Chapter 589 Agreement

"Is this song popular in your place?" The one who asked this question was Luo He, whose pair of deep blue eyes made him very special among the crowd.

Being stared at by these eyes, the woman lowered her head and spoke in a lower voice, "Actually not very popular, just near my hometown."

Through the woman's introduction, everyone learned that the woman came from a small place. There was a temple in her hometown, which enshrined the god representing the straw man.

Every year when the cherry blossoms are about to wither, someone will come to the temple to ask the priest on duty for a straw man, and the straw man will be taken home and placed under the cherry tree.

Luo He's eyes swept across the faces of several women, and when they were swept by his eyes, several timid women lowered their heads and trembled all over.

Retracting his gaze, Luo He looked at the woman who spoke again, "Are you all from the same place?"

"Yes." The woman answered in a low voice, "We moved here together. The people in Huishi Town are all from my hometown."

Everyone understood what the woman meant. The Japanese in Huishi Town all came from the same place. It seems that the soldiers first occupied this place by force, and then brought their families and fellow villagers with them.

After all, Dongyang is an island country with very poor land and resources.

This is very common in wars and can be regarded as the prototype of the pioneer group.

On the basis of armed occupation, cultural invasion is added to gradually blur the Chinese people's sense of identity. Compared with simply resorting to force, this is a means of destroying the country and the race.

"What's your name?" Jiang Cheng stared at the woman and asked.

The woman hugged the child tightly and said in a very low voice: "Just call me Yoko."

Jiang Cheng nodded, without hesitation, and said directly: "Okay, Yoko, you have been around here all the time, right?"

Yoko suddenly raised her head, and a flash of panic flashed in her eyes. Jiang Cheng saw it and explained calmly: "Don't be afraid, I may have some questions to ask you during this period."

"We are not always here, we are all" Yoko couldn't continue speaking halfway. Obviously, their current situation is not good.

I am afraid that they will go wherever they can find a bite to eat. There is no fixed place to stay, and they may even be driven around.

"How about this, you stay around here for the next few days, and I may come to you at any time." Jiang Cheng said: "As a reward, I want all these things of yours, how about it?"

The eyes of several women lit up when they heard it. They raised their heads carefully and looked at Jiang Cheng's face, as if they were trying to tell whether what he said was true or just teasing them for fun.

"Hurry up, how much?" Jiang Cheng frowned.

"No money, one for each steamed bun." Yoko stretched out a finger and said quickly.

She was still holding a steamed bun in her hand, which Jiang Cheng and the others had just given her, and she hadn't had time to eat it yet.

"Okay." Jiang Cheng agreed, and then pointed to a corner not far away, where there was a very simple stall, white steam was coming out of the stove, and there were trays of steamed buns in the huge steamer.

They bought their steamed buns from here.

"Do you see that stall? I'll go and talk to the boss in a while. You can go there to get steamed buns these days. I'll deposit some money in advance, and your account will be deducted from it."

"But you can only eat steamed buns, don't think about vegetables and buns, and you can only eat, you can't take, do you understand?" Jiang Cheng asked.

Yoko and the others nodded repeatedly, "I understand."

Before leaving, Jiang Cheng turned around and warned them that if he came and found that they were not there, the agreement would be invalid.

"Wait." Jiang Cheng, who had already walked a few steps, heard someone calling him. He turned around and found that it was Yoko running up with small steps. She was carrying a cloth bag with a bulging bag inside. Yoko stopped and looked at him very seriously and said, "You forgot to take your things."

The remaining Japanese women stood not far away and watched.

Opening the cloth bag, there were some small toys inside, the rough dolls made of broken pieces that they had seen before, as well as small mirrors, wooden combs and the like.

They were all things they couldn't use.

"Keep it for yourself, it's useless for us to take it." Linghu Yong refused very straightforwardly. He didn't have a very good face for these women.

Just when everyone was about to leave, Yoko seemed to have made up her mind and took out a small cloth bag from her wide sleeves.

The cloth bag was wrapped around her arm tightly, and it seemed that there was something very precious inside.

This move aroused everyone's curiosity. They watched Yoko carefully open the cloth bag bit by bit, seemingly worried about damaging something inside.

But when everyone saw what was inside, they were stunned for a moment, and then a cold chill enveloped them.

"Please accept this gift." Yoko held the gift with both hands and bowed to Jiang Cheng exaggeratedly, "Consider it my reward to you!"

Under the gaze of more than a dozen people, a crudely made straw man lay quietly in Yoko's hands, exactly the same as the straw men he had seen on the altar of Feng Mansion before.

"This straw man" looked at Yoko, and Zhao Xingguo rolled his throat a few times, "Where did it come from?"

Half an hour later, in a teahouse on the street, the waiter carried a huge teapot upstairs to make tea for the guests in the private room.

Originally, he wanted to say something flattering to ask for some tips, but after feeling the depressing atmosphere in the private room, the waiter still tactfully withdrew.

In the private room, four people sat around the only table, Jiang Cheng, Lin Wan'er, Luo He, Zhao Xingguo, and the rest stood behind them.

A straw man wrapped in cloth lay quietly in the middle of the table.

Perhaps it was a psychological effect, the face without facial features became more and more weird after looking at it for a long time, as if it would pull out a weird smile at any time.

Zhao Xingguo looked a little irritated, and drank the boiling hot tea in one gulp, and put the teacup on the table with a "dong". "This straw man is the same as the one on the altar. I think Pandu's current state is also related to the straw man." Zhao Xingguo said viciously.

After all, everyone remembers that Pandu was the first person to touch the straw man with his hand on the altar.

What's more surprising is that Yoko said that this straw man was asked for from the temple in her hometown, because she didn't find a suitable opportunity to make a wish, so she kept it with her.

"Is this ghost not from our local area, but from Japan?" Pi Ruan's question sounded a little strange at first, but it was very appropriate when you think about it carefully.

"Perhaps it's not just the ghost inside the door. The disciple who carries this door may also be from the East." Luo He analyzed: "The disciple is from the East. He followed his companions and came to Huishi Town from afar, but he couldn't withstand the erosion and was attacked by the door. The ghost behind the door ran out."