It's too difficult to fall in love with rewards

Chapter 129 129. Allow Me to Call You Mom
Stronger than a god?
How could this guy be so arrogant!

Hagiwara Rinko turned her eyes to the courtyard as if she didn't look at him.

At this time, the night was quiet, and the leaves in the courtyard were covered with raindrops. Under the illumination of the lights, the leaves shone like a tree of glass beads.The clouds in the night sky did not know when they dispersed, Rinko took a deep breath, the fresh and refreshing feeling was like breathing for the first time in her life.

She looked like she didn't want to talk, and Ju Qingxian couldn't force her to find a topic.

"Hey jude"

"Don't make it bad..."

While humming, he looked at the place where the female classmate lived.

Ordinary Japanese-style houses, the garden is surrounded by verdant trees, and the small pool in the middle is like a silver mirror.The night sky is beautiful, the sky is clear and distant, and the air is crystal clear and fresh.The light air swims slowly like waves, as if it is free at high places.

Ju Qingxian noticed that there were people slowly watching around.

A young man who looks like a college student is walking a big dog by the pool, an old woman is sitting on the steps knitting socks and peeking over from behind her glasses, a few aunts are watching the young couple gossiping in the distance, a young woman is in the house Humming softly, laughing out loud from time to time, the shadow is printed on the curtain.

Rinko still sat motionless, keeping her eyes on the neighbors who lived here.

Her slender body looks very thin under the night sky, and the clear and beautiful side is well presented... Ju Qingxian glanced at her secretly, and couldn't help asking: "If you don't speak, we will be mistaken for you It's about falling in love..."

"...only blind people will fall in love with you."

Hagiwara Rinko cast a cold look at him, then rubbed the center of her eyebrows with a headache, got off the chair and went to the sock-weaving old woman to ask for a watering pot.She filled the water from the pool, bent down, and watered a few roses in the corner.

Her movements are very cute, and the water droplets have a silvery texture under the moonlight.

Ju Qingxian came to the steps and couldn't help admiring her lightness and flexibility.The old woman took her eyes away from her socks and looked up at him: "Young man, are you Rinko's boyfriend?"

Tangerine smiled slightly.

"She runs around like a kitten, she's so energetic..." The old lady smiled kindly, and told some lovely stories about the girl when she was young.

Occasionally, Tachibana would ask a question or two.

From the old woman's mouth, he knew that Rinko's mother was in Tokyo and rarely returned to Kamakura. The girl grew up here with the care of these neighbors... It is said that she rarely communicated with her mother.

Rinko Hagiwara finished watering the flowers and came back here with the water bottle.

Seeing Ju Qingxian talking to the old woman, a strange sneer appeared on her face, her slightly brown pupils narrowed dangerously.She didn't speak, but her face seemed to say: Anyway, I know, you are praising me.

"Wonderful!" Ju Qingxian laughed, "So you are really a kitten."

"..."

Rinko Hagiwara glared at him, and suddenly became a little shy.

With long eyelashes hanging down, she walked over, pulled the orange sleeves and walked to the other side.The old woman's gentle and blessing eyes made her face a little red, and it was the first time for Ju Qingxian to discover such a cute and varied look on her face.

But after a while, this face suddenly lost interest.

That expression of almost giving up made her more popular, serious and quiet.Ju Qingxian followed her to the quietest corner of the yard, she adjusted her mood a little, then turned around, made a sly face at Ju Qingxian, and shouted: "You are so stupid!"

"At least smarter than you..." Ju Qing shrugged.

Like a little wild cat, Hagiwara Rinko had a provocative, almost rude sneer on her face again.

It can be seen that sometimes she wants to play the role of a polite and well-bred lady in front of Ju Qingxian.But Ju Qingxian was really too hateful, so she didn't bother to pretend.

"Let's decide the outcome on Mrs. Yueji!" The girl looked at Ju Qingxian and said the battle.

"it is good!"

Tangerine Qingxian took it directly.

Rinko Hagiwara's big frank and bright eyes became brave, deep and eager to try.

The ghost of childbirth is not a monster that originally existed in Japan, but it was passed from China. The Chinese bird can also catch children. After being passed to Japan, the name has not changed to the Japanese style, but the nature has not changed.

This kind of monster is generally believed to be a woman who gave birth to death.

The arrest of children is not for kidnapping and blackmail, nor for food, but arresting them as their own children.

Miss Rinko recalled the legend of monsters in her mind.

There is a woman in a white shroud with disheveled hair standing quietly under the willow tree, that is a dead person - this idea is engraved in my heart, and the Mrs. Yueji I saw in the environment just now is the image of this ghost of giving birth.

But why do ghosts of giving birth appear?
Rinko Hagiwara remembered a sentence often mentioned by Kazuya Uda: Once hatred accumulates, it will turn into a monster; once tears condense, it will turn into a ghost.

But all ghosts and monsters are inseparable from the dark side of the human heart.

The woman who gave birth to death, hatred condensed into evildoers;
For a woman who has lost her child, her tears turn into ghosts.

Even ordinary little things, once you care about them, you will brood on them.

Not to mention such a life-changing event.

In the case of Mrs. Yueji, did she resent the mission the family gave her, so she felt hatred in her heart, or did she become paranoid and crazy after losing her child?If it's the former, they should take revenge on the Matsudaira family, and if it's the latter, they should go around looking for or plundering the child... But neither of these signs appeared on Mrs. Yueji.

Even though she already had ghosts and monsters in her heart, on the surface she just quietly and lonelyly greeted the arrival of death.

Where is the problem...

Rinko Hagiwara thought hard.

The moonlight fell on her shoulders, showing the color of white snow.

"By the way..." Ju Qingxian broke a long branch, held it in his hand and waved it like a sword, "I seem to remember something, related to childbirth."

"What is it?" Rinko Hagiwara showed a sincerely happy expression on her face.

"Let me talk about my point of view first." Tachibana Qingxian waved a branch and leaned out, "In Japan, the concept of giving birth to a ghost and the definition of a bird from China is confused. It is due to someone. It is he who defines both as the same thing."

"Oh?" Miss Rinko's eyes showed surprise, "How do you know such a thing?"

"It's just a coincidence." It was rare for Ju Qingxian to be modest. "Although this kind of thing cannot be determined 100%? But for now, what I know should not be wrong."

"Who is it? We can visit his descendants to see."

"...Yes, Lin Luoshan." Ju Qing showed a strange expression.

Rinko Hagiwara was taken aback: "Wait. Are you talking about that Lin Luoshan? The representative of the shogunate Confucian officials, the ancestor of the Lin family, that Lin Luoshan?"

"...That's right." Tachibana Qingxian nodded, "It is the Confucianism in the early Edo period, the ancestor of the Lin family of Confucian officials in the shogunate. Longevity scholars who have served the four generations of shoguns of Ieyasu, Hidetada, Iemitsu, and Izuna."

"No wonder you know."

"It's a coincidence." Tachibana smiled, "When I was looking through the chronicles of the Tokugawa family, I learned about this famous physicist."

It took Rinko Hagiwara a few seconds to recall what "Meimonology" was.

As the name suggests, this is a discipline that studies and discusses the origin of names and objects, different names and aliases, the relationship between names and reality, the evolution of the origin of objects, and their cultural meanings.Investigate the name and the actual situation, and check whether the name and reality match.

"Such a person should be very powerful..." Rinko Hagiwara sighed sincerely.

"That's not necessarily..." Tachibana Qingxian clicked his tongue, with a disgusted expression on his face, "As Zhu Zixue spread widely in Japan, and made Zhu Zixue the chief culprit of the official school of the Edo court, Lin Luoshan deserves to be scolded by later generations century……"

The corners of Hagiwara Rinko's eyes twitched slightly.

Indeed, Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism is quite controversial in later generations, but after all, it is also the subordinate of your ancestors... Are you scolding Tokugawa Ieyasu together?
"It's hard for me not to think that the thoughts of the gods were also influenced by Zhu Zixue, which fundamentally led to the ending of the Edo shogunate and the outcome of the Ming and Qing dynasties in China that were deeply influenced by Cheng Zhu's Neo-Confucianism..." Ju Qingxian As he spoke, he threw the branch in his hand, "The 300-year achievements of the Tokugawa shogunate collapsed due to the rotten and conservative thinking. The arrival of the black ships made fame, wealth and power fall into the hands of ronin samurai and foreign scholars."

After hearing this, Hagiwara Rinko quickly said: "The regime and society established by ronin samurai and foreign scholars perished in less than a hundred years, which is shorter than the rule of the Edo shogunate."

"The era of the shogunate was overturned by the black ships of the United States, and the new Japanese military state in which the ronin was promoted to the Chinese was crushed by the planes of the United States. The Edo culture based on Confucianism, and the Xingshi Muduo, which was still a national after the regime's demise ..." Ju Qingxian expressed his opinion.

"Haha~"

Rinko laughed first.

Tangerine Qingxian also laughed.

Both children couldn't help a showy, gratuitous laugh -- the best laugh in the world.

It is a joyous symbol of energetic young life.

When the college student walking the dog passed by, his face was full of ghostly expressions: Is this the kind of topic that junior high school students chat with now?
"...Ahem, T-sang, we digressed."

"...I know, you let me laugh for a while..."

Ju Qingxian laughed for a while before picking up the topic just now.

"Lin Luoshan wrote a book called "The Collection of Strange Talks". When it comes to giving birth, it lists the relationship between hawks, peregrine falcons, harriers, yellows, greens, vultures, hawks and other birds and giving birth. , and refuted them one by one. Finally, the legend about the Guhuo bird in "Compendium of Materia Medica" was quoted, that is, the obsession of the dead mother, walking at night with the baby in her arms, the cry of the baby in her arms turned into a Guhuo bird from this book, in Japan, the image of the phantom of childbirth has gradually been bound together with the bird."

"But there is no such bird in reality." Rinko Hagiwara folded her arms.

"Lin Luoshan said that the Guhuo bird is a nue."

"Ne? It's a monster recorded in "The Tale of the Heike". It has the appearance of an ape, the body of a raccoon dog, the limbs of a tiger, and the tail of a snake. It can fly without wings..."

"Yes, so there is also the saying of Huwei, a night-singing fierce bird. Although it has nothing to do with birds in appearance, and it does not look like a bird, it is indeed called Guhuo bird by later generations... "

"Because it sounds like a baby crying."

"That's why it also has another name called the caller bird. In other words, the caller bird is equal to the 鵺, the 鵺 is equal to the guhuo bird, and the kuhuo bird is equal to the birth girl."

"Equation holds!"

A happy smile appeared on Rinko Hagiwara's pretty face.

It's really a joy to chat with a beautiful young man who is knowledgeable.

"To those who don't know its face, it's just a bird. As for why it's strange, it's because they don't understand its true face." The girl said slowly, "But to those who know its true face, it's a monster that harms people's hearts. ... Now that we know how many monsters there are, let's wait for it to show up on its own initiative."

Ju Qingxian actually wanted to say something, Lin Luoshan is a bitch.

If you think about it carefully, the calling of the calling bird means calling for a child, and giving birth only means giving birth, and has nothing to do with any ghost... But why did it gradually evolve into the image of a giving birth ghost?
Calling a son and giving birth to a daughter both use the child as a medium to connect, pointing to a hidden core.

Except for the government that Lin Luoshan worked for, how could ordinary people know these ways, they only know that the childbirth is a monster.

Lin Luoshan talks about benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom, but in fact, he personally beats the image of the childbearing woman into an evil ghost, but in fact he and the government he lives in are the real ghosts and ghosts. .

Standing in the yard, the two chatted for almost an hour.

The moonlight quietly blends into the night, serene and gentle, just like the surrounding air.

Everything was dimly illuminated, and even the eyeballs of the two of them shone with a mysterious luster.When the wind died down, the leaves were as motionless as a bird with its wings folded; a night-scented warm breeze blew from the ground.

Even the sound of the sea tide not far away is more pleasant and softer; there are also lights reflected on the small pool.

"Ha~"

Rinko Hagiwara suddenly yawned and told Tachibana Kiyoaki that she was sleepy.

"I have to go back." Ju Qing said warmly.

"Well, let's go..." Hagiwara Rinko resisted the drowsiness.

Ju Qingxian turned around and walked out of the yard, and walked to the alley where he came and went.

The moonlight fell on his feet like salt on the ground.

Suddenly footsteps came from behind, and Miss Linzi leaned against the door frame, looking at his back.

"You walked into the moon and crushed it," cried the girl.

Ju Qingxian continued to walk ahead.

...His expression was unexpectedly cheerful.

"goodbye!"

It was Rinko's voice again.

"See you tomorrow."

"Remember to come to Hachiman Shrine during the summer vacation, and I'll ask Aunt Ueda to teach you something."

"Miss Linzi, I can't repay your great kindness, please allow me to call you..."

"You finally found out..."

"……mom!"

"—Sine!"

(End of this chapter)