I accidentally died yesterday [comprehensive]

Kurokawa usually transfers back and forth between Edo and Kyoto, and is as diligent as a migratory bird.

These two cities are the prosperous places on Honshu Island, and Kyoto is the residence of the Emperor. Many people living in Kyoto think that other people, including Edo, are countrymen who don't know how to be elegant. Gained the arrogance of being an economic city.

The last war belonging to the Warring States Period is far away from the common people, and it belongs to the memories of their ancestors. Nowadays, many people grow up in peaceful times and love beautiful silks and satins, exquisite decorations, various antiques and interesting books.

Kyoto is the place with the most bookstores. The reprints of various literati's notes, as well as Confucian classics and ancient poems brought from Tang ships, are all sought-after.

In addition, there are novels written under pseudonyms circulating among the common people, which are also very popular among the common people.

Kurokawa sometimes writes some novels under the pseudonym of XX to earn some royalties, but it seems that his creativity and style are a bit ahead of his time, and only people in the next century can appreciate his works.

That is to say, not loved by people of this era.

Hey.

When he was in Kyoto, Kurokawa usually wandered around the city as a down-and-out writer, never moving in a fixed place, often stopping and walking, and rarely talking to his neighbors.

Occasionally someone speculated that he was a son of a rich family or the heir of a samurai family, because he fell in love with someone with a different status and left the family to establish his own family.

Or the descendants of the daimyo who were withdrawn from the feudal domain, after losing their noble status, they had to be reduced to the market.

The so-called withdrawal of the domain was enacted by the second-generation general Hidetada. He made harsh regulations on the daimyo, prohibiting private cultivation or other dangerous actions, otherwise he would change the Yiche domain and hand over the territory belonging to this domain to others, while the original owner would will be nothing.

Some daimyo have no direct descendants, and the Edo shogunate will also withdraw their feudal names.

The children of some samurai and the concubines of the daimyo often fell into the market.

In the hearts of the neighbors, Kurokawa is quite far away from them, a person with a mysterious background.

Then within two or three years, this person would disappear in the capital. Some said he was killed, some said he went back to inherit the family business, and some said that he was a descendant of a nobleman who was living abroad and had formally recognized his relatives and returned.

But in fact, it's just time for the Kurokawa migratory birds to migrate again.

He has already set off from Kyoto to Edo.

Kurokawa's perception of time is very slow.

If for an ordinary person, the time is measured by the rising and setting of the sun, or the sound of the pendulum, then he takes the sun, the moon, and the spring and autumn as the reincarnation. He probably sits in the yard at a certain moment and sees the maple leaves turning red. When he hit the ground, he knew it was time to get up again.

Kurokawa migratory birds sometimes go back as monks, and sometimes go to Edo as countrymen to work and rent a small house of less than ten stacks.

Live with neighbors without any privacy.

Kurokawa only thought that the Tokyo of later generations would be crowded, but he did not expect that Edo, the predecessor of Tokyo, was also crowded hundreds of years ago.

There are a lot of migrant workers in Edo, as well as unemployed people who have wandered from the countryside, as well as ordinary people whose ancestors have thrived here for generations.

However, everyone seems to be living in rented houses, which is often the case for a family of four for generations, and relatively few people have their own houses.

Those lands under the Edo Castle that Kurokawa was interested in back then have all been taken over by big merchants, and they are often used as rental houses or other street shops, and the business is very good.

When Kurokawa went to Tianhai to discuss buying land, he heard from Tianhai that most of the towns in Edo were in the hands of big merchants, and these big merchants rented them out, and each town had a number of houses, and each house had a "Everyone" is responsible for management, collecting rent or delivering news, and other administrative functions.

When Heichuan pretended to be a countryman and went to the city, it was "everyone" who accompanied him to go through the formalities. I heard that "everyone" could also get a cut of the rent.

This was done intentionally by the Edo shogunate. Once something goes wrong, the person in charge can be found immediately along the layers of the relationship.

Tianhai comforted Kurokawa: "The current houses in Edo have been transferred out, but don't worry, a piece of land will be developed to the west in a few years to accommodate the increasing population."

Sure enough, there are people in the court who are good at handling things.

The money in Edo is very high, the income is very high, and the price of goods is so high that compared with these two, the rent is not so conspicuous. Food, clothes, firewood and lamp oil are all extremely expensive things, but neighbors Often help each other.

Because of this special renting model, the Edo shogunate also stipulated joint and several responsibilities for neighbors. Many people care about other people’s children as much as they care about their own affairs. Kurokawa came to live as a countryman working in the city. He was almost asked about his ancestors, and the next day he started asking him if he should find a suitable woman when he reached the right age.

"You young people, it's better not to spend time and drink outside."

"Hey, don't you see that the girl in the next room is very nice."

"that……"

"What's wrong?" The middle-aged woman introduced to Kurokawa stopped, wondering what Kurokawa wanted to ask.

"I hurt my body, and I can't give birth to a child." Heichuan said as he sat cross-legged in the room.

"..."

The middle-aged woman who came to introduce her began to turn to wood.

The "woman from the next room" who was introduced on the other side jumped out, "It's okay, I don't mind, if you can't give birth to a child, you can adopt a relative's family, what does it matter."

At this time, the atmosphere is still relatively open.

Kurokawa was troubled by this kind of thing, so he turned and defected to Xu, who was at the Shenchuan firewood factory.

When the second and third shoguns were in power, Xu still carried out spying missions as before, sometimes in Edo, sometimes in various daimyo's feudal lands, and he had to find out things if there was nothing to do. Anyway, the general's intention was to withdraw the feudal clan.

There are many layers of identities, such as the samurai of the imperial family, the owner of the Edo firewood factory, the owner of the bookstore in Kyoto, and other identities, all of which belong to the name of Amaterasu.

When Kurokawa went to join him, Xu was staying in Edo. A new ship came from Musashi, carrying high-quality firewood, and Xu was dealing with these matters, but it was nothing more than approving notes on certain accounts.

Hearing that Kurokawa was troubled by this incident, Xu left him an identity in Fukagawa and marked out a place to stay.

The two talked about Penglai Island.

It is false to say that the second and third generals are still investigating this matter, and I think so, after all, it is related to longevity. I heard that Huakaiyuan's family has been found, but Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan disappeared out of thin air, leaving everyone behind. mystery.

Heichuan said: "Sure enough, you still don't give up?"

Xu replied: "You, me, and Tianhai, if there is no problem with these three people, then there is no problem."

Kurokawa turned to Xu: "What does this mean?"

Xu said: "Tianhai is dying, you should go and see him."

The empty words are not cordial condolences or farewell at the end of life, but casual warnings, like a needle in the dark night.

Kurokawa didn't expect Tianhai to die soon.

Now his memory of Tianhai stays in the dog god method, and the bald dipper stopped him halfway, saying that both of them are practicing Buddhism, and they must go to the West Paradise together in the future.

Is he dying now?

Kurokawa looking for Tianhai is as easy as entering his own back garden.

He climbed over the wall and went to Tianhai's residence familiarly.

Is Tianhai getting old?

Kurokawa took a closer look—well, there are a little more wrinkles on his face.

Is this old?

Tianhai was sitting upright in the room, opened his eyes the moment Heichuan landed, and said with a smile, "You're here."

Hearing Heichuan's talk about coming in, Tianhai pondered for a while, "The public has indeed found Huakaiyuan, but Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan disappeared in the daytime, which really makes people lose their mind."

"I heard that the government is using other onmyojis because of the lack of cooperation from Huakai Academy."

It should be Yumenyuan, after all, it is the Yumenyuan family who are in Penglai Island in later generations.

"Why, did you come to me because of this kind of thing?"

"Is there any other reason to come and see you?"

"It's not necessary."

"However, for a person like you who lives with the sun, the moon, and the spring and autumn, it must be because of vanity that you can think of visiting me on this day."

"Well, yeah, just saw him."

Tianhai lowered his eyelids, "In recent days, the government has noticed the huge power of Tianzhaoyuan, and wants to set up another organization to control it."

"It's so complicated." These words circled in Kurokawa's mind, and then floated out of another ear.

"Need any help from me?"

"It's not necessary."

Tianhai smiled, "You are doing me a favor by being alive."

A triangle relationship is the most stable relationship in the world.

Xu, Kurokawa, Tianhai.

Two undead people, two high-ranking members of the shogunate government, and the serving Ming Lord are looking for the elixir of death.

If you take off the middle one Kurokawa.

Xu can kill this person who knows his past without worrying about the past of Heichuan and Tianhai.

Tianhai can also deal with this political opponent who has drifted away from him.

So... Although the current situation is very complicated, it still maintains a fairly simple balance, as long as Kurokawa is still alive.

Kurokawa smiled: "I didn't know I had this effect."

He never cared about such things, but told Tianhai what he had seen and heard on the road, "I'm going to Kyoto."

"Oh."

"Is Kyoto fun?"

"not bad."

"Do you still remember the first time I went to King Kong Peak with you? At that time, there were still traces of burning in Kyoto, and now it is very beautiful."

Heichuan lit his pipe. It turned out that the brown wood was old, so he replaced it with a mahogany one.

The smoke is like a beauty, with various shapes, building up the bustling scene of Kyoto layer by layer.

"Ah... I also wrote a book."

"About what?"

Kurokawa covered his forehead in annoyance: "About a man and [-] or [-] girls, it is the most common type in later generations... Harem light novels."

"Really, I even lost my lower limit in order to make a living. I didn't expect that people nowadays don't care about my lower limit at all."

"It's a story like The Tale of Genji."

Although Tianhai didn't understand, he understood everything.

"Yes."

Kurokawa nodded: "Seeing that there are a lot of Ukiyo grass on the street, it happens that I am not the kind of person who can study Confucianism, so I just wrote a little bit of this."

"Why don't you write Hundred Monogatari?"

Tianhai suggested: "There are so many rumors on the road, it's fine to just write about them."

"Is this..."

Kurokawa lit his pipe: "It would be bad if something was leaked, just don't write about it."

He said a few more words to Tianhai and left.

After a month or two, a middle-aged man in shorts knocked on his door and handed over a letter, "I will meet you on business."

Kurokawa looked at the envelope.

It's Tianhai.

Invite him to the mansion.

Hei Chuan casually opened the door and went out, and saw Tian Hai as usual, lying on the mat with cloudy eyes.

When I came last time, I was still a transparent monk, but this time I have become a muddy mortal body.

Sitting next to him, Heichuan heard Tianhai say, "It's still you."

"When I was young, I just came out of the mountains, and I met this you."

"In the temple in Kyoto, I still live with you."

"Go to Musashi, it's still you."

"Look, I'm dying now, Kurokawa, you're still you."

His arm like dry wood stretched out slightly tremblingly, and was held by Heichuan, "You will always be like this, you have never changed."

"I'm one hundred and eight years old."

"I never thought that you could fill the first half of my life and fill the second half of my life."

"I thought I could live out your lifespan... No, at least not let me see such a thing with my own eyes."

"Why do you want me to see you forever undefeated..."

"Weighed me as ugly as a piece of dry wood."

"Kurokawa."

"Kurokawa."

He let out a whining cry, as if there was phlegm stuck in his throat, "Since you can maintain your youth forever, then you can save me too."

He lifted up tiredly, because he was too old and lacked strength, Kurokawa pulled him up and leaned on him.

The older a person is, the rich substances in the body are blown away, leaving a few bones like Ah Zi back then, trembling as if they could be blown away by the wind.

"Okay."

Heichuan patted Tianhai on the shoulder: "I'll get it now...you wait for me, wait for me for three days."

"I'll go get the Penglai Jade Branch back."

"Don't cry so ugly."

"I've never seen you cry before."

Heichuan wanted to get up and go to Penglai Island, but Tianhai held onto his sleeves tightly. Does he want to live forever or not?

Tianhai finally let go of his hand, and lay slumped on the bed, the turbidity faded away, leaving only the last clarity, "I'm really in a mess."

"When you are about to die, you will still be born with this kind of demonic obstacle."

He looked up at the roof, "Longevity, who doesn't want it, but it's just longevity."

He smiled, "It's just longevity."

"If I were sacrificed after my death, it must be another kind of longevity."

"Kurokawa."

"I'm going to talk to my disciples."

Tianhai stood up as if returning to the light, and went to look for his disciples. When he was parting, he turned his head and said, "I will go to the west before you."

Kurokawa looked at a wet mark on his shoulder, as if he could smell the salt inside.

When he walked out of the mansion, the sun shone on his shoulders, and the mark quickly disappeared without a trace, and there was nothing left.

Ah Zi, Tian Hai.

Nothing is left.

When Kurokawa turned over the wall, he saw a man in kimono standing in the corner with a samurai sword pinned to his waist.

I don't know how long I stood there.

There are only two of them left.