ghost play

?Chapter 49: Gone Memories ([-])

For Japanese cuisine, Xia Li and the others didn't know what to do. Anyway, he was a carnivore. No matter how good Ren Mi Chong said to Omiya, anyway, if he boiled radish, it would be possible to cook it into a chicken drumstick.

Walking into the front yard, the chrysanthemums have already fallen and are covered with a layer of white snow, which has a special flavor.A big wisteria tree has flowers and leaves all over it, the purple flower vines hang upside down, with a little bit of fluorescence on it, in the snow-capped glazed scenery, it looks a bit of spring.

Xiao Yuan looked at those fluorescent lights curiously, and when he looked carefully, he found some fireflies. He pulled Shi Hua's sleeve and said happily, "Look, there are fireflies over there."

When Xiao Yuan said this, everyone noticed the fireflies flying under the wisteria tree.Those fireflies are not afraid of people, they fly to Xiao Yuan's side against the light snow falling from the sky.

Mi Chong smiled and explained: "This is the shikigami of Sakihime-sama, it's just a little demon, it can't turn into a human being, stay here and look at the yard, it's also a landscape."

Tianyi and Qinglong knew that since the Qingming period, he liked to keep some little monsters in the yard as scenery, and this hobby continued to Sakihime's life.

Mi Chong smiled and said, "Master Sakihime and Lord Ayan are in the backyard, this way please."

The honey bug led them across the front yard and into the back yard.The backyard is elegant and simple. The lotus in Qinghe Pond has fallen asleep, and the pond has formed ice crystals.A few children with civet cat ears were playing on the ice. When they saw someone coming, they quickly ran to the house to hide, showing a pair of big round eyes, staring at them.

Walking through the bluestone path, came to the corridor, where Sakihime and Ah Yan were playing chess.The two were so focused that they didn't seem to notice that Honey Bug brought Liu Xue and the others.

Sakihime was wearing a wisteria-patterned kimono, a smock, a fur collar, and a silver hairpin with black silk cherry blossoms.Ah Yan is dressed casually, gray woolen sweater, unshaven beard, seems to have not woken up, there is still this hazy sleepiness in his eyes, and he yawns from time to time.

Seeing these two people, everyone thought in their hearts—how did Saki Ji fall in love with Ah Yan in the first place because of the lard.

The two walked slowly, and everyone was reluctant to open their mouths for fear of disturbing them.Mi Chong took the civet cats and boys to bring them cushions, served tea and left, so everyone sat on the cushions and watched the two play chess slowly.

After a long time, the two finally finished playing. Ah Yan moved his neck, heard a few "clicks", rubbed his neck again, and thought to himself——Sitting for hours, his body became stiff.

The most important thing is that the game is still lost.

Sakihime often sat quietly, took a sip of tea, smiled slightly at everyone, and said, "You guys are here."

Ah Yan blinked, turned around, saw Liu Xue and the others were all looking at him, their mouths widened, and they were stunned.After a while, he said, "When did you guys come?!"

The corners of everyone's mouths twitched slightly, only seeing them emotionally.

At this time, the snow was getting bigger and bigger, and the scattered light snow turned into heavy snow.Sakihime looked at the heavy snow falling in the yard, and said to everyone: "Let's go into the house first."

Saki Ji ordered Mi Chong to bring everyone into the house, and served fragrant tea, but Xia Li, Shi Hua and the others looked at the cushions, and then at Liu Xue and the others who were kneeling upright, feeling a faint pain in their knees.

Ah Yan sat carelessly, seeing that Xia Li and Shi Hua were still standing, he said, "Don't be cautious, just do whatever you want. It's not a scene, it's just that this is an old house, and I'm used to sitting on tatami mats. This can be regarded as The characteristics of Kyoto."

Xia Li relied on himself as a child and sat casually, but Shi Hua sat upright on his knees. Anyway, he used to sit cross-legged for a whole day in the temple.

Sakihime put down the teacup, and took out a piece of jade from her sleeve. The jade is made of ice jade, crystal clear, and it is worth it at first glance.It's just that Liuxue Xiali and the others were stunned when they saw the jade. They remembered that they had seen this jade during the Erya incident. In the end, the jade and Erya disappeared together.And in the case of Qiye Tianzun, Zhu Sha also said that he found this jade nearby.

Jade contains powerful spiritual power and has a slight dark air.

Xia Li suddenly remembered that Ah Yan seemed to be very anxious in the past few days, and he also had a piece of jade in his hand, but he didn't care about it at the time, thinking that Ah Yan had found something good.Within a few days, he asked Liu Xue to come, and then came to Japan by himself.

Looking at the jade in Sakihime's hand now, it seems to be the same as the jade that Ah Yan was holding back then.

Sakihime put down the piece of jade, and ordered Honey Bug to bring it over.

Honey Bug responded, stepped back, and quickly brought in a black sandalwood box.

Sakihime opened the box and saw a piece of jade inside.The jade stone was the same as the one that Sakihime took out just now, only several times larger, and the jade stone was sealed with a red string and a charm.

Xia Li squinted her phoenix eyes, stared at the jade and said: "This stone..." He could feel that even if the jade was sealed, it could seep out powerful spiritual power.

Sakihime said: "The woman in white gave it to my concubine."

Everyone was stunned, and the woman in white couldn't help but talk about that cannibalistic fox demon.

Seeing what everyone was thinking, Sakihime nodded, "It was strange to say that this happened, but yesterday morning a red fox came to the door with this sandalwood box on its back. Chong told Qie Shen, and Qie Shen went out to have a look, the red fox left the box and said three more words."

Everyone asked, "What word?"

Sakihime said: "The killing stone."

Shi Hua and Xiao Yuan looked blank, but Liu Xue knew what the killing stone was.

Sakihime smiled slightly and explained: "The killing stone is a stone sealed on the mountain in Nasu Town, Tochigi Prefecture. The stone has poisonous gas, and the birds and animals passing by will die if they touch the stone."

Shi Hua was still at a loss, "Why is it poisonous?"

Sakihime said, "Because of one person."

Shi Hua blinked, Liu Xue vaguely knew.

"Before Yuzao."

After Sakihime said these three words, Xiao Yuan and Shi Hua still didn't have much reaction, they didn't know what "Tamazao Mae" was.

Shi Hua asked Xia Li, "Hey, fox, do you know what Yuzaoqian is?" After Shi Hua asked, he found that there was no answer, and when he looked back, he saw Xia Li sitting there blankly with his eyes wide open.

Liu Xue also found that something was wrong, her sister looked a little strange now, as if he knew something, she was preoccupied, and there seemed to be a trace of sadness.

Liuxue didn't know why he would think of the word "sadness", but felt that her current sister made people feel distressed.Even though he has seen him holding the Canghai Mingyue Sword and standing proudly holding the sword, but at this moment, Xia Li is like a helpless child in this matter.

Although he is still a child.

Ah Yan kept looking at Xia Li, he knew that when Saki Ji said the words "Tamazao Mae", he was stunned.Ah Yan sighed slightly, and his face, which had been wearing a heartless smile all the time, showed a rare sadness.

"Sure enough... what we thought was right." Ah Yan said.

Everyone was puzzled, not knowing the meaning of Ah Yan's words.Saki Ji took his words and continued: "The woman in white should be the lost soul of Yu Zaoqian, His Highness Xia Li."

This time, Liuxue was stunned, and for a while, he said in disbelief: "Isn't Yuzao formerly Su Daji? What my mother meant was that my sister's soul turned into a human being as Su Daji, who was later hunted down by Jiang Ziya. Before fleeing to Japan and calling himself Tamamo, he became the concubine of Emperor Toba."

The corner of Shi Hua's mouth twitched, "This fairy tale is different from our country's."

Liu Xue said: "Actually, many legends in Japan are extensions of China. Sometimes they are like this, and sometimes they are not."

Shi Hua understood, "Is it rare to be confused?"

Liuxue smiled wryly, and continued: "After Tamazamae became Emperor Toba's concubine, Emperor Toba became seriously ill not long after. Later, Master Seimei secretly investigated and found that Tamazamae was not a human being, but a nine-tailed fox demon. Emperor Toba knew Afterwards, she became furious and ordered her to be chased and killed. In the end, she was captured and killed by Lord Qingming on the mountain of Nasu Town. But she was not an ordinary fox demon. After being killed, she turned her body into a killing stone, and her soul was sealed in that stone inside."

Saki Ji nodded slowly, and continued: "The concubine opened the box, and felt a dark air coming, and immediately ordered Gou Chen to form an array to seal this jade. Then I went there with Master Ah Yan Xuzhen, but found that the seal of the killing stone has been lifted, and the soul of the seal is gone."

Tian Yi was puzzled, and asked: "Then why did Yuzao send a fox to bring this stone, and... to give people the impression that she deliberately let us know about this."

Sakiji thought for a while and said, "I think she wants to go back to my body." Saying that, she looked at Xia Li. "Although Yu Zaoqian transformed into a human body, her thoughts and memories still remain. Although she doesn't know why she wanted to be a witch and charm the monarch, but the concubine can feel that what she did this time was forced and helpless."

Sakihime's words are very clear, this time Tamamomae seems to be taking orders from others, but has her own ideas.

Ah Yan pointed to the sealed jade, and said: "Someone should have placed this jade next to the killing stone to help Yuzao rush to break the seal, and at the same time they reached some kind of agreement."

Liuxue was rather curious, and asked, "What kind of jade is this?"

Everyone present wanted to know this question, and everyone held their breath waiting for Sakihime and Ah Yan to explain.After waiting for a while, they saw two people with sad faces, as if there was something unspeakable.

"What's wrong? Is there any problem?" Liuxue asked.

Sakihime sighed and said, "This jade is not natural."

"Synthesis?" Liu Xue was stunned. "Fake jade, it can't be plastic."

Everyone is embarrassing, did this child buy a street stall and be cheated with plastic?

Sakihime rarely rolled her eyes, but Ah Yan nodded and said, "It's synthetic, but not plastic. It's bone."

This time everyone was dumbfounded.

Ah Yan said slowly: "The barren land, the bones of demons."

As soon as Ah Yan finished speaking, everyone was surprised and asked: "Could it be that someone opened up the barren land?"

Sakihime and Ah Yan looked at each other, Sakihime nodded and said, "From the current point of view, this is the case."

If the Ten Heavens is an unknown world beyond the Three Realms, then the wild land is an evil place known to practitioners, where there is only miasma, evil spirits and demons all over the sky.Bones can be seen everywhere, there are unreasonable killings, and there is a lingering smell of blood.

Later, some immortals sealed the wild land, and suppressed the three sealed eyes with the three fairy mountains of Penglai, Kunlun, and Fangzhu.

In short, it is the place where the most evil demons and ghosts are sealed.

Sakihime picked up the teacup, blew on the stem, and took a sip of the tea.

Liuxue murmured alone: ​​"Who the hell?" After repeating a few words, she felt her mind went blank. Suddenly, there was a burst of laughter in her ears, which was very familiar but she couldn't remember it.

"Liu Xue?" Shi Hua heard Liu Xue muttering to himself, and was about to answer when he saw that Liu Xue seemed to be absent-minded, with no focus in his eyes.He found that Liuxue and Xia Li were not normal during this period of time, it could possibly be due to the legendary worries about gains and losses.

Hearing Shi Hua calling him, Liu Xue suddenly came back to her senses, before she could react, she subconsciously smiled at him and said, "It's nothing... what's wrong?"

It was obvious that there was something on his face.Shi Hua looked up, but saw Saki Ji and Ah Yan looking at Liu Xue with complicated expressions.

Without realizing it, Liuxue slightly raised one hand to cover her ears—he remembered why that laughter was familiar, because it was her own laughter.