[Black Basket] Winter Cherry Blossoms

Sitting in the car, Akashi was thinking about the doubts of the matter, allowing his father to make an impromptu decision and not letting him take Saya home, presumably because of troubles at home.Otherwise, with his father's character, he would never have made such a choice.

Soon, a key suspect came to mind. In the rumors incident a while ago, Akashi had warned Akiko Maekawa, asking her to keep herself safe and not to get close to Saya again.Now that the situation has changed again, it is impossible for the Chuan family to take no action due to their bad nature in the past, and if they were discovered in the dark, the old fox is very likely to use other opportunities to find fault.

Thinking of this possibility, the car carrying him has already driven into the main house of the Akashi family. The guards in the courtyard saw the car approaching the main house entrance, and hurried to wait in front of the gate, and respectfully opened the car door for Akashi. Welcome him back home.

"What happened? When did the gate of the main house become your work area?" Not long after getting off the car, Akashi noticed something unusual in the house. The guards at home usually only walk around the garden and the gate, so why are they running outside the main house today? Work?

"Master Zheng, President Maekawa and his daughter have just visited, and they are chatting with the owner in the living room at the moment." The guard told Akashi what happened an hour ago, hinting to him that the security index at home has increased, and the situation in the living room related to people.

"I see, you guys go back to work first." I probably understood the cause of the matter, and also verified Akashi's thoughts. He couldn't take Saya home, and it must have something to do with the Maekawa family's father and daughter. Hmph, let him see , What kind of tricks are those two trying to play.

After the guards dispersed, Akashi pushed the gate of the main house and walked into the spacious living room. On the leather sofa, he saw his father with a cold face, chatting with President Maekawa.I saw that the old fox had a calm expression, and he didn't show any panic in front of his father. He even drank tea leisurely, as if he was at ease in his own home.

"Seijuro, are you back?" His son's return finally made Akashi Shunji's bad face turn better, he said: "If you are tired, go back to your room to rest, and I will send someone to call you after dinner time."

"Yes, then I won't interrupt your conversation." Understanding what his father said, Akashi went upstairs wisely, and before leaving, he also politely greeted the old fox, "Uncle Maekawa, please do as you please, I'm sorry first."

"Wait a minute, Seijuro, Uncle, I would like to trouble you." Before Akashi stepped on the stairs to go back to the room, President Maekawa suddenly stopped him and said, "You also know that Akiko is very curious. I like to run around in your house, if possible, if you meet her on the way back to the room, please tell her to come back to the living room, please."

Ask him to find his daughter who ran around?Akashi was almost amused by President Maekawa's request. Indeed, since childhood, every time Maekawa and his daughter visited his house, Akiko liked to wander around his house.In the past, he could ignore her behavior, but now he has to be more vigilant. After all, letting the enemy go deep into his base camp is only dangerous, and there is no safety at all.

"No problem. If I run into her, I'll convey your message to her."

Wearing a mask of a gentle expression, Akashi quickly walked up the stairs and walked to his room after dealing with the old fox Maekawa.When he was walking through the corridor, the noise coming from ahead caught his attention. He looked along the source of the sound and saw several deacons standing outside his room door, looking into the room with sad faces. Dare to step in half a step.

"What are you looking at there?" Akashi walked over and asked with an unhappy expression.

"Master, Miss Qianchuan..."

The old woman who cleaned the room every day looked at Akashi helplessly. She was the wife of the old housekeeper and had worked in Akashi's house for many years just like her husband.Akashi took good care of him when he was a child. Even though he went to Kyoto to study in high school, she still maintained the habit of helping him clean the room for many years. Now seeing the uneasy expression on her face, Akashi knew that someone asked the kind grandma Hanako Got mad.

"It's okay, Grandma Hanako, I'll take care of it here, you rest for a while, and leave the rest of the work to other people." The meeting with Akiko will never be smooth, even if there is no quarrel, there will be no shortage The tit-for-tat words, in order not to increase the blood pressure of the old man, Akashi winked at the other deacons and asked them to take Grandma Hanako away from the scene.

"Grandma Hanako, leave the rest of the work to us, you don't have to worry." The deacons immediately took Grandma Hanako away after receiving the order, and left the scene of the incident to Akashi. Sneak to find Masao Nakamura, hoping he will come back in time to help.

As soon as Grandma Hanako left, there was silence outside the door. Akashi walked into the room, just in time to see Akiko dusting the items in the room with a feather duster.Several times, she pretended to be cleaning and wanted to open the inner door of the room, but she stopped in a hurry when she found someone staring at her from behind.

"What's the matter? Didn't remember my last warning, and came to my room to be a thief? You are a very familiar guest."

Picking up the alcohol disinfectant and cleaning cloth that Grandma Hanako left behind in the room, Akashi walked to his desk and disinfected the photo frame that Akiko had touched.

He is not a clean freak, but simply hates outsiders touching his things. There are two photo frames on the table, one is a family photo of his family, the other is a daily photo of Saya, and what Akiko came across was a photo of Saya, so he Only then did I want to disinfect it with alcohol to erase the traces that outsiders had touched it.

"You... don't think so badly of me, I just want to help you clean the room..." Akiko pretended to be wronged on the surface, but her eyes were full of resentment. She looked at the desk from time to time I couldn't help feeling a little more hatred in my heart.

"I can't accept your kindness. Please leave my room. Your father is still waiting for you in the lobby downstairs." If it wasn't for his father's confrontation with Maekawa old fox, Akashi would have asked the guards to drive him away. Instead of ordering her to evict her, the second method is considered mild compared to the former.

"Seijuro..." Akiko whispered anxiously, unwilling to accept the inner door that could not be opened. She was only one step away from entering that room to see what happened. Unexpectedly, Akashi came back too early and let her There is nothing to take advantage of.

Akashi's face darkened, and the invisible low pressure quickly spread around her. He walked up to her and said in a cold voice: "Don't say my words a second time, please go back, Ms. Maekawa."

Breathless from the low pressure, Akiko had no choice but to leave discouraged, not daring to say a word, she knew very well that Akashi would become very ruthless to outsiders as long as it was related to that woman.Forget it, anyway, it was her father's idea to come to Akashi's house today. Her goal has been achieved, and she should go back to meet her father. She will find a way to get revenge on that woman when she has a chance next time.

There is no quarrel, only compromise.Akiko's departure did not reassure Akashi, but instead made him more suspicious.After she left, he took apart one of the photo frames on the table, and found a small object between the photo and the frame.

"Master, do you need something from me?" Masao Nakamura, who was notified, also rushed to the room. On the way, he saw Akiko smiling strangely when he came downstairs, and he guessed in his heart that something bad happened.As a result, when he entered the room, he saw a strange little thing in Akashi's hand.

"Uncle Zhengxiong, someone may have tampered with my room. I need to trouble you and the guards to investigate. I think you will make good use of these little things."

Dare to blatantly tamper with his room, it proves that the old fox will not stop there.No matter what the role of these little things is, Akashi thinks that Masao Nakamura has a way to deal with them, and he just wants to go back to the inner room to sleep at the moment, where there is still Saya's breath, at least it can comfort him a little Lovesickness.

"Yes, please rest assured, young master, I will handle it properly."

Masao Nakamura took the small thing thrown by Akashi, and prepared to investigate the unknown objects left by Akiko with the guards at home.On the other side, Saya also took the bus back to the Hashimoto family's mansion. Not long after entering the door, Keisuke ran out in a hurry and asked her curiously why he didn't go to Akashi's house after the date, but went back to Hashimoto's house alone Mansion, this is really weird.

"Akashi's house is a little inconvenient. I will stay here until the end of the holiday." This is Saya's answer. Although it can be hidden from Keisuke, it can't be hidden from uncle and grandfather. They can already guess that Akashi's family will meet She didn't say anything about what happened, but as usual, she was asked to rest for a while before going to the kitchen to help make dinner.

Sha Ye breathed a sigh of relief at the elders' reactions. She didn't want the relationship between the two families to fall apart because of trivial matters. Doing so would only leave opportunities for others to take advantage of.So, according to her grandfather's arrangement, she planned to go back to her room to rest, but at this time, Huizi who went to the outdoor mailbox to get the letter opened the door and walked in.

"Saya, why are you back?" Seeing Saya who had returned to the main house, Huizi also felt very strange, but she didn't rush to ask questions, but handed the two envelopes in her hand to Saya, and said suspiciously: "Mr. Regardless of the reason for your return, the postman sent two letters today, one from a foreign language training class and the other from abroad. The text on it is very strange. It looks like English, but it doesn't sound like spelling. Who the hell? It was sent to you? Could it be your foreign friend in middle school?"

Speaking of Saya's foreign friends in middle school, it is the brother and sister Chris and Chikley, who would email and letter with her from time to time after they left Japan for two years.

But this time the letter was different. The handwriting on the envelope did not match that of the siblings. It was in Latin instead of English. There was only one possibility. The person who wrote the letter was her middle school gymnastics instructor.

"Saya, I haven't heard that you want to go to a foreign language training class before, why do you suddenly become interested in it recently?" Huizi just asked casually, but the person who answered her was not Saya, but a viper.

"People must learn to broaden their horizons and go outside to see new things. Saya is preparing for the future." Going abroad to study is one of the backup courses for the heirs of the Hashimoto family. Old Belly Snake also made relevant arrangements for his granddaughter, just in case The affairs of Oi Chuan's family are out of control, so he will find ways to send him away.

"Grandpa, my cousin probably doesn't want to go abroad, so I can replace her." Knowing that Saya couldn't let Akashi go, Keisuke decided to volunteer to take over her task, but unfortunately his proposal was quickly rejected by his parents.

"Until your cooking skills are qualified, you just stay in Tokyo obediently and practice hard!"

Hashimoto and his wife angrily scolded their son for not being able to live up to expectations, while Saya took the letter and went back to the room to check it. The old belly snake looked at the back of his granddaughter, and his uneasiness was hard to dispel.

He kept asking himself in his heart whether the marriage with the Akashi family was correct, and whether the trump card planted by his daughter before her death could make her granddaughter survive the crisis?

It seems that if you want to know the answer, you can only wait for the passage of time to slowly draw the end of the grievances.