spooky love

Out of the creaking and squeaking sound of pulling a heavy cart, he said:

"Yes, yes, yes..."

"Ah, thank you very much."

Amy spoke in a very excited voice.Toad blinked quickly:

"But you want me to eat it as a price. 』

Dema's back trembled.

"I was mentally prepared for this."

The toad opened its mouth wide, and before Dama could see whether the other party was about to bend forward, it swallowed Ami in one go.

"lady!"

Dama galloped out of the thick grass.The toad turned around, spitting out its red tongue, a pair of bright black eyes like amber bottles (Note 5) glared sharply at the child.

"what are you? 』

Dema couldn't move on the spot, his legs trembling with fear.Although he had seen ghosts and youkai many times so far, this was the first time he had come face to face with them.Ever since he became sensible, Dema has often seen existences that do not belong to this world. Similarly, Ami can also see.Ami often told Dema: "Even if you can see it, you have to pretend not to see it. If you don't pay attention, it may be harmful to yourself."

"do what?Can I help you? 』

Dema asked frightenedly:

"Is the lady dead?"

The toad replied with a squeaking "squeak" sound: "I have eaten her." 』

"Will the young master be saved?"

"I already promised her. 』

Dema felt that Ryoichiro was very pitiful, even though Ami worried a lot, he still loved his mother very much.When he thought that he would never see his mother again, De Ma felt a pain in his chest as if he felt the same.Dema knelt in front of the toad whose mouth opened and closed like a fish, and saluted respectfully:

"Please be merciful, the young master is still young, can you give me some of my wife's relics? Even a hair."

The toad let out a "goo":

"It's already been eaten. 』

"Please... please."

Toad cooed like a cow.

"You've already asked me like this, so it's not impossible to consider it.The price is..."

Satake Ryoichiro closed the latticed door roughly, and stepped on the lace-up boots, rattling on the stepping stones.When he entered the house, he took off his boots on the dirt, and the mother-in-law across the corridor poked out her wrinkled face like a dried persimmon, and said with a smile, "Oh, sir, you came back so early." He just said He responded indifferently with an "um" and then stepped into the corridor, and then walked with loud footsteps.

"Dema, Dema!"

He called Dema's name loudly, walked to the Japanese room, threw down the black leather bag, threw the folded hat on the tatami, and then sat cross-legged heavily in front of the alcove, crossing his arms and frowning.Not long after, Tokuma Tanaka walked in with his kimono sleeves tied up (Note 6), wiped the sweat from his fair forehead, and smiled.

"...What's so funny?"

De Ma just smiled and snapped his fingers on his temples.

"Is it funny that I'm angry?"

Dema nodded and knelt down in front of Ryoichiro.Through the open paper door, he could see the courtyard outside. He pointed to the courtyard and made a raking gesture with his right hand on the tatami.

"What, so you were cleaning the yard just now?"

He nodded slowly.

"What's the use of sweeping? No matter how much you sweep, as long as the petals are not completely gone, they will still fall down. Isn't sweeping useless?"

The old cherry trees in the garden are in full bloom.In an extremely narrow area, sweet tea (note 7), evergreen rhododendron (note 8), and plum leaf (note 9) are also densely planted, and flowers are blooming.In this rented home, the cherry blossoms were originally planted in the garden, and the small flowers were all planted by Ryoichiro.

"Sir, do I need some tea for you?"

The mother-in-law asked with a face from the corridor.

"Okay, please. Give Dema a glass too."

"Okay, okay."

The mother-in-law answered easily, then went back and immediately served hot tea.At the same time as he smelled the fragrance, Ryoichiro gave a "hmm" and tilted his head thinking:

"It smells so familiar."

The mother-in-law said, "Isn't it?" and nodded slightly.

"Bought this when Dama returned home."

"Oh..." He murmured and took a sip. The rough tea in the country has a simple taste without pretentiousness.Last month, Ryoichiro asked Dema to go back to his hometown for two weeks because Toma received a telegram that his mother had fallen ill.Although Dema's mother was so seriously ill that she couldn't stand up at one point, fortunately the medicine prescribed by the doctor was very effective, and she recovered within four to five days.Dema said that her mother had never been ill, and this time she was bedridden with a cold, which hit her hard.

"So, the car can drive to your hometown now?"

Dema smiled.

"Is Tomie feeling better?"

He nodded slowly.

"That's good."

The mother-in-law sighed as she put down the tea tray, "Actually..."

"It's really hard to take care of the master during the time when Dema is not here. Let's not talk about anything else. When he woke up in the morning and opened his eyes, the first thing he said was 'Dema'..."

The mother-in-law whispered with deep emotion.Although Ryoichiro said strongly and decisively: "What's so hard!" She shook her head and said: "No, no, no."

"I brought you washing water, either because it was too cold or too hot. It was still cold in the early spring morning, and I prepared a thick shirt for you, but you were angry and said, "It's not winter, can such thick clothes fit your upper body?" Until You still complain before going to bed. Even if you are given a quilt, you still think it’s too far away from the paper door and too many quilts to sleep, don’t you?”

In front of Dema, Ryoichiro was short.He winked at her mother-in-law and clicked his tongue to imply that she should stop talking, but the woman didn't stop talking when she got excited:

"If you want to be the master's wife, you must first learn the "rules" of the master from Dama."

Ryoichiro got angry and said excitedly: "What are my rules? You can do whatever you want!" But the mother-in-law didn't know if she had finished what she wanted to say, and she was willing to leave the Japanese room early.Losing the target to vent his anger, he smacked his tongue and said "Bastard, bastard", while turning around and lying on the tatami mat, rolling around in displeasure for a while, before finally falling on the double-folded cushion lie down.

"Dema, help me rub my shoulders."

The other party came to Ryoichiro's side silently, and sat on his back, and immediately felt a weight on his lumbar spine.

Just imagining the distance between the opponent's legs and his own with only a layer of cloth, Ryoichiro's lower body began to heat up; the opponent pressed his shoulder hard, and the obscene touch seemed to be slowly and deeply felt along with the comfortable feeling. Rendered into the body, spread to the whole body.

"I originally thought that the so-called university was a place where knowledgeable and ambitious people gathered, but I really can't generalize it."

Even though he knew that Tokuma could not speak and would not answer, Ryoichiro continued to say:

"During the day, I went to a soba noodle shop with my teaching assistant and a few students. At that time, I happened to talk about things in the country. I said that I went to join in the fun when I was a child, and I saw public executions... It must be some people who believed that foreigners would strip people. People who took oil from skins launched a peasant uprising, and the leader was beheaded, right? You also went to see it together, you should still remember. But when I talked about it, the teaching assistant Fukushima actually said, "Emperor Meiji ruled the world, and there are still people." Believe that foreigners will extract oil from people? It’s ridiculous, your hometown is full of barbarians.』”

Ryoichiro lay on his stomach, thumping the tatami with his fists.

"I also mentioned that in the koji festival "cow driving", the sacrificial cows disappear in the shrine grounds every year, but at this time he snorted again and laughed at me, "someone who is in charge of this kind of work must hide the cows Get up and make them look like they've disappeared. I can imagine it just by listening to it, don't you really believe that cows will disappear when you grow up so old?" I was so angry that I took the half-eaten Soba noodles were poured over his head, and he was called an "asshole".

He told Dema "It's ok", and Dema got off him.Face to face, Ryoichiro suddenly felt embarrassed about his mother-in-law's constant complaints.

"Go ahead and sweep the floor."

Dema nodded and walked out of the Japanese room.Ryoichiro was still rolling around on the tatami, but attracted by the brisk sound of a bamboo broom sweeping the courtyard, he came to the corridor (Note 10).

Dema carefully cleaned up the scraps of paper and flower petals that fell in the small courtyard at dusk, and gathered them together.His face was so white that it was almost transparent. I heard that people from the Northeast would absorb the snow and turn their skin white, so Dema was often mistaken for a northerner.His mother, Fu Jiang, was quite dark-skinned, so if he was to say who she looked like, it would probably be like Dema's dead father.

His head and face are very small, and his facial features are very clear. On the whole, he looks like a girl, with a slender figure, but he has the unique sportsmanship of the country.

When Ryoichiro was 16 years old, he brought his nanny Tanaka Tomie's son Tokuma to Tokyo to attend the preparatory course of Daiichi High School. After completing the preparatory course and undergraduate course, he entered university.

When he left the country nine years ago, he said, "I want to take Dema to Tokyo."

His father was surprised when he heard this: "What use will it be useful to take a boy who can't speak?"

After hearing this, he replied: "I have a lot of problems. Compared with the servant who talks about everything, Dema who can't talk is just right."

Father laughed.

Although he brought Dema to Tokyo under the pretext that "someone must take care of the trivial things around him", in fact he didn't want to leave his older brothers with the same breasts in the countryside.Ryoichiro decided to go to the East