"Uh, this shrine is the shrine of the fox fairy?" I asked the old man as if nothing had happened. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Yes, from the first time the old man saw it when he was a child, it has existed for a long time."

"How long is that?"

"It's probably more than a hundred years, so ah, Lord Fox Fairy has been squatting here for almost two hundred years."

Basically the same as what I came to after groping, this stone shrine does look very old from the outside.

"What kind of fox fairy is that, is it a god who is good at granting wishes to people?" I then asked.

"Lord Fox Fairy is ......" The little old man who appeared at ten o'clock at noon inexplicably seemed to be recalling, "Lord Fox Fairy is Lord Fox Fairy, a god who fulfills wishes?" Alas, the most unreliable thing in our time was this god and that spirit, can others help you realize this wish? Those who dare to speak like this are either liars or politicians. ”

"That's not the same kind of person, cough, old man, you really have a point."

The old man glanced at me, "The old man doesn't look like a little girl who came to pray for the fox fairy to fulfill his wish, who are you?" ”

"Ahh......h Yes, that's right," I motioned to the snow sauce who was so simple that I was going to talk to the sauce, "There's an urban legend recently.,It seems to have something to do with this shrine.,Maybe it's from it.,We're quite interested in the legend.,Anyway, has the fox fairy ever manifested recently?" ”

"It's just a primary school student, you're the age of a high school student, it's better to read more books if you care about urban legends, get admitted to a good university, and entrust your life with your ideals, that's really beautiful, don't keep thinking about hitting the idea on the head of something like the fox fairy."

The reason why "......" didn't refute it was because I also thought that the little old man's words were very reasonable, although he misestimated my way of origin, but it did not prevent him from speaking with great reason, "Eh-you are still very reasonable, since you don't realize your wish, why do you care about this wild shrine, old man?" Is there any other use for the fox fairy? ”

"Remembrance, commemoration do you understand, the little girl is young, when you reach my age, you will know how to miss everything in the past, good, bad, not bad, at least, the fox fairy accompanied us through the childhood that was not beautiful but not necessarily bad."

“……”

"Then again, are gods, spirits, spirits, and spirits here to fulfill people's wishes? People who pretend to be amorous usually end up with more than just disappointment. ”

"Huh?"

"The old man still remembers, it was many, many years ago, a hot summer ......," the old man fell into the memory, and as he narrated, "there is a pair of sisters in the neighborhood, very lovely, very sensible, and they are famous sisters in the neighborhood, but the war is coming, their father was forcibly enlisted in the army, and he never returns, and his mother is worried all day long, and gradually pins her hope for life to the gods, because it is not far from home, and there are not many people vying for a place to seek refuge, She took her sisters here to worship the fox fairy who had stayed under the poplar trees and mounds since she didn't know when, and prayed to the fox fairy to bless her husband with a safe return, until one day, her mother died of a sudden illness of anxiety, and the sisters were very sad, even the kind neighbors could not bring them peace of mind, and they prayed to the gods like their mothers, to the fox fairy who was the only one they knew and the only one who could see the 'shrine'. ”

"Uh......" I had a bad feeling as I usually listen to stories, "and then?" ”

"Later?" Yuki-chan is also captivated by the simple story.

"Later?" The old man's wrinkled bark face showed a sarcastic smile that was also clearly and conspicuously ten meters away, "Later, on that hot summer night, they were captured by a gang, and I haven't seen the sisters since that day, but I heard people say many years later that they were sold far away, maybe to work as maids for rich families, or maybe they fell into the dust and sold themselves, or they died of illness as early as the beginning of being trafficked?" Alas, speaking of which, the source is also this fox fairy, because I heard that the gang took advantage of the chaos of the world to deliberately watch unprotected remote corners like the fox fairy's 'shrine', and specifically captured boys and girls like the two sisters who either left the crowd to come to the remote corners of the house for worship of wild gods or for other reasons. ”

"......," I was shocked by the reversal of the story for a moment before I came back to my senses, "so it's actually the fox fairy's fault?" ”

"Good, so hateful, that gang!" Ito Xue raised Lori's small fist to express her indignation, "But、Should the gods be blamed?" After all, it's just a wild shrine that stays here for an unknown amount of time.,The gods and other things are all fake and fake.,Worship it's people's own choice.。 ”

"I can't say that, most people are ignorant, but they are not voluntarily ignorant, an ancient shrine is placed at the door of the house, there is no reason not to worship and pray for the protection of the gods, people's choices depend more on the environment."

"Is that still the fox fairy's fault?"

"This ...... I think it has something to do with it. ”

The old man nodded and said, "It's true, but it's all about it, but it's been more than half a century, and no one cares anymore." ”

"So, old man, do you miss this fox fairy or hate it!"

"Haha, little girl, don't be so poor, at my age, you will understand a lot, but if you really want to talk about it, of course I came to miss the fox fairy, it accompanied me and my friends through childhood and youth."

"But why did you choose this time to miss it?"

"Because I've heard about this urban legend, I came back from other places to take a look and take a walk, and of course I'm looking forward to meeting my former partner, but it seems that this wish has long passed the age when it can be realized."

“…… Listen to you, this urban legend is indeed only recent? In the past, there was no legend that the fox fairy realized people's wishes? ”

"No, of course not, otherwise how could the fox fairy still be such a wild and dilapidated little shrine?" The old man said, "It is long overdue for the expansion of the shrine into a real shrine by opportunists who have seized the business opportunity." ”

"That's right! You're wise. "I admire more and more this strange old man who came to miss the past for some reason at noon.

"Haha, awards, awards."

"Naa, old man," Ito Xue seemed to think that she could seize the opportunity to talk, "Is the fox fairy-sama just a legend and a fiction?" It never appeared, didn't see you? ”

"Oh, little girl, you're also very smart, I'm not like adults who lie to children and talk nonsense, Lord Fox Fairy, it's just a good wish, if it exists, it's only in everyone's hearts, so that no matter what kind of predicament they fall into, they always have a shadow of hope, which is self-deception and self-improvement."

"Old man, you really don't treat people as children," I complained, "Okay, after all that, the fox fairy can't find it anyway?" So where does the source of urban legends come from? ”

"Hehe," the old man smiled like the fox fairy he missed, "it's not because of you, or boys and girls like you, who, no matter what their purpose, interest, malice, kindness, or other intentions, create, spread, and believe in urban legends. ”

"I can't deny that you have a point," I complimented, and then threw out what I really wanted to say, "but it was because we found out that the urban legend was somehow come true that we came to investigate the truth out of fear." ”