In the autumn sunshine, the chrysanthemum exudes a refreshing fragrance.In the courtyard, clusters of light blue chrysanthemums on the left and clusters on the right are blooming warmly.Facing the aroma of chrysanthemums, Lizi sat on the porch, in front of a small table with a box of wagashi.

It is September, and wagashi is also made according to the season.Most of the wagashi in September are just a few kinds, bellflower, moon goose and moon concubine.Glutinous rice flour is used to make bellflower flowers, full moons, and rabbits, and filled with various fillings.

Suzaku was frying tea in a small red clay stove.Tea comes from Datang, and every three years there will be a fleet of ships going to sea, and it takes several years to go back and forth.Therefore, things from the Tang Dynasty, especially consumables such as sugar and tea, are extremely precious.

"It's delicious, cool and sweet." Holding the pear with one hand, he ate it in small bites.

Qingming leaned against the porch pillar and sat across from her. Although she was holding a book in her hand, her gaze crossed the pages of the book and fell on the girl's face.

A golden origami crane fell from the sky and just landed on Qingming's book page.Li Zi glanced at it, and her eyes lit up, "Did the result of the Yin-Yang Art assessment come out?"

Qingming closed the book and put it aside, then picked up the Thousand Paper Crane, "It should be." He slightly curled his lips, "The first position is a white Thousand Paper Crane, the middle position is silver, and the high position is golden, so big. What about Onmyoji?"

"It's dark." Lizi said casually.

Qingming gently took the thousand paper cranes apart with his fingers.Compared with Lizi who was too excited to tear off the crane's head, his mood is very calm. "Well, I'm in a high position now."

"Let me take a look?" Riko brought over the gold paper, on which was written congratulations to Abe Seimei for passing the high-ranking onmyoji examination.On the bottom is the stamp of Yinyangliao.

"Let's go." Qingming stood up.

"what?"

"Go to the suburbs to test your ability and see how big objects made of paper can grow."

Lizi stuffed the last bite of fruit into her mouth, "Is that meeting about to start?"

"Onmyoji Trial Conference." Qingming added.

"Yes, the Onmyoji Trial Conference." Lizi put on her clogs and followed Qingming.

"Well, there are still about ten days. But recently, onmyojis from various countries have settled in. So we have to stay away from the city to avoid being seen by them." Qingming asked the servant to set up the bullock cart at the door.

"Do I need to sign up?" Lizi asked again.

"When I signed up, you will be filled in the last item of witch recommendation. But there is one more thing. Because this item is two onmyojis with a priestess. Another onmyoji will also recommend a priestess, just There will be a choice."

"Ah, is this still the case? Does Seimei-sama know who your companion is?"

"I don't know, we will know when the time comes." Qingming said, "This is also a test of Onmyoji's communication skills. If the communication is not good, the two will have a rift, and they will not be able to work together in the competition."

"I see." Li Zi nodded, "This competition is full of the founder's carefulness. A small trap like this, if you don't pay attention, you will fall into it."

They had already reached the door, and the coachman harnessed the ox cart and asked them to get on.The scalper immediately ran towards Luocheng Gate with steady steps.

Only when Qingming reached the deserted wilderness did Qingming stop the driver.

"Right here." He supported Lizi's arm and watched her jump down.

"What should I cut?" Lizi looked around.There are wild grasses and wild flowers everywhere here, such as maidenhair flowers, platycodon flowers, and gentian flowers, which bloom very gorgeously.Crickets, grasshoppers, and golden bells are also chirping non-stop in the grass.The noon sun shines down without resistance, and the sky and the earth are golden.

"Cut the cow." Lizi said.

"Cow?" Qingming raised the corner of his mouth slightly, feeling a little funny, "Why would you want to cut a cow?"

"Because I feel that this place is suitable for grazing." Lizi said with a smile, and took out a pair of small scissors and a piece of white paper from her small satchel.Soon, a small white cow was cut out.With a breath, the white bull puffed up with a "pop".

Lizi put the little white cow on the ground, and the little white cow immediately ran away with flowers.

"Grow bigger, then," she said softly.

The running little white cow paused for a moment, and suddenly doubled in size.

"No matter how big it is."

The little white bull jumped up again, and now it is the same size as an ordinary cow.

"Is it okay?" Sunny asked.

"Yes," Lizi cast her eyes on the little white cow, "make it twice as big."

The body of the little white cow "clicks" most like it has skeletal muscles inside, and it expands twice as much as a steamed bun.It's like a big monster.

"Can I?" Qingming said curiously, but the big white cow didn't respond at all.

"It's not the same as turning flat paper-cut drums into drums," Qingming said. "It seems that only you can do this. Make it bigger and see how big it is?"

Lizi nodded, and kept ordering the white cow to grow bigger.The white bull swelled up, just like seeing the wind grow.By the time Lizi needed to look up at it, its legs were already two meters high.

"It's amazing." A girl's exclamation came from the air.

"Who?" Qingming lowered his face, and released a spell like lightning, and a small tornado blew in the wilderness, rolling straight ten meters ahead.

"Ah, this one is really powerful too. Senior Zhenwu, I can't hold on anymore, so I'll go out first." Following the girl's voice, a slender figure was exposed in the air.

The girl in the khaki safari had a pretty face, with two pigtails tied on top of her head, and the rest of her hair was loosely draped over her shoulders.

A deep male voice came from beside her, "I really can't do anything about you." Then a tall figure appeared in the air.

The man was thin and tall, with a pointed face and surprisingly small eyes with only one slit.It was doubtful whether he had opened his eyes.

The girl is a little short, reaching only to the chest of the man named Shingo. They both wear the same hunting clothes, and each has three patterns representing the level of Onmyoji on the chest.

It is a high-ranking onmyoji, Lizi is a little surprised.

"Blast." She said angrily, not wanting those two people to look at her paper-cut.

With a sound of "boom", the two men in the khaki hunting clothes changed their colors at the same time and jumped backwards, while a tall earthen wall blocked them in front of them.At the same time, the paper cow exploded into pieces, fell like fireworks and was quickly blown away by the wind.

"It's amazing." The girl propped her hands on the earth wall and jumped up to sit down, her legs dangling. "Are you Kamoliu's onmyoji? Sure enough, it's Heianjing. This is the first time I've seen such a secret technique."

Because it was a day off, Riko was misunderstood by the other party because she was wearing ordinary clothes.

"It's not an onmyoji, it's a witch." She said flatly.

"Miko?" This time even Shingo Inoue was surprised, his slender eyes widened into the size of almonds.

"Just the witch is already so powerful?" The girl gasped, "Oh my god, what kind of monster is Heian Kyoto. Senior Shingo, let's go back quickly."

"Are you Tosa's onmyoji?" Seimei asked.

"That's right. My name is Katori Yuzuki, and his name is Inoue Shingo." Katori Yuzuki asked.

"Katori Yuzuki?" Seimei looked at her with a hint of interest, "Is it Tosaryu's genius onmyoji?"

"It's okay," Katori Yuzuki said perfunctorily, keeping his eyes on Riko, "will you participate in this conference?"

"Maybe." Pear said.

"Wow, that's great, we'll have a showdown then." Katori Yuzuki jumped down from the earth wall excitedly, "Then, let's say goodbye first. I won't disturb your trial." After she finished speaking, she jumped from the air disappeared.

"It's always like this," Shingo Inoue said helplessly, "you have to wait for me too?" After saying this, he also disappeared.

"How did they do it? Could it be still in the air?" Lizi took a few steps forward and looked at the place where they had just stood.

"Look at the two small eyes on the ground," Qingming said.

"Small eyes?" Li Zi squatted down, "Really. But, these two small eyes can only enter one finger at most?"

"It's Tosara's secret technique," Seimei said flatly, "it can travel through the ground."

"So that's how it is," Li Zi suddenly realized, "No wonder we didn't see them, isn't this a gopher?"

Seimei chuckled, "Last time, Tosa-ryu met Harima-ryu. Tosa kept burrowing around on the ground. Harima wrestlers were hitting with a sledgehammer. It was really like whack-a-mole."

Lizi imagined it in her mind, and immediately laughed out loud.

"Is that girl named Katori Yuzuki famous?"

"Well, she is the only person in Tosa who was qualified for the middle position at the age of 16. Seeing that she is in a high position today, she should have been admitted recently." Seimei said, "That person named Shingo Inoue is also very good. At thirty, I got the rank of a high-ranking onmyoji. Tosa sent out a great onmyoji this time."

"How old is she now?" Lizi asked.

"It should be."

"Wow, I got a high position. I really can be regarded as a genius onmyoji. But it's still not as good as Master Qingming."

"Why do you say that?" Qingming asked with a smile.

"Because Seimei-sama got a high position at the age of 16."

"It's almost seventeen, after the new year." Qingming was extremely melancholy, it was the age to propose marriage.

Because of Tosarau's interruption, the two of them didn't want to stay here anymore.When Qingming went to call the coachman, Lizi picked a lot of wild flowers on the spot.I have an empty clay pot at home that is perfect for flower arrangements.

When the ox cart drove to the city, I saw many large carriages like Ise Jingu on the road.Some marks are engraved on it.These are onmyojis sent from various places.The Trial Conference held every three years is undoubtedly not the prosperity of Onmyojis.

Riko leaned on the car window and watched, "Apart from Harima-ryu, Tosa-ryu, Hinata-ryu, and Kamo-ryu, are there any onmyoji in the folk?"

"Yes," Qingming followed her gaze, "there are some family-based ones. But because they are not passed on to outsiders, their levels vary."

After returning home, Lizi found the clay pot.Because it has been placed in the corner, it is covered with dust.She took it to the yard to scoop up water to wash it.

The clay pot that had been poured with water revealed its original appearance, a pot-bellied earthy orange pot.She took a closer look inside the flower sockets picked in the wild.

"You are so beautiful. Look, isn't it the same as before? You used to be dirty, but now you look like a noble lady. From now on, I will call you Takako." She said to herself, while putting the pot on the low cabinet top.

At night, just as Lizi fell asleep in a daze, she heard rustling sounds from outside.It sounded like a mouse gnawing on something.

She woke up suddenly, took out a piece of paper from under the pillow, cut out a cat in front of the moonlight and played drums.The white cat was very eye-catching in the night, and she suddenly realized that she should buy some black paper.It is too obvious to use white paper at night.

Let go of your hand, and the white cat sprang out immediately.Two seconds later, a woman whispered from outside, "What the hell?"

Lizi jumped out holding the talisman paper, and saw the white cat biting the woman.The woman looked very old and was wearing a kimono of earthy orange.Seeing the pear, she was startled and quickly disappeared from the air.

Lizi lifted the wooden cover from the paper light bulb, and the outside room was brightened immediately.Where the woman was standing just now, there were cake crumbs scattered all over the place.That was the wagashi she hadn't finished eating during the day.I kept it on the cabinet all the time, but I didn't expect it to be stolen.But how could anyone come in?

"What's the matter?" Qingming came in from the outside in white pajamas, and was slightly startled when he saw the mess on the ground, "I was about to fall asleep and heard the mess here, what happened?"

Lizi told him what she saw just now, "That old lady disappeared there." She pointed to the wagashi box.

Seimei picked up the talisman paper scattered on the side and wrote a few "shua shua" strokes, and threw it on the wagashi.The spell turned into a gleam of light, and the phantom of ripples suddenly appeared in the air.

Qingming frowned slightly, "That old lady is not here."

"Did you escape?"

"Maybe. It's very strange. There is a battle in the front yard. It is reasonable to say that no monsters will come in. Unless it is a big monster. But will the big monster come to steal the residue?"

"What's the reason?" Pear asked.

"I don't know. Let's see if she will come again." Qingming said.He turned to the girl who was standing by the door and said, "Well, it's time to share a room temporarily again. Just in case..."

"Can't Suzaku come with me?" Lizi asked.

"No, she's going to sweep the floor all night. Are you going to sweep the floor all night?" Qingming turned to Suzaku who came to see what happened because of the lights.

Unable to disobey the master's order, Shikigami nodded, "Yes, I want to sweep the floor overnight."

pear:"……"

Because there was one more person beside her, Lizi couldn't fall asleep even after tossing and turning.

Qingming turned sideways and looked at her sideways with one hand propped up, "This time, instead of frying fish, fry rice cakes instead?"

Lizi was slightly taken aback, she was wrapped in a white quilt, wasn't she just fried rice cakes?

It was probably because Qingming stayed here, and it was a peaceful night.

Waking up in the morning, Li Zi felt very cold, turned over in a daze, and her head directly touched the straw mat of the tatami.When she opened her eyes, Seimei snatched her pillow and her quilt.

I knew it was like this, no wonder she felt very cold.

Teng Snake in the yard glanced at the window, and said to Suzaku, who was carrying a broom behind him, sweeping nothing to sweep away, "My lord is doing nothing special again."

Suzaku: "..."

Teng She sighed, "Your Excellency is still the same, as long as you like it, you will never let it go."

Because Qingming got a high position in the exam, he didn't have to go to He Maozhong's master to learn Yin Yang art.After the Onmyoji reaches a high position, it is the stage of self-exploration.He just needs to wait for the spring, when Yinyangliao reorganizes its personnel to report.

So after breakfast, Lizi took a look at Seimei, who was sitting on the porch drinking tea and reading a book. She had already entered retirement, and picked up her satchel enviously.Continue to open a new day to sell yushou.

In the evening, Li Zi cleaned up the stall.Although it is covered by the grass shed, it is still quite hot to stand outside for a day.The God Lord said that this is the last struggle in autumn, and it will be fine in winter.

Pears mean that winter is worse, and winter is too cold.The Almighty comforted her, and in winter she would not be allowed to sell yushou.

"Give me a guardian who attracts wealth and wealth." A clear voice sounded above her head, she raised her face in surprise, Seimei's smiling face was reflected in her pupils.

"Why is Master Qingming here? I'm going to close the stall and go home soon."

"Let's go back together." Qingming said.He saw that Lizi put all the remaining guards into a small bamboo basket, he reached for the bamboo basket, picked up the low table again, "Let's go."

Seeing that there was no work left, Lizi immediately followed him happily.First go and send things back to the shrine, and then go home by bullock cart.

On the way, Qingming asked the driver to stop at the entrance of the wagashi shop, and went in to buy the same wagashi as yesterday.

"Master Qingming is going to use this to catch yesterday's old lady?" Lizi asked.

"Yes, I think that woman is very strange. Her breath doesn't smell at all, and she looks like she has been in our house for a long time. I suspect that something in the house has become sperm."

Qingming still stayed in the pear room at night.But the difference is that he didn't sleep.Instead, he sat against the wall and waited.Lizi simply sat against the wall, and the two quietly waited for the old lady to arrive.

At about the same time as yesterday, another rustling sound came from outside.

Qingming immediately formed a mudra with one hand, and a web of light and shadow passed through the wall in an instant.There was a crackling sound from outside.Lizi opened the door and saw an old woman curled up under the net.But before she could take a closer look, the old woman disappeared again.

"It's really strange," Qingming's voice came from beside him, "How can there be monsters that can escape the demon trap?"

Pear walked to the net, and the crumbs of the eaten cakes were scattered on the ground.Qingming removed the demon-catching net and began to check outside.

Li Zi's eyes followed him.

"Can you see what color clothes that old lady is wearing?" Qingming asked suddenly.

"I can see clearly," Lizi recalled, "The last time and this time are both earth orange coats."

"Well, it's earthy orange." Qingming looked around the furnishings in the house, walked to the low cabinet and picked up a jar with a big belly.Lizi saw that this was the jar of flowers she picked from the wild last time?Because she forgot after planting and did not water in time, the bouquets are now a little wilted.

Seimei took out the wild flowers.Looking into the light, a smile appeared on his face immediately, "So it's here."

"What?" Lizi hurried over and looked into the bottle.An old woman in a kimono of earthy orange was impressively painted inside the jar. "Hey, how could someone paint inside the jar? Seimei-sama, didn't you see it when you bought this bottle?"

"When I bought it, the jar was empty and there were no paintings." Qingming said with a smile, "This old lady is not a monster in the jar, but the spirit of a person after death is attached to it."

"When did you attach it?" Lizi asked.

"Probably before I bought it." Qingming said, "This jar was bought when my father took me to the street when I was very young. I haven't seen this spirit for so many years. It must have been trapped in it for some reason. in the jar."

"Then why is this spirit awake again?" Lizi asked, "Could it be because of Heguo."

Qingming held the jar and looked at it for a while, "Did you say anything when you cleaned it?"

"Speaking of which, I praised how beautiful it is after washing, like a noble lady. I even named it Takako. It's nothing, I just said it casually."

"Sure enough." Seimei said with a smile, "Because you bathed the pot and planted beautiful flowers in it. Unknowingly, you gave the pot a name and created your own shikigami."

"My shikigami?" Lizi turned pale with shock.

"Well, the teacher once told us that naming a certain artifact is actually putting a shackle on it. If the artifact has a spirit, it will become your shikigami. So onmyojis don't want to invite weird shikigami for themselves God, I'll be extra careful."

"Ah, then me, then what should I do?" Riko said dryly, looking at the jar, "I, I don't want strange shikigami either."

Others write the name of shikigami with blood in the air, and what they attract is a super domineering shikigami like Soaring Snake Suzaku.What she recruited was an old woman who stole wagashi.

"Don't worry, let's ask her." Qingming said.

He patted the jar lightly, "Isn't it coming out yet?"

There was a puff of smoke from the jar, and the old woman came out of the smoke.When she saw Lizi, she immediately knelt down, "Thanks to you, I woke up. Otherwise, I don't know how long I will stay in the jar."

Lizi turned sideways to avoid her kneeling, and asked curiously, "Why are you in the jar?"

"It's a long story," said the old woman. "Anyway, I've been dead for a long time. When I died, I was supposed to go to the Underworld, but my son always wanted me to come back to life. He asked me to hide in a jar and use I found a special way to make the ghosts of Huangquan Kingdom forget about my existence."

"But because he was not very skilled at the time, not only did I not survive, but I was trapped in the jar. And he forgot where he hid me because of the backlash. At the end of the year, he threw the jar away during the cleaning. "

"In this way, I followed the jar to many people's homes. I was filled with many things and sold around. But no one discovered my existence. I was also trapped inside and couldn't get out because of the jar."

"Until the day before yesterday you found the jar out of the corner, cleaned it and gave me a name. Suddenly I was able to come out."

The old woman said with some guilt, "I am so sorry for eating your wagashi. They are pinched so beautifully. I couldn't help it..."

"I see." Lizi pursed her lips and smiled, "Now that you can come out, where are you going?"

"I've been thinking in the jar for many years. I think it's all because I want to escape the punishment of death. I decided to go to Huang Quanguo, so I can die naturally and start a new life naturally."

After the old woman finished speaking, she bowed to Li Zi again and disappeared into the air.

"Hey, no, isn't she my shikigami?" Riko realized later.

Qingming smiled and said, "It seems that not only you forgot, but she also forgot."

"Forget it, it's a good solution." Lizi said generously.

Early the next morning, when Lizi was eating, she heard Suzaku say that there was an old woman and a handsome young man kneeling outside the mansion.

"They insist on coming to see you, should I bring them in?" Suzaku asked.

"It's so strange, isn't it Seimei-sama who wants to see me?" Lizi asked, "I don't know any old women here. Ah, could it be the pot shikigami from yesterday?"

With a hint of interest in Qingming's eyes, he ordered Suzaku to bring him in.

But the people who brought in surprised Li Zi, besides the old lady from yesterday, there was also Shuten Doji, the ghost king of Dajiang Mountain.

The old woman pushed Shuten Doji, "Hurry up."

Shutendouji knelt down in front of Lizi with an extremely aggrieved expression, and handed over a piece of paper with writing on it with both hands.

Riko took it and saw that it said, I, Shuten-douji, Oe-san's Shuten-sama, volunteered to be——'s shikigami.This contract is valid forever.

"What is this?" Lizi asked, pointing to the horizontal bar.

"I don't know your name. If you fill in your own name, I will be your shikigami." Shuten Doji said.

"What's going on here?" Lizi asked the old woman again.

The old woman said with a smile, "Yesterday I found out that I am very happy to be your shikigami. But I will be reincarnated soon and I will not be able to serve you. But fortunately, I still have a son. The so-called mother's debt is repaid. Let Jiu Tun take care of you." Let the filial son be your shikigami."

"Although he is a monster, he is still a half-god. This child was born to me and Ibuki Mountain God. I went to Ibuki Mountain to collect firewood when I was a girl. At night, I dreamed of a handsome boy... Well, anyway, wake up I got pregnant with him. Anyway, he still has a little bit of magic, so it's no problem to be your shikigami."

Lizi glanced at Qingming, seeing him nodding his head gently, she turned to Shuten-douji with a resigned expression, "Would you like it?"

Just as Shuten-douji was about to say that my uncle was unwilling, he caught a glimpse of his mother's ferocious face.He immediately nodded like a quail, "I do."

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