Chapter 47 The Wrong Way of Falling in Love
Suzuki Sonoko thought she was just watching a grand "temple fair" whose commemorative significance was mainly focused on the rare feudal society ceremony of "the monarch's enthronement."
As a result, when she excitedly returned to her previous residence and found that Naotaka Komatsu was also staying there, she realized that their relationship seemed to have undergone some drastic changes.
The indescribable confusion and stimulation made her lose the ability to speak.
"How is that possible..."
"Why not? The ceremony is divided into three parts," His Majesty Prince Yan, who was sitting at the table with his forehead supported, knocked on the table and explained tiredly: "The new king ascends the throne, the queen is appointed by imperial decree, and the new king's family is allowed to enter the immortal list..."
At this point, his voice gradually lowered. After a long silence, he looked at the petrified girl by the window with a puzzled look and asked, "Why do you think I wrote your name in the Book of Earthly Immortals?"
Suzuki Sonoko blinked blankly.
"I thought you were using your power for personal gain... to help an outsider like me register with the Emperor of Heaven!"
Komatsu Naotaka thought about it and felt that this statement was actually not wrong.
"How can it be right!"
Miss Suzuki wanted to overturn the table to express her surprise, but the tables, chairs and benches were all made of the strongest wood. She clamped her ten fingers on the high-legged table in front of her and gave it a sudden push. The table didn't shake, but her nails were squeezed white.
The ten fingers are really connected to the heart...
Miss Suzuki, who had just become queen, looked at her fingernails which were quickly turning red with an expressionless face, and burst into tears.
Tears surged out of her eyes, and even though she tried to blink them away, they still couldn't be cleared away. Sonoko held her index finger, which had died before she could accomplish her mission, and sniffed calmly.
Shang Long looked at this for a long time, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, thinking to himself, you didn't refute it when I asked you yesterday, but look at how aggrieved you are now. If someone didn't know, they would think I did something to you.
Although I was tired, I still had to comfort her: "Don't cry, what happened to your hand?"
"My hand is fine!"
Although her tearful voice wasn't convincing at all, Sonoko's point was, "I only discovered some signs of true love yesterday, and I was so excited that I didn't think about it carefully!"
"What are you thinking about?"
"Of course, it's about how to accept the emotional experience bestowed upon me by fate!"
Sonoko looked at Shanglong as if he was a completely unreasonable person for not even understanding this: "In the process of realizing true love, you're not prepared to get along slowly, not prepared to argue and misunderstanding, not prepared to understand each other through the twists and turns of life - and then get married straight away?!"
As a feudal lord of Japan living in the 16th century, Komatsu Naotaka pondered for a long time, and when he met someone he liked and confirmed his feelings, shouldn't he marry her as soon as possible?
So he looked back at Suzuki Sonoko with the same puzzled look: "If we can't get married...what else can we do?"
Miss Suzuki, who was quite romantic, slapped her thigh with great vigor and said, "Of course we are in love!"
"But I'm not good at this at all..."
When he was the young master of Xiaosong Castle, he did go to the red-light district to look for prostitutes, but that was actually a kind of entertainment activity to relax the body and mind. He was mainly responsible for spending money and exerting physical effort.
Talk about love...
Shang Long narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment: Is it okay if I can flirt?
Yuanzi originally wanted to say, "If you can't do it, I can," but before she said it, she suddenly remembered: she has always been the one being pursued and coaxed. The only time she pursued someone, she was only responsible for spending money to make the other person happy!
In other words, her only love skill is [spending money].
But in this world today—she is penniless!
Miss Suzuki was speechless for a moment, clutching the clothes on her chest in great sorrow. She felt that everything was really going wrong in her love life. She was about to start a relationship, but ended up having no money in her pocket to activate her skills!
Komatsu Naotaka looked at her expression as if the sky had fallen, and had no idea what their little fairy with a creative mind was thinking at the moment. She looked more and more unsightly, and finally her facial features were wrinkled like a dehydrated sour plum, and she was about to bury herself in the bed. He quickly walked over and pulled her up.
As a result, Yuanzi sighed in despair and banged her head on his shoulder.
Komatsu Naotaka embraced Suzuki Sonoko, who was beginning to doubt her life because she had no money in her pocket, and thought to herself, "Just talk, talk however you want, just stop torturing yourself..."
However, things like falling in love require the combination of internal and external factors to proceed smoothly.
Now the internal factor of the garden being broke due to lack of money has ruined the external factor, and the external factor, due to the pessimistic environment in Yan Country, has added a subtle flavor to the "daily love life" that the two people have worked hard to establish.
For example, on a certain day of a certain month of a certain year, His Majesty Prince Yeon and the Queen watched the sunset on the observation deck of Xuanying Palace.
Komatsu Naotaka leaned on the railing and looked into the distance. He tilted his head slightly under the blood-red setting sun and smiled gently at Suzuki Sonoko who was still sleepy.
He raised his hand to smooth Yuanzi's hair, then asked her, "Yuanzi, do you know the essence of political struggle?"
Yuanzi pinched his face and shook it hard, finally coming to his senses. Hesitantly hesitantly replied, "Benefits?"
“That answer is not wrong.”
After a brief moment of reflection, His Majesty the Prince of Yan, who had been forced to idle away by the court officials' subtle rejection, knocked on the railing in front of him. "Yan Country has been without a king for many years. The Prime Minister controls the government. To the court officials headed by him, I am an intruder, forcing them to give up the power they have obtained. Their efforts to interfere with me are indeed motivated by profit."
"As for me," Shang Long smiled softly and raised his hand to touch Yuanzi's face, "I want to live up to the title. Since I have taken on the title of king, I naturally have to control the rights that belong to the title of king."
From a distance, the tall and handsome man and the slender and beautiful girl were standing very close to each other. The man's broad palms could almost completely cover the girl's fair face. The man smiled as he spoke. When the breeze blew, their hair gently entangled together. The lingering feeling made the onlookers feel that no matter how corny the poems the man was reciting in the girl's ears were, they were actually just to suit the situation.
However, on the observation deck, Miss Suzuki, whose face was being held in her hands, frowned in distress and asked, "It's all a struggle for power. Is it necessary to talk about it in such a heroic way?"
"Besides," Sonoko raised her hand and pinched the corner of his lip, "even though you've been tripped up all the time, I always feel like you're quite excited. What's going on?"
"That's probably because I'm really excited..."
He bent down, rested his head on the girl's shoulder, and sighed softly, "I've already lost everything once because of indifference. The loss of Komatsu Castle was a lesson. Now that I have a new country, I don't want to repeat the same mistake."
——Following Yan Qi's words, Shang Long came to Xuanying Palace. It was not so much that he wanted to take responsibility, but rather that he wanted to appease his own aspirations and ambitions that had nowhere to go.
Miss Suzuki calmly touched the man's long hair. Although she seemed to have successfully shared her inner experiences in the end, she subtly felt that the content of the conversation at the beginning... seemed to be wrong.
A few days later, the two of them met in a side hall of Xuanying Palace to taste snacks together.
The situation in Yan Kingdom is really very bad, but the new king still maintains some dignity after ascending the throne. Yuanzi thought that the evil bourgeoisie would only care about themselves and not the lives of the people, but she didn't know that the place where she lives, the shelf where things are placed suddenly collapsed due to disrepair today, and the roof will leak if it rains heavily tomorrow.
For example, the chief astronomer said that he would send the queen new clothes as usual, but even though he had measured her size, the long skirt he sent was three inches too short. It was said to be a gorgeous dress, but in fact it couldn't even cover her shoes.
The female official in charge of the storehouse said it was because they were too poor.
Suzuki Sonoko, who had always been rich, saw this and couldn't help but think: How can people... be so poor?
While eating snacks, she shared this question with her boyfriend, Mr. Naotaka Komatsu.
So the daily love life that should have been sweet and loving changed its style.
Shanglong put down the snacks in his hand, patted his sleeves, sat down, pulled Yuanzi over and held her in his arms, holding her hand and pointing to the roof: "It leaks when it rains, actually, it's because the tiles there need to be replaced."
Yuanzi, who had never lived in a tiled house before, looked at it for a long time with wide eyes, but couldn't see the difference. She asked him, "Then why don't you change? Don't you have money?"
"It's not that we don't have money," Shang Long said, pulling her up again and beginning his analysis earnestly. "The palace is leaking, but we're not allowed to repair it. We've proposed moving, but we're constantly being blocked with various excuses. There are usually two fixed sentence patterns in these conversations."
He pinched your garden's index finger and said, "One, you don't know that Xuanying Palace has been built for many years, and many generations of kings have never changed XXX's XXX."
Then he pinched Yuanzi's middle finger and said, "Second, you have just ascended the throne and are not familiar with the system here. You should listen to everyone's advice first."
Yuanzi looked at him seriously, and Shanglong smiled and said, "My 'I don't know' means they 'know', and my 'I don't understand' means they 'understand'. This little detail isn't just because of poverty. To those 'masters', it's not even a show of power."
"They just want the people who live here—that is, you and me—to realize that this is a brand new place. Even if you are the king chosen by Qilin, you are still just an outsider who knows nothing about Yan Kingdom."
Sonoko: "It's just a water leak, how can it be... so profound?"
"Aren't you the king?"
Shang Long touched her head and said, "Don't make trouble. Don't you remember that we just came from Japan?"
Suzuki Sonoko sighed and patted his head: "Well, if it's really as you said, these people probably won't be repairing my roof for a while."
"As for the clothes."
Komatsu Naotaka tugged at the hem of his skirt, saying with a half-smile, "The fact that they were able to send you this gift shows that we still have the ability to support the king. But if they didn't report it and waited until the matter was already done, and then sent you a shortened skirt, it must have been intentional."
"Are you deliberately trying to upset me?"
In fact, as a Japanese high school girl who always wears school uniforms and short skirts, if the maid hadn't reminded her, Sonoko would not have realized that anything was wrong.
"You are deliberately making trouble."
The man tapped Yuanzi's forehead. "The country is so poor, and the queen still insists on preparing gorgeous clothes and jewelry for the celestial officials. This forced the female officials to no avail. They gritted their teeth and finally put together this outfit. However, the country's strength has declined so much that the dress still has some flaws. It's a pity you didn't get angry directly at the time, otherwise these celestial officials who endured humiliation would have attracted a group of court officials to complain on their behalf."
“…They said we had to change clothes.”
"That's true," he said with a smile, "If nothing happens on your side, they won't have an excuse to bully me, right? If nothing happens, then they'll have to work even harder to create trouble so they can bully me."
Suzuki Sonoko widened her eyes in surprise.
Shang Long was amused by her look, and lowered his head to gently bite the tip of her nose: "What's wrong?"
Suzuki Sonoko was stunned by the new world and shook her head: "It's okay, I just feel a little bit magical..."
Then their date turned into a two-and-a-half-hour political class, and she ate the three plates of snacks as if they were melon seeds in between stories.
The author has something to say: I have been very busy in recent days, so the updates are relatively short. I thought I could update 9000 words today, but emmmmmmmmmm
Let it be sweet for a few more days.
Suzuki Sonoko is learning advanced skills, while her mentor Komatsu Naotaka is engaged in a full-scale political struggle (￣▽￣)
I'll try to get more tomorrow...
Finally, as usual, please leave a comment. At this rate of update, it will probably take another day for the Twelve Kingdoms to move to another location. However, the first person to appear is not actually Manager Urahara...
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