Fujisawa-juku, inside a certain teahouse——
"Come on, come on! Guests!" The hand with a warm smile on his face, holding a tea tray with four cups of hot tea and a plate of bean paste stuffed steamed buns, walked quickly to a table where four samurai were sitting around. At the square table, "Your tea and snacks are here!"
Teyo quickly placed the tea and snacks on the table while chatting with the samurai at the table in a very familiar manner.
"Guests, judging from your accent, you are from Osaka, right?"
"Oh? Can you tell we are from Osaka?"
"Of course!" Teshiro grinned, "This is Fujisawa-juku on the Tokaido Road. The most important thing about this place is travelers from all over the country!"
"I've been working here for 8 years! I'm used to seeing people who have been brought up in different places! Over time, I can recognize the dialects of all parts of the country!"
"Not only can I recognize it, I can also tell it!"
"How do you think I speak Osaka dialect?" Teshiro's words were replaced by extremely standard Osaka dialect.
"Hahaha! Your Osaka dialect is very standard!"
"Hey, thank you for the compliment! Come on, gentlemen, enjoy yourselves slowly! I'll get on with my work first!"
Teshiro quickly returned to the kitchen holding the empty tea tray.
The warriors at this table also began to share their tea and steamed buns.
"Lord Komuro, tea."
"Oh, okay." Xiao Shi took the tea from the attendant, took a big sip, and then took out the sweat towel that had already been wet with his sweat from his arms and wiped the new sweat beads on his forehead. .
Komuku hates moving the most.
Because he has the kind of physique that sweats easily. He is the kind of person who will start to sweat profusely all over his body after taking a few steps.
"Lord Komuro, our escort mission is finally over..." The attendant who just delivered tea to Komuro sighed softly and sighed, "In three or four days, we will arrive in Edo."
"Yes." Komuro put down his tea cup and sighed, "The task of escorting the grandfather and grandson to Edo is finally over. From Osaka to Edo... it's really exhausting..."
After saying that, Xiaoshi took another big sip of tea as if he wanted to relieve his fatigue with delicious tea.
"Lord Komuro, I really don't understand why Anthony and Elodie, two barbarians, don't take a good boat, but insist on taking a carriage to Edo? It's not like Osaka doesn't have a direct boat to Edo."
"Who knows about them?" Xiao Shi rolled his eyes, "I don't understand what the Yi people think."
"Oh... Actually, when I think about it carefully, I feel quite sad that the mission of escorting Anthony and Elodie is coming to an end." Another follower in the small room laughed a few times, "Hey, I quite like that Elodie." Lottie’s.”
"This kid is quite lovable."
"It seems like it was just 10 days ago. Didn't that guy from Oba accidentally sprain his ankle?"
"After Anthony's granddaughter learned that Dachang's foot was injured, she personally brought her maid to express condolences to Dachang."
"We were all shocked when we saw Elodie actually bringing her maid to express condolences."
After hearing what this attendant said, Komuro nodded slightly.
"Well...that Elodie is indeed a good person."
"It's a pity that among the Yi Di, there are only a few people like Elodie after all..." Xiaoshi laughed at himself and drank all the tea left in the cup.
"Okay, are you almost rested?"
Xiao Shi grabbed the saber lying beside him and slowly stood up.
"Let's go, it's time to go back..."
"Lord Komuro! Lord Komuro! I finally found you!"
A young samurai, only around 16 years old, sweating profusely and anxiously opened the teahouse door curtain.
After seeing Komuro's slightly plump body in the tea house, the young samurai immediately seemed to have found his backbone and ran towards Komuro with an expression on the verge of tears.
Before Komuro could ask "What's wrong?", the young samurai urgently pressed his lips to Komuro's ear, and whispered something to Komuro at a volume that only Komuro could hear clearly.
The young warrior only said a very simple sentence.
But just such a simple sentence caused the expression on Xiao Shi's face to change suddenly, making Xiao Shi feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
"Elodie and her maid are missing." - This is what the young samurai said to Komuro.
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If you want to kill time in Fujisawa-juku... then the most famous tourist attraction in Fujisawa-juku: Eshima Shrine is undoubtedly the best tourist attraction.
Aoto and Saito walked downstream along the river adjacent to Fujisawa-juku.
In ancient times, Japan mainly believed in two religions-the native Shintoism and the imported Buddhism.
A shrine is a house that worships and worships various gods in Shintoism, just like a Buddhist temple.
After a while, Qingden saw the vermilion torii gate with a rope hanging on it.
The so-called torii is a kind of building that every shrine must have - a gate shaped like the "π" of pi.
The torii gate represents the entrance to the divine realm and is used to distinguish the divine realm where gods live from the secular world where humans live.
The existence of the torii gate is to remind visitors that stepping into the torii gate means entering the divine realm, and all subsequent behaviors should be paid special attention to.
The shuriken rope is a thick rope made of straw with a white zigzag-shaped paper ribbon tied to it, which represents the sacred boundary. It is often hung on various spiritual objects such as torii gates, shrines, sacred trees, and sacred stones.
As the most famous tourist attraction in Fujisawa-juku, Eshima Shrine naturally attracts a lot of people.
Therefore, a large number of peddlers took advantage of this business opportunity and set up stalls selling various small commodities outside Eshima Shrine.
Those selling water, those selling glutinous rice dumplings and other snacks, those selling masks, those selling Kanto specialties...
Because they cannot enter the shrine grounds to sell these products, these vendors all set up their stalls outside the torii gate.
Qingto led Saito to walk around the vendors outside the torii gate. After finding no particularly interesting vendors, he prepared to pass through the torii gate and officially enter Eshima Shrine to take a look.
Just when Aoto took a step toward the torii—
Click.
Qingden suddenly felt as if he had kicked something.
He lowered his head and moved his feet to take a look. Qingden's brows immediately raised slightly.
"Hey...this hairpin is quite pretty."
What Qingdeng kicked just now was a pretty-looking hairpin.
Although this hairpin is beautiful, it has been broken from the middle part and cannot be used anymore.
The hairpin that was all broken... was of no use. Qingto glanced at the hairpin and then withdrew his gaze, continuing to lead Saito towards the interior of the shrine.
Because there are many stalls and hawkers outside the shrine, it is more lively outside than inside the shrine.
Crossing his hands into Yuzhi's sleeves and looking aimlessly at the surrounding scenery and buildings, Qingto suddenly felt like he had kicked something again.
He moved his feet away - it was an inro that was quite simple in appearance and could be bought anywhere on the street.
The Yinlong that was kicked by Qingdeng just now had a big hole in the bottom. It was no wonder, after all, it was an intact Yinlong and had been picked up and used long ago.
"Why do I always feel like I've been encountering some weird garbage on the ground since just now?"
Aoto smiled at Saito behind him and continued in a joking tone.
"Can't you let me encounter something more powerful? For example, money or something. I just don't have much money right now."
Saito did not respond as usual and only nodded slightly to show that he was listening to Qingto's speech.
And Qingto is now used to Saito's character of being unable to hold back a fart for a long time, so he didn't expect any response from Saito.
After making a small joke with Saito, Aoto put his hands into the haori sleeves on both sides again, and continued to stride towards the depths of Eshima Shrine...
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