my weird life.

Chapter 378 Onmyoji (22)

at this time,

In the most exquisitely built main hall of the Inoue family, like a temple hall,
The veil flutters with the wind,

Wearing a club-shaped bun, with gray temples, Toshio Inoue, who looked quite upright among the people of Dongliu Island, sat kneeling on the futon facing one side, facing the many servants and maids waiting outside the door.

by his side,

Dressed in linen clothes and wearing a 'crowded black hat', the hunched onmyoji stood aside, bowing and talking to him respectfully from time to time.

In front of the two,

There is a big bronze mirror.

The two looked at the bronze mirror,

Exchange a few words from time to time,

Sometimes the brows are stretched, and sometimes they are frowned.

After a long time like this, the old Onmyouji tried his best to straighten his body, and shouted to the servants outside the door: "Master Inoue should not go out today! Close the doors!"

"Yes!"

The servants outside the door quickly got busy.

Su Wu watched as they erected the gauze hanging from the door and window lattices of the main hall, sealed the doors and windows,

My heart was momentarily at a loss.

This is 'divination'?
Can the result of such divination be accurate?
Su Wu finally understood that what the original owner's father said about 'Onmyoji' was just a trivial way, and there was no water in it, no falsehood.

Together with the so-called 'Shikigami' means against Onmyoji,

Also lost interest.

at this time,

The elderly onmyoji in the main hall walked slowly and walked out of the door that was about to close.

Many servants avoided him one after another and bowed to him respectfully.

Su Wu also stood on one side, making way for the old onmyoji.

However, the other party approached him, looked up at him, and all the wrinkles on his face stretched out in an instant: "What a majestic body, are you a descendant of the Tang people?"

The other party saw it so quickly?
Su Wu was slightly taken aback when he heard this.

Before he could speak, the old onmyoji stretched out his hand and patted his elbow, and then said with emotion: "It's a pity that you don't become a warrior with such a tall physique, and serve under the Gongqing's family to establish achievements..."

with emotion,

Onmyoji paced away.

Many servants cast envious eyes on Su Wu.

It seemed that it was a great honor for Su Wu to have a conversation with an onmyoji.

Da Mu, who ran to help earlier, also saw the scene of Onmyoji talking with Su Wu, he came to Su Wu after he finished his work, his face was full of excitement: "Master Anlu talked to you, Abu!

You should have a few more conversations with Mr. Anlu,

If he is happy,

I will reward you with a command spell, so we don't have to run around in such a panic when we encounter Li Gui in the future!
and,

A Command Seal can be sold for a lot of money..."

Su Wu was deeply suspicious of Da Mu's words.

The oil-paper umbrella that Haruko, the daughter of the Inoue family, was holding in her hand before, should be an object with the blessing of Onmyoji's command spell, but this kind of thing even slightly affects the level of the "split mouth girl".
A command spell can make people calmly face things like Li Gui, I'm afraid it's impossible.

However, Oki said that a Command Seal can be sold for a lot of money-this is very likely to be true.

"When are we going to the Sword Forge?" Su Wu asked Damu.

Da Mu hurriedly said: "Just wait until I finish cleaning the east courtyard, wait for me, I will finish cleaning right away!"

talking,
He ran away in a flash.

On the side of the main hall, there are servants busy with various things everywhere,
There were even a few warriors in paper armor patrolling the courtyard.

They should be retainers of the Inoue family.

These samurai did not shave their scratches cleanly like those samurai Su Wu saw on the street before, and combed them into "Yuedai heads"—they wore club-shaped hair buns, which are different from most people in the current era. Normal hairstyle.

Su Wu guessed: Maybe in this era,
There are not many warriors who comb their hair with the moon, and the era of those warriors has not really come yet.

While many servants were busy, Su Wu was wandering around in the courtyard, becoming the only 'free man' here, the servants were not surprised by his behavior, some even ignored him as if he was air .

Waited for about ten minutes,

Su Wu was bored, and when he was about to go out of the courtyard to have a look, Miss Haruko, wearing a white dress and a red skirt priestess costume, came bouncing over with a brand new oil-paper umbrella.

"Abu!"

She jumped into the kiosk.

Under the red skirt, a pair of feet bound in white shoes loomed as the skirt swayed.

Haruko moved lightly, bouncing around in her skirt, but she didn't step on the hem of the skirt that was about to touch the ground.

"Miss Qingzi." Su Wu nodded in response.

"I saw you just now, old man Anlu was still talking to you, saying that you are tall, like someone from Tang Dynasty!" Qingzi chattered around Su Wu, looking up at his height.

"Be careful when you see old man Anlu in the future!

That old man is not a good man - he will spy on me in the interval of divination for my father! "

Su Wu was speechless when he heard the words: "No way? He's already that old?"

"Abu, you are so naive. A person who looks good is not necessarily a good person, and an old person does not mean that he will not do bad things.
Old man Anlu——his first shikigami was made of the souls of the dead mother and child after tricking the common people's daughter into becoming pregnant and throwing herself into a well! Haruko lowered her voice, with a serious expression on her small face.

Su Wu's gaze narrowed slightly.

He nodded immediately: "I will pay attention, Miss Haruko."

"what!

Just take things to heart. "

Haruko smiled until her eyes turned into crescent moons, and her rare neat teeth were exposed in her lips.

Her appearance should follow that of her father,

Also born more beautiful.

"Abu, every time the 'Cracking Mouth Girl' was about to catch up with us yesterday, there would always be lightning falling from the sky to stop it. Do you know the reason?" Qingzi looked at Su Wu,

Su Wu shook his head, his expression blank: "I don't know.

Perhaps this is the favor of the gods! "

Haruko pouted, "I don't believe it!"

Just finished speaking,

She quickly covered her mouth again: "Damn it!
No taboos, no taboos..."

After chanting "no taboo" three times, Miss Haruko breathed a sigh of relief, glared at Su Wu bitterly, and said nothing.

However, when Su Wu watched her movements, a thought flashed in his mind,
He asked Haruko loudly, "Miss Haruko, how many more days will the joint ceremony at Soseki Shrine last?"

"Yes." Haruko replied.

"Hesai Sacrifice—does it mean that Soseki Shrine has invited other gods?" Su Wu asked again.

Qingzi smiled and said: "Yes.

Do you want to visit the shrine? "

Su Wu was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "I think so."

"Then tell me, what happened to the cleft-mouth girl yesterday?

As long as you tell me, I can take you to the shrine today to have a look! "Haruko raised her chin and said triumphantly.

"How do I know what's going on with the cleft-mouth girl?

I'm just an ordinary servant. " Su Wu shook his head and replied.

Could it be that I can't enter the shrine by myself?
I'm afraid not at all.

It's a big deal to find an excuse to sneak into Soseki Shrine alone to take a look.

"I think you must know why!
This is Miko's intuition! "Haruko said firmly.

Su Wu turned his head and saw Damu rushing towards him, so he stepped forward to meet him, completely ignoring Miss Haruko's clamor.

Haruko loosened her clenched fist, and clenched her loose fist again,

After repeating this several times, he snorted heavily and approached the two servants.

The two first sent Haruko to Soseki Shrine,
The sound of bells and drums could be heard intermittently in the shrine. Haruko's expression became serious, and she walked through the torii with a stern face and walked towards the shrine under the shade of dead trees.

Su Wu paused for a while in front of the newly built stone tablet in the shrine.

He tried to make out the writing on it,
It can barely be read that this shrine used to worship a god named "Stone Girl". In the past few days, the "Hashihime" who has been hovering at the "Shuiqian Bridge" was successfully enshrined in the shrine and became a stone girl. The accompanying god.

The two gods will guard the land of 'Hoki Kingdom' together,

So that there will be no frequent earthquakes, mountain torrents and other disasters here.

I saw the inscription,

Some confusion arose in Su Wu's heart: How did they determine that the 'God' had been enshrined in the shrine by them?

as well as,

Is the 'God' also Li Gui?
He turned his head and glanced at the soy sauce-colored Tang-style building behind the torii, and left the shrine at Oki's urging.

The two hurried,

It took another ten minutes,
Turn back to 'An Gang's Sword Forging Institute'.

They came early today, and there were only a few young people in the sword casting institute.

Everyone was sitting around the fire, talking quietly among their companions.

——Most of these apprentices are ordinary people. They come to work in the Swordsmithing Institute. First, they hope to learn a handy craft. all food sources.

Even 'Damu' and 'Abu' who worked in the nobles' homes originally only had two meals a day, morning and evening.

It is also a lunch here at the Jianjian Institute,
Only then can Da Mu eat three meals a day.

It's just eating three meals a day. It's another matter to eat enough or not to eat enough.

Damu is different from Abu,
Although Abu did not eat and live with the servants of the Inoue family, the food his father provided him was much better than ordinary servants.

More and more young people gathered in the swordsmith,

People were sitting by the fire, talking in low voices.

——Speaking too loudly will also consume energy and make you hungry faster.

Su Wu is not afraid of starving,

He went out a few times, wanting to 'visit' other stone houses, but as soon as he approached the door, he was stopped by the craftsman inside.

In a quick glance, Su Wu could only see the shirtless people inside, hard at work forging red sword embryos.

Unable to determine those swords they forged,
Did you use the 'ghost ore' that your father called?
The ghost ore is actually called "killing stone". It is said that it is the product of the fusion of iron ore veins with the leather shell left by a powerful Li Gui after shedding its skin.

There is another saying that the nine "killing stone veins" in Dongliu Island are actually what Li Gui turned into after his death, not that Li Gui's faded leather shell was fused with the ore.

Both theories are believed,
In order to compete for the nine ore veins, the princes and nobles of Dongliu Island set off a lot of bloody storms.

(End of this chapter)