Can't You Skip Dating? / Can't You Just Like the Body?

As a man, Akira Ogihara likes this kind of rationality. He turned around to start the car, and said with satisfaction, "Well, you just understand."

"...?"

Iwanaga Kotoko's head poked out from behind the seat with a swipe, and pressed Ogihara Akira's side face with a terrifying expression: "This is the end? Where's the comfort in the back???"

Ogihara Ming looked at her with a puzzled face: "Don't you understand the truth?"

"How can a girl be justified! Walking by such a cold river for so long! At least there should be a word of hard work!? And, and..."

Iwanaga Kotoko put her arm around Ogihara Akira's neck, and said very irritably: "Even if you tell me the purpose of giving the clothes to me! It won't cause me such a big psychological gap! This is obviously possible. Avoid it!"

Well, it is indeed possible to avoid it, it is just an unbearable one...

Ogihara Ming coughed twice in embarrassment, and cooperated with Iwanaga Kotoko's actions for the time being, and performed an unpleasant performance that made her feel angry.

"Ha-" Ghost Infant let out an unpleasant laugh, looking very happy.

As a result, Nanami slapped his head and couldn't laugh anymore.

After a good vent, Miss Iwanaga's mood basically stabilized, she loosened Ogihara Akira's neck, sat back in the back seat with a pouting mouth, and pulled out Ogihara Akira's clothes behind her and handed them forward.

Ogihara clearly waved his hand: "I can't be cold, you can wear it for a while, it will take a while before you can go back to the hotel."

Yanyong Qinzi was not polite, put Ogihara's clothes on again, and whispered: "You are so good to me, why do you always bully me..."

Ogihara Ming took out the compass and put it in the hands of the ghost baby, while "teaching" it to grasp, while responding: "For the sake of my willingness to act as a deterrent to you, you should pay the 'price' for it. "

"The price..." Iwanaga Kotoko pondered a little seriously, "If this is the price of gaining deterrent power, it's not bad, but it can't be replaced by an adult bullying... style...?"

Facing Qi Hai's sudden smile, Iwanaga Kotoko used great courage to say the last few words.

Then he scratched the hat on his head and asked cautiously, "Are you going to beat me again?"

Qi Hai said with a smile: "Miss Yanyong clearly understands why she can't teach her a lesson."

Yanyong Qinzi put both hands on the cane and replied seriously: "This is not to teach a lesson, but to break through the obstacles of love and dare to face the courage of the violent maid."

"...?"

In an indescribable silence, Ogihara Akira stepped on the accelerator and drove in the direction pointed by the compass in the ghost baby's hand.

As for how Iwanaga Kotoko will be dealt with tonight, and what price will be paid for her courage, it is not Ogihara Akira's business.

Chapter 190 The Passing Song

"Speaking of which, where are you going?"

Anyway, I have to wait until I go back after being beaten. Iwanaga Kotoko's mind is very open, and she finds that the direction is not to go back to the town, but to drive along the dark path without street lights, and she is still in the mood to ask.

Before Ogihara answered, she looked at the compass in Guiying's hand and asked, "Want to find his parents?"

"Yeah." Ogihara Ming sighed, but there was no impatience on his face, "This ghost baby has no resentment and hatred, it just happened to be a ghost after drowning, and Bai can't even understand human speech. , Although it can be easily transcended, but help people to the end, send the Buddha to the West, help him find his parents before transcending, and let’s get rid of the cause and effect of the world.”

"Is there no hatred and resentment..."

With the mentality of asking if he doesn't understand, Qi Hai asked: "Isn't it generally said that only people with resentment and obsession will turn into ghosts after death?"

Ogihara nodded slightly: "Indeed, people after death will naturally know the consequences of not reincarnating, even if they stay in the world and cannot be reborn, until the soul dissipates, they will also be guided by instinct. With a strong obsession, after death, they will usually go on the road obediently."

"Babies are actually guided in this way, but except for babies who die with special resentment, there are also some little guys who are simply not very obedient, won't follow that instinctive guidance and leave, and don't understand anything at all. Don’t overbirth. This is an extremely rare case, but if there are many, there will always be cases.”

"And the newly born baby has a very special spiritual energy. Once it remains in the world, it will be higher than the most common undead and can interfere with other human monsters."

Hearing this, Yanyong Qinzi said, "Isn't there a rumor that a newborn baby can see ghosts and ghosts? It's actually true, but later, as they grow up, they gradually lose sight of them and become a person who lives in the front of the world. Ordinary people."

Qi Hai looked at the ghost baby holding a compass in his arms, and said with a strange expression: "So, this is... not very obedient?"

"No accident, it should be." Ogi Yuanming replied casually, "According to the monsters, they only saw a pair of pure eyes under the water, although they do not agree with their aesthetics and words, but in these eyes There is really no negative emotion - even if there is malice, it is the 'innocence' malice in biological instinct."

Looking at the penetrating white eyes of Ghost Infant, Qi Hai did not agree.

After this explanation, Qi Hai's attention gradually shifted from the disgusting appearance of the ghost baby to why he became like this, and asked softly, "Did he get abandoned by his parents...?"

"I don't know..." Yanyong Qinzi was silent for a while, and then said slowly, "Maybe."

Other than that, there's no explanation for why a baby would drown in a river—although, to the extreme, one could think of an enemy stealing or robbing a couple's child and throwing it into the river, but the odds are still too low.

As for the kidnappers, they wouldn't throw the money into the river, so the main suspects could only be the children's parents.

Qi Hai shook his head slightly and murmured, "Why..."

"If you want to say why, there are actually many reasons." Ogihara Akira said, "There is a nursery rhyme called Tongxingge, you know."

Qi Hai was stunned: "I know..."

"If you can, sing it. I haven't had a chance to hear you sing since the last time. This song fits the occasion."

Nanami recalled the lyrics, and gently opened his mouth in the closed carriage on this small road with only the high beams of the vehicle.

"It's okay, it's okay

Where is this trail leading to?

This is God's path

Pass gently and go to the opposite side..."

Neon nursery rhymes are usually not as sunny and pleasant as throwing a handkerchief, but rather gloomy and infiltrating. For example, this popular song does not describe a happy life, but the poor family in the old days took the children they could not support. Killing on the mountain is to reduce the burden on the family, and also end the suffering of the child who cannot bear the hunger, so that the child can be reborn early.

After that chanting-like singing, Nanami also understood what Ogihara Akira meant.

"Can't you afford it..."

Akira Ogihara looked ahead, looking at the darkness that made it difficult to discern the road even with the high-beam searchlight, and said in a deep voice, "Yes, in addition to sending them to the mountains to kill, there are some people who can't start, will Putting the child down the river in the basin, hoping to be picked up and adopted, obviously, that is not necessarily a way of life, it can only be said to be a kind of self-comfort with hope."

"Even if it's not that era anymore, with a relatively complete welfare system, there are still people who are too poor to survive. It's just a matter of quantity."

Nanami nodded lightly, feeling a little heavy.

But when they looked up again, they found that Ogihara Akira and Iwanaga Kotoko didn't have a heavy expression at all. Instead, they were as relaxed as usual, and they were still in the mood to talk about how far they had to go and what time they could go back to rest.

Obviously, both of them are used to seeing life and death, including this kind of misery.

Seeing what Nanami was thinking, Ogihara said lightly: "Get used to it, life, old age, sickness and death are human nature. If you can't watch something, just take care of it, and do whatever you can, but there's no need to sink in your emotions. The more you meet, the psychological burden will be too heavy.”

Nanami agreed in a low voice, and also looked out of the pitch-black window, adjusting his mood.

Not only to obey, but also to keep up with Ogihara Akira.

And there is the example of Iwanaga Kotoko next to it, which is enough to show that these things are not unbearable at this age.

After that, there were only some scattered and trivial exchanges in the car, and after a while, the car drove into another town up the river.

This town looks a lot worse than before. At eleven o'clock, there are almost no people with lights on, let alone any open shops. At first glance, it looks like a ghost.

Under the social situation of aging and declining birthrate, there are not many deserted towns in such remote areas. Because they cannot provide much jobs and salaries, young people generally go to the cities to work, and basically only the elderly are left behind. Even if it's dawn, it won't be much better than it is now.

In front of an old apartment, Akira Ogihara stopped the car.

Yanyong Qinzi looked at the width of the side of the apartment and the hanging and crude iron stairs, and said silently, "How big is this apartment room, eight stacks? Ten stacks?"

The so-called stack refers to the size of a tatami. For example, "four-and-a-half", which is generally used as a synonym for snail dwelling, is a half-tatami as the center, and then four staggered to form a circle, with an area of ​​about seven square meters. , can only be said to meet the minimum housing needs.

In the city, such four-and-a-half-stacked apartments are actually not uncommon.

And in relatively sparsely populated remote villages and towns, an apartment of eight to ten stacks can already be said to be the minimum standard.

Ogihara Ming took the compass from the ghost baby, got out of the car, looked at the direction of the compass, and walked upstairs on the iron plate stairs erected on the outer wall of the side of the apartment.

In front of an apartment on the third floor, he knocked on the door.

There was no movement in the house for a long time.

However, Ogihara Akira said in a softer voice as if he had already faced others: "Lady, please be careful not to make too much noise, and calmly listen to what I say next - we are just taking your child with you. When I came back, I wanted to ask why you abandoned this child."

After speaking, Ogihara Akira stepped aside and pushed Nanami, who was holding the ghost baby, to the place facing the cat's eye on the door.

Suddenly, there was a scream of a woman who was full of fear and was forcibly suppressed, followed by a heavy landing sound.

"I said..." Yanyong Qinzi said with some objection, "I should say a few more words and give the other party some psychological preparation."

Ogihara Akira shrugged: "Then next time you talk."

"I think I'm coming this time."

Yanyong Qinzi walked to the door and said in a gentle voice: "Don't be afraid, your child has no resentment towards you, and we have no plans to do anything to you, just to understand the situation, if possible, can you open the door and chat? ."

After a while, the door was slowly opened, and what appeared behind the door was a simple interior with a panoramic view, and a woman standing alone in front of the door, trembling in fear.

Chapter 190 Two On The Road Together?

The woman's appearance is average, and her age is not old. At least there are no wrinkles on her face, but her skin is not very good, and she looks like the type that has suffered through life.

The subsequent exchanges were also conducted by Iwanaga Kotoko.

"Your child... oh, although you haven't admitted it yet, but out of trust in the gentleman next to me, I'm calling it that for the time being. It was your child who caused two women to fall into the river recently. , Considering the age of the victim and your child's lack of resentment, we briefly speculate that the motive is that your child wants to find a 'mother' to accompany him in the water."

"Today we caught him out. Well, it's the one who wants you to hold him. Then I came to you to find out what happened. What's your reason for throwing him into the water and drowning him?"

Welcoming the three of them into the door in fear, after listening to Iwanaga Kotoko's brief description and intention, the woman couldn't bear the huge stimulation any longer, and fell into tears in the collapse.

This is a very normal development, and it was expected before coming, so none of the three said a word, just waited quietly.

No matter whether it was maliciously killed or forced to be helpless, no mother could bear the drowning posture of her child, and then move her arms and legs to appear in front of her eyes.

Although it is impossible to identify whether it is his child from the appearance, but in the broken view of the three views and the equally shattering fear and guilt, that question has no place at all.

It was in the cry of this collapse that the woman knelt on the ground, constantly repenting, not daring to raise her head to look at the ghost baby.

"Yes, I put the child in the basin three months ago and let him float away along the river. I hope someone with a good heart can pick him up. I didn't want to drown him... But I really can't help it! I really can't take care of him..."

Nanami looked around the room.

There is a small compartment as a toilet, a simple stove bracket with a gas line under the window as a kitchen, and a double bed that is not spacious, as well as a very basic table cabinet, and many piles along the wall. Sundries, and the above things, are all in a space of less than ten square meters.

Yanyong Qinzi was also looking at the room, unmoved by the woman's cry, and even asked indifferently, "Where's the child's father?"

Speaking of this, the woman's cry was a little slower, but she still didn't dare to look up and said: "Dead, two months before the child was born, he drowned because of alcoholism, and it was also in that river..."

Yanyong Qinzi took out her mobile phone to inquire, and at the same time asked: "Severe alcoholism?"

"Yes, no matter what the situation at home is at all, as long as I go to drink after get off work every day, I can't stop it, but I didn't expect anything to happen to him."

"Are you and your child's father married?"