Me and the Doll Girl of Zhidiao Island

Chapter 116 114. The Three Main Hall Keys
In "Lichutu", the villages and mountains are depicted by black Mozi, and the bright red paint is the flames ejected by the sun.

Igarashi let out a sigh of relief, and poured half a cup into the emerald-colored tea bowl.

He took a sip, and then began to frown and smiled bitterly:

"Slowly, everyone no longer suffers, relatives no longer feel guilty, and even take it for granted, and no one will hear the Queen's cry.
In this way, the legend of Zhiniao Island appeared, and then came true, making people unable to get rid of it. "

There were several beautiful red sweet buns in the refreshment container, but none of the three people stretched out their hands to eat.

Jiang Yuanshen took a short breath, the sunlight shining on the tatami was extremely dazzling.

He originally thought that most of the people in the shrine maintained their beliefs, just like the old men who chased after Azusagawa Kokura at the ceremony of releasing flying sky lanterns that day.

However, the palace secretary in front of him was unexpectedly clear-minded, talking to him was like a red sleigh sliding deeply through the snow without any bumps on the road.

"Are you going to stay here forever?" Jiang Yuanshen asked.

Igarashi raised his brows and eyes slightly, showing a meaningful and helpless smile:
"Maybe you two don't understand, but the reason behind the Doll God and Zhiniao Island is very profound. Not everyone can change it easily. I will always stay here."

"Could it be that those queens stayed on Zhiniao Island for hundreds of years?" Chaokong Yaoxing himself enjoyed it, it was the joy of absorbing unknown knowledge.

Igarashi nodded his head, and the ripples from the teacup reflected his profile.

"As far as I know, none of the queens have ever left the island"

His eyebrows twitched, and the eyes seen through the half frame of the mirror were a little melancholy,
"Didn't I see the queen at night before leaving the island full of islanders? Didn't the retribution come quickly?"

Jiang Yuanshen looked at him in astonishment and said, "You know about this?"

"Well, I was helping the islanders avoid disasters. I happened to see Yemi come back from overseas, then knelt on the ground and cried loudly, and finally jumped into Lake Kamo."

Igarashi's tone of voice didn't fluctuate much, as if he was telling a very distant story.

However, this incident has only passed five years.

"Then you rescued her at that time?" Jiang Yuanshen leaned forward impatiently.

At this moment, Chaokong Yaoxing looked at Jiang Yuanshen's figure, his long eyelashes trembled, and finally he just lowered his head and reached out to grab the small red steamed bun in the container.

Like a baby who hasn't grown teeth, she sips her eyes absently.

"I'm sorry, but I can't swim." Igarashi shook his head and said in a self-deprecating tone, "Even if I could swim, I didn't have the consciousness to give my life to save her, even if Ye Jian was Zhiniao. Queen of the Island."

——"Everyone on Zhiniao Island is selfish, and I am no exception."

Jiang Yuanshen seemed to hear Jinghai Shenyue whispering in his ear again, and suddenly got goosebumps.

The prerequisite for everyone is that the disaster will not fall on their heads.

"Then who saved her in the end?" Jiang Yuanshen's voice couldn't help but weaken a little.

"nobody."

"No one?" Jiang Yuanshen paused.

"Yes, when I saw her jump into the lake, I put down my work"

Igarashi glanced vaguely at Chaokong Yaoxing with his paper-stealing gaze,
"Someone was crying beside me, so I squatted by the lake to watch. After a long time, no one came to save Ye Jian, but I didn't see her come up."

Chaokong Yaoxing held the red steamed bun with both hands, trembling slightly in his voice:
"Keko, even if you don't go down to rescue, why don't you call someone? Kamo Lake is connected to Shuangjin Port, and the people there can basically swim."

Igarashi stole the paper and looked at Chaokong Yaoxing, as if piercing her heart completely, and said with a grin at the corner of his mouth:

"Yao Xing, you are so kind and simple. I can understand your desire to save people a little bit, but who will bear the burden afterwards? Is it me who proposed the rescue, or Ye Jian who left Zhiniao Island?"

Chaokong Yaoxing was dumbfounded, but his tone weakened unconsciously: "What do you mean?"

Igarashi stared casually at the scenery of the courtyard, then continued:

"Yejian once told me that she didn't want to stay on the island alone. I wasn't surprised that she mustered up the courage to leave the island, but she came back again.

If I call someone to save Ye Jian, everyone will know that she abandoned the islanders and left. At that time, she must be very uncomfortable when everyone looks at her with sympathy and hatred.
At that time, I will be very ashamed and suffer, as if it is because of my rescue that I caused her such pain, in this case, it is better to let her be freed from the pain directly, and I will pray for her soul at the shrine—”

To be honest, not only Chaokong Yaoxing was surprised, but even Jiang Yuanshen was like this.

Chaokong Yaoxing's heart fluctuates like the shadows of branches and leaves in the courtyard, but her simplicity still prevails:

"It can be seen that you are probably the only ones who saw her come back. Everyone just keep silent, isn't that all right?"

Igarashi was silent for a while stealing the paper, and explained:
"Yao Xing, Zhiniao Island is very small, so small that there are no secrets. No matter how many years have passed, someone will still remember it. Whenever something happens, "who did something at the beginning" will soon spread, and now there are It's a secret, but maybe it will be known by the whole island in a few days. "

His gaze pierced Chaokong Yaoxing's self-protection barrier, causing the girl to hold her breath——

"Everyone will remember that your father was so obsessed with seeing the queen at night that he abandoned his family and children."

——It's too much, it's really too much, it's all over, why do I still feel so sad, it's too embarrassing.

Cold sweat broke out on her forehead, and her heart trembled deeply, digging at the wound, her useless self made her want to cry.

Fearing that an unusual gaffe would appear on his face, Chaokong Yaoxing immediately stood up, wanting to leave here.

Seeing her pale face, Jiang Yuan naturally understood what she thought of because of the words of the palace secretary.

"Yao Xing, are you okay?" He asked softly.

"Fortunately, I drank too much water, I'll go out for a while."

"Want me to take you there?"

Chaokong Yaoxing was careful not to let him notice the abnormality, and said with a smile on his face: "I won't let you take off my skirt, pervert."

"My ambition is not that small." Jiang Yuanshen had no choice but to joke with her.

However, Chaokong Yaoxing didn't blush or respond, just walked out of the Japanese room lightly.

"Please don't mind, I don't have the habit of taking off her skirt." Jiang Yuanshen defended in a low voice.

Igarashi stole the paper but smiled slightly.

"It's normal for your age."

After a while, he made another pot of tea, held it in front of Jiang Yuanshen and whispered:
"But if you don't come back, Shake Apricot may be finished, because it will be very hard to be different from others."

Jiang Yuanshen understood what he meant. Compared with the people around him, being different from everyone would be scary. Chaokong Yaoxing seemed to be a person who was stripped out of the frame.

Looking at his calm face, Jiang Yuan Shen couldn't help asking: "Is Mr. Igarashi in his 30s?"

"35."

"There is a feeling of having read countless stories."

"Maybe all I read is youth literature, please don't mind."

Looking at his smile, Jiang Yuanshen also smiled back.

"Mr. Igarashi, you are also obsessed with seeing the queen at night, right?"

The words of the young man in front of him made Igarashi's smile disappear suddenly, but then he raised his smile again and said:

"I think people of the same age had admiration for her at that time, and I was no exception. But it's all in the past."

Jiang Yuanshen showed a refreshing smile, and said, "Mr. Igarashi, may I go to the main hall?"

"What are you going to do in this hall?"

"I heard that the queen dolls of the past are all there, so I want to see them."

Igarashi's brows furrowed into a ball, kneading his chin with his fingers, he pondered for a long time and said, "I'm afraid this won't work."

The main hall of the shrine is the shrine where the gods and gods are housed, also known as the shrine. Normally, outsiders are not allowed to enter.

Jiang Yuanshen could also think of it, just when he was about to make a fool of himself——

"Usually, you can only enter on the festival day, and the next festival will be on the day of the annual Doll Kagura, which is September [-]th."

Igarashi said in a tone without any jokes or teasing,

"Before that, no one could go in, even for sanitation."

Jiang Yuanshen frowned bluntly and said, "Can't you even go in for sanitation?"

Igarashi nodded while stealing the paper, and suddenly lowered his head meaningfully to make tea and said:
"If the queen herself goes in, it's fine. At the same time, there are three keys to the gate of the shrine's main hall. One is in the hands of the palace secretary, and the other is in the hands of Jinghai Shenyue, the empress of Zhiniao Island."

Jiang Yuan carefully thought about these remarks, and immediately asked: "What about the other one?"

"The other one is probably at the bottom of Lake Kamo." Igarashi said with lowered eyes.

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Only then did Jiang Yuanshen really hit the nail on the head, and now he still doesn't know the fact that Yejian Xunzhi is still alive.

Time passed slowly, and he felt that the two of them talked about some meaningless topics again.

With the sun hanging in the middle, Jiangyuan Shinzai and Chaokong Yaoxing stood up, said goodbye to Igarashi for stealing the paper, and left Zhiniao Shrine.

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At the end of the downhill road, there is a wide blue sea. The vehicles at the foot of the mountain are like earthworms of different colors.

Under the shade of wild trees, when they arrived at the bus station, the two descended easily.

"The sky is so beautiful—"

Chaokong Yaoxing looked up at the blue and white sky, took a deep breath, even the air in his lungs was so fresh.

"Like Hawaiian shaved ice." Sitting beside her, Jiang Yuanshen said with a smile.

"I want to fly into the sky."

"I want to fly into space."

Chaokong shook his gaze from the sky to Jiang Yuanshen, as if her heart was blown back here like the wind.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Yuanshen smiled reflexively when she saw that she had been staring at him.

She smiled slightly, took a green leaf from Jiang Yuanshen's shoulder, and said flauntingly:
"The imprint of summer, Xiao Shen Get."

Jiang Yuanshen was stunned for a while, and said amusedly: "That's why you got it, after all, you discovered it."

"But this fell on your shoulders, and you don't want to give me everything. There are many on the tree. I want to be able to take it myself."

Chaokong Yaoxing raised his head and pointed to the countless green leaves on the tree.

The heavy bass of the wind sounded in the ears, and Jiang Yuan looked carefully at the mottled light and shadow that sifted down on the girl's small face.

Her figure is like a little bit of firm axis, more and more dazzling, full of glory.

"Yao Xing, are you a little different?" Jiang Yuanshen asked with his hands on his hips.

"Huh? Where? Could it be that you've gained weight! Don't do this kind of thing!"

"No, there's always a...better feeling."

"What's that saying?"

"But thank you for letting yourself come with me."

"It's not laissez-faire, I just want to see what you care about, I am willing to try everything again, I want to meet people you know, and you are also very concerned about this matter, I also want to be by your side for you Do something, because I think it's hard to be alone, and there's nothing to talk to on the road."

Muttering to the sky, Shaking Xing, her gaze focused on the distance, where the boatless ocean was covered with dazzling golden sand.

Jiang Yuanshen could feel his heart beating impatiently, and the upright face of the girl beside him, with slender eyelashes like a handicraft, was straight up.

She did not give her meticulous concern, but even so, it was the only one who shook the apricot as far as the first day and regarded herself as the only one.

Tracing the reason, what Zhaokong Yaoxing wants to get from himself is not just simple "concern".

Jiang Yuanshen's throat twitched slightly, but his lips parted and closed, but he couldn't give an answer.

To me, Chaokong Yaoxing is definitely special, I can no longer leave her to live alone, and even want to give her unconditional care.

The healthy legs faintly visible under her skirt, the incomparably cute smile, and even the sweet charm of the two of them that night made my heart flutter.

But on the other hand, my love for Kurosawa is undeniable, even if she is far away in Tokyo, I will definitely see her again one day.

Chao Kong shook Xing's fingers interlaced, straightened his hands, and stretched his body like stretching.

In the end, she looked at the sea and calmed down, with a sweet smile on the corner of her mouth.

"Xiao Shen, you may think of other girls in your heart, or you may not. But as long as you don't abandon me, then the person I will like for the rest of my life will only be you, Xiao Shen, and it cannot be anyone else."

The lyrical words penetrated into the dry land like raindrops and melted in his throat. Her love shone like rain and dew.

Jiang Yuanshen couldn't help looking at her, his cheeks were probably flushed too.

"Why are you saying this all of a sudden now? I'm not that good." He smiled softly.

He has no humility, because he doesn't think he is good from the bottom of his heart, otherwise Kurosawa Reai would not reject him.

"Maybe it's not very good, but Xiao Shen is special to me. I can accept being special."

Chaokong Yaoxing's small face was dyed cherry red, but his little hand quietly grabbed Jiang Yuanshen's clothes and said,
"So far, there is no one who can make me long for the distance. I think such a person will only have you, Xiao Shen, in this life."

Jiang Yuanshen couldn't give an answer without hesitation, the emotions rippling in his body were like muddled color seasoning, making him unable to figure out the color.

(End of this chapter)