Kudo Yota asked the old housekeeper by the way: "How many years have you been serving at the Longze family?" ”

The old butler stretched out three fingers: "Thirty has changed." ”

"Was the Long Ze family once rich?"

The old housekeeper thought and said, "It's a wealthy family, and I have bought a house." Later, Long Ze Yichen went bankrupt in business and sold the house. Who knows or insolvent. ”

"You're still working for the Long Ze family. Aren't you afraid that Fu Long Zezong won't be able to show his salary? ”

"At my age, I have no relatives, and it is rare for my boss to take care of me. Now the boss is gone, and the family road is bleak. I'm a little unkind when I'm gone, I don't want to get paid, I just want to eat. ”

Yota Kudo sighed in his heart: It's rare that there are such people in this world.

Yota Kudo changed the subject: "Don't you think your boss died very strangely?" ”

The old butler wondered, "What's wrong?" ”

Kudo Yota said in a low voice: "His lips are very dark, I'm afraid he will be poisoned to death." ”

The old butler smiled, "You probably don't know the customs here. When we die here, our relatives will dress up the deceased so that they can leave quietly and dignified. "So, Long Ze Zongxiu's face is white and his lips are black, and he was carefully dressed up by his son?"

"Of course." Yota Kudo's doubts vanished. But he still couldn't help but complain: "How can you dress up like this, like a ghost." The old butler quickly patted Kudo's balcony hand and said, "Don't talk nonsense, it's very unlucky to say this kind of night like this, you better go to sleep." I'm going to sleep too. ”

Yota Kudo said goodnight to the old butler and walked out of the door, wanting to see if the little beggar was spending the night in the corner outside the door. As soon as he came out, the little beggar stood up and begged Yota Kudo for alms with a broken bowl. Yota Kudo was embarrassed, and he didn't have a single coin on him. The little beggar pointed to his mouth dirty, he wanted food.

"I don't have any money right now, but I can give you something to eat."

Yota Kudo asked the little beggar to come in and get a few steamed buns by himself, but the little beggar insisted on refusing. Yota Kudo complained, "Won't you say a word? "The little beggar was so stumbling that he couldn't say a word, he was dumb. But the little beggar wrote a word on the ground: Ghost! After Yota Kudo saw the word "ghost" clearly, he panicked. He remembered that Long Ze's aunt had said that there had been a haunting here. But Kudo Yota turned around and smiled: "If there is really a ghost, how dare you stay here and lie to whom?" ”

The little beggar wrote the word "hungry" on the ground, because he was hungry, so he was fearless. This is understandable. But Fu Boyi still deliberately made things difficult for him: "It's late now, many families have already turned off the lights, and if you don't come in, you won't have anything to eat." Don't slander this family, it's not some kind of haunted house. The little beggar listened to Yota Kudo's words and walked in tremblingly. He had just come in for a while

Er, he stretched out his hand and pointed behind Kudo tremblingly, his face was pale and very frightened, and Kudo Yota immediately turned around. It was Long Ze Soxiu who came over. The little beggar was so frightened that he ran away. Long Ze Zongxiu left again, he took two steamed buns from the kitchen and came back, handed them to Kudo Yota and said, "Give these two steamed buns to that little beggar, you go and chase him back." ”

"Why is he so afraid of you?" Yota Kudo asked.

Zong Xiu said without thinking: "Because I once hit him, I feel sorry. ”

Kudo Yota ran out, saw the little beggar squatting in the corner of the wall tremblingly, and said no more, so he threw the two steamed buns in the broken bowl and returned to the house.

"Is the little beggar still there?"

"In the corner."

"It's late at night, go back to sleep, and don't go out and hang around again. I'm going back to the mourning hall for the vigil. ”

Yota Kudo asked curiously, "Why can't you go out and shop?" ”

"Our rule here is that when someone dies, the people around them have to go to bed early before they are buried or cremated. Because black and white are impermanent, they will come out at night to snatch away the souls of the dead. If you come out, I'm afraid something bad will happen. It's a terrible thing, but Kudo Yota is not afraid. At this time, Officer Koji Ito came out of the room, "Yota Kudo, hurry up and go to sleep, don't break the rules of the township." ”

Yota Kudo had to go back to his room and fall asleep. He spent the night restlessly. The next afternoon, Officer Koji Ito

The hearse was called, and Ryuzawa Soxiu was crying while holding the iron

hammer, with an iron nail to stare the coffin lid. Police Officer Koji Ito, Uncle Munehide Ryuzawa, and Uncle Ryuzawa carried the coffin onto the hearse, and they took it to the crematorium. Yota Kudo didn't follow, and Officer Koji Ito told him to stay at the old mansion and notify him immediately if a debt collector came. Yota Kudo helps the chef tidy up the furniture, and there will always be some leftovers that are wasted when they are thrown away. The cook was about to pour the leftovers to the little beggar, but the little beggar was gone.

The cook said, "It seems that the little beggar called Kota has gone." ”

Yota Kudo, said, "Was he hungry yesterday?" Why did you leave so quickly today? ”

"Let's go, if it weren't for his small and pitiful, I wouldn't have given him food, dirty, unlucky"

Yota Kudo thought: Is the human heart roughly like this?

Kudo Yota came to the mourning hall, and the mourning hall had already placed a portrait of Tatsuzawa Ichichen, and Kudo Yota found that Ryuzawa Ichichen's son Ryuzawa Sohide looked very like. The old butler was packing up the wreaths, and he put them into the fire one by one.

Gonggong Yota said to the old housekeeper: "Long Ze Yichen and Long Zezong are really similar, do you usually recognize the wrong person?"

The old butler said, "Although I am a little dazzled, I can know who it is by listening to the voice." “

Yota Kudo complimented: "Awesome, awesome!" The old butler continued, "Take last night's incident. There was thunder last night, but I still heard a few strange sounds. ”

"What a sound."

"Maybe the source of the sound is closer to me. I heard a 'chirp'.

Yota Kudo frowned and asked, "Are you sure it was sent by someone?" ”

The old housekeeper said in a panic: "I'm a little afraid, I'm afraid that it was sent by a ghost."

"There are no ghosts in this world. The voice may have been made by Hanako, who was mute. ”

The old butler suddenly brightened: "So that's the case, at this time, there was a banging sound outside the door. Yota Kudo and the housekeeper hurriedly walked out of the door to see what was going on. Outside the door came two scoundrels, one bald and the other with long hair (for the sake of narration, he will be referred to as Long Hair), each on a motorcycle, each with a saber in his hand. They parked their motorcycles in the clearing. The two of them straddled the bluestone slab with one foot and slammed the bluestone slab with the back of the saber to show off

Myself. The bald head asked, "Is Long Ze a minister here?" , The old housekeeper motioned to Yota Kudo to hurry into the house, but Fukuha refused. The old housekeeper said, "The boss is not here." ”