Section 389: The Small Courtyard of Yuechi's Family
July 29, 2000, Tsukichi's house in Tokyo, Japan.
Buntaro's mood has been a little depressed recently.
Kaoru completed her three years of study in China and returned to Japan this month.
For Buntaro, Kaoru is back, which is originally a good thing. Of course, he has never wanted to think about the good reasons. The reasons are very complicated. There are childhood sweethearts, a desire to compete with each other, and maybe some
No matter pity, love, etc., everyone knows that the engagement between Xun and Tianyu Zhengze is just a formality. Xun's relationship has always been cold. Tianyu Zhengze also has an official girlfriend, and the relationship is still very good. His
These thoughts don't matter anymore.
Of course, although everyone has grown up, the most important thing in Buntaro's heart at this time is not related to love and pity. Three years ago, Xun and Tianyu got engaged symbolically, and then went to Jianghai, the reason was to meet a certain person.
An unknown master learned Chinese martial arts, but no one took this reason seriously. However, after only one year in China, during the competition in front of the family leader, Xun, whose strength was not ranked high among his peers, was
With one enemy against many, the most powerful Chi Ying Qian Huan almost defeated him with one move, which almost became a major event that shocked the entire Yue Chi family.
He has always been the leader of his peers since he was a child. He will not give in easily. In that defeat, Xun's power was indeed higher than his. However, in terms of the gap, at least he believed that he was indeed too powerful at that time.
If he underestimated the enemy, he would not be defeated so cleanly. Due to the humiliation of that defeat, he had been training hard in the past two years, leaving others far behind, and he had the idea of competing with Xun again.
However, for such a long time, I haven't found a single opportunity.
For two consecutive years, everyone wanted to see Kaoru take action again to prove whether her strength had really become that powerful. Buntaro had this idea, and his opponents of the same age had it, perhaps the elders, the head of the family, and others.
There are also. However, it seems that he is deliberately avoiding this kind of thing. During the three winter and summer vacations, Xun either made excuses to stay in China and did not come back, or he took advantage of Tianyu's relationship. Even if he came back, he would never participate at home.
These things, even simply can't find anyone. Although this is already a modern society, an engaged girl is not regarded as a completely different family, but the marriage contract between Kaoru and Masanori Ame is that the Yueji family is close to Takamawahara.
As a bargaining chip, Tianyu used his identity as fiancé to suppress some things, so it would be hard for him to go too far here.
So, two years have passed, and the path to Xundi University has not yet been decided. Now that I have graduated from high school, returning from Jianghai this time, in a sense, can be regarded as truly getting rid of China and returning home. This
This feeling is naturally different from the feeling when she came back from winter vacation and summer vacation, but the problem is that Xun's feeling seems to be different too.
Having grown up together, Buntaro understands this girl who is like his sister very well. Since the death of his mother, Kaoru's heart has been in a cold and autistic state. He is cold to others, himself, and everything.
Faintly, occasionally looking at that perfect face like a porcelain doll, he would inevitably feel pity in his heart. But at that time, everyone was young, and he had no choice but to practice hard. Until one day,
I can have the ability to help her and change something.
As the daughter of the head of the family, Xun has not received any preferential treatment since she was a child, and her qualifications are not very good. When her mother passed away, her heart was closed. She practiced kung fu every day. This practice method of having to work harder than anyone else did not bring any results.
Obvious results. Many times, he even got himself covered with bruises and was scolded by the ninjutsu master. As the strongest among his peers, Buntaro sometimes wanted to give Kaoru some help. But Kaoru's practice method was not wrong, and the level of hard work
It is no less than anyone else. As Buntaro who also believes in hard work and reward, who can give better suggestions? I can only think that Xun has no talent, but no matter what, he is among this group of people.
A model among trainers, occasionally winning competitions and noticing the cold yet slightly yearning gaze that Kaoru casts on him can bring him great satisfaction. She envies him, maybe even worships him, which is best.
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Whether this idea is objective or not cannot be confirmed objectively, but from the moment Xun defeated him two years ago, this dream collapsed. He could not tolerate this feeling, so he trained hard to get his reputation back. However, this time Xun
When he came back, he discovered that even the cold feeling of being autistic had changed somewhat.
She still has that indifferent expression, and she still maintains a slightly distant attitude from everyone. She exercises every morning and eats with everyone. However, she is no longer the person who works out hard every day until she gets injured and doesn't care about herself at all.
She became a young girl. After returning home, she made some small changes to the small yard where she lived in her free time. This was perhaps the most surprising thing to everyone.
As the daughter of the head of the family, the only thing that makes Kaoru different from everyone else is that she owns a small courtyard by herself. She used to live here with her mother. After her mother died, the girl was left alone. Masakora Tsukichi
I don’t come here. Servants come here every day to do simple cleaning. The yard is not big, and when the mother and daughter were both there, it was tidied up quite elegantly. After the mother died, she gradually stopped doing too much.
It has been renovated. Kaoru lives alone, and there are only two rooms in the house that are used, the living room and her bedroom. The furnishings are simple, which is better than nothing. The two trees in the yard have not been taken care of for a long time, and the fish in the small pond are dead.
Light, it just didn't turn into a smelly puddle. There was some garbage placed in the corner of the yard for a long time. It was something that Xun used for training. She never dealt with it after she went to China. Most of the other rooms were locked and covered with dust.
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However, when she came back this time, she quietly cleaned up the rubbish in the yard on the second day, probably because she couldn't find the keys she had randomly placed there before. On the third day, she smashed the locked key in the yard.
Then when people passed by the small courtyard, they could see the figure of the girl knocking and reinstalling the lock inside.
As the fiancée of Tianyu Zhengze, Xun currently has a privileged status. However, when others ask her what she wants to do and whether she needs help from workers, all she gets is an indifferent shake of the head. It is obvious that she is currently doing it.
She didn't want others to interfere in her matter. In the following days, the girl moved various furniture from the room to the yard alone, and even moved her mother's bedroom empty. Buntaro passed by once and saw a man wearing white clothes.
The girl wearing a top and a long blue skirt dragged a large cabinet out of the room. The empty cabinet looked big, but it was not heavy. The girl moved it to the yard and put it away. When she looked back at the room, Buntaro
Suddenly, there was a feeling that this beautiful face with no expression seemed to be mixed with some kind of indescribable longing. This longing seemed to be the same as when she looked at him when she was a child, but her eyes were always cold at that time.
This cold feeling had no negative emotions at all. He suddenly felt at a loss.
Maybe it was because she had grown up and started to face her own life. He told himself this.
After the things were emptied, there were several days of cleaning and repairing. The girl wore a headscarf and a mask, and cleaned the dust and cobwebs everywhere in the room. The old and damp tatami mats were also replaced with new ones piece by piece. She also
Don't rush to work. After working for a while every day, you will sit on the porch and drink a cup of tea. It doesn't feel like you are doing tiring work that ordinary girls will not do, but just a kind of leisure and recreation.
, relaxed and comfortable, contented.
I almost renovated the house inside and outside, and then moved the furniture in piece by piece. Some of these things were old and new, and the old ones were naturally cleaned and repaired carefully. After half a month, the entire yard seemed to be clean and tidy.
It has been completely renovated, just like when the mother and daughter lived here together. The weeds in the corners of the yard have been pulled out. The garbage in the small pond has been picked up. The water has been changed and it has become clear. After going out once, there is more in the water.
With two lotus plants moved from outside, it has a somewhat elegant atmosphere.
During this period, many people were paying attention to the small courtyard, secretly guessing that Xun had been working as a handyman for three years after going to China for three years. Yuechi Masakora also came to see her, and probably thought that her daughter was starting to pay attention to the quality of life.
I didn’t say anything. Anyway, we will all be members of Tianyu’s family from now on. As long as Tianyu Zhengze has no objection to all this, everything will be fine. Xun also went out a few times and bought some things to put in the room, small electrical appliances,
There is even a TV, and some comic books. I also train every day, but not for long. I play a few sets of mediocre Chinese boxing in the yard, run, etc. Most of the time, I just sit in the yard.
Thinking about things, quietly, not knowing what to expect.
And it was only today that Buntaro finally knew what the longing and expectation of her careful cleaning and cleaning for more than half a month were probably...
Yiming, a Chinese boy of the same age as Xun, arrived at Yuechi's house with his simple luggage and moved into the room carefully decorated by Xun. It was the largest bedroom in the courtyard, and the man who lived there many years ago