Me and the Doll Girl of Zhidiao Island

Chapter 114 112. God's lottery
"Children always like to try new things. Maybe they will find it fun to wear it today. I will find her later."

Igarashi Tachibana said to the stolen paper in a very gentle tone,
"Jiang Yuan came here today to do research on a summer vacation. If possible, I think you can help him. After all, this is a trivial matter."

As he spoke, Igarashi stole the paper with an undisguised expression of embarrassment and displeasure. He pretended to be serious and said:

"Although I am a palace secretary, I haven't put on airs to that extent yet."

"That's good." Igarashi Tachibana used her slender fingers to tuck the hair from her sideburns behind her ears, her nails were a bit sharp, "Then I won't bother you."

"Thank you, Miss Lihua." Jiang Yuanshen said.

When Igarashi Tachibana walked out of the building door, Igarashi stole the paper and folded the fingers of both hands in front of him, staring at Jiang Yuanshen and said:

"Jiang Yuan, what did you come here to know?"

Jiang Yuanshen's mind was still on the puppet girl just now, but the more he thought about it, the more he lost his mind, and it was nothing but irritability that could not be resolved.

"Mr. Igarashi, I would like to apologize to you first."

"Apologize? What are you apologizing for?" Igarashi said in surprise.

"At the previous memorial ceremony, my adoptive father destroyed many sky lanterns. I feel sorry for the prayers of those people who were not conveyed."

"I don't think that's the case—"

Igarashi stole the paper but showed a gentle smile, he raised the frame of his glasses and said,
"I think there is his own reason for it. The most important thing is what caused him to do this. If he can't solve it, no matter how many times he comes to the ceremony, his behavior will still explode. And the sky lanterns are there every year. It will even be passed on for thousands of years, praying that it will last forever under the polishing of time, but he will not."

Jiang Yuanshen and Chaokong Yaoxing were both stunned. Even the people on the island were criticizing Azusagawa Kosora, but the words of the shrine priest in front of him were thought-provoking.

The translucent voice was like the spring water from the long mountain range, flowing over the rocks and finally falling into a pool of water, leaving a clear and comfortable feeling.

Igarashi raised his head to look at the roof of the hall of worship. The not-so-smooth tiled roof reflected the bright golden sunlight.

"Have you visited the shrine?" he said.

Only then did Jiang Yuanshen remember that their visit was interrupted because of the sudden appearance of a puppet girl.

He walked to the "money box" and put the five-yen "incense" with his birthday printed on it into the box.

Just as Jiang Yuanshen stretched out his hand to ring the bell, he found that no matter how much he shook it from side to side, the bell could not make any sound.

"Huh?" He looked confusedly at Igarashi stealing the paper beside him.

However, Igarashi also frowned in surprise: "What's going on? Can't you?"

"It doesn't seem to be ringing?"

Chaokong Yaoxing leaned forward, clasped his knees with his hands, bent slightly, and peeped under the bell from bottom to top.

"Ah~~"

She cried out suddenly.

Jiang Yuanshen also bent down, looking at the bottom of the dark bell.

The golden bell that was originally hanging inside was gone.

"No bell?" Jiang Yuan Shen looked at Igarashi stealing the paper beside him.

"No bells?" he repeated, and stepped forward in disbelief. "Impossible. I basically check every morning. How could there be no bells?"

"Strange." Igarashi Tiaozhi was stunned and mumbled, "No, no, no one?"

Chaokong Yaoxing tilted his head in confusion, looking at Igarashi's astonished expression: "Why is this happening? Didn't check well in the morning?"

"But even if I didn't check it, all the bells won't be gone, right?" Igarashi looked at the cash box and whispered, "I'm not the kind of forgetful person, Tachibana also no."

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

Since stepping into Zhiniao Shrine, more and more weird things have spread around in an invisible way like tree roots hidden deep in the ground.

"Forget it, don't just stand here, the social affairs office is over there, you go in and sit for a while, I'm going to put the bell back on. Maybe it's Huasha's prank."

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 leave the cause of the incident on Igarashi Kasa, who was not there.

"Want to help?" Chaokong Yaoxing asked.

"No, these are what the clergy should do." Igarashi refused, but his words made people feel at ease.

Jiang Yuanshen and Chaokong Yaoxing had no choice but to go to the social affairs office first.

Chaokong Yaoxing suddenly raised her hand, and the crimson glow spilled from the gap between her fingers, and the silhouettes of her hands shone brightly in the sunlight.

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

"Wow, are you observing so carefully?" Jiang Yuanshen smiled.

There is no difference between Igarashi's hands for stealing paper and the hands of a farmer. I am afraid that he and Sister Tachibana will do the hard work of weeding in the entire shrine.

"I'm not an idiot." Chaokong Yaoxing puffed up her mouth slightly, and said complainingly, "I thought the palace secretary was as carefree as a queen, but it turns out that's not the case, he also has to work."

She kept muttering, and her eyes suddenly fell on the "Ema Hanging Place".

Under the ema hanging, there is a patterned ema of the puppet queen kneeling and hugging. In front of it is a table with a hexagonal magic lottery box for drawing fortune lottery.

"Do you want to smoke? With so many hanging, it must be very effective." Jiang Yuanshen said to Chaokong who was beside him.

Chaokong Yaoxing showed a subtle expression, nodded and said:

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

She said so on her lips, but she still walked towards the octagonal magic stick in front of the ema hanging.

After drawing one hundred yen, Jiang Yuanshen took out two hundred yen from his wallet.

"I have money myself." Chaokong Yaoxing also took out [-] yen from his small wallet.

I'm afraid 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 Zhao Kong shook the apricot, he put one hundred yen into the incense box, picked up the octagonal magic lottery tube on one side, and shook it upside down a few times.

A paper stick pleated into a ribbon popped out, shook Xing Xing in the air, took out the magic stick, and unwrapped it without hesitation.

A word "Modaiji" came into view, and at the same time, there was the content of the divine lottery itself——

"Don't hate the gods, she is here to save the people in the next life"

"I don't understand it at all, forget it at the end, why is it still a good luck? It's so subtle."

Chaokong Yaoxing was not very happy, but showed a very troubled look, and kept muttering "inexplicable" in his mouth.

Jiang Yuan Shen leaned over to see clearly what was written in the magic sign, and couldn't help but pick at the corner of his mouth and said:

"This is a waka, and it is a mythical figure recorded in the ancient book "Nihon Shoki."

"Is this Waka?" Chaokong Yaoxing's eyes widened.

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

"The main thing is about the God of Preserving Food. He spit out food from his mouth to treat Yueye Jianzun sent by Amaterasu, but he was killed by the other party because he thought it was dirty. As a result, Amaterasu was furious and no longer met with Yueye. We met each other, and later Amaterasu discovered that after the death of Baoshi God, all parts of his body turned into food, so he was happy for the common people in the world."

Chaokong Kaoru listened to his explanation seriously, and blurted out almost reflexively after listening:

"It was too much to meet the Lord on that moonlit night! He even repayed his kindness with revenge!"

Jiang Yuanshen smiled cheerfully and said:
"The main meaning of this sign is that if you bear the sins of others, please don't be angry. It's better to accept your fate as your own disaster. This kind of disaster will become your blessing one day."

Hearing his words, Chaokong Yaoxing's small face inevitably showed an incomprehensible expression, frowning tightly as if in protest, and lowered his head to look at the black leather shoes under his feet, which were shiny and bright.

——Isn’t that bullying honest people?

"So it's 'mo daji', which means it will be auspicious in the end. "Jiang Yuanshen shrugged his shoulders and said.

"No matter what, it's Xiao Shen's turn to you." Chaokong Yaoxing put on a careless attitude, and murmured, "Anyway, I don't believe it."

Jiang Yuan nodded carefully, put one hundred yen into the incense box, and then picked up the octagonal magic stick.

He turned it upside down and shook it, but no magic stick came out.

"strangeness."

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

"Ok?"

"The magic sign. Is it gone? Or hasn't it come out?"

"Impossible, show me."

Chaokong Yaoxing took the octagonal magic stick from Jiang Yuanshen's hand, and shook it upside down. The result was the same as before, and no magic stick came out.

"Strange why? There must have been more than one when I shook it just now."

Chaokong Yaoxing's thick eyelashes swayed slightly, and shook again with a serious face, but there was still no magic stick.

Just as the two of them were wondering why the Shentong did not sign, Igarashi came over stealing the paper.

"Are the two of you drawing a lottery?" He came to the two of them, found a lottery on the table, and asked with a smile, "Whose "Mo Daji" is it? "

"It's my "Mo Daji", but when Xiao Shen wanted to draw it, the magic tube didn't come out. " Chao Kong shook Xing said.

Igarashi seems to have heard the unfathomable words again, and the expression on his face is quite subtle:
"Can't get a magic sign?"

He took the magic cylinder and shook it.

It turned out that the sound coming from inside was not the sound of the magic stick hitting the magic tube, but a series of extremely crisp sounds.

Igarashi took out scattered coins from his pocket by stealing paper, picked out a fifty-yen coin, stuck it in the opening of the magic tube, turned it lightly, and opened it.

Covering the lid with his left hand, he poured the magic tube down with his right hand, accompanied by a crisp sound.

When I took out the magic tube, the color of the object on the palm of my hand made people's eyes shine.

The golden bell is shining in the sun, and its cold and immersed outline seems to be emitting bursts of warmth.

"Is it a bell?" Chaokong Yaoxing stared at the object in Igarashi's hand in astonishment, "Why is it in the magic tube? Is this also made of Huasha?"

"I don't know." Igarashi suddenly glanced at Jiang Yuanshen next to him with a look of embarrassment on his face.

Jiang Yuanshen was aware of his veiled gaze, and held a fistful of sticky sweat in his palm.

"Jiang Yuan, are you uneasy?" Igarashi showed a distressed look on the paper, and even blamed himself, "I'm sorry, it's all because of my poor management, otherwise these things would not have happened."

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

But don't face it, deliberately don't take it to heart, want to cover up your sincerity, and bury it deep in your heart, which is even more depressing.

Jiang Yuan shook his head carefully, just took the magic stick from his hand, looked inside, and there was a magic stick that was suppressed by the bell before.

"Huh? Is there a sign inside?"

"and also."

He reached in and took out the divine lottery inside.

As soon as it was opened, what caught the eye was the "semi-fierce"——

"If you want to sort things out, you're in a mess, you worry about right and wrong, you're trapped in a net, and the few people you meet feel sad"

Looking at the verse above, Jiang Yuanshen was shocked. He looked at Igarashi beside him stealing the paper, and swallowed nervously.

"Semi-fierce?" Chaokong Yaoxing's eyes widened in astonishment.

However, the lines that Igarashi steals the paper are so light that it is unimaginable:
"Tangled together is a messy thread, it is absolutely difficult to get rid of the pain in the heart, just like a fish trapped in the net and unable to move, the struggle will also feel pain, and the people around will also feel sad and troubled, one after another .”

Jiang Yuanshen listened to his notes, and then his eyes fell on the solution below——

"Escape as much as you can"

"What do you mean by escaping?" Chaokong Yaoxing's eyes were a little shaken, but she didn't avoid the topic, instead she asked Igarashi to steal the paper to solve the confusion.

Igarashi did not pretend to be sloppy with a forced smile, nor did he avoid the eyes of the two of them: "It means to escape from the land of disaster."

Calamity?

is it here?
Zhiniao Island?
Jiang Yuanshen suddenly raised his vigilance. If there is a god, who is warning him?Tranquil sea deep moon?Or night see Xunshi?

"Well, but the evil sign also has another meaning, that is, everything will turn from the worst to the best. Looking at it from another perspective, it is also a good prediction."

Perhaps feeling that Jiang Yuanshen's face was a bit gloomy, Igarashi showed a gentle smile on the paper,
"Jiang Yuan, if you care about it, you can burn it directly. We also burn the murder sticks here. Of course, they can also be tied to the branches in the territory of the gods. Keep the murderers here, and the gods residing in the sacred tree will help you." , I still recommend the latter.”

"Then it's better to stay here."

Chaokong Yaoxing took the magic lottery directly from Jiang Yuanshen's hand, and walked straight to a vigorous green potted plant, the branches on which were already hung with many white lotus sticks.

Igarashi also walked over to steal the paper, carefully teaching her how to tie it, and how to tie it with the hand she doesn't usually use.

Today's weather is very good, the courtyard in the shrine is clean, pansy, lilac, rhododendron, water lotus
The flowers were brilliant, but Jiang Yuanshen was the only one who couldn't calm down, and even set off a shocking wave.

Because in the corridor of the social affairs office, he saw the puppet girl wearing a mask again. Her posture turned into a pool of water that would never mix with flowers, which made Jiang Yuanshen feel an indescribable sense of holiness.

(End of this chapter)