The next morning, Kurokawa opened the curtains, and saw the ridges in the distance covered with white snow, and the dark mountains below. The city of Sendai in sight is covered with snow.

Slightly open the gap in the window, and the strong wind blows in, making the curtains flutter and dance wildly, and a few snowflakes take the opportunity to fall on Heichuan's face, which is icy cold.

The wind and snow are so big.

The cold wind blowing into the room unceremoniously blew the cup on Kiemon's body. When Kurokawa turned his head and saw that he was still sleeping, he raised his hand and lifted Kiemon's quilt. The cold Kiemon Grandpa yelled.

After waking up Kiemon, Kurokawa packed up with him and went down the stairs. He saw the tour guide in the hall reading the newspaper with his legs crossed. The tour guide was wearing thick clothes. After seeing Kurokawa, he put down the morning newspaper and greeted him with a smile Come up, "It's really cold today, there has never been such a heavy snow in Sendai."

Kurokawa: "Is it rare?"

Tour guide: "Although this is also the Northeast, it is a high latitude, but the heavy snow generally only falls near the coast of the Sea of ​​Japan, and it is rare like the Pacific coast."

"Probably the greenhouse effect."

Before seeing him, he heard his voice first, and the voice of Teacher Yongji came from far behind him. His face was kind and ruddy, as if he hadn't quarreled last night, and Mrs. Yongji stood aside, holding Mr.'s arm, looking at him with joy. With the heavy snow outside, I leaned into Teacher Yongji's ear and whispered: "When the wind and snow hear it, let's go out and make a snowman, first you and then me, okay?"

They quarreled fiercely last night, but they seem to have reconciled now. When they get together, they often quarrel because of religious beliefs and relationship issues, but it is absolutely impossible for them to separate.

Kurokawa couldn't understand this kind of complicated marriage problem, so he asked how many people had breakfast, and the hotel provided self-service.

The tour guide patted his stomach with a smile, saying that he was afraid that the customer would get up early and rushed over before breakfast.It was just a matter of a meal. Kurokawa took Kiemon to look for tableware. After about 10 minutes, even Kiemon, who ate the slowest, had already started wiping his mouth with toilet paper.

Sitting next to Heichuan, the tour guide smiled and said, "This cat is really spiritual, did you train it yourself?"

Kiemon froze for a moment, and meowed a few words, he and Kurokawa had lived together for a long time, and occasionally forgot the fact that he was originally a cat.

Kurokawa smiled, but didn't speak.

After breakfast, the wind and snow outside the hotel became heavier, and the sun became less and less clear. The hazy sun rolled in the white snow, like the hazy landscape paintings of Impressionism, but even if the weather is so bad, you still have to go out. The tour guide took He got the car keys, walked towards the car with a few people and said, "There have been more and more strange things in these years."

Kiemon showed a curious look.

The tour guide said: "The weather is not normal. I heard that there are still a bunch of people gathered together to talk about 'fairy talk'."

"It's really weird."

Kurokawa said: "People of the same religious belief gather together to form an assembly, which is called 'telling'. This kind of gathering to worship gods flourished in the Edo period."

For example, the most famous "Geng Shen Talk".It is said that there are three worms in the human body, commonly known as the three corpses, which will harm human health and life span.

A more popular saying is that these three worms have been observing human crimes during the day, and they will go to see the Jade Emperor at night on Geng Shen's day, and narrate the sins of human beings in one year. The emperor will judge human crimes according to the situation, and reduce health and life span. Therefore, in order to prevent the three insects from secretly going to the heaven, human beings must continue unavoidably and live long during the night of Gengshen.After it was introduced to Japan, it evolved into Gengshen belief.

The tour guide nodded speciously, opened the car door and let everyone get in the car. Kurokawa sat in the driver's seat with Kiemon and the Yongkichi couple in the back seat. The tour guide started the car, then praised Kurokawa and said: "As expected of a cultural person, as expected You have a lot of knowledge, right, where are we going? Is it the Sendai Castle Museum or the Sendai History Museum.”

Kurokawa and the others were going to a museum. After listening to it, the tour guide turned the steering wheel and headed towards the southern Wakabayashi area. After the tour guide started the car, he continued to talk about the "Fairy Talk": "But our side may not be the same. "

"Have you ever heard of the Blue Whale game? It's a game that was passed down from Russia. It's a game that gives orders to children and instigates them to self-mutilate. Although the fairy tales here are not that powerful, it's also quite subtle."

"How should I put it, there are similarities in the same way."

"Xianling Talk has a host like other gatherings. The host will tell all the participants a meeting place and ask them to meet at the agreed place at two o'clock in the morning. Isn't there a lot of trees and parks in the center of Sendai? I heard The meeting point of the fairy talk is here. At night, there are few people here, and there are no residential buildings around, so you can't hear any noise. It's convenient for them to get together."

"Once everyone is gathered, they start telling stories."

Kurokawa: "It seems to be similar to Hundred Monogatari."

Tour guide: "It's very similar. It's a bit like the combination of Blue Whale and Hundred Stories. When these people get together, they don't tell ghost stories, but about a god. The name of the god in this song is Xianling. A spirit that never comes or goes, no TV personality can speak of His footsteps."

The tour guide glanced in the rearview mirror and saw that the expressions of the people in the car were changed, so he continued excitedly: "Because there is no such god."

"Fairy is just a fiction."

"The process of the fairy talk is like this. After the host gathers everyone, he asks a person to pretend that there is such a god as fairy in the world, and tell stories about the miracles of fairy. Everyone knows the story, but the fairy tells it differently. The most important thing is that after the storyteller finishes telling the story, he has to do it.”

"That's interesting."

Teacher Yongji in the back seat of the car spoke.

"That's it."

"The stories told about faeries are so amazing and unbelievable."

"I don't know who was the first, and when did it start, I gathered a group of curious young students, and said that I want to play a new test of courage, let the students learn the miracles created by the fairy in Sendai, so some students asked , there is no such god in the world, and there are no such things, how should I say it.”

"Then the host asked the students to make up a story at will, but after making it up, they had to create evidence to show that the fairy really existed. This is a novelty, so the first student said that the fairy carved a letter on a tree, and finished speaking , students really go to lettering."

"The second student said that the fairy planted a sapling, and he really hit the sapling."

"The third student said that the fairy is a tree that allows trees to grow and multiply, so he found the tree where the first student engraved, and pulled a circle of colored ribbons around it, just like those outside the shrine. To show the status of the gods."

"At first it was just a drizzle."

"Later, more and more people participated. Some people set up a webpage for Xianling, saying that Xianling is a family member named Shaoyan. Some people raised funds for Xianling online. A special book was published to introduce the existence of fairy spirits to the citizens of Sendai."

"Hey, don't you think it's powerful, the fairy is like a real god."

"There are more and more things about fairy spirits. Some people really believe in the existence of fairy spirits, and they decently organize believers to worship."

The guide pointed out the window, "Look, this is the largest park in Sendai."

A group of people looked in his direction, only to see the lush greenery like a sea of ​​trees. It is hard for people who have lived in Tokyo for a long time to imagine that there are so many beautiful trees piled up in the center of the city. Kurokawa had heard about the center of Sendai before. Empty, large supermarkets and shopping malls are moving to the suburbs, and I think this factor is also in it.

The tour guide turned the steering wheel: "There is a tree in this park, and there is a line of words engraved on the tree, which says 'Fairies come here'. If you are free that day, you really want to take a look."

"That's already a holy place for believers."

"Every Monday at two o'clock in the morning, the fairy talk will start under the sacred tree. I heard that there will be up to 300 people at a time."

"I haven't participated in what the fairy said, but it's quite popular recently."

"Have you seen the movie "The Wave"?"

Kurokawa said, "I heard it."

The tour guide chuckled: "You are being modest. I, a vulgar person, can't say anything about theories, sense of collective honor, or hints in the collective heart. In short, fairy tales have become a big event in Sendai City. It is necessary to alert the police station, I heard that there is an art gallery that wants to create a god body for the fairy, and wants to use the fairy as a new scenic spot in Sendai City."

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