Chapter 20: A Different Story
"Boss, your Umegaki House is said to be 100 years old, which is amazing!" Miki said with a look of adoration as she ate the delicious Ichida persimmons.
"132 years to be exact, our Umegaki House is also a century-old store, I took over from my mother, I didn't understand the business at the beginning, I almost couldn't hold on, but fortunately I survived later......" Uragaki Juko recalled the hardships of the year, and couldn't help but sigh.
"The proprietress is really amazing to hold up the Umegaki house alone......"
Lin Shuichi and Miki, you say a word to me, plus Kanako and Hanagata from the side, so that Umegaki Juko gradually opened her heart. Uragaki Juko is now in her forties and fifties, and she likes to miss the old days, and she rarely has any opportunity to relax and chat other than talking about business with suppliers on weekdays. Although Uragaki Juzi had just met Lin Xiuyi and these young people, firstly, these young people were more talkative, and secondly, they had been together for a few days, and the distance between them had narrowed a lot. In addition, building a good relationship with customers is also the way hot spring inns like Umegakiya do business. The highest philosophy of Umegagakiya management is to make every guest who has visited Umegagaki a place where they can truly relax.
"That's right, boss lady!Huaxing has always been very interested in the legend of the treasure here, your family has been operating here for a hundred years, do you know any news about the treasure?" Lin Xiuyi pointed to Huaxing and asked Umegaki Juzi, thanks to Huaxing's persistence in digging treasures in the underground river these days, this made Lin Xiuyi's mention of the treasure seem less abrupt.
"Treasure, you're all guests from Tokyo, and you probably don't know us about this place. We haven't been a wealthy place since ancient times, so how can there be any treasures?" said Uragaki with a smile on her face.
"But, boss lady, didn't you dig up four Warring States Golden Judgments in that river seven years ago?" asked Hanagata retorted.
"By the way, the boss lady, I also heard Village Chief Yamamoto Kengo mention that when the village was in the most difficult time, someone once found Jin Xiaoju in the wreckage of Futu Temple, so the treasure is indeed a thing!" Kanako also said while the iron was hot.
"Hey, in this way, could it be the manifestation of the Buddha of the Futu Temple? But the legend says that the monks of the Futu Temple would kill the tourists who came to stay overnight? According to this, how could the Buddha appear in such a place......" Hanagata asked the question that Lin Xiuyi also wanted to ask without knowing it in advance.
"Nonsense, how could the masters of the Futu Temple do such a thing?" Uragaki Juko's tone suddenly became serious, and he subconsciously refuted Hanagata's point of view. But as soon as these words came out, the atmosphere that was laughing just now instantly became embarrassing. Uragaki Juzi immediately realized that he had said too much to the guest, and quickly apologized and got up to leave, but was stopped by Lin Xiuyi.
"Boss lady, how do you know that the masters of the Futu Temple would not do such a thing, could it be that there is another version of this story circulating?" Lin Xiuyi asked curiously, the performance of the boss lady just now was really abnormal. Paradoxically, it was as if it had an inseparable relationship with her.
"That's it, boss lady! The one I just said is from the Internet, if this is not the case, wouldn't those monks of Futu Temple have been wronged for hundreds of years?" Lin Xiuyi was very nervous now, and he was especially looking forward to hearing something different from Umegaki Juzi's mouth. In any case, Uragaki Juko's resistance to the legend of the demon monk that is widely spread here is very suspicious in itself. You must know that the legend of the demon monk trying to kill for money is related to the whereabouts of the treasure, and now even the tourism advertisements of Futu Village regard the legend of the demon monk killing for money as a big selling point......
"Hey, don't say this kind of thing in the future! How could the masters of Futu Temple do that kind of thing!" Hearing that Hanagaku took the initiative to change his words, Uragaki Juzi returned to his seat, Lin Xiuyi poured a new cup of tea for Umegaki Juzi, and Uragaki Juzi bowed down and thanked him. Then I slowly told a different story.
"I also heard from the elders in the past, it is said that there was indeed a group of defeated warriors who came to Futu Village and wanted to stay in Futu Temple! Because they escorted many female dependents, the masters of Futu Temple took them in out of kindness!"
"At that time, it happened to be shortly after the end of the Battle of Tianmu Mountain, and the Takeda clan of Kai Kingdom died out. Nobunaga's coalition swept across the entire province of Kai, and any daimyo who dared to stop Nobunaga's whirlwind would end no good. ”
"It was in this situation that a group of samurai escorting their female dependents appeared in a remote place like Futu Village. As long as you think about it for a while, you know that taking in these people will definitely bring great trouble to Futu Temple. ”
However, it was under these circumstances that the monks of Futu Monastery did not hesitate to choose to accept these people. Samurai and female dependents were sheltered in the temple by the monks. Despite the chaos outside, the small Futu Temple is as calm as a paradise. ”
At that time, Kai had been controlled by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the bounty for Kai's original daimyo and his descendants was in full swing, and the bounty was high enough to make everyone put their conscience down, so when the local villagers learned that there were samurai of unknown origin hidden in Futu Temple, they immediately went up the mountain to surround Futu Temple......
This small temple was the last refuge of these wandering samurai and the families of the daimyos, and a fierce fight was inevitable in those circumstances. But at this moment, the monks of Futu Temple made another suggestion, they were willing to die in place of the samurai......"
When Umegaki Juko said this, she didn't go any further, she got up and left the place. Lin Xiuyi looked at her departing back, and realized something in his heart. Everyone else in the room looked at each other, immersed in another version of the legend.
If it is really as Uragaki Juzi said, then haven't the monks of Futu Temple been wronged for hundreds of years?
Lin Xiuyi quietly walked to Aizawa's side and whispered in his ear, "Aizawa, I have something to trouble you! The deceased Ayu had a good friend named Miyu, who also died of illness shortly after Ayu's death. It is said that Miha's ashes were sent back to her hometown by her boyfriend, and I want you to help me look up her boyfriend and see where he came from......"