"Haha, the warmth and hospitality of the Lord is also the reason for the prosperity of the Immiya Castle." Yu Qiuping smiled, and Immiya Leding laughed.

"Hey hey," Lodding Imamiya suddenly lowered his voice, "What trouble did the boss encounter on his way this time?"

Yu Qiuping's eyelids twitched for a moment and made excuses. "There is no trouble, it's just a bit strange, and the atmosphere doesn't feel very different."

"As it is true, the road has not been peaceful recently." Lyndin Imamiya sighed, "It started a month or two ago. I heard that many messengers were intercepted and killed. Several villages in the east were washed away. In the past few days, even the caravans and pedestrians seemed to dare not come."

"It's not to hide it from the boss," Imamiya Ryoda leaned against Yuqiehei and whispered: "It's the first time I've seen people coming over Suruga in two days. These days, Sagami and Katsuki's people have been heading towards Suruga."

"Someone came to Suruga by Imamiya?" Yu Qiuhei was surprised. "On the way the Kushin came, no one saw it."

"What?" Lyndin of Imamura was also shocked, "Then where have the people who have been walking west from Imamura these days?"

Yu Qiuping and Imamiya Leding looked at each other quickly, and both fell into deep thought.

Could it be that they were all intercepted?

"Sir, speaking of this, on the way I came today, I saw that there were almost no people in all the villages. Do you know where they went?" Yu Qiuping asked again.

"I know this." Immiya Leding smiled, "The common people heard that it was not peaceful recently. A group of people robbed villages everywhere, so they all hid in the slack season." As he said, he patted his chest, "There are several people who came to take refuge in my city. I guess the others have also been hiding in other wealthy families."

"So..." Yu Qiuping sighed, "Is this dangerous here already here?"

"If the hundreds of people passing by my territory were intercepted," Imamiya Leding's round face was covered with dark clouds, "That's really dangerous. It's probably a large band of bandits."

Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment, and suddenly began to doubt Imamiya Leding. How could he think it was a big bandit gang? It is normal for bandit gangs to rob the village, rob pedestrians and merchants, so how could it be possible to intercept the messenger? It should be the Takeda family or the Hojo family who are doing something behind their backs.

Is he testing me? Do I know?

"Yes, there is probably a bandit." Yu Qiuping replied casually, looking at his subordinates behind him, "But the grass people didn't hire many guards when they came out. If they met them, wouldn't it be a good fortune."

"If the boss doesn't dislike it, it's better to take a few more days off in the territory you are in," said Rading Imamiya, "Wait until the wind passes, or the Imakawa family, Hojo family or Takeda family send troops to clear the bandits before leaving?"

"How can you be so embarrassed?" Yu Qiuping instinctively refused, "Wouldn't you bother the adults for a long time?"

"How can it be trouble!" Imamiya Ledain blamed, "What are you polite about the villagers who are helping Suruga? Besides, this is a big deal that concerns life, but it is not careless. Even the messenger samurai were intercepted, how can you escape the caravan, boss?"

Seeing Yu Qiuping hesitating, Jingong Leding advised again: "Anyway, it's not bad for the boss. Hundreds of ordinary people have lived in Jingong City, and there are enough food reserves, so don't worry, boss."

Yu Qiuhei privately weighed these things. If Imamiya Ryoda also participated in this interception operation, as a wealthy family who tended to the Imakawa family, the Imakawa family would not have received any news, right? Since Toshi Semei still told Yu Qiuhei that the power of this wealthy family could be relied on, it must be that the latter would have no problem.

Besides, he could only summon more than 200 battle soldiers in total, and only one hundred warriors, and his elite warriors should not be powerless to fight back.

Wouldn't it be even more troublesome if he didn't fix it here and meet the mastermind in the wild? Moreover, if the messenger did come to spy on the sneak attack this afternoon, he could accurately report his name, indicating that his actions were exposed to the mastermind. If there was no city as a hiding place, the entire army would be in danger.

After weighing the pros and cons, Yu Qiuhei accepted the invitation from Imamiya Ledean and set up a small camp in the northwest corner of the castle town as a temporary resting place. After settling down, Yu Qiuhei followed Imamiya Ledean to look at his Imamiya Castle and waited for dinner to be prepared. Imamiya Castle was built along the mountain, and the castle town spread from the middle of the mountain to the plain. There were more than a dozen villages affiliated with the Imamiya family. Following Imamiya Ledean, Yu Qiuhei kept taking care of the two men with the best force of the war and keeping a blind eye to the accident. After all, a lot of the information Yu Qiuhei has received now is just one-sided words of Imamiya Ledean - such as those hundreds of people who passed through his territory but were missing. After Yu Qiuhei informed the entire army of this situation, everyone's hearts were covered with doubts.

On the foot of the mountain a little further up the Great Palace Castle, you can see a large area of ​​tents and smoke rising from the cooking stove. It is probably the people who come to take refuge temporarily. According to what Imami Leding said, his Great Palace Castle is blocking the only way up the mountain, so you can protect these people.

"I'm scared to these people, so I'm not going to bother them too much." said Lodding Imamiya. "Every day they send more than a dozen people to transport the necessary food for life, and I don't send people to them."

"The fields below are all over there." Imamiya Leding smiled and pointed to the west side of the foothills. The sky was already a little dark, but Yu Qiuping could still identify the crops all over the ground with the afterglow of the sunset. Among his more than 3,000 leaders, those living in Imamiya Castle, would cultivate nearby.

"It's amazing that sir, sir, still have the heart to see the crops now." Yu Qiuping tentatively said, "Are you not worried about that group of bandits at all? They might have killed hundreds of people. They killed the God of Heaven. What are you going to do?"

The smile on Imamiya Ledain's face froze, he was stunned for a moment, and sighed.

"I'm worried about what else to do. If you can beat me, you can fight me. If you can't beat me, you can see if you can save your life." Immiya Leding shook his head helplessly, "I'm not as good as the boss, walk around. In the family, the family business of all generations is here, so it's impossible to leave it all." He turned sideways slightly and looked to the southwest, "I just hope that the Imakawa family will send someone to figure out the matter as soon as possible and give Fuji County and Shundong County a peace."

"If such a big thing happens, the messenger may be killed. Those family governors cannot ignore it." Imamiya Leding comforted Yu Qiuping, "I will definitely send someone. The boss will wait for them to come."

Yu Qiuping sighed. He was the one sent by himself, but he was unable to protect himself at this moment. Since the strange forest and the messenger incident, Yu Qiuping is now worried that there will be another crisis. It seems that those black hands will suddenly come out at any time.

At this moment, on the path between Aiying Mountain and Mount Fuji, a few ignitions suddenly appeared in the northeast of Imamiya. When the flames approached a little, Yu Qiuping saw clearly that dozens of people were walking towards this side with torches.

"The direction of Jia Fei." Yu Qiuping muttered.

Immiya Leding suddenly became nervous, and said he had lost his companionship to Yu Qiuping, and hurriedly organized people to guard the road up the mountain. The road up the mountain in Immiya Castle was facing the southwest. If this group of people wanted to attack, they had to circle around the northeast first and attack the southwest before attacking. There was still plenty of time.

When the group got closer, Yu Qiuping noticed that they were all dressed in caravans, pushing ten large carts covered with tarpaulins. Walking in the front were a boy and a burly man.

"Who is here?" Immiya Leding personally went to the cliff in the northwest and asked from a high place.

"We are Jiafei's merchants!" the young man replied, "There are no people in all the villages along the way, and we can't find a place to rest. When we saw smoke from cooking here, we found them."

Imamiya Leding seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and shouted again: "What? Is the village over Jiafei empty?"

"Yes." This time it was the strong man's turn to shout, "No one can see along the way. I wonder if you can find a place here, so let's take a break!"

Imaguchi Leding hesitated for a moment and turned his eyes to Yu Qiuping.

Yu Qiuping looked at the caravan with more than fifty people below, and also came over at this point in time, and a thought flashed through his mind.

"I won't tell you for the time being, preconceived impressions may affect your judgment," said Imakawa Yoshimoto. "After all, it's very likely that you will encounter the reconnaissance forces of the Takeda family and the Hojo family, and just like your mission, they will come to find out the truth. If I tell you my guess now, you will become inclined when you communicate with them."

"Will they all come as merchants?" Yu Qiuping asked.

"I guess yes." Imakawa Yoshimoto nodded, "After all, if the formal investigation force encounters an unexpected accident, the main family will find it difficult to convince the public without reacting, and the alliance may be forced to break down. Even if such an informal team encounters problems, it can be concealed and not reported."

Could it be the Takeda family's reconnaissance force?

If the Takeda family were the mastermind behind the scenes, would these people come in be detrimental to us?

Yu Qiuping swallowed.

It shouldn't be that I have fifty people, plus the more than 200 people in Lodding, I can't beat them, right?

Moreover, the hall asked me to come here, which was not just to let me contact and investigate the mastermind behind the scenes. If you keep the Takeda family out of fear of danger, wouldn’t it go against the target?

After making up his mind, Yu Qiuping said, "Sir, I think they should be a caravan, so let them in. There are so many people and strong forces. If there are really bandits coming here, we won't be afraid."

"Then let's listen to Boss Sanlang." Imami Leding smiled with relief. He was hospitality and planned to entertain these people. He asked Yu Qiuping just for peace of mind.

After the caravan that Jia Fei arrived at the mountain village, he set up camp in the southwest of Immiya Castle. After settling down, it was time for dinner. Immiya Leding invited Yu Qiuping and the leader of the caravan to the Tianshou Pavilion of Immiya Castle for dinner.

"I wonder what the boss calls this?" Imamiya Leding asked the two people who came to Jia Fei.

"Taro Kushin, this is Saburo, the third brother of the family." The strong man who claimed to be Taro patted the young man beside him.

"A coincidence," Imamiya Randy laughed, "Our businessman from Suruga is also called Saburo!"

Yu Qiuping and the boy looked at each other for a moment and smiled slightly.

"I wonder if this boss Sanlang is older than me?" the young man smiled.

"Haha, you know I'm older than you without asking." Yu Qiuhei brought Honta Kwannosuke this time. He pointed to Kwannosuke beside him, "You probably are about the same age as me, a guy."

"That's not necessarily true. People should not behave like a person." The young man smiled, "I'm going to be the next 13 years, I don't know how old you are."

"Haha, I'll just say it," Yu Qiuping smiled, "I'm 18 this year. This little servant is also 13 this year, the same age as you."

"Sabaru, don't play with your mouth all day long." Taro whispered, "I won't apologize to the boss."

"Haha, there is no place to apologize or not," Imamiya Ledain tried to smooth things over. "One of you comes from Kafari and the other comes from Suruga. It's a great fate to meet once!" He raised his glass as he said, "Cheers!"

After drinking all the wine in the glass, Yu Qiuping looked at the Saburo again and smiled slightly.

"Boss Taro, I wonder which one is older, you or me?" Yu Qiuhei asked. Saburo's eyelids twitched, wanting to say something, but it's not easy to speak.

"I'm much older than Boss Saburo. I'm 22 this year." Taro said, "Boss, you are so young, I must have taken over Ling Zun's business."

"Yeah, yeah." Yu Qiuping was evasive, but he quickly started to calculate in his mind.

He has a talent for memory in history and is also impressed by the birth age of famous generals. He was particularly interested in the male lead because of the game "Warring States Invincible". He learned about the life of the latter and also took a look at the birth age of his relatives. Later, when he was playing the "Nobunaga's Ambition" series, because the data of this family was very high, he often calculated by counting when they could join their subordinates by the Yuanshu.

I don't know if it's a coincidence or something, but the age of these two happened to meet

One is the third brother, the other is the eldest brother? It’s from the Takeda family.

Yu Qiuping's mouth curled slightly, and he had already thought about it.

After dinner, Yuqiuhei asked Honta Kuminosuke to go back to the camp quietly and took a dozen people to the Ximen Gate of Imamiya Castle. In order to facilitate Yuqiuhei and his friends to enter and exit, the Ximen Gate had not been closed yet. He himself, after Imamiya Leding returned to his residence, he found the boss Taro who had just left the city and had not yet returned to his camp.

"Boss, I heard that it's not peaceful here recently." Yu Qiuhei said, "What do I know about the bandits who intercepted the caravan and residents? Can you talk to him?" He looked at the guys in Boss Taro's camp and whispered to Taro, saying that he didn't want too many people to know about this.

Before Boss Taro could speak, Saburo looked happy, "It's a coincidence. We know something here too." He said as he signaled his elder brother to come with him. Yu Qiuping and they exchanged information about how many merchants were missing without any pain, while walking towards Ximen. He led them into Ximen. After seeing Naoe Tadaehide nodding to him in the corner, he realized that his subordinates had all been in place.

"Boss, we might as well meet with each other honestly." Yu Qiuping suddenly turned around, took two steps back, and kept a certain distance from the two Jiafei people. Then he stomped his feet with a smile, and the dozen subordinates who were ambushing around him immediately emerged from the back of the house and the alley. He surrounded the two of them near the west gate. Several of the people around the city gate were frightened by this situation for a moment and ran away in a hurry.

Taro and Saburo were stunned for a moment, but they did not look too panic, but they held the hilt of their own knife one after another.

"What does Boss Sanlang mean?" asked the strong man.

"What else can it mean?" Yu Qiuhei smiled confidently. This was his first time using the knowledge of time travelers to plot against others. "Master Sanada Nobutsu, and Masayuki Sanada?"
Chapter completed!