Get rid of the crumb boss and go back to your hometown to get married

"Ah Kaoru, Master Fukuzawa, it's so early today?"

The tribute was handed over to the wife of the mistress. At this moment, the mistress also stepped out wearing clothes. He didn't wear a hunting suit, so he slipped on a haori over his home-made yukata. He smiled crookedly when he saw people: " Here we go again, if you have been to the main hall, go to the cemetery, and I will trouble you to help me when I arrive at the festival soon?"

This was said to Kaoru, but he was staring at Fukuzawa Yukichi, thinking that this has already tricked a believer into coming to the door every day?Although this young master was a bit stingy, he never stopped making offerings, very good.I want to let her stand on the stage for half a night when she is dressed up during the festival, and the money for repairing the temple will be earned in about a year.

There is only one shrine in the town, and the summer festival will only be held here. The small square is where the mikoshi is greeted and sent off. There must be a maiden standing on a special platform to dance and cheer for the gods.The snacks and amusements that young people prefer are crowded outside on both sides of the approach. In addition, artists who sing Noh and Joruri from Fucheng will be invited. In short, it must be very lively and make the gods happy. .

The small scale of the shrine is naturally not as well-regulated as the festivals in Fucheng, but it is definitely a big event in the town. Even the people who invite to help have to think carefully, and those with unlucky birthdays are not allowed. Please——A Kaoru is an exception, she was born too well, even if the life experience is bleak, the gods will not hate it.

"Oh, I got it. I have to trouble my wife to talk to Mrs. Kondo, otherwise it won't work." The girl responded crisply and walked along the approach.

The length of the approach to the shrine is all about the length. The longer the approach, the more pious the believers who build the shrine are to the gods. There is also the rule that everyone has to walk to the main hall step by step, which forms a wonderful scene of "walking for half an hour and visiting for 10 minutes".This shrine is not big, and it is only for the family of the priest to live. Occasionally, when it is too late, believers can stay overnight if they cannot go down the mountain.However, few people are willing to stay on the mountain, so there are very few guests.

After receiving the offerings, the wife of the priest placed them all under the offerings and bowed, and Ah Xun followed behind and bowed, bowing her head and clasping her hands together to make a silent wish. She raised her head and pulled the red and white intertwined cotton rope to shake the bell affixed to it. , The jingle sound means that the gods have heard what the believers want, and then clap their hands together to make a sound, and then bow their heads to pray.

It's like doing business, the gods will only do things after receiving the offerings, and they don't even have the offerings, so I don't bother to care about you poor ghosts!

She doesn't believe in such things. When the Saito couple fished her out of the sea, there was only a bell engraved with the word "Kun" but it didn't ring. The previous past seemed to be covered by some barrier, so she couldn't see it clearly. There is no need for gods to worry about her in such a way to and fro.

The girl folded her palms "piously" and bowed again. The sunlight in the forest shone on her through the gaps in the leaves. At this moment, she was more like a god than the mirrors, stones and iron pieces in the main hall.

You can only go to the cemetery after paying homage to the chief priest. This is another way.

There is absolutely nothing related to death in the shrine - it is widely believed that "death" is unclean and unlucky, and the gods cannot be allowed to see the ugly changes after death, which makes the old man feel bad.Not to mention such a large cemetery, even the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, who sheltered the dead children, was not accepted to worship and could only squat on the side of the road to enjoy the incense, let alone think about others.

In order to make a living, the Lord's family opened a cemetery on a higher mountain to compete with the monks for business. It is also because no one cares about him in this small rural place-the temple is in the next town, and the monks there are fine. Occasionally, I will come here to enjoy the flowers and drink, and get along very happily with each other.

Kaoru exited the shrine from the back door and continued to walk up. The mountain road here is not paved with bluestone slabs. A dirt road winds up, and behind the green grass is the cemetery hidden in the depths.

She fetched water to clean the tombstone, and went to the back to pull out the weeds that grew on the seal.In summer, the vegetation is lush, and green and short grass seeds sprout from the soil in just one day. Unfortunately, they are not grown in the right place, and they are pulled out and thrown out.Cleaning up the weeds, Ah Xun opened his hand to drive away the crows that fell beside him, and finally took out a yellow orange and put it in front of the tombstone: "I was invited to eat, it's very sweet, so I want to buy a belt Give it to you too."

In fact, what you can't taste at all is just a fantasy made by the survivors in order to continue to live without so much pain.

After squatting for a while, she got up and cleaned up the area a little farther around the cemetery, and then went down the mountain after looking back to see if there were any omissions. After worshiping the dead, she can no longer go to the shrine, and she has to take another road.

Spring is over, and the wild flowers that used to cover the mountains have long been replaced by miscanthus that can bury half of a person, and if you are not careful, you will leave scratches on your hands and faces.Ah Xun's footsteps are light and nimble, jumping over a few soil stalks completely covered by weeds, and after turning a corner, he found the thatched pavilion at the bottom of the mountainside.

The pavilion is also taken care of by the shrine. After the heavy rain a few days ago, it has been replaced with new thatch. It has not yet dried out, and it exudes a faint fresh grass smell.Standing under the pavilion, the young man in green clothes saw her jumping down the stone steps and appearing on the road, his expression became more vivid: "Send you back?" He thought for a while: "Or go to the bookstore with you?"

Even a blind man could sense her thirst for new knowledge, and it was hard for him to think of a suggestion that would please her.

The girl was really happy: "You can read, can you teach me?"

When 90.00% of the people in the country are illiterate, the remaining [-]% who are literate are particularly special and worthy of admiration.

The black jade-like eyes began to shine again, Fukuzawa Yukichi softened his heart and agreed: "Don't talk, it's okay to learn swordsmanship even if you want to."

What?Women are not allowed to hold knives?My own knife can be touched by whoever wants to touch it, no one else can control it!

He wondered in his heart whether to move the work of being a supervisor in the dojo to the afternoon, so as not to delay meeting her in the morning, and to stay together for a longer time.

Like the bright moon breaking free from the dark clouds and shining light on the quiet lake, her whole body lit up following his promise: "Well, I will come to the shrine every morning to deliver offerings. If the sun does not appear on a certain day, it is the Lord's house." If you can't come because of something, don't wait." She stretched out a little finger and shook it in front of him: "It's a deal, you can't go back on your word?"

Bai Shengsheng's little fingers stood upright, and his wrist was so thin that two fingers could be broken with a little effort. The white to transparent skin faintly revealed the soft blue tendons hidden underneath.He hesitated for a few seconds, pretending that he was just slow to react, and slowly stretched out his finger to touch it lightly before putting it down: "I won't regret it, as long as you don't regret it."

A Xun rolled his eyes, put his fingers behind his back and leaned closer to the "old pedant": "I'm going to work in the cotton mill by the river in the afternoon. Since you are willing to teach me how to read, the salary will be paid to you as a bundle of repairs. Call you a disadvantage!"

The voice was clear and sonorous, neither humble nor overbearing, and in the young man's ears there was a hint of stubbornness and fragility.In front of her, the temperature of his ears had never been normal, he pursed his lips and smiled softly: "What I want is not your Shuxiu."

"Huh? Then what do you want? As long as you want it, as long as I have it, it's fine."

The girl opened her hand openly for him to see, and he turned around and only glanced at it before turning back in a hurry: "..."

"I want you."

If you say something like this, you will be beaten vigorously as a disciple!

Just thinking about it, even his neck turned red.

Kaoru realized something from the sudden silence, squinted her eyes and looked sideways: "You...? What nonsense!"

"I didn't say anything..." The young man who wanted to confirm his family status in the future was robbed: "Don't even think about it! Don't be ashamed!"

Well, it's just that she can't think about it because of shyness, there is no other reason, it seems that she doesn't hate him in her heart.

The young man was generous and gentle, allowing her to puff up her cheeks and hum a few times, and then accompanied her to the bookstore.

The vast majority of "scholar-bureaucrats" nowadays believe that women are born to be a head lower than men, and women are naturally handicapped regardless of intelligence or physical strength.They blindfolded and refused to look at any achievements of women, it seems that only thinking this way can make these people barely maintain their inner peace.

Even if there are girls' schools in the big cities and there are women who live on their own and stand upright, in this social environment, it is still widely believed that women have no need for education at all, and no one is willing to spend energy to arrange for them.

A woman walking into a bookstore alone is definitely a bewildering and strange thing.But if the woman is accompanied by a man, the strange things will miraculously appear normal again.

Men understand the taste of red sleeves adding fragrance.

The only bookstore in the small town is next to the private school. It is deserted and unpopular, and no one walks here even on weekdays.The private school is also the only private school, with only a few children of the Wu family attending every now and then, sparsely like herding sheep.The bookstore owner doesn't sell books for a living, he's not even a real businessman.This vassal can live leisurely by relying on his family's land property. He opened a bookstore just to find a home for his ancestor's excessive collection of books, and to do something so as not to be too boring.

With this attitude, there are naturally fewer book buyers than expected, and those who can afford private schools do not lack those few textbooks at home, so the boss can only lie on the counter and wait for rabbits every day.

This morning, a young man in a green shirt led a girl in a pink haori into the room. He opened his eyes and then closed them to rest his mind—the young master of the Fuzawa family is not short of books, so he probably took the girl to see him. Novel.

Young people, with four or five points, also want to appear eight or nine points in front of their sweetheart.Such a pretty girl, if he had been young, he would have taken her around.For nothing else, even the envious eyes of other men are enough to make people feel at ease.

Fukuzawa Yukichi quickly selected the "Bamboo Cutter Story" marked with the fifty-syllabary map for Kaoru to use for enlightenment and literacy. He himself used the "Bamboo Cutter Story" purchased from the upper dynasty when his father was alive. The Analects of Confucius.The book is a good book...but it's too unfriendly to beginners, and I'm afraid I can't understand what it says in the first year.

There's no need to embarrass Ah Xun so much, it would be bad if she can't learn how to beat her so much that she never wants to see him again.