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The purple glow reflected the thin clouds, floating lightly above, the sky gradually turned white, and the morning sun melted, making it clearer.

The jagged icicles that hung under the eaves for a long time before have melted and turned into cone-shaped ice bumps dripping water; green grass grew in the residual snow, and the originally bright red plums have withered.

Heizi put down his bamboo broom, took a large clay pot with a shallow bottom from the house, and put the melted snow under the plum tree into it. The translucent sandy snow piles shone with a crystal color, and the fallen plums were buried in the snow, half hidden and half visible. Compared with the red petals growing on the tree, it is even more pitiful.

He looked at it quietly for a while, and he didn't even think about cleaning, so he left the backyard with the pot in his hand.

Since Heizi became a tea master, his practice, food, clothing and housing were all moved from the backyard to the front yard. After Dezong gave him the title of chief disciple, Heizi naturally entered the "Gan" room.

Although "Gan" is the official tea room, Heizi seems to prefer the "Bitter" room in the backyard. Except for lectures and tea parties, the daily practice is still in the backyard. There is no difference between before and after the ceremony.

When he stepped onto the path, an attendant stepped forward and whispered, "Tao Da Nayan is waiting." Heizi nodded, looked up and saw a servant waiting outside the door, and walked in slowly tea room.

He put the basin of Luoxue Hongmei, straightened his sleeves and robe, and then saluted to the place where the curtain was half rolled up: "Tao Da Na Yan."

A faint smile came from behind the curtain, and the weaving curtain blocked the woman's face, only the beautifully colored Tang dress with a brownish-yellow surface and the long, thick hair hanging down behind her.

"Do you even want to call me Tao Da Nayan?"

Her tone was familiar, slightly resentful, Heizi was a little embarrassed, but felt that the other party seemed exhausted, so he could only say: "Mr. Momoi."

"How do I deserve that title?"

Hearing that the woman seemed to be angry, Heizi sighed softly, and changed his address again, "Momoi."

"Since Momoi Danayan recognizes you as an adopted daughter, it must be because he thinks you are worthy of pity. I only call you polite, so why should I care about it?"

"Pfft..." The dense hair swayed slightly, and the woman's voice came out intermittently with laughter: "Zhejun, ouch, I will never tease you again... It's so hard for me to hold back my laughter... ..."

There was a hint of helplessness in Heizi's eyes, "But you still do this every time."

"Who told you to always look so serious every time?" The waiter standing by the weaving curtain rolled up the curtain, revealing a beautiful face of a woman, eyes like young doves rippling with water, and a touch of light pink on her fair skin. As delicate as a peach blossom.

"I always think, you and Ah Da have so much different likes and dislikes, how did you know each other?"

After Wu Yue was sent away, she thought she would spend her whole life as a maidservant, but when she thought of her parents, although she suffered less humiliation, they were still rootless duckweeds, she couldn't help feeling sad; when she thought of Qingfeng, she always felt that she was already a In this way, Aomine is not yet sure, so he often listens to news, analyzes the current situation, and writes to Aomine, but he never expects that due to a combination of circumstances, he will be appreciated by Dana Yan Momoi. She is talented, I am amazed.Momoi Danayan had no children, so she had the idea of ​​recognizing Wuyue as her adopted daughter, and raised her carefully. Wuyue was very grateful to Danayan, and naturally became more obedient and hardworking. He adopted Wuyue as his adopted daughter and recommended her to be a female official in the palace.

Aomine became a chosen samurai, and he was able to exchange letters at the beginning. When the war started, the daimyos from all over the country conquered each other, and there was chaos. The Fujiwara clan was expelled, and the court was in turmoil. Trembling, Momoi Danayan used to be a retainer of the Fujiwara family, so it was naturally even more difficult. Fortunately, the emperor showed mercy to the old minister, and because he was devoted to his duties and had no faults, he still took the official position. He just waited until May to write a letter to Aomine, But I can no longer get in touch.

She was very close to the empress in the palace. Once when they went to a tea party together, she splashed water on her sleeve and wiped it with a square towel. It was just a small accident and she didn't take it to heart. The tea master sent a letter.

The letter was really simple, there were only four characters on the paper, "Qingfeng Dahui." Wu Yue was surprised and delighted, and thought about it carefully, probably because of the square scarf.The scarf was obtained from Qingfeng, and Qingfeng took it from his friend who refused to tell, so the person who recognized this scarf was Qingfeng's secret friend whom she had never met before.

She communicated letters with the tea master named Heizi Tetsuya, and she became more and more sure that that person was Qingfeng's "new friend" who refused to tell him at the beginning.

May was a little surprised at the beginning. In her opinion, Qingfeng cared about this "friend" very much, so she thought it was the girl Qingfeng liked, and made some jokes, but at that time, she called Heizi "that friend." ", Qingfeng didn't refute, but he didn't expect to know that "she" is "he" only after meeting.

She hasn't heard from Qingfeng since he became the leader of things, and Heizi is similar to her.The two exchanged letters, sat and talked with each other after the tea party, and gradually became friends.

At the beginning, I just talked about some interesting things with Qingfeng when I was with Qingfeng, and then I talked about other places.Although Wuyue became Danayan's adopted daughter because of Teacher Heizi, the two had never met each other, and the only intersection was Qingfeng, who is now missing.

This kind of feeling is very subtle. Two people who have never met before, because of the same person, get together and know each other, and share memories with the person that the other party does not know.Wu Yue took a deep look at the tea master in front of him, he lowered his eyebrows and was cleaning the clay pot.

There is a brazier in the room, most of the snow has melted in the pot, the red plums are half floating in the water, water droplets condense on the outer wall of the pottery pot, and every time Heizi turns the pottery pot slightly, the red plums sink and float in the ice water.

"Zhejun." Wuyue opened his mouth slowly, Heizi stopped his movements and looked up, meeting her big eyes.

"I came today because I have news to tell you." She considered every word, not wanting to reveal her emotions.

"I have news from Ah Da."

The hand that was wiping the clay pot paused, and the plum blossom sank heavily, then slowly floated up again.

"Have Zhejun heard of Qiandao Tadaki from the Kaga Clan?" Mayu turned the tea bowl lightly, and the white mist in the bowl had dissipated, leaving only a little residual warmth.

"Is it the foreign daimyo who was conferred recently?"

"That's right, it's that Qiandao clan." Wu Yue nodded and said, "I'm going to talk about Ah Da's matter, it's related to this daimyo."

As the feudal lord of the Kaga domain, Qiandao Tadaki is powerful, with a territory of 89 shi, and his samurai group is even more murderous and brutal. Heizi once heard about the fierce battle with Qiandao. Wherever it passed, human heads rolled down everywhere, and the blade was wiped dry again and again, like a purgatory on earth.

He tightened his fingers slightly.

"Since the Qiandao clan was defeated four months ago, they have intentionally surrendered to His Highness." Wu Yue didn't seem to notice Heizi's wrinkled trousers, and his eyelids drooped slightly. The house is specially repaired, and the Qiandao clan will be allowed to come and live in every other year to visit the pilgrimage."

These words sound good on the lips, but they are just a means for the Great March to monitor the defeated and weaken the opponent's strength.Heizi didn't understand what this had to do with Aomine, but he couldn't interrupt Momoi's words, so he just listened quietly.

"Presumably you also know that this is just for the general to consume the Qiandao family's financial resources. The Kaga domain is far away, and manpower and material resources are all a lot of money. Because it is the first year, the general still has to write a book. The journey is long and difficult. I hope that the Qiandao Clan will take good care of the banner troops they have sent."

This is almost a naked threat. Qian Dao is the opponent's defeated bannerman, but he still comes to talk about "taking more care". If Qian Dao has something different, let the banner army deal with it directly.

"The name of that Banner is Aomine Daiki."

"If there are no accidents, they will arrive in Beijing in half a month or so."

Heizi's tensed fingertips suddenly relaxed.

In April in the world, warblers fly and grass grows in the sky.The leaves are undeveloped, the leaves are green and tender, and the veins are faintly visible in the sunlight, which seems to have the color of water.

As the Kamo Festival was approaching, envoys were running around on the road, and there were more people visiting the shrine. Heizi threw incense money, hung up an ema and left the shrine.

Since the last farewell, there was no news from Mayu, and Heizi knew that he couldn't be urged, so he didn't ask any more.

He didn't bring his attendants with him, he just walked slowly, bypassed the gate, and went straight to the backyard.

The thunderstorm in the summer of the previous year split the old Chinese toon tree, and even half of the wall collapsed. Heizi ordered people to rebuild the wall, and found an old cherry tree and planted it there.

In the first spring, the cherry tree did not bloom, and even the leaves that grew were yellow. Before the summer, a lot of dead leaves fell. Everyone thought it would not survive, and advised Heizi to find a small tree again. planted.Heizi ignored him silently, continued to fertilize and water, and took good care of it. This year, the cherry tree that was almost dead was full of flowers.

Heizi raised his head slightly, the cherry branches were higher than the wall, and the flowers were blooming outside. The cherry blossoms were double petals, and the breeze blew by, raising a wave of pink waves and white waves, and pieces fell.

He seemed to have realized something, and slowly turned his head away. The man in black hunting clothes stood quietly not far away.

"... Where's the toon tree?" His voice was slightly hoarse.

He stood under the sun, the spring was warm and the golden light was dazzling, Heizi couldn't help squinting his eyes, watching him coming from the light.

"It was struck by lightning." Heizi turned his head, looked at the trees and flowers, and sighed in his tone: "This plant is newly transplanted. You came back just in time. This is the first time it has bloomed."

The man slowly walked in front of Heizi, Heizi reached out to wipe the pink cherry on his shoulder, and smiled slightly.

"Mr. Qingfeng, welcome back."