juvenile onmyoji

"Where's Yuziji?" Lizi looked around, "Wouldn't it have been blown away just now?"

"Here." Big Tengu pointed to a small pile of paper covered by shredded paper beside him.A woman's long black hair was exposed there.

It won't really be bombed out.

While trembling, Lizi pulled the paper, praying that there would be no more than a handful of long hair left.

The paper was pulled away, revealing Yuziji's face, neck, and body.It was a face Riko had seen before, the original face of Tamagohime.

Although a bit fleshy, but very friendly face.Her body also returned to normal.Although the body did not leave traces, but the memory will let her remember what happened forever.

Lizi breathed her breath to confirm that she was still alive, then took off her coat and put it on her body.On the side, Seimei and Daitengu, one looked up at the tree, and the other became very interested in flowers and plants.

"Lord Seimei, after she returns, will the emperor silence us because we know she has eaten people? After all, this is an ugly scandal."

Seimei didn't answer her, but looked behind her with a slight frown.

She turned her head and saw Ebisu the Great God standing beside her, wearing a brown hunting suit and a tall hat, looking at her with his arms around his arms.

"If I send her back, that kind of thing won't happen." Master Ebisu said gently.

"Master Ebisu?" Lizi stood up in surprise and bowed, "Why did you come here?"

"Come and do what I should do." Ebisu said gently, "You listened to my analysis and came to the dreamland to find the shrine and Yuziji. Then I should solve the troubles caused by it. "

"Do you also think that sending Tamagohime back, the emperor will definitely silence us in order to cover up the scandal of the royal family?" Lizi asked.

"I don't think so, but I definitely will." Ebisu said, with a little sigh in his voice, "Even if this little girl is a princess, she will be treated as a shameful existence and killed."

"The royal family has no family ties, let alone you who have witnessed the scandal of the royal family. After you send her back, the queen will keep you in the palace under the pretext of asking, and then give you poisoned wine."

"Abe Seimei escaped by relying on the powerful yin and yang technique. But the emperor will issue a secret order saying that you and the shrine are all in the same group. He also has a background as a son of a white fox, and soon the people's words will turn against the royal family."

"Think that the royal family is a victim. Even though he has powerful onmyoji and is protected by shikigami, it is still difficult to escape the hunting order of the onmyoji, and even the onmyoji all over the world."

Ebisu spoke slowly, and the conjecture was as shocking as it had happened in his mouth.The more Lizi listened to it, the more frightened she became, and she had to admit that if they sent Yuziji back, it would almost be the end like this.

Seimei-sama started time retrospective again.

Huh?Her heart moved slightly.

"Since this incident originated from me, let me stop it this time." Ebisu said.He raised his hand, and a halo enveloped him and Yuziji.As the halo glowed softly, Ebisu and Tamagohime disappeared into the light together.

"Is that Ebisu who is in charge of wealth and fishery?" Daitengu said in surprise.

"Yeah." Riko nodded, still a bit hard to accept Ebisu's sudden appearance and what he said.

"Let's get out of here too." Seimei said.He patted Lizi on the shoulder, "Leave here and talk about other things."

"Are you leaving?" Big Tengu asked hesitantly.

"Do you want to stay here?" Li Zi smiled, "This is a dreamland, not the real Heian-kyo. Our temporary contract has been terminated, and you can go home without any worries."

The big tengu gave her a temporary contract, and she must often be unable to sleep at night.After all, even if it is a temporary contract, he is still her shikigami when using it.If she decides to lock him up in a small dark room.That is also impossible.

"Master Shimizu, thank you for calling me here." The boy with the round fan came over and knelt in front of her.

"Hey," Lizi turned sideways in surprise, "You helped me a lot, the contract has been terminated, you don't have to."

"No," Daitengu said with his face up, "thank you for calling me here and letting me see your secret technique."

"Even if my secret technique is amazing, it's not possible for you to give such a big gift." Lizi said puzzled.

Big Tengu glanced at Seimei, seeming a bit scrupulous.

"It's good to talk about pulling Dao's enchantment." Qingming said lightly.

A light blue enchantment covered them, with feather-like things faintly flowing on it.

"Now we can talk." Lizi looked at the big tengu who was still kneeling on the ground.

Big Tengu raised his head, "Since I was born, there was a wooden board in my home. It recorded the occupations my ancestors engaged in. Everyone must live according to the plan on the board. Whenever a new life is born, that board will be There will be one more profession. And mine is Shikigami."

"When I put my hand on my name, my eyes will see a lock. It has five tadpole-shaped grooves overflowing with light. Then the person who holds the lock and can't see the figure, will see Unleashed a gigantic eight-headed and eight-tailed snake."

"So, when I grew up, I traveled around, hoping to find this person to become his shikigami. But no matter how I searched, I couldn't find it." Ootengu said slowly with an expression of being unemployed for a long time.

"At first I thought Yamata no Orochi had an owner, and I tried to find him to find out. I was almost killed by him."

pear:"……"

"During the battle just now, I saw a big snake with eight heads and eight tails. I realized that I was probably looking in the wrong direction." Daitengu looked at Li Zi with hopeful eyes, "Can Master Shimizu ask me Show that lock? After confirmation, I will be your Shikigami."

This……

Riko hesitated, although Seimei said that Daitengu was a righteous demon.But she was still worried about revealing her secret casually.What if what he said was false?What if it's just to get out of the lock?

"You don't have to worry," Ootengu said, "I signed the contract, and my life is in your hands. If you are worried, you can sign a temporary contract with me first. If I dare to do anything against you, you Just put me away."

"Actually, you have not answered. I have already confirmed that you are the owner of the lock." Big Tengu said with a smile, "If I intended to test you, I have achieved my goal by now." He took out a piece of paper from his pocket , it can be seen that the edge of the paper is yellow, and it seems to have been preserved for a long time.

He handed it over with both hands, and Riko took it and unfolded it, on which was written the contract of eternal shikigami, with the name of Daitengu underneath.It looks like it's been a long time since I wrote it.

Daitengu took out a pen and ink from the baggage he carried with him, dipped it and handed it to Riko, "My name has been written since I was a child. Write your name, and I will be your shikigami."

This time Riko didn't hesitate like Shou Ibaraki.

The big tengu already knew her secret, and in order to protect herself, she must also have the right to dispose of him at any time.

The moment they signed the Qingshui Lihuazi, a golden thread passed through their bodies.A strange connection took effect between them, and she knew that Ootengu had become her shikigami.

She breathed lightly, "Don't you think you gave the contract too hastily? If I was acting just now, wouldn't you sign it for nothing?"

Big Tengu was startled for a moment, "I don't think your reaction is fake. And you can release a big snake with eight heads and eight tails."

"If it were me, locks and snakes are things that must be confirmed. They are indispensable. After all, this is a lifelong contract. If I have evil intentions and pretend to have a lock without a lock to deceive you into being a shikigami, what will you do? "

"In that case, I will serve you faithfully for the rest of my life. Wait for the contract to end before finding the real master." Big Tengu said seriously.

"But I'm a very bad person, what if I put you away at the end of my life?" Lizi asked.

The boy holding the round fan opened his eyes round, as if he didn't expect it to be like this.He thought about it seriously, "That's impossible. You really don't have a lock?"

"I have a lock. I'll let you see it when I go back. It's not convenient here."

Datengu heaved a sigh of relief, with a sincere smile on his face, "My father often said that our family is lucky. We can quickly find the life planned on the board. It's really good."

Believe it?Lizi murmured in her heart, what a young man who is both upright and innocent.

"Don't tell about the lock."

Daitengu nodded, "I will protect your secret like I protect my life."

Big Tengu removed the barrier, Qingming grabbed her and looked up and down, "Why is it so long? If I don't come out again, I'm ready to break the barrier and go in."

"Let's talk when we go out. Is it going to be dawn?" Lizi thought of the nightmare-eating tapir.

Qingming also knew that he couldn't wait any longer, so he took out the short-track talisman and rushed towards the gate where the nightmare-eating tapirs gathered.

The dream-eating tapirs just opened the door, and the sky in the real world outside the door was dyed with a faint brilliance, and it was almost dawn.

Leaving the dream world and returning to Heianjing.Seimei couldn't help being a little strange seeing Daitengu following Lizi all the time, "Aren't you going home?"

"I'm going back to Shimizu-sama's house." Ootengu said.

"Master Shimizu's home? Isn't that my home?" Qingming muttered.

"That's right," Big Tengu nodded, "In short, wherever Shimizu-sama is, I'll follow wherever."

Qingming frowned slightly, "Your contract hasn't been terminated yet?"

"It's not that I didn't cancel it, but I signed a new one." Ootengu said, "I'm Shimizu-sama's shikigami now."

"Yes, that's right." Riko said, "I just signed the shikigami contract in the barrier. I'll explain it to you when I get back."

Qingming was even more surprised, "Just now in the enchantment, you regained a big demon as a shikigami in such a short time?"

"Hey, that's not what you said outside the barrier." Li Zi smiled and said, "You complained that I stayed inside for a long time, and you said you planned to rush in."

Seimei pursed her lips, it seemed that Shushigami was real.Damn, the two in the yard haven't been resolved yet, another one comes.

……

Ibaraki is in a bad mood because Riko has brought back a shikigami.

He had never seen such a nasty shikigami.If he sat next to the pear, he would be called to the corner, "Isn't this against the rules?"

He and Li Zi eat fruit from the same plate, and they will also be called to the corner, "Isn't this against the rules?"

But Qingming talked in Lizi's room at night, and it was as if the shikigami hadn't seen it.

"Hey, don't you think Seimei is out of line?" he asked dissatisfied.

"This is Master Shimizu's normal communication. I don't think Shikigami can intervene. Even if Seimei doesn't come out all night, as long as Master Shimizu is willing, this is the most compliant thing."

Ibaraki: "Is your head okay? Are you really Xiaoli's shikigami? Could it be a contract with Seimei?"

"Ibaraki-kun, it's against the rules to call your lord Kori."

"Ah, I really can't take it anymore. Today I went to the shrine with Xiaoli, and as soon as I got into the carriage, that birdman flew over. Ibaraki-kun, it's against the rules to sit in the same carriage as Shimizu-sama." Ibaraki Go to the roof to find the wine to talk about, "Speak the rules, keep the rules, we are the ones who are restrained."

"You are the only one who is restrained." Jiu Tun said lazily.

"But aren't you angry? Seimei has opened up the Banqiao you used to guard." Ibaraki's angry head exploded.

"Not angry." Jiu Tun said slowly.

Shuten said that he was angry when he said that he was not angry.

"Hey——" Ibaraki sighed long, lying on his back on the roof, "I want to pluck his hair."

"Good idea." Shuten said with a chuckle, "Go, then you can have a pair of grilled chicken wings."

In the room, Lizi was talking to Seimei.

"I heard from the Lord God today that Yu Ziji was married off in a hurry."

"Well," Qingming paused the pen in his hand, "Although His Majesty dare not offend God Ebisu, he has a grudge against Yuziji in his heart. He feels that being kidnapped by evil spirits is a scandal for the royal family."

"I also met Ebisu God today." Riko said again.

"What did he tell you?" Qingming completely put down the pen in his hand, with an extremely serious expression.

"He told me that he erased Yu Ziji's memory in the dream. He didn't mention you and me to the emperor, just let me know about it in my heart."

Qingming frowned slightly, "Don't you think it's strange that God Ebisu is kind to you? I remember when He asked you to be a witch, he said that I happened to have a relationship with this child, so I came to us Yebisu Shrine. What is the origin? Could this be the reason why He has goodwill towards you?"

"I was thinking of another thing," said Pear.

It's been two or three days since Yuziji's incident ended, and she hasn't found a chance to tell Qingming.It mainly deals with the relationship between Ibaraki and Datengu, although she feels that what she is doing is useless.

Ibaraki still hates Daitengu.But Seimei said she finally found a reliable shikigami this time.It can be seen that he is very satisfied with the big tengu.

"What?" Seimei asked.

"It's what Ebisu said at the time that we sent Yuziji back to Heianjing. He said it as if it was true. And he also said, let him stop this time. Stop this time? It means he has experienced Once?"

"Master Seimei, do you still remember the rubbings that Torii brought back? One of them is Ebisu. We have been guessing what it means."

"I once watched God Inari's consciousness. His priesthood is wealth and harvest, but he was taken away by Izanami. I wondered if it was given to Ebisu and Amaterasu? I was a little wary of him .”

"Now think about it, is Ebisu on the torii reminding us that he is an insider? Should we directly ask him about time going back?"

"Don't ask." Qingming said, "Now it seems that He has no malice towards us, and even helps us secretly. If we guess wrong, you have time to trace back the secret of your ability, and it will be known. I think the same as you , I think he might know something. I even think that what he said is one of the time regressions."

"As for why his memory was not erased by time. I am more inclined that he may have recovered part of the memory of a certain life at a certain moment, just like you."

"If you think about it this way," Lizi said, "then we know of three time-reversal events. If the remaining four events can be avoided, then there is no need to reincarnate? I don't know if I have avoided them before. How many times, or did you not avoid it once?"

"It's disgusting," Qingming said, "Why do you erase my memory so thoroughly every time? It is reasonable to say that it has been seven times, and I should have a little resistance. The last time you used the wooden card, you didn't lose any memory. .”

"That's because I'm the real owner of the wooden plaque," Lizi said with a smile, "Master Seimei forcibly uses my things, isn't it normal for my memory to be erased?"

……

Lizi met Yu Ziji, and she brought her maid to offer incense at Ebisu Shrine.

"Now every time she comes to the shrine, the wish she makes is to hope that the gods can give her wealth." The god master said to Lizi in a low voice.

In the distance, Yuziji seriously hangs the painted horse on the wall.

"This is really ironic. In the past, the third lady made wishes everywhere to become beautiful." The priest continued.

"Why did she wish for wealth?" Lizi asked, "Although she is married, she shouldn't be short of money, right?"

"Your Majesty hates her, and the husband she found for her is a declining nobleman. Of course, even if His Majesty doesn't hate her, no nobleman is willing to marry her."

"It's good to be able to find this because I have something to do with Xie Chong. In fact, His Majesty brought her a lot of money. But in order to please her husband, she gave most of it to her husband's family."

"His Majesty arranged a house for her in Beijing. In order to attract her husband to visit her every day, she made the house very luxurious. In this way, the money was quickly spent. Without money, her husband would not come to the house again."

"Because Ebisu God rescued her, she always comes to the shrine to offer incense. I hope Ebisu God can help her again. Ah, she is coming towards us, I don't want to receive her. Xiaoli, you should hide too. "

The altar turned around and walked quickly towards the back of the hall.

At this time, Yuziji had already seen them, and Lizi couldn't avoid it, so she could only stand there and watch her come.

Yuziji returned to her original appearance.

Riko looked at her with some confusion, every time she saw Yu Ziji, the other party would be in a different state.At first, she was a girl with low self-esteem, but later she became more beautiful and arrogant, and now she is a bride with a bit of vicissitudes.

"Female Sangong." She called out.

"Now I'm not the third woman, you can call me Yuzi." Yuzi Ji said modestly.Her eyes were lowered, as if she didn't dare to look at the pears.Pear didn't know what to say to her.

"It's only now that I realize how precious your words of persuasion were," Yuziji said.

"It's not too late for you to know now." Lizi said.

Yu Ziji nodded, "That's how people are, you only know how precious it is when you lose it." She fumbled in her pocket for a long time, took out a copper coin, and carefully put it into the merit box.

Lizi couldn't help sighing when she thought of the past when she stuffed a piece of gold without even looking at it.But compared to the Yuziji that Ebisu talked about, who was secretly executed as soon as she was sent back to the palace, this one is extremely lucky now.

After putting away the money, Yuziji bowed to the statue of Ebishou before leaving.

"Ah, finally gone." An old voice came from beside Lizi.She turned her head and saw Ebisu standing behind her.

Ebisu looked at Tamagohime's back and muttered, "This time she is worshiping the right god. She no longer prays to me for beauty, but for wealth."

"Will you grant her wish?"

"No, wealth also needs to be worked hard on your own. If you sit at home and wait for the gold to fall from the sky after you make your wish, then wealth is too worthless."

"Isn't it useless for a believer to make a wish to you?"

"Why is it useless? I will give them all kinds of opportunities in life, but it is up to them whether they can grasp the opportunities." Ebisu said, "I also work very hard. In order to give everyone money reasonably , I have to think about it every day."

Lizi smiled, and there was a gleam of interest in her eyes, "A businessman makes a wish to you, and you can easily give him various opportunities, but a child who makes a wish to you gets more pocket money, so what should I do? Little The child can't go out to make money, isn't it just sitting at home and waiting after making a wish?" Lizi asked.

"If the children are obedient and don't cause trouble, and finish their studies well, I will ask their parents to give them more pocket money. This is also my own hard work."

"What about me? I go back and forth between home and the shrine every day. Although I work hard, I don't have the chance to make money. I make a wish to you, how will you make it come true?"

"You," Ebisu said with a perplexed look on his face, as if he couldn't think of where Riko could make a fortune, "probably let you pick up your wallet on the road. You walk around Heianjing, go Picking up a wallet after such a long journey is considered your own hard work."

pear:"……"

When Riko returned home in the evening, she met Kamo Tadayuki and Kamo Nanako who were about to leave.It was obvious that both of them were a little unhappy.Seimei was not seen, only Abe Masaki sent them out.

She said hello to Kamo Tadayuki, and then to Nanako before going into the yard.Suddenly, I heard Ka Moo Tadyuki's words of comfort to Nanako.

"Give up this time? This kind of thing can't be forced. Even though I am his teacher, I can't marry you according to his head. Forget it, let's find another one."

"Father is so kind to him. There are only two shikigami in the family, one for my elder brother and one for him. You don't hide your yin and yang skills. Why can't he repay you? "

Nanako said reluctantly, "I'm an adult, and I have no other requirements, but I want to be his wife. Men will marry many women, and I won't have more than one, right?"

"Repaying me doesn't mean you have to promise me with your body," He Maozhongxing said helplessly, "Okay, go home, and don't lose the only remaining face of me in front of other people's houses. It's thanks to Qingming Home, if it’s someone else’s home, the news that you were rejected at the door can be spread throughout Heian capital the next day.”

"It's really unfair." Nanako pouted.

"Is it fair to marry you? Really. This kind of thing also depends on fate. Let's go, let's go."

The sound was blocked after getting on the bullock cart and disappeared.

The pears returned to the garden.Shuten was still sitting on the roof, and smiled when he saw her come back.Ibaraki who followed her saw Otengu playing the flute under the cherry tree, curled his lips and jumped up to the roof to find wine to swallow.

The wooden lattice door was open, Qingming was sitting at the low table and writing the case file.Hearing the sound of footsteps, he raised his head with a smile in his eyes, "I'm back, thank you for your hard work."

……

Nanako returned to the room and sat in front of the bronze mirror angrily.He took off all the jewelry on his head and threw it on the ground, "It must be because these jewelry are not good-looking that I was rejected."

The maid next to her didn't dare to speak, so she knelt silently on the ground, picked up all the jewelry and put them in the box.

"Wait, what's that?" Nanako frowned and snatched the box from the maid's hand, poked it with her fingers, and picked out a colorful bead the size of a peach.

This bead came from the belly of the fish in her dream one day when she dreamed that she was eating fish at home.When I woke up the next day, I found that I was holding a bead in my hand, exactly like the one in my dream.

She thought she had held it in her hand while she was sleeping.But I asked the maid, she didn't have this bead at all.She couldn't tell what was going on, so she threw it into the box.

When I saw it just now, I suddenly felt that it would look good if it was made into a pearl flower or something and worn on the head.

No matter where he came from, she needs a beautiful jewelry now to regain her confidence.Tomorrow, a friend will ask her to go to the shrine to offer incense.

Well... what wish do you wish for?