"Be my man?" Natsumi blushed, "I ......"

"What? Don't you want to? Somehow, Yusaku Uehara's heart was full of anticrisy at this moment, for fear that she would say something she disagreed with.

"Of course I do...... It's just that we ......" Natsumi looked at Yusaku Uehara, "Are we going to ...... Do that kind of thing? ……”

"Huh? How do you know? Yusaku Uehara said with a look of surprise. Then he pretended to groan slightly, conjured a vicious look, and squinted at her: "You know too much." ”

Xia Mei couldn't straighten up with a smile.

At this time, the girl's heart was full of happiness, and there was not much room for future sorrows. This joke made Xia Mei's original little worry in her heart quickly dispelled. The laughter of the two was drowned out in the samurai's drinking songs.

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It was already dusk, and Iwasaki Yuka sat in the room with a sad feeling for a while.

It had been several days since Osaka Castle had fallen to the Satsuma people, and life had become a little more stable for Iwasaki Yuka - after seeing that the Satsuma army that had entered the castle had not burned and looted the citizens except for the requisitioned materials that had belonged to the government army, the people of Osaka, who were good at business, quickly settled down, and there was no longer the panic of the past, the shops on the streets reopened, all kinds of businesses flourished, and the whole social order was miraculously restored quickly, except that the Mitsubishi Trading Company was an exception.

Since Mitsubishi Trading Co., Ltd. was responsible for the logistics of the government army, it became an industry that "aided the rebellion" after the Satsuma army entered the city. The Osaka branch of Mitsubishi Trading Co., Ltd. became the focus of "care" -- even though there were only a bunch of old and weak women and children left here.

"Miss. General Lin is here. I want you to see you in the past. The maid Sanae said as she ran into the door quickly.

"General Lin? Which General Lin? Iwasaki Yuka asked with some annoyance.

"It's General Lin Yiqing." Sanae raised her eyebrows and replied, "Haven't you seen the notice?" ”

"Is it the legendary Qianguo man?"

"Yes, miss, that's him."

Sanae is Yuka Iwasaki, and when she lost her mother at the age of thirteen, her father was afraid that she would be lonely, so he specially recruited local people from the suburbs to accompany and serve her. Although he is only two years older than Iwasaki Yuka, he is extremely clever and sensible. Therefore, I know all the thoughts of her sensitive and melancholy little hostess and good friend.

"Miss better freshen up and go see him! I think he's a very gentle and talkative person. Sanae cautiously advised.

Iwasaki had to sit up slowly. Reached out and took the fuchsia kimono dress that Sanae had taken out of the mahogany cabinet and changed it into. She tied her clothes and asked, "Who is accompanying the guests?" ”

Sanae helped her fold her collar from behind and replied, "It's Mr. Kazuo Hiranuma (a veteran clerk of Mitsubishi Trading's Osaka Branch, who is considered a butler), and he is talking to the guests!" Mr. Hiranuma asked the lady to go down immediately, and the guest said that he really wanted to meet the lady! ”

Iwasaki Yuka was very annoyed at the thought of such an occasion, just for everyone, for the sake of the dozens of people belonging to the Iwasaki family who were trapped in Osaka, but she had to pull down her face to socialize with the Satsuma people - this is tantamount to extremely painful for her proud and self-respecting. Because there is an element of oppression in the bones. And it's the unspeakable oppression of the extraordinary period!

Yuka Iwasaki finished washing her face and put on light makeup. A little powder was puffed on to cover the face that was red from the cold. After getting dressed, she stared in front of the mirror for a few moments before slowly descending the stairs.

Lin Yiqing was accompanied by Kazuo Hiranuma into the back room, facing four rows of bookshelves standing against the wall.

"On weekdays, the master of the dormitory does not study here during the day, but this has become our young lady's study." Kazuo Hiranuma pointed to the bookshelf and said with a smile.

Lin Yiqing looked over in rows, and the leftmost row was full of Qianguo books, both Japanese and Qianwen, and he gently flipped through a thick tome. Hiranuma Kazuo said with a smile: "This "Detailed Explanation of the Art of War" Our young lady has put a lot of effort into it, and the master is strict, and the young lady can't recite half of it, so she has to beat her palms, and her hands are often bruised and purple. ”

Lin Yiqing put down this canon, but saw that the second row of bookshelves was almost full of English and German books, and he couldn't help but be secretly surprised. Kazuo Hiranuma looked at his face and explained: "Our young lady's wish since she was a child is to study in Oxford, England, who would have thought that there would be a war in the country now, and I thought that our young lady's wish would not be fulfilled in her life." ”

"Studying in Oxford is the wish of every aspiring student, not only your young lady, but also my reluctant wish when I was a teenager." Lin Yiqing smiled and said.

When I saw the third bookcase, there were layers of Japanese magazines, newspapers, novels, and so on, as well as stacks of Western piano scores. Lin Yiqing's eyebrows raised and asked, "What?" Does your young lady still practice piano? ”

Kazuo Hiranuma smiled and replied: "Miss's piano is actually against the wishes of the owner, who believes that business is the right thing, so I hope that Miss will spend all her time on her studies, saying that the piano is something that can be practiced or not." However, our young lady piano is very good, but she rarely plays it in front of the host. ”

Lin Yiqing browsed the fourth shelf, in addition to a layer of Japanese novels and fairy tales, the rosewood cabinet was full of girl's gadgets: a little cloth rabbit, a small porcelain deer, a little puppet, a little clay figure from Qianguo, a Russian wooden nesting doll, and the most eye-catching was a little female rag doll wearing a kimono.

Lin Yiqing smiled and fiddled with it, and suddenly noticed something again, and reached out to take it out.

It was a small oil portrait.

In the portrait, I saw Iwasaki Yuka with long shawl hair, a long fluffy flow of sea to the eyebrows, and a very beautiful face smiling in the light. Lin Yiqing stared at it for a long time, and slowly put it back into the cupboard. A turn is the window of the wooden lattice carving, outside the window there is a black old plum in the green branches and green leaves, the plum blossoms are blooming, elegant and gorgeous in the burst of fragrance sandwiched by the sound of the charcoal of the stove faintly hit. Lin Yiqing gently stroked the wooden piano in front of the window with his gloves. Judging from the wood grain, it should have a certain history, and it is a very old but delicate piano. Thinking about the people who used this piano back then, playing the sound of heaven and earth in front of the window, I am afraid that they also have their own indescribable feelings.

In the cold air, a pot of orchids on the desk was smoking its leaves. At a glance, it was the jade statue of Youjia Iwasaki, he picked it up gently, this one was different from the previous one, there was no smile on his face at all, his long and charming eyes seemed to be open, and the bright red roses in his hands kissed his lips lightly, and the lips that were printed like rose petals were even more vivid. Although it is a gesture, it gives people a poignant feeling of dissipating the soul.

"Miss, you're here." Kazuo Hiranuma's voice made Lin Yiqing turn his head, just in time to meet Iwasaki's gaze.

Iwasaki Yujia was stunned for a moment, he is the Qianguo man who terrified the government army! In the sunlight shining outside the window, the shining countless stars gradually converged upwards into a cluster of slender and upright bamboos, and then above was the sky-blue military uniform, and the pair of black and deep eyes under the upright military hat were flashing one after another, although Iwasaki Yuka was the first time she saw him, but she could still immediately determine that he was the Qianguo who was said to be murderous outside Sanzhang!

In the faint twilight of the soft light, Iwasaki Yuka quietly let go of her body wrapped in her kimono and stood up straight, because she was already upstairs in her boudoir, which was originally her territory. The verdant scenery outside the window also seems to be rendered by the sun, and it is already golden at this time. The air is becoming more and more fresh and dry, and it makes people feel as if they have become a dry and withered yellow leaf, dry and dry, standing there lifeless.

When Kazuo Hiranuma saw Iwasaki Yuka coming in, he introduced Lin Yiqing: "This is Miss Iwasaki Yuka, the daughter of the owner of the house, Koyataro Iwasaki." Then he said to Iwasaki Yujia: "Miss, this is General Lin Yiqinglin, Chief of Staff of the Qinwang Division. Iwasaki Yuka lowered his eyes and bowed forward, Lin Yiqing had already seen her, bowed and returned the salute to her.

"I heard that General Lin is a native of Qianguo?" Iwasaki Yujia saw the two samurai wearing ancient armor and long swords behind Lin Yiqing, remembering that his current miserable situation was all due to the Satsuma samurai's army, and his anger rushed upward, and without waiting for Lin Yiqing to speak, he asked directly.

Hearing her dizzy question, Kazuo Hiranuma and Sanae, the maid who accompanied Yuka Iwasaki, all changed color.

"Yes." Lin Yiqing heard that her words were not good, smiled quietly, and nodded.

The two Satsuma warriors standing beside Lin Yiqing also sensed something strange and glanced at each other.

Since all the remnants of the enemy in Osaka Castle have been wiped out, and the order of social life has returned to normal, it is Lin Yiqing who has also given two days off to the two female ninja sisters who have been accompanying him, and he has never visited Mitsubishi Trading Company by car, and the leader of the Satsuma samurai who is in charge of security in this area is worried about his safety, so he still sent a few samurai guards.

"Since General Lin is a native of Qianguo, why did he come to Japan to fight?" Iwasaki asked again.

"Why did Iwasaki-sama think I came to Japan?" Lin Yiqing smiled slightly and asked rhetorically.

"I think it's the civil strife in Japan, which is good for the country." Iwasaki Yujia said lightly, his eyes swept over the two Satsuma samurai behind Lin Yiqing, "It's a pity that the dignified Satsuma samurai have fallen into the trick, and they don't know it." ”

Hearing Iwasaki's sarcastic words, the two Satsuma samurai were furious, "Yaga! A samurai stepped forward, one hand already grasping the hilt of his sword at his waist. (To be continued......)

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