"Your Highness! Ah! Uh-huh..." Just when Yu Qiuping and Imagawa Kaede were about to cuddle up in the corridor, Ryuko, who had packed his things, happened to come over and suddenly saw this embarrassing scene, and he suddenly became red.
He lowered his head with a smile on his face.
"Huh? Ryuko!" Upon seeing this, Imagawa Feng jumped up from Yu Qiuping in a hurry, and pulled up Yu Qiuping, who was so stubborn, "What's going on?"
"That's it, ma'am." As soon as Ryuko raised his head in search of a voice, he saw the crimson faces and messy clothes of Yu Qiuping and Imagawa Kaede, so he had no choice but to lower his head again in embarrassment, "Master Maeda, do you want to see me?"
"Which Maeda-sama?" Yu Qiuping arranged his clothes casually and walked towards the living room on the second floor, "Is my eldest brother or that guy Keiji?"
"It's Mr. Lijia." Longzi nodded and pointed in the direction of the city gate, "It seems that he came in a hurry and rushed over with a torch."
"Huh?" Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment, and unconsciously quickened his pace, "What are you doing in such a hurry?"
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When Yu Qiuping came to the living room on the second floor, he found Toshiie Maeda sitting on the main seat, eating without any ceremony. Chicken legs, beef, and tofu were stuffed into his mouth desperately, and he kept eating until his mouth was full of oil.
Down.
"Brother, how many days have you not eaten?" Yu Qiuping was immediately amused by his appearance, and the nervousness that he mentioned just now disappeared. "Compared with eating, that boy is still looking brighter."
It’s ugly!”
"To tell you the truth, kid," Toshiie Maeda chewed the food in his mouth and glanced at Yu Qiuping quickly, "Your brother, I haven't eaten all day!"
"Why are you here? You haven't eaten all day?" Yu Qiuping asked in surprise, and at the same time handed him a glass of water on the side.
Maeda Toshiie raised his neck and drank a few sips, took a few breaths, and then complained loudly and dissatisfiedly: "It's all my fault that my lord has some kind of psychosis. We must notify all the lords within today."
, they kicked out all the horsemen who were on duty in the castle tower, saying that if they didn’t see the person responsible for notifying them tomorrow night, they would have to carry straw sandals for a month! I was okay, that guy Touhachi was sent
Inform His Highness Mori and Monkey over at Meinong, I guess you won’t be able to sleep today!”
"Oh my god!" Yu Qiuping burst out laughing, "That's really miserable! So, I'm located in the northwest, so I'm your last family."
"Yes, what else?" Maeda Toshiie rolled his eyes at Yu Qiuping and continued to eat.
"Then why are you anxious? It's too late anyway. It's not like you haven't woken me up in the middle of the night." Yu Qiuping simply sat down next to Maeda Toshiya, picked up another glass of water, and prepared to drink a few sips to quench his thirst.
"I'm afraid I'll be late and miss the meal. I won't be able to eat big fish and meat here. I can eat dry food." Maeda Toshiie gnawed more than half of the chicken leg and said loudly as he should.
"Pfft! Cough cough cough..." Yu Qiuping was so amused by his words that he spit out the water in his mouth. He coughed for a long time before finishing it. Maeda Toshiie unceremoniously stretched out his
His oily hands slapped Yu Qiuping's clean clothes hard several times.
"Brother, I didn't see it," Yu Qiuping muttered angrily, "You are quite scheming now. You are different from the simple and upright elder brother before!"
"Isn't that right?" Maeda Toshiya raised his eyebrows somewhat proudly when he heard Yu Qiuping say this to him, "People have to grow up after all. My Asong also said all day long that I am stubborn and will definitely suffer. Every day I give in.
I learned to be more diplomatic and clever, so that I can be lovable."
"Really?" Yu Qiuping glanced at the tabletop where the cups and dishes were messed up by Maeda Toshiya, and then looked at the water he had spilled on the floor and the oily fingerprints on his clothes, "It seems you are learning very quickly."
"That's of course. Nowadays, many veterans of the family are exaggerating that I am a better person." Maeda Toshiie muttered, "By the way, I haven't told you about the matter that my lord asked me to inform."
"Huh? What's going on?" Yu Qiuping had completely relaxed at this time and asked casually while fiddling with the clothes in front of him.
"My lord is about to send troops to Nishi Mino. He requires almost everyone in Owari to gather and cross the Kiso River within half a month. My lord has decided that he himself will sit in Sumamata Castle and direct the invasion of Nishi Mino." Maeda Toshiie's side.
He put the rice in his mouth and said nonchalantly, "Tomorrow all the officials will gather in Qingzhou City to discuss the specific matters of this expedition... Well, it may not be a discussion. I guess the lord has already thought of a plan.
He just asked everyone to come over and listen to his announcement."
However, as he was talking, he found that Yu Qiuping, who was still chatting with him, suddenly lost his voice. After swallowing a mouthful of food, he raised his head and looked at Yu Qiuping in surprise, but was suddenly stunned.
——He and Yu Qiuping have known each other for so many years, but he has never seen the latter's expression like this.
Yu Qiuping's breathing suddenly became rapid, and his hands were holding on to the hem of his clothes, shaking convulsively, almost tearing a crack out of the hem. But he, who originally lowered his head and was careless, now had empty eyes.
It was terrifying, staring motionlessly at his own hem. But on his somewhat stiff facial features, there was a hint of a permeating smile on the corner of his mouth, that smile was weird and creepy.
"Hey, hello." Maeda Toshiie called twice, but Yu Qiuping still didn't respond at all. Being ignored, he should have been very dissatisfied and annoyed. But at this moment, the intuition in his heart flashed through,
He, who had always been fearless, suddenly felt a sense of fear in his heart.
"Hey!" Maeda Toshiie suddenly raised his voice and shouted as if he was emboldened. This shout seemed to wake Yu Qiuping out of his dream. His hands twitched and he exerted force, tearing the hem of his clothes to pieces.
He suddenly came back to his senses, suddenly raised his head, and looked at Maeda Toshiya with his still somewhat unfocused eyes, while he gasped for air.
"Hey, are you crazy? What were you doing just now?" Maeda Toshiya was also frightened by Yu Qiuping's reaction, and pushed the water glass in front of him to Yu Qiuping, "Hurry up and drink some water to calm down the shock."
Yu Qiuping hurriedly took the cup, as if grasping a life-saving straw. He raised his neck and drank several sips of water. The cold spring water poured into his throat and flowed straight into his chest and abdomen, as if his whole person suddenly calmed down.
.
But his heart was beating so hard that his eardrums felt slight pain.
My chance for revenge...is now.
God-given opportunity.
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The whole night, Yu Qiuping couldn't fall asleep for even a minute, rolling back and forth on the bed. Simply because Imagawa Kaede had always been a good sleeper, and was not affected by him, he went to sleep early. Yu Qiuping was very upset, and it seemed that the only thing he could do was watch.
Only when he looked at Imagawa Kaede's peaceful sleeping face could he feel slightly at ease. He fiddled aimlessly with Imagawa Kaede's little hand on the quilt and her long satin-like hair, but the anxiety in his heart always lingered around him.
I haven't told her my plans yet.
what to do.
Should I tell her after it happened? What will she think of me?
What if I told her before it happened? What would she say? Would she stop me? If she stopped me, would I still be able to carry out the plan firmly?
But if you don't tell her...how can you explain to her in the future? How can you break your promise to her?
Yu Qiuping's face was full of emotions. There were many times when she wanted to wake up Imakawa Kaede from her sleep and reveal all her plans immediately. She could promise, cry, or scold herself.
, but he really couldn't bear the suffering anymore.
Seven years of forbearance and obsession with revenge seemed to have caused some mental problems in him. He himself felt that he was becoming more and more strange.
He secretly tried twice to shake Imagawa Kaede quietly. He made a promise to himself in his heart that if Imagawa Kaede woke up, he would tell her everything immediately. However, once Imagawa Kaede fell asleep, it would be very difficult.
It was difficult to wake her up. The first time he shook her, Imakawa Kaede made no movement at all. And when it rained in the middle of the night and Qiuping couldn't bear the pressure again and shook her, Imakawa Kaede just frowned in her sleep.
He turned over and took away the quilt from Yu Qiuping, and continued to sleep peacefully.
"I feel so uncomfortable." Yu Qiuping faced the ceiling under the moonlight and murmured softly in Chinese. "I really...can't hold on anymore."
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When the sun rose the next day, Yu Qiuping climbed out of bed as if he had been granted amnesty. He had not slept all night, but his head was particularly clear. He shook Maeda Toshiie who was still asleep unceremoniously and pulled him with him.
He had a hasty breakfast and was about to go to Qingzhou City. Before leaving, he briefly assigned tasks to Naoe Tadayei and others who were left behind, and then eagerly set off on horseback.
"You kid, aren't you usually eager to stay by your wife and children's side, refusing to move even a step away?" Maeda Toshiie, who was riding on the horse, looked at Yu Qiuping, who was in a hurry today for some reason, and said with a smile: "What happened today?
, so anxious to see the lord!"
"I don't know." Yu Qiuping was not in the mood to chat with his elder brother at this moment. He just kept holding the horse's belly, whipping the horse's butt with a whip, and increasing the horse's speed endlessly. He couldn't wait to do it in the next second.
If he can detonate Sumama City, he can take revenge, and he can end his repeated hesitation and struggle over the past seven years between whether to take revenge. Every extra second of waiting is extremely painful for him.
The horse speed is getting faster and faster, and the sun is gradually rising towards noon. The outline of Qingzhou City and the castle town are already vaguely visible. Yu Qiuping felt that his heart was jumping into his throat, as if the city in front of him was not Qingzhou City, but Sumama Castle.
Please, please hurry up and let me make a choice.
I'm going crazy!
Chapter completed!