Hidden Assassin: Section 389 Yuechi’s small courtyard
July 29, 2000, at the Moon Lake House, Tokyo, Japan.
Buntaro's mood has been a little depressed recently.
Kaoru completed her three years of studies in China and returned to Japan this month.
For Buntaro, Kaoru is back. This was originally a good thing. Of course, he has always been reluctant to think about the good reasons. The reasons for this are very complicated. There is a childhood sweetheart, and there is a competitive advantage. , Maybe there are pity, love and the like, whatever it is, anyone knows that the marriage contract between Kaoru and Tian Yuzheng is just a formality, Kaoru's relationship has always been cold, Tian Yuzheng also has a formal girlfriend, and the relationship is still very good. , His thoughts do not matter.
Of course, although everyone has grown up, at this time, in Buntarou's heart, the most important thing is not about love and compassion. Three years ago, Kaoru was engaged to Tianyu symbolically, and then went to Jianghai, the reason was to learn Chinese martial arts with an unknown master, but in fact no one took this reason seriously, but only in China for one year. After that, in the competition in front of the Patriarch, Kaoru, who was originally ranked not high among his peers in strength, was an opponent. With the most powerful Chizakura Qianhuan, he almost defeated him with one move. It was almost a shock for the entire month. Big event in the Chi family.
As the leader of his peers since he was young, he will not easily admit defeat. At that time, Kaoru’s strength is definitely above him. However, in terms of the gap, at least he thinks that he was at the time. It is indeed too underestimated, otherwise it would not be defeated so simply. Out of the humiliation of that defeat, he has been working hard for the past two years, setting aside the advancement of others, and he has the idea of comparing with Kaoru again. However, for so long, he has never had a chance. turn up.
For two years in a row, everyone wants to see Kaoru make another shot. In order to verify whether her strength has really become so strong, this kind of thinking Fentaro has, opponents of the same age have, and perhaps the elders, patriarchs, etc. have the same. However, it seems that he was deliberately avoiding such things. During the three winter and summer vacations, Kaoru did not find an excuse to stay in China and did not return, or took advantage of Tianyu’s relationship. Even if he came back, he would never participate in these things at home, even No one can be found simply. Although this is already a modern society. I don’t think of the engaged girl as another family member, but Kaoru’s marriage contract with Tian Yu Masanori is the bargaining chip for Yue Mu’s family to move closer to Gao Tianyuan. Tian Yu uses his fiance to hold down some things, and here it is. It's not good to overdo it.
So, two years have passed, and Kunji's road to university has not yet been decided. Now that he graduated from high school, I will come back from Jianghai this time, in a sense. It should be regarded as truly getting rid of China. arrive home. This feeling is naturally different from the feeling she had come back from winter vacation and summer vacation, but the problem is that Kaoru's feeling seems to be different.
Growing up together, Buntaro understands this girl who is like her own sister. Since the death of her mother, Kaoru’s heart has been in a cold and autistic state. It is cold and indifferent, occasionally looking at the perfect face like a porcelain doll, it is inevitable that he will feel pity in his heart. But everyone was young at that time, and he couldn't imagine it, so he could only practice hard. When one day comes, she will be able to help her and change something.
As the daughter of the landlord, Kaoru has not received any preferential treatment since she was a child, and her qualifications are not very good. When her mother died, her heart was closed. Every day is practice and practice. This practice method of working harder than anyone else did not bring obvious results. In many cases, he even got bruised and bruised and was reprimanded by a ninjutsu master. As the strongest among his peers, Buntaro sometimes wants to give Kaoru some help. But Kaoru’s practice method is not wrong, and the level of hard work is no less than that of anyone. As Buntaro who also believes in a hard work and a harvest, where can he make better suggestions, he can only think that Kaoru is not talented. , But in any case, he is after all a model among this group of trainers, occasionally winning in the competition, and perceiving Kaoru's cold but slightly longing look at him can bring him great satisfaction. She envied him, and perhaps admired him, it would be best.
Is this kind of thinking objectively unclear, but from the moment Kaoru defeated him two years ago, this dream collapsed. He couldn't tolerate this feeling, so he trained hard to get his reputation back. However, when Kaoru came back this time, he realized that even the cold feeling of autism had changed a little.
She still has that kind of indifferent expression. She still maintains a slightly alienated attitude from everyone. She exercises every morning and eats with everyone. However, she is no longer the one who exercises hard every day until she is injured, and she has A girl in disregard of herself. After returning home, in her free time, she made some small changes to the small yard where she lives. This is perhaps the most surprising thing for everyone.
As the daughter of the Patriarch, Kaoru’s only difference from everyone is that she owns a small courtyard by herself. She used to live here with her mother. After her mother died, there was only a girl left. Yuechi Zhengkong didn't come here, and a servant came to do simple cleaning every day. The yard is not big. When the two mothers and daughters were there, they were neatly cleaned up. After the mother's death, she gradually didn't make too many decorations. Kaoru lived alone and only used two houses. Between, the living room and her bedroom, the furnishings are simple and simple, better than nothing. The two trees in the yard have not been looked after for a long time, and the fish in the small pond have died, but they have not turned into smelly puddles. They have been placed in the corners of the yard for a long time. There is some rubbish, which Kaoru used to train before, but she has not dealt with it since she went to China. The rest of the rooms were almost all locked and sealed in dust.
However, when she came back this time, on the second day, she cleaned up the garbage in the yard without a sound. She probably couldn’t find the keys she had placed indiscriminately. On the third day, she smashed the original yard. After the locked door, when people passed the small courtyard, they could see the figure of the girl knocking and reinstalling the lock inside.
As Tian Yuzheng’s fiancee, Kaoru now has a privileged status. However, when someone asks her what she wants to do, if she needs help from workers, she only shakes her head indifferently. Obviously She doesn't want others to intervene in what she is doing right now. In the following days, the girl moved all kinds of furniture from the room to the yard alone, and even the original mother's bedroom was emptied. Buntaro once passed by and saw a girl in a white shirt and blue dress dragging a large cabinet out of the room. The empty cabinet looked big but not heavy. The girl moved it to the yard and put it away. When he looked back at the room, Buntaro suddenly felt that this beautiful face that still had no expression seemed to be mixed with some kind of unspeakable longing, which seemed to be the same as she looked at him when she was a child, but At that time, the eyes were always cold, and at this time, there was no negative emotion in this cold feeling. Suddenly he was a little at a loss.
Maybe she has grown up and started to face her own life. He told himself that.
After the things were emptied, they were cleaned and repaired for several days. The girl wore a headscarf and put on a mask to clean the dust and cobwebs in the room. The old and damp tatami mats were also replaced with new ones. She was not in a hurry to rush to work. After working for a while every day, she sat on the porch and had a cup of tea. It didn’t feel like she was doing tiring work that ordinary girls would not do, but just a kind of leisure. It's just like pastime, relaxed and comfortable.
Almost renovated the inside and outside of the house, and then moved the furniture in one by one~IndoMTL.com~These things are new and old, and the old ones have been carefully cleaned and repaired. Months later, the entire yard seems to have been completely renewed, just like when the mother and daughter lived here together, the weeds in the corners of the yard are also pulled up, the trash in the small pond is picked up, and the water is changed, and it becomes clear. After going out once, there were two more lotus plants moved from outside in the water, and there was some elegant atmosphere.
During this period, many people were paying attention to the small courtyard, secretly guessing whether Kaoru went to China for three years and worked as a handyman for three years. Tsukichi Masakura also came to see and thinks that her daughter is beginning to pay attention. The quality of life did not say anything. Anyway, I will be from the Tianyu family. As long as Tianyu is regular, everything is good. Kaoru also went out a few times, bought back some things and put them in the room, small appliances, and even TV sets, but also some comic books, and training every day, but the time is not long, playing a few sets in the yard is nothing. Strange Chinese boxing, running and so on, more often, just sitting in the yard thinking about things, quietly, and not knowing what to expect.
Today, Buntaro finally knows what her longing and expectation for the careful cleaning and cleaning for more than half a month...
Yi Ming, a Chinese boy who was the same age as Kaoru, arrived at Yuechi’s house with his simple luggage and stayed in Kaoru’s well-decorated room. That is the largest bedroom in the small courtyard. The one who lived there many years ago is Kaoru's mother who has passed away...