Chapter 150: Sleeping Together Trip (23)
“So, why did Inuyama stay with Teacher Qian? And he didn’t even take the luggage from the hotel and went straight to the city.” On the train, Kawasaki asked the question.
Heita Inuyama didn’t know how to fool him. He looked at Qian Xiaoyi to see how he would explain. Qian Xiaoyi thought about it and replied: "Didn’t something strange happen when I was away? For example, Miss Ono and Hirataro both fainted, and yesterday When Miss Ono lost consciousness and danced strangely, in fact, Heitaro also had similar symptoms at the time. By the time he realized his condition, the guy had already walked to the road outside the village. "
Everyone looked at Inuyama Heita in surprise. Inuyama Heita was also surprised, but he quickly restrained himself and coughed: "Ahem...yes, thanks to Brother Oto for finding me, otherwise I would have been lost."
Qian Xiao Yi said: "Actually, after knowing what happened to Miss Ono and him, I was looking for The car drove back, but I didn't find it until yesterday. I happened to see him on the road. In order to prevent the child's condition from getting worse, I didn't go back to the village. Instead, I went to a nearby city and found a hospital to check him out. For a moment, luckily there is no problem.”
"I see." Kawasaki asked eagerly: "Um, Teacher Qian, what happened in the village? Why did Inuyama-san and Ono-san appear in that situation, and what happened to those foxes?"
< br>Others also looked very curious, hoping to get answers from Qian Xiaoyi. Qian Xiaoyi said: "It should be something left over from that shrine that is causing trouble. Miss Ono, and Heitaro. You two have played pranks at the shrine and acted disrespectfully towards the gods, right?"
Ono Harina recalled it, covered her mouth and said in surprise: "You...you know? I seemed to have used lipstick to graffiti on the fox statue last year."
Heita Inuyama They also cooperated and said: "It seems...it has indeed happened."
Everyone looked at Qian Xiaoyi in disbelief that he was right.
Kawasaki suddenly realized: "So that's it! No wonder they all had trouble at the shrine, and there was a fox attack at yesterday's festival. It's such a pity. If Teacher Qian was here yesterday, this kind of thing wouldn't have happened! Damn it Fox."
Qian Xiaoyi said leisurely: "It can't be said that the shrine was indeed abandoned by the village. There was a large-scale expulsion of foxes more than ten years ago, so it was retaliated against. It’s normal. It’s the villagers’ punishment for disrespecting the gods. By the way, Kawasaki, you said before that your grandpa and grandma were taken to Osaka... You must be lying, right?”
When he was investigating the field before, Qian Xiaoyi discovered that there were smaller scarecrows around the old man's scarecrow who passed away in the village. Those should be the scarecrows of the young people in the village, so he made this assumption.
Hearing this, Kawasaki's pupils shrank and he did not refute.
Sato asked in surprise: "Eh? Is this really the case? Why is the minister so panicked?"
Kawasaki was silent for a while and said: "Actually...my grandfather and grandmother passed away one after another when I was a child, but during the summer vacation of that year, I saw them in the village with my own eyes, and they even talked to me. In the blink of an eye, they disappeared. I told other people about it, but they didn’t believe me and called me a big liar. Even my parents didn’t believe me, thinking that I wanted to go back to the countryside to make excuses... "
Omaeda Yui asked: "But...why do you say they are still there?"
Kawasaki said: "When I return to the village, I can always feel that they are still there? Around me...maybe it's just an illusion, but as long as I'm there, I will feel extremely at ease, so I don't want to tell the truth about it. The strange thing is that after yesterday's troubles, that sense of peace has disappeared for some reason. "
"Is it because of this experience that you are so obsessed with finding evidence of the existence of ghosts?" Qian Xiaoyi said.
Miyamoto Yushi asked at this time: "Um, Teacher Qian, will Haruna have any problems later? After all, that kind of thing has happened several times..." Qian Xiaoyi said: "Don't worry. , as long as she doesn’t go to that village again, nothing will happen to her.”
Ono Haruna said with lingering fear: "I don't know what I thought. I actually wanted to go back there before. I will never go back to that village again even if I were killed! That kind of experience, I've had enough."
Suzuki, who had never spoken, said: "It's strange to say that I always feel that the people in that village... seem to have some ulterior secrets, those festivals, and so on. There is a very suspicious feeling in the atmosphere. Inuyama-san also feels that there is something hidden. Mr. Qian's sudden departure is also strange. Did you do something else to cause those strange things to happen?"
"How... ...How could it be?" Inuyama Heita was a little embarrassed, but his intuition was still so sensitive.
Qian Xiaoyi also laughed dryly and said: "Ah hahaha~ You really have a rich imagination~ That village is just an ordinary village, there is no secret at all. In the past few days, except for yesterday, you are not It’s been a great time~ Just treat this time as a special experience and don’t think too much~”
"By the way." Inuyama Heita changed the subject and said: "Speaking of strange things, I did find a strange thing."
Everyone looked at him, Sato asked: "What strange thing?"
Inuyama Heita said: "We have been calling 'that village' 'village'. Did you notice that from the moment we entered the village, we didn't seem to see the name of any village? So, that What is the name of the village? "
Kawasaki scratched his head and said: "Ah...is there such a thing? I didn't even notice it, but now that I think about it, it is really like this. As for the name, there is no secret at all. The name of the village is..."
"——Baihu Village"
After returning to the office, Qian Xiaoyi breathed a sigh of relief. He first took out the jade pendant containing the fox, opened the utility room and walked in. He said, "Before I buy the fox statue, you will stay here temporarily." Come here and play with the children, but don’t bully them.”
He lit the incense in the incense burner, put the chocolate bought from the convenience store outside into the tribute plate, and left the utility room. The moment he closed the door, children burst out inside. The cheers and the cries of the fox seemed to be having a great time.
After doing this, Qian Xiaoyi opened the door to his room, dragged his suitcase and walked in.
The room is still the same as before. It used to be a study room, which he changed into a bedroom. The folding bed was placed in the corner, and there was a photo on the bedside table next to it. On it was an old man and an old man. There is a group photo of two Taoist priests with buns, both older and younger, smiling happily.
On the other side of the room is a bookshelf against the wall. On it are Qian Xiaoyi’s various magic weapons and some books left by his master. Qian Xiaoyi took out the books he bought from Baihu Village before. In his notebook, he turned to the page with the magic circle drawn on it, and then he pulled out a thread-bound book called "Orthodox Taoist Compilation Notes - Magic Circle" from the bookshelf, and found one of the pages to compare.
"Sure enough...basically exactly the same." Qian Xiaoyi murmured.
(End of this chapter)