Just as he was thinking about it, Mao Lilan grabbed him with his free hand: "Ghost, ghost, ghost... there is...!"
Jiang Xia: "No, it's a stone statue."
As he spoke, he reached out and flicked the head of the nearest stone statue.
Xinshengmaru was shocked, and then he gloated: "Disrespect to the samurai will be punished by heaven. Be careful that the ghosts of the samurai crawl into your bed to look for you tonight."
Jiang Xia was pinched by Mao Lilan and felt that her arm was about to break. She blurted out: "Thank you."
He came back to his senses only after the words came out of his mouth, and changed his words as if nothing had happened: "No, there are no ghosts in the world."
Mao Lilan drew strength from his firm voice and relaxed a little while holding his hand: "Really, really?"
Jiang Xia nodded firmly.
The merman who was lying on his head to catch up on his sleep was jolted twice. He sat up in a daze and looked around: "?"
…
In any case, with a materialistic detective beside him, Mao Lilan felt much more at ease.
Everyone followed Senda Saruhiko's lantern and walked forward, and soon passed through the two rows of samurai who greeted them and entered the village.
After twisting and turning, everyone arrived in front of a courtyard.
Senda Saruhiko raised the lantern and briefly introduced: "This is the old house of the Tsun family. Guest rooms have been arranged. I will take you there."
This courtyard occupies a very large area, and within the courtyard wall is a magnificent Japanese-style building. At this time, the lights in every room are on, as if to welcome the owner home.
Mrs. Tatsumi and Tatsuma Seimaru went to their rooms, while Senda Saruhiko led the guests to the guest room to put down their luggage.
After that, he didn't leave in a hurry, but stayed at the door and politely asked them if they needed anything else. The old servant seemed to be much more polite to the guests than he was to the two hosts just now.
Although the guest room of the Tatsumi family is old, it is well repaired and has complete facilities. Suzuki Sonoko originally wanted to joke and said "it's just missing the signal", but unexpectedly she took out her mobile phone and saw that there were still two bars of signal.
Senda Saruhiko glanced at her: "The signal here is only bad when it's cloudy and rainy. It's actually no different from outside at ordinary times."
After a pause, he remembered something: "The master of the house dismissed many servants before he passed away. Now we are short of manpower. We will be very busy these days. While there is still time, I will show you the way first, so that you don't have to leave."
leave."
Several guests did not refuse. After all, Senda Saruhiko said "to avoid getting lost", but everyone could hear that what he really wanted to say was "to prevent you from wasting manpower to look for it if you get lost."
So soon, several guests went out again.
Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Lilan were a little scared at first, but since they discovered there was a signal here, they became a little bolder.
Jiang Xia also wanted to walk around more. He reminded: "Although it seems to be very late to the body, if you look at the watch, you can see that it is only eight o'clock." - This is not late at night, this is completely night life.
The prologue has just begun.
When Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Lilan heard this, they felt more at ease. After all, "going out at eight o'clock in the evening" and "going out in the middle of the night" are completely different feelings. The former sounds much safer.
Curacao was yawning behind him. When he heard this, he immediately became alert: What do you mean? What does this person want to do? Is something going to happen again tonight?
...Fortunately, she followed her in a flash, otherwise, if she had continued to stay in the room, a bloody case might have occurred in the old house while a few high school students were happily strolling around, and then she would have been attacked or the suspect would have been identified.
Senda Saruhiko was unaware of people's chaotic thoughts.
He took the guests around the Xun family's old house and got to know the way. Then he probably felt that a few guests didn't look like honest people and might run around, so he simply led the team out through the side door and walked along the
We walked along the main road and introduced him.
After a while, a torii gate appeared on the roadside. Looking along the stone steps, I saw a shrine on the top of the mountain.
In front of the stone steps stands a stone tablet with the name of the shrine - Samurai Shrine.
"...We worship samurai here, there are both stone statues and shrines." Suzuki Sonoko thought of the two rows of scary stone statues when she entered the village.
She looked along the long steps, and when her eyes fell on the end of the stone steps, she suddenly saw a vague figure there.
Suzuki Sonoko was stunned, her eyes widened in fright: "Ghost——!!"
Jiang Xia looked over immediately, and then sighed: "He is a human being, but he is dressed a little strangely."
Maya Hashimoto also squinted and looked over there. He had recently acquired a lot of stage knowledge, so he recognized it at a glance: "Is this Kabuki Kuroko's costume?" Why is this person dressed like this? Is it...
…Uzo’s tool?!
Kabuki is a drama that originated in the early Edo period, and "Kuroko" is the backstage staff responsible for carrying props when the stage changes.
When they go on stage, they will wear black clothes and cover their faces with black cloth. It is pitch black, pretending that they are just shadows. The audience will also pretend not to see them, assuming that these "spots" do not exist.
As if being disturbed by Suzuki Sonoko's scream, "Kuroko", who was looking at the sky at a 45-degree angle, glanced down at them, then took a few steps back and quickly disappeared.
"Did I scare him away?" Suzuki Sonoko was startled again, "He is indeed a human being. Speaking of which, in the summer, he is wearing a sunspot outfit. Doesn't this person feel hot?"
Jiang Xia: "Maybe it's the village custom."
Mao Lilan huddled among them and shivered: "Yes, how about we go back and wait until daytime tomorrow to go out for a walk."
Senda Saruhiko did not force it: "Yes, but I have to work during the day and there is a festival held in the village. There is no one to lead the way, so you'd better not wander around."
"Okay, okay." Mao Lilan thought to herself that it would be okay if there was no one to lead the way. She didn't want to come to this scary village at all. From tomorrow on, she would stay at the Xun family's old house and never leave.
So the group of people returned to the Xun family's big house.
Mrs. Xun came out of the main room and waved when she saw them: "Come and have something to eat. I didn't even have time to eat well on the way."
…
The servants cooked some food, and while everyone was eating, the door was pushed open. A middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes, wearing glasses, was attracted by Senda Saruhiko.
Mrs. Xun saw him, got up and left, and the two went to a room next door.
Suzuki Sonoko's eyes began to shine with gossip: "Who is that?"
Tatsumi Seimaru: "Fuyuki Rintaro, the only doctor in our village - my mother has always felt uncomfortable since she received that threatening letter, so she often comes to see him for treatment."