While Bai Ling was feeling embarrassed, he felt his head went blank.

I couldn't remember a word of the pre-planned opening remarks and other words.

But at this moment, Shimano took the initiative and said:

"You are... Miss Bai Ling from Akane House, right?"

"Huh?"

Bai Ling raised his eyes, and while meeting Shimano's eyes, he blinked in surprise.

"Shimano-kun, you...remember me?"

"Of course I remember."

Shimano said, smiling as warmly as the sun.

"A while ago, there was a burglary in Qian's house. When I was ordered to come to investigate, I met you once. If I remember correctly, we even used each other's names at that time."

As soon as Shimano finished speaking, Bai Ling's face immediately turned red - the color was different from the "dark red" he had suppressed due to emotional embarrassment just now, this time it was a "bright red" full of shame.

She subconsciously hid her shame.

While burying his head low, his eyes were staring straight at the ground in front of his tiny toes.

"You remember this, something that happened so long ago..."

Bai Ling's tone contained five parts of surprise, three parts of shyness, and two parts of joy.

"Of course I remember. How could I forget such a lovely girl like Miss Bai Ling?"

Because he was lowering his head, Bai Ling did not see - when Shimano said these words, the smile on his face gradually became warm and bright.

"Ah...ah...ah..."

However, from another perspective, it was a blessing that Bai Ling did not see Shimano's brighter smile.

Just hearing what Shimano said just now, "How could I forget that?", her whole "emotional receptive ability" was overloaded.

The steps are weak.

Body shaking.

If she hadn't suppressed her inner turmoil in time, she would have turned into a ball of mud paralyzed on the ground.

"Ha...ha...ha...ha...ha..."

Bai Ling covered his chest with his hands and took a dozen deep breaths before finally getting his heart rate back to a level that would not make people feel uncomfortable, and regaining the ability to speak normally.

At this moment, Bai Ling felt a powerful "power" that no one could control... no, it should be said to be an uncontrollable "impulse", running wildly through her limbs and bones.

"call……!"

She took a deep breath.

"Shimano-kun!"

Then, with a trembling voice, he turns his feelings towards the other person into concrete emotions and words.

"I fell in love with you the first time I saw you."

"I am just a humble wandering girl... I am ashamed to talk about 'marriage' and 'happiness', and I dare not expect to grow old together with you."

"I just hope you can come to see me occasionally...just once a month."

"If this can be done, I will be satisfied!"

The mood explodes.

The thoughts that had been accumulated and stored were released from Bai Ling's body in one breath, and vented towards Shimano's whole body.

After this blazing affection flew into the night sky, Bai Ling stared at his toes, his limbs were stiff, and he did not dare to look at Shimano opposite him, like a criminal waiting for trial in court.

"...Miss Bai Ling."

Shimano called softly.

"I come to see you once a month... isn't this frequency too subtle?"

Hot tears suddenly welled up in Bai Ling's eyes.

——As expected...isn't it still possible...

Bai Ling's hands, which were naturally folded in front of him, clenched the hem of his clothes unconsciously.

Just when her tears of grievance were about to burst out of her eyes——

"'Seeing you once a month' is too long. Can I come see you every day?"

"Huh...?"

Bai Ling felt that his eardrums were instantly paralyzed, and all the sounds around him seemed to drift away.

His eyes, stained by tears, left his toes and moved upward inch by inch.

His eyes traveled over Shimano's insteps, calves, thighs, waist, chest, and neck... and finally settled on the handsome face that was filled with shame.

Bai Ling's tears welled up in his eyes, and then fell down his cheeks in one breath.

Big tears fell on the dirt road.

The girl clearly saw her own reflection in the young man's eyes - a hazy figure who was crying and laughing.

…

A month later, the "Three Chapters" of the Northern Bansho temporarily returned to Okabiki Shimano Minoru under the command of Tongxin Yinto Kuzo. With the help of friends, he redeemed the life of Yoshihara Akaya Yumei Bailing, and regardless of secular pressure, solemnly married Bailing as his wife.

The news became the hot news in Edo overnight.

After hearing the news, many people ran to Shimano and Bai Ling's new home to watch the liveliness and jokes of the newlyweds, who were braving the world's disapproval.

There are people who feel sorry for Shimano - he is obviously good-looking and has a good job with a decent salary, but he married a promiscuous woman who has "a pair of jade arms that can be used by thousands of people, and a bit of red lips that can be tasted by thousands of people."

There were also people who mocked Shimano as a fool in public - their heads were filled with water! It was enough to take a wandering girl as a concubine, but he actually married a wandering girl as his wife?

In ancient Japan, like ancient China, there was no such thing as "three wives and four concubines", only "one husband, one wife and multiple concubines."

No one will care about how many concubines you take and who you take as concubines.

But there can only be one legal wife.

This is the point of conflict between the Souji and other women and Qingto.

Qingdeng wanted to marry them all as his wives.

However, in the eyes of the daughters who have been influenced by feudal ideas since childhood, once Qingdeng marries other girls as his wives, and later marries them, they will automatically be reduced to "concubines" whose status in the family is no different from that of "high-level slaves"

"Yes.

According to legend, Bai Ling was frightened by those people who were watching the excitement and did not take it too seriously. Bai Ling suffered from mental illness for a time and did not dare to go out or see anyone except Shimano.

It is even said that after Bai Ling learned that her identity as a wandering girl had caused a lot of trouble for Shimano, she felt deeply guilty and filed for divorce from Shimano.

External forces from the outside world, conflicts within the government - Shimano withstood all of this with his amazing psychological quality.

Faced with the ridicule of outsiders, he laughed it off.

Faced with his wife's fragility, he tried his best to support her.

As time went by, when the popularity of the big news that "an official from the service station married a wandering girl as his wife" gradually faded away, everyone's attention was attracted by new hot news, and no one had the leisure to pay attention to this pair of special statuses.

couple.

This couple, who had a rough life, finally lived an ordinary, normal, but happy life.

Whether in public or in private, Shimano always respected Bai Ling and never acted like a "big man" or "I am the savior who redeemed your life".

As for Bai Ling, when she married Shimano, she gave up the nickname "Lark" and changed her name to "Shimano Ling". She devoted herself to running the family and tried hard to play the role of a good wife.

Gradually, the nearby residents no longer looked at the Kang Li couple through colored glasses.

Gradually, Mr. and Mrs. Shimano became famous far and wide as a loving couple, and they became the talk of the town.

Qingdeng probably never expected that he would actually become a moon elder, indirectly contributing to the birth of a pair of deeply in love mandarin ducks.

…

…

Speaking of which, now——

Edo, Sawa Town——

When I turned around the foot of an izakaya, like a piece of the black wall falling off, a long black shadow appeared silently at the intersection.

[Dew intersection: a path between two rows of houses without eaves covering it.]

It was Qingdeng who rushed to this place with all his strength after saying goodbye to Gua Shengxiu.

We've finally arrived... Aoto thought to himself. As long as he passes through the dew intersection in front of him, he can reach Sawacho's 2-chome.

Ayoto was not familiar with this area, so he did not know where the Yamato House was located in Sawa Town.

After arriving at Sawa-machi 2-chome, you still have to spend some time looking around for the location of Yamatoya.
To be continued...