On February 20, the twelfth year of Tenmon (1543), the ferry anchored at Seta Ferry in Yamashiro Province.
"It's a pity that we can't see Kyoto yet." Imagawa Yoshimoto stopped and looked west, but he could only see the Hira Mountains stretching from north to south.
"I haven't been back for many years." Taiyuan Xuezai was also filled with emotion. He patted Imagawa Yoshimoto on the shoulder and said, "Remember Chengfang? I often took you to Seta to play when I was a child. When I returned to Suruga, you were Lai Seta refused to leave and cried loudly at night, saying that he couldn't bear to leave his friends in Kyoto."
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.. Our husband was a big crybaby when he was a child~" Ginkgo's ears on the side are as sharp as a cat. After hearing Imagawa Yoshimoto's sniff, he immediately came closer.
"Smelly old man, you remember it wrong!" Imagawa Yoshimoto turned red after being teased by Ginkgo, and argued awkwardly: "You clearly went to the casino that night and gambled all night, and you didn't come back until the next morning. Which one was it?" Did your eyes see me cry?"
"Oh? Is there a casino near here?" Taiyuan Xuezhai covered his forehead with his palms to block the sun and deliberately looked around, "Isn't there clearly one?"
"That's right." Ginkgo immediately agreed, and at the same time patted Imagawa Yoshimoto's head like a mother coaxing a child, "Good sir, let's not cry!"
"There must be one!" Imagawa Yoshimoto was ridiculed to death by Taiyuan Xuezai and Ginkgo's chorus. He was determined to fight to the end, "If it's not here, it's behind the mountain in the south. There must be one!"
"Then let's go take a look!" Ginkgo kept doing nothing, intending to make Imagawa Yoshimoto's black spot really hard, so she pulled Imagawa Yoshimoto to go in the direction he pointed.
"I'll give you half a day off and come back before dark." Taiyuan Xuezhai was happy to facilitate this, "We'll stay at the hotel next to the pier and set off again tomorrow."
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"Is there really a so-called 'casino'?" Ginkgo jumped up and down while entertaining Imagawa Yoshimoto, "Okay sir, there is no one else around now. If you want to admit it, just admit it earlier, little one. Crying bag~ I promise not to tell anyone about it when I go back."
"There really is, don't worry." Imagawa Yoshimoto climbed over the hills one after another and kept looking at the surrounding villages. Finally, the hard work paid off and he discovered the casino he had longed for: "Look, it's just over there!"
"Oh?" Ginkgo was stunned when she saw that there was a large casino outside the city in the wilderness. "How come it is opened here? Can there be business?"
"Many dignitaries in the court and the shogunate will come here to gamble. After all, gambling in Kyoto is hard." Imagawa Yoshimoto stopped here, and while preparing to turn around and go back, he explained to Ginkgo, "But we are all acquaintances. , don’t look up and look down, don’t want to be recognized each other. So this casino has a rule, you have to wear a mask at the door before entering. Okay, go back, you have to bear witness for me, Ginkgo, teacher, he clearly came by himself that day It’s gambling!”
"Huh? Why go back?" Ginkgo curled her lips and smiled, turned her face away and pulled Imagawa Yoshimoto towards the casino, "You're already here, why don't you go in and have a look?"
"That's not a good place." Imagawa Yoshimoto complained as he resisted and tried to pull Ginkgo back.
"What's the point? I'm not a good girl!" Ginkgo laughed evilly, grabbed Imagawa Yoshimoto's ears and ran over, "I've never been to a casino before, and I still have to wear it. Mask, it’s so fun, why don’t you go in and take a look?”
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As a result, Imagawa Yoshimoto was dragged to the casino by Ginkgo, handed over the admission information, and each chose a Noh theater-like mask to wear - it really suited the tastes of the public and the shogunate.
"Ahem!" Ginkgo deliberately made a man's voice and coughed twice - she tied up her hair and hid her beauty behind the mask, as if she could disguise herself as a handsome man - But her graceful figure, which even a winter coat could not hide, had long betrayed her gender.
"Ginkgo's mask is not bad." Imagawa Yoshimoto looked at Ginkgo's colorful fox mask. It was one of the cutest among the few Noh masks, and it matched the quirky Ginkgo quite well.
"Mr.'s mask is so ugly." Ginkgo looked at Imagawa Yoshimoto's empty mask with white face and black eyebrows with disgust. The facial features were painted in an extremely eerie way - this is the normal state of Noh masks. "It's too underworld." , I’ll have nightmares after watching it at night.”
"What does this young lady know? This is the most popular Noh mask in Kinki these days." A gambler who happened to pass by said to defend Imagawa Yoshimoto, "This gentleman still has vision."
"Oh, you cultural people are amazing." Ginkgo muttered angrily, vented his anger on Imagawa Yoshimoto's head, and stepped on him hard.
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After entering the gate, the extremely high decibel noise and the smell of tobacco and alcohol in the casino immediately choked Imagawa Yoshimoto. The gamblers screamed at the table at the top of their lungs, and the sounds of slamming the table and shaking dice came and went. The faces behind the masks must also be red. The terrifying Noh masks of the underworld are mixed with the noisy cheers, wails, curses, and cries, which makes it look like a drawing of hell.
"Ah, is this your intellectual man?" Ginkgo never misses any opportunity to quarrel with Imagawa Yoshimoto, "On weekdays, I act aloof, as if I am reciting poems and composing poems to a lot of elegant people. But when I see money, I will be like those people in Mount Kaibi. The same goes for ruffians."
"Well, well." Imagawa Yoshimoto also laughed twice. To be honest, he was not good at dealing with this kind of environment. Although I went to a casino with Taiyuan Xuezhai when I was very young, I didn't learn a few gambling games. Ginkgo was interested, looking here and there, studying various ways to play. Imagawa Yoshimoto himself went around to a quieter corner on the second floor, watching a few samurai and ministers who seemed to have some status gambling, and listened to their chat about the situation in Kinki.
"Let me tell you, the Hosokawa Kyōjo family is going to have a better time in a few days." A middle-aged man wearing a red ghost mask predicted confidently while playing with the backgammon pieces.
"Are you doing this again? I've heard you say it several times a day." The man in the Shura mask who was facing him teased, "Why are you so looking forward to the end of the Hosokawa family?"
"Inside information, inside information." Akagi Mask exaggeratedly rubbed his hands, attracting the attention of several onlookers around him, and then spoke eloquently: "Don't look at the majesty of the Hosokawa family leader. There is already an undercurrent surging. A Kizawa Sakyou Ryo (Kizawa Nagamasa) and a Miyoshi Chikuzenmori (Miyoshi Nagakei) are now intertwined and highly accomplished, and even the leader (Hosokawa Harumoto) is You have to be in awe of them."
"Sakyo Kizawa has been really famous recently." Another Rakshasa Mask who was watching couldn't help but sigh, "Yamato, Kawachi, Kii, the three countries are all full of his followers, and the troops he can mobilize in Kinki are even more The Hosokawa family has many people of its own. It is said that he openly challenged the governor at the evaluation meeting, and the governor has nothing to do with him. Who is the retainer and who is the master?"
"Yes, in the past few years, Kizawa Sakyo has been tending to overpower the leaders. It is said that he even has a hand in the Hosokawa family's housekeeping. How can someone be so domineering?" Shura Mask also fits the sentence.
"Then you don't know the most domineering time of Sakyo Kizawa." Aka Oni Mask, who claimed to have inside information, once again let it slip, and after prolonging his tone, he said: "The Aguo Song and Dance Troupe that was popular in Western countries and Kinki in the past few years , you know, right?"
"I know, it's the Qingqi Dance Troupe led by the witch Aguo. I've even gone to see it. It's really good!" Another demon mask sitting next to him said while smacking his lips, and there was a faint trace of saliva flowing down his face. The mask flowed down, "The one with the big white legs exposed, and the two jade rabbits, tsk tsk tsk... There is an endless stream of people coming to see it, and they queued up for more than ten miles, all to see Qingqi Wu!"
"It's offensive." Rakshasa Mask was probably a conservative conservative. After hearing this, he couldn't help but said dissatisfiedly, "Are you going to watch the dance? You are obviously going to see those promiscuous women. You don't watch high-class Noh dramas, but why? Go and see these melodious sounds.”
"Hey, these are not important, not important!" Seeing that the topic had gone astray, Chi Gui Mask quickly waved his hand to catch up the conversation, "Do you know why the Aguo Song and Dance Troupe's performance in Kyoto suddenly stopped some time ago? ?”
"Why?" The curiosity of several people was aroused. "Didn't you say it was banned because it was immoral?"
"That's not true. That was an excuse I made later." Seeing that no one knew about the red ghost mask, his vanity was satisfied and he said with satisfaction: "Before the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, Kizawa Sakyo invited the Aguo Song and Dance Troupe to his house. Performance, you know?”
"What a grand show!" Everyone was shocked when they heard this. "The performances of the Ah Guo Song and Dance Troupe are hard to come by. How can they be invited to the house to perform alone for him?"
"Yes, and it's not just that..." Red Ghost Mask took a sip of saliva, and said with a sly smile: "Then after watching the performance, Kizawa Sakyo coveted the beauty of Aguo girl, so he wants to get hard."
"Good guy." The men here suddenly became excited, but Imagawa Yoshimoto on the side frowned with dissatisfaction.
"In the end, who would have thought that the Aguo girl would refuse to obey? I would say she is stupid. What's wrong with being with Kizawa Sakyou, who is now so powerful in Kinki? She will have no worries about food and clothing for her whole life, and her troupe can also run sideways in the future. In the end, she didn’t agree, and it is said that she even bit Sakyo Kizawa’s penis.”
After Chi Gui Mask said these words, all the men present felt a chill, as if they were in pain.
"So, Kizawa Sakyo killed the Aguo girl in a rage, and also drove the Aguo Song and Dance Troupe out of Kyoto. He ordered ninjas to hunt them down, and the Aguo Song and Dance Troupe had to flee to Sakai Town. Those who don't know the inside story People thought that the Ah Guo Song and Dance Troupe just changed places to perform, but in fact they offended the Master." Red Ghost Mask continued to tell his thrilling story:
"Men, if you suffer a loss in love, you have to get it back in the officialdom. After that, Kizawa Sakyo took great action against the opposition, and in one fell swoop he captured and killed the remnants of Hatakeyama Eemon (Hatakeyama Yoshihiro) who had been hiding for ten years. They also exiled Hatakeyama Owari Mamoru (Hatakeyama Uecho), a close confidant of the Hosokawa governor, and miraculously reconciled with their old enemy Yusa Kawauchi Mamoru (Yusa Chokyo), and together they supported Hatakeyama Harima (Hatakeyama Masakuni). , completely turning Hanoi into his own kingdom, even Kii was infiltrated."
"Hey, I didn't expect that it was because of being stimulated by a woman?" The man in the Rakshasa mask laughed dumbly after hearing this, "I was still thinking about why Kizawa Sakyo was suddenly so decisive this time, and how he made judgments every time as if he had divine help. By the way, he is completely different from the past. So he was awakened by the excitement of a woman?"
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