Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

The air pressure in the camp is getting lower and lower.

Since the incident of Ito's departure from the team, Yamazaki, who was in charge of monitoring and listening to the news, had one more job every day: monitoring the Imperial Tomb Guards.

After all, it is true that Saito alone can learn a lot of internal information about the Imperial Tomb Guards. However, if the Shinsengumi does not make any response gestures at all, the sources of information about the Imperial Tomb Guards cannot be publicly explained to others. .

Moreover, what cannot be explained publicly to others is some of the recent behaviors of team member Kiyohara Xueya.

Although the inspection mission was not delayed, other soldiers who didn't know the truth about Qingyuan who thought Qingyuan was very nice and wanted to go out for a drink or hang out with him in their spare time found that Qingyuan seemed to be getting busier.

No, to be precise, he was too busy to be seen all day.In his spare time after completing the patrol mission, he often went out with excuses.

Later, there was a curious and courageous soldier named Okada who secretly followed Kiyohara when he was out of the house.But he quickly ran back to the village, whispering to a few other curious guys with his voice suppressed.

"That kid Qingyuan, I'm afraid he has a sweetheart outside!"

As soon as the words came out, the single-dog nerves of this group of ordinary soldiers were detonated, and everyone was so curious that they wanted to go to heaven.

"What, what, how do you know?!"

Okada said proudly: "I followed him today and saw him turn into a small alley near Wujo Street from a distance. I waited for a long time and didn't see him come out. I ran over and saw that there were ordinary houses nearby... …Later, I pretended to be nonchalant and inquired about it with the old woman next to me, and the result was terrible! The old woman said that there was a house over there, and a young girl had just moved in recently! That girl seemed very introverted, and she usually didn’t come out. I'm a household, but I always see a young man coming in and out of that house, probably an infatuated kid working hard to earn money to support that girl! I was afraid that that kid Qingyuan would find out, so I ran back quickly!"

Everyone was so excited that they were going to explode, and they expressed their opinions one after another.

"Hey, last time Mr. Matsumoto came to the village to give everyone a physical examination, I heard that Mr. Matsumoto privately concluded that Kiyohara is still a 'Qing Tong'!"

"Hahahaha, it's not that Kiyohara hasn't been to Huajie, why is he so rude! Hey Okada, didn't you kid recently fell in love with the beautiful sister Younv in Shimabara? You and Kiyohara are in the same team. Take him to eat meat!"

Okada smiled and shook his hands again and again.

"No, no, no... I don't dare to mention this to him in person... Hey, don't you think that Kiyohara is usually very close to Okita-kun, and his behavior style is getting more and more similar to that of Okita-kun! That kid joined the team After such a long time, he has become more and more like a guy who dares to draw a sword at the slightest disagreement! Ask him face to face if he is going to Shimabara to have sex, or ask him if he has a little lover in private Well, or—”

"Or what?!" A majestic voice sounded behind them, with obvious displeasure.

Everyone started in unison, then turned around shivering like a flock of fledged fledglings trembling in the cold wind.

Oni's deputy commander of the Shinsengumi stood there with his arms folded around his chest, with a gloomy face.The words "I'm very upset" were written all over his face, and he looked like a storm that was about to come, which almost scared the quarrelsome soldiers to death.

"Stalking your companions? Gossiping behind others' backs? You don't have much to do, do you? Right now, there's a serious shortage of manpower, and there's a lot to do! If you're free—"

"Who is busy?" A smiling voice sounded, and the crisis of these talkative and enthusiastic Ping soldiers was rescued in time.

However, when they saw their benefactor, their moods were complicated—they didn't know whether they should expect someone to come to save their lives in time, or whether this person really appeared. It would be better to die here.

Because the person who came was the focus of their discussion just now, the team leader Kiyohara Yukiya.

Qingyuan still had an incomprehensible smile on his youthful and handsome face, he seemed to be in a good mood, and completely ignored the dark (?) aura around the deputy chief, interrupting as soon as he came up: " Let them go, Deputy Commander, they're just idiots."

The central figure they were discussing just now was classified as "stupid" people in a single sentence: "..."

Ghost's deputy chief: "...Qingyuan! What are you talking about?! You...you kid, do you know what these guys said about you just now?!"

Kiyohara still smiled happily.

"Ah, what does it matter? Do these guys still say good things about me? Hahaha."

The ghost's deputy chief stood there with lingering anger, glaring at him angrily.

"You are very open-minded, you!" the deputy chief roared in a powerful tone, "If these guys don't take care of themselves, if they can follow you today, they might follow other cadres tomorrow! Not good To work, to think all day about how to do these things—"

"Okay, okay." Qingyuan said in a gentle manner, with a lively smile on his face, as if he didn't hear the deputy chief just say "these guys are following you today".

"Pay day hasn't come yet, everyone's life is hard, and they don't have money to go out to have fun, so it's not bad to find some fun in the village and join in the fun." He said perfunctorily, signaling to the group with his eyes. Ping soldiers, let's go.

"Let's get down to business, deputy commander. I just came back from the outside and brought back a lot of strange letters for you. It seems to be a love letter from a woman who doesn't know the truth." He said with a smile, "Before I can send the pile that Tun received back to your hometown for you, this is a good proof that you have done well outside, and it is also considered a glory of your ancestors, right?"

Deputy Chief: "...!!! Hey, Qingyuan, you—"

Everyone hurriedly took advantage of this opportunity and sneaked away one by one against the corner.

Okada, who was running at the end, could vaguely hear Kiyohara saying with a smile, "Why is the deputy chief so angry? You have been working hard recently, why don't you go to Shimahara for a drink with Shin Hachikun and the others at night?" " and the like, pulled the Oni's Deputy Chief, who was about to go berserk, to the direction opposite to their escape route.

An inexplicable sense of guilt and emotion welled up in Okada's heart.

Kiyohara-kun!Although it is said that during the last physical examination, Mr. Matsumoto concluded that you are "Qingtong", but a person like you who repays grievances with kindness and can stand up for his companions or work hard at critical moments is definitely the best man in neon!Sure enough, a real man can't be judged by whether he has had sex or whether he secretly raised a lover outside!What's more, it seems that Kiyohara's masculinity is also proved by the girl who lives in the hut near Wujo Street!Kiyohara-kun!As a companion, I will support you to the end! ...

Facts have proved that rumors are not reliable at all.Just like Kiyohara Yuki didn't even participate in the physical examination hosted by Dr. Matsumoto Yoshin last time.

But that night, Deputy Chief Oni did go out with Shinpachi and Harada.

Liu Quan understood the deputy chief's mood very well.Although an absolutely reliable insider like Saito was arranged among the Royal Tomb Guards, Hirasuke's departure from the team was definitely a big blow to the deputy commander; In addition, there have been signs of openly provoking the Shinsengumi, singing against the Shinsengumi, and even planning to fight the Shinsengumi to the end.

Under such circumstances, the deputy chief's endurance must have gradually reached its limit.So he went out to drink with the other two members of the trio, Shinpachi and Harada, who also couldn't figure out Heisuke's departure and felt frustrated and painful. It was also a kind of relaxation, and Liu Quan could understand it very well.

What's more, she also has her own business tonight.

After night fell, she came to the hut near Wujo Street again.

She dressed up as an ordinary townswoman's daughter, and even used some tricks to make her skin look yellow and lacking in nutrition. She also added a lot of freckles to her face, and used some small tricks to make herself It looked unremarkable; then, she went out in the direction of the Three Bridges.

Under a big tree by the bridge, there was already a young man in black waiting there.

As if meeting her lover here, the ordinary-looking girl couldn't help laughing from a distance away, with a bright look on her face, hugged the bag tightly in her arms, and ran towards the young man with small steps.

"Jiro-kun!"

The young man's expression moved slightly, as if he was a little embarrassed, and he was silent for a while before responding: "... Ah. I said... Xiaomei, can you stop... shouting so loudly every time?"

The girl was taken aback. "Hey, why?"

She stood in front of him, and looked up at him happily, slightly raising her face.

At this time, if you take a closer look at the couple who seem to be meeting by the bridge at night, you will find that the girl named "Xiaomei" not only has an ordinary name and ordinary face, but also seems to have a slightly hunched back. Apart from her vigorous and frank personality, she couldn't see anything outstanding about her at all.

In contrast, the black-clothed youth named "Jiro" who had been standing upright under the tree stood there silently and steadily until the girl arrived, as if he didn't mind other people's gazes. .

He looks very handsome, although he looks unsmiling, but his facial features have a sense of awe, which is the kind of appearance that is very reliable and trustworthy at a glance.However, there is always something special about him-it doesn't seem like it at first glance, but if you look closely, you will find that although he is carrying a knife, two knives are amazingly worn on the right side of his body.In other words, this person swings the knife with his left hand.

Therefore, since he has such a strange and rebellious habit, the question of why this young man fell in love with that ordinary girl is nothing.During this period of time, they have often met at places like the bridgehead of the Sanjo Bridge, etc., and this pair of ordinary lovers has never attracted any attention or curiosity from others.

Liu Quan is very satisfied with giving people such an impression and setting.Saito couldn't refute either.

Although I felt very uncomfortable, I did my best to cooperate with her and show off my acting skills.Seriously Xiaoyi is clumsy in this regard, but not stupid.After Liu Quan proposed such a setting on a whim, he was just dumbfounded for a while, calmed down, and began to analyze the pros and cons of doing so; finally came to a conclusion—it seemed feasible.

In the afternoon, Okada followed Liu Quan and discovered the incident that Wujo Tong suspected of having "Qingyuan's little lover", which was also Liu Quan's deliberate guidance.

She ran out to make up and meet Saito outside. It doesn't matter once or twice, but if there are too many times, it is inevitable that some good team members will be curious about her whereabouts.This is really an unavoidable disadvantage of collective life.

Liu Quan felt that instead of keeping the truth secret, it is better to take the initiative to expose the flaws and use the opportunity to guide the other party to get what he "thought the truth".The so-called half-truths and half-false lies sound the most bluffing. Trying to hide your intention to go out, and denying it when everyone is curious, will only detonate the inquisition of those boring guys.Showing them now a truth they thought they had learned on their own could save those curious prying eyes once and for all.

Anyway, what those guys don't know is that the young girl that the old woman said is her; the "young people who often visit here" described in the old woman's words are not "Kyohara Yukiya", but former Shinsengumi cadres, Saitoichi, a member of the Imperial Tomb Guard now.

Strolling in the night market with Saito, buying dango and eating while enjoying the atmosphere of "shopping with my lover", Liu Quan told him what happened in the afternoon with a smile.

Saito looked speechless for a while.He seemed to have no words to describe his feelings about her risky behavior of dancing on the tip of a knife, which would be difficult to end if she was not careful.

And Liu Quan, who had already received the information from Xiaoyi, was also in a very happy mood.

No, it's better to say that it's rare to see friends and companions who have left the Shinsengumi, and it's always fun.

"Speaking of... no one is suspicious of Yijun, right?" Liu Quan asked in a low voice.

"It's been more than a month... Although the process of exchanging information has been smooth, I'm really worried that some people will have doubts about Yijun's whereabouts. After all, Yijun was a loyal follower of the deputy chief before."

Saito groaned, thought for a while, and then replied: "...It is the same now."

Now also... what?

Liu Quan was stunned for a moment before realizing that the loyal deputy chief chef Xiaoyi was expressing his loyalty to the deputy chief through her again.This process is natural for baby teeth, so she didn't notice it at all at the first time.

She grinned.

"Don't make people worry, Yijun." She said jokingly, "When you left last time, in order to convince others that I had broken with you, you said a lot of things in public... After that, I was really worried Will Yijun be angry with me for this?"

The author has something to say:

February 3:

To make a digression, this chapter uses the love letter that the deputy chief sent home, hehehe~~ In history, the deputy chief indeed sent home the love letter he received along with the family letter, and I don’t know if it was for showing off. . .It seems that the deputy chief also has a childish side

The stalk of Qingtong, in history, Dr. Matsumoto concluded during the physical examination that Mr. Souji was still Qingtong. . .Everyone should be able to guess what this word means, so I won’t explain it hehehe [blush