Tomo-sama's Rescue Plan - Hell Chapter

late spring.The breeze blew through the cherry tree outside the window, and the last petals of the cherry blossoms fell on the table.

The girl was lying on the table and writing something earnestly. There was a thick piece of paper beside her. On the paper, the lines of handwriting were still immature, some were crossed out, smeared, and new words were added.

"Xiaobai, do you think he will receive my letter?"

Under the warm sun by the window, the big blue snake slowly spit out its forked tongue, lazily motionless.

"I write like this, can you listen to me?" The girl picked up a piece of paper and began to read the words on it seriously.

"Little God of the Bliss Sect, have you returned to the capital yet?"

"Are the cherry blossoms in Kyoto still in bloom? It rained yesterday in Edo Castle, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter. I ate delicious yokan with wormwood, and I really want to give you a taste."

"I practice Kagura dance every day, and I can show you the next time we meet. Have you copied the scriptures I gave you? Please work hard."

"Where did you go later? Will those people still cry to you?"

She thought about it, picked up a pen and erased the line, and wrote a new line:

"...Where did you go later? Did you see any beautiful scenery? The flowers on both sides of the Arakawa River are blooming, including morning glory, dandelion, and yakuza, and the hydrangeas in the shrine are also blooming very well. The mountains should be more beautiful, right?"

The paper door was pulled open, and a maid sat kneeling outside the door with her head bowed.

"Lord Bai Ji, Ah Chun was also recalled by Lord Liusheng. Now I am the only maid by your side. There is so much work at the shrine, and it is impossible to finish. Would you like to apologize to the lord and madam? No So stubborn."

The girl calmly put down the pen and paper.

"I won't apologize," she insisted. "The child said that I didn't do anything wrong. It was Brother Asong who made the trouble first. I wrote to my father and told him that he beat me on the street. It was his fault to let the Son of God of the Bliss Cult cut his hands and pray for him."

"But..." The waitress didn't say any more.

It is said that Mrs. Fujiyue had already withheld those letters and threw them directly into the firewood stove.

Since Mrs. Fujitsuki brought her son to the shrine that day, something happened, and Miko-sama's life became more and more difficult every day.Not only was the monthly salary deducted in half, even the food and vegetables sent were much less, and the rice was replaced with broken rice, not to mention the fruits and snacks before.

But Miko-sama is still very energetic. Even if she eats pickled radishes with rice, she still copies scriptures, practices dancing, and goes crazy on the mountain every day.

This poor eight-year-old girl might as well have been born in a commoner's family.

The maid sighed secretly, bowed slightly and closed the door.

The girl's gaze returned to the table, picked up a small silver bell in front of her, put it in her palm and touched it lovingly.

"Xiaobai, I'm so happy to know that child." She said with a smile.

"I finally have a friend. Of course, Xiaobai is also my friend, but that child is different."

She tilted her head and thought for a while, "He's never afraid, and he's so gentle. He still has such a beautiful light, maybe he really is the son of a god."

"He said he hoped everyone would get happiness from him."

"Xiaobai, I want to be like him."

The girl rested her chin, her eyes sparkling with longing.

"He will definitely become a great person when he grows up, and I have to work hard too. That's the decision!"

midsummer.The weather is not hot, and the cherry trees on the mountain behind the shrine have grown small fruits.The girl under the tree reached out to reach the nearest branch, and after a few times, she lowered her arms in discouragement, looking eagerly at the small reddish attractive balls on the branches.

The big snake slowly climbed up the tree, wrapped its long blue scaled tail around the branch and twisted it lightly, and a whole branch with fruit fell in front of the girl.

"Xiaobai is awesome!" The girl clapped her hands and smiled, "I know Xiaobai is the best."

The snake coiled on the tree, lowered its head slightly towards her, and there was no wave in its golden vertical pupils.The girl stuffed the cherry into her mouth, and her face immediately wrinkled.

"very sour!"

Then he raised his hand to tease the snake: "Xiaobai, do you want to eat it? It's very sour."

Snake turned his head aside disdainfully.

The girl was sitting under the tree holding cherries, looking at the distant Arakawa below the mountain.There was little rain this summer, and the weather was not warm. The fields on both sides of the bank seemed listless under the drought, and even the water level in the river dropped a lot.

"This year's harvest looks so bad, and there are a lot of bugs." The girl said to herself, "Ah Jing said that her family can no longer eat rice, only sweet potatoes. Xiaobai's words can make the river Do you have more water?" She looked up at the snake on the tree, "Xiao Bai is a god, so he must be able to do it?"

The snake was unmoved.It suddenly stretched out its astonishingly long front body, and with a sudden ejection, it caught a fat hare in the grass, swallowed it in one gulp, and then slowly retreated to the tree.

"It's amazing!" The girl was dumbfounded.

The snake flicked its tail triumphantly.

The girl suddenly seemed to have a good idea, and a smirk appeared on her face, "Next time that kid comes to the shrine again, Xiaobai will come and play with him, how about we scare him together?"

"I don't want to bully him." She touched the bell on her wrist, "I just feel that he is crying and laughing at people every day, as if he has no expression of his own. I really want to see him startled, Or what it's like to eat sour cherries, hee hee."

"He didn't reply to my letter. Could it be that he was too busy? Write to him in a few days."

Autumn.The maple trees in the courtyard of the shrine have turned red one after another.Holding a wooden basin, the girl dried the washed undergarments on the veranda, straightened up and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

The female waitress ran over from a distance: "Master Bai Ji, how can I let you do this kind of rough work? Just leave it to me!"

"It's okay, Ah Jing." The girl smiled, "I'm not a kid anymore, besides, I've been doing laundry and kneading rice balls very well since I was a child! By the way, my mother sent me some maltose, Ah Jing, take some back and feed the child, your youngest son is three years old, right?"

"Yes, yes! There has been a food shortage in the countryside, and many people have starved to death... Is Lord Bai Ji going to distribute such precious candy to dogs? This is really..." The waitress was very embarrassed, "It doesn't suit me In terms of identity, Lady Bai Ji is just a little girl, please take care of yourself, you have eaten too little recently!"

"Where is it? Of course, I have left what I want to eat, and I still have a lot." The girl stuck out her tongue, "I love sweets the most."

Maybe because of catching a cold, she fell down at night, her face was flushed, and she lay sleepy on the tatami mat, staring out of the window at the pattering autumn rain that had started to fall in the evening, in a daze.

"Ah... really disgusting..." the girl complained in a daze, "the golden osmanthus in the back mountain should have been opened, and I wanted to pick some back, and it would taste great if sprinkled on red bean yokan... Now I can't go anywhere ..."

The big snake wrapped its body around her, and gently put its head on her hot forehead.

"Is Xiaobai worried about me? Don't worry, I will be fine tomorrow." She touched the snake's cold scales, "After all, I still have to practice Kagura dance, I don't want to lose to that child, and I will be laughed at by him of."

"Xiaobai is so gentle, just like my mother..." the girl murmured, "I miss my mother so much... I secretly kept some of the candy my mother gave me, and I want to keep it for that child, after all, he hasn't eaten much Where's the sugar?"

"When the cherry blossoms bloom, he will come. This is what I promised him, so before that, I must work hard..."

"Work hard to help those who are suffering, and try to make those around you happy...Xiaobai, I am not a monster. It doesn't matter if my eyes see strange things. Everyone will smile at me. My mother loves me too, really. I'm so happy..."

She rubbed the silver bell on her wrist and fell asleep.

midwinter.heavy snow.

The girl was practicing the kagura dance decently under the verandah, but after dancing for a while, she couldn't help but threw herself into the snow, ignoring the cold and red hands, squeezed a snowball three or two times, and threw it into the snow without any mistakes. On the wooden window lattice of the room.

"Xiaobai, don't sleep, come out to play in the snow!"

The big snake coiled around the charcoal stove in the house, motionless.

The girl ran in wrapped in the cold, and threw herself on the snake with a smile. The snake slammed its tail twice in dissatisfaction, but it had no choice but to give up.

"I'm nine years old today!" she yelled at the snake, "I'll be an adult soon!"

"In that case, remember that child said he was also born in winter!" the girl said proudly with her hips akimbo, "but I'm one year older than him, so I must ask him to call me sister next time we meet!"

"Hmph, how dare you not reply to my lord sister's letter, let's see how I deal with him!"

The long-awaited spring has finally arrived.Because of the drought, the cherry blossoms are sparsely blooming, and it seems that the arrival of spring is just an illusion.

As summer approached, an epidemic broke out in the city of Edo. The sick first had a high fever, then had vomiting and diarrhea, and died within a day or two.Everyone in the city was in danger for a while, and the sound of bamboo carts pulling corpses continued day and night.

"Lord Bai Ji is absolutely not allowed to go out!" The maid blocked the door and said firmly, "Many people have died in the city. I heard that even Mr. Asong has fallen. Mrs. Fujiyue is praying to God and worshiping Buddha every day." Well, it will be troublesome if you also fall ill!"

"But I have to do something." The girl begged: "I went to the back mountain to have a look and then came back. I saw several herbs that can cure diseases in the book. I always think I have seen them on the mountain. Let me go and confirm. Bar!"

"No."

The waitress just kept saying that.She had no choice but to go back to the room and took out a book of scriptures to copy, but before copying two lines, she pushed the book aside impatiently.

"Xiaobai, I'm so scared. When do you think this plague will pass? Many people died..."

"Even Brother Asong fell ill, he is so healthy... I don't know how my mother is doing."

The always confident girl finally showed panic and worry.

Sitting at the table and taking a few deep breaths, she gradually calmed down and spread out the scriptures on the table.

"I have to work hard... He said that I am a brave child, so even if I can't do anything... Even if I can't do anything, I can still pray for everyone, please God bless father and mother, and everyone in the city ..."

"I'll do the Kagura dance, it doesn't matter if I can't dance well." She finally made up her mind and said, "I want to make a prayer to God, and help everyone as a priestess!"

In memory, the white-oak-haired Miko was still smiling, like starlight, like faith, like an unattainable dream.

It was a human girl named Bai Ji, the last four seasons in her life.