Chapter 5 The opening of an ordinary romance drama
The Ximen family claims to be involved in tea ceremony, but in fact they are involved in politics. In the past, they did many shameful things that influenced the political situation in private. In recent years, they changed to an elegant route and played the role of the "official" in the "collusion between officials and businessmen" in a low-key manner.
Ximen Zongjiro is the second son in the family. As the second son, he does not need to inherit the family business. Apart from living a life of luxury and debauchery, he also does some auxiliary work. His main job before adulthood is to make friends, in order to replace his older brother who is busy as a dog and consolidate the emotional foundation with the next generation of the interest group.
So he spent most of his time playing with his friends.
As a result, when he was fifteen, another opportunity arose for him to make a great contribution to the family: becoming a son-in-law of the Suzuki family.
In other words, marry into the Suzuki family and then help your parents find benefits.
Ximen Sojiro accepted this well. Marriage with a son-in-law and a serious relationship are two different things. His current situation is more like applying for a job than getting married, and the lady named Suzuki Sonoko is not just his future wife or "husband".
——That was his boss for the rest of his life.
So the applicant took the stack of information given by his family and carefully studied what kind of person his future boss would be.
Ximen Sojiro has been attending Yingde since kindergarten and has seen many spoiled girls. In fact, the more affluent a child's life is, the less considerate they are of others. After all, for the girls in his class, asking their boyfriends for fifty dolls at once while they are in a relationship is a very common thing. After all, she, her friends and classmates, and the parents of her friends and classmates all grew up under this standard.
It's obviously a very ordinary thing. It's fine if you can't do it yourself, but how can you say that blaming others is unreasonable?
But for girls from England and Germany, they still have a sense of "class" in their minds, and will subconsciously give in to people who are stronger than themselves.
In Yingde, Ximen Zongjilang is the prince at the top of the pyramid, and they always want to show him their best side. After repeated efforts, not only are they not "spoiled" at all, but sometimes they are even gentle and considerate to the point of being virtuous.
But this obviously does not apply to the daughter of the Suzuki family.
The Suzuki family is mysteriously down-to-earth, and they have their own barriers when facing the various unspoken rules of the upper class. In the eyes of their family, there are only personal relationships and exchanges of interests, so where is the "class"?
Besides, he was the one applying for the job, so he even gave the initiative to the other party...
Thinking of this, Ximen Sojiro found that this task was actually quite difficult. After all, the person he was about to deal with might be a young lady who was being unreasonable and demanding every second of her life, but would never realize that she was being unreasonable and demanding.
——I hope she is cute so that I can maintain my patience a little longer.
After entering the courtyard corridor, Ximen calculated that the water in the tea room was about to boil, and slowly explained to Miss Suzuki: "Since we are here, we need to change clothes first?"
Suzuki Sonoko glanced at the dark blue kimono on him and thought to herself, did he change it recently?
Then she thought again and was very surprised: Ah, it turns out that I can change clothes!
So in Ximen's view, the young lady of the Suzuki family first walked with him all the way without moving a single muscle, then suddenly moved around him as if rekindled, and then she felt relieved as if she had suddenly realized something.
Is this something particularly comforting?
The next second, the eldest daughter of the Suzuki family suddenly ignored him completely, turned around happily and asked the staff: "Where can I change clothes?"
The staff member who was leading the way raised his hand very professionally towards the corridor on the left, and Miss Suzuki Sonoko turned to the empty corridor again, and once again made an expression of sudden realization. With agility beyond Ximen Sojiro's knowledge, she jumped over the railing in a swish, crossed the courtyard, jumped onto the stairs, and disappeared in an instant.
Why are you suddenly so angry?
Ximen, who was inexplicably thrown there, smiled and brushed his sleeves: It's a pity that I still have to keep smiling.
He hesitated for less than three seconds between "waiting here" and "going to the other house first", and calmly decided to go back first.
It was already quite humble of him to go out and pick someone up even though the other party was late. His sincerity was explained to both parties. Although he came to apply for a job, he was not so angry.
Speaking of which, he sat at the table and began to think calmly about what kind of tea to use: the young lady seemed to have no idea which annex the appointment was at. When she returned to the courtyard again, there would probably be no one around her, right?
Okay.
The fifteen-year-old second son of the Ximen family blew on the decorative lights in front of him. In fact, the arranged marriage is a process of mutual pulling. The Suzuki family wants to find legal workers, but the Ximen family let him marry into the family, which certainly does not mean that he will devote the rest of his life wholeheartedly to the Suzuki family.
Let’s not talk about what will happen after he meets President Shiro Suzuki, but at least when it comes to making major decisions, he has to take the initiative with this young lady.
I hope you will fall hopelessly in love with me soon, Miss Suzuki.
Thinking of this, he took out his pocket watch to check the time. After twenty minutes, he would go to the courtyard to bring back his "boss" who couldn't find the way.
He felt relieved for just a few seconds before the phone rang.
Hanazawa Rui's voice sounded as if he had not woken up yet, but beneath the confusion, there was still a subtle anticipation of watching the fun.
He said, "Although it's a little late to inform you now, it seems that Asi and the others are causing you trouble."
Ximen Sojiro raised his hand and threw the phone down.
Daomingsi wants to cause trouble for Suzuki, and this involves some complicated historical issues.
In today's society, the external image of a group depends largely on the appearance of its leader. Specifically for Suzuki and Domyoji, it is the difference between Suzuki Shiro and Domyoji Kaede.
A kind-looking fat white man seems more approachable than an aggressive strong woman!
Everything needs to be compared with its peers. In this comparison, it seems that under the leadership of Daomingsi Feng, the Daomingsi family is left with only a bunch of shameless bastards who are rich but unkind, while the Suzuki family inexplicably has a kind of warm feeling of being kind to others and making money in harmony.
This is just like the rich group on the Conan set, who inexplicably pulled down the rich group on the Boys Over Flowers set, which is inherently disharmonious.
Ximen Sojiro changed his surname to Suzuki, which was a good thing in the interest group centered on the Daomingsi family: after all, the two families had no deep hatred, and it would not be worth it if they confronted each other for no reason. It would be great to get married to ease the relationship!
But in the eyes of the next generation of teenagers who are still two years away from adulthood: What is the difference between what Ximen Sojiro did and betraying the revolution?
No, Daoming Si Si was not a fool. After being indignant for five minutes, he accurately found the culprit - it should be that to the old lady in their family, what was the difference between Sojiro's goods and those in the shopping street?
Are you going to sell it just like that?
And I sold it to the Suzuki family, whom you hate so much!
So he decided to pull Simon out of the fire pit.
The specific operation methods currently envisioned include: turning over the table at the blind date scene, putting a sack on the woman from the Suzuki family, punching the brain-dead Ximen to wake him up, etc.
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When Ximen Sojiro got the exact address from the main control room, Suzuki Sonoko was taking off her clothes outside the private bathroom.
Just as her ulterior motive fiancé had expected, Miss Suzuki really couldn't find the way.
In fact, this was not a problem of not being able to find the agreed-upon annex after leaving the locker room. Suzuki Sonoko accidentally ran too fast and couldn't even find the locker room.
But she could find the camera.
Due to privacy concerns, this kind of private club will definitely not make any changes indoors, but because the people coming and going are those who need security attention, the surveillance system in the public areas is very complete.
After wandering around the garden, he got lost. He dug out a camera from the flowerpot at the corner, typed the word "lost" on the screen of his mobile phone, and held it steadily towards the camera for about half a minute.
Sure enough, after a while, the service staff who received the notification from the control room appeared in front of her, and after she said the word "locker room", he quickly turned around and led the way.
Yuanzi walked into the room in a proper manner, turned around and sent the guide away. Seeing that there was no one around, he breathed a sigh of relief and quickly took off his coat.
Sure enough, there were kimonos prepared for guests in the cabinet.
Yuanzi thought to herself that she should take a shower first and let the people who came to clean up the mess throw them away.
She rummaged through the bag at hand and found the sweater she had taken off earlier was still there. She buttoned the dried blood scabs and felt that they were about to grow on the clothes. Thinking that this sweater was knitted for her by Xiaolan, she was reluctant to throw it away.
In that case...
She hooked a wooden basin out from the side: Soak for a while first, throw away the others, and after the bath, tell them to wash this one separately.
Because the surveillance camera only captured the corridor, it took Ximen Sojiro quite some time to find the exact location according to the route. When he pushed open the wooden door at the corner with a stern expression, he saw Daomingsi standing at the end of the corridor with a menacing look, raising his foot to kick the door towards the gold foil on the lacquer painting.
"Asi!"
Bang——
The two sounds echoed with each other, and Ximen Sojiro's mind was left in chaos.
While he was shocked that his childhood friend could actually do such a brutal thing, he comforted himself in an oddly calm state of mind: According to Daomingsi's elementary school logic, even if he kicked the door outside the women's locker room, his original intention should have been just to pick a fight with Miss Suzuki!
Ximen Soujiro was wearing a pair of five-centimeter-high wooden clogs, and in his haste, he couldn't run fast enough. In less than twenty meters, he tripped himself three times in a row.
Fortunately, Daoming Si was obviously shocked by the scene inside the door, and for a while, he didn't have time to do anything large-scale destructive.
Ximen Qiang endured the dull pain in his ankle and finally rushed to the door. Before he could catch his breath, he kicked Daomingsi on the knee.
After moving away the big, obstructive guy standing at the door, he adjusted his expression, which could be considered apologetic - the changing rooms here are inner and outer rooms, and although it is very likely that you won't see anything substantial, it is a private area anyway, so close the door for the girls first!
In the blink of an eye, he inevitably glanced at the narrow room from the corner of his eye. The image information was transmitted to his brain, and he instantly felt a flash of relief.
That’s great, Miss Suzuki hasn’t started changing yet and is still wearing her clothes!
etc.
For a moment, Ximen Sojiro strongly suspected that he was frightened by the naughty child and his blood pressure was unbalanced, so he had hallucinations.
So he closed his eyes, clicked his tongue, and opened them to look again.
The bathroom is in the inner room, so the changing area is not big. Because it is located in the inner part, there is only a small skylight at a very high place on the wall. This house was built a long time ago, and the wood is solid. The dark wood color has an ancient fragrance.
In the dim light, his future "boss" was standing opposite the door with a confused look on his face.
The thin shirt was soaked with blood, and the brown-red marks spread from her left arm all the way to her chest. The heat emitted a strange and pungent smell of rust.
Miss Suzuki herself had lost the ability to cope with the severe impact of a series of "exposed", "I'd better give up struggling", "my god, this guy is still so handsome even when he is stunned", and her eyes were filled with a mysterious and strange dejection.
Because she spent enough energy and money, Ms. Suzuki's hair has excellent texture. At this moment, it is exposed to a little bit of the stingy sunlight, which makes it smooth and a little weird, as abrupt as the long hair of a female doll connected with plastic.
Ximen's heart skipped a beat and he looked away uncomfortably, then he noticed a large basin of water at her feet.
That was the foot bath provided by the mansion for guests. At this moment, a wave of light blood was rippling in the light-colored basin. A sweater that was so dirty that its original color could not be seen was hanging half-dead on the edge of the basin. Following the bloodstains that had spread all the way to the cuffs, Suzuki Sonoko was wringing out water from a half-length of wool.
It flowed all over the floor, dripping with light red liquid.
As their eyes met, Miss Suzuki, who was covered in blood, slowly loosened her hands. The sweater with her eyes open fell into the wooden basin with full water. After a splashing sound, an eerie silence was inexplicably set off.
The long and exquisite windbreaker was thrown aside casually. At this moment, it looked like the painted skin used by the female ghost in the ghost story to cover herself.
"ah……"
The sigh was long and creepy. Ximen Soujiro heard a woman's voice say with regret, "I was just afraid I'd accidentally scare you..."
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