Escape from the world [Cthulhu]

When the sun went down and the sky was covered with a dark coat, the parents of the two teenagers finally came back.

He Ying originally thought that such a poor family should have only these two children, but the facts were unexpected. When the couple went to the fields, they brought two more. They seemed to be the eldest son and the eldest daughter. At the age of four or five, the whole family is equally thin.

"Hello, I'm Tamura." After listening to the two children's narration, the father of the family, as the head of the family, came to greet He Ying and the others, "The two children are not sensible, and they neglected you in the afternoon. I'm really sorry... If you don't mind, the two of you can have dinner with us."

I missed the dinner time at the shrine, and now I don’t know if there is any food to eat when I go back... He Ying thought about it, and nodded happily: "If it doesn't cause trouble to the husband's family, of course I am willing."

Mrs. Tiancun took her eldest daughter to work in the kitchen. Mr. Tiancun arranged for the three sons to pack the farm tools and clothes used today. Then he brought a small stool and sat under the tree with the two investigators and began to chat.

Mr. Tamura spoke first: "I don't know if there is anything I can do to help you two?"

"If possible, I would like to know some information about the town." He Ying said.

Mr. Tamura fully agreed: "Of course it's no problem, as long as I know, I will tell the truth."

He Ying and Chu Lishu were the same, and then He Ying asked: "Mr. Tian Cun seems to have known that foreigners like us would come? Do you also know about the appearance of the black cat?"

"We know it, because when Mr. Zhongdai first learned about the black cat, he arranged for people to search every household for black cats—although everyone didn't have the guts to do so, they still seemed worried that there would be children. It’s a prank.” Mr. Tamura smiled, a little embarrassed, “This incident was a big one, and everyone was a little scared. Later, Mr. Zhongdai said that he would invite someone to come back to investigate and we were relieved.”

Chu Lishu asked: "You seem to trust Master Zhongdai very much?"

"Of course!" Mr. Tamura said without hesitation, "The masters are all good people. Although Master Zhongdai has the worst temper, he is a very upright person. It is the best way for him to decide."

"Where are the other masters?" He Ying continued, "Your house is very close to Master Moriyama's house. Are you tenants of the Morita family?"

"Yes, we are tenants of Master Moriyama's family," Mr. Tamura showed a proud expression, "Master Moriyama is an excellent and kind person, and he treats his tenants very kindly. Everyone envies us."

"Since Master Mori Shan is so kind, then your family should..." Chu Lishu considered his words, and then said, "You should be richer."

Mr. Tamura slumped his shoulders: "Our family was indeed relatively rich before... It's just that my youngest daughter had a serious illness before, and we spent all the money in the family in order to treat her. Some foreign debts."

He Ying asked, "Is her illness cured?"

"..." Mr. Tamura shook his head, and then said, "Fortunately, there is Master Moriyama. If he hadn't adopted my little daughter, I'm afraid that child would have..."

He Ying keenly noticed something was wrong: "I heard today that Master Moriyama's daughter Nami is also in poor health..."

"Ah, Nami is my child." Mr. Tamura looked at He Ying with bright eyes, "After she was adopted by Mr. Moriyama, we didn't hear much about her. How is she now? Has she recovered? ? Have you seen it?"

Chu Lishu looked at Mr. Tiancun quite unexpectedly: "So that's how it is... We haven't seen her, only heard that she was sent to the capital to recuperate. It seems that she is recovering, and it may take a while to recover." return."

"That's really great." Mr. Tamura cried with joy, "It's better than anything else that she survived."

"It's really unfortunate for her to be born in our family..."

The dinner at Tamura's family is very simple, especially hard for a modern person like He Ying who is used to eating white rice.

I don't know what it is made of. The rice is rough and hard to swallow, and the side dish is only a small dish of pickled cucumbers.

In comparison, the meal prepared by the shrine maiden at noon is simply a delicacy.

And... He Ying looked at the meals in the bowls of the children on the left and right, and then at her own.

I'm afraid they took away the family's original rations.

He Ying approached Chu Lishu: "Leave some money for them when we leave."

"Are you donating to charity?"

"No." He Ying shook her head, "I'm afraid it's a pension."

It was already late when they returned to the shrine, and some houses on the street had already turned off their lights.

Yan An and the others were still waiting for them, but An Lan's silly child was already sleeping dimly against the wall with the quilt in his arms.

"You guys are back." Lian Yu said with a smile, "Yan An was so worried that he almost went out to find you."

"Don't add any inner drama to me." Yan'an sneered at Lianyu with a cold face, then turned around and fired at He Ying and the others, "Junior high school students know that they have to tell their family members in advance when they return home late, right? Don't tell me it is Involved into a different dimension by the space-time rift."

He Ying wondered why Boss Yan was quite familiar with the routines of the second-year work, but he obediently admitted his mistake: "I met a family on the way back today, and I thought they might find something, so I stayed there and waited for their parents to come back. "

Yan An opened her mouth to spit at people, but seeing Chu Lishu's indifferent smiling face, she didn't want to talk anymore—no matter how much she said, He Ying, a silly child, would still jump into the pit: "Forget it, what do you have? Discover?"

"We know who Nami is." He Ying immediately told about the situation of Tamura's family, and then concluded, "I suspect that Nami was killed long ago."

Lianyu nodded, and then said: "We didn't get anything special from going to Kurimaki's house today. Mr. Kurimaki's character is weaker than we imagined, and his fear of death is also beyond our imagination, but he insists that he has nothing. Know."

"No gain at all?" An Lan didn't know when she woke up, and asked while wiping her saliva.

"One thing." Yan An said, "When we first entered the door, we automatically went through an investigation. After it was extremely difficult to succeed, I found a small cat paw print on his clothes, and he seemed to know nothing about it. Know."

"At this time...there is such a cat's paw print on my body, it's very suspicious." He Ying thought for a moment, then asked An Xian, "What about you? Have you gained anything from Master Cangyuan?"

An Xian shook her head: "We couldn't go into Zang Yuan's house."

The author has something to say: I am so tired... May heaven not work overtime