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

On May [-]th of the first year of Yuanji, Iemo Tokugawa, who had been stranded in Kyoto for five months, finally set off to return to Edo.

Fuyuya was invited to send Iemo Tokugawa out of Nijo Castle, and took a boat from Fushimi to Osaka.

Liang Xia was also invited, and Prince Miyanokochi seemed to like this clever little girl very much.

She is the same age as her husband Tokugawa Iemo, and at 18 years old, she is not much older than Liang Xia. She needs to be more naive, but she has a gentle temperament and is a very easy person to get along with, so Liang Xia doesn't have to force herself to socialize too much.

After sending the Tokugawa family away on board the ship, on the way back, they met with the Kyoto Shojidai who also sent the general away.

Matsudaira Nobuhide leaned over specially, and reminded: "Ishitani, you have to be careful recently, some troublesome things may happen."

Fuyuya nodded to express his understanding, what Matsudaira Nobuhide said was undoubtedly about the fall of the school.

The departure of Iemo Tokugawa, one of the eyes of the storm, not only did not ease the situation, but made the atmosphere in Kyoto even more tense. What a big move, even the sword-drawing room for "Heavenly Punishment" is much more peaceful.

Now that Tokugawa Jiamao has finally left with his soldiers, the Banbai faction can start to make trouble.

After Matsudaira Nobuhide finished speaking, he left Anpingya's team again. After all, the closer he was to Kyoto Soshidai, the more likely he would be affected by the Banbai faction. After all, he still had some concerns about Fuyuya's identity, and he couldn't return to his former indifference. .

Back in the capital, Liang Xia rarely took the initiative to ask: "...Father, can we go out for a while and return to the main hall later?"

For Shigu Liangxia, there are not many opportunities to go shopping.In the past, she had to help in the store every day, but now she has to learn a lot of things every day-through the relationship of Tokugawa Jiamao, she hired a Western woman as a tutor to teach her Western things, languages ​​and cultures. After all, the following The times are changing extremely rapidly, and those who fall behind will be beaten.

"of course can!"

Naturally, Dongmi will not disappoint her lovely adoptive daughter, let Kagemaru and the others leave first, go shopping with Diarmuid with Liang Xia, and at the same time secretly decide to increase the itinerary for Liang Xia to inspect various patrol spots in Anping House .

Diarmuid is probably one of the most well-known Westerners in Kyoto now, and most people in Kyoto have gotten used to his presence, so he won't attract crowds from time to time like he did at first.

The experience of the former town girl still has a great influence on Liang Xia. She seldom pays attention to the jewelry, kimono, rouge and other things that girls like. Instead, her eyes always linger on the stalls of vegetables, meat houses, fish houses, etc .

"Father, look, this family's tofu looks very good...ah!" Subconsciously pulling on Dongya's sleeve, Liang Xia said happily, and then remembered that she no longer needed to worry about the quality of the ingredients. Preoccupied, he froze in place.

On the contrary, the shop owner heard Liang Xia's words. Although he was also surprised how this obviously well-dressed lady would pay attention to tofu, he still interjected occupationally: "Miss, no one on the street who sells the tofu I sell is good! This I just ground them all this morning, they are very fresh, don’t you want to buy a piece to take home? There are also newly arrived kelp knots, just out of the sun, it will taste delicious when you buy it back and make soup!”

Liang Xia was immediately overwhelmed by the shopkeeper's enthusiasm, but Dongmi walked over to the stall, looked carefully at the tofu on top, and said, "It's very good, so let's buy two yuan and go back, and give me the seaweed knot too." Buy some."

"Master Toya, are you planning to show off your talents today?" Diarmuid said with a smile, not surprised.

"That's right, I bought everything anyway, and I haven't done it for a long time."

"Ishi, Shigu-sama..." The shop owner seems to have recognized Toyomi - probably through Diarmuid. If you look carefully, you can find a signboard at the entrance of this tofu shop with "Peace" engraved on one side A wooden sign with two characters.

"Well, is the business of the store doing well recently?"

"Yes, thanks to you, it's been a long time since no ronin dared to harass you." The shopkeeper kept nodding. He didn't know whether he was excited or frightened. With trembling hands, he wrapped the tofu and seaweed knots in green leaves and handed them over. He gave it to Diarmuid who paid, and then said to Liang Xia: "Master Shigu and Miss are welcome to come back next time!"

At this time, two other guests came over, "Uncle, pack some fresh tofu for me..."

"Ah, it's Mr. Ishitani and Mr. Diarmuid." Another person obviously recognized Fuyuya and his party.

"You are...the one with the gun." Dong Mi followed the prestige and recalled who this somewhat familiar guy was.

Harada Sanosuke scratched his head in a good-tempered manner, "I am Harada. Mr. Ishitani, are you here... to buy tofu?"

"Yes, are you also here to buy tofu?"

Harada replied: "Well, the ingredients in the group are not enough, I will accompany Qianzuru to buy ingredients."

Seeing that the topic turned to himself, the little man who was traveling with him quickly put down the shopping list in his hand, bowed and said, "First, first time meeting, I am Yukimura Chizuru, and I am temporarily staying in the Shinsengumi for some things."

"Qianhe? I'm Ishitani Toya, this is my retainer Diarmuid, and my daughter Liang Xia, how is it, isn't it cute?"

"Father..." Liang Xia looked helplessly at Dong Mixiu's daughter who had turned on the silly father mode. As the one being shown in person, she always felt a sense of shame.

After saying hello, the two groups separated.

Since Tomiya intends to show off his skills today, he naturally won't just buy tofu and kelp knots. The three of them visited all the ingredients stores in this street and bought enough ingredients for tonight.

It is worth mentioning that probably because Harada and Yukimura Chizuru also came out to buy ingredients, the two groups of people met twice in the fish house and the meat house respectively.

"Mr. Xuecun... We met again, what a fate." When they met for the third time, Liang Xia couldn't help laughing.

"Hey...that's right, Miss Liang Xia." Xue Cun also laughed.

"Call me Liang Xia, can I call you Qianhe?"

"of course can."

Perhaps because of their similar age, Liang Xia and Xue Cun seemed to get along very well. The two put aside the three coolies, Harada, Toya and Dilumudo, and discussed and selected the meat together.

"Qianhe, come to Anping House to play with me next time if you are free?" Liang Xia took the initiative to invite when they parted.

"...Okay!" Xuecun glanced at Harada, and agreed happily after receiving Harada's nod.

On the way back, Diarmuiduo took the initiative: "That Xuecun gentleman——no, it should be the Xuecun girl?"

"Does Mr. Dilu think so too? I guess so." Liang Xia nodded and guessed: "Maybe there is some special reason... But if you live in the Shinsengumi, it is indeed more convenient to wear men's clothes."

Although the Xuecun Qianhe girl was wearing men's clothes and a waist knife, she was dressed like a ronin, but if you look carefully, it's not difficult to see her real gender, otherwise Liang Xia wouldn't have invited her.

"—I just don't know, how many people in the Shinsengumi know about this..." At this point, Fuyuya seemed to find it very interesting, and laughed.