Pillars of the Wu family

() This place is close to the Tōkaidō. For the safety of the street, the nearby woods are cut down every year. Kira Manmatsumaru’s mount is a Kiso horse that is good at mountain walking. Zenjiro yelled in fright, and chased after him on his poor horse.

After chasing all the way for several hundred meters, there was no sign of the house governor, and the warriors of Ma Hui hurriedly scattered to look around. Fortunately, the woods were not too big, and after a while, Ma Hui came to report that the owner of the house was seen in the woodland in front of him. The lord's horse, Yamaoka Zenjiro whistled and gathered the horses back to the samurai, and chased them in the indicated direction.

Not far away, I found the figure of the mount in the depths of the woods. This carefully selected house governor's mount was tied to a tree and chewed the leaves leisurely. Not far away, there was a simple campsite where Kira Wansongmaru was sitting. I had a good conversation with a child of similar age, and another child who was only four or five years old was dozing off with his arms around the mighty black eagle, as if he was not interested in this unexpected visitor.

"My lord!" Yamaoka Zenjiro hurriedly got off his horse and ran all the way. The dozen or so horses behind him immediately spread out and blocked the surrounding roads. He made a tense gesture, and the older child immediately changed his face. , pulled his younger brother to bow his head and knelt down, not daring to speak.

Kira Manmatsumaru raised his eyes to see the posture of the crowd, and said with a smile: "Zenjiro? What are you going to do? Don't scare them, and put away your weapons quickly!"

"But the origins of these two people are unknown. For the safety of the owner, it is better for Rong Zenjiro to investigate and then release the guard!" Shan Gang Zenjiro stubbornly refused his request, staring at the two children with a serious expression and asked: "You guys What's your name? What do you do? Where do you come from? Why do you approach the owner of the house?"

The older child was quite calm, and replied with a little cheer: "The villain's name is Honda Hachiro, this is my younger brother..."

"Mihachiro! Sanya!" An anxious shout came from a distance, a middle-aged man was stopped by the horses of Kira's family and walked around in a hurry. Kira Wansongmaru glanced at the nervous expressions of the two brothers and said: " Let him in! This man should be the father of these brothers."

"But for your safety, Master..." Yamaoka Zenjiro still wanted to argue.

"I entrust the safety of the family to you, let this man come here now!" Kira Manmatsumaru glared at him, flinched Yamaoka Zenjiro, and hurriedly stepped aside to let the middle-aged man in.

This middle-aged man is more knowledgeable than his two children. As soon as he saw a dozen strong and strong warriors with swords in their waists and hips and strong bows on their backs, he knew that this group of people had a lot of background, so he bowed his head and bowed twice He vaguely called "Adult" twice, kept his eyes on the two children, and after confirming that there was no problem with the two children, he said cautiously: "The villain's name is Honda Toshimasa, and he is from Ogawa in the county. Eaglesmith, today I took two children out to falconry, these are the villain’s two sons, Mibalang and Sanmi, I wonder if they offended the lord or not?”

"They didn't attack me. Is your family a falconer? Or the Honda clan? What is the relationship between you and Honda Tadaka, who died in the battle of Anxiang City this year?" At first hearing the word Honda, Kira Manmatsumaru frowned. Contemplating for a moment: "Falconry is a rare profession. Is there anyone in Sanhe who has been a falconer? The child name of Mihachiro is quite familiar, but the name Honda Junzheng has never been heard of before!"

"Honta Heihachiro is of the villain's clan, and he is the leader of the Honda family." It is also a little embarrassing to mention this Honda Toshimasa. As a member of the Honda clan, look at the Honda Zhong Gao mixed What kind of thing, looking at how his branch family is mixed up, in the Songping family, he is not a good guy, he can only win the favor of the family governor with his eagle-raising skills, it is really a tear.

"Honta Heihachiro, Honda Yahachiro, very familiar names, isn't Honda Tadakatsu the same as Heihachiro? Then this Yahachiro is Honda Shoshin?" Kira Manmatsumaru suddenly realized that this guy must be Honda Shoshin Father, so this Yahachiro is his son Honda Masanobu?

"Aren't you from the Honda clan? How did you become a falconer?" Kira Wansongmaru asked gossipingly.

"This... In the next family, there are not many branches. In addition to the family of Heihachiro's Honda Tadataka, there is also the Honda Juro family of Jujuro's family. Hikozaburo's Hikozaburo's family is a direct descendant of the main branch. Therefore, he is not qualified to be in the same hall as the clan." Ben Duojun felt that his old face was about to be lost, and he still didn't know which family the handsome boy opposite him belonged to, so he had already put away the little furniture. It was all shaken out, he really wanted to give himself a mouthful now.

"So you're just an underground person, and in order to support the family business, you also have the skills of a falconer?" Kira Wansongmaru suddenly realized, no wonder Honda Masanobu has been doing poorly with the tortoise, and even ran out I haven't been home for decades, so it turned out that several branches of my clan were so overwhelmed that I couldn't hold my head up.

"It is a skill handed down from my grandfather Zhongzheng. My ancestors learned how to tame falcons in Kyoto, so the skill of taming falcons passed down by my little man is also very famous. Forty shi Zhixing was given to the ancestor of the family, and the villain was also promoted to the head of the ashigaru group because of his falconry skills. When Zhixing rose to eighty shi, the eldest son of the villain, Chongzhen, also became a warrior of the Matsudaira family." Speaking of this, this Toshimoto Honda looked extremely excited, as if he was very excited about the kindness of the Matsudaira family, and his old flushed face danced.

"You still have an eldest son? Where are these two children?"

"Mihachiro is my second son, because his elder brother Honda Yahachiro Shigesada became a samurai of the Matsudaira family and succeeded the villain as the head of the footgaru group, so the villain also changed his childhood name to Mihachiro, intending to In the future, I will pass on the skills of the falconer of Honda to him, and I will have a skill to make a living in the future. Mimi is the fourth son, and it is the first time that I followed Mihachiro out to release falcons." Honda Toshi said while nodding and bowing.

"So that's the case, I understand!" Kira Wansongmaru nodded and ignored him, turned his face to the two children and asked, "I'm giving you a chance to live a mediocre life as a falconer or a farmer. For the rest of your life, follow me and become an excellent warrior in the future to serve your family, and you make your own decisions!"

"What... what's going on here?" Ben Duojun was so frightened, he couldn't figure it out, why did he jump to let his two sons become samurai?Who is this nobleman?Feeling that his head is not enough, all kinds of questions come one after another, he wants to ask the people around him for help, but who will answer him?Yamaoka Zenjiro squatted beside him resentfully, staring back and forth at the father and son like a falcon.

In this era, the samurai class is extremely strict. In front of samurai who are higher in status than yourself, if you speak too much, you will be reprimanded and humiliated, or anything may happen, so even if he is clearly in a hurry, he does not dare to say too much mouth, he wished he could kneel down and pray to the gods and Buddhas to let these people leave quickly.

The child named Yahachiro pulled his five-year-old brother Mihachiro to bow down: "I, Tamihachiro, would like to follow Kira Miyakata-sama!"