Chapter 33 Chapter Thirty-Two

On the tenth day of March in the eighteenth year of Tianwen.Spring has arrived, and the cherry blossoms in the city are in full bloom.It has been a year and a half since Takechiyo was kidnapped to Owari.Thinking about it carefully, too many things have happened in the past year and a half. Hiromada Matsudaira came to the eaves and asked his servants to cut his toenails. "Don't cut it too bald. There may be a war again." While reminding his servants, he squinted his eyes to enjoy the long-lost spring sun, lazily spread his hands and feet, and lay down on his back. "Yami, there have been several wars since then." Guangzhong said to the one-eyed Yami who was sitting at the end of the corridor.

"Then...after Ah Chun's death?" "No, after Takechiyo was kidnapped." Yami glared at Hirochu, and counted with his thick fingers. "The first thing is to attack Toda Clan's Tahara Castle." "Oh, the first one." "The second thing is to attack the Matsudaira Tibetans in Yamazaki City, Dagang Township." "Ok." "The third thing..." Yaya frowned, and continued, "Excluding Matsudaira Sanzaemon from the same clan." If Guangzhong saw Yami's expression at this time, he would understand how much Yami felt about the war and assassination he launched due to suspicion and suspicion.But today Guangzhong just closed his eyes slightly and didn't notice this.

"That was not a war, because I have already seen that the third left has the intention of conspiracy. However, the battle of Xiaodouzaka that happened after that was really fierce." "Yes. Because Mizuemon-sama of Kamiwada was killed, there was a war in Oda-Imagawa... The two armies suffered heavy casualties, and the bones of ashigaru samurai were everywhere in Hane Village." Yami found that Hirochu had already dozed off. Come.He opened his single eye, looked at Yuan Yu opposite, and kept silent.The wind was not strong, but the cherry blossoms fell to his feet one after another.

"Damn cherry blossoms!" Yami thought to himself.On the day Ah Chun was accepted as a concubine, the city lord crazily sprinkled these flowers into the bathroom.And these cherry blossoms often make Ah Chun burst into tears.When Ah Chun pretended to go crazy and finally died, he was still talking about these cherry blossoms. According to Achun's last voice, Yami cut off her head and brought it to Guangzhong. "I will kill Achun, so as not to reveal the secret of the city lord." If Hirochu shed a tear for the poor Achun, Yami can also resolve the hatred in his heart and serve Hirozhong wholeheartedly.

But Guangzhong did not cry.He just looked at Ah Chun's head and said, "I understand your loyalty. Come back to me tomorrow." He didn't even say where he would bury Ah Chun.Every time I think about this, Yami feels his blood rushing up... Guangzhong moved his body. "Rub my waist." He ordered his servants, with an expression as if he had forgotten that he had fallen asleep. "After the Battle of Shodozaka, Oda Dan wanted to kill Takechiyo, but he hasn't done so yet." Yami pretended not to hear and said nothing.In his opinion, Hirochu, who can let Takechiyo be dealt with by others at will, must be extremely cruel in his heart.When Hirochu said that, Yami was beside him, and he heard it very clearly.Oda Nobuhide specially sent secret envoy Yamaguchi Sojuro Hirodaka to Okazaki Castle, told Hirotada about Takechiyo's recent situation in detail, and then said to Hirochu meaningfully: "Okazaki Castle will probably do something about the Imagawa clan? "

But Guangzhong simply ignored it. "I'm also a samurai who knows a little bit of righteousness, and I don't show mercy or emotion to those who have been taken away." He unceremoniously pushed Zongjuro Hiroko back.Although from a rational point of view, this is a troubled world where tears cannot survive, and Hiromada's actions are still understandable, but Yami is even more angry deep in his heart. "Oda Dan is deliberately pretending to be affectionate and righteous, but in fact he is probably waiting for me, Hirotada, to beg him for mercy." Yami still didn't answer.At this moment, Masaku Sakai led a strange man in without warning.Yami felt that the man was like a spy.

"My lord." "Oh, it's Yalezhu." "Let the servants avoid it." Guangzhong stood up slowly, using his chin to signal the people to go out.The servants all withdrew.Galesuke took another look at Yaya, but didn't order him to back down. "Master, Takechiyo is doing well." Guangzhong stared at the man closely, "You will tell the truth as you hear." "Yes." The man was built like a samurai, but behaved like a businessman. "Things are unexpected. Master Takechiyo seems to share the same interests as Master Nobunaga. I heard that Master Nobunaga often calls Master Takechiyo 'Mikawa's younger brother' in front of everyone."

"Oh, Sanhe's younger brother?" "Yes. Moreover, it was Nobunaga who stopped Mr. Dansho from killing Takechiyo in the first place. He said that he and Takechiyo are not substitutes for their fathers, and their own time is coming. At that time, Oda Matsudaira must Unite as one. He also often takes Mr. Takechiyo to pay homage and offer sacrifices." Guangzhong's distressed expression gradually relaxed. "The relationship between the two of them is so good, it is puzzling. After many inquiries, the villain finally figured out the reason." "The two...you mean Nobunaga and Takechiyo?"

"Yes. It is Mrs. Hisamatsu Sadomori who connects the two of them, that is... she has spent all her time in this process." "Yu Da?" Guangzhong's eyes suddenly radiated a strange brilliance, and he turned his gaze to Yalezhu, "Yalezhu, tell me." Yalezhu looked calm, "That was carefully planned by Mrs. Shangfang. 'It's not a substitute for my father'..." "If that's the case, I admire Madam very much." The spy-like humane said. "Oh? Are you implying that I am inferior to her?" Assistant Yale said about him: "Hearing that Mr. Takechiyo is safe and sound, the retainers must be very excited. Moreover, when they know that the young master has the warm hands of his biological mother behind him, they will undoubtedly clear away their worries."

"Ya Lezhu, you are too self-righteous." "My lord..." "Don't you think all of this is a trap set by Oda Dansho?" "If that trap can save the young master's life—" "Shut up!" Guang Zhong yelled fiercely, and then stared at Luo Hua in the courtyard. The war continued.For Guangzhong, who was suffering from serious illness, the too harsh sunrise and sunset could always clearly reflect his tired figure.It is twenty-four years old this year.A military commander of this age should be able to judge the world calmly, but Hirochu was just the opposite. He said harshly: "Ya Lezhu! You just said that Take Chiyo has Yu Da's support and protection behind him?"

"Yes. The person who sent said that from time to time, clothes, fruits, etc. were secretly sent to the young master from Aguju." "Who is the messenger?" "I have found out clearly." The man replied from the side, "Hisamatsu's vassal, one named Takenei Jiuroku, because he was entrusted with important tasks such as collecting Aguju's taxes, and when he couldn't get away, he asked the old man Hirano to hide the secret. go." Guangzhong was surprised.If the old man went there on purpose, it was definitely not Yu Da's idea.Hisamatsu Sado Mamoru has also supported behind the scenes.When he thought that Yu Da could impress his second husband, an inexplicable fire suddenly ignited in Guangzhong's chest.If this is the case, it cannot be taken lightly.He stared at the ground, lost in thought, and after a while, finally shook his head slightly. "She must be killed. She cannot be allowed to live." "What... what did your lord say?" "She must be killed!" "Kill... kill who?" "Of course it's Yu Da." "What? This... her?" Ya Lezhu couldn't help calling out.One-eyed Yaya, who had been sitting at the end of the corridor with her back to them, suddenly trembled her shoulders. "My lord!" Hearing Guangzhong's unexpected words, Ya Lezhu couldn't help but move forward, "Are you telling the truth? If it's the truth... then, please tell me A reason." Guang Zhong quietly closed his eyes.Under the sun, the veins on his forehead twitched violently, and his eyebrows began to spasm. "Garasuke, this is not Yuda's idea, this is Hisamatsu Sado Mamoru's trick." "What evidence do you have?" "He actually let his retainers go... that's the best evidence." "Hahahaha." Ya Lezhu couldn't help laughing, "My lord, don't you know that Hisamatsu was willing to do that because of Mrs. Shangfang's charm. Back then, Mrs. Shangfang could make all the retainers of Okazaki Castle We are sincerely convinced that in a small town like Ajiju, she can do whatever she wants." "You mean, Yu Da can manipulate Mikuro?" "My lord! Your language is inappropriate. It is not manipulation, please believe that it is due to the virtue of a woman." Guangzhong opened his eyes suddenly, they were a pair of very clear eyes.Veins floated across his eyelids. "So... Yu Da is doing his best to serve that bastard Mikuro?" "My lord! If it weren't for that, why would the retainers of the Hisamatsu family obey her?" "Ya Le Zhu, do you think Yu Da has no intentions?" "There is only the natural mother-child relationship in this world... I can feel her heart-piercing pain, and I want to help the young master's mother's heart no matter what." "Oh? Then, I was overthinking. But I think all of this is Oda Dansho's trick. He tried every means to guess my mind, then controlled Takechiyo, and then controlled Yuda, waiting for the opportunity to bring Okazaki Castle into him. in the palm of my hand. Could it be that I am worrying too much?" "My lord, please forgive me." "I understand, I understand, you go down. I am the cruel father who abandoned Takechiyo. Yu Da saved him, and she is a good mother at any time. Also, the Ori who was considerate of Yu Da and decided not to kill Takechiyo Tian Danzheng and Hisamatsu Yakuro are both outstanding generals. I thought it was a trick, but since you have said that, it may be true. You have worked hard, step down." Ya Lezhu gritted his teeth, but after thinking about it, he still saluted.Guangzhong actually said such words!But since he has prevented his ridiculous idea of ​​killing Yu Da, there is no need to make him angry. After Yalezhu retreated with the spies, Guangzhong slanted for a while, staring at the falling flowers in the yard.The surroundings suddenly became very silent, and even the sound of petals falling to the ground seemed to be heard. "Yaya." "My lord." "I'm going to kill her. I'm going to kill Yu Da!" One-eyed Yaya slowly turned around and looked at Hirochu.He wasn't surprised.Because Guangzhong didn't shed a single tear when Ah Chun died.He used the samurai's integrity as an excuse, regardless of Takechiyo's life and death, and sent an assassin to kill his fellow Matsudaira Sanzaemon.Such a person will never give up the idea of ​​assassinating Yu Da just because of Ya Lezhu's advice! One-eyed Yaya narrowed her eyes. "Then... why did you kill her?" Guangzhong was silent for a while. "Hisamatsu Yakuro is a nice guy." He seemed to be talking to himself. "Good old man... Your Excellency means..." "Find someone who can be close to you, and send it to Akoju. Hisamatsu is a good man, and there will always be a way. Yaya, call Shinrokuro Uemura." "My lord..." "What's wrong?" "If you want to hide this matter, Hisamatsu Sado Mamoru is fine, but Mrs. Shangfang..." "You mean it's difficult?" "Yes. There is a precedent for Matsudaira Sanzaemon being killed." "Haya, hum, what if it were you?" "If a villain..." Yaya's anger and hatred towards Hiromada burned deep in his heart.If it were someone else, Yami would have thrown him to the ground and kicked him wantonly. Of course, it is impossible for a simple Yami to know, since Yu Da left, Guangzhong has been in pain every day, so he doesn't know why Guangzhong is so impatient with everything.The forced severing of love made Guangzhong feel yearning, which then turned into hatred, then jealousy and suspicion, and these emotions kept intertwining and changing.When he told Oda Secret Envoy Yamaguchi Sojuro that Takechiyo was at their disposal, he held back his anger and helplessness towards the world. Yu Da is now working with her second husband to rescue Takechiyo.If so, what face does Guangzhong have to see others?In order to survive, she must be killed, and there is no other choice.Hirochu's emotions are expressed in such a distorted form, how can one-eyed Yami see through all this complexity. "If it were me, I would use the matter of the young master as an excuse, claiming to meet her alone, approach her, and strike immediately." "Yeah." Guangzhong nodded. "Then, if I tell you to do it, can you get rid of her cleanly and return smoothly?" "Yes." Yami replied, he felt that it was time to leave the city lord in front of him, how could he stab Mrs. Shangfang with his own knife? Hirochu seemed to see what Yami was thinking, and said, "No, I can't let you go. Let Shinrokuro Uemura come to see me immediately. Don't let Garagsuke and Dazo know." "Why don't people let villains go?" "I don't trust you. I want to listen to Xinliu's opinion, go quickly... why don't you go quickly?" Guangzhong yelled anxiously, clapping his hands and calling for servants. Yami turned around silently.A guard is a guard... In fact, when he faced Guangzhong, his heart was filled with hatred.In other words, when he faced Guangzhong, he was afraid that his inner hatred would be discovered.He pressed the handle of the knife, his hand trembling slightly.It was this hand that ended Ah Chun's life. Yaya just wanted to close his eyes, but suddenly opened them again.Behind him, Hirochu is sending people to call the old family member Shinrokuro Uemura.The servants took orders and went out. "It's now!" A thought hit his heart frantically, and the emotion exploded like a fire.If this continues, the lord will not only abandon his beloved son, but also kill the eldest lady!Matsudaira is really going to end! "My lord!" Yami stood up while turning her head, "One-eyed Yami wants to kill someone." "What did you say?" Guangzhong thought that Yami would still ask for a job, "I have already said, I don't feel relieved if you go, don't you understand?" "I don't understand!" Yami took another step closer to Hirochu.The knife has been drawn. "Ah?" Guangzhong yelled, "What are you doing!" "It's all for the entire Matsudaira family!" Yami stabbed Hirochu's lower abdomen with a sharp knife. "Ah—" Guangzhong leaned back, grasping the blade with both hands, trying to stand up.Yaya pulled out the sword abruptly, and the sword quickly returned to its sheath. "Haha... Yaya!" "..." "You...you also acted as someone else's undercover agent?" Yami shook her head violently, "Yes... I am for the sake of the entire Matsudaira family!" "Oh." Guangzhong watched the blood stain his lower body in a blink of an eye.His voice became weaker and weaker, "Good... good... good kill! You are loyal to me, I deserve to die." "My lord?" "You can't understand. To be alive...is a sin...a sin that only adds to the dreadful...next...next..." His voice was blurred, his lips turned white, and his face began to twitch.He grabbed the support table with the last strength of his body and leaned his upper body on it. One-eyed Yaya stared at everything in front of him without moving. In the quiet afternoon of spring, footsteps could be heard in the distance. It was Shinrokuro Uemura, an old family member. One-eyed Yaya felt as if his whole body had collapsed, without a trace of strength.If Guangzhong furiously called him a murderer, he might tremble because of it.But Guangzhong's last words surprised him and made him feel very hurt.He couldn't believe it, but it wasn't a hallucination, or a dream.These were the last words of Okazaki Castle Lord who lost his father at the age of ten and struggled for the next fourteen years.He left these words, trembling in the unreal pool of blood... Yaya looked at the flowers in the garden in horror, stomping her feet like a child, but neither regret nor anger.Life is so incredible, so regrettable and disturbing.Ah Chun died meaninglessly, and so did Guang Zhong... All this is not a dream, but a fact.People live in such an absurd world, and this is how they survive... Yami pointed his sword at the sky. "The unlucky flower! Why did it fall? Damn it!" He suddenly became quiet, as if he had sunk into a deep bottomless pit. "Yami, what's wrong?" Uemura Shinrokuro came in a hurry and suddenly shouted, "Ah, Yami is crazy! Come on! Yami is crazy!" Zhong died. "Hayami kills the lord!" Hearing that shout, for some reason, Yami's head swelled.In this troubled world, the death of the city lord cannot be announced casually.But Yami knows what he is capable of, and he knows what will happen if the knife goes down. "Yaya, put down the knife!" Uemura Shinrokuro yelled at him amidst the flustered footsteps. "No!" Yami roared, "I did not betray the Lord." "Shut up! Who are you loyal to?" "No! I...I...killed this lunatic for the sake of the entire Matsudaira family." "Nonsense! You are the one who is crazy! Put down the knife! Otherwise—" Shinrokuro has quickly pulled out the knife. "Hahaha..." One-eyed Yami suddenly laughed wildly, "Ah Chun! You saw it. I don't understand what I have done." "Put down the knife!" Shinrokuro shouted sharply. One-eyed Yaya was still laughing wildly. "If you don't put down the knife, I will kill you!" "You... want to kill me?" Yami laughed again, "Can Shinrokuro Uemura kill me?" "Yaya!" "Ha ha!" "So what if I kill you?" Uemura Shinrokuro said, swinging his knife and stabbing him obliquely.Yaya inadvertently backed away abruptly.He kicked the edge of the porch and jumped into the courtyard. "Heaven's punishment for you! Look at the knife." Uemura Shinrokuro didn't dare to be careless, jumped out of the corridor, and attacked head-on.Yami didn't have time to get up, so she jumped forward and escaped.The skirt of Shinrokuro's kimono was shredded into strips of cloth, and the back of Yaya's clothes was also cut open. "Are you still going to resist?" "Come on!" Yami straightened his posture.The strong sunlight shone on his bare back, and cherry blossoms fell one after another. "Everyone, don't interfere." Shinrokuro said, panting for breath, while taking a confident step forward, "Evil will be punished!" Yaya took a step back.He suddenly respects Xin Rokuro's self-confidence, and suddenly feels that the world is so ridiculous.These are the words of those who have never suffered in life.Thinking of this, he suddenly felt that such a confrontation was meaningless.Even if you win, so what?Life is a dream, death is hell? Shinrokuro spotted an opening and rushed over.Yami raised his saber to meet him, and with a "Dang", the two white blades flew away at the same time. "Come on!" Shinrokuro squatted down with his bare hands.Yami thought it was as ridiculous as playing a game when he was a child. He shook his head, grabbed a wat board and ran away.The onlookers shouted and chased after him. Among the flowers, these big men played a game of ghost hunting.Soon, their figures disappeared across the embankment of Wine Valley.After a while, he appeared again faintly, only Shinrokuro's high-pitched voice echoed in the moat all the time. "Shinrokuro Uemura killed Sakuma Ukyo Ryo Nobunao's undercover Iwamatsu Yaya!" When people climbed up the embankment, Uemura Shinrokuro, who was riding on Yami's body, held a short knife in one hand and put the other hand on his knee, lost in thought; Yaya who was stabbed to death did not know that he had been regarded as Sakuma's Undercover, he opened one eye, still smiling to himself.