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Sun and Huang walked up the stone steps, passed through a torii gate, and entered the front yard of the Tenjoyama Shrine.
And just as they walked under the torii gate, the sky, which was already dark, suddenly brightened up again due to the appearance of a bright moon.
This speed of "moving the clouds and seeing the moon" is as if someone has opened the curtains in a dark room. It is a bit weird no matter how you look at it...
Of course, the two people who knew this place was "unclean" from the beginning didn't say anything more about it. They just exchanged glances for a moment and continued walking inside.
At the same time, inside the shrine...
The three groups of people who arrived here before Shuang Xie were all resting quietly.
Let me mention here that shrines, like temples, can be large or small. The ones you often see in movies, TV and anime, which are about the same size as public toilets, are small. Small shrines usually only have one.
The main shrine is only used for worship, and usually no one is allowed in. There is a money box at the entrance of the hall, and a bell is hung on the box, which is enough. As for the large shrines, there are various architectural styles and structures.
, some are divided into inner and outer halls, and some are divided into main and side rooms, which can usually be occupied by people.
The current Tenjoyama Shrine is naturally a relatively large one. It adopts the "Zuan-zukuri" style. The space inside the shrine is very large, and there are corridors on all sides of the shrine.
Such a place can accommodate not only five or six people, but even fifty or sixty people can squeeze in.
Therefore, at this moment, the three people in the palace are all on their own side, and they are all quite far away from each other. Although they are all wary of each other, for the time being, they are still in conflict with each other.
However, the appearance of Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai broke this delicate balance...
"Hey! Isn't this 'harmful'?" Sun Yixie only glanced at Hayato Kamo in the corner to his right after taking two steps into the palace, and he immediately exclaimed.
Ordinarily, after traveling around the world for so long, Sun Yixie wouldn't be so surprised, but this time it was also a special situation.
After all, when Hayato was unable to protect himself, he still interceded for Sun Yixie under the knife of the pirates, thus giving the latter a glimmer of hope.
Even if this does not mean that Hayato directly saved Sun Yixie, it was at least a 10% life-saving grace. Therefore, Sun Yixie was somewhat excited to see that his Japanese friend was still alive.
Hayato was also very surprised when he saw Sun Yixie being called out like this.
First, from Hayato's point of view, he felt that Sun Yixie had a narrow escape when he was thrown into the sea. He never thought that Sun Yixie could actually survive; secondly, what Hayato never expected was that the "Eastern" martial arts master from the Central Plains
"Xiexi Poison" actually came to Japan, and happened to appear in front of him at this very moment...
"Brother Sun... you..." After a brief shock, Hayato said with surprise, "You actually survived?" After saying that, he immediately looked at Huang Donglai next to Brother Sun, "And Huang
Brother...why did you come to Japan?"
Everyone, please pay attention here. According to the principle of "defeating the slander" we explained earlier, because Sun Yixie knew that Hayato could speak Chinese, what he just said to Hayato fell into the wrong hands of Hayato.
He could hear a sentence in Chinese, so when he said "hurt people", the other party couldn't tell whether it meant "damage" or "falcon".
But to the ears of other Japanese people besides Hayato, Brother Sun spoke in Japanese, and Hayato's name was translated into "hurt" in Japanese, which was very strange.
Then, because Hayato didn't know that Sun and Huang had their own translation skills at the moment, when he heard the other party speaking Chinese to him, he also responded in Chinese... and the Chinese he spoke fell on the ears of other Japanese.
Chinese, naturally it’s still Chinese.
In short, after the back-and-forth between the two parties, Ma Shanzhongzang, who came to investigate the details of the double harmony, immediately began to make wild guesses: "It seems that my guess is correct, these two people really came from
Here comes Ozao, and the Japanese he spoke just now is very good. Not only does he not have a Chinese accent, he even pretends to have a Kansai accent...
"He called the man who got there first 'Sufferer'. It didn't look like a name at all. Maybe it was a secret code during the meeting?
"And that 'harmful person', no matter how you look at it, is a real Japanese, but when the other person spoke Japanese to him, he responded in Chinese and revealed the Chinese surnames of the two people as soon as he opened his mouth. Why?
?
"Hiss - could it be that he deliberately used this method to convey the message that 'it has been revealed that you are from the Central Plains, and some of the people present are targeting you'?"
"So he has already seen through me?
"Or... he is doubting..."
Thinking of this, Juzo instinctively glanced at the group of monks on the other side of the shrine.
It doesn't matter if he doesn't glance at him, he will be startled if he glances at him.
What's going on?
It turned out that at the moment when Juzo glanced at the monks, three of the four monks were also staring at him.
As soon as the two sides' eyes met, Zhongzang was so frightened that he quickly turned his head away the next second, pretending to look at the other person accidentally.
Here, it's not that Juzo is a coward, but those monks are really weird.
Look at the four monk soldiers, one is sitting cross-legged in the middle, and the other three are sitting around him with their backs to him.
The one in the middle is wearing a white monk's robe, with a thick cape outside the monk's robe, and a string of huge Buddhist beads hanging around his neck; while the three people surrounding him are all wearing black monk's robes.
, wearing a tattered cassock, no beads around his neck, but a naginata in each hand.
You may have noticed when you see this. Judging from their clothes and the things they carry, we can only tell the identities of these four monk soldiers, but there is nothing "weird" about them, so their problems are obviously all
It comes from the "face".
Take the monk in white, for example. He looks to be in his sixties, neither fat nor thin, and his other facial features are quite normal, except for his closed eyes, which have a large area around them that are intertwined with the eyelids.
of scar tissue.
From a distance, it looked like he was wearing a large sleeping mask with flesh-colored patterns, which was quite disturbing to look at.
As for the three black-clothed monks in their prime, their faces were even more exaggerated... The ears of each of them seemed to have "collapsed" inward, curled up into misshapen balls of flesh and squeezed together.
After entering the ear canal, only a small part is still exposed outside the head; and their eyes reflect the lyrics - "eyes are as wide as copper bells", and they are so wide that they are round, like
It felt like it was about to fall out of the eye sockets at any time, and all the eyeballs were covered with bloodshot eyes.
When Juzo meets the eyes of these three people, can he not feel numb?
Fortunately, after he averted his eyes, the monks did nothing else, so Juzo quickly calmed down, turned his attention back to Hayato and Shuanghe, and began to eavesdrop on their conversation.
On the other side, Hayato was telling about his experience of returning to Japan from the sea...
Let's talk about that day, Hayato and Sun Yixie, who had a gout attack, were captured by Japanese pirates on the boat. Everyone knows about Sun's situation: although his operation of pretending to be a Japanese fool was not completely out of control, the Japanese pirates did not further screen him.
Because of his nationality and intellectual interests, he just wanted to kill him to end the problem. After Hayato interceded for him, Brother Sun was able to escape from the sea.
As for Hayato... because he looked fair and his conversation and temperament were quite elegant, the pirate leader guessed that this kid might be a member of a famous family in Japan, and it might be useful to keep him, so he took him as a prisoner.
Call him a "captive", but in fact Hayato was not tied up or imprisoned by the Japanese pirates; because he had nowhere to escape on the ship, and imprisoning him would be unnecessary. If you really imprisoned him and tied him up, someone would have to be there.
How much trouble would it be to wait for him to eat, drink, and defecate? Besides, Hayato didn't look like a martial artist. Those Japanese pirates were all confident in their skills, and no one thought he dared to resist.
In this way, Hayato was forced to work as a hard worker on the pirate ship and drifted at sea for another month.
Until one day, the pirate ship he was on encountered another group of pirates disguised as a merchant ship "fishing" during the robbery...
After a fierce battle, there were very few survivors; Hayato relied on his onmyoji magic and used a simple blindfold to hide his body, and successfully survived.
At that time, the place where the two ships were fighting was not too far from the land. At least the outline of the land could be seen with the eyes. So when the battle was coming to an end, Hayato took advantage of the situation and took advantage of the chaos to get a small boat and row towards the land alone.
go.
He originally thought that with this small distance and the calm sea at the time, he would be able to row to the shore with his physical strength as an adult. Unexpectedly... just this "small distance" almost killed him.
As the saying goes, "Looking up the mountain and running to death", even on land, sometimes there will be a big error between the visual distance and the actual distance, not to mention that a wave can push you out to the sea dozens of meters away?
If he hadn't caught up with a "favorable tide" a few hours later, Hayato might have died of exhaustion at sea that day.
Fortunately, he finally returned to the shore by luck and returned to his hometown.
"What happened next? Where did you make your fortune after returning to China?" Sun Yixi asked after hearing what Hayato said.
"Harm! What's going on? It's better if you don't starve to death." Hayato replied helplessly, "In my current life... I tell fortunes in Dongcheng today, and catch monsters in Xixiang tomorrow... I earn all my money.
The hard-earned money can only catch up with the needs of those wealthy families. If I can't catch up, then I will have to hunt and dig vegetables by myself and sleep in the open air."
He was telling the truth. Looking at Hayato's simple clothes at the moment, he knew that his life now was not as good as when he was in the Central Plains (at that time he was still wearing full Onmyoji attire).
Some people may find it strange when they see this. In many people's minds, isn't the profession of Onmyoji all supported by daimyo or even the royal family, with noble status and no worries about food and clothing?
Then all I can say is that Kamo Hayato... he has bad luck.
Although Hayato is from a famous family, he happened to be born in a special era, and he happens to be the last descendant of the most disadvantaged branch of the Kamo family. You should be able to guess from the fact that he went to the Central Plains to make a living in Japan.
Life has never been easy.
"That's it..." Huang Donglai thought of something when he heard this, and continued, "Then why you are here today..."
"Alas..." Hayato sighed, "I was entrusted by a family named Tomita in Yae Township to the east to come here to find their young master."
"Ha!" Sun Yixie understood immediately after hearing this, "Let me guess, their young master came to this mountain and was disturbed by a monster?"
"Ha..." Hayato smiled bitterly, "Who knows..." He paused, "Maybe the young master did encounter a monster, or maybe... he just slipped and fell to death in the mountains and was eaten by wild beasts, or maybe...
He was killed by a gangster... Anyway, the information I got is that someone saw him entering this mountain alone at dusk. After that, no one was seen alive or his body was found... Since there were rumors nearby that there was someone in this mountain who shouldn't
The existence of the shrine', and finally this job came to me... The reward is generous, and I have no reason to refuse."
Because Hayato hadn't spoken in Central Plains dialect for so long, he was a little awkward at first, but as the conversation progressed, he got into the mood, his tone and accent became more and more correct, and his speaking speed became faster and faster.
Ma Shanjuzo's Chinese is only half a bucket of water. Hayato's first sentence is relatively simple, and he understands it. The more he listens to Yuehutu, he can't understand what Hayato is talking about, but the double harmonics are translated.
He can understand Japanese.
But this only further deepened Juzo's suspicion.
Because what he could understand clearly, what Shuanghe said were short sentences, and they were not questions, or they contained the element of "monster", which might be the content of secret codes; but what he couldn't quite understand, what Hayato said
The Chinese he spoke was always in long paragraphs that seemed to have something to say.
Just when Juzo was thinking about taking the risk of contacting those three people to get more information...
"Damn it, when I first came in because I saw you, I was so excited that I didn't take a closer look. Now that I'm looking over..." Sun Yixie turned his attention to the monk soldiers in the dark corner in the distance and lowered his head.
The voice said to Hayato, "I noticed that those monks over there look quite demonic..." As he said that, he threw another sentence at Huang Donglai, "Brother Huang, what are those 'deaf and blind monks' famous for?
Can you tell?"
"囖囖囖囖囖——"
A second later, before Huang Donglai could reply, the monk in white clothes in the distance suddenly laughed strangely.
This old man's smile is so charming...
His laughter was like someone scratching the glass with his fingernails rhythmically, and in the gaps there was a broken bellows blowing wind.
In addition, the shrine's shrine is an open and closed environment, so the sound becomes even weirder after being reverberated.
"The three young people over there..." After laughing for more than ten seconds, the monk in white finally stopped making this weird noise, and then said in his slightly hoarse voice, "Have you ever heard of... deaf people?
Good sight, can a blind person listen well to this sentence?"
His words were obviously directed at Brother Sun's "deaf and blind monk" sentence just now. On the one hand, it means that even if you whisper bad things about me, I can still hear you.
A frontal counterattack of opinions.
Anyone else would be a little embarrassed when being retorted by these words, but Sun Yixie would not. He just smiled and replied without any shame: "I'm sorry, I'm illiterate. Are you here?"