novelraw Chapter 167 167
Chapter 167 167
The brilliance of the sun pierces the darkness, and the morning light slowly rises from the horizon.The mountain villages and towns that were originally shrouded in darkness were gradually stained by the morning light, covering them with a layer of fish maw white.
Yuna carried the suitcase and walked slowly across the field, her pace not too fast.When she walks a certain distance, she glances behind her out of the corner of her eye—at a position ten steps away from her, the Lord Shuizhu is following her at the same pace; neither stepping forward nor lagging behind, just following quietly .
It was already dawn, and she was a little sleepy after not sleeping all night, so she couldn't help but stopped by the edge of the field.
Similarly, that water column stopped moving.
"Lord Shuizhu, where are you going?" she asked.
"... somewhere else." Yoshiyuki Tomioka's cold voice came from behind her.
He gave an answer that said nothing.
"Want to take the train?" she asked.
"Probably, yes." He replied.
"That's unfortunate, I don't take the train," she said.
"I just said, probably sit. I'm not sure about the route of the mission." Yi Yong replied.
"..."
Yuna sighed a little and smiled helplessly.
After passing through two villages, we arrived at a small town nearby.
Because of the flat terrain, the railway tracks of the trains have been repaired here; originally it was just a small village, but it gradually became prosperous due to the arrival of unloading workers, train drivers, and coal mine weaving silk.The whole town revolves around the delivery of train cargo.
Soot truck smoke darkens the town, making it look gray.Yuna held a map and stood on the narrow road at the entrance of the town.She looked around and asked the two unloading workers on the side of the road: "Excuse me, is the station in this direction?"
"Oh, yes." The unloading man of the train wore a large kimono, and for the convenience of work, the cuffs and trousers were all rolled up, revealing the strong muscles that he had only worked hard all year round.He caught a glimpse of Yuna's face and showed a teasing expression, "There are not many women in this town! How dare you come here alone, you are considered very brave."
"Thank you." She thanked her calmly, turned around and was about to leave.
"Hey, wait!" The unloading worker reached out and patted her on the shoulder, laughing wildly, "The train is very expensive, can you afford it? Otherwise, stay and drink with us? I can let You sit in the cargo box and get on the train, so you save the fare!"
Yuna was about to speak when she heard a cold shout: "Take your hands away."
Hearing this sound, the unloading man was a little puzzled. He turned his head and saw a black-haired man standing not far away. He was wearing a feather, and his white face was covered with frost-like coldness.If you meet his eyes inadvertently, you will be so stared at that you can't help but back away.
"Here, this kid..." The veins on the top of the unloading man's head twitched, and his tone became arrogant, "What? Are you trying to get in the way? I didn't do anything, I just asked the lady if she wanted to have a drink together. It's just wine!"
After snorting, he cursed in a low voice in the local dialect with a strong accent, "Don't think that having a pretty face can scare people! I would like to know, how strong is your skinny body? "
Yoshiyuki Tomioka knit his eyebrows and said coldly: "I don't want to conflict with you
.let's go. "
His defiant attitude angered the unloader even more.The unloading worker covered in sinews strode up to him, and poked his hairy hands towards Tomioka Yoshiyuki's collar: "Boy! What are you talking to me? Oh, you are still wearing a knife? What is it now? It’s so old, and there are still people who dare to go out with a knife?”
The unloader wanted to grab the man by the collar and lift him up in the air viciously, just like facing other provocative gangsters in this town.But who knows, the next moment, his hand was empty——
Immediately, there was a sharp pain in the unloader's neck.The man who was in front of him appeared behind him at some unknown time, and struck the back of his neck with a hand knife.
"I told you, let you leave quickly." Tomioka Yoshiyuki watched the man's tall body lumbering down, raising a pile of dust, and his tone became more indifferent.
Yuna stared blankly at this scene, and belatedly thanked: "...Thank you."
Yi Yong brushed off the dust on his sleeves, and said in a cold voice, "If you go alone, you will only encounter more such things."
Just as Yuna was about to answer, she suddenly smelled a faint smell of blood on the tip of her nose.She froze for a moment, then looked at Yoshiyuki Tomioka.She suddenly remembered that Yiyong should be seriously injured.
He fought against Tong Mo last night, and he doesn't know how his injuries are.The bloody smell now, could it be that his wound has opened?
"Your Excellency Shuizhu, are your injuries okay? The smell of blood..." She couldn't help but worry.
"...It's nothing." Yiyong avoided her sight, and said in a calm tone, "You mean the smell of blood? I didn't smell it."
"However, it really smells like blood." Yuna said, "Sure enough, Lord Shuizhu should go back to the House of Wisteria Flowers to recuperate. It is impossible to perform missions with serious injuries."
"There is no smell of blood." Tomioka Yoshiyuki replied.
"Have."
"No."
"...There really is!"
"No."
Tomioka Yoshiyuki's continuous and decisive denials made Yuna very suspicious.No matter how you look at it, it is His Excellency Shui Zhu who is stubborn, trying to say that his wound is not a hindrance, and he does not want to go back to the wisteria flower house to recuperate.
But if this continues, what will happen to his injury?
No, it is not a wise choice to travel away with injuries; no matter what, at least let him stop to rest and recuperate.
Yuna thought for a while and had an idea in her mind.She turned around and looked at the morning light in the sky, as if she recognized Yi Yong's words, she said frankly: "Ah, if Your Excellency Shui Zhu must go to carry out the mission, then there is no other way. You can do whatever you want."
Yi Yong nodded: "Okay."
"However, I think the scenery of this town is very good." She said seriously, "I plan to live here for ten days and a half months to enjoy the scenery here. The train with steam and soot is intertwined with the pastoral scenery. But the romance of Westerners. If Your Excellency Shui Zhu wants to leave by train, then I will not send it off."
Yiyong: ...
"You..." The coldness on Yiyong's face was broken for a moment, "Do you want to stay here?"
"Yes." Yuna laughed, "How is it? If the task is not urgent, would you like to stay to see the scenery and recuperate?"
"..." Tomioka Yoshiyuki was silent.
After a long while, he turned his back and replied in a low voice: "The task is not urgent. I will stay here. ... Also, my injury is not a problem. I can fight, even if it is a battle with Shangxian. "
"I understand." Yuna smiled lightly, "Your injury is not serious, you just stop occasionally to take a look at the scenery of this town."
/ / /
Yuna walked around the town, and soon found a house to rent.
Because of the repair of the train tracks eight years ago, a steady stream of young people flock here every day from nearby villages looking for work; therefore, there are homeowners who rent out their houses in isolation everywhere.
"Ma'am, this is the yard, and the well and kitchen are shared. Although it is a three-household company, the tenant next door has recently returned to the village because the paddy fields at home are being harvested, and is no longer moving goods at the station."
The owner of this longhouse is an elderly woman named Sakai.While pointing out her yard to Yuna, she introduced her: "Oh, yes, I also know people at the station. If you are looking for a job on the railway tracks, you can also let me introduce you. However, everything You have to pay, Madam, you must understand this truth, right?"
After speaking, Granny Sakai rubbed her fingers.
"Thank you, but I don't have that plan right now." Yuna looked around.
"Ah, is that so?" Granny Sakai was a little disappointed.
Grandma Sakai's house is very simple, divided into three rooms with thin paper doors, each of which is only four or five mats in size, barely enough to be used as a storage room, but it is used as a bedroom.The house was lit with the simplest tile lamp, and when the flame jumped, it reflected the damaged corner of the wooden beam.
However, fortunately, it is still clean here, and it is not unacceptable.
After reading the narrow room, Yuna turned around and asked Tomioka Yoshiyuki who had been silently following him: "Okay, Mizujo-sama, I've decided to stay here. What about you? Are you going to the train station to make a bed? Or should you find another hotel? "
"I..." Yi Yong's lips parted.He raised his head, looked at the sun which was almost noon, and said, "Anywhere is fine."
It is commonplace for ghost hunters to eat and sleep in the open air.With a place on the ground, he can lie down with his clothes on.
"How about this? It just so happens that there is a storage room in this room, and Your Excellency Shuizhu will sleep in the storage room." Yuna said, "However, I didn't say this out of sympathy or anything, but because I was afraid of the invasion of ghosts." , so I just want to ask Your Excellency Shuizhu to protect me."
"..."
Giyuu seemed to accept her words and nodded.
"Okay, next..." Yuna squinted her eyes, rolled up her cuffs, exposing her slender forearms, "Your Excellency Shuizhu, I want to offend you." After finishing speaking, her hand reached out On the man's collar, he quickly unbuttoned him.
"What are you..." Yi Yong was stunned, not knowing how to move.
She... why is she undressing herself? !
Wait a minute, wait a minute—
He wanted to stop it, but a moment of hesitation made him a step too late.All the buttons of the uniform were undone, and the man's solid upper body was exposed from under the Demon Slayer uniform; the blood-soaked bandage covering the abdomen was also presented before her eyes.
"The medicine needs to be changed." She stared at him
Blood-stained bandages, murmured, "You should bring medicine, Your Excellency Shuizhu."
Yoshiyuki Tomioka's body is not strong, even a little thin, but this does not mean that he is thin; on the contrary, his shoulders and chest have well-proportioned and firm muscles, and although the waist under the bandage is slightly thin, it is still able to See the lines of a good workout.
Yoshiyuki Tomioka was a little speechless.
So that's what she meant by "offended".
"...I have the medicine with me. But I don't have any bandages," he said.
"I understand." Yuna stood up, stretched out her hand towards Yiyong, and clasped her ten fingers together.This hint-like action made Tomioka Yoshiyuki a little puzzled, and asked, "What do you mean?"
Yuna hooked her five fingers again.
"?"
"Money." She tilted her head with a gentle smile, and said bluntly, "I went out to buy medicine, bandages, food and water, and a change of clothes. But I have no money."
Yoshiyuki Tomioka: ...
He touched his pocket, took out the money bag and handed it over.Tomioka Giyuu is no better than Yumao Tianyuan, without the rich family property of Yumao's family to support him, there are only a few scattered coins jingling pitifully in his wallet, presumably it is the salary issued by the Ghost Slayer Squad.
"Wait for me here, Your Excellency Shuizhu." After leaving these words, she turned and walked towards the door.
"Wait—" Yi Yong took a step forward.
"What's wrong?" She was a little puzzled.
"You...will you come back?" Tomioka Yoshiyuki asked her, "Or, will you just leave?"
"..." Yuna smiled helplessly after hearing this, "Don't worry, I won't cheat your money and run away secretly. Although I'm not a good person, I won't do that kind of excessive thing .”
After speaking, she turned and left.
Tomioka Yoshiyuki looked at her back with a dazed expression.
At that moment just now, he really felt that she would leave directly and disappear without a trace.Although he didn't know why, that's how he felt—no one could guess what she was thinking about this woman.
She seems gentle and harmless, but she beats people harder than anyone else.I don't know what kind of things she has experienced that gave her the courage to travel alone as a woman.
She looks loyal and dignified, but she always gets drunk when she goes out.It's okay that Purgatory Xingshoulang has a strange attitude towards her, even the cruel evil spirits have been deceived by her.
She looks noble and elegant, like a young lady who doesn't touch the spring water with her ten fingers, but she knows everything from cooking to mending.The way he asked himself for money was also unbelievably straightforward.
Women are probably like this, right?
Very fickle, very mysterious, people can not guess.It's one thing on the surface, but it's another thing in reality; like a punk who has been through many fights and has learned to disguise himself in the most shrewd and self-interested way.
He went back to the roof and sat cross-legged, waiting quietly.The sun slowly set towards the west from the noon position, and the courtyard was very quiet. Occasionally, two sparrows flew over and jumped around the well.From time to time, a plume of black smoke rises from the eaves, followed by the sound of the train whistle.
Finally, there was the sound of footsteps in the hallway, and Yuna came back.
"Your Excellency Shuizhu, I'm back." She hugged fresh food and medicine, and piled them all up on the tatami.then
, she looked at Giyuu's abdomen, "Come and change the bandage."
"I can..."
"Let me do it."
As she said that, she had already knelt down, cut off the blood-adhered bandages on his body with scissors, and murmured: "It's because I did too much that your wounds will open, isn't it? "
Tomioka Yoshiyuki was silent.
Excessive things...
Is it the kick that the doctor called "the strength of ten cows"?
The scissors snapped shut and cut the bandage.The innermost bandage has stuck to the skin due to the dried blood, and needs to be torn off very carefully; if you don't pay attention, it will involve Yiyong's skin.But from the beginning to the end, he didn't show any abnormality, nor did he frown, and there was only that cold, ice-like expression on his face.
Then, the medicine is applied and the bandage is re-tied.
She lowered her head, concentrating on the work in her hands.The slender eyelashes fanned slightly, and the eyes below were gazing at the brilliance of the setting sun.Yiyong looked at her, and suddenly remembered how she was sitting on the swing when she first came to the House of Wisteria Flowers, swinging slowly.
What was she thinking at that time?
Are you thinking about Umo Tengen, or are you thinking about family members you haven’t seen for a long time?
"...you and Yuhao, let's dissolve the marriage." Yiyong said suddenly.
"what?"
Tomioka Yoshiyuki's sudden and unexcessive words made Yuna almost not stupid.She neatly tied the bandage, and asked in disbelief, "Your Excellency Shui Zhu, why did you suddenly bring up this matter?"
Giyuu's expression was very serious, not like he was joking: "That ghost with oak-white hair and the second rank of the first string has a strange attitude towards you. He is even willing to let me go for you."
"Yeah, yeah... so... what?"
"Zhu's wife must not be an existence that has a close relationship with ghosts. Ghost hunters and ghosts are always opposites; what's more, Yu Mao is still the master's respected Yinzhu." Yiyong said. "..." She sighed and put away the bandage, "I understand. It is precisely because I don't want Lord Tianyuan to embarrass me that I left the House of Wisteria Flowers."
"I can't cover you up. I will definitely report all this to the lord. As for how the lord treats you, that's not up to Yuhao and I. If the lord thinks you are dangerous and lists you as the object of investigation, then Yu You must do the same," Tomioka Yoshiyuki said.
After being quiet for a while, he said again: "The reason why you married Yu Mao is also to avoid ghosts. Since Yu Mao can no longer protect you in the name of husband, it is better to dissolve your marriage with him. You are not good to him. That kind of feeling."
Yuna smiled and said, "In this situation, whether it is resolved or not, there is actually no difference."
Of course, she wouldn't say that she agreed to marry Yu Mao Tianyuan as his wife because she was the first of three wives.As honest as Tomioka Yoshiyuki, he would definitely not believe this childish reason.
"There is a difference." Yiyong bowed his head, and lightly clutched his cuffs, "If you dissolve your marriage with Yumao, then you will be free. Even if you fall in love with Purgatory, you don't have to bear the burden of 'betrayed Yumao'. burden."
"what……?"
Yuna was stunned again.
Wait, Master Shuizhu, what are you talking about?
"Wait a minute, what do you mean 'Even if you fall in love with Mr. Purgatory, it's not a betrayal of Lord Tianyuan'...?" Yuna asked hesitantly, "Did you misunderstand something?"
"I don't think I read it wrong." Tomioka Yoshiyuki said seriously, "Purgatory gave you a lot of bean paste buns. This is a form of goodwill. Purgatory treats you very differently."
Yuna: ...
Lord Shuizhu, your insight is too powerful.
However, she and Xingjurou of Purgatory are all eating red bean paste buns. That's because Senjurou's child likes to eat them, and they stuffed a lot of red bean paste buns in the bento boxes they brought to them...! !
"Forget it, forget it." Yuna sighed, "Although I don't know why you have such a misunderstanding, but Mr. Purgatory and I don't have that kind of relationship." Thinking of the bright eyes and cheerfulness of Purgatory Xingjulang With a smile on her face, her tone softened, "Mr. Purgatory is a gentle and polite person, and he will not do that kind of immoral thing."
Tomioka Yoshiyuki was a little at a loss.
Ah, is that so?
"Sorry." He bowed his head.
"It's okay, it's okay." Yuna waved her hand.In fact, it is normal for Yiyong to misunderstand, after all, Purgatory seems to have some meaning to her.But Purgatory's self-restraint was too strong, and he didn't do anything that exceeded the rules.
After that, the two of them didn't speak for a long time.At night, she served a simple dinner; it was instant sushi that could be bought anywhere on the street, but it was served with bean paste buns sprinkled with green onions, which made Yoshiyuki Tomioka at a loss for what to say.
"By the way, I also bought this." Yuna rummaged through the spoils of shopping during the day, took out a small jar tied with a red string, shook it, and said, "It's rice wine, the sweet kind .Your Excellency Shuizhu, would you like to have a sip?"
Yiyong: ...
The drunkard!started again?
Still bought wine with his money!
"I don't drink." He refused, "You should also drink less. Every time I get drunk and pass out, I need someone to help me."
"This is rice wine, I won't get drunk." She whispered, "Don't worry, I can drink very well. The previous two times I got drunk, it was because I drank too much. After all, the other party is a ghost. Ghosts don't get drunk..."
After speaking, she lifted the lid and raised her head to take a sip.The wine brewed from rice has a very sweet taste; it is more like fruit juice than wine.
"It's really sweet." She held her chin and smiled slowly, her eyes were crooked, like the moon just rising.The night behind her was very long, and the moon in the sky was not as good as the moon in her eyes.
Tomioka Yoshiyuki looked at her, his eyes slightly startled.
she is laughing...
She is laughing.
That smile again.Every time she came back from the outside drunk, she would smile.Delicate, strange, as if inviting someone to visit her room.Eyes like looking at a lover.
Tomioka Yoshiyuki remembered that she had such a smile last time, leaning against the door of the wisteria flower house, and said lightly to him: "Good evening, Mr. Tomioka."
Yi Yong frowned and said, "You...don't laugh like that. It's weird."
"Huh?" Yuna blinked and poked the corner of her mouth, "Is there something wrong with my smile? Is it easier to attract ghosts, or..."
"...No." Yi Yong was a little confused about how to explain, "That kind of smile can easily be misunderstood by others."
"Misunderstanding?" Several question marks floated above her head, "What do you mean? Does it mean that my smile is frivolous?"
"..." Yi Yong said, "Anyway, don't laugh like that."
The more ambiguous he was, the more strange Yuna felt.Not only did she not restrain her smile, but the corners of her lips became more curved.She pointed to her face, and asked lightly: "Don't worry? Don't show such a smile, right? Otherwise, Your Excellency Shuizhu will misunderstand. Speaking of which, what kind of misunderstanding—"
Her words were doubts, more like provocations.
"..."
As if to confirm his words, Tomioka Yoshiyuki trembled his arms, supported his body, and leaned towards her.
He took a breath, then awkwardly placed a kiss on her lips.
"I..." There was self-loathing in his words, "I will misunderstand."
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