In the early morning of August 13, the eighth year of Tensho (1580), the door of the tent where Ukita Hachiro was imprisoned was suddenly opened. Ukita Hachiro looked up and found that it was the thick-browed samurai who captured him yesterday.
"Huh? What's the matter..." Ukita Hachiro was about to ask, but Asahina Taihei waved his hands in displeasure and interrupted: "I didn't take the initiative to apply to supervise you. This is His Highness's order. As a samurai,
You must execute the order unconditionally, otherwise who would be willing to take care of you, a kid like you?"
Asahina Taihei complained a lot to himself, but Ukita Hachiro seemed to ignore him and just nodded politely. Asahina Taihei himself was a little embarrassed when he said it, and he laughed twice embarrassedly, and then casually walked around in the tent
He pulled a maza and sat down.
"Please be more honest with me, stay there and don't mess around." As if to establish his authority, Asahina Yahei stood up again before his butt was firmly seated, pointed at Ukita Hachiro, and then patted himself.
The katana at the waist, "If anything happens, I want you to look good."
"Got it." Ukita Hachiro nodded towards Asahina Taihei and said nothing. Asahina Taihei then sat down again, turned his head and looked outside the tent, while swinging his little horse.
"Well..." After a while, Ukita Hachiro suddenly broke the silence, "Asahina-sama."
"What, kid?" After Asahina Taihei heard Ukita Hachiro calling him, he pretended to wait for a few seconds before lazily turning around and showing off his airs. In fact, this was the first time Asahina Taihei was called by an outsider.
He was already happy to be called "Sir", but there was a deep expression on his face.
"Sir, may I ask, how are Uncle Muto and a few others doing now?" Ukita Hachiro asked in a low voice, twisting the corners of his clothes very uneasily.
"Why are you asking this?" Asahina Taihei sighed after hearing this. He didn't know how to explain it to this child, "What should I do?"
"What do you mean..." Ukita Hachiro's eyes were full of confusion.
"Don't worry about that. They didn't give you any trouble last night, did they?" Asahina Taihei stood up and walked over to Ukita Hachirou. He looked at it. There didn't seem to be any injuries on his body.
"No, he just watched me and didn't let me move." Ukita Hachiro shook his head, but after thinking for a moment, he seemed to understand what Asahina Taihei's actions meant, and asked in a panic, "What do you mean, sir?"
,Uncle Muto and the others were beaten?"
"It's impossible not to fight. Do you think those of your subordinates are weaklings who will confess if you ask them casually? Those people are all men!" Asahina Taihei spread his hands as a matter of course and said, "No.
How can I ask for information when I'm being sentenced?"
"Then did you hit them?" Ukita Hachiro stood up anxiously, but his height was only more than half of Asahina Yahei's height. "Did you get hurt?"
"Well, that's right. They all seem to be hard-core, so they probably won't be beaten lightly." Asahina Taihei looked down at Ukita Hachiro's resentful eyes, smiled bitterly, and said, "Why are you staring at me, like this?"
Usually it is done by people from the Military Intelligence Department, and I was not involved."
"Then why do you want to beat them?" Ukita Hachiro raised his head and stared at Asahina Taihei in confusion, "Uncle Muto and the others are all good people, why do you want to beat them?"
"Who told you they were good people?" Asahina Taihei tilted his neck and said angrily, "In order to cover your escape, those ninja men of yours killed people and set fire to the castle town of Okayama Castle. Do you know how many people died? That's okay.
They are all the people of your Yuxi family, you don’t even care about it yourself, you still rely on our people to put out the fire.”
"Uncle Muto didn't do that." Ukita Hachiro responded confidently.
"Isn't that his subordinate? This must have been ordered by him." Asahina Taihei said with an expression like "a kid doesn't understand politics", "You can't understand this? Such a uniform action must have been planned in advance.
planned."
"Then it's not our fault that you have to come and attack us?" Ukita Hachiro protested in a higher tone, "Okay, who would be willing to attack and set fire to us! I have never done this in all the years I have lived in Okayama Castle! It's not because
You call me here! If you don’t call me here, no one will die!"
"Huh? Can we be blamed for this? Don't you know how your Uki family started?" Asahina Taihei snorted twice, took two steps back, and said loudly, "I was not a retainer of the Urakami family.
?Step by step down to the present? How many people have you killed? Are you embarrassed to accuse others?"
"Then we have never killed anyone from the Yuqiu family! We have no enmity with you before! I heard from my father that it was your Oda family who attacked Sanyo Road first! Our Uki family has never been to Sakai Town.
!" Ukita Hachiro obviously had his own plan in mind and retorted without flinching.
"Oh, you mean, we can only beat you if you beat us first, right?" Asahina Taihei seemed to understand Ukita Hachiro's logic.
"Of course it is." Ukita Hachiro responded matter-of-factly.
"What about the Urakami family? Have the Urakami family ever beaten you? He is the head of the Uki family. How can you defeat him?" Asahina Taihei ruthlessly threw out counterexamples.
"I have heard from my father since I was a child that the Urakami family refused to allocate military rations when my father and others were stationed on the front line. As a result, my father and the others even had to go on a hunger strike for five days every month. And when my father made great achievements and wanted to get back his great-grandfather's old
When taking the throne, the Urakami family gave the old territory to the enemy who killed their ancestors." Although Ukita Hachiro was still young, he had obviously been taught the history of the family many times, and he replied without hesitation, "This hatred and this hatred cannot be shared.
Dai Tian." - The expression of this last sentence is obviously not the speaking habit of a child. It seems that it was instilled in him by adults.
"What about the Mimura family?"
"It was Motochi Mimura who beat us first!"
"Where's the Mori family?"
"The Mori family attacks Bizen first!"
"You all make sense, right?" Asahina Taihei smiled helplessly, looked at Ukita Hachiro and said, "The Uki family are partners of justice? The Uki family are good people?"
"That's how it is." Ukita Hachiro raised his head, looked into Asahina Yahei's eyes and said, "Whoever fights an unjust war is at fault! Whoever is responsible for the dead people! The Oda family was originally just a tail.
Zhang’s pet name is that you keep hitting people, attacking others, and invading other people’s territory. It’s obvious that you are the most unjust people! Who do you have to talk about the Uxi family?”
"Who told you so much about justice and injustice in troubled times? The strong is justice, and the winner is justice!" Seeing that Ukita Hachiro could not be persuaded, Asahina Taihei deliberately said something against his will in an attempt to regain his position.
"That's wrong! Justice is justice, and evil is evil! Only righteous people can protect the people!" Ukita Hachiro took half a step forward, clenched his fists with both hands, and shouted word by word through gritted teeth, "Unjust
What if a man gains the whole world? Will he treat the people well?"
"Well..." Asahina Taihei looked at Ukita Hachiro's clear eyes, smiled and sighed, put his head in his hands and stretched out comfortably. Although he refused to admit defeat, his heart was open.
How could he not agree with what Ukita Hachiro said? Although he felt that the Ukita family were not good people, this did not prevent Ukita Hachiro from saying that he was right.
"Do you want me to accept you as my little brother?"
Asahina Taihei moved his body, and then suddenly patted both hands on Ukita Hachiro's shoulders.
"Huh?" Ukita Hachiro was stunned when he heard this. He had been having a heated argument just now and didn't know why the topic was progressing so quickly, "Why?"
"Your attitude is neither humble nor arrogant. If you don't know, you might think I'm meeting the young master of our Yuqiu family." Asahina Taihei burst out laughing, then patted his chest boldly, and then looked at Ukita Hachiro's
He hammered his chest hard and said, "Whoever dares to bully you in this barracks from now on, just ask my brother to deal with him!"
"Quick, call me brother!"
Ukita Hachiro glanced at the smiling Asahina Taihei with some disgust, turned his head awkwardly, and whispered, "Brother."
"Why do you call me brother? Call me big brother." Asahina Taihei didn't seem to buy it. He walked around to the direction where Ukita Hachiro's face was turning, squatted down and looked at Ukita Hachiro's level, and continued to demand. It was like using a lollipop to trick a child.
Delinquent boy.
"Then you have to promise me that from now on you are not allowed to fight unjust wars or kill people unjustly, and you must be a just person like everyone in the Ukita family." Ukita Hachiro hesitated for a moment, then considered.
A request was made.
"You are so funny. I have been in the army for so many years. Do I need your teaching?" Asahina Taihei suddenly became happy when he heard this. Looking at the innocent child in front of him, he suddenly stretched out his hand to touch the instructions out of some unknown emotion.
He touched the latter's head.
"I promise you that from now on I will not fight unjust wars, I will not kill people unjustly, and I will be a just person." Asahina Taihei deliberately omitted the modifier "like everyone in the Ukita family", but Ukita
Hachiro obviously didn't notice, but smiled happily.
"Brother?" Ukita Hachiro called tentatively.
"That's right, kid." Asahina Taihei laughed and patted Ukita Hachiro hard twice on the back, "You are the first little brother I recognize. You have to give me credit! Straighten your back, who will dare to do it in the future?
Chapter completed!