Onmyoji Love Curse Volume

Boya recently felt very headache.

More than two months have passed since the "Phantom Horn Rebellion", but Qingming has been refusing to go to court on the grounds that "the injury has not healed and he still needs to rest".The emperor thought that he had made great contributions to calming the chaos, so he let him go.

This has made all the ministers, big and small, in the DPRK very anxious.

Although the chaos has been pacified, the number of ghosts in the capital has not decreased, and there is even a tendency to increase. Strange incidents have occurred in the families of many ministers, and everyone wants to find Qingming, the number one onmyoji in Ping'an capital, to solve them.

However, every time the people sent to Qingming's mansion seemed to be possessed by a demon, either they couldn't find them, or they couldn't find the right way. Only Boya came and went freely.

As a result, the saying that "Only Mr. Boya can see Qingming" spread like wildfire among Gongqing.Everyone couldn't see Qingming, so they all came to block Boya and asked him to help introduce him.It made Boya unbearable these days, and every time he went to court, he had to find ways to escape as soon as possible.

Boya knew that Qingming was in good health long ago, he just had a loose personality and was too lazy to go to court.

For example, now, this onmyoji wearing a white safari suit is sitting on the wooden floor at the end of the corridor, holding a wine glass, leaning against the pillar, watching the dense but orderly wild flowers and weeds in the courtyard, while listening to Boya’s complaints with a smile .

"So, Seimei..."

"what?"

"When will you be willing to go to court?"

"It's okay not to go, isn't that man approved?"

"You called His Majesty 'that man' again..."

"It's just called that in front of Boya."

Qingming picked up the wine bottle at hand and filled Boya's glass with wine.

"But if you don't go, they will all come to look for me." Thinking of the situation in the past few days, Boya felt his head swell, "If this continues, I will have to hide with you and not go out."

"Oh, that would be most welcome."

"Seimei!"

Ignoring the mournful warrior on the opposite side, Onmyoji laughed loudly, his crooked eyebrows looked like a fox.

"Oh, that's all." Boya picked up the glass and drank Qingming's wine in one gulp, "Speaking of which, Mr. Fujiwara Tadakatsu told me something today, which made me a little concerned."

"Oh?"

"Recently, there seems to be bugs in the capital."

"insect?"

"Yes."

"It's summer now, so it's not surprising that bugs appear."

"But, that doesn't seem like an ordinary bug."

Boya put down his wine glass and began to tell the ins and outs of the matter.

The first person to see that kind of bug was a woodcutter named Ikeda.More than ten days ago, Ikeda was entrusted by someone to search for a kind of herbal medicine in Chuangang Mountain, which was delayed for some hours, and the sun had already set when he returned.

When walking halfway up the mountain, Ikeda suddenly heard a strange sound.If you listen carefully, it sounds like insects, and some scream like human beings, with a trace of tragic deer singing in between.

Ikeda curiously followed the sound, and soon found the source of the sound.

Under the moonlight was a deer whose leg was injured by a hunter's trap. Thousands of gray-white bugs the size of rice grains were densely crawling on the deer's body. It was these bugs that made the strange noise similar to human roaring.

The bugs were constantly gnawing at the deer's flesh and blood, and the deer, which was still dying just now, quickly changed from a creature with complete fur and fur to a skeleton with few bones visible.

Seemingly not satisfied with the prey, the insects crawled towards Ikeda as their next target.Ikeda turned pale with fright, and ran away in a hurry. Fortunately, the speed of the bug was not fast, so he escaped by chance.

After Ikeda came back, he talked about this experience with people everywhere, but there are many strange things these days, and what happened to him is not too great. If the same incident did not happen again a few days later, everyone would soon forget it. up.

And this time it was Hirai Naka-sama who encountered the bug.

At that time, he was returning from the residence of the woman he was in love with, and it was still before dawn.When passing through the Xuanwu Gate, suddenly there was a strange sound mixed with human roars and insects from a distance.After a while, the servant outside the bullock cart suddenly shouted in panic: "Master Lai Zhong! It's not good! It's not good!"

Ping Laizhong raised the curtain and saw that the ground in front of him was covered with off-white bugs, each the size of a bean, and they were rushing towards Laizhong's ox cart.

Lai Zhong was so frightened that he immediately jumped out of the bullock cart and fled with his servants.

The bugs quickly surrounded the cart and climbed onto the cow's body.The cow struggled desperately but to no avail, it could only let the bugs devour its body and suck its own flesh and blood.When Ping Laizhong sent someone to check the next day, although the chariot was intact, the ox had only a skeleton left.

And the last person who saw the bug was Fujiwara Tadakatsu.

Last night, Zhong Sheng was resting in the mansion when his servants suddenly reported that there were many strange insects outside the door.When Zhong Sheng went out to take a look, his scalp felt numb.

The entire house was already surrounded by thousands of gray and white bugs, each of which was as big as a thumbnail.I don't know why, although those bugs crawled forward desperately, they still couldn't enter the house, and could only make some roaring sounds from time to time, as if they were venting some resentment.

Zhongsheng ordered people to drive away the insects with fire and throw insecticides, but it was completely useless to those insects.

When everyone was at a loss, two domestic dogs in the mansion suddenly ran out of the gate and barked at the bugs, but in the next moment, the two dogs were swallowed by a large number of bugs, and only bones remained after a while.Seeing this, everyone was so frightened that their hands and feet went limp, and they didn't dare to try their best anymore, so they had to close the door firmly.

Zhong Sheng and his servants and family members had a sleepless night, but fortunately, at dawn, the bugs began to recede, and when the sun fully rose, the bugs had receded completely, as if they had never been here before.

Zhong Sheng, who was frightened all night, felt that the matter was not over, so he stopped Boya when he went to court today, hoping that he could ask Qingming to help solve it.

"When Mr. Zhongsheng told me about this incident, other ministers also heard about it. They told me about Ikeda and Mr. Lai Zhong. Everyone felt that the three people should have encountered the same kind of bug." Boya As he spoke, he glanced at Qingming, only to see that the other party's expression became extremely serious at the moment.

"Bo Ya, are you sure that the three people's descriptions of the bugs are correct? It's gray and white, and it makes a roar like a human?"

"Yes, all three people said that." Boya replied, "Only the description of the size of the bug is inconsistent, which is what I am most puzzled about. Ikeda said it was the size of a grain of rice, Mr. Lai Zhong said it was the size of a bean, and Mr. Lai Zhong said it was the size of a bean. Mr. Zhongsheng said that it is the size of a thumb, if it is really the same kind of bug, then it means..."

"It means the bugs are getting bigger and bigger." Qingming said.

"That's right, and from their description, it seems that the number is also increasing." Boya frowned and said, "It can devour the flesh and blood of living things, so it's not just an ordinary bug."

Qingming took out the folding fan from his pocket and lightly pressed it against his chin, which was his habit when thinking.

"Bo Ya, you just said that the first time and place where the bug was discovered was in Funaoka Mountain more than ten years ago?"

"Yes"

"And then the Xuanwu Gate four days ago?"

"Yes."

"Last night, Lord Zhongsheng's mansion in central Beijing?"

"Yeah." Boya nodded, then suddenly remembered something and said, "Ah, so the bugs seem to have come all the way from Chuangang Mountain to the capital!"

"It should be so."

"But Seimei, what does this mean?"

Qingming didn't answer, but continued to ask: "Besides Mr. Zhongsheng, has anyone else encountered the same thing these days?"

"Master Zhongsheng was the only one who surrounded the mansion by bugs. I haven't heard of such a thing happening to anyone else."

"From this point of view, we can only ask Mr. Zhongsheng."

"Qingming, are you going to help?"

"Well, Boya want to go together?"

"Huh? Now?"

"If it's too late, Mr. Zhongsheng may be killed." Qingming stood up and put the fan back in his arms. "And this matter may require Boya's help."

"Since Qingming has said so, then I will definitely go."

"Let's go then."

"Walk."

So it's settled.

(To be continued)