See the spirit boy Gangji

"Hey, how is Ah Gang feeling? Is it really okay? The fever is cleared up in the morning, why don't I stay with you at home?" Nana put a rabbit doll in Ganga's arms, and put the back of her hand on it. Put it on the boy's forehead, and put it between his forehead to test the temperature.

"But mom, I want to see the shrine." The brown-haired boy stared at his toes, with a stubborn tone:

"I want to go to the shrine."

"There will definitely be more next year, and it will be the same when I go to see you next year!" Nana's mother said helplessly. She originally wanted to talk about the special event at the shrine today to pray for A Gang and Jiaguang, but she didn't expect A Gang insisted on going with him.

"The weather in October is starting to get colder, and climbing the mountain is very tiring. If Ah Gang is going, mom won't hug you." The short-haired woman said half-coaxingly:

"It's one o'clock now. In another 10 minutes, there will be a cartoon that Tsunayoshi likes to watch. Doesn't Ganga want to know what new props Doraemon will come up with today?"

A layer of confusion appeared on the boy's face. Just when Sawada Nana thought that the temptation of the cartoon was successful, Tsunayoshi said in a long voice: "Mom said before that there is another station that is also broadcasting. Tomorrow There will be a replay in the afternoon."

He spoke slowly like a little old man, and stared at Nana Sawada with big eyes without blinking: "I can watch it tomorrow, and then I can watch two episodes in a row tomorrow."

"Am I right? Mom." He asked seriously.

"Oh? Yah." Nana couldn't hold back when she heard this, "Why do you remember this kind of thing so clearly every time?"

"It would be great if, Tsuna, you could memorize Chinese texts and use this kind of memory." Sawada Nana patted her forehead almost helplessly, and said in a compromise: "Okay, okay, put on your yellow coat, people are more If there are too many, I have to make you more conspicuous! Did you almost get lost last time?"

"Yeah!" Gang Ji cheered and kissed the doll in his hand and ran into the room. After a while, the brown-haired boy was wearing a bright yellow windbreaker and stepping on shiny black leather shoes." Pat, Pat, and ran over.

Nana Sawada straightened the boy's two long bunny ears on the back of his coat. "It's like a bunny group," she looked at the doll that Gangji was holding in her hand: "Do you have to take it with you when you go out?"

Gangji nodded vigorously.

"Okay, okay." Nana Sawada patted the boy's head.

Bingsheng is a small place, and there were not many people a few years ago, and most of them are permanent residents here.

Many of the people who visited the shrine in this special festival went in the morning. When Nana brought Tsunayoshi, there were actually not many people, but climbing the mountain was indeed a tiring thing.

The shrine is relatively far from the community, usually in the more remote suburbs, and can be reached by bus.

According to the local residents, this shrine was left a long time ago, and people have been worshiping here since a long time ago, and it is very prestigious in the hearts of the local people.

There is a clear difference between the surrounding air and the urban area that fed I and II, with a very strong smell of soil and leaves after rain.

Tall red torii gates similar to torii are erected in the soil, and the red paint on the columns has become less bright due to age.

Tsuna saw the dark brown logs exposed inside, and he reached out his hand to touch the red and black mottled marks, but Nana stopped him.

"The torii is used to remind visitors to pay special attention to all behaviors after entering this place. It is etiquette. Tsunayoshi is not allowed to touch casually. This is disrespectful to the gods."

Nana's mother led Tsunaki up the steps.

There are thick ropes made of straw spreading on both sides of the steps, and the white paper strips tied to the Shimenawa ropes sway with the wind in the forest, like white butterflies swaying.

"How about it, Ah Gang, are you tired, do you need your mother to hug you?"

The steps of the shrine are a bit steep. Not far away, a parent with a child couldn't stand the girl's acting like a baby, so he just hugged the little girl in his arms. The little girl was lying on her father's back, with two dark eyes Curiously looking at Nana Sawada and Tsunayoshi behind.

"Tired?"

Gangji shook.

"Ah Gang, if you are tired, you can say it." Nana's mother touched the boy's head in surprise. She remembered that the boy would cry for a long time on the way to school. Why is he so good today?Probably because he felt that his own child was a little bit brave, he smiled: "Ah Gang can be regarded as a young adult."

The brown-haired child moved his ankles, but it wasn't very sore.

Probably because he was one year older, Tsuna thought.

So I got stronger.

"Remember to wash your hands, Gang." Nana took the boy to a pool, and whispered to the boy beside him that this is the Shuishui Club, a place where you need to wash your hands.It is a ritual to show your sincerity only when you clean your hands and mouth.

The maiden in a white dress and a red dress scooped up a spoonful of water with a polished wooden utensil and poured it into Tsunayoshi's palm.The cold water penetrated his palm, making the boy shiver involuntarily, but he was still in a happy mood, and the reason was very simple, because he hadn't seen those strange things since he went up the mountain.

"It's so clean here." His voice became lively and bright.

A witch next to her replied with a smile: "Of course, this is a place blessed by [Lady Weeping], everything is clean."

weep……?female?Tsunayoshi feels that this is not a title that a normal shrine has.

"Yes, Miss Weeping Girl." The witch repeated with a smile, her tone full of piety.

It was only then that Gangji realized that this witch was a little different from what he had imagined, and she didn't look young anymore.

In fact, judging from her appearance, she is much older than Nana Sawada, so no matter how you look at it, she should not play the role of a shrine maiden.

The eyes of this 40-year-old woman flickered with Gangji's incomprehensible look: "There was a severe drought here a long time ago."

Then what…?Gangji listened carefully.

"We sent sacrifices to the mountains, and we held ceremonies, hoping to get a gift from heaven."

The witch said: "That's when the weeping lady appeared."

"Master Crying Girl is very sad when she sees this picture of the poor people. Back then, many children as old as you starved to death in the famine." The expression of the woman in the red and white witch costume became mournful. : "How great and benevolent she is. Seeing our tragic scene, her tears kept flowing, turning into rain, falling from the sky, and flowing into the lakes and fields."

"Her tears flowed long and became the spring water in the mountain, and also this clean pool."

"The Weeping Girl saved the land."

"We have dedicated her every year since then."

The witch stretched out her hand, as if she wanted to touch the hair of the brown-haired boy in front of her, but Tsuna avoided it subconsciously.

The witch's hand stopped in the air, and Tsuna stepped back timidly.

The woman smiled, she didn't seem to care about the boy's vigilance, she used a look that seemed to be looking at a disobedient and naughty child, but there was an indescribable compassion and kindness in it, This kind of look made Gangji feel inexplicably disliked: "Oh, you are so cute. The crying lady likes cute children the most. She will definitely smile for you."

Tsuna didn't reply, he hugged the rabbit in his arms tightly, and ran towards Nana's mother opposite.

Nana was taking off an omori when she saw Tsunayoshi running over and put the green cloth bag in the boy's hand.

"Doesn't it look good?" Nana Sawada said, "It's a mormori who protects health."

"Okay, now let's go to the cash box in front of the hall!"

The previous father and daughter were Hey Ⅰ and Ⅱ in front of Nana and the others. Now that they had finished praying, they walked past Tsunayoshi with a smile on their faces.

Nana patted Tsunayoshi, "Have you remembered the etiquette I said earlier? It's your turn, Gang, go ahead."

etiquette?What are the etiquette steps?Gang Ji stepped forward in a panic, oh, yes, I remembered, it was two bows, two claps and one bow.

He stared at his head and bent down, and bowed twice to the wooden box in front of him where the gods were enshrined.

Then put his hands together in front of his chest... Tsuna raised his hand, stared at the wooden box, and clapped his left hand to his right.

two beats...

Take two shots.

"Snapped--"

"Snapped--"

The bells on the four corners of the wooden box were blown by a breeze, making a sound.

Finally, a bow.

He looked up, and the boy was about to pull the bell rope.

He met the face of a weeping woman.

——Blessing God Box.

was opened.

【Weeping girl】

She has a crying face.

This face is very ordinary, not good-looking.

She is very young, her mouth is curved and split, and the gums can be seen, but she gives people a kind smile like an elder.

She is very old, her eyebrows are twisted together, and there are many wrinkles on her forehead that are raised and sunken like ugly oranges, and a pair of eyes that have been squinted due to crying reveal a cold look.

Like a rat in the sewer, the flesh-colored thick tail with ugly pubic hair swept over the human skin, just thinking about it made me feel sick and goosebumps stood on end.

Tears flowed from her eyes, and fell down along the "tick-tock-tick" of the box, reminding Gangji of the tap that was not turned off. The eye sockets of this face were red and swollen, probably due to long-term crying, even the whites of the eyes Filled with bloodshot eyes that were so dense that they could not be seen clearly, the entire eyes seemed to be covered with a blood-red film except for the black pupil, which made people feel that the tears she left were also blood-colored.

No sound came out of that smiling mouth, it was just cracked, and there were black holes through the teeth.

Such a face was hidden in a small box.

Her tears fell on Tsuna's hands.

Like ice.

Biting cold.

They are falling along the wooden box.

How could anyone shed so many tears?It was as if there was an endless amount of water in her body, as if her eyeballs would be flushed out by the tears in their sockets in the next second.

The boy's hand trembled, and he raised his hand to ring the bell, but he didn't hold it tight, and the bell didn't ring.

Weeping eyes moved up and down with his movements.

Sawada Tsunayoshi's face turned pale.He raised his hand and rang the bell again.

"Dingling—" the bell rang, and the woman turned her head away.

Gang Ji clasped his hands together in front of his chest, his teeth collided and trembled softly in his mouth, which was barely visible.

Make a wish...?

Xu, what wish...?

He didn't think about anything at this moment, because the woman's head had been completely twisted out.

What is a human being made of?

First, a head, the head is very important, then the neck, the neck connects the upper body torso, the two hands, and the two legs of the lower body.

As a child who is not good in academic performance and sports, most of his peers are unwilling to stay with him to play, making friends with the useless wood gang will appear to be out of place, and the boy who is slightly older than him is out of mischief His needs would love to run over and frighten him.

He remembered that an older brother ran over and told him a story called "The Snake with a Human Face".It's about a village where a woman gave birth to a freak.The child was thrown into the wilderness as soon as it was born.

The monster is covered with scales all over its body, with a human head and a snake's body.

The weird combination of unheard of people and cold-blooded animals was enough to make Tsunayoshi's scalp tingle at the time.

Tsuna stared intently at what was in front of him.

He couldn't understand why such a weirdness could be defined as a god.

The woman's neck is thick and long.Like a knotted earthworm or more flexible flesh-colored water pipes.

Boneless bent into a circular arc in a flexible twist, he tilted his head to stare at the boy.

A pair of weeping eyes stared at the boy like poison, the pupils were like blood.

Inside the smiling lips is the endless abyss connected to the neck.

The woman just stared at him without saying a word.Thin cold sweat broke out in the palm of Gangji's palm.

The brown-haired child lowered his eyes, and his thin eyelashes trembled. His mind was really blank, and he couldn't think of anything.

Tsuna didn't make a wish.

He stiffened and walked back to Nana's mother behind him.The monster's neck was still extending, extending, like a piece of flesh-colored rubber that could be stretched infinitely, following him along with the boy's side.

Until Tsunayoshi Sawada stood in front of the red gate at the entrance of the shrine.The weeping girl stopped slowly, raised her drooping eyes upwards, opened her mouth suddenly, rubbed the back of Gang Ji's neck and rushed to the opposite tree.

Sawada Tsunayoshi felt the speed of the foreign body passing over his neck. From the corner of his eye, the weeping girl rushed up to a bird's nest on the tree, and her square die directly crushed the newly born chick inside. .

The scream of the chick only lasted a second before dissipating in the air, and the fricative sound of eggshells and bones shattering and cracking tormented the boy's hearing.

The witch who was in charge of the water tank before did not know when she stood under the banyan tree, holding a broom in her hand to clean up the feather residues on the ground.

The elderly miko saw the brown-haired boy standing at the gate of the torii gate, with an unclear expression on his face, she seemed a little regretful, but still had a loving smile.

Her smile is the same as that of a weeping girl.

"また游びにきてね."

The miko bent down and bowed to the two of them.

--see you next time.

The brown-haired boy pulled up the hood of his clothes to cover his face, and turned his head away. The boy held the doll in one hand, and tightly grasped Nana Sawada's hand with the other hand, and moved toward Walking down the mountain, he didn't sit in the back seat until he got into the car, and put the doll in his arms.

"Why is Ganga walking so fast? Really, Mom can't keep up with you." Nana Sawada sat next to Tsunayoshi, panting slightly.

"How about Gang? Do you think the shrine is fun? It will be the New Year soon, and then you can bring Gang to watch the beautiful shrine dance."

Tsuna had no expression on her face, staring at her shoes.

"No," the boy pursed his lips, "I won't come next time." He never came to this place again.

"Eh?" Nana Sawada looked puzzled.She doesn't quite understand.

"The book is full of lies." Gang Ji hugged the rabbit doll, his voice seemed sticky inside the doll.

Gang Ji's snow-white face was a little smoky pink under the clothes, and he didn't know whether it was blown by the mountain wind that came up before or because he realized it later.

The book clearly stated that the shrine is a good place, a place where you can get good luck, but it was clearly taught in the Chinese textbook, Tsunayoshi was about to cry out of anger.

He felt that he had been greatly deceived, why should the textbook lie.

"Hey, I think Tamasho Shrine is very good?" Sawada Nana was a little puzzled: "Maybe it's because the season is not so good, it should come in June and July, and June and July are the seasons when hydrangeas are in full bloom. There are more than 8000 hydrangeas, especially the location of Temizuya, which looks very beautiful, and it must have been very popular at that time!"

Gangji was stunned for a moment, he hugged the rabbit doll, looked up at Nana, and repeated hesitantly: "Yu, Yushang Shrine?"

Isn't it the Weeping Goddess? !

"That's right, didn't you notice the name sign next to you when Gang went in?" Sawada Nana took out a piece of fruit candy from her pocket and handed it to the boy: "You child, remember to read the name of the street sign when you walk. Let's take a seat now." This car also has a name on it."

"It's okay to be so dazed all the time."

"Just now that young hello Ⅰ and Ⅱ little witch praised you for being cute." Nana happily took out the shou, which was embroidered with beautiful hydrangea balls, and the word "Jade Clothes" was crocheted on the golden embroidery thread.

Tsunayoshi looked at the green amulet in his pocket.It's the same pattern above.

"I'm blinded."

"But I still won't come next time." Tsunaki said slowly, with a blank expression on his face, "If I had known earlier, I might as well watch cartoons at home."

"Gang! You wanted to come by yourself!" Sawada Nana gently pinched the boy's face, what are the kids thinking now. "Do you need me to repeat to Kid Sawada about your stalking before you went out?"

"I'm sorry..." the boy apologized honestly with candy in his mouth.

"Oh, don't think it's just a one-off." Nana Sawada said helplessly.

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"In short, that's it. It is said that in the past, people specially sent children as sacrifices to pray for blessings like mountain gods."

Gang Ji said slowly: "Send children of a few years old to the mountain, pray for the mercy of the gods, and give them fertile soil and rain." Those children who were sent up the mountain were probably killed by wild animals or some unknown things. eaten.

"At night, the sharp cries of children can be heard coming from the mountains."

"Hmm..." Gang Ji was so sleepy that he couldn't keep his eyes open. "Maybe that's the story..."

"Master, younger brother...?" Dino called softly, but no one responded. He poked his head slightly and saw that the brown-haired boy had closed his eyes and was breathing evenly.

Why can I still fall asleep telling this kind of story! ?Dino turned over and silently looked at the ceiling above his head.

The blond man thought of the long-necked woman.

Dino: "..."

He couldn't sleep.

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The author has something to say:

Weeping Girl: Refer to "From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Bookstore" for the appearance. 》Beauty Snake

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