morning dew this life

——露と拉ち露と消えにし我が身かなNamiwaのことも梦のまた梦

Probably when Mr. Toyotomi wrote this word, he had no idea that after more than ten years, the glory of the Toyotomi clan would have passed away like morning dew.

Wave after wave of heat swept across the sky full of smoke and dust, and the scorching flames ate away every brick and every tree in Osaka Castle.Whether it's the scorching temperature or the wailing from the sea of ​​flames, it shows that all this is not an illusion.

This is really... the battlefield of the Osaka Summer Battle!

Yiqi Yizhen unconsciously clenched the knife in his hand, he settled down, quickly covered his mouth and nose, and began to look for a way out.

He knew very well in his heart that if he couldn't get out successfully, he would have to die here.

Since this is really the battle he experienced, it probably has something to do with the historical revisionists.Yiqiyizhen avoided the flaming objects and found a way out, thinking secretly while guarding against the time-traveling army that might rush out at any time.

Sure enough, the god-inspector they met at Atsuga Shishan King's Point was the same person they had seen during their previous expedition.I don't know if the younger brothers have been involved... Wait a minute?

In the first phase, his footsteps stopped, if his younger brothers were like him, and now they were in the flames of Osaka Castle, then he must find them.However, just as he was about to return the same way, a strong impact from behind hit him so that he had to take a few steps forward to stabilize his figure.As soon as he frowned, his hand was already on the handle of the knife, and the blade was barely half unsheathed. Before he could turn around and cut it off, the familiar "first phase" disrupted all his movements.

"You..." Yiqi turned around, looked at Bai Lu in front of him, and always felt that something was wrong.The surrounding wood was burned with crackling noises, he temporarily suppressed his doubts, and put the knife back into the scabbard. "It's not safe here, I'll take you out!"

Bai Lu smiled at him, ran up to him in two or three steps, dragged him forward, "After they came back, they said that you were taken away by the enemy's god judge that I had seen before, and I followed the breath all the way to find you." , found you right here."

...the enemy god judge you've seen before?

Yi Qi stopped suddenly, and Bai Lu in front had to stop and look back at him. Seeing that his expression was not right, Xu asked worriedly, "...What happened?"

The feeling that something was wrong became more and more intense, his golden pupils narrowed slightly, and he looked at Bai Lu from top to bottom, but before he could think carefully, all his attention was taken away by the crumbling beam above Bai Lu's head.The flames were about to engulf the place they were in, and the support of the house seemed to be very weak, but Bai Lu obviously didn't understand any danger was approaching.

"Be careful!" Before he had time to think, Yiqi took a few steps forward and pulled her into his arms, protecting the back of her head and rolling aside on the spot.

At this moment, the burning beam fell heavily.

***

Since entering summer, the temperature has been rising day by day.The men with swords in Honmaru seemed to be a little bit unbearable. They all said that this was the hottest summer in recent years, so Bai Lu simply discussed with the parent group in Honmaru.It not only ensures that the temperature will not be so high that people lose motivation, but also ensures that the clothes can be dried in time.

These two days happened to be the turn of the rainy season. As soon as Bai Lu adjusted the change of scenery from the background, thick dark clouds immediately piled up in the sky.

Seeing this, several short-knife babies immediately gathered in the corridor, preparing to sit in rows and compete to draw rain scenes.The babies who had been put into the first team waved to them far away, agreed to participate when they came back, and then followed the first phase and went out.When Bai Lu passed the corridor and went back to the study, she saw the little short knives happily scribbling on their respective drawing papers.

Seeing her coming, they all raised the works in their hands one after another, showed them to her as if they were offering treasures, and even asked her to be the referee.Bai Lu smiled and praised one by one, and the short knives spread out contentedly, and sat back to their original positions to continue drawing.

Hou hummed a song, and drafted a new sketch, and Yao Yan next to him went over to take a look, "Hey, this is Xiaotou's orange?"

"...It's a retreating tiger."

Shinano chuckled, leaned over to have a look, and then commented, "Well, they are all cats anyway."

"..." Hou expressed that he didn't want to speak, and pushed away Xin Nong's face that was too close, "I'll show it to him when it's returned, anyway, you can't understand it."

Goto shrugged aside, "Understand thick artistic sense?"

Hou quietly put down his paintbrush and drawing board, and rolled up his sleeves to have a battle of name rectification with his brothers.The four members of Admiral Awataguchi's group were laughing and laughing, probably because the younger brothers all followed the first phase and went out to the battle, so there is no need to put on airs of the older brothers at this time.

Seeing them rolling into a ball, Bai Lu smiled and prepared to go back to the study to deal with the paperwork.Suddenly a bolt of lightning tore through the clouds and descended, followed by the sound of rolling thunder from the sky.Suddenly, Bai Lu's heart skipped a beat, and an inexplicable sense of irritability quickly spread from the bottom of her heart to her limbs.

Xiao Ye, who was closest to her, seemed to have noticed her sudden strange expression, and tugged at her sleeve, "What's wrong?" Bai Lu knelt down and touched his head, suppressing the inexplicable anxiety in her heart, and smiled, " fine."

Then this feeling accompanied her all day long, and it developed into a sense of fear at night when the First Team, who had been in the first phase of the first phase, did not return for a long time.

After all the new maps of the expedition were reclaimed, the Datowaki chaps also began to explore the new maps one by one.The big swords and big swords undertake almost all the work in the maru, so that the sword men of other types of swords have time to train and fight, so as not to lose their feel.The daggers who returned from polarized practice were also incorporated into the first unit, led by Yiqi Yizhen, and conducted many actual combat training on the Azuga Shishan battlefield.

Ordinarily, it was not the first time for Atsuga Shishan to go, even the daggers who just came back from practice have a certain degree of practice, not to mention that the captain is still a strike every time.Even if there is a non-violation in such a lineup, it should be easily resolved.The previous few times I came back very early, and everyone looked relaxed. Why did you not come back this day until the evening?

The uneasiness in Bai Lu's heart was getting bigger and bigger, and with the change of the master's mood, the atmosphere in this pill seemed to be a little tense.The sword men even had a meeting, and wanted to spontaneously form a few teams to go to Atsuga Shishan to find someone.

The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, and the noise of falling raindrops aggravated the restlessness and anxiety in my heart.It was also at this time that those who followed the first unit rushed into the gate of Honmaru in a panic.

"Master! The first-stage brother, he..."

"...?!" The uneasiness that had lingered in my heart for a whole day finally became reality at this moment.

***

Yiqi Yizheng was awakened by noisy voices.

The sound of his younger brothers playing in the yard and the disturbing cicadas immediately brought the rich heat that is unique to summer. He sat up with his arms propped up, rubbed the space between his brows, and tried hard to recall how he returned to the Honmaru's.

The sound of the lattice door being pulled open came through the heat, interrupting his train of thought.Yiqi Yizhen looked over quietly, and saw Bai Lu handing him a glass of plum juice.

The cold touch seems to be transmitted to the whole body bit by bit through the skin, and the ice cubes in the cup clang softly.Yiqi Yizhen held the cup and said lightly, "It must have been hard work for you to rescue me?"

Bai Lu shook her head with a smile, and sat down beside his bed, "What are you talking about, I'm a judge."

Yizhen also smiled, and lowered his eyes, "Can you tell me, please, what's going on now?"

"...The current situation?" Bai Lu's eyes flashed, she murmured something in a low voice, and then waved her hands, "It's nothing now. It was when you saved me, and you were crushed by the crossbeam until you lost consciousness, and then I withdrew I took the spiritual power from your body and turned you into a body sword and brought you back to Honmaru."

She lowered her head, and there was no smile in her voice, "But speaking of it, the situation at that time was really dangerous. You see, listen to my words and go out early, so you won't encounter such a thing. Xiao Tou I've been worried for a long time seeing you like that."

Yizheng nodded and smiled apologetically, "I'm sorry." Bai Lu smiled, "You are also here to save me, I have to express my gratitude here."

Seeing him, she probably wanted to add something, so Bai Lu simply stopped him, "After this incident happened, I went to investigate. It was indeed done by the onmyoji you met before. I see spiritual power, It’s more like an onmyoji from Tsuchiyamen’s school. I have asked others to continue to investigate this point, so you don’t have to worry about it anymore. Anyway, no one is injured now, isn’t it good.”

Yiqi Yizhen smiled, "Everything is up to you." He rubbed the water vapor on the outside of the cup, lowered his head, "Have I been lethargic for several days? You have been responsible for Honmaru's work these days , I feel like an unqualified valet."

Bai Lu was stunned by these words, she brushed the strands of hair that fell in front of her eyes to her ears, and laughed, "What are you talking about, there are so many days, everything just happened yesterday."

"Is that so?" Yiqi smiled calmly, "It seems that I am confused."

This section was quickly skipped, and the body was not seriously injured after a period of recovery. After recovering, he took on the task of a close servant and devoted himself to intense work.The days passed by so quickly.The midsummer sun pierced through the lush trees, casting large, dappled shadows on the ground.The oppressive heat made people sweat uncontrollably, licking a popsicle, and sat next to Yiqi Yizhen, watching Yaken guide Akita's movements.

"Brother Yiqi, is it hot?" Luan looked at the thin sweat on his forehead, and asked concerned, "Do you want me to get you a popsicle?"

Yiqi smiled and shook his head, "No, thank you."

Perhaps because of the experience of being burned and recast by fire, he can withstand high temperatures better than other men with swords, even though he still doesn't like to be close to any flames—but speaking of it, isn't the temperature this summer too high? A little too much?

There hasn't been a drop of rain for more than ten days in a row.

The sound of cicadas chirping can be heard outside the house, and the heat is so steaming that there are blurs and fluctuations caused by light refraction above the ground.Yizheng squinted his eyes, and waved to Baoding who was sitting not far away.

Baoding is struggling with his small bag, the weather is too hot, all the candy cubes that were put in it before have melted and stuck to the bag in pieces.Yiqi Yizhen took his bag, cleaned up the dirty things for him, and asked casually, "Where are those photos you put away before? Where did you put them?"

What he said was that when he moved into the servant's room, Bao Ding sorted out the photos that he wanted to put together.

When Bai Lu was still there, all their group photos.

Bao Ding stuck out his tongue, "I didn't dismantle it after that, and put it in the bottom layer of your closet, brother one."

"Yeah." Yiqi Yizheng nodded, "Didn't the master see it?"

"No." Bao Ding smiled and chewed the candy to show off his cuteness.

"Okay." Yiqi Yizhen smiled and patted his head, "Good boy."

Then everything developed as Yiqi Yizhen thought in his mind.In the dead of night, he followed Bai Lu all the way to the yard of Awataguchi's house.When he quietly appeared behind Bai Lu and quietly watched her flip through the box that Bao Ding said, he thought about it and decided to endure it.

"Master." He adjusted the position of the body knife at his waist, and squatted down beside the suddenly froze Bai Lu, his honey-gold eyes shining with moonlight, bright and clear in the darkness, "Did you find anything?"

And Bai Lu, who was caught by the master, slowed down quickly after her movements froze for the first time.She turned her head, looked at Yiqi Yizhen quietly, and spread out the photo album in her hand.

In the first issue, he glanced at it with interest, and then raised his eyebrows leisurely, "It is indeed the master's photo, but what does the master want to say?"

Bai Lu hooked the corners of her mouth, picked up a few documents beside her, and motioned for him to read, "Issue [-], maybe we should talk about it."

So he turned on the indoor light, and the two sat facing each other.Even in the middle of the night, the scorching high temperature did not ease in the slightest. Rather, it tended to get hotter and hotter.The same is true for the chirping of cicadas, which makes people feel more irritable in the dead of night than in the daytime.

Taking a deep breath, I suppressed the slight impatience in my heart.

His eyes fell on the several documents on the table, and Bai Lu, who was on the opposite side, also opened his mouth at this moment, and crossed his hands as soon as the first issue, listening to her quietly.

"Phase [-], do you know that I went to the hospital today?"

Yizheng smiled, "Yes. You mentioned that you were not feeling well when you went out."

"Yeah." Bai Lu nodded, but changed the subject again, "Actually, since I came here, I feel that this Honwan is quite mysterious. Apart from the existence of Xiao Tou, it seems that there are many secrets that I don't know about."

"But the biggest doubt lies in the former interrogator. That is your wife, Xiao Tou's mother—"

"Leaving such a Honmaru and my own flesh and blood without a suitable reason seems unreasonable. But no matter how many documents I searched, I couldn't find any records about the predecessor leaving here. Then I appeared-I took over this Honmaru .”

"Let's not talk about my lost memories of those years, just say that the time when the judge left did not match Xiao Tou's age. Although Ah Cheng stopped me from seeing it, I still found such a memory at home. backup file." She opened the first file in front of her and pushed it to the opposite side.Scanning the first issue one by one, it seems to be her file, "This is probably my real information. To the outside world, I left temporarily after the completion of the God-inspector training, which is a total of three years. But this information , record the time when I left, it is two years."

"So, how old is Xiao Tou this year? It doesn't look like he is three years old, especially the son of a demigod." She pushed the photo album over, "More than one person has said that I look like Xiao Tou. .”

"And your always ambiguous attitude makes me feel like a family role-playing. At first I thought about whether you are also a god judge, and you treat me as a substitute. But Later, I felt that the way you looked at me didn't look like you were looking at someone else."

"So I have a bold guess—" She held her chin, looked at Yiqi quietly and laughed, "Yiqi, will I be Xiaotou's biological mother?"

These words can be said to hit the center of forbidden art directly. In real life, a shock of one period would probably break out in a cold sweat.However, now he doesn't look anxious at all. Instead, he leans on the back of the chair, smiles, and slowly denies, "Of course it's not you..."

The other person seemed to have guessed his reply, just nodded, and opened the second document, "I went to the hospital today to check this..." She continued to analyze calmly, "My body has not conceived any Child, so I can't be Xiao Tou's mother. If I were her mother, and it was just an unfortunate coincidence that she left and lost her memory, then I would take the responsibility that I should bear. But I am not..."

"I hate being used as a substitute, but it's okay, I will forgive you this time. But I hope you will stop treating me with an ambiguous attitude, and stop hiding photos, I think very disgusting."

Yiqi nodded, "I'm sorry."

"Yeah." The opposite party also smiled at him, as if trying to settle their suspicions. "I hope you can understand me. I can't stay in this pill all my life. I will marry a human instead of being a so-called stepmother to the son of a demigod."

"Yes." Yiqi raised his lips and agreed again.The person on the other side was not sure what his attitude was, so he said "Then I'm going back.", got up and prepared to leave.

And before she took two or three steps, she heard a long sigh from Yiqi Yizhen behind her.

"I have watched you act for so long, and I have been guessing your purpose. Now it seems that you want to drive a wedge between our husband and wife?"

Bai Lu froze, she turned her head slowly, smiling, "What are you talking about in the first episode?"

Yiqi raised his eyebrows and smiled, standing up while holding the knife in hand. "You know what I mean." He took a few steps forward, "Don't you think it's hot and noisy?"

"I can not understand what you say."

In the first episode, he laughed and said, "My lord, how many days have you had without changing the scenery of the rainy season?"

At the end of the conversation, his eyes turned cold, he drew his knife out of its sheath like lightning, and slashed at "Bai Lu" fiercely.

The author has something to say:

My war expansion has produced a grandpa, a little drunkard, and two brother pills.Also dropped a fox ball! ! !

What about my 17? ? ?

5000 battles, no Honmaru of 17...

Seriously, if I don't come again in the first issue, I really consider just be like this and forget it...