I'm a thankful fox in Tokyo

Chapter 249: You sold yourself out for just a talisman?
The raccoon cat girl held the fox very tightly, as if she was afraid that the fox would disappear if she let go.

Dong Yeyu smiled and patted the girl's head, "You've done a great job, Xiao Taodong. There are more customers in the store, and you have truly become the head of the family. It's amazing."

I understand Taodong's feelings very well.

The raccoon cat monsters value their family very much. Now Taodong is alone, and I saved her in the first place, so she probably depends on me a little.

Therefore, even though the girl in front of him was gentle and graceful, he didn't have any other thoughts.

Higashino Yu actually regards Taodong as his junior.

What's more, what is in front of you is just an illusion. In fact, it is probably a raccoon cat wearing a yukata. If you imagine it, it is actually a bit funny.

But I am also a monster, just with more powerful magic.
A fox wearing clothes and a raccoon wearing a yukata hugging each other appeared in Higashino Yu's mind. This absurd picture made him silent.

Tao Dong had no idea what was going on in Dong Ye Yu's mind. She just hugged the young man in front of her and took a deep breath. The lingering smell made her feel unprecedented peace of mind, as if all the things she had been busy with for the past two months had finally paid off.

"It's so refreshing. It is said that this is a hot spring unique to Xiashan."

"I think the architectural style and interior decoration of this small hotel are nice and have an ancient feel."

At this time, the sound of guests talking in the hotel could be heard, and it seemed that someone was about to leave the hotel.

Tao Dong then quickly let go, her face flushed as she bowed and apologized: "I'm sorry, Master Dongye, I'm so rude."

"What's the impoliteness? He's not a stranger." Dongye Yu didn't seem to care. He was going to sit in the hotel and then go to the shrine to visit Yuanjun.

A couple walked out of the entrance of the hotel, looked at Dong Ye Yu for a moment, and smiled friendlyly.

The man's face was flushed, as if he had drunk some wine. He recommended in a familiar manner: "I suggest you drink a glass of sake when you take a hot spring bath. Unfortunately, there are no hot spring buns in the store."

Drinking before taking a hot spring bath? Where did this habit come from? Dong Yeyu was curious, but since the other person was kind enough to recommend some new experiences, he couldn't just ignore it, so he smiled and nodded in response.

The man said, looking at Tao Dong with regret: "Little girl, next time you come, can you have delicious hot spring buns?"

"It would be even better if we could have ramen. Hakata ramen is—"

Tao Dong was a little confused. She had never left Taoxiang, let alone heard of Hakata Ramen.
The middle-aged woman next to her, who was wearing mountaineering clothes, said apologetically that her husband was drunk, and pulled her husband away with some embarrassment.

Tao Dong seemed to really want to do this. She took out a small notebook and wrote some grammatically incorrect sentences on it that probably only she could understand.

It looked like something scribbled by a toddler who had just learned to write. Dong Ye Yu looked at it for a while and didn't understand it, but he could guess that she was writing something about customer reviews.

"Are you really going to listen to him?"

"Why not give it a try? What if the guests like it?"

Taodong spoke softly like a spoiled child, and then she found that Dongye Yu was reading what she had written, so she shyly showed the notebook in her hand.

"Aunt Narcissus opened a shop in town. I learned calligraphy from her, but I'm still not very good at it."

I never realized before that Taodong was so talented.
Dong Yeyu was surprised that Xiuji had not made any progress after following him for such a long time, but Taodong had been transformed after only two months of not seeing him.

No, we must torture Xiuji when we get back.

Tao Dong hung the notebook on the towel strap on his shoulder, wiped his eyes, and sat down at the entrance: "Welcome back, Master Dong Ye."

The posture was smooth, and she bowed before Dongye Yu could react. Although she certainly deserved this greeting, she still felt it was a bit awkward.

"You don't have to be like this. Just think of me as your senior brother." Dong Ye Yu said helplessly.

Tao Dong raised his head and blinked: "Tao Dong serves his father and brother in the same way."

It’s really too feudal, even if it’s capitalism?
Higashino Yu wanted to say something, but when he thought of Xiuji and the monsters' ability to accept changes in things, he fell silent again.

This is probably one of the disadvantages of the immortal species. They have lived like this for hundreds of years, and it is difficult to ask them to change suddenly.

"Anyway, there's no need to go to this extent in the future. Just treat me as a normal senior friend. Otherwise, it'll be a little weird."

Dong Ye Yu said this, changed his shoes and walked into the entrance hall, looking at the slightly modified furnishings and asked.

"Have there been any monsters causing trouble in Taoxiang recently?"

The entrance is not big, and it is no different from the last time I came here. There is a small counter inside, and there are some cute decorations on the counter, such as a raccoon piggy bank.

Next to it is a new exquisite door made of beautiful stones. Through the door curtain, you can see the corridor. The sunlight shines down obliquely from the small dry landscape garden surrounded by the corridor and the yard, giving a feeling of peaceful time.

"There were some drunken monsters causing trouble at first, but they all ran away after seeing the talisman you left behind."

Taodong walked over and lifted the curtain for Dongye Yu.

"After the water god took over the god's duties, he eliminated the bad monsters in Hishizawa. Other monsters with bad tempers will not get angry easily. Now Taoxiang has become the Taoxiang that my father once described. So don't worry about me, Master Higashino."

As she spoke, the girl looked at Dong Yeyu, with a worried look in her peach blossom eyes: "However, you, living so far away in Edo, there must be a lot of monsters, right? Is everything okay?"

not good.

Dong Yeyu replied silently in his heart, but in order not to worry the raccoon cat girl, he showed a confident look on his face: "I am a famous Kyoto monster, who dares to provoke me?"

Lord Dongye, so majestic
Tao Dong stared blankly at the young man in front of him who was so imposing and like a god, his eyes sparkling. He thought, if Lord Dongye could change back to his original form as a white fox, he would definitely be more majestic.

She had seen Dong Yeyu easily kill demons, defeat the White Snake God Envoy, and fight against the false gods with the other two big demons. She had already regarded him as a god, so she naturally believed his words. Dong Yeyu saw the raccoon cat girl staring at him in a daze. At first, he didn't think anything of it. As her expression became more and more strange, he frowned slightly and asked, "Is there something on my face?"

Tao Dong suddenly woke up and realized what she had been thinking about. Her face flushed red: "No, nothing."

Taodong, you are really hopeless for thinking such offensive things about Dongye-sama in your head!
The raccoon girl condemned herself while lowering her head to invite Dong Yeyu to enter the inn: "Please come in, Master Dong Ye, you gave me a lot of advice before, I tried to do it, and the guests responded very well."

As she spoke, she introduced the changes in the hotel.

Dongye Yu followed Taodong into the hot spring hotel. The decoration inside the hotel was very different from the simplicity of the past two months. There were some cute stickers on the wooden walls, and there were some cute decorations along the windows and corners. It had a strong breath of life, allowing people to feel the slow pace of life here and relax.

Following the corridor, we came to a simple Japanese-style room.

"This used to be my father's room. I cleaned it out after you went back to Edo that night, thinking that you might need it when you come back one day. If you don't mind, Master Dongye, how about staying here tonight?"

Dong Yeyu hesitated after hearing what she said. After all, the threat from the demons in Oeyama was like a sword of Damocles hanging around his neck. He had originally planned to return to Tokyo tonight.
However, looking at the raccoon girl busying around, he was at a loss for words. He was silent for a few seconds, until Taodong brought a cup of oolong tea in a fresh bamboo tube and looked at her eager expression.

It's just one night, and we're in Taoxiang, which is within Yuanjun's jurisdiction, so it should be fine.

Dong Yeyu thought of this, took the teacup and nodded: "Okay, sorry to bother you then."

Tao Dong's peach blossom eyes narrowed like crescent moons when she heard this. She was thinking about going to the town to buy some delicious food for dinner later, while introducing the bamboo tube teacup to Dong Ye Yu.

"This is the specialty of the store. A customer mentioned it before, so I tried to make some. Auntie Narcissus said that people like cleanliness, so I went to the town to buy a disinfection cabinet. Some time ago, the people in the town were renovating the shrine, so I asked them to connect electricity to the store. Some customers like to use this bamboo tube to hold wine and tea."

Dong Yeyu tasted it and found that the oolong tea did have a hint of the fresh taste of bamboo. It couldn't be said that it tasted better, but it was still unique.

The two chatted for a while. Monsters are not sensitive to the passage of time. In Taodong's perception, two months passed very quickly, as if Dong Yeyu had just left two days ago and came back, so he didn't feel awkward at all.

Then Dong Ye Yu asked about Yuan Jun.

"Taodong, have you met Yuanjun recently?"

"Lord Water God?"

Tao Dong Yazi sat next to Dong Yeyu and shook his head. "The God came back not long ago and just asked me if I could make delicious meals. I didn't dare to say yes, and I haven't seen him since. I heard that the Water God has been going to Xiashan to exorcise evil spirits and monsters these days. He should be busy with his divine duties, right?"

So diligent? Dong Yeyu was a little suspicious. This was totally different from the Yuan Jun he knew. If something was out of the ordinary, there must be something wrong.

Tao Dong heard Dong Yeyu talking about Yuan Jun, and guessed his purpose of returning to Lingze, and asked: "Master Dong Ye, are you here to visit the Water God this time?"

Dong Yeyu nodded: "Well, I need her help with something."

Tao Dong was a little curious, but didn't ask much. He just smiled and changed the subject: "Tao Dong has never been to Edo since he was a child. I don't know what it is like there. I only heard that it is a big city. Can Master Dong Ye tell me what it is like there?"

"Tokyo has tall buildings, busy traffic, lots of people, and a lot of interesting things. I haven't been in Tokyo for long, but I've experienced a lot, such as before..."

Higashino Yu described the scenes of Tokyo and his own experiences, Taodong knelt beside him and listened curiously, occasionally asking a rather strange question.

When the sun was gradually slanting, Dong Yeyu took out his mobile phone to check the time and found that it was already 3:30 in the afternoon, so he smiled and said, "Let's stop here for now. I have to go to the shrine to visit Yuanjun."

"I'll go with you." Tao Dong stood up and said.

"Don't you need to watch the store?"

Tao Dong shook his head and removed the ropes on his arms, letting the large sleeves of his green yukata fall down. "There aren't many customers during this period."

And I didn’t open a shop for money. Tao Dong looked at Dong Yeyu in front of him and added silently in his heart.

Seeing that she insisted, Dong Ye Yu didn't say anything. It would also be good for the little civet cat to be able to show off in front of Yuanjun more.

After Taodong hung a wooden sign in front of the door announcing the suspension of business, the two of them followed the path in the bamboo forest to the main approach to the shrine, climbed the moss-free and clean bluestone approach, and came to the newly renovated hand-washing room to wash their hands.

However, the main hall and other buildings of the shrine have not been renovated in time. They have only been cleaned at this time, so they look less desolate, but still have an old feeling.

There are no witches, goddesses or other management personnel, only a few tourists who come here to worship and visit. It seems that it is up to you to pay for the worship or not.

However, given Yuanjun's money-obsessed personality, it would be difficult for believers to come to worship without paying.

Higashino Yu stood in front of the worship hall, threw a Fukuzawa Yukichi note into the offering box, then made a Shangqing seal and bowed his head, briefly describing what had happened in his mind and requested to meet Yuanjun.

Yuanjun is not a god from the island country, but the dragon god of rivers from Shenzhou. She probably doesn't care about the five-yen bond. From my understanding of her, the more offerings you make to her, the better.

Tao Dong looked at Dong Ye Yu's worship with some curiosity, and threw a coin that belonged to her to worship the gods. She clasped her hands together and worshiped devoutly.

A moment later, Dong Yeyu and Tao Dong disappeared in front of the worship hall together, and the tourists visiting the surrounding area did not seem to notice.

Dong Yeyu simply felt that there was power from the gods enveloping himself and Tao Dong, and he did not resist. When he looked up, he found himself in a splendid and bright temple with flying eaves, brackets, and glazed tiles. The ground looked like it was cut from a whole piece of gem, so smooth and clear that it could be used as a mirror.

There are Chilongs coiled on the vermilion pillars that require several people to hug. The structure in the center of the hall is somewhat similar to the Shenzhou Imperial Palace, with a pool shrouded in fairy mist, a white marble bridge, and jade steps. There are exquisite reliefs of rare animals, birds, beasts, insects, fish, as well as the mountains and rivers of China, which are lifelike and dazzling.

Yuanjun sat high in front of a table on the jade steps, wearing a ladies' skirt embroidered with plum blossoms and a pattern of gold and white dragons, a gold, jade and emerald hairpin on her head, her black hair tied in a fairy bun, a golden dragon necklace around her neck, with a dignified look, her phoenix eyes slightly narrowed, and she leaned over to stare at Dong Yeyu.

"You mean, that Inari-sama bought you with a talisman?"

I told you so many things, and you only focus on this one?
Dong Ye Yu looked at Yuan Jun's expression and felt sweaty for no reason, but then he thought, she has nothing to do with me. I am her benefactor, so why should I feel sweaty?
Dong Yeyu thought of this and became confident. He made a seal with his hand and said in a deep voice, "How can you say it was bought?"

"The agreement will only take effect after the spell is used, so I just don't need to use the spell, right?"

(End of this chapter)