Chapter 9 Chapter nine

An hour later, he was covered in mud and passed out on the edge of a dense forest. Wearing sutras, like a resurrected "corpse" that had just crawled out of a coffin, he staggered on the way home, but could not One third lost all strength.At this time, he just didn't eat or drink all day and night, and he worked hard for most of the night, and his face was haggard, which made his acting skills more realistic. Originally, he wanted to put on the sutra curtain immediately after re-burying the body, went to the monastery's warehouse, and tapped the rain outside the house lightly with weak strength.However, after seeing the corpse with his own eyes, perhaps because of the local customs, he found that the corpse had undergone a shaving ceremony, and the hair and beard were completely shaved, so it was necessary for him to shave his own hair.So he went to a small hardware store on the outskirts of the city as quickly as possible, bought a razor, and hid in the forest to shave himself, which took him a lot of work.At that time, he hadn't changed out of his disguise, so even if he walked into the barber shop, he shouldn't be suspected. But it was so early that day, and the barber shop hadn't started business yet. Just in case, he decided to buy a razor and cut his own hair.

After shaving his head, he immediately put on the sutra veil, put on the ring that had been pulled from the hand of the dead man, and completely burned the changed clothes in a depression deep in the forest. People passed by the path outside from time to time, and now he could not safely leave his hiding place and return to the monastery.As a last resort, he could only lie in a bush not too far from the street and pretend to pass out. It took him a lot of effort to find that place. There is a small river next to the street. Thin-leafed shrubs grow densely on the river bank, and the low-hanging branches and leaves almost touch the water. Walking from there is a forest, and tall pine and fir trees are sparsely arranged.Carefully avoiding the eyes of passers-by on the path, he tried his best to crawl through the bushes as close to the ground as possible, and lay down holding his breath.Then he looked at the ankles of the farmers walking along the path through the gaps in the bushes. After his mood gradually calmed down, he fell into conflicted emotions again.

"In this way, we are back to the original plan. From now on, we just need to wait patiently for someone to find out. But is this really all that is needed? Just swimming across the sea, digging up graves, and shaving your hair, and those ten thousand family properties will be gone. Could it belong to me? Would it be too easy? Could it be that I just did something stupid and embarrassing? Maybe the world has seen it all before, just to see me make a fool of myself, so I pretended not to know?" His thinking returned to normal again, and at this moment, a group of children dressed in farmhouse clothes discovered him wearing a suspenders. This unusual sight caused a burst of astonishment, which changed the uneasiness that was already rippling in his chest. more intense.

"Hey, look, what's lying there?" Four or five children were about to walk into their forest playground, when one of them accidentally spotted his white figure, took a step back in fright, and whispered to the other children. whisper. "What's that, madman?" "It's dead, it's dead!" "Let's take a closer look." "Go and see!" These children, about ten years old, were wearing poorly knitted sweaters with the sleeves pulled up to the elbows. The patterns on the dirty, oily and black clothes were barely visible. They were whispering something in their mouths. , tremblingly approaching him.

These dirty children sniffed their noses, with expressions of curiosity and fear that can only be seen when looking at rare exhibits on their faces, they approached slowly step by step, when Hirosuke Hitomi saw this extremely funny Suddenly, a sense of unreasonable uneasiness and anger surged in my heart: "Now I'm really a clown. I didn't expect that the first person to find me would be the farm kid. I will become their plaything later." , I am so ashamed and humiliated, is it over?" At that moment, he almost fell into despair that he couldn't extricate himself from.

The hateful thing is that he can't stand up and scold the child, no matter who the other party is, he can only pretend to be fainted.Therefore, even when the children became more and more daring, and finally even touched his body, he could only endure desperately.Because the sight was so absurd, he even wanted to get up and laugh out loud. "Hey, go tell the adults!" Soon, a child gasped and whispered, and the other children echoed in unison: "Just do it, do it!" Immediately afterwards, they heard the sound of their footsteps running out of the grass to report to their parents that they found a strange passerby who fell on the ground.

Soon, there was a loud voice from the other side of the path, and several farmers ran over, yelled a few words, and picked him up.After the news spread, the crowd gradually gathered, and soon a dark crowd surrounded him, and the commotion grew bigger and bigger. "Ah, isn't this the master of the Koda family?" After a while, he heard someone who seemed to know Genzaburo shout. "That's right, that's right." Two or three voices echoed, and there were people in the crowd who had noticed the abnormality in the cemetery of the Kouta family. In the word-of-mouth retelling, it was constantly being added with fuel and vinegar, and it was spread all over the place.

Speaking of the Komoda family, they are among the top capitalists in T City—no, in the entire M County.However, the head of the Komoda family was once buried because of death, but was revived ten days later. For them, this is undoubtedly a shocking story.Next, some people rushed to report to Koh Tian's house in T City, some went to the monastery, and some went to call the doctor. All the farm work was forgotten, and everyone in the village was mobilized. Hirosuke Renjian in the past finally saw the effect of his plan.Seeing this scene, he realized that his plan might not come to nothing.It was time for him to do his best. Under the eyes of everyone, he looked faintly awake, first opened his eyes, and then showed a bewildered expression, looking around at the people around him blankly.

"Ah, sir, are you awake?" The man holding him suddenly brought his mouth close to his ear and shouted loudly.At the same time, countless faces crowded over one after another, forming a dense wall, and in an instant, the bad breath of the farmers rushed into his nostrils.Pairs of sparkling eyes, written with dullness and trust, without a trace of doubt. However, no matter how the other party reacted, Kosuke did not intend to change the sequence of performances he had decided in advance. Apart from silently looking at the crowd, his expression was empty, let alone saying a word. Before he really figured out everything, he had to pretend to be unconscious. Be delirious and avoid showing any telltale signs when talking.

The commotion continued until he was sent back to the living room of Komoda's house. This process is too lengthy, so I will not describe it in detail.In short, as soon as the news was received, the manager, servant and doctor of the Komoda family rushed over in a car. The monk from the Bodhi Temple brought the temple man, the chief of the police station, two or three police officers, and other relatives of the Komoda family who received the emergency report. People, like rushing to the scene of a fire, came to the forest on the outskirts of this city one after another. The chaotic scene in the vicinity was like a battlefield. Just from this scene, we can see how great the reputation and momentum of the Komoda family are.

Surrounded by these people, he was taken to Komada Mansion, which had become his own home, until he lay on the luxurious bed in the master bedroom that he had never seen before, he stuck to the original plan, tight like a dumb Close your teeth and persist until the end without saying a word.