Thirteen brothers urged me to get married

57.

In the photo album from four years ago, Yukie gathered with friends from the tennis club, went shopping with Itsuki Momoi, and traveled with everyone from the Armed Detective Agency.

Everything was peaceful and beautiful, and it was completely impossible to see what great things she had done that year.

Xuezhi's gaze turned to the other albums.

There are four books in total, roughly divided according to seasons.

In the spring four years ago, the daily life of her and her brothers filled an entire photo album.

They went to Sakura Park for a picnic, celebrated the birthday of the eighth younger brother Lucy at home, and sent the third younger brother to go to Kyoto to study at university...

Xuezhi quickly turned page after page, and when the album was about to be finished, she finally found the information she needed in the last few pages of photos.

In the photos on those pages, whether it was eating with his younger brothers on weekends or playing games with Mi, who was only two years old, it was obvious that Xuezhi was not in high spirits.

In the photo, she seems to have troubles that cannot be resolved between her brows, and even when she smiles, there is a hint of melancholy.

It can be seen from their clothes and the surrounding scene in the photo that it was around the end of spring.

And the crisis of the Red King's falling sword four years ago happened at the turn of spring and summer.

"At that time, I should have known the news that Zun's situation was not good." That's why I was troubled.

Xuezhi tried to recall his mood at that time.But she couldn't even remember that period, let alone recall the mood at that time.

She put aside the photo album she had turned to the end, and continued to look through Xia Tian's one, but she couldn't get any clues.

In the photo album, she gets along with her younger brothers very warmly and joyfully. When she went to the comic exhibition with Chun and Azusa, her face was full of curiosity.

As an accompanying parent, I bonded with the children when I went to the spring outing with Kiori, and I was positive when I accompanied Zao and Subaru for morning exercises...

In the photo, she looks in good condition, her brows are stretched and peaceful, she doesn't have the sadness at the end of spring at all, she looks like she has passed that period of melancholy.

She turned to the first page of the summer photo album and compared it with the photos at the end of spring, only to find what she had overlooked just now: "It seems... there was a gap in the middle."

Although it is said that spring and summer are alternately dressed, it is impossible to change from a spring coat directly to a summer short-sleeve without any transition in between, just like the temperature does not repeat at all.

When she was in the hospital before, Xuezhi asked Zhou Fangzun if she knew what she was doing when the falling sword was in crisis.

Zhou Fangzun shook his head, saying that she should be preparing for a vacation with her younger brothers.

If she really went on vacation with her brothers, it is impossible not to have photos of their vacation in the album.

At that time, Xuezhi thought that Zhou Fangzun shook his head just to deny whether she had seen him.Now it seems that he shook his head to answer the question of whether he knew what she was doing at that time.

As for the vacation, it was probably his guess.

"Or maybe he got it wrong." Xue Zhi looked at the two photo albums in front of her, and continued to search for clues in the few memories she had.

"At that time..." The picture of her standing on the rooftop looking at the huge airship appeared in Xuezhi's mind. It was night, and she was wearing a long-sleeved thin coat, which did not match any of the photos in the album.

Xuezhi was almost sure that there was indeed a period of time missing between the two albums.

"Maybe I should look for a calendar from four years ago." Xuezhi thought.

She has a habit of keeping track of her trips on a calendar, and maybe she can find out what she did during the time when the album was missing.

Thinking of doing it, Xuezhi immediately got up and went to the utility room on the basement floor.

The utility room holds meaningful but rarely used items from their home.

Because there is regular cleaning, the utility room is not messy or dusty, which provides a good environment for Xuezhi's object-finding work.

The large storage boxes are placed firmly on the shelf, just like the photo albums on the bookshelf before, arranged one by one in chronological order.

Xuezhi easily found the shelf where the sundries from four years ago were placed. There were eighteen storage boxes on three floors, and the bottom three belonged to Xuezhi.

"It's a good thing it's not on the top." Xuezhi said happily.

Otherwise, she would still worry about how to get such a big storage box off the shelf higher than her.

Xuezhi moved the storage box out of the shelf, but remembered the moment he opened the storage box: "Wait... I remember things like calendars that I have every year and don't throw away every year. I remember that they were put together?"

She opened the storage box and rummaged through it, but she did not find the calendar.

While lamenting that she would not shed tears without seeing the coffin, but also feeling that such a cautious behavior is very meritorious, Xuezhi shook her head helplessly and came to the unified storage place.

The storage box in the unified storage place is smaller, and the items are arranged according to the category. Xuezhi quickly found the storage box where the calendar was placed.

Next to it is a more delicate small storage box with the words "Omoru" on it, which is a box for storing Omori.

Sure enough, Xuezhi found the calendar she had used four years ago in the calendar storage box.

She quickly skipped the first three pages and turned to the fourth.

In April, at the turn of spring and summer, the time when the crisis of the Red King's falling sword occurred.

The result disappointed Xuezhi. In the first two weeks of April, there were intermittent written records of the schedule for those days.

For the next ten days or so, the calendar was empty, nothing was recorded, only a simple "X" was typed on the date, simple and indifferent.

Xuezhi didn't know if she didn't record the schedule of those days, or if she once recorded it, but was erased by an unknown force.

She just restored the storage box and put it back in disappointment.

The moment she turned around to leave, Xuezhi felt a sudden change in her heart, and took out the exquisite storage box that stored the guard.

The Asahina family did not have the habit of sending omamori to each other, and more of them were gifts from friends.And Xuezhi doesn't have many friends, so this storage box is not big.

Looking at the words on the shou, Xuezhi can roughly match the shou with the person who sent the shou and the time.

For example, the love guard was given to her by Momoi Mayzuki on the New Year two years ago, the health guard was given to her by a friend from the tennis club in her third year of high school after she returned to school due to illness, and the travel safety guard was given to her Edogawa Ranpo five years ago before she went on a trip.It was given to her in return for the gift she had given him earlier.

But there is one ward, but Xuezhi still can't associate it with a certain person or a certain point in time.

As if it appeared in this storage box out of nowhere, Xuezhi was completely confused.

Xuezhi picked up the guard and looked at it carefully.

The color of the omori is very plain, with strange patterns embroidered on it - a circle in the middle, with discontinuous arcs surrounding the circle in the middle and spreading outwards.

Xuezhi always felt that those patterns gave her a simple feeling, but she couldn't recognize what those patterns represented.

She pinched the omamori and found that it was hard inside. It was not like a normal mormori with paper written on it, but instead it looked like a thin piece of wood.

Xuezhi pulled off the strap on the top of the guard, and easily took out the contents inside.

"Stone?" Xuezhi pinched the thin thing she took out from the guard, and found that it was not made of wood.

There is nothing written on the stone piece, it looks like a piece of ordinary stone except for its square shape.

But when Xuezhi gently stroked the front of the stone flake, he found that there were some unevenness on it, which was not obvious, but did exist.

Xuezhi lightly touched the stone flake with her soft fingertips, and soon realized that the pattern on the stone flake was the same as the pattern embroidered on the imperial guard.

She tried to remember if she had seen this pattern anywhere.At this moment, the sound of footsteps came from the corridor outside.

Xue Zhi's eyes turned to the door of the utility room, and she knew who was coming without guessing: "Xiao Mi, is it you?"

Hearing her voice, Xiao Mi stepped faster: "Sister! I found you!"

As the sound got closer, Mi's figure appeared at the door of the utility room.

"Huh? Is Xiao Mi looking for something to do with her sister? Do you still miss her?" Xuezhi asked him with a smile.

"I miss my sister..." Xiao Mi trotted up to Xuezhi, but instead of hugging her as usual, she stood in front of her, raised her head and told her earnestly: "My sister is just sick, don't run around."

"Okay, okay, my sister listens to Xiao Mi, don't run around." Xue Zhi put the stone back into the guard, and put the guard in his pocket.

She reached out to touch Mi's hair, and then remembered that she had just moved the storage box.Although the utility room is cleaned regularly, it is inevitable to get dust on your hands.

But she wanted to be with Mi Tie Tie again, so she knelt down and rubbed Mi's forehead with her forehead.

Mi Le couldn't hold back her serious expression, she smiled and rubbed her forehead back.

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"Does Xiao Mi know what your brothers are up to?" Xuezhi asked Mi in the elevator.

Hearing her question, Mi quickly covered her mouth, expressing with actions that this was a secret between him and his brothers, and he wanted to keep it a secret.

He blinked, and the voice came through the hand covering his mouth: "I can't say it."

Xuezhi just asked, and it would be best if she could find out, and she wasn't in a hurry if she couldn't.

She pretended to be aggrieved: "Hey, isn't Xiao Mi the best with her sister? She has secrets with her brothers."

It's a pity that her eyes that were about to bend into crescent moons betrayed her emotions.

Mi Ye smiled and rolled her eyes, not being fooled by her: "It's best with my sister. But I can't say it."

"Pfft——" Xuezhi laughed aloud at his appearance.

She held back her smile firmly, and continued to pretend to be pitiful: "Well, then sister can only wait slowly, and I don't know how long it will take."

Mi thought about it, and felt that this seemed to be a good way to say: "Sister will find out tomorrow."

"Oh...really? Then my sister will look forward to it." Xuezhi's thoughts turned around in her mind, thinking that she should know what the younger brothers are busy with.

Tomorrow is December [-]rd, the birthday of the second brother Ukyo.

But generally speaking, if someone in the family has a birthday, as long as they are not adults or full-year-old, they will not specially hold a birthday party. If you have time, come back to get together, and if you don't have time, it doesn't matter if you don't come back.

"It seems a little different this time?" Xuezhi couldn't figure it out.

"They won't think I've forgotten You Jing's birthday, right?" She felt a little unbelievable, but she had already prepared a gift for You Jing tomorrow.

"I really just had a slight concussion, not a broken brain."

Xuezhi thought of the actions and expressions of her younger brothers when they saw her before, and the more she thought about it, the more strange she felt.