Kusuriya no Hitorigoto

(Uh-huh. Give me that.)

The cat and cat seem to have unconsciously laughed with their noses. Both the doctor's grandfather and Gram (Kokuyo) are nodding. Only Zhao Too (Cho) is eye-catching.

"Wow, how do you walk up the lake?

"Well, you just have to put your next leg on the water before it sinks and move on."

"Wow!!

Don't be fooled. Cat and cat pound Zhao Too's head and look for grams with half an eye. I thought it was harmless for humans and animals, and they have this aspect.

"You really think you can do that?

"There's no way... I just wanted to say"

Grandpa looks out as he strokes his beard with his toys.

That looks a little complicated.

"I've seen scenes like that when I was a child of Non"

"Do you walk and dance on the water?

said the cat cat as she leaned her neck. Zhao Too also imitates, and then for some reason the same attitude for Gram.

(That's so loud, this guy)

With that in mind, look at Grandpa.

"Oh, before Noon left the village. Originally, it was the witch who served the serpent god."

Apparently the grandfather's lineage was originally witched by a woman chosen from among the chief's blood muscles on the remote edge of the village chief.

But earlier, Grandpa had just told me that the temple had been abandoned for decades. For whatever reason.

"My daughter is missing in the hunt for a woman in the backyard."

I see. I just have to nod.

Therefore, the temple was abandoned because the rituals that had been communicated in oral passages from generation to generation had disappeared. Just then, he was replaced by the previous village chief.

The previous village chief, who was not confident, abandoned it and said that the temple had been managed as it was. The village, which was formerly one, was divided into three parts, just as the forest was found. Should I say that there is no longer a witch who was connecting and stopping a village that was eventually divided into three parts?

And now it's just form, so my grandfather, who's back in the village, lives in this cabin as a janitor.

"Didn't the ex-witch who finished her work come back to the village?

"Ha. She used to be a nice girl. You think I need to go all the way back to a village like this?

That's right.

I remember Xiaolan (Shaolan), who was close to me in the rear palace. I was sold to my parents to slap my mouth. She also knows the reality, and after stopping at the rear palace that she has no place to be when she returns, she is finding a job on her own.

Somewhat, if I were a daughter with a turning head, I would find as much better than my previous life. The latter is the birthplace of the women, even in that sense.

"Before the previous village chief died, you mourned about it. If you're complaining so much, the doctor will do it right."

"Ha. That's funny. That's what people are like."

Grandpa poked his head for grams because it was something to laugh at about what was funny.

Cats and cats look out.

"I don't have a ship, but how is it across the other side? For once, we have to see how the temple looks, right?

When the cat and cat snap, Grandpa writes a circle on the long table to show it.

"The ship says the Lord will be angry. Fishing for fish is also a good place to go. I can't see it from here, but there's a bridge on the other side of the island. You can go if you care. Grasshopper while you're harvesting."

"Why do you even have to grass?"

"You just put it in a sacred place, it's cheap, right? Look, for grams. Take him with you."

"Oh, my God."

That's what I'm saying, and I'm preparing a mowing sickle.

You could have ignored it, but Zhao Too makes his eyes shine like "wow" or something. This hungry ghost, lately, thinks that crawling on the floor and wasting time will do whatever I want.

"At the temple, the leaves of cigarettes are planted. No leaves, but you can pick some if you're ready."

……

The cat and cat held a mowing sickle, staring at his grandfather with no loopholes.

The cats and cats wander around to the back of the lake. When it comes to lakes, if they're less transparent and a little smaller in size, they might as well be swamps or something. Leaves similar to lotus float all over the water.

It was Zhao Too, who was scared after the blister, but only demonstrated his wasted adaptability well and was completely nostalgic for grams. I have a shoulder car for grams at some point, but unlike the men, it is a little fuzzy and dangerous.

"There you go."

As Gram shows, there was indeed a bridge on the back of the island. It's not particularly unusual to push Marutai into the lake and use it as a pillar.

(Are you all right? this bridge)

Cats and cats look suspiciously at the bridge. I don't knock on stone bridges, but they look a lot older. On the way, if it breaks, I'll be in trouble.

"Ha, I'm fine. He said it wouldn't break."

For grams, he stood on the bridge as he lowered Zhao Too from his shoulder and jumped. Sure, it doesn't seem as bad as it looks.

"Ah..."

Together with his dumb voice, Gram stepped off his feet and fell into the lake.

"What are you doing, honey?"

Zhao Too reaches out and pulls for Gram who fell.

"Ha, sorry"

For grams, I felt a headache with wet hands. Because I have an eye band, it may be difficult to grasp the distance between objects.

For grams, take off your wet jacket and squeeze. The poor body had scars, by the way. It's rude to stare, too, so the cat and cat crouch down and observe the bridge.

When I tapped it, the tree sounded dense and stiff.

"This bridge was built over thirty years ago."

I put a damp jacket over my shoulder, for grams said.

The bridge is built considerably higher than the surface of the water, so that it can be increased.

"It doesn't rot."

"Yeah, it looks like you're using some kind of southern tree. Maybe this bridge is a lot better than it looks. It must have cost me a fortune to make it."

That said, I'm walking to Kojima for grams.

The cat and cat follow it, but it felt kind of weird.

The fact that there was a temple meant that Kojima, like the bridge, was considerably higher than the surface of the water. The stone steps leading up to the temple remain after the increase in water.

On the stone steps there is a small temple and weeds growing around it. Found a big leaf in it, and cats and cats think this is a cigarette leaf. It has something like flowers on its tip, but it hasn't been seeded yet. It's going to take a little longer.

(You old man)

Cats and cats hum their noses in an effort to get the seeds back later.

Look around the lake. The place, formerly a large forest, is divided into three woods. I see a village on the other side of it.

(That's weird)

I found out who the discomfort was earlier.

It was the position of the island and the bridge. The bridge is halfway there. It is the furthest position from every village, and it is called from a place far from the island.

(Does that mean anything?

Whether it's best to give the bridge from the closest place to the island. If not, we should make it easy for everyone to use.

It's far from the cabin where that grandfather lives, and I don't think he has much advantage.

The cat and cat look at the temple with their necks tilted. The temple has only been abandoned for many years, and it is quite dull. Only the pouring coalition around is brand new. Cats and cats think you're a bigoted grandfather around planting leaves that you use to avoid snakes when you say you worship them.

For grams, I started mowing the grass for nose mixing, so I have no choice but to help the cat and cat.

Zhao Too seemed unwilling to help from the start, picking up pebbles and painting on the ground.

"You know what?

I've stopped singing my nose and talked to him like a grammer spills every single one of them.

"What?

"A witch in this village."

Cats and cats shake their necks to the side trying to figure that out.

"My grandfather told me that he was a slave's daughter."

……

For grams only cats and cats can hear us continue to talk.

"Looks like this was originally a flood-prone place for the river. Until the water was cured properly, it seemed like every year the fields flowed and the house sank in the flood."

In those old days, when it comes to what we do to cure natural disasters that we can't help.

"I was buying slaves for personal gain. Of course, that's when you can afford the money, and if it hadn't been for it, you'd have chosen someone from the village's daughter."

A witch is just a sacrifice.

But one day, a witch with divine power appears.

The witch said she walked and danced on the water to show it.

The villagers were astonished and worshipped the witch. And a witch married the village chief to his house.

That, he said, is the beginning of the family line of witches.

(Grandpa, you're cracking this guy up a lot)

It was the first story I'd ever heard for a cat and cat. For once, I guess Grandpa knew the story of this hand because of the fact that he had ties to the family of witches.

"I mean. If I had no power as a witch, I wouldn't know when I'd be sacrificed."

I don't know if he's a god or a lord, but for him to be sacrificed, it's not a hoard.

"I was wondering if I would ever be sacrificed, and now I'm going to be sent to the rear house."

After all, he said he was sent to the Lord of the country, not the Lord of the lake.

I don't want to go home again.

On the contrary, I can't help but resent you.

Cats and cats look at the water blurry. In the abyss of the lake are floating leaves swaying to the surface of the water.

Some of the big lotus leaves have kids to ride, but it's not quite like they were dancing on them, it was when they were thinking about something unnecessary.

The cat and cat rose from a crouched position.

"What are you doing, fooling around?

Zhao Too peeks into the cat and cat.

The cat and cat ignored Zhao Too and went down the stone steps. And look at the old bridge. pillars under it, not on the bridge.

It's a sturdy column with soaked algae in the water but not yet rotten.

"I'll tell Grandpa when I get back."

I told the cat and cat to hold the grass I had mowed for grams.

Cats and cats laugh.

"Right. Let's get this over with."

And I went back to my place.

"Give me a cigarette seed"

The cat and cat that came back from mowing the grass told Grandpa first thing in the opening.

Grandpa looked like he was rinsing the noodles and eating half his mustache.

"I thought I'd say something. If you're not seeded, give it up."

That's what I say, chew the dough with a mess.

Maybe I knew I would react that way, so I had an idea for cats and cats too.

"What if I told you I knew who the example curser was?

When the cat and cat said in a whispering voice, Grandpa stopped the unpleasant chewing noise and put the chopsticks down.

"Hey, for grams. Now you play with that boy."

And when Grandpa took the bow out of the shelf, he threw it for grams. For grams, trying to take a bow fails. Chasing a bow rolling outside the cabin, Zhao Too follows it.

Where payment was made, Grandpa pointed to the chair to sit on the cat and cat.

Cat Cat sits in a chair and looks out the window at the lake.

"When the example curser showed up, wasn't it in the middle of summer?

"Yes, I am."

"It's a time when the momentum of the rain is weaker than it is now and the paddy needs water."

Basically, the region draws field water from the lake. There is a lot of rain now but the water level will continue to decrease.

"Didn't the dance that the witch was doing before also take place at that time?

"... it looks like he was doing it for a rain beg"

Grandpa seemed to want to say what that had to do with it.

The cat and cat stick their fingers in the tea that Grandpa only gave them shape and wet them, drawing a map on the table. An island in the shape of an elliptical lake, and a bridge.

Difficult to see, Grandpa gently offered the cat a brush and paper. Rough crude paper but would still be easy to see. Write it on paper.

The cat and cat, in doing so, pointed to the shore of the lake closest to the island.

"Here, that the rain-begging ritual and the doings were taking place"

"Exactly."

Just outside this cabin, close to where you can see it through the window.

"Normally, I feel more solid building bridges in this place when I think about it, why not?

The cat and cat asked Grandpa deliberately.

"I don't know. Explain it sooner than that."

The cat and cat laugh at Grandpa's words.

"It's about, for example. Suppose there is a place in the lake where the water level is particularly deep. At first, he tried to cross the bridge to this place, but he refused to believe that the water level was deeper along the way and that the bridge could not be made. The ingredients are wasteful but they also have manpower to pull through. Keep it, keep it underwater and build a bridge somewhere else"

And that's where the bridge is now. Until then, he would have used the boat to go to the temple.

"What if the pillars embedded in that water were still in the lake?

The wood used for the bridge was a sturdy southern tree. If I had used the same material, it would still be in the water.

And only in the season when the water level of the lake drops the most, does it appear surface-wise. If you walk on top of it, you'll just look like you're walking on the water. The fine water level adjustment should only adjust the amount of water flowing into the paddy field.

With cloudy water and floating grass, we do not know the existence of that pillar unless we see it up close.

"Is it to keep the ship from hitting its pillars?"

Did you ask the craftsman to build the bridge? The villagers were kept secret that the pillars were buried in order to hide their plans for the creation of a dodgy bridge. Said it was the witch of the time who used it well.

Grandpa is narrowing his eyes. That's what I said.

"Did Ramen raise you to say things with speculation that way?

"I'd like to examine the lake to examine that speculation."

I told Grandpa to make sure of it.

Grandpa looked at the cat and cat like a stare, but when he followed me, he stood up.

"I can't even tell you about myself, but I don't have a little emotion."

Grandpa called the two of us who were playing bow outside.

"Something's gonna be dinner. Buy it."

That's what I say and make him hold the money for grams.

"Boy, this guy gets muddled a lot. I'm sorry, but why don't you follow me?"

"Oh, let it go."

Zhao Too said so and followed him for grams.

"Let's go."

Grandpa carries a pocket in his hand.

The place Grandpa brought in was enclosed even in the lake. Floating grass grows on the water. There's no place like fishing or sitting, and no one likes to come in.

The cat and cat glanced at the wet ground. Take off your performance and turn your clothes and walk away. Grandpa is walking in the same way.

The water is cloudy and I don't see anything pillar-like.

"Here."

Grandpa offered a cat and cat. The cat and cat stroke the surface of the water with a pattern.

Then...

Something hit Kazu and Kazu. However, I found it to be quite rigid, even if it conveyed it. It felt much heavier than a tree.

"The daughters were sunk into this lake, calling it sacrifice. I weighed in, and they dropped me on the bottom of the water while I was alive."

Though a lesson, it would have been a bad thing for the villagers watching. And we were doing the pointless thing of begging for repentance and forgiveness for what we did.

"We put a stone column in the lake and made it a tomb."

……

"Let's just Mocha Mocha. Just because you regret what you've done when you see it, that means you were at a height that just couldn't show up from the water."

And where many sacrifices have been sunk, the tombstone finally reaches the temple.

"When the next sacrifice was decided, the village chief's son taught the sacrificial daughter the existence of the tombstone."

And he said he took the presence of the Lord of the Lake backwards and started naming it a witch.

The previous village chief didn't seem to know about this. As far as the village is concerned, isn't this the only grandfather who knows that now?

Cats and cats stare at Grandpa.

"That's all you ever knew. You know who the curser is, right?

From the beginning, this grandfather knew. And it would mean you kept it quiet. The cat and cat I deliberately explained is starting to look like Mocha.

"Don't look at my face. I'm not sure."

Probably something to do with a former witch who didn't come back from the rear palace. The daughter, the grandson, or what you heard?

Either way, it behaved like a distant past for this grandfather, regardless of the cat and cat.

Once upon a time, did something happen with the former witch who was taken to the rear house?

For a moment, I blurred my head but let's not talk about it.

I don't want to be told I don't have any more emotions.

"If you're going to make too many weird moves, I'm going to make you some seeds."

That said, Grandpa took the cloth wrap out of his nose. Pass that to the cat and cat.

"It's a shutdown fee. I'll take care of this."

There was some kind of seed in the cloth wrap I was given. Probably a seed of cigarette grass.

……

Cats and cats didn't need to talk any more if they got what they could get.

When I shut up and nostalgic the seeds, I decided to head back to the cabin.