Falling Wind Story

The head asked solemnly: "Liu, you told us in the gazebo that you were going to deal with Shensi Nishimura. Is your current position going to take refuge with Nishimura?"

"No." Liu took a sip of tea slowly, with a pure and rascal expression: "At that time Chiba suggested that we go touch the bottom of the West Village first, and I said, 'I'll go'. I never said that I would Go kill Kamiji."

Feeling that he was being tricked, Onodera snorted angrily: "'Shinji', your name has changed very quickly. Could it be that you and this guy really have a secret relationship that we don't know? It's no wonder you I can't do it anymore."

"I heard that Kamiji Nishimura received a battle invitation today." He returned slowly, "Don't you want to beat him in a duel? Are you so anxious to ask me because you are afraid that you will not be able to defeat him?"

Onodera's face turned blue and white for a while, holding his breath in depression, and finally exhaled: "That's not true, it's just that I overestimated you. In the future, please don't say something like 'I also want to find the real culprit for Mr. Liang ' or something like that."

Hearing this, Liu quickly raised his eyes to glance at the expressions of Taketori and Chiba, one frowning, looking depressed, sweating for some reason; the other gently raised the corner of his mouth, looking Not out of joy, anger, sorrow and joy.

Little by little, Liu put down the sleeves that were rolled up for the hot compress, "I'm sorry for offending you. I think I'd better leave first."

After speaking, he gave Mr. Chiba a wink, then got up and left.

Eight,

Liu sat in the back seat, looking at the bamboo forest passing by outside the window with a heavy heart.

When the car reached the intersection, Liu suddenly said, "Stop, just wait here."

I sat up straight and looked around. This place is not far from the dojo, and the surroundings are very quiet, only the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the bamboo forest, like the sound of rain falling.

Liu seemed to be waiting for someone, and after a while, Kamiji Nishimura opened the door on the left and got in as I expected.

"Go to Kasuga House." After the exchange, he leaned his head on the seat and closed his eyelids tiredly.

Nishimura seemed a little excited: "It's been a long time since I went to Kasuga House, I don't know if the boss there still remembers me."

"It's hard to forget someone who only orders cold soba noodles every time I go." After Liu complained, there was a rumbling in his stomach.

"Brother Taketori is really stingy, can't you even feed people with a treat?" Nishimura pressed his stomach, "Fortunately, I have practiced for a day, and I am also hungry." His hand was opened.

"You still say? There is shad dish that I like, but I was chased out by Onodera's fiery gaze."

"Oh? Why is he crazy?" Nishimura finally stopped moving around and frowned.

"The news that I practiced sword with you for a day has spread. We have to act faster. The real culprit may have started to be vigilant, and our investigation will only become more and more difficult." At this moment, the car stopped, and Liu finished speaking. With these words, he opened the car door and walked out without looking back, shutting back Nishimura who had already stretched out half of his foot and tried to follow him to get off the car from the right.

I suppressed a smile and helped Xicun reopen the car door, and when he limped open the curtain and walked into the shop, Liu had already ordered food, and sat in his seat calmly drinking tea.

"Please double the wasabi sauce for the cold soup!" Nishimura shouted at the boss.

"Soba in cold soup?" The boss smiled and was wiping his hands with a towel. "But, both are cold soup." After speaking, he bowed and went into the kitchen.

Liu picked up the teacup and drank it in embarrassment, and Nishimura looked a little happy: "Liu, don't you have a bad stomach, when did you start eating cold soup?"

"It's very interesting to change the taste once in a while." Liu kept his expression on, his face was about to be buried in the tea bowl.The barley tea has already been drunk, and the Adam's apple is not moving at all. I don't know why I am holding on to the cup.

"Here we come." The boss personally brought two servings of noodles, ignoring Liu's warning eyes, and enthusiastically said to Nishimura: "Liu always eats cold noodle soup, no matter how cold the winter is, you still have to eat cold soup, and you have to add more noodles." A fried shrimp tempura."

"Nonsense, he used to eat hot soup all the time." Nishimura seriously debated with the boss.

The owner of the snack bar couldn't bear to have his memory challenged: "You kid, what do you know. Liu has been eating noodles in our house for many years, and every time I order cold noodles in soup."

"Aren't you mistaken, Uncle?" Nishimura cried out, holding his head, "I used to come here every day, right after class at the dojo, and I'm the one who always ordered cold noodle soup!"

The boss looked at Nishimura in confusion: "I can't remember, oh, this is yours, I added an extra portion of wasabi sauce." After speaking, he left with the tray in his arms.

Only Nishimura and Liu were left at the dinner table, and the atmosphere was eerily quiet.

Nishimura picked up a large lump of wasabi paste with chopsticks and threw it into the soup, stirred it a few times but felt it was not enough, poured all the green sauce in the plate, and lowered his head to stir.

"It's spicy." Liu Zi licked his noodles, and said a word to the person opposite him in his busy schedule.

"It doesn't matter." Nishimura immediately picked up a chopstick and dipped it into the soup, and stuffed it into his mouth.

Liu looked at him like a monster.

Sure enough, Nishimura choked out immediately in the next second, and his whole face flushed rapidly.

It's spicy.

"Your eyes are red." Liu passed the tissue over.

"Yeah, I'm so hot."

"Well, it seems that your eyes were red just before you got hot?"

"What are you talking about? It's just spicy." Nishimura yelled loudly, and picked up a large chopstick noodles, "This horseradish sauce is so spicy, I suspect that the black-hearted boss used horseradish sauce to make up for it, or it was Chiba's old one. The wasabi in the garden is delicious."

"Be careful to be heard by the boss," Liu lowered his voice, "Do you want to eat the sauce from Brother Chiba's house? I'll get you some tomorrow."

Nishimura stuffed his mouth full and didn't answer, but just stared at Liu with wide eyes.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Liu said helplessly, "I planned to visit him tomorrow."

"..."

"I'm going to visit one by one, probe everyone's voice, and find out suspicious characters." Liu pretended to be hot-blooded.

Nishimura still stared at him, Liu was furious, he finished the remaining food in two or three bites, and slipped away saying "Don't be lazy to practice swords even if I'm not here".

It seemed that Nishimura wanted to follow. We drove a long way and heard the boss shouting "Don't waste food!".

Sitting by the open window of the car, Liu saw the moonlight and wind speeding through the forest outside. He smiled and listened to the voice of Xicun who was getting farther and farther away.The bamboo leaves in the forest rubbed against each other, making a rustling sound.

The bushes beside the road are as tall as half a person, and the vegetation is luxuriant, tossing east and west under the night wind.

A puppy ran past the car quickly, the driver stepped on the brakes, reduced the speed of the car and continued to drive forward.

I looked at the reeds on the right that seemed to be broken by the collective, and felt something was wrong in my heart.

Liu in the back seat suddenly ordered to the driver: "Turn around and go back to the store."

"Master Liu, you can't turn around on this road at all, you have to drive to the front intersection."

"Then just reverse the car, fast."

The driver put the reverse gear on, the car was backing up quickly, the front and rear headlights were on, and Liu and I were watching the movement in the surrounding grass. Sure enough, all the reeds along the way were broken, obviously there were traces of someone walking through it.

Another gust of wind blew by continuously, the blades of grass and branches rubbed against each other, and the wind was disturbing.

There was a screeching sound of brakes, the car came to a sudden stop, and we were all dizzy from the feeling of pushing the back of the chair.

"There's a puppy on the road," the driver said, staring in the rearview mirror.

In sight, the puppy that ran past the car just now curled up into a ball, with a long blood-red gash on its belly, lying there whimpering.

"Aqin." Liu only called out briefly, and I understood immediately, jumped out of the car quickly with my sword in hand, and ran towards the spring house. All have been closed.

Chapter 5

nine,

All the doors and windows were locked, only the sound of metal and stone colliding with blades, and the muffled sound of tables and chairs falling to the ground and hitting the flesh.I kicked it a few times, but there was no movement at the door, and a red bloodstain suddenly splashed on the paper of the wooden lattice.

Fortunately, the Kasuga House is still an old-fashioned wooden door. I aimed at the latch and slammed down, and the lock fell off in response.Pulling open the paper door reveals the messy battlefield inside.

Three people besieged one.

Nishimura kicked out a long table and forced a swordsman with a short sword back to the corner, and confronted another swordsman with a long sword with all his strength.The third person was injured, and his life and death were lying on the side. The blood stains just now probably belonged to him.

Seeing that the sword wielder got out from behind the table and was about to strike down from behind Xi Cun, I flew up, crossed the blade, and forcibly knocked his blade away.

When the two blades met, I knew that the opponent must have a strong background. After being repelled by my blow, I immediately launched a second attack. The two short knives danced loudly. In the narrow space, the long sword wanted to parry it. His offensive was very difficult.

However, the offensive range of the short knife is limited after all. I grasped the gap, took a step back and let him hit the air with the knife, and then kicked him at the moment he paused, and took his body out of the window.The moment he fell to the ground, he brought up the blade with his right hand, which ended his life.

Looking back, Nishimura also ended the battle, and we pulled the three corpses to the open space outside the door.The pale moonlight shone on their faces, illuminating a small pattern of bamboo leaves on the outside of their headscarves.

Liu, who arrived later, didn't say a word, took out the dagger and cut off the corner of the embroidered pattern three times.Then he looked at the dark bamboo bushes around him, pulled towards Xicun and said, "Come with me, don't stay in the mansion tonight."

The driver drove the car very fast.

Liu turned on the interior light and turned the three rags over and over again.

Nishimura clenched his left hand tightly into a fist, put it in front of his mouth, and looked out the window without saying a word.

Liu seemed to guess what he was thinking, and said with relief: "The bamboo leaf pattern is not necessarily the disciple of Brother Taketori. I think the person who uses the short sword, the sword technique is not like an organization at all."

"That's the killer he hired to kill me." Xi Cun didn't speak for a long time, his voice was rough.

"No way," Liu leaned over to lean on Nishimura's shoulder like coaxing a child, "Brother Taketori won't do it."

Nishimura never spoke again, but stopped leaning against the car window and clasped Liu's hand tightly sideways.

As soon as he got home, Liu immediately sent people to guard every corner of the Sano house, closed the curtains, filled a bathtub with hot water, and pushed Nishimura into the bathroom.

Ryu likes the Japanese style, and the interior of the Sano house is decorated with wood.

In the master bedroom, only a small floor-to-ceiling lantern was lit. The warm yellow light was so weak that it was almost impossible to see his face clearly.

Liu slept until midnight, and sure enough, he heard the sound of the paper door opening gently, then footsteps, and then a furry head rubbing against his neck.

The waist was completely encircled, tightly bound.Kamiji Nishimura radiated the familiar aroma of body wash, and the rich scent of gardenia filled the room, and he suddenly felt very satisfied.

"Liu, I'm so happy to sleep in my clothes." Nishimura buried his face behind Liu, and his voice sounded muffled.

Oops, I forgot that he was staying at home tonight, and he still put on the clothes that had been washed so soft.The big sleeves were exposed outside the quilt, revealing a tender lotus-like arm.

Nishimura carefully picked up the cuffs back into the quilt, tucked the corners of the quilt again, and slowly crawled his hands to Liu's chest.

"The skirts are all wrinkled, and they all fell apart when lying like this." Nishimura touched in bit by bit.

Liu clenched his collar tightly: "Sleep honestly, or I will drive you back to the next door."

"It's boring, flow. Don't you want to?"

"Do not want to."

"Really? The last time was the fireworks display, right? It was... the night Ryota was killed."

"Yeah." Liu seemed to remember that day too.

"After that day, I was sent abroad by my adoptive father, and I didn't even have time to say goodbye to you. Thinking about it now, you were so angry before, don't you think I'm a ruthless person?"

"A little bit of both."

"what?"

"Killing Ryota, and leaving without saying goodbye, both are a little angry."

"Then these two reasons don't exist now, don't you want to?"

"You are really persistent...I don't want to, at least in this situation where there are several killers watching outside, I don't want to."

"Don't you think this is more exciting?"

"Nervous," Liu Puchi chuckled, then quickly restrained himself, and suddenly turned around and slipped into Xi Cun's arms, "I think you're safe and well."

"Ah."

"I also hope you will be innocent." Liu put his hands around Xi Cun's neck.

"Ah."

"It doesn't matter whether you succeed as Patriarch or not. Then we will be together." Liu lightly pecked the other party's lower lip, and when he saw that the other party did not respond, he pecked again.

The next second ushered in more passionate kisses, and the overwhelming fragrance of gardenias.

ten,

The next day the weather was fine, the wind was mild and the sky was blue.

After arriving at Mr. Chiba's house, he looked up at the sky and took a small path to the garden. When he arrived, he saw Mr. Chiba talking to the gardener in the greenhouse where he planted flowers and trees.

The butler delivered the tea and snacks directly to the garden, and Liu An calmly sat aside, eating honeydew and waiting for Mr. Chiba to come out.

"I'm sorry, Liu, to keep you waiting." Ten minutes later, Mr. Chiba walked over with a smile while wiping his freshly washed hands, with a soft and warm voice that made people listen lazily.

Liu had already eaten a piece of honeydew melon, two strawberry daifuku, and a piece of yokan, and now he couldn't sit still, stood up and walked around to digest his food, while chatting with Chiba.

I don't know why, the two of them chatted back and forth, and neither of them would get to the point first, not even talking about what happened last night.

Liu looked east and west, playing with the flowers in Mr. Chiba's courtyard with different postures and competing for splendor, and suddenly pointed to clusters of yellow flowers in full bloom on the ground and asked: "What kind of flower is this? The lines are strange."

Mr. Chiba smiled: "Have you forgotten? These are the flower seeds you collected for me before, called Cosmos."

"Oh oh oh," Liu also remembered, "that day Kitano-kun in my dojo was injured, and when I sent him home, his mother gave me a pack of small seeds, saying that I couldn't see them in this city. variety. I thought you like flowers, so I brought them all for you."

"Yeah," Qianye was also lost in memory, "The seeds of this flower are very small, and it wants to bloom, and it has high humidity requirements. The climate here is not suitable for its growth, so I always cultivate it in the greenhouse , and moved out later. But they opened up in clusters, which are very nice.”

"Is it so complicated? Fortunately, I gave it to you. Otherwise, no matter how good the flowers are planted in my hands, they will be poisoned. Just like Shensi said before that he likes to eat wasabi sauce, we both want to talk about planting some in the mansion. , No matter what, it didn't work. In the end, the foster father threw away all the seeds." Liu Bei was talking to Qianye, observing intently.

"Liu..." Qianye's mouth collapsed, but her voice was still gentle and amiable, "Liu believes that Kamiji is innocent, right?" Finally, this topic was brought up.

"Well, Kamiji has sufficient evidence to prove that Ryota was not the murderer. I'm quite sure." Liu replied unconsciously.

"Evidence? What kind of evidence is it?" Qianye's speech speed accelerated.

"Shensi said that it will be announced at the inauguration ceremony the day after tomorrow." Liu turned around all of a sudden, Chiba quickly stretched his expression, and Liu saw the solemnity for a moment, paused, and said: "Ah, tell Qianye Brother Ye, it’s fine with you, it’s just the difference in swordsmanship. Shensi’s Luofeng swordsmanship is very different from the Luofeng swordsmanship that killed Ryota. I confirmed this in the dojo yesterday.”

"So that's the case, then, it can only prove that Shensi is innocent," Chiba's tone was full of regret, "I still have no clue who the real culprit is, right?"

"Yeah, it's nerve-wracking. However, someone sent an assassin to kill Shensi last night."

"The killer? Solved it? Or escaped for them?"

"It's settled," Liu took out three pieces of cloth, "cut this from them."

"Brother Taketori? He must be too anxious."

"It doesn't have to be Brother Taketori, his family crest is too obvious, and it's not necessarily true that someone pretends to frame him."

"Do you have any idea about this?"

"No, not at all. It's only been a few days since Kamiji came back, so I'm also surprised."

"Then, I don't know if the adoptive father knows that Shensi is innocent?" Qianye thought.

"Ah, this..." It was rare to see that Liu was at a loss for words.

"It doesn't matter, no matter whether it's Shensi or not, the adoptive father will always choose Shensi as his successor, won't he?" Qianye laughed, his eyes narrowed into a crooked curve.

"Yeah, do you think foster father knows that Kamiji is innocent?" After Liu finished speaking, he gave him a meaningful look, and Chiba also responded with the usual smile.