Journey to Seek Past Reincarnations Chapter 8: Kyoto Fireworks

I don't know how I got back to Omiya. Fortunately, Aju didn't seem to be in such pain anymore. I made up a random excuse that I hurried to sleep after I didn't buy the medicine, and I was always drowsy.

I seem to understand what's going on: Saburo Hirama killed Aju's husband. Could it be that Aju avenged her husband and killed Saburo, so Saito killed her? Thinking of this, my heart trembled, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt it was possible.

Late at night on the second day, it was already closing time, and Aju was anxious because Mr. Takeshita hadn't come back yet. I looked at her and wanted to tell the truth over and over again, but I didn't know how to speak.

While he was hesitating, he saw the curtain outside the door move, and a familiar figure walked in. I looked at the person in surprise, it was Saburo Hirama, and suddenly remembered what he said last night, then he...

Before I could think more, Saburo had already walked up to Aju, and took out the cloth bag with a blue face. When Aju saw the cloth bag, the smile on her face disappeared immediately, and she said in a pale and trembling voice: "He, he..."

Saburo nodded knowingly.

Aju's face turned even paler, she slowly stretched out her hand, took the cloth bag, and said softly, "Is it you?"

"Sorry, it's me." A look of pain flashed across Saburo's face.

The expression on Aju's face kept changing. Surprisingly, she did not make a scene, nor beat and scolded Saburo. After a flash of complex expression, she returned to the old way calm. He just sighed softly, and said in a low voice, "Unexpectedly, this day has come."

Judging from her tone, it seems that she has known about her husband for a long time. She raised her eyes to look at Saburo, and said coldly: "I don't blame you, this is his fate."

Saburo didn't seem to expect such a reaction from her, and didn't know what to say.

"Let's go." Aju turned her head and gave the order to evict the guest, "Although I don't blame you, it's just that I don't want to see you in the future."

San Lang trembled when he heard the words, he was silent for a while, then turned around and left.

"Xiao Yin, I'll leave it to you now, I want to rest." She said as she walked towards the inner room.

Looking at her like this, I feel a little sour in my heart, and at the same time I am a little confused. She didn't seem to want revenge or anything, so how was she killed by Saito, and how could she be cursed like that... What the **** is going on?

After a few days, things started to develop in a strange direction again.

Saburo didn't seem to do what Aju said, but came more frequently. Every time I either help her with work or bring her some money. Although Aju retreated every time, neither paying attention to him nor showing him a good face, she didn't mean to drive him away. In short, it feels a little strange.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and the day of the New Year is getting closer, and the atmosphere of the New Year seems to be getting stronger and stronger. New Years in Japan is a time to give thanks to the gods who bring us good harvests and to welcome the gods of our ancestors who bless us. Every household hangs pine, bamboo and straw ropes on both sides of the door to welcome these gods and spirits. Aju's mood has gradually calmed down, and she went to buy some New Year's supplies with me.

Soon, it will be New Year's Eve. I remembered that the chief executive likes to eat sweets, why don't I cook something delicious for him. What are you doing, cake? a bit difficult. Bean paste? Not creative. By the way, egg tarts! I used to be addicted to eating KFC egg tarts, so I had to learn how to make them myself. This time it should come in handy.

So I got up and got busy, eggs, flour, and prepared one by one. It's a pity that there is no oven here, and the taste may be much worse, so let's just forget it.

When I was busy and excited, a white figure quickly swayed in front of me, and an enlarged smile came into my eyes, "Xiaoyin, what are you busy with?"

"Ah, Director, don't look!" I quickly pushed him out despite my hands full of flour. He was a little puzzled, stared at me for a while, and suddenly laughed out loud, I looked at him in confusion and said, "What's wrong?"

"You, your face, hehe..." I hurriedly turned out the mirror in the wooden box and looked at it. He laughed harder, so angry that I threw down the mirror, stretched out my flour-stained claws and grabbed his face, but he didn't hide, and his face turned white immediately. I couldn't help laughing too, and after laughing for a while, I suddenly thought that it would be bad if the flour choked his lungs, so I quickly picked up the towel beside me and wiped his face.

"Director, don't move!" I wiped it carefully for him, and he smiled and closed his eyes obediently.

"Okay." As soon as I finished speaking, his eyes suddenly opened, and his dark pupils stared at me firmly, like a deep spring, making people reluctant to look away.

"Let me wipe it for you too." He smiled slightly, took the towel in my hand, and wiped my face involuntarily. Just as he removed the towel, he was stunned, and a wicked smile flashed in his eyes , pursing his lips, seeming to suppress a smile. Seeing him like this, I knew it was not a good thing. I took out the mirror and looked at it, and I was furious-I was more like a cow.

"Director, how did you wipe it!" I said while pushing him out the door.

He retreated to the door, smiling the whole time.

"I'll pick you up to watch the fireworks." He said with a smile.

I looked upstairs and said: "But Aju hasn't come back yet, I can't leave now."

"Then I will wait with you."

"No, as you know, her husband is your Xinsengumi...so don't run into her anymore. I don't want her to know that I'm going out with you, so that she won't be sad." I whispered. Since that incident, except Saburo, the other members of the Shinsengumi have not been here again.

The general manager looked at me, nodded, and said, "Okay, I'll wait for you at the village."

"Yeah!" I gave him a big smile back.

Aju didn't come back until my egg **** was finished. I asked her to taste it, but she refused to taste it, saying she couldn't stand the taste. Seeing that she was in a good mood, I asked her for leave and went out to the Shinsengumi's settlement.

The narrow streets are busier than usual, full of people in costumes, women in colorful kimonos strolling leisurely with their husbands or family members. There are some vendors selling fans and goldfish all around, and I didn't have time to look at them one by one, so I glanced briefly and continued walking forward.

When I arrived at the village, I discovered that there were also pine branches and straw ropes hanging on the gate of the village, and there were many paper lanterns hanging in the temple, which gave it a Chinese New Year atmosphere.

"Xiao Yin!" The chief executive saw it from a distance, smiled and waved at me, motioning for me to follow him.

"Director, don't you want to take me to watch the fireworks?" I followed him into the depths of the temple in a bit of a puzzled manner, as if it didn't look like it.

He smiled mysteriously and said, "Let's go."

Following him all the way to the residence behind the courtyard, he pointed at the roof with a smile and said, "This is it."

"Ah..." My eyebrows twitched, and I raised my head and asked, "The good location you mentioned is... the roof?"

"Yes." He smiled innocently, took me to the next ladder, and said, "Go up."

Who can refuse the words of the smiling chief? I hesitated, and climbed up with my snack box.

After climbing a few blocks, I just poked my head out of the roof, and when I saw the person sitting on the roof, I almost fell down. Deputy Devil Chief Toshizo Hijikata was holding a plate of sake, looking at me with a half-smile.

"What are you doing there, come up!" Although there was no smile on his face, his tone was calm. Now it's hard to get off a tiger, I looked at him, and then I bite the bullet and climbed up.

It was only then that he discovered that he was not the only one, but Saitoichi and Director Kondo were also there.

I quickly greeted them, and Saito still nodded slightly. Mr. Kondo smiled at me gently, and said: "The director-general said that he would bring a friend here, and it turned out to be you. You seemed to have been here during the last joint battle."

I nodded and said, "Yes, I saw Mr. Kondo once last time."

"That's it, then you can have a drink too." He said with a smile. Unexpectedly, the scary head of the Shinsengumi has such a friendly personality, which is completely the opposite of the devil's deputy head.

I took a plate of wine from him with a smile, and was about to taste something when someone snatched it away. I saw that the chief executive came up at some point.

"Xiao Yin is a girl, so don't drink this." He smiled softly, but the words "no drinking" were written all over his face.

With a smile on the corner of Kondo's mouth, he looked at me and the chief executive, and suddenly said, "The chief executive is twenty-five years old this year, so it's time to start a family." The whole sip of wine was sprayed out.

"Director, what's the matter." Tufang looked at him rather amusedly.

"Director, I don't think today is the time to talk about this." The director general said with an embarrassed expression.

"Oh? Then when is the right time? After the New Year?" Hijikata seemed to find it funny to tease the chief executive.

"A Sui, don't just talk about the chief executive, you are also in your thirties, and you don't have a family. I really worry about it." Kondo shook his head and said.

"Xiaosheng!" A rare embarrassment flashed across Hijikata's face, "I've said it all, the Shinsengumi is the most important thing, I don't want to have a wife as a burden."

"Does Mr. Hijikata only want women and not wives?" I remembered that he often went to that kind of place, and couldn't help blurting out.

The surrounding area was quiet, and after a few seconds, everyone burst into laughter.

"Hehe, Chief, your little friend is really interesting." Kondo leaned forward and backward with a smile. The general manager also kept laughing, and the corners of Saito's mouth slightly raised.

Suddenly felt a chill in my body, I raised my head quietly, just in time to meet the eyes of Shangtu Fang who wanted to beat me up, I quickly moved towards the direction of the chief, the eyes were scary...

"The number of people drinking together is decreasing year by year. I wonder if we can drink together like this next year." Kondo suddenly whispered, looking into the distance, with a difficult expression on his face.

"Of course I can!" A trace of warmth flashed in Hijikata's eyes, he patted Kondo's shoulder lightly, and said, "Xiao Sheng, we will still drink with you here next year, I promise."

Listening to his words, my heart suddenly felt uncomfortable. By this time next year, most of the people will probably be gone... The dead are brave, but the living have to bear the pain and dreams of the dead. Walked a long way. Abandoned the past, also can not see the future.

"By the way, try my craft!" I didn't want to think about it any more, so I quickly opened the food box like offering a treasure.

"What a strange thing." Hijikata frowned.

"It's made of eggs, it's called egg tart, try it." I greeted warmly for a long time, only the chief executive picked one up hesitantly, took a bite, and spat it out very rudely, "Okay Weird!"

"You, if you don't want to eat it, just say so." I was so angry that I snatched the egg **** from his hand. Am I really that unpalatable? Unexpectedly, he snatched it back quickly, glared at me, and said, "I didn't say I wouldn't eat it!"

With the chief executive as an example, whether it is Saito, Hijikata, or Kondo, they will not try it even if I say it out loud.

Everyone looked at the chief executive with sympathetic eyes, reluctantly eating the remaining egg tarts. When he was about to eat the second egg tart, I stopped him at the right time. Forget it, I can't abuse the beautiful boy anymore...

"Bang!" There was a loud noise, and a colorful firework bloomed in the air, like a golden chrysanthemum blooming in the air, gracefully drawing countless gorgeous trajectories in the air, and slowly falling. "Bang!" There was another one, and the noise gradually became more frequent. The enchanting and colorful fireworks immediately attracted everyone's attention. The beautiful fireworks rising from the sky illuminated the night sky in Kyoto and illuminated all these people.

"Look, Xiaoyin!" The chief executive shouted excitedly, pointing at the air, like an innocent child.

As the fireworks bloomed one after another, the general manager's smile became brighter and brighter, and under the reflection of the fireworks all over the sky, it exuded a dazzling brilliance.

The twenty-six years of the head office, isn't it just like a splendid firework, disappearing in an instant?

Looking at the gentle and smiling Zongsi admiring the fireworks, thinking of his destined ending, I can't help crying...

"What's wrong?" The chief executive suddenly asked in surprise. Only then did I realize that tears were streaming down my face before I knew it. I quickly wiped away my tears and said, "It's nothing. It's the first time I saw such a beautiful fireworks. I'm so touched. Look, I'm so moved to tears." My eyes swept over Saito, he was looking at me thoughtfully, he couldn't help being startled, and quickly looked away.

He laughed again, and said softly: "Idiot." I don't know whether it was intentional or not, his hand lightly covered the back of my hand, and said softly: "Let's watch the fireworks together next year. "I looked at him, and he looked up at the sky with a faint smile on his lips. My heart seems to be crushed by a stone, and I can hardly breathe. Director, I will never see the fireworks next year...

If possible, I would also like to change the fate of the chief...