juvenile onmyoji

"Wait, what does kissing longer mean?" Lizi asked.

"It literally means, longer." Seimei said with a smile.

Lizi thought for a while and then asked, "How long will it take?"

"Well, it depends on my desire to be full." Seimei said, "Maybe it will end after counting one, two, three, or it may not end in an hour."

"One hour?" Lizi opened her eyes wide in surprise, her eyelashes fluttering slightly, one hour is equal to two hours, enough to eat a pot.

"If you cooperate enough, I can see the situation ends sooner." Qingming hugged her from behind, clinging to her back.He wrapped one arm around her waist, and gently turned her face with the other.

The girl had a red face, her eyes were tightly closed, and her eyelashes were trembling slightly.He carefully looked at this face that made his heart beat always without exception.

The white and beautiful face is as fragile as glass.He was always worried that he would break her accidentally.This trip to the country of mirrors let him know how far he is from the real top power.

Almost unable to even counterattack, he was easily killed by the opponent.The moment he fell to the ground, he was very unwilling.He wants to be stronger and able to protect those he wants to protect.Even if the other party is a god.

Looking at the girl who couldn't resist opening her eyes after waiting for a long time, Qingming smiled slightly, and gently pressed a kiss on her face, carrying all the love and tenderness in her life.

After waiting for a long time without seeing the other party getting to the point, Lizi opened her eyes in doubt, "Is this the end?"

Seimei was a little amused, "Isn't it enough? Then what kind do you want, intense?"

"No, no." Li Zi hurriedly got out of his arms.

"Well, it's still a long time anyway, so let's pay it back slowly." Qingming said.

"How do you pay it back slowly? You still owe it 160 times, tomorrow it will be [-] nine times, and the day after tomorrow..." She couldn't even think about it. This is simply usury, compound interest.

Qingming slightly pursed her lips, "In a word, you can only leave here after you pay it back. So, you can rent out the house that His Majesty rewarded you first."

"It's okay to rent it out. The question is, is it possible for me to pay it off?"

"It's up to you." Qingming smiled, turned around and went into the room to rest Yin Yang.The girl who was not good at math was left standing alone in the yard doing arithmetic.

The golden autumn of August will come soon.

The Obon Festival in Fusang is an equally important festival alongside the first month.Every family has to worship their ancestors, and use candles and food to make the ancestors like to eat.

Early in the morning, Lizi heard the sound of clanging in the courtyard.The weather was getting a bit cold, she wrapped herself tightly in a thin quilt, and opened her sleepy eyes.After lying on the mattress for a while, she got up to change clothes and wash.

Wearing a kimono made of light green and light pink fabric, she pulled her hair back and picked up a small account book on the dressing table.It is full of orthographic characters.Every stroke was paid by her.

Although after protesting, Qingming changed the calculation of revolving interest to only add one per day.She counted, and after changing the new algorithm, she only owed five.But because of the small amount owed, Seimei-sama will extend the time.

Regardless, five still looks like a snap.One orthography is the end.Thinking about it this way, she wished she could have a fifth company now.

Walking out of the dormitory, Seimei was already sitting in the outer room practicing Yin Yang.There were leaves and wooden utensils in front of him, and he gently twisted one piece and threw it out, and the wooden utensils were immediately crushed into flat pieces.It can be called a dimensionality reduction blow.

Seeing her coming out, the expressionless young man immediately had a smile in his eyes, stood up to pack his things, and vacated the low table. "Let's eat."

Lizi curiously picked up the piece of wood on the ground, "What kind of yin and yang technique is this?" It can turn three-dimensional things into two-dimensional.

"It is to use the leaves to carry the power of the mountains, and instantly crush the opponent."

"I see." Lizi stuck out her tongue lightly. It sounded like it was difficult, but she could only reduce the dimensionality of the flies.

Seimei placed the two food boxes on the ground on the table and opened the lid.It contains miso soup, nigiri sushi and salted sakura buds.

"What is Teng Snake doing?" Li Zi took the chopsticks from Qingming, turned her head to look at the courtyard, there was a pile of wood piled up beside Teng Snake, and they were jingling.

Qingming followed her gaze, "Teng Snake is making a memorial tablet for the Qingshui clan."

"Huh?" The girl looked back at him in surprise.

"Two days will be the Obon Festival. If the ancestors of the Qingshui family come to visit you and find that you haven't prepared food for them, they will definitely run into your dream angrily and say that you are an unworthy descendant."

"We've arrived at the Yulan Basin so soon." Lizi was in a daze.At this time last year, I lived in the countryside of Omi.Together with Sushi Granny, she prepares offerings for Shimizu's ancestors.But unexpectedly, this year she started to prepare for the sushi mother-in-law.

Qingming saw her drooping her eyes, trying to hold back her tears.He deliberately stood up and said, "I'll go and see how Teng Snake's preparations are going. He always makes typos, so he will reduce the clear water by two points later."

Because the other party walked out of the room, Li Zi generously wiped away her tears.

"I'll write." She packed up her mood and walked to the yard.

Seeing this, Teng Snake quickly handed her the pen, and he just wrote the word "Qing Shui" and couldn't hold back the words below.The adults patronized and arranged tasks, but the list was not given to him.

Lizi took a pen and wrote down all the ancestors of the Qingshui family from memory.Soon, the courtyard was filled with memorial tablets.She suddenly felt that there were many people in the Qingshui family.But now she is the only one left.

"Send these to the mansion on Santiao Avenue later." She said after finishing writing the tablet.

"Let me do this." Teng Snake waved his hand, and the tablets were all put into his sleeves.

"Okay, let's eat." Seimei said.

Pear nodded.

After the incident in the Kingdom of Mirrors was over, the Emperor hastily selected another woman from the royal family to be Saio.Shinsai-o knows neither yin and yang skills nor divine prayer, and now Ise Shrine is busy training the new master.Coupled with the arrival of the Obon, the teaching of apprentice priestesses has temporarily slackened.

The teachers did not come to class, and the number of people asking for leave suddenly increased.She also handed over the leave note and began to stay at home.

After finishing his meal slowly, Suzaku came over to take away the food box.Lizi took the book to the low table and prepared to study by herself.Qingming sat down opposite her and also took out a book.

"Hey, Master Qingming, aren't you going to learn onmyoji today?" She raised her eyes a little strangely.

"I won't go. It will be the Yulan Basin in two days. Many people whose hometowns are not here have asked for leave to go back to their hometown to worship their ancestors. Therefore, classes will not resume until after the Yulan Basin."

"The Obon is really a grand festival," Lizi said with her hands on her chin, "but, what's the difference between the Obon in Heian-kyo and the ones in the countryside?"

Seimei put down the book when he heard the words, "The Obon basin in Heian-kyo holds ancestor worship activities in various houses during the day. At night, there will be large-scale activities on the street at the gate of Koryuji Temple."

"Everyone will dress up as a hundred ghosts and walk through there, representing the ghosts to leave the capital. At the same time, there will be a grand market open, selling some food and dolls that are only available during the Obon Festival."

"Well, but these days will be relatively busy days for Yinyang Liao. Because in the four days before and after the Yulan Basin, it is the time when the gates of Huangquan Kingdom are opened. Some ancestors will come back to visit and live with their descendants for a few days. day."

"But because of the laws and regulations of Huangquan Kingdom, they only maintain the image of spirits, they will not appear, and they will not interfere with the lives of living people. However, evil spirits with malicious intentions will also be mixed in."

"Wow, living with the descendants for four days, I feel chills on my back." Lizi exclaimed.

"That's what I said, but most of the souls were either reincarnated long ago or dissipated. There are still many that cannot be found because the offspring moved. Therefore, basically no spirits will visit. If there are, I will tell you." Seimei said.

"Can Master Seimei see spirits?" Lizi asked.

"Yes, I can see ghosts since I was very young. I was evaluated by the teacher as a natural onmyoji."

As soon as Lizi heard He Mao Zhongxing, she immediately turned her face away.He also said that he was his favorite apprentice, and he didn't see how much he cared when he came out of the mirror.

Qingming knew that she was thinking about that day again.After waking up that day, He Mao Baoxian told him about Xiao Li crying in anger.

"Don't be unhappy about that kind of thing. Everyone has selfish desires. Everyone crowded in the main hall is anxious to get credit for the Kingdom of Mirrors. Compared with me, who doesn't seem to be injured, I am not so important."

"The most important thing is that I didn't go in because of them. If it wasn't because you were trapped in the country of mirrors, I wouldn't have given me the position of Yin Yang head. After I came out, you guarded me the first time. Therefore, I I can only thank you alone."

"I am also grateful to Seimei-sama." Lizi said with a smile.

"Well, pay off the debt early." Qingming said with a smile.

"Isn't this always being returned?" Lizi muttered softly, flipping through the monster album.

The picture is a ghost with a very big belly.Its belly is so big that it looks like it is pregnant with ten dolls.It says next to it that a hungry ghost, after being possessed, will instantly lose strength and feel hungry at the same time.But no matter how much you eat, you can't get enough.

"What should I do if I encounter such a ghost?"

"Which one?" Qingming stopped writing and glanced at the page, "This one. Generally speaking, hungry ghosts are the lowest level of monsters, and they can be divided into two types. One is the spirit formed after a beggar starved to death. Afterwards, you will suddenly feel unbearable hunger. The solution is to eat a little food quickly. The hungry ghost will leave when it is satisfied."

"Then what if you don't have food on your body?" Lizi asked.

"Then just write a rice character in the palm of your hand and lick it three times quickly to fool the hungry ghost."

Lizi laughed straight after hearing this, "So that's the case, I remembered. Is there another kind?"

"There is another kind that people who have done evil things in the world will be sent to the realm of hungry ghosts. These hungry ghosts will have very big stomachs but only a small mouth. It takes a long time to eat a bowl of rice, so they will be very hungry. If you are possessed by this kind of monster, you will never be full, and the usual solution is useless, only to find an onmyoji."

"Hey, isn't it convenient for me?" Lizi said with a smile.

"Well, don't say such nonsense," Seimei said a little more seriously, "Although it is a joke, it is the easiest to come true."

"Ah, what to do then?"

"Well, there's only one solution."

"what?"

"Kiss me once, and the curse will be broken." Qingming said with a light smile.

"Can it be included in the debt repayment?" Lizi asked weakly.

"Okay." Qingming looked at her with a smile.

If so, it's worth it.Thinking of this, Riko straightened up and gave Seimei a sloppy poke on Seimei's face.After sitting down, she asked curiously, "Master Qingming, did you really need bobo when you were young, why do you like kissing so much when you grow up?"

"Because my lord lacks love." Suzaku, who was making sacrificial objects in the courtyard, couldn't see it, and said straightforwardly.

Qingming casually glanced at the courtyard, then looked away and asked Lizi, "How much energy do you still lack in your wooden sign, can you fill it up again?"

"It's just a little bit close," Lizi said, "It feels like killing one more monster is almost the same."

"Well, Suzaku is also a kind of monster, I think I'll fill it with her." Qingming said lightly.

Suzaku: "..."

The night before the Yu Lan Basin, the pears and Suzaku melted the candles and colored them, then poured them into molds to make candles with many fruits.It is believed that ancestors will be happier if candles are used to make their favorite food.Then Suzaku helped her make a fairy horse out of vegetables.

"Tomorrow morning, I will make an extra portion of shojin cuisine, and bring these together to the mansion on Sanjo Avenue to enshrine." Suzaku said, "You go to bed early, and you have to get up early to go there tomorrow."

Pear thanked her.

Tomorrow, she will go to the house on Santiao Avenue to worship the ancestors of the Qingshui clan by herself.Seimei followed Abe Masaki to worship Abe here.

Qingming who was sitting on the porch reading a book raised his eyes, "Don't worry, Suzaku will accompany you."

The next day just after dawn, Lizi heard a noise on the window.She opened her eyes in a daze, and saw a huge bird with its neck tilted and looking at her outside the window.

She sat up suddenly and recognized that it was Suzaku's head.

"Are you up? We can go after dinner." Suzaku said.

Lizi quickly got up, grabbed the clothes beside her and put them on.

After washing, she came to the outer room, and there was only one food box on the low table.

"Where is Master Qingming?" She asked.

"I went to the suburbs with Masaki-sama to worship our ancestors." Suzaku put the breakfast on the table.

"Is it so early?" She sat down at the low table in surprise.Vegetarian food is required for several days before and after Obon, so there is only clear soup and plum rice balls for breakfast.

"Well, because there are too many people worshiping ancestors in Heianjing. If you go out late, you will be blocked at the gate of the city."

"I see." Li Zi picked up the rice ball.

After eating, Suzaku handed her a paper bag with goldfish and sunflowers on it, "Imperial jade bag, from Masaki-sama. Seimei-sama also has it. I will spend it at the Obon Festival at night."

Pear took over.This is something similar to a festival red envelope, usually given by elders to younger generations.The paper bag was heavy, and it was full of copper coins.The mouth of the bag is tied with silk rope and small daisies, very beautiful.

She put away the purse and said to Suzaku, "Let's go."

……

Aji sat at the low table with a stiff expression, unable to eat a single grain of rice.Holding the rice ball, his body trembled undetectably.Cold sweat continued to break out on his forehead.

Behind him, there was an old woman with a blue face, looking at him expressionlessly.Beside him was a box full of food.

It's been two days.

No one found out.

Every day, the old woman would walk in through the gate with a tired face and fetch water from the well in the backyard.Then he took a bundle of firewood to the kitchen to boil water and cook.In the evening, I sleep in a small room in the backyard, and the cycle repeats.

Aji and this old woman named Aju were sent by Abe Masai to watch the empty house.Aji is in charge of guarding the gate, and Aju is in charge of cooking for the two of them and sweeping the courtyard.But some time ago, Aju stumbled and fell into the river and drowned.But she didn't seem to know it herself, and she was still living as before.

Cook and feed him on time every day.Who dares to eat food made by ghosts?

But in order not to starve to death, he could only go outside and buy something casually every day.

Woooo... When will the master come over?He doesn't want to look at the house here alone.

The door was suddenly slammed, and Aji raised his head ecstatically, but he was afraid of alarming Aju behind him.Stiffly, he slowly got up and went to open the door.

Walking in the courtyard, Aji glanced back quietly, feeling a sudden chill in his stomach.

She...followed again...

Aggie opened the door.Because shikigami are invisible to ordinary people.Aji thought Li Zi was the only one, and felt extremely disappointed.

Suzaku went in first to decorate the main room.Li Zi handed over the basket in her hand to Aji, which contained new clothes and clogs.This is what the master of the Obon Festival must prepare for his servants.Although Aji is not her servant, she has to prepare one to look after the house for her.

"My lord," Aji asked cautiously after Li Zi, "I heard that you are an apprentice witch?"

"Ah."

"So, can you see ghosts?"

"I can only see monsters, but not spirits." Lizi said honestly.

"Does ghost mean spirit?" Aji asked tentatively again.

"Yes." After Lizi answered, she walked into the main room, not noticing that Aji was left behind, her face was ashamed.

Even though he was standing under the warm sun, Aji was still shivering from the cold.

If he couldn't see it, no one would believe that Aju was cooking in the kitchen, right?

Aji turned his head and glanced at the gate, should we wait a little longer?Master Qingming is an Onmyoji, he should believe it, right?If Lord Qingming doesn't come, he will go back to live at the master's house.Today is the Yu Lan Basin, the most cloudy moment, he dare not be here anymore.

Suzaku placed all the offerings under Shimizu's tablet, lit fruit-shaped candles, and incense sticks.

Lizi was putting the prepared gold and silver mountains into the copper basin and burned them, when she saw Suzaku picking up a bunch of paper copper coins and putting them into her sleeves.

"What do you want this for?" she asked curiously.

"Go out and burn it by the side of the road," Suzaku said. "It's for lonely ghosts, so that they won't follow us."

Lizi wanted to laugh a little, there should be no ghosts who want to go back to Master Qingming's house, right?

After the offering was over, Lizi and Suzaku walked towards the gate, not seeing the manservant named Aji again.Maybe it was to inspect another yard?

Back home, Seimei and Abe Masaki also came back.

"Eat dinner early today, and you can go to the Obon in the evening." Abe Masai said, "But you can't stay too late, in case you meet real ghosts."

"Aren't the real ghosts the ones to worry about?" Seimei said with a smile.

Abe Masaki choked when he remembered that his son is an Onmyoji, "Well, that's true. Then you guys should come back later."

……

Evening came soon, and Lizi and Qingming went out with their own jade bags.

Qingming asked the coachman to take them outside the city first.

"Why did you go outside the city?" Lizi asked, "Isn't it on the street at the gate of Guanglong Temple that you dressed up as a ghost and paraded around?"

"Because the souls of the ancestors need to be sent away, there will be activities of burning large characters outside the city. When it gets dark, characters composed of fire, torii gates, large characters, wonderful characters and boats will appear on the five mountains surrounding Heian-kyo. The shape. The flames surrounding Heian-kyo will be very spectacular."

Isn't that the burning of Heianjing?She has seen it.Lizi murmured in her heart, she didn't really want to see it.She would rather go to the market at the gate of Guanglong Temple.

Qingming could see what she was thinking, "The market at the mountain gate of Guanglong Temple is closed now. We finished watching the big monograph burning, and it's just right there." He stretched out his hand to help her jump off the ox cart, and said with a smile, "Today Huo Xiaopo must be going crazy tonight."

"why?"

"There's fire everywhere, and it can't be extinguished by blowing it dry."

There are already many people outside the city, bustling with each other.Everyone scrambled to watch the big characters burn, with excited expressions on their faces.

Seimei pulled her away from Kamogawa, "Every year, people fall into it because of the fun. Anyway, the big characters are burned on the mountain, and we can see them from a distance."

Lizi was pulled by Qingming to go further to the outskirts, and did not stop until she climbed a small hill.

On a night in early autumn, a cool breeze blows.The lights of Heian-kyo in the distance intersect with drum music.

They sat down by a small pool surrounded by stones, and they could see the distant mountains when they looked up.

There was a sudden commotion along the Kamo River.

"Look over there." Seimei pointed to the distant mountain.I saw an extremely huge "Miao" character appearing in the night.One hundred and eight fire beds rise and fall one after another, displaying the characters "Fa" and "Da" as well as the shapes of torii gates and boats on the mountain peak.

People also put river lanterns into Kamogawa, hoping to send their ancestors away with grief.

The Daimonyaki in the night and the lights in the river complement each other, lighting up Heian-kyo brilliantly.

At the same time, the onmyoji of Yinyangliao gave birth to the cherry trees at the gate of Guangyuan Temple, and the cool breeze mixed with the faint fragrance of cherry blossoms blew throughout the entire Heian-kyo.

Lizi was moved by the spectacular scenery, and looked at the opposite mountain without blinking.Qingming lost interest after just looking at it, he moved slightly, and pressed his hand on Lizi's.

"Huh?" Lizi turned her head to look at him puzzled.

"There's no one here, so start paying off the debt." Qingming said with a light smile.

pear:"……"

"now?"

"That's right, today will be over, and one will have to be added tomorrow."

"Then can I kiss all at once today? There are only four left."

"Hey, are there only a few left?"

pear:"……"

"That's great." A voice came from the tree.

Before Lizi raised her head, the owner of the voice jumped down from above.

It was a very handsome boy.He was wearing thin clothes, his chest was slightly exposed, and a small ceramic gourd was tied around his waist.

Lizi looked at him and her heart moved slightly. Isn't this the cover boy Shuten Doji of the monster album?It is said that thousands of young girls cannot resist the most handsome monster in history.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to disturb you guys." Shuten-douji raised the corners of his lips slightly, "But I don't want to appreciate this kind of thing at night when I'm single. Especially when the other party has an onmyoji and a witch. When I think of such a combination, I can't even sit down. The fart on the branch. The ass is a little unsteady."

"Then I'm leaving, you guys continue." He turned around with a smile, "Ah, that's right. For some reason, there is a dead air lingering on this Miko, as if she has come into contact with something during the day. The Onmyoji Adults can help her check her body."

He blinked slightly at Qingming, "You don't need to thank me."