【Gojo Family Housewife's Daily Life】Comics

(January 2024, winter, Gojo family)

The snow fell lightly on the withered lotus leaves. The withered life trembled in the cold wind.

The coldness of the snow and the withered lotus interweave to create a kind of desolate and withered beauty unique to winter.

Ryoko, who has become the head of the Kobe branch of the Gojo family, looked at the withered red lotus in front of her and felt mixed emotions...

It is still the familiar courtyard and the familiar scenery, but unfortunately things and people have changed.

"Mom, I'm cold." The young son shook her sleeves.

Ryoko came back to her senses, and she quickly took her child Kentaro's hand and walked towards the living room in the backyard.

A maidservant with an unfamiliar face brought her a cup of hot tea.

She had never seen this maid before. She thought she was new. The maid bowed and left. "Please wait a moment. The master will be here soon."

But Ryoko waited until her tea was cold, and Master Wu did not come. Alas, Master Wu's temper has become more and more strange over the years.

There’s no telling how long we’ll have to wait.

She also noticed her son Kentaro's impatience and was afraid that he would be disrespectful in front of Master Wu, so she said to him, "Why don't you go play with Miss Xing first? It's Miss Xing's yard that Mom took you to last time. Do you remember? Miss Xing... the one you called Sister Xing."

"I remember..." Kentaro bit his hand and stammered.

"Go... go find Miss Xing, and remember not to run around." She reminded him again and again.

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The weather was very cold, and snowflakes were falling heavily. In a blink of an eye, a thick layer of snow had accumulated in the courtyard.

When the snow combined with the cold water vapor on the ground, it quickly turned into sleet.

Kentaro walked around the yard. The house was so big that he felt like he was lost. Just when he was at a loss, he suddenly heard the sound of children laughing and playing in the yard ahead.

Could it be that Miss Xing was here too? With this thought in mind, he walked forward.

When he got there, he was shocked...there were so many people.

He hid behind a pillar and watched secretly, and saw a group of children slightly older than him playing.

Most of them were boys aged seven or eight, wearing thick winter clothes, their cheeks red from the cold. They were making snowmen and having snowball fights, having a great time.

Among the group of children, there was a thin boy who stood out. He looked younger and thinner than the other children.

But.....but he is really a very beautiful child, his silver hair flows on his shoulders like moonlight, and sparkles in the wind like snowflakes, his purple eyes are faint, like the lilac flowers in spring...

The face was so delicate and cute. Kentaro had never seen such a handsome little boy.

Kentaro saw him making a snowman alone in silence, without saying anything, and the other children didn't want to play with him.

But after a while, the two older children suddenly started to bully him. They laughed at the ugly snowman he made and called him a "freak".

One of the boys threw the snow in his hand at his face and laughed, "Monster, you freak!"

The other kids started to chime in, "That's right, monsters! We don't play with monsters!"

"You're just as much of a monster as your snowman!"

"Freak! You killed your own mother!"

Kentaro saw that the boy did not refute after being scolded. He just wiped the snow off his face, but the corners of his eyes turned red and he looked like he was about to cry.

"Feng! Come here!" One of the boys called his name, but when he came over, he kicked down the snowman he had built.

The originally intact snowman was kicked down on the snow and broke into pieces: its hands were broken, its head was knocked crooked, and its red nose rolled on the ground.

Seeing that the little boy named Feng did not resist, Kentaro just squatted down and carefully picked up the "red nose", put it in the palm of his hand and wiped it carefully to clean it.

When the other children saw this scene, they all burst into laughter.

Their endless ridicule finally made the boy burst into tears. But he just wiped his tears silently, then stood up and began to tidy up his snowman alone, trying to restore it.

Seeing that he didn't dare to resist, the children laughed and teased him even more happily.

Feng remained silent and just did his own thing quietly.

Until the first kid threw a snowball at him.

Feng subconsciously raised his head and exclaimed.

The first kid who started the fight looked towards the eaves of the corridor as if he was afraid after the fight. He paused for a few seconds. Then, as if he had received some permission, he started throwing snowballs at Feng continuously.

Xiao Feng hugged his head and cried out in embarrassment.

Hearing his wailing, the children laughed even more happily and started throwing snow at him. Some children even took out stones from the flower bed.

The stones fell on the boy's thin body with varying degrees of severity. He could not resist and could only squat, hold his head, and sob quietly.

Kentaro felt like he couldn't bear to watch it anymore.

But just as he was about to go over, he saw an elderly, hunchbacked man limping towards him.

The old man held the beautiful boy in his arms like a hen protecting her chicks, and shouted, "Stop fighting! Stop fighting! Everyone, stop fighting."

The children ignored the old man, and seeing this, they became even more excited. They not only hit the boy, but also the hunched old man.

Kentaro knew this old man. He was the head of the elders of the Gojo family and one of the four great curse directors of the General Council - Lord Masaru.

He had met him two and a half years ago, when he had just resigned from his position as Director of Spells due to some "accidents".

I heard from my mother Ryoko that he has been "abandoned" by the head of the family. He doesn't quite understand what "abandoned" means. Does it mean that the status of an elder has been abolished? Or something else...

Hey, Kentaro suddenly felt a little sad. It's true that no one can stay beautiful forever, and no flower can stay red forever. The person who was once so powerful has become so miserable now.

He saw the old man tightly protecting the child named Feng and holding him in his arms. The beautiful boy, because he was protected, began to cry loudly in the old man's arms.

Hearing the child crying, he couldn't help but shed tears and murmured, "Master, my poor Master Feng."

The boy in his arms also sobbed and hugged the old man, "Woo, woo, Master Zheng."

"Master..."

The old and the young hugged each other tightly.

It makes people feel sad.

After a while, Gojo seemed to have no other options. He knelt down facing the other side of the courtyard and begged bitterly, "Master Wu! Master Wu... I beg you... I beg you... Please stop! Just think of it as Madam Qin's sake, Master!"

As he said this, he knelt down on the ground and banged his head hard on the cold snow.

"Master Wu... If Madam knew how you treated Master Feng, I wonder how sad she would be, Master Wu..." The old man shouted to Yi Fang heartbreakingly.

Kentaro looked in the direction where the old man was kneeling and kowtowing, but he saw a young nobleman in kimono standing at the other end of the courtyard.

The wind and snow blew into the eaves of the corridor, and his white sleeves were gently blown, and the white bandage tied behind his eyes fluttered in the wind. His long silver hair and white kimono almost blended into the surrounding snowy scenery.

But he just leisurely enjoyed the snow scene, and seemed not to care about the old man's call.

Kentaro saw the maid behind the nobleman pour him a cup of hot tea. He held the cup and took a sip comfortably.

But after hearing Wu Tiaozheng mention "Mrs. Qin", a crack clearly appeared on that calm and smiling face.

He placed the teacup on the saucer held by the maid and looked in the direction of Gojo.

Looking coldly and expressionlessly.

He is just like a god...Kentaro thought.

But when he looked at this noble man, he felt that he looked a bit like Miss Xing, especially his nose and mouth.

Also...just now Gojo was calling him "Master Satoru".

Could it be that he is...

The cold snow made the ground in the courtyard hard. Kentaro felt the chill running through his feet as he stood under the eaves.

The old man protected the child, knelt on the ground and kowtowed again and again.

The snow was hardened by the moisture on the ground and condensed into frozen snow, which was hard and cold. After he knocked on the snow a dozen times, the blood stains the snow on the ground red.

The bright red blood and the white ground were very eye-catching.

"Wuuuu...Grandpa, let's not beg him anymore! Xiao Feng will take you to get bandaged..." Seeing that the great-grandfather who had always protected him was bleeding, Feng burst into tears in panic.

Hot tears slid down his beautiful and tender face, falling drop by drop on the snow, leaving small black holes on the white snow.

As if he was bored, Kentaro snorted at the nobleman in plain clothes and said casually, "How boring. Xing, let's go."

The bandage covered his eyes, making it impossible to see his expression at the moment.

Kentaro then saw Sister Xing standing behind him...

Miss Xing...Miss Xing has grown taller. The 12-year-old girl has started to grow taller.

But at this moment, she lowered her head, said nothing, and tried her best to reduce her presence.

But her tense expression and her hands tightly grasping her skirt...still revealed her nervousness and sadness.

He wanted to say hello to Sister Xing, but he didn't dare.

Miss Xing is the only daughter of the head of the family.

The young man just now called her "Apricot (あんず)" without any honorific, and just now Masaru called him "Satoru-sama"...

Then he is the head of the Gojo family...

As the son of Gojo Ryoko, the head of the Gojo family's Kobe branch, this was his first time meeting the head of the main family. Their head was indeed a god-like figure.

But...Master Feng is his biological son.

Why would he torture his own children?

Kentaro was puzzled.

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After Gojo Satoru left, Gojo Ken hurried forward and helped Gojo Masaru into the house. He poured a cup of hot water for Gojo Masaru and Xiao Feng respectively, and then asked the people below to make some ginger tea.

"Master Feng, go find Miss Xing. Xian and I have something to say." Gojo was looking at the boy in front of him.

Feng listened and nodded obediently, "Well, then...then Grandpa, you..." He stood up, but forgot to come over as he looked back every few steps.

"I'm fine, you go ahead."

After Feng left, Gojo Ken spoke: "Uncle, you are such a fool. Why do you have to go against the head of the family?" He knocked on the coffee table with his folding fan, very confused.

In his opinion, the head of the family just didn't want Young Master Feng to have an easy life.

Many of the children today were summoned from branch families by the head of the family in the name of "training". The branch families were very happy that their children were valued by the head of the main family, so they were naturally willing to send them here. Some children were brought here in the name of finding playmates for Young Master Feng.

Now it seems....training? .....playmate?