After the meeting, Yu Qiuping wanted to go back to his mansion directly, but Ikeda Hengxing warmly invited him again.
"Last time I went hunting in Kyoto, Tokichiro didn't come. Let's go together this time." As soon as Ikeda Tsuneaki left the gate of Honnōji Temple, he pulled Ame Hideira, Sawaki Yoshiyuki and Hashiba Hideyoshi over, "Let's make up for the regret.
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"Why make up for the regret? Last time when Tokichiro didn't come, you were so gloating about his misfortune." Sawaki Yoshiyuki pushed away Ikeda Tsuneaki's hand and exposed it without leaving any face to him.
"Huh?" Hashiba Hideyoshi was a little dissatisfied when he heard this, and glared at Ikeda Hengxing, "Hengxing, what do you mean?"
"Why, can't we just watch your jokes?" Tsuneki Ikeda, who was jokingly preparing to apologize, saw Hideyoshi's attitude, and immediately changed his tone and retorted hard.
"Okay, okay, you two, stop arguing, what are you doing." Yu Qiuping hurriedly smiled and inserted himself between the two of them. He originally didn't want to go hunting, so he had to agree in order to smooth things over, "Let's go, let's go hunting together."
!It’s not like you don’t understand Hengxing, Fujikiro, he doesn’t take it seriously, it’s okay.”
"Forget it, for the sake of Hongye, I won't argue with you." Hideyoshi Hideyoshi snorted angrily, and Hengxing Ikeda ignored him. Yu Qiuping looked at him complainingly and revealed this matter.
Yoshiyuki Sawaki, but the latter spread his hands with an expression of "You can't blame me for this."
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In any case, that afternoon, the group of people met outside the forest in the northeast of Kyoto. With the experience of hunting last time, the group of people went around to several places with more prey, and probably gained a lot. Sunset
Going west, everyone was not in a hurry to go back, but found a place to have a picnic.
"Why, you want me to bake again?" Yu Qiuping saw Ikeda Hengxing and Sawaki Yoshiyuki happily cooking on the mat. He looked at Yu Qiuping with a smile and suddenly realized what they were thinking.
"Aren't you asking our chef to show us his skills?" Ikeda Hengxing, for the first time in a thousand years, actually praised others instead of himself. It seemed that he really wanted to eat barbecue.
"Okay, okay, you guys really are." Yu Qiuping shook his head and smiled, and at the same time waved to Mori Ranmaru and the others, "A few people come over to set up a frame to make a fire, bring the bamboo sticks you brought, and then come back
A few people went to the river to cut up the prey and wash it all."
Just as Yu Qiuping was greeting his men, a dog barking suddenly came from the river not far away. Yu Qiuping didn't pay much attention at first, but the barking turned out to be getting closer. He turned his head and took a closer look, and found that something was wrong.
There was a dog in the distance looking in his direction - it looked like a Portuguese water dog.
"The one from last time?" Mori Ranmaru also recognized the dog he met in the northeast of Kyoto a long time ago, "What a coincidence, Your Highness! I met it again."
"Yes, I thanked the missionary for giving me a lot of tea last time." Yu Qiuping said as he nuzzled at Ikeda Hengxing and the others, "The tea you drank last time was given by the owner of that dog.
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"Oh, that's the European dog you said you didn't shoot?" Ikeda Hengxing remembered what happened a year ago, then clapped his hands at the dog and said, "What's its name there? Is it greedy?
?Want to share some meat."
"Give him some after roasting. Anyway, there will be a lot of hunting." Yu Qiuping glanced at a small pile of prey, and then stood up to clean it up. However, the puppy suddenly rushed towards Yu Qiuping, frightened.
Yu Qiuping was shocked - there was no rabies vaccine in this era, so if you were bitten by a dog, you had to leave it to fate.
Asahina Taihei and Morinaga, who were standing next to Amakihei, both drew their swords and pointed at the charging dog. The sharp swords frightened the Portuguese water dog from taking another step forward. However, it stayed in place.
He still kept barking. After barking a few times, he turned back and took a few small steps, then turned his head and barked a few more times towards Yu Qiuping.
"Does he mean for us to follow him?" Asahina Taihei put the knife back into its sheath with some curiosity, and turned his gaze to Yu Qiuping, "Shall we follow him and have a look?"
"Um..." Yu Qiuping hesitated when he heard this, and looked at the tools at hand, "Don't we still need to barbecue?"
"It's okay, let's go and have a look first. This dog is so interesting." Yoshiyuki Sawaki shouted loudly from the side, "You leave your guards behind to have a barbecue, and the rest of us can follow and take a look."
"Let's go." Hearing this, Ikeda Hengxing became more energetic and stood up like a carp. Sawaki Yoshiyuki stretched out his hand towards him, and Ikeda Hengxing took advantage of the situation and pulled Saswaki Yoshiyuki up.
"I'm not going." After noticing that everyone was turning their attention to him, Hashiba Hideyoshi crossed his arms and shook his head, "How unbecoming is it for a group of samurai to follow a wild wild dog?"
"Then you just stay here to look after the house." Ikeda Hengxing snorted, then pushed Yu Qiupei and Sawaki Yoshiyuki forward quickly and said, "Let's go, let's go. If Tokichiro doesn't go, let's go!"
After discovering someone walking towards him, the Portuguese water dog immediately ran forward for a short distance. However, Yu Qiuping and the others were walking slowly and failed to keep up with the water dog. After seeing the water dog, the water dog stopped again and turned back towards Yu.
Qiuping called a few times.
"This little guy thinks we are slow." Yu Qiuping saw what the water dog meant, laughed and started running, "Follow me, keep up, don't let a puppy look down on you!
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"Aren't you tired after hunting for a long time?" Yoshiyuki Sawaki reluctantly followed Yu Qiuping and gasped, "You still have the energy to run around?"
"How many bows did he fire in total, three or four? Can he be tired?" Ikeda Tsuneaki on the side said sarcastically from behind, "Of course he still has strength."
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The three of them and the few guards they brought with them chased the puppy across the river and followed a winding path to the wooden house. Yu Qiuping recognized the small wooden house as the Portuguese missionary Floy
The hut where Si lived.
"What? You invited us here so enthusiastically, and you want to give us some more tea?" Yu Qiuping smiled and shouted to the water dog in front of him in a human language that it could not understand, and the latter ran into the yard without stopping.
After entering the yard, Yu Qiuping discovered that the door of the cabin was actually ajar, and there was some strange smell inside.
"Wait a minute." Ikeda Hengxing behind him grabbed Yu Qiuping, and at the same time motioned the guards to collectively draw their swords out of their sheaths, and said in a low voice, "The smell of corpses, be careful."
"Does it smell like corpse?" Yu Qiuping smelled it, and that was indeed the smell coming from the room. At this time, the water dog had already rushed into the room anxiously, barking loudly.
"Go in and take a look." Ikeda Hengxing gestured to his guard. The man immediately strode forward and then kicked down the half-open door. A dozen guards immediately filed in.
The entire house was occupied, but there was no sound of fighting.
Tsuneaki Ikeda, Yoshiyuki Sawaki and Amehei then walked into the room. They could see a body that had been dead for several days lying next to the wall of the room. The blood on the floor had dried up. The water dog was lying down at the moment.
Beside the master, he kept whining and looking at Yu Qiuping and others, hoping that they could save his already hopeless master.
"Who is this person? Is he the missionary who wrote history you mentioned?" Ikeda Hengxing pointed at the Europa man who fell on the ground and looked at Yu Qiuping.
"Yes, he is Mr. Floy." Yu Qiuping swallowed, took two steps forward, confirmed Floy's identity, and then sighed and said, "Search the room, Floy."
Mr. Iss should be writing a history of Japan, so I can help him collect it, sort it out and publish it, which can be regarded as repaying him for the tea."
After receiving the order, the guards immediately started searching in the messy room, but after a while they found nothing, and even Yu Qiuping was confused.
"I clearly saw what he was writing before..." Yu Qiuping frowned in confusion and continued to search without giving up.
"It's strange. In the wilderness, these southern barbarians don't seem to have much money." Ikeda Hengxing looked around the shabby house and muttered, "How could he be targeted by bandits? What are you trying to do with him?"
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And Yoshiyuki Sawaki walked to Frois and knelt down, picked up the gold-plated cross hanging around his neck with his hand, shook it towards Ikeda Hengxing and said, "This is the only rich thing, right? I guess
How much money can it be sold for? In the end, the robber killed someone but didn't take this thing away?"
"Is it a vendetta, not a robbery of wealth?" Ikeda Hengxing raised a possibility himself, but then he shook his head and said, "I heard from Hongye that this missionary is writing his history of Japan in the deep mountains and forests. What can he do?
Enemy? If he commits a crime, he must be killed?"
"It's not a vendetta, it can only be a robbery of wealth, and it can't be a robbery." Yoshiyuki Sawaki stood up and patted the dust on his pants, "But he didn't take anything away from the robbery?"
"Taken away." Yu Qiuping suddenly spoke and muttered to himself.
"What was robbed?" Ryoyuki Sawaki asked puzzledly.
"His History of Japan."
A history of Japan in which my name does not appear.
Yu Qiuping leaned against the wall, holding his forehead deeply, feeling that the chaos in front of him was a bit overwhelming.
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Just when Yu Qiuping was trying to clarify the connection between his thoughts and this series of cases, he suddenly heard the sound of rapid horse hooves. In such a strange environment, everyone in the room instinctively felt nervous. However, Ikeda Tsune
The people who stayed outside the house and stood sentry did not seem to be panicked. Instead, they calmly walked to the door and said, "The three Your Highnesses are the bodyguards of His Highness Yu Chai."
After Yu Qiupei and others walked out, they immediately saw Kato Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori, Kato Yoshiaki and other Hideyoshi Hashiba's bodyguards rushing over on horseback. After seeing Yu Qiupei and others, they immediately rushed over anxiously.
Not even bothering to dismount and salute, he hurriedly shouted to the three of them:
"Your Highnesses! Kyoto has ordered that everyone lead their guards back to Nijo Castle immediately! My Highnesses have returned quickly, please come down and inform the three of them!"
Chapter completed!