Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 383 Want to Repay?
After escaping from Tenjoyama Shrine, Shigezo thanked the other three for saving their lives, and left alone.

On the surface, he used this kind of action to express: Although I am a ninja, it is purely a coincidence that I met you here, and I did not come for you, so now that everyone has worked together to escape, I will choose to leave. Let you rest assured.

But in fact, Chongzang's wariness and doubts about the two Central Plains people, Shuangxie, have not been relieved, because the purpose of his trip has not been achieved - he has not been able to investigate the background and intentions of Sun and Huang.

However, Shigeno considered... Shuangxie almost immediately saw through that he was not an ordinary person before, and the methods and attitudes of these two people were quite old-fashioned, and I am afraid that if you continue to approach them, you will not be able to get anything cheap, so Shigezo judged It is still wiser to withdraw first.

As for the life-saving grace, Shigezo will definitely remember it, but for a "traitor" like him, how much loyalty, righteousness, kindness, and love are in his heart, and which is more important , this is not clear.

For example, if he finds out that these three saviors are a threat to his current master Takeda, he doesn't know what he will do at that time.

Of course, this is just a hypothesis, and this did not happen later... After all, Shuangxie’s mission to Japan this time only poses a threat to the Sawara Kingdom, and has no conflict of interest with these other warring states daimyo forces ;In fact, if the other daimyos know the "secret" of the Sawara Kingdom, I'm afraid they will have to welcome Shuangxie to go there to cause trouble.

Then let's talk back to Shuangxiong...

After bidding farewell to Ma Shan Shigeno, who claimed to be "You Zang", Sun and Huang went to Yae Township on the east side of the sky together with Hayato.

As we mentioned in the previous document, the reason why Hayato went to Tenjoyama Shrine was because he was entrusted by a local family named Tomita to look for the missing young master; They all ran away, and the process was so dangerous, it would be too bad not to ask for some reward.

Therefore, Shuangxie acted as a "witness" and cooperated with Hayato to make up a set of statements that "Young Master Ling was killed by a demon in the mountains" to make a difference.

Then someone might want to say, you haven’t seen anyone alive or dead, isn’t that just lying?
That's right, it's just cheating.

But there is no way, because it is impossible to find out about this matter.

As Hayato said earlier, the young master of the Tomita family who was seen "entering the mountain alone at dusk" may indeed have encountered a monster, but it may also be that he stumbled and fell to his death in the mountain, was eaten by wild animals, Or was killed by a villain...

But no matter what the situation is, so many days have passed, and under the conditions at that time, what else can be found out?

The people of the Tomita family naturally understand this truth, and the Tomita family is not limited to this young master. They have many children, and one is missing... Maybe it is worth celebrating for others, but after a period of time, they are still happy. Hayato, the onmyoji, was hired to investigate for three reasons.

First, some elderly people in the family still care more about the grandchildren, and they are indeed more superstitious.

Second, the uncles of the missing young master also had to make gestures, not wanting to make it look like they didn't care about losing someone in their family.

Third, because the legend of the "shrine that shouldn't exist" has been circulating in Yae Township for many years, and every few years there will be eyewitness reports that "someone walked into the mysterious torii and never came back", The villagers are also in panic; Tomita, as a rich and prominent family in the village, just took advantage of the disappearance of his young master this time, and hired someone to investigate the legend of the shrine. This is good for their prestige in the village.

Furthermore, although the reward for this kind of errand is high, if Hayato never returns...then there is no need to settle the final payment.

Even if Hayato really completes the investigation and comes back, if the results he brings back make the Tomita family feel dissatisfied, they can completely turn their faces on the spot, say that Hayato is a liar, and then not only refuse to pay the final payment, but also the previous deposit. Get it back, and beat Hayato out again.

This is the common face of the local tyrants and evil gentry back then, and the Tomita family can't even be regarded as the worst of them.

Of course, because when Hayato returned to his mission, there were two more Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai by his side... With these two people, things will not develop according to the expectations of the Tomita family.

Let's talk about the three of them, stuck before lunch, and entered the house of the Tomita family in a hurry, as if they wanted to "eat a light meal" after taking the money.

However, when the Tomita family saw that Hayato had really returned, their attitude was quite different from when they first entrusted him...

The three of them haven't met the owner yet. From the expressions and attitudes of the servants when they received him, Sun Huang could see some of the owner's urgency. .

Sure enough, after a while, Katsuo Tomita, the "second uncle" of the Tomita family, came late.

Before he even sat down, he already had a slightly disgusted expression on his face, and he almost wrote the words "I don't want to pay" directly on his forehead.

"Mr. Kamo, who are these two?" Katsuo Tomita was nearly fifty years old this year, and he would not be polite to the young people in front of him, and asked questions without saying hello.

"They are my assistants, Edo-kun and Kameda-kun." At this time, Hayato had naturally communicated with Sun Huang and reported their fake names.

"Please advise me more." Sun and Huang also nodded to each other pretendingly.

"Oh?" Katsuo Tomita ignored the two of them, but raised his eyebrows and said to Hayato, "When you came last time, you didn't say that you have any assistants."

"Ah, because I just came here to accept the entrustment, it's more convenient for me to be alone." Hayato's remarks had already been prepared, "And we just came down from the mountain this morning, and both of them are witnesses of this trip, so It’s better to come and talk together.”

"Hmm..." Katsuo Tomita groaned, then frowned and said, "At first we thought that Mr. Kamo handled this matter alone. This is different from what we said..."

Ladies and gentlemen, this is called finding fault for nothing. It is said that under the premise of the same salary, if someone adds more people, you will take advantage of it. But Katsuo Tomita has made up his mind that he will renege on his debts, so he will also take advantage of you. Pick your reason.

"When you first accepted the entrustment, you and several other elders in the house only asked me to go to Tianshang Mountain to investigate the rumored shrine and the whereabouts of the fifth young master. There were no other requirements for details. I don't think I violated any agreement. "Hayato replied calmly.

"Haha...that's why I didn't remember clearly..." Katsuo Tomita saw that the other party responded fluently, and it was really not easy to pick the other party's faults from the matter of "two more helpers", so he typed casually Haha lingered, and after a short pause, he immediately changed the topic and asked, "So, what is the result of the investigation, sir?"

Hayato pretended to think about it, and then replied in a deep voice: "The three of us went deep into the mountain last night and found that there is indeed a shrine with many demons entrenched on the mountain. Unfortunately, after repeated fierce battles, we only found the Fifth Young Master in the depths of the shrine. It seems that he has been dead for many days, and we rescued him into a Buddha under the siege of demons, and finally escaped with great difficulty. This is roughly the process."

"Oh?" Hearing such a reply, Katsuo Tomita became excited, "Did you really see Goro's ghost?"

"Yes." Hayato's face did not change color when he said this nonsense.

"Then let me ask you, what kind of clothes is he wearing? What kind of hair is he wearing?" Katsuo Tomita asked again.

"Mr. Tomita, the ghosts are all dressed in white, with disheveled hair, and they also wear Tianguan (a triangular hood) on their heads, and they have no feet." Hayato caught the opponent with this universal answer almost without thinking. question.

After hearing this, Katsuo Tomita twitched the muscles on his face twice, obviously a little annoyed, but he still tensed up, suppressing his anger and then asked: "Since the ghosts are all dressed in the same way, sir, you can really be sure that the one you have saved is Goro?"

He was right about the question. In the era when there were no photos, identifying people was a difficult problem.

"Yes." But Hayato replied confidently.

"How to be sure?" Tomita Katsuo asked.

"I asked his name, and he said his name was Goro Tomita." Hayato gave another simple answer that the other party couldn't verify at all, but it seemed to be okay.

"Mr. Kamo, let me ask you, what does Goro like to eat? What's his nickname? Why did he go into the mountains that day?" Katsuo Tomita was not discouraged either. "Pass" and asked again.

"Mr. Tomita, as I said just now, the environment we were in was very dangerous at that time, how could I have the leisure to ask him these questions?" Hayato replied, "Of course I quickly rescued him and left, otherwise All three of us had to die there ourselves."

"You...then how can you be sure that that ghost is Goro? Did he say he is?" Katsuo Tomita finally got a little anxious.

"Mr. Tomita, the name came out by himself, I didn't ask him 'Is it Goro Tomita', I just asked who he is, he said he was 'Goro Tomita', and then I asked him when Dead, he said not long ago, if you can say that he is not Goro, then do you want to say... a few days ago there was another young man who was also eighteen or nineteen years old and named Tomita Goro People, did they just die there too?" Since Hayato wanted to deceive people, the logic has undoubtedly been straightened out, although these logics are all based on the basis of magic sticks, "Or, do you think a People are dead, do you still want to pretend to be someone else? But that is also impossible, because he is just an ordinary ghost, not an evil spirit, and ghosts are not like people, they will not lie."

"Tch..." Katsuo Tomita didn't intend to act any more when he heard this. He pierced the last layer of window paper, showed a wicked face, and said loudly, "I said so much, it's nothing more than yours." One-sided words, so you want to get away with it... Do you take me, Katsuo Tomita, for a fool!"

When he reached the last few words of this sentence, he was almost yelling.

So when the servants and slaves who had already been waiting around the house heard it, they immediately understood, opened the sliding doors on both sides of the Japanese room, and rushed in, taking Hayato, Sun Yixie, and Huang Donglai who were sitting on the ground together. People were surrounded.

"Mr. Tomita..." This time, Huang Donglai spoke, "What do you mean?"

"What do you mean? Hmph..." Katsuo Tomita sneered, "You liars, you conspired to make up a set of lies, and you just want to come here to cheat money? I don't think you have even entered the mountain before? What are you talking about? Seeing Goro's ghost in a shrine full of monsters, who would believe it!"

After Katsuo Tomita said this sentence, Sun Yixie's expression changed immediately, his instinct of "treating the belly of other villains with the heart of a villain" sounded like an alarm in his mind.

At this moment, Brother Sun strongly felt from Katsuo Tomita's expression and tone that the other party was very sure about the fact that "the three of them have not seen the ghost of Goro Tomita in the shrine", and this kind of insistence, even The state of being a little angry because of their nonsense is no longer the behavior of people who "exposed the lie with their own wisdom" or "purely want to renege on their debts", but more like the reaction of people who "know the truth already".

Sun Yixie's guess is indeed correct. Behind Tomita Goro's disappearance, the real black hand is Tomita Katsuo.

The current head of the Tomita family is Katsuo Tomita's elder brother. The head of the family had several children in the past, but they all died young. Now there is only one son, Goro. Except for Goro, the next generation of the Tomita family is all Tomita Shengxiong, the second uncle, is the child of another third uncle.

The third uncle's children are mostly young, the oldest is only 15 years old, and several of Katsuo Tomita's children are adults, older than Goro. If Goro is gone one day, who is at home? Powerful, it's clear at a glance.

Therefore, for Goro, a nephew who will be an adult in a year or two, Katsuo Tomita has long wanted to get rid of him.

In the past, Katsuo Tomita didn’t dare to act recklessly when the boss was in good health, but half a year ago, the boss contracted lung disease and has been bedridden since then. His brother’s condition has not improved in the past six months, and his health is getting worse. Katsuo Tomita felt that the time had come; in case his brother belched one day and passed the position of Patriarch to Goro, it would only be more difficult and more conspicuous to do it again.

So, a few days ago, Katsuo Tomita found a critical point, tricked his nephew Goro into the mountain, killed him with a sneak attack from behind, and then threw the body directly into the valley. After returning, he bribed another villager. Prepared a piece of eyewitness testimony of "witnessing that Goro entered the mountain alone at dusk" for contingencies.

That night, Goro didn't return all night, and there were many anxious people in Tomita's family, but Katsuo Tomita said, "He's a boy of eighteen or nineteen years old, can he still lose it? Maybe he was secretly sleeping with a girl from some family." This kind of rhetoric, and various mediations with other elders in the family and his brother who was sick in bed, delayed the investigation for several days.

A few days later, someone asked about the so-called "entering the mountain alone" information...

It just so happened that Hayato was passing through Yae Township at this time, and he stuffed some money with the owner of the tavern in the village, asking the boss to help him release his words, and pay attention to whether there are any commissions that the onmyoji can accept in the countryside.

As soon as the old people in the Tomita family heard that there was an onmyoji in the town, they went to Katsuo Tomita to discuss whether they could hire the mage to investigate Goro's affairs, because they suspected that Goro might be killed by the "legendary" The monsters in the "shrine" were ticked off.

Katsuo Tomita thought for a while: It has been so many days, not to mention that the corpses thrown into the valley are not easy to find. Misleading in that regard, these old guys just rely on the saying "going into the mountains alone at dusk" to think about the gods and gods, which is a good thing.

In this way, Katsuo Tomita followed the wishes of the elders of the Tomita family and sent someone to invite Hayato back to the mansion. He really treated Hayato like a "Master of Onmyoji" and opened a rather expensive For the price, entrust Hayato to go to the shrine.

Of course, while doing this, the Tomita family also publicized in the village how they spent money "for the benefit of all the villagers".

Originally, as long as Katsuo Tomita settled the final payment today, and then accepted all Hayato's statement, and conveyed it to the elders in the family, the matter would be over. Even if there are still people in the family who doubt him, it is groundless What can I say?
But Katsuo Tomita... is not only bad, but also small in structure. He even wants to save the final payment, and he will not give it if he can; because according to his thinking, the money of the Tomita family will soon be equal to It's all his money, how distressed is it?

But what he didn't expect was that just because he didn't want to pay the amount of money he should have paid to get rid of the three "liars" in front of him, his matter... would be bad.

(End of this chapter)