Chapter 4 Chapter 3 Master Ji Shaking the World

The sedan chair was carried up the stone slab in front of the steps.Yale helped Zheng's family kneel to the front of the sedan chair and opened the curtain of the sedan chair.He was respectful and full of warmth, as if he was welcoming his daughter: "Congratulations for your safe arrival, the main family welcomes you to the humble house!" He put his hands on the ground, but did not bow his head, and his expression was quite calm. People's eyes turned to the sedan chair in unison.Not only did they want to see the beauty of the bride, but they also wanted to know what the first words this fourteen-year-old bride, who was about to become the link between the Matsudaira and Mizuno families, would say when she came to Okazaki.

"Everyone has worked hard." Her voice was still a bit childish, "I am very happy to have arrived in Okazaki safely." Mrs. Zheng's family walked close to the sedan chair on her knees, and stretched her hand in.Huayangyuan stood aside, watching all this motionlessly.The excitement he felt when he just walked out of the living room was replaced by a strange calm.Yuri, the daughter of Tosuke Hijikata, stepped out of the sedan chair behind and knelt on the ground. For a moment, everyone's eyes lit up.Yu Da supported his wife's hand and walked out of the sedan chair, looking radiant.She was wearing a coat printed with plum blossoms, with a few huge double cherry blossoms dotted with gold threads on it, and a white satin jacket underneath, with some beards revealing her snow-white skin.She was tall, and her eyes and lips showed the tenderness of a fourteen-year-old girl.

As worthy of being a well-known beauty, people couldn't help but hold their breath.Yu Da is very similar to her mother, Huayangin, except that her cheeks are plump, which is more like her father Mizuno Tadamasa. "Yu Da," Huayang Courtyard said, "I heard that there were many ambush soldiers on the way, and they deliberately caused some trouble. It is thanks to all the retainers that you can come here safely. You must keep it in mind." The person in front of him was his biological mother, and Yu Da was excited for a while.Mother is more demure and beautiful than she imagined.This is the mother who has appeared in dreams countless times!I feel resentful because my mother abandoned the family!Now, she knows that this is a great mother who was involved in a tragedy but still survived strong.Yu Da wanted to throw herself into her mother's arms and cry, but she finally suppressed her tears and replied, "My child understands."

Okubo Shinhachiro groaned.People who don't know the inside story think they are ordinary mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.In any case, if Huayang Yard and Yu Da were too close, the people of the Songping family would feel that their home was taken away by the women, and they would feel uncomfortable.Yu Da instinctively sensed all this. Lily walked to Yu Da's side and followed her closely.Madam Zheng raised Yu Da's right hand and said, "Miss, please." "Okay." Yu Da lightly moved his lotus steps, and Huayangyuan stood far away.Masakaya and Shinhachiro were one on the steps and the other under the steps. Seeing this situation, they looked at each other and smiled.

"The followers of Kariya should be relieved." "Yeah, it's all because there are wise men in Okazaki." On the twenty-sixth day of the first lunar month, Yu Yamato Matsudaira Hirochu got married. Mizuno Nobumoto, who was trying to rob his sister halfway, was lying in the Kumai Yuguo with a dejected expression on his face.In the future, Xinyuan will develop the salt industry and call himself Xizhenzhai.He once built dozens of ships, and placed lanterns all the way from Xuchuan to the sea, boasting that "it can't be seen in the capital".At this time, he is still young and has a fragile temperament. Once he is frustrated, he will easily give up on himself and do anything willful.His younger sister married to Matsudaira, and he was supposed to go to Okazaki instead of his father, but he flatly refused the job, and lingered in Xiong's mansion all day long because he was in a bad mood.However, he still knows everything that is happening in Okazaki Castle.

Mizuno Tadamasa had no choice but to send Nobumoto's younger brother Tokuro Nobujinkyo to go there by himself.Xinjin was also born in Huayang Academy.Moreover, Nobumoto's younger sister Yusen, who was married to Katahara's Matashichiro Iehiro, also attended the wedding, and the matchmakers were Yusen and his wife, and Masaku Sakai and his wife. It is said that in Sakai Mansion, after Yu Yamato Kayoin formally met, the mother and daughter embraced and wept.Hearing this letter, Xinyuan was furious: "Women who don't understand the situation, there are times when you cry!"

He was still angry, so he came to Xiong's residence under the pretext of inspecting Yanbin. "It's not like what you did, you even robbed a fake." When he met Hataro in the corridor, he scolded his head and face. There was no expression on Bo Taro's handsome face, he just replied: "I just robbed the second sedan chair according to your instructions." Then he went away without looking back. Nobumoto was annoyed for a while, feeling that Hataro was making fun of his negligence.He walked into Yu Guo's room and said angrily, "Just wait and see." Then he lay down with a displeased face.

He was very puzzled by Portaro's attitude just now: Is he disgusted with the matter between me and Yu Guo?However, Xinyuan has indeed been too presumptuous recently.It's all right to sneak into the mansion secretly at night, but in broad daylight, he has no scruples and breaks into the state house carelessly.He went in and out of the Kuma mansion's inner courtyard as if he was in his own inner courtyard, which can not but be said to be contemptuous of the young Hataro. Yu Guo is not in the room at this time. "How dare you look down on me! When I inherit the family business, how can I allow you to be so rude!" After saying this, Xinyuan rested his head on his hands and remained silent.He also imagined the current situation in Okazaki Castle: Huayangin, Yu Da, and Tokuro Nobukaki must be doing family affairs affectionately.If the three of them meet people from the Imagawa family who are going to Okazaki Hershey, they will... Thinking of this, Nobumoto suddenly raised his head. "Could it be that Yu Guo has a guest today?"

He said, gritted his teeth and sat up.At this moment, the window on the right was pushed open, and a seven or eight-year-old boy who looked very naughty put his head in without any scruples: "Hey! Can you help me catch that little bird?" Hearing the child's rude words, Xin Yuan's eyes widened and he said fiercely, "Are you asking me?" The boy raised his slender eyebrows: "Who else is here besides you?" Without showing any weakness, he continued: "Come out and see that little bird!" Xin Yuan was furious, he gave the boy a hard look, and shouted: "I'm not your servant!"

"I know. Who says you're my servant? Ah! The bird is gone." He stomped his foot vigorously and cried, "I don't know whose servant you are, but you must be a worthless fellow." .” After saying that, he wanted to leave. "Stop!" Xin Yuan couldn't help shouting. "What's wrong?" "Are you a guest here?" "Why do you ask this?" "What an ignorant brat. Don't you know it's rude to suddenly open someone's window without even saying hello?" The young man pursed his lips, and replied coldly: "No." His demeanor was quite similar to that of the owner, Hataro, even more arrogant than Hataro.He stared at Xinyuan closely with adult eyes, and said again: "If I answer like this, you will have nothing to say? Hmph!"

Being ridiculed so mercilessly, Xin Yuan suddenly lost his mind.He couldn't help but picked up the knife and shouted loudly: "Quickly give me an apology!" There was a hint of sneer on the boy's white face: "Can't even catch a small bird, and still want to kill people? Hehehe." "Shut up! Disrespectful brat! Report your name and give me an apology!" "No—why, you dare to kill me?" "Bastard... bastard!" "Ha, pissed off. Interesting." Xinyuan had never seen such an annoying child.The child is tall and slender, wearing a child's hakama, he looks like a child from an ordinary family, but he is so arrogant and rude...Xin Yuan wanted to scare him, so he dashed to the window.The child flinched away like a butterfly, but he wasn't afraid at all, and he didn't even look back. At this moment, from the opposite side of the spring, the voice of Yu Guo came from the forest full of cypresses and podocarpus pines. "Ah, Master Ji—" Yu Guo ran to the young man and said, "Come on, everything is ready, it's time for you to pay homage." Xinyuan couldn't help being surprised: Master Ji——is not the son of Oda Nobuhide ? Seeing Xin Yuan, Yu Guo blushed, nodded and smiled.But Master Ji seemed to have forgotten the existence of Xinyuan, turned around, and went without looking back. "He is Master Ji..." Xinyuan whispered to himself.He didn't know why Xinxiu sent Master Ji here, and he was very confused. When Yu Guo took Master Ji's hand and came to the altar, light rain started to fall. Okazaki Castle may have already set up a wedding banquet.For the sake of the continuation of the two families, Guangzhong, who is deeply dissatisfied, and Yu Da, who is docile, are united to start a new life.The two are probably relatively speechless at the moment, looking at the wine glasses in their hands anxiously, imagining the boundless future. However, at the Xiong Mansion, Oda Nobuhide's son, Master Ji, who was feared by the two families, was sitting in front of the altar, waiting for Hataro, who was dressed in Chinese clothes, to pray to the gods.What does Nobuhide want Hataro to teach his son?What do you want your son to understand? After praying, Hataro was still standing in front of the shrine, and began to lecture on "The Orthodox Records of the Emperor of God" written by the Bei Zifang in the Southern Dynasty during the war. But the content he taught has gone far beyond "Orthodoxy", including the history of ancient times, the way of the rise and fall of the world, and even strategy and tactics.This is what Hataro claimed was passed down to the Takeuchi family secretly from the Southern Dynasty, and it is the knowledge passed down from generation to generation in their family.However, these are far beyond Master Ji's comprehension.He was clearly bored and picked his nose from time to time.Master Yoshitaka's teachers, Sanzaemon Aoyama and Katsusuke Naito, listened intently to Hataro's words, for fear of missing a sentence. "If you want to create a military art that others cannot understand, you must have knowledge that is different from ordinary people. If the knowledge and knowledge are the same as others, what you think in your heart will be seen through quickly." Oda Nobuhide's favorite words Amazing, quite proud.Of course, Oda Nobuhide is not a person who respects the king. He just sees that in order to replace the Ashikaga clan who absorbed the Ming culture but led to today's troubled times, a new strategy must be adopted.Therefore, he asked Master Ji to learn this unparalleled knowledge.It can be seen from this that Master Ji must be highly valued by his father. This child is abnormal in nature, always acts unexpected, and takes pleasure in it.People tell him to go to the right, he will go to the left.People say it is white, but he just refers to it as black.If he is not allowed to go up, he will never go down.Don't let him destroy it, he wants to smash everything.If all of this is summed up as a science, he will definitely become a very weird and extraordinary master.Perhaps it was because of this judgment and hope that Xinxiu sent him to Xiong's residence to learn Xiong Ruogong's family knowledge. Xinyuan didn't know Xinxiu's thoughts.But no matter what, the all-powerful Nobuhide who commands Owari and takes pleasure in disturbing Mino, attacking Mikawa, and threatening Suruga has unlimited prestige in the eyes of the younger generations.Of course, most of the reasons are due to the fear of Xinxiu's elusive tactics. Xinyuan lay down again.Hataro's voice was mixed with the sound of rain, reaching his ears intermittently.At this time, Yu Guo walked in quietly.She has an irrepressible longing for her first man.She silently came to Xinyuan's side, hugged his head, put it on her lap, kissed him lightly on the face, and murmured: "Master Xinyuan...do you know why my brother has never shaved his forehead?" Hair?" Xin Yuan did not answer.He shut his mouth gravely, and deliberately turned his head away.Seeing this, Yu Guo thought he was annoyed that he was late, so he bent down and kissed him on the face: "Brother has never held the Yuanfu ceremony for himself, and all this is for you. Do you know?" "for me?" "Yes, because according to the custom, those who serve the gods must be women." "Oh." "Also, the goddess must serve the gods since she was a child, and she must not have skin-to-skin relationships with men." "I have also heard about this matter from Atsuta Priest's book assistant." "You and I have a physical relationship, but my brother didn't blame me for it. My brother said that as long as I can be happy, he would rather grow his forehead hair all his life and serve the gods on my behalf. Every time I hear this, I feel like sad." Xinyuan glanced at Yu Guo indifferently. "Okay, okay, soon." He said impatiently, "I will marry you soon, stop talking about it. Tell me, what's the matter with today's guest?" "You mean Master Ji?" "Has Master Ji been here before?" "Yes. This is the third time." "Oh." Xin Yuan sat up suddenly, staring at Yu Guo closely, with a very different expression than usual.In the past, when he hugged Yu Guo roughly with his strong hands, his eyes were sharp and menacing, but today, his eyes hide a ruthless ambition. Yu Guo saw this keenly. "Ah, your eyes are so scary..." She shook her head charmingly. "Yu Guo!" Xin Yuan's eyes were still burning. "Ok." Xin Yuan tried his best to suppress his excitement, and said, "It's raining outside..." "Yes. The rain in spring moistens things silently, and the wild plums have already spit out new buds..." "Spring rain... spring rain..." Xinyuan's voice trembled slightly, "Yu Guo, do you believe me?" you still need to ask?Yu Guo thought in his heart.She put her hands on Xin Yuan's lap, tilted her head like a puppy, and looked at Xin Yuan, looking pitifully.Xinyuan also stared at her intently. Master Ji's arrogant little face just now caused waves in Xinyuan's heart, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.Yesterday, he was still kidnapping his own sister for the child's father.But his plan failed.At this moment, another thought took possession of his mind, which even he could not believe.Xinyuan is not the only one who has this kind of thinking. In this dark world where benevolence, righteousness and morality are completely lost, everyone acts on impulse. "If I let you..." Xinyuan bit his lip, he said, "If I let you... kidnap Master Ji, what would you do?" Yu Guo raised her head suddenly, and her spine felt chills: "You said, you want me...to kidnap Master Ji?" "Hush—keep your voice down!" Xin Yuan hurriedly looked around, and continued: "We kidnapped that child as a hostage. We did it without anyone noticing it, making them think it was Matsudaira Hirodada. Don't be afraid. Man It’s not uncommon to do this kind of thing.” Yu Guoguo hugged Xinyuan tightly, she was terrified. "Listen, I didn't say I wanted to kill him. I just pretended to be tied up by Matsudaira first, and we'll get him back later." "But... but elder brother has already been with Lord Nobusu..." "No matter what happens, you have to think about me. Yu Guo, you are already mine..." "Ok." "Go and tell Master Ji that there is a beautiful bird here, and lead him here." "But...it's raining now." "I didn't mean today. It's dark now. Master Ji stays here tonight?" "yes." "Tomorrow morning, you secretly lead that kid from the yard to the back door. I will arrange everything beforehand." Yu Guo's lips trembled and he remained silent. "you are not willing?" "No...not." "I will take you into the city immediately after the matter is completed. You are my baby, and I cannot let you suffer." Yu Guo bowed his head and put his face on Xin Yuan's lap.Faced with such a major event, this little girl who is used to relying on others has no other choice but to cry.Xin Yuan showed a satisfied smile on his face.He lightly stroked Yu Guo's shoulder, his heart filled with a beast-like vigor, and he was determined to put the plan into practice.In troubled times, he had to choose to be a brave man. At this moment, footsteps came from the corridor. "Yu Guo, is Mr. Xinyuan there?" Hataro's voice was very calm. Yu Guo immediately stood up and wiped away his tears. "Yes, yes." She gently opened the door, only to see Hataro standing quietly outside the door, followed by a servant with a lantern in his hand.Only then did Yu Guo realize that it was already dark. "Hataro, I heard that you have a guest today, so I don't want to disturb you. Will the guest stay here tonight?" Xinyuan asked. Bo Taro didn't answer him, but said to the servant carrying the lantern: "Okay. You can go down." He sent the people away, rolled up the corners of the hakama, sat down silently, and said, "Mr. Xinyuan, have you offended Master Ji?" "Oh, he suddenly opened the window and asked me to help him catch the bird." "Master Ji has always been informal, and the guards are sometimes helpless." "When did you become Master Ji's teacher?" Portaro said solemnly, "But something went wrong." "You mean... make him angry?" "That's right. Because a group of people will stay overnight tonight, I will not let outsiders approach. He also asked you to confirm your identity." "Did you tell him that I am Togo from Kariya?" "I dare not hide it." "So what?" "He said he was going to throw you out immediately." "Who said that? His followers?" Xinyuan raised his eyebrows steeply. "Master Ji." "That brat?" "Yes. The young master said he doesn't like you." Xinyuan gritted his teeth, and a burst of anger welled up in his heart.However, he seemed to have a new idea suddenly, looked at Yu Guo and said with a smile: "Haha, he is really angry, since he hates me so much, I will leave right away, so I can't hurt you." "However, you can't go anymore." "And why?" "Young Master Xinyuan doesn't know that Xiong Ruogong's mansion has already been besieged to the brim." "what--" "This is the order of Lord Xinxiu. Your Excellency has always been cautious and ordered everyone to take strict precautions. During your stay here, even a cat is not allowed to come in and out at will. If someone trespasses or leaves without permission, they will be killed without mercy. Lord Xinxiu's arrangements have always been Unexpected." Hataro finished coldly, staring down at his beautiful nails. Xin Yuan felt a chill run down his spine.Oda seemed to have seen through his mind long ago and made such an arrangement.It's not surprising if you think about it carefully, in such troubled times, how can you not make careful arrangements for the young master to go out?Now that Xinyuan is in trouble, Master Ji ordered him to go out, and he would be courting death if he forced his way out.Xinyuan began to regret that he shouldn't have come out of the city so easily, but he didn't want Hataro to see his distressed appearance, so he smiled and said: "Haha, it's ridiculous. Could it be that the dignified Kariya Shiroto Goto Nobumoto went to apologize to Master Ji How ridiculous! Hahahaha..." Nobumoto pretended to laugh wildly, while Hataro still lowered his head, staring at his fingers. Yu Guo couldn't sit still, she knew exactly what Xin Yuan was thinking.Those ideas of his have no weight, and the problem now is not how to kidnap Mr. Oda, but how to protect himself. "Master Xinyuan." Yu Guo called out, then stared at his elder brother with begging eyes, "Is there no other way?" "If I go to make an apology, the matter can be resolved?" Hataro still didn't answer.He seemed to have suddenly remembered something, turned his head to Guodao: "I'm afraid the preparations are over there, you should go serve the young master." "Master Xinyuan, I'll go first." Hearing the sound of Yu Guo's footsteps gradually fade away until they disappeared completely, Bo Taro said to Xinyuan: "Mr. Xinyuan, you can't dispel the anger in Master Ji's heart." "It won't work if I humbly go to apologize?" "A child's heart is like a god, and he can tell the truth from the fake at a glance." Xinyuan shivered. Portaro has seen through the calculation in his mind. "Things are not that bad," Hataro said slowly, his voice as calm as a pool of autumn water, "you just have to do what I say." "What do you want me to do?" "You are pretending to be the son-in-law of Xiong Ruogong's family... I will take Yu Guo to meet Master Ji with you. If it is my son-in-law, there may be room for maneuver. If not, the matter will be..." Xin Yuan glared at Hataro fiercely, and said angrily, "You came up with all these?" "Young master is missing..." "You want to pull me in front of Master Ji and let the Oda family know that I am married to Yu Guo?" Only then did a smile appear on Portaro's fair and delicate face: "Master Ji is only an eight-year-old child." "Stop lying to me! His two masters are Oda's left and right thighs." "Then you have a better way?" Portaro said coldly.Xinyuan was speechless and sighed. "Mr. Xinyuan, you don't want to marry Yuguo? You sneaked out of the city and was fascinated by the women outside - do you want such rumors to spread to the Zhitian family? This is not necessarily a glorious thing for the young master. " Hearing this series of questioning, Xinyuan's fists trembled on his knees.Bo Tailang is an unusual person, maybe he specially invited Master Ji to plan this matter out of the protection of his sister.But the matter has come to this point, Xinyuan can only do as he said. "Haha!" Xinyuan laughed wildly again, and said, "I've always wondered why you ignored the matter between me and your sister. I lost. From today onwards, I will be Yu Guo's husband. Hahahaha!" Smiling and looking at Hataro.Hataro had already looked away, but his eyes shone with victory.This elder brother loves his sister so much! The rain is still falling, gently tapping the flower buds by the window.