On the foothills to the east of Maple Leaf Mountain City, there is a large maple forest. Now, this maple forest has become the cemetery of Yuqiu’s family. Yu Qiuping carved the names, positions, and deeds of every soldier who sacrificed for Yuqiu’s army on the wood.
On the sign, a person's wooden sign is hung on a maple tree to express his memory of the deceased.
The funeral ceremony for Ii Husatsu and Naoe Seigenmaru was also held in front of this maple tree. When Naoe Tadayei learned that Yu Qiuping would be the Yuanfu ceremony for Ii Husong, he also asked Yu Qiuping to do the same for the elderly adults.
Yuan Wan held a Yuanfu ceremony, and Yu Qiuping, who had already promised, naturally agreed happily.
When naming his two children, Yu Qiuping was actually conflicted for a while. He originally wanted to give his "ping" to Husong, but after much hesitation, he decided to let him have the name that terrified his enemies in history.
The name was "Ii Naomasa". He sought the opinion of Naotora Anayama, who said that the name was very good, she liked it very much, and she didn't mind not being given the name by Yu Qiupei.
As for Naoe Seigenmaru's Yuan Fu Ceremony, the word "Taira" will naturally appear in the name. Because when Naoe Chibei was given the name by Ame Qiupei, it was decided to use "Taira" as the general character for the name.
After much consideration, Yu Qiupei gave Seigenmaru a meaningful name - "Naoe Nouhei". Naoe Nouhei had wounded Takeda Shingen with artillery fire in the previous battle of Sankai Town, and decided to
He performed an extraordinary feat and saved the lives of the entire Red Leaf Army. His good luck was praised by everyone for a while.
After the grand Yuanfu ceremony, Yu Qiuping did not leave in a hurry. Instead, he sat in front of the maple forest for a long, long time. Takenaka Shigeharu came once and wanted to discuss with Yu Qiuping about the recruitment and training of Yu Qiuping for several months.
Three new recruits were added to the reserve team to make up the difference, but after seeing Yu Qiuping's state, he quietly left.
Yu Qiuping didn't know how long he had been sitting in the maple forest. He just felt a wave of discomfort in his heart. Whenever a maple leaf fell in the autumn wind, Yu Qiuping would feel a pain in his heart. Watching a maple leaf fall, it felt like
It was like watching a young life disappear in front of me.
Every soldier of the Red Leaf Army will have a paper red leaf inserted on his helmet. When he sacrifices, Yu Qiuping will take off the paper red leaf and keep it well. Whenever people can't sleep in the dead of night, Yu Qiuping
I would often get up from the house, walk to the room where the paper red leaves were stored, and sit by the red leaves, talking to them incessantly.
But in the blink of an eye, the paper red leaves in the room were piled as high as a hill. Yu Qiuping was sitting in the maple forest, sitting on the fallen leaves, as if he were sitting on a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood of countless of his subordinates. How many people had he killed?
Sent to hell? How many red leaves have he caused to fall from the branches? Will one day, all the maple trees in this maple forest be covered with wooden plaques of the fallen of the Red Leaf Army? In this maple forest,
All the maple leaves put together are not as many as the paper red leaves in Yu Qiuping's room?
The sky was getting dark, and the cold autumn wind made Yu Qiuping shiver. At this moment, a burst of warmth suddenly came from his shoulders. Yu Qiuping was startled and found that a blanket had been draped around him.
"Thank you Ryuko." He just recovered and replied casually with a smile, "Should I eat..."
However, halfway through the words, Yu Qiuping
The smile on his face suddenly froze. As if he suddenly realized something, he turned around blankly and found that the person standing behind him was no longer the cute and clingy little girl, but Mori Ranmaru.
Grief suddenly attacked him, breaking down the defense in his heart. Yu Qiuping felt that the softest corner of his heart suddenly collapsed, making him cry loudly and almost uncontrollably. Mori Ranmaru was startled and ran back in a hurry
Maple Leaf Mountain Castle called Imagawa Kaede over.
By the time Imagawa Kaede arrived, Yu Qiuping was crying so much that he could no longer shed tears. He thought he had gotten over the death of so many people, but now he found that he couldn't do it at all.
"Ping." Imakawa Feng looked at Yu Qiuping's appearance, and she couldn't help but have tears in her eyes. She walked to Yu Qiuping, sat down on the fallen leaves with him, gently hugged him, and whispered:
"Cheer up."
"How does this cheer me up!" Yu Qiuping's tone suddenly rose, and then suddenly dropped to the point where it was almost inaudible, "What do you think I have done in all these years?"
"I always thought that I was a time traveler. I have abilities that ordinary people don't have. I can change something with my own strength. So I keep fighting and working hard. But after so many years, look at what I have done?"
Yu Qiuping laughed miserably and repeatedly hammered the ground with his hand, "My brothers left me one by one. Yasuzhuang died, brother Asahina died, Takechiyo betrayed me and broke off our friendship, and now Nagamasa is no longer with me;
The same goes for my elders who treat me best. His Highness the Governor of the House died unexpectedly, His Highness Sena committed seppuku for me, and Senior Mori also died in battle to protect me. There are also people close to me, so many of my subordinates, and Ryuko,
They left me one by one. When I turned around, there were countless red paper leaves behind me..."
"But what have I gained? What have I gained after struggling in this world for fifteen years?" Yu Qiuping sneered at himself and shook his head dejectedly, "Fief? Official position? Power? Status? Money? These
None of it is what I want. What do I need all of this for? I keep losing what I value in exchange for things I don’t care about. What on earth have I been fighting for all these years? Why should I keep fighting? Ridiculous, hahahahaha..."
"Ping, aren't you fighting to end the cycle of chaos and create a peaceful and prosperous age for all people in the world?" Imagawa Kaede felt very uncomfortable when he saw Yu Qiuping's appearance, and reminded him in a low voice, trying to cheer him up, "This
Isn’t it the dream you promised to His Highness the Governor and His Highness Sena, and the dream you agreed upon with Lord Takenaka and His Highness Asai? Haven’t you been struggling for this? It’s not as unbearable as you said!”
"The Taiping Age was also Japan's peaceful age, but I am a Han!" When Yu Qiuping heard this, he seemed to have suddenly figured it out, and sighed in an extremely frustrated and puzzled tone, not knowing that he was saying to Imagawa Kaede,
Or say to yourself, "I am a Han Chinese. After all, what does Japan's peaceful and prosperous age have to do with me? I create a peaceful and prosperous age for Japan, let the people have long-term peace and stability, let the country's strength rise steadily, and then practice incompetence for Japan."
Shiqiang Army. Then what? Then wait for Japan to become stronger and use the army I created to invade my motherland?"
"It won't be like this..." Imagawa Kaede hurriedly retorted upon seeing this, but was directly beaten by Yu Qiuping.
Duan said: "Why not! Didn't you read the history of my past life that I wrote down? In the history of the past life, Japan had the idea of invading China countless times. The war brought hellish disasters to China.
Ah! Isn’t what I’m doing now just aiding the tyranny? Isn’t it just making the invasion more violent? If I do this, I will become China’s eternal sinner, and I will be infamous for eternity!”
"So what have I been pursuing for so many years?" Yu Qiuping finished speaking for a long time, turned around, raised his head, and looked at the stars, "I kept working hard, kept fighting, and kept losing what I cherished.
People who continue to gain fame and fortune that I don’t care about, until they finally bring infinite disaster to their own nation? Did God let me time travel just to watch a joke?"
Yu Qiuping said this, and Imakawa Kaede didn't know what to say. She just sat quietly under the maple tree with Yu Qiuping, watching the maple leaves flying in the autumn wind with him, just like two
It's like that when people first meet.
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I don’t know how long it took, but Yu Qiuping couldn’t calm down. He had been confused in the past, and he had also wondered why he, as a Han Chinese, was working so hard in Japan? Whenever he thought of this doubt that was destined to be unsolvable
Sometimes, he always forces himself to get involved in work to escape.
But this time, he doesn't plan to escape anymore. He wants to think things through. Because he has lost too much. He can bear the loss, but he can't stand the meaningless loss. If he can't figure it out,
, why does he continue to live like this as a martial artist? Then he no longer has the courage to bring his subordinates to the battlefield and die. If I don’t even know what I am doing, what reason do I have for my subordinates to sacrifice for this?
?
"Ping, why don't you go home and take a look?"
Suddenly, Imagawa Kaede spoke for no reason, interrupting Yu Qiuping's thoughts.
"Go back to Suruga? I'm afraid the ninjas of the Takeda family are waiting for revenge, right?" Yu Qiuping smiled when he heard this, "How is that possible?"
"No, I want you to go home." Imagawa Kaede shook her head gently, turned sideways, and stared into Yu Qiuping's eyes, "Go back to your hometown."
"You mean..." Yu Qiuping was stunned when he heard this. The place deep in his memory already seemed a bit strange, "Go back to China?"
"Yes, if you go back to your country and take a look, maybe you can clear up the doubts in your heart, because I can't help you with anything." Imagawa Kaede quietly wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and whispered, "Go home and take a look.
Maybe you can understand something."
"What will happen to Yu Qiu's family when I leave?" Yu Qiuping had to say that Imagawa Kaede's proposal was very tempting, making him want to put on his wings and fly back immediately. However, the constraints of reality made him unable to do so no matter what.
I couldn't get away, "The Miyoshi family and Honganji are both enemies, and the Hongye Army is in the rebuilding stage. How can I get away?"
"Aren't you worried about leaving it to us?" Imagawa Feng shook his head, "With me and your five soldiers and guards, we can handle it. Compared with the plight of the Yuqiu family in the past few months, you
The knot in your heart is more important. If you can't adjust, the Yuqiu family won't be able to go far in the future."