Tokyo Police

"Madam, your Umegakiya is said to have a history of 100 years. It's really amazing!" Miki said admiringly while eating the delicious Ichida persimmon.

"It's 132 years to be precise. Our Umegakiya is a hundred-year-old store. I took over from my mother. I didn't understand the business at the beginning, and I almost couldn't hold on to it. Fortunately, I got through it later. ..." Umegaki Mariko recalled the hardships of the year and couldn't help but sigh.

"It's really amazing that the proprietress supports the Umegakiya by herself..."

Lin Shuichi and Miki, you and I, together with Kanako and Hanagata's assistance, gradually opened up Umegaki Mariko's heart. Umegaki Mariko is now in her 40s and 50s, an age she likes to miss the past. Apart from discussing business with suppliers, she rarely has any chance to relax and chat. Although Umegaki Mariko has only just met young people like Lin Xiuyi, firstly, these young people are more talkative, and secondly, they have been together for a long time, and the distance between them has shortened a lot. Furthermore, building good relationships with guests is the way a hot spring hotel like Umegakiya does business. It is the highest philosophy of Umegakiya's management to let every guest who has visited Umegakiya treat this place as a place where they can truly relax.

"By the way, the lady boss! Kagata has always been interested in the legend of the treasure here. Your family has been operating here for a hundred years. Do you know any news about the treasure?" Lin Xiuyi pointed at Kagata and asked Umegaki Mariko, thanks Hua Xing has been obsessed with digging for treasures in underground rivers these days, which makes Lin Xiuyi's mention of treasures less abrupt.

"Treasure? You are all guests from Tokyo. You may not know our place. We have not been a rich place since ancient times. How could there be any treasure?" Umegaki Mariko said with a smile.

"But, Madam Boss! Didn't you just dug up four Warring States Golden Sentences in that river seven years ago?" Hua Xing asked reluctantly.

"By the way, the proprietress, I also heard from the village chief Yamamoto Kengo. When the village was in the most difficult time, someone once found Jin Xiaojuan in the wreckage of the Buddha Temple. So the treasure has something to do with it!" Kanako also struck while the iron was hot. said.

"Hey, so, could it be the Buddha's manifestation in the Buddha Temple? But don't the monks of the Buddha Temple kill the tourists who come to stay overnight? According to this, how could the Buddha appear in such a place..." Hua Xing said in advance Without knowing it, he wisely asked the question that Lin Xiuyi also wanted to ask.

"Nonsense! How could the masters of Buddha Temple do such a thing?" Umegaki Mariko's tone suddenly became serious, subconsciously refuting Kagata's point of view. But as soon as these words came out, the atmosphere that had been laughing and laughing a moment ago became awkward. Umegaki Mariko immediately realized that she had said too much to the guest, and quickly apologized and got up to leave, but was stopped by Lin Xiuyi.

"Madam Boss, how did you know that the masters of the Buddha Temple would not do this kind of thing, is there another version of this story circulating?" Lin Xiuyi asked curiously, the behavior of the Boss lady just now was really abnormal. It was abnormal as if this matter had an inseparable relationship with her.

"That's right, Madam! The one I just said was from the Internet. If this is not the case, wouldn't the monks in the Buddha Temple have suffered grievances for hundreds of years?" Hua Xing responded very quickly, seeing Lin Xiu's words Persuaded, also went to the market to change his mind. Lin Xiuyi is very nervous now, and he is especially looking forward to hearing something different from Mariko Umegaki. In any case, Umegaki Mariko's resistance to the widely circulated legend of demon monks here is very suspicious in itself. You must know that the legend of the demon monk trying to kill the money is related to the whereabouts of the treasure. Now even the tourist advertisements of the Buddha Village regard the legend of the demon monk trying to kill the money as a big selling point...

"Hey, don't say such things in the future! How could the masters of Buddha Temple do that kind of thing!" Hearing Huagata's initiative to change his words, Umegaki Mariko returned to his seat, and Lin Xiuyi poured a new cup of tea for Umegaki Mariko , Umegaki Mariko bowed and thanked. Then he slowly told a different story.

"I also heard from the elders in the past. It is said that there was indeed a group of defeated warriors who came to the Buddha Village and wanted to stay in the Buddha Temple! Because they escorted many female relatives, the masters of the Buddha Temple accepted them out of kindness. them!"

"It was right after the Battle of Tianmu Mountain, and the Takeda clan of the Jiafei Kingdom died. Nobunaga's coalition forces swept the entire Jiafei Kingdom, and any daimyo who dared to stop the Nobunaga whirlwind would have no good end."

"It was in this situation that a group of warriors who escorted their female relatives appeared in a remote rural area like Buddha Village. As long as you think about it a little, you will know that taking these people will definitely bring greatness to the Buddha Temple. Trouble."

"However, under this circumstance, the monks of the Buddha Temple chose to accept these people without hesitation. The warriors and female relatives were sheltered in the temple by the monks. Despite the chaos outside, the small Buddha Temple was like a paradise. calm."

"In this way, after more than half a year, the matter of the Buddha Temple was finally hidden from the villagers at the foot of the mountain! At that time, Jiafei was already under the control of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the bounty for the original name of Jiafei and his descendants was in full swing. The bounty was high enough to make everyone put down their conscience, so when the local villagers learned that there were warriors of unknown origin hidden in the Buddha Temple, they immediately went up the mountain and surrounded the Buddha Temple…”

"This small temple was the last shelter for these wandering samurai and daimyo's families, and a fierce fight was inevitable in those circumstances. But at this time, the monks of Buddha Temple proposed Another suggestion, they are willing to die in place of the samurai..."

After Umegaki Mariko talked about it, she stopped talking. She stood up and left. Lin Xiuyi looked at the back of her leaving and realized something in his heart. The other people present also looked at each other in dismay, immersed in another version of the legend and unable to extricate themselves.

If it's true as Umegaki Mariko said, aren't the eminent monks of Buddha Temple wronged for hundreds of years?

Lin Xiuyi quietly walked to Aizawa's side and whispered in his ear, "Aizawa, I have something to trouble you with! The deceased Ayu had a good friend named Miyu, who was also affected by Ayu shortly after his death. She died of illness. It is said that Miyu's ashes were sent back to her hometown by her boyfriend. I want you to help me check her boyfriend and find out what his origins are..."