[Black Basket] Winter Cherry Blossoms

After Akashi's birthday, he took Saya back to Tokyo's main house, and planned to spend the rest of the winter vacation with her. Unfortunately, his wishful thinking was blocked by the elders in the family before he started.There is no other reason. The elders believe that the next heir of the family should be fully protected and should not be too close to danger. For this reason, they asked Akashi to temporarily keep a distance from Saya.

Obviously, this is someone fanning the flames within the alliance and deliberately exaggerating the danger of the incident.

Akashi Shunji quickly dismissed the request of the elders, thinking that their thinking is really unfounded, and young people's love affairs should be developed freely by them. If they, the elders, intervene without authorization, it will only produce counterproductive effects. Those who clamored to beat the mandarin ducks with sticks.

Facts have proved that Shunji Akashi's judgment was not wrong. There is no impenetrable wall in this world, and the words of advice from the elders were still passed on to the Hashimoto family by some caring people.As a result, at the New Year's Eve banquet within the alliance, the old belly snake who was invited to the banquet only stayed for 10 minutes before leaving early. Before leaving, he was very rude to say harsh words to the Akashi family.

"Don't worry about the elders of the Akashi family. My old belly snake has the ability to protect my granddaughter. There is no shortage of green leaves to support the flowers. Please forgive our Hashimoto family for not being blessed to be that green leaf."

Is this a disguised form of freezing the relationship between the two?

The words of the old belly snake really scared the old stubborn people of the Akashi family.

Perhaps in the past, they could proudly ignore what the Hashimoto family said.But today is different from the past. The Hashimoto family did not go bankrupt or find it difficult to operate after leaving the alliance. Go forward and not be eliminated by the wind and waves rolled up by the business world.

These more than ten years of business strategies are enough to prove that the old belly snake is not old and useless, but old and strong.His old fangs are still poisonous. Even without the cooperation with the Akashi family, the company can still have its own market. This is the strength of the Hashimoto family.And Shunji Akashi also took a fancy to this point, so he invited the Hashimoto family back to the alliance in order to eliminate the conservatives in the past, so that the alliance can get rid of the old system and regain its new life.

The elders competed with each other in secret, but the two young people were implicated. Originally, New Year's Eve was a happy day, but under the disturbance of the stubborn old people, Akashi could only watch Saya being taken away forcefully by the old belly snake, and the two were forced to separate.As a result, on that night, the two could not greet the New Year's bell together, and could only hope to meet through computer video to comfort the pain of lovesickness.

After this incident happened, Akashi Shunji was also very angry at the time. Although he was usually strict with his son and indifferent, when his son's vital interests were involved, he would mercilessly reprimand those troublemakers.

But what's interesting is that this time he didn't have time to vent his anger. Someone had already trained him so that the elders couldn't lift their heads. Who was that person? He was the oldest member of the Akashi family, the uncle of Akashi Seijuro ——Takashi Akashi.

"A bunch of useless things! They don't measure the pros and cons, they only talk about it. You can't even take care of my nephew and granddaughter-in-law. How can you talk about protecting the next Patriarch? I thank you for not harming my nephew and grandson! Don't think that I The old man doesn’t care about things when he retires behind the scenes, I’m here to give you a warning, if Xiao Zheng loses his fiancée, if you can’t find it, you will be at your own risk!”

Although the people being scolded are the elders of the Akashi family, they are middle-aged people of the same generation as Akashi Shunji, and facing the strong pressure of Akashi Takeshi, the head of the family, they are even more Don't dare to refute, who told the old man's brain to be as shrewd as before, and he hit the point. In just half an hour, they stayed in the small conference room next to the banquet hall, and were scolded by the old man.

As a junior, Akashi didn't speak the whole time, but just stared at other relatives with a dark face, complaining in his heart that those people were meddling in their own business.He has the ability to protect himself, and he has Masao Nakamura as a protector by his side, so his safety is not a problem, but those relatives just like to make a fuss, which made him and Saya separated, and he will sleep alone tonight.

"Xiaozheng, don't worry about her, she will come back." After admonishing those less motivated juniors, the uncle walked slowly to Akashi's side, and gently patted him on the shoulder, telling him not to overdo it. worry.

"Yes, Xiaozheng, wait for your uncle and grandpa to chat with Old Snake, you should recover your spirits tonight and go to pick up someone from Hashimoto's house tomorrow." The great-uncle also echoed with a smile.

"I see, thank you uncle and granduncle."

Akashi never doubted his uncle's ability. He once heard his father say that the Hashimoto family entered the Akashi family alliance a long time ago. The old man of the family, I am afraid that only the uncle and grandfather can do it.

"Grow up quickly, Xiaozheng, your uncle and grandma and I are still waiting for your good news. You must bring back the granddaughter of the old snake family."

After the old man said these words, he walked out of the meeting room with his wife on crutches, and what happened just now was like a short mist, which was blown by the strong wind and disappeared without a trace.

Those elders thought they had escaped, and they didn't need to be lectured again, but they didn't know the mystery hidden in the old man's words. After his scolding, some people hiding in the dark were slowly revealing their essence, waiting for the right time to make trouble , At that time, it was Shunji Akashi's time to close the net.

Fish, about to take the bait.

*******

With his uncle's promise, Akashi slept soundly on New Year's Eve. With the ringing of the New Year's bell, the new year has arrived.

The next day, when Akashi, who was full of sleep, woke up from his sleep, it was already the early morning of January 1. He got up to wash up quickly. He didn't even eat breakfast, so he hurriedly got into his car and rushed to Hashimoto's house to pick up someone.

Today is Hatsachi, and people usually visit shrines and temples on the night of December 12, or on the first day of the new year, to pray for a safe new year.Akashi and Saya were separated due to the incident last night, and they were unable to go to the shrine to welcome the New Year. This morning was the last chance, so he got up early to prepare, hoping to avoid crowds and delay time.

In the early morning, there were not many people on the street, but I still saw many people wearing kimonos and walking towards nearby shrines. Since last night, the major shrines and temples in Tokyo have been crowded with people, and the police dispatched a lot of manpower It can be seen from maintaining the order on the scene that the flow of people today will not be inferior to that of last night, it has only increased, not decreased.

Masao Nakamura drove Akashi to the gate of Hashimoto's mansion with Akashi. The gardener working at the gate stopped his work immediately when he saw Akashi's car, and communicated with the security personnel in the mansion by radio. After a while, the iron gate outside the mansion opened automatically, welcoming visitors into the mansion.

This is the first time for Akashi to come to the main house of the Hashimoto family in Tokyo. Compared with the old houses in Kyoto, the houses in Tokyo are very modern. Whether it is the garden or the overall design of the main house, they all tend to be European-style simple designs, giving people a sense of Feeling at ease, even the pets in the house can benefit from having fun in the garden.

As soon as he mentioned pets, shortly after Akashi got off the car, a white Shiba Inu and two fat puppies ran towards him. Akashi looked down curiously and found that the white Shiba Inu circling at his feet was Ruth, and the two puppies The fat puppy is the puppy it gave birth to last month, and it is also the child of his family Jack.

"Good morning, Seijuro." When Akashi wanted to squat down and say hello to the puppies, the hostess of the main house, Teriko, had already opened the door and came out to welcome the visiting guests.

"Happy New Year, Mrs. Huizi, please forgive me for visiting so early in the morning. I am here to pick up Saya." Since the uncle has already communicated with the old snake, Huizi should understand his trip without Akashi Ming the goal of.

"The child suffered from insomnia last night and fell asleep very late. Go to her room and wake her up first, and come downstairs to have breakfast with us later."

In the eyes of the guests last night, the relationship between the Hashimoto family and the Akashi family seemed to be in a frozen period, and there would be no possibility of peace talks, but in fact this was just a small disturbance.After a secret discussion between the parents of the two parties, the misunderstanding has long been resolved. However, in order to prevent some troublesome figures from continuing to create troubles, the two sides maintained a deadlock in order to wait for the opportunity to catch the troublemaker in the alliance.

"Then I'll excuse you first, I'll come down with Saya later."

With Teruko’s consent, Akashi was able to move around freely in Hashimoto’s mansion. It was just after 7 o’clock. In the house, only the security guards and Teruko woke up first. Everyone else was asleep. Did he come too early?

Thinking about it while walking, Akashi couldn't help slowing down when he was walking up the stairs, but Ruth and the two puppies who were leading the way in front did not have his worries, not only ran fast, but also barked very loudly, as if urging The people behind quickened their pace and reached their destination as soon as possible.

In this way, under the guidance of Ruth, the three dogs and one person walked through the corridor on the second floor and came to the door of one of the rooms. Akashi knocked on the door with his hand, but there was no response from inside. There was still no movement in the room. For the third time, according to Mrs. Huizi's explanation, he directly turned the doorknob to open the door, but encountered resistance during the twisting process. Obviously someone in the room was also opening the door. Could it be his knocking sound? Woke up Saya?

The answer is of course no, there is indeed someone in the room who is turning the doorknob to open the door, but that person is not Saya, but Saya's cousin Jingsuke.I saw him rubbing his sleepy eyes with one hand, yawning, holding the plush lion that Saya liked with the other hand, the pajamas on his body were crumpled and stuck to his body, and his hair was messed up like a chicken coop. It looks like he just woke up.

Wait, no, this is Saya's room, why is Keisuke in her room?

"Good morning, brother-in-law, you came early..." Seeing Akashi standing outside the door with a blue face, Keisuke was not frightened, but just smiled and said good morning with a tired face, completely unaware of the other party His complexion became worse and worse, and he almost didn't explode on the spot.