Chapter 282: This Woman Is No Good
Nan Yuanman stepped into the range of the small fishing village, and suddenly a particularly shrill and sharp cry came to her ears: “Child… my child… ah—!”
“Ugh!” Nan Yuanman frowned and subconsciously raised her hand to cover her ears.
But even if her ears were covered, that shrill cry still drilled into her ears, and at the same time, someone was whispering: “Save me… who can come save me…”
“Kill me… please… kill me…”
“Die… let me die…”
“It hurts… Mom… it hurts so much…”
“What did I do wrong… why do this to me…”
Most of these words were from China people, a few were from r country people, she couldn’t understand the r country people’s language, but she could still feel the despair in the voices.
Feng Congqian noticed Nan Yuanman’s abnormality first, he immediately stopped and tightly held Nan Yuanman in his arms, suppressing his anxiety in his heart and softly calling her: “Perfection, Perfection.”
Ueda Yuki saw them stop and came forward concernedly to ask: “What’s wrong with her?”
Feng Congqian held Nan Yuanman and vigilantly retreated two steps, before he could speak, Nan Yuanman who was chanting the mind-clearing incantation in her heart had already returned to normal, she gripped Feng Congqian’s wrist, her voice milky: “Daddy, I’m fine, don’t worry.”
Her expression was complex, she deeply looked at Ueda Yuki once.
The words she heard just now were the obsessions left behind after the vengeful ghosts’ souls flew away and dispersed, from these obsessions it could be seen that the miko in Ueda Yuki’s mouth was not a good person.
Which miko could tolerate the existence of vengeful ghost obsessions on her own territory? And which miko would use walking corpses as her own guards?
“Good that you’re fine.” Ueda Yuki breathed a sigh of relief, her expression quickly became cheerful again: “Tomorrow you can meet the Great Miko, at that time the Great Miko will surely bless you.”
Nan Yuanman hugged Feng Congqian’s neck and softly hummed.
She was also looking forward to it, to be able to meet that kind Great Miko.
Perhaps because outsiders often came to the small fishing village, the villagers they met on the way to Ueda Yuki’s house all had a demeanor of having seen it all before.
These villagers were different from the villagers in China villages, not warm, not talkative, upon seeing strangers they just watched vigilantly from afar.
When Feng Congqian looked over, they were like vigilant cats, immediately slamming the door shut.
Ueda Yuki shrugged: “That’s just their personality, you don’t need to mind.”
Feng Congqian lightly nodded.
Ueda Yuki’s home was at the village end of the small fishing village, a very shabby small tiled house, with several salted fish hanging under the eaves, no electricity yet, lighting tools still candles.
There were only two rooms in the small tiled house, Ueda Yuki cleared out the room she slept in for them, embarrassedly saying: “It’s a bit crude, I hope you don’t mind.”
Feng Congqian shook his head: “We don’t mind.”
“Then you rest first, I’ll go cook.” A brilliant smile appeared on Ueda Yuki’s face, she left those words and humming a song went to that crude kitchen.
As soon as she left, Feng Congqian immediately took out his mobile phone and sent his location news to Feng Yuli.
To have him handle the wounded properly, then bring people over for support, in case of accidents.
Nan Yuanman took out the small incense burner stuffed into the small coffin, the incense smoke direction on the incense burner was still drifting toward the east, she recalled the environment when she just entered the small fishing village, there was nothing special in the east, only a few not very high hillsides.
She vaguely had an intuition that Second Brother was in that Great Miko’s hands.
But she hadn’t seen any trace of the shrine on the road, probably hidden by a formation.
Nan Yuanman held the incense burner and thought for a while, flipped out several amulets and attack talismans from her small shoulder bag and handed them to Feng Congqian, whispering softly: “Daddy, take these talismans, they can protect you.”
Feng Congqian didn’t act pretentious, took them and properly put them away.
The father and daughter vigilantly didn’t talk much, afraid that the walls had ears.
Soon, Ueda Yuki finished cooking and brought the dinner, her dinner was very simple, a fish of unknown breed, a bowl of clear soup, and a small box of natto.
She enthusiastically picked up the natto, opened it and handed it to Nan Yuanman: “This is delicious, try it.”
Nan Yuanman really hadn’t seen this kind of sticky, stringy beans, under Ueda Yuki’s expectant gaze, she used chopsticks to pick up a bit and carefully put it in her mouth.
The next second, her steamed bun face instantly wrinkled up.
How to describe this texture?
It was like eating a small mouthful of sticky snot, sticky and slimy, bitter and sour and sweet and salty, and smelly.
She used great willpower to not rudely spit it out in front of Ueda Yuki.
Ueda Yuki looked expectant: “How is it, delicious, right?”
“Mm.” Nan Yuanman didn’t speak, very miserably gave a thumbs up.
Dinner was painfully finished, Nan Yuanman like a small lump of poop, limp and sprawled in Feng Congqian’s arms recovering.
Ueda Yuki sat on the ground, curiously asking Feng Congqian what the outside world was like.
Feng Congqian patiently answered her various questions that sounded very ordinary.
Ueda Yuki had a yearning look, her eyes carrying a bit of regret: “If only I could go out and see, but unfortunately, I can’t leave the village.”
Feng Congqian’s brow twitched slightly: “Why can’t you leave?”
“We were saved back by the Great Miko, we have the Great Miko’s mark on our bodies, we must worship at her side generation after generation, cannot leave at will, otherwise we’ll get strange illnesses and die.”
Ueda Yuki seemed to remember something, her thin body couldn’t help trembling: “Before, Uncle Hatada didn’t listen to advice and left the village, but in three days, he fell ill and died.”
“When his family brought his corpse back, I saw it once, his whole body was rotted, very scary.”
Nan Yuanman perked up her little ears: “His whole body was rotted?”
Feng Congqian translated her words to Ueda Yuki, Ueda Yuki nodded vigorously: “Yes, just like a person buried in the soil for several years, rotted away.”
“Ah, why am I telling you this, it’ll scare you and keep you from sleeping.” Ueda Yuki patted her head, smiled kindly at Nan Yuanman, stood up: “It’s very late now, you rest first, tomorrow I’ll take you to the shrine to see the Great Miko.”
Nan Yuanman obediently waved her hand: “Sister, good night.”
Ueda Yuki: “Good night.”
One night without dreams.
Nan Yuanman and Feng Congqian didn’t dare sleep too deeply, as soon as it was light they woke up.
Ueda Yuki woke earlier than them, even made breakfast, greeted them to eat breakfast, then she changed into the only new clothes at home, and took Nan Yuanman and Feng Congqian to the shrine.
The road from the small fishing village to the shrine wasn’t far, it was the direction the smoke drifted to that Nan Yuanman saw last night.
Ueda Yuki led them over the small hillside, to a small temple, as soon as they approached, Nan Yuanman saw the intricate pattern drawn on the ground, similar to what she saw on the spider silk before.
Nan Yuanman blinked, sure enough, it was a formation.
Ueda Yuki knelt piously in front of the temple, softly saying: “Ueda Yuki requests to see the Great Miko.”
As her words fell, ripples appeared in the space in front of the small temple, a stone steps covered in moss leading up the hillside appeared before the three.
A gentle female voice slowly rang out: “Come in.”
Ueda Yuki was delighted, led Nan Yuanman and Feng Congqian onto that mossy stone steps.
