Qingdeng chuckled a few times:

"It doesn't matter. Rather, you came at the right time. Just now, I personally beheaded the thief leader Shibasaki Renjuro."

Hosotanizaemon was speechless and speechless for a moment.

"Juju, Lord Ju, that means...has the bandit army been eliminated?"

"What? You don't believe it?"

Hosoyazaemon hurriedly buried his head.

"No! How dare we doubt your Excellency!"

Qingden smiles.

"Let's not talk about it for now. Do you have food and water?"

"Huh? Food and water?"

"We have been fighting fiercely for a whole day. We haven't eaten a grain of rice or a drop of water. We are all hungry. To be honest, I am so hungry that I can hardly stand."

With the blessing of talents such as "Block Blood +7" and "Yuan Yang +4", Qingdeng's vitality is quite strong.

Just being hungry for a day won't cause him any harm.

However, although his words were exaggerated, he was indeed very hungry now.

Not eating for a long time, coupled with the intense exhaustion of riding and fighting... His stomach cavity had already been moaning repeatedly in pain.

The same was true for Sanazi and the others behind him. The hunger fire in their bellies had already made them dizzy.

Hosotani Zaemon was startled for a moment, then hurriedly took action.

"Yes! I'll make arrangements immediately! Hey! Did you bring food and water?"

The Owari samurai gathered together, touched their chests, searched for their belts, searched from head to foot, and collected as much food and water as they could fit into their stomachs.

"I still have some water in my kettle."

"Ah, I brought a pot of turbid wine to warm me up."

"I also have a pot of turbid wine."

"I have two rice balls made from millet."

"What a coincidence, I also have two pieces of rice balls, but my two pieces of rice balls are made of corn."

"You idiots! We are not giving leftovers to beggars! How can we offer such rough food to Tachibana-sama? In this way, we... no, Owari Qing is so embarrassed!"

"But... except for these rice balls, we don't have any other food..."

…

Before he could reach it, Hosotanizaemon returned to Aoto with a lot of things in his hands and an embarrassed look on his face.

"Tachibana-sama, we... uh... we only found a little water, two pots of sake, and some rice balls... please forgive me!"

"Then, that! Put these rice balls on the fire and roast them. They will become more delicious!"

Bake the rice balls before eating them - this is the "classical way" of eating rice balls.

First, it can heat the rice grains, making them easier to eat.

Secondly, it can add a burnt aroma to the rice balls, which will whet your appetite.

Perhaps he was consciously using such low-quality food to present to the governor of Gyeonggi Province. It was really inappropriate. As soon as Hosokawa Zaemon finished speaking, he hurriedly added:

"Lord Tachibana, I will send people to the nearest town with fast horses to bring more delicious food..."

Before he finished speaking, Qing Deng suddenly grinned and chuckled a few times:

"Not bad! These rice balls look delicious. Thank you for being able to find so much food!"

"Huh?"

Hosokawa Zaemon subconsciously raised his head and looked at Ayoto in shock.

Looking at the other party's appearance, Qingdeng curled up his lips and said half teasingly, half jokingly:

"Hey, hey, you don't think I'm a Yueqing Yunke who only eats fairy beans and drinks dew, right?"

"Before I became a world-famous benevolent king, I was just an unknown person. I was just a member of the royal family with a fortune of hundreds of stones."

After saying that, he grabbed a pot of turbid wine and shook it a few times.

The sound of "gudong" and "gudong" is very full.

"There's quite a lot of drinks."

After mumbling like this, Qingdeng blinked and thought.

Suddenly, he raised the pot of sake in his hand, looked at the Owari samurai headed by Hosokawa Zaemon, and said loudly:

"Owari warriors, it would be too boring to just drink alone."

"If you don't mind, would you like to have a drink with us?"

After the words fell, the surroundings were quiet.

Owari's samurai were all stunned.

Their eyes wandered over each other's faces, and they saw expressions of disbelief one after another.

The superior took the initiative to invite the inferior, and he was a superior of Qingdeng's level... This was truly an honor-like treatment in the feudal era!

Ayoto added at the right time, recalling the consciousness of the Owari warriors.

"What? Don't you want to?"

Hosokawa Zaemon nodded vigorously with excitement.

"It is truly an honor for us to have a chat with Mr. Tachibana! Hey! Why are you standing there in a daze? Why don't you bring some rocks that are big enough for people to sit on?"

Under the command and personal actions of Hosokawa Zaemon, the Owari samurai moved a few stones and organized a simple "izakaya".

After the "izakaya" was completed, Hosokawa Zaemon made a "please" gesture to Aotobu.

"Master Tachibana, please take a seat!"

Qingdeng did not take his seat immediately, but waved his hand first.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, we'll talk about this later."

"The first thing to do now is this -"

Speaking of this, Qingden turned sideways, faced Sanako and the others, and raised his right fist high:

"This battle... is our complete victory!!"

The next moment, the Aizu cavalrymen imitated Aoto's example and raised their fists high.

"Ohhhhhhhhh!"

Although the number was small, the cheers they burst out were surprisingly powerful.

The cheers spread to the distance, echoing in the clouds, rising one after another, and lingering for a long time...

…

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In the third year of Bunkyu, the bandit chief Shibazaki Renjuro Shouyi led the Ise bandits, commanding tens of thousands of people, to attack Kyoto.

Ju Qing Deng Sheng Qing was far away from the enemy at Iga. Taking advantage of the victory, he drove north. He traveled more than a hundred miles in a day and night, fighting eight times a day, and caught up with the bandit chief at Owari.

Break it big!

——"Nioh Monogatari", Chapter 3 (Female Chapter).

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At this moment——

On the top of an unknown mountain——

Settsu Yorimitsu stood with his hands behind his back, listening to the cheers in the distance.

Although Qingdeng and others were outside his field of vision, his eyes were still firmly fixed on the East.

This direction is exactly where Qingdeng and others are.

Abruptly, he tugged at the corners of his mouth, showing a disdainful expression.

"Hmph! Idiot!"

"If you listen to me obediently and try to get the help of Choshu and Tosa, even if you can't defeat Tachibana Aoden, you can still cause him great trouble."

"I originally hoped that they could make the flowing water in Gyeonggi Province a little muddier."

"It seems that Tu Yikui is a loser after all."

Settsu Yorimitsu is not alone.
To be continued...