He Ma pondered for a while, and felt that it was useless to just think about it, so he said to Miss Akanishi in front of him: "Thank you for the information you provided, and I will inform you as soon as I have a result."
After finishing speaking, he picked up the teacup in front of him and drank the tea in it - after listening to Miss Akanishi for so long, the tea was no longer hot.
"Then, I won't disturb Miss Akanishi's rest." He said and stood up with the horse.
"Go slowly." Miss Akanishi hurriedly stood up too, "Please give Watanabe-kun and Oda-kun justice."
"I will. I mean, if something injustice does happen, I will set it right."
After talking with Ma, he led Qingliu out of the room.
Chi Xifeng kept looking at Hema's back with a complicated expression.
**
After leaving Chi Xifeng's room, Qingliu couldn't wait to ask: "What do you think, what is the truth?"
"I'm not Sherlock Holmes, who can know the truth right away. No, Holmes doesn't always know the truth right away. The description in the novel is that he has to smoke a pipe all night in the living room from time to time before he can think of the truth, and occasionally some* *because."
"Who cares what's going on in the novel." Qingliu waved her hand, "Didn't you go to the shrine to investigate? Add this testimony..."
"It's far from enough. Next, I'm going to ask Yuzao what she thinks about the legend of the demon fox."
Qingliu frowned: "Is that legend related to this case?"
"Maybe."
Qingliu: "Speaking of which, when Ms. Akanishi told this story, I had a creepy feeling."
"Why, are you afraid of having nightmares tonight? Then you can come to my room to sleep."
"Go to hell!" Qingliu kicked Hema unceremoniously, and was dodged of course.
**
He and Ma meet Tamamo drinking milk outside the bathhouse.
As soon as she saw He Ma, she asked, "Shouldn't you go directly to ask the new residents what happened last year?"
"It was one of the new residents who came to us. Are they still in there?"
"Yeah, my hair is easier to wash, and I don't need to take care of it. They are still tossing conditioner in it."
Hema glanced at the wall clock on the wall: "This has been tossing for so long!"
"Girls are like this." Yuzao smiled, and then changed the topic, "So, is there anything new?"
"Yes, yes." Hema sat down on the chair opposite Yuzao, and briefly explained what he had just learned from Chi Xifeng.
Yuzao tapped the milk bottle in his hand with his fingers, with a thoughtful expression: "I saw the white-haired demon fox capture the neighbor's child with my own eyes? That's interesting. As far as I know, there are no such demon foxes in the legends around the world." DIY.
"In the legend of the demon fox, apart from Yuzaoqian, it is widely spread to use spells to transform a house in the wild mountains, wait for travelers to come and stay there, and then entertain guests with delicacies transformed from leaves."
Qingliu: "Then eat people?"
He Ma shook his head: "No, it's usually the guests who fell asleep after the cloud and rain, and woke up the next day to find that they were sleeping in the deep mountains and old forests, and the quilt covering them was made of leaves."
Qingliu: "So many things just to put the traveler to sleep? Isn't this demon fox too dissatisfied?"
Yuzao: "Those are low-class demon foxes in the countryside."
Kazuma looked at Yuzao and said, "Then what will the big demon fox living in the human city do? Be a mother-san?"
"The big demon fox living in a big human city doesn't have that primitive impulse, and it doesn't spring up like a wild beast."
Qingliu looked at Yuzao suspiciously: "Why are you so sure, you are not a demon fox, how do you know?"
He Ma followed suit: "Yes, how do you know?"
Tamamo smiled and brought the topic back to the main topic: "Let me summarize: after Watanabe-kun found out the news from Grandma Noda, he went to the shrine to learn about the relevant legends, and when he came back, he became serious and looked worried.
"Miss Chixifeng was very worried, so she sent Oda-kun to appease him, but the two of them became serious together, and they still refused to tell Miss Chixi what happened."
Kazuma nodded: "Yes, and then an incident happened the next day, Watanabe-kun died, and Oda-kun entered a vegetative state."
Tamamo: "Then Akanishi-san suspected that it was the shrine's shrine lord who silenced her. But in that case, Oda-kun is not dead, isn't the silence too unprofessional?"
Qingliu: "Maybe it's the first time I've done this kind of thing, and I ran away in a hurry after I finished it, without confirming the life and death of the two people. This kind of thing should be quite common."
"But today Yuzao and I went to the shrine, and the shrine master also suspected that Watanabe-kun committed suicide." He paused, "It is also possible that the shrine-kun told Watanabe-kun some secrets involving a third party when we were at the shrine, and then Killed by a third party."
Qingliu: "Then let's go into the mountains tomorrow to find clues? Go see the place where Watanabe-kun and Oda were found last year?"
Yuzao shook his head: "That should be useless. It's been a year, and it's in the wild again. Maybe the mountain has landslide several times when it's raining. I can't find anything."
Qingliu: "Then what shall we do!"
He Ma shrugged: "Maybe we can find some clues from the things that the Divine Master picked up in this year."
"You didn't ask about the Turtle card?" Yuzao asked.
"No," He Ma shook his head, "This woman hasn't cleared herself of the suspicion. She was also on the mountain the day the accident happened, so I don't want her to know what we have."
Qingliu: "You said that this is the first time I've heard of the Turtle card. What is it?"
"A divination tool with the runes on the red gun of the three-eyed boy. The god master picked it up when he went up the mountain to collect medicine. That person seems to have been wandering around the mountain in the name of collecting medicine, looking for evidence."
As soon as the words with Ma were finished, Mikako, Hinan Rina, Honami, Chiyoko, and Kamaka-senpai opened the curtain and came out of the bathhouse together.
The huge space immediately became lively, and it became unsuitable for playing detective games.
So Kazuma turned to the girls, saw Mikako's red hair highlighted in front of her forehead at a glance, and said, "Mikako, don't you hide your highlights?"
"Anyway, it's a holiday, so don't hide it!" Mikako said loudly, "I'll do a haircut that hides the highlights when school starts."
Qingliu also turned her head to look at Mikako, and teased, "I, a rock girl, have black hair, but you, a top student who was admitted to Sophia University, are actually playing with highlights."
Mikako actually only dyed a very small lock of hair, which could easily be hidden in her dark locks.
It's just that she dyed it a very bright red, and once it is placed where it can be seen, it will be extremely conspicuous.
As a fan of black and straight, Hema didn't like that too bright color, but he was completely acceptable to Mikako's highlighting.
During the conversation, the five girls ran to the milk vending machine together to buy their favorite dairy products.
Mikako was the first to buy the milk, and ran over bouncingly, sat next to Hema, and asked while opening the lid, "Qing Liuliu, Hema, don't you drink milk?"
"We've already finished drinking."
Not only did he finish drinking, but he also went to investigate a wave of cases.
Mikako seemed to be asking the same question, she didn't really care about whether Kazuma and the others drank milk, she lifted the lid of the milk, gulped down most of the bottle like a Liangshan hero drinking, and then made a "puha" sound .
"Drinking milk after taking a bath is really cool!"
He Ma also felt very refreshed when he saw her fat body shaking with her body movements.
Other girls also came over with milk.
Chiyoko asked Kazuma: "Brother, I saw the poster posted over there, it seems that the shrine's festival can go tomorrow."
Kazuma recalled what he saw when he went to the shrine today, and asked suspiciously: "Can we go tomorrow? When we went to the shrine this afternoon, we didn't see the shops for the festival. In fact, the shrine is empty now. Nothing is prepared."
Chiyoko shrugged: "Then I don't know what's going on. Anyway, the festival written on the poster will start tomorrow night and last for two weeks."
"In addition to fireworks and evening garden tours, there are many other activities in the festival. There may be mikoshi parades and various competitive competitions." Tamamo explained, "If you just want to go to the shrine stalls and eat snacks at night Goldfish, just pay attention to the day when the fireworks are set off, there must be booths at the shrine on the day of the fireworks.”
Chiyoko nodded: "That's right. I thought it was like the festivals in Tokyo. When it starts, there will be festivals to visit at the shrine."
"Tokyo's festivals are all simplified to adapt to urban life." Tamamo said with a smile, "Kiryu Dojo is located in the Gushi District, and everyone is familiar with Insaken's festival. It was originally held for two weeks, but now It’s all about going to parade on the day of the festival, and then going to the temple to worship and it’s over.”
After Tamamo finished speaking, Mikako said in the tone of the classic opening narration of the national comedy "The Story of Tonajiro": "My name is Mikako, I was born in Katsushika Shibamata, I was raised by the water of Emperor Shakuten, and people call me crazy Yes monkey."
Kazuma: "Why, Mikako, are you going to wander around like Torajiro in the future?"
"Haha, that's not bad, Qingliu is coming too?"
"I'm not going!"
Mikako pretended to cry: "Wuuu, I'm hated. Sure enough, Qingliu looked down on me as a sister."
"Since when did you become my sister?"
Mikako ignored Seiryu and sang the theme song of Tojiro's story "Men are so hard", and then changed all the "sister" in the lyrics to "Seiryu".
Qingliu said to her expressionlessly, "Mikako, give me your hand."
"Ha, what are you doing?" Mikako looked at Qingliu's outstretched hand, palm up, and covered her own hand without hesitation, "Wow."
"Eat me over your shoulder!"
"ah!"
Mikako was thrown over her shoulder by Qingliu, and fell heavily on her back to the ground.
"My back, my spine must have been hurt!" she yelled.
Qingliu: "If the spine is damaged, the sphincter will lose control, and people will stretch all over the ground. Pull me to see."
"Hey, why did Qingliu know about this kind of thing? You haven't actually broken someone else's spine, have you?"
Seiryu looked down at Mikako lying on the ground, folded her hands on her chest and did not answer.
Mikako got up quickly, ran to Kazuma, and put on a posture of using Kazuma as a cover: "Qing Liuliu's expression just now was so scary, I was frightened, I will have nightmares tonight, so Kazuma Can I sleep in your room?"
He Ma: "No."
In fact, He Ma wanted to say "Welcome, welcome, warmly welcome", but that would be too obvious.
"Hey, Hema is so cold! If Qingliu is too scared to sleep to come to you tonight, you must agree without even thinking about it!"
Qingliu shouted: "I won't!"
**
midnight.
"I... can't sleep, talk to me." Qingliu stood outside the door of the stable with her pillow in her arms.
He Ma wanted to laugh, but seeing her pitiful appearance, he moved away from the door: "Come in. We agreed to just chat."
"Nonsense! Otherwise, what else can I do?" Qingliu rolled her eyes, "Also, I'm not afraid, I'm just insomnia!"
"Yes, yes." He Ma went to the tea room that came with the suite, turned on the switch of the electric kettle, and prepared to make tea.
Qingliu: "I'm a rock girl, I can't be afraid of those things! Do you understand!"
"Understood, I understand. You just have insomnia, bored, and want to chat with someone." Hema responded, deliberately ignoring the pillow Qingliu was holding.
Qingliu went to the chair by the window of the room and sat down.
Because Kazuma only turned on the small light in the room, the light was very weak, so Qingliu who was sitting by the window was bathed in the moonlight.
"I've been wondering," she said looking out the window, "what happened to the story Akanishi-san heard from Grandma Noda. It can't be that Grandma Noda was dazzled when she was a child, right?"
"Who knows. Maybe after dawn tomorrow, we should ask Grandma Noda." Hema came to the door of the tea room, leaned against the door frame and looked at Qing Liuliu, "Why, you can't sleep because you've been thinking about this? "
"I, I'm just curious! I thought Yuzao would give a scientific explanation for this matter, but she didn't explain it at all."
He Ma shrugged: "After all, it happened so long ago, the Taisho era, my father was not even born at that time."
"Hmm..." Qingliu sat on a chair and looked out of the window with a look of difficulty letting go.
At this time, Hema heard the beeping sound of the electric kettle, indicating that the water had reached the temperature set by Hema.
So he and Ma turned back to the tea room and prepared to make tea.
At this time, he suddenly heard Qingliu screaming.
"Ah ah!"
Immediately afterwards there was a rough knock on the window glass: Bang Bang Bang!
He Ma rushed out of the tea room and saw Qingliu's chair overturned backwards. She was lying on the ground as if she was trying to escape from the window, but she couldn't control her hands and feet, her face was full of fear.
"And the horse!"
she yelled.
Behind her, the moonlight that should have penetrated through the window was mostly blocked by something outside, and someone knocked on the glass roughly from outside.
Hema picked up the wooden knife placed with the luggage at the door and rushed to the window.
Tamamo said that a strong human being can only use a wooden knife to deal with demons and ghosts.
When he was almost at the window, the knocking stopped and the moonlight came in again.
The existence outside obviously ran away.
He Ma brushed open the window, leaned out of the window and looked up first-get used to it.
Then he looked around, just in time to see a figure jumping from the eaves of the hotel to the treetops in the forest.
Kazuma: "Qingliu, go find Yuzao!"
With that, he jumped out of the window.
Where are the demons and goblins