[Black Basket] Sakura's Basketball

two years later-

"Young Madam," the music teacher rubbed his forehead, "No, you played it wrong."

I sighed, "I can't step on the foot, why don't you give up and let me learn the piano?"

"Because Qin is the king of musical instruments!"

"..." The teacher's eyes were on fire, so I'd better not speak.

"Come on, it doesn't matter, come again. One, two, three, four..." The teacher counted the beats and forced me to play again.

──No, it's very important.

After the one-hour class, I sent off the teacher and dragged my tired body to the dining room. The chef of Akashi's family had already prepared a table of light and delicious southern Chinese dishes for me.I clasped my hands together, thanking the almighty chef of the Akashi family. The uncle chef raised his head and chest with a satisfied look.I turned my head and looked at the stairs anxiously, waiting for everyone to arrive before eating.Masayoshi Akashi is at home today in preparation for his business trip tomorrow; but Ah Zheng, I woke up early this morning and I have already seen him.

"Good afternoon, Dad." As soon as Akashi Masomi appeared, I stood up while holding onto the table.

"Good afternoon." He strode straight to the other side of the long table, sat down, and picked up his knife and fork to eat his Western-style lunch.

I held a bowl of miscellaneous vegetable soup and poured it into my mouth. Akashi Seito, who had told me countless times, didn't speak, but stopped his movements and stared at me coldly.God knows, people like me, who are not picky about food, are forced to dislike western food. How depressing is the dining table at Akashi's house?I rolled my eyes, picked up the chopsticks to pick up vegetables, and occasionally picked up a small piece of steak that the chef uncle left for me from Akashi Seitomi's plate and stuffed it into my mouth, changing the taste.

Akashi Seiomi probably had a stomachache, but he didn't let me get over it, "Sakura, add an hour to music class every week. Your progress is too far behind."

"..." I froze for a moment, "I don't want it, and I have no ambition to be a musician."

"It's a necessary discipline."

"So I agreed to one hour. Two hours represents not only the number of hours of class, but also double the amount of homework, which I cannot accept."

"I've said many times, Sakura, don't talk back to your elders again."

"Dad, this is a discussion, not talking back. I won't talk about anything else or anyone else."

"..." Akashi Masomi put down his knife and fork, and crossed his fingers, "You mean, it's an honor to have you talk back?"

"Although I didn't mean it that way," I looked at the food that was hard to put into my mouth because I was talking with the elders, fuck, my tofu pot is going to be cold, "but it can be understood literally."

"Why are there rumors recently that the young wife of the Akashi family is gentle and pure?"

"Ah, they misunderstood me." The roasted enoki mushrooms in sauce also began to cool down.

"You are impatient to socialize, and you ignore it. Is lying to your elders what you call self-cultivation?" Akashi Masomi said unceremoniously.

I stood up again, and bowed my hands, "No, they misunderstood me. I didn't lie, but I'm sorry for making you misunderstand me."

"Music class lasts for two hours. Tomorrow is the birthday of the old lady of the Takemoto family, you go..." He jumped directly to the next topic after announcing his decision.

──Single parent Akashi who didn't have time to take care of the children because he was too busy?

After he finished speaking, I sat down according to his gestures, and said: "Yes, I understand, the presents are ready, I will go to check again today, and I will also prepare the kimono for attending. Besides, I don't want music Overtime."

"Sakura, you have perfect pitch, right?"

"..." I opened my eyes slightly.Why would he know!Only Ah Zheng has been aware of it by my side!I don't believe it was said by Ah Zheng who supported me to skip these classes. I can only say that Akashi's father is also well-deserved.

"It's a pity that your talent is much worse than Seijuro's. You can only develop where you are talented. This is your responsibility. Since you can't take care of everything, you can only do it from what you can do." Let’s start with the other side. Sakura, I can accept your imperfection, but you can’t even avoid the place where you can do it.”

"One, there are many things to do, but it is impossible to do all of them. If you can do a hundred homework without sleep for 24 hours, it does not mean that the ability to accept one hundred, nor should it be one hundred. I will work hard , but for the music class that I don’t have much interest in, the amount of homework now is my limit. This is not an escape. Second, absolute pitch is not absolute. I did not receive music training since I was a child. People who have been trained since childhood are far behind. I am only a little better than ordinary people, so I can’t talk about a big advantage.” I twitched the corner of my mouth, “To be honest, too accurate pronunciation recognition is annoying. I don’t even have a live concert. go."

"I didn't ask you not to be annoying, but learn to hide your expression! Last time at the Musashi family's private concert, did you think that no one would notice your expression because you kept drinking juice?"

"To be honest, only you and Ah Zheng noticed." The little lady of the Musashi family is very cute, but she really can't sing well.

"Do you still choose to talk back?"

I continued to stand up and bowed my head half-bowed, "I'm just telling the truth."

Later, my class time was still added by half an hour.hateful.

After lunch, Masayoshi Akashi went back to the study to deal with matters. I contacted the people in the fashion design office and did something in my study. The housekeeper, Mrs. Inoue, knocked on the door and came in, reminding me to change clothes and prepare to attend a A tea party for a young lady.

While I changed into a plain dress and jewelry with her help, I listened to Mrs. Inoue gossip about the young lady.She is a continuation, her family background is not good, and she has three adult stepchildren left by her husband's ex-wife. Her education is not high, but her husband's status is very high, which makes this kind of tea party possible.

If you haven't learned tea ceremony, ikebana, calligraphy, etc., you can't get into this circle in Japan.If you don't learn, you may even not know how to write a resume for a woman during a formal blind date, and the wives will attach great importance to this aspect of talent.But the young lady hadn't learned it, and it was because of her husband's face that someone was present.Not everyone is like Akashi Seishomi who will educate people who marry into their own family with heart. The husband should be pampered, the father-in-law is old and dislikes the daughter-in-law of low status, and take care of things. The young lady did not learn these things by herself.

Of course, there are also wives who have been disciplined until they are turned into logs.Therefore, I have always been very grateful to Akashi Seiomi for teaching me rather than rigidly controlling me──Although in terms of his way of doing things, it is not too different, aha.But compared with cultivating with heart and controlling with rules alone, Akashi Seishi is really excellent.

──I won't go to the shrine to discuss with Akashi's mother why she married Akashi's father.

Just listening to it like this, I think this young lady is not too bad, she is quite happy.At least not wooden people.

However, she has also been married for two years, she has attended many public occasions, and her demeanor is very clear. Gradually, many people refuse to associate with her, saying that it is a price drop.This time, I will save face and invite me who has never been in touch with me, and it is only because the companies of both parties have a cooperation plan recently. According to the usual practice, the wives follow the husband's movements to get acquainted.

I shook my head in boredom, trying to stretch my arms, but I was defeated by Mrs. Inoue's eager gaze, and I asked her to help me change my clothes first.As soon as I finished changing, I straightened my hands, crossed my fingers and stretched, and saw that Mrs. Inoue's face was ashen.

I smiled and stretched out my hands to fix Mrs. Inoue's messy collar, "Thank you, I will definitely continue to "Chastity" today." There are things that need to be said.

──Ah hey, I don't get into trouble too often.

The housekeeper's wife was worried that I would feel resentful because of the dispute with Akashi Seioffi at noon, so she told me this, and wanted me to understand Akashi Seioffi's good intentions.

"I know that the young lady is a good child, and I will definitely know that the master has good intentions." Mrs. Inoue, who is over [-] years old, touched my head lovingly and made me twitch, "The young master said before he left that he would Come back later so you don't have to wait for him."

I nodded, "Well, I'm sorry to trouble you." Today is when the cherry blossoms are falling, and it is the first day of the University of Tokyo. Ah Zheng, who has been promoted to the third grade, is the captain of the university's basketball team.

I went to the study to talk to Akashi Seishomi, and then went out.

As soon as I got in the car, I saw a hot chicken drumstick on the seat - it was a super authentic taste of black pepper.There is also a bottle of apple juice and a caramel next to it.

"Young master ordered it." The driver in the front seat said with a smile.

I half jumped and sat in quickly, closed the door before the housekeeper's wife saw anything, asked the driver to drive slowly, and then started to eat.Eating chicken drumsticks at home would make Akashi Seishi look down on my eating appearance. I was too lazy to "eat chicken drumsticks in a gentle way"—what the hell was that?

──I am about to be trained by Ah Zheng to become a child who can only eat.

While gnawing on the chicken legs, I looked at the smiling driver in the rearview mirror with a wooden face.

Willfulness is actually the embodiment of happiness.

It's a pity that something happened as soon as we arrived at the tea party venue.

"It's Sakura from the Akashi family here." Another old lady who is a family friend of the Akashi family came to help me out, "The weather is nice today, you can go for a walk with me. The last time I saw you , It’s still New Year’s time.”

I glanced at the ugly young lady, Yuko Miyashita, the host of the tea party, stretched out her hand to support the old lady who stood up, and said softly: "Yes, long time no see, how are you recently?" Walk outside to the garden, not prepared to stay indoors.I'm too lazy to talk to Yuko Miyashita, if the old lady doesn't make a sound, I'm not going to stay.

"But we're about to start," Yuko Miyashita said resolutely, "You two should stay here, we'll go out for a walk in a while. What's more, Yuko Miyashita turned to me with her long and narrow eyes, "Madam Akashi just arrived, why don't you sit down and have a rest?"

I don't understand why she is targeting me, but this level is much better than other quiet people, so it is quite annoying.In the social circle of the Akashi family in Japan, more than half of them are traditional families in which the wife stays in the inner house. Well, there are also a lot of shrewd women in the workplace.

In short, it is already out of school.

I still have a bunch of drafts of fall clothes to catch up on, fuck it.

"Please give me a chair." I turned around and retorted aloud under the old lady's disapproving look.

Yuko Miyashita pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Why?"

I looked at the tatami Japanese room with excellent materials and workmanship, as well as the kneeling cushion, and said: "My right foot is disabled, so it is not suitable for kneeling for a long time." Regardless of disability, everyone knows that Yuko Miyashita deliberately makes me look bad.It is rare for a Japanese wife to speak like this.

In fact, the means are too low, and I don't even feel angry.

It's just a little annoying.

"Oh, I forgot." Miyashita Yuko covered her mouth with the wide sleeve of her kimono, pretending to be surprised, "I'm really sorry, I forgot too, after all, I was thinking..." a lot.

Being pampered as a willful idiot doesn't make sense for me to pay for you.I was really impatient, and said: "Mrs. Gongxia, it is your business that you live happily, but what you forget is not that I am disabled, but that I am very happy." Whether it is my parents or Ah Zheng , Akashi Seishomi, if he was there, he would definitely get angry before me.Self-cultivation means that you really don't care about these things, and it doesn't mean that you feel wronged by yourself.

My self-cultivation is not very good yet, so you can be suppressed by me.aha.

"...Huh?" Yuko Miyashita was stunned.

I raised my eyebrows high, "Madam who entertains her husband's partner, no one will believe you when you say that you have forgotten the basic information of the other party, or you are a person who is not good at entertaining and can't even do such a little thing. What? , Do you think I will endure you without making a sound for the sake of "cultivation"? First, I was too lazy to talk to you just now. You? To be honest, the Akashi family is not in a position where you need to look at the face of the Miyashita family. Why do you not look at the target when you offend others? Third, regardless of the family or the individual, I will not tolerate a person who does such a thing Mrs. Miyashita, my foot is indeed injured, but other parts of me are still healthy. Fortunately, I don’t have a glass heart that can be broken when poked. This is not my taboo, but I don’t think about it either. Let anyone poke me. I suggest you find another excuse next time you seek trouble, and don't make yourself ugly."

"You!" Miyashita Yuko stood up, his face flushed, "I was just careless, Akashi Sakura, you are the one who is not polite! Why are you aggressive!"

"The fact is so obvious," I rolled my eyes aside, "at least what I said just now was not half false, and I wasn't the one who was rude. You're really good at using other people's accomplishments to benefit yourself. Well, I'm not interested Teach someone else's daughter," I turned my eyes back to Yuko Miyashita, who was my age and also graduated from high school, "but you should only get mad at me after seeing your position." In fact, it was her family who begged The Akashi family wants to cooperate.

"You rely on the Akashi family..."

I interrupted her, "You and I have nothing to do, you don't respect people first, I can no longer find a reason to ignore our identity gap, can't I. Why should I forget that I am from the Akashi family, for no reason Let you bully me?" I said goodbye to the other ladies present, ignored Yuko Miyashita, and turned to leave.

After today, at least those whose strength is lower than Miyashita's family, no one will participate in Miyashita Yuko's activities again.They may not really like me that much, but, well, why offend the Akashi family.

Even if Miyashita Yuko was born as a decent young lady, no one would offend Akashi for Miyashita.Therefore, I have always felt that different talents can be learned for personal cultivation, but if you are not interested, you don’t need to spend too much energy. After all, what other people look at is not these at all, but the strength of family background; It also depends on your personality and talents.

Of course, it can also be said that it is precisely because the Akashi family runs the family very strictly that it has continued to this day.

I was scolded after I went back.

"'The Akashi family is not in a position where you need to look at the face of the Miyashita family. Why do you? You don't look at the target when you offend?'?" In the study, Akashi Masomi repeated my words with a straight face, and tapped the table twice with his index finger, "I As I said, you have to change your way of speaking. In this case, there is indeed no need to back down, but your speaking skills are too poor, which makes sense in itself, and it will also become bullying. "

"I was just bullying others..."

"Huh?" Akashi Seishomi snorted and stared at me.

I, who hadn't eaten dinner yet, said dryly: "My lord, my daughter-in-law's visit to the Gongxia Mansion this time is for the sake of cooperation between the two families. There is no other friendship at all. This trip is all due to family background. , When there is a dispute, what is wrong with denouncing it based on family background?" It was a naked transaction, but it has been stepped on, so why are you wearing a fig leaf.I will say this and I have the capital to say so.What Akashi's father scolded was not that I did something wrong. If I really endured her, others would say that the daughter-in-law of the Akashi family is useless.Well, he just scolded me for not being good-looking enough.

──Why do you like underwear, no, it's a fig leaf.

"You still have a reason?"

"I'm sorry to cause you trouble, but I won't apologize. I'm just telling the truth, and it's not that I didn't go out without thinking. I don't know who Mrs. Miyashita is. I bully you. I have a reason."

Akashi Masayoshi said blankly: "Continue to contradict the elders, that's good. I'll let the kitchen cook porridge tonight." I froze, and he continued: "Didn't you say you were very busy? I will take away the TV in the room. You are not allowed to watch Dahe dramas anymore. You can also play tricks on me, and deliberately speak in this tone, are you mocking me for asking you to modify your words? Childish."

"...Eating porridge is not good for your health. You have to board the plane tomorrow, so you should eat better."

Masayoshi Akashi squinted at me, "Didn't you say you won't lie? Well, even if you go to the point where you don't hesitate to lie, my decision will not change. Business is always cooperation. Although there are powerful and small people, but Since it is a cooperation between the two parties, it is not good to be at odds, and you should also pay attention to the scale when bullying others. If you go too far, you are wrong. You have to reflect on me."

"...My scale is correct."

"Do you dare to say that you feel that your words have not gone too far?"

"It is within the tolerable range, and there is no foul language."

"So you still have porridge to eat."

In the evening, holding a bowl of porridge, I watched Masayoshi Akashi order all the TVs in the house to be taken away, and Internet access was restricted, and I was not allowed to enter websites where I could watch TV dramas.Several servants at home were busy coming and going, I raised my head and poured the porridge into my mouth, watched Akashi Seishi as he finished his dinner slowly, and then I floated into the room where Akashi's mother Shiori's spiritual tablet was placed.The home is designed in a Western style, but the altar for Shiori's mother is Japanese.

I leaned on the floor and knelt down, offered a stick of incense, and then straightened my feet, "Papa Akashi is a good person, but," I looked at the gentle and beautiful woman in the photo, "well, forget it. "I turned over and fell to the ground, reading the book that I left a few days ago.

Reading the book, it was getting dark and I fell asleep.When I woke up, there was a quilt on my body, and beside me was the butler wife who was secretly holding a meal and waiting.

I looked at the rice, expressionless.In fact, the porridge from Akashi's family is very delicious, and Akashi Seishi did not abuse me, but when I think about the origin of the porridge, I feel a pain in my chest.was fined.hateful.

"...I knew that Young Madam is a good child, come here, don't be angry, the master is doing it for your own good..." Mrs. Inoue kept coaxing me, seeing that I had eaten all the food well, before touching my chin Head, reminded not to sleep on the ground again, and then went out.

"..." Chest pain.

──Am I really going to say that Akashi's mother and I are actually about the same age?

That night, when I fell asleep, Azheng hadn't come back, and when I woke up, Azheng had already left, and I hurriedly changed my clothes and prepared to go out in the afternoon.

"Father." I handed him the Japanese-style bento I made by myself that didn't fit his usual eating habits at all.

"..." Akashi Seitomo stared at the bento silently.

──I just hope he won't be rude and don't eat it, just adding to the chest pain.

Unexpectedly, Akashi Seitomo tasted all the contents of the bento in front of me, and then left with the bento, without any expression of reluctance.Before leaving, he patted my head slightly stiffly.

"You're always childish, Sakura, you need to learn how to help Seijuro more maturely." Still rubbing my head.

I watched him go out, and in the spring breeze, I looked away in a bleak and haggard way.It's true that I deliberately punished him, but I just wanted to tell him that he had to suffer all the grievances because of the so-called politeness. He really could only wrong himself. set.It will be better for your health if you lose your temper on the spot.

He understood what I meant, but he still treated me like a child.I turned my head to look at the servants and housekeepers lined up behind me, seeing the way they looked at me, I felt dejected again.

──It’s just a joke once in a while, right?

"Young Madam," Mrs. Inoue rubbed my head, "You are a good boy, don't be angry with the master."

"... Well, I'm a good boy." Stomach pain.Don't adults have the right to joke around?

"Besides," Mrs. Inoue smiled suddenly, "Master, like the young master, actually likes Japanese-style home cooking the most."

"..." You clearly watched me work in the kitchen, but you didn't tell me.

──You have a dark belly.

But—I turned my head to look at the door where Akashi Seitomi was no longer there—I already knew almost everything that Akashi likes to eat, but Akashi Seitomi likes to eat Japanese home-cooked food, I really don't know.Unlike Ah Zheng, who often eats casually with me, Akashi Seitomi will have delicacies from various countries on his table, except that there are few Japanese dishes.

As I was thinking about it, the housekeeper's wife handed me a leaflet for a Japanese cooking class.

"..." carry on.

"..." Mrs. Inoue looked at me expectantly.

"..." I pointed to the uncle chef who was about to cry.Leave it to him to learn.

"..." Mrs. Inoue continued to hand.

"……"I'm lazy.

"When Madam was alive, she cooked for Master and Young Master every day," she said.

"..." I silently accepted the leaflet.She said so much, can I still not accept it?

Did Shiori's mother know how to cook Japanese food?

Suddenly, she felt that it was not too bad for her to marry Akashi Seishomi who seldom eats Japanese food now.

I didn't see Ah Zheng that day, and when I got up to go back to Kyoto the next morning, Ah Zheng was still awake.I looked at him by the bed, rolled my eyes at his superb skin, then leaned over, kissed him lightly on the face, and then tiptoed away, leaving him with me early in the morning I got up to make a bento, and when I got in the car, I tilted my head and carried the bear that Akashi Seishomi bought for me to make me sleep.

Back in Kyoto, I tucked my hair back amidst the growls of the familiar designers, and started my day's work.

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