Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

However, at the same time, her appearance and appearance seem completely harmless—her facial features are not the kind of aggressive beauty, but on the contrary, they have a certain kind of affinity that makes people easily let go of their guard.

Thinking about it carefully, such a gentle appearance made him feel a sense of danger—it was because it was so harmless that it was difficult for people to raise their guard; like water, it was everywhere, and no one would think of taking precautions— —

Tufang let out a sigh of relief and decided not to talk to her any more.

"In this case, I'll go first." He replied in a gruff voice, "You should also know that kid named 'Liulang'? He is an orderly. It shouldn't matter if you ask him to carry water for you." -"

As a result, before he could finish speaking, he heard her let out a huge sigh.Then, she put an index finger on her chin, raised her chin slightly and dragged out her voice, looking distressed.

"Ah. Rokuro~" The small wavy line in her ending made Hijikata's scalp tingle.

"But... I can't find Liulang. It's so late at night, could it be... have everyone gone to rest?"

Earthwork: "..."

He now felt that speaking pleasantly to her—no, even stopping to glance over at the longhouse at first—was wasting his time and causing himself a huge problem for no reason!

Although he used to interrogate the women who provided shelter for the unruly wanderers in a simple and rude manner before, but the young girl in front of him was not one of the women who stood in a hostile position with him, and did not do what she deserved, so Nor could he do the kind of thing that would simply pull his face down to scare her away.

What's more, he felt that even if he pulled his face down and spoke rudely to her, he couldn't scare her away.

He sighed silently in his heart again, feeling that women are really difficult to deal with - even if this is not Edo, the woman he met is just as difficult to deal with!

He asked a little impatiently: "...then what are you going to do?!"

As a result, as soon as he uttered this question, he realized that he had made a huge mistake—because the face in front of her suddenly lit up, and she showed him a smile with a full eight teeth—like a shark!

"Mr. Naito, can you do me this favor?" Although there was such a huge smile on her face, she made this request to him without hesitation, without wasting a moment!

"Please. Mr. Naito, in this world, I can only turn to you now. Please—"

Before he agreed, she immediately bent down and bowed deeply, her posture was humble and submissive—but, that attitude was so majestic and generous, the kind of body that bowed deeply in the night The posture is a mixture of humbleness and boldness, obedience and aggression; so that Hijikata almost didn't bring it up in one breath.

...and look what she's talking about!

Hijikata glared angrily at her cloudy black hair in a gorgeous high bun and the long hairpin stuck in her bun, which was exposed to his vision because of her bowed head.

"Aren't you joking? Aren't you going to entertain distinguished guests tonight? Without the presence of the luthier and maids, it's simply impossible for Liu Lang to be able to entertain distinguished guests—" After a moment of daze, his reason He quickly returned to the cage, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that what she said was not true; so he retorted angrily.

However, after hearing his sharp rhetorical questions, she didn't panic, but slowly straightened up and looked directly at him.There was not a trace of guilty conscience on that white, gorgeous face.

"The luthier was temporarily invited from a nearby village, and he couldn't find a maid for the time being, so his granddaughter acted temporarily. As an accompanying guest who served tea and water during the reception, it was already very reluctant, and after the reception, she had to be asked to replace him It's not appropriate for me to do this or that—" she said.

Tufang felt his heart rise with a bang.

What do you mean it's inappropriate to use that kind of little girl? !So is it appropriate for her to order him here now, a patient with an injured leg? !

For a moment, he felt that her words were full of loopholes, and he didn't know where to start to refute.

But before he could retort, she spoke calmly and gently again.

"...Besides, you probably haven't seen her because you have been resting in the house. If you see that little girl, you will understand... She is small and thin, with clumsy hands and feet, and she can't even lift a wooden box full of water. Bucket... I even did the water lifting for her a few days ago. If it weren't for the extraordinary situation now, I really couldn't find a maid who could be there to support her. What may be seen by distinguished guests, it is impossible to even enter that room..."

Earthwork: "..."

Ok.

He has also been to Shimabara many times, whether it is meeting people there or performing official duties, he is familiar with Shimabara's set of rules.If the little girl he had never seen was really what she described, then in the past, Shimabara would never have been able to entertain guests—even if she was not qualified to serve guests.

He now felt that instead of standing here and having a verbal dispute with her that he couldn't win, he might as well turn around and go away, fetch a bucket of water for her, and end this waste of his time tonight.

Without saying a word, he turned around and walked towards the kitchen, not even taking a second to say a word to her.Every step he took was big and fast, and his feet fell heavily on the ground, as if he wanted to step on a hole in the ground; even the injured leg that had been bothering him for several days seemed to no longer hurt. It was like a piece of rotten wood now, with his boots hitting the ground with a hollow sound.

When he came back angrily with the wooden bucket, he actually found that she, who was standing there waiting, had an extra strip of cloth in her hand.

With a bang, Tufang put the wooden bucket full of water on the ground in front of her.As a result, the water in the bucket shook violently, and some water splashed out.

The young girl who is said to be named "Xuezi" actually stood where she was and did not hide.Water drops just splashed onto the hem of her gorgeous Furisode kimono.

Hijikata's action of putting down the bucket heavily was of course a little angry, but he didn't expect that this "Yukiko" didn't dodge, so her Furisode kimono was really soaked a little bit by the water splashed from the bucket.This surprised Tufang, not only did his anger dissipate in an instant, but even his previous aura disappeared without a trace.

"You..." He looked at her in surprise, his eyes slid over the face that was painted extremely white, but covered all the real expressions, and then fell down to the deep and shallow purple background, On the front placket embroidered with snow-colored white plums.

For a moment, he felt a sense of unreality in a trance.

The dimly lit longhouse in the middle of the night, the big tree outside the house, and the young girl dressed up under the tree... Gorgeous Furisode kimono, exquisite flower hairpins, white-painted face, complicated updo...

In a trance, the corners of the playful lips in front of him were slightly raised, and the vermilion lips were slightly parted, and he said to him——

【Mr. Hijikata, then I’ll go back...those people thought I was coming out to meet Dana——】

"...Mr. Naito? Mr. Naito!"

The young woman's voice seemed to rise a bit, and finally cut into his momentary trance, interrupting his rare brief gaffe.

Earthwork:? !

"Oh, oh..." He hastily responded perfunctorily to cover up his distraction just now.

"...you, what's the matter?" He asked quickly before she could ask him "what's the matter".

She looked a little surprised and a little stunned, opened her mouth and paused for a while, and finally smiled, as if swallowing back the question, and replied: "...I just wanted to ask you, can you help me put my clothes on?" Sleeves tied up."

As she spoke, she raised the right hand holding the cloth strip towards him, and the long fluttering sleeve on her right arm fluttered a few times in the night.

She raised her hand in such a way that Tufang noticed that the lower edge of her sleeves was also embroidered with snow-colored white plum patterns.

Indeed, dragging such a long sleeve, I really can't even do such trivial things as washing my face.But to tie up Furisode for her, there will inevitably be some physical contact——

Even though he still felt a little guilty and sorry that he lost his mind on the way to talk to her just now, when Hijikata thought of the consequences of "tying his sleeves", he immediately decided——

Don't help.

He lowered his face and said in a very stern tone: "This matter, the little girl brought by the old luthier must be able to do it. It is not an appropriate choice to ask for help from irrelevant others. For this, you should Do you understand?"

He felt that his words were indeed a bit serious, and when he said the last rhetorical question, even he himself couldn't help thinking whether it was too harsh—after all, what he was facing was neither the careless soldiers in the past nor the bold and careless soldiers now. The reckless soldier——however, after listening to this, she didn't react with a hurt face at all, but thought about it as if nothing had happened, and then said: "...Ah, is it?"

Earthwork: "..."

He was a little speechless for a while, wondering if she didn't mind the words that even he himself felt were too harsh because she was too mentally strong, or because she was too slow to notice the guard and alienation in his words.

The next moment he saw that she started to do it herself, clumsily arranging the long sleeves, and then wrapped the long strip of cloth around the back of the neck and under the armpits, as if she really planned to rely on her own efforts Just tie up your sleeves.

...but the clumsiness of her movements is simply unbearable.

Tufang frowned deeply, and felt a headache when he saw that one sleeve she had just wrapped slipped out of the cloth binding for some unknown number of times.

I don't know if she did it on purpose.Hijikata felt that his mood was in a mess.

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February 8:

Ah, by the way, I forgot to comment in the last chapter. The furisode kimono the girl is wearing this time is purple. That’s because in the original work, the deputy chief’s clothes are purple hhh

In the original work, the deputy chief's kimono jacket is purple. After cutting short hair and changing into a western suit, although the background color of the western suit is black, the decoration colors are all purple. It feels like purple is the assistant chief's support color [Hey!

Well, let me explain by the way, the phrase calling him "Mr. Hijikata" is an illusion of the deputy chief.

That sentence was actually said by the girl during Shimabara's investigation last time.

So the deputy chief's intuition is actually very good, the girl is wearing a strange face at this time.

But he still felt that the person in front of him would not remind him of a girl [Hey!

Next update: tomorrow.

It’s still the old rule, if you can’t make it to midnight, please watch it when you wake up in the morning hahh