Chapter 190
Today, over the Purgatory House, there were wailing sounds as if the evil spirits from hell were crawling on the ground to reap human souls, causing all humans to be terrified and miserable.
"Ahhh, don't come over here, I don't want to drink, I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die."
"Ahahahaha, look at my serious face. How could I give you a soup that could kill you? Look carefully, this is a tonic soup that can replenish your physical strength and experience."
"Who are you kidding? Look at those people you fed the soup to. First they died miserably, then their entire souls were vomited out. Now, look at them, their faces are pale and they're resurrecting... Is this what you call replenishing physical strength and energy? This is absolutely poison, it's absolutely poison!!!"
"Ahhh, Lord Flame Pillar, why did you drink it too? Spit it out quickly. Oh, right, Crow, Crow, Sakurako, quickly fly to the headquarters and tell the lord what's going on here. Mr. Tsurumaru has betrayed us and poisoned us."
Qingxi, who was led out of the center of the chaotic "stage" by Jiang Xue Sawamonji, thanked the young man who had his long hair braided into a pigtail and hung behind him, while smacking her lips.
After a while, she seemed to be talking to him, or muttering to herself, "This is the first time I've seen Tsurumaru do this. Compared to what he did before, I can even say, 'A small crow meets a big crow'..."
Was he like this when he was in Honmaru?"
Either don't cause trouble, or if you do, it has to be big.
"I'm sorry, I can't answer this question for you." Jiang Xue Sawamonji said, holding the Buddhist beads in his hand.
He and Suzumaru Tsuneji were different from the other swordsmen in Honmaru who had been summoned a long time ago. He and Suzumaru Tsuneji were new swordsmen, new swords that were completely awakened by Qingxi's spiritual power. In addition, not long after being summoned, they were arranged to the Taisho period where their master was. To be honest, he was not familiar with the other people in Honmaru.
He caught a glimpse of the girl's lost look from the corner of his eye, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "However, I've heard Xiaoye mention before that Tsurumaru's favorite thing to do is to dig holes everywhere in the Honmaru courtyard and let unsuspecting people fall into them.
Many swordsmen in Honmaru have suffered similar incidents."
"Is Tsurumaru so childish?" Qingxi was shocked. "But, I haven't seen him digging a hole since I picked him up."
Could it be that he also realized that this kind of thing was too childish and decided not to play such boring games anymore?
Jiang Xue Sawamonji, not knowing what Qing Xi was thinking, said casually, "Maybe it's because something new has been attracting his attention, so that he feels that the game of digging holes everywhere has become less important."
Qingxi had no idea whether the other party was making fun of her or seriously analyzing Tsurumaru Kuninaga's personality: "..."
Her blue eyes turned once again towards the chaotic crowd. She saw the owl, a rare figure among the black-haired crowd who stood out because of his hair, looking like he was about to fall to the ground after drinking the rich soup. She couldn't help but rush into the crowd to support him.
"Kyojuro, how are you?" Qingxi asked with concern.
"Hmm, I'm fine," Rengoku Kyojuro, who had already been feeling high after just one sip of the energizing soup, said energetically. "Although this soup tastes a little strange, I can feel the lost physical strength and exhausted mental energy slowly returning, albeit at a slower pace."
"Maybe it's because I only drank one sip." Rengoku Kyojuro looked down at the bowl in his hand. He muttered and couldn't help swallowing his saliva.
Honestly speaking, the soup made by Ah Xi really makes you want to give up before you even try it, but the taste is weird but not unpalatable.
After cheering himself up in his heart, Rengoku Kyojuro brought the bowl of soup to his lips, closed his eyes, tilted his head back and drank it.
"If you drink it, the lost physical strength and exhausted mental energy will be replenished quickly." After drinking it, Rengoku Kyojuro completed his unfinished words.
But Qingxi felt that when the other person said this, he was acting completely mechanically according to the instructions given by his brain in advance, but his soul had no idea where it had gone.
Especially when she saw the owl's bright eyes dim and lose their brilliance...
"Kyojuro," Qingxi stood on tiptoe and gently patted the boy's face, "Kyojuro, are you okay?"
Seeing he couldn't "wake" the person up, Qingxi's eyes fell on the pot of soup, which was only half empty. "Is it really that bad? When I was making it, I just expected it to taste a little weird. Why do you all look like you've been to hell after drinking it?"
Qingxi's curiosity was completely piqued, and her hand reached out towards the pot again...
However, this time, she was stopped again.
"Hmm, Aki." Rengoku Kyojuro couldn't find any reason to persuade the girl to give up trying the soup, but he held her hand tightly and refused to let go.
Feeling the boy's kindness, Qingxi patted him soothingly with the hand that he hadn't grasped, "It's okay. As a chef, I've tried all the ingredients I can, unless they're new to me."
Her gaze shifted. "It's just a pot of soup. Is it so unacceptable that there's a giant stinky durian bomb?"
Rengoku Kyojuro remembered the girl's previous proposal in front of the Nine Pillars to use biological weapons (giant stinking durian bombs) to bombard demons, and her description of the Blood Demon Art Infinite City. He hesitated for a while, but seeing that the girl insisted, he finally let go of her restless hand.
However, he still said worriedly: "Hmm, just taste it a little bit... If you drink too much, Ah Xi, you may not be able to sleep at night."
Qingxi hummed twice and put a small amount of soup into her mouth.
Unlike other ghost hunters who, after tasting the soup, closed their eyes and swallowed it without hesitation without being able to spit it out, Qingxi savored the soup slowly after it entered his mouth.
Rengoku Kyojuro, who had been paying attention to the changes on her face, saw the girl take out a small notebook and start writing something on the spot.
As he wrote, he muttered, "I added a bit too much strong mint. It clashes a bit with the taste of the awakening lotus. I need to reduce the amount of both... Don't add it after the compound rose. It doesn't go well with the sports gold sand rice at all... Well, you can consider replacing it with the shrimp from the extreme flying shrimp... I also need to change the cuttlefish kelp knot to the vitality kelp flower..."
Rengoku Kyojuro was speechless. It seemed that his worries just now were completely unnecessary. His girl now looked full of energy.
that is--
The girl recorded all the improvements to the recipe for the Chongpei Soup and as she closed the notebook and said, "I'll make the improved soup later and let them try it," Rengoku Kyojuro silently felt sympathy for this group of ghost hunters in his heart.
Ah Xita seemed to treat them as guinea pigs for testing the soup.
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"Done." Tsurumaru Kuninaga clapped his hands after forcing the last ghost hunter to drink the soup.
He looked down at the completely empty pot and gave himself a thumbs-up.
Not a single drop is left behind, and all are equally covered by the rain and dew.
Throwing the spoon in his hand into the pot, he said to Yagen Toushirou, who was doing nothing beside him, "Ah, my task is completed. The rest of the dishes and pots are left to you, Yagen."
Yagen Toushirou, who would rather wash dishes and pots than incur public wrath, said: "I know."
Although the taste of Qingxi's soup was hard to describe, she assured Rengoku Kyojuro that it was very effective.
Take those ghost hunters for example, for the next three to five days they were in a state of high spirits and excitement.
But fortunately, Rengoku Kyojuro is not a devil, and he will not force them to train 24 hours a day just because they are full of energy and physical strength.
At night, he would still let them rest.
"Axi, do you want to go for a walk with me?" Getting up early in the winter morning is a difficult task for Qingxi. However, when there are people training early in the morning in the large area of the dojo next door, especially when there are all kinds of desperate roars, the task of getting up early becomes not so difficult.
Looking at Rengoku Ruhu, who was dressed warmly and getting ready to go out, she glanced around. Not finding the person she was looking for, Qingxi walked up and asked, "Mrs. Ruhu, are you getting ready to go out? Isn't Mr. Rengoku going?"
"Ah, let's go out and take a look, and see if there's any new stuff we need to prepare," Rengoku Ruka said. "As for Makijuro, he went to headquarters early this morning. It seems the lord wants to see him about something."
"So, you're sneaking out." Qingxi looked up at the sky, then back at the others. "If Mr. Purgatory knew, he wouldn't be at ease."
She had said before that after the former Flame Pillar retired from the pillar, he spent his days either training disciples or spending time with his wife, and they became increasingly close.
Although he tried his best to cover up in front of others and make himself look less henpecked, but, they were all pillars, and they could visit each other casually, so who didn't know who?
Rengoku Ruka blinked at Qingxi, a sly smile on her gentle face, "That's why I want to invite you to go with me, Axi."
She added, "By the way, can I borrow Horikawa-kun and Okutari-kun for a while?"
The sun didn't come out today. Considering the possibility that she might be caught by a ghost in an alley while walking around in the winter, Qingxi said, "Wait a moment. I'll ask the others. If they're all free, we should go together."
Rengoku Ruka was startled. "Isn't this too big of a scene?"
Qingxi shook his head: "Safety is important."
After asking Rengoku Ruka to wait here for a while, Qingxi turned around and ran to find someone.
Qingxi was very fast, and when she came back again, she was followed by six men.
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If Rengoku Ruka felt that there were too many people at the beginning, then when she took Qingxi to various stores to shop, she felt very fortunate to have these people around her.
Because, if they weren't with us and Qingxi and I were alone, we would never be able to bring so many things home.
"Aki, try this kimono on too."
Inside the kimono shop, Qingxi had just come out of the dressing room after changing back into her own clothes. Before she could catch her breath, Rengoku Ruka's voice rang out again.
"Do you still want to try?" Qingxi's voice was filled with a hint of collapse.
God knows why I was dragged into the kimono shop by Mrs. Ruhuo when I was about to return, and then I was surrounded by a group of adult women and tried on kimonos one by one.
"Madam, your daughter has fair skin. I think this red camellia-patterned kimono would suit her perfectly," the shop assistant recommended. "Besides, the girl is very beautiful. With that kimono and a little dressing up, she would be the most dazzling star among girls her age."
"No, you misunderstood." Qingxi said. She was already numb from being "asked" to try on clothes. Now she had to explain her relationship with Mrs. Ruhu to others...
Tired, just destroy it where it is.
However, before she could finish, Rengoku Ruka spoke first to explain, "Although I also hope to have such a lovely daughter, it is a pity that I can't give birth to one.
However, it doesn’t matter if I don’t have a daughter. With this child by my side, I can finally fulfill my dream of raising a daughter.”
Read it as "raising a daughter" and write it as "raising a wife".
Hearing the conversation between Rengoku Ruka and the proprietress, the six sword masters thought secretly in their hearts.
What does it mean that when a woman is in a good mood, she will buy things without restraint, just like the one in front of me.
With a wave of his hand, he bought three sets of kimonos in the kimono shop.
And she didn't buy it for herself, but for the girl next to her.
"No, Mrs. Ruhi, please let me pay for my own clothes."
When it came time to pay, Qingxi insisted on stuffing the stack of money in his hand in front of the proprietress.
Rengoku Ruka looked disapproving and corrected her, "I didn't buy this for you, Aki. Kyojuro asked me to pick it out for you before we went out."
Having said that, Qingxi had no reason to refuse. She even returned the money she had stuffed into the boss lady's hand with a smile at her knowing look, and then took the money from Rengoku Ruka.
Although it is very strange that the mother-in-law who has not yet married into the family helps her son buy clothes for the girl he likes, but didn’t the lady also say that she is raising the girl as her own daughter?
Raising someone else's daughter is basically raising a daughter-in-law, which makes sense if you think about it this way.
It is estimated that the two children have known each other since childhood.
Watching these guests leave, the proprietress thought to herself.
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