"Amitabha, since the village chief Yoshino said so, the two little monks are afraid that they will have to eat food outside their stomachs today, so please don't laugh at that time. ”

"No, no, the more guests eat, the happier I am. ”

It seems that it was because of Yoshino Shota's hospitality, or because the atmosphere at the scene was so good, or because the two of them were too hungry, in short, Yanai Katsuto and Liyan Tourmaline really just buried their heads in eating and didn't ask much about other things.

After eating the last piece of roast pork leg in the bowl, Li Yan Tourmaline took a look at the situation in the field and found that the young men and women in the village were still talking and laughing while eating, and there was no intention of ending.

The old men who sat beside them, the head of Yoshino Village, were obviously not as energetic as the young people, and some of them had already retired early after eating, thinking that they should have gone home to rest.

Seeing this, Li Yan Tourmaline knew that he should speak, otherwise waiting for the Yoshino village chief to also retreat, then it would be difficult for him to ask people again, after all, it would be too rude.

Thinking of this, Li Yan Tourmaline immediately got up and walked past Yanai Katsuto beside him, sat down next to Yoshino Shota, and said calmly: "Yoshino Village Chief, I want to ask you something about it, I don't know if it's inconvenient?"

Yoshino Shota, who was taking a sip of wine with a wine glass in his hand, looked at the group of juniors in the village laughing around the bonfire, when he suddenly heard a question from beside him, and turned his head to see that it was one of the two travelers passing by.

When the other party first came, this ancient samurai armor made Yoshino Masata's attention for a while, but later found that the other party didn't mean to speak, and he just cared about burying his head in something, so he didn't pay attention to the other party anymore.

Now hearing the other party's question, Yoshino Shota asked a little playfully, "It depends on what you want to ask, if you ask us which house in Yoshino Village looks like." I know this, could it be that the guests are optimistic about which girl in the venue, and want the old man to help me make peace?"

Katsuto Yanai, who had a serious face, was teased by Shota Yoshino like this, and the calm look on his face immediately disappeared a little, but he had a little more embarrassed look.

Chief Yoshino laughed, how could he ask about those things. This marriage needs to be decided by my father, and I can't mess around as a young man. ”

Looking at the samurai young man named Liyan Tourmaline on the opposite side, he retorted with a serious face, and Yoshino Shota stopped making fun of the other party.

Judging by Shota Yoshino's experience in dealing with people for so many years, he could feel that the young man opposite didn't have much sense of humor, and making too many jokes with such a person made it easy for the other party to think that he was making fun of him again, so he immediately stopped the topic.

"Oh, since it's not about girls. What does the guest want to ask? I can tell you beforehand, old man, I don't know anything about the things going on in the city outside. ”

"I've lived in Yoshino Village almost all my life, and I've never been out of the village a few times, so if a guest asks me about other things, I can't help them. ”

Hearing that Yoshino Village next to him no longer joked about himself, and the topic returned to normal, Li Yan Tourmaline breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Then he replied, "Chief Yoshino, please rest assured, I believe that Chief Yoshino should know the question asked by the next minister." ”

"What's the problem?"

Li Yan Tourmaline said solemnly: "I want to ask the village chief Yoshino about the Jiusheng Bridge. I believe that the chief of Yoshino should know about this, right?"

Yoshino Shota, who hadn't paid much attention to it, heard the young samurai mention Kushohashi, and the wine glass in his hand flickered, and most of the sake in the cup immediately spilled, obviously hearing these three words, his heart was very uneasy.

Yoshino Shota's reflection, Li Yan Tourmaline and Yanai Katsuto both saw it. With the minds of the two of them, they immediately guessed what the other party should know, otherwise there would be no such reaction.

In order to confirm his thoughts, Li Yan Tourmaline opened his mouth and asked, "What's the matter, Chief Yoshino?"

Hearing Li Yan Tourmaline's inquiry, Yoshino Shota slowed down for a while before returning: "Why did the guest suddenly ask about the Kusho Bridge?"

Hearing Yoshino Shota's rhetorical question, Li Yan Tourmaline didn't hide it and said directly: "Yanai-kun and I have traveled around. I came to Mimasaka City a while ago, and I heard people talk about this bridge, and it seems that people often die in the past, and many people are rumoring that this Kusho Bridge is haunted, so the two of us came to take a look. ”

I came here to take a look, and when I heard Li Yan's words, Yoshino Shota smiled bitterly and said: "It's a shame that you crossed the bridge early, if you wait until the night to cross the bridge, then I'm afraid the guests won't be able to come to our Yoshino Village." ”

Yoshino Shota's words immediately made Li Yan's eyes light up, and at the same time, he quickly asked: "Why did Yoshino Village Chief say that, is that Jiusheng Bridge really haunted as passers-by say?"

"Haunted, haunted indeed, my own granddaughter died on that bridge. ”

Speaking of which, Shota Yoshino's eyes were already filled with tears, apparently thinking of the dead granddaughter in his mouth.

Hearing Shota Yoshino say that his granddaughter died on the Kusho Bridge, neither Riyan Tourmaline nor Yanai Katsuto asked, because they knew that time belonged to this old man.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Yoshino Shota to start speaking slowly: "The Kusho Bridge was specially built by our wealthy Nakamura Taiwa in Yoshinomura a hundred years ago to celebrate Emperor Ninko's opening of the 'taste of learning' of Renzheng. ”

"This bridge was very famous at the time, because the villagers on both sides of the Takigawa River had to rely on this Kusho Bridge to communicate with each other, so whoever crossed the bridge would always recite the phrase 'Nakamura Lord is merciful'. ”

"Maybe it's really the kindness of the old man of Nakamura, three years after the completion of the bridge, that is, the first time the 'knowledge of the taste' exam, the young master of the old man's family in Nakamura passed the exam, and it didn't take long for the young master to be the 'little housekeeper' of the waiter (equivalent to patrolling the local miscellaneous officials, equivalent to the temporary workers of the city management of the Celestial Empire, temporary workers of the auxiliary police, etc., there is no formal establishment, but it still belongs to the public people. This is the first public servant from Yoshino Village. ”

Speaking of this, Yoshino Shota's face obviously had a hint of pride, obviously feeling very proud that there was a public man in his village in ancient times.

Regarding the expression of Yoshino Shota, Li Yan Tourmaline actually understands in his heart, in ancient Japanese society, it was really too difficult for an ordinary civilian to get ahead. It is even more difficult for a rural poor to get ahead, and the probability of success is even lower than that of surviving the bombing of Hiroshima.

Because in that social environment at that time, all official positions were held by aristocratic samurai, even if it was a small head the size of a sesame mung bean, it had to be held by the concubine of the samurai family, and the common people didn't even think about it.

In this case. If a commoner wants to get ahead, in addition to pouring great luck, he will be favored by a certain daimyo.

The only feasible way left is to serve as a soldier for the daimyo, make a lot of meritorious contributions on the battlefield, and after a few decades, he may be promoted to a samurai, and be rewarded with a light title, and there is no other way out.

It is for this reason that there is a duke in Yoshino Village, which can really be said to be the glory of the entire village.

"After Master Nakamura became a duke. Our Yoshino Village is obviously much better than the surrounding villages, but it didn't last long, and it took about five years. ”

"Once when Master Nakamura went out to work, he didn't know why he died unexpectedly and mysteriously, and then Master Nakamura also followed closely because he couldn't bear the blow of losing his son, and finally as if he was cursed, the entire Nakamura family began to die one after another, and all of them died in less than five years. ”

Speaking of which, Shota Yoshino's expression began to become a little panicked. In a slightly trembling tone, he said, "The entire Nakamura family has died, and this has caused a lot of repercussions in our Yoshino Village. At that time, some villagers said that this was because the Nakamura family did not have the number of lives to be a public servant, so the family was crushed by that official position, and many villagers agreed with this statement at that time. ”

"I don't know if Lord Nakamura was jealous of us people for saying these bastard words after the death of their whole family, but since the third year, someone suddenly died accidentally while crossing the Kusho Bridge at night, and everyone began to speculate that it was the ghost of Lord Nakamura who took revenge on us who chewed his tongue indiscriminately, and prevented us people from taking the bridge he financed again. ”

At first, few people believed this statement. But as the number of deaths grew, everyone believed. ”

Later, few people dared to cross the bridge for a long time, and even if there was really an emergency, a few people would rush across in groups when the sun was at its most abundant at noon, and they didn't dare to walk slowly on the bridge at all. Afraid of the dead, Mr. Nakamura came out and pulled them into the water. ”

"Later, the bridge fell into disuse little by little, because no one crossed the bridge, so no one died, but everything was accidental. ”

"Old man, my granddaughter once played with the children in the village at night, and somehow ran to the edge of the bridge of Najiusheng, and did not come home all night, and when we found it the next day, the child was already dead by the bridge, without any scars on his body, as if he was asleep, and he died. ”

Speaking of which, Shota Yoshino is already in tears, including those who cry because they are afraid of Hisakamisaki, and those who cry for their dead granddaughter, but I think it should be a little more fearful.

Li Yan Tourmaline, who had been listening to Yoshino Shota's speech, had already flashed several thoughts in his heart after listening to the other party's story.

Other Liyan tourmalines are not sure, the only thing that can be determined is that the strangeness under the Jiusheng Bridge is definitely related to the Nakamura family, and the death of the Nakamura family must be inseparable from the bridge, and there is an inevitable connection between the two.

Now if Li Yan Tourmaline wants to solve the mystery of this bridge, he still has to use his brains on this Nakamura family, and if he wants to understand the situation of the Nakamura family, he also needs the cooperation of this Yoshino village chief, and without the cooperation of the other party, he and Yanai Katsuto can't play at all.

Thinking of this, Li Yan Tourmaline knew that he should reveal his identity to the old tearful Yoshino Village Chief in front of him, and only in this way would they wait for each other's cooperation.

"According to the head of Yoshino Village, I suspect that there must be a ghost under the Nakusho Bridge, otherwise there would not be so many accidental deaths, and such a harmful ghost must be removed, otherwise when this ghost escapes from the bridge, it will be a disaster for everyone around. ”

Yoshino Shota, who was in tears, heard Li Yan Tourmaline's words, and he couldn't care about crying anymore, the tears stopped all of a sudden, and his voice trembled and asked, "You, you, are you saying that the ghost of the old man Nakamura under the bridge will run out and harm people?"

"It shouldn't be possible, I haven't seen a ghost run to our village to harm people for decades, and the rest of the surrounding villages haven't heard of it. ”

Although he didn't believe it in his mouth, Shota Yoshino's voice still revealed that in addition to fear and worry, it was obvious that he was also very worried that the kind of situation that Li Yan Tourmaline said would happen.

Looking at Yoshino Shota's appearance, Li Yan Tourmaline knew what the other party was thinking, and he said bluntly at the moment: "Not having it now doesn't mean that it won't be in the future, maybe you can't meet it in Yoshino Village's generation, but what about your next generation?"

"They may encounter the danger of being attacked by ghosts, and if you don't want to move out of this Yoshino Village, you will have to face this problem sooner or later, and avoiding it is not a solution, and there is no way to avoid it. ”

Li Yan Tourmaline's words made Yoshino Shota's heart panic, and he hurriedly asked, "In that case, what do you say you should do, guest?"

Hearing Yoshino Shota's question, Li Yan Tourmaline stretched out his hand and pointed at Yanai Katsuto beside him, and then said: "When the two of us came, we told Yoshino Village Chief that we were going out to practice, but we are not ordinary experience, the experience of the two of us is to subdue demons and eliminate demons, I believe that Yoshino Village Chief, you can also guess through the clothes we wear." ”

After saying this, Li Yan Tourmaline obviously saw that Yoshino Shota's eyes were getting bigger on the other side, and he was obviously shocked by the words in his mouth.

"The two of us have traveled to many places in Japan along the way, among which of course we have seen a lot of demons and monsters, and this Kusho Bridge on the Takigawa River, we are specially here for it, in order to return peace to the nearby people, and to do this, we need the cooperation of Yoshino Village Chief, only in this way can we hope to subdue the ghost in the bridge. ”

When he heard that the two young people on the other side would subdue demons and eliminate demons, Yoshino Shota's heart was already jumping non-stop.

Although the words in the other party's mouth made Yoshino Shota feel a little unbelievable, but when he thought of the fierce bridge in front of his house, he had no other thoughts, after all, there was even a haunted bridge, and it was normal for two young people to come out who could catch ghosts and subdue demons. (To be continued......)