my weird life

Chapter 389 Death of the Priest (12)

"How is this going?!"

Looking at the white paper that had been burned into a ball of ashes, Anlu Onmyoji let out a sound in shock.

Then he opened the brocade bag that he carried with him,
fall down,
Poured out a cloud of ashes!

——In his brocade bag, there are several paper figurine shikigami hidden for life protection, and now those paper figurine shikigami have all turned to ashes,

This means that if there were no life-protecting paper figures for him to resist an attack just now,
He must be dead now!
An Lu raised his head again, looking at Su Wu with eyes full of scrutiny.

Su Wu felt even more depressed than him,

I thought I could use the power of the two gods of Soseki Shrine to see my true destiny this time, but I didn't expect that this would not work. Even the white paper recording the future destiny was directly 'burned' into ashes by a drop of ink!
"Is there no way?
Lord Anlu, do I have no way to know my future destiny? "Su Wu asked An Lu 'sincerely'.

The old onmyoji saw that his expression did not seem to be fake, so he swept the burnt ashes of the white paper on the table into the brocade bag, and said slowly: "Maybe there are other ways to divination your fate, it doesn't matter, you go first Wait, wait, wait..."

He was still making a sound to comfort Su Wu,

In a dark corner on the side, there was a sudden plop!
Everyone followed the sound and looked towards that corner in astonishment,
I was seeing—the middle-aged priest who was originally quite tall, but now his body shrunk by a little and half, and he fell to the ground all of a sudden.

The black hat on its head fell off,
Show off the gray hair!
"Master Priest!"

Haruko exclaimed, but didn't move closer to check the priest's condition.

In this shrine, the priest has been secretly matching his son and Haruko,
She resented this behavior very much.
The estrangement from the other party caused the priest to secretly squeeze her out.

Therefore, when she saw the priest turned into a grizzled old man, she was stunned on the ground, and she just expressed concern in a 'polite' manner, and it was impossible to get closer to the other party and really check the other party's situation.

Fortunately, Anlu got up from behind the table at this time, and hurriedly approached the priest who fell down in the corner.

When he saw the priest's gray hair exposed to the air, his pupils shrank suddenly,
Turning the priest's body over to face himself,

Anlu saw the face of the priest who had become older than himself, and the loose flesh on his neck.

His fingers rested for a moment under the priest's nostrils,
And put the ear in the heart of the priest,
After a long time,
An Lu put down the body of the priest, and said with a stiff face: "Dead...the priest of Soseki Shrine died..."

His brows were filled with serious doubts, and he glanced sideways at Su Wu who looked calm behind him,

Although subconsciously feel that Su Wu may have a deep connection with the current situation,
But think about it rationally,
He would also think that a servant of the Inoue family might not have the ability to make a priest of a shrine suddenly run out of life energy and die!

"The fortune-telling paper burns without fire,

The priest who was in his prime at the shrine suddenly turned into a dying old man and died on the spot..." Anlu whispered to himself, stood up, and turned to look at the god behind the altar.

The gap between the eyebrows of the girl in the stone is not obvious yet, and it is even covered by a full head of black hair.

In the corner of the wooden box containing 'Qiao Ji', the traces of carbonization after fire cannot be hidden.

"The coffin of Qiao Ji's spirit should have been soaked in water forever, and it appeared to be in a state of being soaked.

But now a corner of the coffin has been charred by the fire..." Anlu looked up at the black corner of the wooden box, "What's going on?Is it a hint from God?
still……"

He turned to look at Su Wu.

Miss Haruko suddenly stopped in front of Su Wu: "Lord Anlu, Abu is just here to divination, and you want to divination their future fate for them. Every day, hundreds of people go to the shrine, praying for the gods to help them see In the future, let them know their future destiny.

I've never heard of any weird phenomena occurring in the shrine society because of fortune-telling for others! "

"I know, Miss Haruko, you don't have to be so anxious to protect the two of them."

An Lu shook his head,

He took out his brocade bag and waved it in front of Haruko: "Just now, when I was divining Abu's fate, the amulet shikigami I made in the brocade bag was burned to ashes.

Does this mean that
Abu's fate has some kind of countermeasures against other people's prying eyes?

Despite this measure,

Probably not of his own making,

But it is still necessary to check. "

"How does Lord Anlu want to check?" Qingzi was still waiting to speak, but Su Wu spoke before her, looking at Anlu's cloudy old eyes, and asked a question.

Hearing his question, Anlu froze for a moment.

Yes,

How to check it?
Divination again?

Trying to peek into his future fate again?

This attempt has exhausted the lifespan of the priest, burned all his amulets, and even the coffin of 'Qiao Ji' showed signs of being burned...

Make a second attempt to check Abu Mingge by yourself,
Without amulets, without priests and gods to ward off disasters,
I'm afraid it will be me who will die next time, right?
There was a tinge of coldness in Anlu's heart.

He took a deep look at Su Wu, shook his head, and said, "This matter still needs to be discussed in the long run, and I will temporarily stay at Soseki Shrine to conduct various investigations.

Miss Haruko, please take good care of your servant,

Recently,

Ask him to cooperate with my investigation a little bit.

I'm going to ask the 'Son of God' to come here,
his father died,

It was his turn to succeed in line and become the priest of Soseki Shrine. "

Shrines are generally controlled by witches and priests.
Some shrines are dominated by witches,
Some are mainly priests.

After having a husband, some witches can no longer be maidens because they are no longer virgins. In this case, they can pass on the authority of the shrine to their descendants.

Men are priests and women are priestesses.

When these descendants have not formally taken over the presiding position of the shrine,
He was called the 'Son of God'.

"Since there are still things to do here, let's take a step first." Haruko bowed to Anlu Onmyoji, and after the other party nodded, she hurriedly left the shrine with Su Wu and Oki.

along the way,

Haruko was so worried that she didn't say a few words to Su Wu and Da Mu.

When approaching the mansion of Inoue's family, she stopped suddenly, looked at Su Wu, and said in a low voice: "Abu, no matter who asks about what happened in the shrine from now on, you have to insist that you and this matter are the same. it doesn't matter,
avoid getting involved in this matter,

do you understand? "

The noble lady's expression was tense and serious, Su Wu nodded upon seeing this: "Understood."

"I will discuss what happened today with my father." Miss Qingzi turned her face away, looked at the house under the shade of trees in front of her, a haze appeared on her pretty face, "Something might happen to the Boqi Kingdom..."

Su Wu's expression moved slightly.

The only priest of Soseki Shrine in Hoki Kingdom died,
And she died when Kosuke's daughter was visiting with her servants, and her death was extremely strange.

Among them is a Yinyangliao onmyoji who covets Boqi Guojie's daughter...

Various elements were arranged in Su Wu's mind.

Suddenly he felt,
Divinating his own fate, causing the coffin of "Qiao Ji" to be damaged, and Anlu Onmyoji's life-protecting style to be reduced to ashes—all these things may be a coincidence,

However, the death of the Soseki Shrine priest may not be a coincidence.

It's just the collision of 'coincidence' and 'necessity',
New possibilities emerged.

Is anyone targeting the Inoue family now?
The onmyoji from the Yinyangliao in Kyoto wandered around the Boqi country, what kind of plan did he have?
Is the person behind him targeting the Inoue family?
The three hurried back to the mansion of the Inoue family.

The atmosphere of the house looks the same as before,
The warriors patrolled around,
The maids occasionally stop in the corridor to watch the flowers that bloom in spring,

The servants are busy with their affairs, preparing to lock the house for the night.

The sun in the western sky tilts more and more,

Twilight.

The mellow glow will be swallowed by darkness.

Su Wu returned to his residence.

shut the door,
Xia Guang delivered the paper from the window to a note in the house.

There is a three-layer lacquer box on the table.

Su Wu went into the back room but didn't see 'father', so he went back to the desk and saw the note next to the lacquer box.

He picked up the note and saw two neat lines of traditional Chinese characters: "My son, today I hunted a horse bear, and I asked Patriarch Inoue to sell it for you. You can use the money you get to buy iron ore and train your weapons.

I'm not at home today, I'm going out to do something.

After you have eaten, rest on your own.

above. "

"Really hunted a bear?"

Su Wu muttered to himself.

Open the three-ply paint box.

The lacquer box on the first floor is full of coins currently used in Dongliu Island - no different from Chinese copper coins, with the words 'Qianyuan Dabao' written on it.

In a pile of copper coins, you can still see a few golden beans.

"I've already cast my first knife." Su Wu thought about it, but didn't take the money into his pocket.

From the relationship between the original owner's father and him in the past two days,
he has found
The original owner's father placed great faith in his promise,

His education of his son must also regard 'integrity' as the first priority.

Now that he forged the first portable weapon by virtue of his own ability, taking the money given by the original owner's father at this time, it seems that he is greedy for money and concealing the report, and the original owner's father doesn't like it.

You may have doubts about his 'disposition change'.

In the long run, this kind of thing is not worth the candle.

Putting the lacquer box full of copper coins aside, Su Wu opened the second layer of the lacquer box, and there was a steamed bear's paw.

The third layer is naturally a box of tightly pressed rice.

Su Wu ate the food slowly, packed the lacquer box,
Put the cloth strips around you on the table.

tear off the cloth,

Showing the two knives inside.

Good product 'Tianmo Wan'.

The ultimate 'big red lotus fetal possession'!
Ever since he got the 'Big Red Lotus Embryo Cang', Su Wu has never had the opportunity to 'try cutting' because of the fear of other people knowing the information about the sword because of the sword casting.

Now in my own home,
Without specific props, he couldn't 'try to cut'.

"Let's try to cut with evil..."

Su Wu grasped the handle of the knife, and pulled out the scabbard with emotion.

Blossoming red patterns of lotus embryos are superimposed on the blade surface,
As Su Wu clenched the handle of the knife,
He suddenly had a feeling that his own consciousness was connected with this knife.

Su Wu thought about it,
The lotus tire pattern on the knife surface releases gorgeous light threads,

In an instant, it evolved into a blossoming lotus embryo,
Lotus embryos bloom one after another,

The red lotus is covered with swords!

An extremely strong desire was conveyed from the knife, which was felt by Su Wu!

He saw such a strange appearance derived from the Taidao,
Immediately surprised,

When it's time to find out,
There was a knock on the door.

"Tuk Tuk Tuk!"

(End of this chapter)