[Hakuouki Doujin] The Tide of Fallen Leaves

Since 1853, when the United States signed the Japan-Mizumi Peace Treaty with Japan and the country-locked system began to disintegrate, the probability of foreigners appearing in several open trading ports has become higher and higher.But before that, Nagasaki, which has been trading with the Netherlands and China for a long time, has been Japan's only foreign port for several years.

Through the ocean-going merchant ship trade, the Dutch merchant ships did not only bring goods from the West or Southeast Asia. Occasionally, some missionaries who came to Japan with the ships also brought science and rationalism that were booming in the European world.Their ideas, which seem very strange to the Japanese, impact the conservative traditional ideas of the Japanese. Under the conflict between the two, there are good and bad results.

Qing Ji, an ordinary businessman, began to develop a fanatical interest in chemistry under such a cultural atmosphere.

At first, he was curious about the foreigners who had business dealings with his father, and later happened to discover their interesting skills, and Qingji began to pester the missionary who was also quite accomplished in chemistry to learn some techniques like distillation and mixing substances .

By a careless accident, Xiaoshan, who has been playing with him, found out that she was secretly tinkering with these things, so the days of the two of them colluding, no, covering up each other officially began...

The first missionary taught Kiyotsugu the basics of science, and before the missionary left Japan, he gave Kiyotsugu an elementary textbook for foreign students studying science—translated—to study carefully by himself, relying on In the eyes of foreigners, the contents of the book were quite simple, and Qingji began to study on his own.

His exuberant curiosity makes him eager to try everything. When he encounters something he can’t do, he will go to other foreigners and ask those missionaries who also understand science. After getting the answer, he will excitedly throw himself into the next one Research, day and night, sleepless nights.

At the beginning, the family saw their son getting involved in something that felt very demonic and ghostly, and they were terrified. In order to make Qingji "return to normal", they did everything possible, worshiping Buddha, taking medicine, and exorcising ghosts. Come on, even to divert Qing Ji's attention and ask him to learn medical skills, as long as they can get Qing Ji to leave that room, they are willing to try anything.

Although they also wondered why Qingji could always get the materials, they never noticed that it was Xiaoshan who was secretly helping him.

As time went by, everyone saw that there was no way to stop Qingji, since the matter was not harmful anyway, so they let Qingji do experiments on his own, at most lamenting the child who had gone astray.

In this way, after three or four years of research life, Qingji has made considerable progress in the research of chemical medicines. He is quite talented in this area, and he has used various medicinal materials to create medicines with good medicinal effects. At first, the local people were not suspicious at first, but because they saw the curative effect of the medicine made by Qingji, they all began to regard Qingji as a magical pharmacist, and rumors about Qingji also began to spread in the countryside.

"Excuse me, does Yakushi Qingtsugu live in this village?" One day, a clean-dressed and handsome young man came from one end of the village, grabbed a man who was about to work, and asked.

"Ah—he lives here!" Hearing that the other party was coming to find the pharmacist, the man suddenly realized, pointing to a room with a sign on it and said, "Just go over there, it's best to knock on the door before leaving." Go in. The pharmacist's house is messy."

"Thank you very much." After thanking the other party politely, the man looked at the house, and his vision followed to the side, and he could see the entire blue ocean, shining with the sun.

"Ahhh~" sighed, the man—that is, Nueno—adjusted his collar, put on the bamboo hat he just took off, and then walked towards the place where the Dutch often hang out.

The top priority is to find out how that person evaluates before making a decision...

After three or four days of inquiring, Nue Ye could be said to have inquired about everything that happened to Kiyotsugu from birth to the present, with a satisfied smile on the corner of his mouth, Nue Ye knew that he had found the right person this time. people.

Although the local people's statement is unavoidably strange, but the crew in the Netherlands said it very to the point, "a person who can use chemical methods to make medicine", and if he insisted on saying it, the other party should be called "" Lan doctor".

"Fortunately, I was one step ahead of those people..." sighed, stood up from the seat of the tea stand, Nueno handed enough change to the proprietress, patted the dust on his body, and once again looked at the door with the sign on it people.

He is against others.Although it is not blatant, it is enough for him to be able to find this help one step ahead of others.

After all, he'd done his best for a long time—in any land.

When he came to the other party's door, Nueno knocked on the door politely, took off his bamboo hat, and greeted the woman who opened the door with a faint smile.

"Excuse me, I'm looking for Mr. Kiyotsugu." With a bow, Nueno explained the purpose of his visit.

"Oh, good. Please wait a moment." The man was taken aback, and immediately went back to the room to drag another person out. "A guest is looking for you, Qingji."

"Who..." Just fell asleep and was dug up from the bed, Qingji scratched the itch in a bad mood, followed the woman to the door. "Xiao Shan, didn't I tell you not to let people disturb me?"

"It's different this time. It doesn't seem like you came here to ask for medicine." He whispered in Qingji's ear, and Xiaoshan noticed Nue Ye's high-quality clothes, "And uncle will come soon Are you going to get up?"

Faintly hearing the last sentence, Nue Ye laughed even more happily.

It seems that this task can be solved today by accident, which is awesome.

Invited by Xiaoshan into the house, Nue Ye expressed his intentions sincerely, and hoped that Qing Ji could help him.

Sitting casually at the other end of the table, Qingji frowned, and Xiaoshan, who was kneeling upright beside her, couldn't help but glance at the two of them.

"Help you make medicine?" After pondering for a while, Qingji looked up at Nueno. "Who are you?"

"It doesn't matter who I am, but I hope that someone can make this medicine so that he has no side effects. If possible, it's best to make an antidote." Nueno said, and took out a bag from his pocket. A transparent bottle of blood-red liquid, the liquid inside is a bit viscous, shaking in the transparent bottle.

"what is this?"

"You promised to help me make the medicine, and I will tell you further." Shaking his head, Nueno took back the bottle, "I can only say that this thing is like opium, it is addictive."

"...You want me to make opium?" Thinking of this, Qingji's expression turned ugly. He knew very well the disadvantages of opium, after all, he was also a pharmaceutical maker. "I won't make opium for people."

"It's not opium, it's not." After thinking for a while, Nue Ye added, "I can't go into details. If you know for no reason, it will drag you down. I just want to prevent people from using this drug to do drugs. It’s a bad thing, so I have to master the antidote one step ahead of them. Because of this, I will look around for doctors who might be able to make the medicine.”

"Please help me, Mr. Kiyotsugu." After saying that, Nueno bowed deeply at the other end of the table.

"..." After thinking for a while, Qingji knew that the thrill-seeking factor in his heart was constantly rolling, "I took it."

"That would be great." Nueno raised his head suddenly, showing a smile that stunned the two people on the opposite side.

It wasn't a face of peerless beauty, but the arc of that smile made one's heart skip a beat.

Thus, Qing Ji and Xiao Shan started the project of making that mysterious medicine for Nue Ye.

After deciding to help Nueno, they had heard Nueno explain the function of the pot of medicine——to enhance a person's physical ability for a short period of time, but it will make people lose their minds and live crazily with the purpose of killing.

But there are always people who are willing to keep their rights at all costs.Having said that, Nueno's expression darkened, "That looks like a vampire..."

"What is a vampire?" Xiao Shan immediately replied when she heard a word she had never heard before.

As if he didn't expect Xiaoshan to notice this word keenly, Nueno paused for a moment, then smiled wryly, "That...it's better not to know..."

Then, as if he didn't want Xiaoshan to continue asking questions, Nue Ye suddenly got up and left, avoiding Xiaoshan.

The two people who were left behind looked at each other, confused.

After that time, Nueno never mentioned this word in front of the two of them again, avoiding all questioning.

Until... because of Nueno's request, they moved with Nueno from Nagasaki to the outskirts of Kyoto.

The author has something to say:

Calvin in normal time...plus I want to write some other eras and background stories to explain...otherwise the protagonist will remain mysterious...

So, go back to the past and return to the next chapter.

I hope you all know a little bit about Nueno. -w-

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