Chapter 563: Director General Okita
Xiao Shanqian squatted down and reached out to touch the water in the pool. It was so cool that people couldn't help but feel refreshed.
Otowa no Taki in Kiyomizu Temple is famous in Kyoto. It is said that the spring water here is quite spiritual, and it is also a good source of water for making tea. In fact, there is a tea house not far from here. The owner is a kind-hearted old lady.
"Are you hungry? I've been walking for a long time, let's go eat first." Xiao Shanqian said to Zhang Heng expressionlessly after getting up.
"That's fine." The latter didn't know what he did wrong. Akane Xiaoshan was very indifferent to him along the way. Zhang Heng thought for a while and said, "If you treat me to nigiri sushi, then I'll treat you to tea." gone."
Xiao Shanqian was noncommittal, and the two came to the tea house with blue curtains, lifted the curtains and walked in.
The waiter in the tea house came towards the two, "What do you two want to eat?"
Zhang Heng looked around for half a circle, and was about to find a seat, when Xiao Shanqian suddenly let out a sigh, and said to someone, "Why are you here?"
Zhang Heng followed Xiao Shanqian's gaze and saw a boy.
Just at the first glance, Zhang Heng knew the identity of the other party. Just like Xiao Shanqian described before, he did have a hearty and innocent personality that was different from ordinary people.
Considering his age and the blood on his hands, this kind of openness and innocence is even more valuable, even unbelievable, but now he looks a little embarrassed and embarrassed, looking at Xiao Shanqian It seemed to be begging her not to ask any more questions.
Akane Koyama raised her eyebrows, "Is there any purpose for the Shinsengumi to come here? Kiyomizu Temple is a pure Buddhist site, so you'd better not mess around."
"No, no, you misunderstood." The boy quickly waved his hands and said, "The ones that have nothing to do with the Shinsengumi are the ones I want to come."
While talking, he was still staring at the door of the teahouse anxiously.
"Huh?" The doubts in Xiao Shanqian's heart were even greater. Seeing that the other party looked like this, he probably planned to ambush someone here. Could it be that he had received the news in advance that some important figure from the Banbai faction would appear here.
"Hey, it's not what you imagined." The boy argued, but then he seemed to see something outside the tea house, his face turned red suddenly, and he quickly looked away.
Akane Xiaoshan still wants to ask further. She doesn't care about the grievances between the Shinsengumi and the Banbai faction, but if the two parties make a move, they can't be in Kiyomizu Temple, otherwise this thousand-year-old temple will suffer.
However, before she had time to ask again, someone grabbed her hand.
"Let's find a place to sit first, I don't know what kind of tea I should drink yet." Zhang Heng said.
"Eh?" Xiao Shanqian was taken aback, and she couldn't care about the other side anymore. The warmth from her palm made all the messy thoughts she had suppressed before jump out, and it seemed like Something exploded with a bang in her head.
She just followed Zhang Heng and sat at a table in a daze like this, and at this time another girl walked into the shop with her mother-in-law.
If Xiao Shanqian is as hard as a long sword, then this girl is as gentle as the sunshine in March, she walked in and immediately lit up the small tea house.
The boy buried his head lower, like a drunk, but there was no alcohol for sale in the teahouse next to Otowa no Taki.
The girl didn't look sideways, and asked the waiter directly for a rice cake to pack, then thanked her in a soft voice, and left the teahouse.
It wasn't until her figure disappeared outside the door that the boy puffed up his chest again and stared at the teacup in front of him, his expression full of regret.
Xiao Shanqian looked angry and funny, and asked, "Whose girl is she?"
"Ah?" The boy scratched his head, and said a little embarrassedly, "Ah, I haven't asked, I met Dr. Tezuka by accident at Dr. Tezuka's house."
While talking, he covered his mouth again, coughed, and blushed even more. This matter was really disgraceful. He heard that the girl would come to Otowa no Taki to fetch water, so he secretly ran over Waiting here, but Xiao Shanqian didn't bother to criticize the other party, and the boy asked curiously, "Is this your man?"
Now it was Xiao Shanqian's turn to become fidgety and angrily said, "What nonsense are you talking about!"
The young man was taken aback, because Xiao Shanqian looked as if she was about to draw a knife and chop him up in the next moment, the young man couldn't help muttering inwardly, as expected, Miss Xiao Ye was more gentle and lovely.
And the next moment he heard a voice evoking his name, "Shoji Okita?"
"En." He responded subconsciously, and then saw that the person who spoke was the man next to Xiao Shanqian, and asked strangely, "How did you know my name?"
"The number one master of Mibu wolf, there are many stories about you in Kyoto." Zhang Heng said, but he sighed slightly in his heart, and it really was him.
Okita Souji is probably the only person in the entire Shinsengumi who is more talkative. It's not that he killed fewer people. In fact, the number of souls who fell under his sword was no less than anyone else in the group. But he and the director Isamu Kondo The relationship with the latter is very good, the latter will do what he says, and he will not think too much, but still retains a brilliant mind.
He is like the sharpest knife in the hands of Isamu Kondo, and the knife itself has no distinction between good and evil.
In the words of Hijikata Toshizo, this is also good, so as to save troubles out of thin air.
But it is a pity that the number one master of the Shinsengumi, known as the boy at the end of the Bakumaku, actually has not many days left to live. His cough (tuberculosis) is an incurable disease in this era. If Zhang Heng remembers correctly, next year, that is, the 4th year of Qingying will be his deadline.
But now, like other teenagers of the same age, he secretly fell in love with the girl he liked, and came to Kiyomizu Temple early in the morning in order to take a peek at her.
"The number one expert really flatters me, it's just a joke, Kondo-sensei, Hijikata, and Oishi Kujiro are all better than me." Okita said modestly.
"Whenever you are free, come to the dojo and let's compete." Zhang Heng said.
The evaluation of Okita Souji by later generations is probably inseparable from the genius of Tianzong, who died young. Although he was only in his early twenties, many people believed that he was not only the number one master of the Shinsengumi, but also the number one swordsman in Kyoto. As a guest, Zhang Heng certainly won't let go of such a character.
He also wanted to see what the most powerful master of this era looked like.
"Okay." Okita readily agreed, "But I'm afraid it won't work recently, I have important things to do, but I'll go to the dojo to find you when things are over."
"Is it because of that girl just now?" Xiao Shanqian asked.
"Ah, no, no, it's business." Okita Souji blushed again.
Souji Okita, haha, there are many versions of the description, I used the version closer to Shiba Ryotaro, I quite like him.