ghost play

?Chapter 7: The girl who disappeared (seven)

Kyoto, Japan, with a thousand-year cultural history, is a place where humans, ghosts, demons, and demons coexist.

Summer has arrived, and there are not many people on the streets at night.Legend has it that even ordinary people can see the ghosts walking on Shili Street at night in summer.

No one wants to meet this taboo at this time.

summer night.

Ten miles long street, a hundred ghosts walk at night.

In the middle of the night, an ox cart slowly approached from a distance.For today's advanced technology, even in Kyoto, Japan, bullock carts are not common.

There were two red paper lanterns floating in front of the bullock cart. No one was driving the cart, and it was driving slowly on the street.The ox cart drove for a while, and stopped in front of a vermilion mansion.

The door curtain opened automatically, and a man in a T-shirt jumped out of the bullock cart. The man was in his 30s, his hair was a little long and messy, giving him an unkempt look.

When the man got off the ox cart, he saw a butterfly flying out from the vermilion mansion. The butterfly flew to the man and slowly transformed into a graceful girl.

The Pingting girl is holding a palace lantern, combing a cloud bun, wearing a light blue hairpin, and wearing a Tang dress from the Nara period.At that time, Japanese clothes were modeled after the prosperous Tang Dynasty in China, so the Tang clothes worn by the girl were very similar to the clothes of the Tang Dynasty.

The girl bowed slightly to the man, raised her red lips, and said softly in Chinese: "Master Ah Yan, my Master Sakiji has been waiting for a long time."

That man is Ah Yan.

"Miss Honey Bug, I haven't seen you for a while, but you look more and more beautiful." Ah Yan said with a smile.The honey bug turned out to be Abe Seimei's shikigami, who has stayed at Abe's house for more than 1000 years.

Mi Chong smiled shyly and led Ah Yan in.

This house has existed since the Heian period, and has existed for thousands of years. There are many chrysanthemums planted in the front yard, and there is also a big wisteria tree. You can hear the slight laughter of some girls, but you can't see anyone playing in the yard.

Passing through the front yard, the honey worm led him to the back yard. The back yard is much quieter than the front yard. There are pools on both sides of the path paved with bluestone. Corner, there has long been a dragonfly standing on the head" beautiful scenery.

There is a waterwheel in the small pool on the right, and there are two green bamboo poles beside it, and the two green bamboo poles are placed beside it like levers.The water from the waterwheel dripped on a green bamboo pole, and when it collected too much, the green bamboo pole leaned towards the other one, diverted the water to a small stone mill, and then flowed back into the pool.

There were only a few white lanterns lit in the yard, but luckily the moonlight was bright tonight, so it was a good time to enjoy the moon.

Mi Chong took Ah Yan to the corridor, and a woman was sitting on the corridor making tea. The woman looked about 30 years old, her face was like a peach blossom, and she was wearing a gorgeous Twelve single clothes. , layer upon layer, purple from deep to light.He wore gold tassels on his head, and his black hair was spread on the ground.

In a trance, Ah Yan felt like he was in the Heian-kyo period in Japan.

Although it has been a thousand years since the Heian-kyo period, the prosperity of that time can also be found in Kyoto.

The woman looked up at Ah Yan, but didn't get up, she just saluted slightly.Ah Yan smiled, took off his shoes, sat in front of the woman, and said, "Long time no see, Saki Ji."

"It's been 17 years. If it wasn't for you looking for a concubine for something, you probably wouldn't want to see a concubine again in your life." Abe Sakihime said with a slight smile. "Does being a concubine scare you so much?"

Abe Sakihime didn't speak Japanese, but her Chinese was very good. If it wasn't for the twelve-legged body, anyone who saw her would think she was Chinese.

Honey Bug knew that Abe Sakihime had something to say with Ah Yan, so she resigned first.

"What are you talking about, I just want to stay in the country." Ah Yan said. "If I was really afraid of you, I wouldn't come today."

Abe Sakihime picked up the bamboo tube containing the tea and was about to open it, but the stopper was too tight, and she didn't have much strength in her hands, and it took a long time to open it.Ah Yan stretched out his hand, Abe Sakiki looked at it, and after guessing that she really couldn't open it, she handed the bamboo tube to Ah Yan.

Ah Yan pulled out the plug, returned the bamboo tube to her, and said with a smile, "You're still so out of touch."

"Is there?" Abe Sakihime scooped some tea leaves into the teapot with a wooden spoon.

Ah Yan silently looked at her gorgeous twelve-piece suit.

Abe Sakihime also noticed that his eyes fell on her clothes.

Now in the homes of Japanese people, even if there are distinguished guests, the hostess will not wear the kimono. The first reason is that the kimono is very expensive, not to mention the kimono. Many girls only have one set of gorgeous kimonos in their lives. Twelve singles were clothes that only noble ladies and wives could afford during the Heian period.The second reason is that it is very inconvenient to wear, and there are more than twelve layers inside and out.The third reason is that in modern times, even for very important occasions, almost no one wears twelve singles.

In Japanese families, Twelve Singles can only be seen in historical TV dramas in many cases.

Usually there are distinguished guests, many of whom are wearing western clothes or ordinary kimonos.The kimono worn by women symbolizes their status and their importance to visiting guests.

Of course, Ah Yan is not a guest, he is Liu Xue's father and her own husband, even though they haven't seen each other for 17 years, this relationship will not disappear with the passage of time.

Seeing him in twelve singles by himself is indeed too outlandish.It was also because she wanted to let him know that if he didn't come back to take a look, he would really be a guest.

Abe Sakihime lowered her eyebrows and smiled, said softly: "I'm sorry." Then she got up and walked into the house.

Ah Yan smiled, seeing a few Liuying in the courtyard, he stretched out his hand and beckoned one over, the Liuying was not afraid of people, it stood on his fingertips and shone with fluorescent light.

After a while, Abe Sakihime came out, and seeing Ah Yan playing with fireflies like a child, she explained with a smile: "This is my new shikigami. It would be great to have a few fireflies in this courtyard to enjoy the moon."

No wonder this firefly is not afraid of people. It turned out to be a shikigami, but it should be a little monster, and it is not stable in human form. Sakihime just kept it to look at the yard.

Ah Yan put the firefly back, and when he looked back, he saw that Abe Sakihime had changed out of the gorgeous twelve-single body, wearing a homely small pattern kimono, her long hair was tied up in a bun, and she wore a mahogany tree on it. Fox hairpin.

The tea was already brewed, Abe Sakihime poured two cups of tea, handed one cup to Yan, and asked, "You came here from a long distance, why are you looking for a concubine?"

Ah Yan took out a piece of jade from his bosom and placed it in front of Abe Sakihime. The whole body of the jade was white and transparent, it was the best ice jade.

"Maybe we can see the origin of this jade?" A Yan asked.

Abe Sakihime picked up the jade and felt a surge of spiritual power, but there was some dark evil in the spiritual power. She frowned slightly. This is a divine object, why there is a dark breath.

"This was two years ago. Mrs. Chen said that her husband was fascinated by a goblin. I went to see that the husband of the Chen family did meet a goblin, but it was just a hundred-year-old spider spirit, let alone turned into a beauty. I couldn't even stabilize the human form, and later I found this on the spider spirit." Ah Yan said. "In the past two years, I have also met many people who are in this situation. They seem to be because the jade has improved their morality, and the dark breath inside has also disturbed their minds. Some little demons who were originally kind-hearted have also become vicious. , causing the ruin of other people’s families.”

There are good monsters and evil monsters, and it is common for monsters with evil thoughts to harm people, but these little monsters with only a hundred years of experience are still inexperienced, and they dare not go to other people's homes to do evil. □ Qi, eat flesh and blood.

Abe Sakiji accepted the jade, took a sip of tea, and said slightly: "I can't see the origin of this jade, I can only wait a few days for the spiritual energy to gather, and after I bathe and cleanse, I will do a divination to see if I can find this jade. The origin of jade."

Ah Yan said with a smile: "This is very good."

"You can rest here tonight, and tomorrow I will let the honey bug take you to the airport." Abe Sakihime said. "When I have news, I will send you an email to let you know."

Ah Yan was stunned with the hand holding the teacup, looked at the person in front of him, pretended to be sad and said: "Saki Ji, you are really ruthless, so you have to drive away as your husband."

Abe Sakihime smiled slightly and said, "You also know that it's not quiet these days, and I don't feel at ease if Liuxue stays alone in China as a concubine."

"Didn't you ask Tian Yi to follow him?" Ah Yan drank the tea in his hand and said something good.

Seeing that he drank all the tea in the teacup in one gulp, Abe Sakihime felt helpless, poured another cup for him, and said, "Tea is for tasting."

This time Ah Yan tasted tea honestly.

"Tianyi is too far away from my concubine, her divine power is sealed by the contract between her body and me, she can only use three layers of divine power at most." Abe Sakihime said. "Meeting some ghosts with shallow skills can still be solved, but if the skills are slightly higher, there is nothing to do."

Ah Yan naturally knew that Tianyi was Abe Sakihime's shikigami, if Abe Sakihime was not by her side, her own divine power would be sealed.

"It's okay, I left a fox for him to play with." Ah Yan didn't care.

"That nine-tailed white fox?" Abe Sakihime was a little worried. "Although he is your envoy, he may not necessarily protect Liuxue. Besides, you are not by his side, you are bound by a contract, and his demon power is also sealed."

"That's why I canceled the relationship with him as an envoy." Ah Yan smiled narrowly. "And secretly cast a curse on him and Liu Xue."

"Curse?" Abe Sakiki was curious.

Ah Yan recited a few incantations, then said with a smile: "Guardian spell."

Hearing the spells that Ah Yan chanted, Abe Sakiki was stunned, and after a long time, she said, "Did you say the wrong spell?"

Ah Yan blinked his eyes and looked at Abe Sakihime—there was no mistake in reading it!

"That's a marriage knot." Abe Sakihime reminded.

"Uh..." Ah Yan blinked again, thought for a while, and then laughed dryly. "It seems to be a marriage knot... Heh, heh, heh." Ah Yan said word by word. "It's the same anyway, hehe, hehe, hehe."

Abe Sakihime rubbed the center of her eyebrows, can this guardian spell and marriage knot be mistaken?

But to be honest, the final results of these two spells are indeed similar, they both want to protect each other, but the marriage tie is that when the other party encounters danger, they will also suffer from heartburn.

It is also a pair of wings, sharing joys and sorrows.

She thought for a while, and called the firefly girl, and saw the firefly in the yard flying over, transformed into a little girl, and came in front of Abe Sakihime.

"Bring me my pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and that rabbit."

Yingnu responded, and quickly fetched pens, ink, paper and inkstones, as well as a Japanese bunny made of crepe cloth.The rabbit is only half the size of a palm, covered in white snow, and has green ears, just like the little rabbits that children make out of snow in winter. The body of the rabbit is made of snow, and the ears of the rabbit are made of small leaves.

The little rabbit was placed on the table, blinked suddenly, and after bouncing around on the table a few times, looked at Ah Yan, and asked, "Oh, Saki Ji, is this guy your mistress?" The voice was like a Drunk middle-aged uncle.

Ah Yan smiled slightly.

The rabbit didn't speak Chinese, but Ah Yan also understood Japanese.

Abe Sakihime ignored him, and drew a spell on the paper with a brush, then put the pen in her mouth, clasped her hands together, and in an instant, the spell on the paper moved a few times, and then flew out.

Seeing the spell, the rabbit was stunned, and it roared for a while: "Why did you untie the seal on that boy Liuxue? You don't know that he is so young and is a psychic medium. If his psychic power is too strong, he will be killed." The demon is thinking about possessing it!"

"The concubine has only unlocked one-tenth of it." Abe Sakiki said softly.

"That won't work either! Did you forget that when he was six years old, he was possessed by a red ghost, which caused panic among all ghosts and caused chaos in the capital?" said the rabbit. "Didn't that kid accept Ling Yanji? If he encounters danger, that girl will protect him."

Speaking of Suzuhikohime, that is Liu Xue's only shikigami, the reason for accepting her is very simple, because Suzuhikohime is beautiful, so Liu Xue ran to the door of someone's house and sang the Japanese national anthem for seven days and seven nights, Suzuhiko Ji couldn't bear it Yes, I agree.At that time, Liuxue was five years old, but when he was six years old, he was possessed by a red ghost, and his spiritual power was out of control. In order to wake him up, Suzuhikohime injured his soul and lost his body, and he has been cultivating in a mountain temple in Osaka.

Abe Sakihime kindly reminded: "Suzuhikohime should be recuperating."

Rabbit has nothing to say.

"Why don't you go and look at him?" Abe Sakiki said with a smile.

The rabbit suddenly opened his eyes wide. Although he was trying to open them, the eyes were still a little bit bigger.

I knew it, I knew it, that girl definitely had a hard job for me to let me come here.But who told me to eat grass and milk... er... it seems that I didn't milk.

Abe Sakiki still looked at him with a smile.

The rabbit resigned to his fate, and glanced at Abe Sakihime, Abe Sakihime drew a circular charm on the paper, and the rabbit jumped over, in the middle of the circular charm.

"I will send you to Tianyi's place."

"What if she is taking a bath?" Rabbit said, although he looks like this now, he is also male!

Abe Sakihime lowered her brows and smiled, "Then you can ask for more blessings."

The rabbit thought that if Tian Yi was really taking a bath, and he would just appear in front of her like this, he probably would have to mend himself with needles and threads tomorrow.

When the rabbit was thinking about it, he saw a beam of white light covering his whole body, and in an instant, the white light disappeared, and in front of him was Tianyi holding a book of fairy tales and telling a story to a little girl who was sleeping on the bed.

Luckily he wasn't taking a shower.

Seeing the rabbit suddenly appearing at the end of the bed, Tianyi wasn't too surprised, but the little girl looked at the rabbit curiously. Before she knew what was going on, she saw a spot of light appear and spread out instantly, and then the rabbit appeared up.

After a while, the rabbit said: "Tianyi, さしぶり." (Saxi ignores, long time no see~~)

Tianyi looked at it silently, the little girl blinked and asked, "What did he say?"

Rabbit suddenly realized a very important problem - he can't speak Chinese!

After the rabbit left, Ah Yan held the teacup and said aggrievedly: "Why don't you believe in your husband? That cloth rabbit is not as useful as that white fox."

Abe Sakiki looked at him silently, her eyes seemed to say - how can someone who confuses guardian spells and marriage knots believe it?

"But the spiritual power in that rabbit is not small." Ah Yan felt that the rabbit was not an ordinary Japanese cloth rabbit. Of course, ordinary cloth rabbits would not move.

"He has the soul of Seimei-sama." Abe Sakiki said softly.

"Abe Seimei..." Ah Yan was stunned.

Abe Seimei, one of the most famous onmyojis in the Heian period, the son of the fox fairy Ge Ye, and the ancestor of Abe Sakihime.