juvenile onmyoji

On the eve of the new year, the four shikigami rushed back.They found more than 50 Inari shrines that still have torii gates.The writing on it was rubbed out.

I looked at the pears one by one, and there were more than 40 copies that only said Qingshui pear flower seeds.There are twelve more words on each of them.

Don't go to Huang, come back, I was wrong, why is it still like this, think about it, don't stop, Xiu, Gao, Huibi, Qiji, Benpingling, Omi looking for.

"Many of these extra characters are far away from your name. Many characters are missing in the middle." Shuten said, "What makes me care is who would engrave characters like this? The vacant positions of these characters are very smooth, There are no traces of erasure. It can be seen that after the engraving of your name, the person who engraved it carved a few words at a far or near position."

"Maybe it wasn't carved by one person?" Ibaraki thought divergently.

"It was engraved by one person." Lizi compared all the rubbings together, "Although these characters are blurred by the four seasons, many places cannot be seen clearly. But even though there is a distance between these characters, they are all on one line. Same size."

"That's true," Ibaraki picked it up, scanning his eyes back and forth, "Who wrote so many Lord Shimizu's names on the torii of Inari God? What do these extra words mean?"

"I think Ebi means Ebisu," Riko said.

"Everyone knows that." Ibaraki twitched his lips.

"This Omi is looking for, is he going to Omi to find something?" Lizi ignored him and analyzed on her own, "Is it possible that my brother wrote it after he learned that I was in Omi?"

"This rubbing looks like it's weathered, and it's older than you, Shimizu-sama." Ibaraki continued to twitch his lips.

"Speaking of which, I have something I want to ask you." Riko put the rubbing on the table, raised her face to look at the face of Shikigami who found fault, "How many strange things have you done pretending to be me? Seimei The adults said you pretended to be me and asked him to peel ten oranges for you to eat."

"Eh?" Ibaraki's pupils shrank, and he immediately changed his words, "As expected of Shimizu-sama, you can tell at a glance the meaning of Ebisu's words that are so difficult to understand. Ah, this Omi was written by Shimizu-sama's elder brother at first glance. How could it be possible to go through wind and frost, it was written recently."

Jiu Tun next to him snorted slightly, strangled Ibaraki's neck with one hand and dragged, "I see. No wonder Shimizu-sama would suddenly act coquettishly and ask me to peel an orange for her to eat. I thought it was very strange."

"Hey, so I also peeled oranges for Xiaoli." Suzaku opened her eyes in surprise.

"Me too." Teng Snake said sullenly.

"Ah, let me go, talk well." Ibaraki who was dragged away cried out.

Lizi covered her face with rubbings. How many oranges did this guy eat with her face?

Qingming didn't speak the whole time, her face was solemn and ugly.

When Lizi put down the rubbing, she saw his gloomy face, and she couldn't help asking, "Master Qingming, did you see something?"

Qingming lowered her eyes, "Suzaku and Teng Snake move away, help me guard the courtyard, and don't let anyone in."

Suzaku and Teng Snake rarely heard such serious orders from Qingming, the young master wanted to be relaxed and calm.If you are serious about something, then it will be very important.

They bowed slightly, exited and closed the sliding door.

Lizi looked at Qingming, waiting for him to speak.

Qingming pushed a small wooden board in front of her, with Qingshui Lihuazi's name engraved on it.

"This is..." Lizi frowned slightly, and couldn't help looking at rubbings, they looked exactly the same.

"I never thought of trying to engrave myself." Qingming said softly, "The handwriting that I wrote was different from the one that was engraved. So I never thought about myself."

"It's not that Qingming-sama doesn't think so, yes, it's impossible." Lizi said, "These words have existed for a long time. Qingming-sama only met me this year. How could you engrave my name?"

"What if this was carved by me before?"

"Before?" Lizi didn't understand even more, "You were very small before."

"Back in time." Qingming said in an emotionless voice, "Have you forgotten? Your wooden sign has the power to go back in time. I think something must have happened in the future to bring time back to the present. Qingtian doll will tell you However, not everything can be smoothed by time, and some profound things will leave imprints."

"This explains why these handwritings are intermittent except for your name. Because only your name is the most profound to me in the future. I have been thinking about who carved these. Is it a warning. That person is actually me, right?"

Lizi felt that she had stopped breathing for a while.She listened almost still to Seimei's analysis.

"I think, I think it's impossible." She shook her head, "It's unbelievable."

"Unbelievable?" Qingming smiled slightly, "Have you experienced unimaginable things?"

Pear choked immediately.Yes, isn't it rare for her to experience unimaginable things?Isn't time-traveling the greatest inconceivable thing?

"Besides," Qingming picked out the seven rubbings, "Since you think about it so boldly, why not exaggerate it. Seven times, does it mean that time has gone back seven times?"

"Backtrack seven times?" Lizi felt that she couldn't keep up with Qingming's train of thought, "Why did you have to go back so many times?"

"Because of failing again and again." Seimei said softly.

"I can not understand."

"You can't understand because this choice is not made by you. If it were me, it would be easy to understand. Almost every step seems to be something I can make. Maybe, what result will I want to change in the future? .But every time the results are unsatisfactory. So I choose to keep going back and try to leave a warning.”

"So, that's why your name is on the torii of Inari God. Inari God means a lot to me. I think, in the future, I should know that I will definitely investigate the cause of my mother's death. So Write it there and hope I can find it."

Lizi blinked her eyelashes lightly, "Master Qingming, you are so good at explaining, I will be convinced by you."

Seimei smiled lightly, "I would rather my explanation was wrong. It sounds like going back to what I have to do seven times is unbearable."

"What could it be?" Lizi was a little uneasy, "The thing you said is the most puzzling to me, Ben Pingling, isn't that something I have? Why would Master Seimei use it to go back in time? ?”

Qingming was silent for a while, "This is what disturbs me the most."

Riko looked at Ben Pingling written on the rubbing.If Seimei-sama's guess is correct.What is it that he wants to go back in time to change?Has she returned to modern times, or... is she dead?

Qingming singled out a few rubbings, "Come back, I was wrong, why is it still like this, think about it. Do these few sentences sound like what I said to myself? No matter how many times I try, the result is the same .”

Lizi shook her head, and said honestly, "Master Qingming, I don't know."

Qingming nodded, resting his chin with one hand, and sighed softly, "Let me think about it." He arranged the rubbings neatly, "There are only so few words. If you know where you made a mistake a few times before Alright. I'd really like to see what happened to those seven times."

Lizi also looked at the rubbings with her chin on her hands, "Master Qingming, could it be that we are overthinking it?"

"It's also possible." Seimei said.

They were silent for a while, and Ibaraki's voice came from outside the courtyard.Qingming put the rubbings into a small box, stretched out her hand and rubbed Lizi's head, "Don't worry about this, maybe I'm overthinking it."

Lizi nodded, full of doubts in her heart.If, as Qingming said, the time has been reset seven times, then is it necessary for her to fill in the wooden sign?The consequences that sound bad are due to her.Thinking about it this way, it’s not good anyway, so it’s better not to work hard.

Or maybe she really returned to modern times in the future.The wooden sign was left behind, Master Qingming tried to get her back by reshaping time?Hey, why does it sound a little bit pleasing?

Lizi opened the door and it was already dark.The paper light bulbs in the courtyard were hung on the treetops and were blown by the wind.The images of the lights in the entire courtyard are mottled fish scales, shaking and shaking.

Suzaku waited there for a long time with the food box in hand, and stopped Jiu Tun and Ibaraki outside by the way.Seeing Lizi open the door, she immediately knew that they had finished talking.Go into the house and put the rice cloth on before going back down again.

Dinner is a small Japanese hot pot.Brass cauldrons sit on small red clay stoves.The broth made from kombu is light green in color.Inside are shiitake mushrooms with a cross on the surface, slippery fish fillets, white radish slices, winter bamboo shoots and taro.

The sauce is made of raw eggs, sugar and soy sauce, which is fresh and sweet.

After eating the sticky rice cooked by the maid for several days, and suddenly eating the fairy rice cooked by Suzaku, Lizi suddenly felt that it was acceptable to go back in time seven times.

After eating, Qingming took out the rubbings again.Li Zi sat next to him and followed his gaze to Ruo Pian, lazily in a daze.

"Master Shimizu, are you thinking about rubbings?" Ibaraki, who was sitting by the screen warming himself by the fire, turned around and asked.

"Yeah, I'm thinking about it very seriously." Lizi babbled.She almost fell asleep just now.Leaning comfortably on the cushion, Seimei and Shikigami are beside her.The warmth of the room was in stark contrast to the howling wind outside.A sense of security and satisfaction wrapped her tightly.

Ibaraki smiled, "But I see you are almost asleep."

The corners of Qingming's mouth slightly raised, and he glanced at her sideways.

Li Zi simply stretched her waist, "Don't tell me if you see through it. If Lord Qingming did it all by herself several times, it would be useless for me to think about it." The writing left is to remind Qingming not to make mistakes, not to remind her.

"Huh?" Izuku looked puzzled.He didn't hear the cause and effect, so he didn't understand Lizi's words.

"Speaking of which, how did Shuten deal with you just now? Tell everyone about it to make everyone happy." Lizi said.

Immediately, Ibaraki felt some skin pain, and subconsciously glanced at the ceiling.Jiu Tun is sitting on the roof drinking at this moment, and he doesn't know if he will be heard if he speaks ill of him.

"He made me..." Just as Ibaraki said these words, the voice of Jiu Tun came from above his head.

"Come out for a drink."

"Hey, here we come." Immediately, Ibaraki cheered up, picked up his fur coat, opened the door and ran out.

"What happened to him?" Lizi frowned.

"Probably a solid beating." Qingming said casually.He put the rubbings together, put them in the box and covered them, and glanced at the incense carvings on the table, "Go to sleep, you have to go to the shrine tomorrow."

"Speaking of the shrine, there is still the word Ebisu on the rubbings," Lizi stood up and said, "Does this mean that I should go to the Ebisu Shrine, or not?"

Qingming frowned slightly, "I don't know either. Maybe we have changed something, maybe we haven't changed anything. Maybe I guessed wrong, it's all possible."

Lizi said with great interest, "I once heard that there is a kind of life in the world that repeats itself like an endless loop. In fact, the way to end everything is in the hands of Seimei-sama. If you don't go back in time, you can end it." .”

Qingming looked at her seriously, "If the bad result is that you die, I can't end it. Even if I know that I will go back a thousand times, I will do it. Because as long as you succeed once, you will be fine. gone."

Lizi's heart trembled slightly, as if being brushed by a soft feather.Just thinking that she might have repeated the same life seven times before, she already felt tired.Qingming was willing to repeat it a thousand times just so that nothing would happen to her.

"Seimei-sama..."

"Do you feel that you can't repay my kindness?" Qingming put her hands on top of her head with a smile, and looked down at her slightly.

Lizi: "..." As soon as she heard this tune, she immediately felt that no amount of kindness would be of use.

"Actually, it's very easy to repay me."

"I don't want to pay it back. It's not settled yet, Master Seimei wants to ask for a reward from me."

Seimei smiled lightly and picked up the box containing the rubbings, and decided to go back to the room to have a look again, "I really want to see Yamata no Orochi soon, I always feel like I can learn something from him."

"I think Yamata no Orochi also wants to see Seimei-sama," Lizi couldn't help but smiled and said, "After all, the rumors about the son of the white fox don't care about any harm to you except for the blood being splashed on your doorstep. He It must be pretty pissing."

"Speaking of which, I think the dogs in Heian-kyo really want to see Yamata no Orochi," Seimei said.

……

"Misuko, are you okay there? Is it cold? I asked my servant to make rice cakes and bake them for you. Eat more, so you can resist the cold of Huangquan." Kane Fujiwara sat cross-legged Before the painting, I held a moonlight cup and drank while talking.

"As promised, I am the only one with gray hair now. Look at you, you are still so good-looking."

The woman in the painting looks to be in her 20s, with beautiful red lips and bright teeth.This is Fujiwara Kane's wife Mimoko.The person who grew up under his careful care and finally married him.

Fujiwara Kane recalled the scene of the two childhood sweethearts.Misuko smiled and asked him for sweets, the two of them sneaked out at night to enjoy the cherry blossoms, and the happiness of their wedding night, his eyes gradually ached.

He has a deep relationship with his wife, and when his wife died of illness, he almost left with her.If he hadn't heard the cry of the child, he wouldn't have the strength to live on.

"The children have also grown up. They will be able to start a family in a few years. When the political affairs are not busy, I will stay with you at home every day. You wait for me for a few more years. I will go to accompany you." Fujiwara Kane said in a low voice.For him, neither family nor official career can compare to Mitoko's smiling face.

"Perhaps Master Jianjia can see his wife without dying." A brisk voice sounded from the corner.

Fujiwara Kane's hand that clenched the moonlight cup was bloodless, as white as a piece of paper.

The silence of midnight filled the surroundings.Because it is too quiet, people feel the heavy air.

As the Minister of the Taizheng and the person in charge of the key to the Heian capital formation, he is no stranger to evil spirits.He knew that something indescribable was near.But his home is full of enchantments.

Kane Fujiwara slowly stood up, "Who is your Excellency? What does that sentence mean?"

"Master Kane doesn't have to care about my name. Just know that I can bring Mimoko back and be a human again."

"Bring it back?" Fujiwara Kane sneered, "It's very unnecessary. I have an appointment with my wife, and I will naturally go to see her when the children are arranged."

"I'm afraid Madam won't be in Huangquan by then." The voice said with a chuckle.

Kane Fujiwara narrowed his eyes and stared at the source of the voice, "Please explain more clearly, Your Excellency."

"Master Jianjia's wife is about to be reincarnated soon. But because the lord is too evil, the wife is also implicated and may fall into a beast. The way of life."

Fujiwara Kane's body shook violently, and he asked in a trembling voice, "Why should I trust you?"

"That's it." The owner of the voice seemed a little tired, "It's really impossible to cooperate with suspicious people. Do you think so, my friend."

"What are you talking about so much? Just occupy his body." A completely different voice sounded in the darkness.Compared with the previous spring-like voice, this one is simply a cold iceberg.

"That won't work, how can we treat our friend Fujiwara Kane like this? But if you want to do that, how about..."

"Wait, wait..." Fujiwara Kane's pupils constricted suddenly, feeling his body being entangled by a wave of malice.The power of this evil thing is much greater than what he has seen before.If you don't agree, your body will be taken away.If you agree, Misuko may come back.

"What, do you want to change your mind?" The brisk voice appeared again.

"what do you want?"

"I want my lord to open the big formation of Heianjing for me."

"Impossible." Fujiwara Kane categorically refused.

"Open it, and the adult's wife will benefit from it and return to the adult. If I don't open it, I can't send her back. Then I can only let the wife be a dog or a cat to accompany the adult in the next life."

"Don't..." Kane Fujiwara glanced at Misuko's portrait, how could such a beautiful woman be a plaything?

"However, I opened the big formation for you, and I can't escape punishment."

"It's very simple," the voice said with a smile, "I will find you a good substitute before you open the big formation. Tomorrow, you will annoy the Emperor for a small matter in the main hall. Give it to another person. I will confuse his mind and make him mistakenly think that it has not been opened when he checks the big formation. Then it will not be your responsibility after the incident.”

"You won't lie to me?"

"Of course, how could I lie to you? We are good friends." The voice is kind and friendly, like a close friend.

Fujiwara Kane lowered his eyes, cold sweat dripped from his forehead and dripped onto the smooth wooden floor.Every drop is his shattered self-confidence.

In the end, he still agreed.

"Then, that's it, I'll come back to you tomorrow." The monster stared at Fujiwara Kane, laughed softly and disappeared into the darkness like that.

The curved barrier slowly returned to its original shape.

The evil spirit completely disappeared.Fujiwara Kane obviously felt that his tense nerves were broken like strings.

Holding the moonlight cup in his hand, he collapsed to the ground like that.

Just above the roof of his house, a tall man stood there.The night wind blew his robe violently, and a spring-like smile appeared on his soft and beautiful face, "Fortunately, he believed it. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to open the big formation. The most important thing to open a big formation is the cooperation of human spirit." One, willingly. Simply controlling the body will be recognized by the Dazheng."

The spring-like expression suddenly disappeared, and the man's face changed into an indifferent expression, "Go and have a look on Tsuchimikado Avenue, Yamata."

"Ah, do you want to see my sister?" Yamata said with a smile, "Yes, it's not easy for us to come here. It's a pity that you didn't bring anything. Shimizu, do you always come to the house empty-handed?"

"Need to bring something?" There was a hint of hesitation in Hayato Shimizu's voice.

"You have to bring it. If one day she knows your existence and complains that you never go to see her. You say, I saw you. Then point to the things on the cabinet and say, look, that and that and so many are me It’s a gift.” Yamata said with a smile, “Let’s go buy something that the little girl likes.”

……

A little light came in through the closed latticed windows.The light is not dazzling, but it still wakes up the sleeping person when it shines on the eyelids.

Lizi slowly opened her sleepy eyes.

"It's already dawn." She muttered and sat up, rubbing her eyes with the back of her hand.

She casually picked up a hairpin to pin up her long black hair, put on her robe, and walked out of the room with a small basin for washing.red.She could not help shivering as she was only on the wooden corridor with her bare feet.

It's really cold in December.

The toe suddenly kicked something down, making a gurgling sound.

She lowered her head, and a pair of snake dolls made of cloth were reflected in her pupils.There are also half-person-high white porcelain firing decorations.A snake doll is placed behind the stove made of white porcelain, as if preparing to cook.The other one was placed on the white porcelain roof, and it looked at her with a smile on it.

The one she kicked down was a white porcelain water tank, which was also used as a pretend house.

what the hell?

The sound of opening the door came from the next room, Qingming came out, and was slightly surprised when he saw the girl standing in the corridor, "You got up so early?"

"Master Seimei, something strange appeared at the door of my room." Lizi turned her head and said.

"Strange thing?" Qingming walked over quickly, but was also stunned when he saw Baby Snake playing house.

"Alcohol." He called.

"What's the matter?" Shuten jumped off the roof.

"Who put this thing here?" Qingming asked.

"Huh," Jiu Tun's eyes widened slightly, "No one came in. I was on the roof all night. This thing... Master Shimizu put it on by himself? It looks like a little girl's thing."

"How could I buy such an ugly thing?" Lizi crossed her arms.

"What's the matter?"

Qingming asked everyone in the family, even her own father.The conclusion reached was that no one had seen this thing.

"That's really weird." Lizi watched Qingming seal Baici's house and snake into a big box.

"This kind of thing is very special at first glance. If it is purchased by Heianjing, it is easy to find out. I have already sent Teng Snake to go." Seimei said.

"Then leave it to Seimei-sama." Rika picked up her satchel with a smile and walked outside the courtyard with Shutenchao, preparing to make an ox cart to the shrine.

"Speaking of which, what did you do to Ibaraki yesterday?" She asked curiously.

Jiuten lazily pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled, "It's nothing. Doesn't he like to dress up as a woman? I asked him to dance while wearing an oiran's clothes, and at the same time said that I would never dare again, Mr. Jiuten. Finally, I warned him that if the skin in the future If you feel itchy, just say it directly, and I will definitely fulfill him."

Lizi pursed her lips and smiled, "No wonder he looks so angry."

The two walked from the back hall to the front hall.Suzaku is setting mirror cakes there.

This is an offering to the gods at home during the Chinese New Year.Because it imitates the cake made of bronze mirror, it is called mirror cake.Put it on a plate and build it into a pagoda shape.At the end of the New Year, it was smashed and made into soup for the whole family to drink.

Although there is still tomorrow is the New Year, but the mirror cake must be placed in advance to be auspicious.

Lizi glanced at the spectacle cake, and couldn't help but stop, "This year's mirror cake is so beautiful, so smooth, and it's still red. I remember it was white before."

"That's right," Suzaku raised his head. "The hawker who sells mirror cakes said that this is a new product this year. The people in Heian-kyo are rushing to buy this red mirror cake."

"I don't know how it tastes?"

"I heard it smells like cherry blossoms."

Lizi nodded, and continued to walk outside.

Jiu Tun frowned slightly, "That mirror cake has a very faint smell of blood. You can't smell it, but as a monster, I can smell it very clearly."

"It's not mirror cake. Maybe Suzaku cut her hand accidentally." Lizi said indifferently.

"All in all, it's best not to eat the soup made from crushed mirror cakes that day." Shuten still said hesitantly.

The two walked out of the house and got into the bullock cart while talking.

The bullock carts ran steadily all the way, and the Yebisu Shrine built on Sanjo Avenue was as lively as ever.But if you look closely, it is not the shrine that is bustling, but the small stalls selling mirror cakes around it.

The people rushed to buy it, and they couldn't help admiring, "It's so beautiful, the red mirror cake."