Awakening Chapter 222: Old shop
Nagoya is the capital of Japan's Aichi Prefecture, second only to Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama
Since Naoko thinks that she is just an amateur writer who writes prose or memoirs in a magazine column, she has no published books, and she does not want to be seen by those readers. The staff proposed to cancel her seat.
At her insistence, the president of the Youth Writers Association in her forties finally agreed to her request.
So Naoko hid in the crowd, happily holding his lover's arm around the venue.
Looking at the crowded people, Lei Yin said to her, "Let's drive, it's too noisy here."
Naoko hesitated, "Not so good. After the signing event is over, there will be a dinner party for the author. It would not be good if I didn't even attend this."
"Relax, there are so many people who write books, even if one or two are missing, no one will find them. Didn't you say you want to take me to your grandma? Now is a good opportunity." >
After hearing Lei Yin's words, Naoko's eyes flashed with excitement, and he immediately agreed.
After coming out of the venue, Naoko smiled and said, "It's fun, it seems a bit truant."
Looking at her moving smile, Lei Yin couldn't help but bow her head and kissed her cheeky face, then said, "Did you just say it wasn't good?"
Naoko holds his arms in both hands and sings softly, "I hate it, obviously you encouraged me to come out."
Lei Yin smiled and said, "It's not good to go empty-handed. Let's buy some gifts and bring them together."
Attentive to her lover, Naoko is very happy.
The two went to a nearby mall to buy some gifts and set off in a car.
Nanako's antique shop is located in the old shmemichi neighborhood of Nagoya.
This old neighbourhood dates back to the age of Japanese merchants in the 18th century. It houses ancient warehouses, temples and craft shops. It is full of rich traditional Japanese folk style. It is one of the must-visit places for many visitors to Nagoya.
When he came to the door, Lei Yin looked at this antique shop. This is a typical Japanese traditional shop. The shop is large in size, and behind it is a dwelling house. There are mostly wooden structures inside and out, which look antique. Listening to Naoko's introduction, this antique shop has a history of more than sixty years and is the brainchild of her grandfather.
After coming here, Naoko is excited like a child. She couldn't wait to pull Lei Yin into the shop.
After entering, she saw a middle-aged woman carefully wiping the items on the price. She immediately said to the woman, "Aunt Caozi."
Hearing the sound behind him, the woman immediately turned her head. After looking straight at Naoko, she said with surprise, "It turned out that Naoko is back."
Naoko smiled and said, "Are you in good health?"
Ikura Kusoko came over and held her to measure her, "I'm fine, how about you?"
"I'm fine, is grandma here?"
"Mrs. is in the inner hall. Is this?" Ikura Kusoko looked at Lei Yin strangely.
"He is my fiance ... fiance," Naoko introduced with a flushed face.
"Yeah?" Ikura Kusoko's face looked surprised. She had never heard of Naoko's fiance.
After Naoko gave Lei Yin a very shy look, he whispered, "Lei, this is Aunt Ikekura, who is taking care of this shop with my grandma." In an excited mood, she forgot to lover Speaking out his real name.
Lei Yin smiled and said to Ikura Kusoko, "Hi, my name is Genei Masashi, and I'm a son's fiance."
"Ikura Kusoko returned to normal soon, and said immediately:" Hello, my name is Ikura Kusoko, please advise. "
Naoko was anxious to see grandma, so he said to her, "Aunt Caozi, let's go and see Grandma. I almost forgot that this is a gift for you." She took a box of gifts from Lei Yin give her.
"You are so good, just come back, what else do you bring?"
"It's just a little bit of heart. Then we go in advanced." After that, Naozi pulled Lei Yin into it.
Looking at Naoko's excited expression, Ikura Kusoko couldn't help but sigh, thinking that the little girl back then had a fiance now.
Since elementary school to high school, Naoko has been reading in Nagoya. It can be said that she watched Naoko grow from that good-looking and cute little girl back then into such a beautiful woman. Like Naoko's grandma, Ikura Kusoko is also worried about her frail Naoko from an early age, hoping that her fiance can treat her well.
The house inside is a Japanese-style house similar to Takeda's hometown. In the middle of the flowered garden is a row of rooms with wooden floors and paper doors.
Naoko walks to the front of the largest room in the middle, and then yells inwardly, "Grandma, I'm Naoko. Are you in there?"
When Naoko called a third sound, the paper sliding door was opened, and an old man with silver hair came out and looked at his granddaughter kindly. After a while, she smiled and said, "Naoko, you are back."
Naoko's eyes slowly turned red, and she bowed to the old man and said, "Grandma, I'm back."
"Come in and sit down." While talking, the old man glanced at Lei Yin standing next to Naoto.
The decoration in the room is very simple. In the middle is a wooden short table. On the window sill, there are several potted plants. On the wall are a few simple and bright lines of calligraphy. There is a TV on the closet that is turned on but the volume is very low. The combination of such simple furniture gives a sense of tranquility and serenity.
After entering the room, Naoko consciously walked to the front of the cabinet, pulled out the first drawer, and took out the teapot, cup and a jar of tea from it. Then walk to the tea room next to the room to make tea.
Nearly, Naoko made the tea. She poured a cup in front of the old man, and then poured it to Lei Yin and herself.
After dividing the tea, Naoko knelt on the back of the old man and gently massaged her shoulders with her hands. Then she rubbed and said, "Grandma, because I published some manuscripts in magazines a few days ago, people from the Japan Youth Writers Association invited me to Nagoya to participate in the annual youth writers exchange meeting. Taking advantage of the time today, I'm here to see you. How are you doing recently? "
"I'm fine, how is your father and your mother?"
Nakako replied: "My father's work is still busy, but both of them are in good health. The same is true of the eldest brother and the second brother."
"How is your health?"
"My health is fine, please don't worry."
The old man nodded with satisfaction. "Then I will rest assured. Naoko, tell me about this young gentleman."
Nakako blushed immediately, afraid to look at Lei Yin's side at all. She reached into the old man's ear and whispered, "Grandma, he's the person I've been waiting for."
When the granddaughter answered, the old man watched Lei Yin quietly. After a while, she suddenly said to him, "I will trouble you to take more care of your son."
Lei Yin answered in a deep voice: "I will, please rest assured."
"Grandma ... Thank you!" Naoko's face was full of surprise. She was still worried about her grandmother's perception of Lei Yin, and now she is at ease.
The old man did not ask Lei Yin about his occupation, family and other questions in detail, but just casually talked with them about some trivial matters of life. Naoko, who is in a good mood, sometimes coquetts with her like a little girl, and Lei Yin beside him smiles gently.
I don't know how long, suddenly, a loud quarrel came from the outside shop.
The old man frowned slightly when he heard the quarrel outside.
"Grandma, let's see what's going on outside, okay?" Naoko said to her.
The old man nodded and stood up.
When the three came to the store, they saw a man in his thirties who was arguing with Ikura Kusoko.
At this moment, the man shouted excitedly: "You're lying to me, I know that thing must be here, you can take it out quickly."
"Sorry, guest, we really don't have that kind of thing here."
"This is impossible, I know you must hide it."
"Guest, could you please explain something? How can you tell us how to get it for you if you don't have it?"
The man was furious. "Call your boss. I'll ask him in person."
Ikura Kusoko was a little impatient with his noisy, "You have been here last time, and I told you very clearly at that time, but you don't believe it. How many times do you want me to say Will you believe it? "
"You're lying to me, asshole, call your boss out!" The man patted the counter vigorously.
"I'm the boss here, what's the matter with you?" the old man walked over and said to the man.
"You're the boss here? Is your surname Buki?" The man looked at the old man without blinking.
"Yes. What's the matter with you?"
At this time, Ikura Kusoko walked to the old man, and gathered in her ear for a while.
After listening to her, the old man looked at the man carefully, and then said, "Sir, can you tell me, why do you think we have what you are looking for?"
At this moment, the expression of the man becomes very complicated, as if something is difficult to decide. After a while, he took a deep look at the old man and said, "I'm sorry, disturbed." After that, he turned and walked out of the antique shop.
I didn't expect him to leave so easily, Ikura Kusoko couldn't help but feel a bit surprised.
"Grandma, what is that person looking for?" Naoko asked the old man.
The old man slowly closed his eyes on the back of the man, and then said, "What he is looking for is the sacrificial knife."
"Knife? You mean the knife that was enshrined in the small east room?" Naoko said with a little surprise.
"Yes. You two come with me." After that, she walked back inside.
The old man took them to the front of a small, locked room like a utility room in the east corner.
"Naoko, do you remember this room?" The old man suddenly asked.
Nakako replied: "Of course I remember, except for that time, you warned me that it is absolutely impossible to get close to this room, and I ca n’t go in."
The old man didn't talk anymore, just took a key from his body and used the key to unlock the door lock.
After opening the door of the room, the old man said, "You follow me."
The room is very dark. There is almost no other light source except the light coming in from the doorway and the only small window outside. And because of the long-term closure, there was a slight musty smell inside.
The old man walked to the left of the wall and groped. After a while, only a pop sounded, a fluorescent lamp mounted on it lit up.
"Fortunately, the lights are not broken." The old man said as he walked back.
At this time, Lei Yin clearly saw that there was an iron frame on a table in the center of the room, and a long wooden box was placed on the iron frame. Judging from the texture and color of the box, obviously there have been many days.
A few curved jade and some wormwood are tied in the opening above. Apart from these things, the most remarkable thing is that they are covered with spells. Feeling very weird.
The old man said to his granddaughter, "Nonson, you were young before, so I didn't want you to know about these things. But now that you have grown up, I have something to tell you. Do you remember the box?" The old man pointed at the box on the table.
Naoko replied: "I remember that box was a long knife. Because when I was in the first grade of primary school, the box was moldy and broken. You gave me a new wooden box called I took the long knife out of the broken box and put it in the new box, so I remember it very well. "
"Do you know why I asked you to change the box instead of letting others or myself do it?"
"I don't know, because I didn't think too much at that time."
"Now I tell you, it's because other than innocent children, you must not touch the knife, otherwise it will be very dangerous."
"Dangerous? I don't quite understand what you mean." Naoko felt that the word was too serious.
The old man slowly said, "This knife is not from our house. It was deposited with us by a good friend of your grandfather. That person said that this knife must never be touched because it It's an evil sword. "
"Evil Sword?" Naoko feels listening to ghost stories.
"You may not believe it, but it is indeed an evil sword. According to your grandfather's good friend, anyone who has held the knife will not die. And every time it is revealed, Will cause a horrible killing. I did n’t believe it at the beginning, but after something strange happened, I started to believe. ”
"What a weird thing?" Naoko clenched Lei Yin's arm unconsciously.
"This knife was not originally placed here, but in the west side of the house. But one day, your grandfather saw a cleaning worker who did not know why, and always looked with a strange look This knife. He started to think that he was wrong, but slowly, he found that the person's behavior and behavior became more and more strange. Later, other workers said that he once talked to himself when he was alone. He had a mental problem, so he fired him. But I didn't expect that one night he sneaked in from the outside and tried to steal something. But it didn't take long for other workers to find him and caught him. Shouted 'give me that knife, give it to me'. When the police took the man away, he did not expect that he suddenly went mad in the police station and bit a police officer's ear. In the end, the doctor determined He had severe schizophrenia and was put in a mental hospital. Your grandfather thought it might have something to do with this knife, so he put it in this room that was originally a utility room.
A few years later, your grandfather died. After that, another weird thing happened. A new handyman, after working for two months, suddenly behaved similarly to the previous cleaner. It was also seen that he often talked to himself, and others saw him often wandering in front of this room. I was afraid that something would happen, so I fired him like your grandfather. On the second night, I specifically arranged for a few workers to stand outside to see if anyone came in. As a result, the handyman came back secretly that night, and wanted to break the lock here and come in here. The workers who were staying here caught him and gave it to the police. "
"Is he biting like that last time?" Naoko asked cautiously.
"No, but committed suicide in the guard room of the police station." Naozi felt even more scared when he heard the answer, and almost shoved the whole person into Lei Yin's arms.
The old man continued: "After this happened, I felt very unusual, so I went to check it, but found that the box containing the knife had rotted because of mold. I do n’t know if it was really because of this The reason, but just in case, as your grandfather's good friend said, let the child who was still a kid take out the knife and put it in a new box. At the time, I was also afraid that you would have an accident and be there I looked at it fearlessly. After you came out safely, I immediately invited a mage who lived in the nearby temple to come here, and let him paste the evil spell on the box and tie the curved jade and wormwood that can ward off evil. Although I do n’t know if it is really effective, but after doing these things, nothing strange has happened until now. If this knife was not stored here by your grandfather ’s good friend, I would have thrown it away . "Speaking of which, the old man could not help but sigh.
After listening to Grandma's speech, Naoko looked at the box with a bit of fear. She couldn't think of the knife that she had put in herself, which was such a wicked thing, and now she felt a cold.
Suddenly, Naoko said, "Grandma, this knife has been here for so long. Why would that person know?"
The old man said: "I don't know that either. I asked you to come here to tell you that if I had something to do in the future, you would bury this knife under the **** tree in the nearby temple. We have kept that person safe for so many years, and we can be regarded as kind. I don't want this knife to hurt you or others. "
After hearing the words of the old man, Naoko suddenly became nervous. "Grandma, don't scare me, you must be fine."
The old man smiled and said, "I'm sorry, it scared you. I'm not saying that I will have anything to do, I just say that I will handle it after I have returned 100 years old. But you have to remember, Never open the box. "
Nakako was relieved, "I know, grandma."
At this time, Lei Yin, who had been silent, suddenly said, "Can you show me the knife?"