After Fuma Juro finished telling this story, it seemed that even the air in this study had experienced those long years. Kasumi felt some indescribable touches in her heart. This was also the first time she heard her father explain the Fuma family crest.
The origin of this is also the first time I know the first essence of ninja: "A ninja must use everything to carry out the master's orders."
In the past, this sentence was just put there, and no one explained how Fuuma could survive as a ninja without a master. Having said that, although Kasumi now knows this hidden history, what impact does this have? Or
Let’s ask another question:
"Father, why do everyone in the village hide this truth?"
Although Kasumi is young, as a very talented ninja, her brain power can definitely compete with many adults. She quickly understood the biggest flaw in this story: if the story is true, why is the truth hidden?
And if you want to stop people from leaving, you can keep this lie all the time, so why tell the children the truth when they are ten years old? Such inconsistent behavior makes no sense in terms of motivation. There must be some other reason.
Juro looked into Xia's eyes for a long time and replied:
"That's another story - sorry, this is not something I can tell you now."
"...I understand." Although she was still puzzled, Xia could only accept this answer. But it was not incomprehensible: as the head of the family, his father must have his own considerations. If his father felt that he could not speak out now, then
This proves that one day in the future, he will choose the appropriate time to tell himself about this matter.
After all, my father never lied to anyone.
"Then, Xia, let me ask you again: Do you want to see the outside world?"
Kasumi was stunned by the sudden question. Juro continued, "You already know this story now, so it's not okay to tell you that you can't go outside. Tell me the truth, do you want to go outside?"
Xia could feel his sincerity from her father's eyes: he really wanted to know the answer to this question. However, the answer to this question had already been determined when Xia herself guessed the truth of the outside world. She cleaned up her
mood, and replied seriously:
"No, father, I never thought of going outside the village. Everything I care about is in this village, and there is no need to go out."
Juro stared into his daughter's eyes, staring at her with a gaze that seemed to penetrate a person's soul. Finally, he nodded and said:
"Then that's all I want to tell you today. Remember, you can't tell Taiyi about this. If there are younger children in the village in the future, you can't talk to them about the outside world. Do you understand?"
Xia bowed her head and accepted the order, "Yes."
"Well, let's go out - it's still the same. I've boiled the medicine and remember to feed it to your brother before he goes to bed."
The young ninja answered yes again, stood up and exited the study. Juro looked at the door in silence for a long time, with a relaxed expression as if he couldn't believe what had just happened.
"...That's all." The white-haired father sighed, "I should have known earlier, Yuezi, you are right."
——
Kasumi walked in the corridor, and the results of her training made her footsteps inaudible. However, even if she had not become a ninja, she had been accustomed to walking softly since her mother was pregnant with Taichi, but that was a very long time ago.
As the daughter of the patriarch's family, the villagers are accustomed to calling themselves miss, but that is mostly a kind name, and there is not much identity barrier in it. Compared with other villagers, the house of the Feng Mo patriarch is just a large area.
There are some decorations, and the decoration is simple, only a few calligraphy and paintings of the patriarch are left, and there are no servants.
When Kasumi was younger than Taichi, there were still a few servants in the house who helped with housework. However, after her mother passed away, her father wanted to clean up the house and dismissed the few servants. The house became even more deserted. Now the whole family lives in
There were only the patriarch, his three brothers and sisters, and an old lady who took care of the young Taiyi's food.
Keen senses helped Xia grasp the situation around her. After confirming that no one could see or hear her, Xia leaned against an empty wooden wall. As she turned around gently, Ben was in perfect contact with her.
The wall was actually pushed by the little girl! When the whole person turned 180 degrees, the original outer wall returned to its original appearance, as if it had never changed, and Xia came to the inside of the wall, an isolated secret passage
.
——Perhaps this is the only place where the patriarch's home is different from other homes, Xia thought. Gently walking through the long and narrow passage, she came to a place where a large number of unknown items were piled up. This was a space she discovered not long ago.
The entire house is obviously designed to be very compact, but it is incredible that there is a small space left here, and the air is still very fresh. When I think about the fact that there are probably more places like this in my home waiting to be discovered,
The childlike innocence that has not yet dissipated will become restless again.
The result of the current investigation of this room is that not only the secret passage he just led to here, but also other passages: Xia was looking through the boxes here when she suddenly felt the approach of some kind of aura, and she was so frightened that she hurriedly hid.
On the beam. When she saw her brother Yuu walking in from a completely unexpected place, she realized that this was probably a hub of her secret passage. And when she saw what Yuu was holding, Kasumi felt that she had found it.
baby:
Yuu placed various items used during training in a box in the corner that she didn't notice. This is also where the Fuma family's teaching aids are stored! Thinking of her brother asking her when she locked the rosin today, Kasumi couldn't help but stick out her tongue.
: In fact, after she initially expected that there would be a training mission to seize specific items, she secretly attached special smelling attachments to all suspicious items.
At that time, the entire box was actually painted with a light layer, and now only the lock core remains. It avoided being discovered by my brother, which is a self-defeating thing.
Although it is tempting to continue exploring various secret passages, Xia discovered something else more important in the past two days: several boxes in this room contain her mother's relics.
Xia took out a large mirror from the box and set it up against the wall. She recalled how her mother used it to dress up. She took out the wooden comb from the bag - it was the last thing her mother left for Xia. She once heard her mother say
The origin of this comb was that in order to please my mother, my father secretly cut a branch from a cherry blossom tree that had few trees and carved it with his own hands. My mother told this story and happily described how my father was chased by my grandfather afterwards.
Anecdotes that teach lessons.
These scenes are vivid in my mind.
Xia put down her tied hair and combed it into the hairstyle her mother always wore in front of the mirror. Her brother's eyes were like her mother's, Taiyi was her mouth, and the thing about her that most resembled her mother was her long black hair. She gently put down the comb, and Xia
Touch your mother in the mirror with your hand.
"...I miss you so much."
Taiyi fell ill a long time ago and had a high fever. It was the week of his fourth birthday, just like me at that time. My father was so anxious that he checked his pulse and took medicine, and finally stabilized his condition. But Taiyi still had to continue taking food.
Medicine: Father said that Taiyi was weak and needed to take another kind of medicine to control his condition. He has been taking it for more than half a year now. At first, Taiyi was uncooperative. Only when I fed him medicine did he not vomit on his hand.
My father and brother both said that I have made rapid progress, but training is really tiring, and the calluses on my hands have broken three times——
The girl just told her mother various recent stories and words hidden in her heart. As she spoke, the image of her mother blurred in her eyes, and the warm liquid slid across her cheeks. When her mother left, she did not understand what death was.
, and after she understood death and before she was eight years old, the largest cherry blossom tree outside the courtyard was her favorite place to stay: her mother hid under that tree. The breeze next to the tree brushed her cheek, just like her mother
Like touching her face.
She hadn't been there for a long time, and she didn't dare to go. She was afraid that her mother would laugh at her because she couldn't stop crying even though she was a ninja. In this room, no one could see how she cried, so the tears could only be left to her.
Mother in the mirror.
The girl just chanted like this and fell asleep with tears.
When Xia woke up again, she realized that she had made a big mistake: it was already time to fall asleep at this time! "Oops!" She quickly and carefully packed the mirror, tied her hair in a hurry, and ran through the secret passage.
From the corridor I came to the room where my father cooked medicine.
And Juro was standing in the yard at the door of the room, holding a bowl of medicinal soup in his hand.
"...Father."
"No need." Juro shook his head, and the hand that wasn't holding the bowl reached out to Zhaoxia. The girl shrank her neck in fear. But the hand just rubbed her head, just like her father usually did when he comforted her.
Nothing like the scolding she imagined.
Under Kasumi's shocked eyes, Fuma Juro looked at the moon in the sky and slowly poured out the medicine in the bowl.
"Don't wake him up, let him have a good dream."
From that day on, Taiyi never drank that bowl of medicine with an unknown formula again.