Unparalleled Double Harmony

Sun and Huang walked up the stone steps, and after passing through a torii gate, they stepped into the front yard of Tianshangshan Shrine.

And just as the two of them passed under the torii gate, the already dark sky suddenly lit up again with the appearance of a bright moon.

The speed of "turning the clouds to see the moon" is as if someone has opened the curtains in a dark room. No matter how you look at it, it's a bit weird...

Of course, the two people who knew this place was "unclean" from the very beginning didn't say anything more about it, they just exchanged glances, and then walked in.

At the same time, in the hall...

The three groups of people who came here before Shuangxie were all resting quietly.

Let’s mention it here. Like temples, buildings like shrines can be large or small. The ones you often see in movies and TV animations are about the same size as public toilets, and they are small. Small shrines usually only have one The main hall is only for worship, and usually no one is allowed to enter. There is a cash box at the entrance of the hall, and a bell is hung on the box. , Some are divided into inner and outer halls, and some are divided into main and side rooms, which can usually accommodate people.

At present, the Tianshangshan Shrine is naturally a relatively large one. It adopts the style of "Yuenzuo". The hall has a large space, and there are corridors on all sides of the shrine.

Such a place, let alone accommodate five or six people, even five or sixty people can squeeze in.

Therefore, at this moment, the three people in the hall are all occupying one side, and they are all far away from each other; although they are all on guard against each other, for the time being, they still do not offend each other.

However, the appearance of Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai broke this delicate balance...

"Hey! Isn't this 'harmful'?" Sun Yixie took only two steps into the hall, his eyes stopped on Kamo Hayato in the corner on his right, and he immediately exclaimed.

Ordinarily, Sun Yixie wouldn't have been so taken aback after traveling the rivers and lakes for so long, but this time is also a special situation.

After all, Hayato pleaded for Sun Yixie under the knife of the pirates when he was unable to protect himself, and this gave the latter a glimmer of life.

Even if this is not Hayato directly saving Sun Yixie, it is at least a [-]% life-saving grace, so seeing that this Japanese friend is still alive, Sun Yixie is somewhat excited.

And Hayato was also very surprised to see Sun Yixie being called out like this by the other party.

Firstly, from Hayato's point of view, he felt that Sun Yixie had escaped death when he was thrown into the sea. He never thought that Sun Yixie would survive; "Harmonic West Poison" unexpectedly 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 a look of surprise on his face, "You really survived?" He immediately looked at Huang Donglai next to Brother Sun, "And Huang Donglai Brother...how did you come to Japan?"

Ladies and gentlemen, you have to pay attention here. According to the principle of "Ke Yan Xun Li" we explained earlier, because Sun Yixie knows that Hayato can speak Chinese, so the sentence he said to Hayato just now falls on Hayato. There is only one sentence in Chinese in his ears, so when he said "damage", the other party couldn't tell whether it was "damage" or "falcon".

But to other Japanese people other than Hayato, Sun Ge spoke Japanese, and Hayato's name was translated into the Japanese word for "harming people", which is very strange.

Then, because Hayato didn't know that Sun Huang and Sun Huang had their own translation spells at the moment, he also responded in Chinese after hearing the other party speak Chinese to him... and the Chinese he spoke fell on the ears of other Japanese Chinese, of course, is Chinese.

In short, after the back-and-forth coquettish operations by both parties, Ma Shanzhongzang, who came to investigate the details of Shuangxie, immediately began to guess wildly: "It seems that my speculation is correct. Dazhao came here, and the Japanese he spoke just now was very good. Not only did he not have a Han accent, he even pretended to have a Kansai accent...

"He referred to the man who arrived first as 'harmful person', which doesn't seem like a name at all, maybe it's a secret signal during the meeting?
"And that 'harmful person', no matter how you look at it, is a real Japanese, but when the other party 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 here for you'?

"So he already saw me through?

"Or...he is doubting..."

Thinking of this, Shigezo instinctively glanced at the group of monks on the other side of the shrine.

It doesn't matter if you don't glance at it, it will startle him.

What's going on?

It turned out that at the moment when Chongzang's eyes sneaked towards those monks, three of the four monks were also glaring at him.

As soon as the eyes of the two sides met, he was so frightened that he shivered for a while, and the next second he quickly turned his head away, pretending to be looking at each other unintentionally.

Here, it's not that Chongzang is so cowardly, but that those monks are really weird.

Let's look at the four monks and soldiers, one of them sat cross-legged in the middle, and the other three sat around him with their backs to him.

The one in the middle is wearing a white monk robe, with a thick scorpion armor over the monk robe, and a string of huge Buddhist beads hanging around his neck; while the three people around him are all in black monk robes , wearing tattered cassocks, no prayer beads around his neck, but a naginata in each hand.

Seeing this, you may have noticed it too. Just judging from the clothes and things they carry, you can only see the identities of the four monks and soldiers, but you can't see anything "weird", so their problems are obviously all related. Out on the "face".

Take the white-clothed monk as an example. He looks about sixty years old, neither fat nor thin, and his other facial features are normal, except for his closed eyes, which are surrounded by a large area that is entangled with the eyelids. of scar tissue.

From a distance, he seems to be wearing a large sleep mask with flesh-colored patterns, which makes people feel uncomfortable.

As for the three black-clothed monks who were in their prime, their faces were even more exaggerated... The ears of each of them seemed to "collapse" inward, curled up into deformed fleshy balls and squeezed together. Into the inside of the ear canal, only a small part of the head is still exposed; and their eyes are all reflecting the lyrics - "The eyes are staring like copper bells", which is called a circle, as if It seemed as if they were about to fall out of their eye sockets at any time, and all of them were covered with bloodshot eyes.

Chongzang met the eyes of these three, wouldn't his scalp tingle?

Fortunately, after he looked away, the monks didn't do anything else, so Shigezo quickly collected himself, turned his attention back to Hayato and Shuangxie, and began to eavesdrop on their conversation.

On the other side, Hayato is talking about his experience of returning to Japan from the sea...

Let’s talk about that day, Hayato and Sun Yixie, who had a gouty attack, were captured by Japanese pirates on the boat. Everyone knows Sun’s situation: Although his operation of pretending to be a Japanese fool was not completely cheated, the Japanese pirates did not further screen him. Nationality and intellectual interests, he just wanted to kill him, and after Hayato interceded for him, Sun Ge was able to fall into the sea and escape.

As for Hayato... because he looks fair and his manner of speaking is quite elegant, so the pirate leader guessed that this kid might be a son of a famous family in Japan, and it might be useful to keep him, so he took him as a prisoner.

Call it a "captive", but in fact Hayato was not tied up or locked up by the Japanese pirates; because he had nowhere to escape on the boat, and it would be unnecessary to lock him up. If you really locked him up, you need someone How troublesome is it to wait for him to eat and drink?What's more, Hayato doesn't look like a martial arts practitioner. The group of Japanese pirates are confident that they can do it twice, and no one thinks that he dares 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 "fishing" pirates disguised as merchant ships during the robbery...

After a big battle between the black and the black, there were very few survivors; relying on his own onmyoji spells, Hayato managed to survive by using a simple blindfold to hide his body.

At that time, the place where the two ships fought was not too far from the land, at least the outline of the land could be seen with the eyes there, so when the battle was nearing the end, Hayato went to mess with a small boat and rowed towards the land alone go.

He originally thought that with this distance and the calm weather at that time, he would definitely be able to paddle to the shore with his physical strength as an adult, but he didn't expect...it was "this distance", which almost killed him.

As the saying goes, "Looking at the mountains and running dead horses", even on land, sometimes there is a big error between the visual distance and the actual distance, not to mention the sea where a wave can push you tens of meters away?
Had it not been for a "following 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.

"Then what happened later? Where did you make your fortune after returning to China?" Sun Yixie asked Hayato after hearing Hayato's talk.

"Damn! What's the matter? It's good if you don't starve to death." Hayato replied helplessly, "I am now...that is, I will tell my fortune in Dongcheng today, and catch a demon in Xixiang tomorrow... I will earn all my money." Hard work, this is still in time for those big families who are in need, if not, then I can only hunt and dig vegetables by myself, eat and sleep in the open."

He is telling the truth, judging by Hayato's plain clothes at the moment, he also knows that his life is not as good as when he was in the Central Plains (at least he was still wearing a full set of onmyoji attire).

Seeing this, some people may find it strange. In the impression of many people, isn’t the profession of Onmyojis all supported by daimyo and even the royal family, with noble status and no worries about food and clothing?
Then I can only say, Kamo Hayato...he's out of luck.

Although Hayato is a descendant of a famous family, he happened to be born in a special era, and he happened to be the descendant of the most desolate branch of their Kamo family. You should be able to guess from his previous documents that he went to the Central Plains to earn a living. He lived in Japan Life was never easy.

"Is that so..." Huang Donglai thought of something when he heard this, and continued, "Then why you came here today..."

"Oh..." Hayato sighed, "I was entrusted by a family named Tomita in Yae Township in the east, and I came here to find their young master."

"Ha!" Sun Yixie understood as soon as he heard it, "I guess, their young master came to this mountain and was tricked by a monster?"

"Heh..." Hayato smiled wryly, "Who knows..." He paused, "Maybe that young master did encounter a monster, or maybe...he just fell to his death in the mountains, was eaten by wild animals, or He was murdered by gangsters...Anyway, the information I got was that someone saw him enter this mountain alone at dusk, and after that, no one was alive or dead...Because it was rumored that there was a 'shouldn't' in this mountain... Existing shrine', in the end this errand went around and came to me...the reward is so good that I have no reason to refuse."

Because Hayato hadn't spoken the Central Plains dialect for a long time, he was still a little jerky at first, but as the conversation unfolded, he entered the state, his tone and accent became more and more correct, and his speaking speed became faster and faster.

Ma Shanzhong's Chinese is half a bucket of water. The words that Hayato spoke were relatively simple. He understood, but the more he listened, the more confused he became. He can understand Japanese.

But this, on the contrary, further deepened Shigezo's suspicion.

Because the words spoken by Shuangxie that he can understand are all short sentences, and they are not interrogative sentences, or the content with the element of "monster", which may be a code; The Chinese he speaks are all long paragraphs that seem to have something to say.

Just when Shigezo was thinking about whether to take the risk of getting in touch with those three people in order to obtain more information...

"Damn, I saw you when I first came in, so I didn't look carefully when I got excited, and now I look over..." Sun Yixie put his eyes on the monks in the dark corner in the distance, and lowered his eyes. The voice said to Hayato, "I found those monks over there look quite demon..." He then threw another sentence at Huang Donglai, "Brother Huang, what are those 'deaf and blind monks' famous for? Can you see it?"

"Hey, hey, hey, hey——"

A second later, before Huang Donglai could answer, the monk in white in the distance suddenly laughed strangely.

This old man laughed so hard that he was a pervert...

His laughter sounded like someone was scratching the glass rhythmically with his fingernails, and a broken bellows was blowing the wind between the scratches.

In addition, the shrine hall is an empty and closed environment, and the sound becomes even more strange after some reverberation.

"The three young men over there..." After laughing for more than ten seconds, the monk in white finally stopped making this strange movement, and then said in his slightly hoarse voice, "Have you heard... Good at seeing, is the blind person good at listening to this sentence?"

What he said was obviously aimed at Brother Sun's "deaf-blind monk" just now. On the one hand, it means that even if you whisper bad things about me, I can still hear you; A frontal counter to perceptions.

It would be a bit embarrassing for someone else to be stunned by these words, but Sun Yixie wouldn't. He just smiled and replied without any shame: "Sorry, I'm illiterate. Say what?"