"Haha..." Ginkgo chuckled funny twice, then winked at Imagawa Yoshimoto, "Why, sir, are you afraid that I will run away from home?"
"Not really..." Imagawa Yoshimoto said awkwardly, but his wandering eyes had betrayed him.
"Don't worry, it doesn't matter. People will "grow up" sooner or later and become annoying. But whether it is a person or a cat, they are the cutest when they are young, right?" Ginkgo He smoothed the messy hair around his ears and leaned gently on Imagawa Yoshimoto's shoulder, "Even if your husband turns into a bastard like my father and my brother, I can only pinch my nose and make do with it. After all, I’ve already fallen in love, what else can I do?”
"But it seems that your conscience is still intact." Ginkgo suddenly laughed again, stretched out a finger, and made a silencing gesture at Imagawa Yoshimoto's mouth, interrupting what he was about to say, and continued: "Everyone acts for the benefit of the family and finds some high-sounding righteousness as an excuse. As for Mr., in order to uphold justice and punish Buddhist scum, he has to find some worldly interests as an excuse... Although generally speaking, both sides The things they do are similar, but the motivations for setting out are completely different."
"Don't care too much about my feelings." Ginkgo stared into Imagawa Yoshimoto's eyes and whispered solemnly: "Do what you want, sir, whether it's for justice, profit, or your own wealth and life. Well, for the sake of the important people around you, do what you want to do."
"Will you always stand by my side?" Imagawa Yoshimoto confirmed with a guilty conscience.
""No matter what happens, I will always be on your side" - I won't say such words." Ginkgo chuckled and flicked Imagawa Yoshimoto's forehead, "Then It depends on how much conscience you have left, sir.”
"There is really no way..." Imagawa Yoshimoto sighed in confusion.
"But since I'm a prostitute, what can you do to my husband even if I object?" Ginkgo shrugged and spread his hands helplessly.
"You can suddenly assassinate him while he's on the bed. If you insist on it, blood will be spattered in five steps, and the national thief will be executed." Imagawa Yoshimoto gave a reasonable plan in a serious manner.
"How can you be so serious and say such disgusting things... I really can't do anything to you." Ginkgo glanced at Imagawa Yoshimoto with disgust on her face.
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On September 22, the twelfth year of Tianwen (1543), the confrontation between the Imagawa army and Shanggong Temple continued. On this day, the Imagawa family army welcomed the most important "uninvited guest" in a month.
"Teacher?" After Imagawa Yoshimoto came back from inspecting the camp, he found that Taiyuan Xue Zhai was already lying on the bed of his tent with his legs crossed, leisurely and contentedly closing his eyes to rest.
"You have a lot of face." When Taiyuan Xuezhai saw Imagawa Yoshimoto coming, he sat up with a smile, took out a crumpled piece of letter paper from his arms and threw it on the table, "I know it is Where is the letter? It's from Ishiyama Gobo. The master of the Jodo Shinsect has personally asked me to be my master to mediate the battle between your disciple and the Mikawa Jodo Shinsect."
"Dharma master? Master Zhengyu?" Imagawa Yoshimoto was startled by this information. He crumpled the letter and glanced at it for a few times - Speaking of which, he had met Honganji Zhengyu once in Kinki, "He Why do you ask me to come to the teacher?"
"When I was a teacher practicing in Kyoto, I had an old relationship with his father, so I had some relationship with the Pure Land Shinsect." Taiyuan Xuezhai briefly mentioned some old events that seemed to be great, "But it's not close. If everything has been Since you have come here to be my master, you must have asked the eminent monks and daimyo around you to go aside. It won’t be long before the mediating messengers will come one after another.”
"That's it." Imagawa Yoshimoto nodded noncommittally.
"What's the matter, you're not happy?" Taiyuan Xuezai glanced sideways at Imagawa Yoshimoto, "I heard from Tuhara and Hayasaka that Shanggong Temple sheltered a bunch of bandits who killed innocent people indiscriminately, and they didn't feel ashamed of it. Rong, I have a conflict with you. That’s why you are so stubborn and want to seek justice for the victim, but you also can’t stand those Buddhist scum. Don’t you feel unhappy when you are asked to consider practical interests? What else are you going to say?” "Teacher, this is not how you should be," and the like."
"Ah, there is a little, but it's nothing. Just listen to the teacher and withdraw the troops." Imagawa Yoshimoto had already done it before (this chapter is not finished yet!)
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After mentally building up my mind, I compromised with a sense of relief: "There is nothing we can do about this."
"Huh?" This time it was Taiyuan Xuezhai's turn to be confused. He looked at Imagawa Yoshimoto carefully with some confusion, "Chengfang, have you changed your gender? You agreed so easily?"
"Why is the old man still a little disappointed?" Imagawa Yoshimoto immediately smiled and retorted: "I have become "mature and worldly", shouldn't you be more relieved and satisfied?"
"Haha..." Taiyuan Xuezhai laughed thoughtfully.
"Not long ago, my misbehavior led to a rebellion, which almost cost me, Gingko and His Highness Takeda their lives, and made it difficult for the teacher to do... I don't want to do something like that again." Imagawa Yoshimoto was a little helpless. He grinned and sat down next to Taiyuan Xuezhai, "Then follow the teacher's advice and withdraw the troops."
But Taiyuan Xuezhai did not answer. Instead, he took out the folding fan from Imagawa Yoshimoto's waist and started fanning himself. Later, he discovered the pattern and inscription on the fan, and asked with a smile: "The folding fan that Yutai Palace gave you, are you still carrying it with you after 20 years? It is well preserved."
"Well." Imagawa Yoshimoto has always been shy about revealing his feelings for his mother. After all, his mother seems not to care about him. "So when and how to withdraw the troops?"
"When did my master tell you that we were going to withdraw our troops?" Taiyuan Xuezhai closed the folding fan in his hand with a "swish" sound. In an instant, his murderous intent was revealed, as if what he held in his hand was not an elegant thing, but a blood-stained butcher knife. Same.
"Huh? But didn't the teacher just say..." Imagawa Yoshimoto was stunned.
"The rudeness of Shanggong Temple comes first. The Imagawa family is famous this time. How can we just let it go? The power of the temple community in the territory is intertwined and endangers the rule of the Wu family. I have long wanted to take the opportunity to weaken it. Now the opportunity has come to my door. Come on, can you let me go?" Taiyuan Xuezhai gently tapped the bed with a folding fan. The tapping sound was orderly, as if everything was under control:
"Chengfang, you take action today. Tell the soldiers not to show their weapons or see blood, and forcefully break into the temple. The guards in Shanggong Temple alone cannot stop them. When Shanggong Temple is in danger, as a teacher I pretended that I had just arrived, intervened, and forced the Pure Land Shinsect to sign an alliance under the city. I have a close relationship with the abbot Shanru, and I am very confident in handling him."
"But..." Imagawa Yoshimoto was about to speak, but was interrupted by Taiyuan Xuezai with a wave of his hand.
"But what if the Oda family intervenes, do you want to ask this?" Taiyuan Xuezhai guessed what Imagawa Yoshimoto wanted to say - Imagawa Yoshimoto then nodded with some worry.
"You have a secret connection with Assistant Coach Yamaguchi Soma Tsugumi from the Oda family, right? Have you cooperated before?" Taiyuan Xuezhai had already planned it and told his plan: "If the intelligence shows that it is correct, , the Yamaguchi family is committed to controlling the Chita Peninsula south of Owari, and his important opponent is the Mizuno family, who is a close confidant of the Oda family. In the overt and covert fight between the Yamaguchi family and the Mizuno family, the Oda family will inevitably favor the Mizuno family, which is detrimental to the Yamaguchi family. Oda Ohsumi (Oda Nobuhiro) who was stationed at Anxiang Castle represented the will of Furuno Castle and often suppressed the Yamaguchi family."
"But if the Oda family wants to cross the Yahagi River and invade Mikawa, the first ones to send troops will definitely be the Oda Ohsumi of Anxiang Castle and the Mizuno family of Kariya Castle. These are the enemies of the Yamaguchi family. Let Yamaguchi who is following them It must not be difficult for the family to betray some of the marching routes and information of these two families, right?" Taiyuan Xuezai raised his folding fan and made a gesture of wiping his neck, "We, the Imagawa family, are here to be thugs and help the Yamaguchi family defeat these two friendly forces. It was convenient for him to seize the Chita Peninsula, and it also nipped the Oda family's intervention in Mikawa's civil strife in the bud. Everyone got what they needed, and they hit it off."
"It's too dark..." Imagawa Yoshimoto's face was filled with black lines because of Taiyuan Xuezai's sinister plan, "But with Yamaguchi Sasumasuke's temperament... I don't think you can really do this. You guys are indeed The smells are the same, they coincidentally coincide with each other.”
"This is called those who know the current affairs think the same thing as heroes." Taiyuan Xue Zhai clapped his hands and laughed, and then he lay comfortably on Imagawa Yoshimoto's bed again, "Instruct people to contact the Yamaguchi family, and you will be a good teacher." Get some sleep, my old bones are very tired from all this journey. Wait until you almost take down the Shanggong Temple, and then you can call me master to show off."
"Don't you want to eat some food before going to bed?" Imagawa Yoshimoto asked kindly.
"Have some chicken legs and pork knuckles, (this chapter is not over yet!)
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Some more good wine. "Taiyuan Xuezhai took off the rosary beads in his arms and placed them beside the bed, then turned over and prepared to sleep on his side.
"You know, old man, one of the big reasons why I want to attack the Jodo Shinshu is that although they are monks, they do not abide by the precepts and drink alcohol and eat meat." Imagawa Yoshimoto picked up the fan on the bed and put it back into his pocket, while saying sarcastically .
"Then if you have the ability, come and attack me as your master, you brat." Taiyuan Xue Zhai muttered a curse, then waved his hand to drive Imagawa Yoshimoto away. Imagawa Yoshimoto glanced at the thick dark circles around Taiyuan Xuezhai's eyes, pursed his lips, turned around and left with a smile.
"Haasaka?" Imagawa Yoshimoto greeted.
"Your Highness?" Hayasaka Nao, who was waiting beside him, was always available when called.
"Prepare dishes for the teacher." Imagawa Yoshimoto casually ordered.
"I wonder what Master Yukisai wants to eat?" Nao Hayasaka asked in a low voice as she walked towards the kitchen.
"Green vegetables, tofu, rice, tea. The teacher ordered it himself. Make sure it doesn't have any meaty taste." Imagawa Yoshimoto laughed and reported the name of the dish. After thinking about it, he seemed to have a conscience and added:
"Forget it, I see he's quite sleepy. I don't want tea, just plain water, lest he can't sleep."
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