172 The first contest
The next afternoon, after sending the Asabera sisters home safely, Saionji Akino stood downstairs in the apartment, pulling his suitcase, and waited quietly.
In about five minutes, the familiar business car came to him.
It's still the same driver last time, Saionji Akino smiled and nodded at him as usual, and the other party hurriedly stepped forward to help him lift the suitcase and open the door respectfully for him.
On the way, Saionji Akino chatted with the driver for a while, mainly to verify the things that the old man mentioned last time, glory, soul, and spirit.
And after the actual conversation, Saionji Akino found that the other party was really as Fujiwara Yoshiaki said, and he felt extremely proud and proud of serving the Fujiwara family, even if it was just a driver, and he also had a very high awareness of this career.
"Young master, don't worry, I have been a driver for twenty years, even if there is danger, I will protect you as soon as possible and guarantee that you will not be harmed."
"Young Master, your life is much more important than the life of a person like me." The driver said from the bottom of his heart.
However, when Saionji Akino heard this, he felt uncomfortable in his heart. He asked, "Mr. Takamura, you... Do you have a family now? ”
"Ah, young master, you don't have to be so polite to me, just call me Gao Village, um... I have a family, I have a wife, my wife has recently become pregnant, and there is still more than half a month before the child is about to be born. ”
"It's just a pity, it's a boy, otherwise, I can send him to Fujiwara's house, maybe I can be a maid for you."
Saionji Akino listened, his brows furrowed even tighter, and he really wanted to say something.
But he soon realized that a few words of his own could not change the original deep-rooted concepts of these people, the difference in class, which led them to despise their own lives, and even their own families, relatives...
Although the so-called glory, soul, and spirit of the Fujiwara family were put in the forefront, this is obviously incorrect.
Saionji Akino originally had no idea about the "domestication" that Fujiwara Yoshiaki said, but now that he actually understood it, he began to feel disgusted.
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Got out of the car, walked through the bamboo forest, and came to the familiar garden courtyard again, as soon as Akino entered the Xiyuan Temple, someone took him to the destination, during which all the maids, attendants, and saw him will bow their heads and call him Master Akino.
Obviously, this is also what Fujiwara Yoshiken instructed, but being called like this, Saionji Akino not only does not have any condescending pleasure, but feels more and more uncomfortable and unaccustomed to it.
Wordlessly all the way to the teahouse in the deepest part of the courtyard, Saionji Akino under the leadership of Kyoko, successfully entered and sat down.
And soon, Fujiwara Jimitsu (that is, Fujiwara Nagi, who was dressed as a man) who had met before, also walked in, and unlike last time, as soon as the two met this time, Saionji Akino could feel the hostility in her eyes.
Even if neither of them spoke, the atmosphere instantly became tense.
Fujiwara Nagi, who is dressed as a man, basically can't see any flaws in her appearance, her face is tightly wrapped in a mask, and she wears a very heavy makeup, and the width of her shoulders is not enough, so she uses props to pad her shoulders, as for her height, she herself has 172, which is a very tall type, and she only needs to increase her height to pad it inside, and she can come to 178 smoothly.
The two of them were separated by an arm's length, and they were both kneeling and waiting for Fujiwara Yoshiaki to arrive.
About half an hour later, Kyoko opened the door and told them to go to the flower garden in another courtyard.
After walking for about ten minutes.
They saw a cluster of hydrangeas in full bloom – the most beautiful bloom during the rainy season in June.
Continuing along the stone path in the middle, Akino and Fujiwara Nagi of Saionji saw Fujiwara Yoshiaki.
And next to the group of flowers in front of you, in addition to Fujiwara Yoshiaki, there are six children...?
"It's all here?"
He didn't go to see Saionji Akino and Fujiwara Nagi, but he still stared at these children with his oppressive eyes, so that they didn't dare to move casually.
"Mr. Fujiwara... It's..."
"This is your first competition."
"The competition is divided into three rounds, and the first round is that you will spend a week educating three of the children, so that they can memorize and learn all the rules of our Fujiwara family attendants."
"A week later, I came to check the results myself."
"Whoever teaches the child has the best mastery, the fastest completion time, and the highest accuracy rate, and these three are used as the judging criteria to determine the winner or loser of your first round."
"The rules of the squire...?" Saionji Akino first glanced at the pure eyes of the six children, and then looked at Fujiwara Yoshiken again, frowning slightly.
Fujiwara Yoshiken frowned when he saw him and said, "If you don't understand, you can always ask Kyoko, as well as any attendant or maid in the courtyard, and they will tell you how to do it, but you must teach these children personally, and they must not participate in this process." ”
"Any questions?"
Saionji Akino shook his head, but Fujiwara Nagi didn't speak.
"Behave well, don't let me down, there are three competitions in total, and you only need to win two of them to return your mother to the ancestral hall of the Fujiwara family." Fujiwara Yoshiken only watched Saionji Akino speak from beginning to end, and as for Fujiwara Nagi beside him, he was completely ignored.
Fujiwara Nagi felt this significant discrimination, and the resentment in her heart became deeper and deeper.
So much so that after Fujiwara Yoshiaki left, she immediately took action.
She stepped forward and said in a hoarse, low voice to one of the little boys and two little girls, in a commanding tone, "You, you, and you, all come with me." ”
The three children are not very old, about five or six years old, and their eyes are a little cringe, obviously not normal children.
The three children who were chosen didn't dare to resist, so they followed Fujiwara Nagi and left.
The remaining three children were two boys and one girl, and compared to the three who had just been chosen, these three were obviously thinner, especially the little girl, who was weak and obviously malnourished. And the other two little boys, although they are thin, they all pretend to be very difficult to mess with, and they have the kind of déjà vu that is the king of children in the elementary school class.
Maybe it's because Fujiwara Nagi saw the difference between them at first sight that he quickly chose the other three children.
"Sure enough, we were all deceived, that hateful old man, who had been staring at us viciously just now..."
"yes... He also said that there would be a good life here, and that nurse was really a liar! ”
"Zhenna, don't be afraid, Yongzheng and I will protect you." The two little boys said as they glared at Saionji Akino with what they thought was the most aggressive.
After seeing the other three friends being taken away like this just now, they also began to be hostile to Saionji Akino.
Watching the interaction of the three children, Saionji Akino thought it was quite interesting.
Although the competition has already begun, before teaching them, Saionji Akino feels that he should first get along with them.
He didn't agree with the "domestication" method that Fujiwara Yoshiken said, so he would use his own way to teach these children the rules of those attendants, and finally win this round of competition.
"My name is Saionji Akino, I'm a freshman in high school this year, and I'm 16 years old, what about you?" Saionji Akino did not approach them without permission, but stood in place to introduce himself.
"You... Are you a good person? The little boy named Yongzheng asked.
"What the hell do you want us to do? What a competition, what rules... We didn't come here... I'm not going to be your marionette! The other little boy said emotionally.
And the little girl really just stood at the back, looking curiously at Saionji Akino with her big watery eyes.
"Let's answer the questions one by one, well... First of all, it's hard for me to judge whether I'm a good person or not, but I haven't done anything bad or hurt anyone so far, so I can assure you that I'm definitely not a bad person. ”
"And then there is... I'm sorry, I'm sorry to get you involved in this competition, but I'm not going to force you to do anything, I'm going to try to make friends with you, and whether you compete or not, that's not the most important thing. ”
"......" Listening to Saionji Akino's sincere self-description and apology, the two little boys suddenly felt that they would be a little unreasonable if they lost their temper again, and they quickly wilted.
And at this time, Shina began to say, "Akino, big brother... Can I call you that? ”
"Of course." Saionji Akino looked at this thin little girl with the gentlest smile, and at the same time felt a little distressed.
Where did the Fujiwara family get these children...
They shouldn't be children with parents, and the two little boys also mentioned "caregivers" just now, so it's an orphanage?
But can the current orphanage still make the children hungry?
Saionji Akino once again recognized the unevenness of the world.
Shina was a little fascinated by Saionji Akino's smile, she felt that Saionji Akino was as good-looking as the prince in the girl's manga, her face flushed slightly, and then said to the two little boys: "Yongzheng, Xiaonan, I don't think the big brother is a bad person, our luck should be quite good." ”
Yongzheng and Xiaonan were stunned when they heard this, and then they slowly relaxed their vigilance and began to introduce themselves.
Just as Saionji Akino expected.
These three children, no, it should be said that these six children, all came from orphanages.
And they are all children who have been abandoned at a very young age, so there are currently no surnames, only first names.
They are, Shinna, Nan, and Yongzheng.
Akino of Xiyuan Temple listened to their self-introduction, and felt a little sad for a while, so his attitude was softer.
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And the other side.
Fujiwara Nagi looked at the three children who were honestly standing in front of him and didn't dare to move, and said in the most indifferent tone: "You should also know what it means to come out of the orphanage and enter a strange environment. ”
"You have to adapt as quickly as possible, accept your situation, and then become strong, only in this way can you better protect yourself."
"From now on, you will start to learn the rules of the Fujiwara family's attendants, and I will tell you one by one, and you must listen attentively, it is related to how you will survive in the Fujiwara family in the future."
"Remember what I said, and do the best thing, you can order any dish for dinner tonight, and you can eat any snack you want for supper."
"And the worst done..."Fujiwara Nagi just glanced at them coldly, and did not say any punishment system, but the three children immediately stood on their hairs, and they all cheered up.
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(End of chapter)