juvenile onmyoji

"That's how things are." Seimei said sitting on the short table.

Abe Masaki put down the cup in his hand, "As I thought, your mother was wronged. I don't believe that she will cast a curse on the world, even if she is betrayed by believers. The water of the Styx is under the shrine. Look The person behind the scenes has long known. Who is he, your mother has never had any grudges against anyone."

Qingming took out the bunch of tarnished white hairs, "Spiritual consciousness will be divided into two parts after death, I think maybe there will be an answer in the other part."

"It's strange that you got this job. Why is it in the hands of a monster like Yu Nu?"

"After the consciousness is scattered, the place where it drifts is uncertain. Anyone can pick it up." Qingming said.

"I see." Abe Masaki nodded.

"This, keep it for you." Qingming offered it with both hands.

Abe Masaki took it, and gently brushed the white hair bundle with his hand, his eyes were slightly red.

Lizi returned to the room, closed the sliding door, and took out a small wooden box from the low cabinet.This is the odorless fragrance Seimei gave her, which can remove all the smells in the world.

She took out the small wooden sign, is this the lock that locks the evil spirits of the Asura Dao?Transformed by gods?

She shook it in her hand, and said "Hello" to the wooden sign again, feeling a little silly.

When will it be filled?She glanced at the tasteless fragrance of Miaomiao's smoke, and she was slightly taken aback.Perhaps, the role of the wooden sign itself is to attract monsters, and then kill them in one fell swoop.But she is too weak now, releasing the scent of the wooden sign is undoubtedly yelling at the monsters for dinner.

After staying at home for only one day, Abe Masaki urged one of them to go to Kamo's house and the other to Ise Shrine.

"Xiaoli, are you cured?" Yuan Chuyue patted her on the shoulder with a smile, "I went to see you at your house, Mrs. Abe said that you had a fever, and worried that you would make me sick, so he wouldn't let me go see you. My brother It also said that Master Qingming is sick at home. What's the matter with you? Are you sick together?"

Riko was a little embarrassed. It turned out that Mr. Abe used this excuse to ask for leave. It would be too silly to be sick together.

"Well, that's right, Master Seimei infected me."

"I see."

"By the way," Yuan Chuyue said again, "You were not there in the last class, and the instructor let everyone connect to the gods, and only Nanako connected. I heard the god cough, but the instructor said I was hallucinating. What about you, in private During practice, did you hear the gods speak?"

"No." Pear said without hesitation.

"How can this kind of thing happen to everyone?" A girl stopped by here, "You need someone who is talented and kind, and the gods will like it. Don't you think Nanako?"

"Ah, no," Nanako waved her hands again and again, "I think everyone is a kind girl, and I'm just a little bit lucky."

"Luck is also a kind of strength. Nanako, you are too humble."

Yuan Chuyue turned her face to Li Zi, and made a motion of vomiting.

When the teaching session came, everyone was given a piece of paper with Chinese characters written on it.

"Ah, it's calligraphy class again." The girls said distressedly.

"I can't read at all. With so many strokes, it's really too difficult."

"Yeah, it's too difficult to learn Wu Yin and Tang Yin at the same time."

"Quiet," the teacher reprimanded displeasedly, "learning Chinese characters is an elegant thing. Don't you feel ashamed that the majestic priestesses from Ise Shrine don't know a single word?"

Seeing that the teacher got angry, the hall immediately fell silent.

"Then, it's still the old rules. Nanako will help me tutor everyone," said the teacher. "She knows a lot of Chinese characters, so I don't need to listen to this class."

Lizi looked at the handed out paper, opened her eyes slightly, it was "Night Mooring at Maple Bridge", she had memorized it when she was in school.

After teaching a few times, Nanako and I began to patrol around.

"Shimizu," Nanako walked to Lizi and said, "I see that you have been in a daze, did you not understand just now? It doesn't matter, you can't do it, I will teach you."

Yuan Chuyue rolled her eyes unabashedly.

Lizi originally wanted to learn how to get rid of her symbolically.But Nanako said again, "How about this, you copy it a hundred times first, because I feel that your foundation is quite poor. After you finish copying, I will teach you again."

Li Zi was dumbfounded, how did she know that she was weak before teaching?

"One hundred times? Are you sure you're not messing with her?" Yuan Chuyue asked.

"I didn't," Nanako said aggrievedly, "She really has a poor foundation. I heard that the Shimizu family fell down very early, and then went to the countryside. Under such circumstances, how can there be a chance to learn Chinese characters?"

"It turns out that Qingshui is so pitiful," everyone said, "then he must not know Chinese characters."

Yuan Chuyue raised her eyebrows angrily, "How do you know that she has no chance to learn Chinese characters? You have the chance to learn?"

"I know Chinese characters, and I'll read it to you." Seeing the instructor looking this way, Riko hurriedly said, trying to get rid of Nanako quickly.

"Don't force it," Nanako said understandingly, "I know Chinese characters are difficult for you."

"Actually, it's okay," Lizi said with a smile, "at least I can recite Mulan's Ci and become a teacher."

"What's that?" Nanako asked.

"Do you know how to teach Shi Biao and Mulan Ci?" The teacher turned and looked at her with interest. "I have studied these two precious texts, and they are very obscure. You can recite a few sentences and listen."

It was only then that Lizi remembered that it had been many years since she could recite.She had long forgotten about being a teacher, so she managed to memorize a few words of Mulan Ci.Her expression changed immediately.

Nanako asked with concern, "Shimizu, do you know how to recite? Let me intercede with the teacher for you."

"Well, just recite a few words of Mulan's Ci." said the teacher over there.

Huh, fortunately it's Mulan Ci.She was afraid that the teacher would go back on her word, so she immediately started reciting from Haw to Haw.Deliberately slow down the speed of speech, and pray and teach quickly to stop.Because she can only recite at most "but Wen Yanshan Hu Qiming tweeted."

As she recited, the eyes of the girls opened wider and wider, and Nanako's face became more and more ugly.

When I went back to Beishi to buy a long whip, the instructor called a stop because the bell of the Santang rang.

Lizi breathed a sigh of relief, and when she planned to go back, she tried to find a way to find it and carry it on her back.

"That's not bad," the teacher praised with a nod of his head, "I didn't expect Qing Shui to know so many Chinese characters. Even I couldn't recite such a long poem. When did you learn it? Didn't you grow up with your grandmother in the countryside?"

"I learned it from my grandmother." Lizi put the credit on Sushi Granny.

"I see," the teacher nodded, "Your grandmother taught you very well."

Nanako managed to maintain a smile, her fingernails were digging into the palm of her hand.

Outside the main hall, no one noticed that Saio was standing under the shade of a tree, nodding with appreciation in his eyes.

After the hall was over, the girls looked at each other, "It turns out that Qing Shui is so powerful."

"Yeah, even Nanako can only recite, but Shimizu can recite so much."

"I used to think that Qing Shui was very petite, but now I think she is eight feet tall."

Nanako pretended to pack her things nonchalantly, and her companion comforted her, "Master Seimei must be tutoring her secretly at night."

Nanako's face darkened even more.

This matter was flaunted by King Saito to the palace, saying that the apprentice priestesses under him were talented and proficient in Chinese characters.Not long after, the palace sent someone to invite Li Zi, saying that someone wanted to see her.

"It's really strange, why did the palace send someone here?" Qingming sat cross-legged under the eaves of the corridor, with one knee propped up, leaning against the pillar as usual.

Sitting under the cherry tree, Lizi looked up at the cherry blossoms that were about to end their flowering period, and briefly explained what happened in class that day.

"Does Xiaoli know so many Chinese characters?" Qingming was a little surprised.

"Just know how to read." Lizi quickly explained.

"Isn't that powerful enough?" Qingming said with a smile, "In this case, we can read books together in the future. My ancestors were sent to the Tang Dynasty and brought back many Chinese books."

Seeing that she still looked worried about her clothes, he said, "Don't worry too much about entering the palace. No one in the Ise Shrine dares to offend. Maybe the people inside are just curious about you, who is young, but they will betray you The matter of Chinese poetry."

"Is that so?" Li Zi was still a little uneasy.

……

The servant led her outside a courtyard, "The maid is waiting for you inside, you can go in by yourself."

Lizi nodded, thanked the servant, and walked into the courtyard along the stone steps.

The courtyard is very spacious, with layers of pavilions shining in the sun.A woman sat leaning against an old maple tree and fed the ducks in the pond with cake crumbs.

Riko's eyes widened in surprise, isn't that Tamamo-mae who met her in Nyoyu?

Wearing bright red Tang clothes in front of Yuzao, she raised her eyes to look at her, and a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes.After being surprised, she smiled and said, "So it was you, no wonder, I thought you liked Datang very much then."

Riko was just about to ask her why she came here, when she remembered Seimei mentioned that the emperor had a new beauty.

"I miss my homeland, so I asked someone to read poems to me. Those nobles' pronouncing words made people laugh. I heard that there is a little girl in Ise Shrine who knows Chinese poetry very well, so I thought about trying this."

"I see," Li Zi nodded and walked over, "What do you want to hear?"

"I want to hear this song." Yuzao handed her a piece of paper.

Is it Yun Xiang's clothes and Hua Xiangrong?This is a poem written by Li Bai to Concubine Yang, with beautiful rhetoric.The big fox wants to hear this.

Seeing Yuzao's waiting look, she restrained her thoughts and read it again.

After listening, Yuzao turned her head to look at the pool water, with melancholy in her eyes, "Look, beautiful concubines don't end well. I once saw Yang Yuhuan in Chang'an, she was wearing a dress full of pearls , dancing Huxuan dance at night. I sat on the roof and drank fine wine to watch. Only two years later, I heard that she was bestowed to death by the emperor."

Tamamomae caressed the duck's head with his hands painted with red nails.The duck was trembling, but it didn't dare to leave.

"The smell on your body has disappeared, but it actually smells pretty good." Yuzao said again.

"I haven't thanked you yet, thank you for telling me that I have a smell that youkai like."

"It's nothing, don't worry about it." Yuzao continued to rub the duck's head.

Lizi's eyes moved slightly, and she asked curiously, "What did you smell at that time?"

"Roast chicken flavor."

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The afternoon was leisurely and long. Yu Zaoqian talked about how she ate sweet-scented osmanthus cakes in the south of the Yangtze River, sheep's trotters in Mobei, beggar chicken at the Beacon Tower on the Great Wall, and drinking wine from a luminous glass while sitting on the highest point of the palace.

"I don't know why, but I feel very close when I see you. If you have time next time, please continue to read poems for me."

At dusk, the servant sent Lizi out of the palace, and handed her a flat box in his hand, "This is given to you by the Queen, please keep it. It's a good thing, don't lose it."

Lizi took the box and was about to turn around and leave. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the servant's shadow with a big fluffy tail.She wanted to see more clearly, the servant had already returned to the palace.

Diagonally opposite, under the camphor tree, Seimei sat in the carriage, looking at her with a smile.

"Huh," she threw herself to the window with a look of surprise, "you don't usually leave school so early?"

"Well, we left early today."

"Really?" She glanced suspiciously at the coachman who was dozing in front. Could it be that she has been waiting here all afternoon?

"Get in the car, we're going home now." Under the orange-red sunset, the boy stretched out his hand with a smile on his eyes.

Her mood was suddenly filled with happy bubbles, "Hey, here we come."

Note: Chirp and chirp, but Wen Yanshan Hu Qiming tweeted, Beishi bought a long whip, all come from the folk song "Mulan Song" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.These three sentences are quotes.