Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

In the passing time, Marvin died at the age of more than a hundred.

This is a scientist and a scholar who has contributed a lot to this port city. Chi Feichi and Koizumi Hongzi stayed above the herbal medicine hall, watching the long line of people going to the cemetery to see Ma Wen off.

The bone jade was handed over to Elizabeth.

Elizabeth was depressed for a while, but she finally cheered up. She hung the sign of "Witch's Herbal Medicine" on the herbal medicine hall, and ran the herbal medicine hall. From time to time, she went to see her parents who had returned from fishing in the sea.

But one day, after Elizabeth's parents went to sea, they never came back and were buried in the sea.

Koizumi Hongzi looked at the big girl lying on the bed at night, covered with a quilt and crying until she fell asleep, feeling very distressed, "Elizabeth must be very sad when her relatives pass away one after another, and now she is the only one left..."

"And you worrying mist."

Chi Feichi drifted out of the house and looked in the direction of the stone building on the pier from the roof. .

The city has not yet been connected to electric lights, and the kerosene lamps on the street are not enough to provide much light. At night, people who live here sleep with their heads covered, and the surroundings are quiet.

But that wharf is an exception, there are cargo ships coming there from time to time, and rows of torches are often lit up at night, and the wealthy businessmen who come here live in that stone building.

Koizumi Hongzi sighed looking at the pier, sighed at the sky, and sighed at the herbal medicine shop. In the rapid passage of time, he sighed for an unknown number of days, which gave Chi Feichi a headache.

"Actually, Elizabeth's personality is very similar to Becky." Chi Feichi looked at Elizabeth who was continuing her visits below.

"Becky?" Koizumi Hongzi was indeed attracted, and did not sigh again.

"Becky was eccentric when she was a child, and she liked to pester her great-grandfather, Lawrence, to tell stories. Her problems gave Lawrence a headache," Chi Feichi recalled. "At that time, Lawrence believed that the Montgomery family No matter what, the Montgomery family will continue to be brilliant, so I handed over the Montgomery family to Becky, but neither he nor I thought that the delicate little girl could support the family in the turmoil. As a result, Bei Ji Ji's tenacity is beyond my expectation, she is a qualified patriarch."

"But she was burned to death," Koizumi Hongzi sighed again, and said melancholy, "You really know that Becky and Elizabeth are so similar. When I think of Becky being burned alive, I feel even more sad..."

Chi Feichi: "..."

His original intention was to let Koizumi Hongzi know that Elizabeth had Becky's tenacity in her bones, and she could endure no matter what.

Fortunately, he didn’t say that Becky was the most afraid of pain when she was a child. Because the decoction was scalded, Lawrence pestered Lawrence to give her the bone jade, but in the end Becky gave the bone jade to her child, and she died. In the middle of the fire...

If she knew this, Hongzi Koizumi would sigh endlessly.

Sure enough, Elizabeth cheered up quickly, walked out of the pain of losing a loved one, and showed a bright smile to everyone who came to see the doctor.

In this small town, Elizabeth is the most beautiful girl. There are many young people who come to her door and elders who talk about marriage. Koizumi Hongzi is an old mother who floats aside and picks and chooses, and doesn't like any of them.

Elizabeth was not in a hurry to get married, until the year when the city was officially named "Jiangshenyuan", a freighter crashed into the shore, and among a group of patients sent to the medical center, Elizabeth saw a A young sailor with light blond hair.

Not only the young people in the city, Koizumi Hongzi felt heartbroken about this, and firmly believed that the other party had cheated Elizabeth's heart with a hateful smile, but in the end she acquiesced.

Because it's useless to object...

Elizabeth married the sailor, and four years after the outbreak of World War I, Elizabeth gave birth to a daughter, named Sophia.

Soon, the war was over.

The number of freighters in this port city gradually increased, and the sailors organized the fleet to sail and trade, which brought wealth to the family and brought many gifts to Elizabeth.

Just when Koizumi Hongzi saw the sailor getting more and more pleasing to the eye, the sailor also died in the sea.

Even in the future, the sea is an existence that humans have not conquered. What's more, in this era, the sea is a more dangerous beast for humans. In addition, merchants are easy to encounter pirates and companions. Take the risk of losing your life.

After being depressed for a while, Elizabeth quickly cheered up and continued to live with her five-year-old daughter Sophia.

More and more people come to Jiangshenyuan, some are foreigners who have traveled across the ocean, some are businessmen from other places in Japan, and more people come to Elizabeth's "Witch's Herb Shop", not only for medical treatment, but also for Some people who want to prepare herbs to take to the sea will also come to Elizabeth.

Unknowingly, the "witch" is no longer a symbol that cannot be mentioned, but some people think it is magical, so they believe in Elizabeth's medical skills even more.

Probably influenced by oriental culture, Sophia is a shy girl. When Elizabeth is holding out her hand to touch the bone jade, she moves cautiously. When she is helping in the herbal medicine shop, she is used to pursing her lips and smiling softly.

Chi Feichi and Koizumi Hongzi have nothing to do all day, watching the city prosper, watching the city get connected to electricity one by one, and watching little Sophia grow up day by day, learn medicine from her mother, and then be raped by a Japanese youth Got it.

Koizumi Hongzi also looked away after Elizabeth got married. The only thing she was upset about was that Sofia wanted to leave the foreigner mansion area and follow her to live in the Japanese gathering area instead of marrying her into Montgomery's house.

Before Sophia got married, Elizabeth gave Sophia the bone jade box, but Sophia refused.

"Let's keep the family bone jade in my mother's custody, and it's not too late to give it to me later," Sophia smiled softly, "But I want to transplant the elderberry in the yard. Xiangxiang grows up, with it by my side, I will feel at ease, and I will remember to visit my mother often."

At this moment, Chi Feichi, who was used to seeing people gathering and dispersing, felt his heart hurt.

In fact, the two areas are close to each other, but the farthest distance between the two fog groups can only move around in the herbal medicine hall, and they can only see the elder tree that can grow out of the courtyard wall, and they can no longer stay on the tree to see the scenery.

After getting married, Sophia and her husband often came back to see Elizabeth. The relationship between the two was so good that they went out in pairs every day. Two years later, Sophia was about to become a mother.

Sophia gave birth to a baby boy with her mother and stayed there for another three months before leaving with her husband and baby.

This was the busiest three months in the backyard of the Herbal Medicine Museum, but Koizumi Hongzi sighed again.

"I don't know what this child will look like," Hongzi Koizumi sighed and complained, "Really, we watched Elizabeth and Sophia grow up..."

"Be careful of depression." Chi Feichi reminded.

"What's the matter?" Koizumi Hongzi said indifferently, "Don't you also have an attending psychiatrist? After I go back, I will have a chance to talk to him at worst."

Chi Feichi was silent for a while, "Then you will have to be admitted to the hospital for observation."

Koizumi Hongzi: "..."

Chi Feichi didn't say any more, and continued to float on the wall and look at the elder tree.

If Koizumi Hongzi goes to a psychiatrist to confide, as long as 'I am a witch', 'I have witnessed hundreds of years of history and then become depressed', 'What I said is true, if you don't believe me, I will tell you in detail' such a set of three Even, it is to the extent that a doctor needs to issue a "recommended admission to the hospital for observation" medical certificate, but if you don't tell the truth, it's useless to see a psychiatrist.

Koizumi Hongzi was complained by Chi Feichi for a long time, and she fought back unconvinced, "Oh, some evil child of nature also said that he doesn't like elderberry, it's all Lawrence's misunderstanding."

"I'm used to it." Chi Feichi said truthfully.

The peaceful time seems to never last long.

Not long after Sophia and her husband went back with their children, war broke out again, and Sophia's husband left to join the army.

At the beginning, Sophia would often stay with her mother's parents with her children, but gradually, Sophia stopped coming, and even Elizabeth began to spend the night at Sophia's house, and occasionally came back to run a herbal shop.

Chi Feichi and Koizumi Hongzi floated on the wall, listening to news from passers-by.

Since this is Elizabeth's herbal shop, people often talk about the situation of the mother and daughter when passing by.

Hearing that Sophia became haggard, laughing suddenly, and staring blankly by herself at other times, Elizabeth was very worried, so she often went to take care of her...

I heard that Sophia's condition is better, but the news of her husband's death came back...

I heard that Sophia locked herself in the house, brewing medicine day and night, and didn't even care about the children. Based on the legend of the witch of Montgomery's house, someone guessed whether Sophia was brewing some medicine that could bring her husband back to life...

I heard that Sophia's situation is getting worse. She ran around in the forest alone at night. Elizabeth found her after searching many people...

I heard that Sophia was crazy. She went to soak in the icy sea for several hours in winter, but just looked at the sea and didn't speak...

I heard that Sophia has become as scary as a real witch, some ignorant children will chase after Sophia and call her a 'witch'...

Gradually, when the adults talked about Sophia, they looked like those who believed that the Montgomery family was an evil witch, with hesitation, fear, and strong resistance.

"I said, Sophia must have been bewitched by a demon..."

"I saw her yesterday, her face was gloomy, it was really scary..."

Koizumi Hongzi was worried on the wall every day, but she couldn't see Sophia's situation, "What happened to Sophia? Could it be that she was really bewitched by a demon?"

"How is it possible, let's not talk about the existence of demons..." Chi Feichi looked at the elderberry branches protruding from the yard of Sophia's house, "Jiangshen was originally a port city, and there are many people coming and going, don't you Did you find out? Although there were very few people who could become wizards and witches in the past, it is not too rare for people who are special in a certain way, such as people who can eat well and can’t eat badly, and some people with strong hearing or eyesight , It’s just that there have been fewer and fewer such people since Marvin was born, and in the past few decades, when people talk about witches, they are mostly fear and resistance, and they will no longer shout and kill.”

Koizumi Hongzi realized, "You mean..."

"Maybe the Holy See has succeeded, or maybe the world has changed for some reason," Chi Feichi said calmly and softly, "The Dharma-ending era has arrived since Ma Wen was born, and occasionally there are some people with special abilities. People, just like you, slip through the net, and there will not be many such people."