Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 192 Sworn to the Death to Defend Your Right to Be a "Straight Man"
Xiujia looked at the back of Huafang Zhengxing leaving, and saw the helplessness of a generation of heroes. The family elder who managed the internal affairs of Yuxi's family was thriving, and one day he would sacrifice himself for the benefit of the master.

It was as if he suddenly knew the company he had dedicated his life to, but in the end he had to abandon himself, but out of his feelings for the company, he chose to accept it indifferently.

It was already night after Xiu's family dealt with the conservatory Zhengxing, Zhuang Zhiqing delivered a late dinner.

After dinner, the Xiu family planned to go to the inner hall to rest through the small door of the imperial hall, but suddenly found that the small door that had been opened in the courtyard was sealed with wooden boards, and it was impossible to enter again.

Since Zhuang Zhiqing, like Xiu's family, had been away from home for more than half a year, what happened at home was unclear, so he could only arrest a samurai who stayed behind at the Honmaru for questioning.

It turned out that since the beginning of the year when the sex court came to Okayama, the team's inner court has carried out drastic reforms and established many rules. These rules not only restrain the maids, but also restrain the Xiu family.

Even in order to better manage the inner courtyard, the path of the Honmaru Palace was rebuilt. It was originally built in the courtyard, and the door used to divide the inner and outer halls did not have a solid door structure. Hideka and his attendants can freely In and out, sometimes the Xiu family even received foreign ministers in their residence.

Now the door is completely sealed with wooden boards, and a passage is opened in another warehouse at the corner of the corridor.

The back wall of the original warehouse was opened, and the front door was connected to the outer hall, which was the place where the Xiu family received courtiers and had a daily rest;

Outside the warehouse are two Ukita samurai who are in charge of guarding. In this 20-square warehouse, there are two strong and healthy women guarding day and night with naginata. Some people think that Ukita is hidden in this warehouse. What kind of treasure is home?

The reason why they don't call them Ji warriors is because the Xiu family can clearly tell from their faces and bodies that they come from the bottom of the society. It must have been done through hard physical work all year round.

As for Ji warriors, most of them came from the warrior class, and even many local warriors were not enough to train their sons, and they had no spare time to train their daughters.

Therefore, the family that can cultivate warrior Ji must have an unusual status. Although the woman has received certain military training all year round, she is from an aristocratic family after all, and her skin and figure are still decent.

The Xiu family wanted to enter the inner hall through the "warehouse", but was blocked by a healthy woman who "passed the order of the Tongfangyuan and the Court of Seeing Sex, and no man is allowed to enter or leave the inner hall after nightfall."

"Presumptuous, this is the Patriarch of the Uki Family, the Daimyo of Bizen, Misaku, Bichu, and Sanuki, and Hashiba's left gate guard Duxiu Family. He is your Patriarch. How dare a servant talk to the Patriarch like that."

Before the Xiu family could respond, Zhuang Zhiqing, who was following behind the Xiu family, couldn't help it, and immediately scolded.

Maybe it was the noise in the room that alarmed the host behind the door. The back door was opened, but a brightly dressed maid came in with a light on to salute the Xiu family.

Afterwards, there were 2 female envoys on the left and right, and 2 healthy women with knives. They seemed to be quite powerful in the inner court. Those who didn't know thought they were here to trouble the Xiu family.

"I have met Your Highness, Your Highness, please do not misunderstand, this is indeed the order of the Mistress and the Master of the Sexual Academy. No man is allowed to enter the inner hall during the day, and after nightfall, even His Highness is not allowed to enter the inner hall. The purpose is to fear His Highness's actions. Arouse the Yingying Yanyan in the inner courtyard."

"Who are you?" Xiujia asked curiously.

"The concubine's name is Ah Fang. She is a maid of the Hanchuan family in Sanuki country. She entered the inner court this year and served beside the mistress. Now Tian is the head of the inner court gate and is in charge of the inner court gate control."

The Xiu family didn't know this girl, but since access control was so valued, compared to the female envoy sent to watch over it who must be valued by the mother, the Xiu family would not gain face.

"Then what should I do if I rest at night?" Xiujia continued to ask
"His Royal Highness's living room has been moved to the outer hall, which is this yard. From now on, the inner court will have to go through His Highness in person." The maid named A Fang continued.

"Right here? In this warehouse?" Xiujia asked in surprise.

"Of course not," A Fang quickly explained, "The courtyard on the left side was sorted out on the day when His Highness was out of battle, and there was an independent courtyard for His Highness's daily use, so I will take His Highness there."

After finishing speaking, he ordered at the end, "You continue to strictly abide by the palace ban and make no mistakes."

After getting the answer, he took the candle lamp from the maid behind and crossed over to show the way for the Xiu family.Sure enough, walking a dozen or so steps to the right of the "warehouse" wall corridor, there is also a small door open. The door is obviously illuminated by a brazier, but the Xiu family didn't notice it before.

When Ah Fang opened the courtyard door for the Xiu family, there was silence inside, and there was no maid. This was very different from the courtyard where the Xiu family lived since childhood.

Whether in Ishiyama Castle or Himeji Castle, Naoka and Hideyoshi assigned Hideka three maids to take care of Hideka's daily life. These girls could even be said to be Hideka's only playmates when they were young.

But at this moment, the entire courtyard seemed silent, which made people feel a sense of urgency. If it wasn't for the Honmaru where the Yuki family lived, the Xiu family even thought they had been ambushed.

"Master Mistress and Jian Xingyuan mean that female relatives are not allowed to enter the hall, and men are not allowed to enter. Therefore, His Highness's living room will not be served by maids, and will be taken care of by His Highness's attendants and surnames from now on."

"The house in the courtyard has been cleaned up by our maids. If there is anything else you need, please let us know, Your Highness. We will arrange it for Your Highness as soon as possible."

Xiujia waved her hand, indicating that she could step back, just as she led people into the courtyard and onto the corridor, suddenly there was a burst of footsteps ahead, from the sound of footsteps, there should be no fewer than ten people.

At this moment, the door in front of everyone was opened, which really shocked Xiujia and Zhuang Zhiqing.

"Congratulations to Your Highness on his triumphant return" but he heard the voices of children coming from the darkness in front of him, which was extremely penetrating.

Zhuang Zhiqing brought two samurai and ran in front of Xiu's house, pulled out the samurai sword at his waist, and yelled at the door with a slightly trembling voice, "Who is pretending to play tricks there, come out soon."

It can be seen that this old man was also frightened.

And Kakashi, the ninja attendant of the Xiu family, looked around nervously, with one hand already on his waist, ready to strike at any time.

Hearing the movement here, Ah Fang, who hadn't gone far, came back, and seeing the tense atmosphere here, she hurriedly came over with a lamp and told the darkness, "See how the sex court explained to you. You need to light the lamp, why is it still so dark in the courtyard?"

Then he turned to the Xiu family and said, "Your Highness may not be used to coming back for the first time. Seeing the Court specially selected a group of smart and cute little surnames for His Highness, and they rested in His Highness's backyard."

Having said that, the lamp at the end of the corridor was gradually lit up, and a small surname came along the corridor with the lamp to roll candles one by one. "Your Highness" a small surname walked in front of the Xiu family, prostrated at the feet of the Xiu family and saluted.

Only then did the Xiu family realize that the person next to them was actually just a child around 8 or 9 years old. In later generations, this grade, who was still playing in the mud and was taken care of by his parents, has now been included in the palace ban to take care of the daily life of the Xiu family. .

"Get up and do your thing." Xiujia still had a lot of discomfort with the current environment, but tonight he could only sleep on it.

In the early morning of the next day, after the Xiu family rested, the lights outside were turned off again, and the whole courtyard fell into silence. The Xiu family was afraid that Zhuang Zhiqing would rest in the next room with his attendants, so that he could call at any time.

It’s really not a matter of the well-informed traversers of later generations not believing in ghosts and gods. If you encounter this kind of underworld operation alone, you will be too scared to sleep. Even Xiu’s family feels that there is a psychological shadow on this house. .

Fortunately, there was nothing to do overnight, and the Xiu family was woken up by Zhuang Zhiqing early in the morning: "Your Highness, Tong Fangdian asked His Highness to go see him after he got up."

After the Xiu family washed up and dressed neatly, they wanted to enter the inner hall from the warehouse along the same path as yesterday, but they were taken to a small gate in their own courtyard by someone with a familiar surname.

Xiao Xing lightly slammed the door knocker three times, and the wooden door was opened from the inside. Yesterday's A Fang was waiting for Xiu's house.

"I met Your Highness, Your Highness Wan An, did you sleep comfortably yesterday?" A Fang stepped forward and asked.

"It's okay." Xiujia replied dully. In fact, Xiujia's inner thought was, "Thanks to you, the person is not dead yet." 'It's just that in the status of the Xiu family, this kind of joke is absolutely forbidden, and can only be expressed as a description of the heart.

The Xiu family stepped into the inner hall from the small gate, Zhuang Zhiqing wanted to follow the Xiu family in, but was stopped by A Fang, "Master Jibingwei, please wait here later, any males in the inner court are not allowed to enter except His Royal Highness."

Zhuang Zhiqing looked at Xiu's family with a questioning look.

'What are you looking at me for?I didn't know there was such a rule. 'Xiujia's heart OS thought so, but said on the mouth, "You just wait outside for now." After saying that, he followed Ah Fang into the inner court.

The courtyard layout of the entire inner court has also changed. The place where the Xiu family entered was originally the place where the daughters of the father's family stayed, but now it seems to be replaced by the daughters of the Xiu family, because the Xiu family saw Qing Ji's maid Xiaotao at the gate of the small courtyard Leaning on the door frame and peeking out.

"Cough cough" a dry cough sounded, the voice came from an elderly female envoy, upon hearing the dry cough, Qing Ji's maid Xiaotao hurriedly shrank back, as if she was a little afraid of her.

After a while of twists and turns, Xiu's family was finally brought in front of Tongfangyuan.As mentioned earlier, Tongfangin is the daughter of Masaoki Hanabou, who was originally the concubine of Ukita Nao's family, but now the biological mother of the Hide family is married by Hideyoshi, and this concubine has actually become the most famous woman in Uki's family.

(Before, I was called brother and brother with Hanafang Masako, but then I married someone else's daughter and my niece into the door. It's really へんたい'ai en ta yi' pervert)
"Hai'er Xiu's family has seen your mother," Xiu's family thought about saluting to the courtyard.

Including Tongfangyuan, the Xiu family has four nominal mothers (Fuzhifang, Ningning, and Chacha). They are really children with overflowing maternal love~
"Get up quickly and let me take a closer look." Seeing the Xiu family, Tongfangyuan said nervously, "The Yuxi family is selfish and withered, and it all depends on His Highness to spread the branches and leaves. Be careful when you go out to fight the enemy Wanwang every day."

"These sons are all awake. There are Yuxi's powerful warriors hugging each other far away, and there are close guards guarding them. The enemy can't enter the son's body." Xiujia comforted Tong Fangyuan.

"But I heard that Mr. Mori, who was called Oni Musashi, was killed by an iron cannon. In front of this southern barbarian weapon, even a hundred thousand stone daimyo said he died in battle. You have to be very careful. .”

"Yes, the baby is awake." Xiujia continued to comfort her.

After chatting with Jiachang for a while, the Xiu family formally asked the Tongfang Court about the reform of the Sex Court, especially the issue of the surname.

Xiujia's sexual orientation is normal, and she is extremely disgusted with child molestation. She really let a group of little kids take care of herself by Xiujia's side.

"These are all orphaned samurai sons. The family has the responsibility of taking care of them. Most of the other big names' family businesses are taken in by the small people for training." Tongfangyuan explained.

"Your status is different from the past. You are already one of the four ministers of the palace. How decent it would be for the foreign ministers to see that the person who takes care of the daily life around you is still a woman."

Since the Heian period in Japan, ministers have had a very bad habit. In the eyes of the Xiu family, it is the dross of civilization, which is child molestation.

In order to facilitate the justifiable child molesters, this is the habit of bringing handsome boys with them in the name of small surnames.And after the samurai class came to power, they who were born in bumpkins wanted to accept the culture of officials and ministers in Kyoto, and they actually brought this kind of dross down.

But in the view of the Xiu family, this kind of emotion is a kind of deformed love, it is a kind of misunderstanding, other people's Xiu family can't control it, and I absolutely cannot accept it.

Coincidentally, the sex court came at this time, and Xiujia asked the sex court, "Does the outer hall have to be operated only by the surname, and the maids cannot go out."

"According to the rules, it is true."

"Then what is that warehouse? Is it the inner court or the outer court?"

"It doesn't count, that's where the exchange is set up, and the supplies from the outer court will be handed over to the head of the inner court to take them away."

"Then it doesn't matter if the inner court women are seen by outsiders?" Xiujia seemed to grasp the point and asked.

"Specialized person, no hindrance to the rules" Jian Xingyuan's answer was calm and calm, but it was precisely this specialized person who made Xiujia discover the point of breaking the question.

"I don't like men to serve by my side. Please get rid of people with small surnames, and only leave Zhuang Zhiqing and other attendants to serve. Anyway, they take care of my food and daily life when I go out to fight."

The Xiu family didn't immediately solve the problem by "specializing in special tasks", but retreated to advance, and told them that they were determined not to accept the small surname by telling them that they had come here like this on the battlefield anyway.

"The battlefield is cheap. Now His Highness is in Okayama City. How can there be no one around to serve you? If it gets out, the famous people in the world will laugh at me, Yuxi, and have no one at home?"

"My child is still young and mentally disturbed, and I am surrounded by men. I am afraid that the blood of the Yuxi family will be lost in the future." At this point, the Xiu family finally made a big move.

In fact, the Xiu family already had an idea in their minds. Are you really not afraid of me being bent?Are you not in a hurry if you can't have a son in the future?

Don't you see how many daimyo have no heirs because of child molestation, can't they give birth to males?The Xiu family directly talked about the matter with the blood of Yuxi's family, and the Tongfang Yuan couldn't stop hearing it. Standing on the side of the Xiu family, they asked the Jian Xing Yuan, "Is there a way to take care of each other?"

Seeing Xingyuan pondering for a moment, he raised his head to look at Xiu's family and said, "You can follow the example of the main gate, and assign someone to serve His Highness, only in the main house and backyard, not in the front yard. If Your Highness wants to entertain your retainers, you should go to the tea room in the front yard." Meet."

Xiujia saw the three words "little slippery head" from the eyes of Jianshenyuan. It was obvious that she had understood Xiujia's intention, but she didn't point it out.

Tongfangyuan nodded upon hearing this, and said to Xiu's family, "A Fang in my sect is considerate and conscientious. You have seen her before. She is now the servant of the inner court gate. If she is not weak, let her take care of your yard. I am here You are allocated 3~4 maids, but you can't interfere with the rules and education, so let Ah Fang and the sex court come."

The Xiu family heard that the matter was settled, so why would they make more entanglements, the management of the inner court was something he didn't want to do, now since there is no need to take over, it's too late to be happy, so he immediately agreed.

(End of this chapter)