[Comprehensive] A dream of prosperity

On the open field outside Yodo Castle, the tents of the shogunate army were stationed. It was already [-]:[-] in the evening, and the person in charge of cooking scooped out the little food left and started cooking on the bonfire.

Isamu Kondo and Toshizo Hijikata, who came out of the main tent, cast a glance in the direction of Yodo Castle, then looked away, and walked step by step towards the tent they would form.

"How's the talk going?" Seeing the two people coming in, Harada Sanosuke moved away from the seat beside him and let them sit down.

Kondo frowned, took a sip of the hot tea, and sighed with bulging eyes, "The soldiers of Yodo Castle saw the wind and turned the steering wheel, and they never agreed to let us enter the city again. Fans and soldiers join together."

"Damn it! This group of people still flattered our presence at the beginning, but now they immediately turn against each other when they hear the news from the front line!" Team Chief Kubo Takeshi, who succeeded Fujido Hirasuke after his death, raised his fist indignantly in the air. With a wave, "I really want to teach them a lesson, so that they can no longer be fools!"

"This is the way it is in this era. In order to survive, some people are naturally willing to be the vacillating people."

Following Hijikata's words, the entire tent fell into silence, not only for Toba Fushimi's embarrassing defeat, but also for the unpredictable tomorrow and future direction.

Kondo looked at the tea stem standing in the teacup, and suddenly said, "Now I suddenly think of what girl Xiyue said back then."

"Hey, so Director Kondo still remembers what I said back then? My honor~" The three of Yuzuki were led outside the tent where the leader of the Shinsen team gathered, and they heard Kondo's words.

"You guys are back! It's cold outside, come in and have a cup of hot tea!" Kondo is respectful, gentle and kind, and he is also a cute uncle in Xiyue's eyes, so when he got along with the Shinsengumi, She was very close to him.Seeing his warm hospitality, she sat down beside him with a smile on her face, and teased: "Director Kondo is not trying to speak ill of me, is he?"

Kondo looked at this person who hadn't changed at all, dumbfounded, and patted her on the head dotingly, "I haven't seen her for so many years, why is this temper still unbearable!"

Xiyue grinned and sipped her tea without saying a word.

I rejected Jianxin's invitation before, because she was still concerned about the illness of the chief executive, and the Boshin War at the end of the Edo period will last for several months. If she goes back with Jianxin now, the chief executive may never be able to wait for her again. up.

And in the turmoil of this year, these people in front of them...

She glanced at the past one by one, and her heart was full of unspeakable sadness and sadness.

"Hajime, Shinpachi, thank you for your hard work!"

Kondo and Hijikata saw that the wounds on the other two people who were seated had been healed, so they only ordered the people outside to boil some soup and bring them over, and said to themselves: "This time we will retreat to the west bank of the Yodo River to meet the soldiers of the Jin Fan Fan. The Restoration Army is fighting a battle, do you have any opinions of your own?"

"I lost this battle even though I was outnumbered. The biggest reason is that the opponent's weapons are more advanced than ours, and there are more..." Tufang frowned and put down the teacup, looking in the direction of Xiyue, with a self-deprecating smile on the corner of his mouth, "I have to admit that sometimes no matter how powerful I am, I'm at a disadvantage when faced with such a situation..."

When Xiyue saw Hijikata's appearance, she suddenly remembered how angry Hijikata was when she said, "Guns and ammunition are the inevitable products of the times and the future trend" when she was in the settlement of the Shinsengumi. Now, he witnessed and experienced it with his own eyes. After such a war, he was really depressed.

"Hey, can I ask a question?" Xiyue held the teacup and let the white smoke curl up, engulfing her face, "Boss, you have been in the Shinsengumi for so many years, and you have always maintained the faction of the shogunate, but I want to know, You insist on the same reason."

She has already noticed that there are not many people here, the cute big boy Heisuke who likes to cling to her, the black-bellied and introverted chief Shannan who wears glasses but cares about the Shinsengumi, and the good-natured guy who always looks at them connivingly. Laughing Mr. Inoue.

It seems that time has not passed, but many things have happened here. The comrades-in-arms and friends who used to stand side by side are now buried in the loess and returned to their hometown.

"Ah, maybe it's because of that point in my heart..."

"Director Kondo, the general is here to invite you." A voice from outside the door interrupted his words, and the words that followed made everyone in the room stupefied and surprised for a moment, "The general also invites you to come to the team." see this friend of mine."—

"Ayong, you guys are coming, come, come, sit here!" The man sitting on the seat was wearing a simple armored samurai uniform. Like a chrysanthemum, it feels a bit painful...

Xiyue's first impression of this person was not very good, because her smile was false, but fortunately she was used to similar scenes, and as Kondo knelt down on the short table beside her, she watched Listening carefully to the man's long list of nonsense, his thoughts began to drift to unknown places.

"... Yue... girl? Girl!"

"Ah...?"

Kondo looked at the dumbfounded person, and felt an urge to touch his forehead. He glanced at the general who was still smiling, and whispered in Xiyue's ear, "The general asked you just now, how did you get here?" On the battlefield. Don’t be nervous, say what you think, I will do the rest.”

Xiyue was taken aback for a moment, then squinted her eyes, said "uh" back to Kondo, and looked deeply at the person sitting on the main seat.

"Back to General Tokugawa, I happened to be walking nearby, and I heard from the people around me that Fushimi had opened a station, and there were people from the Aizu Domain inside. I thought maybe the people from the Shinsengumi I knew were also there. I was also taken care of by Director Kondo and others in the garrison, so I found a shortcut and rushed to the battlefield to see if I could help Shangxing."

"Well, it's not bad! It's good to be willing to work for my shogunate!"

General Tokugawa stroked his beard, a dark light flashed through his sharp eagle eyes, and he said casually: "I heard from my subordinates that Miss Yuzuki once blocked a bomb with the leader of the third group of the Shinsen group... I'm a little curious in my heart, now that I see the real person, I want to ask if those words are true?"

"I'm afraid those people are blinded by it. How can anyone in this world be able to resist that cannon?"

"Oh, is that so? That's it... I don't know if Miss Xiyue knows the famous executioner Ba Dao Zhai? I heard that this person is a student of the Flying Sword School, and his master is Bigu Qingjuro..."

Xiyue's eyes sank, she stroked the teacup on the low table, and replied with a faint smile: "To tell you the truth, General, the executioner Ba Dao Zhai came from the same school as me."

As soon as she finished speaking, the person sitting on the table immediately changed his face and slapped the table, pointing at her and saying to the soldier who heard the voice, "Catch her!"

"General, what do you mean?" Kondo stopped the soldiers and said in a deep voice, "Yuzuki is a member of my new team, how can the general arrest people indiscriminately like this?"

"Isamu Kondo, do you want to rebel!"

"General, I just want to know why the general is doing this."

"Okay, okay, call Takeda in!"

General Tokugawa resumed his previous seat, glanced at the two people standing aside surrounded by soldiers, "She knew the executioner who killed countless of our shogunate, and she came from the same sect. It is said that on the battlefield, Team leader Saito wanted to kill that person but was stopped by her, and now she is lurking in our camp, isn't it to inform those reformers?"

"The general must have misunderstood. Although they come from the same sect, they stand on different positions..."

"Okay, okay, I don't want to listen to what you have to say now." General Tokugawa waved his hand impatiently, and said to Takeda who was brought in: "You, tell me everything you saw today, and let them Convinced."

Takeda knelt on the ground without looking up, just talked about Yuzuki's meeting on the battlefield today and with Saito and Kenshin later, even her hug and goodbye with Kenshin, she said clearly, let Xiyue couldn't help raising her eyebrows and cast a curious glance.

"Do you have anything to say!?" General Tokugawa winked at several soldiers, and they stepped forward to tie up Xiyue.

When he saw that Kondo wanted to say something, he raised his hand to signal him to wait first, and focused his eyes on the person who didn't resist at all, even with a calm expression, and raised the corners of his lips, "It seems that Miss Xiyue is very calm, and she is not afraid of danger. It does have the spirit of a samurai, but you should go to the dark tent for now."

Seeing that Yuzuki was pushed down, Kondo reflexively wanted to step forward to stop him, but was stopped by Tokugawa, "Kondo, I have something to tell you."——

After Kondo with a heavy face entered the Shinsengumi's tent, he began to assign tasks. Everyone didn't see Yuzuki coming back and held back to ask questions until the director finished making arrangements, but what they were going to do next made everyone wide-eyed With a close eye, it seems especially incredible.

"Let us Shinsengumi go to Koshu to stop the reformers?! We just completed this Fushimi vanguard attack and retreated at the bottom after the war. Shouldn't we be replaced by other soldiers!" Nagakura Shinpachi exclaimed, " We have already suffered heavy casualties, and we don’t even have time to recuperate!”

The expressions of the other people were also indignant, but Hijikata stared at Kondo's dull face and said, "Are they threatening you with Yuzuki?"

Everyone looked at Hijikata incredulously, and then turned their eyes to Kondo. Seeing him nodding, they couldn't help shouting.

"Hush—!" Hijikata looked at this with a frown, asked Kondo's cause and effect, was silent for a moment, and said slowly, "They actually planned long ago to use our Shinsengumi as shields and swords, and Yuzuki this time The sudden appearance was just to find a suitable reason for them, and now...the headquarter is still in Osaka, there should be someone monitoring there, so we can only obey orders."

"Well... Actually, you don't have to worry about Xiaoyue."

Mo Kelao jumped out of Saito's arms, stood on the low table, and shook his ears, "I think Xiaoyue was willing to be arrested because she was afraid that you would be implicated. Since you have already agreed to the conditions, then I will go find her." If this is said, she will run away by herself."

The veins on Saito's forehead twitched. Thinking of the previous scene on the battlefield and the scene where they flew back with the big bird she conjured up, he believed what Mo Kelao said, "Xiaoyue is no longer the savvy person she used to be." The person who wields a sword and fights, we really don’t have to worry about her safety."——

Xiyue stood in the dark tent, twisted her wrist, kicked the messy ropes scattered on the ground to the corner of the wall, ignited the white flames on her body, cursed a few words to the old man with a chrysanthemum face, she covered her hands and began to yell With a heavy stomach, he sat casually on the only wooden board in the dark tent, and suddenly missed the meals that Zhuisheng cooked every day.

Just when she was thinking about her favorite braised pork ribs, there was a rustling sound from a corner, which made her restrain the flames on her body, looked over, and after a while, a black and white man came in from there. Meatballs.

"Little...Little Mo?!"

"Huh—next time, Mo Ke will never drill holes again!" Mo Ke looked at the dust on his body with pouted lips, and jumped to Xiyue's side, "Xiaoyue, I'm here for Ju Xiaoba and the others. You sent the message."

Knowing the cause and effect of the incident from Mo Kebao's mouth, Xiyue rubbed her chin and thought for a while, then said: "Since they have already decided on the way to go, then let's go to Osaka to find the general manager!"

"Oh, by the way, Hajime has something for you." Mo Ke spat out a long scarf from his mouth, and scooped it up to Yuzuki, "Hajime's original words were 'it's cold in Osaka, we don't I know when I can see you again, I will leave this scarf for you to keep out the cold first.'”

Xiyue took the scarf and found that it was still hot, as if it still had someone's body temperature. She lowered her head and looked at the Moco scoop, which started licking the lollipop again. She finally swallowed what she wanted to ask.

Thinking that they will fail miserably in the next few battles, and the people in the new writing team will leave one by one, she frowned, and said to Mo Ke: "Xiao Mo, please drill the dog hole again, Help me deliver something to Hajime and the others!"——

Staring at Mo Ke who was hopping out of the door, Saito stuffed the note into the red blessing bag in his hand.

Hijikata regained his senses from what Mo Kelao had shown them just now, and saw Saito's different expression, his eyes flashed a little deep, then he got up and walked to him, "Hajime, come out, I want to talk to you talk."

It wasn't until the two of them left the tent and walked the river beside Diancheng that they stopped.

"A Sui, what do you want from me?"

"Do you like Yuzuki?" Saito didn't expect Hijikata to ask this directly, and he stood there for a long time with his mouth slightly open, then tightened the blessing bag in his hand, turned his head to look at the already frozen river course.

"How do I like her, and what if I don't like her?"

"Asi likes her too, you guys..." Tufang had a headache, Xiyue was always a bit out of place for him, although she was very powerful, but her origin was strange and she had such a special ability, the chief executive liked her Forget it, I didn't expect that Hajime, who has always been known for being calm and restrained, would like her.

"I know, and the boss knows too."

Saito looked up at the snow-free sky, and said lightly: "People like us should not have someone we like, but when my heart gradually sinks, I will not be able to restrain myself. Even if I Now I want to take her away, but because I have already shouldered what I have to bear, I can’t realize it. It’s like we were sent to Koshu in anger, but we had to go.”

"I don't know how long this war will last, and I don't know the extent of the chief's illness. I hope he can recover and compete with him fairly after the war... Oh, yes, her senior brother treats her Feelings are different..."

Tu Fang was surprised, "You..."

Saito didn't care, and turned his head to stare at him, "I'm still standing here to help the shogunate resist the reformers, but it doesn't mean I agree with their approach. This era is different from that time, and each of us has our own Persistence, so I don't want to say that you and Director Kondo's persistence is wrong, but if one day, I leave the Shinsengumi for my own ideas like Hirasuke, I hope you can understand."

Tufang didn't expect him to say such a thing, and when he thought of those who had passed away, a slight sadness gradually appeared on his face.

"Don't push yourself too hard, sometimes we all need to relax." Saito chuckled, "I hope you can be with Qianzuru, don't hesitate any longer."

Tufang didn't speak, and looked at the faint bonfire on the campsite. If possible, he also wanted to be free and easy, but sometimes, it's really not something we can just think about or talk about casually.

"Boom!" The white flames burst out from a tent in the camp and went straight into the sky. Accompanied by people's screams and shouts, Saito and Hijikata simultaneously focused their sights on the place where the fire gradually rose. on the flying bird.

Seeing that the bird seemed to be attached to something, it whistled lightly in the sky, circled around the camp, and flew straight towards Osaka.

The author has something to say: In this turbulent world, people in this chaotic environment have their own sorrows.

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The conflict of history is also the conflict of people. Everyone has their own persistence, and they all firmly believe that their persistence will eventually lead to the happiness of Qingping and prosperity.It can be said that both the murderer and the murdered have their own attachments, and they are all right, it is only this era that is wrong.

Just like Saito, Hijikata, and Kenshin, they should be used for protection, not killing.But they were very helpless, because the times did not allow them to do so. When they stepped into this muddy water from the beginning, they wanted to get out again, but they were already unable to extricate themselves!

The picture of Saito's long hair and short hair in Hakuouki~~ are very handsome!