Chapter 22: The Rooster God (I)

Since Kurou followed the advice of Akihime and replaced the electric lights with five-colored rice glass lanterns, and had the whim to glue yellow glowing rice to the surface of the large characters on the signboard, business in the store has really improved.

Or it's not an exaggeration to say that it's hot.

Of course, there are some girls who want to get stealth and then smoke (escape without redeeming themselves) because they listened to the words of the two girls next to Fallen Hime, so they have been staring at the green glowing dim sum to buy, resulting in this kind of dim sum has been in short supply.

However, most customers will walk in because they see the unique lighting effects here, and they are moved by the curiosity. As soon as they saw the glowing dim sum, they were also shocked.

Later, these tourists heard about the various effects of glowing sweets in Yoshiwara, and they became repeat customers.

However, the confectionery shop has never publicly admitted that it has any effect, and Genichiro has allowed them to spread more and more mysterious.

Some people even claimed that the orange dim sum also had a yang-boosting effect, so that Jiurou had to let each customer buy a limited number of them.

In addition, the production method of Jiurou is very natural, and the taste and color of the dim sum are extremely authentic, and the taste alone is enough to leave a lot of gluttony.

In just a few days, many customers who have never visited Yoshiwara came in from outside, just to see what this glowing snack looked like.

But there are only ten tables in the storefront, and most of the people have to queue up, coming and going, but the girls around have a new batch of customers. As a result, their relationship with their neighbors immediately became much closer.

Jiurou has been busy every day since the afternoon.

And Genichiro is very happy, and the stable reputation value he has gained in the past few days is around 2000.

Now, he has accumulated almost 30,000 prestige points, and with another 70,000, he can participate in the advanced lottery.

There is only one prize for the advanced draw – either a very important item; Either it's an elite monster or above or an important NPC.

For this lottery, Genichiro has sent a letter to Murata through the Wisteria family, but the latter has not replied, I don't know if there was an accident.

In case his reputation was enough but he couldn't find anyone, Genichiro hid a shrine behind his room in the Moon Tower and offered Murata's sword.

If the worst happens, he hopes to be able to replace Murata with this knife.

It's really crumb.

"In the end, this large amount of prestige vacancies depends on the plans of Sase and a few of them!"

Looking at the dim but bustling hall, Genichiro had already begun to fantasize about which elder he would resurrect.

At this time, Kuro's voice came from behind the counter: "Brother Genichiro, 100 glowing sweets, please send them to Kyogokuya!" ”

"Okay! Right away! ”

……

On the other side, Anayama took a few reporters into the Ueno Zoo.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a species unique to my hometown, so I want to ask you to help promote them so that the world can know them."

Cave Mountain is gorgeously dressed and fashionable, taking steps that the six relatives did not recognize when he was still a bandit, and leading a large group of people, which is very conspicuous among the bustling tourists.

"There was once a foreigner who mistakenly broke into our reed name, but met a black chicken, only glanced at it, and was so frightened that he knelt down and kowtowed, and called the chicken god to spare his life."

According to Shinichi Sase, this is still a real allusion, and Cave Mountain naturally uses it.

"If that chicken is really as amazing as Mr. Anayama said, we at the Asahi Shimbun will definitely not be stingy with pen and ink."

Of the five reporters, the Asahi Shimbun reporter was the most popular.

Although he is also a little suspicious of the so-called "chicken taller than people", he is just a small foreign newspaper reporter, but in the past few days, the rich man of Xueshan has been very polite to him, and he should be praised with affection and reason.

As for the reporters of several other local newspapers in Tokyo, they looked at Cave Mountain from behind, and there was some disdain in the depths of their eyes.

This guy is a rich man who suddenly appeared in Tokyo, but he is not an entrepreneur, and he is not a Chinese, but he is like a bun who doesn't know anything, but he seems to have endless money to spend, so they have to care.

However, although Anayama is rich, he also likes to talk big too.

For example, the white snake in their hometown is the size of a mountain, and when they rest, they wrap themselves around the mountainside to sleep. He also said that the soldiers there could use weapons with a range of up to 100 meters hundreds of years ago; and the fish there are immortal, with two rows of human teeth......

It's been 40 years since the Meiji era, and no one has believed these nonsense for a long time, okay? It's like the weird stories written by those folklorists, and they make others laugh at them.

No, this guy just stopped for a few days a few days ago, and suddenly appeared again, saying that he had donated a few chickens from his hometown to Ueno Zoo, and hoped that they would report it.

Ask him what is so special about the chicken and why it can enter the zoo.

As a result, the cave mountain insisted that the chicken grew taller than all of them.

Phew.

The reporters didn't believe a word, they just thought that Cave Mountain was bragging again.

Among these reporters, three of them have studied abroad, and are they chickens who are taller than people?

It's called an ostrich.

It is estimated that this guy donated a lot of money to the zoo in order to support the faΓ§ade, and forcibly asked for the right to exhibit a venue for a few days.

It's not that regionalists have done this before, but they have never made a splash.

Since it was expected that there was no reporting value in this matter, these reporters did not want to come.

But the treatment given by Anayama is so good, not only do they invite them to eat Western food and soak in the hot springs every day, but they also bring everyone a large box of "glowing dim sum" that they can't buy recently.

You know, it is said that the dim sum was opened by the god of Ise Jingu, and it can be used to eliminate disasters and cure diseases, and it is hard to find a thousand dollars (Genichiro doesn't know who passed it on, and he didn't refute it anyway).

So they still came, planning to use a small section to make a show for Cave Mountain at that time, anyway, such a rich person, don't offend.

In this way, several reporters had their own thoughts and followed the cave mountain to the zoo, but the more they walked, they found that it was not right.

This is the direction to the most central area of the zoo!

A zoo where only animals that are used to support the field can be exhibited in that area.

The central area of Ueno Zoo is full of rare animals from German zoos, such as lions, ostriches from Africa and polar bears near the Arctic Ocean.

This big talk king, it won't be a big hemorrhage, donate a venue in this area!

"Mr. Anayama, are you sure that your hometown is reed...... Reed ......"

A reporter from the Tokyo Daily Shimbun wanted to make sure, but found that he couldn't remember the name that Anayama had on his lips.

"It's the reed-named black chicken!"

Instead of being annoyed, Anayama pointed to the most visited exhibition area in the central area and said, "Look, it's there!" ”

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"Wasn't that a place where Japanese black bears were exhibited before?"

As one of the few black bears in Japan that can be regarded as "fierce beasts", it has been placed here to fight against "polar bears", but the situation is not very good, and it is all because of the xenophobic spirit of the Chinese people that it has some popularity.

As a result, it didn't come to pass, that important position was actually given to a kind of chicken?!

"Seeing our reed's chicken, what is the bear, of course we have to give way!"

"Come on, come on, get out of the way!"

Saying that, several people had already walked to the vicinity of the original bear mountain, and the surrounding tourists saw that the cave mountain looked like a nouveau riche couldn't be provoked, and subconsciously made way for him.

In this way, Xueshan led the reporters to the side of the two-meter-high fence smoothly, and then several people immediately fell into a jaw-dropping state.

"Shhhh

Several gasps rang out at the same time.

Inside the fence, three black roosters at least one meter four are occupying the various "heights" of Bear Mountain, their black and red eyes flashing in the sun, vigilantly aiming at the surrounding tourists, like a Warring States general looking at the enemy, which makes people's hearts chill.

Just looking at the bright red cockscomb and the familiar shape, you know that it is definitely a chicken, not an ostrich.

"And really that big chicken?"

The reporter of "Asahi Shimbun" was overjoyed, and originally wanted to come to have a show, but he didn't expect that this local tyrant Cave Mountain did not deceive people this time?

The chicken, which is more than 1.4 meters taller, is indeed taller than the shortest guy among the reporters.

The Japanese have only started eating meat in recent decades, and many poor people in the countryside are just that height.

But such a big chicken, they, as well-informed journalists, had never heard of it before! Not to mention that I have never heard of this kind of chicken in Japan, and there is no such chicken in the world.

Some of them can't help but wonder, so what is this reed name?

"Mr. Anayama, what did you use to feed your reed's chickens to such a big size?"

The reporter of "Asahi" asked while sketching the black chicken in the notebook in his hand. Now that you've decided to write a story, you need to know some background.

The tourists who heard it next to me were also interested, and the introduction on the name plate said that the reed chicken came from the reed, and it was a rare and extremely fierce animal. But they had never heard of this place, and it turned out that there happened to be a local who wanted to hear what he had to say.

"Ahem!"

Anayama cleared his throat and introduced loudly and proudly, as if Ashina really was his hometown, "Although Ashina black chickens can take care of the house, they are born and do not need to be fed, they will clean up the insects at the water's edge on their own, such as centipedes and grasshoppers, and they can naturally grow so big." ”

"You're a liar!"

A child's voice came from the crowd, "My chickens are only fed with insects and not chaff, why can't they grow so big?" ”

"Hey," Anayama turned to a little boy to line up, "little brother, how big can the bugs you feed the chickens be?" β€œ

"Hmm......" the little boy held out his little thumb, "so big." ”

"That's it, we're the gods and goddesses."

Cave Mountain suddenly opened his arms and gestured the distance, "In our place, centipedes grow so big that they can entangle some people of short stature, like snakes. Can your chickens eat such a big centipede? ”

The people around showed expressions of "what the hell are you kidding", and many people sneered and went to see the chickens themselves.

Only the reporter of the Asahi Shimbun silently wrote it down in his notebook, intending to ask in detail later.

If chickens can grow so big, what is impossible about centipedes?

And the lonely shadow group Oribe Masayuki who was hidden in the crowd shook his head speechlessly: "I finally told you the truth, but you didn't believe it." ”

He took advantage of the time when the crowd was attracted to attention, and came to Shinichi Zuose, who was disguised as a staff member: "Hey, which animals did you choose?" Nothing will happen, right? ”

"Honichiro-sama specially instructed, how could I be so careless."

"I've checked, although the polar bear is from Germany, other countries in the world like to call Russians 'polar bears' to describe their ferocious and greedy personalities."

"So, that polar bear is the target of the chicken."

Glancing at the behemoth playing in the waterhole, Oribe Masayuki felt a little hanging: "Even if this thing is dealt with by our lonely shadows, it will take three people to solve it quickly, are you sure that the three chickens can really be settled?" ”

"Didn't you ask you for poison yesterday?"

Shin Sase said confidently: "Don't worry, as soon as those foreigners who don't care about Ichiro-sama arrive, everything will be implemented according to my plan." ”

In this way, after about half an hour or so, after several reporters interviewed the staff and tourists, they felt that they were almost ready to write a manuscript and wanted to leave.

But at this time, a middle-aged Japanese man walked here with a few blonde and blue-eyed foreigners, and shouted rudely: "Mr. Anayama, you are also here!" ”

"Director of Hashizuki."

Anayama knew that it was time for the big drama to begin, and although he greeted him warmly, he actually wanted to try his best to stay away from these foreigners, so as not to be affected later.

As soon as several reporters heard that this person was the director of the zoo and knew that this was a zoologist with a degree, and they were about to interview him, they saw that the foreigners were hurrying to the outside of the "chicken coop" one by one, shouting and screaming, and they spoke very bad Japanese, but they could understand it.

"It can't be!"

"How can there be such a big chicken?!"

The Japanese on the side saw that the reed chicken could make foreigners lose their temper so much, and they couldn't help but be proud one by one.

"Chief Qiaozuki, who are these people?"

Anayama asked pretendedly, in fact, yesterday Shinichi Sase had already found out the identities of these foreigners.

"They are the staff who approached us on behalf of the German zoo. I told them yesterday about the peculiarities of this reed-named black chicken, but they didn't believe it, so today I brought them to take a long look. ”

As he spoke, he suddenly frowned, because he saw a staff member in charge of sweeping the floor (Shinichi Sase) pouring the ashes from the dustpan into the position behind them as he passed behind the foreigners.

He knew that many citizens hated foreigners, but he didn't expect anyone in the staff to do it so blatantly. However, just as he was about to warn the other party, he suddenly heard a long, loud whistle that exploded over the entire area.

Everyone suddenly felt a tingling pain in their ears, and just came back to their senses, but they saw that all the animals around them, except for the three black chickens, seemed very restless.

Not far away, a litter of gray wolves even opened their mouths to bite each other.

"What's going on?"

As the owner of this place, the director of the garden was instantly shocked, "Could it be that there is going to be an earthquake?" ”

However, as soon as he finished speaking, he saw a burst of firecrackers ringing out of the polar bear's cage! Frightened by the fierce firelight and thunderous roar, the polar bear hurriedly retreated, only to crash its huge body into the iron fence of the exhibition area with a clatter.

However, the iron fence, which was supposed to be extremely strong, fell under this impact.