"Children always like to try new things, maybe they will find it fun to wear today, I'll wait to find her."

Tachibana Igarashi said in a very gentle tone to the paper stealing,

"Jiang Yuan came here today to do research homework for the summer vacation, if you can, I think you can help him, after all, this is a trivial matter."

As he spoke, Igarashi's paper-stealing face showed a look of embarrassment and displeasure at all, and he pretended to be serious and said:

"Although I'm a palace secretary, I haven't put up a fight to that point."

"That's good." Tachibana Igarashi brushed the hair of her sideburns behind her ears with her slender fingers, her nails a little sharp, "Then I won't bother you." ”

"Thank you, Tachibana-san." Jiang Yuanshen said.

When Igarashi Tachibana walked out of the door, Igarashi put the ten fingers of his hands folded in front of him, stared at Jiang Yuanshen and said:

"Jiang Yuan, what do you want to know here?"

Jiang Yuanshen's mind was still on the young girl who was just a young girl, but the more he thought about it, the more clueless he became, and it was just an irritability that could not be solved.

"Mr. Igarashi, I want to apologize to you before that."

"Apologize? What apologies? Igarashi was surprised to steal the paper.

"At the previous memorial service, my adoptive father destroyed a lot of sky lanterns, and I am sorry that the prayers of those people were not heard."

"I don't think that's-"

Igarashi stole the paper but showed a gentle smile, he lifted the frame of his glasses and said,

"I think, there is his own reason, what is the reason why he will do this is the most important, if it can't be solved, no matter how many festivals he comes, his action will still erupt, and the sky lantern is every year, and even will be passed down for thousands of years, and the prayer will be immortalized under the polish of time, and he will not."

Jiang Yuanshen and Chaokong Shaoxing were stunned, even if the people on the island were attacking Azusa Kawa Xiaokong, but what the shrine in front of him said was thought-provoking.

The translucent sound, like the spring water of the Naku Mountains, flowed through the rocks and finally fell into a pool of water, leaving a clear and comfortable feeling.

Igarashi Paperstealer looked up at the roof of the worship hall, the not-so-smooth tiled roof reflecting the golden sunlight.

"Have you paid a visit?" He said.

Jiang Yuanshen only then remembered that their visit was interrupted because of the sudden appearance of the young girl.

He walked over to the "cash box" and put five "incense" sticks printed on his birthday into the box.

Just as Jiang Yuanshen stretched out his hand and was about to ring the bell, he found that no matter how he shook it from side to side, the bell couldn't make a sound.

"Huh?" He looked at Igarashi beside him in confusion.

However, Igarashi also frowned in surprise: "What's going on?" Isn't it possible? ”

"It doesn't seem to sound?"

Shaking the apricot in the air, he stepped forward, pressed his hands on his knees, leaned down slightly, and peeked under the bell from the bottom to the top.

"Ah~~"

She screamed suddenly.

Jiang Yuanshen also leaned over, his eyes looking at the bottom of the pitch-black bell.

The golden bell that had been hanging inside was gone.

"No bells?" Jiang Yuan looked cautiously at Igarashi stealing paper beside him.

"No bells?" He repeated, and walked forward in disbelief and said, "No way, I basically check every morning, how can there be no bells?" ”

"It's weird." Igarashi was stunned and muttered, "No. None of them? ”

Shaking the apricot in the air, he tilted his head sideways inexplicably, looking at the stunned expression of Igarashi Miyaji: "How can this be?" Didn't you check it in the morning? ”

"But even if I don't check it properly, it won't be all the bells gone, right?" Igarashi stole the paper and looked at the cash box and muttered, "I'm not the forgetful kind of person, and neither is Tachibana."

Jiang Yuanshen is not stupid enough to say, "Maybe you forgot today", and accept it with peace of mind.

Ever since I stepped into Chitori Shrine, strange things have been spreading like roots hidden deep underground, spreading in an invisible way.

"Forget it, don't stand here, the social office is over there, you go and sit down for a while, I'm going to replace the bell again. It could be a prank on Hanasa. ”

Igarashi couldn't figure it out anyway, and in the end, he didn't think about it at all, because he couldn't explain it, so he had to throw the cause of the incident on Igarashi Hanasa, who was not present.

"Want to help?" Shake the apricot in the air asked.

"No, that's what the clergy should do." Igarashi stole the paper and refused, but the words were reassuring.

Jiang Yuanshen and Chaokong Shaoxing had to go to the social affairs office first.

Shaking the apricot in the air, she suddenly raised her hand, and the red light spilled from between her fingers, and the silhouettes of her hands shone in the sunlight.

"Xiao Shen, have you found out? The calluses on Mr. Igarashi's fingers are very thick. ”

"Wow, you're so observant?" Jiang Yuanshen smiled at the corner of his mouth.

There is no difference between Igarashi's paper-stealing hand and the farmer's hand, and I'm afraid that the entire shrine's grass sorting and other hard work are done by him and Tachibana-san.

"I'm not stupid." Chaokong shook his mouth slightly, and said complainingly, "I thought that the palace secretary was as carefree as the queen, but it turned out that it was not like that, he also had to work"

She kept muttering, and her eyes suddenly fell on a "Eima Hanging House".

Under the ema hanging, there is a pattern of ema in the kneeling arms of the queen of the young doll, and in front of it is a table with a hexagonal sign box used to draw fortune sticks.

"Do you want to smoke it? There are so many hangings, it is estimated that it is very spiritual. Jiang Yuanshen said to the sky beside him.

Shaking the apricot in the air showed a subtle expression, nodded and said:

"In principle, I don't want to smoke"

She said this, but still walked to the octagonal god sign holder in front of the ema hanging.

Drawing 100 yen once, Jiang Yuanshen took out 200 yen from his wallet.

"I have money myself." Asakura also took out a hundred yen from his small purse.

I'm afraid that it would be better for her to use this hundred yen in more practical places, after all, she doesn't believe in these things at all.

After shaking the apricots in the air, he put 100 yen into the incense box, picked up the octagonal god stick on the side, and shook it upside down a few times.

A paper stick folded into a ribbon popped up, shook the apricot into the air, took out the magic stick, and untied it without hesitation.

The words "the end of the day" came into view, and at the same time, there was also the content of the sign itself-

"Don't resent the gods, she's here to help the people of the afterlife."

"I don't understand it at all, so forget it, why is it still lucky? It's so subtle."

Shaking the apricot in the sky was not very happy, but showed a very troubled look, and kept muttering "inexplicable" in his mouth.

Jiang Yuan leaned over and saw clearly what was written in the divine sign, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but pick up and say:

"This is a waka, a mythological figure recorded in the ancient book "Nihon Shoki."

"Is this a waka?" The eyes of the apricot shook in the air widened.

Jiang Yuanshen seemed to be showing off his knowledge, and said with one hand on his waist:

"The main thing is to keep the god of food, he spit out the food from his mouth to treat the moon night temple sent by Amaterasu, but the other party thought it was dirty so he drew his sword and killed, as a result, Amaterasu was furious, and no longer saw the moon night god, and later Apayasu found out that after the death of the god of food, all parts of the body became food, so he was happy for the people in the world."

Chaokong Yao Xing listened to his explanation carefully with a full face, and blurted out almost reflexively after listening:

"It's too much to see you on that moonlit night! Grace will take revenge! ”

Jiang Yuan smiled brightly and said:

"The main meaning of this sign is that if you bear the sins of others, please do not be angry, and it is better to accept your fate as your own calamity, which will one day become a blessing for you."

As soon as he heard his words, the little face of the apricot shook in the air inevitably showed an incomprehensible look, frowning as if protesting, and looking down at the black leather shoes under his feet, which were shiny and bright.

- Isn't that bullying honest people?

"So it's 'the end of the day,' which means that the end will be good." Jiang Yuanshen shrugged his shoulders and said.

"Forget that, it's your turn." Shaking the apricot in the air put on an attitude of not taking it to heart, and muttered, "I don't believe it anyway."

Jiang Yuanshen nodded, put a hundred yen into the incense box, and then picked up the octagonal god lotter.

He shook it upside down, but no sign came out.

"Strange."

The sudden situation made Jiang Yuanshen a little confused, but he still thought that it was the last magic stick that might shake the apricot in the air.

"Huh?"

"God sign. Is it gone? Still didn't come out? ”

"Impossible, show me."

Chaokong shook the apricot from Jiang Yuanshen's hand and took the octagonal divine lottery holder, shook it upside down, and the result was the same as before, not a single divine lottery came out.

"Wonder why? There must have been more than one when I shook it. ”

Shaking the apricot's thick eyelashes in the air and shaking it gently, he shook it again with a serious face, but there was still no magic stick.

Just as the two of them were wondering why the god tube didn't sign, Igarashi came over stealing paper.

"Are you two drawing lots?" He came to the two of them, found a magic stick on the table, and asked with a smile, "Whose 'Mo Daji'?" ”

"It's my "last big luck", but when Xiao Shen wants to smoke it, the magic tube can't come out." Said to the sky shaking the apricot.

Igarashi Stealing Paper seemed to hear the inscrutable words again, and the expression on his face was quite subtle:

"No gods?"

He took the cylinder and shook it.

As a result, there was not the sound of the divine sign hitting the divine cylinder, but an extremely crisp sound.

Igarashi took out the scattered coins from his pocket, picked out a fifty yen coin, stuck it in the opening of the god cylinder, and opened it with a slight turn.

His left hand covered the lid and his right hand poured the cylinder down, accompanied by the crisp sound of something.

When I took it away, the color of the object on my palm was eye-catching.

The golden bell glittered in the sunlight, its cold, immersive silhouette as if it were radiating a burst of warmth.

"Is it a bell?" Shaking Apricot stared at the object in Igarashi's paper-stealing hand in astonishment, "Why is it in the god tube?" This is also made of flower yarn? ”

"I don't know." Igarashi stealing paper suddenly looked embarrassed and secretly glanced at Jiang Yuanshen beside him.

Jiang Yuan was cautiously aware of his faint gaze, and held a handful of sticky sweat in his palm.

"Jiang Yuan, are you very disturbed?" Igarashi stole the paper with a sad look, and even blamed herself, "I'm sorry, it's all my mismanagement, otherwise these things wouldn't have happened." ”

With just one sentence, he wanted to dispel the treacherous psychology that emerged in Jiang Yuanshen's heart.

But if you don't face it, you deliberately don't take it to heart, you want to hide your sincerity, and bury it in the depths of your heart, which makes people feel even more dull.

Jiang Yuanshen shook his head, just took the Divine Lottery holder from his hand, and looked inside, there was a Divine Lottery that had been suppressed by the bell before.

"Huh? Is there still a sign in it? ”

"And."

He reached in and took out the lotion inside.

As soon as I opened it, what caught my eye was a "half-murderer"-

"I want to deal with the new silk chaos, I am idle and sorrowful, I am only trapped in the net, and I am sad to see a few people."

Looking at the verses above, Jiang Yuanshen was stunned, he looked at the Igarashi stealing paper beside him, and swallowed nervously.

"Half-fierce?" Shaking the apricot in the air, her eyes widened in astonishment.

However, the lines that Igarashi stole from the paper were incredibly light:

"Entangled is a chaotic thread, and it is absolutely difficult to get rid of the pain in the heart, just like a fish trapped in a net and unable to move, the struggle will also feel pain, and the people around you will also feel sadness and trouble, one after another."

Jiang Yuan listened carefully to his annotation, and his gaze fell on the solution below-

"Escape as much as you can"

"What does it mean to escape?" Asakura shook her eyes a little, but instead of avoiding the topic, she took the initiative to ask Igarashi to steal paper to solve her doubts.

Igarashi didn't force a sloppy smile on his face, nor did he avoid the eyes of the two: "It means to escape from the land of calamity." ”

Calamity?

Is it here?

Chitori Island?

Jiang Yuan cautiously raised his vigilance, if there was really a god, who was warning him? Is the quiet sea deep moon? Or is it the night to see the oak?

"Well, but there is another meaning of the murder sign, that is, everything will change from the worst to the better, and from another point of view, it is also a good prediction."

Perhaps sensing that Jiang Yuanshen's face was a little gloomy, Igarashi stole the paper and showed a gentle smile,

"Jiang Yuan, if you care about it very much, you can directly burn it, and the murder sticks we have here are also burned, of course, you can also tie them to the branches in the divine territory, leave the murder here, and the gods who live in the divine tree will help you, I still recommend the latter."

"Well, let's stay here."

Chaokong Shaking Apricot took the divine sign directly from Jiang Yuanshen's hand, and walked straight to a vigorous green potted plant, on which the branches were already hung with a lot of white divine sticks.

Igarashi followed her and carefully taught her how to tie it, and to tie it with her hands that she didn't use often.

Today's weather is very good, and the courtyard inside the shrine is cleaned up, with pansies, lilacs, azaleas, and water lotus

The flowers are brilliant, but Jiang Yuanshen's mood alone is difficult to calm down, and even sets off earth-shattering waves.

Because in the corridor of the social affairs office, he saw the young girl wearing a mask again, and her posture turned into a pool of water that would never be mixed with flowers, which made Jiang Yuanshen feel an indescribable sense of sacredness.

(End of chapter)