The girls paused involuntarily.

It's as if time has suddenly stopped, and the girl's joyful atmosphere has been broken.

After a while, Sakura seemed to ask in a normal way, "Why do you want to leave?" ”

"Yes, yes, why left!" Rin's little hand timidly grabbed his sleeve, "I... I'd like to hear those stories again."

The boy bowed his head.

"I... I know. But... I've got to go home. ”

Go home.

With just two words, the girls already knew that they had no way to keep them.

They didn't say anything more, because it didn't help. Do you want him to give up his family and stay here?

Sakura thought about it, if she let herself give up Rin and stay outside of Yae Village...

She absolutely didn't want to.

Xiu pulled out some smiles and rubbed Rin's messy head.

"I don't have many relatives at home and I don't have many friends, but there are some people who are worried about me. Maybe there will be some people who will be punished for my disappearance, or maybe there will still be a few people who care about my life and death. I can't let them worry for too long. ”

Rin lowered her head, ignoring the warm palm above her head, and muttered, "But, if my brother leaves, who will help my sister with housework..."

The middle hand suddenly stopped. Fingers are slightly embedded in the hair and gently combed down.

"Sakura took good care of you when I wasn't there. Besides... If I want to go back, I must pass through the outside place. I've heard that there are a lot of countries out there, and I thought maybe they would have a way to cure you... No, there will always be a cure for you. When the time comes, Sakura will be able to take a break, Rin, and you'll have to take care of your sister then. ”

Rin bowed her head and stopped talking. After a while, when she was about to say something, Sakura didn't let her continue.

"Rin, don't say it." Sakura's fingers clenched carefully and quietly, and said in a slightly reprimanding tone, "His family is waiting for him to go back, Xiu... There must be a reason to have to go back..."She kept her head down, her dazzling hair covering her eyes, making it impossible to see her eyes. "We... Don't say anything more. ”

Grievances poured into Rin's heart.

"Obviously said yes, you want to take me to see the cherry blossoms, you said yes to take me out, are they all lies..."She retracted into the quilt, the quilt tightly stuffed her head, and Sakura shouted several times without responding.

Xiu was speechless.

Sakura had no choice but to let go of her angry sister for the time being, and raised her head to look at Xiu. Shui Lan's eyes swirled on Xiu's guilty face, and he said apologetically, "Xiu, it's okay." Rin just... Some are reluctant. ”

Xiu shook his head and didn't say anything. And so they said nothing, and after a while. As if he couldn't bear the silence, Xiu stood up and left silently.

Rin suddenly lifted the corners of the quilt and stretched out his hand as if to save something, but when the words reached the edge of his lips, he was about to overflow, but he never made a sound.

Weakly retracted the corners of the quilt and bit the pillow tightly.

Sakura looked at the bulging quilt, and her eyes couldn't help but be a little confused.

She stood up and left the room on tiptoe and whispered. In the room, only the aggrieved girl who didn't know who to be angry with was left, and the bulging quilt.

Xiu returned to his small bedroom with a somewhat gloomy expression.

The old man was still lying lifeless on the bed, as if he had died, and the sound of the noisy banquet preparations outside the house did not seem to affect his sleep at all. But Xiu knew that once the old man would react to any trouble, or if he had any questions to ask the old man, he would immediately answer calmly and clearly as if he had never fallen asleep.

It's like he's been pretending to be asleep all the time, and he's like he's been asleep all the time.

After repairing back, he sat in the corner without saying a word, watching the jumping fireworks of the stove and the bubbles coming out of the boiling water in the stove.

"I can feel that you seem to have suffered some kind of setback." The old man said suddenly.

Xiu didn't answer his question, but instead said something that was incompatible.

"Grandpa, what if the ninja poisons the food at the banquet?"

The old man did not open his eyes, nor did he answer his question, but remained silent, quietly waiting for the boy to say the answer he wanted.

After a long while, the old man sighed secretly.

In some things, he is stubborn and pitiful. But there is some anger that can't help but rise in people's hearts.

"No, because it would expose them." The old man answered his question anyway.

"They are all blatantly coming to kill us, are they still afraid of being exposed?"

"By exposure, I don't mean being exposed in front of this village, but in front of outsiders. The reason why they are blatantly trying to kill us here in every possible way, and they have failed so many times and killed so many people and won't leave, is because this village is remote enough that no one else can find it. There is only one of their forces here, so they are unscrupulous. ”

"Wouldn't that be more dangerous, if they kill all the people in the village and use all their strength to capture us..."

"Then they will be exposed." The old man said lightly.

Xiu doesn't understand.

"You don't know ninjas yet, so you're so worried. Ninja missions are always carried out only once. Whether they succeed or not, when they make a move, it's basically when they are exposed. For those who cannot see the light, the day of seeing the light is the time of death. So whether it succeeds or not, the ninja only kills once and then runs away. It's like being found here and daring to fight to the death, entangled and fighting, compared to the past, I can't imagine that they dare to be so blatant. ”

"But..."

"They didn't dare to attack Yae Village. One is because they can't dispose of that many corpses, and the second is because they don't have that much time either. A ninja organization that stays in one place for too long is suspicious. ”

The old man suddenly sneered, "Besides, there is another person here who is a ninja and will find it tricky. He's here, and the ninja doesn't dare to act recklessly. ”

"Who is it?"

The old man just sneered and didn't speak.

It seems that the old man didn't have any intention to reveal anything, so Xiu didn't ask again.

But he has always been very curious in his heart, but he knows that at least the biggest doubt in his heart has been dispelled, at least the old man has made a guarantee, so there should be nothing to worry about.

The old man looked at the slightly reassured look on the boy's face, rolled over and closed his eyes.

But I was also sighing in my heart.

Ninjas really don't do these things. Those are the people who will stop at nothing to achieve their goals.

But whether this village is safe or not depends on how much effort you are willing to make.

In his mind, he thought of the appearance of a man who was young, but he had a rough beard and did not hang up.

I can't remember when I met you. I'm really curious about you.

I don't know how much weight these villagers have in your heart.

The old man adjusted his breathing and slowly calmed his chaotic thoughts.

Outside, preparations for the thanksgiving banquet were still underway.

Everyone was in full swing and furnishings. Actually, I don't pay much attention to it, but I can probably let everyone sit down.

The village chief sent a message to invite the whole village to eat together, and everyone was naturally happy to put down the farm work in their hands for a day, give themselves a holiday, and have a good meal.

This is a banquet at the shrine, and everyone eats under the watchful eye of the gods, so I wonder if they can also get the blessings of the gods by the way?

The adults are busy, and the children can't help but jump up and down the shrine.

For them, the shrine is mysterious, solemn.

Adults are usually afraid that children will get into trouble and forbid them to come to the shrine, so there are not many opportunities for them to come to the shrine.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and they naturally want to go wild. They kept chasing me in the corridor of the shrine, by the knot of the enchantment, wanting to explore this mysterious place completely at once.

Can you find the miracle of the god who secretly left behind at the shrine?

Or maybe you can just come across a fetish that only you can see but others can't?

Or maybe it was just because he came to the gods that the lord showed up just to see himself?

They searched everywhere for their own "God-given treasures", and then kept leaving the mark of the bear child on the shrine.

But when they were so mad that they got carried away, a bear child suddenly screamed.

When the others rushed over, they found the bear child falling to the ground, and in front of him stood a man in a brown suit.

"Don't wander around, the shrine is a quiet place, go back to your parents." The hoarse voice of the vicissitudes of life frightened the soul of the bear child's fugue back.

A group of children all stood together obediently, bowed their heads and cautiously greeted, "Lord God." ”

(End of chapter)