"I am Isamu's eldest brother Miyagawa Otongoro! Next, I will perform our Tama dance for everyone! Please enjoy it!"
Miyagawa Otogoro is truly the eldest brother of Isamu Kondo. The bold and enthusiastic temperament of the two brothers is really carved from the same mold.
Miyagawa Otongoro, who had just finished performing "Stuffing 5 Steamed Buns in the Mouth", then began to perform the local dance of their hometown Tama.
Many of the guests attending the banquet today are fellow Tama friends of Kondo and Hijikata.
So when Miyagawa Otogoro was about to dance the Tama dance, many Tama fellows from Kondo and Hijikata...such as Hijikata's brother-in-law Sato Hikoro spontaneously stood up and joined the dance.
The banquet hall suddenly turned into a dance hall.
It has to be said that in this kind of "celebration"-themed banquet, it is not a bad thing to have a "social cow" like Miyagawa Otonoro who is good at creating atmosphere.
Thanks to Miyagawa Otogoro and the Tama fellows who enthusiastically danced with him, the excitement of the banquet reached a new level.
The guests stood up and gave up their seats one after another, pushing their seats to the four corners of the room, making way for the center of the banquet hall, leaving enough room for Miyagawa Otongoro and others to dance.
As the central position of the banquet hall was given up, the density of seats suddenly increased. The empty seats left by Kiryu, Goro Komaki and others were squeezed. Aoto, Mai Kinoshita, Sanako, Souji and others The four of us had to sit together.
The current seating arrangement of Aonobu and his group's "table"... with Aotobu as the center and clockwise as the direction, they are: Aotobu, Souji, Sanako, and Kinoshita Mai.
Why did the "parents" of the three girls suddenly leave at the same time? Is it a coincidence? Or is it intentional?
If it's the former, it would be a bit too coincidental...
But if it's the latter, it feels unlikely.
The three parties had never had any communication before the wedding banquet.
The Furumaki couple and Chiba Jutaro and Okita Hikaru couple are completely unknown to each other.
They couldn't have agreed in advance to leave at the same time, right?
No matter what the answer to this question is... Qingdeng can't care about it for the time being.
At this moment, Qingdeng, whose neck felt a little tight, glanced at the pretty faces of the three beauties with their own styles around him with a tentative gaze.
At the same time, Kinoshita Mai, whose legs were tightly together and shoulders tightened, lowered her gaze and stared nervously at the tatami in front of her knees. From time to time, she raised her shrinking gaze to secretly look at the person who was close to her at the moment. Qingden and others... The moment her eyes touched Sanako, she would always move away immediately as if being scalded by boiling water.
Sanako still maintains a cool and calm demeanor...but the frequency of drinking tea from the teacup beside her legs has obviously increased.
There was only one person who didn't show any abnormality - the now drunken Souji.
Souji, who would be greedy if he didn't drink alcohol, now looked like he was half-drunk and half-awake with his eyes half-closed, his eyes blurred, his face flushed.
Normally, Qingteng would have snatched the wine glass from Souji and prevented her from drinking any more.
However, because today is a rare day of celebration and great joy, Qingto decided to turn a blind eye today and let the Souji have a rare indulgence.
Qingdeng: "..."
Kinoshita Mai: "..."
Sanako: "..."
Souji: "Huh? Tachibana-kun, why do you smell so good?"
Qingdeng: "Because what you smell is Jinpingtang."
Qingto, Kinoshita Mai and Sanako all remained silent... Qingto didn't know what to talk about now. He didn't know whether these two women were like this.
The atmosphere between them felt awkward for a moment.
Fortunately, the drunken Souji occasionally said some nonsensical nonsense that had a certain lively effect on the atmosphere, and did not make the atmosphere around them completely stiff.
In this silence, the first person to break the silence was the cold and taciturn Sanako.
"Tachibana-kun, Carrot has been acting a little weird lately."
"radish?"
"Yes. It used to have endless energy every day. It would walk around the yard and the sword hall as soon as it finished eating. But recently it has been very lackluster. Except for eating, it is still very active. They all lay in the corner of the yard in a daze or sleeping."
"Is it sick?"
Qingdeng still liked his pet cow, which was both cute and cute but also very humane.
Therefore, after hearing that Luo Bo was ill recently, he couldn't help but make a nervous sound.
Sanako shook his head.
"I asked the veterinarian to diagnose and treat Luobo. The veterinarian said that Luobo is in very good health... The diagnosis given by the veterinarian is that you haven't seen Luobo for too long recently. Luobo misses you very much, so he is a little depressed."
"Carrot miss me very much?"
After Qingdeng heard this, he was startled for a moment, and then he burst into laughter.
"That's right... I haven't seen him for a long time recently..."
Important events these days are coming one after another, in a queue, and it’s dizzying to see.
After the "Red and White Battle" with Genbukan, there was a fireworks display for four girls in a row.
After the lively fireworks display, they were busy preparing to go to the city to meet Tokugawa Iemo and Tenzouin.
After meeting these two bosses, he went to Tsukinomiya Shrine under a secret order from Tokugawa Iemo, and was recruited into the new imperial court of "a new secret force in the light and Tokugawa Iemo's private armed force in the dark". Fan.
After finishing all this mess, I started working on Isamu Kondo’s wedding...
Looking back and thinking about it carefully, Qingto has indeed not visited the Little Chiba Sword Hall for a long time.
"I happen to be free tomorrow." Qingdeng said, "I'll go take a look at it tomorrow morning."
Sanako nodded.
"Carrot seems to be a little too dependent on you... I personally feel that this is not a good thing."
"Now that you are on vacation, you still have the means to visit and play with it frequently."
"After 2 months, when you are officially transferred to the Huo Fu Thief Reform, and you need to devote more time and energy to your work, and have no time to worry about other chores... I really don't know how depressed Carrot will be."
Faced with Sanako's neither salty nor bland sentiments, Qingto smiled noncommittally.
Qingdeng moved to the right to Huofu Thieves Reform, and his official appointment date was November 1st... This matter is no longer a secret.
The shogunate really gave Aoshino the full benefit this time.
In order to reward Aoto, and also to allow Aoto to have enough time to recuperate his body and mind, the shogunate granted Aoto a recuperation holiday that lasted until November.
In other words, Qingdeng can spend another two months of leisurely vacation.
Fire-paying thieves change, and following the designated town hui - in terms of busyness alone, the latter is actually busier.
After all, the latter's manpower is overwhelmingly insufficient. The total strength and unity of the "Three Chapters" of the two monasteries in the south and north does not exceed 40 people.
The Huofu Thieves Kai has a total of 8 divisions, and each division has dozens of people.
When there is a shortage of manpower, you can also ask for people from the first-hand bow team and the first-hand iron cannon team.
And only those major cases and key criminals that the enforcement cannot handle.
Therefore, in general, the "Three Times" is more leisurely than the "Three Times"... but the risk and the death rate are much higher than the "Three Times".
However, no matter how you say it, when Qingdeng officially joins the Huo Fu Thieves in 2 months, he will definitely not be able to have a lot of time to do what he wants to do every day like now.
Just as Ayoto and Sanako were having an ordinary chat about radish—
"..." Kinoshita Wu, whose mouth corners were drooping, raised her eyes and glanced at Sanako quietly. Then, his eyes fell on Qingdeng, and he bit his lower lip gently, with a complicated look in his eyes...
"I just helped Qingdeng raise a cow..."
After muttering in a volume that only she could hear clearly, she felt thirsty, picked up the teacup beside her knees with both hands, and drank it all in one gulp.
Kinoshita Mai drank the bottom of the cup in one gulp. Because she drank too quickly, she accidentally choked the tea into her trachea.
"Ahem! Ahem! Ahem!"
Kinoshita Mai's rapid coughing interrupted the conversation between Qingto and Sanako.
Qingto, whose attention was attracted by Kinoshita Mai's rapid coughing, quickly looked over.
"Awu, what's wrong with you?"
"No... cough cough! It's okay... I just drank tea too quickly... cough cough! I just choked... cough cough cough!"
After that, Kinoshita Mai took out the pocket paper she carried with her from the lapel of her kimono.
Just when she was about to put the pregnancy paper to her lips and wipe away the remaining tea and saliva on her lips, she suddenly seemed to remember something, squinted her eyes, and glanced at Qingdeng quietly.
Immediately afterwards, she straightened her waist slightly, and performed a series of actions such as passing the pregnancy paper to her lips, wiping her lips, folding the used pregnancy paper, and putting it away very lightly, slowly, and gracefully. .
Whether Kinoshita Mai accidentally choked on her tea or she took out her pocket paper to wipe her mouth, it was just a trivial matter that was very common and not worthy of much attention.
After confirming that Kinoshita Mai was just drinking tea too hastily, Aoto silently withdrew his eyes and attention.
But there is one person who pays great attention to Kinoshita Mai...
"..." Sanako half-squinted her eyes, staring at Kinoshita Mai with a thoughtful and meaningful gaze.
After her conversation with Aoto was interrupted by Kinoshita Mai's cough, Sanako began to look at Kinoshita Mai with this strange expression.
Because Sanako is the only one who pays close attention to Kinoshita Mai now, only Sanako noticed Kinoshita Mai's very elegant little move of wiping her mouth.
"..." Sanako, who had always been very careful about his own image, frowned at this moment, which was rare.
At this time, Souji, whose face turned even redder, said something stupid again.
"Hmm~~Jijun, why do you smell so good again?"
"I told you, what you are smelling is Jinpei candy." Aonto said as he skillfully snatched the wine glass from the Souji's hand, "Okita-kun, you can't drink anymore."
I thought today was a rare happy day, so I turned a blind eye to the boss's cup-grabbing behavior. As a result, it seems that it is impossible not to take action to control the drinking behavior of the General Secretary.
If Souji continues to drink like this, she will say to the filth in the toilet later: "Huh? Tachibana-kun, why do you become so smelly?"
The Souji, who was completely unconscious, looked at his hands that were empty due to the wine glass being taken away from him, and pouted:
"Tch... stingy... ha~~"
Souji yawned vigorously, then tilted his body and fell in the direction of Aoden. The little head rested nicely on Qingden's left shoulder.
"Huh?" Qingto was startled by the sudden leaning on the Souji. While casting a surprised look at the Souji, he gently shook his left shoulder, "Hey, Okita-kun, wake up, wake up. .”
No matter how much Qingteng shook his shoulders, Souji remained motionless... Instead, he twisted his body and neck, letting his little head climb up Qingteng's left shoulder, and his forehead was closer to Qingteng's neck. Some.
Souji's slender and light ponytail tickled Qingden a little.
"Hmm~~ Jinping Candy is so delicious... Hmm...? Why doesn't it taste...?"
"Of course, because you are chewing on my haori."
Qingden was looking at Souji, who was crunching the haori fabric on his left shoulder like a sheep, and cast a helpless look.
After confirming that Souji had completely lost the consciousness that a normal person should have, Aomori clamped one hand on Souji's head and held her shoulder with the other.
While letting Souji relax, he used gentle movements to lay Souji flat on the tatami next to him.
When Souji's lips and teeth left Aoto's clothes, there was a large puddle of saliva and two rows of small, neat teeth marks on the haori on Aoto's left shoulder.
In order to make Souji sleep more comfortably, Aomori took off his haori and folded the haori into a pillow for her to lean on.
"..." Mai Kinoshita quietly took in the entire series of interactions between Qingto and Souji.
After a moment, she squinted her eyes and looked at the glass full of wine beside her knees.
In the cup, the calm, mirror-like water surface clearly reflected Kinoshita Mai's squashed face.
Kinoshita Mai looked at "himself" on the water and took a deep breath.
There was a resolute look on her cheeks, as if she had made up her mind.
…
5 days ago... that is, on the last night of the fireworks display, when she knew that she was not the only girl accompanying Qingto to watch the fireworks, Kinoshita Mai felt quite aggrieved, annoyed, and angry...
On the spot, I wanted to punch Qingdeng directly.
She didn't tell Kiryu that Aonto was a "master of time management".
Mai Kinoshita, who is in her 28th year, also has a strong sense of privacy.
How could she have the nerve to talk to an elder like Kiryu about this kind of relationship between a boy and a girl?
So Kiryu didn't know that Aonto had a very intensive and "exciting" fireworks display.
Although Kinoshita Mai even had the urge to punch Aoto with force at that time... but it was magical - whether she felt annoyed or angry, most of these negative emotions miraculously disappeared by the next day.
After another day, all these negative emotions will disappear.
The only remaining emotion is... the longing to know what Qingdeng is doing now.
If I think about it carefully, Qingdeng and I are neither engaged nor husband and wife.
Strictly speaking, I may just be a very special friend to Qingden.
In this case, if Qingdeng can play with me, then naturally he can also play with other friends!
Qingdeng is not my property, so who am I to force him to associate with whom he must associate and who he should not associate with?
So and so... After such self-consolation, Kinoshita Mai went on her own to let go of her past resentment towards Qingden, and all the unpleasantness of that night were forgotten by Kinoshita Mai.
His feelings for Qingdeng outweighed his dissatisfaction with Qingdeng.
Looking at Souji, who had just fallen on Aoto's shoulder due to drunkenness, Kinoshita Mai felt envious in her heart, and at the same time, a bold idea popped up in her mind...
Kinoshita Mai said "ha" and took a deep breath.
Then, she carefully glanced around the circle, and after confirming that neither Kiryu nor Komaki and his wife had come back, she picked up the drink beside her knees and drank it all in one gulp!
The alcohol that Kinoshita Mai drank was quite strong. Calculated in modern units, it was around 20 degrees. For Kinoshita Mai who didn't drink alcohol often, this was already an extremely strong drink.
Kiryu has been strictly controlling Kinoshita Mai's drinking on the grounds that "you are still young." Only in certain activities and occasions will Kinoshita Mai be allowed to drink a little.
She felt like Mai Kinoshita who had swallowed a ball of fire. Her face was irritated by the alcohol and instantly turned red. There was a "buzzing" vibration in her head.
"Well...well..." Kinoshita Mai put down the wine glass and started to sway half-seriously.
For a moment, her eyes closed, her head tilted, and her delicate body fell towards Qingdeng as if being pulled by her head.
She has already calculated it! As long as she falls over at this angle, her head can be resting on Qingto's right shoulder just like Souji did just now!
Kinoshita Mai was full of expectations.
As a result... just at the critical moment when Kinoshita Mai's head was about to touch Qingto's shoulder, Kinoshita Mai's body's fall suddenly stopped.
Someone reached out to support Kinoshita Mai.
Um? Qingdeng, did he hug me...
Kinoshita Mai felt a little disappointed... She wanted to put her head directly on Qingto's shoulder like Souji just did.
However, Kinoshita Mai quickly relieved herself of her worries.
Forget it...it’s okay to be held by Qingden~~
Kinoshita Mai, who had a quiet smile on her lips, gently twisted her body a few times, hoping that Qingdeng would hold her tighter.
But at this moment, Kinoshita Mai suddenly noticed something was wrong...
Um?
Kinoshita Mai twitched her nose hard.
How do you feel... Qingden Xiangxiang?
Just when Kinoshita Mai was asking this question——
"Miss Kinoshita, since you are not good at drinking, please exercise some restraint."
Upon hearing this voice, Kinoshita Mai immediately opened her eyes as if she had been scalded by boiling water.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw a cold and beautiful face looking down at her expressionlessly.
Sanako straightened Kinoshita Mai's body, and then withdrew her hands that had just held Kinoshita Mai.
…
Forget it, what does Orange Jun's private life have to do with me? ——On the night after the fireworks display ended, Sanako said this to herself.
Like Kinoshita Mai, Sanako also had the urge to punch Aotomo after learning that Aotobu had been so busy and colorful during the three-day fireworks display.
But Sanako regained her composure that night.
snort! What am I angry about?
Qingdeng is not my person. It doesn’t matter what he thinks of me. Anyway, I have always regarded Qingdeng as a fairly good friend of mine.
At that time, Qingdeng only took me to play and watch fireworks in order to comfort me who was disappointed after learning that my future martial arts achievements would be limited.
Friends hanging out together - it makes sense.
Perhaps in the eyes of busybodies and uninformed outsiders, Qingdeng and I's behavior of coming to the fireworks display alone is very ambiguous... Let these idlers talk about such gossip.
I just know what I'm doing.
Qingdeng's personal life and whom he is in a good relationship with... have nothing to do with me at all!
So and so... After such self-adjustment, Sanako, who repeatedly told herself "Qingto and I are just friends," reset her mentality and no longer dwelled on the unpleasantness of that night.
However - although Sanako no longer dwells on the unpleasantness of that night, there is still something that makes her brood...
That’s Mai Kinoshita!
Sanako couldn't explain why... maybe it was the so-called "horoscope incompatibility". When she first met Kinoshita Mai, Sanako felt an inexplicable...repulsion towards Kinoshita Mai.
It's not that I dislike her or hate her, I just feel like I can't get along with her.
This feeling of rejection suddenly increased that night... when I learned that Kinoshita Maiya and Aoto were swimming together at Ryogoku Bridge illuminated by the light of fireworks!
Sanako didn't know the specific reason. It should be that the compatibility between the two is inherently bad!
In short, since then, Sanako has always disliked Kinoshita Mai.
Although she has no experience in intimate contact with men who are not her relatives, Sanako considers herself not a person who is insensitive to emotions.
From Kinoshita Mai's words, deeds and actions, she could tell that Kinoshita Mai had a strong affection for Qingden.
Therefore, Sanako strongly suspected: Kinoshita Mai's "choking on drinking tea" just now was completely fake! Just to interrupt her chat with Qingdeng!
She was jealous of being able to chat with Qingdeng, so she decided to interrupt her conversation with Qingdeng by pretending to be choked by drinking water.
When he took out his pocket paper to wipe his mouth, he pretended to be gentle, slow, and elegant... Was this to attract Mr. Tachibana's attention?
Ah!
This little girl is so funny.
Although he is not very old, he has a lot on his mind!
Out of this unreasonable rejection of Kinoshita Mai, no matter what Kinoshita Mai did, Sanako would find it an eyesore and wanted to go against her.
Therefore, when she saw the "drunk" Kinoshita Mai about to fall on Qingto's shoulders, Sanako immediately used her martial arts skills and quickly reached out to support Kinoshita Mai...
…
"Thank you, thank you..."
Kinoshita Mai said thank you in a stiff tone for holding her up when she almost "collapsed", while looking at Sanako who had sat back in her seat with an indifferent expression.
In an instant, Kinoshita Mai's brows rose with a hint of resentment that a good thing had been disturbed, and a sense of nervousness as if she had encountered her natural enemy.
Kinoshita Mai was not a person who cared much about her appearance before.
But after getting acquainted with Qingdeng, she began to pay attention to the new products in clothing stores, and became interested in makeup and dressing.
Although she really didn't want to admit it... she was envious of Sanako's face that was prettier than hers, her figure that was more attractive than hers, and her elegance that was more charming than hers.
This feeling of envy has made Kinoshita Mai imitate Sanako's movements and behavior, consciously or unconsciously.
Just now, when I was taking out my pocket paper to wipe my mouth, the reason why I suddenly switched to gentle and graceful movements was because of my desire to imitate and learn from Sanako.
Because of Sanako's excellence, he longed for and envied Sanako.
Because of the good relationship between Sanako and Qingto, he felt strong hostility towards Sanako.
What does this woman want to do? Did you see that I was about to "fall", so you kindly came over to help me? Or……
While Kinoshita Mai was intensely "brainstorming"——
"A Wu, are you drunk?"
Qingdeng's concerned voice came from beside him.
"Ah..." Kinoshita Wu was startled for a moment, then turned to look at Qingden.
Kinoshita Mai, who was not good at drinking, was blushing at the moment. At first glance, she looked like she was drunk.
Kinoshita Mai, who faced the worried look cast by Qingden, and the blush on her cheeks suddenly became more intense, immediately lowered her gaze subconsciously, looked at her fingertips, and said tactfully:
"I'm not, I'm fine... I just accidentally drank too much..."
As soon as Kinoshita Mai finished speaking——
"It seems that Miss Kinoshita, you are not good at drinking. You are already drunk without even a hint of alcohol on your body."
Sanako's words, which were neither salty nor bland, attracted Kinoshita Mai's wary eyes.
Sanako pretended not to notice Kinoshita Mai's gaze and silently lowered her head to eat the food.
——Gu...! This woman... really wants to go against me!
——Do you really not want to see Qingdeng and I interact...
——Could it be that...she also likes Qingdeng...
Suddenly, the sense of crisis rapidly expanded in Kinoshita Mai's heart.
Being crushed in Sanako's hands one after another... Even the good-tempered Mai Kinoshita couldn't help but feel aggrieved.
The sense of crisis that was growing rapidly in Kinoshita Mai's heart at this moment contributed to this feeling of frustration.
Kinoshita Mai could be seen tightening the lines on her face, quietly glaring at Sanako opposite her, and racking her brains to think of a strategy to fight the enemy.
However... as a young white flower, Kinoshita Mai has no experience in this kind of struggle.
At this moment, Sanako noticed Kinoshita Mai's eyes glaring at her.
Sanako glanced at Kinoshita Mai calmly... and then calmly continued to eat and pick up vegetables.
The lips that were chewing the food silently curved with a hint of teasing.
Just as one of the two women was thinking about how to fight back, the other fearlessly put on a posture of "come on over"——
"Um...Have you eaten...?"
Souji, who had been sleeping just now, suddenly woke up.
She straightened her upper body like a corpse and looked around with blank eyes... Finally, her eyes were fixed on Qingdeng.
"Ah, Tachibana-kun~ You have some sauce here~~"
After saying that, the smiling General Secretary raised his upper body, leaned towards Qingden's left side, and licked away the sauce on Qingden's neck like a cat.
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Today is the day that the author has updated on time at 10 o'clock for 12 consecutive days! (leopard laugh.jpg)
The first "real harem fire" in this book.
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In today’s chapter, through the psychological activities of Mai Kinoshita and Sanako, everyone should be able to intuitively feel what kind of personalities the two women have.
Let’s take a blind guess: In reality, everyone would definitely want to live with a soft girl like Kinoshita Mai. Even though she is not as good-looking as Sanako, she is not as big as Sanako.
(End of chapter)
