"Third brother..." After seeing that the person in front of him was indeed a real person, Imagawa Yoshimoto couldn't help but take a breath.
"Ujitoyo, and that little surname, you go out, I will only talk to Yoshimoto." Imagawa Yoshima glanced at Furuno Ujitoyo and Hayasaka Nao, and said in a deep voice without explanation, "And stay away, don't hear it Our conversation.”
"How is that possible? What if you want to play tricks again and commit an assassination?" asked the Furuno clan in a cold voice.
"His Highness cannot be allowed to be in the same room with you." Hayasaka Nao also protested in a deep voice.
"Do you still think that the body search just now was not enough? Is it possible for me to defeat Yoshimoto with my bare hands?" Imagawa Yoshima shook his head disdainfully, as if he didn't want to talk nonsense with Yutaka Furuno and Nao Hayasaka. "Besides, if I If you really want to play tricks, why would you go back to Imagawakan to die? You have already gone to Mikawa or Sagami."
"Don't even think about it." That Furuno clan snorted.
"Then I won't say anything. You can just kill me." Imagawa Yoshima's attitude was even more decisive.
"It's okay, just do as he said." Imagawa Yoshimoto saw that Furunoji Yutaka and Hayasaka Nao wanted to say more, so he raised his hand to indicate that they didn't need to, "The third brother is right, he is not my opponent."
"Fourth brother, please be careful. If there is any danger, call out immediately. I will lead someone to wait at the end of the corridor." Furunoji Yutaka was still a little worried. He gave the final instructions before exiting the room and closing the door behind him. Hayasaka Nao looked around the room uneasily, fearing that Imagawa Yoshima might have left some trap.
"Tell me, third brother, what are you going to do when you come back?" Imagawa Yoshimoto frowned and carefully looked at the embarrassed Imagawa Yoshima, "You know, my teacher and mother will definitely kill you. No matter what, It’s impossible for you to leave Imagawa Hall alive.”
"I had no intention of getting out alive. Besides, 'Imagawa Yoshima' had already died in the fire in Yuanjiang. Please stick to this statement and just say that I burned myself to death at that time. Don't tell the outside world that I am still alive, I was executed after I escaped to the Imagawa Hall." Imakawa Yoshima's expression did not change, but he gave some instructions that Imagawa Yoshimoto did not understand.
"Third brother, do you want to change your identity and work at home?" Imagawa Yoshimoto thought he had read the subtext of Imagawa Yoshima.
"No, the only purpose I came here for—" Imagawa Yoshima protracted, raised his head, and stared into Imagawa Yoshimoto's eyes, "is to let you kill me with your own hands, Yoshimoto."
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"Why?" Imagawa Yoshimoto didn't understand at all.
"Before that, why don't you listen to a story first?" Imagawa Yoshima suddenly smiled and leaned comfortably against the straw-covered corner behind him.
"Third brother, please tell me." Imagawa Yoshimoto was confused and didn't know what medicine Imagawa Ryozen was selling in his gourd.
"Once upon a time, there was a family that was one of the most famous in the world. However, when it was at its peak, the family fell into ruin due to the accidental death of the family governor. Afterwards, the family was wiped out by foreign enemies and the direct descendants were usurped. The remaining clan members embarked on a journey of revival. The path of the direct descendants of the family. But the person who usurped the direct descendants of the family was the current shogunate, so how could the surviving members of the direct descendants be allowed to return? The clan members were forced to go into exile overseas after their defeat."
"Although the shogunate was magnanimous and did not pursue responsibility, the whole world was full of people who wanted to claim credit from the shogunate and were desperately hunting down the whereabouts of their clan members. The clansmen had no choice but to live in hiding and in exile around the world. Gradually, they were willing to There are fewer and fewer people following you. And with the development of the world, there are fewer and fewer gray areas for people to hide."
"There was a child, who was the remaining male descendant of the surviving family. As long as he could remember, he had been wandering in the dirty slums with his parents and clan members all day long. He could not see the light, eat a full meal, or sleep well all day long. Picked up His mobile phone was his only channel for learning and communicating with the outside world. He used this mobile phone to read books and play games, including his favorite "Ambition" series. But it was this mobile phone that inadvertently exposed the secrets of his tribe. The information led to the pursuit of the pursuers. The child's parents were killed, and the remaining clan members were almost wiped out."
"Is it the child's fault? What's wrong with a child wanting to know what the world is like? What's wrong is this damn fate. If the family hadn't been usurped, his parents wouldn't have died, right? His tribe will no longer have to live in exile like wild dogs all day long, and his life and the lives of countless people will be different."
"If he gets a chance to change all of this, a chance to reverse the family's declining destiny, and a chance to save the direct descendants of the family from heading into that desperate future, what do you think he will do?"
Imagawa Yoshima finished telling his story with tears in his eyes, and finally burst into tears, but Imagawa Yoshimoto couldn't understand what he was saying at all.
"It's okay, Yoshimoto, you don't need to know, and you don't need to know this. The more you know, the more dangerous you are. If you know everything I know, my death will be meaningless." Imagawa Yoshima wiped his hands With tears in his eyes, he showed a smile to Imagawa Yoshimoto, "You only need to know those limited and useful ones, those that can help the Imagawa family become stronger, but will not bring disaster to the Imagawa family."
"Third brother, what do you mean?" Imagawa Yoshimoto was completely confused.
"I said you don't need to know, but I want to tell you that everything I have done in the past two years has been for the Imagawa family. My love for the Imagawa family is far greater than yours. I am willing to sacrifice my life for the Imagawa family. Even everything I have, but you can't do it." Imakawa Ryojin's eyes became red again, and he choked up a little as he spoke.
"But I woke up too late. I didn't wake up until the end was done. I thought that as long as I showed my knowledge that transcended the times like the plots in countless novels I had read in my previous life, I could make my way in the troubled world. God, I can lead the Imagawa family to conquer the world and protect this great family forever. But I was wrong. I thought too simply. Why did I naively think that I was the only chosen one?"
"I foolishly exposed myself, while the others hid their identities well and tried their best to trick someone like me. Every time one of them was tricked, one of their competitors was reduced. I finally understood why these two Everything I did over the years was unsatisfactory, and no matter where I went, people would try to get in my way... I finally understood. The moment I revealed my identity rashly, I was destined to be exposed by countless people. The hidden arrows gathered fire and died."
"The identity of 'Imagawa Yoshima' and my face have been on their death list forever. As long as I am still alive, there will be countless attacks coming towards the Imagawa family, and there is no way to prevent them. Because of those The attack was either for family interests or simply to eliminate me as a person."
"More than anyone else, I want to personally protect the Imagawa family and the direct descendants of the Imagawa family, but now I can't do it. I can't do it with my identity as 'Imagawa Yoshima'. Only if I die can the Imagawa family no longer be the 'target of public criticism'" , others will not target the Imagawa family. So I can only entrust everything to you, Yiyuan, and you will take over my mission and protect the Imagawa family for me."
Imagawa Yoshima straightened up and walked slowly towards Imagawa Yoshimoto. Imagawa Yoshimoto stepped back with some fear and put his hand on the handle of the knife vigilantly, but Imagawa Yoshima didn't care at all.
"Don't be afraid, I don't have any ill intentions towards you. Everything I did was ultimately for the Imagawa family. I wanted to kill you before because I wanted to protect the Imagawa family myself. Now that I can't do it, I can only rely on you. You, how could I do something to you?"
He paused, looked at Imagawa Yoshimoto very solemnly, and said in an unprecedentedly low voice:
"What I tell you next, you must bury it in your heart forever and never talk to anyone. Once the news leaks out, it will bring disaster to you. I know you may not understand the importance of this matter, but I can do it. I won’t be tight-lipped, but I can’t explain its importance to you. Because explaining the matter itself would reveal too much information. So I will only selectively tell you part of the knowledge. In this way, even if it is leaked, it will not As for killing the Imagawa family."
"First, you can implement all my reforms. Whether it is military reform, political reform, or business reform, all of them can be continued. Externally, you can say that you have inherited the policies I left behind. . If you think it’s too hasty, you might as well come here one by one, it doesn’t matter. But you must always remember that everything I do is definitely the trend of the future.”
"Second, 22 years later... no, not just 22 years later. As long as you want to go to Luo, when passing by Owari, you must never take the barrel narrow room, never march in the rain, and absolutely never accept the local The labor food presented by the local tycoons must never stay in the mountainous area, and we must be careful of the Oda family's surprise attack."
"The third and most important thing is."
Imakawa Ryojin's eyes were ignited with a shuddering fire of hatred.
"Twenty years later, in Suruga, there will be a man from the Ming Dynasty who drifted here because of a shipwreck. His name is Ame Qiupei. His better known name is Ame Qiupei. He is the strongest person in history, and there is no one like him. 1. Whether it is military strategy or political governance, he is so powerful that it is difficult to look directly at him. What is even more exaggerated is that he is actually a good person, the purest good person in the universal sense, and his kindness is unbelievable, like a holy son. Pure. He has never done a bad thing in his life for decades, and his feathers are as white as snow. I really don’t know how he survived in this dirty and chaotic world."
"But such a strong man who stands at the top of the world is the eternal sinner of the Imagawa family. It was he who caused the destruction of the Imagawa family and caused the direct descendants of the Imagawa family to embark on a path of no return... It was him."
"Yiyuan, remember this. If you are sure you can control him, use him, and he will win the world for you. But if it doesn't work, kill him immediately, don't hesitate! Absolutely don't hesitate! Your child is about to die Born, right? If you want your bloodline to be passed on, if you don’t want your child’s descendants to be displaced and run around like rats, kill him!”
"Yu Qiupei..." Imagawa Yoshimoto muttered this familiar name, but he couldn't remember when he heard it.
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"Okay, I've finished what I want to say. Now it's up to you to kill me." Imagawa Yoshizhin knelt down on the ground again, raised his neck to kill, and did not forget the last instruction, "After you kill me, close the door Yutaka Furunoji and Nao Hayasaka were also killed. No one can be allowed to live in the world who knows that "Imagawa Yoshimoto personally killed Imagawa Yoshima". Otherwise, you will suffer the same fate as me and become a thorn in the flesh of countless people. , becoming a target that countless people would only dream of getting rid of.”
"Why……"
"Don't ask, idiot. The more you know, the more likely you are to be exposed and become a target. It's safer not to know anything!" Imagawa Yoshima yelled at Imagawa Yoshimoto.
"Then why do I have to kill you with my own hands?" Imagawa Yoshimoto swallowed, and the hand holding the handle of the knife trembled imperceptibly, "I am a monk. In the past 20 years, I have never killed anyone with my own hands, and I don't want to. Dirty your hands."
"Don't ask too many questions!"
Imagawa Yoshimoto's tight-lippedness made Imagawa Yoshimoto confused again, but he did not ask any more questions - he knew that even if he asked, Imagawa Yoshimoto would not answer.
"Let's do it this way. If you really feel guilty and can't do it, I'll commit seppuku myself and you can help me make the mistake, right? As long as you make up the last blow yourself." Imagawa Yoshima took a long sigh and retreated. After a while, he said, "With such a bodhisattva-like heart, how can I trust you to hand over the Imagawa family to you?"
"Okay." Imagawa Yoshimoto nodded, then reached into his arms to take out the ribs for seppuku.
"Can you give me Ryumaru?" Imagawa Yoshima pointed at the heirloom sword on Imagawa Yoshimoto's waist.
"You want to commit seppuku with a samurai sword?" Imagawa Yoshimoto found it a bit unbelievable, "It doesn't fit the hand."
"Please, this is my last request. For the sake of your friendship with brother 'Imagawa Yoshima', please agree to it." Imagawa Yoshima bowed deeply to the ground and said sincerely. Imagawa Yoshimoto could not refuse. He then took off the dragon pill and handed it to Imagawa Yoshima. He himself took out Sosan Zuomon and stood beside Imagawa Yoshima.
"Remember, just tell the outside world that I died in the fire in Yuanjiang. Don't tell others that you killed me with your own hands. You must also kill Yutaka Furuno and Nao Hayasaka, and don't let them. Leaked the news that you personally executed me." Imagawa Yoshima took the trouble to give the last instruction, and Imagawa Yoshimoto just curled his lips noncommittally.
Imakawa Yoshizhin then took out Ryumaru and held the blade tightly with both hands, regardless of the fact that his palm was dripping with blood. It was as if he could feel the body temperature of countless generations of the Imagawa family, the will and glory passed down by countless generations from the cold blade. He slowly cut Ryumaru into his belly and opened a horizontal incision. Enduring the severe pain, he struggled to say his last words:
"Imagawa family, please."
Yoshimoto, inherit my will and strength to live, and protect the Imagawa family on my behalf.
Imakawa Yoshimoto raised his sword and fell, and Imakawa Yoshima's life ended.
I don't know if it was because of his first murder, but Imagawa Yoshimoto just felt dizzy. Waves of pain hit his head, and he actually vomited while leaning on the wall. Nao Furunoji Yutaka and Hayasaka Nao hurriedly broke into the door, only to find that Imagawa Yoshima had committed seppuku.
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I don't know how long it took for Yoshimoto Imakawa to gradually regain his consciousness, but he felt a sharp pain in his head. After reacting, he found that he had been helped back to the castle tower by Nao Hayasaka and Yutaka Nakonoji.
"Seal the news and don't let anyone know that Imakawa Yoshizhin committed hara-kiri in the Imagawa Hall. Just maintain the official statement of the Imagawa family, saying that he set himself on fire in Yue River. You two must also keep your mouth shut and don't leak even a little bit of news. ." Imagawa Yoshimoto warned the two of them. Although Hayasaka Nao and Na Furunoji Yutaka didn't know why, they nodded honestly.
"Your Highness, Madam has given birth!"
At this moment, excited shouts and a baby's cry came from upstairs. Imagawa Yoshimoto hurried upstairs and entered the delivery room despite the obstruction of the midwives. The weak Ginkgo was lying on the bed, holding the newly born little life in her arms - it was a boy, but he cried very loudly. His little hands were still unconscious, so they held on to the skirt of Ginkgo's clothes.
"What's going on, you're relying on your mother to stay?" Imagawa Yoshimoto looked at the mother and son, and was moved to tears for a moment. He felt that everything in life was complete, but he still pretended to be strong and joked, " Don’t become a weak crybaby from now on.”
"Then mommy will take care of you for the rest of her life, be good." Ginkgo's face was covered with sweat, and she almost fell asleep due to exhaustion, but she still held on to coax her child and murmured softly:
"You don't need to be a great warrior from now on, as long as you live happily, remember?"
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This is the end of the first volume, and the second volume is about to be released. I'm very sorry. Because it has been delayed and not put on the shelves, the editor has reminded me, and there is no way to create a new official seal chapter and volume. Later, I will change "Chapter 87 National Affairs (4)" that has been published in the second volume to Chapter 1 of the second volume, which is Chapter 98, so that book friends who accidentally subscribed before will not As for wasting money.
