Astronomical 15th year (1546), April.

Flying birds soar high in the blue sky, and you can see the eaves of Nakono Castle.

To its right is the Aragami Forest, to the left is the woods of the Hachino-Temple, which is connected to the Tenno's Grove, and then there are streets with only a few houses. There are no decent mountains here, and the Mt. Hiramatsu and Mt. Komatsu in front of them can only be regarded as small hills, and although the land is wide, the arable land is limited.

It was midday, and there was a commotion in the woods along the walls of Nakono Castle, which the locals call Wakamiya.

It turned out that a circle was drawn in a small clearing in the middle of the woods, and two children were playing sumo wrestling in the circle.

"Not yet, not yet, continue to look at each other, continue to look at each other." Suddenly, a naked boy sitting on a high platform four or five steps behind the sumo wrestler on his right, looking proudly at the sumo ring, said loudly.

The boy appeared to be about twelve or thirteen years old, with his hair tied to the top of his head in the middle and clamped in clips. He frequently picked his nostrils with his fingers and pulled out the boogers. Strangely, when he makes these moves, from his hair to his movements, there is an indescribable sense of harmony.

After the young man saw that the breathing of the two coincided, he suddenly shouted: "Okay! Begin. With this wild scream, the two teenage sumo wrestlers pounced on each other at the same time.

"Kichibo-samachi!" At this moment, a sturdy old man walked into the woods, and when he saw the scene in front of him, he first sighed secretly, and then shouted to the young man to change lanes.

"Oh! Grandfather! He glanced at the visitor, then turned his head to the two people in the circle and shouted, "Stupid, hurry up!" Who is slow. There will be no rice balls to eat. ”

"Master Kichibo."

"Oops! Can't we just wait a minute? Grandfather! ”

"Kichibo-samachi!"

This is the third time the old man has called him.

Kichiboshi finally raised his face again.

"What's the matter? Grandfather! I'm having a blast! Don't get in my way! ”

"Have you forgotten? Today is your Yuan Costume Ceremony! The three adults, Shitoshi Shingoro Sadahide, Aoyama and Sanemon, and Naito Katsusuke, have been waiting in the castle for a long time. The old man said.

The old man is none other than Yoshibo-shi's teacher, Heishou, Cheng Masahide. Today is the day when Master Kichihoshi holds the Yuan Ceremony. As a result, several of their retainers found Master Kichibo. Hei's internal affairs Cheng Masahide had to personally go to the place where Yoshihoshi usually went to look for it, and sure enough, he found it here.

And Yoshibo is Oda Nobunaga.

Oda Nobunaga is not the first son of Oda Nobuhide, the overlord of Owari, he also has an older brother named Oda Nobuhiro, the same name as his ancestor Tsunematsu Irido, which Chinese will find incredible, but it is a very common thing in Japan. It's just that Oda Nobuhiro was born in the side room. is a concubine, and must be ranked after the concubine in the order of heir.

Oda Nobunaga was Nobuhide's second son, but he was born to Mrs. Masamori Tsuchida, the eldest son, and the joy his birth brought to his father Nobuhide is indescribable. Shortly before Nobunaga's birth, Nobuhide decided to build a new town 3.6 kilometers south of Nakono and named it Furuto (the area southeast of present-day Nagoya City). After the completion of Furuto Castle, Nobuhide moved there and made it his main city, and gave up the castle to the infant baby. The baby's young name. It's called Yoshiboshi.

Not only that, Oda Nobuhide immediately appointed the elder of the family, Shigoro Hidesada, Hei Toto, Seihide, Aoyama Yomiemon and Katsusuke Naito, as the mentors and assistants of Yoshihoshi.

It is said that Kichiboshi was born with a difference. He had a very irritable personality, and when he was still an infant, he showed a headache-inducing and domineering attitude, biting the nipple of his nurse many times, and Oda Nobuhide was forced to change nurses frequently. However, as the heir of the Warring States Daimyo, he has to be windy and rainy at home, and his personality is easy to become proud and violent, so I'm afraid it's all acquired, and it won't be born like to toss people.

In addition to his irascible personality, when he was seven or eight years old, he began to show other qualities that were also unpleasant. First of all, he was very contemptuous of tradition and hated the constraints of all kinds of rules and regulations, probably because he was accustomed to seeing his father, Oda Nobuhide, take a strong attitude towards Owari Guardian, who was nominally his chief, and Shimo-Shibu Guardian Acting as a commander. Secondly, the child is very fond of novelty things, and he wants to grab anything that he has not seen or used, and even in terms of dress, he often deliberately wants to behave differently from children of the same age.

Kichiboshi is very fond of fancy clothes, and at this time he is called "Dumping". It is said that he often wore his hair in braids with five-colored silk threads, and his clothes were painted with strange patterns, and at first glance he was mistaken for a wandering artist, rather than the heir of a daimyo family. He was often surrounded by a group of young attendants, all of whom Nobuhide had painstakingly selected from among the children of his retainers to serve as his escort and companions, but instead of studying and practicing martial arts with his attendants like the children of other daimyos, Yoshibo took them around causing trouble and fighting.

Because of this kind of behavior of Yoshigashi, there is no consciousness as the heir of the lord at all, except for one of the masters, Hirate Masahide, his father Oda Nobuhide, and some attendants, almost everyone in the family has a deep disgust for this child. Even his mother, Mrs. Tsuchida, didn't like him, but doted on his younger brother, Mio Nobuyuki. Oda Kanjuro Nobuyuki (also known as Shinkatsu), although he and Yoshihoshi are the same brother born to the same mother, but the behavior is very different from the elder brother, he is square, intelligent and polite, and won the unanimous love of the whole family. Lady Tsuchida and his retainers repeatedly suggested to Oda Nobuhide that he should be deposed of Yoshi's inheritance and replaced by Nobuyuki, but Nobuhide always dismissed their opinions without being firm or soft.

It is estimated that in Oda Nobuhide's mind, it is very common for boys to be naughty, compared to a lively and active child who fights everywhere, those children who are pale and powerless are even more unavoidable. The son of a samurai, who was able to fight when he was a child, was naturally able to fight when he was older, so there was nothing to worry about. Moreover, abolishing the elders and replacing the heirs is often the root cause of family division and civil strife.

Oda Nobuhide was very permissive towards Yoshibo, whether he wanted his children to develop freely, or whether he believed too much in the teachings of Masahide Hirate and others, then no one knew what to do.

In this way, Yoshiboshi grew up with hostile, contemptuous, or contemptuous gazes from all sides.

To this day, he will go to Koto Castle, the main city of his father, Oda Nobuhide, accompanied by several masters, where he will hold a ceremony of the Yuan costume. At this time, Yoshihoshi was only twelve years old, and according to Japanese custom, he was only thirteen years old.

After this Motofu, Nobuhide gave Yoshibo the name Saburo Nobunaga, and from then on he was called Oda Nobunaga. Soon after, Nobuhide also offered his son the official position of Kamisaosuke (Kamiso Kuniku is the central part of present-day Chiba Prefecture, and Kamisao Kunomaru was traditionally only awarded to princes, and nobles and samurai could only receive the position of Suke, that is, the position of assistant to Kokumori), so he was generally called Oda Sosuke Nobunaga.

Just when Yoshibo was forced to follow the Tai Sho Masahide back to Nakono Castle to prepare to go to Koto Castle to hold the Yuan Ceremony. But they didn't know what to do, and there were a few people watching their every move not far from them?

"This is what the lord said about the person who should pay attention to the investigation? I've heard the local farmers call him Dumb! One of them said.

"My lord, let's take this opportunity to kill them directly." Another suggested.

"Don't mess around, we are here this time for an important task, don't make any extraneous branches." A young man who looked like a leader said. If the retainers of the Luo family were here, they would definitely recognize this person as the Luo family, who had left the Luo family's territory for more than a year.

However, the two of them, who were hurrying to Nakono Castle, didn't know what to say, they had just escaped a catastrophe. (To be continued......)