juvenile onmyoji

The sky was gloomy, and the drizzle like cow hair covered Heianjing tightly.Along with the wind, rows of houses and trees were brushed layer by layer, and it was so foggy that it was impossible to see things clearly.

On a small arched bridge beside the Sanjo Avenue, a woman in a light green kimono stood at the head of the bridge holding an oil-paper umbrella painted with spring grass.The umbrella slantedly covered half of the face, revealing only the pointed chin and bright red lips.

Despite the umbrella, the rain quickly made her sleeves heavy.Occasionally passers-by glanced at her curiously, but she still stood there going her own way.

The sky is getting darker, and the rain, which is as thin as a cow's hair, is gradually getting heavier.The woman was still standing at the head of the bridge, watching the river water with great interest, watching the rainwater make layers of ripples on the river surface.

"Why are you standing here all the time?" Aji, who was working as a small worker in the soup shop, finally couldn't help but ran over.

"Are you looking for someone, or are you lost and unable to find your home?" He asked, looking at half of his face covered by the paper umbrella.

"One of my ears fell into the river."

The woman's voice was soft and sweet, and Aji was slightly taken aback.

"Oh, Ear Dang." He glanced under the bridge with his head.The river was only up to her waist, so it wouldn't take much trouble to help her find it.Anyway, there were no guests at this time.

"Okay, I'll help you find it."

Under the paper umbrella, the corner of the woman's mouth slightly curled up, her blushing looks very pretty...

Because of the rain, all the schools in Heian-kyo are temporarily closed for the day.Lizi sat by the door and tied up the sunny doll.The wooden sliding door is wide open, and rain comes from time to time.The ground of the courtyard was washed clean, and the flowers of the cherry tree next to it were scattered, standing there lush and lush like a tall and straight boy.

Lizi glanced at the courtyard from time to time, and felt that such a leisurely time at home made people very happy.

"Master Seimei."

Qingming, who was sitting next to the desk in the room, answered with a soft "hmm" without raising his head, his eyes always fixed on the book of Yin-Yang Dao in his hand.On the page he was studying carefully was a hand-drawn drawing.It was drawn by Yuan Boya for him.A total of six pairs of mouths are entangled together.Each pair has a different angle and degree.

Although Yuan Boya tried very hard to express his skills on paper.But from Qingming's point of view, it was simply a picture of catching a demon.

This gnawing is also too penetrating.

Uh, this is the tongue, right?Why are the two tongues intertwined in a spiral?This is simply the monsters absorbing the power of each other.

And this one, one lip wrapping the other, is this still a monster?Only monsters can make such a difficult move.

Alas, this one is not as good as those two books, "Eighteen Styles of an Idiot" and "Tune.Teach Kittens".Although it is a bit fierce, it is still something with technical content, and it is worthy of being a bestseller.Some of the actions in it, a little change is a little trick to make girls tempted.

"I hung up the sunny doll, will it be sunny tomorrow?" Lizi asked.

"Of course not," Qingming continued to stare at the drawing paper, "Qingtian Doll is a monster. And it's a poor monster."

"A long time ago, there was a monk named Rizhao Monk. He had the ability to make the sky clear. The local nobles thought that the rainy season was always raining, so they asked Rizhao Monk to clear the sky."

"This kind of praying for the rain to stop sometimes doesn't work. Monk Rizhao didn't make the sky clear, but it rained harder. The nobles were very angry and ordered to cut off the head of Monk Rizhao, wrap it in a white cloth and hang it on a tree .”

"Who knew that after doing this, the rain stopped. Since then, there have been more monsters like sunny dolls in the world. Didn't you learn the song a few days ago? There is a sentence in it, if the rain is still crying, cut your head off the ground .It’s just talking about Sunshine Doll.”

As soon as Qingming finished speaking, Lizi immediately threw away the Qingtian doll made of cotton cloth in her hand.Even though it was summer, she felt chilly all over.

"Master Qingming is lying to me, right?" She could no longer look directly at Qingtian Doll.

"I never lie." Qingming closed the book with a distressed expression.Even if you learn the posture of this kind of thing, it is useless without practice, right?

"But, I made this myself, not a monster."

"When you make sunny dolls, there is a certain chance of attracting these little monsters. They will attach to the dolls you made, and they will try to pray for the weather to be sunny with the emotion of fearing that you will cut off their heads."

"Hey, it really sounds like a poor monster." Lizi looked at the Qingtian doll thrown down the corridor again, "What are they trying so hard for?"

"Ghosts have the nature of monsters. Every monster is born with a resentment that makes them a monster. This resentment is also a habit. It will make them do this. Sometimes it doesn't mean anything. They just want to help people , or simply want to hurt people."

"I see." Pear nodded.

"By the way," Qingming looked at her, "Did you cut something new?"

"I haven't tried it yet." Lizi looked at Ben Pingling.She hasn't tried to cut anything since one of the five tadpoles on the wooden sign came out.

"Well, let's try it now." Qingming covered the entire courtyard with an enchantment.

"What are you cutting?" She took out the paper and scissors, thought for a while and looked up at Qingming, "Does Master Qingming have anything he likes? Like animals or something."

"Well, I like foxes." Seimei said.

"Fox?" Li Zi murmured and repeated, feeling that she has been surrounded by foxes recently.First Inari-sama, then Tamamo-mae, and now Seimei-sama says he likes foxes.

Although I was thinking about it in my heart, my hands didn't stop at all, and I slowly cut the paper.

Qingming looked at it with his chin propped up, and said, "Can I put a flower on it?"

"What flower?" Lizi paused for a moment and looked sideways at him.

"Ewha." Qingming said leisurely.

"Pear Blossom?" Li Zi muttered suspiciously, flipping a piece of white paper in her hands.

With the line of spiritual power, it turned into a thing with a pointed mouth, pointed ears, and a big fluffy tail.Finally, she drew a pair of almond eyes on it with a pen.

This is a beautiful white fox with a pear blossom in its ear.So detailed that it even has a beard.

Qingming smiled and took it over, looked over and over for a few times, "Why don't you move?"

"I think I need to blow it." Lizi said thoughtfully.

"Shall I blow it?" Qingming asked.

"Well, you can try it." Lizi nodded.

Qingming carefully held it and blew at the fox.

I saw the fox's beard trembling slightly, and the pear blossoms on the ears trembled slightly.The eyeballs rolled around, and with a "poof", the fox changed from flat paper to a three-dimensional fox.Only the size of a palm, it hops up and down in front of them deftly.

Lizi's heart was instantly filled with great joy.Unexpectedly, the short escape would suddenly raise her paper-cutting skills to a higher level.This fox looks as human as a little paper doll.Then you can use it to do many things in the future.

She reached out and pinched the fox, well, it felt like it was made of hard resin.

Qingming supported her chin with one hand, "It's very convenient. You can cut it up and take it with you, and blow it when you need it. But, I don't know the difference between blowing it for you and blowing it for me?"

Lizi looked at the cheerfully jumping fox, thought for a while, and said to it, "Jump onto the table."

The fox glanced at her and continued to do his own thing, ignoring her.

Qingming understood what she meant in seconds, and gave the fox an order, "Jump into my arms."

The fox let out a "squeak", its apricot core eyes bent into orange petals, and it ran happily into Qingming's arms.Rubbing his palm affectionately.

"So that's how it is." Qingming suddenly realized, "No matter who blows it, it means that the person who blows it gives it life. It will obey that person."

"That's right." Lizi nodded, but she couldn't help cursing inwardly, white-eyed fox.How hard it is to cut, everyone can blow it.

"If given a large enough piece of paper, can you cut out something the size of a real fox?" Seimei asked.

"I think you can try it." Lizi reached out to touch the fox's big tail, but was slapped on her hand.She "hissed", Qingming hurriedly pulled her hand to check, a red mark was drawn on the back of the hand, and it swelled instantly.

"It's so powerful." She gasped in pain.

Seimei frowned, immediately stood up and went back to the room to get the ointment.

"It really hurts too much. I am the one who created you anyway, which is equivalent to your mother. Is this how you bite your mother?"

She held up her hand to the fox, and the fox bared his teeth at her with the corners of his mouth open.

"Hey, you still have teeth." There was a hint of interest in her eyes immediately, she remembered that she didn't cut out the teeth for it.But it has good teeth.

From this point of view, it is born with weapons than the little paper man.What if you let the little paper man ride it?What if you let the little paper man sit on a bird with a weapon?Is it possible to fly?She immediately had many combinations in her mind.

She subconsciously looked at Ben Pingling.The tadpole on the wooden sign is indeed related to her ability.Each tadpole lights up to upgrade an ability.Don't know what will be next when it lights up?

Qingming returned with a small jar of ointment.He took her hand to apply ointment to her.

"I'll do it myself." She hurriedly withdrew her hand.

"How do I paint it myself?" Qingming looked puzzled, "It's still the right hand that hurts, isn't it inconvenient? I'll do it."

He spoke gently in his mouth, but his actions were domineering.Without any explanation, he pulled her hand over, picked up a ball of light green transparent ointment with his fingers, and applied it on the high swollen place on the back of her hand.

"Okay." Lizi retracted her hand again, feeling that her hand was going to burn.

"It's not good." Qingming pulled her hand back and put it on her lap.In order to prevent her hand from escaping, he pressed his wrist with one hand and gently spread the ointment with the other hand.

Seimei's long, slender fingers were well-defined, very attractive.It's just a little too slow.Almost touching every inch of her hand with fingers.

Lizi raised her eyes, and the boy gently twirled his eyelashes, lowered his eyelids, and carefully applied the ointment.Although his attitude looks very correct.But her hands didn't think so.

The swollen place on the back of his hand was very painful, and it made him feel numb, as if a group of ants were crawling.Worrying that this group of ants will crawl into my heart again.She retracted her hand again.

"It's really good this time," she said softly.It was the first time I saw someone apply medicine so affectionately.Full of color.

"What fruit would you like to eat?"

"Huh? Why would you suddenly ask such a question while wearing ointment?" She asked suspiciously.

"If you don't consider the season, what fruit do you want to eat the most?" Seimei asked again.

"I don't care about the season," she turned her head to look at the pattering rain outside, "it's persimmons. When the weather is cool in autumn, the persimmons form a tree. It's red like a little lantern, and taking a sip is like sucking honey. But now It’s only May, and summer just started. Just thinking about it.”

"Well, persimmon, I remember." Seimei said seriously.

She was even more puzzled, what's the use of remembering?She couldn't eat again.

It was raining harder and harder in the courtyard.The two people chatting in the room didn't notice at all, the sunny doll thrown on the porch was swollen by the rain.swell up.The facial features on the cloth face curled up the corners of the mouth strangely.

……

The next day the rain stopped.The arrangement in the class schedule is to go to Mr. He Mao's house to learn Yin Yang art.After breakfast, Riko put on her shrine maiden attire and took the car with Seimei.

I don't know whether it was a rest overnight or Seimei's pressing.Mo Dafa is good.The originally swollen high back of the hand actually subsided.Although it can still be seen that it is thicker than the other hand, at least it does not affect the work.

The bullock cart ran steadily all the way, and slowed down when passing an arch bridge.There were loud voices ahead.Pear looked out of the window curiously.

"Why bother?" Qingming said with a smile, and told the driver to go and see what was going on.

The coachman trotted away and trotted back.

"A drowning man was found in the river under the bridge. It rained too much yesterday, and he couldn't see the road clearly and fell off the bridge. It's so pitiful."

"Well, that's how it is." Seimei nodded.Naturally, the government will send someone to deal with this kind of matter.

The driver got into the cart, and the ox cart moved forward slowly.

The Yin-Yang class in the morning is still learning to make spells.The teacher taught voice changer, a spell that makes the voice louder.

"It's especially suitable for you priestesses, such as when singing hymns." Honma said.

"This feeling of discrimination is coming again."

"Master Honma will always look down on witches." The girls complained one after another.

Li Zi pursed her lips and smiled lightly, out of the corner of her eye she caught a glimpse of a middle-aged man standing outside the door, looking at her with piercing eyes.

Just as she was feeling strange, Moto ran out at a trot, bowing her back and calling the man "Lord Laiguang".

She froze for a moment, knowing that the other party was Yuan Chuyu's father, Minamoto Raimiko, the commander of the imperial army.

Minamoto Raimitsu took her to the pavilion in the yard and looked at each other.

Minamoto Raimitsu has a powerful face.Even before he spoke, he knew that he was an exceptionally strong person.

"I wanted to see you a long time ago, but Abe Masaki refused to let me in." Minamoto Raimitsu said with a smile.

Seimei-sama's father, why?

Seeing what she was thinking, Minamoto Laiguang said with a smile, "I think maybe he thinks that you don't need to have contact with our family before retiring the engagement."

Hearing him talk about retiring the engagement, she immediately took the initiative to say, "Before she died, my grandma specifically told me that I must go to Heiankyo to rescind the engagement between Shimizu and Genji. It doesn't matter whether you rescind or we do. I don't care if it is rumored that the engagement is divorced." reputation."

Minamoto Raimitsu was not surprised. He smiled and said, "Your grandma is a very wise person, and she will always make the best choice when the situation is not good for her."

"When she took you to hide in the countryside, I think it was very wise. If you continue to be active in the capital, the political opponents of the Qingshui clan will consider the possibility of your revival. Maybe they will think about killing them all and making the Qingshui clan disappear completely."

He paused and said, "I'm sorry that your grandma was killed by monsters." His expression became extremely serious, "We should indeed regard monsters as our sworn enemies. The world is so peaceful because of them."

"I will spend my life fighting youkai. My son will do the same. Seeing that you have chosen to become a priestess, I am really happy for you."

"But I still want to say that you can't divorce now. I know it's unreasonable to ask you to do so. But I also have reasons to do so."

Pear pursed her lips.It is said that Minamoto Raimitsu rarely stays in Heian-kyo, and spends most of his time eliminating demons.Wherever there is news of monsters, he will rush there with his men.His family's money is also used to train onmyojis.The development of Harima-ryu depends largely on his support.

"I think you should have heard about it. I am very passive in the court. Someone is waiting to find out my fault. If Chu Yu divorces you now, no matter who proposes it first, I will be charged with bullying an orphan girl."

He paused slightly, and said with some self-mockery, "Actually, I'm bullying you now. Because you have to do what I say."

Riko pursed her lips again, she could feel that as long as Minamoto Raimitsu made a decision, no one would be allowed to object.

Recalling what Qingming said, Yuan Chuyu didn't like learning Yin Yang.It is precisely because he cannot resist his father that he has to study.Therefore, she will not think of hitting a stone with a pebble, but intends to discuss the most suitable solution in the space where she can maneuver.

"Is there any more?" Pear asked.

"Also, you move out of Abe Masaki's house today. Otherwise, people will still say that I..."

"Retirement," Lizi said without hesitation, "it doesn't matter to me whether someone impeaches you. I'm an orphan, even if you use your power, it doesn't matter. Because I have no worries, I represent my whole family."

"Even if I choose not to retire for the time being, it's out of consideration for your current situation. With my consideration, I keep making concessions. Anyone will be angry about this kind of thing, right?"

Minamoto Raimiko stared at her sharply for a while, but she was still not unmoved.Minamoto Raimitsu smiled slightly, and quickly made a choice, "I see. I don't want to move out. Well, what else?"

"I don't want to listen to any of your requests except for not retiring the engagement for the time being. There is still no time, one year is my limit. You know, I am fourteen this year, and it will be difficult for me to find another family if it takes too long."

"Is the next family you are looking for the son of Abe Masaki?" Minamoto Raimitsu asked with a smile.

"Of course not. Seimei-sama doesn't think about such silly things. He is a person who regards love as a vulgar interest."

Minamoto Raimiko smiled after hearing this, "He said that because he hasn't met anyone who makes him fall in love. Well, I understand, I will do what you want."

Minamoto Raikou glanced around the corner.There were two teenagers standing there, one was Yuan Chuyu and the other was Seimei.

"Father." Yuan Chuyu glanced at Lizi and walked over quickly, "Why are you here?"

Minamoto Raimitsu didn't answer his question, but looked at him seriously, "Why aren't you in the school? I sent you here to hope that you will learn Yin Yang from Kamo-sama. Instead of just idle around all day long. Your peers are all You have already become a mid-rank Onmyoji. And you are still in the first rank, really embarrassing to Genji."

Riko didn't expect Minamoto Raimitsu to speak so mercilessly, she quickly turned away from them, and pretended to be very interested in a flower next to her.

Yuan Chuyu bit his lip tightly and did not speak.

Minamoto Larimitsu didn't bother to teach him a lesson.No matter how many times I say this, no matter how motivated I am, it cannot compare to something like talent.He glanced at Qingming with a complicated gaze, got up and left here by the path.

After he left, Yuan Chuyu stood there for two seconds without looking at anyone, turned around and left from the other direction.

Li Zi breathed a sigh of relief, turned her face and asked, "Master Qingming, why are you here?"

This is where the witches attend classes, and few onmyojis come here.

"Fruit." Qingming put a small rectangular wooden box on the low stone table.

"Ok?"

Pear opened the lid of the box, and inside were two bright red persimmons.She opened her eyes wide in surprise, "How can there be persimmons in this season?"

"In this class, I learned the advanced yin and yang art of time passage. Lock the persimmon tree in the enchantment, and use the method of time passage to make it bloom and bear fruit." Qingming said with a smile.

I can't blame him for asking her what fruit she likes to eat regardless of the season yesterday.So this is ah.

"Yes, I like eating persimmons the most." The girl raised a big smile, she likes persimmons that can be sucked and eaten like jelly.

Qingming slightly hooked her lips, pushed the box towards her and stood up, "I'm going back. If Master He Mao finds out that I'm here, he will definitely lose his temper."

"why?"

"Because your Lord Saio is very worried that an onmyoji with malicious intentions will come to seduce her maiden. If the maiden gets married, she will no longer be able to serve the gods."

"I see." Li Zi smiled slightly.

Saio-sama's worry is justified.Because she had heard people say more than once that if she could meet a handsome onmyoji here, she would immediately leave Ise Shrine and go back to get married.In Heianjing, the mysterious and powerful Onmyoji has always been the most popular candidate for marriage.

"By the way," Qingming said suddenly, who turned around and took two steps, "Just now you said that I would not think about boring things and regard love as a vulgar taste. I think I have too little experience when I say this. In fact, I Underestimated the charm of bad taste, which is not bad at all."

pear:"……"

……

Yuan Chuyu walked to the pool alone, reached into his pocket, and took out a very small, immature apple.

He picked it up silently and looked at it.He regretted meeting Qingming at the corner just now.In class, only Qingming perfectly ripened a persimmon seed in the shortest time, making it take root, germinate, blossom and bear fruit.

The rest of the people choose to use mature fruit trees for ripening.It took him an entire hour to urge out a half-baked fruit.In this way, I am ashamed to use it to find pear blossoms.

Father was right, he was indeed not as good as Abe Seimei.That's what made him even more dissatisfied.

Yuan Chuyu stood up, raised his hand and threw the little apple into the pool, then turned and walked towards the school.