I Teach Kendo in Tokyo Chapter 20: The secret of the long past
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Looking at Yuzao, the God Lord suddenly had a flash of light: "Jingongji! When I heard this surname before, I thought it was the Jingongji that sells high-end suits. Could it be the Jingongji that sells wagashi fruit? Temple?"
Wait, Kazuma thought in surprise, there's a Jinguji Temple that sells high-end suits?
Tamazao nodded: "It's the one who sells wagashi."
"Disrespect, disrespect, that... the qualifications of our shrine should have been assessed by the Ministry of Education only the year before last..."
"You misunderstood, I was on vacation with Malay."
Ota God Lord: "Oh, that's how it is, I understand!"
He Ma looked at the expression of the God Lord, and always felt that he had misunderstood him even more.
Tamazao smiled and said, "God Lord Sang, please talk about this mountain god."
The Lord nodded again and again: "Okay, okay. As you said, we didn't have faith in this mountain god, so you can't see anything related to the mountain **** in our shrine. Our shrine has always worshipped It's all the stone on the mountain, and you can go up through the stone steps behind the main hall."
Qing Liu whispered: "There are still stone steps..."
Looks like she also has something to say about the shrine's long stone steps.
Qingliu's voice could only be heard by Hema, and the Lord of God continued to speak undisturbed: "But at the end of the curtain, some people began to express that they saw the mountain god. According to the local records kept in our house, the black boat came Shortly after the attack, it was said that Takechiyo, who was missing from a neighboring village, was seen in the mountains."
Kazuma: "This Takechiyo sounds like a baby boy's nickname?"
"Yes. At the end of the Tokugawa period, the neighborhood was very poor, and children that could not be raised would be thrown into the mountains. Occasionally, wolves would attack and take children away. The specific circumstances are not clearly written in the local chronicles. , I only know that I witnessed a missing child from a neighboring village."
He Ma was speechless: "Rashomon...?"
Akutagawa Ryunosuke's masterpiece "Rashomon", wrote a purgatory on earth in just three thousand words. He Ma is not too fond of this article, but he has to admit that it is awesome.
God Lord continued: "Such rumors have become common since the end of the curtain, and the basic content is very similar. They are all mountain gods like giant wolves, and the missing children who stayed with them. The children's names are It often changes, and it can be seen from the side that there were often lost children in this nearby human village at that time.”
"It appeared frequently since the end of the curtain? Doesn't it mean that after the Restoration, the situation in the village improved, and gradually no one threw the children into the mountains?" He Ma asked.
The Lord of God nodded: "Yes, after the Meiji Restoration, the land was inspected, and the lower-level samurai who used to be in the vicinity were abolished. The police team also swept away the bandits, and everyone's life suddenly improved. I will never be able to raise a child again.
"But there will still be wolves that will carry the children away. Shortly after the Meiji Restoration, a wolf-fighting team was organized in the village, and the town's landowners made a fortune in Tokyo and bought back 20 Winchester weapons. A small team of foreign guns, coupled with local hunters, went into the mountains to fight wolves.
"But the result of the wolf fight was not very optimistic. Several people were injured, and the rest kept silent about what happened on the mountain, only saying that they were angry when they met the mountain god."
He Ma was speechless: "Twenty Winchesters? If this firepower is put into the Warring States Period, I am afraid that it will be able to defeat tens of thousands of Shiqing."
Ashgaru in the Warring States Period were all recruiting peasants with bamboo spears, and their morale was very poor. There were many battles where dozens of samurai killed and scattered thousands of Shigaru.
20 gunmen with Winchester ran into the Warring States Period, fearing that the morale of the light team was exhausted and disintegrated before the bullets in the barrels were fired.
By the way, the plot that the **** said is more and more like "Princess Mononoke".
Could it be that Miyazaki was inspired by the legend of this place?
The Lord of God just shook his head at Hema's complaints, and continued: "There are only so many records in the local chronicles, and then the legend of the mountain gods naturally exists in the local chronicles. Every few years, someone will always claim to have seen it. Mountain God."
And Ma: "I guess every time I see it, I see the missing child at the same time."
"Yes, the disappearance of children also happened from time to time, but no one organized wolf hunting. Later, when the Sino-Japanese War broke out, many people in the village also joined the army. It seems that the sighting of the mountain **** started from that time. All of a sudden it became less."
He Ma was stunned. The Sino-Japanese War was the name of the Sino-Japanese War on the Japanese side. After He Ma traveled through Japan, he consciously or unintentionally avoided the beginning of this history of modern China being slaughtered by Japan.
He felt uncomfortable at the thought that the body he now occupies is the descendant of the man who brought so much suffering to China.
Fortunately, the Lord of God did not mention the Sino-Japanese War too much, but regarded it as a time node, which passed by immediately.
"When the war with Russia is over, there will be no more records of mountain gods in the local chronicles."
He Ma frowned: "Didn't it mean that after the Great Kanto Earthquake in the Taisho era, the village began to abandon children in the mountains because they couldn't raise them? No one saw the mountain gods?"
"No. But instead, the legend of the heart-eating fox began to spread among the villagers."
The Lord stopped and looked at Hema, obviously waiting for Hema to ask questions.
So Kazuma asked, "That's what Watanabe-kun came to ask about that day. What did you say to him? Why did he look solemn when he returned to the hotel?"
Ota God Lord showed obvious hesitation on his face.
He Ma pursued: "What did you tell them? Tell me! Don't you want to find out the truth about Watanabe-kun's death? If you hide something from me, how do you want me to find out the truth?"
The Lord of God opened his mouth and asked: "Kiryu-sensei, did you get the information about Watanabe-kun's abnormal expression from Miss Akanishi?"
“So what?”
"I think this is Miss Akanishi's confusion."
"Do you think Miss Akanishi is lying?" Kazuma asked, his voice rising.
The Lord of God shook his head: "No, you misunderstood. It's not a lie that Ms. Akanishi said that Watanabe-kun looked solemn when he returned from the shrine to the hotel. But no one stipulates that the truth cannot be used to confuse the public.
"What I told Watanabe-kun was just some speculation, which is similar to the urban legends and wild fairy tales often seen in ghost magazines.
"When most people hear me say that, they will only use it as 'ammunition' when talking about drinking or picking up girls. Watanabe-kun is very simple. He is the kind of child who will cry when watching a movie because of the plot. His expression is very dignified. It's normal. He looks dignified when I'm here.
"But it has nothing to do with his death. I'll just say it straight, I think it was Akanishi-san who killed Watanabe-kun. She had a motive, but I guess she didn't tell Kiryu-sensei at all."
Kawama: "I don't care if Miss Akanishi is telling the truth or not. I just want to listen to this rural strange story you told Watanabe-kun. By the way, I really chased a fast-running man last night. The white-haired man is more than ten miles away, and you said at the beginning that this is the descendant of the mountain god, but now you want to tell me that this is a wild fairy tale?"
The Lord of God glanced at Yuzao with a special meaning and said, "I'm talking about ordinary humans. Since you have such a deep relationship with the daughter of the Jinguji family, you will definitely not regard it as a country. Chi Tan."
"Wait for me!" Qingliu, who had been sitting obediently listening, shouted, "What do you mean? Are you trying to tell me that ghost-like thing yesterday is real? You are Want to tell me that ghosts really exist? Stop kidding!"
Qing Liu's voice trembled, Kazuma didn't expect that this guy was actually afraid of ghosts.
As soon as the Lord of God was about to speak, Yuzao said: "The ghost does not exist, even if there are some things that cannot be explained by science for the time being, it is only temporarily inexplicable.
"For example, in some places, there will be voices when there is a thunderstorm. Later, scientists found that there are natural magnets nearby, and there is a probability that the voices will be recorded on a thunderstorm, and then played on another thunderstorm. Principle and recorder Almost."
Qingliu said suspiciously: "This explanation sounds ridiculous!"
Qingliu continued to give an example: "Another example is the mirage. Originally, humans thought it was the Penglai fairyland or the Jade Emperor, but now I find that it is just the refraction of light."
Clear Liu was obviously persuaded by this second example. Although she still had an unhappy expression on her face, she did not refute any further.
Ota God Lord muttered: "So the current rhetoric is like this."
"This is not a rhetoric, it's a fact." Jinguji Yuzao said firmly, "The legend of the mountain **** and the descendants of the mountain **** you just mentioned, and the legend of the demon fox eating the heart of a child, must also be in line with science and logic. Explanation. Mysteries don't exist, the world is scientific."
He Ma complained in his heart: Then you explain your four-channel ears, don't you want to say that the pair of ears on the top of your head is just a mess of hair, right?
And a virtual video host that I liked very much in my life is Hyuga Catmiya. The pair of ears on the top of her head is her hair that was thrown up in sleep.
The Lord of God looked at Yuzao with a very complicated expression. He bit his lip and considered it for a while, and finally made up his mind and said, "It might be true. In fact, in my grandfather's generation, they would still go into the mountains to collect herbs. But suddenly one day my grandfather stopped going into the mountain, and told my father to collect herbs on the mountain behind the shrine.
"My father didn't understand at the time. Although there are medicinal herbs that our family has planted for generations in the Houshan Mountains, the types and quantities are not many. You must know that at that time, Western medicine did not spread to rural areas like ours at all. The clinic is more than ten kilometers away, and it is all up to us to get sick in the village.
"Unlike now, there are quite large clinics on Hot Spring Street.
"So my father asked Grandpa why. After my father's constant questioning, Grandpa finally told the truth."
The God Lord stopped, his eyes still staring at Yuzao.
Tamazao tilted her head in confusion, as if she didn't understand why the Lord of God was staring at him like this.
Ota God Lord asked word by word: "I said it's okay, right? Don't the Jinguji family know?"
Tamazao: "I really don't know. I wouldn't lie in front of Kazuma, never."
From the expression on Lord Ota's face, this mouthful of dog food caught him off guard.
"It may be that the adults of the Jinguji family are hiding from you," said the lord of the gods.
He Ma frowned, it seemed that the Lord of the Gods did not know that Tamamo was the biggest "person" in the Jinguji family.
He turned his head and looked at Tamamo, confirming through his eyes that the latter really didn't know Mao.
The Lord of God said: "My grandfather told my father that he met a military policeman in the mountains. He would never admit that he was wrong with the big red cap and cape."
Choose with Ma and Qingliu: "Gendarmerie?"
The reason for shouting with Ma is naturally because in his impression the military police are the executioners who slaughter the Chinese people, Qingliu, probably because the spirit of rock and roll is innately incompatible with the gendarmes like the military police?
After all, people who play rock are always thinking about what to burn to ashes.
Tamazao looked calm: "The old Japanese Army...?"
God continued: "Yes, the military police seem to be supervising a group of Chinese-speaking people to build the railway, and have never heard of any plans to build a railway nearby.
"Several gendarmerie officers chatted in loud voices, saying that they would all be shot when the railway was repaired. My grandfather thought it was bad and ran back before he was found."
He Ma instinctively felt disgusted, and wanted to travel back to that era to kill all the gangsters and save the compatriots.
However, he does not have the ability to travel through time and space at will.
He once again had the thought of "Why don't you travel through the decades and let me go back to the war of resistance".
Tamazao: "As expected of the old Japanese army, they're just a bunch of offal."
The Lord of God glanced at Yuzao: "Miss, are you actually a left wing?"
"I'm a student of Dongda University," Tamamo said.
Even the head of the rural shrine, after hearing the words of the Tohoku University student, felt that Tamamo was left-wing as a matter of course.
Ota God no longer struggled with this issue, he continued: "That day, I told Watanabe-kun about this matter, and expressed my speculation: the old Japanese army may have some secret facilities in the nearby mountains, Maybe she's doing some shady research. Maybe Grandma Noda just saw the scene where they came to the mountain village to catch the test items."
Qing Liu: "Are you saying that they capture their own citizens as test subjects?"
"Nothing is impossible. After all, that's a bunch of beasts." Kazuma said.
Tamazao added: "These guys were planning to break 100 million jade at the last moment of the war. If the Americans hadn't dropped the nuclear bomb, they might have done it."
Kazuma: "It's a pity that the Americans didn't send all these people to the gallows. If the Americans had completely liquidated these people at that time, Japan should be better now."
Tamazao: "Yeah, MacArthur's sins are horrific."
Ota God interrupted the conversation between the two: "In short, as Miss Jinguji said, the weirdness may not exist at all, and everything is the actions of the evil old Japanese army. This is what I told Watanabe-kun. He is a kind child, and he is also a college student. He is probably a left-wing youth like you."
He Ma took over the conversation: "That's why he has that expression...Is that what you mean?"
"Yeah, so this has nothing to do with his murder. Miss Akanishi must have said this on purpose to interfere with her vision."
——No, I always think it's more than that.
"Ota-san," Kazuma looked up at the Lord of God, "You have been collecting medicine near the place where Watanabe-kun happened all day these days, haven't you noticed anything strange?"
"What do you mean? The strange things I found should have been given to you yesterday."
Stunned with the horse.
Just then, there was a knock at the door.
"What's the matter?" God Lord asked loudly, looking towards the door of the office.
The voice of the working witch Hiroko came from outside: "People from the Tourism Promotion Association and the village office are here."
"Got it."
He Ma asked: "What's wrong? They came to..."
"The preparations for the festival. Today, we will set up stalls for the festival on the square in front of the main hall of the shrine. There will also be a rehearsal and parade. It will be busy." The Lord stood up, "All I can say is As I said ~IndoMTL.com~ it is up to you to find the rest of the clues. Of course, if you have any questions, you can call me anytime. But I don’t think I will entertain you Kiryu-sensei in such a large amount of time. From the experience of previous years, a large number of tourists should arrive at the hot spring town today, and the shrine society has become very busy."
He Ma: "Will it get busy?"
"Yeah, starting from today, there will be girls from neighboring villages coming to work, and Hiroko alone can't handle it. In a few days, there will be witches invited by the Tourism Promotion Association from Tokyo, and they will be in charge of the **** dance. perform."
Tamazao: "Oh? From Tokyo? Maybe I know him."
God Lord: "Anyway, let's go here today. The wolf problem, and the white-haired man last night, maybe you can chat with the people from the Tourism Promotion Association. For the safety of the tourism season, they should enter immediately. Sand fighting wolves."
He Ma also stood up: "Okay, I'll ask the Tourism Promotion Association, so I won't bother you."
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