juvenile onmyoji

In the evening, the sunset covered the sky.

As the weather gets warmer, there are more vendors setting up stalls.The air was filled with lively shouts.

Lizi sat in the bullock cart, leaning on the window and looking out.She has always liked Heianjing under the sunset, it is very warm and beautiful.

And dusk has always been a mysterious time.At this time, it is the moment when monsters start to enter and leave the world.Heianjing, where humans and monsters co-exist, is dangerous, but it also has an irresistible charm.

There are more pedestrians on the road, and the ox carts move slowly, which is about the same as people on foot.Suddenly a person wearing women's clothes and dancing with a fan stopped the ox cart.

"Buy some sugar, freshly made sugar. The pine nut candy is sweet and fragrant, the plum candy is sweet and sour, and the sesame crisp is delicious and delicious."

Riko recognizes that this is a sugar seller. Usually, in order to attract people, the sugar seller will dance in women's clothes or play the shamisen.Seeing the candies in his basket, each one exudes an amber luster.Riko thought of Ibaraki's favorite sweets, so she thought about buying some.She stopped the coachman, opened the door and jumped out.

"Should the customer buy directly or try his luck?" the sugar seller asked.

This is also a common method used by vendors to attract customers, throwing gambling tools in exchange for a free chance.But if you lose, the price will be higher than before.

Seeing the sugar seller enthusiastically take out the wooden sign for throwing, she nodded, "Then let's try it once."

There are six wooden signs in total, with butterflies painted on the front and nothing on the back.Judging by the number of butterflies shown on the wooden sign thrown down.

The sugar seller threw it once first, and there was only one butterfly.When Lizi picked up the wooden sign and was about to throw it away, he wiped the sweat from his brow imperceptibly.

The pears were thrown out immediately, and they were two butterflies.

"Ah, that's great, you won." The sugar seller danced happily, and the vendors around showed envious eyes.

"This is your candy, guest." The sugar seller smiled and put the basket on Lizi's hand.

"Hey, why are there so many?" Li Zi opened her eyes wide in surprise, and there was a whole basket of candy.

"Yeah, that's what I sell. I like to sell them by the basket."

Before Lizi could figure out what was going on, the peddlers rushed to surround him, "Guest, take a look at this box of pearl flowers." "Guest, do you like silk?" Wine." "Guest..." "Guest..."

After a trip, Lizi won a box of pearl flowers, a box of wagashi, a box of dolls and beautiful silk.Even if she refused to make the bet, the price quoted by the other party was outrageously low.

"One copper coin, all for you!" "What? You want a copper coin? I can post a copper coin upside down as a guest, take mine." "I will post two coins upside down." "I will post five coins upside down."

Lizi was stunned, when did the people in Heianjing become so rich?Or did prices plummet after a few ordeals?

"I won't buy it, I won't buy it." Seeing more and more peddlers coming up like a snowball, she hurriedly got on the ox cart.

Jiu Tun secretly released the demon power, and the crowded peddlers immediately stepped aside as if they had been scalded.The bullock cart was able to run smoothly.

The peddlers watched the ox cart run away, so they could only stop chasing them unhappy.

Some lamented and stamped their feet, while others elated.People who had just successfully done business with Lizi ran into an alley one after another.Inside stood a tall man with a soft and handsome face.

"My lord, I sold a box of cloth." "My lord, I sold a basket of candies." "My lord..." "My lord..."

"Well, go get the money, it's ten times as much." Yamata smiled and pointed to a short and fat man next to his waist.

The vendors rubbed their eyes, didn't they see someone standing there just now?It doesn't matter, as long as you have money.

After everyone left with a big bag of money, the short and fat man bowed deeply, "Master, if there is nothing else..."

"Well, you go." Yamata said kindly, "Thanks for your hard work."

"No, no, it's my honor to serve you." The short and fat man trembled tremblingly and bowed again before he dared to leave where he was.

The alley became dark and quiet again, as if the sun never shines in.

As soon as Lizi got home and entered the courtyard, Ibaraki handed over a notebook.

"What?" She took it, and saw a few large characters written on it, Ibaraki and Shimizu-sama's daily life.

what?

"Gift." Ibaraki said carelessly, "I asked Seimei to write the words for me, but I drew the pictures inside."

Draw it yourself?Pear opened with a smile, and each page is a stickman-style painting.The paintings are all things they have experienced together.The protagonist is a villain with a knotted head, and a villain with a shawl and a flower in his hair.

There is a story about Jiujiutou and Cape Hair beating a needle girl together; there is a story about Shawlou sending Yajiutou to buy roasted meatballs and wagashi; there is a story about Jiujiutou lying in the dark and weeping; He Shawlfa sneered and looked at the other two stick figures.

"Who are these two stick figures? Why are their mouths and eyes crooked?"

"Genchuha and Ashiya Doman." Ibaraki was a little dissatisfied with Riko's inaccurate recognition of his immortal painting skills.

"Well, it's quite similar." Lizi closed her eyes with a smile, "I like it very much, I'll take a good look at it. I'll put it back in the house first." She walked towards the room while talking.

"Is the gift I gave you your favorite?" Ibaraki asked.

"of course."

"Am I your favorite shikigami?"

"of course."

Ibaraki got the answer he wanted, and very proudly turned around and squinted at Shuten.

"Is it itchy?" Jiu Tun asked slowly.

"How do you know? Ah—my lord, save me."

As soon as Riko put the picture album away, I heard Ibaraki's screams.She ran out quickly, but she didn't even see Ibaraki's shadow.

"What about people?"

"Drag away by Jiu Tun." Qingming raised his head from behind the low table.

"Oh, then don't worry about it." Lizi said with a smile, and sat down opposite Seimei, "I met Tamagohime today, and she came to the shrine to make a wish."

"Make a wish?" Qingming smiled a little, "What do you want? She already has a lot of wealth. I heard that His Majesty likes her the most and always gives her good things."

"I made a wish for beauty and donated a piece of gold."

"Master Ebisu will probably have a headache," Seimei said with a smile, "I can't help people with so much money."

"Xiaoli, is this your thing? I moved it here for you." Suzaku's voice came from behind.

Lizi turned around and walked to the door, and saw things piled up in the courtyard like a hill.These were things she had won or bought from peddlers.

"There are so many, I can open a grocery store." Qingming followed and said with a smile.

"It's very strange to say today." Li Zi frowned, "The vendors are vying to bet against me. If I lose the bet, the other party will sell it to me at a very low price. If I win the bet, the other party will dance and be happy Can't do it. Could it be the new mirror cake?"

Qingming looked at the pile of things and thought for a while, and vaguely guessed in his heart that someone must have done this on purpose.There is only one purpose in doing this, to give things to Xiaoli.Look at these things for girls, especially pearl necklaces. Which peddler will walk around the streets with pearl necklaces for punting, and he is not afraid of being robbed.

Such a special day, very easy to guess.It should be the adult named Shimizu Hayato who came.

"Maybe your birthday is very lucky today." Qingming said with a smile.

"Isn't that great?" Lizi had a troubled look on her face.

Qingming decided to fulfill his brother-in-law's wishes, and he felt that it would not be wrong to invest in such things in advance. "Let me divination for you to see what's going on."

Seimei's divination skills are very famous throughout Heian Kyoto, and Riko immediately sat down with him at the low table.

"Give me your hand."

"Do you want to read your palm?" Lizi stretched out her hand.

Qingming held it in his hand with a serious face, touched it, touched it.

His fingertips were rough, and the hand that touched Lizi was numb and itchy.But with a rigorous expression, he explained a few sentences from time to time, "Look, your lines are a little deeper here, which means you are lucky. A little red here means that you are lucky."

"Isn't it because you rubbed me a little red?" Lizi finally couldn't help questioning.

"Okay, if you don't believe me, I'll try another divination method." Qingming's brows and eyes stretched out, the pretended seriousness faded away, and there was a smile in his eyes.

He took out the sand table and divination for Lizi again, "This river sand is not ordinary river sand, it will change color, and it can measure your fortune today."

"What color river sand is good luck?" Lizi asked.

"No change of color means mediocre luck. The darker the color, the worse the luck. The red color means very good luck."

Seimei asked Lizi to put the hand that was ravaged by him just now on the sand table, "You see, I didn't really want to take advantage of you just now. I was preparing for the following divination. By touching the hands, let me reunite with you." There is a connection between the sand table. It means the fortune teller, the fortune teller, and the fortune teller.”

"So that's the case." Li Zi was a little convinced.

Suzaku, who was standing at the door watching the fun, rolled his eyes, and Master Seimei started again.Isn't that what fortune telling is like?Even deceived.Master Qingming's not telling fortunes on the streets really blinded his talent.

When the river sand on the sand table turned red, Lizi opened her eyes wide in surprise.

"Look, I'm right," Qingming said with a smile, "Your luck is really good today. You deserve all those things. Don't take it burdensome." So saying, the desk The lower legs quietly suppressed the remnants of the spell that had just been released.

Suzaku couldn't bear it anymore, she rushed in, "Xiaoli..."

A flash of light came on, and Suzaku disappeared.

Lizi asked in surprise, "Where's Suzaku?"

Qingming tidied up the sand table slowly, "I probably suddenly remembered something and went to work."

Lizi: "..." Why do you think something is wrong?

In the darkness, Suzaku floated extremely annoyed.

The shikigami next to him asked curiously, "Sister, why did you come in?"

"have a finger in the pie."

"That's not surprising," Shikigami said, "you have to know, the master is the master, and the shikigami is the shikigami. How can we interfere with the master's private life?"

"I said you are meddling in your own business." Suzaku continued to be annoyed.

"Oh."

Qingming didn't keep Suzaku shut for long, and released her after cleaning up the sand table.But despite this, Suzaku did not put shiitake mushrooms or eggs in the birthday noodles that Suzaku served Qingming, not even kombu-boiled soup.It's just a bare bowl of noodles, lumpy and unpalatable.

In the pear noodles, there are shiitake mushrooms with a cross on the surface, eggs, rice cake slices, and surimi-boiled meatballs.

"It's really different." Qingming sighed.

Lizi knew the whole story from Suzaku, and she could only say she deserved the noodles in Qingming's bowl.

Abe Masaki ordered a meal for them from a high-end station.I also gave Lizi a pair of hairpins with beautiful pear blossoms.

After dinner, Lizi and Qingming strolled from the front hall to the backyard.

She didn't speak much all the way, feeling a little depressed.Even Suzaku gave her a tail feather.It is modified by magic, and it will not get angry at ordinary times.But when you need to use it, pull it out and draw a circle, and the tail feathers can be fired.But Seimei didn't move at all.

It's not that she insists on that gift, she's just a little disappointed.

Back in the courtyard, everyone sat in the courtyard chatting and watching the moon.Ibaraki "Gaba Gaba" chewed on the basket of candies that Pear gave him and said, "I also want to celebrate my birthday, but I don't know when I was born."

Li Zi recalled that Ibaraki was abandoned by his family since he was born, and quickly comforted him, "You can choose a day you like, and you will celebrate your birthday on that day from now on."

"On the day when the cherry blossoms are in bloom." Ibaraki said, "I like to sit under the cherry tree and drink with Shuten."

"I like cherry blossoms too," Riko said. "It would be great if the cherry blossoms could never wither. Shuten, when is your birthday?"

"It's not my birthday. This kind of thing is too silly. I don't like it." After finishing speaking, Shuten jumped up to the roof to look at the moon.

"When he said he didn't like it, he meant he liked it." Ibaraki said.

Just chatting like this, it was getting late.Seimei didn't say anything until Lizi went back to her room to sleep.

"I don't like Master Seimei anymore." She muttered softly and pushed open the door of the room.

There was no light in the room, it was very dark.She groped to the lampstand Teng Snake made for the paper light bulb, and took off the lampshade.Paper bulbs immediately emit a soft glow.

From the corner of the eye, I saw a cherry tree in the corner of the room, covered by a semicircular barrier.Very tall, the top almost reaches the ceiling.The branches are covered with layers of flowers, some of which hang down like willows.Covered with petals, elegant and beautiful, with fairy spirit, it is a very beautiful weeping cherry tree with eight red branches.

In later generations, Yae red branch weeping cherry is a rare species.

"Lord Seimei." With a big smile on her face, she opened the side door and called.

The doors of the houses connected by Banqiao soon opened, and the young man in white hunting clothes stood under the moonlight and looked at her with a smile.

"There is an extra cherry tree in my room." Lizi was very happy in her heart, but she wanted to say deliberately, "Did it grow by myself?"

"Well, I grew it myself." Qingming walked over the Banqiao on wooden clogs while talking.

"Did you use yin and yang? It's not the season for cherry blossoms. Is it going to wither in a few days? Don't I need to water it?"

"No need." Qingming leaned against the door frame and looked at the huge cherry tree inside the house, "I walked along the Kamo River for a long time before I found this weeping cherry tree with red branches in the mountains. Finally, I fixed it with yin and yang techniques and gave it Made a small world. It blooms every morning, withers late at night, and blooms again during the day. It’s a small time regression.”

"Master Qingming, your Yin Yang technique has reached this point?" Li Zi was extremely surprised, Qingming had grown so much unknowingly.Going back in time... She thought only her wooden sign could do it.

"It can't be said that it is a complete time regression," Seimei said, "I am currently researching this. The cherry tree can only be regarded as a fragment of time. You really want me to go back to yesterday, but I can't do it."

"This is also very powerful." Li Zi admired.She looked back at the cherry tree, feeling great satisfaction in her heart.You can fall asleep watching the flowers bloom every day.

"Is this a birthday present?" Lizi's eyes were full of bright light.

"No." Seimei said with a smile.

"The real birthday present?"

Qingming supported the door frame with one hand, and quickly pinched her chin with the other hand and kissed her.Then they quickly separated when Jiu Tun's eyes turned to this side.

The young man's eyes shone with light, and he said softly, "It's me."

……

Lizi had a dream, dreaming that she was back in the village of Omi.

She sat by the small river outside the village and ate sweet chestnuts. While eating, she used the chestnut shells to throw small fish in the river, luring them to keep pecking.All around, the branches of sage are bearing so many fruits that they are about to hang down into the river.The sun shone warmly on my body, and I felt very comfortable.

"Chestnut shells are not thrown like this." A voice full of spring breeze sounded from behind.Lizi turned her head to see two men standing behind her.One is wearing a white porcelain mask, and the other has cold eyes. They are about the same height.

When did you come here?

"Who are you?" She stood up and asked, "Passing by?"

"No," the white porcelain masked male voice carried a smile similar to Mu Chunfeng's, "I'll accompany Qing Shui home to see my sister."

"Clear water?" Lizi was slightly taken aback.

"It's your brother, Shimizu Hayato." Bai Ci smiled and said, "Quick, call me brother. Then call me brother too."

The man named Qing Shui glanced at Bai Ci.

"Hayato Shimizu?" Riko continued to repeat, she was a little hard to understand at the moment.The whole person is in a state of confusion.

"Well, are all dreamers this stupid?" Bai Ci asked.

"Do you keep a clear head when you dream?" Shimizu Hayato glanced at Baici unkindly.

"It's good to protect your weaknesses. I just said one thing." Bai Ci complained.

"I remember," Lizi said, "I do have an older brother, but he has disappeared for many years. His Majesty even promised to help me find him."

"Don't look for it, he's here to see you." Bai Ci patted Shimizu Hayato's shoulder lightly, "Call me brother."

Pear's lips moved slightly, but she still didn't cry out.

"I'm going to find grandma." She turned and ran towards the village.

I thought about going home, and after only two steps, home appeared in front of me.She secretly looked back, and the two were still following behind.

"Grandma," she called.

"What's the matter?" Sushi Granny asked from the room.

"This person said he was Hayato Shimizu." She opened the lattice and pushed the door open, revealing the figure of the sushi mother-in-law sitting on the mat and kneading sushi.

"Where is it?" Sushi Granny narrowed her eyes and looked out.

"It's right here, right at the door." Li Zi pointed.

"There is no one at the door." Sushi Granny said doubtfully.

"How could there be no one? There are two of them." Lizi almost poked Baici's face with her hand.

"She can't see us." Bai Ci said.

"Why?" Pear asked.

"Because this is your dream."

"my dream?"

Hayato Shimizu came in and knelt in front of Grandma Sushi, with his head down, tears dripping down the floor.

Lizi was taken aback for a moment, is it really her brother?

"Sorry," said Hayato Shimizu, "I'm late."

Grandma Sushi couldn't see or hear, she kept holding the sushi in her hand and said to Lizi, "Drink water first. Just get home and drink some water to moisten your throat. You don't like drinking water, and neither does your brother. Thanks to your surname Shimizu."

Hayato Shimizu's tears fell even more, "Grandma... I'm sorry... I've gone too far and I can't come back."

Bai Ci sighed and walked to his side, patted his back and said softly, "It's just a dream."

Moisture lightly overflowed from Lizi's eyes.This guy who claims to be Shimizu Hayato reveals a deep sorrow, which makes people feel very sad.

Probably because she didn't want to see such a sad scene, with a thought in her mind, the surrounding scenery changed immediately.Turned into a forest with red leaves.

Hayato Shimizu was still kneeling aside, with his head bowed deeply.

"Little pear." A clear and clear voice of a young man came to mind in the woods.

Following the sound of footsteps, Lizi saw Seimei walking out wearing a light blue hunting suit with a smile.

"Master Qingming." She shouted joyfully and rushed over.Bai Ci's voice came from behind, "Qing Shui, cheer up. That annoying ghost is here again. Ah, really, we won't let us go even in dreams. You cry here, it will be dawn in a while."

Li Zi threw herself in front of Qingming, and just about to speak, the gentle smiling boy in front of her eyes shattered like shards of glass.She panicked and stretched out her hand to grab it, and all the fragments flew up, floating into the blue sky along with the red leaves.

"Master Seimei." She was about to chase in a panic, when Hayato Shimizu's voice came from behind, "It's a fake, don't chase after it."

"Fake?" She turned her head and looked at the young man with wet tears on his face. "Then are you real?" she asked again.

Hayato Shimizu was silent for a while and diverted the conversation, "Did you have a good birthday today?"

Lizi thought of the cherry tree in her room and said with a smile, "Very happy."

Hayato Shimizu's eyes softened, "You, do you want to live with your brother one day?"

"That's it," Lizi thought seriously for a while, and felt that it was not impossible.In fact, she was quite envious of Yuan Chuyue having an older brother.Although two people sometimes quarrel.

"Can you take Master Seimei with you?" She asked cautiously.

Hayato Shimizu's face darkened, hesitating for a few seconds, and said reluctantly, "Let's see how he behaves."

"When are you coming to pick me up?" Lizi kind of accepted that he was Hayato Shimizu.

Hayato Shimizu was silent for a while, "I have to wait a little longer, I am trapped in a place and cannot get out. I will come to pick you up when I find a way to get out."

"I really want you to go out too," complained Baici behind him, "as if I wanted to. Since you came, I haven't eaten what I want. You squeeze me when it's time to eat." side."

"You always eat meat, and you don't eat any vegetables." Hayato Shimizu turned his head and said.

"It's so strange. Snakes eat vegetables. Have you ever seen anything like this? You also give the snake miso soup."

"Okay, shut up, don't talk too much even if it's a dream."

"Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee."

Hayato Shimizu cast his eyes on Lizi's face again, and said in a gentle voice, "I'm leaving. I can't come again for a short time. I have to do some things to keep my life alive. I saw you this time to celebrate your birthday. I'm not A qualified brother. If possible, I hope to compensate you in the future."

"Life?" Riko asked suspiciously, and Hayato Shimizu raised his hand to stroke her hair reflected in her pupils.She waited quietly, but Shimizu Hayato still did not do so.

"That's it, I'm leaving." Shimizu Hayato said gently.

Bai Ci waited for him with arms folded, and the two of them walked side by side toward the depths of the maple forest.

Lizi watched their backs disappear.

In the maple forest, only the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves and the chirping of insects remained.

The next day, she woke up thinking about the dream and went outside.

After Qingming heard the footsteps, she raised her face and looked at her with a smile as usual, "It looks like you slept well. Did you have any good dreams?"

Lizi walked up to him and sat down, propped her cheek with one hand and said, "I dreamed about my brother last night."

After a slight start, Qingming said gently, "That's it, what a dream."