In the middle of a blur, I fell asleep on the floor of the inner room of the abbot's hall, and in my dreams I sang in the wind of the Tosa Mountains, the murmuring of the Niyodo River, and even the whispering of Konatsu.

These fantastical voices, mingled with the faint sound of bells and chanting in my ears, almost made it impossible for me to distinguish between reality and dream.

"Dongshan Temple! Higashiyama Hall! Suddenly, there were several anxious cries in his ears. Listening to the accent and tone of the person who shouted, it should be Zhou Xin who was served by my side.

It seems that he has sent "The Tale of Kira" to Zhou Jing, and now he is returning to Dongshan Temple to report his life to me. And in the entire Dongshan Temple, he is the only one who can enter and exit the abbot's hall by himself.

Maybe you should wake up? But what can I do when I wake up? All the affairs, including the things behind me, have been arranged: all the world's affairs, I have almost all investigated, and now I have nothing to worry about, only the nostalgia for Xiao Xia. Then, instead of waking up and playing the role of the horn of the East Mountain Palace, it is better to reminisce about the peace and warmth of your youth in your dreams.

I decided to ignore Zhou Xin's cries and continued to sleep.

I don't know how long it took, but I regained consciousness again, and I only felt refreshed and full of energy, as if I had returned to my youth in my teens and twenties. However, when I opened my eyes, I found that I was not in the Higashiyama Temple, but in the middle of the mountain surrounded by trees, and a thin morning thunderbolt shrouded in the mountains, and a few rays of sunlight shining warmly on my body through the tall treetops.

I rubbed my eyes and looked ahead in disbelief: "Cabin! This is Tosa?! ”

"Has His Highness woken up?" A familiar and crisp voice asked from behind. I looked back and felt even more incredulous: "Xiao Xia? Are you Natsu? ”

"It's a concubine!" Konatsu replied.

"It looks like a dream!" I shook my head and closed my eyes in disappointment. The self-proclaimed "concubine" Xiao Xia in front of her can never be true, because she looks like she is only sixteen or seventeen years old, but she didn't marry me until she was in her twenties. Moreover, she is more dignified and quiet than the Xiao Xia I remember, "reflecting the slightest mist and golden morning light, it is like an elf coming out of the mountains."

But "the dream was so good that I would rather indulge in it."

"Xiao Xia, come here, let me sleep for a while." I said with my eyes closed.

Natsu sat down beside me very obediently, as she remembered, moved my head to her big tuǐ, and then gently combed my hair so comfortably that I almost groaned.

"Your Highness should have her hair in a bun!" She whispered suddenly.

Bun? They have all been shaved and ordained, what kind of bun do they still have? When I opened my eyes suspiciously, the first thing that caught my eye was Xiao Xia Gao tǐng's xiōng breast, and there was a crystal water drop hanging on the top of the left xiōng.

I stretched out my finger and reached the edge of her xiōng, and the drops of water immediately slid down my fingers: and then I mō on my head again, and sure enough, I felt a few strands of hair that were neither long nor short.

"This! I was shaken, and I couldn't help but roll over and sit up.

I actually have hair? And it's also short hair without a bun! However, I remember very clearly that when I left the mountains for Hasuike Town, Konatsu had already helped me tie my hair in a bun!

Looking at Xiao Xia again, she was looking at me in surprise, her long hair was wet, "Even her upper body is soaked, showing an extremely beautiful figure."

, "Your Highness, isn't the concubine doing well?" She asked, blinking.

I was full of suspicions and had countless questions that I wanted to confirm to her. However, after looking at her for a while, I asked the most intuitive question: "Why is your hair and upper body wet?" ”

"Just now on the edge of the Niyodo River" poured a few urns of water on his head with an urn. Natsu replied.

"Pour water on your head?" I was puzzled, "Why do you want to do this?" ”

"This, the concubine had a nightmare last night, a very long and real nightmare" Xiao Xia's eyes were slightly dazed, "I was awakened by a nightmare" My mind was still in a mess, so I took the water urn and went to the river to sober up. ”

"Nightmare? "My heart was shocked" "What did you dream about?" ”

, "I dreamed that His Highness married a concubine, but many times he left his concubine alone" And His Highness sent our children to the battlefield and died, and the concubine herself died! Natsu bit her lip and looked at me with resentment, as if I had done these things.

"Really?" It's a nightmare. I replied with a deep groan, my heart spinning rapidly, trying to figure out what it was all about. Is the situation in front of you a reality or a dream projected from that period of life in your memory?

I thought about it in a tangle, almost like learning from Xiao Xia, and going to the Niyodo River to be sober and sober.

"Your Highness doesn't seem to be very conscious yet, so how about lying down a little longer? The concubine can also help His Highness tie his hair in a bun. Xiao Xia said very considerately.

"Okay then. I hesitated, but quickly agreed. In any case, it is indeed very comfortable to have Xiao Xia's big tuǐ on his pillow.

So I lay down again and let Natsu keep busy on my head. Her movements were gentle, but also very sharp, and she quickly formed a simple bun.

"It's done!" She patted my dog's forehead very happily, "The concubine's body moves quickly, right?" ”

Answering with his eyes closed, he suddenly found a question in Xiao Xia's words.

She actually called herself a "concubine"? However, whether it is according to the course of the memory or the current situation, at least when she was in Tosa, she was a retainer and had not yet married me, so she should never use this title.

"Xiao Xia, aren't you my retainer, how can you call yourself.? , concubine body, what? , I asked coldly.

"This, the concubine is not, it is Xiao Xia who has lost her words!" Xiao Xia reacted at this time, retracted her right hand on my forehead like lightning, and her pretty face flushed with a flush, "I'm really sorry! Actually, it's ...... Excuse me...... Please forgive your Highness! ”

"I see," I nodded, "and it seems that the dream is very real!" ”

By this time, I had been able to confirm that everything in front of me was reality, and that long period in my memory was a dream, and it was a dream that Xiao Xia and I shared. However, Xiao Xia's role ended several years earlier, "She also sobered up earlier than me."

"Exactly!" Xiao Xia hurriedly took over, as if he wanted to justify his gaffe, "That dream doesn't look like a dream, but like a prophecy of gods and Buddhas!" There are a lot of things about my family, Xiao Xia has heard a little about my grandfather before, and it is not too detailed, but I know it clearly from my dreams! ”

"Really?" I replied casually, and very much agreed with her words. Indeed, that dream was too strange and too profound"In the dream, I wrote a book called "The Tale of Kira", which recorded all the history from the Tosa crown ruler Gen Nobuyoshi to the last governor of the family, Kira Nobunao" I still remember the specific content very clearly. It's very hard to understand, and I would never know that history according to common sense.

However, if you want to talk about weirdness, isn't it also weird that I came to this era? and the Sea Moon Knife beside him, which seems to have incredible power.

I held the knife in front of me, gathered my thoughts, and saw that it all seemed to have something to do with it. It was relied upon as a bridge to cross over: when I dreamed that prophecy1

This knife was placed between me and Bu Xia: even when Xiao Xia and I were freed from our dreams, this knife was placed near us......

Xiao Xia saw that I was silent for a while, the expression on my face changed, and he hurriedly asked me with concern: "What is Your Highness thinking?" ”

"Ah, I'm thinking about you letting me out of the mountain and reviving the business of the Kira family." I replied casually small

Xia Dao.

"Revive the family business," Xiao Xia repeated in a low voice, "turning his head to look in the direction of the small town of Lotus Pond in the south, his slender eyebrows furrowed slightly.

This time, it was her turn to fall silent.

……，……

After figuring out my situation, I thought that if I had come, I would be at peace, "I decided to continue to live here with Xiao Xia for a while."

In the afternoon, as before, I dug some earthworms around the cabin and came to the Niyodo River with the fishing rod left by Natsu's grandfather. Xiao Xia also followed, sitting silently on the side, "Very quietly watching me fishing." Her faint appearance, compared with her previous actions, is like a different person.

I turned my head and looked at her closely. The appearance is still sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl is good, but the temperament is very special, not like an innocent mountain girl, but very close to the Shangchuan Lord in the dream, there is some different grace and dignified, but also showing the mature style after the wind and rain.

Seeing that I turned my attention to her, Xiao Xia solemnly lowered her head: "Your Highness, Xiao Xia has been thinking about it for a long time, and there is one thing I want to ask you seriously." ”

"Well, let's talk!" I withdrew my fishing rod.

"I hope Your Highness can give up reviving the family business! Give up the outbreak! Xiao Xia's voice was not high, but it was very earnest.

"Give up?" I asked her, "Do you want me to give up?" ”

"Yes." Xiao Xia looked up at me, "Xiao Xia knows that His Royal Highness has excellent talents, both military and political skills, and if he is a general, he will soon be reused, but Xiao Xia still wants to ask His Highness!" ”

Speaking of this, she turned her head slightly, and there was a look of great shame on her face.

Seeing her like this, I couldn't help but smile in my heart, and I immediately understood the reason why she stopped me from being a leader. Because she has now set her heart on me, and hopes that I will be able to devote myself to her, but if I do come out, her hopes will definitely be disappointed. In that prophetic dream, whether it was Nana in the main room, or she and Yu Jia as the side room, and I were all together less and more separated, which was very uncomfortable for her, not to mention all kinds of hardships and blows.

This Xiao Xia, sure enough, is the same as in the dream, and the monopoly yù is not ordinarily strong, but I don't mind that.

"Yes, I promise you." I smiled and nodded.

"Really!" Seeing that I agreed so easily, Xiao Xia couldn't believe it, "Your Highness won't regret it in the future?" Won't you blame Natsu?

If His Royal Highness becomes a high-ranking official, he may be able to establish a great achievement! ”

"You forgot? I didn't want to go out of the mountain in the first place, but you kept persuading me! I smiled and replied, "As for the merits, who can say for sure?" Maybe I tried hard but didn't achieve anything, maybe after establishing my career, I would experience all kinds of sad things, but it was better for my family to live a peaceful life. ”

"Well, Your Highness is right!" Xiao Xia smiled when she heard this, and she also returned to her normal girlish temperament, "Xiao Xia is so stupid, she should have obeyed His Highness's arrangement a long time ago!" ”

"It's not too late now" I looked at Xiao Xia's smile, and I seemed to have regained my young heart, and suddenly I had a narrow mind" "However, if I give up my position as a samurai, I can't accept you as a retainer, so what about you and me?" ”

"Huh?" Xiao Xia was stunned for a moment, "But ......"

"I know, I know, you take care of you for a while, and you owe a lot of favors" I sighed deliberately" "So, the sea moon left in the hut will be given to you!" I don't need it anyway! ”

"But it's "Xiao Xia stomped his feet" "Xiao Xia made an oath to his grandfather that he would serve His Royal Highness for the rest of his life." It doesn't matter if His Highness is a samurai or not! ”

"Since you've said so, come here!" I laughed and spread my arms, "Xiao Xia is indeed a fool, really, what other place can I go besides here?" Outside, Changzong's family is still arresting me! ”

, "En" Xiao Xia leaned over diligently and threw herself into my arms like a bird. I hugged her with emotion, as if I had the whole world: "Don't worry" With you here, I won't go anywhere. ”

, "En" Xiao Xia nodded in my arms, "Xiao Xia is also but, if His Royal Highness doesn't come out of the mountain, maybe there will be a lot less fate?" Doesn't Your Highness regret it either? ”

, "Fate" I groaned, "I remembered the virtuous and kind Caicai in my dream, the hard-working and considerate Yu Jia, the empathetic Zhihu, and even the silly Janet."

These women, if I don't go out of office now, I will definitely have nothing to do with them. However, they did not belong to me in the first place, and they all had their own experiences in history, and some of them were even more ideal than following me. Ru Nana is the main room of the original family, and her words in the family of Changzong and my department, "At least she won't die so early."

In addition, there is Baoxinyuan, if she doesn't recognize me, she can completely let go of her knots, rely on her daughter and son-in-law to live for a long time, and don't have to be poisoned by her own son: if Xiujing doesn't follow me, she will still be an old and important minister of my family in Xiangzong, and she doesn't have to suffer the tragedy of cannibalism between parents and children, and she doesn't have to do her best to go to the place of exile to open up a new collar for me.

"Fate has to follow fate, and if you don't arrive, you won't have fate" I looked at the river of the Niyodo River and replied slowly, "Even if it's a relationship, you don't have to care too much, and you don't even have to recognize each other rashly, so as not to cause trouble to them" It's better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes.

"Yes, Your Highness" Xiao Xia nodded, thinking about my safety" "Your Highness doesn't go out to recognize each other for the time being, and my family will definitely not be able to find this place." In the future, His Royal Highness will live here with peace of mind, and Xiao Xia will try his best to hunt more prey. ”

"Since you want to settle down, how can you just make you tired" "I smiled" "I will buy a few farm tools in a few days, and I can open more than ten acres of new fields here, which is enough for us to live and work in peace and contentment." ”

Natsu hugged my arm tightly.

So I started to plan in my mind where to open a new field. The first option is on the other side of the Niyodo River, where there is a large area of bushes, and after the land is burned and reclaimed, there are good paddy fields along the river.

When the time comes, we can also move our home to make it easier to farm, and the cabin here will be locked as a memorial of my encounter with Natsu......

Thinking of this, I suddenly laughed, so that's it! Isn't this the pattern that Uncle Kirahiro's family has lived in for generations! It seems that their ancestors have lived there for generations, and they are very accustomed to living there, until many neighbors in the neighborhood have moved away and are reluctant to move away. In my dream, I opened a sū restaurant in Cheongju, largely inspired by the ancestral business of the Kira Hiroshi family!

It turns out that the ancestor of Kira Hiroshi is me and Xiao Xia, no wonder when I met him, I had a very familiar feeling, and then quickly became friends who talked about everything!

It's really nice to think that there is such an heir, although he regarded the ceremony to commemorate my settlement as fun, but then again, without his fun, I would not have come to this era, and the "Kira family" in this vein would not have appeared.

I just don't know, he lost his ancestral famous knife, and his friend suddenly disappeared, will he be very embarrassed? However, there are not many such things as "disappearances" of mainland tourists in Japan, only in 2002

In the exchange group to mark the 30th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries, there were more than 50 people one after another, and the custom of "disappearance" was such that Hiroshi Kira would not be criticized too much. The only thing to worry about is Haiyue, his uncle Kira Xuanfan is estimated to be furious, but fortunately, he is the only one in Kira's family, the "young master" and the "day" has already abolished the habit of seppuku and apologizes, but it is not a big deal.

Thinking about it makes me smile even more. Fate is really wonderful......

……，

"Your Highness is smiling so happily, why is that?" Xiao Xia raised her face from my arms and asked me very suspiciously.

"Because I know how to run a house!" I smiled and pinched Natsu's nose, "I'm going to do three things. The first was to open a new field on the other side of the river and move to the other side of the river: the second was to write "The Tale of Kira" to pass on the deeds of the Tosa famous Kira family to future generations."

"And what about the third piece? Is it to marry me? Xiao Xia hurriedly asked.

"Of course, I will marry you, but the third thing I said is that when the country is stable and my arrest warrant is cancelled, I will go to the city to open a ballast house. By then, we will be much better than the average samurai! ”

"Your Highness will make sū dishes? Will it really be done? Xiao Xia's eyes widened suddenly.

"Of course," I smiled and nodded, "Don't you believe it?" ”

Xiao Xia looked at me seriously, and then buried her head in my arms.

"Believe, of course believe," she muttered, "His Royal Highness Xiao Xia is the most powerful person in the world!" ”

(End of book)

ps I wanted to write more affectionately and write the charm of "The State Flows", but unfortunately it had to be delayed, and the feelings were not easy to brew)

So so be it! At least the matter is clear, and the biggest hole in the book is filled?!。