Thirty Mulberry

, skimming across the river surface, let out a long cry, and flew away dragging its slender gray-brown legs.

"Are you angry?" Okita pushed Xiaochun, and he took out a small cloth bag with "crown horns" from his arms, "I'll give you candy. I save one piece a day. It's just for you."

"I don't want it." Xiaochun said, "Candy is not a rare thing." As soon as she said the words, she immediately felt guilty, and hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, I said it without thinking. I mean, We have all kinds of sweets there, and we've seen so many that it's not unusual. Personally, I don't like sweets very much. Do you like sweets?"

Okita nodded.

Xiaochun lay back on the grass and tugged at Okita's sleeve: "We not only have all kinds of candies, but also pastries and cakes. I'll bring them to you next time! If you want to talk about bread, it's from the supermarket." "Peach and plum bread" is delicious and not expensive. The small shop before our school sells it. There are also "KFC" and "McDonald's" that your children like most. I will bring them to you next time I come. "

Okita grabbed a piece of dog's tail grass, turned around and scratched Xiaochun's face. "Ah—damn child, you hate it so much." Xiaochun waved his hands to resist, "It's so itchy, so itchy."

"I told you that I'm not a child." Okita scratched her face and neck from the gap between her hands, watching her delicate skin turn red, as if she had been kissed.

While struggling and twisting, Xiaochun's skirt bumped up to her thighs.Okita grabbed her skirt and pulled it down, covering her knees: "The clothes you are wearing are so strange, women in Edo don't wear such clothes."

Xiaochun was stunned for a moment, and said, "Where is this? Edo?" She smiled and said to herself, "I've watched too much 'Rurouni Kenshin'."

"Your hair is also weird." Okita picked up her curly hair, "Why is it curly? It's a tulu, a tulu."

Xiaochun twisted her curly hair with her fingers, and said angrily: "It's hot. You don't know how perverted my high school is, and it is stipulated that female students can only have 'two hairs'. Every Monday, the whole school assembly will try to persuade We have to study hard, put all our energy into studying, and get admitted to a good university. Hey, it’s been three years without water. Hot rolled.

She turned her head to look at Okita, saw his fleshy cheeks, and the long eyelashes covering his eyes like black feathers. "Your eyelashes are so long." She stretched out her hand and wanted to touch it, but because it was the first time they met, she was afraid of being abrupt, so her hand stopped in mid-air and wanted to retract it.Okita grabbed her fingertips and put them under his eyelashes, blinking his eyes up and down.It's not as soft as imagined, and it feels like being licked by a deer's tongue when you brush it on your fingertips.

Feeling itchy both times, Xiaochun smiled and retracted her hand: "Itches, itches. Don't, it's really itches."

"Do you like it? I gave it to you." Okita said.

"Store it with you first. Such beautiful eyelashes, I will wait for them to grow and mature, and then I will pick them up." Xiaochun brushed Okita's eyelashes lightly with his index finger.

"Can you guess punches?" Okita asked.

"Drinking orders?" Xiaochun said, "Damn child, you are too courageous. Have you been drinking secretly? I really want to sue your teacher."

"No, it's not drinking. It's just a simple boxing guessing game. Like Japanese boxing, it's rock, scissors, and cloth!"

"That's about the same." Xiaochun clenched his fist, "Come on! Whether I lose or win, I will definitely bring you candy and cake. Oh, I forgot, there are peach and plum bread, KFC chicken and McDonald's."

"Are you sure you want to compare?" Okita said with a heavy tone, as if a battle of life and death was ahead.

Xiaochun nodded: "Do you have any ideas? What do you want if you win?"

"If I win," Okita said every word clearly and with weight, "you will marry me in the future."

"Damn child, a dead child who doesn't learn well." Xiaochun stood up and grabbed his ear, "Do you say that to every girl? We just met for the first time, and you have been playing hooligans until now...you just At the age of 13, you dare to say whether you are married or not. Say, which school do you belong to, and what is the name of your head teacher?"

She tightly closed the open front of Okita, and reprimanded in her elder sister's tone: "Look at you dressed like a hooligan. The collar is so open, who are you flirting with? I'm five years older than you, don't you call me Big sister, you have to call me big sister too!"

"Samurai are always dressed like this." Okita looked down at his collar, "I've said it twice, I've done the ceremony of 'Yuanfu' and I'm an adult. I'm ready to get married. In two more days You can get married in a year."

Xiaochun's thoughts somehow turned to "Rurouni Kenshin". Kenshin and Ba were only 15 years old when they got married.It's a pity that he became a widower under the age of 16 in less than a year.

"And," Okita said again, "you are already married, but you are not married yet. You want to marry a superior samurai, right? But the superior samurai won't want you. You will get older and older, and you have not yet married and had children. If you don't, people won't want you anymore, because they can't be sure whether you will have children."

Xiaochun was so angry that he pinched his waist and said, "Hehe, I'm a college student when school starts. I'm afraid I won't find a boyfriend when two-legged men run all over the campus! It's not a matter of minutes to fall in love."

"It's okay!" Okita lowered his head and smiled, "I can kill him."

"Damn child." Xiaochun grabbed a wild flower and threw it at him, "Hmph, tell you, you are in my sister's dream. It's against you. If you guess the punches, you can guess the punches. Do you think you can really beat me? Look at my sister, I can't beat you."

"Stone." Xiaochun stretched out his fist.

"Stone." Okita also stretched out his fist.

"Rock, scissors, and cloth!" The two punched at the same time, and Xiaochun lost.

"Two wins in three sets." Xiao Chun said.

"Rock, scissors, cloth!" Xiaochun lost again.

"Five sets and three wins." Xiao Chun said again.

"Whatever is fine, I don't care." Okita said.There was a smile on his lips, "Because, you can't beat me." He said in his heart.

Xiaochun lost [-] games, sweating all over his head, muttering in his mouth: "Dreams and reality are opposite, dreams and reality are opposite..."

"Don't play anymore." Xiaochun jumped up "violently" from the ground and patted the broken grass on the skirt.Rather than the annoyance of agreeing to marry Okita after losing, it is more like the frustration of losing fifty games.

"Where are you going?" Okita stood up after her.

"Go home." Xiaochun said.She pinched the back of her hand severely, "Wake up, wake up, why don't you wake up." She climbed to the path above and walked in the east direction.

"You haven't told me your name yet." Okita followed behind her, "Are you coming tomorrow?"

"I don't know." Xiaochun said angrily.She has not been the best in her studies since she was a child, but she will never sink to the bottom, her face is slapped on the concrete floor.Now being rubbed by a child on the ground like a mop, she couldn't let go of it for a while.

"I'll wait for you here tomorrow." Okita stopped in his tracks, and looked at Xiaochun's back with reluctance.Until her dark green skirt and her curly hair shrunk to the size of a grain of rice, like a mole embedded in the low sky in the distance, it also imprinted on his heart.

It was still before dawn the next day, and Okita was awakened by the wetness on his legs.He hurriedly sat up.He didn't know what happened, he just felt ashamed.Taking off his pajamas, he quietly went to the bathroom to rinse off and put on clean sleeves.Then I took the tub to the pond to wash my pajamas.

There was a faint glimmer of light in the eastern sky.Okita hastened to scrub his hands in pajamas.

Suddenly someone patted him on the waist: "Sojiro, you are so clean that you are crazy about cleaning. You wash clothes here before dawn."

Okita nervously turned his head back and saw that it was Hijikata Toshizo. "Mr. Hijikata, why are you so early?" Okita said.He turned around, the redness on his face went up to his ears.

The soil pointed forward: "It turns out that I was washing 'undergarment'!" "For secret matters, there is a kind of tacit understanding between the same sex. It's like snapping your fingers as a secret signal, and you can say everything. Hijikata comforted in the tone of someone who has experienced it: "Your boy is 14 years old (false age)!We can all get engaged.However, although you have enlightened early, you are still too precocious.Maybe he will be an old boy in the future! "

In order to avoid embarrassment for Okita, Hijikata quickly slid to another topic: "A new kid will come to the dojo today. I heard that he is about the same age as you. How about it, let's go and have a look after breakfast!" He continued to himself: "Well, I heard that his name is Saitoichi, and he is the second son in the family. Maybe he is not very favored!"

Okita said, "I'm so sorry, I still have work to do today! Mr. Hichikata, do you have anything that you liked the first time you saw it?"

"That's really too much." Hijikata said, "I'm quite flirtatious when I say it! The 'Wakashu' with a beautiful cover, I wanted to buy it the first time I saw it! I picked a flower when I came here just now, and I like it very much. , I want to put it in a vase immediately..."

Okita interrupted him: "What if it's against someone?"

"Is it love at first sight?" Tufang rolled his fox eyes, "Of course I will look twice when I meet a beautiful woman. It's just that there is no woman who falls in love at first sight. I don't know if there will be in the future."

He looked up at the sky: "It's probably not a good weather today, it's a little wet, it might rain. Do you want to go?"

"Yes, Hijikata-san. It's raining, so I'll just take an umbrella."

Okita stood by the river holding an umbrella, looking east through the dense net of rain