(Author's note: Chapter 43 is currently under review, so you can't read it. I'm very sorry! So the author posted Chapter 44 in advance, which can basically continue the plot of Chapter 42. Please read it first! )
Imagawa Ujimoto, along with Hayasaka Nao, Kira Hosei and Taro Shen Kentaro, hurried across the Kamogawa River under the moonlight and arrived outside the Nijo Imperial Palace where the general was. Years of wars have caused the Nijo Imperial Palace, the center of the world in the past, to lose its former grandeur. But there is still a need for caution. Imagawa Ujimoto told the guards the purpose of his late-night visit, gave his name, handed over the personal letters from Taiyuan Xuezai and Shouguini, and requested notification - Chapter 1 When they heard the real name of Imagawa Jimoto, Kira Usei and Taro Shen Kentaro were both shocked, and they understood why Imagawa Jimoto wanted to conceal their name - the Miao character "Imagawa" is really too dazzling.
However, the guard said that General Ashikaga Yoshiharu was not in the Nijo Imperial Palace at the moment, but had gone out hunting, and would notify him after the general returned. Imagawajimoto had no choice but to turn back the way he came.
"No wonder His Highness has always been secretive and secretive about his life experience." Kentaro Tian Shen followed behind Imagawa Shigen and said carefully, "When the word 'Imagawa' comes out, it means that you are the direct descendant of a famous family in the world, and I want to take advantage of you. There are countless people who are looking for trouble for you, and it’s hard to guard against them.”
"Yes, God knows where you will be assassinated. My third brother is ruthless and has wanted to get rid of me for a long time. I don't dare to disclose my whereabouts. It's hard to prevent hidden arrows." Imagawa Shimoto himself was also a little worried. He said with emotion, "And my third brother is so clever and calculating that he seems to be able to predict the future. He can always guess what I am going to do next and set up an ambush in advance."
"Then did he expect that His Highness would come to Kyoto?" Kira Weicheng muttered casually.
Before he finished speaking, he heard bursts of strange noises coming from the tiles above the roofs on both sides. Everyone was stunned when they saw this, and they all stopped and listened to the source of the sound.
After a while, I saw two rows of ninjas standing on the eaves!
"Be careful!" Kentaro Tianchen shouted quickly.
Immediately afterwards, kunai and shuriken were thrown down like raindrops. With quick eyesight and quick hands, Kentaro Tian Shen stood in front of Imagawa's Yuan Shen and drew his sword to block again and again, blocking this round of attacks. But the ninjas also Without hesitation, he immediately rushed forward.
"Weicheng, can you say a few words?" Imagawa Shigen's face was full of black lines, and he took the lead and ran away without saying a word. The ninja who came to pick him up was in a neighborhood not far to the south. As long as he got there to meet him, there would be no problem. Problem. However, being unfamiliar with the terrain of Kyoto, he accidentally ran into a dead end. When he turned around and wanted to exit, he found that the ambush ninjas had already come over and blocked the entrance.
"Your Highness, will you lead the way?" Kira Hesei complained as he drew out his two swords and guarded Imagawa Jihei. Hayasaka Nao and Tian Shen Kentaro also took a guarding posture. Imagawa Jimoto sighed, and the same Draw the knife out of its sheath.
"There is really no way..."
Imagawa Ujimoto sighed and said: "But the ninjas on the other side only look like a few dozen people. Let's hold on to the alley for a while, and reinforcements will arrive."
Before he finished speaking, he saw many ninjas emerging from the eaves on both sides of the alley, looking down at the living targets below.
"Your Highness, could you please say a few words?" Kira Usei replied unceremoniously to Imagawa Shimoto, put the sword in his right hand back into its sheath, grabbed a door of a resident facing the street in the alley, and ignored it.
The people inside the room exclaimed, taking down the door panel and covering it above their heads, blocking a series of hidden weapons thrown at them.
"Your Highness, hide in that house!" Hayasaka Nao looked at the approaching ninjas and turned to Imagawa Gendao anxiously, "You can't guard against hidden weapons from the sky in the alley."
"Aren't we going to catch a turtle in a jar when we enter the house? If there is a fire, we will be finished." Imagawa Shimoto shook his head. When he was struggling, he suddenly saw another door of another resident being pushed open. A head popped up in the room and whispered.
He greeted: "Sir Shinagawa, come here."
Imagawa Shigen was stunned when he saw this, and immediately recognized that it was the businessman who had resold his horses a few days ago. In desperation, he had no choice but to grab a life-saving straw and hide in with three guards under the attack of hidden weapons.
into the house. The businessman closed the door behind him, then immediately opened a secret door behind the wall, and asked one of his servants to take Imagawa Shimoto and others to hide in. After the last person got in,
The merchant jumped into the secret door in a hurry, then closed the door tightly and covered it with a stone slab.
"There is a secret passage here that leads directly to the southern block. The key point of the secret passage is another warehouse I bought a few blocks away." The businessman lit a torch and explained to Imagawa Ujimoto, and then led a group of people inside.
The secret passage. At this time, the main entrance of the merchant's house seemed to have been breached. A group of ninjas were rummaging around in the house. It was only a matter of time before they found the secret door. Imagawa Shimoto had no choice but to follow the merchant and bend forward along the secret passage.
On the way.
"Why is the boss here?" Imagawa Ujimoto asked in a low voice.
"Didn't I say that after I was kicked out of the city, I was reduced to doing some small business in Kyoto?" The businessman replied honestly, "The house in that alley is my residence."
"Why did the small businessman save me? Why did he participate in such an assassination that would obviously get him into trouble?" Imagawa Ujimoto asked in a low voice again, "You may not even know how powerful the person you offended is? Just now, Mr.
It would be better if you just stay at home and don't make any noise."
"Haha, I know who I offended, and I also know who I saved. This is the reason why I saved you, and also the reason why I came out to stop Mr. Hu that day." The businessman turned his head and glanced.
Imagawa Ujimoto. In the light of the torch, Imagawa Ujimoto felt that this businessman looked more and more familiar, but he couldn't remember him no matter what.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Do you think he looks familiar? Your Highness Imagawa?" The businessman chuckled and reported the Miao character of Imagawa Shimoto, and several people following behind him saw it.
Surprised. If it weren't for the fact that it was impossible to perform in the narrow tunnel, they would probably have drawn their swords and come out on guard.
"Who are you?" Imagawa Ujimoto stopped and looked at the back in front of him very warily.
"Why are you so open to outsiders, Fourth Brother?" The man in front of him also stopped walking, turned around, and smiled at Imagawa Shimoto.
Imagawa Ujimoto finally realized why the warrior's face looked familiar but he couldn't remember who it was - because that face looked exactly like himself in the mirror.
"Are you...the fifth brother? The... Takeohmaru who was adopted into the Owari Na Furuno clan?" Imagawaji Yuan recognized Imagawaji Yutaka - according to the rules of Tenkaichi Miaoji, he should now be called Na Furunoji Yutaka.
"Sure enough, Fourth Brother still remembers me. When you were a child and I wasn't sent away, we played Cuju together all day long. Do you still remember?" That Furunoji Yutaka continued with a smile.
"Why are you here? I heard before that you inherited the position of your adoptive father and became the lord of Na Furuno Castle, and then..." Halfway through Imagawa Ujimoto's words, he suddenly remembered when Na Furuno Ujimoto met him in the Meino Inn a few days ago.
narrated experiences.
"Yes, the city was stolen. The one who took advantage of the relationship between father and son to plot my goodwill was Oda Nobuhide. Later, his legitimate son, Master Ji, was said to have been born in my Naguno Castle. How ironic.
"The Furuno family laughed twice and continued to move forward slowly, but the pace was obviously heavier:
"After I was kicked out, I relied on my connections to live in Kyoto and started a small business. I met you, fourth brother, in Meinong a few days ago. I recognized you, but fourth brother didn't.
Come out of me. That’s why I risked my life to save Fourth Brother. I didn’t expect Fourth Brother to doubt me just now.”
"I'm really sorry." Imagawa Ujimoto apologized to his brother very sincerely, "I didn't think about it this way at the time."
"I heard that the fourth brother is fighting with the third brother for the governor of the family? The Imagawa family split into Suruga and Toe, and the east part of the river was also captured by the treacherous Hojo family?"
"I'm really ashamed." Although Imagawa Shimoto is not interested in family interests at all, it is still shameful that the land of two countries conquered by his father and brother is now only half broken in his hands.
"So I said, Fourth Brother, you are too kind. Good people cannot survive in troubled times. Only by abandoning goodwill can we gain a foothold in troubled times. Otherwise, we will have to be like my brother, who will be taken advantage of by others and become dejected from the city.
Drive them out." Furunoji Yutaka laughed at himself twice and shook his head vigorously.
"No wonder you were obviously a businessman with whom I had no connection, but you wanted to persuade me to give up your goodwill. It turned out that you were thinking of brotherhood. In that case, why didn't you recognize me at that time?" Imagawa Ujimoto, who suddenly realized, asked.
One sentence.
"That day, there were two siblings beside you with accents that sounded like people from the mountains. How could you dare to recognize each other rashly? Wouldn't that expose the identity of the fourth brother?" Furuno Ujitoyo suddenly turned his head and glanced at Imagawa Ujimoto subtly.
, "Fourth brother and that lady seem to care about each other. Could it be that they are the ones they love?"
"Ha, you were right, but I don't have time to talk about it now." Imagawa Ujimoto looked at the secret passage that was gradually coming to an end, and asked Furuno Ujitoyo, "The ninjas of the third brother are chasing me, what about the fifth brother?"
Any way to escape?"
"I wonder if any of their ninjas have followed." The Furuno clan got out of the secret passage and came to a warehouse where grains were stored. Several servants guarding the warehouse were shocked when they saw the Furuno clan.
Came over in a hurry to help pull everyone out of the secret passage.
"Although the fourth brother secretly went to Luo, there should be many ninjas following him for protection, right?" Furunoji Yutaka looked at Imagawa Jimoto vigorously dusting himself off, and asked, "I'm afraid the fourth brother and his bodyguards will not change at this moment.
If you show up, you'll be in trouble if you're targeted by Third Brother's ninjas. Tell me the location of your ninjas, and give me a transfer token, and I'll secretly send servants to ask them to guard the warehouse."
"What a good idea." Imagawa Ujimoto took out the token hidden in his arms, "It should be in the south block of the alley where I was attacked just now. The leader is the leader of Soto Atomic Sutra."
"No problem, fourth brother, please be patient." Furunoji Yutaka lit the oil lamp, handed the token to a follower, and whispered a few words. The follower immediately and cautiously reached out the door, looking around to make sure there was no one there.
After that, he ran towards the southern block in a hurry.
"I wonder why Fourth Brother went to Luo this time?" After finishing his work, Furunoji Yutaka carefully closed the door of the warehouse, turned around and asked Imagawa Ujimoto.
"Ask for a righteous name. When the Gongfang Palace decides that I will be the governor of the Imagawa family, I can go back and pacify Yuanjiang." Naturally, Imagawa Clan knew everything about his brothers, and at the same time he invited him, "Takeohmaru
Are you interested in going back to Suruga with me? Go home and see your mother."
"That's not necessary. I have a lot of leisure in Kyoto and don't want to go back to the Wu family. There is no good person in the Wu family. They are always fighting each other every day. If someone is not careful, the family will be destroyed. It is really tiring." The Furuno clan laughed.
He shook his head repeatedly, obviously psychologically affected by the previous city theft incident.
"Do you think I want to? I don't want to be such a shabby family governor. My teacher and mother forced me to do it. And my third brother is really cruel. He used to play with us when we were young, but now he is doing something different.
He wants to kill me. If I don't become the governor, he will only end up being killed by him. I have no choice but to be forced to become the governor." Imagawa clan leader sighed, helplessly pulled out the folding fan, and slowly tapped the palm of his hand.
"There is really no choice... If you have a choice, who wouldn't want to live a leisurely life? Who would want to be the governor?"
"It's so dark in here, can you light some more oil lamps?" Ji Liang Weicheng complained loudly, "I'm night blind, I can't see anything with this light."
"You still won't do as you are told?" After hearing what Kira Usei said, Furunoji Yutaka immediately called to several servants. After a while, several more oil lamps were lit.
"Then fourth brother..."
Just when Furunoji Toyoda was about to speak, he found that Imagawa Jiyuan had already drawn a knife in his hand and put the blade on his neck.
