My daily life with the Shiina sisters

"Hmm? Is that why Mahiru specifically called me?" Upon hearing that, Imagawa Kaede looked at Mahiru with a puzzled look on his face.

"I thought you were going to ask me why I knew that."

The cool air from the air conditioner brought the room to a suitable temperature, automatically ignoring the smell of perfume. Mahiru smelled the familiar scent on him and felt inexplicably at ease.

Mahiru did not answer the two questions above, even though she asked one of them herself. Instead, she asked directly:

"Then why did Feng know that I did this on purpose?"

"Yeah... because Mahiru's phone call gave me the feeling that if you don't come back, I'll be very sad. Seeing your look, I would turn it down even if I really have something to do at night."

"is it?"

"To be precise, she looks even more pitiful than Aqua who deliberately didn't give Can Can food."

"Meow meow!" (What a can!)

"Will Mahiru be sad if I don't come back?"

Hearing his question, Mahiru pretended to be fierce and said:

"At least I'll make you eat boiled vegetables for three days!"

"If you do this, I won't come back for dinner, right?"

"Then I'll make delicious food for you every day and fatten you up."

"Hey Fatty? Mahiru, are you trying to make me unable to walk?"

"When you become a big fat pig, I will be the only one who likes you because you are so ugly."

"Heartbeat hit. If you say something like that, then I will... I will..."

"What about you?" Mahiru asked with a smile.

"I'll just... launch a sneak attack."

"Knew you would... um."

Imagawa Kaede, who has little cultural knowledge, always chooses to express his feelings through practical actions.

……

"Mahiru, where did you hear these wisecracks from?"

"I thought of you when I saw you."

"Come again, right? Let me tickle you." As he said that, Imagawa Kaede began to tickle the soft flesh on Mahiru's waist.

"Stop...stop messing around. I'm going to cook."

"Then I'll go help?"

However, when they arrived at the kitchen, they looked at the clean and bright kitchen and then they remembered something.

"Emm... I'll go get it." Imagawa Kaede said:

After taking the ingredients still at the entrance, the preparation of dinner officially began.

"Don't you want to know how I knew Shinomiya-san would go looking for you?"

"Actually, I know."

"What do you say."

"Uh...actually it doesn't matter if you don't know."

"No, I'm going to say it."

"Then tell me." Imagawa Kaede said helplessly.

"It's Tanaka-san."

"Yes, I know." Imagawa Kaede still smiled and said, "Mahiru will be the mistress of my Imagawa family from now on."

Mahiru was stunned when she heard this, but she didn't continue. She was just guessing. She didn't know whether Imagawa Kaede knew that Shinomiya Kaguya was following him. It was Tanaka who told her, but it was obvious that she shouldn't hide it.

Mahiru is not stupid, on the contrary, she is very smart. She must tell Imagawa Kaede about what happened today.

Her current situation is actually like a rootless duckweed, and all she relies on is the recognition and favor of Imagawa Kaede and Mrs. Imagawa.

At the moment, she is actually not qualified to do some things to win people's hearts in private. To put it bluntly, if something really happens, she cannot protect those people. A master cannot even protect his own people... Rather than losing her prestige in vain, and even possibly making Imagawa Kaede disgusted, it is better to gain the trust of someone who can bring her a foundation.

Moreover, whether Imagawa Kaede knew about this matter was a very easy matter to speculate. In fact, not many people knew Imagawa Kaede's real-time whereabouts. Anyone with a little bit of brains could guess that this person was either Tanaka or Tanaka who was instructed by Mrs. Imagawa. As for other people, it was a problem whether they could pass the news to her.

Of course, she could also remain indifferent or even not make the call, then Imagawa Kaede would most likely not be suspicious.

But this brings up two issues:

First, she didn't dare to gamble, even though whether she went directly to the company gate to pick up Kaede Imagawa or called Kaede Imagawa, Kaede Imagawa might find something wrong. More importantly, she didn't want Kaede Imagawa to actually contact Kaguya Shinomiya.

Second, she "does not believe" Tanaka. She cannot bet on whether Tanaka was instructed by Mrs. Imagawa. Assuming that it was instructed by Mrs. Imagawa, to put it bluntly, Mrs. Imagawa gave her some "handles" on Imagawa Kaede, so that she can control Imagawa Kaede a little, or have more initiative. But these things can only show that Mrs. Imagawa does not like Shinomiya Kaguya, and it does not mean that she prefers Mahiru over Imagawa Kaede. Of course, Mrs. Imagawa definitely loves her son more.

Since this matter may be known by her, Tanaka, and Mrs. Imagawa, the confidentiality of this matter will be greatly reduced. Although the triangle is very stable in geometry, the reality is that the love triangle is not stable. There is also a saying: "God knows, the earth knows, you know, and I know." If there is more than one "he", it will not be so safe.

If one day the mother and son talked about this matter, who knows if they would have any grudges in their hearts.

Besides, her initiative to talk about this matter is actually a kind of protection for Tanaka, and it is also a barometer of her understanding of Imagawa Kaede's attitude towards her.

If she took the initiative to tell this matter, and Imagawa Kaede asked Mrs. Imagawa to replace Tanaka later, doesn't this mean that Imagawa Kaede didn't want her to know his movements and was still a little wary of her. In other words, if Imagawa Kaede cared about her thoughts, he would not have replaced Tanaka.

……

After a moment of silence, Imagawa Kaede said, "Mahiru, don't you want to know what I talked about with Shinomiya Kaguya?"

However, Mahiru spoke in the same tone as Imagawa Kaede just now.

"I...I know."

"Still learning from me!"

"Hehe, actually it doesn't matter if you don't tell me. I believe you."

Imagawa Kaede is not stupid about this. If she says not to tell you, then you won’t tell her. Can Imagawa Kaede indulge her?

"At the beginning..." (Roughly repeat, omitting some bad parts.)

"Why did you say that Baiyin Yuxing liked her? And does Baiyin Yuxing really like her?"

"Don't you think this is more interesting? Like a fairy tale? And it will at least keep her away from me."

"The Princess and the Gray Boy?"

"Hahaha."

"Shinomiya-san is really charming. I'm so envious."

"What are you envious of? Who else would dare to like you except me?"

"You mean I'm bad."

"Before, no one except me dared to express their love for Shinomiya Kaguya."

……

"You stepped on me."

"Give you a massage."

PS: The Ooku was the harem of the Tokugawa Shogun. Just apply this to the story of Zhen Huan.

The actual ruler of the island country at that time was the shogun rather than the emperor. To put it simply, the emperor represented sacrificial religion and was spiritual, while the shogun represented politics.

This is also why the emperor can continue to rule. It is not right to say this about the emperor. If Oda Nobunaga had not died early, the shogun would not have been replaced.

Some people say that the emperors of ancient China would change but the island countries would not. This is also the reason why the Chinese emperor is a combination of politics and sacrificial religious spirit. The so-called "the most important affairs of a country are sacrifice and military." Well, this seems to explain more. Sacrifice is sacrifice, and military is military. If ancient politics did not have military support... If you bring politics into it, some people will have ideas about power.

Or to understand it from another perspective, why the descendants of Zhang in the south and Confucius in the north were able to pass on their teachings (Zhang: Longhushan Tianshifu, Taoism. Confucius: Qufu Confucius Confucianism, I won’t explain what Confucianism is). Why Western Catholicism still exists today is all for the same reason. To put it bluntly, it is a branch of culture, and if used well, it can feed back into politics.

Well, farther away.

The creation of Ooku is a bit fantastic, but it also met the needs of the shogun during the Tokugawa shogunate.

[Ooku, mainly produced during the Tokugawa Shogunate period. 】

Let me first give you some background. The Tokugawa family was the ultimate winner, but the island nation values ​​bloodline, and the Tokugawa family claims to be descendants of the Minamoto clan. (The Minamoto clan was born from the imperial family, so bloodline is self-evident.)

But the real "Celestial Dragons" all know how unsophisticated the Tokugawa family is. To put it bluntly, they are nothing.

The Imagawa family (the same clan as the Ashikaga shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, and the most qualified to replace the Ashikaga shogun as the new shogun): The Tokugawa turtle is nothing.

By the way, we have to distinguish between "court nobles" and "samurai". To put it bluntly, samurai are nouveau riche, and others look down on them. The Tokugawa family is a samurai family.

Therefore, the Tokugawa family began to "change blood" after coming to power.

There are two ways to exchange blood. One is to follow the Fujiwara family's blood learning, marrying their daughter to the emperor so that the son born by their daughter will become the next emperor. The Tokugawa family tried it, but all the children born died, so it didn't work.

Another way is to marry princesses and the daughters of ministers.

The person who was married at this time was the shogun's legal wife and was called Midaisho. (The word Midaisho existed before.)

However, although the imperial daisho here have high status, they generally do not have offspring. The reason is that they are afraid that the families of the nobles will take advantage of the opportunity to seize power. It is the same reason as guarding against in-laws.

But the other women fought each other fiercely. Basically, they would unite to deal with whoever had a son. Therefore, Tokugawa had to adopt a son every two or three generations.

Yeah, it's very similar to Legend of Zhen Huan.