[Comprehensive] Peach blossoms are not cherry blossoms!

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"Hey, have you heard that a group of strange young people have come to our town."

"You mean the one a few days ago...?"

"Yes, yes, my family, Aaron, saw it with his own eyes that day. Five young people with strange hair colors and looks different from us. They looked fierce—"

"Hey, why did I hear my Amei say that the young people are not bad looking, and one of them is quite elegant?"

"It is said that they came from the other side of the sea. Who knows, we can't understand what they are saying, and we don't know what they are doing in our small place?"

"God bless, don't bring disaster to our town—"

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Tao propped her chin with both hands, listening to the chatting of the two mothers-in-law who came down to worship, her expression seemed a little subtle.

There was a small sound from the branches and leaves behind her, as if something small was jumping, and after a while, a group of furry things jumped onto her shoulders.

The fluffy and soft long tail wrapped around the other shoulder from the back of the neck, as if wrapping around a scarf warmly. Tao turned her head and looked, "They are here?"

"As expected of my lord~" The fox lying on her shoulder flicked its tail and grinned, "Minghu and Hachisuka-sama are ready, please rest assured, my lord~"

Peach nodded.

In the shrine, Ishikimaru, who is wearing a grass-green priestly uniform, is performing a ritual of exorcising evil spirits for those who come to pray for blessings with imperial coins. In the courtyard at the back, Mikazuki is drinking tea and basking in the sun with a peaceful appearance. Going to the side, he looked at him with ignorant eyes, counting the incense money of the shrine.

...Unknowingly, there are so many more swords

"Yoxi~" Jumping down from the tree, Tao stretched his waist, raised his hand and rubbed the furry head of the little fox on his shoulder, "Then let's go and have a look~"

More than 50 years ago, a group of them came to this small town on the edge of Edo. Although the swordsmen didn't know why their protagonist was quite familiar with this place, they saw her wandering around with great interest. Looking quite happy, they followed her around.

In the tenth year since he came here, Tao bought a piece of land in the east far away from the center of the town, and built a house. It was the courtyard, where the flowers and plants were planted and the well was dug on the other side, they were all arranged in an orderly manner, and the swordsmen who followed her and watched her gesticulating on the land were stunned for a while.

——It doesn't look like a protagonist who seriously lacks common sense in life...

——Could it be that the lord used to be engaged in construction?

It took a long time to build the house, and the communication with the craftsmen during the period was completed by Hachisuka Kotoru.

As for the cost - for hundreds of years, the money for sesame oil in various places is actually quite considerable, especially after Hakata Toshiro was dug out from the ground of Osaka Castle by accident, all financial problems were handed over to this young man from the Awataguchi family. Short knife, he is also quite happy to manage money, investment and other things are done so well that even though Tao doesn't know how much his net worth is, but if he likes something, he can just buy it~

After the house was built, there were actually not many people there, because Tao often stayed in the shrine, so the fusangshen would go to the shrine more often, and only return to the house occasionally for gatherings and the like.

But it was just those occasional occasions that the people in this small town began to spread all kinds of weird rumors about the mansion in the east of the town.

It is similar to the fact that the cups and plates will move by themselves even though there is no one there, just crawling to the top of the wall to peek, as if being hit by something and then unconscious, or the shoji door will open by itself, the fox can speak, the flowers and plants The rumors of sudden crazy growth became more and more outrageous, and now this house has become a place where the residents of the small town shy away, and no one dares to approach it normally.

So when they released the news of the sale of the mansion, there were very few responses.

However, this was last month.Because just yesterday, someone had already started inquiring about buying this house.

——Yes, those young people from other places mentioned by the two mothers-in-law chatting in the shrine.

Of course, Tao has been waiting for them for a long time.

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"Yeah, my lord, they are here!"

The little fox with three jade necklaces around his neck reminded that its voice was a bit sharp. At first, Tao didn’t like it talking in her ear like that. After she complained a few times, the little fox learned to behave and understood. Lower your volume before speaking.

Standing in the familiar courtyard, Tao had already faintly heard footsteps coming from the other side of the corridor. She glanced at the little fox, which jumped away from her shoulder with insight.

The moment before the figure turned around the corner, she turned in a circle, and after the flying peach petals, she turned into an ordinary tree.

Then, the young man with long purple hair in a golden bathrobe who could be described as beautiful smiled and led the other two who followed him out of the corridor.

A few petals fluttered down in front of them, and they were caught in the palm of one of the blond-haired men. His face was clear and handsome, his eyes were as warm as sunlight, and his eyebrows were soft. From the looks of it, he shouldn't be from this country, but there is a sense of warmth and tenderness on his body.

He looked at the petals in his hand, and then followed the direction in which the petals were flying, and saw the slender flower tree standing in the courtyard.

The purple-haired homeowner also showed a little surprise when he saw the tree, but he quickly restrained his surprise, and still introduced the backyard to them with a smile.

The blond man turned his head, smiled and pointed at the flower tree, and said a word to his companion in the black hat and hunting coat that they didn't understand, and then his companion, the gentle and elegant young man, nodded.

"...さ...く...ら?" The blond man said the word slowly with a strange accent.

Then he saw that the branches and leaves of the flower tree in the courtyard suddenly shook, as if being blown by the wind, and the petals fell to the ground.

The homeowner raised his eyebrows, and covered his forehead with his hands as if thinking of something, showing a helpless expression. He looked at the man with a puzzled and blank expression, clenched his fists and coughed, holding back his smile.

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After sending the visitors away, Hachisuka Kotoru walked back to the backyard, but at this time, the flower tree had long since disappeared, and there was only one more girl in a short red and white kimono sitting on the side of the corridor dangling her legs On the table, I ate Jinping candy that Minghu bought from the street.

——She rarely comes here, since this house was built, in Hachisuka Toru's memory, she seems to have only been here once, that day she was sitting on the corridor like today, as if in a daze Had to stay all day and then never came back.

"What did they say?" Looking at the blue sky and white clouds above her head, she threw a candy into her mouth and asked without looking at him.

Hachisuka nodded, and replied with a smile, "Mr. Asari said that Mr. Sawada is very satisfied with this house, and they have decided to buy it."

"Oh." Without any surprise, the girl nodded.

She poured all the candies left in the paper bag into her mouth, then threw the bag away, clapped her hands and jumped into the yard, "That's it, tell the others, pack up, we're moving gone."

"Yes." Hachisuka nodded. This young man who was so beautiful and glistening in the sun held his chin and pondered for a while, as if he couldn't help it finally asked, "My lord, why did we specially send sell here?"

——Although the new home looks good, but the original house was designed and planned by the owner himself, so the meaning is not the same after all.

If it really has to be sold, Bodo has bought more than just such a place here.

"..." The girl who was asked in this way had a strange expression on her face. She seemed not to know how to answer this question. She folded her arms and tilted her head for a while before saying, "Because this place was originally prepared for them. ah."

"Eh?" Hachisuka was taken aback.

"That's right, I should tell you..." Tao hesitated for a moment, then sighed, "Let's go to the shrine together, it happens to be there."

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After hundreds of years, the golden pocket watch, which was still well preserved, was passed around in the hands of several fusangshen, and then Ishikirimaru handed it back to Tao with both hands. She closed the open pocket watch cover again, and then looked at There are several swordsmen with different colors underneath.

"That's the way it is." She concluded calmly.

"...So," Hachisuka Toru said as if he couldn't believe it, "Mr. Sawada who came to buy the house today...is your future husband, my lord?"

"Well, that's it." Tao seemed to be able to deal with this title very calmly, she nodded calmly, and then added, "But it's right that he doesn't know me yet."

"That is to say, you in the past will meet that gentleman next year and become attached to him." Ishikirimaru understood.

"My lord, my lord's husband?" Hakata Fujishiro, wearing red-rimmed glasses, opened his eyes wide, looking very excited and curious, "Wow, did you buy that house all at once? It must be a Very generous person!"

Sanriyue, who had been holding tea by the side, laughed, and nodded slowly, "Very good, my lord, you have finally found the person you want to wait for."

The author has something to say: Well...time flies again, it is now 1650~yes, another 450 years have passed~╮(╯_╰)╭

And, yes, all the weird rumors about that house are actually true...