"Don't look at me like that, I'm not the one making fun of you." Yu Qiuping shook his head, turned his gaze to the baby in the woman's hand, and asked, "Is it convenient for you to put the child in your arms with me first?
"
"Don't even think about it!" the woman whispered firmly.
"Don't get me wrong," Yu Qiuping shook his head and said, "I'm not bragging with you Ikeda Hengxing - oh no, I'm not bragging with you either," Yu Qiuping said while patting Maeda Keiji's shoulder, "
As soon as I, a subordinate, take action, you are definitely no match. When the time comes to fight, the sword has no eyes, what should I do if the child is injured? If you want to fight, please leave the child with me first."
"And that gentleman over there," Yu Qiuping pointed to the man kneeling on the grass nearby, who seemed to have passed out. "Although it seems that he can't hold on anymore, don't you want to save him?"
The strong confidence revealed in Yu Qiuping's tone suddenly overwhelmed the woman in front of him. Yu Qiuping hoped that the woman would put the child in his hands first and then beat him, as if the woman's resistance was just a formality and the outcome was already doomed——
Yu Qiuping will definitely win. The woman is not a fool. She looked at the surrounding situation and Maeda Keiji's expression, then looked at the crying child in the swaddling clothes, and sighed helplessly.
"We are not a secret agent and have nothing to do with Yixiang Zong," the woman whispered, "I hope Your Highness will not embarrass this child."
"Whether it's done carefully or not, it's not up to you," Maeda Keiji snorted coldly, "Let's go in and interrogate him!"
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Maeda Keiji and others confiscated the woman's weapons and escorted them into the camp. The man was obviously seriously injured. He had fainted just now and was dead now. Maeda Keiji wanted to interrogate the woman alone, but the woman died.
Holding the babies in her arms tightly, she had no choice but to take them into Yu Qiuping's tent.
However, as soon as the woman entered the brightly lit place, she was obviously surprised when she saw the red leaf shawl on Amakihira's shoulders and the red leaf family crest on her back. She looked around and found that every Ashigaru samurai had a helmet with a
A red leaf. It was too dark just now, so she didn't even notice it.
"Your Highness Yuqiu Hongye?" the woman asked tentatively.
"Exactly," Yu Qiuping nodded, "Looking at the accent, could it be that he is an old friend from Yuanjiang?"
The woman was stunned for a moment, nodded slightly, bit her lower lip, not knowing how to answer.
"Don't worry, as long as you are not a follower of Xiang Zong, we will not make things difficult for you," Yu Qiuping smiled softly, "Let's just put it bluntly. The identities of the three of you are..."
"I'm going down to I Naotora," the woman hesitated for a moment, then whispered: "The baby in her arms is Toramatsu, the only remaining son of the Ii family. The one who just died in the battle was Toramatsu's adoptive father, Shinno Omitori."
Ii Toromatsu? Isn't that the famous Ii Naomasa in the future? One of the Four Tokugawa Kings, he incorporated the remnants of Takeda Akabi to form Ii Akabi, a rising star who made great contributions to Tokugawa Ieyasu's unification of the world. In the future, the Ii family was also the Tokugawa shogunate.
One of the four daimyo clans that owns "Da Lao Ge".
When Yu Qiuping suddenly realized it, he also remembered the identity of Ii Naotora! That famous strange woman in the Warring States Period. He seemed to be the marriage partner of Ii Naomasa's father. Yu Qiuping couldn't remember his name. Later, he didn't wait for the marriage partner.
Just died? Then she took care of Naomasa Ii as her adoptive mother?
After Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment, he suddenly realized that Ii Naotora seemed to have said some shocking news.
"Wait!" Yu Qiuping suddenly raised his finger and pointed at Ii Naohu, "You said this child is the only remaining male in the Ii family? What's going on!"
When Ii Naotora heard Yu Qiuping's question, her body trembled violently. She took a deep breath, forced to suppress the sadness in her heart, and slowly told the tragedy of Ii's family.
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As one of the powerful families that resisted the Imagawa family's attack on Toe, the Ii family has always been suspicious and hostile to the Imagawa family - Yu Qiupei also knows this. Even the eldest son of Ii Naohei, the old head of the Iikawa family, fought for the Imagawa family.
He died, and his second son and third son were still suspected of treason and executed by the Imagawa family. The direct grandson of Ii Naohei was the Ii Naomori whom Yu Qiupei knew. He was supposed to die in the battle of Okehazama in history, but because of Yu Qiupei's change
History and luckily survived.
However, the good luck did not last long.
The Matsudaira family of Mikawa has always wanted to try to mobilize the wealthy families of Toe and persuade them to rebel against the Imagawa family. However, Ii Naomori's younger brother, Ii Naochika (that is, Komatsu's biological father) was a little moved, and persuaded his brother and his son at home.
Grandfather Ii Naohei sided with the Matsudaira family. However, both Ii Naohei and Ii Naomori felt something was wrong, and the matter became a stalemate.
However, their every move was overheard by the Imagawa family's head office. Shouguini ordered Asahina Taitomo who was located in Kakegawa Castle in Toe to immediately summon Ii Naomiro. The Ii Naochi brothers came to Kakegawa Castle and then executed Ii Naomichi.
, detained Ii Naomori. However, things did not develop as originally planned.
In order to prove their innocence, Ii Naomori and Ii Naochika came to Kakegawa Castle honestly, and Asahina Yasumo also politely invited them to a banquet. Ii Naomori, who thought that the misunderstanding had been resolved, drank with peace of mind, but he became a little drunk without knowing it.
In order to show his loyalty to the Imagawa family, he recalled the death of Imagawa Yoshimoto while drunk, and cried bitterly about it. He thought that this "telling the truth while drunk" could win the trust of the Asahina family, but unfortunately it backfired.
.When he recalled the past civil war between the Imagawa family, he scorned Uakiuhei as a traitor, and said that the Asahina family was just confused by the thief Uakihira, but in the end they understood the righteousness and corrected their evil ways - this directly revealed the truth about Asahina Taitomo
and Asahina Taehyung’s scars.
They were already resentful of Shou Guini and the top management of the Imagawa family's treatment of Yu Qiuping. They believed that Shou Guini was really wrong to let the traitor Okabe Motoxin go, and because of his betrayal of Yu Qiuping, Yu Qiuping was imprisoned.
A few years ago, after hearing that Yu Qiupei fainted because he was forced to attack Otaka Castle of the Imagawa family, Asahina Taehyung went on a hunger strike for two days and two nights with guilt and anger, and finally passed out and finally passed out.
Just rescued him.
At this moment, when he heard someone insulting his younger brother and praising the Okabe family, Asahina Taihiro, who was also drunk, was so angry that he actually drew a sword and killed Ii Naomori in front of the court. Ii Naomori didn't understand what happened until his death.
What, he became a fallen victim. Of course, Naochi Ii, who was originally scheduled to be executed, did not end well. He was also pulled out and beheaded.
Hearing that his two beloved grandchildren were also killed in Kakegawa Castle, the grandfather Ii Naohei was filled with grief and anger, but he was helpless. To make matters worse, the top brass of the Imagawa family ordered the capture of Ii Naomi's son, Toromatsu, who was trying to rebel. Ii Naohei hurriedly
He asked his close confidant Shinno Kamiki to be Torasatsu's adoptive father, and took him to leave Ii Valley Castle for refuge. Ii Naotora, who had an unfulfilled engagement with Ii Naochika, also helped to hide Torasatsu.
In the sixth year of Eiroku (1563), that is, at the beginning of this year, Iio Renryu sent someone to poison his grandfather Ii Naohei because of his conflict with Ii Naohei. However, the Imagawa family, which was already very suspicious of the Ii family, not only did not Investigating Iio Renryu's fault, he instead instructed the Toe family to annex the territory of the Ii family in the name of "administration on behalf of them." At this moment, all the men of the Ii family were dead, except for the fledgling youngest son Kosatsu, and they were almost wiped out. .
Seeing that they could no longer stay in Tōe, Shinno Oyaki and Ii Nao took a few cronies and fled to Mikawa with Torasatsu under their protection, and settled in Mikawa in the southwest. Unfortunately, they happened to encounter a major uprising. They agreed to take them in. The lord was a loyal minister of the Matsudaira family, so naturally he would not join the Honganji Temple, and his castle was quickly captured. In the chaos, Ii Naotora and others fled in panic, and all their cronies were killed by the Ichibuki clan. In order to protect Husong, he was also seriously injured. The three men rode on a horse and ran around in confusion, and unknowingly rushed to the edge of Fengzhu River.
The sky was dark and the vision was unclear. When Ii Naotora saw a large military camp, he thought it was the Matsudaira family's military camp, so he hurried to seek refuge. However, he didn't expect that the heavily guarded Tokiwabi had military regulations: Anyone who rides a horse and carries a weapon must come within ten feet of the camp. All enemies within range were shot down with arrows. Ii Naotora sat down and was shot to death. Yu Qiuping knew everything about what happened next.
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"I'm sorry to hear this," Yu Qiuping whispered sadly. Although the Jingyi family were enemies before, it is still sad to see a family decline to this point.
"My big brother..." Yu Qiuping's mind not only recalled the voice and smile of that big brother, but his eyes turned red unknowingly. Asahina Taehyung must have been so upset because of Yu Qiuping's reasons. Keep in mind the brotherly love between the two of you. "You still have the same bad temper, which has caused your father's misfortune. I am here to accompany Miss Xian."
"I'm already engaged, not my lady." Ii Naotora said in a low voice.
"Then Madam Jingyi," Yu Qiuping changed her title, "what are your plans next? If you don't have any special ideas, I would be willing to take you mother and son in."
"Your Highness," Ii Naotora glanced at Yu Qiuping warily, "I already have an engagement, Your Highness, please don't think too much about it."
"I miss you so much, Mrs. Jingyi," Yu Qiuping realized that there might be an ambiguity in his words, and laughed loudly: "I don't have any bad thoughts about Mrs. Jingyi. Mrs. Jingyi was also a member of the Imagawa family. It must not be unclear, my wife is Princess Feng. What more can a husband ask for when he has such a wife?"
"Then why does Your Highness want to help us?" Ii Naotora breathed a sigh of relief and asked in a low voice.
"Your Majesty died at the hands of my brother, so I owe you a favor." Yu Qiuping sighed, "We are all former ministers of Imagawa, and we were also forced to flee to a foreign land. I am doing you a favor, which can be regarded as a small talk about personal affairs. Be careful."
"So madam, what do you think?" Yu Qiuping asked.
"If so, Naotora would like to thank Your Highness in advance." Ii Naotora leaned over gratefully and said. In these troubled times, it is always inconvenient for her to be a woman running around with a baby. If something goes wrong, the Ii family But the family was about to be exterminated, and she couldn't bear the crime! Since Yu Qiuping was willing to lend a helping hand, for the sake of Husong's safety, she had no choice but to agree.
"Although I am not good at martial arts, I am still proficient in martial arts." Ii Naotora turned to the etiquette of a man, "I will not receive His Highness's favor in vain. I will serve as an official in the Yuqiu family and repay Your Highness."