Lake Toya

For the third time, Tufang turned his head and looked at the empty street behind him. He lit a cigarette irritably, took a deep breath, and then let out a long sigh.I always feel that there is someone behind me. Is it because I work too late to create an illusion?

Tufang continued to walk down the slope, and his heavy boots creaked softly on the fresh snow. He turned around and saw that there was still no one behind him. If he went on like this, he would suffer from a nervous breakdown. I saw the young man who was at the newspaper office just now holding a wooden knife and squatting at the bottom of the slope, looking up at him, with subtle fragility and struggle in his eyes.

"Sir, I don't know the way home." He bit his pale lips.

"Aren't you from Tokyo?"

"I'm from Edo." The boy answered with certainty.

"Edo is an old name from many years ago. Tokyo has changed so fast, it's not surprising that you can't recognize it." Earth stretched out a hand to the boy, and the boy put him on him, and he felt that the boy must have been frozen. Oh, it's such a cold day to only wear such two thin clothes, young people nowadays.Earthwork shook his head.

But Hijikata, who has no relatives and no reason, is determined that it is impossible to hand over his coat. It is this society that makes the young people feel better.

"Where are you going?"

"Kabukicho First Street."

"Coincidentally, I live there too."

"Then trouble you."

Hijikata waved his hand and went to the tram stop with the boy.

"Pfft!" After getting on the tram, Tu Fang went straight to the last seat and sat down. In the tram, besides them, there was a couple of men and women entangled, kissing and caressing, their clothes disheveled.Hijikata blindfolded the boy's eyes, is it really okay to have minors here?

The boy didn't seem to mind much, and waved Hijikata's hand away, commenting on the couple in front with great interest.

"This sister's chest is too small and her legs are not long enough."

"This brother's technique is too unfamiliar, he must have not read the book carefully."

"Shut up, brat!" As he said this, he followed the woman's figure with his eyes, but his eyes were more on the man's body.

"Sir, what's your name?" The boy turned his head and stared at Hijikata's side face, "It's polite to say your own name before asking someone else's name, so please give me your advice when my name is Sakata Gin."

"That man's figure is too bad." Hijikata withdrew his gaze, "I'm Hijikata Toshiro, please give me your advice."

"A lot of clothes, I see." Yinshi changed his respectful appearance just now, and huddled his body lazily, "Lend me some more clothes, Ah Yin is so cold."

"Who is too stringy, don't borrow it!" Tufang couldn't control his volume for a moment.

"If you don't borrow it, don't borrow it, don't get excited, keep it up~"

"So who is the multi-stringer!" Tufang broke his work.

Yinshi suddenly calmed down, and wiped away the white mist on the car windows with his hands, trying to open his dead fish eyes and stare outside, as if he was competing with someone, and the water vapor filled the air again, so he wiped it again.In fact, in such a dark night, what can you see clearly?

I was busy packing things in the newspaper office before, but now I noticed that although Gintoki had a good face, his face was pale and bluish, and there seemed to be something sticking to the corners of his eyes, red like rouge, and on the lapel of the white kimono. It was also stained with a few dark red stains. I didn't pay attention to it and thought it was just a pattern, but now it looks like the blood has dried up.

Hijikata silently distanced himself from the boy.

Hijikata silently wanted to get off the car early and walk back to Kabukicho.

The earthworker was called.

"What a string, look." The boy said, "Even if you leave Ah Yin and go away, Ah Yin can still find you."

"Let me go, let me go! I didn't do anything, I have no grievances with you." Hijikata said tremblingly, his voice amplified unconsciously, causing the driver to look at him like a mental patient. He, the couple in front got off the car long ago.

Tufang was isolated and helpless, his eyes widened in disbelief, the driver actually treated him like this, he could only keep silent and suppress his hysterical spirit and continue to stay by this ghost.

Yin Shi looked out the window with his shoulders on his shoulders, and sighed.

"Get off at Kabukicho [-]st Street."

Tufang rolled up his briefcase and got out of the car as if fleeing, the driver was puzzled for a while.

"No matter how many years have passed, this place is still as lively as ever." Yinshi was still lazily following behind Tufang a foot away, but Tufang was startled by the voice and didn't dare to turn his head. He just squatted down and put his briefcase away He held it above his head, trembling.

"What a useless man, to be so afraid of ghosts." Yin Shi picked his nostrils, "Everyone is watching you~"

Hijikata kelp tears, who is to blame now, this brat!

"I promise I won't harm you." Yinshi said helplessly, as if he was coaxing a disobedient child, "Ayin just wanted to find the short cedar, and when he found Ayin, he left."

The second half of the sentence is the usual loss and desolation.

"Many strings, get up quickly." Yinshi stretched out his hand to pull up Tufang, and when he saw a white thing floating in front of him, he opened Yinshi's hand reflexively, and sat down on the ground with his buttocks collapsed. The face is mournful.

"If you really find that dead dwarf cedar, you will leave?"

"So, for your own sake, please help me find him quickly."

Hijikata stood up resignedly, all he could think about now was to go home early.

"So, why me?" Hijikata scratched his hair in distress, and his smooth hair became messy like weeds.

"Ayin, the first person I saw when I came up was you." Yinshi showed a rare smile, "And you are quite pleasing to the eye."

I beg you to see that I am not pleasing to the eye.Tu complained silently in his heart.

"There are so many lights like this now." Yin Shi sighed and pointed at the lights all over the street, just like a real sixteen or seventeen-year-old child.

Hijikata was stunned. Gintoki said that Tokyo was still called Edo when he was here, so it has been more than a hundred years. Even if this young man is alive, he is dying now.Now that the matter has come to this point, Tufang will introduce to him some words that can add some vitality.

After the World War, Kabukicho was rebuilt. It was originally for the upper class to enjoy Kabuki, but now the law and order here is very bad, and there are often crimes and the like.

"Won't you be scared out of your wits if you are so timid to carry it here?"

Tufang glared at Yinshi, then remembered something, shrugged his shoulders and said nothing.

"Ayin, I want to go to the shrine. The most basic shrine is still there, right?" Yinshi was already a little bit hopeless, so when he heard that the shrine was at the end of this street and walked over the mountain, the dead fish The eyes actually glowed.

But the closer you got to the shrine, Yinshi's reaction became worse and worse. His whole soul became very weak. In the end, he could only stop at the foot of the mountain, and asked Hijikata to write a line on the wishing card for him. It was a Chinese poem. : Suddenly looking back, the man was in a dimly lit place.

The earth side thought, this is probably a little bit of hope for him to find someone.

Then, Hijikata secretly begged for a guard to hang around his neck and put it under his clothes.

It was nearly ten o'clock when I got home.Hijikata lives in an old apartment, and the location is remote. All the ivy outside climbed into the corridor through the balcony, and there was a loud creaking sound when the door was opened. The elder brother Kondo who lives opposite heard the noise and opened the door. He seemed to be open-eyed, but he still asked energetically, "Is Shisi back?"

"Huh?" Kondo rubbed his eyes to make sure he read correctly, "You eat wild food?"

"what!"

"It's that little brat, the little brother in white clothes, think about it clearly, Sougo came from planet Shake S." Before he could finish speaking, a door was shot into the door by Hijikata, and he closed it calmly Door.

"Have you ever thought that the person you are looking for is no longer here?" Hijikata touched the skirt of his shirt, and the guard inside made him feel a little relieved.

"Ayin has been waiting for him in Santuchuan. If he is not here, why didn't he come?" Yinshi was a little unconvinced. Although it had been more than a hundred years, he died at the young age and was mentally immature after all.

Even in today's Japan, there are not many people who have survived the old age. Hijikata thinks that this guy named Jinsuke must be dead. Even if he finds it, it is just one more ghost. Sweat drops.

"Maybe he went to reincarnation?"

"That bastard! That bastard"

Yinshi lowered his head, looking at the fruit plate on the coffee table, some oranges and apples, but not much freshness.

"At that time, when I was in Dengshi House, Jinzhu asked to see me and waited in the cubicle. I didn't want to go, so I asked Shenwei to send him a fruit plate, fresh fruits, lychees, grapes, etc. It's nothing unusual."

This is disgust, this is Chi Guoguo's disgust.Tufang was about to reply to him, I'm really sorry for giving you such inferior food, when he heard the ringing of the phone.He picked up the receiver, and the boy said in a cold and flat voice, "Mr. Tukata, I'm at your door, open the door."

hateful!Brother Kondo must have told the secret.The earthwork can predict what will be waiting for him in a while.

Tufang silently shed kelp tears and went to open the door.

As soon as the door opened, Okita leaned against the door and crossed his arms, looking at Hijikata's neat clothes with a half-smile, and then glanced at the boy sitting on the sofa.

"I thought I would finally have a chance to kill you this time, Mr. Hijikata." The young man put down his arms and walked in slowly, "You really deserve to be Mr. Hijikata with a heart but no courage~"

Hijikata really wanted to kneel down and call three times for mercy, Her Majesty the Queen—

At the same time, he is not without joy to think that there is finally a living person to embolden himself. God knows that he has been thinking about finding the entrance to the mayonnaise planet all the time!

When Okita walked to the sofa and squinted his eyes slightly to look at Yinshi, he was indeed a clear and beautiful boy, second only to himself.Then he sat beside Yinshi with his legs crossed, and put his arms around the boy's shoulders. The wind and snow on the light brown down jacket melted with the temperature of the room, and the tiny water droplets fell on Yinshi with coldness. Yinshi sat there feeling nothing on his clothes, as if he was very used to being approached by others like this.

"Cut, it's boring." Okita let go of Yinshi, turned his head to the other side, and said, "Mr. Hijikata, what are you doing standing there?"

Hijikata wiped his sweat silently, picked up the apple on the edge of the coffee table and handed it to Okita, Okita bit it down, and then smiled at Hijikata, just like a little prince who came out of a fairy tale.

"Mr. Tukata, come here and eat up this apple, don't leave any."

Tufang took a bite suspiciously, and was about to spit it out in reflex. Seeing his little boyfriend looking at him with a smile, he could only keep it in his mouth.

"As expected of Mr. Hijikata's taste, it's worse than your dog food."

That's my favorite Hijikata's special upgraded version of mayonnaise rice bowl, Hijikata's inner kelp tears.

"Oh, you two have a really good relationship." Yin Shi laughed at the side.

"Who are you?" Okita rolled his eyes. His occupation is a special edition reporter, and he is always particularly sensitive to tense changes. ), but he trusts his own judgment.

"He's not human." Tufang said inarticulately. If he was right, Yinshi should have "eaten" this rotten apple.

"Then why haven't you returned to your mayonnaise planet yet?"

The earth side was speechless because they couldn't find it.

"I haven't been human for a long time." Gintoki grabbed Okita's hand and placed it on his own chest.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

Sweat dripped from Okita's forehead, and he withdrew his hand.

There is no heartbeat.

"Oh, I remember that my sister is still waiting for me at home, Mr. Hijikata, I'm leaving first." Okita stood up from the sofa, walked to the door expressionlessly, and was about to exit, but suddenly stopped , Looking down, Tufang was clasping his shoulders firmly, with a gloomy expression.

"Damn boy, don't even think about leaving me alone."

"Let go, Mr. Hijikata will definitely find the entrance to the mayonnaise planet soon by himself."

"Hey, it's enough for the two of you to flirt. Hey, I can't guarantee what the lonely ghost will do when he sees someone showing affection."

You saw us flirting with that eye, and the two of you burst into tears from the bottom of your heart.

In the end, the three of them sat back on the sofa, and Okita had calmed down, although there were still ten thousand mud horses roaring past in his heart.

"When are you?" Okita blurted out and was about to say death, but after all, he still had some scruples, and Hijikata tugged at Okita's sleeve again.

Fortunately, Yinshi is a smart person.

"Early Meiji."

"What are you going to do now?"

"He's looking for a man." Tufang interjected in a low voice, but he was glared at by Gongtian and shut up again.

"It's been 100 years. Now that person must have become a pile of broken bones."

"That's right." Yinshi lowered his head, feeling a little at a loss, "Sure, it must have been wiped out."

"However, if you want to see his cemetery, we can help you find it." Okita is actually a nosy person who likes to be soft but not hard, and Hijikata turned his face and looked like that again expression.

Although Yinshi won't hurt them, it's a ghost after all!

"Then I will trouble you." Yinshi said, "I think you have something to talk about, and I also want to visit the places we have been together before."

long night.

Hijikata knew very well that Gintoki saw their fear and rejection, but he didn't show anything, and left the room very considerately, and Hijikata also knew very well that even though he knew the other party was harmless, he was still physiological. I was so disgusted that I couldn't open my mouth to ask Yinshi to stay in this small room for one night.

"sorry."

After Yinshi left, Hijikata whispered something in the direction of the door. Okita saw it and didn't say anything, but he still made a decision after all.

"Mr. Tukata, I still have two manuscripts to catch up, so go to bed first."

"Ah? En." Tufang returned to the room in a daze, turned on the bedside lamp and got under the covers.

When you walk on the brightly lit streets, Kabukicho is a city that never sleeps. Even after 100 years, even if many things have changed, it is still a city that never sleeps.

It houses those who have nowhere to go.

Yinshi walked for a long time, and finally found the location of Dengshiya in his memory. Now, it is a 24-hour convenience store with colorful goods. Through the glass, it looks quite beautiful. It looks like See Zhang at that time.

After waiting for too long, many times Yinshi almost forgot what he was doing by the Santu River, but holding Lake Toya, it was as if he saw that bastard Aoshan saying to him: "Protect yourself." That was really rare tenderness.

Now, he is sitting on the steps in front of Toshi’s house, with snowflakes in front of his eyes, and glass glowing with cold light behind him, just like the words used by that idiot Sakamoto to describe the short cedar, with depression behind him and a vast future behind him.

Trance, Trance.

Yinshi looked at the warm light, the frighteningly white face of the wig was even uglier than his face, the slender eyes of the wig glanced over, it seemed that there were a pair of small hooks inside, the thin face was as gorgeous as peaches and plums. Lips raised slightly, and he babbled the libretto, as if teasing himself, Yin Shi was stunned for a moment, and then sang the libretto about wigs.

Then, there was an abrupt door opening, and the musicians paused for a few seconds before continuing to play. Gintoki looked over and saw someone sitting next to Sakamoto in a very soft voice, watching their performance quietly.

Yinshi's throat suddenly choked.

That person sat there quietly, just like when Yinshi saw him for the first time, watching their play seriously, but Yinshi couldn't be as calm as when he first met him.

A scene of "Narukami" finally finished after stumbling, and Sakamoto called some other kabuki to replace them. The rapid drum beat stimulated Gintoki's breathing, and he slowly raised his hand to his chest, feeling the long-lost strange feeling beating sound.

This is, is it still sunny?

In a daze, Sakamoto took him and the wig's hand, let them sit down on their seats, and smiled silly: "Ahaha, Jin Shi's condition is not right today, is it really the wig shop that has not closed down? "

"It's not a wig, it's Gui." Gui stroked her temples with her fingers, her movements graceful, her nerves still strong.

Sakamoto Tatsuma is a regular customer of Toshiya. As we all know, he prefers Katsura Kotaro, one of the two-headed cards, with a doting attitude. It's just that the means of pursuit are really clumsy, and the way of pursuit is full of jokes and bumps.

"This is Jin Toki." Sakamoto introduced to the silent man beside him, "This is my wife, don't touch it."

"It's not my wife, it's Gui." Gui's face was serious, and she couldn't see the charming charm when she played the role of Ji Jian in the Cloud just now.

Gintoki was sweating silently over the thick thread of the wig, but who is Kim Toki?

"This is Shortwood, he is the young master of the warrior family."

Shinsuke Takasugi.

Yin Shi stared at him firmly, this name that was ready to be pronounced and hidden in his heart for more than 100 years, but he couldn't say it on such an occasion.

Then, he literally ran away, the first time Takasugi Shinsuke looked at him, he asked to leave this warm and fragrant room.

Yinshi's body shook violently, the snow on the steps in front of him piled up again, the sky was gray, but it seemed that it was almost dawn.

He can't be in the sun, he can't disappear just yet.

As usual, when I woke up, Okita was no longer in the house, and Hijikata went to work alone. Although he is the deputy director of the advertising department, he is actually an idler in such a vacant department. If there is no accident, He won't be able to get in until the old director retires. Unlike Okita, although he is only a reporter at the moment, he is young, willing to work, and has a good background. He is a famous reporter in the news department and has a bright future.

In fact, sometimes, he himself doubts why Okita is willing to get involved with him, after all, he is not such an outstanding person.

"Don't open the curtains."

Tufang heard Yinshi's weak voice, and followed the sound to find Yinshi, who was nestling under the desk with his arms folded, his face translucent and ugly, as if he was about to disappear.The earthwork hastily pulled down the cables of the blinds, and the room was dark.

At this time, he thought of an extra job in his spare time-helping a person who is no longer there to find a person who is no longer there.Perhaps, he should have opened the curtains now, but seeing Yin Shi's pitiful appearance, he still started his day's work with slumped shoulders.

"Thank you."

This ghost is really angry, dying.The native thought.