Chapter 39: Phantom of the Tomb
Everyone followed Iijima Chiya forward with confusion and wandered aimlessly for a while. It was getting late.
Everyone had to go back to the restaurant. The old village chief and Luo Z had already been waiting for the Izumi Island for a long time.
It is not difficult to see from the confident expressions of the two, that the two sides have negotiated a response result that both of them are satisfied with each other.
The banquets in the village were similar to those on the first day of Guan Hao and the others. They were all local specialties from Tai O, and they were expensive because they were fresh and could not be eaten elsewhere.
All the meals were kept, but Guan Hao had no intention of eating them, and the meal was very refreshing.
During the meal, the old village chief was already old. After drinking a glass of wine, he left the table to rest.
The whole process was accompanied by Xiaoyu's third uncle Huang Zhimin.
Originally, according to the plan, I didn’t want to have a meal in Tai O. The old village chief arranged it and Chi Ye wanted to have a meal in the village, so Chief Luo Z accompanied him to have a meal in the village.
Maybe it was because I was in a bad mood and was in a bad mood. Iijima Katsuya also drank a few glasses of toasts, but she seemed to be drunk all of a sudden.
The head of the z-shoulder arranges the driver to take Chi Ye to the bus and go back to the hotel to rest in the town. However, Iijima Chi refused to leave and insisted on staying in Tai O. Tomorrow, he will also check the nearby geographical location and ecological conditions.
Luo Zchang really doesn't want to stay overnight, so he stays for one more night, afraid that something will happen.
But now he is reluctant to leave, so he has no choice.
I had to ask Xiaoyu’s third uncle Huang Zhimin to arrange a place to stay.
Although Tai O has declined, it is a big wharf that has seen the world. It has a profound heritage and still has the style. The guest rooms that host customers are still good.
The rooms are unified in the old inn. Guan Hao and Cao Wan also live in the inn. Chi Yaijima, Luo Z-chan and his accompanying staff are arranged to rest in the inn.
There are only about 10 guest rooms in one inn, and now all of them are arranged to live in, as if Tai O has returned to that era full of money and opportunities.
Guan Hao and Wan'er's room was next to each other on the second floor. Guan Hao sent Cao Wan into the room. Before leaving, he told Cao Wan to lock the door and knock on the door on his left if there was any movement at night. Guan Hao had a premonition that something might happen tonight.
Iijima Chi was also sent by Huang Zhimin to a village boy to rest on the second floor next to Cao Wan's room. The boy was frivolous in his work. When he got a basin of hot water, he wiped Iijima Chi for a while and took the water away, regardless of whether the guests needed anything else in life.
Guan Hao's room was separated from Iijima Chiye's room by Cao Wan's room. Guan Hao did not rest at this time.
Guan Hao's mind was playing back and forth with all the performances of today's meal. He was holding a yellowed photo before the meal and looked frustrated as if he was depressed. At the dinner, Guan Hao clearly felt that this little day was deliberately pretending to be drunk just to stay in the village and not want to leave. There should be an ulterior motive. He took out a strong flashlight from his backpack and put it in his hand just in case. At this time, Guan Hao was guarding the window of the room and monitoring Chiya's room diagonally opposite. Today is a full moon, the moon is bright and the stars are bright. If you walk at night at this time, it is a good time.
There is no nightlife in the village. Apart from watching TV, they are all resting early. At this time, the village has only the occasional barking of dogs.
Suddenly, the door of Chiya Iijima's room opened, and a black shadow rushed out, walked down the second floor nimblely along the wall, and arrived at the lobby, touching the door bolt of the door, leaving a gap where only one person entered and exited. The black shadow crawled out of the inn and ran all the way to the south of the village.
Guan Hao didn't have time to think too much, so he picked up a strong flashlight and followed him out. Seeing the shadows going to the south of the village, he was shocked. Xiaoyu told Guan Hao that there was a cemetery on the east side of the village, which was called "Ten Thousand People's Tombs". People who died since the construction of the village were buried here. Hundreds of years have passed and have become a cemetery with more than 10,000 graves. This cemetery is also a cemetery in the country. Many foreign seas that came to China through the Maritime Silk Road were buried here. Pines and cypresses were planted in the cemetery. Most of them were hundreds of years old and grew extremely lush. The day covering the sky and the sun was extremely gloomy and almost rarely visited.
Guan Hao has been practicing martial arts since childhood and is very skilled. He followed the man in black more than 10 meters behind him. The man in black may not realize that someone was following him so late. After leaving the village, he looked relaxed his vigilance and slowed down his pace.
Guan Hao followed the man in black into the cemetery. The man in black into black into the cemetery tomorrow, but seeing that he was rushing left and right, he should have stepped on the spot in advance and was still very familiar with the cunning cemetery.
I saw the man in black holding a low beam flashlight in an ancient cemetery looking for something? Because Guan Hao was far away, he couldn't see clearly what the man in black was holding. He followed too close to him and was afraid of being discovered.
As the man in black walked around several times, just as Guan Hao got lost because of the man in black, the man in black suddenly said excitedly: "Yoxi!" The voice was very small, but Guan Hao still heard it very clearly. There were only two and a half people who could speak Japanese in the village, one was Iijima Chiya, the other was Guan Hao, and the other half was a Japanese translation brought by Luo Z. Obviously, the man in black was Iijima Chiya.
Iijima Chiya searched for a long time, and finally stopped in the southeast corner of the cemetery and made a sound excitedly.
Looking at the shape of the tombstone, this tomb should be a tomb of a foreigner because it appears with a stone cross.
Chi Iijima took out the shovel on his back and started shoveling soil. After a while, a grave was dug open. He used the shovel to pry open the stone coffin and took out a small lacquered box from it. After opening the box and carefully looking at the things inside, Chi Iijima made another excited "Yoxi" sound with satisfaction.
Guan Hao saw all this from afar and wanted to know what Iijima got after digging the grave late at night. Just as Guan Hao was thinking about dealing with it next.
Iijima Kazuya also looked back alertly and used the flashlight in his hand to illuminate Guan Hao's location.
Seeing that there was nothing, he put down the lacquered wooden box and began to restore the excavated tomb.
It's been more than an hour since Iijima got everything done.
Guan Hao was not sure that he could snatch the red lacquer wooden box from Chiya Iijima now. It seemed that he could only find an opportunity to find a way to steal the wooden box.
Guan Hao followed Iida Chiya out of the cemetery and returned to the village. He thought Iida Chi would go directly to the room, but the route Iida Chiya was walking was not a hotel, but ran to the west of the village. After the guidance of Xiaoyu in the past two days, Guan Hao was very familiar with the terrain of Dae O. Iida Chi, who headed west along Shiban Street, should have left the village, because the gate of the village was just west.
Could it be that if he wants to escape from the village on this little day, he can't just let him run away with his things?
Guan Hao was about to force his hands to grab the red lacquer wooden box, but he saw Chi Iijima gently pulling the door bolt of the village gate, tiptoed out of the gate, and crossed the stone bridge. Suddenly, a black shadow flashed and disappeared into the path to the Amitabha Zen Temple.
Guan Hao was shocked, no, it turned out that he was going to Amitabha Zen Temple on this little day.
Chapter completed!