The Hundred Stories of Miss Ghost

"okay!"

When I also wanted to help carry my uncle, I saw that he was panting, but at the same time tried to raise one hand, reached into the inner lining of his clothes, slowly seemed to take out something, and struggled to put it in the small bag. Hitomi's hand, and said weakly intermittently: "Help me...go...ask that...question..."

Xiaotong bit her lower lip, and directly tried to pull him up from the ground to resist on her shoulders, but in the end, she didn't pull him up. Sincerely, I immediately helped to lift Sankayue Daoman's body, making him half-suspended in the air. After getting up, he walked towards the vehicle outside the shrine, and said on his mouth: "Don't act like you've confessed your last words! If you have any questions, ask yourself! How do I know what you want to ask?!"

"It's useless...you...you're right...this is...a curse..."

"Okay, stop talking!"

The large truck drove all the way to the nearest hospital at high speed, and Sanriyue Daoman was pushed into the operating room.

Xiaotong and the others sat down on the waiting chair outside the operating room, while I floated into the operating room and watched the doctor perform a series of rescues on Uncle Daoman.

After watching for a long time, I came out through the wall and floated beside Xiaotong who looked a little depressed, and said to her: "According to the doctor inside, it seems like multiple organ dysfunction, and there is a danger of organ failure. It seems... Not optimistic."

"Multiple organ failure..." Xiaotong repeated the term in a murmur, and then said, "I seem to have heard this word, more than once... It seems that in the past, people in our Sanriyue family were most common way of death..."

"No wonder it is said to be a curse... So, judging from uncle's appearance, this symptom may be caused by the possession of the god?"

"Maybe……"

"In that case, it seems that we must find that guy early and deal with it... By the way, what did uncle give you just now?"

Xiaotong raised her hand and slowly opened her palm. In her palm... lay a ward?

Omori, that is, amulets, can be found in various shrines and temples. Japanese people ask for at least one omamori almost every year. The common ones are health prayer omamori, traffic safety omamori, academic omamori, and fate. Jun Yushou and so on.

However, the one in front of me is a little different.

This is a small pure white cloth bag, with fine decorative patterns embroidered with gold thread at the corners, and in the center, two Chinese characters like iron painted silver hooks are also embroidered with gold thread——

"Fate cutting".

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I can't find Yuanqishou, so I can use Yuanjieshou as a reference

Chapter 37 White Scale

"Yuanqie..." I repeated these two Chinese characters, a flash of lightning flashed in my mind, and I blurted out, "Hey, Xiaotong, it's 'Yuanqie'!"

"???" Xiaotong seemed a little puzzled by what I said.

"It's the priesthood of that god!" I explained to her, "Didn't I say before that, judging from the wishes that have been fulfilled, the priesthood of that god is to 'cut off the connection between certain things'? Isn’t this the “Fate”?! Xiaotong, where did this Uncle Yushou come from, do you know? As long as we know the origin of this Yushou, maybe we can figure out the origin of that weird god Here comes the history!"

"'Yuanqie'...is that right?" Xiaotong muttered to himself, and then replied to me, "I don't know where to buy this kind of guard, it should be very rare, but... You can find out if there is a shrine or temple that specializes in praying for fate."

"Are there really shrines and temples that do this kind of business?"

Xiaotong nodded and said: "Yes, yes. It can be traced back to the Edo period, because women at that time did not have the right to divorce. Therefore, if women can live in the nunnery for three years, they have the law of divorce. Effectiveness, this kind of nunnery is called 'Yuanqie Temple'."

I suddenly seemed to understand something, and then said: "So, it is my aunt who is dissatisfied with the marriage arranged by the family. But your family is an extremely closed and conservative family, and my aunt has no way to break away from this marriage, so So I went to this so-called Enkiriji Temple to ask for this guardian, but in the end... an unknown 'god' was attracted?"

"Probably."

Xiaotong nodded, and gently rubbed the amulet carefully, feeling the touch of its surface.This amulet seems to be very carefully crafted and well preserved, but the fabric on the surface of the amulet has slightly lost its toughness and texture. Obviously, this amulet is something that has been around for some years.

Mikazuki Daoman will not keep such a shou next to him for many years for no reason, combined with what he said before handing this shou to Xiaotong, the possibility that this shou is from Xiaotong's mother Mikazuki Reina is very high .

"So, the problem now is to find the shrines or temples that sell this omamori, Hitomi, how many shrines or temples are there that have the business of 'Enkiri'?"

Xiaotong sighed, and said: "Actually, the ancient 'Yuanqie Temple' has gradually disappeared. For example, the most famous Yuanqie Temple in the past, 'Dongqing Temple', is no longer a nun but Monk Temple. But... there is a very close shrine in modern times, senior sister, have you heard of the famous Duanyuan Shrine in Kyoto? The official name is 'Yasui Kinpira Palace', after All bad karma, good karma' is famous, and it is said that it enshrines Emperor Sutoku, one of the four evil spirits in Japan."

I was shocked immediately, "Ah? Could it be that the 'god' who spoke in a maiden's voice is causing trouble this time is Emperor Sutoku? So you are this kind of emperor!"

Xiaotong smiled wryly and shook his head, "I haven't confirmed that it's this shrine yet, but I always feel that... it doesn't look like it."

"Then...the only way is to go to Kyoto and let that shrine see if this omamori is sold by their family?"

Xiaotong lowered his head and thought for a while, and then suggested: "Actually, it doesn't need to be so troublesome. There is a very quick way."

"any solution?"

"Open this guard and have a look."

"Huh? Open?" I was surprised for a moment, and then understood immediately.

An omamori is actually a small embroidered cloth bag, which contains things, usually paper or wooden plaques with the names of gods written on them.It's just that generally speaking, after we ask for an omamori from a shrine or temple, we don't open it.Because, it is said that once the guard is opened, it is equivalent to releasing the spiritual power, and the blessing of the gods will also be invalid.

"Opening this thing...would it be bad?" I hesitated.

"What's wrong? Generally speaking, the effectiveness of the guard is only one year? And this estimate has been released for an unknown number of years, and... this should be my mother's request to cut off this marriage." Come on. Now that she's dead, what's the problem?"

I scratched my hair, "Hmm... well, that's right. I'm just afraid of letting out something bad..."

Xiaotong has already started to dismantle the keeper, she opened the seal and took out the contents of the keeper.

It was not the paper or wooden sign with the god's name written on it as we expected, but another neatly folded paper package.

Carefully opening the paper bag, we were all a little puzzled by what was finally revealed.

It was a silver-white scale about the size of a spoon.

"Scale?" Xiao Tong carefully twisted the scale and observed it carefully against the light source, separated by a piece of paper.

"What kind of creature's scales are these?" I asked curiously, "It's so big, it must not be fish scales or snake scales, could it be pangolins? Do pangolins have silver-white scales?"

"I don't know... But, after all, this is something put into the guard. It must be able to point to the gods to function. Maybe it is part of the god's body, so don't use common sense to judge..."

"Sounds kind of scary..."

After studying for a while, we couldn't confirm what kind of creature this scale belonged to.After waiting for a long time, the doctor in the emergency room finally came out and explained Uncle Sanriyue's situation to us.

Unexplained dysfunction occurred in multiple organs. Although his life is temporarily saved, he is still not out of danger. His consciousness is also intermittent, and he is in a coma most of the time. This state must be kept. Continue to observe in the intensive care unit of the hospital.

"I'll stay and take care of Master Daoman." Fuxue said, "Miss Tong, you already have clues to find that hateful fake god, right? If you want to track down the clues, well... I probably help It's not too busy, it's too hard to think about those complicated things!"

"Well...then, can I trouble you?" Xiaotong felt a little embarrassed, and even though her father fell ill, she still had to trouble the not-so-familiar Dao.

"Well! Leave it to me! Oh yes, if you want to fight, please call me! I think I can still fight!"

Fubuki thumped her chest hard with her fist, and the sound of metal colliding from her chest was very outrageous.

Xiaotong nodded, and just as we were about to leave, Fuxue stopped us suddenly, her expression seemed a little awkward.

"That...Miss Tong, wait a minute, I want to ask one more thing..."

"Well, what?"

"That's... this year's Tsukimi Festival... Tsukimi Festival... can it still be held?"

Xiao Tong pondered.In fact, it stands to reason that because the Moon Festival is related to the gods, it always feels a bit evil, and Xiaotong really doesn't want to hold this thing.However, facing Fubuxue's expectant gaze, he was too embarrassed to directly refuse.

"If we settle the matter of this weird god before the date of the Moon Festival, let's hold the Moon Festival. At that time, we can revive the tradition and perform a sword dance with you." Hitomi replied.

"Hmm! Okay!" Fubuki nodded vigorously and said with great anticipation.

Chapter 38 Xiaobai

Xiaotong and Youxiang went to the hospital to handle his uncle's hospitalization, and took care of him for a whole morning before returning to the shrine.

Perhaps it is because of the arrival of midsummer, and the fact that the shrine is built in the mountains, so the surrounding vegetation is luxuriant. You can occasionally see a few small white flowers blooming in the cracks of the bluestone brick pavement of the shrine. Although there is no one there, But on the contrary, it gives people a feeling of vitality.

It was almost three o'clock in the afternoon before returning to Tsukiyomi Shrine, and Takao Kazuha and her brother Takao Isshin had already arrived one step ahead.

In the reception room of the shrine, Yuka Hanayamain, who was sitting at the head of the shrine, said energetically as usual: "Okay, these are the current situation. We already know that the priesthood of this weird 'God' Most likely it is 'Yuanqie', and there is a silver-white scale in its guard, so, how should we continue to investigate and find out the true face of this guy, do you have any good ideas?"

"Scaly...gods?" Kazuha frowned, "I really can't name a few...Generally, even if animal spirits are sacrificed and then become gods, most of them are foxes, civet cats, and dog gods. A scaled... carp? Or a snake?"

I suddenly thought of something, took a pen and wrote "shua shua" on the clipboard: [Hey, Xiaotong, is it possible that there are fish in the Yuejian Pond in your house, and then you have regarded that pool as a long time ago? Do you worship the moon god?Could it be that the fish in the pond accidentally stole your family's beliefs and then became a false god? 】

Xiaotong lowered his head and pondered: "It feels...it is indeed possible. But... I never saw fish in that pool since I was a child? No, let alone fish, I have never been in that pool What living things were found around..."

[Is it so wicked? 】

At this time, Monk Yixin interjected: "Few animals with scales are enshrined as gods. The most important thing is that water-related creatures such as fish and oriental dragons are enshrined as water gods in areas near water. Other kinds of scaly creatures...snakes, lizards, crocodiles, etc. are rarely worshiped as gods, but more often as monsters. Because most of these are cold-blooded creatures, they are also extremely dangerous to humans , is generally regarded as a synonym for misfortune.”

[Otherwise, I'll check the "Encyclopedia of Japanese Monsters" to see if there is any monster in it that is more suitable? 】

"Well... then let's do this! Let's do a division of labor!"

Youxiang took the case and decided: "First of all, I can entrust our family to take the photo of the scale to the experts who study biology to see what kind of creature it belongs to; Sister Mochizuki will go and check if there is any. The legendary monsters fit the characteristics, right? High-ranking senior sister and Master Isshin, as members of Yakuo-in, can you find the "Banyuan Shrine" in Kyoto in the name of Yakuo-in, and then ask them about the guardian Did it come from them?"

Yiyu nodded and said, "Well, it shouldn't be a problem. They should have contact information on the Internet. I'll find a way to ask."

Youxiang finally shifted her gaze to Xiaotong, "Xiaotong, do you want to be responsible for searching for any useful clues in this shrine? There is a high probability that the guard is left behind by my aunt. Will there be anything else she left behind in this shrine, if we can find it, maybe it can give us some guidance!"

Xiaotong didn't respond.

"Hello, Hitomi? Did you hear that? Moshi Moshi??"

Xiao Tong stared out the window blankly, completely unresponsive.

I looked at Xiao Tong who seemed to have lost his soul, and I understood at a glance, could this be another "psychic dream"?

What are you looking at!Give me a look too!

I was curious to get into Xiaotong's body, every time I was possessed, our senses were shared.

Xiaotong didn't resist, or in other words, she was in a state of ecstasy, basically unaware of my actions.

So, when there was a sudden light in my field of vision, I actually actually entered Xiaotong's "psychic dream".

Hmm... Strange, why does it seem to be a fixed angle of view like a surveillance camera?

The voice of a girl in rough gray clothes sounded not far away——

"Hi! Hello! I'm here again, I hope I didn't disturb you this time!"

A little girl came bouncing in from outside the torii gate.

"To thank you, I have brought you a snake as I said last time~"

In her hand, she held a bundle of rope made of grass that looked like a snake, and carefully placed it in the middle of our field of vision.

"The adults in the village said that you would like this kind of thing, but I don't know why you would like this kind of thing, but I did it with great care! Even my hands are blistered by grass!"

After putting this thing down, she sat down and lay lazily on the porch, her legs dangling, accepting the sunshine in the afternoon, but her expression didn't seem to enjoy it that much, on the contrary, With a hint of sadness.

"There is something I want to tell you, in the future... maybe I won't be able to come here often...

"The harvest in the past few years seems to be bad. Our family recently gave birth to a younger brother. There are too many mouths to eat, and I can't afford it... A few nights ago, I secretly overheard my parents chatting , They... seem to be planning to marry me to an adult family in the town, ah, in fact, it can't be called marriage, it should be said to be sold to their family... After all, it doesn't even count as a concubine, I don't know if it is How many lovers does that old man have...

"I'm a little scared... because from that family... there are always some bad rumors... I heard, I heard... the woman in that house always dies very fast... I, I'm a little Fear……

"You said, if I run away, can I escape? I'm not very confident in my foot strength, and if I want to escape, where can I escape? It seems that the real estate around here belongs to that family. It would be even more terrifying if he was caught back...

"Hey...can I not get married? There seems to be an example of that kind of woman who went to serve the gods and Buddhas in Yuanqie Temple before, so can I be your bride?

"Haha, I'm just joking, don't mind... Then, I should go too. In the future... I don't know when I can come here... By the way, what is your name? You are here Nowhere is your name written? Isn't that too much?

"Otherwise, let me help you choose a name! Well... okay, let's call it Xiaobai!

"Because you see, everything here is white! There are white paper and white ropes hanging everywhere, even the torii gates are white! Most of the things I saw in other places are red! So I call you 'Little White'! If you have any objections, please come out and object to me immediately!!

"...It seems that you have no objection.

"...Well, I'm so stupid, the game of talking to myself should stop here.

"Sure enough, there are no gods in this world."

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Chapter 39 Kagura

The scene in my eyes gradually returned to the familiar scenery of the shrine, and I couldn't help asking Xiaotong curiously: "What was that just now? Was it something that happened in this shrine in the past?"

Xiaotong held his forehead, with a slightly painful look on his face.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"It's okay... I'm a little dizzy, it should be the sequelae of spiritual vision..."

Xiaotong shook his head, then patted his face with both hands, and finally answered the question I just asked: "It should not be our shrine, the structure and layout are obviously different, and the torii gates of our shrine are not white. It should be something else what happened in the place..."