Three thousand congratulations

【1】

one slice.

two slices.

Three slices.

Yinshi boredly counted the petals that fell to the cushion.He turned to look at the people next to him.

Still bowing his head, with an impeccable and dignified smile on his face.

The wind blows the petals outside the window into the tea bowl, and the tea inside is already cold.

Yin Shi couldn't help becoming irritable.

【2】

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Oh, yeah, probably because I'm getting old and my brain is not working well..."

This kind of dialogue has gone on for countless rounds. One wants to say something cryptically, while the other pretends to be ignorant and stay out of the matter.

This guy looks like a three-no, but he is actually a fox.Yin Shi rested his chin and glanced at Hong Lian, a cunning guy like Mr. Liu Sheng couldn't take a step closer to her pretending to be stupid.

"I have a crush on you, little girl. If I were 30 years younger, I might fall in love at first sight." The old man couldn't get anything out of her, so he had to turn into a warm offensive.

"It's a pity. I was not born 30 years ago. I'm sorry that I couldn't fall in love with you at first sight."

"I was a well-known hunk here 30 years ago~ Women who have tried it will never forget it~" the old man lamented.

Hey, this old man doesn't intend to attack young girls, does he?Is this sexual harassment?Yinshi's heart was full of black lines thinking, if it comes out that you are actually our long-lost granddaughter, I will change the channel immediately.

Gui, who had been in a daze all this time, came to his senses when he heard this and looked at Grandpa Liusheng in surprise.

"You have a happy family now, and you have cultivated such a promising heir, so you don't have to miss what happened 30 years ago, right?" Honglian replied with a polite smile.

"It's happiness, and it's true. Although I've always wanted to have a grandson, Xiao Jiu is not bad, right? Some people think it's a pity, but I don't think so at all. Some people just want to have a grandson. Some people can only give birth to girls, but some people can only give birth to boys. A good friend of mine back then, their family has had boys for generations, and there are more than one in their life. I am really envious.”

"But in the end, I'm luckier to have a girl."

Guren didn't speak, just lowered her head.

【3】

"Thirty years ago, we often met in taverns in Edo. We talked about the world together. The most talked about was probably our own children. At that time, Xiaojiu's father was not married yet, but that guy's son had already given birth to his first child. I have a grandson, and that guy joked at the time that I would be their family’s wife if I had a granddaughter.”

Honglian's lowered eyelids moved slightly.

"Of course I don't want to. He already has grandchildren. My son married a wife and he didn't give up. Later, he had a second grandson. The one in our family is not married yet. Both of his grandchildren are beautiful. My children, who have been able to play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since childhood, are also very smart. Although they are all weak scholars, they are definitely excellent children. So at that time I said, our family has been dancing with knives and guns for generations. It would be great to marry a girl from his family, she will definitely be a virtuous and good wife."

Grandpa Liusheng looked at Honglian with tender eyes, but the latter frowned, as if caught in something.

"Until the Great Prison 20 years ago..."

Hearing this, both Yinshi and Gui cheered up.

"My old friend, although he has been a civil servant for generations, is no worse than us samurai in terms of backbone. Facing the decision of the previous general, we samurai all bowed their heads and sighed, even if they were confiscated When the sword dares to be angry and dare not speak out, such a weak scholar is the first to stand up. The only one who can think of deadly remonstrance is the scholar." Grandpa Liu Sheng paused, looked at Honglian's calm face, and continued Go on.

"The body of a literati has to bear the death method of a warrior. But we warriors have survived to this day."

"I remember when the generals of the previous generation gave them the heirloom jade pendant, they said that their family's personality is as noble as jade. I hope they will dedicate all their loyalty to this country in the future, and would rather have the jade broken than the whole. This sentence In other words, to describe their family is very good. For the reality, no one really succumbs. When the grandfather died, the son rose up and resisted, and the son died and the grandson rose up to resist, until there was only one person left and lost everything. Status and wealth, bearing the stigma of rebellion, still uncompromising."

"It's better for the jade to be broken than to be whole, what a nice word." Hong Lian said with a sneer in her heart, and she gently picked up the jade pendant on her chest and played with it.

"Such a weak child used to live a life only obsessed with music and calligraphy, and what he hated most was violence. It really surprised me that he could do such a terrible thing." Grandpa Yagyu recalled.

Hearing this, Guren suddenly raised her head.

"Hate violence the most?" She said abruptly.

"Yeah, originally his father asked me to teach swordsmanship, but the child refused, saying that he hated violence. So I thought he would gather some people with lofty ideals to write a letter or something, just like his father did, but I didn't expect him to choose armed resistance path of."

Swinging a sword is violence, so is war?Could it be that the person I know, the person surrounded by war and killing, has been rejecting all this somewhere in his heart?

So his smile, are all false?

Everything I experienced and felt at that time was not real?

There must be a mistake somewhere.

At that time, he said to me, "If you want to change, you have to pay a price. It doesn't matter if one person's life or a hundred people's lives are sacrificed to build a new foundation. I don't think there is any other more effective way." It's him.

He was the one who said to me that "knife and sword are more effective than all dealings and negotiations".

He also said to me, "Victory in a war is when one side wipes out the other side. Whichever side has fewer people left has a smaller chance of winning, so we can only keep removing obstacles on the way forward until the other side is wiped out." Push it to the edge of the cliff."

Honglian frowned, and the mystery that had been lingering in her heart for so many years now clearly expanded again.

I can't touch the outline of the answer even if I stretch out my hand.Too unfathomable.Even if the materials used to solve the puzzle have been lingering somewhere in the memory, they have long been buried because they do not want to recall them.

The answer to this secret was taken by that person to another world.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to find the answer in this world.

【4】

"I know that child has enough reasons to hate this government. In this country, after all, his grandfather left because of his remonstrance, his father was assassinated by heaven and man because of his letter and association, his elder brother who was already extremely weak died of illness under the blow, and himself Deprived of the title passed down from generation to generation, and listed as a traitor to hunt down..."

"You're wrong," Hong Lian suddenly raised her head and said, "The original owner of this jade pendant, a man named Hua Yu, didn't hate this country, nor did he have deep-seated pain for this government."

"If you really hate, just put this country in the hands of this government and wait for it to collapse. But he didn't do that because he didn't hate this country. He just wanted to change this country It’s just the status quo, that’s all.”

She suddenly choked up, and after calming down for a long time, she tried to restrain her emotions and said in a deep voice: "In the end, he failed and gave up... probably because he was too disappointed. After all... it was really too much." Thank you for your hard work."

After she finished speaking, she stood up, saluted and walked out quickly.

Yin Shi was stunned for a moment and chased after him.

Gui watched the two figures disappearing at the gate, facing Liu Sheng's grandfather, and said seriously, "May I ask if the son you mentioned just now is called Hua Yu?"

Grandpa Liusheng nodded: "Yes, there is Xichuan Huayu, the last head of the Xichuan family."

"Is it the Arisugawa family who was bestowed with precious jade by the general and enjoyed the title of prince for generations?" Gui was a little surprised. This family used to be the most influential family in the cultural world in Edo, and was in charge of professors of noble music and literature for generations. All the musicians and literati in Edo were proud to have accepted the guidance of the Arisugawa family, but after the invasion of heaven and man, the family gradually declined, and finally disappeared completely after the war against barbarians.

"I heard rumors about this family back then... it's just..." Gui said cautiously.

"It's the rumor that the army rebelled against the shogunate and was suppressed, and finally the army was defeated and committed suicide, right?"

Gui nodded.

"Instead of attacking heaven and man, they attacked the shogunate and the vassal daimyo. Such an army was considered treasonous at the time. But now, it seems that that child has seen farther than us." Grandpa Liu Sheng sighed.

"Is that family heirloom jade really related to the Gou jade in the Three Artifacts as the legend says?" Gui asked.

"That's right, it is said that Gouyu was rewarded by the gods together with Gouyu. Although Gouyu does not have the function of returning the dead to transform the soul in the legend, it is true that it can heal the wearer's injuries. I saw it with my own eyes at the time."

【5】

The guests were sent away.

Jiubingwei stood at the door and said to his grandfather: "That person's swordsmanship was also taught by her grandfather. I asked her before she entered the house."

Grandpa said with a smile: "Then her grandfather must be very good. I really want to compete with each other if I have the opportunity."

Jiubingwei said regretfully, "But she said her grandfather passed away ten years ago."

When Grandpa Liusheng heard this, his complexion suddenly became serious. He murmured: "Ten years ago? The person who died ten years ago... Could it be that I have been thinking wrongly, that child is that person's granddaughter? That rumor is real?"

Jiubingwei heard it and asked, "Grandpa, what are you talking about?"

Grandpa Liu Sheng looked at Jiu Bingwei and asked, "Xiao Jiu, do you know that the general actually has a fiancée?"

Kubei said in surprise: "What? Then why now..."

"Because the girl died of illness before she got married, and the girl was betrothed to the Arisugawa family when she was six years old. Because the general's mother was from a low family background, in order to consolidate the general's status, a girl with a high family status was arranged to be the daughter of the general. fiancée."

"Really...Grandpa, why did you say this all of a sudden?"

"Yeah, why did I suddenly think of these things, who knows..." Grandpa walked out of the room slowly with his hands behind his back, "When people are old, they like to recall things that don't matter. People are dead, so how can you still remember them?" Will it come alive?"

【6】

"Hello..." Yinshi saw Honglian running to the corner of the street and squatting down with her back facing him, just about to speak, she stopped.

She curled up, with her back turned to her, and she couldn't see her expression, but her trembling shoulders betrayed her, her hands tightly grasped her knees, her whole body was trembling because of the pain, she seemed to have nothing at all Thought about patience or repression.

Because this sadness can no longer be suppressed.

I really want to finish it quickly, she thought.

Yinshi stood there at a loss, and after a while he turned his head to look at Gui who was chasing him.

"It's the first time I saw Master Honglian crying like this." Gui said softly.

"When I was alone, I should have shed tears many times." Gintoki replied.

The two looked at each other, walked forward and knelt down beside Honglian tacitly.

Yinshi gently stroked her back to help her relax, while Gui silently handed over a handkerchief.

None of the three looked up.

In the sky where they were not watching, a bright red leaf floated gently, like a phantom, it spun in the wind for a moment, and then disappeared like that.

The author has something to say:

The next few chapters will all tell about the memory of the heroine. I have been thinking about this part for a long time, and I hope you will like it~ Then the second stage will come to an end after the memory of the heroine is over. Here is a spoiler, the third stage of this article The first pair of CP will appear. (The third stage is all kinds of opening plots and some plots that I have been preparing for a long time.)

Oh, and the next chapter is a relatively short section. There are not many words. I will update it within this week. This is purely for the purpose of promoting the development of the plot, because this article is also closely following the timeline of Gintama Yes, so some landmark events are needed to highlight the time point.