novelraw Chapter 1000 [Chapter 6] 14
Chapter 1000 [Chapter 6] 14
But now, she can't wear clothes.Not even a little nostalgic expression can be revealed.
Liu Quan lowered her long eyelashes to hide the turbulent emotions in her eyes, and when she raised her eyes again a second later, there was only pure concern and unbearable emotion in her clear eyes.There was no evasion or evasion in her expression as she faced Hijikata, and her tone was very calm and natural.
"Seeing that you are in such great pain... people can't help but imagine what a difficult and heroic journey you have gone through in the past... So I want to help you a little bit, although it is impolite, but it is also due... right? ?”
However, her eloquent and eloquent defense did not immediately let the earth side down its vigilance.Rather, after hearing what she said, his brows frowned even tighter.
"...It's not like a washerwoman would be able to say these words."
There seemed to be a hint of a faint smile in his deep voice, but for a moment Liu Quan felt a wave of horror, and a chill ran down his back!
She was familiar with that smiling tone.It was the tone that the deputy chief used to use, before making up his mind to do it, he praised the opponent with a smile or two, so as to numb the opponent's will and vigilance.
Liu Quan immediately spoke out to put out the fire.
"Because I'm not a washerwoman." Her voice was also gentle and smiling, and her eyes were looking at Hijikata with appropriate calmness and standard, business-like softness.
"It was your people who invited me here...to serve—or to entertain—a new big man," she threw out the news calmly, wondering whether the earth was interested in the west. The township learned from the arrival of Dao.
"However, I have been here for a few days, and I haven't been able to get such an opportunity. But I think, since I am in a national crisis, even if I am such a woman, I can't just sit idly by the big things right now... But there is a limit to what I can do .Do a little favor for Ajiu, it's just a little effort...Is there anything wrong?"
She spoke in a high-sounding manner, and at the end she even slapped a rake, throwing a rhetorical question to the earthworker.
For a moment, Tufang was a little dazed by her question.However, he was no longer the deputy chief who was often easily teased by her back then, and he quickly got rid of the shock, coughed, and showed surprise on his face.
"Hosting the new big shot?!...Are you a geisha?!"
Although Liu Quan didn't expect the deputy chief's response speed to increase so much now, she was already mentally prepared.Hearing the deputy chief's rhetorical question, she smiled slightly.
"Although I may not look like this... But, I probably look decent when I dress up...?"
Speaking of polite words, she suddenly remembered the past when she was in Shimabara Nai Tan many years ago - she dressed up as a glamorous husband, and talked about the topic of "Danna" without shame, in order to say something decently. A little lie that can fool those veterans of Huajie, but decently applied the image of the deputy chief to the non-existent "Dan Nasang", but the deputy chief listened to all of them outside the door... …
Thinking about it now, the brightly lit Shimabara that night, the laughing people, the lively corner houses and the noisy streets, and those partners with vivid faces...all seem like yesterday.
However, that was a long, long time ago.The companions who laughed heartily in the lights of Shimabara back then, one by one, gradually lost in time.In the end——up to now, only the two of them are left facing each other without being able to recognize each other.
Is it a good story?
The companions scattered away, the general and his elder brother passed away with grievances, and the ambitions, efforts and wishes they entrusted were easily overthrown by the general and his important ministers, like a once glorious Qibao Tower collapsed into a pile of ruins; in the end, even Even the fierce and agile past that was criss-crossing the streets of Kyoto in those days has faded away, leaving behind this person, his years left traces of pain on his body, dragging his body tormented by the scars of the past—but, only There is something like fire in those eyes, which is the unquenchable faith, undefeated tenacity, and unyielding will——
Liu Quan paused for a moment, a subtle smile flashed in her eyes.
... This person is still the one she admires, the one worth following.His path is still something she can't embark on, but she respects from the bottom of her heart.Such a person, a person who cannot be tortured by time and circumstances, cannot be changed... After a long time, it is still in front of her, isn't that enough?
"I, help out at the medical camp during the day. I've heard a lot about Mr. Naito..." She said slowly, with a cautious and gentle tone.
"So, when Ajiu said that he needed someone to come here to help, I agreed...Maybe, I also wanted to see 'Mr. Naito' who is so respected and relied on by his companions and juniors." What kind of mood is it?"
Earthwork: "Uh..."
Rarely, after she uttered the last sentence in such a slightly mischievous tone, Hijikata's face showed a look of confusion and astonishment because he was caught off guard for a moment.
However, he quickly concealed his astonishment, coughed lightly, and put on a serious expression, completely feeling like "a grown man who has experienced a lot of weather and frost is in the face of a wayward young girl who doesn't know the heights of heaven and earth." Headache", as if she didn't take her praise to heart at all, and said in a low voice like talking to herself: "Those guys...! What nonsense are they talking about! It's nothing to brag about Right... still in front of women..."
Liu Quan couldn't help but want to laugh a little.She felt that it shouldn't matter if she laughed now, so she couldn't control her impulse and burst out laughing.
Earthwork:! ?
He raised his gaze abruptly, and glared at her fiercely, a little bit annoyed.
Liu Quan knew that the deputy chief would not deliberately control his feelings because of a woman in front of him—his reaction in this regard was completely like that of a straight man of steel; The shopkeeper's mother-in-law and the waitress spoke in rough voices, and even directly reprimanded those women who were protecting Sachang Ronin, but he never wavered or hesitated at all because "the other party is a woman".So today he would express his dissatisfaction with her laughter so bluntly, like—
It seems that although his appearance has become more and more mature, he is already a stable and reliable mature man; but somewhere in his heart, he still looks like the man who sat with a medicine box on his back in the hot summer of the fifth year of Anzheng. On the streets of a strange town, she looked like a boy who suddenly appeared and gave her a rice ball wrapped in a floral cloth with a look of astonishment on his face.
In her opinion, this is where he is cute.
...It's a pity that I can't say it in person, it's really... a pity.
So she took advantage of the aftermath of that chuckle and said, "To be someone that everyone admires...Mr. Naito must have something very special about him."
Hijikata was stunned for a moment, as if his expression of staring at her became even more unfriendly—he had been such a person since before, and he was used to the nickname of "Deputy Chief of Demon", and it seemed that his whole person had become strict and cold from this. , even if he is praised by others, he still has a look of discomfort; as if responding to others with that kind of explosive and yelling attitude can cover up the warm side of his heart.
Sure enough, he moved uncomfortably—then subconsciously gasped again because he accidentally moved the injured leg again, causing Liu Quan to turn pale in shock for two seconds—ignoring her expression, forcefully Bang bang replied: "...There is nothing serious about it. ——It's not worth asking you to come and see it."
Liu Quan was slightly taken aback, seeing that Tufang turned his face aside as if resisting, his tone also became a little rough.
"...As for the clothes, everyone probably piled them up in the corner over there. Go and take them away."
Liu Quan looked at the back of his head and didn't move or speak for a few seconds.
And Hijikata also maintained that strange stubbornness. Although the half-turned sitting posture was definitely not comfortable, and it probably didn't help his injured leg, he still turned his face away like that, as if he had made up his mind not to Talk to her weird geisha.
...What about the man who used to talk and laugh with the beautiful husband in Shimabara and deal with it freely?Where did you go?
Liu Quan still remembered the deputy chief at that time, facing Jun Ju's compliment, he just took a sip of wine calmly and replied with a smile, "You really can talk."
He is neither complacent because of the praise of the beautiful husband, nor is he proud because his status can easily obtain such flattery; at that time, his companions who have struggled together from that small country dojo to today are also there, laughing loudly and drank heavily—
Perhaps now, that person is not gone, but with the disappearance of the Shinsengumi, he has been properly stored and no longer appears in the world.
Liu Quan couldn't help wriggling his lips, silently mouthing the name behind Tufang.
【...Mr. Hijikata】
However, with his back facing her now, it was impossible for him to see her face, and it was impossible for him to recognize what she was talking about from the subtle shape of her lips that hardly changed much.
She peeped at him almost greedily from behind, the line of his body, his hair cut a lot, the long leg he had to stretch out because of the pain, and what was still exposed after he turned half sideways A section of the arc of the mandible.
After so many years, they seem to have returned to the original point.He showed a strange look to her, still stern and unapproachable, and did not show any admiration for her——
Liu Quan stared at the refusing back, and for some reason, his nose turned sore, but at the same time, he pursed his lips, and a faint smile appeared on his face.
...Mr. Hijikata, what about the pile of love letters that filled the desks of Mibu Village back then?How did you dispose of it?Come on with some of the coolness you had at that time——
She sighed silently, walked away from Tufang's side slowly, and walked to the corner he indicated, and she saw a pile of dirty clothes in a mess.
She picked them up one by one and tidied them up one by one, turning her back to Hijikata who was sitting there, and said as if nothing had happened: "I think we will meet again, Mr. Naito—"
Hijikata seemed to be silent for a moment behind her, and then said in a somewhat unbelievable tone: "...you, are you really free?! As a geisha, don't you have anything else to do?!"
This tone is familiar to her—the deputy head of the Shinsengumi would also say the same—so Liu Quan pursed his lips, smiled silently, sorted out the pile of dirty clothes and neatly packed them into a bag, carrying The big burden turned around, looked at Hijikata with a smile, and said, "I am a half-baked geisha...in times like this of war, I rushed out to make a living without honing my skills well. Isn't that the case? You don't have the guts to stay in a place where a battle may break out at any time?"
Hijikata seemed to be choked by her for a moment—from before, the deputy chief seemed to have nothing to do with such unusually frank and cheeky remarks; it’s still the same now—a speechless expression appeared on his face, silently After a while, he replied: "...Aren't you afraid that your details will be leaked out?! If someone knows—"
Liu Quan was the first to say: "But, Mr. Naito won't say anything, will he?"
Tufang showed a speechless expression, "How do you know that you won't..." As if after blurting out the words, he realized that the words seemed to be self-defeating, so he changed his words in time.
"... Cough, I really won't. However, you shouldn't just put your trust in a stranger so lightly—"
Liu Quan smiled, turned around carrying the big burden and walked to the door of the room, only to turn around again.The twilight of the setting sun was behind her, so that the backlight of her face was hidden in a shadow, and the expression on her face could not be seen clearly.
"...Because I believe that Mr. Naito is a trustworthy person. Is it okay to be self-willed like this?" She replied with a smile.
Earthwork: "..."
He was choked by this simple sentence again and remained silent for a long time, just watching the young girl with an unfamiliar face slowly walk out of the room carrying the big bag full of dirty clothes.
Being favored by women seems to be a thing of the past.Over the years, he has always deliberately avoided these troubles, and even in the small town where he lived in seclusion, he has repeatedly declined the good intentions of other well-meaning and troublesome townspeople to act as matchmakers for him; until today, he felt a wave of trouble——
He didn't know what was in him that was worth the attention of this young girl he didn't know at all.Although he has experienced this kind of experience of being admired by a geisha—or in other words, appreciated—for the first time, he has experienced it several times before; Just refuse.But now, the additional deterrence brought by the title of "Deputy Chief of Ghosts" can never be used again; however, he does not want to have such a fate in this kind of thing at all.
He felt that not only his leg, which was injured in the Utsunomiya Battle many years ago, was hurting, but now even his head was starting to hurt.
The author has something to say:
February 8:
I fell into the current vortex again... But I really feel that sometimes before a certain time, many good ideas can't emerge【.
A while ago, I really didn't think it went well, and the outline was changed several times
Now I feel that the inspiration is going to be revived hhh
Talk!Because today is the first day of this article!one thousand!chapter!
The system number of 1000 is still worth celebrating hahh
So I wrote it a little fatter
In addition, I will officially write about the rivalry between the deputy chief and the sister, the sparring two days ago is not counted.
The deputy chief thinks the girl's face is very strange because she used the ultimate disguise technique to change her face hhh
Next update: tentatively at midnight tomorrow.If I haven't finished writing, I will let you know when the time comes