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The comfortable and pleasant breath like the spring breeze, and the fresh and slightly sweet breath, like two smooth silks and satins, not only tickled Qingdeng's ears, but also made Qingdeng feel a strange comfort .

"How? Are you free tonight?"

With a gentle tone, Tianzhangyuan softly recited new and seductive rhetoric.

As if his body was being manipulated by the voice, Qingdeng turned his head and saw a pair of moist and beautiful eyes staring straight at him.

The bottom of the pupils are rippling and soft.

The ruddy vermilion lips are curved into a cat's mouth.

The eyes were narrowed so thin that the upper and lower eyelashes almost touched together.

Between the eyebrows and the frowning, there is a wonderful magic power that seems to be able to seduce people's hearts.

It may be due to the face, or it may be due to personal personality, Tianzhangyuan often gives people a feeling of... desire.

The behavior and demeanor of Tianzhangyuan on weekdays always reminded Qingdeng of the famous demon in folklore in Europe and the Middle East: the succubus.

Already with a succubus appearance that can make countless men willingly contribute their energy, after showing such a seductive expression and saying this string of words that can arouse people's infinite reverie, it is even more completely "succubus". Demonized"!

Saying such things on this occasion...Your Highness, are you serious? !

At this very moment when he was staring at the big succubus who was 6 years older than himself, a dusty past came to Qingdeng's heart——

Previously, Qingdeng had heard such a rumor related to Tianzhang Court from someone:

Tianzhangyuan is a "passionate" woman. After Tokugawa's family died of illness, she became a widow at a young age, and she felt very lonely. In order to express the loneliness in her heart, she would often secretly call some young men with good faces and strong bodies into Edo Castle...

——Could it be that... this rumor is not groundless...?

Just when Qingdeng exclaimed in his heart...

"Pfft..."

A childlike smile emerged from his gaze, which was deeply covered by velvety long and soft eyelashes.

I saw Tianzhangyuan hastily raised the catkin and covered his mouth desperately, but still let the silver bell-like laughter overflow.

"Heh, heh heh...!"

A beautiful dimple flickered on Tianzhangyuan's cheeks.

"Sheng Qing, you once again showed a very interesting expression."

After she finished speaking, she seemed to be unable to bear it any longer. She pressed her hands firmly on her flat stomach, and she laughed so hard that crystal tears dripped from the corners of her eyes.

Seeing this, Qingdeng was stunned for a moment, and then immediately understood: he was played by this bad-tempered widow again.

"Your Highness..." Qingdeng sighed helplessly, "Can you stop making such jokes on me...?"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Tianzhangyuan gradually stopped laughing, "I also think it's weird. Anyway, I can't help but want to play a prank on you, why is that? Ah, maybe it's because Sheng Qing, you always Seriously, that's why I really want to tease you, and I want to see you show more interesting expressions other than 'serious'."

--Um? Am I always serious on weekdays?

Qingdeng rubbed his face.

In Qingdeng's cognition, "serious" should be the exclusive adjective for a lonesome person like Saito who can not smile all day long.

While he was still thinking, Tianzhangyuan suddenly sent him meaningful glances.

"Sheng Qing, although it's a bit hard to say...but I'm very disappointed with your performance just now."

"Aha?"

Because Qingdeng cared about the content of this sentence, he fixed his eyes on Tianzhangyuan's delicate face again.

Before he had time to ask anything, he heard Tianzhangyuan continue the words in a faint tone:

"You, after hearing me ask 'Are you free tonight', the thought of being very rude to me came to mind, am I right?"

"Don't think about sophistry. I can basically guess what you were thinking at that time. It was nothing more than: 'Ah, is this woman really the same as those rumors say, a woman who will often be young and strong? A lewd woman called into his room by the men of men?'”

"..." Qingdeng, who was speechless for a moment, shifted his gaze guiltily to avoid looking at Tianzhangyuan.

Although he didn't want to admit it... But Tianzhang Court was basically right.

There is a slight discrepancy between what Tianzhang Court said and the real situation, but it is generally correct.

Qing Deng didn't know how to reply for a while, so he could only remain silent in embarrassment.

Just when he was thinking about whether to activate the talent that happened to be upgraded today: "Trickster +1", to fool this topic——

"However...it's not entirely your fault, Sheng Qing."

Tianzhangyuan raised his chin at an imperceptible angle, looking at the distant sky.

"My reputation...has never been very good. So it's understandable for you to have such thoughts."

"To be honest, I don't really want to talk about this topic with others, but it's not good if you keep having unnecessary misunderstandings. So let me clarify with you."

Tianzhangyuan put on a solemn face and solemn tone.

"'Tianzhangyuan Duji is very lustful', 'Tianzhangyuan Duji longs for a man's arms', 'Tianzhangyuan Duji has many male pets', 'Tianzhangyuan Duji has an affair with many men'... These rumors are widely circulated in the market, It's completely nonsense, nonsense..."

Tianzhangyuan seemed to suddenly think of something, and suddenly got stuck.

"Ah... no. If you say 'complete nonsense', it doesn't seem quite right."

"It should be said: Some of these rumors are nonsense, but some are absolutely true."

When Qingdeng was a little careless, Tianzhangyuan once again made a surprising statement in a joking tone.

I saw Tianzhangyuan once again showed the "succubus face": red lips curved into a cat's mouth; squinting to look at people; eyes shining with a dazzling glazed light.

(Some of these rumors are nonsense, but some are true...)

It was as if a tape recorder had been installed next to his ears. After the words of Tianzhangyuan echoed in Qingdeng's ears several times, they slowly dissipated in the air and in Qingdeng's mind.

Qingdeng never felt that he was lustful.

Although he now loves many girls at the same time, he never considered himself a lustful womanizer.

However...he is really involuntary right now.

At this moment, Qingdeng's mind was "rippling" uncontrollably, and he unconsciously thought to himself:

——Since only some of these rumors are false...then which part of the rumors is true? Is it true that there are many male pets secretly raised? Is it really lustful? Or……

Tianzhangyuan has been paying close attention to the changes in Qingdeng's demeanor.

Seeing that Qing Deng's expression became a little unnatural, she seemed to have seen through Qing Deng's inner thoughts, and chuckled a few times "Ku Ku Ku ~".

Tianzhangyuan stood on tiptoe and leaned his upper body towards... No, correction. It's posted to Qingdeng!

Tianzhangyuan leaned forward on tiptoe, shortening the distance between her and Qingdeng in one go.

As the distance between the two sides narrowed, Qingdeng almost felt the soft weight and fiery body temperature transmitted from Tianzhangyuan's tender body.

"If you want to know which parts of these rumors are true and which parts are false..."

Touching the red lips next to Qingdeng's ear lightly, he exhaled an ecstasy breath.

"Then train hard, perform missions well, and... make me happy in the new Royal Court Fan~"

"When I feel that the time is almost right, or when I am in a good mood, I will tell you my little secrets that are not well known to everyone~~"

"In order to show my gratitude to the person you punched for me just now, let me reveal a secret to you first."

"'Tianzhangyuan Du Ji longs for a man's arms'—the rumor is true."

"By the way: Compared with people older than me, I prefer people younger than me. Even if I am 6 or 7 years younger than me, I can't accept it."

"Hee hee~ This is the first time I've told my secret to outsiders, I'm so shy~~"

After finishing speaking, Tianzhangyuan slightly opened his small mouth, and lightly bit Qingdeng's earlobe.

Obviously the pain from the bitten ear was not strong... But Qingdeng still felt as if he had been scalded by boiling water, and while quickly leaning back away from the Tianzhang Courtyard, he cast a stunned gaze at the Tianzhang Courtyard.

The widow still showed the "succubus face" with "lips like a cat's mouth, squinting at people".

She slowly flattened the soles of her feet, retracted her upper body leaning towards Qingdeng, and then covered her mouth and laughed.

"Kukuku~~Sheng Qing, your expression has become interesting again~~ It's just that I bit off your ear. As for the look of seeing a ghost?"

Looking at Tianzhangyuan who was smiling very happily, Qing Deng twitched the corners of his mouth dumbfounded.

At this moment, Qingdeng realized a "truth" from the bottom of his heart:

This woman...is really a succubus...!

The series of conversations between Qingdeng and Tianzhangyuan were made at a volume that only the two of them could hear clearly.

Therefore, Tokugawa Jiamao and the second sister on the side didn't know what the two of them said.

At the same time, because Tianzhangyuan's actions were too subtle, they did not realize that Qingdeng's ear was bitten by Tianzhangyuan.

From their perspective, they only saw that Tianzhangyuan said a lot to Qingdeng, and then Qingdeng kept showing strange expressions, while Tianzhangyuan kept laughing happily.

"Mother." Iemo Tokugawa couldn't help asking, "What did you talk about with Tachibana-kun?"

"Well... I won't tell you~"

Tenzhangin winked playfully at Iemo Tokugawa.

Tokugawa Iemo smiled helplessly, seeing that Tianzhangyuan didn't want to say more, he didn't continue to ask more questions.

"Speaking of..."

Iemo Tokugawa turned his head to look at Qingdeng.

"I didn't expect that, Mr. Ju, have you reached the state where you can release the 'power'?"

What Tokugawa Ieshiro was referring to was naturally Qingdeng's astonishing move of "power" when he faced Zuoichiro and others just now.

"No..." Qingdeng shook his head without thinking, "I haven't really reached this level yet."

Tokugawa Ieshige's sudden question made Qingdeng's "turbulent" emotions teased by Tianzhangyuan's provocative words and deeds gradually calm down.

After sorting out his wording a little bit, he went on to say:

"I'm still stuck in the stage of 'not yet free to control the situation'."

As soon as the battle with Zuo Yilang and others ended, Qingdeng's "power" automatically stopped releasing.

After that, no matter how hard Qingdeng tried, he could no longer release the "momentum" according to his own will.

This shows that he still has not reached the realm of "being able to control the 'potential' freely" like Chiba Eijiro, Kondo Shusaku, and Souji.

However, although he has not really reached this state, Qingdeng can truly realize that he is not far away from this state!

Continue to improve yourself, or...with a little more opportunity, you can truly reach this realm that countless warriors dream of!

Just at this moment, three melodious bells rang indistinctly into the ears of Qingdeng and the others.

Clang~~clang~~clang~~

This is the chime of the clock of time.

Clock of Time: A tool set up by the shogunate to inform people in Edo City of the current time.

Starting from the setting up of the bell tower at Motoshi 3-chome in Nihonbashi in the third year of Kanei (1626), Kaneiji Temple, Sensoji Temple, Ichigaya Hachiman, Akasaka Tamachi Semanji Temple, Yotsuya Tenryuji Temple and Mebaro Fudozon, etc. A bell tower was erected.

The clock of time is a public facility built with public funds by the shogunate, so there is a standardized way of ringing the bell.

Ring the bell every hour.

The first is to pre-strike the bell three times. The first time is longer, and two or three consecutive knocks indicate that the time will be reported next, and remind people around to prepare to listen to the bell.

In Chinese yin and yang theory, odd numbers are yang numbers, and the largest "nine" among odd numbers is the most auspicious number.

Affected by this theory, the Japanese call the first moment of the day, that is, 0:00 in the morning, "twilight nine" or "true night nine", and they ring the bell as many times as there are numbers in the title.

For example, at 9 o'clock in the evening (0 o'clock in the morning), ring the bell 9 times.

The number of time is counted backwards in the order of "987654".

And so on:

At 2 o'clock in the morning is "eight o'clock in the evening", and the bell is struck 8 times; at 4 o'clock in the morning is "seven o'clock in the evening", and the bell is struck 7 times.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, it is almost dawn at this time, so the title will change from "twilight" to "chao", but the number remains unchanged, which is called "chao six o'clock".

Then there are five o'clock (8:00 am) and four o'clock (10:00 am).

Noon is considered the beginning of the other half of the time, so the numbers need to be calculated from the beginning at noon. The appellation was changed back to "nine o'clock", and the number of bells was also changed back to 9.

Nine o'clock (12:00 noon), eight o'clock (2 o'clock in the afternoon), seven o'clock (4 o'clock in the afternoon)...

At 6 o'clock in the afternoon, because night is approaching, the title is changed from "chao" to "twilight", which is called "twilight six o'clock".

5:00pm (8:00pm), 4:00pm (10:00pm)...

At 0 o'clock in the morning, a new day begins, and the number returns to the original "nine".

And so on and on and on and on and on.

The bell that Qingdeng and others heard just now was the preparatory tone for the nearby bell tower to remind the time.

Iemo Tokugawa stopped and listened.

After a while, six bells echoed in the air.

Six strokes—six o’clock in the evening—six o’clock in the afternoon.

Tokugawa Iemo raised his head, looking at the sky that had begun to darken.

"Time flies so fast... Before you know it, the day is over..."

After a self-deprecating chuckle, Tokugawa Kamo called Qingdeng and the second sister to him.

"Since it's getting late, today's visit...let's stop here."

"Tachibana-kun, Sazhong, Yae, thank you very much for today."

"Thanks to your escort, my mother and I were able to travel around Edo so smoothly today."

Upon hearing this, Qingdeng immediately replied:

"Master General, you are being polite. Rather, I have to apologize to you and His Royal Highness Tianzhangyuan. I am really sorry just now, because I had a conflict with those Confucian scholars and Itakura Hirahiko, which caused your itinerary to be different. I'm really sorry for the time wasted."

Tokugawa Jiamao smiled and shook his head:

"No, those people made mistakes first, you don't need to apologize. Today's visit has benefited me a lot. I have seen first-hand what kind of life the Edo people are living today."

"What I see today is just the tip of the iceberg of the suffering of the people."

"So, if I have the opportunity, I would like to visit a place farther afield to see what kind of life the people outside Edo are living."

Speaking of this, Iemo Tokugawa looked straight into Qingdeng's eyes with a smile on his face.

"At that time, please be sure to come and be my bodyguard again!"

Leopard Leopard Leopard slept for most of the day yesterday and didn't get up until after 4 o'clock in the afternoon...

Although I felt groggy after waking up, I felt better.

It shouldn't be influenza A, it should be just a common cold or fatigue...

Because the author is a part-time writer, his daily schedule is full. It is normal to go to bed at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning and get up at 8 o'clock in the morning.

He must be tired, so after the leopard slept for a long time, his physical condition improved a lot.

Because yesterday's physical condition just improved, today's chapter is a little shorter, and the normal update amount will resume tomorrow!