After Okabe Gennobu committed suicide, the Red Leaves Army released Okabe Masatsuna and the captured Okabe family retainers as promised, and allowed the troops of Kamahara Castle to board sea ships to retreat. The Takeda family's reinforcements then took over Kamahara Castle and reopened Kaibi.
Transportation with Suruga.
At this time, the Amaki-Tokugawa coalition forces also advanced into Sunfu and took control of the situation in Nishi-Suruga. Many people from Nishi-Suruga surrendered as hostages, including a large number of people who joined after Imagawa Kaede wrote a letter and persuaded them to do so.
Former Imagawa family ministers, the Takeda Army and the Hojo Army withdrew from Nishi Suruga in an embarrassing situation, and the two sides ceased fighting.
However, this series of complicated affairs were basically the responsibility of Yunan Fukuzawa, the chief of staff of the trip. After Yu Qiupei met Okabe Motobu, he never left Sunfu Castle and stayed in the city without any care.
At this moment, Yu Qiuping was sitting on a low courtyard wall, looking at the direction where the Sunfu Castle castle tower once stood. In front of his eyes, he seemed to be able to picture the appearance of the castle tower back then, as well as the grass and grass in Sunpu Castle.
The voice and smile of Yoshimoto Imakawa emerged on the tree. Even though Yu Qiuping knew Yoshimoto Imakawa for only three years, which seemed so short in his decades of life - but he could never forget that memory. Yes.
For him, Imagawa Yoshimoto was the beam of light when he was swinging between the confusion and hesitation of two worlds.
Maybe His Highness the Governor is really not that strong... In later generations, he did not leave many legends like Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin, and Hojo Ujiyasu, nor did he aspire to the world like Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu.
.As a loser, he cannot even become a hero in a tragedy like Yoshitsune Minamoto, Masashige Kusunoki, and Yukimura Sanada. Instead, he has become a person who is belittled and laughed at in various game, film and television works.
But at least in the eyes of Yu Qiuping, in the eyes of Yu Qiuping 20 years ago, that figure was an invincible existence. It was he who made this ordinary person from another world realize the meaning and value of his existence for the first time, and made him
Start cheering up and live well in this world. Without Imagawa Yoshimoto, there would be nothing like what Yu Qiuping is today.
"However, I...killed you..."
Yu Qiuping raised his head and looked at the blue sky, but there were tears in his eyes. Now that he recalls his omissions during the Battle of Shangluo, he still feels as annoyed as if a thousand arrows pierced his heart. In the blazing flames of the Narumi Castle Castle Tower
, what were you thinking about before you died? Was it despair? Or was it resentment of me? In other words, you remained calm as always until the last moment, looking for an opportunity to escape.
It's all my mistake...
"Not only that...I can't even find out the cause of your death."
Yu Qiuping let out a long sigh, and tears finally overflowed from his eyes.
"sorry…"
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"flat."
Kaede Imagawa's voice suddenly came from my ears.
"Huh?" Yu Qiuping came back to his senses, and in front of him was Imagawa Kaede's flowery smile.
"Why are you crying?" Imagawa Feng took a step forward and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of Yu Qiuping's eyes with his hand. Then he slowly hugged Yu Qiuping and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
"Well...it's okay..." Yu Qiuping replied casually, but as soon as he finished speaking, he immediately realized that he had said a taboo word again - "it's okay".
"You really are." Imagawa Kaede stepped back half a step, put his hands on his hips with some dissatisfaction, and rolled his eyes at Yu Qiuping, "Twenty years ago, you made me angry on this street. After 20 years, you have not made any progress at all.
No."
"Ah? This street?" Yu Qiuping was stunned when he heard the words. He stood up from the courtyard wall and looked around, and then he got the impression, "There used to be a theater for watching Noh drama here, right?"
"Don't change the subject!" Imagawa Feng pinched Yu Qiuping's waist, "Don't say 'nothing', don't say 'nothing', do you hear me? What's going on?"
"I heard it, I heard it." Yu Qiuping burst into laughter, but when he opened his mouth to mention that heavy topic to Imagawa Kaede, his expression was still a little gloomy, "You know it, right? I met Okabe Motonobu a few days ago.
, he committed suicide.”
"Did you ask anything?" Imagawa Feng helped Yu Qiuping sit down on the wall of the courtyard.
"No, nothing... The words he said before his death and his demeanor did not look like a traitor at all. From what I know about him, he is definitely not a man who is good at dancing, eloquent words, and is not good at lying or performing."
Yu Qiuping sighed, held his forehead deeply and said, "For so many years, I thought it was Okabe Motobu who killed His Highness the Governor. But... now it seems that he was not the traitor in the Imagawa family back then. So what will happen?
Who is it?"
"Sure enough...it's because of this incident." Imagawa Feng glanced at the depressed Yu Qiuping and gently hugged his shoulders.
"By the way, didn't you ask Feng'er to investigate the possible clues Suruga left before?" Yu Qiuping suddenly remembered this matter, straightened up suddenly, and regained his energy instantly, "How was the investigation?"
"It's nothing useful, but I found a few family members of the guards who disappeared in Suruga after Jiayan passed away." Imagawa Kaede pursed his lips and whispered, "Those guards did not explain to their families before they left.
What happened? Many of them didn’t know that their family members were runaways, but thought they died in the battle with Jia Yan... After all, these runaways were not held accountable back then, and the family members knew nothing."
"This..." After hearing this, Yu Qiuping lowered his head again and fell into deep thought, frowning and saying to himself, "This seems to be able to dig out useful information... He didn't say a word to his family before running away, and he didn't return for 20 years.
What is it for...well...what is it for..."
Just when Yu Qiuping was frowning, Imakawa Kaede beside him jumped lightly, stood in front of Yu Qiuping, and stretched out his hand to him.
Yu Qiuping raised his head and saw Imagawa Feng's warm smile again.
"Okay, give me your hand."
"What's wrong?" Yu Qiuping put his hand on Imagawa Feng's hand in confusion. The latter immediately pulled Yu Qiuping and ran. Yu Qiuping staggered and almost fell.
"Feng'er, what are you doing!" Yu Qiuping was startled by Imagawa Feng's actions and asked in confusion.
"Take you somewhere." Imagawa Feng turned around and winked at Yu Qiuping, the dimples at the corners of his mouth were sweet.
"Where to go?"
"You'll know when you go there."
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Yu Qiuping trotted along with Imagawa Kaede. She was wearing a white dress today, and her steps were as light as ever. Looking at her back and her long hair swaying in the breeze, Yu Qiuping seemed to have returned to that place 20 years ago in an instant.
A boy chasing a girl.
The two of them walked all the way out of the north gate, passed the castle town, and bypassed a small forest. Further ahead, they reached the northern mountain of Sunfu Castle. In the northern mountain, there was a maple forest.
Yu Qiuping followed Imakawa Kaede on the road up the mountain quickly. This was an extremely familiar yet unfamiliar road. The once-paved path was now overgrown with weeds, and it seemed that no one had been there for a long time. Many trees on both sides of the road were missing.
It must have been cut down. This road and this mountain are like an old friend whom I haven't seen for a long time. His appearance has changed and his beard is unshaven.
"Ping-kun, it's almost time to arrive." Imakawa Kaede suddenly changed to the somewhat green but ambiguous title of the year, which made Yu Qiuping blush instantly. He looked at Imagawa Kaede, and the girl was pointing to the big piece at the end of the mountain road.
Stone - jump on the big stone and you can see a whole maple forest.
"It's a pity that it doesn't come in autumn." Yu Qiuping sighed, feeling disappointed, "This mountain has changed a lot."
However, Imagawa Feng couldn't listen to Yu Qiuping's depressing words. He looked at Yu Qiuping with an angry look and pulled him onto the big rock without any explanation.
"Pingjun, look."
Imagawa Kaede called out in a voice of surprise, her eyes seemed to be glowing with light. Yu Qiuping was fascinated by the beauty in front of him, and after being stunned for a long time, he turned to look at the maple forest.
At the turn of spring and summer, the vegetation is lush and the woods are so gloomy that you can't see the bright red beauty of the maple trees at all.
However, among this emerald green, there are actually dots of red, just like the small red flowers blooming quietly in the wilderness.
Yu Qiuping blinked in disbelief, then jumped off the stone and ran all the way to the maple forest, looking for those red colors in the grass. He seemed to see the girl playing on the branches of the tree, as if he was being ridiculed for not being able to ride a horse.
The boy seemed to see the girl listening to the boy's rambling story, as if he saw the boy carrying the smiling girl on his back, as if he saw countless figures running towards him in his memories. Soon, he found him under a tree
There was a large piece of red. He leaned over and picked it up. It was a faded paper red leaf with corners missing. And beside his feet were countless such paper red leaves.
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I saw that the mountains were red and the forests were dyed. The maple leaves that had fallen all returned to the maple trees overnight. This scene was very much like the first time I saw it.
What's going on? These red leaves? Where did they come from?
The girl was stunned for a long time and ran into the maple forest in confusion. Every tree was covered with red leaves again. She didn't stop until she ran to the maple tree where she and Yu Qiuping first met.
Taking a closer look, she saw countless pieces of folded paper red leaves hung on thin threads on the branches of the maple tree. She looked around again and saw that the mountain was covered with paper red leaves.
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20 years ago, after the maple leaves fell, the boy filled the maple trees all over the mountains with countless paper red leaves, and confessed his love to the girl under the red leaves. For 20 years, these paper red leaves have experienced the wind, frost and rain day after day.
Most of the snow has gone to nowhere. But there are still some stubborn paper red leaves that remain in this maple forest. Even if the color fades and even if they are broken into pieces.
Paper red leaves will never fade away.
Love will never fade away.
Yu Qiuping picked up the maple leaf, looked at it carefully in front of the sun, and the beautiful woman suddenly threw herself into his arms. The soft fragrance made him intoxicated, and he pinned the maple leaf in her hair and hugged her gently.
He held the beauty in his arms. He raised his head and looked at the top of the maple tree, but suddenly he was stunned - this tree was the maple tree they first saw 20 years ago.
No wonder there are so many paper red leaves left under this maple tree.
Memories of the first time they met suddenly came to mind.
To be continued...