[Naruto] Stunning

As the New Year is approaching, Dew Street is busy again.Carriages brought back from the commercial street in the center of the town to buy new year's goods stopped at the gates of the houses of the traveling girls one by one.Kano directed the thugs and maids to move the goods into the hall. In the past, her right-hand man Kikyo and Yuriko would definitely be there to help.But today, since early in the morning, those two people have disappeared.

"Linglan!" Kano shouted into the room.

Li Xiang nestled comfortably under the stove table, covering her ears as if she didn't hear.

Kano called again, but still no one answered.

With the sound of pattering footsteps in the corridor outside, Chrysanthemum slammed open the paper door, panting slightly, and said, "Ling Lan, Mommy Sang is calling you!"

Li Xiang glared at her angrily, and reluctantly let go of her hands covering her ears: "Why do you call me?"

"I told you to go out, maybe I have something to order."

Li Xiang was extremely reluctant to leave the hot stove table, closed her eyes and groaned, "It's alright if you don't go..."

Chrysanthemum simply came in and pulled her: "Hurry up, you won't have any new clothes for Chinese New Year if you make Mommy-sang angry!"

"...I don't care."

During the struggle, Juzi successfully dragged Lixiang to the gate of Huazui House.Compared with the warm interior, the windy street is really painful even for a moment.Rika shivered, tightened the collar of the kimono, and asked Kano angrily, "Why do you want me?"

The servants who moved the goods came and went in and out of the door. Although it was the cold winter, many people had thin beads of sweat on their foreheads.

After Kano gave instructions on where this box should be moved and where that cabinet should be moved, she finally took the time to pay attention to her: "Go and find Kikyo and Lily, maybe at the blessing tree at the end of the street."

Li Xiang's face froze, and she blurted out without thinking, "I'm not going! It's so cold outside!"

joke!The end of the street is not far from the Flower Drunken House in the middle of the street, nor is it close, so she doesn't want to wander the street in this freezing weather!

Kano raised an eyebrow at her.

Li Xiang pouted impatiently: "Let someone else go."

"Who else do you think is more free than you?"

The thugs and rough maids came in and out almost without touching the ground, other prostitutes were busy cleaning the house and the backyard, and even Kano, the owner of the Huazui House, was split up to direct all matters on the scene Lack of skills.

At this moment, in the whole Flower Drunk House, except for Platycodon and Lily, only Lixiang is the only idler.

Can't even refute it.

With a bitter face, Li Xiang cursed Kano and the too cold winter in Kitano City from the bottom of her heart, then wrapped her clothes tightly and walked slowly towards the end of the street.

Light snow fell in the sky again, and Lixiang didn't bring an umbrella, so she could only let the snowflakes fall on her hair and clothes.I used to spend every winter in Daming Mansion. The temperature in the capital is much better than Kitano Castle. Every winter solstice, the back garden of Daming Mansion must be full of plum trees.Sometimes Lixiang would suddenly get excited, and would go to the back garden to play in the snowy weather, and there must be Liangzi behind her holding an umbrella to protect her from the snow.

Winter is the season most yearns for warmth, but she has to spend the coldest days alone in a foreign land.

Li Xiang sniffed, always feeling that her eyes were hot and her throat was sore.Ahh, I must have caught a cold, remember to drink a cup of hot tea to drive away the cold when I go back later.

"Meow meow……"

From a corner of the wall came a very faint meowing, and Lixiang continued walking as if she had never heard of it.One, two, three... eight, nine, ten—the tenth step, the girl in the pink kimono seemed to have roots on the ground, and she couldn't take step No.11.

Lixiang frowned and cursed "Damn it" in a low voice, then turned around suddenly and turned back to the corner, a gust of wind was picked up by her wide cuffs, and the snow flakes on her clothes swished down.

The stray cat in the corner looked two or three months old, curled up into a small ball shivering, and its body was already covered with a thin layer of snow.Rika gently brushed the snow from its fur, and carefully put it into the kimono on its chest to keep warm.

"For the sake of your similarity to Tao Zi, I will save you once. Don't be too grateful to me." The girl said to herself.

—It’s not like that at all.

Taozi is an aristocratic Persian cat with snow-white fur and royal blue eyes. At this time, the stray cat in her arms has gray-yellow fur and no beauty at all.

——It can’t be compared with Taozi at all.

The stray cat's body gradually warmed up, and it was much more energetic than before, and it even pushed Gong Lixiang's chest with its small furry head.Rika held it in her arms, and when she looked down at it, a faint smile appeared on her lips unconsciously—but she didn't notice it.

If there is a photographer who can freeze this picture, the people who see the picture will definitely not associate her with the arrogant and hard-to-serve princess of the fire country, but will probably get a compliment-"Ah, what a cute girl!" What about girls", and so on.

Unfortunately, there were no photographers at this time.

Rika's rare expression disappeared without her realizing it.

There is a big blessing tree at the end of Lushui Street. No one knows how long it has existed and who planted it. It seems that it has been there since this street existed.Prostitutes cannot easily leave Lushui Street, and there is no shrine in Lushui Street, so a few days before each year, prostitutes write their wishes for the coming year on sticky notes and hang them on the top of the blessing tree.It is said that the higher the hanging, the more effective the wish will be.

When Lixiang saw the blessing tree from a distance, she also saw the bellflower under the tree.But she was alone, and Yuriko was not there.The distance was a bit far, and Li Xiang didn't want to yell in the street, so she walked slowly.

Those who arrived at Kikyo earlier than her were a few prostitutes from the Younv House next door.They surrounded Kikyo, talking about something, probably cursing Kikyo for taking away their guests, but Rika couldn't hear it clearly.

This sort of thing happens all the time in Dew Street.Prostitutes are all fickle creatures. Wherever prostitutes are beautiful and likable, they stay there. Even if they just talked sweetly to the girl from this family the night before, they won’t be able to tease the girl from another family the night after. Will not show mercy.

No matter how beautiful the vows, only a stupid whore would believe the words of the client - Dew Street is such a place.

And between prostitutes and prostitutes, whether because of envy or jealousy, there will always be various reasons to dislike each other, and even fight.Don't underestimate the fight between women, maybe it's more vicious than the fist fight between men.

Sure enough, those prostitutes started to attack Kikyo as they spoke.Kikyo is docile and weak in the first place, even if it is one-on-one, he is not sure of winning, let alone at this time, it is one against many.

It's really... there is no way to fight back.

"It's so despicable!" Li Xiang cursed angrily, and was about to walk over and draw her sword to help.

How should I put it, Lixiang is not a person with a strong sense of justice, but the intense anger at this moment makes her have no time to think about other things—probably because she can't turn a blind eye to the bullying of people she knows well?

But this time someone reached Kikyo earlier than her.Unlike the weak Kikyo, that man was as fierce as a hag when fighting, and he squeezed to Kikyo's side without saying a word, and immediately retaliated against the prostitutes.

Looking at her usual appearance, she knew that she was a woman who was not easy to be bullied, but she never thought that she was... so easy to be bullied.Even surrounded by prostitutes who bully the few, she doesn't lose the wind. Instead, she looks like a fighter who is getting more and more courageous, beating the enemy to pieces.

In the end, it took about half an hour. Those prostitutes who started the war dispersed in embarrassment with scars here and there on their faces, cursing and saying ugly words, but no one dared to stay and talk to She continued to fight to the death.

Rika stood there dumbfounded, completely forgetting that she was going to help in the first place.

What made her stunned was not the heroic fighting spirit and desperate fighting style of the "Hergia", but—the one who rushed into the crowd to save Kikyo was none other than—the one who was always at odds with Kikyo Yuriko.

Anyone who sees such a picture will be horrified!Lily!The Yuriko who never misses a chance, even if she doesn't have a chance, she will make a chance to ridicule Kikyo and fight tit for tat!At the risk of being beaten pitifully, Kikyo was saved!

Those prostitutes were not very good in the hands of Lily, but Lily was not much better in their hands either.The hair bun was the first to suffer in the chaos, and a long bloodstain was drawn on her chin by the fingernails of some prostitute—I hope there will be no ugly scars, otherwise her career as a prostitute will be ruined. That's all.

Kikyo was hit on the back of the head with a stone by a vicious prostitute, and although she didn't bleed, she passed out—fortunately, Yuriko arrived in time, otherwise she would really be a fish on the sword.

Yuriko turned around and squatted down, picking up Kikyo on her back.But because he had expended too much energy in the fight just now, he staggered and walked unsteadily.Looking up, she saw Li Xiang standing not far away in a daze, and said in a very unfriendly tone: "Hurry up and come help!"

Although the voice was vicious, but Lixiang could not feel her anger at all.

Li Xiang, who hadn't recovered from her shock, brought Kikyo back to Huazui House with Lily.

When Kikyo woke up, she was already in her own room, and there was only Rika who was sent by Kano to take care of her beside the bed.Yuriko is probably recuperating in her own room.

"Thank you, Lily of the Valley." Kikyo didn't ask how she got back, and thanked Lixiang who was helping her scoop the medicine as soon as she opened her mouth.

Li Xiang glanced at her: "I am not the one who saved you."

"I know." Kikyo smiled slightly, as if it was expected, "It's Yuriko."

Lixiang was surprised, she stared at her for a long time, and couldn't help asking curiously: "Didn't Lily see you as a deadly enemy, why did she risk herself to save you?"

Kikyo also looked at her, and laughed without hesitation: "You really are still a brat who doesn't understand the world."

Rika wrinkled her nose and glared at her—it's too bad to suddenly attack someone personally!

"People who smile at you don't necessarily treat you well, and people who speak ill of you don't necessarily mean they hate you.—Wouldn't it be the first time you've heard this truth?"

It was really the first time Lixiang heard such a statement.

"Lily and I grew up together. She targets me everywhere on the surface, but she never makes trouble secretly. Other prostitutes don't dare to go past her to deal with me. That's why I, the oiran, can be so stable. ah."

"That person, to put it bluntly, is that a dog's mouth can't spit out ivory, but she is an extremely loyal friend. I have never doubted this since I was a child."

Even after leaving the room and walking down the aisle shrouded in warm sunlight, Kikyo's words still linger in Rika's ears.Rika frowned, as if she needed time to digest slowly.Since she came to Lushui Street, many incomprehensible things have been happening to her, like stones, thrown into the lake of Sanguan that she built in 15 years, rippling circles of tiny but Ripples that cannot be ignored.

Because she was concentrating on something, Lixiang unknowingly walked to the depths of the backyard where there was no one at this time.When she was startled, she turned around and turned back, only to see a ghostly person approaching her in an instant from the shadow of the wall.

She widened her eyes, and before she could exclaim in surprise, the figure of the person in front of her got shorter.The only thing she could see was the silver hair in the shape of a broom.

The man knelt on one knee and saluted her. The long-lost familiar voice did not have the usual laziness and casualness, but was serious, and even brought seriousness that he could not easily reveal: "Sorry, princess, for keeping you waiting."

Li Xiang couldn't bear it any longer, she flew over to wrap his arms around his neck, her heart was beating very hard - finally... she could leave this place.

Even though she was biting her lower lip, she couldn't stop the rain from her eyes. Rika simply closed her eyes, took a deep breath for a long time before she calmed down and said, "It's too late to come here now, as the number one technician in Konoha." useless."

"……sorry."

As soon as we met, he complained so energetically, it seems that the princess is not doing badly. — Kakashi breathed a sigh of relief.