In February of the seventh year of Yongroku, the weather in the entire Mino Country was quite good, and there was no snow, but the temperature was still not too high. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but there is the sun every day, but it is warm, and there is no wind, so you won't feel cold.

At the heart of the rule of Mino Province, under Inabayama Castle, the residence of the Saito family, Shigeharu Takenaka, the lord of Bodhi Mountain Castle in Bupo County, and Shigeharu Takenaka, an important minister of the Saito family, asked to bring people into the city.

At this time, Shigeharu Takenaka was wearing extremely simple clothes, and he didn't carry any weapons on his body, but like other samurai, he had a rib around his waist. Although Shigeharu Takenaka has some shortcomings in height, and cannot be compared with people with a height of 1.8 meters like Kuroda Vocational High School and Musato Takatomo, it is still much taller than the average height of Wakoku at this time, reaching the level of 1.6 meters.

Shigeharu Takenaka's face is very fair, just like a woman's face, of course, this is the result of his congenital lung disease, which is not a good thing. Although this is indeed very handsome, but knowing the reason, at least the big men estimate that few people are willing to have such beauty.

If you want to say, Shigeharu Takenaka is indeed a handsome young man, and even many girls will be ashamed of themselves when they see him. Even if the main family has a habit of concubines, they may be very interested in him, and basically will not let him go. Of course, with his power in the country of Mino, although Saito Ryuxing has actually admired him for a long time, he does not dare to make any moves against him. After all, Shigeharu Takenaka is the number one powerful family in the capital of Mino Province, and with his father-in-law Mamoru Ando, even Saito Ryuko has to weigh his weight in Mino Country.

At this time, the guard on the castle tower was a samurai who had a good relationship with his father-in-law, Mamoru Ando, so he was also familiar with Shigeharu Takenaka.

Seeing that it was Shigeharu Takenaka coming, the samurai immediately shouted affectionately on the city wall: "Hanbei-sama, it's been a long time, why did you come to Inabayama Castle at this time?" ”

"It's Goemon-sama! It's been a long time, and even the New Year's assessment is just a hurry! I came to the city this time because my younger brother Jiuzuo wrote to his family a few days ago that he was seriously ill, so I wanted to come down to see him! I also hope that the lord will quickly report this matter to the lord, so that we can be allowed to enter the city, so as not to delay the treatment of Jiuzuo. Shigeharu Takenaka said anxiously.

"And who is following you?" Goemon leaned against the wall and saw that there were still a few people behind Shigeharu Takenaka, so he asked routinely.

"Lord Goemon, three of them are doctors invited from Omi Province, five are their retinues, and a few of them are all retinues of Xia, who took some supplements and clothes to see my poor brother." Shigeharu Takenaka said to the city wall.

The samurai saw that the group below was indeed divided into several groups, and because there were not many people, it was very obvious. Plus a dozen people is nothing to Inabayama Castle, so I didn't ask much.

Goemon nodded, "Okay, I know about the Hanbei-sama, please wait, I'll go and tell the lord about it right away." ”

"Well, then it's going to trouble Goemon-sama, and we're waiting here for news from you." Shigeharu Takenaka said respectfully.

"Lord Hanbei, the lord said, you can enter the city." After a while, the Goemon Gate ran back to the castle wall, shouted to Shigeharu Takenaka, and then ordered the gate to be opened, and then the gate was opened from the inside.

Halfway through Shigeharu Takenaka's entry into the city, this Goemon came up, and after looking around, he whispered in front of Shigeharu Takenaka: "Hanbei-sama, everything has been prepared according to Ando-sama's orders, the lord is having fun in the castle tower, Saito Hida Mamoru is also in his own house, and our people are all arranged, so there will be no accidents." ”

"Hmmm! When the time comes, my three uncles and I will not forget you. Shigeharu Takenaka also whispered.

"Hanbei-sama, please be sure to bring it with you to say hello to Kusaku." Goemon said loudly on purpose.

"Thank you, Lord Goemon, I will definitely do it in the future." Shigeharu Takenaka also said loudly, and the two of them just seemed to be there to greet each other.

It stands to reason that Takenaka Shigeharu and his entourage had a large number of people and carried a lot of large boxes, so they could only enter the city after being inspected by the guards at the city gate, but under the arrangement of the five gates, they entered the city directly without encountering any obstacles.

The group of sixteen soon arrived at the yashiki where Kusaku lived, which was the place where the Takenaka family settled in Inabayama Castle.

"Kusaku we're coming." As soon as he entered the house, Shigeharu Takenaka shouted loudly.

After everyone had entered the house, the last samurai who walked last closed the door and moved all the boxes into the house.

"Jiuzuo, I've worked hard for you this time." Shigeharu Takenaka said to Kusaku on the hospital bed.

Jiusaku, who was originally white-faced, immediately stood up from the bed at this time, and wiped the flour off his face with the quilt.

"Brother, this flour wipes your face, although it's good to pretend to be sick, but it's uncomfortable to death, it's time for us to go!" Kusaku said excitedly.

"Everyone helped each other to get dressed, got their weapons, and set off when everything was ready."

After everyone was dressed, Shigeharu Takenaka led everyone straight to the house where Saito Hida Mamoru wasaki.

Here I want to talk about the grievances between the two people, Saito Hida Mamoru is a close to Saito Ryuxing, so he is still loyal to Saito Ryuxing, but one thing is that he will be jealous like a woman when she robs a man.

After defeating the attacks of Oda's army many times, Shigeharu Takenaka was appreciated by Saito Ryuko, but because of this, Shigeji, who had excellent military prowess and appearance, was hated by Saito Ryuxing's side close to Saito Hida Mamoru.

Once when I was on duty at Inabayama Castle, Shigeji was walking, and suddenly I felt hot sweat on the top of my head, and I thought it was wrong, but it was the middle of winter, but when I looked up, it turned out to be Hida Mamoru standing on the oar, aiming at his head to urinate! As soon as this Takenaka Shigeji raised his head, his face suddenly burst into tears. Therefore, the two formed a strong bond.

And this Saito Hida Mamoru did play a lot of right and wrong in front of Saito Ryuxing, so there are still a lot of people in Saito's family who are dissatisfied with him, for example, Ando Mamoru was placed under house arrest by Saito Ryuxing before, and there is this Saito Hida Mamoru shadow in it.

In addition, this Saito Hida Mamoru is now the general of Inabayama Castle appointed by Saito Ryuko, and Takenaka Shigejijin must give priority to killing him. (To be continued.) )