"We have been thinking about it for a long time and there is no solution." Yu Qiuping thought for a while and finally felt that something was wrong. "Without information, no one knows what the facts are."
"We still need to find some clues." Imagawa Kaede nodded in agreement and asked thoughtfully, "Before and after the battle of Narumi Castle, do my brother and His Highness Asahina remember any clues related to this matter?"
"Almost 20 years have passed since the incident. How can I still remember it?" Asahina Taichao sighed, shook his head and said, "I don't remember any details."
"Is there anything unusual?" Imagawa Kaede refused to give up and asked again, "Something very strange?"
"Well..." Asahina Taichao lowered his head and racked his brains to remember, but after a long time he still shook his head, "I really don't remember, alas, your highness, don't blame me."
"No way, too much time has passed." Yu Qiuping pinched the knuckles on his palms in frustration.
Just when everyone was at a loss what to do, Imagawa Shizhen, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly raised his head and whispered, "I remembered something."
"Young Master, please speak." Yu Qiuping asked hurriedly.
"Shortly after the fire at Narumi Castle, some of our guards and ninjas ran away and disappeared without a trace. I thought at the time that they might be too sad and disheartened because their father was killed in battle."
Squinting his eyes, he seemed to be trying to recall the situation at that time, "My mother considered that my father was dead, so it was not easy to impose severe punishments and pursue the old friend. Therefore, I did not continue to investigate and follow those people, and the matter was settled.
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"How many people left?" Yu Qiuping's eyes lit up and he asked hurriedly.
"I don't remember, maybe... dozens of people." Imagawa frowned and nodded, then shook his head, "Maybe hundreds, I really can't remember."
"What about their family members?" Imagawa Kaede also had doubts.
"You put it this way..." Mr. Imagawa bent down and held his forehead deeply, and said hesitantly, "Oh, I still have no impression. It seems that some people have brought their families, and some people have not brought their families."
"Some people run away without their families?" Imagawa Kaede frowned in disbelief, "Are they all traitors and fled in a hurry after finding out what happened?"
"How is it possible that there are dozens of traitors around His Highness the House Governor? If that's the case, people who are not traitors are a different kind of people?" Yu Qiuping burst out laughing when he heard this. How could there be so many undercover traitors in Detective Conan? Ginjiu, Naruto
In Boruto, the Shell organization, except for Ci Xuan, feels like they are all a bunch of young people, "impossible."
"Then what did those people do?" When Yu Qiuping said this, Imagawa Feng felt that his suspicion was a bit ridiculous, and couldn't help but ask, "Why did you run away without bringing your family with you?"
"Have any traces of them been found later? Has anyone come back?" Yu Qiuping looked at Imagawa Shima again.
"No, no one has come back, and our inspection has not found anyone who ran away." Mr. Imagawa poured himself a cup of tea, "We have never paid attention to this matter since then."
"Do you have a list of those guards and ninjas who escaped? They should have been sorted out by then, right?" Yu Qiuping sighed again and asked in a low voice.
"It seemed that there was one at the time, but no one paid much attention to it. I don't know where the list went after that, and it is definitely not with me now." Mr. Imagawa took a sip of tea, then shook his head and put the tea cup back on the table.
"The clue is broken again." Yu Qiuping scratched his hair in frustration.
"Brother, do you still have memories? Has anyone run away?" Imagawa Feng quietly pulled Yu Qiuping's hand under the desk to signal him not to lose heart, while he asked casually.
"There were dozens or hundreds of people, I can't remember them." Mr. Imagawa lowered his head and sighed, and then took another sip of tea.
"Has Seta-sama left? There is also Kyuubi-sama." Asahina Taichao reported two names. Imagawa clan nodded slightly when he heard the words, "Yes, it seems that there is also Abe-sama."
"I never saw Kato-sama again after that."
"Master Mishima seems to have left too?"
"One of the Sena family members has also left."
"And Nanjo-sama."
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Asahina Taimo and Imagawa Shima exchanged words with each other, naming a few names here and there to confirm each other. However, they only mentioned a dozen people in total, and they could no longer remember the rest.
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"It all happened so many years ago. It's hard to blame Hongye for being wronged back then and still thinking about it now." Asahina Taichao saw that there was no progress in the clues, so he poured a cup of tea for Yu Qiuping and said with relief, "
Just let go of what you have to let go of, for there is no resurrection after death.”
Yu Qiuping took the tea and was about to taste it, but suddenly he felt as if he had missed something important just now. He glanced at Imagawa Feng, and Imagawa Feng also looked at him suspiciously. Yu Qiuping tapped his temple,
Trying hard to think, but finding nothing.
"What's wrong?" Imagawa Kaede asked uneasily.
"I always feel..." Yu Qiuping muttered casually, thinking that it was probably an illusion, but he was unwilling to accept it. So, he tried his luck and said, "Young Master, His Highness Asahina, can you tell me the Miao characters of those people just now?"
"Oh...okay." Although Asahina Taitomo didn't think this would be of any use, he still did it, "Seta, Kyuubi, Abe, Mishima..."
"Wait a minute!" Yu Qiuping, who was still listless, suddenly became energetic after hearing the words "Mishima". He straightened up, waved his hand and interrupted, "Mishima?"
"Yes...ah..." Asahina Taitomo was very puzzled by Ame Qiupei's surprise, "It seems that his name is... Mishima Rikine, a trusted bodyguard of the late lord."
Yu Qiuping felt that the tide of memories suddenly surged into his mind, and the memories from a few years ago suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. That was in Tosaoka Fengcheng. He was assassinated by the Miyoshi family ninja on the mountain, but at the critical moment, he was killed by a girl.
The swordsman saved him, but the young swordsman was unfortunately killed in battle - her name was Riyu Mishima:
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Tosa many years ago.
After the crisis was over, Yu Qiuping finally had the opportunity to take a look at the savior just now - it seemed to be a woman. She was wearing a light samurai uniform, without armor, and her figure was a bit thin and thin. At this moment, because of the man who had blocked Yu Qiuping just now,
After taking the poisoned kunai, he fell to his knees on the ground and vomited blood. It seemed that he would not survive.
"You...who are you and why do you want to save me?" Yu Qiuping hurriedly knelt down on one knee, held the woman's shoulder, and asked incoherently.
"By...order." The woman coughed up a few more mouthfuls of blood, and her body gradually lost strength.
"By order, whose order?" Yu Qiuping didn't understand why someone would send a woman to secretly protect him? And if he could rush out in such a timely manner, he must have followed him all the way.
The woman frowned when she heard this and shook her head vigorously, indicating that she could not say this.
Yu Qiuping saw that the woman's face was gradually turning purple, and it probably didn't take long before a sudden inspiration came to him. He vaguely felt that the temperament between the woman's eyebrows was somewhat familiar - but he couldn't remember when he had seen her before.
"What's your name?" Yu Qiuping asked anxiously.
"Three... Mishima Riyu... you have fulfilled your mission..." A large mouthful of blood poured out of Mishima Riyu's mouth, and the girl's fresh life also passed away. She used her last strength to speak one word at a time.
He said the words he just said word for word.
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"Mishima Riyu..." Yu Qiuping muttered the name, his eyes a little distracted, "Yes, I can't remember it wrong...that's the name."
"You just said that His Highness the Governor has a bodyguard named Mishima Rizune?" Yu Qiuping came back to his senses and immediately asked Asahina Taichao urgently, "Really?"
"Yes." Asahina Tai nodded in response.
"I was assassinated in Tosa before and was rescued by a girl named Riyu Mishima. She said she was ordered to save me." Yu Qiuping saw that everyone was confused, so he quickly recounted the experience of that day,
He explained to everyone, "I thought she looked familiar when I saw her, but I also felt that I had never seen such a woman. Now that I think about it, I may understand that she may be the daughter of the bodyguard of His Highness the House Governor. Although I don't know that Mishima-sama
, but maybe we often see each other in the castle tower, and we become familiar with each other after two visits."
"Ping means...Jia Yan's running away guards are protecting you in secret? His daughter died for this?" Imagawa Kaede was stunned when he heard this, "Is this...could it be just a coincidence, or did you hear it wrong? What happened to the girl?
Can you give me a boy’s name?”
"Probably not." Yu Qiuping muttered to himself the kana pronunciation of those words, "It should be this."
"Wait a minute." Yu Qiuping realized something again and asked Imagawa Clan and Asahina Taichao, "Do you have anyone under the command of the family governor with the surname Hagaya or Kinomoto?"
Imagawa Uzuma and Asahina Yasuo looked at each other, and then both shook their heads.
Yu Qiuping was immediately discouraged. Haotani Suiko and Kinomoto Ning seemed to have nothing to do with this. Did he really hear Mishima Riyu's name wrong? Or was it a coincidence?
"Can you go check out the information about Mr. Mishima Rizune?" Imagawa Kaede suggested from the side, "Let the Military Intelligence Department and Crow investigate, maybe we can find clues."
"That's all it can do." Yu Qiuping nodded, but he couldn't stop the excitement in his heart. Although this matter seemed to have no connection with the fire in Narumi City, he vaguely felt that he was getting closer and closer.
The truth of the mystery.
"By the way, can Mr. Mishima play the flute?" When Yu Qiuping came up with this idea, even he felt ridiculous. But the sound of the flute outside Noda City that night, and the accidental death of Takeda Shingen, always made Yu Qiuping
Qiu Ping felt that someone was protecting him from somewhere.
"No." Asahina Taichao said with a smile, "Although the Suruga warriors are very elegant, not everyone is as sensible as the late lord, Momiji."
"That's it." Yu Qiuping himself laughed twice. He looked at his pocket watch and found that it was already late, and he would marry Oda Nobunaga later.
"We have business matters later, so we may not be able to stay long." Yu Qiuping stood up and said goodbye, "I'll visit the young master and Asahina-sama another day."
Chapter completed!