On February 20, the twelfth year of Tenmon (1543), the ferry anchored at Seta Ferry in Yamashiro Province.
"It's a pity that we can't see Kyoto yet." Imagawa Yoshimoto stopped and looked to the west, but he could only see the Hira Mountains stretching from north to south.
"I haven't been back for many years." Taiyuan Xuezhai was also filled with emotion. He patted Imagawa Yoshimoto on the shoulder and said, "Remember Chengfang? I often took you to Seta to play when I was a child. When I returned to Suruga, you were
Lai Seta refused to leave and cried a lot that night.
He said he couldn't bear to leave his friends in Kyoto."
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.. Our husband was a big crybaby when he was a child~" Ginkgo's ears on the side are as sharp as a cat. After hearing Imagawa Yoshimoto's sniff, he immediately came closer.
"Smelly old man, you remember it wrong!" Imagawa Yoshimoto blushed at Ginkgo's teasing, and argued awkwardly: "You clearly went to the casino that night, gambled all night, and didn't come back until the next morning.
Which eye saw me cry?"
"Oh? Where is the casino near here?" Taiyuan Xuezhai covered his forehead with his palms to block the sun.
He deliberately looked around, "Isn't it obvious?"
"That's right." Ginkgo immediately agreed, and at the same time patted Imagawa Yoshimoto's head like a mother coaxing a child, "Good sir, let's not cry!"
"It must be there!" Imagawa Yoshimoto was ridiculed to death by Taiyuan Xuezai and Ginkgo. He was determined to fight to the end, "If it's not here, it's behind the mountain in the south. There must be it!"
"Then let's go take a look!" Ginkgo kept doing nothing, intending to make Imagawa Yoshimoto's black spot really hard, so she pulled Imagawa Yoshimoto and started to walk in the direction he pointed.
"I'll give you half a day off and come back before dark." Taiyuan Xuezhai was happy to facilitate this, "We'll stay at the hotel next to the pier and set off again tomorrow."
"Is there really such a thing as a 'casino'?" Ginkgo jumped up and down, amusing Imagawa Yoshimoto, "Okay sir, there is no one else around now. If you want to admit it, just admit it earlier.
Little crybaby~ I promise not to tell anyone about it when I go back."
"It's true, don't worry." Imagawa Yoshimoto climbed over the hills one after another.
He kept looking at the surrounding villages, and finally the hard work paid off and he discovered the casino he had longed for: "Look, it's over there!"
"Oh?" Ginkgo was stunned when she saw that there was a large-scale casino outside the town in the wilderness, "Why is it opened here? Can there be business?"
"Many dignitaries from the court and the shogunate come here to gamble. After all, gambling in Kyoto means you can't be free." Imagawa Yoshimoto stopped here and was about to turn around and go back while explaining to Ginkgo, "But we are all acquaintances.
, look up and look down, don’t want to be recognized each other. So this casino has a rule, you have to wear a mask at the door before entering. Okay, go back, you have to bear witness for me, Ginkgo, teacher, he clearly came by himself that day
It’s gambling!”
"Huh? Why go back?" Ginkgo curled her lips and smiled, turned her face away and pulled Imagawa Yoshimoto towards the casino, "You're already here, why don't you go in and have a look?"
"That's not a good place." Imagawa Yoshimoto complained as he resisted and tried to pull Ginkgo back.
"What's this,
I'm not a good girl either!" Ginkgo smiled evilly,
Involuntarily, Imagawa Yoshimoto grabbed his ears and ran over, pulling and pulling him, "I've never been to a casino before, and I have to wear a mask. How can I not go in and take a look when it's so fun?"
As a result, Imagawa Yoshimoto was dragged to the casino by Ginkgo, handed over the admission information, and each chose a Noh theater-like mask to wear - it really suited the tastes of the public and the shogunate.
"Ahem!" Ginkgo deliberately made a man's voice and coughed twice - she tied up her hair and hid her beauty behind the mask, as if she could disguise herself as a handsome man -
But her graceful figure, which even a winter coat could not hide, had long betrayed her gender.
"Ginkgo's mask is not bad." Imagawa Yoshimoto looked at Ginkgo's colorful fox mask. It is one of the cutest among the few Noh masks, and it matches the quirky Ginkgo quite well.
"Sir's mask is so ugly." Ginkgo looked at Imagawa Yoshimoto's empty mask with white face and black eyebrows with disgust. The facial features were painted in an extremely eerie manner - this is the normal state of Noh masks. "It's too underworld."
, I’ll have nightmares after watching it at night.”
"What does this young lady know? This is the most popular Noh mask in Kinki these days." A gambler who happened to pass by said to defend Imagawa Yoshimoto, "This gentleman has the vision."
"Oh, you intellectuals are so amazing." Ginkgo muttered angrily, vented her anger on Imagawa Yoshimoto's head, and stepped on him hard.
After entering the gate, the extremely high decibel noise and the smell of tobacco and alcohol in the casino immediately choked Imagawa Yoshimoto. The gamblers screamed at the table at the top of their lungs, banged the table vigorously, and the sounds of dice rolling came and went.
Presumably the face behind the mask is also red. The terrifying Noh mask of the underworld is mixed with the chaotic and noisy cheers, wails, curses, and cries, which makes it look like a drawing of hell.
"Ah, is this your intellectual man?" Ginkgo never missed any opportunity to quarrel with Imagawa Yoshimoto, "On weekdays, I act aloof, as if I was reciting poems and composing poems to a lot of elegant people. But when I saw money, I was like those people in Mount Kaibi.
They're just like local ruffians."
"Well, well." Imagawa Yoshimoto also laughed dryly. To be honest, he was not good at dealing with this kind of environment. Although he and Taiyuan Xuezhai went to a casino when he was very young, he didn't learn a few gambling games. Ginkgo felt that
Interested, he looked around here and there, studying various ways to play. Imagawa Yoshimoto himself went around to a quieter corner on the second floor, watching a few samurai who seemed to have some status, and the minister was gambling, and listened to them by the way.
Chatting about the situation in Kinki.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Let me tell you, the Hosokawa Kyōjo family has had a better time in a few days." A middle-aged man wearing an Akki mask fiddled with Shuangriku.
A chess piece, he predicted confidently.
"Are you doing this again? I've heard you say it several times a day." The man in the Shura mask who was facing him teased, "Why are you so looking forward to the end of the Hosokawa family?"
"Inside information, inside information." Aka Oni Mask rubbed his hands exaggeratedly, attracting the attention of several onlookers around him, and then spoke eloquently: "Don't look at the majesty of the Hosokawa family leader.
There is already an undercurrent surging. A Kizawa Sakyou Ryo (Kizawa Nagamasa) and a Miyoshi Chikuzenmori (Miyoshi Nagakei) are now so intertwined that their achievements are so great that even the leader (Hosokawa Harumoto) is in trouble.
You have to be in awe of them."
"Kizawa Sakyo has been really famous recently." Another Rakshasa Mask who was watching couldn't help but sighed, "Yamato, Kawachi, Kii, and the three countries are all full of his followers, and the troops he can mobilize in Kinki are comparable to
The Hosokawa family has many people of its own. It is said that he openly challenged the governor at the evaluation meeting, and the governor couldn't do anything to him. Who is the retainer and who is the master?"
"Yes, in the past few years, Kizawa Sakyou has been tending to overpower the leaders. It is said that he even has a hand in the Hosokawa family's housekeeping. How can someone be so domineering?" Shura Mask also fits the sentence.
"Then you don't know the most domineering time of Sakyo Kizawa." Aka Oni Mask, who claimed to have inside information, once again gave up, and after prolonging his tone, he said: "The Aguo Song and Dance Troupe, which was popular in Western countries and Kinki in the past few years.
, you know, right?"
"I know, it's the Qingqi Dance Troupe led by the witch Aguo. I've even gone to see it. It's really good!" Another demon mask sitting next to him said while smacking his lips, and there was a faint trace of saliva flowing down his face.
The mask flowed down, "The one with the big white legs exposed, and the two jade rabbits, tsk tsk tsk... there is an endless stream of people coming to see it, queuing up for more than ten miles, all to see Qingqi Wu!"
"It's offensive to morals." Rakshasa Mask was probably an old-fashioned conservative. After hearing this, he couldn't help but said dissatisfied, "Are you going to watch the dance? You are obviously going to see those promiscuous women. You don't watch high-class Noh dramas, but why?
Go and see these melodious sounds."
"Hey, these are not important, not important!" Chi Gui Mask saw that the topic had strayed, and quickly waved his hand to catch up the conversation, "Do you know why the Aguo Song and Dance Troupe's performance in Kyoto suddenly stopped some time ago?
?”
"Why?" Several people were aroused, "Isn't it said that it was banned because it was immoral?"
"That's not true. That was an excuse I made later." Seeing that no one knew about the red ghost mask, his vanity was satisfied and he said with satisfaction: "Before the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, Kizawa Sakyo invited the Aguo Song and Dance Troupe to his house.
Performance, do you know?"
"What a grand show!" Everyone was shocked when they heard this. "The performances of the Ah Guo Song and Dance Troupe are hard to come by. How can they be invited to the house to perform alone for him?"
"Yes, and it's not just that..." Red Ghost Mask took a sip of saliva, and said with a sly smile: "Then after watching the performance, Sakyo Kizawa coveted the beauty of Aguo girl, so he wants to get hard."
"Good guy." The men here suddenly became excited, but Imagawa Yoshimoto on the side frowned with dissatisfaction.
"In the end, who would have thought that the Aguo girl would refuse to obey? I would say she is stupid. What's wrong with being with Kizawa Sakyo, who is now extremely powerful in Kinki? She will have no worries about food and clothing for her whole life, and her troupe can also run sideways in the future.
But she didn't agree and even bit Sakyo Kizawa's penis."
After Chi Gui Mask said these words, all the men present felt a chill, as if they were in pain.
"So, Kizawa Sakyo killed the Aguo girl in a rage, and drove the Aguo Song and Dance Troupe out of Kyoto. He ordered ninjas to hunt them down, and the Aguo Song and Dance Troupe had to flee to Sakai Town. Those who don't know the inside story
People thought that the Aguo Song and Dance Troupe just changed their performance to another place, but in fact they offended the Master." Red Ghost Mask continued to tell his thrilling story:
"Men, if you suffer a loss in love, you have to get it back in the officialdom. After that, Kizawa Sakyo took a large-scale attack on the opposition, and in one fell swoop he captured and killed the remnants of Hatakeyama Eemon (Hatakeyama Yoshihiro) who had been hiding for ten years.
They also exiled Hatakeyama Owari Mamoru (Hatakeyama Uecho), a close confidant of Governor Hosokawa, and miraculously reconciled with their old enemy Yusa Kawauchi Mamoru (Yusa Chokyo), and together they supported Hatakeyama Harima (Hatakeyama Masakuni).
, completely turned Hanoi into his own kingdom, and even Kii was infiltrated."
"Hey, I didn't expect it to be because of being stimulated by a woman?" The man in the Rakshasa mask laughed dumbly after hearing this, "I was still thinking about why Kizawa Sakyo was suddenly so decisive this time, and how he made judgments every time as if he had divine help.
By the way, you are completely different from the past. It turned out that you were awakened by the stimulation of a woman?"