Chapter 19: A Strange Nursery Rhyme
"Don't be so perfunctory. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Fujiwara Noriki sighed, he didn't have expectations for this or this, since there was no legend of this god in the world, maybe it was like this a long time ago.
After the opening of the Great Enchantment, the unreal and the real became distinct, and many cognitions were interrupted. The villagers in the human world don't know how far the outside world has reached, how humans are running rampant on the earth, and perhaps the god disappeared before the Great Barrier was opened.
After all, there is no direct evidence whether the monster corpse of Jumian has anything to do with Takeuchi, and Fujiwara Ki just has a hunch.
The three people in the room were all idle for the time being, Fujiwara Ki and Chitachi were sitting on stools, and Takeuchi found an oil lamp in the cabinet and lit it with a match, making the room a little brighter.
The door to the living room was open, and the house could see the dark courtyard outside. A gentle wind blew, the sound of salala in the bamboo forest came, the flame of the wick flashed back and forth, and the eyes of several people stayed on the flame, quietly contemplating.
"I'm going to pack my things. The silence didn't last long, and Takeuchi picked up the oil lamp and walked to his bedroom. With one less light, the light in the hall was much darker.
Fujiwara glanced at Chitachi, who was still fiddling with her own talisman, writing and drawing on the table, leaving behind a bunch of symbols of unknown meaning, much like the talisman drawn by a fortune teller. The girl frowned and thought, and when Fujiwara Ki walked up to her, she only frowned slightly, still staring intently at the pattern on the table.
Glancing at the symbols, Fujiwara couldn't understand anything, and he wasn't going to bother Ampei Chitachibana, and walked towards the house.
When the temple first opened, the first time he saw Takeuchi, he sat alone in the corner, motionless for half an hour, and it was this that made Fujiwara Ki curious, and took the initiative to approach him to ask about the situation. Looking back on that time now, Takeshita's expression is as if he was deliberately waiting for his approach, like a flytrap with its mouth open, a dangerous cage waiting for its prey to throw itself into the net.
For almost a month after getting to know him, Fujiwara knew very little about him, and could only infer from his words that he was a man of great experience, had a wife, was good at storytelling, and knew nothing else.
From Chikan's mouth, Fujiwara Ki deduced that this was the second year of the opening of the Great Enchantment, that is, nearly one hundred and twenty years ago, at this time, Takeuchi was already an adult man, and it was impossible for an ordinary person to live so long, so Takeuchi who lived in Mi-an should no longer be human.
Since he is a very knowledgeable thing, what kind of monster is he seen in the hermitage, what is the purpose of wearing bandages on his hands, and most importantly, what is the reason why he did not become a handful of loess but became a monster?
With this question, Fujiwara Nori strung through all the clues. Before he met Takeuchi, he began to record the yokai of the Hyakki Night Walk, and then Takeuchi came to the Ju Throne Temple, approaching himself, and most of the content of the Hyakki Night Walk was perfected by him, and nothing strange happened during the period.
If it was just to tell a ghost story, when I finally saw him, he left the bamboo stick that could bring the gift of the gods, and I don't know what the plan was.
Unfortunately, the bamboo stick also disappeared afterwards, which was the only clue between him and some unknown Dao Ancestor God.
That bamboo stick, the power of the gods, Takeuchi said that it was the favor of the gods, which is probably not true. From the explanations of the girls who are Fujiwara Meihong, Fujiwara Ki knows that although the gods are not necessarily at work, according to human thoughts, as long as it is not good for oneself, it is bad.
For example, people are afraid of birth, old age, sickness and death, and if the population density of a place is too large, it will lead to infectious diseases, which is controlled by the gods who are in charge of calamities, but in many cases, the diseases are solved by people themselves. For the long-term development of people, population control is necessary, and it is impossible for the human world to accommodate another doubling of the population, and the current population is a good number for people and monsters.
The limit of the famine on the population, this is the wisdom of the gods.
The power of the desolate is not necessarily a negative influence, but this kind of result is not something that an ordinary person can afford, Fujiwara Noriki has never shown any power in the human world, except for Huiyin teacher and them, no one knows his identity, and Takeuchi is uneasy and kind to bring the bamboo stick that can attract the desolate soul to the Ju Throne Temple.
"What the hell is he going to do?" these bits and pieces can't piece together a complete clue, after all, Fujiwara still knows too little about the mystery, and even if he knows the truth of the matter, how should he deal with it.
The more I think about these questions, the more troubled Fujiwara becomes, there is no doubt that the source of all this revolves around the person Takeuchi, and if you want to solve the puzzle, you have to find the right medicine.
Fujiwara came to the bedroom, he wanted more information.
In the room, Takeuchi sat on a table sorting the piles of things, and the sound of Fujiwara Ki walking made him a little wary.
"What are you going to do?" asked Takeuchi in the tone of a stranger, still holding a little girl's rag doll in his hand, the doll had a missing button on its chest, and many other parts had been cut by scissors and had been abandoned in the wilderness, and Takeuchi had picked it up and put it with the other dolls.
Because Fujiwara Ki suddenly walked in, Takeuchi hurriedly stuffed the rag doll into the belly of another doll, and the doll had a hole in its belly, and most of the cotton in it was hollowed out.
This is a normal person who would find it weird.
Fujiwara Ki didn't speak, looked at him silently, Takeuchi glanced at Fujiwara Ki strangely, lowered his head and continued what he had just done, sewing the doll's belly with a needle and thread, the movements on his hands were unhurried, stitches and threads were extremely meticulous, and the black thread wound the fabric at the crack together, pulling it tightly, like sewing a piece of pigskin, and the action was very serious
Under the oil lamp, his black pupils reflected the yellow candlelight, his eyebrows drooped, and his whole face hung with a serene expression, if you didn't look at the movements of his hands, such an appearance was no different from those simple peasants in the world.
As Takeuchi leaned his head, his body seemed too close to the light, and his back fell on the wall in a blurry mess.
Fujiwara didn't pay attention to the black shadow on the wall, his eyes were fixed on Takeuchi's hand, and when he wasn't paying attention, the black shadow split up and merged into Fujiwara's back.
The needlework in Takeuchi's hand paused, and he inhaled in a ho-ho in his mouth, singing a strange ballad.
"Who killed the robin?
It's me, said the sparrow,
With my bow and arrows,
I killed the robin.
”
After singing these few lines, Takeuchi had already sewn the gap in his stomach, and he changed another boy doll, took apart the patches, replaced them with a more similar color cloth, and placed seven or eight of these picked up dolls at his feet.
Takeuchi continued to hum.
"Who saw him die? It was I, said the fly, and with my little eyes I saw him die.
Who takes his blood? It is I, said the fish, with my little saucer, I take his blood.
Who will dig the grave?
……”
The nursery rhyme is followed by a song about how various birds dispose of the remains of sparrows. Only the last paragraph has changed.
"Notice
To inform all interested parties that this notice informs that
The next time I go back to the Bird Court, I will judge the sparrows.
”
Fujiwara Ki listened to Takeuchi's nursery rhyme silently, and his hand quietly touched the talisman paper on his chest, if he just listened to the content of the nursery rhyme, there was nothing strange, but if he carefully studied the meaning inside, he would feel creepy, especially when Takeuchi stuffed the girl's doll into the stomach of another doll.
Fujiwara Ki just moved, Takeuchi suddenly raised his head, startled him, he subconsciously thought of the four seasons of the year to give him the degree, Komachi said that it has the effect of exorcism and evil spirits, fortunately he brought it with him.
"You're a little scared?"
Takeuchi asked, "Away from those shabby dolls, his demeanor is much more normal.
Fujiwara nodded.
Takeuchi laughed and said, "Don't be afraid, I'll borrow you and my courage, so you can be bold." ”
For Takeuchi's joke that was not funny at all, Fujiwara Noriki endured it for a long time, and finally came out of his mouth: "Hehe." ”