Many years ago, several Kyoto people came to a small village in Kobe, bought a house in the village, and gave the village chief an extra sum of money, entrusting the village chief to send people to the house every now and then. The room was cleaned and then they left.
The villagers were very curious as to why these gentlemen from the capital came to this remote place to buy a house, and they never lived in it for a day after buying it. They also stayed in the village for several days. In the inn.
Later, a few good guys from the village sneaked into the room to investigate. They found that there were not even a few pieces of furniture in the room, only an altar and some boxes.
Of course, they did not open the box to confirm what was inside, because they knew without opening it that the box contained ashes.
At that time, the Warring States Period in Japan had not yet come, and various places were relatively peaceful, so those rich and powerful people were more particular about funerals, such as shoguns and daimyo. They have their own family temple. When their family members die, they usually enshrine the ashes at home for seven to forty-nine days according to the old etiquette, and then send them to the family temple to "receive the bones", and those family temples also have them all year round. Specially supervised and cleaned.
Those who are worse than daimyo, such as the samurai class and local tycoons, will send the ashes of the deceased to cemeteries near temples or shrines for burial; such cemeteries are considered to be influenced by nearby gods. It's a blessed place for blessing, so it's not bad to put it there. People from temples and shrines will also clean it.
As for the ordinary people at the lowest level, it is natural to bury them wherever you like. Anyway, it will not be surprising if they are dug up one day.
However, there is another group that does not fall into any of the above situations.
This group includes small business owners, capable craftsmen, capable street performers, capable gangsters, etc. In our modern concept, it is "small business". bourgeoisie”.
The common characteristic of these people is that although their economic status is much better than that of the common people at the bottom, and some have even surpassed that of the lower-class warriors, their social status is still very low, and many of them are much poorer than them. The people look down on them.
In Kyoto at that time, there were not many petty bourgeois people like this, and when it came to funerals, they were no different from ordinary people. To put it simply, even if you are willing to spend money, you may not be qualified. Be next to the graves of those samurai gentlemen.
So, at that time, someone came up with the idea of going to a relatively remote village around Kyoto, buying a house in the village, and secretly enshrining the ashes of their family members there. .
Anyway, the housing prices in small villages are very cheap compared to those in Kyoto. These petty bourgeoisie can completely afford it. If they spend some money to let the villagers take care of themselves, it is no better than being buried in the barren mountains. Qiang
As time goes by, more and more people do this, and the villages near Kyoto that accept this business are not enough. Mainly, the villagers in some villages willNo, they think that many houses in the village have become "haunted houses", which is unlucky. Why is it that the house next door to me is used to worship the dead, but my neighbor who sells the house gets the money? I live with dead people as neighbors every day, but I don't get a cent. No
There are a lot of troubles like this. Many places around Kyoto have banned this kind of thing. After all, this is a gray industry. If you really go to the government to make trouble, it won't count.
But the market is gone and the demand has not disappeared, so a new supply model will inevitably be born.
Northwestern Osaka, northeastern Kobe, and northeastern Nara, which are a little further away from Kyoto, are just a day or two more walk on the mountain roads. There are more villages there and the housing prices are cheaper. , just go away.
In this way, another village soon started this business, and this small village in Kobe was very poor, and eventually almost every household developed into a "professional box watcher" , this village was also named "Hui Yi Village" by outsiders.
Time flies, decades have passed, and Japan’s Warring States Period has come. This fight lasts for hundreds of years.
At this time of year, the country is full of battlefields littered with corpses, and even the famous people are living a precarious life. At this time, who cares how you die and how you are buried
Located Huiyi Village, a place of war like Kobe, naturally became a deserted village like many other villages.
However, after decades of neglect, a group of people came here again; this group of people took a fancy to this gloomy village and decided to build it into a secret stronghold .
This stronghold is now the main altar of the Zanxing Sect, and the group of people back then were the original members of the Zanxing Sect.
In the blink of an eye, the winter of the second year of Yuanhe has arrived, and the day of the annual gathering of the Xingxing Sect is coming soon.
As mentioned in our previous article, in ancient times, during the twelfth lunar month of winter, even working people had less time to go out. This is the same in both Japan and Japan.
Business is not easy for the Xingxing Sect during this season, so they have made a rule that everyone returns to the main forum for a gathering at the end of each year; whether you say they are reporting on work or discussing performance rewards and punishments, anyway That's it.
Since communications were underdeveloped at that time, it was necessary to gather once a year even for the purpose of "confirming whether there were any missing persons or casualties in the organization during the year, and exchanging information by the way." of.
After seeing this, I guess many people will understand why Shuangxie has already encountered three groups of people from the Zhenxing Sect along the way from the west to the east of Honshu Island. To put it bluntly, this is the path they took. The route and the time to catch up happened to be consistent with those monks of the Tao Xing Sect who were going back to the main altar for a meeting.
Of course, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai have already obtained the above information from Xuan Gen.
In fact, they now not only know the origin of the Zanxing Sect and the annual gatherings, but also the organizational structure and people of the Zanxing Sect.He has a general understanding of the personnel configuration, the setting of unique secret techniques such as corpse puppets, and even the fighting styles and abilities of the senior officials.
Don’t think it will take long to talk about these things. In fact, it was finished in less than ten minutes. Xuan Gen also introduced Yong Gen’s abilities and his perceived weaknesses in a personal way. , it seems that he is planning that one day if Shuang Xie really comes to the door, he can borrow a knife to kill Yong Gen.
What a pity, he did not expect that he could not save his life even after saying so much.
Sun Huang and Hayato, who had solved Xuangan and rescued Azhi, just discussed it for a while and decided to put their tasks on hold for the time being and spend two or three days to do it. We won’t talk about it until this Zhenxing sect is destroyed.
On the one hand, they all feel that the people in this organization really deserve to die.
On the other hand, even if they ignore the Zhenxingzong, this gathering of Zhenxingzong may also interfere with their contacts with people in Kobe.
Furthermore, after seeing Shuangxi’s abilities, A-Zhi immediately became hopeful about rescuing her son. So after Xuan Gen’s death, she immediately burst into tears and begged them sincerely to save her son. A "young hero" helped to rescue Xiaosuke, but everyone couldn't bear to refuse.
In this way, the four of them arrived near the Huiyi Village on the evening of the next day.
"This village is so dark."
When they were still a few hundred meters away from the village, Huang Donglai and Hayato looked into the distance and muttered this sentence almost at the same time.
Hearing this, Sun Yixie's face suddenly felt a little painful. He touched the old wound on his cheek and continued, "I said that in this village, apart from the gang of traffickers, monks and their practitioners, There won't be any other demons and monsters in the corpse puppet."
"That's not necessarily the case," Huang Donglai replied first, "A place with strong Yin energy does not necessarily have ghosts. Otherwise, there are so many basements and cellars in the world, and almost all of them will be haunted."
"That's right." Hayato also said, "Even if there are many innocent souls who died here, since this Zhenxingzong. The fact that they are still here means that either there are no ghosts here, or these evil monks have some way of not being afraid of troubles."
"That's it." Sun Yi listened to these two "professionals. "People" responded with a certain amount of calculation, "Then it seems that we are the only ones who are here to make a fuss."
"Oh, that's true. When it comes to making a fuss, you, the Sun family, are still the ones to make a fuss." There's something about it." Huang Donglai said with a smile as he remembered something.
"What do you want to say?" Sun Yixie didn't know what he was thinking of. He glanced at Huang Donglai sideways and said with a crooked mouth, "Let me first state that I didn't make trouble back then, I just threatened the other party to make trouble. That’s all. In the end, the other party paid the money they owed to those players, so I just let it go. It was just talk to hold up banners while the leaders were present, but I have never done it.”
What Brother Sun is talking about was something he discovered when he was in the original universe.It's an old thing, Huang Donglai knows about it, but Huang Donglai is not actually talking about this at the moment, it's just that Brother Sun is a bit sensitive, and there is no three hundred taels of silver here.
"Brother Sun, I just want to talk about the deeds that another member of your Sun family dared to cause trouble in the East China Sea Dragon Palace, the Underworld, and the Lingxiao Palace. I didn't talk about your past, so don't be nervous. "Huang Donglai answered.
"Mao, who is nervous?" Sun Yixie curled his lips, "Even if you are talking about my past, I am still helping others out of a sense of justice. At most, my methods are a little despicable. What is there to panic about?"
"Yes, yes, I still don't know who you are?" Huang Donglai's words should be heard by a passerby. At first glance, there is nothing wrong with it
But you know a little about him. People who are familiar with each other, such as Hayato who has been with them for some time, fully understand this is a kind of yin and yang.
"What a bastard." Sun Yixie didn't defend himself, just snorted and cursed.
Huang Donglai didn’t reply even after being scolded so bluntly, but instead smiled even more.
Azhi, who was watching the interaction between the two people, was dumbfounded. She didn’t understand whether the two were good brothers or had any hatred. She always felt that their conversations were inexplicable and moody. , and the one surnamed Huang seems to have a tendency to tremble
By the way, let me mention it here, because A Zhi already knew the identity of their Central Plains people, and also made it clear when they were walking with them, so Sun Huang The two of them stopped using the fake names Kameda and Edo in front of her.
"I said, it is getting dark now, which is the perfect time to conduct investigation. Let's not waste time anymore. Why don't I, the ninja, go in first to investigate?" Azhi tried to change the subject. Get back on track.
But before she finished her sentence, Huang Donglai interrupted and said, "Okay, okay, stop it, okay." He paused, looked at Azhi and said, "Although you took my pill. , you can now sit up and walk normally, but this medicine is not a magic pill. Your rib fracture will not heal in a few months. If you want to run or even use force, you should save it."
"But I" Azhi, who is eager to save his son, undoubtedly wants to help.
"You don't have to but." Huang Donglai said, "My Qinggong, ear skills, and eye skills are better than yours. If you want to go, I will go."
"As expected of Huang Brother, you're tough." When Sun Yixie saw Huang Donglai trying to show off, his voice immediately became louder, "Then it's up to you, we're waiting for your good news here."
"Huh, don't go into the fire." Could Huang Donglai not know what Sun Yixie was doing? He immediately said, "I'll go in first. If I haven't come out in half an hour, you have to follow."
"Ah," Sun Yixie said, "Then why can't Hayato follow?"
"Hayato must stay and protect A-Zhi." Huang Donglai said.
"Then can't I stay and protect Azhi?" Sun Yixie said again.
"Hayato has invisibility to protect himself in emergencies. What do you have?" Huang Donglaiasked.
"I" Sun Yixie thought for a while, and there was no problem in protecting himself. He had all kinds of insidious means, but protecting others did not seem to be his specialty, "Forget it, motherfucker. Just follow me."
When Huang Donglai heard this, he didn't need to say anything more. He turned around and walked away. In a blink of an eye, he ducked into the woods and slowly approached the man in front of him. Gray Memory Village.
End of this chapter
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