Yu Qiushang has been very distressed these days. Although he has rarely been unworried since he can remember that day. However, the pressure of this recent period has really made him breathless.

Today is December 22, 1567, and there are only 4 days left before the wrestling conference held on the 26th. However, among all the Wu family members who are not in the Yuanfu family, Yu Qiushang asked himself that he could win, probably only his newborn younger brother Yu Qiuguang and Kinshita Hideyoshi's child Tsuruomaru, a child born by a concubine not long ago. At that time, when Tsuruomaru was born, Kinshita Hideyoshi, who was overjoyed, almost had a big banquet at home, and Yu Qiushang also followed Yu Qiupi to attend the banquet.

At the banquet, his younger brother Yu Qiuyou accidentally raised a topic. Yu Qiushang believed that his younger brother, who had always been very nice to her, must have just raised that topic by chance.

"Brother, do you think this Tsuruchimaru is so thin, can you fall in the future?" Yu Qiuyou, who had been practicing for a long time, was inseparable from falling in the past three sentences. He subconsciously blurted out this sentence, but the sensitive Yu Qiushang stopped chewing food.

"Brother Yu'er, what are you talking about?" Naoe Seimonmaru immediately spoke out to relieve the situation, "This fall is not just about the body! It also requires the brain!"

"Seimon Maru, do you know again?" Yu Qiuyu didn't notice Yu Qiushang's strangeness. Naoe Seimon Maru easily led the conversation away and started chatting with him one by one.

Yu Qiushang, who was kneeling in the dojo, remembered the scene at that time, and couldn't help but clench his fists tightly.

It was already very late, Yu Qiuyou had stopped practicing, so he ran to find other children to play. Yu Qiushang had been practicing until now. When he was really tired, he sat by the dojo and rested for a while.

But no matter how hard he practiced, his level was still far from that of his younger brother. No matter how strength, speed, or specific skills were, they were not on the same level at all.

"Maybe because Ayou is a genius." Yu Qiushang smiled slightly, and couldn't help but feel proud of his younger brother. However, when his eyes fell on his empty sleeves, his smile quickly solidified on his face.

"It may also be because... I'm just a disabled person."

In the past, Shibata Misaemon's "disabled" sounded like a "disabled" to Yu Qiushang became an eternal pain in his heart.

Yes, he also knew in his heart that he was a disabled person. His disability made him far inferior to others in almost all the projects that the children of the martial arts family must be proficient in. This is the case with kendo, and naturally the same is true for wrestling.

"Shang'er, you don't have to force yourself too much. Your father, these martial arts conferences were a mess, and it doesn't matter if they were not good." Yu Qiuping told Yu Qiushang this way.

"Shang'er, be careful of your health and don't be tired of yourself. If you are weak, don't practice hard." Imakawa Kaede comforted him like this.

"Young Master, you have done well enough. But please have a clear conscience." Takenaka Shigeji also told him this.

But the more tolerant his parents and teachers treat him like this, the less uncomfortable Yu Qiushang feels in his heart.

Just because I am disabled? Do everyone have any expectations for me? Do you think I can be degenerate like an ordinary person? I am unwilling to give up!

Yu Qiushang held his energy and practiced day and night. He wanted to prove that even without a hand, he would not be much worse than his younger brother. The younger brother was his goal of hard work and his support. Because no matter how tolerate his parents and teachers were, the younger brother always looked at him with an equal eye and never looked down on him because of his incompleteness.

"I can." Yu Qiushang roared to himself silently in his heart.

"I can!" He growled in his heart again, stood up slowly, and walked towards the training place.

·

On December 26, the martial arts conference was held in Qingzhou City. However, the children's wrestling conference that Yu Qiushang and his friends were going to participate in was an evening competition, and the kendo competition among warriors was held in the morning.

The reason why the martial arts conference was chosen in Cheongshu Castle instead of Qifu Castle was because a distinguished guest was invited to participate in the conference - that is Tokugawa Ieyasu of Mikawa Kingdom. As Oda Nobunaga's most important ally, Oda Nobunaga also specially chose the Cheongshu Castle, which the two formed an alliance on the same day, as the martial arts venue to show their importance to the meeting.

Yu Qiuhei was sent by Oda Nobunaga to receive Tokugawa Ieyasu throughout the whole process. At this moment, the two were sitting in the private room on the second floor of the martial arts hall, watching the samurai on the dojo arena constantly comparing their skills. On the table where dishes were placed in the middle of the private room, there was a large bowl of fried tempura - this has become the reserved dish for each meeting between Yu Qiuhei and Tokugawa Ieyasu, the old friends.

"The red leaves are intent!" Tokugawa Ieyasu unceremoniously used chopsticks to hold the tempura in the bowl and put it into his mouth. He didn't even look at the exquisite sashimi around him. He glanced at the sushi, "Then I'm disrespectful."

"Haha, Tokugawa, Hall, just like it!" Yu Qiuhei deliberately read Tokugawa Ieyasu's new name word by word, and quipped with a smile, "But congratulations, Takechiyo!"

Yu Qiuhei understood how important a surname would be during the Warring States Period in Japan. In this era when titles are more important than blood, adopting adopted sons and inheriting prestigious surnames is common. Sometimes a name is enough to mean countless resources. Even if the surnames of Ashikaga, the three-manage and four-person ranks have fallen, they still have to be treated carefully by local daimyo. After Hojo Haemoto, whose original surname is Ise, moved into Kanto, his descendants gained the surrender of countless wealthy families by changing their surnames Kanto Hojo. The surname of Kanto was also given to the name of the Nagao family, which was originally Echizen, who was originally the Echigo Ichiro-hachi-kun, and Yoshikawa Motoharu, who inherited the Yama Prefecture family, and the Toji Kanji-kun family. In the Maori-two-gun system, he inherited the Kozai-kun family, Kozai-kunke and Yoshikawa Motoharu, etc.

Matsuhei Ieyasu changed his surname to the Qing and Genjis this time to trace his bloodline back to the noble Genji family, obviously trying to make further achievements in this troubled times.

"Hahahaha, Hongye is joking!" When talking about his happy event, Tokugawa Ieyasu also laughed very honestly, "In the future, Hongye will take care of her!"

"I haven't introduced you yet. This is Inuko Nobuya." Tokugawa Ieyasu patted the shoulder of the boy sitting in his position while chewing on the delicious tempura. "Sanlang, why don't you think about the salute of Your Highness Hongye!"

"I have seen Your Highness Hongye!" The majestic young man bowed respectfully to Yu Qiuping when he heard this. His simple eyes and movements revealed a tough temperament. Although he was only nine years old this year, he already looked like a warrior.

"Sanlang doesn't have to be too polite, they are all his own people. I am older than your father, just call him uncle." Yu Qiuping smiled and helped Tokugawa Nobuyaki up, nodded to him with encouraging eyes, which made the boy feel slightly happy and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"I saw you when you were a baby in a cradle back then." Yu Qiuping shook his head with emotion, "Time is so fast, it's almost ten years in a flash, and Saburo is already a heroic boy!"

"Uncle has been awarded too much." Although Tokugawa Nobuyasu's voice was a little happy, he still answered the ceremony politely. After getting up, he looked at his father with a proud look, and Tokugawa Ieyasu smiled lovingly at him.

"Hongye is really over-reward. This kid is so irritable that he is already a married man. He is still unstable, so how can he bear your praise?" Tokugawa Ieyasu took another slice of tempura, and at the same time, he was a little embarrassed and modest.

"I haven't had any awards, Takechiyo." Yu Qiuping smiled and shook his head seriously and said, "This is really good at training. Saburo has such aura at a young age. It's not like the two in my family," Yu Qiuping said while smiling, stretching out his hands to touch Yu Qiushang and Yu Qiuyou's heads beside him, "Now he is still like a child who has never grown up!"

"What is Hongye saying?" Tokugawa Ieyasuke waved his hands holding chopsticks after hearing this, "Shang'er and Yu'er are smart and clever, I'm envious!"

"That's right, dad!" Yu Qiuyou immediately replied dissatisfiedly, "Although Brother Sanlang is amazing, my brother and I are not bad either!"

"You little brat, you know how to praise yourself!" Yu Qiuping cursed and turned to Tokugawa Ieyasu, "If you have any good ways to teach your children, you can't hide your own personal information! Tell me well!"

"Well, how can it be?" Tokugawa Ieyasu said with a wry smile after Yu Qiuhei's questioning, "Hongye was about to ask why, maybe it was because the land and water nourished the other! We Mikawa people have been born warriors since we were young!"

"This is true." Yu Qiuping nodded repeatedly when he heard this, waved to Xiaobashimatsu outside the door, and shouted: "Go and call Kuronosuke! Let him not have to be on duty in the morning, come and meet His Highness Tokugawa!"

"Sanlang, I'll introduce you to a special Mikawa samurai later." Yu Qiuhei looked at Tokugawa Nobuyaki and said proudly.

"Is it Lord Tadao Tadao?" Tokugawa Nobuyasu raised his head and looked at the end of the corridor outside the door with a little longing. "I have long admired Hondao's reputation! If I could become a samurai like Hondao, I would never regret it in my life! The children in Tokaido even had nursery rhymes, saying that His Highness Hongye has two treasures, Chidori given to the main hall of the Oshima and his guard Tadao Tadao!"

"Hahaha, Saburo, don't belittle yourself." Yu Qiuhei and Tokugawa Ieyasuke looked at each other and encouraged Saburo: "You know, when I first met Kuronosuke, he was about the same age as you! Now he is a samurai! In another ten years, you can also become an amazing samurai like your Hondo!"
Chapter completed!