Chapter 491 Some Ongoing Love Stories (Two in One, Please Subscribe!!!)

It was probably the first time for Eliyi to be surrounded by so many children, and she seemed a little embarrassed. She took Lu Mingfei's clothes and hid behind him. Lu Mingfei smiled and waved to the children, and then used Lu Mingfei made a set of magical movements with his hands in front of his body. This was a demonstration for Hui Liyi. Lu Mingfei motioned for Hui Liyi to do the same as him.

Eriyi followed suit, imitating Lu Mingfei's movements. These movements seemed a bit funny to Lu Mingfei, but as a woman, Eriyi made them with a natural beauty, just like the ones between mountains and wilds. The elves are dancing gracefully.

Looking at the children here, their eyes widened in unison, with expressions full of disbelief. They pointed at Eri's clothing and shouted in Japanese, "The witch has come down from the mountain", "The witch is going to start practicing" and so on. If so, even the teacher was alerted by the children's shouts, but when the teacher looked over, the miko had already disappeared, and Lu Mingfei had already held Eri Yi's hand and ran away from the place.

Lu Mingfei and Eri Yi looked at each other and smiled. Lu Mingfei smiled because the movements he just taught Eri Yi were actually seen on TV. They were the dances used by the witches in the shrine, and Lu Mingfei's hair was in ancient style. When Eri, who has long red hair and wears a red and white witch costume, does these actions, she looks like a real witch performing a decent ritual. The children in this small town are very simple, and it is hard to teach Eri Li Yi teasing those cute children gave Lu Mingfei the pleasure of succeeding in a prank. For the first time in a long time, he felt that happiness was such a simple thing.

In fact, Eriki hadn't realized what happened. She just felt that she and Sakura had done something interesting together. She could feel that Sakura was really smiling happily, so she smiled happily too.

Next, Lu Mingfei and Eliyi wandered around the town. Eriyi felt that everything in the town was so new, and her pace was very slow. Lu Mingfei also slowed down with her, and they walked around together. There was a workshop for making wax figures and handicraft molds, and we also watched the making process of a local sweet cake in a dessert shop.

The sweet cake was made with local white cherry blossoms as raw materials, and the whole room was filled with the fragrance of cherry blossoms. Eriyi seemed to like this kind of cake very much, so Lu Mingfei bought ten copies in one go, and the extra ones can be packed away. Gao Tianyuan gave it to the old senior brother and the others to try.

The proprietress of the dessert shop is an elderly woman. Her husband has gone to Osaka to work, and her child is also studying in junior high school in the urban area of ​​Osaka. She is also a beautiful girl. She usually runs the dessert shop alone and is able to maintain the business. The livelihood subsidizes the family, and you can also chat with the guests, so you won't be too bored.

The landlady was very talkative and kept praising Hui Liyi's beauty and the girl's temperament. She praised Lu Mingfei's sincerity and said that the two of them seemed to be a perfect match. She also asked them if they were lovers who were in college and were traveling here during the holidays. Finally, he enthusiastically presented sweet cakes of different flavors in the store to Lu Mingfei and Eliyi to taste... Both of them were a little embarrassed by the warm hospitality of the landlady.

Lu Mingfei asked Eri to hold the sweet cake in his hand and take pictures next to the batik blue guise in front of the dessert shop. He brought the camera from the Takamawara store today. The two of them looked like a young couple in love. After checking in at the tourist attractions during the trip, the proprietress even took the initiative to take photos of Lu Mingfei and Hui Liyi.

When she saw the restrained postures of Lu Mingfei and Eli Yi, she also instructed Lu Mingfei, a boy, to take the initiative to put his hands around the waist of his female partner when taking pictures. After taking a satisfactory photo, the boss lady asked Lu Mingfei to develop the photo. She wanted to send her a copy, and she wanted to hang a photo of the two of them in the store as a model for her sweet cake. Lu Mingfei patted her chest and said that it was necessary. When the time comes, she would definitely send the most handsome and beautiful photos to the proprietress!

Before leaving, the landlady gave Eliyi some pastries from the store. It was obvious that she really liked this beautiful girl. The folk customs here were also very simple. Eiliyi looked at Lu Mingfei and said, Lu Mingfei smiled and said that he should accept the kindness. Hui Liyi accepted the sweet cake and left a note to say thank you to the landlady. In fact, Lu Mingfei had secretly left enough money under the tray on the counter.

After coming out of the dessert shop, Lu Mingfei took Eriki to the shrine in the mountains.

The shrine is built on the mountainside, and the clear spring that falls from the top of the mountain winds along the side of the shrine. The torii of the shrine is very special. It is not vermilion but azure. On the left side of the torii is written "Pray for a Good Marriage". On the right side it says "Bliss comes to my heart".

Lu Mingfei and Eri Yi stepped on the moss-covered bricks in front of the torii gate and climbed up the stairs. A little girl wearing a large miko costume ran over. She seemed to think that Lu Mingfei and Eri Yi were people who came to visit the shrine. The tourists handed each of them three sticks of incense.

Lu Mingfei did not refuse the girl's kindness, but took the incense, smiled at the little witch, and prepared to pay for the incense.

"We don't charge money for incense here." The little girl saw Lu Mingfei's actions and took the initiative to wave her hand at him, "The place where incense is burned is in the courtyard. It's only twenty tiles away through the torii. , as long as you offer incense with sincerity."

Lu Mingfei was slightly surprised. He had thought that the people in this town were very simple, but he didn't expect them to be so simple. Once upon a time, Umezuji Town was also a popular tourist destination in the Shikoku region, but just now he was passing by the mold workshop and sweets in the town. When he went to the store, Lu Mingfei discovered that the prices here were basically at the same level as twenty years ago. The shrines in the mountains did not even charge for incense, and only wanted people who offered incense to visit sincerely.

The little girl wearing a large miko uniform kept secretly glancing at Eriki. She held the corner of the robe with her little hands, her eyes full of longing. After hesitating for a moment, she finally mustered up the courage to say something to Eriki. One sentence: "Sister, you are so beautiful!"

Then the girl ran away shyly and hid under the cherry blossom tree in the distance and recited her training lessons loudly. Lu Mingfei was a little bit dumbfounded. He took Eriyi to the place where the girl said she would burn incense and lit three incense sticks. , inserted in the incense burner, clasping hands, acquiescing to the wish seriously, Hui Liyi also imitated Lu Mingfei's movements.

After leaving the shrine, Lu Mingfei took time to board the last mountain-climbing train with Erika. The mountain-climbing train was built next to the shrine. It was originally a mining cableway built to mine copper ore on the mountain. Meijin Temple There was once a rich mineral vein hidden in the mountains of the town. Later, the mineral veins in the mountains were mined out. This cable was abandoned for a long time. After the "Tokyo Love Story" fire, Umezuji Town became a tourist attraction, and the town decided to This mountaineering cable was restored and used as a sightseeing cable car.

Under the setting sun, the empty old cable car tilted upward at a 45-degree angle, sending a man and a woman up the mountain in a leisurely manner. The gears and tracks meshed, and the clicking sound echoed in the empty valley.

Eriyi has been lying on the transparent glass to look at the outside world. The vegetation in the mountains has not been pruned all year round and grows extremely wild. The pine forest is dense and lush. Occasionally, a towering spruce pierces the forest layer and stands proudly. The maple leaves are transparent. The red and green of the poplar trees complement each other. Occasionally, you can see clusters of fiery red azaleas and bright purple phalaenopsis peeking out from the cliffs. Even rare varieties such as the precious Suxinmei and the red Yunlong Begonia can be seen. See.

"It's very beautiful here, more beautiful than any scenery I've ever seen before." Eryi excitedly wrote in a small notebook for Lu Mingfei to read.

"Yes, I have long wanted to bring Eri Yi here." Lu Mingfei nodded and looked at the scenery outside the cable car.

"But Sakura is not Japanese, how do you know such a beautiful place?" Eriki asked curiously.

"I first learned about it from the TV series." Lu Mingfei said, "The Japanese TV series was popular all over Asia at that time. This town was a famous filming location in that TV series, so the town also became popular and became A very popular tourist attraction in Shikoku.”

"What TV show?" Eryi asked.

""Tokyo Love Story" is a very old film, but it is very touching and classic. After the popularity of the TV series passed, fewer and fewer people came to Umezu Temple Town. To this day, no one deliberately We are here in the southwest of Shikoku." Lu Mingfei smiled, "Maybe it's because I'm nostalgic. I read "Tokyo Love Story" once a year, and I cry every time. It's embarrassing to say that. "

"It's not shameful, it must be a very touching TV series." Eriki wrote seriously in a small notebook.

"It's indeed very touching, so bringing Eriko to Umezuji Town became something I decided to do." Lu Mingfei looked at Eriki, "Speaking of which, I haven't had time to watch "Tokyo Love Story" this year. If you have time, Eriyi would like to relive it with me?"

"Okay." Hui Liyi nodded solemnly, as if she and Lu Mingfei had made a serious agreement.

Lu Mingfei really liked that Japanese drama, and he never denied that he was actually a sentimental person.

After watching "Tokyo Love Story" for the first time, he burst into tears while searching the Internet for information and travel promotional videos about Ehime Prefecture and Umezuji Town. Therefore, Lu Mingfei knew that Umezuji Town is a city famous for its copper mines and The town is based on tourism. He also knows what the town looks like, where the town's shrine is built on the mountain, what time the last mountaineering train stops running, and what kind of breathtaking scenery you will see after boarding the train... …

"It is indeed beautiful here, but the scenery next will be even better." The mountaineering train stopped a short distance from the top of the mountain. Lu Mingfei took Eli Yi's hand and led her off the train.

There were no signs or notices. The train ended at a Ksitigarbha temple. The stone shrine was only as high as an adult man’s thigh. There was a rough little Buddha statue in front of the temple, with a one-foot-square brick roof on top of the mini temple. The top of the head of the Buddha statue is used to protect it from wind and rain. Even though this stone Ksitigarbha temple looks extremely simple, it will be considered a complete Ksitigarbha temple once the top is sealed.

It is said that there is a god living in every Ksitigarbha temple. They will inhabit this small temple as souls. As long as someone comes to visit them with food and sincerity, they will use their divine power to fulfill the wishes of the worshipers. Those stone Jizo temples that have not been visited for a long time will gradually become abandoned, and the gods who live in them will disappear from this world forever.

Lu Mingfei took out a rice ball and a sweet cake given by the dessert shop proprietress from his handbag and placed them in front of the small Buddha statue, and then walked toward the top of the mountain with Eriyi.

There is a forest in front, and a road paved with bluestones winds between the woods. It seems that no one has walked on this road for many years. The stone slabs are rugged and full of potholes. The grass and trees on both sides of the road are growing wildly. The square fern savagely dominates the pedestrian roads, as if this primitive jungle does not want to be disturbed by humans anymore. However, these beautiful plants are also mixed with wormwood that can cut the skin and is poisonous. Lu Mingfei stepped on the stems and roots of the wormwood to clear the way for Hui Liyi.

The road ahead is a little wider, and there are not so many weeds in the way. However, there are a lot of fallen leaves on the bluestone, and the moss is unexpectedly slippery. It seems that it also rained in the mountains yesterday, because Eri is wearing the same clothes as the shrine maiden. Wearing matching clogs, Lu Mingfei was afraid that her feet would slip and fall, so he came to her side, hugged her waist and walked side by side.

The sunlight penetrates the densely woven shade of the trees and casts straight down like luminous lines. There is a thin fog in the woods. Under the Tyndall effect, the light is divided into bunches in the fog, and it shines on the skin like It is a warm glowing spot. Perhaps this is the romance of nature. The sunlight that cannot be touched or grasped has not only a temperature but also a shape here.

At the end of the road is a large mine. The mine has long been sealed with stones and fences. The warning sign next to it reads "Exhausted mining, no one allowed to enter." There is a sign in the open space in front of the mine. There are vermilion wooden pillars and square platforms.

Colorful carp streamers are hung on the pillars. This is a Japanese custom called "Boy's Day". It started in the Edo period. When a boy was born in the family, a carp streamer was hung in front of the door to wish that the boy would be like a carp. Growing up healthily, full of vitality, and bravely leaping to the "Dragon Gate", there is a porcelain vase on the square platform with peach blossom branches in it. The Peach Blossom Festival is a girl's festival in Japan. If a girl is born in someone's family in the town, Just put a gorgeous peach blossom in the porcelain vase.

But the red paint on the pillars has been mottled, the carp streamers are a bit worn, the peach branches have long withered, and the track of the mine cart is also rusty, just like the bluestone road where it came from. After the mineral resources in the mountains were mined, here It looks like it has been neglected for years.

Lu Mingfei was a little sad to see the once bustling tourist attractions now deserted.

Lu Mingfei stood in front of the mine. He squatted down and motioned Huiliyi to come on his back. Huiliyi hooked Lu Mingfei's neck. Lu Mingfei carried Huiliyi from the stone wall next to the mine. Jumping up, the girl's skirt flew in the air.

Lu Mingfei carried Huili Yi to a huge rock next to the cliff. Standing on the top of the rock, Lu Mingfei bent down and slowly put Huili Yi down.