Pillars of the Wu family

In March of the first year of Yongroku, the sea breeze in Seto Inland was sunny, and the warm climate in the southern part of Settsu was infinitely more comfortable than going to the northern country. On this day, Akutagawa Mountain Castle will hold an important evaluation meeting, and most of the samurai of the Miyoshi family will gather. In the hall, taking advantage of the stall where the governor returned, the warriors greeted each other to reminisce about the old days.

Naito Munekatsu followed behind Matsunaga Hideo. Compared with the high-spirited appearance when he took control of Tanba Ikkuni a few years ago, there has been a great change. The original fair complexion has become dark, and a hideous scar has been drawn straight from the forehead. From the corner of his mouth, his demeanor changed from a pampered general to a murderous middle-aged warrior. He must have experienced many ups and downs in these years.

The ministers soon saw this important minister who hadn't seen him for a long time, and they were very surprised to see his appearance. After a moment of embarrassment, they heard Ichinomiya Chengsuke greeted with a smile: "Hehehe, welcome back Bizenshou! Nian Tanba's pacification all depends on the application of Bizenshou's hard work. It is said that the Hatano family has surrendered. It is really gratifying! Come, please sit here!"

People around him inadvertently glanced at Naito Zongkatsu's left arm, paused for a moment and then quickly looked away. Naito Zongkatsu has long been accustomed to this. His left arm has been hanging down weakly, which was the result of being injured in the Katsuragawa battle. Injured by an arrow, he still can't exert much strength in his left arm. At least his daily life will not be affected. He is destined to miss the chance to draw a bow and shoot an arrow.

Since the disastrous defeat in the Katsura-Chuan War, the Miyoshi family has changed a lot in recent years. The most obvious thing is that the Miyoshi family’s retainers are not as eager for quick success as before. After repeated thinking, the warriors of the Miyoshi family realized that they had neglected the most important background. However, what is lacking is the cohesion of the Chinese people towards the Miyoshi family.

Before the rise of the Miyoshi family, although many samurai families rose one after another, far away such as the Asakura family and the Saito family.Nearby companies such as Liujiao and Ouchi are all successful examples.But there is one notable exception to all of these.They are either the foundation established by the British Lord who has worked hard for a generation, or they are the nobles who have been entrenched in several countries for hundreds of years.

The Miyoshi family rose very late. During the Battle of Funaokayama, they were only the head of the Awa Hosokawa family. It was not until Hosokawa Harumoto annihilated the Hosokawa Takakuni in the collapse of the Great Object that Miyoshi Motonaga took advantage of his status as the head of the Hosokawa family. However, it has only been 25 or [-] years since then, not to mention that Miyoshi Yuanchang was killed soon, and Miyoshi Changqing's boyhood was dormant for more than ten years.Only after the battle at Taiping Temple came into the eyes of the heroes in Kinai.

It has only been 15 years since that moment. The Miyoshi family has risen so fast that it has rapidly expanded before it can complete effective integration. The bloated mechanism and the bubbles all over the body make the Miyoshi family look like an invincible behemoth until Kira The appearance of Jia gave them a head-on blow and woke up the big fat man.

"Are you really awake? I don't think so!" Song Yongxiu greeted the samurai with a smile. Since Shihe Yicun died in the eight years, Miyoshi Changqing's reliance on him has become more and more important. Nowadays, everyone in the Miyoshi family does not know that this is the powerful speaker in the Miyoshi family. Except for Miyoshi Yixian, Anzhai Dongyasu, Miyoshi Yasunaga, and Miyoshi Changyi, he is the one who belongs to the generation of the family. ringleader.

Not long after.Miyoshi Changqing appeared with a young nobleman, and it seemed that Miyoshi Changqing was in a very good mood.He was still in the mood to smile back at his retainers, but the noble young man next to him didn't show much face, with a sad face as if his parents had just died. This noble's name was Hatakeyama Takamasa.

The Lord's sitting meeting began immediately. After the daily government affairs report and approval, Miyoshi Changqing knocked on the elders to remind the governor to speak. The officials hurriedly sat in solemn faces until he nodded in satisfaction, and then said: "My lords! The third place is the Takayaden, the pillar of the shogunate, and the humerus of the imperial court, but now it is exiled by the family's rebellious minister Anjian Zongfang for no reason. How can my passionate thieves bear it? Disobedient disciples see the clan house!"

"Yes!" Miyoshi's vassals leaned over to agree with a shock. As for Hatakeyama Takamasa's expression of disgust and disgust, he was ignored. Everyone knows that this guy's head is not very easy to use, otherwise he wouldn't be caught by the housekeeper An Jianzong Fang exile, and will not be dealt a fatal blow by the attributes of Liujiao Yixian's teammates.

There is another point that the samurai here are unwilling to mention. Today, everyone in the world knows that the Miyoshi family started out in a business of treason against the master. The master of the Miyoshi family, Harumoto Hosokawa, was locked in a small courtyard of Fumon Temple. Never to leave, Miyoshi Changqing brazenly talked about benevolence, righteousness, loyalty and bravery, what psychological burden do these warriors have?It wasn't them who scolded behind their backs, the sky fell and a tall man was there to support them.

Hatakeyama Takamasa barely managed to finish the evaluation meeting, and watched Miyoshi Changqing leave. He spit and said to his followers with a sullen expression: "If I tell you that this bastard wants the Hanoi country of our own family, how dare you?" Believe it? If you really eat puffer fish guts and don’t even look at what you are, the stall in Hanoi country can’t hold it, but this guy dares to take it! Bah!”

The attendants lowered their heads to hold back their laughter, but their swaying appearance still revealed their true intentions. You, a family governor, asked us if we believed what we were doing. It must not be a glorious thing for our Hanoi country to be so upright. Are you sure there is no problem?

Tange Shengzhi saw that the situation was not good. He coughed heavily and suppressed the frivolous attendants. Fortunately, the house governor was still yelling at Miyoshi Changqing's back and didn't notice the movement behind him. He knew very well that Miyoshi's family was watching Takamasa Hatakeyama all the time. His words and deeds, and the level of abuse just now have appeared countless times in the past few months, and Miyoshi's family didn't take any disciplinary actions.

"Miyoshi Xiudian probably thinks that the lord is a very... funny person!" Tange Shengzhi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, unable to understand why the governor was so funny, and dared to curse in front of Miyoshi Changqing's back, it seemed that the distance from Miyoshi Changqing It must be heard.

More than a dozen masters and servants in this line left slowly, and Matsunaga Shucai slowly walked out from the corner, looking at the quiet and silent Shiwu settlements around him. It was the afternoon rest time, and there was no pedestrian on the trail, walking along the stairs Slowly walked to a quiet house near Sannomaru Yamashiro.

The decoration inside the house is simple, there is only a firepit and a few cooking utensils. The dancing flames in the firepit indicate that there are people living in it. A soup pot is tied to a rope hanging from the roof.I don't know what ingredients are being stewed, and I can smell a tangy aroma from afar.The owner of the house does not seem to have returned yet.Song Yongxiu was not in a hurry, he sat by the firepit and waited calmly.

After a while, the soup pot boiled and made the sound of "gurgling". For some reason, Song Yongxiu suddenly felt a burst of hunger in his stomach. Come on, look at the delicious food in the soup pot, a human head is boiled in a pot of boiling snow water, the head is exactly the same as Matsu Yongxiu!The two dim eyeballs were bleeding continuously.And grinned at him.

"Ah!" Song Yongxiu dropped the lid of the pot in shock and staggered a few steps and fell down. Suddenly, there was a gloomy laughter in his head. This laughter was so familiar, just like the sound he made involuntarily when planning evil things. At this time It was so painful to hear myself laughing again.

The originally normal room changed its appearance. The place that belonged to the porch turned into a cluster of barbed thorns. The surrounding area was dark and exuded an ominous atmosphere. The strange figure that could be seen at any time dangled in the room. The laughter became more and more strange, and a cold air spread from the tailbone to the back of the head, making Song Yongxiu couldn't help shivering.

Then the laughter got worse and worse.It was like the harsh noise made by a steel knife quickly scraping a cow's bone, Matsunaga Hide couldn't help but yelled and got up.Angrily, he jumped up and cursed: "Guo Xin...Guo Xin...I know it must be you! Come out! Come out!"

The ear-piercing laughter stopped suddenly, the gloomy house regained its light and returned to the tranquility of the past, the warm sunlight fell on his face through the cracks in the roof, and he felt a little lucky to feel like he was alive after a catastrophe. From time to time, the melodious shakuhachi sound slowly spread to my ears.

A figure dressed as a nihilistic monk with a Lin Li on his head appeared in the room. The shadowy figure became clearer and clearer, playing very beautiful music and dancing, giving people a particularly absurd feeling.

But Song Yongxiu didn't make any movement, sat quietly on the spot and listened to a piece of music, unexpectedly had the mood to lightly applaud to express his gratitude, then immediately lowered his face and waited for the nihilistic monk, threateningly said: "Guoxin Layman, please remember Stay! I don’t give you money and food to let you use this ability to scare the old man, let alone try to use your illusion to confuse people!"

"...Lululu...hehehe!" The Nihility Monk let out a weird laugh, like some kind of unknown bird calling, folded his shakuhachi and knelt down as if he was waiting for his instructions.

"It's abominable! Raising a dog and knowing that its owner wags its tail, why did this old man raise such a pack of white wolves!" Song Yongxiu's eyes were about to burst into flames, and finally swallowed the bad breath, and said in a cold voice : "Two years ago, the old man told you that it will be of great use to keep you in the future. Now is the time to use you. Make preparations and go to Kyoto tomorrow, and try to sneak into the Nijo Imperial Palace. I have a decoction here." Leave it to you, your task is to add it to the food at the imperial platform, don’t ask why and don’t talk too much, just do your job well, and this old man will definitely reward you generously after it’s done.”

The Void Monk nodded and did not move again, Matsunaga Hideo held back his anger and put a thick paper bag on the tatami, snorted coldly and walked away.

After a long while, the boiling soup pot overflowed with a little soup dripping into the fire pond and sizzling, a masked girl in black appeared in the room unconsciously, her long hair was tied up high and tied into a simple knot. , because the facial features are covered by a black silk scarf, only the delicate features can be seen.

Picking up the bowl and spoon, he took out the fresh stewed fish soup with mushrooms from the soup pot, gently lifted the corner of the silk scarf and tasted it, with a satisfied smile in the corner of his eyes, and said crisply: "The old bastard still wanted to take advantage of this girl last time." , this time he must be very scared! See if he dares to provoke me! Hehehe!"

If Song Yongxiu was here at this time, he would definitely find that the dialect used by the girl is not the accent of the Kinai area, and the words and sentences have the unique temperament of Kitakyushu. There is even a feeling of intoxication that makes people fall into the sound.

At this moment, the nihilistic monk took off the Lin Li, revealed the face of the dying old man, coughed a few times and said in a hoarse voice: "Do you remember the order just now? Take the decoction and mix it into the Nijo Imperial Palace, and put the medicine in the Imperial Platform In the food, you must be careful and cautious in your actions this time, don't be too hasty to do it before he has the time, and be careful not to show your feet and spoil the big thing."

"I know. Master, you are so wordy! That guy must have made us do something wrong. Hmph!" The girl lowered her head to eat the delicious white rice with mushroom stewed fish soup.After a while, I ate a small bowl of rice, and finally licked the soup bowl like a greedy kitten.

The Void Monk coughed again for a while, his eyes swept over the girl's silk scarf, and he seemed to be able to see through the silk scarf the beauty hidden under it, and said coldly: "My name is Guoxin, and your name is also Guoxin, you Your future bears the mission of my past, you should know the situation of our clan. I brought you from Kyushu all the way for the mission of our clan, I don’t care how much your country’s hatred and family hatred, you must not mess up our important affairs, Otherwise, I will never forgive you lightly."

The girl's body trembled and her movements returned to normal. After a moment of silence, she picked up the paper bag and glanced at the Void Monk: "This paper bag contains a decoction for chills. If you take it for a long time, the Imperial Palace may not be able to give birth to a boy and a half." Girl, even if you are lucky enough to give birth to a child, you will still be seriously ill, does Master know that?"

"So what if you know? So what if you don't know?" The Void Monk glanced over indifferently, his eyes revealing a cold indifference and a sense of unreachable distance.

The girl frowned slightly and said, "That's the general's imperial office, Guan Bai's younger sister. Are you not afraid of causing trouble? Do you know that doing so will destroy the future of the shogunate and the court?"

The Void Monk smiled strangely and said, "Isn't that just according to your wishes? The eighth grandson of Prince Huailiang, you should rejoice with blood and deep hatred."

"So many men in the family have surrendered to their fate. How can I, a little girl, take revenge?" The little girl sighed, and she pityed herself: "And my cruel parents, who actually sacrificed their own daughter Sell ​​it, they are so vicious and ask me to avenge the country and the family! Master, your attitude is very strange. Why did your family do this? The shogunate managed to stabilize its foundation. If it is so easily overthrown, the whole world Is there anyone else who can quell the troubled times?"

"Hmph! You don't need to worry about this!" Seeing the disbelief and suspicion in the girl's eyes, the Void Monk knew that if she didn't explain clearly, she would probably have bad thoughts, coughed awkwardly and sighed: "You also know who our family is. We were born to do low jobs, from scavenging waste, collecting corpses, slaughtering pigs and dogs, working as coolies to be white beat witches, and even taking up lowly jobs as wandering girls. Heyuan people are those nobles who are right Our name, we are like maggots hidden under the pompous society, which symbolizes dirty and ugly things, and it has been like this for 1000 years, 1000 years!

In the past 1000 years, no matter whether the government of the Regent, the Emperor's Court, or the power change of the samurai shogunate, we have been on the sidelines. We can neither participate nor get any benefits. The world has been in chaos for hundreds of years. As a public minister, we can only be pariahs forever, just because our ancestors were defeated and captured by the court and demoted to slaves?Why should the old man feel sorry for the shogunate? "

An important message is revealed in the words of the nihilistic monk. The force he represents is a force that has been hidden in Japanese society for more than a thousand years. The Kawahara people are the so-called untouchables. Their composition is almost like the Indian caste system and the lowly status of the Ming Dynasty. It's all Zhang Shicheng's old department, and the winners degrade the losers into pariahs.

Since the Eastern Expedition of Emperor Ogami, countless tribes have been defeated by the imperial court, and most of them have been absorbed and digested. Some stubborn resisters were relegated to pariah because of their hatred. After entering the Nara era, the imperial court crusade against Ezo The large-scale military operations brought many defeated Ezo captives. Most of these people were sent to mines or places with poor conditions as slaves, and a small number were demoted to untouchables.

In the middle of the Heian period, the group of Kawara people gradually stabilized. The grandson of the left minister Minamoto Masanobu, the official to the counselor Zheng, and the three Zuo Daibian Minamoto 頼 mentioned the group of Kawara people for the first time in "Zuo Ji Ji". A clan of untouchables who make a living by slaughtering livestock and other lowly businesses can be raised by a high-ranking minister, which shows that this ethnic group is no longer an insignificant existence.

It has been more than 500 years from the mid-Ping'an period to the present. The rulers of the world have gone from being in power to the emperor's government. The shogunate of the samurai family has come to the end of the second shogunate era. They reproduce, they are the bystanders of every era, no matter how they struggle, they will not get any forgiveness, so they are born to hate everything in this world, such is the case with the layman Guoxin of the nihilistic monk.

The name of Jushi Guoxin originated from the troubled times of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. He belongs to one of several branches of the Heyuan people in the temple group. Only the temple community can accept people of unknown origin.With this name, the Guoxin layman of all ages traveled the world to practice the illusion of Middle Earth.The secret techniques of Tianzhu and Siam have gradually developed to become an extraordinary main force among the Kinei Heyuan people.

The girl's brows did not relax because of this.After thinking for a while, he suddenly started giggling, the piercing laughter gradually made the nihilistic monk's mourning expression unstoppable, and he changed back to that drooping face that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, with a sinister smile: "I am not afraid of you not believing, as long as you know that we are Just cooperate with Nasong Yongxiu, follow his instructions to do your job well, and it will be a good thing for you and the old man after it is done, you are so smart, you must be able to figure out this truth?"

The girl's eyebrows twitched slightly.There was a slight smile in those big watery eyes: "Did Master see Song Yongxiu's potential? Do you think he has the hope to overthrow Miyoshi's family and become Miyoshi's second in Changqing? But he is too old." Well, his good-for-nothing son is not as capable as his father by [-]%, don't blame Guoxin, he will be the first unlucky person when Mihao's family is over! Hehehe!"

The nihilistic monk sneered indifferently and said: "Aren't you an old man who doesn't understand this truth? It's just a stopgap measure right now. How can it be so easy to find powerful warriors to place bets on? These warriors have great prejudice against our clan. The bet is just to get more profit. How can we swear allegiance like those stupid warriors? We Kawahara people don’t believe in gods and Buddhas... Besides, Song Yongxiu’s power is huge at the moment. We just take advantage of his big tree to enjoy the shade In the future, I will kick him out when I see more potential samurai. Take advantage of this moment to think about how you sneaked into the Nijo Imperial Palace."

After a while, the nihilistic monk explained a few words and left, leaving the girl Guo Xin staring at the medicine bag in a daze, and sighed after a long time: "We are all women, I have no grudges with you in the past, and I have no grudges in the present, but I want to To attack your child... don't blame me for being cruel! It's just like this in this world, don't blame me!"

……

Echigo Kasuga Mountain City, Kirayoshi was like a hard-working bee scurrying among the flowers where he was reluctant to leave, sleeping with a beautiful woman in his arms every day until the afternoon. It is understandable for young people to be greedy for new things when people disturb his interest at this time, and he will feel tired gradually after a long time.

That day, he was in the west pavilion with his arms around Zhihu, and he only heard a teasing laugh from the secret room: "A few days ago, I heard that the little tiger's marksmanship and archery skills swept away the heroes of Mutsu, but the little tiger didn't know what to do." There are two big guns, one is for killing enemies on the battlefield, and the other is for living people, and the other is for living people, how about letting little Ah Hu try the skills of this living gun today?"

After a while, I heard a fierce battle, and the battle was in full swing. The man put the woman in the female position for the first time, patted Zhihu's buttocks and joked with a smile: "Let this rouge horse like you Taste the taste of a female knight, but I don't know if you, a female knight, can conquer my fierce horse?"

The shameless Hongxia bit her lip and moved slowly. After a while, a cat-like meowing sound came from her mouth. The man slapped her a few times to shame her. She closed her eyes tightly and did not dare to look up. Shuang Wan was gently supported by the man, and he said in amazement: "Speaking of which, Xiao Ah Hu's breasts are quite impressive, and they seem to be bigger than Sandalwood's. I wonder if it will become more plump after massage."

"His Royal Highness... Chick!" Zhihu's whining mode made him feel overwhelmed, until the end of the battle and entered the intermission, he was lying softly in his arms and coquettishly, this **** battle lasted for more than an hour , After some freshening up and walking out of the room, the sun was already slanting to the west, looking at the brilliant and beautiful sunset, I was dazed.

Suddenly, I heard a voice from behind: "Your Highness!"

"Who is it? Why is it you!" Ji Liangyi turned around and looked at the short loli with twin ponytails standing behind him, looking at him with big watery eyes, and asked ignorantly: "Why did your Highness use that thing?" Deal with Sister Naotora! Why is Sister Naotora’s face so red as if she’s having a fever? Doesn’t Sister Naotora hurt? Also, why are His Highness and Sister Naotora hugging each other naked? It’s so strange!”

"...Nani! What did you see?" Ji Liangyishi panicked and threatened: "This is a secret between me and your sister Naotora, and you must never tell anyone who knows? The gods and Buddhas said, chaos Do you know that the little girl who talked is not tall?"

"Oh! The Chiyo girl didn't tell anyone, not even Sister Hu Ji, Sister Tanxiang, Sister Aju, Sister Aya, and A Yuan and A Zhu... But, the Chiyo girl still saw His Highness using that thing Do the same thing to Sister Huji and Sister Tanxiang! Why didn’t Chiyoko? Is it because Chiyoko is too short? But Chiyoko has worked very hard!” Stupid loli murmured a bunch of things No, it made Kira Yoshimitsu dizzy.

"Since when did you start peeking?"

"From the very beginning! It was the strange appearance of you in the first month. Chiyo-nu went to watch your movements secretly, and then saw His Highness making strange movements repeatedly. Sister Tiger Ji's cry was so strange that it was different from usual. , but it's light and crunchy, it's nice to hear, Sister Sandalwood's cry makes people so shy, Sister Zhihu's cry is so soft and soft! And why are the three sisters licking that with their mouths..."

Speaking of this, Chiyo's face was so red that she didn't dare to talk anymore. Although she still looked curious and ignorant, she subconsciously felt that it was strange, but she couldn't tell why it was so strange. When she raised her head and looked at Kirayoshi, Noticing that his eyes became brighter, he nodded thoughtfully and said, "Chiyonu is also 14 years old this year..."

Mochizuki Chiyo said with a blushing face, "Fifteen! After the new year, Chiyo will be 15!"

"Yeah! One year old is indeed fifteen. This looks like a big girl. Your sister Hu Ji followed Yu at the age of 13. It's time for a 15-year-old girl to be taken as a concubine..." A strange smile appeared on Kira Yoshitoki's face: "Didn't you just ask why Yu wanted that? Follow Yu to teach you slowly, don't worry! Several of your older sisters have tried it before."

……

A few days later, a simple concubine ceremony was held in Kasuga Mountain City. The bride was Mochizuki Chiyo, who had already been appointed by default. On that day, Mochizuki Chiyo officially changed her name to Mochizuki Yoshino, announcing that this silly loli is stepping towards a married woman. first step.

The Koga ninjas represented by the Mochizuki family shouted long live, which is regarded as the first step for the Koka ninjas to surpass the Iga ninjas. Mochizuki Izumomori Yoshito, who is the governor of Koga in Omi, also expresses himself in a special way At the same time, he secretly sold all the information about Liujiao's family inside and out. Yoshitoki Kira was very satisfied with this cheap father-in-law's understanding, and made some promises to let him live in the dark happily. (To be continued..)

ps: I forgot to mention in the last chapter, Uesugi Kageshin’s son, the little mage Maruzai, has him in history. After a little deliberation, you will think that this family cannot have no heirs. Seeing that their family changed the name of Miao to Uesugi, you know that they have a prominent position in Echigo, but it is true that this person died under the butcher knife of Uesugi Jingsheng.