little finger

Will Yinshi like me?Gui was very puzzled.

Impossible, who would roundabout kick and beat up the person he likes in various ways. Thinking of the way he got along with each other over the years, Gui felt that it was a miracle that he survived.However, how to explain the collections hidden in every part of the house of masters...

Could it be that Yinshi knew his secret, knew that he looked at him with eyes beyond friendship?

Gui is a little confused, he has absolute confidence to hide his feelings well so that no one will find out, but he leaked his thoughts once.After a victory, Sakamoto clamored to celebrate and relieve stress, so the group went to Hana Street.Gintoki robbed Takasugi for a woman as usual, but of course he lost, so he could only drink sullenly while cursing the little man to die.

Back then, Gui was still a wild and noble son, so he was naturally unrestrained and drank a lot, but after he met a wandering girl, he immediately ran to bite Bai Yasha's ear: "That woman over there is missing a little finger, I'm afraid She tried to escape and was arrested and imprisoned, so we should help her."

"Wig, you looked at it carefully, but you must not know the reason." Bai Yasha took a sip, and said with a hint of alcohol: "Your girls are mostly involuntary, and you can't be with someone you really like, so In order to show their sincerity and loyalty, they will cut off their little fingers as tokens and give them to their sweethearts. When a man carries his severed finger on his body, it also shows that he accepts this relationship and that he will not change his mind. Even if the two cannot be together , even if we are separated in the remotest corners of the earth, as long as the promise of severed fingers is still there, this friendship will not be broken. Of course, these are all voluntary, and you cannot save her."

"There is still such a saying." Gui looked at his hand, and suddenly asked with the strength of alcohol: "Then I will also cut off this little finger and give it to you. Do you dare to take it?"

"Wig, are you really a fool? You can't hold a knife without your little finger." Yinshi raised his head and drank the remaining half glass of wine: "And I, for your rotten finger The head is not interested..."

"Hahahaha, I'm joking with you, and I actually took it seriously." The four words "no interest" hurt Gui's heart severely. What Yasha said at the time was: "I, Yinsang, I hope that your organs will grow on your body well, and I will be satisfied to see that you are safe and healthy, and live a healthy life."

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"If there is a conflict over there, you should escape here in the style of running away from Kotaro. If you are injured, you should hide in an abandoned farmhouse or Orion House to avoid the limelight. The Shinsengumi is conducting a carpet search, and it should be earlier than them. Find the wig first." As expected of his childhood sweetheart who has known him for many years, Bai Yasha quickly guessed Gui's escape route and rushed to the area where he could find traces.

Not long after, Gui also chased after him from Wanshiwu, and began to worry that Yinshi would find his body.After all, only this person didn't want to see that miserable death.

"Dingchundian, stop, they say dogs have spiritual vision, you should be able to see me. Listen, for your master's sake, don't take him to the place where I died." Gui Lan In front of the big dog who smells and is running towards the flood tunnel.It's a pity that the dog not only couldn't see him, it didn't even feel the slightest bit. It went straight through the translucent party leader and barked at the tunnel entrance not far away that was covered in weeds.

"Stop, Dingchundian, please!" I couldn't imagine Yinshi's expression when he saw that tattered corpse, and he couldn't even imagine that he could only watch him despair.He even wished that he had never seen Bai Yasha's unknown side, and it would be easier to think that he was indifferent to him from the beginning to the end.

"You look troubled, do you need my help?" Just when Gui was at a loss, a woman's head slowly emerged from the river, with wet long black hair sticking to her face, only two shining eyes were exposed .

On the night of the murderous night, when the moon was dark and the wind was high, a ghost suddenly floated over, and the leader of the party was so frightened that he yelled, "Ghost!"

"Aren't you a ghost too..." The female ghost looked at the furry Gui without a word, and then turned to Dingchun. Somehow, she made the big dog howl and run away with its tail between its legs.Thinking that there was a clue, Yinshi naturally rode away on the little sheep, leaving behind two ghosts with big eyes and small eyes, and the atmosphere was awkward for a while.

In the end, it was the female ghost who spoke first and introduced herself: "My name is Sakura, and I died in this river about 15 years ago. Because the time is longer and the spiritual power is stronger, it can slightly affect those creatures with stronger inspiration in this world. , so we can scare that dog away."

"I see. Thank you very much for your help just now. Ah, I'm Kotaro Katsura, and my hobbies are fighting barbarians and stroking meat balls. I just died less than two days ago, and I don't have much experience yet. Please take care of me." Like a newcomer entering the company The standard introduction made Sakura laugh so hard that she couldn't straighten her waist. She floated out of the water and sat sideways on the shore. After pulling her hair back, she turned out to be a beautiful woman: "You must be very confused now, although I'm not a veteran Ghost, but it can still answer some of your questions, I think you should really want to know why you failed to ascend to heaven and become a Buddha."

The confusion of just dying, anxiety about the future, and various questions prompted Gui to ask Senior Ghost many questions.

Sure enough, it was the first time he lost his life and had no experience, so he made a mistake in a key point.I thought that it was because I still had nostalgia for the human world that I couldn't disappear and enter the reincarnation smoothly, but I didn't expect that the root cause was that the corpse was not disposed of.According to Sakura's introduction, there are roughly two types of ghosts that stay in the human world, one is the guy who harbors great pain and resentment and finally loses his mind and becomes a ghost, and the other is the soul that temporarily stays in the human world before the corpse is buried.

Gui's sanity is clear and his attitude is peaceful, obviously not the first type!

A ghost like him, because he has no religious belief, can be liberated as long as the corpse returns to nature even if there are no monks.But before cremation or burial, the soul will be bound by the body, so Gui was suddenly dragged from Yoshihara to the flood tunnel, because that time was the moment when he died.

It will be like this until the burial, forced to return to the body every midnight.

"It's cruel, I know. Few people can accept the process of watching their body decompose and rot. I have seen many souls lying dead in the wild, and they all collapsed in the end. I hope your luck can It's better, I was discovered earlier." Sakura sighed, her eyes were full of sympathy.

If burial is not possible, the body can only wait for the body to decompose in nature until it completely returns to the dust before ascending to heaven and becoming a Buddha.This process is very long, and it is also related to climate and humidity. In some places, it is hot and dry, the body will be mummified, and the soul will be bound in place for hundreds or thousands of years.Usually such a soul will be distorted by a long time in the end and become an evil spirit.

Just thinking about it makes me feel so sad.

"Dingchundian, come back to me!" Gui was full of black lines, thinking that it was a wrong decision to drive away the big dog just now.If I miss this opportunity to be discovered, I don’t know when I will be able to ascend to heaven...

"I'm sorry, my spiritual pressure can keep that dog away from here at least five kilometers." Sakura looked at the mad leader a little apologetically, her voice full of apology: "I thought you didn't want your lover to see your dead body, that's why Do something superfluous."

"Who, who likes that guy, we are all men. And it's not superfluous, I am very grateful for your help." Gui was a little flustered when the central matter was mentioned.

"I was sold to Yoshiwara when I was very young. From serving the prince with a bad temper to becoming a prince myself, the little thing of observing words and emotions can't stop me." Sakura laughed, and she was indeed charming: "But you also Don’t worry too much, the weather is still hot now, your body will decompose in a few days, as long as someone passes by and smells it, they should call the police.”

"It would be bad if the body fell into the hands of the Shinsengumi. If it was used as bait to attack my companions and subordinates, it would be the end. It seems that it is better to die in Takasugi, ah, that's not right, it will be killed there. If you become a puppet, then you will never be reborn forever.” No matter which path you choose, it will not end well, and the leader of the party is very embarrassed: “Sakura, may I ask a question, you have been here for 15 years, don’t you have a dead body yet? Return to nature? As far as I know, a corpse soaked in water should decompose in half a year, why haven't you been relieved for so long?"

"Indeed, my skeleton that sank into the water has been naturally decomposed." Sakura sighed, with lingering sadness in her eyes: "But my heart is with someone else, as long as that heart keeps beating, I will There is no way to escape from the bondage of death."

Sakura's story is like a late-night love drama. The beautiful Taifu Yoshihara falls in love with a poor boy and is willing to abandon everything to be with him.The two fled in the middle of the night, hiding in the east and west to avoid being chased and killed, and finally settled in a remote mountain village. Under the witness of the moon, they privately decided their lives and lived a long-awaited happy life.But whether it is a novel or a TV series, literary and artistic works always only talk about the beauty of love, but never mention the misfortune after marriage.

A woman raised as a Taifu, she is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting but can't cook vegetables, rice, oil and salt.A man who thought he would marry a rich geisha, but lost his bags when he fled in a hurry, and became impoverished again, and he didn't have the ability to make money to support his family.

There is no sweetness in daily life, and quarreling over three meals has become commonplace. Apart from the gorgeous clothes and jewelry, the oiran, who is no longer surrounded by people, has lost her attractiveness in the eyes of men.

So, he sold the woman he had promised to love all his life to someone else.

"Although I am a woman from Yoshiwara, I am also a clean person. I can make money with my own hands, and I don't want to cling to men to live, so I cut my face and ran away." Not all love stories have A perfect ending, a marriage that often looks like a fairy tale, but ends in hell: "He took the money but couldn't hand it over, and the other party cut off his right hand as punishment, so he held a grudge against me, and he didn't know where to start. From what sources did I learn that a well-known frail and sickly rich lady is waiting for a heart transplant, and I just happened to be a successful match."

"So I was caught by his design, handed over to that group of people, and finally died on the operating table." Like telling someone else's story, she recounted all this calmly, as if it had nothing to do with her: "The corpse was matted Wrapped, tied stones and sank into this river. I was also crazy at the beginning, and there was only hatred in my eyes. But I can’t interfere with this world, so I can’t take revenge. I can only witness his decline as a bystander , still can’t fill the empty heart.”

"He was addicted to alcohol and gambling. In less than half a year, he squandered all the money he got from selling me. Not to mention his debts, he also offended people in the underworld and was hunted down everywhere." Ying didn't say anything about that man. However, he said something else: "After a year, my body completely returned to nature. I thought I could finally be freed, but every day at the moment of death, I would be dragged to the rich lady's side. At first I was very painful, but After seeing that girl grow up, I gradually calmed down."

"The child didn't know where her heart came from. Although she had a father who didn't hesitate to dirty her hands to save the child, she remained kind and strong. When she grew up, she left the family and refused to inherit the wealth of the world. Married to a ramen chef and opened a small noodle shop." Speaking of this woman who inherited her heart, Sakura has no hatred at all, but has a kind of love of a mother watching her daughter grow.

She showed a bitter smile and continued: "She finally married love, but unfortunately, the husband who loved her deeply couldn't go further with his wife. After the husband died of illness, although the child was heartbroken, he was still independent. Supporting the noodle shop, I vowed to protect the ramen shop left by my husband. And I have been by her side, or she has been by my side, although we have no communication, and she can't feel me, but by her side , I experienced an unprecedented peace. The hole in my heart seemed to be slowly closing, and I even felt that it would be good to continue like this, and it would be a blessing for us to ascend to heaven together when she dies."

"Mr. Gui, I actually saw you a long time ago, in that kid's shop, at Beidou Xinxuan." Sakura looked at the sky, and then at Gui: "Speaking of which, the silver-haired samurai just now is also a regular customer. , I have seen him many times, and sometimes I can hear him babbling when he is drunk that he likes a natural dumb with a stupid head. So I want to tell you one thing, your sweetheart cares more than you think you!"