Yu Qiuping felt like he was dreaming.
He didn't know how long he had had this dream. In the dream, he had no concept of time.
The scenes in the dream were extremely familiar yet unfamiliar to him - that was exactly the path of his own life. From the time he came to this era, until now - it ended abruptly at the moment when he was assassinated.
Is this a revolving door?
These eighteen years played in front of Yu Qiuping's eyes like a movie over and over again. He watched everything happen from a third-person perspective. The first time he watched it, Yu Qiuping's consciousness was still a little blurry. The second time he watched it,
As he watched it over and over, he was already immersed in it—reminiscing about his past life as the screen played, regretting countless choices he had made.
In the end, Your Highness, the Governor, I still made so many regretful choices.
He saw the maple forest where Imagawa Kaede first met; he saw the crumbling broken city wall of Chiritsu; he saw the fire in Narumi Castle; he saw the jailer in the cell of Inabayama Castle; he saw the explosives filled in the walls of Sumama Castle.
; I saw the river of blood under Nanzenji Temple; I saw the dilapidated Maple Leaf Mountain Castle; I saw the prosperous Sakai Town; I saw the burning Odani Castle Castle; I also saw the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood in Mikachi Town.
At the end, he saw the ending of the first revolving door again - Hosokawa Shinyuki knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, while Yu Qiuping stepped forward to help him. From the third-person perspective, he could already see Hosokawa Shinyuki.
He quietly reached into his arms, and then took out the dark blade - the ribs that were obviously quenched with poison.
Yu Qiuping suddenly felt angry - how could he not notice it? He had no doubts about Hosokawa Shinyuki, who helped him assassinate Miyoshi Yoshiken, his close friend, and actually let him in without even searching him.
"Are you an idiot!" Yu Qiuping shouted angrily - and then he suddenly froze. He originally thought that as a bystander from a third perspective, he could not take any action - but he was really big
He shouted, and he heard his own shout. He even vaguely felt the existence of his hands and feet through his five senses.
Yu Qiuping tried to move his hands and feet, but failed - it felt like he had no hands and feet again.
Watching himself walking towards Hosokawa Masayuki in the picture, Yu Qiuping couldn't help but feel a little annoyed - why was he so useless. So, he couldn't help but use the only organ he could control - his mouth to shout: "Don't get close to him!
Are you a dummy!"
What happened next left Yu Qiuping speechless in shock.
I saw Yu Qiuping in the picture stopped in confusion, turning his head to look in the direction of the sound - but his eyes did not focus on the position of the shouting Yu Qiuping, but seemed to look into the endless
in the distance, and murmured to himself at the same time: "Huh? What?"
"He can hear..." Yu Qiuping, who was shouting, was suddenly stunned. At the same time, the intuition of his hands and feet was gradually recovering, and he could vaguely move his fingers. Suddenly, he felt that the picture quality in front of him suddenly became a little low frame rate.
, just like a video with high-definition mode turned off.
The back of my head felt hot, as if something was roasting there.
What is going on... Yu Qiuping was completely confused and at a loss what to do for a moment.
At this moment, he suddenly heard a vague call——
"If you want to save His Highness the Governor, go to Narumi City quickly!"
"Go to Narumi Castle quickly!"
"Narumi Castle!"
The voice echoed over and over again, until finally it could no longer be heard clearly. Yu Qiuping didn't need to listen a second time to know that the owner of the voice was none other than himself.
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The picture in front of him suddenly became distorted, as if a curtain had been removed from the stage. Yu Qiuping opened his eyes suddenly, and everything just now disappeared, replaced by a swaying picture - a ceiling and the dim candlelight around him -
This seems to be the layout of the Wu family's bedroom.
"Is this a dream..." Yu Qiuping was a little unbelievable, but the real feeling just now didn't feel like a dream.
"Are you finally awake..." At this moment, Yu Qiuping heard a woman's voice coming from his ears. He carefully identified it and heard that it was Mitsuhide Akechi.
"Guangxiu?" Yu Qiuping tentatively opened his mouth to call, but found that his voice was completely mute and he could hardly make any sound. He tried to move his body, but found that his whole body was so sore that it was unbelievable. The only thing he could move freely was
Eyelids are closed.
"Red leaves." Mitsuhide Akechi, dressed in women's clothing, walked to the bedside with a cup of medicine. Then he squatted down and brought the cup to Yu Qiuping's mouth. At the same time, he stretched out his hand to lift Yu Qiuping up a little, "Drink the medicine."
"How long have I been unconscious?" Yu Qiuping asked in a low voice after finally drinking the medicine. He glanced at Akechi Mitsuhide's dress - it was already a spring outfit.
"It's been three months. It's February 18th, the fifth year of Tensho (1577)." Akechi Mitsuhide's expression darkened, and he replied in a low voice, "The dagger used by Shinyuki Hosokawa to assassinate you was highly poisonous... That poison..."
"What's that poison?" Yu Qiuping asked nervously when he noticed that Akechi Mitsuhide was suddenly silent.
"There is no cure for the poison... You fell into a coma immediately after being poisoned, and kept vomiting black blood. We searched all the famous doctors in Kinki, but there was no way. They all said that you would not live for ten days. Only an old man gave you a folk remedy.
"It is said that there is a kind of mushroom on the old tree in Tanba Mountain. If you pick it and stew it for half an hour, the medicine you get can delay the poison. However, it cannot remove the poison, and it can only last for a hundred days at most." Akechi.
As Mitsuhide spoke, his voice became weaker and weaker, and tears began to well up in his eyes, "Everyone has no choice but to send you to Longshan City, which I previously conquered in the southeast of Tanba Kingdom, and make medicine for you with mushrooms nearby. This is temporary.
Save your life."
"A hundred days...it's been ninety days now." Yu Qiuping wanted to smile bitterly, but found that he couldn't grin. He looked at Akechi Mitsuhide, her eyes were swollen from crying, and she looked haggard.
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"Why are you taking care of me? Where are my guards and maids?" Yu Qiuping asked in confusion.
"It's a long story..." Mitsuhide Akechi hesitated and decided to tell Yu Qiuping from the beginning what happened during the three months he was in coma. "The matter of your assassination has been found out. Miyoshi's family died after Yoshihide Miyoshi died.
Later, a funeral was held for him, and it was announced that Hosokawa Shinyuki died in pursuit of the murderer of Miyoshi Yoshihide, and treated his people favorably. Hosokawa Shinyuki was never instigated from beginning to end, and Miyoshi Yoshihide
I deliberately excluded him as a double agent, risking my own life to make Hosokawa Shinyuki gain your trust, thus gaining the opportunity to assassinate you with a poisonous dagger."
"What..." Yu Qiuping was shocked when he heard this. Did Miyoshi Yixian actually use his life as a bargaining chip in order to kill him?
"Your Lord Amano was extremely calm after finding out the truth, and was prepared to commit seppuku to express your guilt after your death." Mitsuhide Akechi sighed, "Your Majesty, your son, and your beloved are also grieving, but right now
The situation did not give everyone time to feel sad."
"Although we managed to recapture Hanakuma Castle's retreat with the help of Master Tokugawa's counterattack, we still suffered heavy casualties under the attack of Tokawa Ichin and the coalition forces. Araki Murashige and Matsunaga Hide also took the opportunity to lead their troops to seize the road and rush back.
Territory, defeated Niwa Nagahide in Settsu. Honganji Temple also sent troops to echo Araki Murashige of Arioka Castle, and jointly cut off the return route of the Oda family army. The army spent a lot of effort to get around from the northern mountainous area of ​​Settsu.
After returning to Kyoto, they had left behind countless baggage and their vitality was severely damaged. The Takeda family and the Uesugi family immediately became active and repeatedly invaded the border. Since the army was unable to regain its combat effectiveness for the time being, it was temporarily unable to deal with the rebellion of Settsu and Yamato. Hashiba
His Highness was caught in the middle by Araki Murashige and the Mori-Miyoshi coalition forces, and the situation was already very dangerous. Fortunately, they had already withdrawn their troops for spring plowing, and His Highness Hashiba managed to hold on to Koshimizu Castle. But once the spring plowing was over, His Highness Hashiba would face a flanking attack from two sides.
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"Under such circumstances, my lord did not dare to disclose the news that you were seriously injured and about to die, for fear of unrest in the hearts of the people, so I had to announce that you, Momiji, would take Tokiwa Bei and Naruhei Bei to transfer to Tamba to support me in the Tamba strategy. From the north of Settsu Province
Danba opened a road to support His Highness Hashiba, allowing you to recuperate in Danba. And your special company escorted the young master and the important ministers back to Maple Leaf Mountain Castle. However, in order to cover up others' eyes, Lord Amano found you a
Kagemusha. In order to make him look more real, I sent your guards and maids to stay with him, and let you quietly recuperate in my house. I was afraid that others would take care of you, so I came here in person.
"Akechi Mitsuhide said while washing a towel in the basin nearby. After wringing out the water, he began to gently wipe Yu Qiuping's cheeks.
"How is the family..." Yu Qiuping has spent so many years of licking blood with a knife, and has some awareness of his own ending. He will not be so scared that he couldn't move like that young boy in Tong Zhajian.
"Reimasa..." Akechi Mitsuhide suddenly sobbed after talking about Imagawa Kaede, and then continued in a low voice, "A charlatan gave you a folk remedy, saying it can cure your kind of poison. I want to get one that is also affected by this.
The bones of a person who died from poison were refined into an antidote. No one believed it, but Ling Zheng wanted to kill her first and then kill herself secretly with the poison-quenched dagger, and use her bones to make medicine for you. But then the doctor said that the bones
It must be left for more than three years before the poison can be removed, otherwise it will be useless. Ling Zheng was very sad when he heard it, but there was no other way. We asked around for people who died of poisoning and exhumed the bones, but we found that the poison in them was different from that of His Highness.
…I don’t know where to find the bones.”
"Feng'er..." Yu Qiuping burst into tears when he heard this. He suddenly felt that he didn't want to leave like this, "That silly girl..."
"There is no cure... Please arrange your funeral arrangements. There is not much time to be sad. I don't know how long you can stay awake." Although Akechi Mitsuhide was also crying, he was more calm than the average woman. She took it from the side.
With paper and pen, he sat beside Yu Qiuping's bed and asked in a low voice: "Who should I pass the throne to?"
"Of course he is the eldest son." Yu Qiuping replied without hesitation, "The current situation is critical, and the only way to stabilize the Yu Qiu family is to make a transition."
"Ling Zheng has also urgently transferred your son back to Maple Leaf Mountain Castle from Joban Preparation Army, which coincides with yours. However, Lord Amano secretly advocates that the second son should succeed to the throne. Only Ling Zheng and Gohei know about this.
You told me to inform you conveniently, and no one else knows." Akechi Mitsuhide added in a low voice from the side.
"Why?" Although Yu Qiuping had long thought that Amano Keitoku might want Yu Qiuyu to succeed him, he still asked, "Did Kwon Bingwei say the reason?"
"Master Amano said that the young master is aloof and aloof, and a woman's kindness cannot be the master of others." Akechi Mitsuhide repeated Amano Keide's words to Yu Qiupei, "But he also said that everything is up to you. As long as you decide, he will
Absolutely nothing."
Chapter completed!