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Chapter 242 242
lord,
Master Zhongshi died of illness.
At the last moment of Zhongshi Hall, I watched him from afar.
"Nothing can be done", I thought like this, feeling extremely guilty in my heart.
However, Lord Zhongshi also said this before his death: "What is useless is not the long light of the sun, but its former owner."This means that I will not be blamed for standing idly by.
History has passed away, and Mr. Zhongshi has become the past.Now I can do more things for you.You are my lord, I will give everything for you, and express my loyalty piously.
I wonder if everything is safe there?
Please take care of yourself, my lord.I will embark on the return journey of extreme practice.
sun long light
/ / /
After posting the last letter, Yuna put away her pen.
Izumi Mori Kanesada, who was lying beside her and staring at the letter, also turned over and sat up, saying, "It's time for us to go back to Honmaru, right?"
"Yes." She lowered her head and packed her bags, her voice was very soft.
Izumi Shou glanced at her and always felt that she was much quieter than when she first set out to practice.Perhaps it was because she was powerless to witness the death of the Former Lord, her expression seemed to have become a little dignified.
And, for some reason, a tiny gentian flower was painted on the hair in the center of her forehead.I heard that it was painted by Mr. Tadashi Horio, the predecessor of Nikko.It was clearly painted on with paint, but the flower couldn't be washed off no matter what.Whether it is washed with stream water or wiped with a handkerchief, the gentian flower depicted in cinnabar grows tenaciously on the skin between her foreheads.
However, because the gentian flower is very detailed and beautiful, Izumi Mori Kanesada thought nothing of it, and thought she looked more beautiful.
"time to go."
Yuna packed her bags and stood up.
Because of the death of the castle lord Horio Tadashi, the entire Matsue Castle was immersed in a sense of solemnity.Right now is the moment when the morning mist has not cleared, and the light of the sky is covered by the fog, and the outline of the city cannot be seen.She and Izumi Mori Kanesada walked towards the city gate one after the other.
"The lady—wait a moment, wait a moment, please stay."
When she was about to leave the city, she heard the voice of a Taoist woman behind her.
Yuna stopped and turned around, only to see that it was a middle-aged woman in a crimson Wufu, wrapped in a thick cyan scarf, wiping a pair of rough hands on the bib in front of her body.Seeing the woman hurriedly chasing after her, Yuna asked, "What's the matter?"
"Ma'am, you can't take 'Ji Yun' away from Songjiang City!" The woman chased after her, "Before leaving the city, you must disperse Ji Yun, or you will be in bad luck on the way, madam. !"
Listening to the woman's words, Yuna remembered.This is an ancient tradition here from the First Lord: Whenever a noble person like the city lord dies of illness, there will be a saying of "swift luck" in the city.It is inauspicious for ordinary people to embark on a journey at this time, and they are very likely to get sick or encounter bandits.
"Please sit down for a while, I will drive away your bad luck." The woman said earnestly.
"..." Yuna frowned, in fact, she didn't care about Jiyun's words.After all, due to the fact that the two of the Horio clan
Because of the early death of Ren's owner, Sunshine Changguang originally had rumors of "sick luck".But this woman was so attentive, she couldn't refuse, so she sat down on a bench by the side of the road.
"Mr. Kane, please wait a moment." She said to Izumi Mori Kanesada.
Izumi Mori nodded and said, "Take your time." To be honest, he didn't want to go back to Honmaru so soon, and hoped that the journey would continue.
The morning light is faint, and the fog is scattered in the streets and alleys of Songjiang City.The woman took out a few crude small boxes from her pocket sleeves, and after a closer look, they turned out to be cosmetic utensils such as rouge, lip balm, and charcoal pencils.
"If a woman wants to get rid of ill luck, she must dress up more beautifully." The woman said earnestly, rubbed some lipstick with her hands, and slowly wiped it on her lips.While wiping, she asked, "Where is your wife? You were born so noble, your husband must also be rich, right?"
He Quanshou was stunned for a moment, and said, "A rich man? But I don't have much money either."
Yuna:?
How did you get seated by yourself?
"Look at what you said...! Hahaha." The woman glanced at Izumi Mori Kanesada's saber and haori, and said trivially, "Such a good sword can be worn by ordinary warriors? And the cloth of the haori ...don't be modest, rich lord!"
Izumi Shou touched his head in embarrassment, and said, "I'm really not a rich old man."
The woman smiled and said nothing, but carefully painted Yuna's eyebrows and fat.After a while, the woman completed the so-called "dispelling ill luck" ceremony.She swiftly put away the cosmetics and said, "Okay, that's enough! I'll charge you fifteen copper coins."
Yuna and Izumi Mori Kanesada were stunned.
...It turns out...they want to collect money...ah...
No wonder this woman is so considerate, and while putting on makeup, she asked the two of them if they had any money. She had made up her mind a long time ago that she would kill them first and play later, and slaughter them hard?
Seeing that the two were in a daze, the woman didn't take out the money directly, she lowered her face on the spot, put her hands on her hips and said, "Why, do you want to renege? My rouge and charcoal are mixed with repellent You want to take advantage of me and don’t give me any money, there’s no door!” After finishing speaking, he glanced at Izumi Mori Kanesada and said, “Master Samurai holds such an expensive sword, but he doesn’t even have fifteen copper coins Can't afford it?"
Izumi Mori Kanesada: ...
Seeing that the woman's arrogance was getting higher and higher, Izumi Mori Kanesada had no choice but to cover his face and sighed, and honestly poured out a small half of a copper coin from the money bag.
After receiving the money, the woman was happy again. She approached Izumi Shou with a beaming face and asked, "Sir, do you want me to drive away the bad luck for you too? Your wife has already driven away the bad luck. Go on the road with good luck! You will encounter bandits and evil diseases!"
"No, no need! No need!" Izumi Mori Kanesada quickly waved his hands, then stepped back slowly, and said to Yuna, "Nikko, let's go quickly—"
Yuna was very face-saving, and quickly stood up, and the two ran towards the gate of the city at light speed.
While running, Izumi Mori Kanesada recalled what happened to him in Matsue City: when he was visiting a festival, he met a little girl who stole his money purse and put her hand into his clothes; Being pressed on the head by the domineering little woman to forcibly expel Jiyun!
It's such a humble place.
...!
"Mr. Kane, please slow down—" Yuna chased after him.
"If you don't run faster, you will be overtaken by that mother-in-law!" Izumi Shou walked faster and faster.
"That lady is so scary...?"
"Of course—" Izumi Mori said while running.He rushed towards the city gate, suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Riguang, why didn't you let me sing before you?"
That day, Sunshine Changguang lay in his arms, looking like he was about to cry.In order to make her happy, Izumi Mori Kanesada decided to sing the "Deputy Song of Demon" that was popular in his time.In the end, he only sang two lines, and Sunlight asked him to "speak well and don't sing if you have something to say", which is really weird.
He sings so beautifully, can't the sun appreciate it?
Yuna at the side looked at his puzzled expression and fell silent.
She can't just say, Mr. Jian, although you look the same as Ai Shalu, but your song "Deputy Song of Ghost" is really not good, and you don't like Shaulu too much. The feeling of disappearing thousands of people...
So, she was silent for a moment, and said: "That's because Mr. Jian's singing is so beautiful, like the sound of nature, I dare not listen to it."
"...?" Izumi Mamoru was a little dumbfounded.
Yes, is that so?
His singing voice is so moving that it doesn't seem like anything in the world, dare not listen to it?
"Haha, hahaha... so it is like this!" Izumi Shou laughed while running.
The two trotted all the way, and soon left Songjiang.
Yuna stopped in her tracks, looking at the outline of Songjiang city hidden in the morning mist, her eyes dazed.Lord Horio Tadashi has passed away, and soon, the Horio clan will be extinct.This Matsue City, which belongs to the Izumo Kingdom, will eventually fall into the hands of others.
"Let's go, Nikko—" Izumi Mori Kanesada had already walked away, and was waving to her in the distant morning mist.
She turned around and nodded, and walked towards Izumi Mori Kanesada, the Matsue Castle behind her was gradually submerged in the mist.
/ / /
The white light disappeared, and she returned to Honmaru, whom she had not seen for a long time.It was morning in Honmaru at this time, and the sunshine was warm and comfortable. It should have rained a few days ago, and the branches and leaves were covered with crystal clear drops of water.
"I'm back—" Izumi Mori Kanesada stretched his waist, hammered his shoulders, and said, "I'm really tired."
After all, Izumi Mori Kanesada not only practiced by himself, but also practiced with Yuna, and also met all kinds of simple and hospitable people in the Warring States Period. Tiredness is inevitable.
"Shall we go back to the lord together?" Izumi Shou said.
"Yeah." Yuna nodded.
I haven't been back to Honmaru for a long time, but everything here is still very friendly.The two walked through the winding corridors and arrived at the residence of the lord.Under the sunlight in front of the moving door, the valet Suzusumaru Koji was standing there with his hands clasped together, as if he was praying in the morning.
"Oh, Suzumaruden!" Izumi Mori Kanesada immediately went up to say hello enthusiastically, "Long time no see! We're back from practicing."
Suzumaru Hengji slowly opened his eyes, nodded, and asked, "This time...you should be able to get along well with the horse...?"
silence.
silence.
"Hey——that's not the case!" Izumi Mori Kanesada's high ponytail was about to explode, "It's not because of me
I went to practice for the horse!It's because of my strength and handsomeness---! ! "
Yuna suddenly remembered that the reason why Izumi Mori Kanesada was sent out to practice was because "he and the horse couldn't get along well, so that the horses in Honmaru ran away at the speed of light when they saw Izumi Mori"...
ah.This time, Kane-san should have become a good partner of the horse, right?Immediately, Izumi Mori Kanesada was also called to the lord's room.Across several corridors and sliding doors, Izumi Shouzai could be heard saying things like "The horse flew away" and "It has nothing to do with me".
Finally, Izumi Mamoru came out of the lord's room, and it was Yuna's turn to return.
She silently pushed open the sliding door and walked in slowly.This house belonging to the lord is as before, lingering with a faint sandalwood; the light is always so dim, as if covered by winter snow and fog.She took a slow breath, walked towards the depths of the house, and then bowed on one knee to the monk standing in front of the bookshelf.
"My lord, I have come to see you in the light of day... I have returned from my training in Matsue in Izumo, and now I will dedicate my allegiance to you."
Thinking of the old master who had passed away, she slowly raised her head.The monk was also watching her, and there was a hint of surprise on his face that should have been as thin and calm as the sea.
"You... have changed a bit." The monk murmured, stretched out his hand, and put his palm on her hair.
That's probably what she looks like.
The gentian family crest drawn by the former master Horio Tadashi on her forehead with cinnabar can't be removed no matter how much she scrubs; until now, there is a delicate and delicate gentian flower between her eyebrows.And the "simple peasant woman" she met when she was about to leave Songjiang, put on a full makeup for her according to her——
Compared with the past when she didn't apply makeup, now that she returned from Songjiang, her lips and brows are far away, and her outline is more beautiful.
She felt the slow touch of the lord's palm passing over the top of her head, and whispered: "In the future, I will serve the lord more faithfully."
"En." The monk slowly withdrew his hand, looking at her with long and deep eyes, "You have become stronger... and more trustworthy."
"Master Miao Zan." She replied humbly.
"I have a task that I want to entrust to you to complete. I wonder if you would like to listen to it? The sun is shining forever." The monk's voice was extremely mellow and slow.
"Listen to my lord's orders," she replied.
The monk nodded, and called out: "Shuzhuwanhengci."
The sliding door opened in response, and Shuzhuwan Hengci, who had been waiting outside, stepped in and knelt down on the ground: "Are you summoning me?"
"A few days ago... Shuzhuwan proposed to me that I want to participate in the mission of going out." The monk fiddled with the prayer beads, his tone was calm, "He said that staying in the main pill all the time is not good for enlightenment."
Hearing this, Suzumaru Koji, who was kneeling at the head, said, "It's just as the lord said."
"However, if Shuzhuwan is asked to participate in the battle frequently, the position of close servant will be vacant..." The monk's eyebrows narrowed, and his voice became more and more quiet and unhurried, "The sun is shining, I don't know, are you willing to take the position?" valet?"
——I don’t know, would you like to be a servant?
She almost suspected that she had heard wrong.But when she turned her head to look at Suzumaru Koji, the other party showed her the
This scene is all true, the lord wants her to be the servant, the one closest to the lord in this pill.
"My lord, you...you mean..." She frowned and couldn't help asking repeatedly.
"The sun is shining, my lord wants you to be my servant." Suzhuwan said to her patiently, "If you don't want to, you can also refuse."
"Ah... this..." She looked at Shuzhuwan Hengji, then at the lord, and said bravely, "If the lord doesn't dislike my stupidity, Sunguang Changguang will naturally be willing. It's just... Shuzhuwan, is it okay? "
"I...the reason why I want to participate in the battle...is just to see more worlds." Suzumaru Koji said indifferently, "The position of close servant is not suitable for one person to take on for a long time...Before me, Kiki Hasebe also For a close servant. It is common sense to change a close servant."
Counting Zhuwan Heng's words made her feel a little less guilty.
No matter what, it's still a valet!It is the most important duty in Honmaru, can she really take it on?Moreover, the lord is a monk, right? Shuzhu Wandian can talk about the Buddhist Taoism with the lord, and copy the scriptures together. She doesn't know much about Buddhism, so she has to learn from the beginning!
"How?" asked the lord.
"I can try it," she finally said.
The monk nodded.
"It's okay to give you time to think about it," he said.
Yuna breathed a sigh of relief.
"My lord's trust...the sun shines forever, I am grateful." She saluted the monk again.
/ / /
She still had this sense of unreality when she came out of the lord's house.Unexpectedly, the honorable lord actually wanted her to be a servant, which was something she had never imagined.
She has no origin of Buddhism and Taoism, and she is not a legendary sword. She can be what she is today, all because of the love of the lord.In order not to disappoint that monk, she should do her best.
She breathed a sigh of relief, and walked quickly towards the residence of the Longboat faction.The morning light is getting brighter, the sun is leaning towards the sky, and the Honwan has gradually become lively.Indistinctly, it seemed that the laughter of Toshiro's brothers could be heard.
"Excavator! Go and drive the excavator!"
"Brother Phase One, let's go! If we don't drive the excavator, we will dig through Osaka Castle with our bare hands again!"
"Phase [-] machine, where is the excavator parked?"
She walked through the corridor to her brother's courtyard.
"Brother Candlestick Che—"
Hearing her voice, the sliding door was pushed open, and the candlestick Qie Guangzhong in pajamas appeared from behind the door.Seeing the figure of the person coming, he was stunned for a moment, and then said with a complicated expression: "Riguang, you... have returned from practicing."
"Yeah." She nodded and smiled slowly at him.
A gust of summer wind blew the hair on her forehead slightly raised, and there was a thin red patch on her forehead, which was the family crest left by the previous master with cinnabar.It's not clear from a distance, but when you get closer, you will realize that it is a tiny flower.
"...It really has changed a lot." Candlestick looked at her eagerly, his gaze becoming more and more complicated.If the sunlight in the past was just a half-opened flower bud, now it is the time when the flowers are in full bloom; even if it is me, the relatives who get along with her day and night cannot take their eyes off her at all.
Or……
I always feel that the everlasting sunlight is going away from me.
She just came to Honmaru, she doesn't understand anything, what
Knowing nothing, knowing nothing, relying on him for everything, trusting and relying on him.However, it is completely different now.Sunshine Changguang, who has undergone extreme practice, may no longer need himself, and will only go further and further away.
Thinking of this, Zhu Keqie Guangzhong felt a little complicated.
"Come here." He took Yuna's hand and led her up the steps.
"...Huh?" Yuna was puzzled, but obediently followed the candlestick into the room.
As soon as the shoji paper door was closed, Candlestick Kiri hugged her tightly and buried her head on her neck.He smelled her scent slowly, and said, "Finally back. Is everything safe and sound along the way?"
"Yeah." She hugged him back and said, "I didn't meet any danger, nor did I meet the retrograde army."
"Have you seen the former master?" Candlestick asked.
"Yes. I died with him." She replied, her eyes fluttering slightly, and her tone didn't know whether to say it was satisfaction or sadness.
"...Don't be too sad about the past." Candlestick Che comforted.
"I understand, brother. Now I will do my best to be loyal to the Lord." She laughed again.
"If you can think like this, it would be great." As he said that, Candlestick slowly let go of the person in his arms, and asked again, "Have you met the lord? Did he say anything? For example, let you take on the responsibility again." Captain or something—"
Yuna nodded, and said with some embarrassment: "The lord said that he wants to try to make me a valet."
"...Huh?!" Candlestick was stunned for a moment, showing an inconceivable expression, "...servant, did you actually be asked to serve as a servant? This is...how..." an incredible thing.
She was also a little shy: "It seems that this is not something I can do well... I always feel very guilty."
"I don't know how to put it... My lord loves you so much, it really makes people feel complicated." Candlestick Kiri Mitsutada covered his forehead, "Is it because you are already polarized? Ah, me too..." Also I really want to polarize.
——But why hasn’t he been able to polarize until now? !No news at all? !What is the government of the time doing? !
This time, the sunlight can be polarized, which can be regarded as bad luck. It is entirely because the Government of Time suspected that she has strange things, so they let her try to travel alone, to see if there will be any changes in her or something. ...
Candlestick cut a breath.
I haven't seen Sunshine for a long time, and I always want to have a few more words with her, as brothers, we need to have an in-depth exchange of feelings.As soon as he held her hand, he heard a voice from outside the door: "Daylight Changguang—are you there! Shuzhu Wandian said that you are here—are you cold—!"
Candlestick cut: ?
Izumi Shou Kanesada was outside.
"The sun is shining—didn't you say that I sing very well—I came to ask you to sing—" He Quanshou said confidently and brightly outside the door, "I'm going to sing now!"
"?!" Yuna's pupils trembled, and she immediately wanted to rush out the door to cover Xiaojian's mouth.
However, it was too late, and everything was too late.
"Go to sleep... go to sleep"
"If you don't sleep anymore, the vice-chief of the ghost will come and take you away and eat you——
"Go to sleep~ go to sleep~"
"The deputy head of the ghost's teeth are green and long!"
The singing of Izumi Mori Kanesada came from afar.
At this moment, Honmaru was silent.
After a long silence, countless warblers were shaken into the air, and a dot of ink was stamped on Da Baoping's observation manual.Someone's teacup fell to the ground with a loud clang; horses galloped out of the stables, and an excavator spun around in the nursery.The hospital bed that entered the room collapsed, a bottle of nail polish fell off the table, and the peony cake cracked in place.
Izumi Mori Kanesada:?
Um?Is this his natural voice?
◎The author has something to say:
So why hasn't Mi turned on polarization yet?