack his lips.After filling his stomach, he started chatting with Niu Yi. "The old fox of Mikawa asked me again and again, asking me to go to Edo to build the branch of the Atago Shrine, saying that the god of fire prevention was also needed there. I had no choice but to persuade those Kyoto poetry friends who opposed the establishment of the branch to agree. Build a small shrine. However, Edo is really wide, surrounded by wetlands with wild grass. I looked around, and I had to pick at least one piece of high ground with good drainage. Later, I only found a hill with an altitude of 30 feet, even leading to the shrine. The number of stone steps can't be compared with Kyoto. I estimate it will take five years..." "Five years?" Niu Yi thought it was too long. "It doesn't take five years, but it takes five years. I will find all kinds of excuses to delay. It's unbearable to build it and then destroy it in the fire of war. Besides, that old fox seems to have put in a lot of work." , Once there is a war, you can turn Mount Atago in Edo into a fortress. That man Ieyasu will not waste a penny.” Mingren's words mean that there must be a battle between Tokugawa and Toyotomi?He is still straightforward and sharp, making people happy to listen to. Niu Yi felt comfortable, but Duo Zhi, who heard the conversation in the kitchen, couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat. "Master Izumi, please take care." He whispered with a playful smile. "Take care of what?" "Two years ago, when I saw Izumi Mori-sama, you were full of energy. Now it's a little different. Is it because of that woman?" Mingren clicked on the key point. "Not at all. If there is no energy, it is because the creation that has been missed for many years has come to an end, and there is no motivation." Niu Yi argued, but Mingren laughed it off. "Oh, oh! If that's the case, your sense of achievement should turn into joy. It's useless to hide it. For an old man, that woman is too beautiful. Kidney deficiency is terrible. You can't overdo that kind of thing when you are old. From Izumi Watching the complexion of the adults, you can clearly see that your kidney is weak." He looked serious, not joking at all. "How is it possible? Although I do it, what kind of business do I keep doing!" Niu Yi knew that his face was red. "For the elderly, it's scary to take it indifferently. For example, Ikkyu Zongchun suddenly went crazy in his later years." The reason why Zongchun Ikkyu is famous is that he pampered a blind beauty named Sen every night in his later years, and left poems of naked confession. Niu Yi wanted to pretend to be confused and change the subject, and asked, "How old is Yixiu?" "Eighty-eight years old." "If that's the case, I'll be satisfied. I didn't plan to live for such a long time. I don't want others to see me looking old." For a moment, he thought of the remaining Kopei candies, there were still forty-two pills, if he and Tashi each took two pills a year, there would be ten years at most. "That's true." Seeing Tashi coming back from the kitchen, Mingren changed the topic, "Conversely, there are also men like Musashibo Benkei who don't know how to style, who do it once and a half, and then stop doing that kind of thing." "Really? I haven't heard of it." "Don't you know? Although I don't know the exact age, when Benkei died in Mutsu Ikawa, he was probably in his thirties, not forty." "What do you mean once and a half?" Niu Yi couldn't help being whetted by Ming's words. "Benkei broke the women's precept once. As for where and how he did it, I don't know. The second time, he was about to have sex, but he stopped in a hurry. That's what it means half a time." "Why stop?" "After doing it, I found it was the same as last time. If it's the same, why do the same stupid thing..." In the middle of the talk, Akito looked at Taji who had returned to the kitchen, she seemed to be listening with her ears pricked up. Ming people hastened to replace explicit language with metaphors. "In this way, he became the God of Katsuragi." "That was amazing. I wanted to see Benkei standing on the Kume stone bridge." Niu Yi also understood, and also responded to Ming's words with metaphors. "The God of Katsuragi" and "Kume Stone Bridge" are both legends about the incompatibility of men and women. Seeing Dazhi walk into the kitchen in bewilderment, the two looked at each other and laughed. "Where on earth did you hear these words?" Niu Yi asked with relish. "At the residence of worshipers on Mount Atago. The pilgrims who gathered from all over Japan sat around the fire and told such jokes one after another. The stories of the people in the market are very interesting, and the conversation is fierce. Someone It is said that Benkei did not die in Yichuan, but died of a stroke." "Really? Stroke and died?" "This is a play on words with the words 'stroke' and 'loyalty'. In this way, the heroes of all generations will be disfigured. Ahahaha. Last time, Izumi Mori-sama, you didn't go to the stove Chatting and reading all the time, right? The next day, the maid at the shrine said this--the next time I come, I should throw away the book and chat with everyone by the fire. The conversation there is much more lively than the book times." The two drank until dawn, and then Mingren left Niu Yi's residence like a gust of wind.A few days later, old historical materials about Amitabha Temple arrived from the Temple Management Office of Osaka Castle. Before the interview with Qingru, Niu Yi summarized some background knowledge and questions as follows. After completing the memorandum, Niu Yi urged Dazhi again. "When can I meet Qing Ru?" Recently, as long as Niu said something serious, she would cry with a sad face.This time, Niu Yi tried his best to speak softly, lest she close her eyes and feel sad in the kitchen alone. "Soon, my lord." When he said this before, Duo Zhi always seemed apologetic, but this time he smiled, "Just now, he quietly sent someone to say that the flowers are beginning to bloom, and we will see each other soon." "what?" This time it was Niu Yi's turn to be surprised. Regardless of the meeting.Niu Yi didn't understand the meaning of the phrase "the flowers are beginning to bloom". "Because the flowers are beginning to bloom? This sentence is like inviting a woman to enjoy the flowers. What a weird person. What kind of flower is it?" "I don't know. Uncle used to be a weirdo. Although he was as tall as you, my lord, he was very timid. He didn't even dare to kill a bug, no, a mosquito. When the mosquito was lying on his arm and sucking blood, , He just kept looking at it, without patting it. After the mosquito was full, he couldn’t fly up, so he quickly lifted the mosquito gently, saying sin, sin, and put it into the grass.” "Really? Is he so gentle? You should know something about how he met Master Qingyu of Amitabha Temple." "I heard something from my father." "Can you tell me? Slow down." What Duozhi is talking about here seems to be about his uncle Ah Quan when he was in his twenties. At that time, Ah Quan left Tamba Highlands for Kyoto, but perhaps because he ate unclean food at the farewell party held by the villagers, he kept having diarrhea on the way, and ran into the forest many times to wipe his buttocks with tender leaves. When pulling a leaf for the first time, I mistakenly knocked down a hornet's nest, and was chased by a large number of hornets. I was stung by a bee, and I was almost blind. I couldn't move at all. Towards evening, Ah Quan was attacked by wild dogs again and fell into a second disaster.It happened that Qingyu, a student monk who was boarding at the Amitabha Hall of Dharma Xiangzong in Kyoto at that time, passed by. "I heard that Uncle Aquan told my dad like this - I was wearing travel clothes, gloves, and strong leggings wrapped around my legs. Unfortunately, my eyes were almost invisible, and the wild dogs were fierce. I could only lie on my stomach. On the ground, holding his head. At that moment, there was a loud voice in the darkness—Namo Amitabha. Then, the lapel of the white cassock seemed to fall from the sky. Then there was another sound of Namo Amitabha, a small stone Ordinary things flew around. I later found out that it was Monk Qingyu's rosary—the moment Uncle Qiang opened his eyes, Master Qingyu tore off the rope of the rosary and held one end in his mouth Like a gust of wind, he kept throwing his rosary at the wild dogs. Finally, he shouted Namo Amitabha again, and the wild dogs all started to retreat, and quickly fled with their tails between their legs." "Shout three times, repel the wild dogs?" "Yes. Later, Master Qingyu chanted scriptures and washed Uncle Aquan's eyes with the stream water in the valley. He helped him reduce swelling and fever all night. Afterwards, Uncle followed closely. To be him At that time, Master Qingyu was still a student monk, so he was not qualified to recruit disciples, so he scolded his uncle and asked him to retreat. Uncle A Quan did not give up, and followed him to the Amitabha Hall where Master Qingyu lived. After sitting at the door for seven days, he finally got With Master Chengjue's permission, he became Master Qingyu's disciple. He is a disciple who is four years older than Master Qingyu." "If you are four years older..." In the tenth year of Tianzheng, Master Qingyu was forty-two years old.Niu Yi reversed this. "He is sixty-two years old now, ten years younger than me, and the same age as Taige." "Yes. I heard that my uncle stayed with Hideyoshi for two years during the Tamba people's training. Both of them are not good at martial arts." When Danba men reach the age of thirteen, they will be gathered in one place and receive two years of strict cultural and martial arts training.This is what Zoubei told Niu Yi. "The two companions of the same period went to Owari. One wanted to be a samurai and the other wanted to be a monk. Later, one became the person in charge of the world, and the other became a monk as he wished. And, now..." "These words, wait until you see Uncle. Uncle asked you to go there in the near future. It was supposed to be Uncle who came to visit you, but since the change of Honnoji Temple, in order to avoid Hideyoshi's pursuit, he never goes out. I hope you can understand the difficulties .” "I don't care at all." "I'll wait for you at home. The little guy in my stomach is making a fuss, and I don't want to cause you any trouble." Dazhi smiled and walked slowly into the kitchen.