[comprehensive] not human

Due to Asakura Hiroaki's injury, the trip originally scheduled to arrive in Heian-kyo in three days was abruptly dragged to seven days. On the evening of the seventh day, the group finally arrived at the house of Asakura, which is located in the southeast of the inner city of Heian-kyo.

Before entering the city gate, Yan Bai untied the rope around Gui Chou Wan's neck, and said to it: "You go?"

The kid with thin belly and thighs widened his eyes in shock: "You, you..."

"There are quite a few onmyojis in Ping'an Jing. If you don't leave quickly, you will be killed." Hiroaki Asakura had warned before, indicating that the Asakura family would never take in such a little ghost as a shikigami. If you throw it away, you must kill it before entering the city, in case the kid grows up and makes trouble and endangers the capital.

The kid looked at Yan Bai hesitantly, turned around hesitantly, and crawled out of the city.

"He's gone?" Maya asked as soon as he got into the ox cart.

"En." Yan Bai turned into a black snake and climbed onto his shoulders.

"Hmph, it's your responsibility not to kill it now and wait for it to become a big ghost later." Asakang Haoming, who was lying on his side at the back of the car, his injuries had not yet fully healed, sneered, but was ignored by one person and one snake.The bullock cart grunted again and walked towards the city gate.

As soon as you enter Heian-kyo, you will clearly feel that there are two worlds here and outside the city.The houses in the city are well-organized and row upon row. Common people live in the outer city, and the houses are usually wooden long houses; nobles and ministers live in the inner city. The closer to the palace, the more gorgeous the style of the houses. The houses are connected together, and the scenery is beautiful. The courtyard is hidden in the depths of the mansion, and there are bullock carts of different specifications that enter and exit the main entrance and the side entrance.Ping An Jing was modeled after Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty. The layout of the city was designed at the beginning of the city's construction. The streets, large and small, were specially paved and criss-crossed to facilitate traffic in the city.

Across a city wall, singing and dancing in the capital is peaceful, peaceful and elegant, and famine is everywhere outside the capital, and starvation is everywhere.However, there are far more ghosts here than in the world of death outside.

The hemp leaf boy looked away from the shadow in the corner, and he was lying on the window of the bullock cart looking out.Seeing Ma Ye looking outside without blinking, Ma Cang Haoming laughed and said, "How is it? It's shocking, isn't it?" After all, he was a wild child born in the wilderness of the countryside, and it was the first time he saw the bustling capital city. It's no surprise to be scared.

Ma Ye nodded: "It is indeed very prosperous."

The gloom in his chest dissipated slightly, and Ma Cang Haoming said to Ma Ye Tongzi in a half-threatening and half-warning way: "Ma Cang's family often meets nobles and ministers in the inner city, so don't run around casually. Even in Ma Cang In the Cang family, the lowly servants and the noble master live separately, if they offend the nobleman, hehe, even if it is the son of a ghost, the master will definitely punish him severely." He completely regarded Ma Ye as someone with powerful spiritual power but not An ordinary child who knows how to use it, especially after knowing that he will not be yin and yang in the Hashihime incident.

Thinking of Qiao Ji and the black snake, Asakura Hiroaki felt that he was going to be out of breath again.The black snake is obviously not the shikigami of Ma Ye Douzi, and he is inseparable from him. He wraps around the child's arm every day, sleeps all day, and ignores everyone except Ma Ye.Asakura Haoming asked the stinky little ghost about the origin of the black snake several times, but every time he was bypassed by the cunning Ma Ye with a few words.After several trials, not to mention persuading the black snake to follow him, so far, he has never had any contact with the black snake!

The bullock cart stopped, and the voices of the warriors and attendants guarding Asakang's house could be heard from outside. Asakang Haoming sat up and straightened his clothes, thinking seriously, even if he can't get the black snake, he can't let the brat get it .But how can a bastard born to an incompetent woman who is willing to be humble, be qualified to obtain such a powerful shikigami.In the Ma Cang family, apart from the powerful Patriarch, only that person is qualified to own the Black Snake.

Asakura Haoming opened the curtain and went out, leaving Ma Ye waiting in the car.who?He thought about the information he had learned through his spiritual vision, and guessed who besides Ma Cang Patriarch, who could make the proud Ma Cang Haoming admire him.

"Is there a son of a ghost in the car?" Through the shadowy curtain of the car, Ma Ye heard someone asking outside.

"Yes, please tell the Patriarch." It was Asakura Hiroaki who answered.

"Already gone. Oh, he's back."

The hurried footsteps came from far to near, and finally stopped in front of the bullock cart.Another strange voice sounded from outside the curtain, as if someone was looking into the car: "Maye Boy? The Patriarch asks you to go see him immediately."

Ma Ye lifted the curtain and stepped out of the bullock cart.What appeared in front of his eyes was a noble mansion, with walls extending to both sides, and he had to walk more than a hundred steps on each side to turn a corner.The main gate is guarded by four samurai, and two white paper lanterns are hung on both sides of the gate, and the family crest in the shape of a maple leaf is painted on the lanterns.

In addition to Asakura Hiroaki, there was another person who was also wearing hunting clothes besides Asakura Hiroaki who looked at him.He has a handsome face and a gentle smile. He looks young, at most fourteen or fifteen years old.Seeing Ma Ye looking at him, the young man curled his mouth and said in a warm voice: "Hi, my name is Ma Cang Changming. Please come with me, the Patriarch has been waiting for you for a long time."

Ma Ye Boy followed him into the main entrance silently, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Asakura Hiroaki who also followed them in, but he quickly turned a corner and turned into another side road, which was obviously not the same road as them.

Noticing his backward gaze, the smiling young man in a safari suit reminded him in a soft voice: "Please don't look around. This is the Asakura main family after all."

"The Ma Cang family, you are the one who separated the family." Through the spiritual vision, Ma Ye affirmed this point. Under the smiling appearance of the young man is a distorted and dark heart. He is unwilling to be an orphan of the separated family. Climbing, full of malice towards himself, the new child from the separated family.

"Yes," Asakura Masaki said with a smile, "so I'm very happy to see you here, so that I'm not the only one who is in the family. Maybe we will become good friends."

Ma Ye lowered his eyes and did not answer.They went straight, and finally came to a wooden house that looked more imposing than the other surrounding houses.There is a low wall outside the house, and maple leaf-shaped patterns are painted with red paint at intervals on the wall.Ma Cang Changming took the hemp leaf through the wall, came to the inner courtyard, and said: "You wait here, I will go in and tell the master. Don't run around, you know?" Probably because of the young age of the hemp leaf, He also specifically added a sentence.

Ma Ye nodded and watched him take off his shoes and arrange them neatly at the door, then stepped onto the wooden veranda and walked along the promenade to the back of the house.

The entire courtyard is very quiet, unlike the voices that can be heard from time to time when walking along the way, there is nothing else but the rustling of leaves in the breeze.The courtyard is full of various plants, including flowers, grasses, shrubs, and trees, all of which are neatly trimmed. Different species are carefully distributed in the most suitable positions to achieve the greatest visual effect.

Ma Ye stood on the gravel road and didn't wait for a while, when he saw Masang Masamune coming back, he stood on the verandah and waved to him: "Come on, my lord wants to see you."

Asaba took off her straw sandals and put them next to Asakura Masaki's clogs, and stepped on the smooth wooden corridor.

Going around the verandah to the backyard, a man is sitting in a room with an open wooden door, facing the courtyard and closing his eyes to rest.Asakang Changming pulled the hemp leaf, motioned him to kneel with him on the veranda outside the room, and at the same time said softly: "My lord, the hemp leaf boy is here."

The man hummed, opened his eyes and looked at Ma Ye.He is a middle-aged man in his 40s, with a white face and long beard, narrow and long eyes, full of brilliance, majestic and dignified, he looked at the hemp leaf, and suddenly said lightly: "You have a good demon soul."

Ma Ye knew that he found Bai under his cloak, and this was the first time someone had noticed the presence of an onmyoji without Bai's presence, and even Chang Ming next to him was surprised only after Ma Cang Patriarch said so Looking at the hemp leaves.

There is nothing to hide, Ma Ye stretched out her arms generously to show Ma Cang Patriarch: "Yes."

The Patriarch did not stretch out his hand to take his arm, but only leaned slightly to look carefully for a while, and then nodded in satisfaction: "Yes, take your arm back. Changming, you go down first."

"Yes." After saluting, Asakura Masaki smiled reassuringly at Maya—he was actually smiling all the time, no different from just now, and turned to leave.

"Your mother was originally a daughter of my Ma Cang family," the head of the Ma Cang family said slowly after Changming's figure disappeared into the corner of the veranda, with a look of reminiscence on his face, "She was born with little spiritual power, and she was born again. The family is separated, so she was not allowed to practice yin and yang. Originally, the family planned to let her be with the young people of the right age in the clan, but it was unexpected that your mother fell in love with a low-level warrior and insisted on marrying him. Elders I was very unhappy about this, and decided to remove her from the family after discussing it. It’s just that we didn’t expect your mother’s spiritual power to skyrocket after having you. She didn’t want to hurt your father who is an ordinary person, so she took you away She did not go back to Ma Cang’s house to seek asylum, but left Heianjing to live in seclusion in a small mountain village.”

Having said that, he stopped and looked at Ma Ye and asked, "Do you have any questions?"

Ma Ye stared at the board under her knees, and shook her head expressionlessly.

The head of the family had no choice but to continue: "You also know what happened later. The Ma Cang family only learned of your existence after you killed that Master Tian Qian. At first we only investigated your origin, and later we found out about you. It is your mother's child, it should be the child of my Ma Cang family. After discussion among the elders, we decided to let you come back. Because the Ma Cang family needs an heir."

He didn't hide anything, and pointed out the intention of the Makang family directly: "For some reason, the only person with outstanding spiritual power in this generation of my family is my only daughter Akiba Makura, and women cannot inherit the Makang family. Select talented children to cultivate. Changming just now is one of them. Besides him, there is another child from the branch family who is a few years older than you. Before you, he was taken to the main family to practice Yin Yang. Calculated, you are much later than them. However, it doesn't matter, your spiritual power is very strong, and from the rumors of the devil's son, you are also very talented, and you must be able to catch up with another child soon."

"What do you need me to do?" Maya asked.

This time, the head of the family was silent for a long time before he said unhurriedly: "The Ma Cang family will never have any onmyojis who can handle them. Now in the onmyoji house, besides me, there are only two onmyojis trusted by the Holy One." One is He Mao Zhongxing, and the other is his apprentice An Pei Qingming. He Mao Zhongxing is much older than me, and his old age and health are numbered, but An Pei Qingming is very young...not only very young, but also Very good." He sighed, and said with emotion, "Too good. He is so good that he has a great reputation at a young age, and no one can match him. Not even me. Not to mention other onmyojis from the Ma Cang family. "

"So my task is to defeat Ampere Seimei and become the most trusted onmyoji of the Holy Spirit?" Ma Ye asked calmly.

"No, don't worry. Ampere Seimei is indeed amazing and talented, but compared with you, he has a fatal flaw." A smile floated on the corner of Ma Cang Patriarch's mouth, "No matter how young he is, he is still compared to me, but compared to you He is older than you. He is 26 years old, 18 years older than you. This means you have a lot of time to study, you will continue to grow, and Ampere Seimei will age one step earlier than you .No, maybe on the day when you are fully grown, you don’t have to wait until Ampere grows old, and you will be able to fight against him and restore the glory of the Ma Cang family.”

Ma Ye nodded: "I see. I will practice Yin-Yang Art well, and strive to catch up with that Ampere Qingming as soon as possible."

He was as calm as an old monk from the beginning to the end, his eyes were so calm that Ma Cang Patriarch couldn't help but wonder if he really understood what he said, after all no matter how smart he was, he was only an eight-year-old child: "... ...Don't you resent the Ma Cang family? Don't you resent us for removing your mother?"

"No," Ma Ye had thought about this question a long time ago, "The fact that I killed Master Tian Qian was covered up by the Ma Cang family, no matter what, he is also a famous onmyoji. Anyone who pursues it must have someone to help. What's more, if I go back to Ma Cang's house, shouldn't my mother come back too?"

"Cough..." Ma Cang's Patriarch was still lamenting his abnormal intelligence, but he was relieved after hearing that he was still ordinary smart, "Your mother will not return to Ma Cang's house. Ma Cang's family can't accept it." Such a woman who abandoned her family and then her husband."

Ma Ye suddenly raised his head, this was the first time Patriarch Ma Cang saw that his expression fluctuated, he was no longer like an emotionless puppet.

"But don't worry, she can't go back to Ma Cang's house. I will arrange for her husband to take back her remaining ashes." Ma Cang's Patriarch frowned, showing the majesty of being the patriarch to press down on the little child , "The future head of the Ma Cang family cannot have such a mother."

"My mother is fine." Ma Ye said coldly.

"Don't push yourself too far!" Patriarch Ma Cang sternly tucked his hands into his sleeves.

Ma Ye stood up: "In this case, I will not go back to Ma Cang's house."

"You!" Patriarch Ma Cang's face flushed slightly, and he was a little annoyed, "After you become a great onmyoji, everyone will point out your background! Your opponents will use this to slander you, and others will also despise you You, are you willing to do so?"

Ma Ye straightened her back and answered him decisively: "I am willing."