I am practicing in the Nianghua Warring States Period

"?! Lord... Lord?! I, I don't know either? I..." Banjing Shuji was crying, but it was the right time to cry now.

"Cry! Cry! - Do you still have any samurai spirit? - Come, give him a kaishaku! I'm giving you face by letting you commit seppuku! Don't force me to kill you!" Oda Shinji was terrified and furious, and immediately gave a look to the other retainers. The other retainers also gathered around -

If you want to be decent, then be decent yourself. If you are not decent, we will help you be decent.

"I, I, I... wuwuwu..." Itai Shuji was only in his early twenties and had no idea what was going on. Were the consequences of impulsiveness so severe? Somehow, he'd already raised his sword, trembling. Bushido? It didn't exist back then.

He begged for mercy several times, spat several times, and then reluctantly raised and lowered the knife several times. Under the threat of the glaring sword of the ghost who had been his colleague just a few minutes ago and was now a murderous ghost, Itai Shuji stabbed the knife into his own stomach.

Snap! — Before he could even make a single horizontal cut, his head was chopped off.

"What should I do?" Oda Shinji saw the culprit dead, his anger receding, only to be replaced by fear. "I... I went to surrender, so why did they kill Oda Nobuhime's brother? My nephew? I, I, I..."

He was surrounded by ordinary soldiers and no one gave him any advice.

"It's over! Oda Nobuhime is such a petty person, she doesn't even let her own mother off the hook! Her brothers and sisters all have to be under her watch... If I go there, wouldn't I be walking right into the tiger's mouth?!"

"Lord!?" Seeing the lord's absent-minded look, the warriors around him also started to panic.

People's hearts are broken and it's hard to lead the team.

"Shall we go back to the city?"

"Go back to the city, yes, go back to the city... No! Going back to the city will definitely kill me!" Oda Shinji suddenly remembered someone and said fearfully, "I saw it last time. That fellow, Hokuto Nobuo, is no ordinary person! I saw him in the field with my own eyes, and I heard that he can capture a city in a quarter of an hour! If I return to Moriyama Castle, wouldn't that mean he'll be caught in a trap!"

"Run! We must run!" Oda Shinji was so panicked that he didn't even dare to go back to the castle and defend the mountain castle. He jumped on his horse! "I must run now! ... Run to the Imagawa family! - Go! Hurry! Follow me!"

As he spoke, Oda Shinji, who was so frightened that his soul was gone, lay on the horse's back and asked his warriors to lead the horse: "Hold me! - Quickly, go! - Go quickly! If you are late, that ghost will chase us!!!"

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Oda Shinji killed someone and threw the body into the wilderness without caring about it.

However, not long after that, what a coincidence, isn't it?

Shibata Katsuie also wanted to pay his respects! He came along the path and found Oda Shinji running away in a panic. As respectable samurai, of course they had to greet each other.

"Oh, isn't this His Highness Shinji? I have..."

Shibata Katsuie was riding on a horse and wanted to say hello.

However, Oda Shinji rode on his horse and ran away in a panic. He didn't even say hello, and his panic-stricken appearance made him look particularly embarrassed.

"How rude." Shibata Katsuie, who was standing still, looked at the panicked look of his old lord's brother and couldn't help but curl his lips: "We are truly a family, but not a single soul..."

"My Lord!" Shibata Katsuie's henchmen couldn't stand it any longer and said, "Should I catch up with them and ask them why they don't return the favor?"

"No need, I'm too lazy to bother with him." Recently, thanks to the blows from Beidou Xinwei, Shibata Katsuie, once the "First Warrior of Owari" and "First Tiger General of Oda", has even become much more calm! He really doesn't care about fame and fortune. Fame and fortune are like clouds to me. All the wisdom in this life has flashed frequently during this period, and the samurai radar of this life has been ticking frantically during this period: "My intuition tells me that this guy is trash, it doesn't matter. Let's continue on our way——"

"I'll shoot him with an arrow, just a feint." The warrior next to him drew his bow and arrow, ready to shoot intimidatingly.

"Are you sick?" Shibata Katsuie whipped the man over and restrained him, cursing, "What if you get hit? Be more careful next time! - Okay, let's get on with our journey!"

Shibata Katsuie waved his whip and continued forward.

"My lord." A sharp-eyed warrior walked for a quarter of an hour and spotted a body on the side of the road. "There's a body...a horse?"

"Hmm? There's a horse?" In the chaotic Warring States era, corpses on the roadside were common, but a horse next to a corpse? — Why? Isn't murder and robbery normal? Could it be an accidental death, and no one else has encountered this unexpected windfall? "I'll go and see... see... Hmm?"

Looking forward curiously, Shibata Katsuie was stunned for about a minute and a half.

Then turn around and run!

—This matter has nothing to do with us! Oh, by the way, send someone to report to Oda Nobuhime! This is your uncle Nobuji's fault!

Chapter 126 Household Registration Book-1

"Nani?!"

Beidou Xinwei watched Oda Nobuhime's facial expressions up close.

The girl opened her eyes wide and used her hands to push away Beidou Xinwei in front of her, looking as if she had seen a ghost.

"You said Hidetaka...Hidetaka is dead!?"

"Hayi!" Sakuma Nobumori cursed Shibata Katsuie in his heart, calling him a non-human being, but the two families had become friendly because Shibata Katsuie asked his father, Sakuma Moritsugu, to ask him to come and report it.

I really don’t want to come!

"According to Shibata Katsuie's witness, it was His Highness Oda Shinji's men who did it. It was too late when His Highness Shibata Katsuie rushed over to help. You must have beheaded the murderer of His Highness Hidetaka. The head of the criminal who killed His Highness Hidetaka is here." As he said this, Sakuma Nobumori brought over a head.

"......?!" Gulp gulp, Oda Nobuhime crawled in front of Sakuma Nobumori, trembling all over. She took out the bleeding head from the box and took a look at it.

"!!! Bastard, bastard! Bastard! Damn it!" Suddenly, Oda Nobuhime jumped up and slammed the opponent's head to the ground, stepping on it back and forth with blood. The skull of the young man was extremely hard, and Oda Nobuhime screamed madly for a long time. Then she walked to the side, pulled out a knife, and chopped the man's head randomly. This kind of ruthlessness was frightening to watch, but it still felt unsatisfactory. In the end, she took the head that was chopped into a lion's ball in her hand and shouted: "You bastard, come to me if you dare! Ghost, do you hear me! Come to me, I will kill you once you come, and I will torture you to death every time you come!!! Ahhhhhh!!"

I'm really not afraid at all, I'm even a little bit looking forward to it.

Finally, he shouted loudly and threw the head to the ground. The head, which had been chopped into pieces, was now like a watermelon, puff!

Beidou Xinwei felt that it was a bit restricted after watching it.

But considering Oda Nobuhime's personality, this scene is something she could have done. She placed too much importance on family ties, and generally turned a blind eye to her own relatives, even sparing her rebellious brother once. Betrayals would truly break her heart, and she would turn evil.

Odaichi, who was standing by, was trembling with fear. Perhaps because he knew about Hidetaka's death, he even sobbed softly - leaning directly into Kitado Nobuyoshi's arms.

"Fuck Oda Shinji, you bastard!" Oda Nobuhime, knife in hand, covered in blood... and brains, with a look of bloodshot eyes, yelled, "Avi!!!!"

"...? Yes, I'll gather the troops and lead them myself..." Beidou Xinwei said immediately. He already knew what he was going to do next. Someone would have to pay the price. Oda Shinji was the lord of Moriyama Castle, so he would definitely go after Moriyama Castle.

"Get lost, I don't need you this time! I'll lead the team myself!" Oda Nobuhime shouted, "Gather eight hundred men and horses, I'll lead the team to attack Moriyama Castle myself!... Forget it, I can't wait any longer, I'm going to kill him with my own hands! My father's son, who can just kill him if he wants! Hidetaka... Hidetaka... my brother... wuwuwu..."

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Family avenges family. To be frank, this was Oda Nobuhime's younger brother. Although they had the same father but different mothers, Oda Nobuhime was relatively nostalgic. She had watched him grow up for over a decade, and now he was shot to death in the suburbs like a stray dog. Any normal person would have been unbearable.

Oda Nobuhime went all out this time, summoning every samurai who could ride a horse. They rushed to Moriyama Castle. From Oda Nobuhime's perspective, this was a campaign to quell rebellion. "I'm going there to punish you!" There weren't many, only fifty in total, but every one of them was armored and on horseback, making them a relatively elite force for the era.

It was very strange that Beidou Xinwei stayed in Qingzhou Castle to defend it.

"What on earth is your lord planning?" Beidou Xinwei, now 15, looked at the others with an air of superiority. Take, for example, Hirate Masahide: "For something like this, either a jailer is enough to capture him and interrogate him. Or else, we should raise a large army and attack Moriyama Castle. It's a difficult decision..."

"Your Highness is right." The old man seemed like a serious old Japanese. He knelt down in a serious manner and said, "But this may be a matter of the samurai's reputation, and also... the lord dotes on his relatives. Oda Shinji is also her uncle. I guess she doesn't know what to do now."

"This matter has caused a lot of trouble." Beidou Xinwei was helpless and felt that the matter was always too strange. However...

The New Year's pig, the frightened donkey, the angry daughter-in-law, and the fish that have come ashore.

I have no real solution to this problem. She goes out to pick a fight without even bringing her own man. This kind of woman is really strong.

"Deng Deng Deng Deng——"

"Lord!"

"My Lord!——"

Suddenly, there was another burst of hurried noises. Beidou Xinwei, sitting in Qingzhou Castle, suddenly heard a burst of hurried footsteps and voices approaching from afar. But Oda Xinji had only been gone for less than three hours, so how could it be possible...

"Avi! Help me select the soldiers and generals!" Oda Nobuhime ran to the Honmaru Palace in Kiyosu Castle in a hurry and came back.

"How did you get back so quickly?" Beidou Xinwei looked at the other person's dusty appearance, his tongue almost running to the ground, and he was about to reveal his Ahegao: "Did you capture Oda Shinji?"

"Run away!" Oda Nobuhime took the water from the attendant beside her and drank the usual amount in one gulp [No, I can't drink any more]. It can be seen that she is deceiving Beidou Nobumi on a daily basis.

"That guy actually ran away. No one knows where he went, but he didn't go back to Moriyama Castle!" Oda Nobuhime cursed Oda Nobuji for being a piece of shit, but... there was someone even worse waiting behind: "That guy Nobuyuki actually led his troops from Suemori Castle to attack Moriyama Castle! He was close, and he got the news of Hidetaka's death and Nobuji's escape earlier! He had been attacking Moriyama Castle for a day! When I rode to three miles from the castle, I saw from afar that it was Nobuyuki's troops who were attacking. I caught the fleeing residents of the castle town, and they said that it was Nobuji's family elder who was guarding the castle--"

Oda Nobuhime explained it briefly.

Her brother was causing trouble again, but this time he had a reason - also under the pretext of revenge for his brother.

Hidetaka is your Oda Nobuhime's younger brother, and also my Oda Nobuyuki's younger brother! We're all family. You're allowed to take revenge, but I'm not? ——So what Oda Nobuyuki did this time wasn't a big mistake.

Chapter 127 Household Registration Book-2

"No, I can't encourage this guy Nobuyuki. He takes Moriyama Castle today, and tomorrow he thinks he's all right again!" After finishing her water, Oda Nobuhime grabbed a few rice balls and stuffed them into her bag. She also grabbed a bamboo tube to hold her miso soup. "He only wants one city and one piece of land, so I won't argue with him! If he wants two cities, I must kill him! I hope he doesn't make a mistake!"

"Hmm..." Actually, with me here, there won't be many opportunities for your family to stay: "Five hundred people, is that enough?"

"That's enough!" Oda Nobuhime nodded and said, "Let's gather the troops!"

"Everyone's gathering at the training ground outside the city." Beidou Xinwei pointed casually outside from the Honmaru Palace and said, "I knew you'd have to come back, so I made double insurance preparations - I thought it would be resolved peacefully, but I didn't expect it to be used in the end."

"Very good." Oda Nobuhime slapped Beidou Nobuyuki on the back with her small hand. "I'll reward you well when I get back! You stay here, I'm leaving first! Wait for my good news. I will definitely take Moriyama Castle... If I can't take it, I won't let Nobuyuki take it either."

Either I beat you, or one of us dies.

Pushing into the shadows, Oda Nobuhime regrouped her troops and hurried from Kiyosu Castle to Moriyama Castle, a distance of fourteen kilometers. Oda Nobuhime herself had already run one and a half round trips today. However, Oda Nobuhime left.

Hirate Masahide also left on the pretext of returning to the city to reorganize military affairs in preparation for any emergency.

Beidou Xinwei was the only one left in Qingzhou City - at this time, Beidou Xinwei's radar sounded.

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"Your Highness, Your Highness." A figure passed by Beidou Xinwei. This figure had been hanging around in front of Beidou Xinwei all day.

"If you have something to say, then say it. If not, get out of here." Beidou Xinwei looked at the other party, then lowered his head to read today's report again - the Baiyang family didn't pay the grain, and used their daughter Xizi to pay off the debt. Beidou Xinwei would refute this if he could. If the landlord didn't have any extra money, he would think of other ways -

“Yes, yes, yes.” The figure came over, wagging its tail like an autumn dog. “Your Highness, it’s been a year and a half since we met in the castle town, almost two years. At first, you were a wild samurai, but later, you were honored by the lord three times and became a retainer. Later, you became the lord of a city. You are really impressive——”

"..." Beidou Xinwei raised his head and gave the other person a deep look: "Aquan, what's the matter?"

The person who came was none other than Maeda Toshiie.

"Yes, yes, yes." Maeda Toshiie's father was still alive, but because of the faction he had chosen, Maeda Toshiie, who had sided with Oda Nobuyuki and therefore Nobuhime, would sooner or later inherit his father's territory. If Maeda Toshiie's father had any dignity, he would have retired gracefully. If not... that would be truly disastrous.

"Isn't this all thanks to you? My father is planning to hand over the family heirship to me soon."

"What do you mean by 'thank you for my blessing'? This is your own hard work. Tell me, anyone who shows off to others for no reason is either a traitor or a thief."

"Although my territory has also increased, but... some things are not that simple. Let me introduce someone to you. He is six years older than me, but he is my nephew." Maeda Toshiie is 16 years old this year, and the other party is 22?

"?" Beidou Xinwei had a vague premonition.

"This man's name is Maeda Yoshiie." Maeda Toshiie said with an apologetic smile, "My nephew is extremely brave..."

"Wait a minute." Beidou Xinwei stopped the other party from boasting. "Your nephew... why your nephew? Your brother's child is this big? And the old man..."

"Oh, my eldest brother Toshihisa's son. My eldest brother... to be honest, he's not in good health and has been bedridden for years." Maeda Toshiie is known as the master of spears, and he stabs with a powerful spear. After two years of marriage, his wife, who is only 16 years old, gave birth to two big fat boys in succession. But... his eldest brother still has no children: "My eldest brother adopted this adopted son, who was originally a distant branch of our family. Oh, the nephew of that guy Takigawa Kazumasu. He was adopted into our family and became my nephew. He is very strong, really strong. Do you want to meet him?"

"Why not introduce him to the lord? Being the lord's loyal subject is better than..." Beidou Xinwei thought to himself that working in a state-owned enterprise and being under the supervision of the leader is better than being the deputy captain of a production team in a factory.

"His personality is a bit like our Lord's. The more similar a person is, the more likely they are to get into trouble. Our Lord would have beaten him four times in three days. I want to leave a descendant for my brother." Maeda Toshiie spoke frankly, "My brother is destined to not inherit the family headship. The family business will be mine from now on. But I have to support my eldest brother. Can't I raise his adopted son forever? Isn't this... asking you for help with a sullen face?"

"Hmph...what's your name? Maeda Yoshitsugu, right?"

"Yes, yes, his nickname is Sobei, everyone calls him Keijiro, or Keiji. Well, he was called Rita a while ago, but after my brother heard that I was going to inherit the family headship, he changed his name to Lili. I feel very sorry for him..." Maeda Toshiie knelt on the ground, fanning Kitado Nobuo and serving him tea.

"Okay, let him report to my house tomorrow and I'll take a look at him."

Most people probably can't handle Maeda Keiji. He's said to be very capable, but he's not very honest. Beidou Xinwei, on the other hand, doesn't care. Can anyone be more outlandish than my wife? Besides, who do you think you are? I won't spoil you. "I told him clearly, I don't care about all the formalities. But he can't show off. It's fine to just deal with the facts. If you can't do your job properly, get out."

"Yes, yes, he knows what's right and wrong, don't worry, he just has a cheerful personality."

Everyone in the Maeda family is born in the year of the dog, and Maeda Toshiie is like an Akita dog in front of Kitado Nobuo.

Maeda Keiji is like a husky, and a very silly one at that.

"And yes, Aquan."

"Yes?"

"It's your brother's business. He can't afford to take over, so you're taking over. That's perfectly normal. Don't take it too personally." Beidou Xinwei picked up another report beside him and began to read it. This report, in a spreadsheet format, was given to him by his direct minister, so he read it carefully. "Don't feel too guilty. Do you understand?"

"Yes, thank you for your concern, Your Highness." Maeda Toshiie was so moved that he almost couldn't stand it. This is his own person!

"Your Highness, Your Highness!"

At this moment, an ordinary samurai came over. He knelt on the ground and reported, "Your Highness—Outside the city, His Highness Oda Nobuhiro and his 50 retainers are stationed here!"

"Huh?" Beidou Xinwei was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Maeda Toshiie: "What's going on?"

"Oh, Your Highness...it's probably customary," Maeda Toshiie quickly offered commentary. "Your Highness Oda Nobuhiro is the eldest illegitimate son of our old lord, Your Highness Nobuhide. For years, he's been ostracized from the inner circle of power, and no one obeys him. But he's truly a member of the Oda clan. While he lacks commanding ability, he's more than capable of defending. When Your Highness Nobuhime and you are away, he usually defends the castle. This time, he's probably here to relieve the guard..."

"?" Beidou Xinwei became alert this time.

There have been so many strange things happening recently, how come they are all so coincidental?

Chapter 128 Household Registration Book-3

Beidou Xinwei was very puzzled and became alert. According to his understanding, this level of alertness was enough to deal with the crisis.

However, standing at the gate of Kiyosu Castle, Oda Nobuhiro was like an ant on a hot day! His purpose in coming was, of course, very clear.