Chapter 6 Chapter One

There, there is no sign saying "Tea Wood Village", but since the three men have said that, there should be nothing wrong. It was an ordinary small village without any characteristics at all. What unfolded in front of Guang was a large area of ​​green rice seedlings and vast farmland. A path paved in those fields was almost wide enough for a car to pass, extending straight and straight.Guang got off the three men and started walking on the path. A small wooden house was built along the path, with a small flag with the word "①" hanging under the eaves, chairs for people to rest on the door, and "Supply Bozi Soda ②" posted on the glass windows.

①Shaved ice. ② Bozi soda: An old Japanese soda, mostly glass bottles with a glass bead inside, hence the name. "Just rest here," said the red hat.Ming looked into the room, and there was a mother-in-law who was about the same age as his parents, bending over the table and taking a nap. "Mother-in-law, mother-in-law." The yellow hat greeted the mother-in-law. "Grandma, give us Bozi soda. We want Bozi soda." The green hat also said. "...Oh, it's you guys. If you want Bozi soda, get it yourself." The aunt with an impatient face stopped her gaze on Kuang, "Ah, haven't you seen this face before?"

"He's the teacher's grandson." "Come to play with the teacher." "It seems that I will live here for a while." "That's right." The expression on the aunt's face suddenly softened. "Son, what's your name?" "Shiraki...洸". "Oh, it's called Xiaogang. It's a good name. Bozi soda, do you want to drink it?" Gang nodded, and the aunt took out a bottle of Bozi soda from the refrigerator with a curtain, and pressed the glass bead to open it The soda bottle was given to Guang. "Ah, thank you." Kuang Xiaoxiao bowed and took the soda.All the way I drank water from the kettle that was steamed by the temperature, and now I have cold carbonated soda flowing through my throat, which feels really good.

"I still have things like notebooks and pencils in this store. Come here whenever you need them." After finishing speaking, the aunt turned to the three men and asked, "Did you meet iron on the road?" "Meeted, met." "Almost attacked by him." "The situation was too dangerous." Men, answer each sentence one by one. "What are you talking about, it's impossible for Tiehe to attack you." The aunt laughed. "But grandma..." "Tie he has attacked the villagers before." "The good husband of the Sajima family also said that he was attacked."

"That's because Yoshio wants to steal the wasabi from the mountain. It's not good to try to steal from the mountain without rules. Tie, he's the guardian of the mountain, that's why he did that." Guardian of the Mountain... "That..." Guang interjected into the conversation tremblingly, "Who is that man named Tie?" "Well, it's that..." Just as the red hat was about to explain to Guang, the aunt stopped him and said meaningfully: "It's better to actually touch it than to explain abruptly. If you live at the teacher's house, you will meet him sooner or later."

"Will he go to grandpa's house?" Ming continued to ask, but the aunt just nodded.Seeing the scene, the three men could only look at each other in blank dismay, without saying a word. Kou is a little puzzled, anyway, the person he has called "Iron" so far is a monster full of mysteries. The patron saint of the mountain?Are you kidding me... "Tie Hui went to the woods because he had to patrol." The mother-in-law said. "patrol?" "patrol?" "What patrol?" "See if there are any outsiders breaking into the village or something."

He spit out the soda in his mouth all at once. "It's not talking about you little boy, don't worry." The mother-in-law looked at Ming's expression and laughed again. "Then...then whose business are you talking about?" Qing asked while coughing. "Well, of course I'm talking about people who want to harm the village. Because someone might bring unnecessary outsiders into the village." "Grandma, are you talking about Mr. Xiansan?" Red Hat asked in surprise. "Mr. Xiansan is from the village." Huang Mao said. "That person studied hard at the University of Tokyo and joined a large company as the president after graduation. He is a very remarkable person." Red Hat said.

"He can't be considered a great person, he just brought some dubious people to the village to cause damage." The mother-in-law put away the smile she had kept until just now, and said bitterly, "I Neither Tie nor Tie trust that man, teacher, he must be the same as us." "Who knows." "Teacher, he often listens to Mr. Xiansan's advice." "It seems that I agree with Mr. Xiansan's plan." "How could such a thing happen!" The aunt's voice suddenly became louder. "Isn't that man's evil idea obvious! Stop being confused and wake me up!"

Seeing that her mother-in-law was getting more and more angry, she stretched out her hand to beat the three men, and the three immediately left the shop as if fleeing, and Guang could only follow the men out of the shop at a loss. "Hey, let me say... Who is that Mr. Xiansan?" Guang asked, but the three of them didn't answer him.If I hadn't been beaten by my aunt, I would still answer a few sentences now, probably because I was very frightened. There was no other way, Qing could only keep his mouth shut and stop asking any further questions. Passing through the fields, many houses gradually appeared on both sides of the road.The styles of those houses were very old, and the heavy tiles on the roof looked like they were about to fall off, but unexpectedly they could hold up well and not fall apart.The houses are almost all one-story, and the doors and windows are wide open. Walking all the way, you can see the life of various people in the house clearly: some are watching TV with electric fans, and some are eating around the table. Cold noodles.Ming was shocked by this custom that pays no attention to privacy, and even villagers who do not know him would wave hello to him while walking on the road.

"The people here are really strange." Guang sighed in a low voice. "strangeness?" "What's so strange?" "What's going on?" "It's nothing." Kang said perfunctorily. "How could it be strange? I never thought about the strangeness of the people here." "Everyone is normal." I seemed to say something that they didn't understand at all, and I saw that the three men turned their heads to one side, as if they couldn't understand. "However, some precautions should be taken. The doors and windows are open like that, aren't you afraid of thieves?"

"What a thief." "There are no thieves in this village." "Even if there is, once someone's house is stolen, we can immediately find out who did it." It turned out that this was the case. People in the village were very familiar with each other, so no one would do bad things to others. But then again, I thought to myself, is this really Japan today?There are schools, village government and hospitals on both sides of the road, but all the buildings are very old and always give people a feeling of a long history. After walking through the road just now, there was an uphill mountain road in front of me. Although it was not as steep as the previous one, it was still too hard for the already tired feet. "Haven't you arrived at Grandpa's house yet?" The voice of the question was so weak that the three men could hear it. "There's still a little way left." "Come on, come on!" "Go further and you will reach the ranch." Ranch...Kang felt dizzy for a while.After woods and farmland, is it the turn of the ranch this time... After walking for another 15 minutes, I finally saw the pasture. "Wow..." Ming couldn't help but let out a surprised voice.At the place where the mountain road was interrupted, a large expanse of grassland appeared, and the field of vision suddenly became very wide, just like arriving in New Zealand.But if it is in New Zealand, there should be groups of sheep grazing on the grassland, but the grassland here is... "Dog..." Ming muttered to himself.Big dogs, small dogs, dogs that can tell the breed at a glance, dogs that can't tell the breed at all, all kinds of dogs are sleeping on the grass, sleeping and playing around.A fence was simply made of wooden boards around the ranch, and above the entrance of the fence, a signboard made of the same board was hung, with the words "Teawood Ranch & Shiraki Institute of Universal Science" written on it. "Besides the dog, it's a dog's ranch, what's the matter..." As he walked into the door at the entrance that the red hat opened for himself, Guang said inexplicably: "What is this 'Institute of Universal Science' researching?" of?" "Research what the teacher has spent his whole life studying." "It's great knowledge." "It's unparalleled research." "So I asked, what exactly are you studying..." Guang swallowed the words halfway through. The dogs on the prairie raised their heads at some point, and now they are staring at them in unison. "What, what is this for..." Ming shrank back in fear. "I forgot to mention it just now," the red hat also showed a trace of timidity. The yellow hat bent over as if preparing to run, and then said: "The dog here..." "Very hospitable." The cuckold was already in a posture of fleeing. "Because, because they like guests very much, and they are out of good intentions, so there is no need to be afraid at all, right?" Ming said while stepping back step by step. "That's not the case." "Because they like guests too much." "So the welcome is completely insignificant." As soon as the green hat finished speaking, the dogs began to gather together and started running towards them.Immediately, inaudible cries and indescribably chaotic footsteps resounded from everywhere. "Should we run away?" "Run away." "I don't want to get my clothes dirty." "I don't want to get hurt like before." "Injured? Are you kidding me?!" Ming became more nervous all of a sudden, and rushed past the entrance, trying to open a wooden door in a hurry.However, that door could not be opened no matter what. "How should this be done? How should this be opened?" "Please calm down first." "Unbolt the latch here." "Then the door can be opened." "The door latch? Which one is the door latch?" Ming, who was in a state of complete panic, couldn't even tell which one belonged to the door latch right in front of him. During this period, the dogs were also approaching here with an astonishing momentum.After a while, the green hat standing at the back was overwhelmed to the ground by a dog, a golden retriever bigger than Kuang. The green hat was pressed to the ground by the dog and shook his hands and feet, and the dog used its red tongue to lick his face back and forth.Then the red hat and the yellow hat were not spared, and finally Guang was also surrounded by a group of small dogs. "Ahhh, don't, don't mess around... Go away!" It's not that he hates dogs, but actually likes them very much.Dogs are not allowed in the apartment where I usually live, otherwise I would definitely keep one.But now so many puppies are jumping on him, there is no escape from the warm tongues of the dogs - a dachshund is licking his nose, a dalmatian is licking his lips, licking his ears His is a miniature spaniel.The dogs all shook their tails vigorously to welcome Guang, but the besieged Guang only found it difficult to breathe. "Help, help!" Ming finally yelled when he found a gap. At this moment... "Beep—" There was an incredible sound in the air. "Beep beep——" It sounded like the wind was blowing, or it was like an out-of-tune flute. The moment the sound came, all the dogs licking him left him.The dogs on the three men also left them, listening intently to the sound just now. Kan looked in the direction of the sound - a man was walking towards this side. The man is wearing a white cowboy hat and a white t-shirt like a cowboy.He raised his left hand and put his fingers to his lips. "Beep beep—" the voice came again.The dogs started to run, thinking they were going to run towards the man, but instead they ran towards a log cabin on the pasture, just passing the man.In just a short while, there was no shadow of a dog beside him. In a half-shocked state, Guang watched the man approaching him.The man stopped in front of Guang, took off his hat, and saw that his hair and beard were almost completely white. He guessed that the other party should be an elderly person, but the tanned face looked very dark. Very young, and the arms protruding from the sleeves of the T-shirt are also full of muscles. The man stared at Qing.Being stared at by that extremely strong gaze, Guang felt unable to move. "That, that..." It took a lot of effort to make a sound in his throat, but he couldn't speak in one breath. "Teacher!" The red hat straightened its back and said. "We came back safely." The yellow hat also stood there straight and spoke. "We brought your grandson." The green hat saluted. This person is that teacher... So, this is my grandfather, right? ! Guang looked at the man again, and found that the nose and corners of the mouth of the man were very similar to his father Heng Yi.But when it comes to the temperament of the whole person, it is completely different from Heng Yi. "Thank you for your hard work." As soon as the man said this, the three men immediately showed a look of not being serious. "No no no..." "It's not hard at all." "Then, let's go first." With that said, the three of them walked out of the ranch. "Uncles, thank you!" Guang shouted towards their backs, the three of them just turned their heads slightly, showed a smile, then saluted again, and left. "Are you Qing?" The man stood in front of Qing. The moment Kou heard that voice, he thought to himself, ah... this voice is exactly the same as Heng Yi's. "Yes, I am Ming." After a brief answer, Guang looked up at the man.The man also looked at him silently, about ten seconds passed, but it seemed to Qing that it was as long as three minutes. "My name is Yoshiaki." The man spoke up.Still in a state of fugue, it took a few seconds to realize that the other party's self-introduction omitted the surname and said the name directly. That's right, this Shiraki Yoshiaki is Koichi's father and his own grandfather.But... Qing was a little confused, the person in front of him was very different from the image of grandfather he had pictured in his mind so far. "Is this all your luggage?" Yoshiaki looked at the backpack on Kuang's body. "Ah, yes." "Come here." Yiming said and turned around, and Guang followed behind him silently.