End of July 1853

"Reiko! Reiko! ”

Kirikiri came to the harbor to look for his daughter, and many people would salute him along the way, because they were in charge of the business in this area, and their Kikiri family's sea ships would not only sail to Japan, but also trade with foreigners.

Reiko is the daughter of Ji Zhi, the girl of the Misty Cut family is so lively that it is a headache, although the Misty family is not a scholar, but with its financial resources, it is impossible to let Reiko go, but Reiko is not naughty, all the arrangements in the family, courses, she has done it perfectly, but in her spare time she can never stay quietly like a big lady, whenever the course is over, the so-called upbringing is also left behind by Reiko.

Whenever she had the chance, she would go to the harbor.

When Kirikiri finds Reiko, she is climbing on the edge of a fishing boat, and she is still wearing a kimono that she wears to practice flower arrangement, and she will definitely be stained with fishy smell and cannot wear it.

"Woo......" She tried hard to hook the bar with her right leg, and this attitude made it clear that she didn't want to go the normal way.

"Reiko!"

“！” After hearing her father's shout, Reiko was frightened, and she looked down to see that her father was there.

"Ugh."

Kiyuki hugged his daughter and put her on the ground. Every time he saw this child's grizzled and grinning appearance, he couldn't teach him a lesson with a straight face.

"As I said, guests come today, don't walk around."

"Oh, oh, but ......" Reiko seemed to want to say something more, but after her father glared at her, she could only stick out her tongue and not speak.

I couldn't figure out what she needed for the entertainment at home, and she wanted to come out and play and see the things on the sea more than to sit in front of her father's guests like a doll toy and listen to the same compliments.

Moreover, more and more steel black ships have been haunting the neighborhood recently, and there are many, many of them that are not in Reiko's memory.

Now Reiko is almost captured by curiosity, and even dares to risk being punished by her family to enter and exit the "forbidden place" that is dangerous for her.

"Reiko! This time is different. ”

What the daughter is thinking, how can the father not see.

"The people who came this time are very distinguished guests, and they must not be neglected."

"Honorable? Is it a samurai? ”

"Well, go back and listen to your mother, change your clothes, and the guests will be there soon."

"Hmm."

Reluctantly, Reiko nodded, growing up in such an environment, she was very indifferent to the concept of samurai, and now she was only a seven-year-old child, so in her heart, she hated the "guest" who caused her to be trapped at home, regardless of whether he was a samurai or not.

After returning home and changing clothes, it didn't take long for the guest that Kirikiyuki had said arrived.

As the only child of the master's family, even if it is just a girl, it is natural for her to come out to welcome guests with her father.

Today, the people who come to visit the Kirikiri family are the nobles with the surname Asakura, and they control all the artillery and muskets in Edo Castle, which is a behemoth that the Kikiri family cannot compare, of course, Reiko can't see this, she just feels that the momentum of this visitor is very different from the previous people.

"Father."

Reiko secretly looked up at her father's face.

Ji Zhi's expression was very serious and respectful, this is the expression of the servant when he treats his master.

"......" She didn't dare to speak, and she retracted her hand, which she wanted to grasp, and waited quietly.

The Asakura family came to Edo without much fanfare this time, and there were few followers and no family crest, but his wife and daughter, including the current head of the family, Asakura Hayato, came.

"Kirikiri-kun!"

As soon as Asakura Hayato came up, he found Kiriki Kiriki, and he didn't care about any form of greeting, and walked quickly to Kiyuki, Hayato was shorter than him, but the aura of the superior was incomparable to him, a businessman.

"Long time no see."

"Asakura-sama, please." Kiriki Kiriki bowed down and invited Hayato into the inner courtyard, not daring to cross the line at all.

It's not a relationship between friends, it's like greeting your boss.

"Mrs. Asakura, come with your daughter."

"Speaking of which, Wu Qi-kun's daughter is also seven years old this year, and I haven't seen my niece for a long time."

Hayato gently pushed his daughter, who had been hiding behind his wife, out

"Let's go, go play with Fog Cut for a while, father, I have something to talk to my uncle."

Reiko saw the little girl who had been hiding and didn't dare to show her face before, the eldest lady of the Asakura family, and she was just rich in the family, a girl from a real scholar family.

“……”

Good, lovely.

Reiko has always been praised by everyone as a beautiful little girl, and Reiko is already a little picky about her appearance, just a child.

However, this girl is so cute, delicate as an ancient painting, and she is just a girl younger than herself.

"Reiko, take your sister to play."

"Uh-huh."

She agreed, and Reiko didn't want to listen to the adults say something about her dozing off, so she hurriedly took the girl's hand and ran in the direction of the atrium.

“……”

The girl was dragged away for a while, and when she was already far away, she spoke.

"I can go on my own."

"Uh, that ......" Reiko awkwardly let go of her hand and rubbed for a moment before saying

"I'm sorry, that, you, can I call you Asakura?"

Asakura nodded, her attitude was not like a child at all, and unconsciously, Reiko's "sister" aura quickly disappeared.

"This is the atrium of my house."

Reiko is still a little happy to have her peers together.

"It's beautiful."

Asakura walked over to a bush and pointed to the yellow-brown flowers that grew on it, which looked like carefully tied knots, which were really inconspicuous flowers, at least until Asakura pointed to it, Reiko had never noticed the appearance of this flower.

"It's a fragrant flower." Asakura said

"Represents luck."

"Lucky?" Reiko muttered to herself and repeated.

"It can bless people with a safe life, and I haven't seen a fragrant flower for a long time."

She crouched down, lightly touched the petals with her fingers, and the look on her face showed that she was somewhat happy.

"It's boring." Asakura then burst out these four words, and Reiko didn't react at all when she changed her face quickly.

"Do you know what's really interesting here?"

Really interesting?

"Of course!" She felt that this little girl from Asakura and her might be the same kind of person, and how could people like them enjoy the flowers in the atrium with peace of mind.

"Come with me to the port! I have a secret passage, don't tell my father. ”

The port of Nagasaki, absolutely interesting.

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