What made you have the illusion that I am the protagonist! ?

Although Katsura Kogoro obviously didn't just come here to thank Fei Cun, but in this invitation alone, he didn't mention more, it seems that he just came here to get acquainted.

But the facts are similar, because of the wanted portrait, Gui probably felt that the owner of the Anping House, who had become famous in a short period of time, might have a certain kind of goodwill towards the Changzhou Domain and the Restoration—at least towards Feicun himself. , He also confirmed this at the banquet.

For the great cause of the restoration, Gui, who has been working hard to gather all available forces, also has the idea of ​​​​wanting to win over the other party, especially when he learns that Fuyomi holds such a big killer as Anpingya.

Kyoto can be said to be the base camp of the shogunate forces. This can be seen from the fact that the guardians of Kyoto are all the lords of the Aizu domain who belong to the shogunate's pro-vassal——

However, the Reformers could not give up this place, because it was also the emperor's residence.

This is as unimaginable as the nine admirals guarding the capital but not the emperor's cronies, but it is the best proof that the emperor who has been weak for thousands of years and the shogun's master and minister are upside down.

Fuyuya, who runs Anpingya, is equivalent to opening up the lower forces in the entire Kyoto. No matter who is interested in making waves in this city, it is doomed to be unable to bypass the existence of Anpingya.

Gui's invitation is just the beginning, and it shows that Dongya and Anpingya have officially entered the eyes of many forces.

However, these are irrelevant to Fuyumi. When he returns to the main hall after the appointment, Xiaoberry has already gone back temporarily, and only Diarmuid is looking after the house.

"Master Toya, you are back."

"Well, did anything special happen? How's Berry?"

Yingling shook her head as the answer to the first question, and then answered the second question: "She seems very troubled."

"Well, although it was an idea that came to me on a whim, I think it's a good suggestion, right?"

"Indeed, I also think Miss Berry is very suitable." Diarmuid laughed.

This is not just to cater to the whim of his own lord, he really thinks so.

"But it's not as easy as you say, is it?"

"Well..." Fuyumi scratched her cheek, but did not deny it.

Indeed, adopting an adopted son to inherit the family business is very common in this era, but the premise is - "adopted son".

First of all, patriarchal patriarchy does exist in traditional society, just like although the Genji couple love Keiji and Xiaoberry equally, and even prefer caring daughters, the way they pave the way for future generations is still inherited by boys The family business, the girl married off.

Secondly, regardless of gender, Xiao Berry came from a businessman after all, even if Fuyuya can designate her as the heir, but whether she can subdue the samurai under Anpingya like a real heir is another matter.

However, perhaps it was precisely because of this that Fuomi came up with the idea of ​​helping Xiaoberry.

As the smarter brother and sister, she is destined to be married early because she was born as a woman. Although both Dongmi and Diarmuido believe that even if Xiaoberry gets married according to her parents' arrangement, with her wisdom, she will still be married. Be able to manage your life well.

It's just——Fuyuya couldn't help but want to see how far she could go if she gave this child another fate.

"By the way, Master Fuyuya, another businessman invited you to drink."

"Where?"

"Mippongi."

"...I don't think about anyone who goes to Huajie, so just push them away, Diarmuid."

Diarmuid laughed softly at Tomi's headache, probably because he purposely said such an invitation to be narrow-minded.

That's right, there is another reason for the idea of ​​adopting a daughter-that is, during this period of time, there are endless businessmen who want to be cheap matchmakers for him.

Possessing a huge property, with a good personality, good swordsmanship, and good looks, but... still single at the age of 24, this is undoubtedly the "Diamond King" of this era.

Especially the businessmen who have contacts, perhaps because they are concerned about the fictitious and mysterious family background behind Dongmi, there are no ones who really introduce him to his wife, but there are quite a few who want to send him concubines.

Dongya is very annoyed by this kind of behavior, he has no plans to start a family and have children here, and naturally he doesn't want to harm other women.

I hope that after having an heir, there will be fewer such things - after all, those who want to give him concubines, many of them want to take this opportunity to give birth to an heir, and it is best to hold the next generation of Anping House in their hands.

However, what Dongmi didn't expect was that after he adopted Xiao Berry as his adopted daughter and established him as the heir, many people looked at him and then at Diarmuid with strange eyes, and finally realized suddenly.

By the way, the ones given to him later turned out to be beautiful pageboys and boys.

—Of course, that’s something for another time.

……

Just as Fuomi thought, Xiaoberry brought a formal answer the next day.

Xiao Berry knelt down in front of Dongmi, bowed and kowtowed: "Master Dongmi... I am willing to be your adopted daughter."

In fact, with her intelligence, she can naturally think that this matter will be an opportunity to change her fate. However, for a 12-year-old girl, this is really not an easy decision to make.

Because it also means that she must leave her native family and cut off the connection with her blood relatives, especially when she gets along with the Izumiya family in harmony.

In the end, not only Xiaoberry made up his mind, but the proprietress, Yuanji and Keiji also agreed to do so, which undoubtedly stems from their love for Xiaoberry.

Continuing to be a merchant's daughter, the future is just to marry another merchant's son-they can't provide Xiaoberry with a better future, but Dongmi can.

"...get up."

Dong Mi helped Xiao Berry up, "Then... from now on, your surname is Shi Gu like mine. As for your name, um... how about Liang Xia? Shi Gu Liang Xia."

"Shigu Liangxia...? Thank you, Father." Xiao Berry... No, it was Shigu Liangxia who raised her head, with determination in her eyes. Now that she has made a choice, she will stick to it.

"Hey... Liang Xia."

On the contrary, Fuyuya scratched his cheek unaccustomed to it.

Although she had a daughter before she got married, it felt good.