Sword Raiders II

Spring is warm and flowers are blooming, and warblers are flying and butterflies are dancing.

The Manyozakura tree not far from the Honmaru is full of flowers again in the real spring after being replenished with spiritual energy in winter and covered with powder snow.

At the moment, everyone in Honmaru is preparing enthusiastically for the cherry blossom viewing party two days later.

One is to really celebrate the first spring of Honmaru, and the other is to hold a welcome and farewell party for the return of Yuanxiu and the relay.

Combined with several reasons, Zhongren felt that just sitting under the flower tree drinking tea and chatting was not enough, it had to be more grand, and it would be good to hold the cherry blossom viewing party as a cherry blossom viewing feast.

Since it is a banquet, of course it has to be prepared in advance, not to mention the purchase and advance processing of ingredients, but also the selection and layout of the banquet venue.

There is no need to worry about choosing a location, and everyone believes that it is under the Wanyezakura.But how to arrange the back and forth delivery of picnic cloths, venue decorations, and dishes and drinks is also a wave of worry.

Yu Li is actually very familiar with this kind of thing, as a culinary expert, it can be said that she can do it at her fingertips. As soon as the swordsmen opened her mouth to suggest, dozens of classic solutions from ancient times to the present popped up in her mind, but she didn't mention any of them.

As the lord of Honmaru, the lord has the style of a lord, how could he condescend to worry about such a trivial matter, naturally he threw all his brains to the subordinates headed by the chief executive Hasebe.

The subordinates were quite happy, and felt that it was a kind of respect and trust that the master of such a grand event entrusted them with full power, so they did it more seriously.

In fact, I just want to be lazy and let everyone who has lost their memory get acquainted with the united Yuli earlier:  …

In fact, they really valued and trusted them. After all, they had done all these tasks themselves before Honmaru's accident, and they were all familiar with it.

Without field missions, the swordsmen who stayed in the main pill naturally became busy all of a sudden.

At this time, there was less than one day left before the countdown to Yu Li's time-limited challenge task, but the person concerned stayed on the second floor very calmly to handle official business.

Beside her, the valet sitting in a corner of the room quietly waiting for orders was a little ready to move. Hearing the busy shouts from downstairs from time to time, his eyes were a little wandering.

"Horikawa, are you thinking about Mamoru Izumi downstairs?" Suddenly, she was working at her desk and said without raising her head.

The young servant immediately straightened his back: "No, not at all. My lord's side is also very important..." The subconscious denial became weaker as he spoke, "I just wondered if Mr. what's missing..."

Yuli couldn't help laughing, thinking of seeing Izumi Mamoru rushing towards the laundry with a pile of laundry to be washed a few days ago, and Horikawa following behind, picking up leaks all the way, she knew that the little angel's worries were really unnecessary.

Horikawa probably also heard the meaning of the master's laughter, and couldn't help but blush, at a loss for what to do, but a pair of watery green eyes unconsciously eagerly looked over.

"Originally, there is nothing that needs you to be busy here, so it's okay to let you go. But you can't just think about helping Izumi Mamoru, you both have to work hard." Yu Li quickly let the attendant go back to his Jiansang, "I'm actually looking forward to what the cherry blossom viewing party will be like."

The cherry blossom viewing banquet was handed over to Hasebe and Gexian. Yu Li didn't ask too much, so she didn't know the specific situation very well. She actually enjoyed the feeling of waiting for a surprise.

Hearing what she said, the boy's eyes brightened all of a sudden, and his face was full of joy, he immediately tilted his head and squinted and smiled: "I will definitely not let you down!"

Probably because he was thinking about Kanesan, who was losing everything, Horikawa quickly bowed and withdrew.

Looking at the hurried back of the young man leaving in a hurry, Yu Li just shook his head and smiled, bowing his head and continuing with the work at hand.

Outside the house, Horikawa, who had already gone downstairs quickly, was standing on the floor of the first floor, but turned his head and looked upstairs again. The young man pursed his lips lightly, with a mixture of happiness and trance on his face.

My lord's attitude towards them has softened a lot recently, with a pampering and indulgent smile like just now... and it overlapped with the face in the dream all of a sudden, it was clearly exactly the same.

At this moment, the guess that was originally suppressed in his heart was a little more certain. He should be happy, but he couldn't help but panic.

Squeezing his fingers, the boy still walked away.

"Ah, Horikawa!"

Walking halfway in the courtyard, Horikawa heard someone calling him. It was Qingguang and Yamato Shou'an. The two were carrying baskets of ingredients to the kitchen. They had just returned from the farmland. Freshly picked vegetables over there.

"Aren't you helping the master on the second floor? Why did you come out?" Qing Guang asked him curiously.

Horikawa didn't hide it either: "My lord saw that I was worried about Kanan-san, so he asked me to come down to help." While talking, he naturally separated a dustpan from the Okita group and went to the kitchen with them, "Have you seen Are you here, Mr. Jian?"

"I was sent by Hasebe to move the props and racks in the warehouse. They said they were going to set up pillars and tie colored ropes to delineate the scope of the banquet, and then we will make unified decorations for the venue." Yamatomori poured out everything he knew.

"Are you decorating the venue? Then I'll have to help." Jianchu immediately decided what he should do next.

Holding a basket of ingredients, Qingguang looked sideways at Horikawa, with a pair of red pupils with uncertain tentativeness: "Hey Horikawa, master, how is she today?"

It sounds like an everyday greeting, but it really isn't.At least Yamato Shou'an, who was quite cheerful just now, also restrained his expression, and turned his head to stare at today's valet in charge.

Horikawa's eyes also flickered: "The lord is very good, and today is the same. She noticed it before I said anything, and then let me come here." Like the lord in the dream, he was very indulgent, "I As soon as she said she was worried about Mr. Kanesada, she immediately smiled at me. I could see that it was not a simple "Horikawa Kunihiro is worrying about Izumi Mori Kanesada again", but a more familiar "Actually, I am also quite worried Izumi Mamoru, Horikawa, you will work hard with him." "

It's not the standard habit of laissez-faire to the subordinate mode of the Hijikata group, but a kind of familiarity, care and tolerance that only treats him and Mr. Jian himself, and treats them in the same position.

The eyes of the opposite Okita group suddenly lit up: "That is to say...!"

"Well, our guess is true." Horikawa nodded.

Ever since realizing that the fragments in the dream were not dreams, and might be real, Youren naturally took the lead in exchanging information with each other secretly, and came to more and more accurate conclusions.Not only the Shinsengumi, but also other swords in Honmaru. Everyone secretly collected and probed intentionally or unintentionally, and eventually became more and more certain of a certain fact.

There is no such thing as the third Honmaru, the master just lied to them, she only had them from the beginning to the end, and there was no other blade at all.

But problems followed.

Why are they being reforged?

Why did the master lie to them?

What happened in the past that made her prefer to say this rather than tell them the truth?

There are a lot of doubts, but I dare not ask them out, especially when it comes to the master's behavior that almost changed his temperament when he faced them again, and she has always been so desperately improving their strength, unless they are crushed, they will never The urgency that exposed their fatigue made them even less daring to expose this half-baked deception.

Although they didn't operate alone like the pink gem group, the chrysoberyl team who formed a group silently remained silent just like the former group, maintaining the status quo of pretending to be ignorant.

"What happened in the past...?" Yamato Moran Ding lowered his head and murmured softly.

"I don't know." Qing Guang was equally depressed, "But as long as this question arises, I will feel very sad."

Sadness is actually a very general term. It should be more accurate to say that you feel regret, guilt, concern, and heartache. If you are disturbed by these emotions, who has the courage to continue to pursue the truth?

Anyway, he couldn't do it in Qingguang, California.

"Don't think about it, you'll know." Horikawa comforted at this moment, he raised his head to signal his companion to look forward, "The kitchen is coming."

The three of them immediately stopped talking about the topic just now, and resumed their work with renewed energy.

The sun goes from east to west, unknowingly it is approaching evening, and Yu Li has finally finished all the written work.

"Hmm—" Seeing that there was no one in the room, she stretched wantonly, "Go out and stretch your muscles."

In fact, I really wanted to go to the racetrack, but thinking that everyone in Honmaru was busy preparing for the open-air banquet two days later, Yu Li finally gave up.

Why don't you go to the layout of Wanye Sakura to see it.

Think about it and do it, taking advantage of the warm breeze, Yuli walked out of the building and walked towards the direction of Wanyezakura all the way on the green grass all over the ground.

Feeling the softness of the grass under her feet, Yu Li unconsciously recalled the continuous rain in late winter and early spring. The ground was soaked soft by the rain at that time, but the temperature could freeze her like a dog.

It didn't seem long after that, but the weather changed completely.

The gray sky and rain are gone, replaced by a reddish pink that cannot be wiped away, just like the giant cherry tree cloud that covers the sky after blooming in front of you.

"No matter how many times you look at it, it's very beautiful." Before getting close to the tree, Yuli had to look up and marvel at the size of the cherry tree.

The preliminary decoration of the banquet scene seemed to have been done, and there was no one there, so she took a step and turned around.

The swords and swords used rows of carved wooden pillars to create a large area around the Wanye cherry blossoms. On the capitals of the pillars, cherry-colored lanterns were hung, and colorful silk ropes were wrapped around them. The bright colors and circles Among them, the ancient cherry blossoms are very bright and harmonious together.

"Huh? Did you set up a small stage?"

Approaching the ancient tree, Yu Li also saw a semi-circular high platform less than half a meter high, and couldn't help being a little surprised.

Just when she was about to take a closer look, she heard a movement from the corner behind the stage covered by the curtain, and she couldn't help turning her steps to look behind.

"Zongsan?" Yu Li said in surprise, "Are you here alone?"

A small stage was not enough, and a small backstage was built at the back, covered with a curtain more than two meters high.Yu Li originally thought that he only blocked one side, but he didn't expect it to be all inclusive.

At this moment, the curtains on four sides have already covered three sides, and Zong San is stepping on the scaffolding to cover the last two pieces of cloth and it's done.

"It's not a heavy job, I'll finish it myself." The thin Fu Sangshen said while putting a piece of drapery on the pipe at the top.

This is the same as a set of curtain tubes. Hang the loop of the cloth head on the shelf, and the backstage that blocks the view can be opened and closed freely. It really doesn't need many people to follow.

Seeing Zongsan for the first time, Yu Li always felt a little embarrassed. These days, she subconsciously avoided him, but now they were alone together, and she also wanted to sneak away after the accident.

I was thinking of making an excuse, but seeing the other party stepping down on the scaffolding with one hand, the person has already stepped forward to help him hold the scaffolding: "Be careful, what if you fall!"

The person who climbed off the shelf still had the last piece of curtain hanging in one arm, but a pair of strange-colored monster eyes looked up. The sun was still early before going down, and Yu Li didn't have time to see clearly the emotion that just flashed in this person's eyes. The other party had lowered his brows and bent his lips, revealing a thin white neck that could not be concealed by the wide open kimono.

"Then please, my lord, help me."

Yu Li: "..."

What else could she do but be an artificial fixer?

Zongsan always gives people the impression that he is so soft and has no strength, even if he is working at the moment, after receiving his help message, Yu Li subconsciously rolled up his sleeves to move him to the other side , Anyway, I completely forgot about the fact that she is a woman.

But soon, the behavior of someone taking the first step and placing the not-so-light shelf on the other side with one hand brought her back to her senses.

Wake up, she just looks like a weak beauty, but she is still a man with swords in essence.

Now she stopped beeping, and was a silent artificial fixer, watching him ascend to hang the curtain.

But she didn't say a word, but the person standing on the shelf spoke.

"My lord, have you ever been to Kyoto in this life?"

Yu Li was taken aback by this question, but he quickly answered: "Of course I have been there."

"Then, have you ever participated in the Funaoka Festival?"

Funaoka Festival?When this term first appeared, Yu Li was still confused, but her mind retrieved a lot of relevant information for her very quickly.

Isn't the Funaoka Grand Festival the grand festival held by the Jianxun Shrine?

And the address of Jianxun Shrine is in Kyoto.

The most important thing is that she replaced Zongsan from Jianxun Shrine.

For a moment, Yu Li's expression froze, and cold sweat oozes from his back.

Why did he mention this all of a sudden?So scary!

The villain in her heart screamed like a scream, but in fact she adjusted her expression in an instant and looked up blankly: "Is there the Funaoka Festival in Kyoto? Have you ever been there? Is there anything special there?"

Her face was extremely innocent, and even perfected into surprise and curiosity afterwards, but Zongsan, who didn't miss her initial change, smiled lightly.

"No, I just thought of it suddenly, so I just mentioned it casually." As he said so, the last piece of curtain had been hung.

The two stood in the inner area of ​​the backstage to hang the curtains, so when Zong San completed the last step, the small backstage completely became a space by itself.

When the outside scenery was blocked and she could not see it, Yu Li felt that the atmosphere around her was suddenly a little different, and she couldn't help but look up at the only unsealed top above.

All eyes are a dreamlike cherry pink, with fluttering petals, like a fairyland under the framed vision.

Illusion, the petals seem to be floating a little too much.

As soon as this thought came to mind, out of the corner of his eye, he saw the foot of the rose figure who was stepping on the shelf tilted, and the whole person fell back in a dangerous posture.

"Danger!" No matter what flowers to look at, Yu Li quickly grabbed the other's unconsciously extended hand with one hand, and grabbed the lapel of his chest with the other hand, trying to use these two forces to pull him back to maintain his balance .

As a result, the empty hand of the person who fell on his back hooked her waist indiscriminately, and Yu Li's falling momentum that he had just slowed down was also brought down at this moment. She screamed uncontrollably, and her whole body He fell down with Zong San.

Then there was a hiss, the soft sound of the cloth being torn, very light but also very clear.

The cherry blossoms are fluttering, and it is hard to tell whether they are floating down from the canopy of the trees, or they are born out of thin air in the curtains.

"Hug, sorry!"

Yu Li, who didn't care about flowers at all, was flushed and flustered at the moment, she was half-supporting the ground with one hand, while the other hand shrank in the air as if she had been scalded.

Underneath was the slender Fu Sangshen lying on the ground, with long cherry pink hair scattered on the ground, strands of which were messy on his shoulders, winding down along the torn left half of the chest, covering the demon On the different butterfly tattoos, there is no reason to be extravagant and beautiful.

"I did not do it on purpose!"

Yu Li was extremely at a loss for this scene, which was no different from playing hooligans. While apologizing, he wanted to cover Zong San's torn half of his clothes again, but his hand was caught.

The person holding her wrist half sat up without saying a word, looked at her powerless arms and easily helped Yu Li to half sit on the ground by the way.

During this process, the young man didn't say a word, neither let go of her hand, nor thought about tidying up his clothes, but just looked at her quietly with those long and narrow strange eyes.

"Zong, Zongsan?" Yu Li couldn't hold back and panicked, and wanted to pull back his hand with all his strength, regardless of the awkward posture of half sitting on the ground.

The other party still replied, but when she pulled out her hand, she also clenched it more tightly, and pressed her hand little by little to point to the monster butterfly tattoo.

The fingertips touched the warm and delicate skin, and I could vaguely feel the strong heartbeat underneath, and then the entire palm was forcibly pressed and pasted.

Yu Li's whole body was stiff and petrified, as if he had completely lost the ability to think.But the person on the opposite side seemed to be melting ice and snow, and the originally melancholy and cold eyebrows and eyes were all cleared up.

"Ahh..." Seemingly choked and relieved, Da Dao lowered his head with a low sigh, leaned over slowly and rested his head on the neck of the person opposite, and muttered contentedly, "Sure enough, it's you..."

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