Chapter 115

"Make sure you get the amulet and the package back to Momoyama safely," Kiyoki said earnestly, stroking Jiro's back. "I'll put your amulet around your neck when you get back, hiding it under your feathers. I believe it won't be discovered unless you're in danger and it breaks while protecting you."

Jiro lowered his head and rubbed it against Qingxi's face. After provoking her because he was disliked for being too cold, he moved to nest in Qingxi's homemade cross-body snake bag. Only a white snake with its head poked out looked at him, then it flapped its wings and flew into the sky.

Looking at the black shadow in the sky flying farther and farther away, and finally turning into a small black dot and disappearing into the sky, Qingxi withdrew his gaze and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ah, let's isolate one for now," she murmured softly, "so that we don't have to have animal-style fights at home every day."

"As for you two." He picked up Taro, who was trying to climb up by clinging to his clothes, and threw the cat's head onto his shoulder. He put his two front paws on his shoulders and held it like a cat. "Cats only bully smaller snakes, but Kabutomaru, you are a big snake, so you two can't fight."

The snow fell earlier this year than in previous years. Generally, it would not snow until mid-November or early December. However, this year, a heavy snow fell early after the beginning of winter.

In just one night, when people woke up from their sleep, the outside of the house was already covered with silver and white.

Qingxi, who was completely awakened by the sudden drop in temperature, put on a kimono according to the season - after all, the lined kimonos were put on one by one to keep warm.

After petting the cat for a while, Qingxi put it in the winter cat bed she made for it. She also stuffed a hot water bottle in it, well, a hot water bottle, not an "evolved" hot water bottle.

Cats are animals that are not tolerant to heat or cold. When the temperature outside is as cold as it is, they would rather stay in their own nests, especially when there is a soup pot, a heat source, in the nest.

"Stay in the house obediently. I won't care if you open the shoji door and sneak out and become a frozen cat." After warning the calico cat, Qingxi took Dimaru out.

If there is one thing that is the most troublesome in winter, it is probably sending New Year gifts. From the first year, she ate New Year's buckwheat with everyone in the former medical clinic, which is now the Butterfly House. Then in the second and third years, she sent New Year gifts to people she knew and to her fellow trainers who were far away from her trainers. It can be seen from the first three New Years that as she got to know more and more people in this time and space, she sent out more New Year gifts in winter and also received many gifts in return. Until this year, because an acquaintance was recuperating in the Butterfly House, she had to have an early New Year's dinner with everyone here before returning to Xingming on Beiming Island.

"Tsurumaru." Standing at the door of the dojo, Qingxi called out as he saw the white-haired young man wearing only a thin training suit standing aside and watching the fight inside.

The girl's clear and crisp voice attracted the attention of everyone around her.

Qingxi responded to everyone with an apologetic bow. After the other party expressed their understanding and withdrew their gaze, Tsurumaru Kuninaga jumped in front of the girl with a wooden sword in his hand.

Seeing Tsurumaru Kuninaga like this, everyone in the dojo said that they were no longer surprised.

"Master." He leaned closer. "What is it?"

Qingxi asked him to tilt his head to expose his ears, and Tsurumaru Kuninaga cooperated.

"New Year's Eve is almost here," the girl reminded in a low voice. "You can try your luck now."

Tsurumaru Kuninaga's golden pupils widened, and then his whole body was filled with eagerness to try. He said excitedly: "Oh, is it that, that that?"

"Yes, that's right." Qingxi nodded. "I didn't expect that the Lord would still pay me a salary even though I just came here to relax and help with an operation when things are busy. I'm not a full-time employee, nor a part-time worker..."

After three or four months, although her monthly salary was not as high as that of the medical staff here, it was still a generous salary for her who was not even a temporary worker.

Now, she can use this salary to go shopping on the streets full of stores offering promotions.

"Let's go, let's go now." Tsurumaru Kuninaga couldn't wait to pull people away.

Qingxi struggled to pull him back. "Is there going to be training here later? If not, let's call Dai Kurisei-sensei. If you need anything, well, I can go alone."

"Master, have you forgotten how you were almost eaten by a ghost on New Year's Day two years ago?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga pointed at the small-patterned kimono she was wearing. "She was also wearing a small-patterned kimono, and both of her arms were broken. She still needs help with her daily life until the plaster is removed."

Every time Tsurumaru Kuninaga mentioned something, Qingxi's muscles, which had originally looked relaxed, would tense up a little.

She gritted her teeth, "But this time I'm different, I'm wearing an amulet."

"But Master, you have no fighting power."

Qingxi choked, "So are you free today?"

"I'm free." Tsurumaru Kuninaga said in a reassuring voice. "Wait a moment, I'll go call Xiao Jialuo over."

.

"What are we going to do now?" Dajuligala, who was forced to be pulled out of the Butterfly House, asked the two people around him.

"The New Year is coming soon. Let's buy some New Year's goods before going back." Qingxi explained.

However, Mahakurikara noticed something else. "Go back?"

"After Xingming decided to join the Demon Slayer Corps, I decided to go to the Butterfly House here. At that time, the Butterfly House was not called the Butterfly House. Everyone just called it the Medical Clinic. Later, due to some things, I left the Butterfly House and moved to the house that the lord gave to Xingming, and lived with Xingming.

Giving a house or something like that is a treatment only Zhu can enjoy.

I've been at the Butterfly House for the past six months simply to relax. The reason is that the amulet is too difficult to make, and the summoning technique is too difficult... Mr. Daikuri is the first one I've summoned since I learned the technique. It's like a blind cat finding a dead mouse."

Daikuli. Free. Jialuo: "..."

"Hahaha, is it for free? It sounds like you are so cheap, little Gala." Tsurumaru Kuninaga, who was in charge of picking out those discounted stores, laughed with schadenfreude after hearing what the girl said.

"Ah, Master, let's go over there. There are so many people buying things there. The goods must be good."

"Okay, let's go take a look."

Half an hour later, Dajuligala looked at the bags in his hands and asked, "Did you come out today just to buy these?"

Tsurumaru Kuninaga put his hands on his hips and said, "Ah, Master, that shop over there, we haven't been to it before. It seems to sell furs. Should we go over and take a look?"

Qingxi: "Okay."

Maha Kuligara: “…”

What should we do if there are two spendthrifts who can’t save money?

And why not buy something else? Everything is a lucky bag! Everything is a lucky bag!

Isn’t this a trap set by merchants?

Why do you guys enjoy this so much?

Give me some pause!!!

Mahakulika's face looked very unhappy at this moment.

Once again, he wondered in his heart why he was summoned here?

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a sword man come over instead?

He didn't want to have a good relationship with them at all, and he didn't want to be the babysitter of Tsurumaru Kuninaga and the children!!!

But Daikurigala would never have thought that, precisely because he had full resistance written on his face, such as "Hurry up, are you ready?", "I don't want to have a good relationship with you guys", "It's too slow", etc., Qingxi was pulled by Tsurumaru Kuninaga to hide in the crowd with a bunch of people who also wanted to buy a lucky bag, maybe they would really win the grand prize. She saw his expression and cooperated with Tsurumaru Kuninaga in making trouble.

They had obviously bought a lot of lucky bags, but the two of them kept hanging them on him. They had obviously bought enough things, but they still pulled each other around as they walked through the streets.

Seeing that the originally dark-skinned brown-haired young man's face was getting darker, Qingxi stopped playing with Tsurumaru Kuninaga and found a deserted alley to put all the big bags that the young man was holding in his hands, arms, and arms into his food backpack.

"Now, can we go back?" Without so many restraints, Mahakala couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"There are still some things I haven't bought yet." Qingxi, who felt that he had played too much, looked a little dazed.

Dajuligara, who wanted to ignore the two people in front of him and turn away, said: "..."

However, considering that in the Taisho period there were still things that could transform from humans into ghosts, and considering the precedent that Qingxi had encountered in the second New Year after entering this era, the responsible Daikurigala ultimately did not leave.

This time, he sighed heavily, "What else do you want to buy?"

Qingxi didn't hesitate and said, "Japanese confectionery, dried goods, rice cakes, candy, kagami-mochi (kagami rice cakes), shimenawa ropes, soba noodles, New Year's postcards... In short, there's quite a lot. I don't know if I can still buy fresh things at the market at this time. If I had known, I wouldn't have played with Tsurumaru just now."

Tsurumaru. Suddenly betrayed. Kuninaga: ...

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Qingxi also reacted: "..." I'm sorry, I didn't mean it.

In the following time, both the big and the small ones remained very well-behaved.

After buying all the things that could only be bought in the shops, the three of them finally went to the market to take a look. The result was just as Qingxi expected. They went there too late. Things like fresh fish and shrimps and shellfish that had just been caught from the sea were almost sold out. The remaining ones looked sparse and no one had the desire to cook them. However, in the fruit, vegetable and poultry areas, Qingxi bought some persimmons, oranges and eggs. As for vegetables, at the beginning of this spring, she and Tsurumaru Kuninaga turned over the land in Xingmei's front yard that had been frozen for a whole winter and planted seasonal vegetables. Apart from the vegetables for the three of them to eat, the rest of the vegetables that were picked after they were ripe were put in her food backpack.

In general, without relying on the vegetables brought from the gourmet world in her gourmet backpack, they achieved winter vegetable freedom through their own labor this year.

The next day, Qingxi got up early and went out again.

However, this time, only Tsurumaru Kuninaga accompanied her. As for Okurigara, well, maybe he walked too much yesterday and his feet were tired. In short, let him have a good rest.

The winter morning was very cold. She took the dysprosium ball with her yesterday but not today. When she went out, the cat and the snake were both huddled in the cat's nest, each occupying one side and surrounding Tang Tang Po, sleeping.

The two came to the market again. This time, because they came early, Qingxi saw a lot of fresh seafood.

After asking the price, Qingxi rolled up his sleeves and got ready to start buying crabs, prawns, giant octopus, sea bream, yellowtail, anglerfish, mackerel, and scallops. As the stall owner stared in amazement, he took away all the freshest seafood on his stall.

Although the boss wanted to ask, "Girl, can you eat all the food you bought?", he didn't waste any more words when he saw that she paid the bill so quickly.

If you have money, you are the boss.

Before leaving, in order to make Qingxi a repeat customer, the boss gave her a net bag of small sea fish and shrimps that could not be sold even if he took it out.

However, Qingxi didn't mind. It was just right that after dealing with these, they would become her son Taro's teething snacks for the time being.