Chapter 533 [Chapter Guizhang Saito Line] 18
Chapter 533 [Chapter Guizhang Saito Line] 18
The Nishino Police Department was speechless for a while, and finally, with a smoky expression on his face, he waved his hand and gave Fujita Goro a simple and rude order to die.
"So this task is entrusted to you! By the way, don't wear the clothes that Zhongjin gave you last time. If you openly involve the police or the military in this matter, you will be in more trouble..." said Maybe the Tokugawa family has something to say..."
He grabbed his messy and greasy hair, and after scratching his hair into a mess, he finally decided that such a trivial matter should be left to his subordinates to worry about.
"In short! You go to Zhongjin now, he is the person who is in charge of contacting this time when the 'big shot' assigns tasks - you go and ask him to help you think about who you can be this time... Then, welcome the famous swordsman The mission is scheduled to leave tomorrow morning, so go visit that house early today!"
Although such an inexplicable task was thrown away, Fujita Goro calmly answered "Yes".
Nishino waved his hand at him annoyedly, signaling him to go out early.
Fujita Goro left the extremely small and messy office, found Nakatsu very smoothly, and got the answer.
With a strange smile on his face, Nakatsu said to him, "Although the mission is small, it is not difficult to add another entourage", and then told him, "There are complicated things before the trip, and I am afraid that the other party will not have time to receive them. You will have a big one tomorrow." Just go directly to Jiutiao Mansion and ask to see his young master."
Fujita Goro: "..."
Ah, I wonder whose idea this strange appointment and subsequent orders came from.
... Kiyohara Yukiha—no, now she has transformed into the person of "Noriko Kutiao".
Although the task of "welcome one of the five swords in the world to Beijing and present it to His Majesty" is probably not something she can arrange, but the task that must require the police to send people to disguise themselves as entourages to travel together for protection is definitely from her handwriting .
Even now, he has a little feeling that maybe in the eyes of the Nishino Police Department, the previous one was deliberately taking advantage of the situation to embarrass the police, and asked the police to send someone to guard in private because "there might be dissatisfied people at the engagement banquet who took the opportunity to make trouble" The task is also from her private arrangement - the purpose?Perhaps it was to arouse his vigilance and direct the direction of his investigation to the Kujo family.Otherwise, with her wisdom, of course there are many better ways to reunite, not necessarily... must...
His calm thinking, which was running smoothly, suddenly froze.
The Nakatsu Police Department has already made a fuss and asked:
"Eh? What's going on? Is it so hot today?"
Fujita Goro:?
Seeing him cast his gaze over as if asking questions, the Nakatsu Police Department kindly pointed him out.
"Your face is a little red, and it looks like you are going to have a fever... You have to go out tomorrow, and it is unwise to get sick now! You, hurry up and go back to rest today, don't wake up early tomorrow morning Delaying those hard-to-serve big and small... No, the young master's business!"
Fujita Goro frowned suddenly.
Although being pointed out by others that he blushed suspiciously made him feel guilty for a moment; however, the term that the Zhongjin police department almost blurted out just now aroused his subconscious attention.
He has been living on the edge of a knife for a long time, must maintain a high degree of vigilance at all times, and has the habit of not falling into a deep sleep even when he is sleeping. At this time, he suddenly caught the flaw in the supplementary words of the Zhongjin Police Department.
"'Size...'? Nakatsu-kun, you mean..." he subconsciously asked.
The Nakatsu police department laughed twice.
"Ah~ Speaking of which, you really don't plan to get married, Fujita? My wife is very concerned about this matter, asking every day... She is a difficult Edo woman. Being rejected by you, she can hold back her breath..."
Fujita Goro:! ! !
...So this conversation was also forced to stop.
According to the instructions of the Nakatsu Police Department, Fujita Goro arrived at the gate of Kujo Mansion early the next morning—wearing low-key (?) casual clothes.
After the maid came out and asked his name, she took him to a small room in Kujo Mansion to change clothes.This made him believe even more that all these arrangements were Kiyohara Yuki... no, Kutiao Noriko's intention.
However, to his surprise, when Qingyuan Xueye saw him, she acted extremely normal.
No, it's better to say that she has perfectly displayed the image she should have as a "Noriko Kutiao"-although she is the nominal eldest lady of the Kutiao family, she can also endure hardships when she is out; After wearing men's clothes, she looks as heroic and heroic as before, without any danger of being exposed; she fully understands why Kujo Zhongshun sent her here together, so she took care of Jiujo Daozhi, an ignorant young master, everything along the way. The chores are arranged for him in advance, Jiutiao Daozhi only needs to sit in the car and walk forward.
Although he knew that she had always been a very safe person and had nothing to worry about, Fujita Goro still felt a subtle sense of discomfort.
No, it seemed a little inaccurate to say "discomfort"-in fact, he was just a little uncomfortable with this kind of situation.
Because she seemed to treat him no differently from other ordinary attendants. She talked politely and gave orders crisply. Get close with such a long bond.
Moreover, the young master of the Jiutiao family seemed to be very alert to him.Whenever he walked within three feet of her, he would always feel the unfriendly eyes cast by the young master with gloomy eyes, thin figure, pale and handsome face.
It was not a situation he was used to dealing with.So Fujita Goro could only respond in silence.
Until the evening of the last day—the next day they will arrive in Kyoto, the place where the Shinsengumi used to be glorious—Fujita Goro is ready to go to bed, but the young follower Matsumoto who has been living with him all the way is still there. did not return.
Because everyone was tense and hurried on the road along the way, it was considered exhausted when we arrived here, and our fatigue level remained high.Since we are going to arrive in Kyoto the next day, after settling down at the inn that night, the young master and miss of the Jiutiao family magnanimously gave everyone a one-night vacation, allowing everyone to go out for a while—as long as there is no delay Tomorrow's itinerary will do.
Matsumoto went out almost immediately in high spirits.However, Fujita Goro did not go out to hang out or drink like everyone else.
His naturally cautious and conscientious character played a role.Before bringing one of the famous "Five Swords of the World" back to Tokyo, he will not relax casually, let alone indulge himself to go out for fun.
So now he still has a serious expression on the mission, and uprightly took out the Taidao that he usually hides in his luggage when he is outside—because of the restriction of "distributing the sword removal order", he cannot show it to others. , carefully hid under the mattress spread out on the tatami, within easy reach, and then sat down cross-legged on the futon.
In fact, at the beginning, he just wanted to quietly think about and sort out these seemingly chaotic and incoherent clues—he has not forgotten the nighttime murder incident on the streets of the imperial capital, nor has he forgotten Qingyuan Xueye hinting that he should investigate the Jiutiao family. Motivation——However, he hadn't figured out the context of the whole incident, but in the next moment, he suddenly turned his face towards the sliding door of his room!
Against the light from the corridor, a slender figure was clearly projected on the sliding door.
Fujita Goro:? !
With just a glance he knew who had come outside his door.Therefore, when the visitor gently opened the door without saying a word, he just maintained his previous posture of sitting upright on the tatami mat, and did not make any other reactions.
The man walked in, turned around and gently closed the sliding door, then turned to him, and said with a smile, "It's really impolite to bother you at this time."
Fujita Goro: "..."
He didn't know what to say, so he kept silent.
The man didn't seem to mind his silence, and didn't feel that he was being treated poorly because of it. He walked straight to him calmly and sat down about a foot or two away from him——
Although she didn't rudely sit directly on the futon he spread out, the fact that she was in this room, and it was already dark, and there was nothing but a faint light around her, still challenged Fujita subtly. Goro's nerves.He didn't even notice that the veins on his forehead twitched a little.
...As a result, after she sat down, she stopped talking.
The silence quickly rose to a suffocating height in this room, so oppressive that Fujita Goro had to speak first.
"Yes, what's the matter?" He stammered involuntarily, and suddenly felt his momentum stagnate.
She seemed to be amused by this subtle transition between auras, and slightly raised the corners of her lips.
"Yijun, are you angry?" She actually asked directly.
Fujita Goro:! ! !
angry……? !Why are you angry?
He looked down in confusion for a moment.
Then he showed hesitation.
"No... I don't think that's the case..." He said slowly, his tone becoming more serious as he spoke.
...It's like a formal conversation on official business.
"Although I don't know how you did it... But now you have to act as the young lady of the Kutiao family. Maybe you have to take care of the Kutiao family along the way... Uh, the young master who doesn't know the world, so I have no time Taking others into consideration is logically a normal reaction..."
He said so solemnly, feeling that what he was talking about was a very serious topic.However, when he saw her sitting in front of him, he laughed when he heard it, and the arc of that smile slowly spread from the corners of his lips, from a small smile to a bright one covering the whole The huge smile on his face almost lit up the small, dimly lit room.
Feeling very confused, he unknowingly stopped his analytical voice and asked, "...What's wrong? What's so funny? I didn't intend to say something funny."
She seemed to be able to hold back her laughter at first, but when she heard his question, which was both strict and perplexing, she burst out laughing as if she couldn't hold it anymore.
Fujita Goro:? ? ?
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February 3:
It's still the old rule, I'll try to update it tomorrow.If it's not there at [-]:[-] p.m., it will be updated the day after tomorrow. . .
Training today too, sigh.
However, there is one advantage of the training. I took advantage of the boring class time to develop a super huge outline of God's expansion!
I even thought about grandpa's lustful appearance! 【Hey I didn't say anything
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