[Death] Acacia inkstone

"The matter has to start with the Lingguan family." Eighth Aunt smacked her lips, and continued to scan the table to see if there was any snacks to eat: "You all know that the Takikawa family has been Lingguan for generations. "

Xiaohui nodded: "Well, I heard that a spirit official is a person who assists in the management of the Lingwang Palace. He has a powerful spiritual pressure and a high position. But I also heard that to become a spirit official seems to have to go through a lot of tests... ...Well, first of all, you must be good enough to stand out from your peers; second, you must survive a long and lonely training; and finally, you must pass a harsh test..."

"Assessment?" The pink-clothed girl showed a puzzled expression. She didn't catch up with the eighth aunt's tea party a few times ago, and the gossip news platform was not updated in time, and now she was very regretful.

"That's right, according to my informant," the crowd cast curious glances, Aunt Eight was a little embarrassed, she coughed twice, and explained: "It's the uncle of Aunt Seven, who is the former best friend of the daughter of the old Wang's family next door. A neighbor said that before taking office, the spirit officer will accept the assessment of the previous spirit officer, and if he fails, not only will he not be able to become a spirit officer, but he will also suffer a great loss of energy."

There has always been very little communication between the spirit world and the soul world, and even the few passages have been blocked, so news about the spirit world is rarely spread.However, the spirit world usually sends envoys to inform Jinglingting about major events such as the change of the spirit officer.There is no impenetrable wall in the world, and as time goes on, there are always many things that can be spread on Liuhun Street.What's more, there has always been a lot of well-informed women like Aunt Ba in the world of corpses and souls, who like to hold tea parties and gossip. The storytellers have all been squeezed out of their jobs.

"Wouldn't it be too difficult to become this spirit official?" The girl in pink frowned, her fair and tender face showing an expression of injustice: "If this Takigawa Aoba fails the examination, I'm hurt. myself, what should I do?"

"Look at your appearance," Eighth Aunt looked at the young girl in front of her, who was full of love, and couldn't help but think of her own youth, and said with a smile, "Why are you so anxious about other people's affairs?"

"I..." The girl hesitated and got up, quickly picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"Okay, I won't tease you anymore." Eighth Aunt grabbed the last handful of melon seeds on the plate, and turned to greet Xiao Er: "Bring us some more snacks."

"Xiaohui just said that before becoming a spirit official, you need to practice. This practice exists to pass the examination. The successors of the spirit officials in the past will be sealed nine tenths of the spirit pressure, and then sent to the back of the spirit world. A stone cave, stay in that lonely and cold place for 120 years. There is a powerful ghost path at the entrance of the stone cave, and it is impossible to enter and exit before the time limit."

"One, 120 years?" The girls all stared wide-eyed, isn't this too long?

"That's right, it's all about honing your will and practicing kung fu." Aunt Eight smiled, but then sighed again: "However, if I stay in that kind of place for decades, it's probably enough. "

"It's no wonder that the spirit officials of the past have been so cold-tempered. After all, they have stayed in such a boring place for more than 100 years. In the past, no matter how vigorous they were, they must have been tempered. However, they are all in charge of major affairs, and they can't be like us. People have so many personal relationships." The purple-clothed girl answered, and the appearance of her powerful father appeared in her mind-the wrinkles on her forehead were deep, her eyes were cold, and she was not very close to herself or her mother.She is a few years younger than the other two girls, so she naturally knows more about the world.

"Then... I heard that Takigawa Aoba was taken away by an envoy from the spirit world a few days ago, did she just go to practice?" Xiaohui said timidly, and couldn't help secretly thinking, a whole 120 years, by then she She must have been married a long time ago. The handsome guy Takigawa Aoba probably has no chance with her...

"What are you thinking about? Whether he cultivates or not, he has nothing to do with you." Aunt Eight guessed what Xiaohui was thinking when she saw Xiaohui's eyes, and knew that her mind was pure, but still She simply punctured her unrealistic fantasy: "The reason why Takigawa Aoba was taken away was actually because he violated the family rules on the way of cultivation, went to the lower world privately, and still hasn't returned after the 120-year period."

"This is really strange!" The purple-clothed girl couldn't help but marvel: "How did he escape from the cave and come to the world of corpses and souls? Moreover, the Takigawa clan has strict family rules, how dare he not return after the deadline?"

Eighth Aunt held the corner of her mouth, but her face darkened a bit, she sighed heavily: "Now we're going to talk about that young lady from the Huayuan family..."

With a click, a crack appeared on the teacup in Shiro Dong's hand.He smiled wryly, let go of the teacup.If this goes on like this, I'm afraid the teacups on this table will all be crushed by him.He really wanted to hear about Kaoru Sakurai's past, but he didn't want to hear it.It's just that he has been in this illusion for so long, but he has never been able to find her trace.Since the conversation at the next table is very hot, he might as well listen, maybe there are some clues.

"This Takigawa Aoba is extremely talented, but he is rebellious by nature and dissatisfied with the strict family rules. When he stayed in the cave until the 78th year, he accidentally found the passage to the spirit world-the soul world that had been sealed for many years. He practiced so Over the years, he has grown a lot, but breaking the seal still took him a lot of work."

"But the passage is not easy, there are many traps and dangers. There is only one point of spiritual pressure left on Takikawa Aoba's body, so when he comes to the world of corpses and souls, he is already full of scars, and Just at this time, he met a wild leopard." Aunt Eight said vividly.

"Ah!" The three girls cried out in unison.They have never seen a wild leopard since they grew up, but they read in the book that they have a very violent temperament, their four claws are extremely sharp, and their teeth are also sharp, which can bite a person's throat with one bite.

"However, at this moment, the eldest lady of the Huayuan family who likes to play around appeared. She shot the wild leopard in the vital point and saved Takikawa Aoba." The girls exclaimed again. After all, this is the same as The scenes of heroes saving the beauty they usually watch are different.

Winter Shiro was taken aback for a moment.Kaoru Sakurai has been in the Juban team for decades, how did he never know that her archery is so precise?In memory, she didn't seem to use arrows at all.Is the "Huayuan Qianyin" that Aunt Eight is talking about really the Kaoru Sakurai he knows well?

"That's how Takigawa Aoba met the eldest lady of the Huayuan family, but he concealed his true identity and only pretended to be a member of the soul world. The eldest lady didn't doubt him, and he was still in the next few days. Li healed his injury." Eighth Aunt stopped, asked Xiao Er to take away the tasteless tea that had been brewed, and made a new pot of tea: "What happened later...you can actually guess it. "

"So the two of them got acquainted with each other?" the purple-clothed girl asked.

Eighth Aunt nodded and said affirmatively: "That's right, Takigawa Aoba is new to the Soul Realm, and the eldest lady of Nahuayuan's family likes to travel around. They share similar interests, and later went to many places together."

The three girls fell into a state of surprise again.Dare to feel that this handsome guy, who is famous in both worlds, is already famous?No, no, they all shook their heads in denial. Didn't Eighth Aunt say that the one who will be engaged to him tomorrow is clearly Second Miss?

"More than 40 years have passed in a blink of an eye. Takigawa Aoba knows that his return date is coming, and he is going to say goodbye to the eldest lady before leaving." Eighth Aunt took a sip of the newly served tea, and after a while of bitterness, it returned to sweetness. She continued Said: "Takigawa Aoba has a cold and arrogant temperament, knowing that the two of them have very different identities, although he was a little bit reluctant to part with the eldest lady, but in the end he still didn't say it out, only saying that he was going to travel alone, maybe never again. Will be back to see her."

"Oh..." the girls sighed together.

"Although he didn't say anything, this young lady is a sensitive person. She confessed her heart to him immediately before leaving." The woman's voice softened involuntarily. You know, she also had the same temperament when she was young. In fact, she has actually done the thing of confessing to the boy she likes proactively, and she has experienced it: "Actually, the eldest lady did this not to keep him, but just to tell him her heart without leaving any regrets."

"What about Takigawa Aoba?" Eighth Aunt spoke vividly, the girl in pink held her teacup nervously, even forgot to drink tea: "What did he say, did you agree?"

"Silly girl," Aunt Eight smiled softly, with a look of pity in her eyes, and she touched the girl in pink on the head: "Men, you only know how to cherish it when you lose it. If a girl takes the initiative, she will probably only For the sake of suffering..."

"You are still young and don't understand anything," she stroked the emerald ring on her hand, and a young man appeared in her mind. It was her first love, the person she had confessed to, and that relationship started extremely well. Fiery, but ended without a problem, just like fireworks in the dark night, gorgeous and short-lived: "After hearing the other party's intentions, Takigawa Aoba rejected her instead. Because he felt that he didn't really like the eldest lady very much, so he decided to wait for her After becoming a spirit official, if he can overcome all opinions and break those old and stubborn rigid rules, he will come back to her; Long, he will soon forget."

The girls lowered their eyelashes, obviously disappointed with the result.

"The mood of the eldest lady at that time is probably similar to that of the three of you now." Aunt Eight saw that they were so depressed, and felt that they were innocent and cute. They were really young children, and other people's stories could be heard. In her heart, she couldn't help but also miss her appearance as a girl: "After Takikawa left, she was depressed for a few days, packed up her things and decided to practice meditation alone, but soon after she left, she was in danger. "

Dong Shilang's heart tightened suddenly.No wonder he couldn't find Kaoru Sakurai everywhere. From this point of view, maybe Takigawa Aoba proposed to part with Kaoru Sakurai on the day he first came to the illusion.After that, she should have stayed behind closed doors for a few days, and then left before he found the Huayuan mansion.

Xiao Er served several plates of fruit one after another, and Eighth Aunt pushed them to the middle, motioning for everyone to share and eat: "Next is the climax of the story. But seeing you like this, I guess you don't like it either." Listen, let me tell you briefly. Second Miss Izumo has never been close to her elder sister, but the second elder at home heard that there have been ferocious phantom beasts appearing in the suburbs of Liuhun Street recently, and was very worried about the safety of the eldest lady, so she called the second The young lady helped to find the elder sister back. As a result, the second young lady went out, and ran into Takikawa Aoba who was always thinking about the eldest lady, and who went back and forth, and fell in love with him at first sight..."

"It's really a bad fate," said the eighth aunt, talking non-stop, and wiped out the remaining fruits: "Takigawa Aoba listened to the second lady Izumo's brief explanation of the whole situation, so I don't say anything else. , didn’t even bother to thank you, and immediately turned around and went to find someone.”

The girls sighed a few times.

It turned out to be like this... Shiro Dong groaned.After listening quietly for a long time, many clues finally formed a thread in his mind, and many things that puzzled him before finally had answers at this moment.

He can probably be sure that when she met Izumo Huayuan more than ten days ago, it was the moment when she fell deeply in love with Takigawa Aoba... However, when Huayuan met him more than 1000 years later, she kept saying that she fell in love with him. Which one is it playing again?

"Takigawa Aoba quickly found the eldest lady, but he still encountered a phantom beast. He only had one point of spiritual pressure left on him. Although the eldest lady's spiritual pressure is not low, the phantom beast is extremely ferocious. They fought hard together for a long time. Tian also failed to defeat him, so in the end he had to hide and wait for the phantom beast to leave before going back. But in this way, the time for Takikawa Aoba to return to the spirit world was missed."

"Isn't that good?" Xiaohui asked, "So he can be with the eldest sister of the Huayuan family?"

"You..." Eighth Aunt beckoned Xiaohui over and let her sit on her lap, "You are young, many things are not as simple as you imagined..."

"Aunt Eight, the Takigawa clan has strict family rules. He went to the lower realm without permission and failed to return. Now he was brought back...but he still has to be punished?" The purple-clothed girl frowned. I still remember that when I was a child, I went out to play and forgot the time. When I came back a stick of incense late, my father was so angry that he almost beat her. If it wasn't for my mother to stop me...

"Yes." Eighth Aunt nodded, and continued: "Takigawa Aoba was taken away on the second day after he came back. At that time, the messenger unfolded a scroll and read out his mistakes... and punishment. The eldest lady was also there, and only then did she know his true identity, she was extremely surprised, but also regretted in her heart, thinking that she dragged him down and caused him to be severely punished."

"What kind of punishment is it?" Xiaohui seemed a little scared, but curiosity got the upper hand and she couldn't help asking.

"I don't know about that. But according to my informant," Aunt Eight coughed dryly again: "It's the neighbor of Aunt Seven's uncle who is the former friend of the daughter of the old Wang's family next door—"

"—Takigawa Aoba has been unconscious since being punished, and lost most of her spiritual pressure."

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