There's something wrong with this assassin

Chapter 699

On the wall of Furuno Castle in Oda, Oda Nobunaga in a white military uniform was standing there overlooking the mountain at the end of his vision.

At the end of the clear sky, with lush vegetation and undulating mountains, everything seems to be so peaceful, and a few birds can be seen soaring under the blue sky.

Behind Oda Nobunaga, a thin man asked, "Master, are you waiting for someone?"

"It can be said to be yes, or it can be said to be no." Oda Nobunaga smiled, still looking forward: "Monkey, if that big idiot Imakawa Yoshimoto really wants to attack, which direction will he come from? come over?"

The thin man called a monkey stood on tiptoe and looked in the direction Oda Nobunaga was looking, and then said, "Imakawa Yoshimoto is in the east, if he wants to come to march, then he must come from the east."

Oda Nobunaga laughed loudly and said, "It would be great if everyone thinks this way."

"If this is the case, Imagawa Yoshimoto will receive a big gift from me."

After Oda Nobunaga's words fell, the samurai known as the monkey continued to speak: "However, Miss Ashi still hasn't returned. At this critical juncture, shouldn't someone be sent to search for it?"

"If a big battle is imminent, all the troops should be reduced to not expose their weaknesses. Just like a tortoise, retract its limbs and head into the shell to ensure that it will not be bitten by wild dogs."

"If you only shrink your head, even if you can guarantee the fate of not being eaten for a while, you will still starve yourself to death." Oda Nobunaga smiled: "I entrusted the name of Ashi to The knight who has never met before is here, if he is willing to accept my entrustment, then he will bring my Ashi back properly."

"But what if that chivalrous man is not as strong and bold as the Lord thinks?" the monkey asked, "Wouldn't it mean that Miss Ashi is about to be in danger?"

"You must know that Miss Ah Shi is the lord's most cherished family member."

Oda Nobunaga smiled: "Monkey, let me teach you a truth."

"I'm all ears." The monkey looked at Oda Nobunaga and said.

"When you expect something, you have to pay for it."

"If you expect a person to be like a god and Buddha as you imagined, then you have to offer him a tribute equivalent to a god and Buddha."

"Just as Ah Shi is my most cherished family member, so when I place my expectations on someone, I should also entrust my most cherished family member to him."

"If I'm not wrong..." Oda Nobunaga stopped after saying this.

"My lord didn't guess wrong?" the monkey couldn't help asking.

Oda Nobunaga shook his head and smiled: "This is not something you need to know about monkeys for the time being."

"Anyway, I came to this city wall today, on the one hand, to test the defense of my Furuno city, and by the way, to see where Imakawa Yoshimoto plans to be buried."

"On the other hand, I calculated the time. If Ah Shi will come back, it should be today, so I'm here to greet Ah Shi."

The monkey showed an inconceivable expression: "So the lord is waiting for that knight to send Miss Ashi back to Furuno City?"

"It's too incredible."

"Who would do such a thing!"

Oda Nobunaga laughed loudly: "So, monkey, would you like to wait here with me? I will prepare you the bagels and tea you like."

"That's really embarrassing, my lord." The monkey said reflexively, and then jumped up: "Why should I do such a thing with my lord? Didn't I say that Imakawa Yoshimoto is going to attack? Shouldn't I organize my troops now Are you ready to attack after checking your armaments?"

"There is no need to rush this. Imakawa has too many soldiers and horses. Even if he wants to attack, it will take a long time to sort out and collect soldiers and horses. Besides, as long as people are alive, they need to eat. As long as Imagawa Yoshimoto If we don’t use any army of ghosts and gods, then we will always have plenty of time.” Oda Nobunaga said with a smile, and at the same time, some servants came up from under the city wall and brought futons on low tables, bagel snacks, teapots and tea bowls, etc. One should be utensils.

Seeing such a calm Oda Nobunaga, the monkey couldn't help but be convinced: "So this is the bearing of a monarch? Looking at Oda-sama, I finally feel that I seem to be following a correct lord."

"I'll probably never be able to be as calm as Oda-sama."

Oda Nobunaga shook his head, and handed a bagel to the monkey.

Such bagels are made from rice ground into pulp, then baked with salt, sugar, and other spices. They are hard and chewy. Because it is delicate, it is not a food that ordinary people can often eat.

The monkey was taken aback for a moment, then reached out to take it.

"I still remember when you ate bagels for the first time, you said that there is no delicious rice in this thing? As long as you have rice, you are willing to follow me for the rest of your life." Oda Nobunaga looked into the distance and said: "But Now you, you can appreciate the deliciousness of bagels. Because bagels are hard, you need to chew them slowly. Because they are relatively dry, you should eat them with tea. Ordinary farmers, even if they want to eat rice every day There is no way to satisfy the meal, how can you have the time to craft bagels and tea, sit on the city wall in this weather, bask in the sun and enjoy the food with the breeze?"

Oda Nobunaga said so, so that the monkey didn't even bite off the bagel for a while.

"But now what about you?" Oda Nobunaga continued: "You have become a samurai under me, and you have got your own subordinate and surname. Although you are still surnamed Kinoshita, you must be able to get more Prominence can be used as a resounding surname to be passed on to your descendants, is this the life you could have imagined if you didn't even have enough rice?"

The monkey nodded dumbly.

"All of this is the lord's great kindness."

"I gave you food and status not because I like you." Oda Nobunaga looked down at the monkey and said, "It's because you are really smart and capable, and you have gained my trust by virtue of your ability. Step up and climb up, maybe one day, you will become a daimyo who guards one side like me, and even after my death, you will be able to stand at the top of Dongpu."

Hearing this, the monkey knelt down on the ground with a plop: "Master Oda, I have never thought of presumptuousness in such a way, and you are simply insulting me by saying that."

Oda Nobunaga smiled and poured himself a cup of tea.

"Eat the bagels first."

The monkey knelt on the ground and dared not get up.

"I said, eat the bagels first. If this is also my order, your current behavior is disobedience." Oda Nobunaga said.

Hearing this, the monkey knelt down on the futon again in embarrassment, picked up the bagel and ate it. For such a hard food, it needs good teeth to bite off a crisp and hard piece, and then carefully chew it in its mouth. Chew, and finally take a sip of warm tea, and at that moment, I feel that the soul is about to float away.

And Oda Nobunaga looked at the monkey happily eating bagels and tasting tea, and couldn't help laughing.

It was Oda's laughter that reminded the monkey of his gaffe.

"I'm so sorry," the monkey whispered.

"No one is born with the ability to learn everything, and 50 years of life is like a dream, so this life should not be wasted." Oda Nobunaga said with a smile.

"If you can't even eat rice when you are born, and you still can't even eat rice when you die, such a 50-year life is a bit too boring, isn't it?"

"And just like you monkey, now you are able to sit with me and eat bagels proficiently, and wait for my sister's return by the way. In the future, you may have even more remarkable achievements. Maybe I can see these achievements Now, maybe I won’t see it in the future.”

"But if one day you can set up a low table, pour tea, and serve bagels on such a sunny afternoon, at that time, you may not be able to find your enemies when you look in all directions, but at the same time, There may be a time when you can't even find someone to talk to you like I do now."

"At that time, when you think of what I said to you now, you will probably understand my mood at the moment."

Saying so, Oda Nobunaga put a bagel to his mouth and gnawed it off.

"Although I am a big idiot of Imagawa, I am not called the big idiot of the Owari country. It's just that I think there are too many idiots in this world. These idiots call me a idiot. They are simply praising me, so I It is a pleasure to accept this title."

"And in this world, you are one of the smart people I recognize."

This time the monkey did not kneel down.

Perhaps it was Oda Nobunaga's words that infected him, and made him think about things decades later.

What I will be like at that time and what achievements I will achieve are things that I can't even imagine now.

But now being able to get the approval of the lord I admire the most is the most important thing at this moment.

The so-called scholar dies for his confidant, probably this is the feeling.

"If in the near future, I am unfortunately defeated by the big fool I said, my head may be hung on the city wall for public display, and the Oda family may perish. Those retainers who serve the Oda family will either surrender or would rather die than submit. It is often said that you should be responsible for all those who are loyal to you, because their life and death depend on your own thoughts. This weight is really too heavy. Sometimes I even want to run away, but on the other hand, if I ran away, so who else can take on this burden?" Oda Nobunaga murmured.

At this time, there were only Oda Nobunaga and Monkey on the city wall.

The monkey looked at the lord who was not so confident for a moment, and couldn't help but said: "I believe that the lord will always be victorious, just like what you said, spread power in the world, and return peace to all directions."

"How can there be a person who is always victorious and invincible in this world?" Oda Nobunaga laughed and said, "As I often say, there is no one who is immortal in 50 years of life, so how can there be a person who is always victorious and invincible?" By?"

"It's just that I don't want to lose, so I need to work harder to win."

Saying this, Oda Nobunaga looked at the thin samurai in front of him: "If I lost this battle with Imagawa Yoshimoto, then I will definitely die on the battlefield instead of being captured by that big fool. Being ridiculed and punished by him, in the end he even said that he would do something that I would never die."

"However, a person who is a lord can die, but a person who is a subject can live. You are just a wandering samurai who came to join me. No one will care about you. You can surrender Imagawa Yoshimoto. I believe that with your Even if he is not under my command, he can still stand out."

"I don't have any other skills, but my ability to judge people is very accurate."

Hearing Oda Nobunaga's words, the monkey couldn't help but choked up, so that the sweet and delicious bagels in his mouth became a little salty.

"grown ups."

He opened his mouth and said these two words.

"Why are you crying, I'm not dead yet!" Oda Nobunaga laughed again: "I just said the worst possibility in the future, life is short, but I haven't lived enough, so I First of all, I must defeat Imagawa Yoshimoto, swallow his land and people, and create my own hegemony."

"Of course it is not advisable to be defeated before a battle, but in the same way, although I keep saying that Imagawa Yoshimoto is vulnerable, but he can gather a total of [-] soldiers and horses under his command. It is true that one person can kill the Owari Kingdom with one spit. flooded."

"By the way." Oda Nobunaga looked at the monkey: "How many people are there in my Ozhang country, do you have a clear count?"

"Owari Elementary School, all the adults can recruit the gathered people, not more than 4000 people." The monkey whispered.

Oda Nobunaga nodded approvingly: "This is why I admire you. You are just the leader of my ashigaru, but you can roughly estimate the strength of the Owari country, and it is almost the same as the actual number. A little bit is enough for you to become famous under Imagawa Yoshimoto."

Seeing Oda Nobunaga making this joke again, the monkey couldn't help getting angry: "Master Oda just doesn't believe that I will be loyal to you?"

"It's not that I don't believe it, but that I don't want it." Oda Nobunaga laughed: "It's as if I want to use the three or four thousand troops in Owari to defeat Imakawa Yoshimoto's fifty thousand troops. Such an idea of ​​hitting a stone with an egg, you Would you like to do it with me?"

"Through thick and thin, I will do whatever I can." The monkey stood up in an instant: "At that time, I am willing to be the vanguard of my lord, and behead Imakawa Yoshimoto for my lord."

"Imakawa Yoshimoto's leader, don't bother you monkey." Oda Nobunaga smiled and shook his head.

He looked beyond the city walls.

"The person who took the head of Imakawa Yoshitou for me has come."

The monkey also looked out of the city wall, and saw a group of three people walking slowly towards the ancient wild city, and the person in the middle, vaguely looking at it, was Ashi.

"It's Miss Ashi!" the monkey called out instantly.

(End of this chapter)