Chapter 065
Although the bruises on my body were heavier and more painful when someone else pushed them away, the embarrassment of taking off my clothes in front of a girl disappeared.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga patted the boy's back and said, "That's enough. You should be able to handle the rest of the pain on your abdomen by yourself."
"Hmm, I can do it, thank you." Rengoku Kyojuro, whose face and arms were aching and whose back was facing everyone, took the medicinal wine pushed by Tsurumaru Kuninaga and said in a loud but weak voice.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga was about to joke with him, but when he saw his face, he was speechless. He stood up and opened the shoji door before he could prepare. "Then I'll be out first."
Qingxi, who was hiding in the shadow against the door and drinking iced plum wine comfortably, heard the movement behind her and subconsciously turned her head. However, she did not see Tsurumaru's face. Because she was sitting, her sight passed through Tsurumaru Kuninaga's arm on the shoji door and saw into the house.
In the end, I still saw her body!
Looking at Rengoku Kyojuro's body that was turning red and purple (due to Tsurumaru's physical rubbing), Qingxi suddenly thought of this sentence.
Rengoku Kyojuro: “…”
Rengoku Kyojuro did not expect that Tsurumaru Kuninaga would act so unconventionally. Just when he was considering whether to be more generous or reserved in front of the girl, Qingxi had already turned her head back.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga smelled the faint scent of plum wine in the air. He bent down and sniffed the bowl in Qingxi's hand. At that moment, he felt sick.
"Hey, hey, hey, Master, you're a child now. How can a child drink secretly?" He snatched the bowl from her hand. As soon as his skin touched the bowl wall, he felt the icy coldness and his hairs shivered. He laughed, "Hey, it's still cold, Master. This is too unkind of you."
He drank the remaining plum wine in the bowl in one gulp, then extended the bowl in front of Qingxi and said angrily, "Master, you are still young and shouldn't drink. To prevent you from secretly drinking behind our backs, please take out your wine."
Qingxi glared at him unhappily. No one else could beg for wine like this.
"I haven't even finished half of the bowl yet, and you're asking me for all of it right away." Qingxi muttered to herself, looking at the bowl in front of her, she took out a bottle of plum wine and threw it to him.
The bottle of plum wine was a modern glass bottle, which was somewhat different from the glass bottles of this period, but it was not a big problem, so she dared to take it out and give it to Tsurumaru to drink.
"When you're done drinking, leave the bottle to me." She reminded me that after cleaning and disinfecting, it can be used again, so there is no waste at all.
"Finally," she tilted her head slightly and gestured to him, "Can you please not drink it right away after you get it? Can you please close the shoji door behind you?"
Didn’t you see that the owl in the Purgatory family is shy?
It's okay for us two to be thick-skinned, but can we please be a little considerate of other people's children's feelings?
Tsurumaru Kuninaga drank a third of the wine as soon as he got it. "Huha! Oh, it's so cool. Drinking a bottle in the hot summer is really refreshing."
After he sighed, he turned around happily and closed the shoji door at the girl's urging.
By the time Rengoku Kyojuro had treated the bruises on his chest and abdomen, Qingxi, whose plum wine had been taken away, was drinking ice juice again.
But before he could even step out of the door, Qingxi and Tsurumaru Kuninaga walked in one after the other, one holding a bottle and the other holding a cup.
"It's so hot outside, we all want to go in, why are you still thinking about coming out? Hurry up, close the door." Tsurumaru Kuninaga, the last one to come in, said to Rengoku Kyojuro who was standing by the shoji door.
Rengoku Kyojuro didn't think about going out, especially since it was really hot outside.
Qingxi handed him a cup of juice and motioned him to drink it quickly, but her eyes were looking at his face.
She nodded with satisfaction. "It's okay, Kyojuro, your face is starting to get less swollen. When you get back later, I'll pack you a box of the doctor's aloe vera gel. Apply it before going to bed at night. I think your face will look much better tomorrow morning."
"But you better be careful next time." Qingxi changed the subject and said in a serious tone. "Don't say everything without thinking. Be careful of those petty people who might hold a grudge against you."
For example, your father.
Although Qingxi didn't mention anyone by name, Rengoku Kyojuro just naturally took over the sentence in his mind.
However, my father is really not the kind of person that Ah Xi described him to be.
It's just that others didn't think it through, and I was ignorant and helped them with good intentions, which made things worse, so I ended up getting beaten.
He wanted to explain to Qingxi, but when he saw her looking at him innocently, he thought he might be overthinking it. If Ah Xi wanted to criticize someone, she wouldn't make insinuations. She would just say it directly like she did last time.
Thinking of this, Rengoku Kyojuro picked up the cup and took a sip. The next moment, his eyes widened and he drank the juice in the cup in one breath, then shouted "Delicious!!!"
Qingxi's lips were already touching the wall of the cup, and she was about to take a sip of juice when her hand trembled. She looked helplessly in the direction of Rengoku Kyojuro. Rengoku Kyojuro's body stiffened when he received her gaze, and he also remembered Qingxi's previous request that he speak more quietly while eating.
After ruffling his hair twice, she said, "Forget it, forget it. If you're not used to it, I'll get used to it. It's just a little louder, but you'll get used to it after listening to it for a while."
Rengoku Kyojuro was silent for a moment, then said sheepishly, "Sorry."
After finishing the cold drinks, the three people, who seemed to have nothing to do, simply lay down on the tatami. Tsurumaru Kuninaga rolled over to the box, and one of them sat up and took out three palm-leaf fans from it.
"Come on, come on, if you're hot, just fan yourself. There aren't any good tools to relieve the heat right now." Tsurumaru Kuninaga said as he handed down the palm-leaf fan.
Qingxi didn't get up, but just stretched out her hand towards Tsurumaru Kuninaga. Tsurumaru Kuninaga didn't respond seriously, but threw the palm-leaf fan in her direction, hitting her directly in the face.
Qingxi screamed and kicked in the direction of Tsurumaru Kuninaga.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga jumped up to avoid it, and when he saw the girl was about to kick him again, he quickly said, "Okay, okay, aren't you too hot?"
Qingxi stopped kicking and raised her hand to fan herself. "I want to wear short sleeves and a small skirt."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga lay down beside her and said, "Then put it on."
Qingxi curled her lips, "Then I would go out for a walk and be pointed at and criticized by people on the street."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga tilted his head and thought about it, and that was true.
Although Japan at this time had begun to gradually learn the Western way of doing things, it was still something that only belonged to the upper class and had not yet been popularized to the lower class. Naturally, it was rare to see ordinary women wearing Western-style skirts.
Moreover, even if there were any, they would be long-sleeved and long skirts that would wrap the skin tightly, while Qingxi wanted to wear the modern style that exposed arms and legs to keep cool, which was obviously not in line with the current era.
"In that case, then wear a yukata." Tsurumaru Kuninaga said sideways towards the girl, fanning with the fan in his hand, and together with Rengoku Kyojuro, who was lying on the other side of her, brought the wind to her.
Qingxi, who had just saved herself the trouble of fanning herself, immediately became lazy and stopped herself from doing it. She said, "That's quite hot too."
She pointed and said, "The cloth of the yukata is only one layer, so it's very thin. You need to wear an inner garment inside. Then there's the waist. In order to make it look nice and straight, there are many belts tied one by one. Finally, there are knots. They are big and difficult to tie. I only know how to do a bunko knot and a shell knot. I learned them from Mrs. Ruka.
All in all, after putting on this whole set, I'm probably sweating all over before I even leave the house."
"As for tying knots, Awataguchi's Rantoshiro, as well as other sword schools' Jirodachi, Koubo, oh, that is, Chokudaikiri Mitsutada, Souzo Samamonji, and Gante Kirie are all very good at it. It's a pity that we lost contact with the Honmaru."
"Tsurumaru, you are really good at tricking your companions." Qingxi said with disdain.
"I can't help it. It wouldn't be Tsuru's character if I didn't stir up trouble," Tsurumaru Kuninaga said. "Let's change the subject. Master, if you're so afraid of the heat, how did you get through last year?"
Qingxi turned sideways towards Rengoku Kyojuro without looking at him. "What else can I do? I'm new here, and I can't give everyone at the clinic the impression that I'm difficult to get along with."
"So?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga continued to ask.
"During the day, I wear a uniform like everyone else, and at night, before going to bed, I wear a pretty sleeveless nightgown."
"Oh, master, you really dare to say that." As he said that, Tsurumaru Kuninaga glanced in the direction of Rengoku Kyojuro.
"It's nothing to be ashamed of. I'm sure anyone else would behave the same way in a strange place. After spending time together and becoming familiar with the people around them, they'd be less reserved and cautious. Besides," she smiled sweetly at Rengoku Kyojuro, who sat quietly as a listener. But her next words left him feeling particularly helpless and choked. "Kyojuro must have only partially understood some of the words we said. I'm not worried at all."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga was stunned for a moment, then rolled over holding his stomach and died of laughter: "...Hahahaha, right, right, I'm bullying him because he doesn't understand half of what he's saying."
The three of them chatted for a while. With the two "artificial fans" beside them and the small half bowl of plum wine they had drunk before, they gradually felt sleepy.
Qingxi yawned, closed his eyes and fell asleep in a short while.
Rengoku Kyojuro and Tsurumaru Kuninaga looked at each other without paying attention, and then both closed their eyes and took a short nap.
It was just that the fans in the two men's hands would fan from time to time, sending a gust of hot wind, which was not very cool, to the girl sleeping between them.
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