White River City!

Liu Xing and the others stood up in unison and looked at Sawada Yayin, who was holding a mobile phone.

Seeing this situation, Sawada Yayin didn't sell it, and said directly: "After Yin Eun told me about Shirakawa Castle, I found a friend I met in Nagoya to investigate the whereabouts of Shirakawa Castle, and then a friend of mine found Shirakawa Castle in a small town near Nara; That town, like most of the towns in the island country today, is sparsely populated, with a lot of vacant houses, and the owners of these houses basically don't come back for various reasons, so many people with ulterior motives, or just have a good heart, choose to store their belongings in these abandoned houses. ”

"My friend is a businessman who runs a lot of restaurants and restaurants in Nara, so he often buys a lot of raw materials for a cheaper price, and these raw materials will cost a lot of money if they are placed in a professional refrigerated warehouse, after all, commercial electricity is much more expensive than residential electricity, so he thought of going to that town to 'rent' a few empty houses, which are full of refrigerators and freezers, so he will drive to deliver raw materials every few days, and that's why he can see White River City."

"Of course, I chose to ask him for help at the beginning because of the wide coverage of the restaurants and restaurants he opened, but I didn't expect to find out about the traces of White River City because of his little cleverness, which is really a bit funny; Back to the topic, White River City should have been hiding in an empty house at the time, and seeing that he was dressed very ordinarily at the time, and talked and laughed with ordinary townspeople nearby, my friend suspected that he was planning to live incognito in this town for the rest of his life, but I don't think White River City should be so honest. ”

"Wait, Miss Sawada-sama, the town near Nara you are talking about can't be the town of Togawa, right?" Shi Zixuan asked suddenly.

Shi Zixuan glanced at his phone again, nodded and said, "Memory, it's Duhe Town, how did you know about this town, Shi Zixuan?" This town is probably not famous, and there are no secret churches entrenched in that town. ”

Shi Zixuan sighed, shook his head and said, "Didn't I call you yesterday, saying that I was stopped on the way to Nagoya because of a landslide, and I had just passed by Duhe Town at the time, and although it was a landslide, I could feel that something was wrong at the scene." ”

Liu Xing frowned, he didn't expect that the two seemingly unrelated things of "Baihe City Appearing" and "Landslide Blocking the Road" would be linked together because of Duhe Town, a little-known place.

"In this case, could it be that the people of Duwang Town found Shirakawa City in Duhe Town, so they had some conflict and caused the landslide? But I remember that Wang Haiyang's ability is to manipulate flames, and Baihe City should have inherited Wang Haiyang's ability now, so if this is the case, it shouldn't be a landslide, but a fire. Li Hanxing said with a frown.

Liu Xing nodded, took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to Mai Yuqiang, asking if they were continuing to track down the whereabouts of Baihe City.

Although it was already the second half of the night, Mai Yuqiang still sent back a text message as soon as possible, telling Liu Xing that although the Duwangcho Protection Association had been disbanded, there were still many people who tracked down the whereabouts of Shirakawa City after leaving Duwangcho, and would exchange the information they had obtained in a discussion group every day, so judging from the information sent out in the current discussion group, everyone had not found the exact whereabouts of Shirakawa City, and only knew that Shirakawa Castle should have left Nagoya.

It seems that Shirakawa Castle did not conflict with the former members of the Too Town Conservation Association.

Liu Xing put down his mobile phone and said: "I just asked someone, and I made sure that it was not the people from Duwang Town who discovered Baihe City, but if nothing else, this so-called landslide should still have a lot to do with Baihe City, so Miss Sawada, did that friend of yours find out anything about Baihe City?" ”

Sawada Yayin nodded and continued: "That friend of mine found out about White River City three days ago, but on the first day, he didn't really confirm that person was White River City, so he didn't dare to give me this news rashly, and I didn't tell them the exact situation of White River City when I was looking for their help, they only knew that White River City was being tracked down by many forces because of trouble, plus my friend was an ordinary person, So he didn't dare to do anything after discovering Shirakawa Castle on the first day, and went back to Nara just pretending to be nothing. ”

"The next day, that is, on the morning of the landslide, my friend came to Duhe Town again, pretending to want to 'rent' a few more houses to talk to the locals, and by the way, he asked what the origin of Baihe City was. When renting a house, you need to talk to the neighbors around you, so my friend approached the nearby residents and asked if White River City was the same person as him. ”

"Those residents didn't think much about it, so they told the identity of Baihe City in Duhe Town, to put it simply, Baihe City was fraudulently using the identity of the grandson of a family who had already moved out of Duhe Town, and he was still talking about it, and he was even able to take out the family's previous family photo, so the people around him recognized his identity, and then Baihe City lived in the original house of that family, and claimed that he was a light writer, and he came back this time to find a quiet place to write."

"Then, Baihe City began to chat with the surrounding residents under the pretext of collecting wind, asking them about the history of Duhe Town, especially those folklore, well, I know this is the point, so I asked my friend to also collect the folklore of Duhe Town, and he has now sent it to me, first of all, some very common, and even some folklore that may exist in every town, so these can be ignored for the time being, not worth mentioning, And then there is only one piece of folklore that may be related to the landslide, although it seems unreliable, but combined with the so-called landslide that happened yesterday, it is basically certain that this folklore is true. ”

"The content of this folklore is actually quite simple, that is, in the Warring States period hundreds of years ago, to be exact, a few days before the Honnoji barbecue meeting, the villagers of Duhe Town saw several strangers appear near the village, although these strangers are dressed as ordinary farmers, but the one headed by these people has a white face and outstanding temperament, while the others are all tall and vigilant, and the most important thing is that those people are carrying a long strip of baggage behind their backs. It seemed likely to be a katana, so the villagers knew that this group should be a big man and his men in disguise, and they were not surprised by this. ”

Although the villagers don't know the identity of the hermit, they know that the surrounding daimyo and wealthy merchants will come here every once in a while to meet the hermit, and let the hermit guide them, including Miyoshi Nagakei, the head of the Miyoshi family, who was known as the strongest family in the island country and controlled the region, and the last hope of the Ashikaga shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, known as the Kenhao general. In addition, there are many big people who have come to this hermit; However, the relationship between this hermit and Oda Nobunaga was not good, because before Oda Nobunaga went to Honnoji Temple, he had asked someone to invite this hermit to go out of the mountain and go to Honnoji Temple to meet him, but the hermit directly chose to refuse and asked Oda Nobunaga to come to meet him in Tsukawa Town in person. ”

"Everyone should also know that Oda Nobunaga was about to become the lord of the island country at that time, so his temper was already very big, so he was very angry at the hermit's ignorance, he felt that the hermit should give him this face, not to mention that the messenger he sent to invite the hermit out of the mountain was an important minister under him; Coincidentally, the important minister who was responsible for inviting the hermit out of the mountain was Akechi Mitsuhide, so Akechi Mitsuhide was scolded by Oda Nobunaga after returning in vain, which may be one of the reasons why Akechi Mitsuhide did something to Oda Nobunaga; At the same time, after learning that Oda Nobunaga was angry about this, the number of people who came to visit the hermits became much smaller on the surface, but the villagers knew that these people were all hermits who came to see them in disguise. ”

So at the beginning, the villagers didn't think much of this group of people, and it didn't take long for the group to go down the mountain and leave, but the group left less than an hour, and the next group of people who came to visit the hermit ran down, claiming that the hermit had disappeared, and the villagers recalled a detail at this time, that is, there seemed to be one more person when the group left before, and the person's performance was normal, so the villagers subconsciously ignored this person, and now it seems that that person should be the hermit, And since then, there has been no news of the hermit, and at the same time, a day later, Akechi Mitsuhide led his men to burn down the Honnoji Temple, and you should know the rest of the history, so I won't repeat it here. ”

Hearing this, Yin En subconsciously said: "In this case, the person who took away the hermit back then should be Akechi Mitsuhide, and it was the hermit who persuaded Akechi Mitsuhide to betray Oda Nobunaga and lead troops to burn Instinct Temple?" ”

"That's right, the folklore in Duhe Town is that the hermit has the ability to predict the future, so when Wise Mitsuhide went to see the hermit for the first time, the hermit told Wise Mitsuhide about the burning of the Honnoji Temple, but the hermit did not mention that the protagonist of the burning of the Honnoji Temple was him after Oda Nobunaga, so the wise Mitsuhide didn't care about taking the hermit away, and ran back directly to Oda Nobunaga to return to his life, but Oda Nobunaga of course didn't believe that he who was about to reach the peak of his life would have an accident at this time, So he scolded Wise Guangxiu. ”

After being scolded, Akechi Mitsuhide became more and more angry after leading the troops away, so he went to trouble the hermit after some disguise, but he was persuaded by the hermit again in the end, and the hermit was also ready to go out of the mountain to assist him to replace Oda Nobunaga, so the burning of Honnoji would happen after that; This is the earliest version of the folklore of Tokawa Town, and in the following versions, it is mentioned that after the hermit disappeared, someone went to the hermit and found the hermit's prophecy book in the thatched hut on the mountain, which mentioned that Akechi Mitsuhide would be defeated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and that after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, the island country would be owned by Tokugawa Ieyasu. ”

Sawada Yayin shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "Obviously, the first version of the folklore of Duhe Town is very likely to be true, at that time, there was indeed a master who lived in seclusion in Duhe Town, and this outsider master also had a lot of scenes in the burning of the Honnoji Temple, and may even be the leader; However, the subsequent version is constantly adding oil and vinegar, which is not believable, but there is an important point here - although the thatched cottage where the hermit once lived has long disappeared with his master, there is a good chance that the hermit still has some things left on that mountain, perhaps near the original site of the thatched house, so Baihe City went to Duhe Town for these things, and also got these things, but it caused a landslide. ”

Well-founded and convincing.

"Then White River City should have left Duhe Town by now, right?" Zhang Jingxu asked.

Sawada Yayin sighed and replied, "Nine times out of ten, although that friend of mine also met Shirakawa Castle the next day, and confirmed that Shirakawa Castle was the person I asked to find, but Shirakawa Castle happened to return at that time." 'Home' went, so my friend brought a few people to arrest him first, so that he could find me for a favor, but I didn't expect that Baihe City stayed at home for a day and didn't leave the house, and my friend realized that something was wrong, so he went to investigate and found that Baihe City was gone, so he called me just now. ”

As soon as Sawada Yayin's words fell, Shi Zixuan slapped his thigh and said a little depressedly: "At that time, I should have gone to investigate when I was stuck in traffic, maybe I could still catch up with Baihe City, because when I got there, the landslide had just happened less than ten minutes, maybe Baihe City had just found what I was looking for at that time." ”

"So, where will White River City go next?"

Yin Eun frowned, looked at Sawada Yain and said, "Miyin, can you find out what else that hermit did after he left with Akechi Mitsuhide?" ”

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