Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 56: A bloody family drama, a prime time drama
"Wonderful! It's so wonderful!"

After the funeral ceremony, Ah Man exclaimed that it was so exciting. She didn't expect that she would see such a shocking drama as "unfilial sons burning incense upside down and the coffin of the deceased was desecrated" by following Yuan Ye. It would be enough for her to brag about it for two years in the future. Do you know? Before the big fool Oda Nobunaga was defeated, I saw him insert the incense upside down into the incense burner. At that time, I knew that he was doomed!
Moreover, she had been asking Yuanye for the five kan of money. Oda Nobunaga had built this kind of airplane, which was blatantly "unfilial". He would never be able to "be the leader of his sons" and be a good patriarch of a large family, and he would not be able to demand absolute obedience from his vassal vassals and local powerful families.

In a sense, the Oda Danjotada family is finished, and disunity and separation are just around the corner.

Yuan Ye didn't argue with her that it was still early, but just pondered: "Why would he do that?"

He knew that Oda Nobunaga was a eccentric person, but this could not be explained by not observing etiquette. After all, even in modern times where moral constraints are relatively relaxed, he had never seen anyone causing a scene at his own father's funeral - this was really too outrageous, it was simply opening the door to outrageousness, it was outrageous to the extreme!
"He's just crazy! He's just a big fool, and we can't understand what a big fool is thinking!" Aman didn't care about Oda Nobunaga's life or death, nor did he have Yuanye's curiosity about the growth process of the Sixth Heaven Demon King. He only cared about her five kan of money. He pulled Yuanye's sleeve and said, "Anyway, don't forget our bet. I'm sure to win. You'll get a bad bet if you don't pay."

"But... this can't be explained by madness, right?" Yuanye didn't care whether his butt was rotten or not. He still didn't understand what was going on and felt very unhappy.

Ah Man also stopped pursuing the gambling debt in advance. Yuan Ye was a very good person. She believed that she would get it back sooner or later. Seeing that he seemed to take this matter very seriously, she began to ponder: "He was really crazy this time, a little too crazy. Maybe there is really some inside story... Otherwise, I will go and ask around?"

"Go quickly, and come back soon!" Yuanye agreed immediately. He was free anyway, so it would be nice to satisfy his curiosity.

"Give me some money, I'll get some wine and go find the people in Mosen City to talk some nonsense!" As Aman said this, he reached out and took a bunch of big money from his arms, turned around and ran away. I don't know if he was trying to use his power for personal gain or to satisfy his own greed.

Yuan Ye didn't care about the little money, but he didn't want her to drink. However, she pretended not to hear him when he called her, and disappeared in a few seconds. He had no choice but to curse her in his heart as a wild child, shook his head, and went back to the small tent he was assigned.

The Danzhengzhong family seemed to be worried that the local powerful warriors would cause trouble during this period, so they defeated them first and brought everyone to the funeral, forcing the powerful clan leaders, local warriors, and their followers and subjects to separate, but they were not allowed to enter Suemori Castle. Each family was given a tent and camped around Juwang Mountain. Moreover, they could not leave directly after the funeral and had to wait for talks and notification before returning.

Harano was a "wandering samurai" who had just been registered in Owari. His status was too low, so he couldn't line up at the front to watch the fun. His accommodation was not a good place either. It was in a very remote location, and he had to walk a long way to get back. As he was walking, he looked up and ran into Maeda Toshiharu and his group.

Maeda Toshiharu bowed and greeted from a distance: "Isn't this Lord Nohara? Long time no see."

"Yes, long time no see!" Yuan Ye also politely returned the greeting, and then looked behind him, only three unfamiliar retainers followed him, so he asked again, "Where is Lord Shinichiro? Has your health recovered?"

"Thanks to Lord Nohara's miraculous healing hands, Shinichiro has fully recovered and is now looking after the family!" The Danzheng Tadashi family was worried about the local powerful families like them, and they were also worried about the Danzheng Tadashi family. The heir had not come, and the same was true for Maeda Toshiharu. He found reasons to keep his eldest son Maeda Toshihisa and the family elder Okumura Iefuku in Araki Castle just in case, and only came here as a hostage to see which way the wind was blowing.

After answering Yuanye's question, he asked with concern, "Master Nohara, have you moved to Takeuchi Manor now? Is your life there okay?"

"It's OK. The scenery there is pretty good."

"That's good, that's good!" Maeda Toshiharu seemed relieved. He gave him a meaningful look and said, "If you are not used to living there, you can move back to Arashi City at any time. There are also places with beautiful scenery near Arashi City."

He admired Yuanye from the beginning. After all, he was a five-star medical expert. He didn't get impatient after being rejected once. He thought that it might be because Yuanye was of noble birth and looked down on him, a local noble with no background. He was discussing with Okumura Iefuku whether he should invest more money and marry his adopted daughter Alu to him. As a result, Yuanye moved directly to Oda Nobunaga's territory without saying a word and disappeared after running away.

He was a little disappointed at the time, but it just so happened that such a thing happened in Oda Danjotada's family, so he casually mentioned that he hoped Harano could move back again. After all, Owari was going to be in chaos, and there would be bound to be bloodshed. Having a medical expert at home would help save one life - he had seen and heard too many inheritance disputes among samurai families, and each time there was a lot of killing, and now there was such a sign in Danjotada's family.

Yuanye probably understood what he meant, and knew that there was some good intention in his words. Even though he didn't intend to move, he still said seriously, "Thank you very much."

This is not the place to talk, and seeing that he understood, Maeda Toshiharu didn't say anything more. He patted him on the shoulder, whispered "Be careful" and left. Yuanye lowered his head and thought for a moment, then returned to his temporary residence.

After waiting for several more hours, A-man finally came back with drunken boxing skills.

Her face was flushed from drinking and she looked very drunk. Her pubic eyebrows and small tufts of hair made her look even funnier. She burped as soon as she entered the tent and almost suffocated Yuanye.

Yuanye helplessly poured her some water, but she grabbed the kettle and drank half of it. Xiaoyuan's eyes were full of excitement: "I heard some news, you will never guess what it is!"

"That's enough, if you have to fart, do it now!" Yuanye was disgusted by her burp. He didn't have the patience to listen to her keeping him in suspense and started to disrespect her again.

"Okay!" Ah Man was actually eager to share gossip with Yuan Ye. He immediately moved closer to him and asked him as if he was planning a rebellion with him, "I told you before that the big fool became the mayor of Guye City when he was two years old. Do you remember this?" "I remember. What's wrong?"

"He was too young at the time, so there was a wet nurse who was responsible for taking care of him...hiccup, that was Ikeda Tsunetoshi's wife. After Ikeda Tsunetoshi died, his child was still young and had no one to rely on, so she was designated by Oda Nobuhide as the big fool's wet nurse, hiccup!"

Yuanye was convinced. How much did this wild kid drink?
He quickly pushed Ah Man away. She was so drunk that she almost fell into his arms and kept nudging him with her head. He wet the cotton towel and wiped her face, then continued to ask, "What happened next?"

"Later!" Ah Man became even more excited after wiping his face. He clenched his left hand into a fist and began to poke his right index finger into his fist repeatedly. He said mysteriously, "Later, Oda Nobuhide came back from a defeat. It was the time when he was defeated by the Imagawa family and the Matsudaira family at Azusaka. He came back from the defeat and temporarily stayed in Furuno Castle. He got drunk and was tempted by her beauty, so he took her... Do you understand?"

At the end of what she said, she quickly poked Yuanye a few times with her little fist, and asked with a weird look whether he understood or not, and whether he didn't even have this common sense.

Yuan Ye was slightly stunned, not expecting such a development, but he immediately reached out and knocked her dog's paw away, forbidding her to make such an indecent gesture again, and asked, "What happened next?"

"Then she disappeared." Aman rubbed his hands in dissatisfaction, but immediately stopped caring, and his tone became more secretive, "I got several people drunk and heard several different versions. Some said that she was strangled to death by Oda Nobuhide at the time, and another guy said that she was taken as a concubine and had been hiding in Oda Nobuhide's house. Another guy said that she was taken back to Oda Nobuhide's house, but that woman Tsuchida thought that it would be too unacceptable if the news of Oda Nobuhide raping the widow of his retainer and taking her as a concubine got out, so she threw her into the well directly."

She burped again when she said this, and felt that the world was turning upside down, and that Yuanye seemed to be constantly shifting positions. She tried to wipe her face with the cotton towel but couldn't find it, so she took his sleeve and wiped her face, adding, "Anyway, I went around a lot and asked a lot of people, but no one in Suemori City had seen her recently. She's probably dead, and it's very likely that the woman Tsuchida ordered someone to do it!"

So that's how it is. No wonder Oda Nobunaga refused to burn incense for his own father. Even when Hirate Masahide forced him to do so, and even when there were so many people around watching, he still stuck the incense sticks upside down into the incense burner at the last moment.

Yuanye lowered his head and pondered there, even imagining many scenes that were not suitable for children, such as Oda Nobunaga's wet nurse being dragged into the room by Oda Nobuhide, her clothes in disarray, crying and struggling to resist but to no avail, and Oda Nobunaga being pinned down by his retainers in the heavy rain outside the house, trying desperately to persuade him to be patient, but he bit his bloodless lips hard until they bled, and vowed to...

Of course, this should be impossible, it's a bit too melodramatic, serious historical dramas have to turn into melodramatic family ethics dramas, and they are still eight o'clock prime time. But even if Oda Nobunaga knew about it afterwards and agreed to let the wet nurse go with Oda Nobuhide, he should be very angry and would despise his father whom he admired. It is also very likely that he learned about the death of the wet nurse in Suemori Castle recently, so he was angry...

It's not certain, there are many details that we can't know, at least we can't figure out when the wet nurse died, but it is very likely that this is the case.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why Oda Nobunaga didn't send someone to call this Mongolian miracle doctor over when his own father was seriously ill!

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why Oda Nobunaga burned incense upside down and cursed his own father in front of all the samurai in the four counties under Owari!
Yuan Ye was making up his mind, making a lot of nonsense. Ah Man thought he didn't understand, so he tried to explain to him: "Haven't you figured it out yet? You are so stupid. Do you know what a wet nurse represents?

The emperor was raised by a wet nurse, the nobles also liked to do this, and the samurai followed suit, all their children had to be assigned a wet nurse. In addition, the big fool came to Kuno Castle to be the lord of the castle when he was two years old, far away from his parents. He was actually raised by a wet nurse - compared to Tsuchida, his wet nurse was more like his biological mother, and the relationship must have been very deep!

If his wet nurse was really killed by Tsuchida, and was really thrown into the well by Tsuchida, it is no wonder that Tsuchida dislikes him and wants to change another son to return the favor at a time like today. I guess she knows that with the big fool's temper, he will definitely avenge his wet nurse in the future, and she will suffer the consequences!"

Well, she was thinking the wrong thing. She didn't care why Oda Nobunaga went crazy, nor did she care about the life or death of an innocent woman. She had seen a lot of similar things. She just thought that Hara was concerned about the inheritance dispute of the Danjo family, and focused on Mrs. Tsuchida's strange attitude and why Mrs. Tsuchida supported her other son.

Yuanye nodded. He actually knew all this. A wet nurse does not just feed the child. She also has the responsibility of educating the child on manners and character, and providing maternal care to the child. That is why there are countless powerful wet nurses in Japanese history. They are indeed the closest people to the child.

Looking at it this way, Aman's guess might be correct. It seems that Tsuchida really didn't want Oda Nobunaga to succeed to the throne, so he pushed forward another of his own sons to compete.

Seeing that he finally understood, Ah Man felt relieved, thinking that the mission was accomplished and that his drinking of his wine was not in vain. He finally couldn't resist the drunkenness anymore, so he leaned to the side and fell asleep, muttering, "It's too dirty, the homes of you warriors are too dirty, really too dirty..."

Yuanye took out a quilt to cover her, tucked her hands and feet into the quilt, sat cross-legged beside her, looking deep into his eyes and thinking quietly.

My curiosity was satisfied and I managed to solve a historical mystery, but the situation seemed to have gotten worse.

The plan may need to be changed again. After something like this happened, internal strife in the Oda Danmasatada family seems inevitable, it is just a matter of time. It is not appropriate to renovate the house at this time. We should continue to improve our self-defense capabilities to avoid being hacked to death by the chaotic soldiers when the war breaks out.

So, let them exploit you, now is not the time to worry about it, you need to quickly get some money back to deal with the emergency!
(End of this chapter)