Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 389

Many years ago, a few people from Kyoto came to a small village in Kobe, bought a house in the village, and gave the village head an extra sum of money, entrusting the village head to send someone to clean the house every now and then. , and they left.

The villagers were very curious as to why these lords from the capital came to this remote village to buy a house, and they didn't live in it for a day after buying it. They stayed in the inn for a few days in the village.

Later, a few good-for-nothing people from the village sneaked into that room to investigate, and they found that there was not even much furniture in the room, only altars and some boxes.

Of course, they didn't open the box to confirm what was inside, because they knew without opening it that the box contained ashes.

At that time, the Warring States Period in Japan had not yet arrived, and the places were relatively peaceful, so those rich and powerful people were more particular about funerals: for example, general daimyos basically had their own family temples, After the death of their family members, the ashes are usually enshrined at home for seven to 49 days according to the old etiquette, and then sent to the family temple to "receive the bones", and those family temples are also guarded and cleaned all year round.

Those who are not as good as the daimyo, such as the samurai class and local tyrants, will send the ashes of the dead to cemeteries near temples or shrines for burial; such cemeteries are considered blessed places that can be blessed by nearby gods, so they can put It's not bad there, and people from temples and shrines also clean up by the way.

As for the ordinary people at the lowest level, it's natural...you can bury them wherever you like, anyway, it's not surprising that someone will dig them up someday.

However, there is another group that does not fall into any of the above situations.

This group includes small business owners, capable craftsmen, capable street performers, capable gangsters, etc., using our modern concept, it is the "petty bourgeoisie."

The common feature of these people is that although their economic status is much better than that of the lower class ordinary people, and some have even surpassed the lower class samurai, their social status is still very low, and many poorer people look down on them.

At that time in Kyoto, there were quite a few petty bourgeois people like this, and they were no different from ordinary people when it came to funerals. When the tomb neighbors.

So, at that time, someone thought of such an idea: to find a relatively remote village around Kyoto, and then buy a house in the village, and quietly store the ashes of the family members in it.

Anyway, the housing prices in such small villages are very cheap compared to Kyoto, and these petty bourgeoisie can fully afford it. If you spend some money and ask the villagers to help you, isn't this better than being buried in a barren mountain?

Over time, there are more and more people doing this, and there are not enough villages near Kyoto to accept this business. The villagers in some villages will make troubles. They think that many houses in the village have become "ghost houses", which is unlucky—why? The house next door to me is used to enshrine the dead, but my neighbor who sells the house gets the money?I live as neighbors with dead people every day, but I have nothing?
There are many such troubles, and many places around Kyoto have banned such things. After all, this is a gray industry, and it doesn't make sense for you to go to the government.

But the market is gone, and the demand has not disappeared, so a new supply model is bound to be born next.

Northwest of Osaka, Northeast of Kobe, Northeast of Nara... These places a little further away from Kyoto are nothing more than a day or two of mountain roads. There are more villages and housing prices are cheaper, so go one.

In this way, another village soon started this business, and this small village in Kobe, because it was very poor, later basically every household developed into a "professional box watcher". This village was also set up by outsiders. He named it "Hui Yi Village".

Time flies, decades have passed, and Japan's Warring States Period has come, and this dozen lasts for hundreds of years.

At this time, the whole country is full of battlefields full of corpses, and even those big names are living a precarious life. At this time, who cares how you die and how you are buried?

Huiyi Village, located in a warring place like Kobe, naturally became a deserted village like many other villages.

However, after decades of desertion, another group of people came here; this group of people took a fancy to this gloomy village and decided to build it into a secret stronghold.

This stronghold is now the main altar of the Xingxingzong, and the group of people back then were the original members of the Xingxingzong.

In the blink of an eye, it is the winter of the second year of the Yuanhe era, and it will soon be the day when the Xingxingzong's annual gathering will come again.

As we mentioned in previous documents, in ancient times, even the working people had less time to go out in the cold winter months. This is the same in Otaku and Japan.

It's not easy to do business in this season, so they made a rule of returning to the general forum at the end of each year; you say they are reporting work, or discussing performance rewards and punishments, anyway, that's the way it is.

Since communication was not developed at that time, even for the purpose of "confirming whether there are any missing or injured in the organization during the year, and exchanging information by the way", it is quite necessary to gather once a year.

Seeing this, many people probably understand why Shuangxie has met three groups of people from the Xinggatazong from the west of Honshu Island to the east... To put it bluntly, it is the route they took and the people they caught up with. The timing coincided with those monks of the Xinggata sect who were going back to the main altar for a meeting.

Of course, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai had already obtained the above information from Xuan Gen.

In fact, they now not only know the origin of the Xinggata sect and the annual gatherings, but also the organizational structure, staffing, corpse puppets and other unique secret arts settings of the Xinggata sect, and even the fighting styles of those high-level people. , Ability strength... I have a general understanding.

Don’t think how long it will take to talk about these things. In fact, the real talk will be finished in less than 10 minutes. Xuan Gen also introduced Yong Gen’s abilities and what he thought were his weaknesses. It seems that he is planning. ... One day, if Shuangxie really hits the door, he can kill Yongheng with a knife.

It's a pity, he didn't think that he couldn't change his life after saying so much.

Soldiing Xuan Gen and saving Ah Zhi, Sun Huang and Hayato, after a little discussion, they decided to put their mission on hold for a while, and take two or three days to destroy this Xingxingzong Besides.

On the one hand, they all felt that the people in this organization really deserved to die.

On the other hand, even if they don't pay attention to the Xing Gatazong, this gathering of the Xing Gatazong may also interfere with their meeting with people in Kobe.

Furthermore, after seeing Shuangxie's ability, Ah Zhi immediately had hope for saving her son, so she burst into tears immediately after Xuan Gen's death, and sincerely begged the "young heroes" of them for help. Everyone couldn't bear to refuse to save Xiaozhu.

In this way, the four of them rushed to the vicinity of Huiyi Village in the evening of the second day.

"This village is very dark."

When they were still a few hundred meters away from the village, Huang Donglai and Hayato looked into the distance almost at the same time and muttered this sentence.

Hearing this, Sun Yixie's face suddenly felt a little painful, he touched the old wound on his cheek, and continued: "I said... In this village, there are only those gangs of human traffickers and monks and their refined corpse puppets. , there won’t be any other ghosts and ghosts?”

"That's not necessarily true." Huang Donglai took the lead to reply at this time, "A place with a heavy cloudy atmosphere does not necessarily have ghosts. Otherwise, there are so many basements and cellars in the world, and almost all of them will be haunted."

"That's right." Hayato also said, "Even if there are many souls who died here, since this Xingxingzong is still entrenched here, it means that either there are no ghosts here, or these evil monks have some way to not be afraid. trouble."

"That's it..." After listening to the answers of these two "professionals", Sun Yixie settled down a bit, "Then it seems that only us living people are going to make a scene."

"Oh... That's true. If you want to say 'trouble', your Sun family still has something." Huang Donglai said with a smile, thinking of something.

"What do you want to say?" Sun Yixie didn't know what he thought of, squinted at Huang Donglai, and said with a twisted mouth, "Let me declare first... I didn't make trouble back then. I paid out the money owed to those players, and I just let it go, what's called 'pull up the banner while the leaders are present' is just talk, I have never done it."

What Brother Sun said was an old thing that happened when he was in the original universe. Huang Donglai knew about it, but at this moment Huang Donglai is not talking about it, but Brother Sun is a little sensitive, and there is no money here. 300 taels.

"Brother Sun, I just want to talk about another member of your Sun family...the Donghai Dragon Palace, Yincao Difu, and Lingxiao Palace all dared to make trouble. I didn't talk about your past, so don't be nervous." Huang Donglai continued.

"Mao~ Who's nervous?" Sun Yixie curled his lips, "Even if you're talking about my past, I'm helping others out of righteousness. At most, the means are a little despicable. What's there to panic about?"

"Yes yes yes... I still don't know what you are like?" Huang Donglai's words, you have to let a passerby listen to them, at first glance, there is nothing wrong with it...

But people who know them a little bit, such as Hayato who has been with them for some time, fully understand that this is a kind of yin and yang.

"Humph...you're a bitch." Sun Yixie didn't make any more excuses, just snorted coldly and cursed directly.

Huang Donglai didn't even reply after being scolded by such a straight ball, instead he smiled even more.

Ah Zhi, who was watching the interaction between the two, was dumbfounded. She didn't understand, are these two good brothers... or do they have any enmity?I always feel that the conversation between the two is inexplicable and moody, and the person surnamed Huang seems to be a little bit trembling?

By the way, let me mention here, because A Zhi already knew their identities from the Central Plains, and she also made it clear when she was with them, so Sun and Huang did not continue to use the fake names of Kameda and Edo in front of her. up.

"I said, now that the sky is getting dark, it's an excellent time to investigate. Let's not waste any more time. Why don't I, a ninja, go in and investigate first..." Azhi tried to bring the topic back on track.

But before she finished her sentence, Huang Donglai interrupted: "It's alright, alright~ stop, alright..." He paused, looked at A Zhi and said, "Although you have taken my elixir, let's say I can sit up and walk normally, but my medicine is not a panacea, your rib fracture will not heal in a month, if you want to run or even use force...you should save yourself."

"But... I..." Ah Zhi, who was eager to save his son, undoubtedly wanted to do his part.

"You don't need 'but'." Huang Donglai said, "My lightness skills, ear skills, and eye skills are all better than yours, so if I want to go, I will go."

"Okay~ As expected of Brother Huang, tough!" Sun Yixie saw that Huang Donglai wanted to pretend to be so aggressive, and his voice immediately became louder, "Then it's up to you, we'll wait for you here good news."

"Hmph...don't be too aggressive." Huang Donglai didn't know what Sun Yixie was doing. He immediately continued, "I'll go in first. If you haven't come out in half an hour, you have to follow."

"Ah?" Sun Yixie said, "Then why can't Hayato keep up?"

"Hayato wants to stay and protect Ah Zhi." Huang Donglai said.

"Then can't I stay and protect Ah Zhi?" Sun Yixie asked again.

"Hayato has the invisibility technique to guarantee the bottom line in an emergency. What do you have?" Huang Donglai asked.

"I..." Sun Yixie thought for a while. There is nothing wrong with self-protection. He has all kinds of insidious means, but protecting others does not seem to be his specialty. Bar."

When Huang Donglai heard this, he didn't need to say anything, he turned his head and walked away. In a blink of an eye, he dodged into the forest, and slowly approached Huiyi Village in front of him from the forest.

(End of this chapter)