Desperate to meet a dog

Arara opened the curtain hanging on the side door and looked into the shop, and saw a bright and attractive woman standing in the shop. She was wearing an indigo kimono, the wide sleeves were dyed in the shape of bright red maple leaves, and she was wrapped around her waist. Hanging on the red belt is a strange white doll, which looks like a monk in the sunny day, but with a mournful face.

Just from his attire, Huang couldn't confirm whether the visitor in front of him was a human or a monster. He stepped back cautiously, walked around the corridor, and appeared behind the counter.

The Lucky Cat sitting on the counter was not awakened by the ringing of the bell, and the bubbles exhaled from its nostrils grew bigger and bigger. Ao apologized in a low voice to the woman who was caressing the tip of her hair, and then poked the Lucky Cat on the arm: " Hello, here comes the guest."

"Bo——" the nose bubble of the lucky cat burst instantly, and it stretched its paws on the counter in a low-key manner, squinting its eyes and reflexively said: "Welcome to Jiushijiuan, what are your needs?" ?”

The woman rubbed her brows and stared at Huang gloomily. Huang had a feeling of being locked by a predator, so he couldn't help avoiding his eyes.I don't know how long it took, but the depressing sight didn't disappear. Instead, it pierced more and more with the voice: "When did Jiushijiuan start stocking humans?"

"This voice is..." Lucky Cat just woke up, opened its eyes and glanced at the woman in front of it, its tail hanging under the stool instantly straightened, and it stood behind its head like a flagpole, and it shouted in horror, " So it's Miss Momiji, I'm so rude nya. Ogiwara-kun, hurry up and inform the master nya!"

"Don't you need tea?"

Huang asked as usual, and the lucky cat waved its paw in horror: "No, no need meow, just go and inform the owner."

"Okay." The panicked appearance of the lucky cat made Huang a little confused, and he turned back while the woman was not making things difficult.Stepping on the first corridor, he suddenly remembered that the name of the monster Tong mentioned just now also had the word Hongye in it. Could this Hongye be the guest just now?

Huang put away his thoughts and reported the news of the guest's visit to Qing Xingdeng.Through the paper door, Qing Xingdeng murmured hesitantly, but soon her tone returned to the original: "I see, you go back and rest, remember, don't come out until the lucky cat calls you."

Does this mean that he does not want to have contact with the guests?Huang, who has been working for a week, is a little sad, feeling that he has not been trusted by his boss.However, he did not disobey Qing Xingdeng's order. After the report, he walked back to the tea room, sighed and sat down.

Tong and Datengu sat opposite each other across the round table, and when they saw him come back, they asked in unison, "Who's here? Is it a human?"

"It sounds like a monster." Huang made himself a cup of tea and said, "I heard Lucky Cat call her Miss Hongye."

"Hongye?!" Tong bit his tongue in surprise, he didn't care about the pain and said vaguely, "I really want to come up with something... I just said that the ghost girl Hongye appeared!"

Holding the teacup, Huang stopped drinking water, and humbly asked for advice: "By the way, Lucky Cat and Qing Xingdeng just heard that she came and reacted very strangely. They didn't even let me make tea, and said that if the guests If you don't leave, tell me not to go out."

"They're right." Big Tengu crawled into his arms and said with a serious expression, "It's not too much for me to say that the current situation makes you go back directly."

"What's the matter, will this red leaf hurt me?"

Tong said solemnly: "Humans have only one use for ghost girl Hongye, and that is food."

"More than 1000 years ago, she was sealed because she led monsters to cause trouble in the world. The person who sealed her was Abe Seimei. After Seimei's death, the barrier has been maintained by the direct descendants, but after the Kansai earthquake, the direct descendants could not take care of the barrier due to heavy affairs. , and handed over the work to a side branch... that is, my family. However, due to the earthquake, the seal was loosened, and my family has worked hard to support the seal until now, but it is still invalid."

Huang suddenly realized: "So you just showed me the photo that was said to be caused by a monster... Is the reason why the maple leaf turned red in advance because of the release of the seal?"

"That's right." Tong turned out the talisman paper and brush in his pocket, and quickly began to write and draw, "As I said just now, she has been sealed and has not kept pace with the times like other monsters. The means are still in the Heian era, so she still feeds on humans, and she is very dangerous to humans, anyway, I will notify Ichimulian first to let the Youkai Association know about it."

Big Tengu frowned and asked, "Can the Monster Association manage her?"

"I don't know, but I can't sit still." Tong put away the pen, muttered with his hands in seals, and the light talisman paper was quickly folded into a thousand paper cranes, and disappeared from the tea room in the blink of an eye.After doing all this, Tong's expression remained cautious. He poked the big tengu who was holding Huang's waist, and asked impatiently: "Hey, aren't you a big monster? You should think of a way? Don't be afraid of ten thousand Just in case."

"I still need your nonsense?" Big Tengu rolled his eyes skyward, "Just take care of yourself."

Huang looked at the two of them staring at each other, smoothed things over and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I think that Hongye came to look for Qing Xingdeng, and it should be for a deal."

"Trade? What will she come to buy?" Tong muttered, and suddenly he slapped his thigh and stood up in panic, "I am an idiot! She must have come to ask for the karma that Abe Seimei kept at Qingxing Deng! Back then she was Those who were sealed by Abe Seimei must hate him to the bone! Today must be revenge."

"She came to ask for Abe Seimei's karma?" Huang was stunned for a moment, and asked back, "But when Seimei died, wasn't she already sealed, who would tell her that Seimei's karma is here?"

Tong shook, his face turned pale and he moved his lips and said: "Gods, Shinto people know... almost all the descendants of Shinto who inherit Abe Seimei's Yin and Yang Tao know about this."

"So it's your own people who revealed this to the ghost girl?" Datengu and Huang looked at each other, and made another cut unceremoniously, "Then could it be that the ghost girl was also released by your own people?"

This sentence went straight into Tong's heart, he didn't refute Daitengu's "nonsense" with a blushing neck, but fell silent, it seemed that he also had the same skeptical attitude towards this point of view.

Huang glanced at Tong's dismal expression, before he could say a word of comfort, a strong palpitation oppressed his chest.Daitengu seemed to empathize with him, his pupils suddenly shrank, and reflexively raised the round fan and waved it out——wind attack!

The rolled up spiral wind slammed into the paper door, and the paper door bulged outwards. The moment it was about to be blown apart, another monster force rushed in from the outside to the inside, and the paper door was torn apart by two torrents of force. Fragments, when the field of vision widened, out-of-season snowflakes drifted in again.

Huang glanced at the fleeting snow shadow on the water surface of the teacup, and his memory turned back to the day when Otengu ran away from home.

But this time, there is no wind talisman of Minister Ichimulian...

The author has something to say: Big Tengu: This time I didn't invite it!

Xuenv: I have brought the soul, sneer...