Chapter 117
The day after the dinner, Kiyoki gave the six amulets he had saved up with great difficulty to the Butterfly Sisters, the Purgatory Brothers, Tomioka Giyu and Iguro Obanai, returned Kabutoshi to each of them, and after saying goodbye, he returned to the crow house to pack up his things, took Tsurumaru Kuninaga and Okurigara, and held Taro in his arms, and returned to the Beiming Island house.
This year at the New Year's Eve house in Beiming Island, the presence of one more person made the whole house seem a little more lively.
Of course, a small episode occurred while she was sighing like this - taking advantage of her sigh, Tsurumaru Kuninaga encouraged her to pick up the technique again.
The more sword-wielding men are summoned, the more popular the house will be.
Qingxi would never be fooled like this.
So, she sent him to the "cold palace".
On New Year's Eve, they cleaned the house and prepared the New Year's dishes for dinner. Of course, this year He Gu would still deliver Osechi cuisine and some fish, shrimp, crab and shellfish. Qingxi also gave him a small New Year's gift that she had prepared in advance.
Before it got completely dark in the evening, the four of them sat around a dining table made of four low tables to eat. After the meal, Beimingyu Xingming had to go out on patrol. Of course, as long as Qingxi was at home, he would not forget to prepare a lunch box for him.
"Little Jialuo, look at me, look at me." In the dark night, there were only a few lanterns with burning candles that they had hung up during the day. After Tsurumaru Kuninaga took a wide and long piece of cloth from Qingxi, his whole body began to look swaying.
He was holding a bunch of fairy wands in his hand. From the looks of it, the fairy wands Qingxi took out this year were obviously not the same kind as last year.
But it doesn't matter, this kind of change is exactly what Tsurumaru Kuninaga wants to see most.
Last year there were all kinds of candies, but this year it’s a mystery what will drop after you light the fairy wand, so there will be a sense of surprise.
Dajurikala wanted to turn around and go back to his own room, but Crane might have been possessed by a sticky candy today, and he would keep sticking to him unless he cooperated.
"Tsurumaru!"
"Hey! I'm here." Tsurumaru Kuninaga responded as if he was afraid that the fire would not burn out.
"I know you don't want to have a good relationship with us, but this is really fun." Tsurumaru Kuninaga split the fairy wand in half and stuffed them into his hands again.
"I'll order one first, you watch carefully."
Tsurumaru Kuninaga said as he stood on the cloth he had laid out earlier and then struck a match to light the fairy wand.
As the small golden fireworks spread outward with the small stick as the center, something fell out from inside and landed on the cloth on the floor.
"Oh my! This time it's beef cubes, pork cubes, dried snow fish, and squid slices." Qingxi squatted on the ground. She didn't know when a lantern appeared in her hand. With the help of the light, she picked up a piece of beef cube, put it into her mouth, chewed it, and said.
"I want half." Qingxi said.
Who doesn't like snacks? Anyway, she loves these little things, and she can finish half a 1-pound can without realizing it, and then she can finish the other half the next day.
"Master, do you like to eat these?" Tsurumaru Kuninaga asked in surprise.
The other person's tone of voice surprised Qingxi as well. "Is it weird that I like to eat these?"
"Not really." He scratched his head. "It's just that I heard that many female Shinsengumi don't like eating jerky and meat granules because they think women who like to eat these don't have any of the sweet and fragrant smell of being a woman, but instead are full of... manliness."
"You're sick!" Qingxi, who had heard such nonsense for the first time, tried to hold it back, but in the end, she couldn't help but rolled her eyes in an unbelievably rude manner in front of the two sword masters.
"I'm not complaining, but most women in Japan are just pretentious. Take a look at Heian-kyō a thousand years ago. Meat was considered filthy, and everyone from top to bottom was forbidden from eating meat. The only meat supplement was sea fish, and sea fish couldn't stay fresh, so they could only eat salted fish. Tsurumaru, you were the swordsman in Heian-kyō back then. Tell me, what did the nobles who didn't eat meat and only ate vegetables look like back then?
I will not compare your swords and tsukumogami with them, for moeya-gami are also gods.
This is just like the buyer’s show and the seller’s show on Taobao. Reality is never as beautiful as imagined.
At that time, there might be nobles who were good-looking, tall, and had good figures, but they were definitely rare. Most of them were short and fat.
Don't quibble on this point. I've also seen photos of the concubines of the Qing Dynasty emperor in my original world. Their looks are no different from those of ordinary people. The reason they were chosen by the emperor and taken into his harem was because of the power behind them...
Japanese people are generally not tall, until," Qingxi paused here, "until the invasion of the West, when the current Emperor Meiji took the lead in eating meat, and people now follow his diet, and thus over the past ten or twenty years, people have gradually started to grow taller.
Jerky is also made of meat. Why don’t they say it smells manly when they eat meat? They are so manly.
Tsurumaru Kuninaga would never have thought that his master would have such a big reaction after the dried meat he mentioned led to the issue of masculinity.
Qingxi continued to babble, "Lock them up somewhere and starve them for a few meals. Then throw in a piece of hairy, spoiled raw meat. See if they'll eat it."
"Yes, Master, you are right." Tsurumaru Kuninaga nodded repeatedly, quickly responded and changed the subject. "I think so too.
Those adults are so hypocritical.”
"Master, let's release the fairy wands together. The more we release, the more jerky will fall out."
In order to stop himself from having to face the girl's complaints alone, Tsurumaru Kuninaga pulled Dai Kurigara aside, whose face was filled with questions like "This is unscientific", "What kind of mechanism is inside this fairy wand to be able to stuff so much dried meat into it, and when someone lights it, it won't be filled with the smell of gunpowder? And last but not least, are these dried meats edible?" and so on, to accompany him to set off the fire.
For most of the night, the three of them were playing around in the corridor that Tsurumaru Kuninaga had covered with cloth, waving fairy wands in all sorts of ways. Finally, when the last fairy wand burned out, the three of them worked together to clean up some of the dried meat and fish that had fallen outside the cloth because of the excessive waving.
As for how to deal with these "slippery fish", anyway, the floor is cleaned diligently...so, even if it's not clean, you won't get sick if you eat it.
Why not just put them in a separate box and eat them first?
Anyway, unless the food is inedible, don't think about throwing away the chicken leg just because it fell on the floor, or sweeping up the rice with a broom just because it fell on the floor.
In the former case, she would pick up the chicken leg, shake off the dust on the surface, and then continue eating. In the latter case, she would pick up the rice on the ground and throw it into the yard. After all, there would be hungry birds flying down to peck at it.
Among the three people, Qingxi took half of the dried meat and fish, and the remaining half was divided into two by Tsurumaru Kuninaga. He kept one for himself to chew on, and stuffed the other into the arms of Daikurigara, who looked reluctant.
Dajurikala thought that after releasing the fairy wands, he could go back and rest, but the result was -
He was dragged into Qingxi's room by a group of people, one big and one small.
Bang!
The sound of hands clapping together could be heard.
"Next--" the white-haired young man spoke mysteriously.
Qingxi cooperated and took out all the lucky bags they had bought during their trip from their gourmet backpack. "Lucky bag opening time."
"Come on," Tsurumaru Kuninaga rolled up his sleeves and said with great momentum, "Let's see who will have better luck next year."
As a person who was forced to join this luck contest, Dajurikala lowered his head and opened the dozen or so lucky bags of various sizes that were distributed to him. In his ears, he could hear the white-haired young man and the girl shouting in surprise because of the good or bad things in the lucky bags they opened.
A hint of tenderness flashed across Mahakulika's golden pupils.
He finally understood why Tsurumaru didn't want to go back and wanted to stay here.
Because, compared to the "unchanging" Honmaru, the master he follows now has many interesting things.
If there were always interesting things there, how could Tsurumaru Kuninaga, who always said "Life needs shocks, otherwise the heart will die before the body", be willing to go back?
After the three people opened the lucky bags, they compared them with each other. Fortunately, this time, their luck was only average.
Apart from a few pieces of leather that looked okay, the remaining three pieces of cloth were of good quality, but the prints on them were either too old-fashioned or too gaudy, and were completely unsuitable for a girl of Qingxi's age to make clothes; three hairpins, one wooden, one copper-plated, and one tortoiseshell. However, except for the wooden plum blossom hairpin that Qingxi could wear, the remaining two styles were only suitable for the women on Yu Dun's side; two sets of men's kimonos, but unfortunately neither Qingxi nor Tsurumaru Kuninaga or Okurigara could wear them because the two sets of clothes were too small; a silver bracelet, which was quite heavy when she weighed it, as if they had made a profit, but the silver flowers and leaves on it were large and ugly. Even if she wanted to wear it, she would have to find someone to melt it down and make a pair of lighter plain bracelets; a pair of men's wooden clogs, which she handed directly to Tsurumaru to deal with... After picking and choosing for a long time, Qingxi found that their luck was really not good this year. Even if she could use it, she had to reprocess it herself.
It's so frustrating.
She asked the two if they needed anything, and told them to take it away if they did. She would pack up the rest and put them in boxes one by one. After getting the answer that they didn't need anything, Qingxi packed up the things on the tatami mat. She put the whole and large pieces of cloth and clothes in one pile, and the scraps of cloth in another pile. She could put them together to make a bigger cat bed for the cat at home later.
Now, the cat bed she had made for Jiro at the Butterfly House had changed from being Taro's exclusive property to being a common item for the five cats after they moved back.
The cat bed she made for Taro didn't have much space inside, and now four orange cats were crammed in at once. You can imagine how cramped it is for them to sleep in that position with their legs on my belly and my paws on their faces.
She couldn't wear the two sets of boys' kimonos, but she could put them aside for the time being and wait until tomorrow. If Jiro came back from the headquarters, she would let it fly to Grandpa Qin and Grandma Su. She remembered that the two old people seemed to know a pair of twins.
Daikurigala and Tsurumaru Kuninaga helped Qingxi organize the things that were opened from the lucky bag. After they finished, he stood up and prepared to leave.
He thought there would be no more activities.
only--
Feeling his hand being held by another bony hand, Daijurikara turned around and looked back at the two people who were still sitting on the tatami.
Tsurumaru, "Don't go, it's still early, it's not even twelve o'clock yet."
Qingxi took out two Rubik's Cube fruits and said, "Want to play together? Whenever the patterns on one side are all the same, the Rubik's Cube fruit will release the same fruit juice as the pattern. The Rubik's Cube has six sides, so if you solve all of them, you can drink six different kinds of juice."
Maha Kuligara: “…”
Looking at Tsurumaru Kuninaga, whose attention had been attracted by the Rubik's Cube Fruit in Qingxi's hand, and then looking at the girl who was smiling like a flower, Dajurikara suddenly felt fortunate that he was the one summoned by her. If it was the small short knife in Honmaru, and it was taken away by the master Rinshi who was so good at "playing", they would probably be led away and unable to concentrate their minds.
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