When Xi Deng woke up, it was already dark, he slowly got up from the bed, walked to the window and opened it, it was raining outside.

The sky was gray, the sound of the rain was sparse, like a bad music, and even the cherry blossoms seemed to have lost their original color against this bleak background, and the air was filled with the smell of earth.

When Aoki came to look for the mat, he was still sitting at the window, holding the shakuhachi in his hand, and his mind was long gone, and he didn't even hear the sound of the door being pushed.

"Thousand Islands."

Aoki took a step forward.

Xi Deng suddenly turned around as if he had been woken up, and when he saw that it was Aoki, the brilliance that had suddenly ignited suddenly disappeared again. He clenched the shakuhachi in his hand and said in an indifferent tone, "Aoki-kun, is there something wrong?" ”

Aoki naturally knew what was going on, even if he didn't know it at first, but looking at Xi Deng's appearance at this time, he could guess that he couldn't leave ten.

"He knows?"

Xi Deng turned his face away and let out a soft "um".

"He's mad at you?" Aoki took another step forward, he looked at the person in front of the window, and his tone seemed to be softer than before, "Suzuki is not sensible when he is young, but his friends who grew up will inevitably have different minds when they grow up, and he has different ambitions from you." ”

"What do you mean by telling me?" Xi Deng smiled lowly, "It's me who was stupid, now that I think about it, you deliberately let Suzuki find out about the matter between us, whether it was coming to me during the day, or deliberately leaving marks on my neck." Even though I used to sympathize with you, pity you for three parts, and be seduced by you, but now, there will be nothing between us. ”

He turned his head to look at the person in front of him, his eyes calm, "Aoki-kun is still the same Aoki-kun, and what I am like has nothing to do with Aoki-kun." ”

He reached out and let go—

The shakuhachi in the palm of his hand fell.

Aoki heard a crisp "click".

Xi Deng stood up on the windowsill, his eyes were obviously detached.

"Does Aoki-kun want to stay here? I can get out. Xi Deng said.

Aoki's face was much more ugly, "Qiandao, don't you forget where is this?" ”

Xi Deng smiled, holding the window sill with a tight hand, "I have never forgotten for a moment where this is, this is hell, it is a place where people eat people without seeing blood, how can a person like me be a samurai, how can I be a samurai, what you said before is not wrong, there will be no daimyo to hire me at all." ”

Aoki heard something wrong from the other party's mouth, "Qiandao, what do you want to do?" ”

Xi Deng's gray-brown eyes moved slightly, deep and dark, silent.

Aoki gritted his teeth, "You don't want to escape from here, let alone take Suzuki with you, how far can you two escape?" Catch it back only to die. ”

The price of geisha escaping is very high, and once they are caught, they will be skinned even if they do not die, so that they can also achieve the effect of warning.

After Aoki said this, seeing that Xi Deng was still standing there without saying a word, he threw down his sleeves suddenly, turned around and walked out.

He went out and bumped into a man.

Suzuki looked at him with a sneer at the corner of his lips, and saw that Aoki's face suddenly became more ugly, and he smiled brightly, but the smile did not enter his eyes, and he turned around and left after laughing.

For a few days, Aoki would go to see the mat lamp, but the other party put on a posture that did not allow oil and water, and every day he either nested in the room and looked at the cherry blossoms outside the window, or sat under the cherry blossom trees in the backyard.

Aoki was simply angry, "Qiandao, what the hell are you trying to do?" You're dumb, can you speak? ”

Xi Deng was silent for a while, and finally spoke, "I want to accompany Suzuki." ”

"Huh?" Aoki was stunned for a moment.

Xi Deng slowly raised his head to look at him, he had lost a lot of weight in the past few days, and his clothes gave people an empty feeling, as if he was just a skeleton forcibly draped in human clothes. An extremely faint smile appeared on Xi Deng's pale face.

"I want to be like Suzuki, to live the life he lived, originally I was the same as the people here, but because of Suzuki's protection, it became different, and now Suzuki doesn't want me, why should I enjoy his contribution and live calmly?"

Aoki was annoyed by Xi Deng's words, "Do you know what you're talking about? ”

"I know."

Aoki's tone was full of gnashing of teeth, "Qiandao, you're just dizzy for a while, it's impossible for me to agree with you to become a geisha, and geisha is not something you can do if you want to." ”

Aoki disagreed, and Xi Deng went to Matsudaira.

After listening to Xi Deng's words, Matsudaira was also so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth for a long time.

"Little Qiandao, do you know what you're talking about?"

Xi Deng's expression was calm, "I know. ”

Matsudaira coughed violently, his face turned red all of a sudden, and when he recovered, he directly slapped Xi Deng's shoulder, he didn't look like he was usually soft and weak, and his strength was so strong that Xi Deng's body shook a few times.

"You guy, it's okay to make your brother Matsudaira happy." Matsudaira turned his head to drink tea.

Xi Deng frowned slightly, "I'm not joking, I'm seriously asking Matsudaira-kun for help." ”

Matsudaira drank tea for a moment, and put down the teacup a little helplessly, "Xiao Qiandao, don't be angry casually, just gamble your life." ”

It's not angry, it's because the protagonist is about to appear.

The plan that was forced to change, Xi Deng thought about it, and there was only another way.

A risky approach.

At the same time, he is also betting on Suzuki's heart.

Matsudaira shook his head directly, "I won't agree to help you with this, don't disturb your brother Matsudaira, let's go play." ”

Xi Deng thought for a while, and put his face in front of Matsudaira's eyes, "Brother Matsudaira, you can help me." ”

Matsudaira: "......"