Rain Girl's Revenge

"Look, gentlemen, this is the small island where we have lived for generations." Inoue Ichiro smiled roughly, the beard on his chin trembled with his laughter, and his face was full of flesh. , At first glance, it may scare children to tears.

"It's really a nice island—" Carter covered his eyes with his hands, looked at the island carefully, and couldn't help but admire.

This is indeed a pretty perfect island. The island is covered with lush forests, and the chirping of birds can be heard closer. There are several red and black torii gates looming in the forest. The whole town is like a diamond. Just inlaid in the middle of the island, it adds a touch of vitality to this gorgeous crown.Get closer, and you can see wisps of hot air slowly rising from the forest——

"Is there a hot spring here?"

"Yes, the forest hot springs are of very good quality! If you two are free, you can go and enjoy them. It feels very good!"

"Hey - from this point of view, this island is simply a paradise island. No wonder many people are eyeing it. If I remember correctly, it seems that the Lan Group is planning to open a resort hotel here Bar?"

"Ah, really." As if thinking about what happened yesterday, Inoue Ichiro smiled very reluctantly at the moment, "You two really have great powers, we haven't received the specific notice yet, the town is just spreading the word, we It's just heard, heard."

"It's just nonsense!" Mieko slapped the table angrily, "I'll ask him to make an argument!"

At this time, the two had already returned to the guest house, and were sitting in the dining room of the guest house to rest, chatting with Mieko.Seeing that Mieko was so angry at first glance, neither of them came back to their senses.

"I'm sorry we were rude. We didn't mean to talk too much about Lan's affairs. Please forgive me." Grammer glared at Carter and quickly pulled him to apologize, but Carter still stared in a daze and didn't recover. Come.

"It's not about this." Mieko waved her hand, sat down again, and took a sip of tea, "I'm angry because of the hot spring."

"Hot springs?" Carter was a little dazed, and Grammer took a sip of tea without saying a word.

Mieko touched the side of the teacup, she didn't seem to know how to speak, she finally said after a long while, "You'd better not go to that place."

"Why?" Carter seemed to turn into a curious baby, asking the bottom line like breaking the casserole.

Mieko was silent again, Carter and Grammer didn't bother to urge her, they just watched her sitting there in a daze, and after a long, long time, they dryly squeezed out a sentence:

"Because it's a forbidden area."

"Forbidden place?" Ever since the two of them dug out the word from Mieko, Mieko seemed to be a different person. She sat silently for less than a quarter of an hour before making excuses that she had something to do and left the restaurant. Carter and Grammer wandered the streets boredly.

"This word doesn't exist in ordinary towns," Carter mused over there, "but this can also explain why we saw a hot spring in the forest, but not only did no villagers come out of it on the way here, but there was no inn. There's a hot spring sign on it. What do you think?"

"I think the answer we want to know will be revealed soon." Grammer gestured at the map in his hand all the way, as if he had been looking for something.

"Hey, that's interesting. Let's go!" Carter laughed and followed casually.

So, the two of them made seven turns and eight turns on the avenue, and after taking a lot of detours, they finally arrived——

"Town Museum?" Carter pointed to the big sign at the door and looked left and right for a long time. In the end, he was even worried that there was something wrong with his Japanese level, so he pulled the aunt who passed by and asked what those words meant. Before he finished asking, Grammer pulled his collar with a dark face and dragged him away in a gesture of dragging garbage.Then, with a very skillful gesture, Grammer threw Carter sharply, and it happened to land at the entrance of the museum.

"Fuck!" This was probably the first time this lazy young man uttered swear words in a foreign country, and the most important thing was that he felt a lot better after vomit.Rubbing his face that hurt from the fall, Carter muttered softly: "I don't remember villains." Grammer covered his mouth and dragged him into the museum again.

It seems that because it is not a public holiday, the museum looks deserted.The entire museum is not big, and the collection is not rich. Only a few exhibits are placed alone in the glass showcase, which looks very lonely.

Grammer glanced at a painting on the wall near the door, showing a woman in a kimono blowing into the sea as a ship plows through rough seas.The whole painting is very skillful and the picture is very contagious. Grammer and Carter felt that they were fishermen on the boat in the painting, struggling on the rough sea, begging the woman to stop the wind in her mouth rainstorm.But the woman seemed to have been confused by anger, and she continued to cast spells non-stop. The fishermen gave up struggling, leaving only despair in their hearts. They all knelt on the small wooden boat and prayed to God for the last time. At this moment, A big wave suddenly hit -

"Please be careful." A voice suddenly broke the scene in front of them. Grammer and Carter turned their heads in horror, only to see a middle-aged man with a kind face standing behind them at some point, holding the two of them who were about to fall. lower body

"Oh--thank--thank you." Grammer quickly pulled Carter to thank the middle-aged man, wiped off his sweat, but suddenly found that his whole body was soaked in cold sweat, as if he had just stepped out of the water Same as fished out.

It was clearly summer, but Grammer shivered involuntarily as he stood in the sunlight at the entrance.

"Cough-cough--" Carter woke up a little later than Grammer, and just after waking up, he coughed continuously, as if he was choking on water.

"Are you okay?" The gentle middle-aged man handed Carter a glass of water, and Carter swallowed involuntarily, and it took him a while to recover.

"Cough—it's okay, thank you." Carter waved his hands again and again, trying to make his expression normal.

"Many people will have this reaction after seeing this painting. You two are in good physical condition, and you will be fine after a little rest."

"Thank you, sorry for your troubles."

Grammer watched the figure of the man gradually go away, as if thinking of something, but he couldn't concentrate.He could only reluctantly move his eyes to the painting again, looking at the woman who showed strong hatred on the painting, the string in his heart was slightly twitched.

"Phew - I was scared to death. I almost thought I was going to die." Carter took a sip of water and took a deep breath.

"Yeah—for a moment, compared with nature, I felt like an ant—" Grammer's heartbeat couldn't calm down for a long time.Although I always say this sentence, there is never a moment when this sentence seems so true.

The two looked at each other, and they both saw shock in each other's eyes. After a wry smile, they stopped talking.

Two rolls of towels suddenly appeared in front of the two of them. When they looked up, they saw a gentle smile on the middle-aged man's face: "You two are all wet, wipe it with a towel, maybe it will be better."

The two quickly thanked them, took the towel, and were wiping it, when the man said in a chatty tone: "Are you two foreigners? Are you here for sightseeing on this small island?"

"Well, yes. I'm usually too busy with work, so I finally had a chance to go out for a walk." Carter hesitated and hurriedly asked the subject: "Uncle, who painted this painting?"

The middle-aged man didn't answer, but first showed a smile that was gratified and proud but a little distressed, and asked the two of them: "Do you think this painting is very good?"

"Yeah," Carter agreed indiscriminately, but Grammer spoke after thinking for a while: "Actually——I personally think that this painting may not be very good in terms of painting skills alone, but it is rare. The emotion that goes into it. It feels like — it’s like putting your all into the painting.”

"Oh?" The middle-aged man seemed to be suddenly interested, and turned his head to ask Grammer: "In your opinion, if this painter can grow up, what will happen in the future?"

"In time, he will definitely become another Katsushika Hokusai!" Grammer's tone was full of affirmation.

"Hahaha——" Grammer's words hit the middle-aged man's smile, and he suddenly laughed out loud regardless of his image. There was seven parts of pride in that laughter, and three parts of sigh. After laughing for a while, he Suddenly he muttered to himself again: "Another Katsushika Hokusai—good! good! good!"

Grammer and Carter clearly saw a few crystal clear tears flowing from the corner of his eyes.

After a while, the man seemed to have calmed down, wiped the corners of his eyes, and said in a choked voice: "It's so hot, even your eyes are sweating—come with me."

"?" Carter and Grammer were a little puzzled, but they still followed the middle-aged man without any doubt.

"Sir, may I ask—"

"Don't be confused." The man seemed to have guessed something, and stopped their doubts with a smile. "Go straight ahead, everything you want to know has the answer ahead."

"Everything you want has a cause and effect." Somehow, such a sentence emerged in Grammer's mind.Pursing his lips, suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, he raised his legs and walked forward with Carter.

The strange thing is that the exhibition hall is not far ahead, but the two feel that the road is infinitely long - as if they are passing through a long time and space tunnel, trying to get in touch with the mysteries buried in the past.

"The history of our small island is not very long, it can be traced back to the shogunate period—" The middle-aged man led them forward and introduced the history of the small island to them in detail.

Indeed, as the man said, the history of the island is not long.In the middle and late period of the Muromachi shogunate, a group of ronin tried to harass China, which was still the Ming Dynasty at that time, but they were beaten to pieces and fled in all directions.A group of people found this uninhabited island on the way back to China and decided to settle here. This is the origin of the history of this island.Later, after a series of disputes and multiple re-planning, the island became what it is today.

While Carter and Grammer listened intently, they thought secretly in their hearts: Everything you ask for can be answered.Where is the so-called solution?

The man stopped suddenly, smiled slightly, turned around and said to the two: "Our small island has three secrets."