There was a vast expanse of white in front of me, and I couldn't see anything clearly.

He had to frown, lower his eyelids, and use dense long eyelashes to filter the light.

After his eyes gradually recovered...a vibrant and beautiful picture slowly unfolded in front of his eyes.

A huge freshwater lake glowed with green light under the clear sky.

It is Lake Biwa that is known as the "Lake of Life" and is listed as a symbol of Japan like Mount Fuji.

The water of the lake is sparkling, and the light reflected by the ripples is dancing nimbly and dazzlingly.

A vast expanse of warm spring fertile fields extends from the side of the sedan chair to Lake Bipa, spreading widely on its shores.

The April sunshine pours down without mercy, making the boundaries between the fertile fields and the blue sky blur, as if they have merged.

The breeze blowing from the lake is refreshing and pleasant.

Continuing to look into the distance, one can vaguely see green rice fields like a chessboard, interspersed with low houses and curling smoke, wild deer staggering on the shore of the lake, soft white clouds embedded in the sunny and windy blue sky...

A peaceful scene.

A scene of flying kites and leaping fish.

What the three girls just said was not wrong - the scenery outside is indeed beautiful and worth seeing.

Such a sunny day and such a beautiful scenery with steaming clouds and glowing clouds can't help but give people the wonderful feeling of "walking straight along the road under your feet, you will be able to reach the sky".

Looking at Tianzhangyuan with such beautiful scenery, he blinked his beautiful eyes vigorously a few times, as if to confirm whether there was anything wrong with his eyes.

"Shengqing, look, what a beautiful scenery! It's completely different from the scenery in Satsuma and Edo!"

She said this, then unconsciously reached out and grabbed Qingdeng's sleeve with great force, as if she was worried that Qingdeng would run away.

Her sudden and unusual behavior startled Qingdeng.

He turned his head, glanced at his sleeves that were being tightly grasped, and then cast a surprised look at the other party.

That devilish smile and that iconic cunning expression were all gone.

The only thing that caught Qing Deng's eyes at this moment was the pure smile and the childlike joy that jumped out of his eyes.

Although her emotions were expressed in a restrained manner, her feelings were truthfully and thoroughly conveyed to Qingdeng.

This is the truest reaction.

When people are moved by the unparalleled beauty, they will become speechless and confused.

Because it was a feeling that cannot be described in words.

Tianzhangyuan was so distracted by the beautiful scenery that he didn't recover for a long time.

She stared intently, her eyes shining with the same color as the sparkling light.

Qingdeng couldn't bear to disturb her, so he didn't say anything and allowed the other party to grab his sleeve.

As the queue in Shangluo continued to advance, the beautiful scenery gradually faded away and finally disappeared into a dense forest.

It was only then that Tianzhangyuan slowly came back to his senses and belatedly realized that he was clutching Qingdeng's sleeves tightly.

"Ah, sorry...I seem to be too excited..."

Qingdeng said "It's okay", and then couldn't help but ask:

"Your Highness, is this your first time coming to Dajin?"

Tianzhangyuan shook his head.

"No, this is my second time here. I came to Otsu once during the 3rd year of Ansei (1856)."

In the 3rd year of Anzheng - when he heard this, Qingdeng suddenly stopped talking.

Of course he knew what this point in time meant to Tianzhang Academy.

That year, Tenzouin was adopted as the adopted daughter of the Konoe family, renamed "Fujiwara Keiko", and then officially married into Edo.

Tenjoin was born in a side line of the Shimazu family in Satsuma. Although she was later adopted as an adopted daughter by Shimazu Saibin (the former lord of the Satsuma clan), her family status was still not good enough to marry a shogun.

According to the rules, the Imperial Palace of the Tokugawa shogun family, starting from Takaji Takako, the third shogun's principal wife, was usually welcomed by the five shogunate families (Ichijo, Nijo, Kujo, Konoe and Takaji) or the imperial family, and served as a link between the imperial court and the shogunate.

Trusted by default.

Even those who come from the Wu family must be the adopted daughter of the Wushe family before they can be admitted to the Imperial Academy.

In ancient Japan, it was very common to change father, mother, surname, and first name.

Firstly, it is because of unhealthy lifestyle that the infant mortality rate is extremely high.

Even if you give birth to 10 children in a row, all 10 children may die within a short period of time.

The 12th shogun Tokugawa Ieyaki is a perfect example. He gave birth to 28 children, but only one Tokugawa Ieyashi survived.

Such a horrific mortality rate means that if everyone does not adopt adopted sons or daughters, they will not be able to keep the family's reputation at all.

Secondly, it is due to Japanese traditional concepts.

Compared with blood relations, Japanese people pay more attention to family names.

As long as the family name can be preserved, as long as the family can be continued, it doesn't matter what the blood relationship is.

In this way, "adopted children" and "adopted children" gradually evolved into important political cultures in Japan.

Everyone's children are sent here and there, and they don't care about blood relationship at all.

There is a ready example around Ayoto - Matsudaira Yoho is the adopted stepson of the Aizu Matsudaira family. His father is Matsudaira Yoshiken, the lord of Takasu Domain in Mino Province.

In the 3rd year of Ansei (1856), Tenjoin went to Kyoto and became the stepdaughter of Konoe Tadayoshi, one of the five regents. She was renamed Atsuhime-kun and named Keiko. Soon after, she married into Edo and married the shogunate.

Qingdeng was silent.

Tianzhangyuan started talking to himself.

She smiled slightly and put on a calm tone without sadness or joy:

"That year...although I was just passing by, I did pass by this place once when I was heading east to Edo."

"It's just that I wasn't in the mood to enjoy the beautiful scenery at that time."

"On the way to Edo, every time I thought that I was going to marry a fool known to everyone, I felt unspeakable pain."

"I want to find someone to talk to, but there is no one around me. I don't know who to go to."

“I want to lose my temper, but I don’t know who to vent my hatred on.”

“I want to forgive, but I don’t know who to forgive.”

"I can only muddle along like this and live in a muddle until now."

Speaking of this, she tucked the black hair on her temples behind her ears and looked at Qing Deng with a sweet smile.

"Sheng Qing, I've never told you, right?"

"I...want to marry the best man in Japan."

"Let me think about it, it was when I was about to have my coming-of-age ceremony. My father...ah, it was my biological father - Shimazu Tadayoshi, the 10th generation head of the Izumi family of the Shimazu branch, not Shimazu

Jin Qibin.”

"On the eve of the coming-of-age ceremony, I was so worried that I couldn't sleep."

"Once the coming-of-age ceremony is over, I will officially become a big girl who can get married."

"That night, I don't know why, but I kept thinking: What kind of man will my future husband be?"

"I can't sleep after thinking about it."

"So, my father asked me: Yu Yi, what kind of man do you hope your future husband will be?"

"I answered without thinking: I hope my future husband will be the number one man in Japan."

Tianzhangyuan's expression gradually softened.

"If you think about it carefully, I was really naive at that time."

"Obviously he is about to celebrate his coming-of-age ceremony, but he still talks about such silly things like a little girl."

Hearing this, Qingdeng couldn't help but interjected:

"Your Highness, why do you want to marry the number one man in Japan?"

"Hmm? Do you even need to ask?"

Tianzhangyuan held his chest high, put his hands on his hips, and had a proud look on his cheeks.

"For a woman like me who has a good personality, good looks, a great figure, and a good family background, only the number one man in Japan can be worthy of me, right?"

After saying that, as if she wanted to prove that she was not lying, she raised her chest and raised her chin to show Qingdeng her graceful swan neck and those extraordinary and special existences.

Qingdeng raised his eyebrows and then laughed dumbly.

He neither agreed nor objected to Tianzhang Yuan's self-promotion.

Seeing that Qingdeng didn't speak, Tianzhangyuan didn't care and continued:

"Though when I think about it now, it's so shameful that I want to dig a hole in the ground and crawl in."
To be continued...