"Young Master, it seems that those two people saw it." After Niwa Manchiyo noticed Takeda Harunobu's movements, he quickly pulled down the children lying on the straw hut, "We don't have ninjas around, the enemy
It’s just for two adults!”
"What are you afraid of? They don't know the depth, so how can they dare to take action rashly?" Master Oda Yoshi was not in a hurry, and actually had the leisure to cross his legs.
"Brother Master Ji is really a god, tsk tsk, the ability of this prophet is almost as good as mine." Ikeda Katsuzaburo smacked his lips, rarely praising others, "If you have anything to do, just drag us to this small village to play.
, we really bumped into an enemy ninja. Let’s report this to the ‘adults’ in Furuno Castle and see who dares to look down on us?”
"These two people are also strange. Why do they have to follow that monkey-like vendor?" Sawaki Tohachiro was confused. "No one in the whole village would take a serious look at that little monkey, but the two of them did.
Followed all the way."
"So it must be the enemy's ninjas who are planning something else!" Maeda Inuchiyo was already gearing up, carrying the small tree roots he picked up just now on the roadside and preparing to rush, "Hurry up and arrest people, or else they will run away.
Got it!"
"Don't alert others, just keep following. I have already sent people back to call for reinforcements. Old Man Tie and Sado must not have slept at this point. The reinforcements will arrive in less than three hours." Master Oda Yoshi's eyes were already sharp and deadly.
Staring at the two people in the distance, "The mantis stalks the cicada, the oriole is behind, where are you going?"
"Goro, it's not good, someone is following us." Takeda Harunobu quietly made a gesture to signal Imagawa Yoshimoto not to look back, while lowering his voice.
"Ah?" Imagawa Yoshimoto was really surprised, "In this remote place, will there be an ambush by ninjas from the Oda family?"
"We still don't know whose ninja belongs to them, but they have already targeted us." Takeda Harunobu calmed down quickly and calmly gave instructions, "They didn't act immediately. They must be short of manpower. It is estimated that there are only one or two people watching.
, are not confident to capture us, but are waiting for the support of the large army. Before that, we will definitely not alert the snake, so we can act separately. Wulang, you go take away the monkey, go directly to the northwest, and lure away the people watching.
.I took the opportunity to sneak back to the hotel and inform the others, and take everyone out of the village to meet you. There is a stable next to the hotel, and we bought all the horses there at a high price. If they were not sold, we would rob them, and we all rode away."
"Okay." Imagawa Yoshimoto thought there was nothing wrong with the plan when he heard it, so he agreed. However, after thinking about it carefully, he felt a little strange, "Why do you think the ninjas who are monitoring us will be lured away by me? Aren't we leaving separately?
?They should also follow separately, right?"
"Don't ask so many questions. We can't afford to waste a moment now. Take action immediately. The Oda family is the enemy of your Imagawa family. I don't care about the Takeda family. It will be difficult if your people are captured." Takeda Harunobu was a little worried.
Dissatisfied, he pushed Imagawa Yoshimoto and said, "Hurry."
"Okay." Imagawa Yoshimoto didn't hesitate much, and went straight to Kinoshita Tokichiro who was kneeling on the grave and crying, while Takeda Harunobu hid under the cover of the night under the side of the field, ready to run away at any time.
After seeing a strange figure walking towards him in the middle of the night, Kinoshita Tokichiro was startled, but he quickly recognized it by the moonlight as Imagawa Yoshimoto. After discovering that the person was the noble prince who had given him alms in the evening, Kinoshita Tokichiro
Not only did he not run away in fear, his eyes seemed to sparkle with excitement. Before Imagawa Yoshimoto stopped, he took a sudden step forward, knelt down in front of Imagawa Yoshimoto, grabbed the ground with his head and said:
"My lord, I would like to ask if you would like to accept any servants? I am bold and willing to follow you! I am smart and can handle accounts. I also know a few words and can do odd jobs! Don't look at me because I am thin.
You are very strong, and you can do all the dirty and tiring work! As long as you are willing to take in the villain, let the villain follow you, make cows and horses for you, and even carry your shoes!"
"Aren't you afraid that I am a trafficker or a robber?" Imagawa Yoshimoto reminded out of good intentions.
"I'm not afraid. As long as I can get ahead, I'm not afraid of anything!" Kinoshita Tokichiro responded without hesitation.
Kinoshita Tokichiro's enthusiasm caught Imagawa Yoshimoto off guard, and the rhetoric he had just prepared to dispel Kinoshita Tokichiro's wariness and invite Kinoshita Tokichiro to come with him was completely wasted - Imagawa Yoshimoto originally thought that he was a stranger
If a stranger wants to take away a child for no reason, it will take a lot of talking.
Unexpectedly, this child's ambition to get ahead has become so intense that he doesn't take any danger seriously.
"Yes. If you have the heart, I can also introduce you to another adult, but that will be discussed later." Imagawa Yoshimoto waved to Kinoshita Tokichiro, indicating that he could stand up, "I am busy now
We are on our way and will leave the village tonight and go to Meinong. If you want to follow me, hurry up and say goodbye to your family. I don’t have much time."
"There is nothing to say goodbye to. I will go directly with the adults." Kinoshita Tokichiro replied decisively without any regrets, without even shedding a tear.
"Don't be like this. Cherish every inch of time you spend with your family. Don't wait until it's lost forever and then regret it. Don't take it for granted just because you've been used to the company of your family since you were a child." Imagawa Yoshimoto sighed and said sincerely.
A word of advice.
"I don't want to go back to such a bullshit family. They don't even miss me, so why should I care about them?" Kinoshita Tokichiro waved his hands decisively, his face gnashing his teeth didn't look like a child at all.
"Your Majesty seems to care about you, and don't you have a younger brother?" Imagawa Yoshimoto couldn't bear to see the child commenting on his family affection like this, so he excused himself.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Anyway, if I become prosperous in the future, they will lick their faces and come looking for relatives one by one. If I decline in the future, they will not look at me if I starve to death on the roadside.
Look, why should I say goodbye when I go back?" But Kinoshita Tokichiro was indifferent and cursed fiercely.
"Then let's go." That's it, Imagawa Yoshimoto can't say anything more, "I hope you can go home one day in the future."
"I will be back." Kinoshita Tokichiro clenched his fist tightly, but his young eyes were full of blood red:
"One day, I will make everyone in Owari look at me favorably, and I will make all these people who look down on me look at me favorably."
As soon as Imagawa Yoshimoto led Kinoshita Tokichiro away, the black shadow in the distance couldn't sit still and hurriedly followed him.
"A few... children? Or some short ninjas?" Imagawa Yoshimoto turned around to look at us under the moonlight, but he couldn't see clearly enough. "Is there a mistake? It's not that the ninjas are following us, it's just a coincidence.
How many children did we meet? Could it be that the children who bullied Kinoshita Tokichiro just now wanted to chase him and steal his money? Probably not. If it were them, Torachiyo and I should have met them on the way here just now."
"That's the ninja... But how come there are so many ninjas who happen to be ambushing here? It's strange." Imagawa Yoshimoto frowned, unconsciously speeding up his pace, while carefully turning back to continue to observe the situation.
Everything was just as Takeda Harunobu expected, all the pursuers came directly after Imagawa Yoshimoto. On the other hand, Takeda Harunobu quietly escaped without attracting the attention of any of the pursuers.
"Why?" Suspicions arose in Yoshimoto Imakawa's heart again. There is no doubt that those trackers should clearly see that Yoshimoto Imagawa and Harunobu Takeda are two adults. Now that Yoshimoto Imagawa has left with a child, it must be
There was another adult going in another direction, why did they pursue him regardless of who he was?
Could it be...
Imagawa Yoshimoto's eyes became complicated, but he felt that he was being unreasonable, so he threw this idea away.
No matter what, Takeda Harunobu has escaped safely now, and it won't take long for him to escape with Ginkgo, Sensei and the others to join him.
Imagawa Yoshimoto then led Kinoshita Tokichiro through the country roads at night, and the pursuer behind him was still inseparable. Imagawa Yoshimoto then began to worry - he was not familiar with Owari's paths at all, and sooner or later he would get lost if he continued like this -
—Fortunately, there is still the moon to indicate the direction. The problem is how to inform Imagawa Yoshimoto of the direction when Takeda Harunobu and others take people away later? You don’t have to go with a torch, right? That doesn’t mean telling the pursuers where they are.
?
Just when Imagawa Yoshimoto was thinking about this, he suddenly saw a horse riding a torch in the distance going straight to the west. Imagawa Yoshimoto was stunned for a moment, and immediately judged that this was Kentaro Tian Shen. Although the distance was very far, in
You couldn't see his figure at all in the night, but the torch in the knight's hand was trembling up and down - Kentaro Tazen had only one arm, so he must have been holding the rein while lighting the torch.
No way, you really came to me directly with a torch?
Imagawa Yoshimoto looked behind him with some worry. There were also sporadic torches commotion where the village used to be. It was probably that the pursuers were coming.
With the strategy of Takeda Harunobu and his teacher, they definitely couldn’t do such a childish move, right?
So after a moment of hesitation, Imagawa Yoshimoto decisively led Kinoshita Tokichiro and walked quickly in the opposite direction of the torch's movement.
"No, that torch is a bait!" Master Oda Yoshi who was following him immediately realized that something was wrong, but in the dark night, he had no tools at hand to immediately notify the Oda family ninjas who were chasing him from a distance, so he could only watch helplessly.