I thought of an important point that was almost overlooked, "Anyway, it's impossible to say that people in the outside world are so ruthless and unrighteous, right?" Didn't your husband ask you for advice on going back together? ”

"Well," sighed again, "he did say that just when he knew from the shrine maiden that he could return to the outside world, he said that he would take me and my daughter back to his home in the outside world, but we who were born in Gensokoko all knew that the Hakurei witch would not agree to send the people of Gensokyo to the outside world." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Huh? Is there such a rule? "I've always thought that the villagers (including youkai) can't leave Gensokyo without permission because they can't find a way out, and if the shrine maiden agrees—it's like sending outsiders out—the villagers can also leave Gensokyo, but the situation doesn't seem to be the same as I imagined. Although many of Purple's practices are inexplicable, it is unlikely that she will manage people's affairs in such detail.

"Actually, when we were young," Aunt Yuzu suddenly told in a storytelling tone, "it was twenty years ago, but it happened much earlier, and I heard it from my parents and my neighbors and friends. My family, I mean, near my mother's house, there is a mother-in-law who lives near my mother's house, because she makes tofu, we all call her Granny Tofu, and Granny Tofu has been alone since I can remember.

"In my memory, she was a kind old man who liked children very much, and I often went to Granny Tofu's house with the boys and girls in the neighborhood to play, listen to Granny Tofu's stories, and sometimes help her grind tofu. Until one day, I asked Granny Tofu why she always lived alone and why she didn't have any children or grandchildren to accompany her. ”

I've already guessed the general plot, "It can't be that my husband is gone when I was young, right?" ”

"I remember that Granny Tofu didn't answer me at the time, but suddenly became very sad, as if she had been sick later. I went home and told my mom and dad about it, and then I was taught a lesson that they told me not to go to Granny Tofu's to make her angry lately. The next day I didn't go, and neither did anyone else, so I got together with my friends and listened to them share the news they had heard from their parents.

"It turned out that Granny Tofu lost her parents when she was young, and she became a relative to a man who had been lost to Gensokyo, and I don't know what happened, when Granny Tofu gave birth to a child, her husband begged the then witch to send him and Granny Tofu and the child back to the outside world, and the witch only promised to send her husband, who was an outsider, out, and as a result, Granny Tofu's husband left Gensokyo alone, and Granny Tofu and the newborn child were abandoned like this."

Although this plot has been normalized, the ups and downs of Granny Tofu's encounter are still embarrassing, "Is it really a merciless man from the outside world who abandoned her?" What about the kids? Isn't the tofu mother-in-law childless? ”

"Alas, I was also curious at the time, but my friends didn't know what happened next, and their parents didn't say much. So I went back and asked my parents, and they couldn't stand my chatter for a few days, so they told me that Granny Tofu couldn't withstand the blow of being suddenly abandoned, and stayed at home for three days and three nights. ”

I roughly guessed such an ending, but I also felt uncomfortable listening to Aunt Yuzu say it sentence by sentence, "Didn't this incident leave you with a psychological shadow on outsiders?" ”

"That's just a legend of the accident, that's what I thought at the time, because many outsiders who choose to settle down after coming to the world are very good people, and there are several families of outsiders who settled down decades ago near my house, and they are the ones who make everyone's impression of outsiders not be ruined by one or two bad men like Tofu's mother-in-law's husband. Alas, that's why I didn't object to marrying an outside man later. ”

"I know, but...... What happened to Granny Tofu doesn't explain why the Witch didn't agree to take out the wife that outsiders married after settling in Gensokyo. ”

"This ...... We didn't think much about it, but the shrine maiden-sama should have her own reasons for the shrine maiden, and you may not have realized it when you first became a shrine maiden? ”

This reason is as superstitious as the superstition that a minister is never an emperor if he is wrong! It's not the shrine maiden that's wrong.,It's society.,I think the widows and widowers in the people think about it this way.,I've been in office for more than a month and haven't heard of the need to prevent the relatives of outsiders from going to the outside world.,How did the young Reimu know? Most of it is still the work of the monster sage.

"So you let your husband go without fighting Reimu?"

"Alas, it's our hard life, how can we be disrespectful to the shrine maiden."

I can't care about everything in the "......" people—including what they think—and since they think that Miko-sama has the irreversible reasons of Miko-sama, I don't need to remind them too much, and since there are many things in Gensokyo that I still don't understand or understand, it doesn't matter if I say the wrong thing, and it's not so wonderful to misguide others with the wrong words.

I tucked the album back into place, and Aunt Yuzu put the folded co-signed letter back in the envelope and put it back on the album surface, then pushed the drawer back into the table.

"Is that all there is to it?" I asked.

"I don't think we'll bother Mikomesama anymore, so we're already satisfied."

Back at the playground, a group of helpers and women from the temple house had gathered at the gate to wave to this side, and Aunt Yuzu bowed to me and said, "It's time for us to go home and cook for the children, and we'll see you again." ”

"Didn't you finish lunch at the temple?"

"Tidying up the hospital affairs on weekends is our job, and we can't trouble Mr. Huiyin anymore, let alone let the children go hungry at home."

"Oh, in that case," I said goodbye to her, "go slowly." ”

"Another day, please let us visit the shrine and thank you."

"Ahaha, just pay homage, don't use formal thanks."

She bowed again, then turned around and left the temple house among her colleagues.

I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, this was probably the first time I had officially dealt with ordinary people in the village, and many words were simply held back without knowing how to say, and the consciousness of consciously or unconsciously maintaining the image of the Hakurei shrine maiden made me feel quite tense and tired. Reimu seems to make the shrine maiden much more comfortable than me, why is that?

However, she may not be able to get the villagers to visit the shrine from the bottom of her heart and contribute to the construction of the contents of the cash box, and even if she does, it is mostly from other people's ideas or Reimu's wishful thinking, such as almost making the sacred tree a new object of worship at Marisa's suggestion, charging the villagers who came to enjoy Miss Qin Xin's classical song and dance after hearing the news, trying to attract visitors with strange stones similar to the dragon god statue that appear water droplets in humid weather, and so on.

Compared to the real shrine maiden, at least what I did was a good thing to go with the flow, I thought so, and suddenly I felt that I was getting deeper and deeper into the play on the path of the shrine maiden, and I hope it doesn't hurt.

ps:o(╯□╰)o,After a long time, I found that the reward of the lake satan's children's shoes is simply self-contained, and I would like to express my belated thanks here.,The first two rewards are friends who can't be counted, so this is the first time the reader expresses his gratitude.