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Otsuki Minoru's appearance is almost unchanged from more than a year ago.

If there are any changes, it would be that the facial features have gained a bit more charm and mature beauty, and the hairstyle has changed from the Shimada bun that only unmarried girls can wear to the bun that is exclusive to married women.

After a brief period of surprise, the look of surprise on Qingdeng's face slowly turned into a complex and grotesque expression, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly uncontrollably.

——How could I meet her here... Hasn't she already married to Nara...

At this moment, the memory pictures belonging to "Original Orange Qingdeng" flew past his eyes automatically and without Qingdeng's control.

The pictures in these memories are all about the past related to this woman... They are simply unsightly!

If we want to elaborate on the relationship between "Original Orange Qingden" and this woman, we must first start with their fathers.

Aoto's father, Takayuki Tachibana, and Otsuki Minoru's father, Miyagawa Shunzou, are very close friends.

Thanks to this relationship between their parents, "Hara Tachibana Aoden" and Otsuki Minoru, who are close in age, have been childhood sweethearts since childhood.

Because Otsuki Minoru looks pretty good, "Hara Tachibana Aoden" has always liked Otsuki Minoru.

However, the falling flowers are intentional, and the flowing water is ruthless.

Otsuki Minoru has no interest in "Original Orange Aoden" at all.

It would be fine if she just didn't have any romantic feelings for "Original Orange Qingden", but this girl happened to have a pretty bad temper.

It is clear that his father, Miyagawa Shunzou, was an outstanding samurai with exceptionally good character and loyalty, but I don't know whether it was due to a genetic mutation or unqualified family education. In short, Otsuki Minoru's character was quite bitter, mean, and selfish.

She regarded "Original Orange Qingden"'s feelings for her as a laughing stock and played "Original Orange Qingden" like a toy.

He accepted the kindness of "Original Orange Qingden" without any scruples, but he always pretended to be stupid, only being the one who "enjoys" and not the one who "paid".

Neither explicitly refuses nor accepts.

Just keep hanging "Original Orange Qingden".

"Original Orange Qingden" always has the illusion of "I might have a chance."

The simple-minded "Original Orange Qingden" really fell in love with this woman!

He tried his best to treat Oyue very well.

He was showing warmth and greetings, and he was carefully preparing gifts... He was trying to influence Otsuki Minoru with his sincere heart.

But people are destined to be unable to wake up a person who is pretending to sleep.

"Hara Tachibana Aoden" who is crazy about being hot and cold butt, has invested countless time, energy and emotion in Otsuki Minoru...

Then Otsuki Minoru married another man.

Without the knowledge of "Hara Tachibana Aoden", Otsuki Minoru had been flirting with a young wealthy businessman in Nara named "Otsuki Tsuneji" for a long time.

Although in order to maintain the foundation of their rule, the Tokugawa clan has always used various methods to promote the so-called glory of samurai and ensure the privileged status of samurai, but no matter how much they advocate and publicize, they cannot change the life of most samurai.

The reality of great poverty cannot change people's instinctive pursuit of a better life.

Since the development of the times and changes in the world, businessmen have relied on the flaws of the system and the emergence of capitalism to amass a large amount of wealth and live a luxurious life that ordinary people can't even imagine, the trend of "money worship" has

” inevitably spread to every land in this country.

Many people no longer pursue the glory of the martial arts and the spirit of Bushido, but instead pursue money and luxurious material life.

To this day, many young girls would rather marry a wealthy businessman than a samurai who is penniless except for the so-called status and glory-Otsuki Minoru is a person with such a character.

Although the so-called social hierarchy of "scholars, farmers, industry and merchants" has long existed in name only, the apparent political status of businessmen is still at the bottom of the hierarchy.

But for those big businessmen, it doesn’t matter if they have low political status or something!

In order to make a living, many middle- and lower-level samurai who were too poor and had no choice but to dare to engage in the art of licking blood with their swords were forced to sell the sabers around their waists.

If selling knives can't solve the problem of eating, then sell the only valuable thing left on your body: the samurai's family name.

A samurai family name is far more marketable than a katana sword.

Many big businessmen who want to improve their appearance are quite happy to spend a little money to buy a samurai family name.

Many businessmen with strong financial resources relied on various methods such as "purchasing samurai status" and "accepting samurai as adopted sons" to change their families. From "businessmen" to "scholars".

The young wealthy businessman named Otsuki Tsuneji whom Otsuki Minoru married is a striking example.

Their family was originally just a businessman without a surname. After the family business grew, they purchased their family name from a martial arts family with the surname "Oyue". From then on, their family could call themselves the Oyue clan.

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Otsuki Minoru, who is greedy for the Otsuki family's money, frequently exchanges glances with Otsutsuki, showing a passion that "Original Orange Aoden" has never seen or tasted before.

Not long after, Otsuki Minoru became engaged and married to Tsuneji.

The girl he loved finally got married to his lover, but that lover was not him... This caused a huge blow to "Original Orange Qingden".

Moreover, when the news of Otsuki Minoru's marriage reached the ears of "Original Tachibana Aoden", it happened to be the time when Takayuki Takayuki had just died of illness...

The reason why "Original Tachibana Aoden"'s political performance in Beifan was so bad is closely related to the fact that he suffered frequent and devastating mental shocks during that period and was unable to fully recover from this series of setbacks.

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My father died young, and I have no close relatives as far as I can see...

Not yet over the grief of Jia Yan’s death, he also heard that the girl he had loved for a long time was going to be married to someone else…

Family ties and love have all encountered devastating changes...

Frankly speaking, it is a rare thing that "Original Tachibana Qingden" can still maintain a relatively normal mental state after encountering this series of drastic changes in his life.

Fortunately, "Yuan Ju Qing Deng" lost his way and found his way back.

After Otsuki Minoru got married, he finally saw through Otsuki Minoru's bad nature, resolutely cut off contact with Otsuki Minoru, stopped contacting her, and finally showed some integrity that a man should have.

No matter how you say it, you and "Original Orange Qingden" are now one.

Naturally, Aoden has no good feelings for Otsuki Minoru who once cruelly played with the feelings of "Original Tachibana Aoto".

Just ignore this scumbag - Qingdeng thought about this issue seriously.

However, after hesitating for a while, Qingdeng gave up the idea of ​​ignoring this woman.

It's not that I want to reminisce with the scumbag.

But I want to ask this scumbag a question.

"...Ashi, long time no see." Qingdeng said calmly, expressionlessly, "Why are you here?"

After Otsuki Minoru and Otsuki Tsunami got married, they moved to Nara with their parents and no longer lived in Edo.

"My husband and his friends came to Edo to discuss business."

Otsuki Minoru showed a smile with the corners of her mouth turning up, but there was no smile in her eyes.

"So I accompanied my husband and returned to Edo after a long absence."

"It happened to be the day when the fireworks display was held. It was a rare opportunity, so I came to the park with my husband and my husband's friends to enjoy the fireworks."

When speaking of the words "husband" and "talking about business", Otsuki Minoru's tone showed a touch of pride and superiority, and her fairly plump breasts were slightly pushed forward.

Qingto doesn't care at all what kind of life Otsuki Minoru is leading now.

After he responded coldly, "That's right," he quickly asked a new question.

"How is your father? How are you doing lately?"

This is the question Ayoto wants to ask Otsuki.

If it weren't for his concern for Otsuki Minoru's father, Qingden would really have ignored her at this moment and just turned around and left.

Although Otsuki Minoru's attitude towards "Hara Tachibana Aoden" was very bad, his father Miyagawa Shunzou was always very kind to the only son of his old friend.

"Hara Tachibana Aoden" still owes a great debt of gratitude to Shuzo Miyagawa.

After Tachibana Takayuki died of illness, Miyagawa Shunzou gave "Original Tachibana Aoden" a lot of care.

He also helped preside over Tachibana Takayuki's funeral, and secretly stuffed "Original Tachibana Aoden" with money and food to help him overcome financial difficulties...

"Original Tachibana Aoden" was able to successfully compete with Takayuki Takayuki's class at Kitabanso, and Miyagawa Shunzou also contributed a lot.

This old man is good at everything, but he is not good at handling family relations and does not know how to get along with his family.

Miyagawa Toshizo didn't know how to educate his children at all, so he adopted a thorough free-range policy and allowed Otsuki Minoru to "grow barbarically".

And Otsuki Minoru rarely had any close communication with her father, whom she had a distant relationship with.

According to Aonto's knowledge, it was not until Otsuki Minoru and Otsuki Tsuneji discussed marriage that Miyagawa Shunzou found out that his daughter was in love with a Nara businessman.

Ayoto thought: The reason Otsuki Minoru has such an extremely self-interested and egoistic character may be related to the lack of family education.

After Miyagawa Shunzou moved to Nara with Otsuki Minoru, Aoto never heard any news about this gentle old man.

Out of concern for this elder who was kind to him, Qingden asked Otsuki Minoru this question.

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A look of astonishment suddenly appeared on Otsuki Minoru's face.

She looked at Qingdeng carefully from head to toe with a look that looked like she was sizing up a stranger.
To be continued...