Sword Raiders II

Before the lord came, Onimaru felt that he had a lot to ask.

But seeing her for real, watching her look tired but still trying her best to talk with the swords that greeted her, the faint joy and satisfaction that filled her whole body was so inconspicuous that Onimaru suddenly lost her impulse.

"During my absence, how is Honmaru's situation? How much work has been accumulated?" Stepping through the door and walking all the way, the swordsmen can hear their lord talking about work again, " Baoding, Hotaru, I will finish the work first, and I will accompany you to decorate the Honmaru in the afternoon, okay?"

Facing the dagger, the lord always has more patience.

But at this moment, what she said coaxing a child was opposed by all blades.

"No!" Not only Yingwan and Baoding who were named, but all the swords around them, no matter how big or small, all refused, "It is agreed that the holiday will be three days before and after the first lunar month, master, you are not allowed to mention work!"

They have eyes, and they are not stupid either. They can tell that the owner is actually quite tired, okay?

After the news that Candlestick Kiri forcefully asked the master to rest, Honmaru, no matter how dull the sword was, realized the intensity of the master's work all the time.

If she had to work so hard, they would rather not become stronger so quickly.

"I, I don't eat much, so do the big tigers, they will eat less! My lord, please stop working so hard to make money, okay? I'm too tired."

"You don't need to keep staring and worrying about polarized cultivation. Although we haven't reached the top yet, our current strength really doesn't need you to stare at us like this. Lord, please give us a little more trust in this point .”

"And me, I practiced with many businessmen from Hakata? Please feel free to teach me about Honmaru's finances. I guarantee that Honmaru will be self-sufficient in the future, and the surplus will increase!"

"Although people like to drink good wine, it's okay to lower the standard and drink some ordinary wine. Girls will get old quickly if they work too hard. Master, you are so young and beautiful, people don't want to see you, so? Morning Aging."

Surrounded by them talking to each other, Yu Li, who had a smile on his face and was still thinking about work in his heart, was slowly stunned, and even his forward pace gradually slowed down, and finally stopped.

She looked around, and saw the undisguised worry on the faces that were familiar but lost her memory, and her nose suddenly felt a little sore.

But soon she blinked again, and showed a brighter smile again: "Well, listen to you! I don't work these days, let's prepare for the New Year together!"

It was an extremely short-lived fragility, like a snowflake falling into the palm of your hand, and it was fleeting, making people who had no intention of peeking feel sad for no reason.

Onimaru stood on the spot, silently watching the burst of cheers, and the swords surrounded their masters and rushed into the entrance.

Taidao lowered his red pupils, turned and left without saying a word.

Three days before the arrival of the first lunar month, all the staff of Honmaru were on holiday. The huge Honmaru wrapped in silver was gradually decorated with many festive decorations. Rows of red lanterns under the eaves of the main building, mainly the castle tower, are blowing in the wind. shake.

Onimaru wanted to find some work, but the head of Awataguchi's senior family finally lost to the huge number of blades of his own sword school.

"The number of people is enough, so Mr. Onimaru, just sit in the warm pavilion with Mikazuki and the others, drinking tea and eating snacks." The daggers who pushed him out said so on the surface.

As soon as he walked away behind his back, he heard a small murmur: "It doesn't make sense that the Sanjo faction, the Kobizen faction, and Genji's side all have the right to sit still, and we don't have this row of noodles here."

Onimaru: "..." So what's the use of this kind of noodles?

Don’t you think? A bunch of ghost-slaying knives from younger generations were finally “driven” into the warm pavilion. After sitting around a low table, they stared at the knives mentioned above with a look of “you guys are really a bunch of laggards” .

But is the blade who can sit and drink tea with confidence when everyone is busy, be shaken by this look?

Everyone was calm and composed, and some even looked back with innocent expressions? Come on: "Is there something wrong?"

Onimaru: ...

His head hurt a little, he seemed to understand why Dadian didn't mix with them too much.

"Oh, what a surprise." Mustache, who was familiar with him, was the first to speak, "I thought you would go to talk to the lord at this time, but I didn't expect you to come back just to have a look."

Onimaru's eyes moved, and the red eyes swept towards Hikakiri sharply, seeing that he was indifferent and asked back: "Why do I have to go to that adult? Or do you know what I want to talk to her?"

Tachi from the Minamoto family squinted his eyes and smiled while holding the teacup. Onimaru was quite annoyed by this expression of curving his lips and seeming to know everything by heart.

What's even more disturbing is that it's not just him, but Mikazuki Karasuma and other swordsmen around him all look like this. The atmosphere of knowing each other's plans makes Onimaru inexplicably wary.

"Hahaha, it's better not to go." San Riyue slightly smoothed things over, "There's nothing wrong with it now."

My head hurts even more. Is it because he came too late and couldn't do anything?

"Forget it." Somewhat rudely, he picked up the teacup with one hand, Onimaru turned around halfway, and took a sip with his head up, simply out of sight, "Let's do it first."

……

Yuli said that she would not work during the holidays, so the swords really didn't let her step into the office, and they said they wanted to decorate the Honmaru with her, but they didn't even let her touch a finger when they really wanted to do it. The work, the whole process is just watching from the side.

So after returning to the Honmaru for a whole day, she had to wander around the Honmaru like a vagrant, at most she could use her lips to direct what to put and where to put things in the work, and what was the operating procedure.

#Idle a little flustered#

When I went back to my room to rest at night, this thought suddenly came to Yuli's reaction, which was horrifying.

No? In just half a year, has she transformed so thoroughly from a salted fish with a history of at least 7 years to a workaholic social animal?

But what soon followed were the words everyone said to her today, as well as the care and love shown by their actions.

Even the lazy Akashi offered to help today when there was a vacancy, saying that he didn't want her to fill the vacancy, so he had to do it himself.Just thinking about it, Yu Li couldn't help laughing.

It's good that even if they don't remember her, they will still treat her like they used to.

With the warmth overflowing from the bottom of his heart, Yu Li closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

Perhaps, now she can... relax a little.

With the foundation of "loafing around" on the first day, Yu Li's mentality of continuing to hang out in Honmaru on the second day became much more peaceful, and the airs he had deliberately put on in the past unconsciously relaxed a lot.

The swordsmen who were always paying attention to their masters naturally quickly discovered this change, and they were even happier.

In front of the kitchen where the snow has been shoveled, Iwarong and Tobogiri are dividing into two groups to make rice cakes—after all, there are many cutting edges in Honmaru, and the efficiency of making rice cakes by only one group is too low to be enough.

Accompanied by loud shouts, the big wooden hammer beats rhythmically into the stone mortar, and in the gap between lifting the hammer, there will be an auxiliary blade to flexibly turn over the cake in the mortar, and then continue hammering.

This is not an easy job, and it is quite laborious to the naked eye.In winter, Yanrong and Tonbokiri, who are in charge of the hammer, are naked from the upper body and sweating profusely.

Yu Li folded her hands and leaned on the porch to watch, she had never stepped into the kitchen since she put on the master's avatar, otherwise the effect of the appearance would be poor.

But today Honmaru is making rice cakes, which is considered a group activity, and it is always okay for her to watch from the side.When the interest comes, sometimes I will cheer with other onlookers.

I didn't realize that when she saw and shouted, the busy swordsmen in the open space worked even harder, and there was even a little episode of rushing to relay in the middle.

After getting the first freshly baked rice cake, Yu Li left contentedly.

I have a feeling, this kind of experience of eating and drinking without doing anything has really brought back a little bit of the joy of being a dead house.

Yu Li's joy was visible to the naked eye, so that several short knives and small tails were attached to it during the stroll.

"Master, master, is this a freshly made rice cake?" Baoding pressed his index finger to his mouth, and circled around Yu Li's hand with a salivating face.

"Bao Ding, don't be like this." Hirano Toshiro pulled him back with a reddish face, ashamed by his brother's greedy look.

"That is to say, don't always think about eating!" Ranto Shiro pinched his waist and scolded, and then ran to Yu Li, "My lord, the first phase brother said that tomorrow's New Year's Eve will give everyone new dresses for the first month, is it true?" Is it? What does my new dress look like, isn't it cute?"

The blond-haired daggers of male and female faces were twirling happily in front of her, and the lively smile was no longer the bitter farewell of the tragedy, comforting her that "don't be sad, it's retribution", just looking forward to tomorrow's new clothes.

Yu Li was slightly stunned, and then smiled slowly: "It's true. I also guarantee that everyone's clothes will look handsome and cute." She raised her hand and gently rubbed the same girl who followed behind but did not say a word. Xiao Ye left the text, "Everyone has it, don't Xiao Ye look forward to it?"

The blue-haired little boy who was suddenly named and questioned was a little shy at first, but quickly responded in a low voice: "Yes." When Yu Li withdrew his palm, he heard him murmur again, "I look forward to the master's... "

Yuri stared at him wide-eyed.

What kind of Peerless Sweetie is this?

Xiaoye, who is obviously used to being very sad, suddenly said such words, it can't be described as surprise!I had never seen this child speak so well before when I sent this child back to Polarization, but suddenly she is very good at it!

"I must dress beautifully!" A certain protagonist who couldn't hold back the main character's character vowed, "We will take a photo together then!"

Honmaru will have a New Year family portrait every year on the first lunar month, and this tradition is not going to be lost.

When the other short knives heard that they could take a photo together, they immediately refused to follow, clamoring that they wanted it too.

"I have all of them, and none of them are lost." Skillfully coaxing the dagger, Yu Li took the opportunity to shake a large portion of rice cakes in the kitchen, "Do you want to eat it? How about we bake rice cakes?"

"want!!"

The little boys followed behind the lord excitedly, discussing who to ask for a charcoal stove and grilling net, and then arguing over where to grill and eat.

"It's outside, outside! How interesting it is to eat baked rice cakes around the stove!"

"It's too cold outside, what should I do if the Lord is freezing, it's better to be indoors."

Baoding of the novelty school and Hirano of the conservative school disagreed about where to eat rice cakes, with helplessness and muddy chaos, and Sayoichi who didn't care and just followed his master wholeheartedly.

Seeing that the two little guys hadn't fought for a long time, Yu Li was about to intervene, but his sleeve was pulled, and when he lowered his head, Xiao Ye motioned her to look in the direction he pointed: "There, there are people."

The direction of the small short knife is on a hillside some distance away from the building complex. There is a huge cherry blossom tree growing on the top of the slope. Of course Yuli recognizes it. Many times the cherry blossom viewing party held in Honmaru is a banquet spread under this place.

It was winter now, and the giant tree was nothing but bare branches.

But just under such a big tree, there was a man sitting there cross-legged.

The sky is high and the mountains are far away, the dead trees are white and snowy, and the figure sitting under them is silent, like a stone statue.

"Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva!" Bao Ding called out subconsciously.

The people around are suddenly enlightened, no wonder they feel so familiar, isn’t this the immediate sense of sight of the stone statues of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva that can be seen everywhere on the side of the mountain road!

"It's Mr. Jizo Xinghei." Hirano Fujishiro called out the identity of the person under the tree, his face was full of admiration, "Is this the practice of Buddha? It's amazing."

Luan and Baoding Qiqi frowned, and instinctively shook their bodies and rubbed their arms: "Doesn't he feel cold like this?" Fortunately, brother Baishan is not like this.

Xiao Ye looked over there quietly, then raised her head and turned to Yu Li: "Shall we go there too?"

Yu Li nodded without any hesitation: "Do you want to invite Jizo to have some warm food together? Xiaoye is so gentle."

Although the word revenge has always been on his lips, Yu Li knows that this child is actually very kind.

As a result, Yu Li, who had just left the kitchen, turned back not long after, with several little tails on.

When Keimaru, who happened to be helping in the kitchen, heard that the lord was going to bake rice cakes as far away as the giant cherry tree with a charcoal stove, he didn't bother to complain that the gang of knives acted capriciously because of their love, so he hurriedly asked Ying to say that he would take care of these dangers high temperature products.

Yu Li didn't object, but asked the short knives to take some more rice cakes from the kitchen. The portion in her hand was definitely not enough.

And Kewan, who was raised by a certain Anika to worry about her character, also had similar concerns, so he directly carried two charcoal stoves and walked along with him.

There is farmland between Sakura Slope and Honmaru, and a group of people walk on the snow-covered path. Occasionally, a gust of cold wind makes them shiver, and their embarrassing appearances cause each other to laugh at each other, and the atmosphere becomes more lively.

Soon, Jizo Xingping, who was meditating under the dead tree, was awakened by the sound of these people coming, and turned his head to look.

"Sorry, did I disturb your practice?" Yu Li took the initiative to take responsibility, "I was a little worried when I saw you sitting here by accident, so I came here without authorization."

While she was speaking, Keimaru had already placed two charcoal stoves, one on the left and one on the right, and the warmth from the stoves slightly dispelled the chill around.

"Mr. Jizo, let's eat baked rice cakes to warm up!" Luan raised the rice cake package in his hand.

"There is also tea to drive away the cold!" Bao Ding also shook the teapot for a while.

"There are also waterproof and warm picnic cloths." Hirano said with a smile holding a roll of floor mats.

Dizang didn't understand this battle, his usual indifferent face unconsciously softened a bit, he shook his head: "It's my fault, I didn't explain the practice to you clearly, and I made you and the others worry .”

The sitting meditation was interrupted, and Jizo didn't insist anymore, he got up and joined the team of baking rice cakes.

During this period, Kemimaru was busy from time to time, sometimes helping to spread the placemats, sometimes distributing the dishes, and sometimes refilling the lordship with a cup of tea to warm her up.

But he didn't take up the main activity of baking rice cakes at all. The two stoves were all surrounded by people, and those little devils wanted to DIY even more. Even the master baked things by himself.

The final result was a surprise, the kid's baked rice cakes were all below the pass line, but those from the master's hands were directly looted.

My lord is so good at baking rice cakes! ?

Unable to hold back, he snatched two pieces of Knee Pill and was shocked. He felt that his cognition of the lord was suddenly shattered, but after the shock was over, he had nothing unacceptable, or he quickly recognized the fact .

#Always feel something is wrong#

#No, there's nothing wrong, that's how it should be#

After eating warm food, everyone's ability to resist the cold has improved a bit, and they are willing to enjoy the scenery from the top of the slope despite the cold.

"Honmaru, it's so bright red." Xiao Ye said softly at this moment.

"It should be called celebration, right?" Luan corrected beside him, "But I really look forward to New Year's Eve and the first month. I have new clothes tomorrow, and I can go to Baishan to pray for blessings and draw lots the day after tomorrow."

"That's right! If you are unlucky and get Xiaoji, you can ask him to help you change your luck!" Bao Ding also became excited, "Wow, it's really convenient to have such a brother."

"Cheating is wrong." Hirano said helplessly, "Also, I think if Baoding is really drawn by you, please ask Baishan to correct it, he may not help. Do it."

"Hey~~Xiaoqi." Suddenly, the disappointing tone of the little dagger's drawn-out voice sounded.

Ksitigarbha took the last bite of the rice cake with a small plate, and the delicious taste lingered in his mouth, which made Fu Sangshen who studied Buddhism suddenly understand why human beings can't get rid of all kinds of desires and it is extremely difficult to become a Buddha.With such a simple snack, a human being with skillful hands can cook such a delicacy. Needless to say, if there are other rich ingredients.

This lord is even more mysterious than those analyzed by Yamabuchi Choyoshi.

Ksitigarbha could see that it was someone else's intention to find him suddenly like this, but it didn't prevent him from remembering the first time he met the lord.

"I want to thank you and I want to say sorry."

This is a very inexplicable sentence, but in the eyes of Buddha Knife who values ​​karma, it is actually not inexplicable.

There was a reason for the thanks and apology given at the first meeting, but he didn't know the reason for the time being.

The meeting with Yamabuki Kirichoyoshi afterwards was also due to an accident, but in fact it was also an inevitable cause and effect. He got the answer from the mouth of that song.

Although Mr. Changyi emphasized that this answer cannot be regarded as 100% correct before there is no hard evidence, but Buddha Dao intuitively felt that it was correct.

There must be a cause and effect between him and her, not only in this pill, but also in this world.

And now that people are right in front of them, it's not impossible to try one or two, but...

"Hiss—" Ranto Shiro shrank his neck at this moment, "Although there are two stoves, they are really useless in such an open and high place."

"Is it cold?" Yu Li stretched out his hand and shook the palm of the dagger, frowning slightly, "Then..."

"No, it's not very cold!" Seeing that the lord was going to leave because of him, Luanyou hurriedly grabbed the other party, "It's hard to get here, the lord obviously wants to see the scenery for a while, right?"

"It would be great if there was something to keep out the wind." Bao Ding pouted, "I knew I should have brought the wall cloth that surrounded the camp tent when I went out, so that I could keep looking at it comfortably."

Hirano shook his head silently, he was too lazy to talk about Baoding's delusions from time to time, no? It was better than yelling about asking for a wife from time to time.

"Windproof cloth?" Yu Li listened, "Wait a minute..."

The swords around heard what the master was muttering, and vaguely heard words such as "Bindao". The next second, an invisible barrier was spread around the cherry tree, which did not affect the vision, but it would The cold wind kept out.

"Wow! It's not cold anymore!" Bao Ding jumped up, "The carbon stove is so warm!"

"How did you do this?" Knee Maru also stared wide-eyed, and all the knives looked at the master in unison.

"It's just a trick." The lord replied with a mysterious smile.

Well, other gods of death use the ghost way to kill Xu, but she uses it in a place where she is not doing her job properly. I hope my aunt can forgive her.

"Mr. Ksitigarbha, do you have anything you want to ask?" Yu Li was right? The Buddha knife responded hesitantly several times, so he asked him directly.

An obvious opportunity was right in front of him, Jizo opened his mouth, but in the end he couldn't ask the causal reasons, but started a topic at random: "It's nothing, it's just that the temperature around it reminds me of spring. I haven't seen it." ?In spring here, this tree must be beautiful when I think about it.”

The Honmaru was started in early autumn, and the swords who lost their memory naturally didn't see it? In spring and summer, but Yu Li saw it? Ah, saw it? More than once.

"Hey, do you mean Sakurajizo?" She didn't expect this calm and quiet Buddha knife to have such an idea, "It should be said that you are indeed from the same origin as the ancient and modern Wen knife, and you are a little romantic in your bones."

"No, that's not..." Suddenly being praised, Jizo panicked and waved his hands again and again.

The other party didn't care, but rubbed his chin and thought for a while: "Chun Ying... You're right, everyone will have to wait at least three months for this tree to bloom, which is a bit long."

The other blades including Jizo didn't understand what the lord was talking about at first, but when she suddenly turned around and stretched out her palm towards the tree behind her, a majestic spiritual power gushed out from her body.

The torso of the cherry tree covered with winter snow shook slightly, revealing its bare branches.

In the next second, countless green leaves sprouted from its branches, and cherry pink flower buds emerged one by one. They grew up and then bloomed.

No? In just a few breaths, the dormant giant cherry trees in winter are covered with crowns, the breeze is blowing, and the powder snow is flying.

On the hillside, there is snow, but an old tree is full of vitality, wantonly showing the spring scenery that does not belong to this season.

Everyone was shocked by the cherry blossoms in front of them, and each of them looked up blankly at the pink cloud cherry crown covering the sky and the sun.

"Master!" Bao Ding reached out and grabbed Yu Li's sleeve, his eyes sparkled, "Actually, you are a god like us, right? And you are even more powerful than us, right!"

Yu Li didn't answer, just smiled and patted his head lightly.

Honmaru would not have noticed such a big movement.

"Hey, look, the big tree over there is blooming!"

"Wow! Really, it's cherry blossoms! But is this season the cherry blossoms?"

"Didn't you see it, idiot? It's the master, the master and the others are there, it must be the master who made it!"

The Honmaru is bustling with people, and some swords are also heading there.

"Damn it, you won't take me with you when you go there to enjoy the cherry blossoms!"

"That is to say, if you make such a big show without making a sound, you don't even call us!"

"Wait, should you bring snacks and bars when viewing cherry blossoms?"

"Everyone over there, come back to me! The preparations for the New Year's Eve are not over yet, hey——!"

All kinds of voices filled together, making the already lively Honmaru even more noisy.

Under the cherry tree, Keemaru stared at the person who created the miracle of blooming cherry blossoms with shining eyes without blinking, his face was flushed with excitement, but he sat restrained.

On the other hand, Jizo Xinghei lowered his eyelids, and put down the teacup in his hand as if putting down something.

What's the point?

The secret hidden by Honmaru, the memory they may have lost, what happened in the past... What's the significance of finding out the truth to the status quo?

Even if you don't know anything and don't remember anything, it's actually enough just to have the present.

Looking up again, it was Onimaru, who was far away from the hillside, standing at the corner of Honmaru, looking at the harmonious scene under the cherry tree. The young master looked at the daggers laughing around her tolerantly.

At this moment, Taidao finally understood why his fellow swordsmen pretended to be deaf and dumb, turning a blind eye to all abnormalities.

If you have to stick to those things, then the person in front of you is doomed to be injured a second time in this process.

But this is the only thing that no sword is willing to accept, including him.

Onimaru Kunizun completely gave up the idea of ​​looking for the owner to find the truth. This Five Swords of the World swallowed all the questions in its stomach like other knives of the same generation, turned around and left as if it didn't know anything.

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