[Black Basket] Winter Cherry Blossoms

As Akashi expected, something really happened to Saya. After accepting Mika's challenge, she would be chased and beaten by a group of gangsters with sticks every night when she went back to the old store to help. Attack less, but in order to get more evidence to get the information that Meixiang knew, she deliberately let herself be beaten. Of course, the beating was not for nothing, and the crime she suffered would definitely be doubled to the mastermind behind the scenes.

Today, at the same time at the same place, the night chase started again. Saya was running on the small road, followed by a few bad boys. She moved her hands and feet, and the next thing to do is to follow the character in the movie who was hunted down, screaming and running in panic. When she ran to a dark alley, as soon as she slowed down, her shoulder was hit hard She was hit, and she immediately fell to the ground clutching her painful shoulder.

"Run, didn't you run very fast on the first day? Why didn't you move after being hit once?" The gangster with a bat in his hand kicked Saya hard in the stomach.

"That's right, Mei Xiang said that you are very beaten, and told us to vent as much as we want except for our face." Another gangster grabbed Saya's injured shoulder and slammed her hard against the wall.

"As long as you act obediently as a sandbag, Meixiang will promise to pay double the reward and date us, so just accept your fate obediently."

"I'm afraid you are also being played by her. She will date you honestly, and the sun will come out from the west." As soon as Saya finished speaking, she was hit on the arm again, but even so, she still endured the pain , using words to slowly pull the person standing behind watching the show over.

"Sister, don't speak ill of me behind my back. Meixiang is not that kind of person." Saya's plan succeeded very quickly. Burned by the flames of jealousy, Meixiang would not miss any scene of torture, and neither did she today. Except, while Saya was being beaten and kicked by the gangsters, Meixiang hid in the distance and ate ice cream while watching the distant scene. Compared with blockbuster movies in the cinema, watching her sister being abused is more exciting .

"It's understandable that you want to vent your anger on me, but I really don't understand what is the point of your doing this. Your father would never let you do this." Alright, I'm going to tell you everything Mei Xiang knows.

"Sister, haven't you always been smart? Why don't you understand? I did this to protect Seijuro. His father refused to finance the Oikawa family's company. If my father was cornered, he might send Someone kidnapped him in exchange for money. If I cut off the connection between the Hashimoto family and the Akashi family early, the Oikawa family will only need to use marriage to regain their lives, and he will not be harmed. I can also become his fiancee. This is An approach that has the best of both worlds.”

"Your paranoia is really hopeless. That man didn't have the courage to do such a thing as kidnapping. The best thing he could do was just fantasize in his head. You really overestimated him." Saya knew that the greedy biological father would indeed The kidnapping incident happened, but in order to prove the credibility of the news, she continued to use Meixiang's words.

"That's what I heard with my own ears outside the study. There is absolutely no mistake. I have wronged you as a pathetic cannon fodder. As long as you don't get in the way, Seijuro will definitely choose me."

"Confidence is a good thing, but it's not a lady's hobby to like heavy-tasting violent scenes, and you use the Luoshan basketball club as a threat to force me to submit, aren't you afraid that things will be exposed?" Since Meixiang personally confirmed the credibility of the information, Saya didn't have time to chat with her anymore. After the questions to be asked were resolved, tonight's game would be over.

"If I don't do this, how could you agree to abuse me as a sandbag? The other me might be timid, but now I'm different. As long as there are people you care about in the basketball team, you can't defy me."

"You are really eloquent. Whether there is one you or ten you, you have only one thing in common, and that is stupidity."

Saya's words completely angered Meixiang. She winked at the gangsters around her, and then punched and kicked Saya again, but this time the beating didn't last long. Screaming spoiled their good deed.

"Quick retreat!" Afraid of causing more commotion, the gangsters and Meixiang hurriedly dropped the weapons in their hands and left, and the screaming people outside the alley saw that Meixiang and the others had all left, so they dared to run into the dark alley to check on Saya injury.

"Are you okay...how could it be you, Saya, what happened? Did those people beat you up like this just now?" Ms. Dieko, the performing geisha, was terrified when she saw that Saya's arms were all bruised and swollen.

"I'm fine, Miss Diezi, I can still go back to work in the store."

"How can it be okay to be injured like this? This is a criminal case. Let's call the police immediately." The old musician beside Diezi also insisted on calling the police to prevent the incident from worsening again.

"No, it's not time to call the police yet. Believe me, I'm fine. I just need to ask the two of you to do me a favor when I get back to the store." It's definitely a lie that she didn't feel any pain, but Saya still gritted her teeth and endured it. , and thanks to her protecting the other vital parts of her body with her hands, her feet were not injured and she was still able to walk normally.

"This... Well, let's send you back to the store to heal your wounds first, and let your grandfather deal with it. How can he turn a blind eye to such a serious violent incident."

"You said my grandpa is back?" Saya remembered that grandpa was going to Tokyo to visit an old friend, and it would take a few days before he came back, but he didn't expect that he would come back to Kyoto ahead of time, so how should he explain what happened tonight to him.

"I went to Xiangchuan today because your grandfather invited me to perform for an important guest. Let's not talk about that, let's go back to the store first." Staying in the dark alley will attract passers-by sooner or later. The musician chose a small path to bypass the crowded streets, stopped a taxi on the way, and hurried towards Hashimoto's old shop 'Xiangchuan'.

*****

Kagawa, the birthplace of the Hashimoto family industry, is one of the time-honored brands of many high-end kiosks in the business district. Guests who come here must make an appointment in advance or have an acquaintance guide them to enter the store, and the female heirs of each generation of the Hashimoto family have been in the store since childhood. Carry out the internship of the female general, and finally get the recognition of the current female general to be considered as a real graduation.

Butterfly brought Saya to Kagawa. It was the busiest time in the store. In order not to frighten the customers, they entered the staff lounge through the back door. Some employees were panicked after seeing Saya's wounded body. One of them hurried to find the big proprietress, while the others dug out the medicine box, intending to treat her wound, but she refused.

"Miss Shaye, you should go to the hospital right away if you are so injured." The waitress who couldn't help with the medicine could only persuade her to go to the hospital for treatment.

"No, there are not enough people in the shop today, I can still work..." Saya changed into the kimono she wore at work. Due to injuries to her wrist joints and arms, it became difficult for her to even put on clothes. Well, the messy hair became another problem. As long as her arm was raised, the injured muscle tissue would be pulled, and she almost shed tears without pain. It seemed that it would take a long time to comb her hair well. time.

"What's going on here?" Mrs. Chiyo, who heard that her granddaughter was attacked, hurriedly dropped her work and rushed back to the lounge. When she saw Saya's uninjured face, she didn't feel at ease. Holding Saya's hand, he pulled up the sleeves of his kimono, and sure enough, he found many newly formed bruises and swellings on it, some of which had even turned black, showing that some injuries had been there for a while.

"Grandma, I'm fine, you don't have to worry." Not wanting to make grandma look more and more worried, Saya took her hands back and lowered the sleeves of her kimono to cover the scars.

"Based on the training you have received, you can completely avoid these injuries. Who are you doing this for? Could it be him again?" Before the granddaughter took over as the heir, in order to cope with the revenge of the Oikawa family, the Hashimoto family also asked for advice. Give Saya some self-protection skills. Now seeing those injuries, Mrs. Chiyo quickly thought that it had something to do with the young master of the Akashi family.

"It has nothing to do with him. This is a duel between me and Meixiang. She has always been willful and reckless. In order not to cause trouble to people around me, I will play a game according to her wishes. As long as I survive tomorrow, I will win." Now, the Oikawa family will not come here to make trouble for a long time." Taking out the small recording pen hidden in his clothes, Saya said: "Grandpa and you always tell me that revenge requires brains, and now it is only a matter of time." One step and I can succeed."

"Did you tape the conversation?"

"The recording is only a part, and the video will not be completed until tomorrow. If she can ask someone to take revenge on me, I can also retaliate." Not wanting her grandma to know that the attack was related to Akashi, Saya hurriedly dragged the topic away.

"It's good for you to be considerate, but what you need is to go to the hospital for treatment instead of working with injuries. How can you sustain this?"

"If you can't, you can. I'm the heir of the Hashimoto family. The training that should be carried out is absolutely indispensable." Saya also knew that she had limited time to endure the pain. In order to work smoothly tonight, she had to resort to the last resort and swallow the food that she usually brought. Emergency painkillers at hand.

"Mrs. Chiyo, I'll go to Sakura to stabilize the guests there, and you stay here to help Saya tidy up her appearance." Soon it was time for the geisha performance, Diezi and the old musician went to finish their work first.

"Sorry, Saya has caused you trouble."

After thanking Diezi and the others, Mrs. Chiyo began to help Saya tidy up, but the strange thing is that she didn't help her granddaughter get the same hairstyle as the other waitresses today, but changed to another elegant hairstyle with With all the makeup done, this look is more like going to dinner than work.

"Grandma, this is..."

"Today there is an important guest who wants to see you, so please send the dishes to Sakura for me. Remember, there must be no mistakes during the whole process." Even though there were thousands of reluctances in her heart, Mrs. Chiyo still asked her granddaughter to meet her. For her, the distinguished guest who came tonight, the time for the two of them to meet was too early, but she couldn't stop the other party's repeated insistence on meeting, so she could only tell her granddaughter to proceed with caution. "

"Grandma, who is that guest?" The serious expression on grandma's face made Saya feel uneasy.

"You will know when you go to the Sakura Room."