Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

"It's really hot today."

Sitting in the shade under a big tree, Tufang thought about it while wiping his sweat.The medicine box was beside him, against the trunk of the tree.

On the way, he found that it was profitable, and his partner uncle, who came to this town to sell medicine with him, took advantage of this short rest time to go shopping in the shopping street.It is said that it will be given to the daughter who is about to get married at home.

The results this morning seemed to be good, so the earth side readily agreed to the uncle's request.

"Sure enough, after pretending to cut myself and then applying medicine for everyone to see, people will happily spend money to buy it." He thought so, and took out a cloth bag from the medicine box.

He originally had a happy smile on his face, but when he opened the cloth bag, he was dumbfounded.

On the way here today, the uncle insisted on helping him carry the medicine box, but accidentally stepped into a shallow ditch, sprained his foot, and fell to the ground.The rice ball wrapped in the cloth bag now was probably broken at that time, almost completely fell apart, like a bag of rice with simple pickles, it was so broken that one couldn't even arouse one's appetite.

Hijikata sighed silently, thinking of self-comforting words such as "ah, this is the only way to do it today", and helplessly patted his right hand on his clothes, trying to wipe off the dust on his hands so that he could use them to catch and fall The loose rice balls were delivered to his mouth.

At this moment, a similar cloth bag suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

... No, maybe it's not exactly the same.Because the cloth bag was hanging from above his head, and the outer cloth was a piece of cloth with beautiful patterns printed on it, which was completely different from the rough gray homemade cloth in his hand.

He looked up a little startled.

A young girl stood before him.

For him who is handsome, it is not uncommon for this kind of woman to appear in front of him actively, or even to give him something.Although he doesn't like this kind of love affair that comes to his door, it's not that he can't handle it.It can even be said that because this kind of thing happened so often, he has already developed a set of coping methods on how to deal with this kind of woman skillfully.

... Besides, this girl was not the prettiest girl he had ever met.

The only surprising thing about her is that she is taller than ordinary women; although she is dressed like a girl from an ordinary town, her figure wrapped in the unexpectedly simple light purple flower kimono looks very slim .

But if you look closely, her facial features are very ordinary.She has a narrow forehead, with a pair of slender eyes—in other words, they are not big enough—the sides of her nose are covered with tiny freckles, her complexion is a bit sallow after sun exposure, and only her two lips are more conspicuous ——Because the color of her lips is not an ordinary rosy color, but slightly whitish, which looks a little unhealthy.There was a slight incongruity between this appearance and the impression of her slender figure, and Hijikata couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

Standing in front of him, the corners of her slender eyes seemed to be raised slightly, with a smile on her face.When he looked at her, she noticed his eyes, smiled quickly, and said quickly, "Please eat this."

Tufang hesitated for a moment, but he didn't take the small cloth bag in the right hand she extended, and didn't respond to her words.

His silence seemed a little embarrassing to her.The smile on her lips froze for a moment, and she quickly added another sentence.

"I...I'm not a bad person." With her left hand, she pointed to the piece of cloth spread out in his palm, which had broken into a puddle of glutinous rice and pickled vegetables.

"I just saw that... it shouldn't be edible anymore, right? That's why..."

Her words were cut off abruptly.Then she withdrew her right hand, put the cloth bag tentatively on the medicine box beside him, and smiled reluctantly.

"I just think... Selling medicine is also very hard, right? I saw you cut your own arm with a knife..." Her voice seemed to be light and light, with a hint of surprise and confusion in disbelief, her eyes landed on his left arm.

For some reason, Tufang suddenly felt a little embarrassed, as if she had seen through his trick of selling medicines.He nodded slightly rudely, and replied as briefly as possible: "...ah, that's nothing."

He finally spoke, and she seemed to be very happy about it, her slender eyebrows narrowed slightly, and a real warm smile flew out of the corner of her eyes.

The moment she leaned towards the medicine box to put down the cloth bag just now, he noticed because of this unusual proximity that there was a small tear mole under the corner of her left eye.At the moment she was smiling, and the tear mole seemed to fly up obliquely following the corner of her upturned eye, which actually made her ordinary face show a trace of unusual charm.

However, to his surprise, she didn't take the opportunity to chat warmly with him, but said something clearly: "Then, please take care."

Then, she seemed to turn around to leave.

There must have been some kind of astonishment on his face for a moment, because she suddenly paused when she turned away, and then turned her head to look at him again, repeating what she said just now.

"...Please take care of yourself."

Then, without waiting for his response, she left.It was as if her purpose was very pure, and she was really kind enough to let him eat her rice balls when she saw him hungry by chance.

Sitting under the shade of a tree, Tukata stared blankly at the leaving figure of the ordinary-looking girl, unable to utter a word.

...It seems that she was wronged? !

A certain sense of guilt rose slowly from the bottom of his heart. Although it was not strong, it still troubled him for a while before dissipating slowly.

"Hey, what's the matter with you, Sui Sanjun?"

The uncle seemed to have bought an ideal gift and came back satisfied.

Hijikata withdrew his thoughts, subconsciously stretched out his hand to the calico cloth bag on the top of the medicine box, and quickly held it in his hand as if to cover up.

"...No, nothing."

The last summer of the fifth year of Ansei was still so hot.

……

Originally, he should run away as soon as possible after making a fortune in this town. This is an iron rule that has been planned early in the morning.

How effective the Ishida powder is, the earthworker also knows it well.

If you stay any longer, if someone really comes to your door, it will be bad.Although he learned good swordsmanship as a good friend of Kondo—rather than an official disciple—in the poor dojo inherited by Kondo in the "Testing Guard Hall", he is not a samurai after all, and he is not qualified to formally wear a sword. If you can fight with a wooden knife, it is better to avoid conflicts with others as much as possible.

But for some reason, he didn't leave immediately the next day.

The uncle begged him to stay in this town for a day or two longer, saying that the old woman and the daughter who was about to get married told him a lot of things to buy, and a little leisure time was really not enough.

The soil conveniently agreed.

They have never been to this town before, and it is already some distance away from Tama. What is rare is that although the town is not small and has many shops, the townspeople are very simple, and it is easy to listen to the colorful sales they use.

I have made a lot more money here than elsewhere, so maybe I can continue to look forward to earning a little more before running away?

At noon the next day—the situation was a bit worse this day, and the earthworker blamed it on the fact that the wound on his left arm seemed to be cut a little bit hard yesterday, but it didn’t look so slight today, which made it inconvenient to expose his arm and continue to sell in an actual combat mode. It also fell a little-the uncle ran to buy for his daughter again.

Tufang continued to sit under the big tree yesterday to enjoy the shade.

Almost at the same time as when he appeared yesterday, the girl who spoke strangely passed by the road in front of him again.

But different from yesterday, she obviously noticed that he was still under the tree, paused in her footsteps, and seemed to glance over, as if she saw that he was not holding a broken bag miserably today. I couldn't eat the plum rice balls, so I didn't come over to say hello, but continued to walk forward.

... This unusual reaction surprised him again.Tufang subconsciously jumped up from the ground, and before his own reason had completely dominated his brain, he had already heard his own voice calling to stop her.

"……Hey!"

The girl stopped hesitantly, and turned her head slightly with an incomprehensible expression.

"……Yes?"

Hijikata regretted his reckless move almost immediately.But once he said it, it was hard to take it back, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk in front of her, and took out from his arms the piece of floral cloth she used to wrap rice balls yesterday, as if he really only yelled because of something. As if to hold her.

"...Well, this, this is yours, I'll give it back to you." He said bluntly, and handed over the small floral cloth.

To his surprise, the girl did not play tricks such as "Since I have already given it to you for use, I will not take it back". She just froze for a moment and accepted it readily He came over and said "thank you" in a low voice.

There was a silence between the two of them for a while.

Then, Tufang suddenly felt absurd, and laughed out loud.

"...What?" He shook his head, as if this scene was simply too stupid, with an incredible expression on his face.

"I just want to say, rice balls, it's delicious. Thank you." He looked away and said quickly.After finishing speaking, he turned his head and walked under the tree without waiting for her to speak.

"...Ah, that, that!"

The girl was silent for a moment, then suddenly shouted behind him.

"That, I did it....I don't have much confidence, so...it's great that you like it."

Tufang paused, with an expression of disbelief and astonishment on his face, and turned his head away.

"You...you just casually give away things that you don't even know if they are delicious?!" His voice raised an octave.

The girl stared at him in surprise, and suddenly burst out laughing.

"Ah, it really sounds like that?" She actually replied in a dignified and guilt-free tone.

The earth side felt that there was no one place to fight.

"...Hey! I say! You...!"

She laughed again, with a more serious tone, interrupting his angry reproach below.

"...Just kidding. Of course I have confidence in that so I gave it to you to taste? What you sell...is medicine for bruises, not medicine for treating stomach and intestines?"

... This girl seems very interesting.

Such a thought suddenly appeared in his heart, and Hijikata scowled, but for a moment he didn't know whether he should continue to preach to her.

...then, before the uncle came back, they chatted pleasantly for a while.

Tufang also knew that her name was "Xiaomei".

Very ordinary appearance, very ordinary dress, very ordinary girl's name belonging to a town family.

What formed a slight and wonderful sense of incongruity with all this was the unspeakable temperament emanating from her conversation and body.

Her conversation is quite interesting, and all kinds of jokes are always kept within a range that will not irritate him. Eight out of ten sentences are responses that he can't guess; Her demeanor seems to be more peculiar than that of ordinary local girls—it seems that she has read a lot of books, and she seems to be from a very good family.But the next moment, when she looked at him with a really ordinary face, that wonderful feeling often disappeared.Sitting in front of him was an ordinary, teenage town girl.

It was only after she left that day that he realized what kind of temperament in her made him feel a little subtle.

...It seems that with her appearance, it must be a bit difficult to find a good marriage at this age when she is talking about marriage—unless her family proposes some tempting conditions or dowry that are hard to refuse.But her attitude was not at all as if she was suffering from such a thing, and she even joked about her appearance calmly.

Moreover, when she left, her attitude was too crisp and neat, not at all like those girls who were interested in him—or even just because of his beautiful appearance—who always tried to get more friends with him. a few words.He was sure that if he hadn't stopped her in a moment of insanity today, she wouldn't even come up to say hello to him, and just leave so quickly.

Although she is a girl with too ordinary appearance, she is unexpectedly not annoying.Of course, she couldn't be said to be very gentle and considerate—he always felt that she didn't have the temperament of being a good wife in the traditional sense at all—but she was a pretty good woman in an alternative sense.

...But, I won't meet her again in the future.

【ToBeContinued...】

The author has something to say:

2019.2.10.

Explain here.

Because the rules of JJ have changed a lot recently, the author has something to say about the extra episodes that were given away in the past. If now part of it is for the story and part of it is for the main text, the current regulations cannot do this, and the entire chapter will be locked.

But I don't want to let people who haven't seen it spend so much money, so I will post all the parts that I left out of the previous works here.

If you don't want to watch it, you can just skip it and don't buy it.

Sigh, it’s really annoying recently. There are a lot of chapters locked during the New Year’s Eve. Some articles can be traced back to ten years ago, and now they have to be revised, and it’s not illegal driving or something, it’s just a soundtrack The song link, just hold on to it, can you use your brains?

Sorry for the inconvenience to everyone.

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In addition, let me explain the background of this episode.

In other words, this episode is actually after watching "Hakuoki Dawn Record" (the story when the Shinsengumi was just formed), I had a brain hole about the deputy chief~~ It was originally intended to be used as a comeback article, but I want to Thinking about it, this happened before the deputy chief was about 20 years old, he was still selling Ishida loose medicine in the streets, and he hadn’t gone to Kondo-san’s test guard hall to learn swordsmanship as an apprentice. The timeline will cause confusion, so Just take it out as a side story.So the deputy chief's brain hole will be longer, sugar. . .It's more like a girl playing tricks on the deputy chief once [No

In addition, this extra episode is only [the first part], and there will be follow-ups later! !The ordinary-looking girl here is Quanmeizi. Of course, her appearance is because she used [Disguise Technique] for some reason~~~ :P

The remaining part of this episode, the guide system number [302~304] chapter, which is the extra episode of the earthwork chapter at the end of this volume.