[Comprehensive] Comb girl

The temperature in the palm cannot be ignored, making Ah Ding slightly lower his head.

what……

It's a shock.

Turns out he's been there all along.

"Why didn't Fu Sangshen follow the lord?" He asked, "From the moment the lord entered Osaka Castle, I noticed... Is something wrong?"

Ah Ding replied honestly: "I escaped."

"Escape?" Phase [-] frowned slightly, "Why? That's too unsafe. The retrograde army... The retrograde army will attack you at any time."

"I want to see you." Her voice became softer, "That's all. If you are really killed by the retrograde army because of this, then it is a doomed fate."

Yizheng showed a serious look.

"You can't say such things. The master is the most important thing."

He repeated it twice.

After a pause, he let go of his hand, as if he had made up his mind, he said, "I'll take you back to Honwan."

"...?!" Ah Ding couldn't believe it.

——Finally met Yiqi Yizhen, but he wants to send himself back to Honmaru? !

"I don't want to go back." She immediately vetoed, "If I go back, I will never receive the first issue of letters again. The letters written to me in the first issue...are left by Sanriyue. I can't see it."

Yiqi showed a slightly stunned look.

"No, please go back to Honmaru." He thought for a while and said as before.

Fu Sangshen's stubborn worry made Ah Ding both annoyed and happy.This contradictory mood is like tasting bitter grass leaves and sweet sugar cake at the same time.

But she still didn't want to leave Yiqi, so she could only use the trick she was used to—she put her arms around Yiqi's waist, and said stubbornly: "Yiqi, I want to stay with you. "

The hasty embrace made Fu Sangshen with short water blue hair quietly froze as if the freeze button had been pressed.He stretched out his arms at a loss, not knowing what to do.In the end, he slowly put his palm on Ading's shoulder, and comforted him: "My lord... If you are like this, I will not be able to resist."

However, he finally did not bring up the matter of sending her back to Honmaru.

Buried in his arms, Ah Ding breathed a sigh of relief.She had never felt so at ease—it was a delicate feeling to be with the sword she forged and summoned by herself.

Another bunch of fireworks leaped into the night, blooming into dots of golden hair, like stardust that will be sprinkled on the shoulders in the next moment.As soon as he raised his head, the light of flickering fireworks was reflected in his gentle pupils.

"Has your lord seen the fireworks?" he asked.

"Actually, it's the first time." Ah Ding's voice was muffled, "...but, I read about it in a book."

"This is the firework that can send away all disasters." Yiqi Yizheng said slowly, "If the firework rises very high, the family luck will also become very good, and you will always be happy and healthy.... I used to The masters are all so convinced. Things from the West are always magical."

"Happy... Ankang?" Ah Ding said regretfully, "I wish I could see the fireworks sooner."

"Is the lord unhappy?" Yiqi Yizhen asked.

"Although I'm not happy until I see Hanabi," she said, "but if I can stay with Yiqi Yizhen forever, I will be very happy."

She had never spoken so boldly.

In the first episode, I was slightly startled.

His eyes moved, and his hands finally landed on the waist of the lord.

"...I think so too." He replied, "I want to protect you."

Ah Ding's heart is filled with something called "happiness".

——There is no happier time than now.

The knife marks on the surface of her body were clamoring again, but she had no time to take care of them.

... as you wish, as you wish.

The current self is no longer me.

"If the Lord really doesn't want to go back to Honmaru." Yiqi Yizheng opened his mouth and said softly, "I will protect you here until...after the fire."

Ah Ding's eyelashes trembled slightly.

... fire.

The fire that burned down Osaka Castle?

In the coming summer, the fire that will burn down all the prosperity?

Is the fire that Shinyoshimitsu was also burned in the first phase?

"No, no." A Ding quickly shook his head and said, "I really don't want you to witness the fire with your own eyes. Let's leave quickly...you definitely don't want to see it."

In the first phase, he smiled and rolled his eyes, revealing a soft smile.

"It's okay." He comforted his master.

"...It's been fine for a long time." He continued, "Because the me now belongs to you."

Your Excellency the Tenshou, the fireworks to drive away the disaster suddenly stopped, and the melodious music and singing also stopped abruptly. A few warriors hurried in from the outside to meet with Yododen and Hideyori—it seemed that something happened suddenly happened.This bustling banquet will stop here.

Ah Ding stood at the corner of the corridor, watching the nobles leave one after another.

Wearing a bamboo hat, Hideyori hurriedly walked towards Honmaru.Several noble retainers followed him, begging for something along the way.A few people walked through the wooden corridor, and their silk pants made a soft rustling sound as they rubbed against the ground.

"Your Highness! If you can meet the soldiers, it will definitely boost morale."

"Even if there is only one side, let them know that you exist..."

"If you don't show up all the time, it will inevitably shake your morale!"

However, the young patriarch who shouldered all the hopes of the Toyotomi family just left in a hurry without saying a word.All the pleading words of those retainers were left behind by him.

After he left, a young woman walked around surrounded by many female officials.She was dressed beautifully, but her young face was full of sorrow like a knife edge. The fireworks just now seemed to bring her no joy at all. It was Hideraiden's main wife, Tokugawa Chihime.

She caught a glimpse of Ah Ding's figure and stopped abruptly.

Soon, she came up with all the maids.After looking at Ah Ding's appearance, the sadness on her face turned into inexplicable anger, like a cat whose tail was poked by someone.

"Are you Xia?" Mrs. Qianji asked aloofly, "A woman of unknown origin."

"I'm A-Xia." A-Ding answered honestly, avoiding her sharpness.

Qianji's brows furrowed even tighter.

Her chest heaved for a while, and she said: "You will not be favored by His Highness. It is better to leave Osaka City as soon as possible."

The way she looked at Ah Ding was really not friendly.

After a short pause, Qianji asked again: "I heard that a few days ago, His Highness summoned you to the room?"

"...just talked about something related to knives." A Ding replied, "His Highness said that his favorite knife is named 'Cattail'."

Qianji's expression seemed to be a little more relaxed.But soon, she became vigilant again: "Is that all you said?"

"More than that." Ah Ding shook his head, "I even asked..."

"What else did you say?!" Qian Ji was irritated by her hesitation.

"I also asked what you might like." A Ding replied, "I answered that Madam might like a lively banquet."

Qianji was stunned.

Her thumb unconsciously stroked the juniper fan, with a strange expression on her face.

After a while, she said to Ah Ding: "I don't like banquets, it's too noisy. If His Highness wants to ask, let him ask me in person."

After saying that, she left with the maids.

Ah Ding looked at the back of Mrs. Qianji going away, and suddenly had a strange thought in his mind: Maybe Qianji herself doesn't hate her husband?

If not, why did you come here to warn yourself?

***

Ah Ding soon knew the reason why the banquet was interrupted that day——

The Tokugawa army has begun to attack Osaka again, and an army of more than [-] people has already set off on the road.And at the moment in Osaka City, the strongest military force is nothing more than a ronin group of more than [-] people.It is really difficult to deal with the menacing Tokugawa army.

The world left by Toyotomi Hideyoshi seems to be more and more crumbling.

Under the heavy pressure of the mountain, Hideyori didn't seem irritable.He seemed to be living more and more reclusively, unwilling to see any foreign ministers, even if the military situation was imminent, he could not be invited out of the account.

In such a reclusive life, Mrs. Qianji who lives in Xiewan seems to be his only sustenance.He called Ah Ding again and asked, "She likes the banquet and music you mentioned last time. Is there anything else?"

Ah Ding was a little puzzled.

"But Madam said...she doesn't like banquets." A Ding replied cautiously, "She said that if His Highness wants to ask her what she likes, you can go see her in person."

Hideyori behind the heavy curtain did not answer.

After a long time, a sigh fell.He whispered: "She must like banquets and waka, but she doesn't want to say it. She doesn't want me to see her. When she sees me, she always glares at me...she hates me. "

The honorable Lord of Osaka actually confessed his feelings in front of Ah Ding.

Ah Ding thought to himself: This is not incomprehensible.

Mrs. Qianji is the noble eldest daughter of the Tokugawa family, who grew up under the doting of her childhood; when she was a young girl, she would marry into the enemy's house and serve her enemy's lord.Not only that, because of the obstruction of the Diandian, the husband and wife could not even share the same bed, and they never had a child.

During the years when Toyotomi's house was left alone with the vacant room, Mrs. Chihime must have resentment.

"When she was 17 years old, I shaved her temples." Xiu Lai raised her head, her voice was far away, "After that, we have never been so close. At that time, she accidentally saw my face, but she didn't Don't hate my ugliness."

The young Osaka city lord seemed to say something else, but Ah Ding couldn't hear it clearly.Only the last sentence, she heard clearly: "If I go to the battlefield and slaughter her brother and grandfather's generals, she will definitely hate me, right?"

After saying this, he actually raised the curtain and walked straight out of the things that blocked him.The young city lord is wearing the imperial armor of Chidi brocade, with a long hakama hanging down his lower part, and he is impressively in the posture of going out.Also pinned to his waist is his beloved sword - Toshiro Natsuo, and...

"The world shakes up", Yoshimitsu's Otachi——

"Phase [-]..."

Ah Ding stared at the knife body at his waist, "One phase, one good luck..."