Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 84 Forced Archaeology
Asano Nagakatsu was both surprised and concerned about Harano's visit. After being informed, he personally welcomed him in and treated him as a distinguished guest with great ceremony. After all, Harano had become very famous during that period.

Of course, it wasn't because he turned the tide and shot dead the general of the Matsudaira family's harassment team, which caused a sensation. Everyone was praising his amazing archery skills. It was a big defeat, and Oda Nobunaga was almost caught up and hacked to death. It is inevitable that people will feel bad if they often mention Oda Nobunaga, and not many people dare to say it.

Yuan Ye has become famous recently, mostly because he has been practicing medicine for a long time and has cured countless patients. His reputation for superb medical skills and benevolent ethics has finally fermented and spread.

After all, this is an era where one can die from a headache or fever, and people often die for unknown reasons. Therefore, a serious doctor is considered an "extraordinary person". Suddenly one appears, and he is very fresh and very practical. Everyone who knows about him will tell their relatives and friends, so that they don't have no place to treat their illness and end up eating horse manure to death at home.

So Yuanye naturally made it to the "Naguno City Hot Search List of the Month" with a "HOT" label next to his head, becoming a hot topic and it was impossible for him not to become famous.

Asano Nagakatsu also had a family, so he was naturally very happy to establish a friendship with a "medical master". He prepared tea and pastries, and after exchanging pleasantries with him, he straightened his posture and asked, "I wonder why Lord Nohara came here this time..."

If Yuanye wanted to ask him for a favor, in order to prevent his wife and daughter from becoming seriously ill in the future and not being able to ask Yuanye for help, as long as it was not a matter of principle, even if it was just borrowing money, he felt that it could be discussed.

As for Yuanye, his target was not him at all. He waved to Aman to bring the souvenirs over, sat upright, and politely pushed them to him: "Mr. Asano, you are too polite. I just settled in Owari and came here to say hello. There is nothing special...

Sorry to bother you. This is some seasoning produced by my family. It tastes unique. Please don't be disgusted. Also, this is a homemade pastry. Children should like it very much. Please ask your daughter...family to try it.

It’s not respectful, please forgive me! "

"No, no, no, Lord Nohara is too polite. It's a great honor for you to visit my humble home. Why do you want more... No, no, no!" Asano Nagakatsu instinctively declined, following the traditional Japanese procedure of three refusals and three concessions. However, his mind was already a little confused - from what Harano said, it seemed that he had just moved and came to visit his neighbor specially. But he and Harano could not be considered neighbors. The two sides were separated by more than ten miles and could not even be reached with a cannon. What kind of neighbor were they?
But Yuanye had come, and even if he couldn't understand why Yuanye would come to greet such a faraway "neighbor", he couldn't chase Yuanye away. He could only practice Tai Chi for a while, accept the gift after some refusals, and then specifically instructed the maid to ask his wife to prepare lunch personally to entertain the guests, and by the way, call the two ladies to thank the guests - Japan at that time didn't pay much attention to the separation of men and women, and Yuanye specially brought pastries for his daughter, and it was basic courtesy for his daughter to come out and thank him.

As expected, the person was tricked out! Yuan Ye saw that his goal had been achieved, so he chatted with Asano Nagakatsu and established a friendship.

According to his plan, in the next period of time, whenever he has something to do in Kuno Castle, he will check in at Asano Nagakatsu, find out his preferences, and cultivate a "friendship" with him. After accumulating this over time, in a few months at the shortest and one or two years at the longest, he should be able to become a "close friend" or even a "close family friend" with Asano Nagakatsu.

Then he will have the opportunity to talk all kinds of nonsense and persuade him to arrange a marriage for Ningning as soon as possible, or he can simply act as a matchmaker and find a young talent with a good future like Maeda Toshiie to marry Ningning off in advance.

In this way, even if he can't do anything to Monkey in the future, for example, if Monkey has not appeared yet and he is forced to leave Owari or return to modern times for various reasons, at the very least, Monkey's arm has been cut off, making it impossible for him to develop as smoothly as in normal history - I won't go into the detailed history, but the reason why Monkey was able to rise from the grassroots and achieve great success is that Ningning, the "female Taiko", "money-making master", "logistics manager", "Toyotomi family's wet nurse and leader of the martial arts faction", played a very important role.

Well, the monkey was able to conquer the world and govern it peacefully for a period of time without causing any major chaos. It might be an exaggeration to say that Ningning accounted for half of the credit, but no one would question that she accounted for one-third of the credit.

At the same time, this would also prevent Monkey from inheriting the Asano family's heritage. At least Asano Nagamasa, the adopted son of Asano Nagakatsu, would most likely not be with Monkey anymore and would not serve him as his master. Naturally, Monkey would no longer have a share of the Asano family's men, land, and property, and at least half of the capital that allowed him to start his business would be cut off - maybe just this short of a breath, and he would never be able to make any new achievements in the future, and it is not impossible that he would be directly abandoned by Oda Nobunaga.

If we calculate it this way, even if the monkey is half wasted, even if he didn't get tens of millions of merits, he will definitely get millions. By then, he can become a saint instantly... but it should be unlikely. But becoming a Daluo Jinxian... may also be a little difficult. But becoming an ordinary Jinxian should be no problem!
Yuan Ye was very satisfied with his plan. After all, how many times in a lifetime can a person save millions of people? Since it doesn't take much time and doesn't involve much risk, why not do it?
Even if there weren't millions of people, if it was just to prevent the war of aggression against Korea, and to save tens of thousands of lives, and give the Later Jin a little less chance to rise, he could accept it - the Qing Dynasty was really a scam, not as good as portrayed in later TV dramas, and the prosperous times had nothing to do with them, so if there was a chance to scam them, he would be willing to do it even if he had to pay for it.

It's just that he can't go back now. If he could go back, he would definitely go to the Northeast to defeat them!

Yuanye had a lot of bad intentions, but he didn't show it on his face. He chatted with Asano Nagakatsu enthusiastically. After chatting for a while, Asano Nagakatsu's two adopted daughters came out. His eyes moved to Ningning involuntarily, and he looked at her with interest - a historical celebrity, still alive, and a young version, which would never be seen in later generations, so he had to take a closer look to deepen his memory.

Ningning is now about seven or eight years old. She has a princess hairstyle and princess-cut sideburns, which makes her already small face look even smaller. This is in line with the traditional aesthetic of the Japanese - the smaller the face, the more delicate and beautiful the person appears, and the more noble they look.

In later generations in Japan, a common compliment to others is "her face is so small", which has a lot to do with this hairstyle.

Of course, in addition to her delicate face, Ningning also has a pair of big almond eyes with bright color and long eyelashes, which makes her look very intelligent. She is wearing a beige floral dress, and probably because she is meeting a "distinguished guest", she also put on a gorgeous coat. It seems that the information that Aman got is correct. Asano Nagakatsu really treats them as his own daughters and takes care of them wholeheartedly. At least they have never lacked for food and clothing, and it seems that they are raised in wealth and pampered.

This is probably one of the reasons why the Asano family will be able to gain great benefits when Ningning becomes successful in the future. After all, the Binyuan family is closer to her in blood, but they didn't gain any benefits. Instead, a lot of them died in the battle and the whole family was almost wiped out.

Yuanye is a very serious person, and he is actually very curious. He is the kind of person who would stop reading "The Clever Ikki" and look up information when he doesn't understand it halfway through. At this moment, in order to satisfy his curiosity, his eyes were bright and bright, as if he had installed a 250-watt light bulb, and he kept looking at Ningning, forcing himself to do archaeology. Ningning was young but very courageous. Seeing that he was always looking at her, she didn't shy away, but looked back at him directly and looked him up and down, not at all inferior.

Asano Nagakatsu was even more confused and couldn't figure out what was going on. He looked left and right. After a while, he suddenly had an idea and started to look at Yuanye carefully. He was tall and had noble blood and a good family background. He was also handsome and could be said to be a well-mannered man. It was said that he had opened a workshop and was doing good business. Although it was a bit embarrassing for a samurai to do business, it was not a big problem. At least his family wealth was quite substantial.

More importantly, I heard that he is still unmarried, and he is the only master of the Nohara family...

Asano Nagakatsu watched and seemed to understand a little bit. He said that Yuanye and he had nothing in common, so why did he run more than ten miles to meet his neighbor? It turned out that he was thinking about his adopted daughter!
This is really messed up...

Wait, he's not such a jerk. This doesn't seem to be a bad thing. It seems that he is in good condition and is still qualified to covet his treasure, which is the name of the Kinoshita family...

This problem is not unsolvable. In the future, a son can be sent to continue the Kinoshita family, or a daughter can be sent to the Kinoshita family and then a son-in-law can be recruited to adopt her. There are precedents for this, and I think Oda Nobunaga would agree with it, so it should not be a big problem.

Then in two or three years, Ningning will hold a tooth dyeing ceremony (daughters of the Wu family usually do not dye their teeth black or shave their eyebrows), and this marriage is not impossible to consider. At least at present, he still has a great advantage. He is a legitimate head of the family and has a lot of family wealth, which is much better than the second sons and illegitimate sons of other families.

As Asano Nagakatsu thought about it, the way he looked at Yuanye changed, from respect and politeness to a pie-like mixture of three parts scrutiny, three parts appreciation, three parts hesitation, and one part unwillingness. And it was not only him who was suspicious and had a mind full of random thoughts, Aman was also a little confused.

She had originally thought that Yuan Ye had gone too far this time, strangely looking for the two daughters of the Kinoshita family, and couldn't even give a reason, but now look...

It seems that this guy really needs a wife. After all, he is not young anymore. Other people of his age would have their second wife and would have at least two or three children.

Moreover, he had some money and a large house, so he had the capital to start a family. It was also time for him to have offspring and strengthen the Nohara family bloodline, in case he suddenly died one day, such as choking to death while eating or drinking water, and the family business would be lost to others for nothing.

As A-man thought about it, her gaze also turned to Ningning, looking her up and down, examining her in various ways, and revealing a pie-in-the-sky look, to judge whether she was qualified to be the mistress of the Nohara family - she seemed okay, but marrying an unvirtuous wife would bring disaster to three generations. Yuanye treated her with sincerity and trusted her very much, but he himself lacked "common sense", so she could not let him down. She should take the lead, act carefully, and keep a close eye on him!
Well, tomorrow she will secretly mobilize people to conduct a thorough investigation to see if this Ningning is the kind of cunning and vicious woman who says one thing in front of others and another behind their backs, and whether she has any defects in her personality or physical condition!
(End of this chapter)