I'm a thankful fox in Tokyo

Chapter 217: My benefactor is in trouble, I am here to help you!
"But if I miss Dongye-kun, how can I shut up those people at home? Many elders from the demon hunter family have already come to test me. In two years, I'm afraid someone will come to my house and ask for a marriage contract."

"How can you say I missed out? Although the thank-you gifts I gave to Higashino-kun were things he urgently needed, strictly speaking, they were not generous. If Hiiragi Jing really likes Higashino-kun, he can use this as an excuse to get along with him."

Nobuyoshi Jinguji comforted his wife, but he knew in his heart that with his daughter's sullen personality, she probably wouldn't be able to use this excuse.

"But what about the relatives at home?"

Jinguji Xizi lowered her gentle eyebrows and said, "I'm just worried that Hiiragi Jing will marry someone she doesn't like. She values ​​her family too much. If those people in her family use the family as an excuse to let her marry someone, she won't object."

"That won't happen. They don't dare."

Jinguji Nobuyoshi said this and looked at his wife seriously.

"Since Hiiragi Jing was born, I have worked hard and practiced diligently to integrate the family inside and outside, all for the purpose of allowing Hiiragi Jing to choose her own destiny in the future. She can marry whoever she wants, or even not want to marry. Everything depends on her own idea."

At this point, he revealed a deep smile: "When I was in college, I could do whatever it takes to eliminate my competitors, and now I can do whatever it takes to protect Kagami Hiiragi. I, Jinguji Nobuyoshi, have never been a modest gentleman."

"So you punched that senior who was pursuing me in public?"

Jinguji Xizi glanced at her smug husband and said softly, "You reckless man."

"If reason doesn't make sense, then all we have left is our fists," Jinguji Nobuyoshi laughed.

You said before that there is no logic in love matters, but now you start talking about logic again?

Jinguji Kiko rolled her eyes at her husband, turned her head to the side, and vaguely heard Shiori Kaori's scream coming from the car carrying their daughter behind her, and smiled.

Dongye Yu had just seen off the Jinguji family and was about to go back upstairs when Fei Yi, a crow in disguise, flew down from the roof of the opposite building and landed on the wall next to the apartment. He lowered his head and asked, "Are they gone?"

"Ah."

"Then shall we go to Furukawa's house now?" Fei Yi flapped his wings and asked.

"Wait a moment, I'll go back and put my things away."

"Then I'll wait for you down here."

Fei Yi doesn't like Dong Ye Yu's apartment very much. The space inside is too small. He has to be careful when he goes in, otherwise it is easy to break something.

Dong Ye Yu nodded, ran upstairs quickly, and returned to the room. He found Xiu Ji sitting next to the box painted with flowers, birds, insects and fish in gold, looking anxious.

"Lord!"

The eyes of the man and the bird met in the air, both expressions were filled with excitement and anticipation, and there was a kind of nervousness as if they were about to open a treasure box after defeating the final boss.

"I'm coming."

Dong Yeyu rubbed his hands, walked over in three or two steps, kicked off his shoes, and sat down at the small square table.

See what good stuff there is.

Dong Ye Yu took a deep breath and reopened the box. Without even looking at the spell scroll and the house key, he directly picked up the white envelope containing the cash. The thickness of the envelope was about the same as that of the air conditioner remote control, or perhaps thicker.

A stack of Fukuzawa Yukichi notes was pulled out and it was estimated to be about one million yen.

The paper and pen flew around in Dongye Yu's hands. Xiuji's eyes seemed to be dazzled. The bird squatted beside him blankly with its beak slightly open.

With one million in hand, even Dongye Yu felt a sense of joy of harvest. He licked his fingertips, stroked the textured surface of the ten thousand yen bills, counted them twice, and found that there was exactly one million yen, no more, no less.

It may not seem like much, but if you think about it carefully, including the rent-free house, the 1 million yen gift money and the spell scroll, and the promise that if you get into trouble in the future you can go to the Jinguji family for help, it is actually quite generous.

In my previous life, when I was a child, I heard many stories of brave deeds, such as saving a drowning child.

Most families just buy some fruit and milk when visiting, and the gifts are just a token of appreciation, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand RMB.

The situation in ancient times where a drop of favor was repaid with a spring of gratitude rarely happens in modern times. In comparison, the thank-you gift from the Jinguji family was generous and heavy.

Of course, for ordinary demon hunters, the most valuable gifts are probably these scrolls that can be passed down from generation to generation, and the promise of the Jinguji family will have to be postponed.

In this island country, if you don't have the permission of the source of the spell, you cannot pass it to others casually. The place is small, there are only a few big cities, and everyone sees it everywhere, so it's easy to be caught on the spot.

Of course, if the family of the exorcist from whom the spell originated has disappeared or cannot be traced, there are no restrictions.

The significance of magic to an exorcist is like the significance of books to scholars in ancient times, or perhaps even more important.

After all, if you fail, you can take the exam again three years later, but if a demon hunter fails to defeat the monster, he will lose his life.

Higashino Yu took the backpack, took out 300,000 yen from the 1 million yen, and put it together with the 100,000 yen he had left behind, preparing to use the money to buy a small electric scooter.

The remaining money will be used as living expenses for the next few days, as long as I can hold on until my part-time job salary is paid next week.

Put the rest of the money together with the money to be sent back to the orphanage and send them back together when the time comes.

This one million is just a drop in the bucket for the operation of an orphanage, but now Riho, Yukihira and the other girls and boys probably won't cry out for hunger every night.

Then Dong Ye Yu picked up a few bunches of keys in the box and took a look at them. There were tags hanging on the key chains with the address, type of house and area written on them.

"Hmm, Koto. Adachi Chiyoda. And an apartment in Akihabara?!"

Living in Akihabara is probably one of the dreams of many otakus.

Dong Yeyu looked at the keys and searched the address on the Google Maps on his mobile phone. After understanding the approximate location, he pondered for a moment.

The houses in good places are basically high-end apartments, which are smaller and slightly more remote. For example, the houses in places like Adachi Ward are larger, and there are single-family houses covering an area of ​​more than 100 square meters.

"Xiuji, which one do you think is better?"

"Well, my lord, please allow me to think about it for a moment."

Xiuji didn't expect Dongye Yu to ask him, so he hurriedly spoke, walking back and forth on the tatami, pondering very seriously.

It's rare for the lord to ask for my advice. After thinking carefully, Xiuji came to Dongye Yu and said, "There are three grades of eunuchs: top, middle and bottom."

You're obsessed with role playing, right? Do you want me to buy you a feather fan?
Dong Yeyu was speechless: "To make a long story short."

Xiuji chuckled and said, "I think it would be better to choose some large single-family houses as the new city. If it is an apartment, the area is not large, and there are people coming and going, which is quite noisy and affects the master's quiet cultivation."

You want to mess around in the house by yourself?

Higashino Yu glanced at him and immediately saw through Shukichizaemon's selfish intentions, but what he said was not wrong.

Most of the high-end apartments on the island are high-rise apartments. Although the living experience is better than that of detached houses, the maintenance of detached houses is more troublesome, and most of them are very small, which can be called a demon for space management. Most of them are three-story detached houses with an area of ​​60 to 70 square meters.

But the coming and going of people is not conducive to cultivation. If one is disturbed from refining the purple energy every day, the result will be counterproductive.

Therefore, after thinking it over again and again, I gave up the very tempting high-end apartment in Akihabara and initially selected several detached houses in Adachi Ward and its surrounding areas.

They are basically some distance away from Ayasezaka Inari Shrine. The nearest house is about an hour away, but if you ride an electric scooter, it will probably take only ten minutes to get there.

Dongye Yu put a few strings of selected house icons into his backpack, put the scrolls in the box into his backpack, and then told Xiuji to stay at home before leaving.

There was a lot to do this afternoon. After accompanying Fei Yi to visit Furukawa's house, I had to send money and then buy an electric scooter to go look at houses.

Unfortunately, this means I don't have time to go to the Ministry of Religion, Literature, and Science to inquire about the qualification certificate for exorcists. It is said that the Ministry of Religion, Literature, and Science, except for the flexible classes, gets off work on time.

However, Dong Ye Yu was not in a hurry. Anyway, he had no use for it recently and it would not be too late to go next week.

When he came downstairs, he said to the crow squatting on the wall, "Lead the way."

"Follow me."

Fei Yi said softly, spread his wings and flew into the strong wind, circled twice in the sky, and went northwest. Furukawa Hatsue got off the police car and returned to the street where he had lived for decades. Looking at the short and dilapidated old house not far away, he felt as if he was in another world.

"Isn't this Ah Zhi? How did you get out of the police car?"

"Oh, it's Jingzi, something happened to you."

The old lady called Jingzi looked surprised: "Is it okay?"

Furukawa Hatsue gave a forced smile: "It's okay, nothing happened."

After exchanging a few words with the neighbor Yasuko, Furukawa Hatsue pushed open the dilapidated gate tiredly. The old lady stood on tiptoe and stretched her neck to take a look. She felt the gossip and an irresistible desire to share it in her heart. She left here as fast as the wind.

If it were the old Furukawa Hatsue, she would have used both soft and hard tactics to threaten her and ordered her not to say anything nonsense.

But she was in no mood to pay attention to her old friend Jingzi, even though she might spread the news that she got out of the police car.

She took out the key from under the dirty blanket in front of the door and opened the door. The familiar smell made her feel a little more at ease. She opened the entrance in the dark, changed her shoes, and then went into the room and sat down.

blah blah blah!

I pulled the light cord in the room, and the dim light illuminated the room. I left in a hurry last night and only took some valuables with me, so the furnishings in the room had not changed much.

The rusty electric fan turned left and right on its own. The cool breeze occasionally brushed across people's faces, bringing a slight smell of rust.

This brat, Azhi, forgot to turn off the fan again. Furukawa Hatsue was about to scold him, but then she remembered something and fell silent. She looked at the room, which was rarely empty, and slowly sat on the floor, turning off the fan.

Just then, the unpleasant cry of a crow was heard outside the window.

"Lonely! Lonely!"

Is it Fei Yi?

Furukawa Hatsue immediately stood up and looked in the direction where the sound came from. He thought that it shouldn't be the sound. Fei Yi was taken away by the gods and there was no way he could come back.

She understood this, but her body still walked towards the window involuntarily.

Wow!

Pushing open the shoji door facing the small vegetable patch in the courtyard, the sunlight shines through the lush branches and leaves of the beech trees in the courtyard, casting a large area of ​​shade. Scattered golden spots of light fall on the floor on the edge, so bright that one subconsciously wants to squint.

The lotus flowers in the vegetable patch are growing well, and the chives and chopped green onions on the edge are ready to eat. Furukawa Hatsue thought and looked in the direction of the sound.

The sound was made by a little crow that landed on the wall of his own yard.

As expected, isn't it? Furukawa Hatsue was a little disappointed, and simply sat on the side, mumbling to herself.

"My Feiyi is much bigger than you, with beautiful feathers and a strong body. She's not even afraid of bullets. Haha, I usually see her eating little, so I ask her to eat more. I didn't expect the little girl to be a big fat bird."

"Old woman, are you talking bad about me behind my back?" The crow spoke in a familiar girl's voice.

Furukawa Hatsue was stunned and stared at the crow for a long time. In the crow's eyes, she seemed to see the scene when she first met Tobi.

As if he was afraid of hallucination, the old man wiped his eyes with his sleeve and looked carefully.

"What are you looking at?"

Hearing this, she choked up and said, "You stinky girl, you didn't even tell me you came back, how rude."

"What am I going to say when I get home?"

The crow jumped into the shade of the beech tree, transformed into a girl in a black dress, sat down next to Furukawa Hatsue, and said in silence for a while: "I'm back."

Furukawa Hatsue looked at her, wiped her tears, and said with a tearful smile: ".Welcome back."

"Would you like something to eat? I'll cook for you." The old man was about to get up but was stopped by Fei Yi.

"I just came back to take a look this time. I have to leave soon. Where are Azhi and the others?"

Aji Furukawa Hatsue was silent for a few seconds, then hugged Tobi and cried, "Aji and the others can't come back, and I'm the only one left in the Furukawa family."

"Okay, don't I still have me? What happened?" Fei Yi frowned.

Furukawa Hatsue choked up a few times, and after calming down for a while, she began to explain.

"Aki was taken back by her parents. Nobuyo and Aji committed a crime. Now that they have been caught, I don't know how long they will have to stay in jail. Shouta was sent to a child consultation center. There is no one left at the Furukawa family."

After hearing this, Fei Yi fell silent and patted the old man's back gently: "Okay, I'm still here."

"Where did you say you were going?" Furukawa Hatsue asked worriedly.

"Let's go back to Inari Shrine. I am now a follower of the great god Inari."

"Inari-sama? Really?" Furukawa Hatsue was a little unconvinced and held onto Tobi. She refused to let go.

at this time,

Wow!
A strong wind blew and blurred his eyes. When his vision returned, Furukawa Hatsue saw a white fox with a pure white body and two tails standing under the shade of a beech tree. Its hair was fluffy and long, floating in the air even without wind. The narrow and long fox eyes did not give people a feeling of cunning and treacherous, but solemn and dignified, just like the imagined appearance of a fox god.

He nodded slightly to Furukawa Hatsue, then looked at Tobi.

"I am leaving."

Fei Yi's voice echoed in his ears, and there was another strong wind. The crown of the beech tree rustled in the wind, and the leaves fluttered and fell like rain.

When he opened his eyes again, the fox and the crow had disappeared, and only the large leaves falling from the sky proved that they had been there.

Furukawa Hatsue was no longer feeling uncomfortable. She sat by the edge of the room in a daze for a while, then stood up and prepared to tidy up the vegetable patch.

Although Aji and Nobuyo are going to be tried, and Shota and Aki cannot come back for the time being, Tobi still has to return to the Furukawa family, and as the elder in the family, he has to cheer up.

She lives so close, maybe she could come back to eat and talk with me occasionally. If not, she can go to the Inari Shrine to worship by herself.

Furukawa Hatsue thought so and looked up at the blue sky. The sunny sky that seemed so dazzling as if it were an illusion now seemed more real.

Monday evening,
The music echoing in the restaurant of Duke Kobayashi's residence was Beethoven's "Für Elise". Higashino Yu didn't feel anything about the first half of the music. After listening to the school bell for six years in his previous life, no matter how beautiful the music was, it would become unpleasant to him.

However, there were a few rather unfamiliar and cheerful tunes in the middle that unexpectedly gave people a good feeling. The lights were cast with a light filter, and everything was magnificent, giving people the illusion of being in a palace banquet.

After Dong Yeyu persuaded a fat lady with a smile that made her body tremble and her fat surge like waves to order a sumptuous meal with just a few words, he returned to the front desk tiredly. Before he had rested for two minutes, a customer pushed open the glass door.

"Welcome, sir. Do you have a reservation?"

Dong Yeyu habitually picked up the tablet, looked up, and was a little surprised: "Ms. Hashimoto?"

The person who came was Risa Hashimoto, who had visited this restaurant many times before. Every time she came, she ordered a table of dishes and didn't eat much. She just chatted with me. Later, I went to seek revenge on Nagamasa Kusaka. After I lost my spirit, it was she who took me all the way to the hospital before returning home.

He is one of his benefactors.

So he hurriedly walked out to the front desk to greet him, showing a sincere smile and thanking him: "Thanks to you last time, I have always wanted to thank you in person, but you may have been too busy these days and didn't come to the restaurant, so I didn't find the opportunity."

Hashimoto Lisa forced a smile and said, "You are so polite, Higashino-kun."

Ms. Hashimoto seems to be in a bad mood.

Dong Yeyu heard that her tone was not right, so he took a closer look and found that she was indeed much more haggard, with fatigue that could not be concealed even with foundation. Her eyes were bloodshot, probably because she did not sleep well, and her eyes were a little swollen.

After thinking for a while, he said seriously: "It's not only time that kills youth, but also troubles. Miss Hashimoto, are you having troubles? If I can help, please tell me."

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