Green apple

Opening his eyes again from the darkness, what caught Qing Guo's sight was no longer an unfamiliar seven-year-old model.

The noisy street outside the window indicates the prosperity of the location where Qingguo is located, while the dim lighting and frugal furnishings in the room revive the forgotten memories in Qingguo's mind.

Yoshihara...

What Qingguo didn't expect was that he would return to this place again one day.

The quilt covering the ankles seemed to be lifted up slightly by something, Qing Guo sat up, and all she saw was the quilt bulging around her feet and twisting around.

After hesitating for a moment, Qingguo kicked the thing covered by the quilt with his feet.

A palm-sized white pompom rolled out of the quilt following the movements of Qingguo. After lying on the ground in a daze for a while, the revived Iori dog happily rushed towards Qingguo, wagging its tail.

Qingguo subconsciously caught the fluffball that was rushing towards her and rubbed it, her vigilant eyes slowly relaxed.

"Although I don't know why you have been following me, but if you don't have a name, you will be very troubled." I poked the little guy's stomach with my fingertips. Not surprisingly, a white belly completely appeared on the green fruit. in front of you.

"Well... I remember that you were with Shenwei when I saw you. If that's the case...how about calling you Dumbao No. [-]?!"

The Yashen dog named Dumao No. [-] lay on all fours in Qingguo's arms and wagged its tail.

"Yoxi... What a good boy..." Teasing the Iori dog in his arms, Qing Guo looked at the surrounding environment.Although it is a room that is almost the same as before, compared to the room of ordinary wandering girls, there are obviously a lot less cosmetics here.

There is no gorgeous dressing table, and there are no various jewelry boxes, Qing Guo squinted her eyes.

The friction sound between the sliding and pushing of the door panel brought back Qingguo's contemplative thoughts.Subconsciously bowing her body in an attacking posture, Qing Guo opened her eyes wide in surprise after seeing the person coming at the door.

"Yueyong...?!" The uncertain tone is due to the fact that the other party's face is obviously more mature than in memory, and Qing Guo, who has no sense of the "seven years later" time, obviously has some reactions after seeing the person. Come.

"This, what's going on?!" At last, the memory stayed on "the sea water is really salty." Qingguo couldn't help but asked in confusion.

Yue Yong, who had been standing still at the door since entering the door, found a place in the house and sat down slowly when Qingguo asked questions. With her blond hair coiled up high and a cigarette stick in her hand, Yue Yong He took a deep breath before opening his mouth slowly.

"You fainted at the gate of Yoshihara. The maid who went shopping found you and brought you back. At first I thought it was some wandering girl who tried to escape but failed, but I didn't expect to see you."

Qingguo pulled the quilt, quietly listening to Yueyong's narration.

"A few years ago, the sun wheel told me the truth. Although it was not your fault, I still find your way of handling things annoying." Taking a puff of cigarette, Yueyong looked at the window and slowly exhaled the smoke from her mouth. smoke.

"Some days I heard people talking about you being taken to Chunyu. I thought that I might never see you again in this life, but I didn't want to see you again in such a short time. Although I don't know what happened to you What exactly happened to make you collapse at the gate of Yoshihara in such a state of embarrassment, but before you think of a way to escape, you should stay in Baihua and be an ordinary team member."

As Yue Yong's voice fell, there was a knock on the door.

"Lord Yueyong, what you asked for has been delivered." An unfamiliar voice sounded outside the door, Yueyong put down the pipe in his hand, got up and opened the closed wooden door of the Japanese room.

"The things are here, you go down first."

Yue Yong, who dismissed the team members, held the tray in his hand, closed the door again, walked to Qing Guo and sat down.

"These are the clothes and utensils that the Baihua team members often wear. You go to the bathroom next door and change after washing. I will take you to see the sun wheel."

Qing Guo, who had been silent from the beginning, took the clothes from Yue Yong's hands, then lifted the quilt and walked towards the bathroom on the side.The number two behind him rolled over on the quilt, and then followed Qingguo into the bathroom.

Staying alone in the house, Yue Yong leaned against the window, looking at the street downstairs with people coming and going, wondering what she was thinking.

With hands full of shampoo, she wiped her ankle-length hair. Standing under the shower, Qingguo mechanically rubbed her sticky long hair.

The bathtub, set aside, was filled with fresh water at a suitable temperature.After washing off the last bit of foam on her body, Qing Guo raised her hand to turn off the shower that was still flowing, then raised her legs and walked towards the bathtub.

Cheerful No. [-], who was playing alone in the tub full of water, saw the green fruit coming out of the water mist, shook his ears, and raised his neck in a corner where no one noticed.

Raising her legs and stepping into the bathtub, Qingguo raised her arms and rolled up her long hair, revealing her fair and slender neck, and slowly sat in the bathtub filled with clear water.

In the dimly lit room, the faint light from the monitor illuminated the boy's fair cheeks.Kamui sat cross-legged in the chair, watching the flashing images on the screen with sky-colored eyes without any emotion.

The moment Afutu pushed the door in with the mission report in his hand, Shenwei raised his hand and turned off the monitor that was playing the screen.

"Stop watching those weird TV shows, Captain. We'll be in Edo in ten minutes."

After changing her clothes, Qingguo looked at the mirror in the bathroom and pulled up a mask to cover her face. The dripping hair was quickly dried with a hair dryer and tied into a neat ponytail. Qingguo walked out of the bathroom with No. [-] in her arms, and walked to Behind Yue Yong.

"Come with me, I'll take you to see the sun wheel."

I don't know why the other party is so obsessed with going to see the sun wheel, Qing Guo keeps silent, puts down No. [-] in his arms, gets up and follows Yue Yong and walks out of the house.

Speaking of which, how did she come to the gate of Yoshihara?

It seems that since she was awake, the mysteries around her have been thrown at her one after another.It seems that she can only take one step and watch one step after being so helpless to fight back.

The streets of Yoshiwara are still as noisy as in memory, with wandering girls and men walking on the streets, laughing and flattering words lingering in their ears, making Qingguo feel like a world away.

The former wandering girl is nowhere to be seen, and under the same title is a new face that Qingguo doesn't know.The only thing that hasn't changed is that Taifu Toya is still the sun wheel admired by all the women in Yoshiwara.

Qingguo, who was walking on the road to the Taifu's boudoir in the East House, was caught by a light green figure at the corner of the street.

"Such a young child will come to a place like Yoshiwara. Has the so-called Taoyuan Township for men reached this level?"

Following Qingguo's line of sight, Yue Yong looked towards the street corner.

"That child is here to find Rilun, and his name is Haruta."

Listening to Yue Yong's introduction, Qing Guo suddenly laughed out loud, and under Yue Yong's sharp eyes, Qing Guo slowly opened her mouth.

"It's just a child who doesn't know anything, but he can stand in this kind of stained flower street looking for his mother indifferently. The adult who knows everything can't bear to drive away this child who is eager to find his mother for his own selfishness. Let the other party mess around here. Yueyong..." Qing Guo stopped laughing. "Yoshihara will eventually usher in a storm for the issues left over from history, and you may be buried in this storm."

Yue Yong listened to Qing Guo's words but never looked back.

"You are still the same as before. When everyone is expecting, you will just stand aside and keep pouring cold water."

"It's a blessing in disguise, but you don't know it's a blessing. Good things are not necessarily good, and bad things are not necessarily bad. I think you already understand this simple truth."

"Ah~~~ Really, I can't understand it now..."

Standing at the door of the wooden house, Yue Yong said calmly.

After entering the room and closing the door, Qingguo slowly took off the mask under Rilun's suspicious eyes on Yueyong.Then the pale-skinned woman looked at Qingguo with surprise in her eyes, which turned into surprise, and then slowly became complicated.

"Since I'm alive, why go back to Yoshihara." This was the first sentence Rilun said after recognizing Qingguo.

And Qingguo just leaned against the door panel and waved to the woman in the room.

"Well~~~ I just lost my way on the road of life~~~"