Those days in Honmaru

Natsume held a magazine in his hand, looked at one page with a complicated expression, looked up at the expectant Fu Sangshen in front of him, a little helpless: "How should I put it, this is the first time I've heard about it on this festival. Ah, and it's not our country's holiday at all..."

"It's okay, it's okay~ what's important is the atmosphere, master!" Rantoshiro held his face in his hands, his eyes seemed to shine, "Honmaru hasn't celebrated for a long time~ please, let's hold a competition!"

"That's true..."

Under the gaze of Ranto Shiro's a little excited eyes, Natsume finally nodded, and before Ranto Shiro cheered, he rushed to say: "Let's talk first, I don't know anything about this. Since you If you insist so much, then I will leave it to you to host it?"

Rantoshiro patted his chest, then clenched his hands into fists, "Leave it to me!"

After Rantoshiro ran out excitedly, Natsume put the magazine on the table. In the photos on this page, there were several exquisite and magnificent dragon boats. The rest of the writing was all Chinese characters, and Natsume could only recognize part of it. He looked at the two large characters that occupied almost half of the page, and hesitantly read: "...Duan... Wu?"

Ranto Shiro moved very quickly, he shared the good news with everyone in Honmaru, and soon got many second opinions, only one person felt that the veins on his forehead were about to burst out again.

Hasebe coughed twice, and Ranto Shiro looked at him tremblingly. As the first assistant officer of Honmaru, if Hasebe said no, maybe Natsume would say no.

Rantoshiro said carefully: "That... is there any problem?"

Hasebe looked at him for a while, then sighed and compromised: "No problem, just remember to pay attention to the funds, you all know how hard it is to earn a small sentence."

Bodo nodded in agreement, "Leave this to me, Hasebe, I will be in charge of supervision!"

But Ranto Shiro had already run away when Hasebe approved him, and he happily ran in front of Tanuki Masakuni, clasped his hands together: "I want to ask you something, can you?"

Tong Tian Guanzhengguo took a step back suddenly, his tanned face turned red suspiciously because he was always cultivating outside, he faltered and asked: "What, what, what's the matter?"

Rantoshiro didn't notice the other party's predicament at all, and said with a smile, "Well, isn't Tong Tanuki always going to the back mountain? I guess you might know where there are trees suitable for boats. Can you take me with you?" go~"

"Oh, oh! Of course it's no problem!"

"That's great!" Ranto Shiro hugged the opponent's arm, "Then let's set off quickly, the materials must be collected as soon as possible!"

Tong Tian Kan Masakuni became stiff all of a sudden, and he led Randou Shiro to the back mountain on the same hands and feet.

Gemini Dagger watched the whole process from behind, and looked at each other: "Is this bullying him?"

"I do not know."

"It always looks like..."

"It's kind of like love..."

It only took Ranto Shiro and Tongtian Guanzhengguo an afternoon to bring back several tree trunks that are quite suitable for making dragon boats. Let him do it!"

However, the consequence of trying to be brave is temporary exhaustion and paralysis. In order to compensate him, Ranto Shiro deliberately found Yakuken, asked him to take the special medicine to replenish physical strength, and sent it to Toda Kan Masakuni.

"Tokanuki, open your mouth, ah~" Ranto Shiro kindly fed the medicine to Tunikan Masakuni, his eyes were flustered but he opened his mouth cooperatively, and then...

"Wow! Cough, cough..." Tong Tian Kanzhengguo stood up, covered his mouth, and ran away. Ranto Shiro followed with an inexplicable expression, "What's wrong with you?"

The two ran away quickly. Mutsu Mori Yoshiyuki looked at them amusedly, then turned his head to Yamafuku Kunihiro and said, "Let's leave them alone. Anyway, let's make the prototype of the dragon boat first."

Before he could speak, Yamabuku Kunihiro was already doing preliminary processing. He gave Mutsu Mori Yoshiyuki a thumbs up: "This is also part of the practice, Kakaka~"

Mutsu Mori Yoshiyuki took out a few pieces of paper from nowhere and spread them out on the ground. It was a complete drawing of a dragon boat. Wanwu is such a great place.”

"It seems that several teams have signed up, how about you?"

"Although it's a bit regrettable, I won't participate this time." Mutsu Mori Yoshiyuki held up the camera hanging on his chest, and smiled cheerfully: "Kahaha~ I have more important work! This time I will also Everyone's smiles are recorded!"

A few days later, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Natsume looked at the completely changed Honmaru with admiration, and there were decorations everywhere, and sighed: "It's really powerful in action and execution..."

Next to Wuhutui and Akita ran over holding something, Natsume asked curiously: "It's almost time for the game, don't you guys go?"

"Ah, master!" The two children gathered around and showed Natsume what they had in their hands. "There are still some rooms that have not been hung with wormwood. Let's go there after finishing."

"Is that so..."

Seeing Natsume's puzzled look, they explained one sentence at a time:

"I heard that this is a tradition, it can drive away evil spirits and bring good luck!"

"And wormwood also has medicinal functions, brother Yaoyan told us!"

"Really..." Natsume was about to say something, but another voice interrupted him, "The team list is out, do you want to see it?"

Tsurumaru stretched half of his body from the door and looked around, holding a piece of paper in his hand and waving at Natsume, his face was full of smiles, excited like a child.

Natsume took the paper out of curiosity, and looked at the team names on it speechlessly:

"AWT48 Must Win" participants: Atsuto Shiro, Ranto Shiro, Maeda Toshiro, Hirano Toshiro, Hakata Toshiro

"New Selection Group Participation!" Participants: California Kiyomitsu, Yamato Mori Andada, Izumi Mori Kanesada, Horikawa Kunihiro, Chosoya Toru

"Nobunaga is the best~" Participants: Sozo Somoni, Candlestick Kiri Mitsutada, Fudo Yukimitsu, Yakiri Hasebe, Yaken Toshiro

"Grandpa Can't Lose" Participants: Mikami Tsukimune, Higakiri, Kagemaru, Tsurumaru Kuninaga, The Lion King

Natsume looked at the indescribable list and was silent for a while.

Tsurumaru blinked at him, "If you win, is there any reward?"

Natsume secretly looked around, "What reward do you want..."

Taking advantage of him not paying attention, Tsurumaru smacked his face lightly, and ran away with a smile, "Haha, I'll take the reward first, wait for my good news~"

"……shameless"

Several teams took their own dragon boats and got ready in the river, while the rest of them were watching.

Standing on the rostrum, Natsume looked at the people who were eager to try, and raised his hands—Ranto Shiro was in charge of the design, Hachisuka Kotoru provided the fabric, Horikawa Kunihiro was in charge of the production of the flag, and waved down vigorously: "Then, Hereby I announce that Honmaru's first dragon boat racing competition begins now!"

As soon as the words fell, several dragon boats rushed out at the same time.

Minghu, who was in charge of the commentary, held the microphone, and the little fox cooperated and moved over to start explaining:

"Currently the 'AWT48' team is at the forefront. As expected, the concerted efforts of the brothers are quite effective!"

"'Shinsengumi' is not to be outdone, and follows closely behind!"

"Oh, the 'Nobunaga' team seems to be behind a lot, we need to speed up!"

"Huh? Wait a minute! Mikazuki-sama lost his paddle! Too bad! Will the 'Grandfather' team be the last one?!"

"Izumi Mamoru and Horikawa are starting to use some evil skills!"

"'AWT48' has been seriously affected and lost the No.1 position. It's a pity!"

"Ah! The Nobunaga team seems to have lost one person from the very beginning. Where did Candlestick Cut go!"

"Oh! Kagemaru actually completed the work of two people alone. It is worthy of reassurance. The 'Grandfather Taidao' team came from behind!"

"Now, the 'Grandfather' team and the 'Shinsengumi' team are going to compete, and the final winner is..."

"I never expected it! The team 'Grandpa' won in the end. Grandpa won't lose!"

The round of commentary was finally over, the little fox calmed down a bit, and said to Minghu who hadn't spoken yet: "Yeah, everyone in Awataguchi has worked hard, but it's a pity that this kind of competition that depends on strength is still better than Taidao ~"

Minghu nodded and said in a low voice, "Yes..."

Natsume touched his face aside, thinking: He can really take the first place...

On the other side, Candlestick Qie Guangzhong came over with a large plate of zongzi and shouted, "Sorry! I was a little late to make these zongzi!"

Then he got some unfriendly looks from his teammates, "What...what's the matter..."

Fudo Xingguang said depressedly: "The game is already over!"

Candlestick looked back and forth at the crowd: "Eh...?"

At night, Ranto Shiro rolled happily under the covers, "The competition is really fun~"

He picked up the latest magazine at hand, opened it, and his eyes lit up again.

"The quadrennial event, the Football World Cup?!"

It looks like Honmaru's next festival is getting closer.

The author has something to say:

Sprinkle a little dog food, happy Dragon Boat Festival everyone~