[Comprehensive] Natsume Reiko's trip

Pick up the wooden barrel, tie it with a hemp rope, then raise your arms and throw the empty wooden barrel into the well at once, and the clear and translucent well water slowly flows into the barrel along the edge.

A rough, dark hand gripped the hemp rope, and slowly lifted the wooden bucket full of water up steadily, leaving slightly whitish traces on the edge of the well.

As the people moved, the clear water swayed from side to side in the bucket. Occasionally, a piece of water would break away from the wooden bucket, leaving traces on the dry ground, which would soon be dried again by the scorching sun.

One-third of the clear water in the bucket was splashed on a huge wheel by a pair of powerful arms. Calloused hands took a rag, dipped it into the water, and began to wipe it.

Pieces of dirt on the wheels either fell off the ground or dissolved in the water, and the half bucket of clear water gradually turned a cloudy yellow.

"Asako, have you finished the car wash? Hirano-sama will use the bullock cart later." A dark-faced but honest-looking man walked up to the woman who was cleaning the bullock cart, showing an affectionate smile.

"It will be ready soon!" Mazi straightened up, wiped his sweat-drenched face with his dirty sleeves, and smiled, showing his yellowed teeth.

The man's name is Aso, and he is a driver; the woman's name is Mazi, and she is in charge of cleaning the cart and some sweeping work.

Perhaps it can be seen from the names that Aso and Asako are a couple. They are both servants of the Hirano family, a small nobleman, and they usually live in thatched huts around the cattle pen.

They don't have beautiful faces, they don't have rich knowledge, they just live in such a rough and dirty corner where no one will take a second look, but they don't complain, and are even very satisfied.

It is not cheap to have a house to live in, food to eat, a place to live with the people you love, and a lively and lovely son who support themselves by hard work.

Mazi skillfully wiped the ox cart dry, pulled out a well-raised green ox from the pen, and fixed it on the ox cart.

Aso took the reins of the ox cart from Mazi, and said goodbye to Mazi in a dull way: "I'm leaving."

"Be careful on the road." Mazi said the words that had been repeated countless times, and kept watching Aso's back until he could no longer see him.

The son is now a naughty age. He would go out to the street to play every afternoon, and then come back in the evening.Perhaps the son will succeed his father when he grows up, continue to be a coachman, and take a maid as his wife.As for studying and becoming an official, that is a matter of another world.

A nobleman's child will always be a nobleman, and a coachman's child will always be a coachman. This is such an era.

The sun gradually set to the west, and the sky was dyed golden red. Mazi washed the dirt off her hands, and went to the side door to wait for the return of Aso and her son—just like she had done countless times before.

Only this time, all Mazi waited for was Hirano-sama's angry kick, and... that small joint stuck in the wheel, the cute arm like a lotus joint.

……

"Meow! What the hell is this!" Jiuming Mao was startled by the sudden igniting of the flame, and hurried to the side.

"This is the flame on the wheel, but it disappeared after being knocked out by me." Yaodao Ji explained seriously.

When Jiuming Mao saw this wheel on the street, it only saw the back of the wheel, so it didn't notice that this wheel was not a real "wheel", but Yao Dao Ji saw all this clearly.

Reiko, boys and girls, and Xiaobai were also attracted by the sudden flames, and they all gathered around to observe the wheel carefully.

The disheveled face above the wheel gradually lifted up. It was the face of a not-so-young woman, and now it was even green-faced and fangs, looking extremely ferocious.

"Have you seen my child?"

Mazi's owner, Hirano, and a member of the Fujiwara clan, who were in power at the time, fell in love with the same woman. In order to compete for the ownership of the woman, the two dudes even came up with an extremely absurd competition method-car racing in the capital of Ping'an.

"Car" naturally refers to an ox cart. The specific method of the test is to start from the Suzaku Gate at the northernmost point of Ping'an Jing and continue along the Suzaku Avenue that runs through the north and south. The first person to reach the Luocheng Gate in the south will win.

Heian-kyo is the capital of Japan, and it was also the largest and most prosperous city at the time, and there were naturally many pedestrians on the street.

Although a cow usually moves slowly, it is far more terrifying than a horse when it goes crazy.When the horse is running wildly, if the knight's skill is high enough, it can stop the horse; but the cow is much heavier than the horse, making it more difficult to stop.

But all of this is not something that two aristocratic teenagers who are dazzled by their beauty will think about.

The honest Aso has never done such a dangerous thing, but how can a servant violate the master's order?He could only let Qingniu run while carefully avoiding hitting pedestrians.

Fujiwara's ox cart quickly overtook Hirano's ox cart, and Hirano was furious in the car, scolding Aso loudly, claiming that if he could not win the competition, his family would be expelled from the mansion forever.

Aso had no choice but to hit Qingniu hard with a whip.

Two speeding bullock carts were rampaging on Suzaku Avenue, pedestrians cursed and quickly evaded to both sides.

Looking at the vacant road ahead, Aso breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time prayed in his heart: let the bullock carts reach Luocheng Gate safely, let the bullock carts reach Luocheng Gate safely in this way.

but……

"Daddy!" The white and tender child wiped a few pieces of dust on his face because of his playfulness, he ran towards Aso's ox cart with his arms outstretched, with a "come and hug me" expression on his face.

Aso's son has grown up near the cattle pen since he was born. Apart from his parents, he has seen green cattle and carts most of the time.To him, cattle are as familiar and harmless as eating and drinking.

The little child didn't know the difference between the wildly running cow in front of him and the usually docile cow rubbing against his head.

The four or five-year-old child happily walked to the center of Suzaku Avenue, waiting for the gentle nose of Qingniu to come to his face, and then snorted.

But all he waited for was Aso's heart-piercing roar: "Get out of the way!!"

Zhi'er tilted his head, maintaining a naive and puzzled expression, as if he didn't understand why his father was so angry.Then……

His expression never changed again.

The reality is not a fairy tale, and not every time someone gets bumped, a hero will come forward.

The green bull bumped straight into the juvenile, throwing him aside; his outstretched arm, waiting for a hug, just got caught in the wheel, and then separated from the body.

Zhi'er rolled twice on the road, dragging out a long bloodstain, and finally remained motionless like a rag doll.

Aso didn't care about any competition anymore, he jumped off the bullock cart like crazy, the huge momentum caused Aso to roll on the ground several times, he crawled to his child's side, tremblingly picked up the child and took it with him. Some warm corpses.

The out-of-control ox cart crashed into a nearby shop, and the running ox finally stopped.Hirano, who was seriously injured, climbed out of the car angrily, limped to the side of Aso, pulled out the knife from his waist, and slashed down on Aso's bewildered eyes...

"Where is my child? Where is my Aso?" The grimace with blue face and fangs was still muttering to himself, the flame ignited on the wheel was like a huge lantern, as if trying to illuminate the road in the dark night for someone .

"I always feel...it has lost something very important." Reiko was infected by the monster's emotions and couldn't help but mourn.

She stretched out her hand and touched the grimace that was about to cry.

Mazi frantically ran towards Suzaku Avenue, looking for the impossible miracle.

The law and order in Heian-kyo is much better than the countryside where bandits are ravaging, but this majestic and majestic city never lacks killing and death.

Be it human or demon, people are killed and killed every day.

The corpses of humble status were naturally dealt with directly, and the city guard dragged the corpses skillfully, and then threw them into the river.The river water splashed faintly, and the red color continued to swell with the water flow, getting bigger and weaker, until it never existed.

This is Heian-kyo, a city where darkness and light coexist, a city where people and ghosts coexist.

The child is gone, and Aso is gone, only the bloodstains on the street that have not completely disappeared are laughing at Mazi's helplessness.

What follows is another old-fashioned story. The pockmarked boy who had nothing but resentment eventually turned into a monster, possessed himself on the blood-stained wheel that was stuck on his son's only arm, and when he was traveling in the plains one day, he carried caught him and sent him to hell.

The enemy is dead, but what is lost can never come back.

"Where is my child? Where is my Aso?"

The hoarse voice kept repeating this sentence, it seemed that as long as she kept saying it, she could find the person she wanted to see.

Every wheel into the Tao is born in sorrow and resentment. They may die under the wheel or someone important to them die under the wheel, so they turn into wheel-shaped monsters and run alone in the evening. Street, looking for something.

Such monsters are not powerful, and generally as long as they forcibly make a contract, they can be taken for their own use.

Reiko withdrew her hand from touching the grimace, those sad memories were still roaring in her mind: "Seimei, I hate those nobles who disregard human lives. I really hate them."

"What a coincidence, me too." Although she didn't see those memories like Reiko, Seimei guessed the facts based on Reiko's attitude.

"Hey, Qingming, can we help her? At least, bury the bodies of her husband and son properly."

Reiko briefly described the cause and effect of the matter to Qingming, and then waited for Qingming's answer.

"Maybe." Qingming's eyes fell on the bone that was still stuck in the wheel, "Although it has been a while, when the corpse is thrown into the river, it should be placed on the bank first. The leaves will smell of blood."

As he said that, he looked at Xiaobai on the side: "And Xiaobai's sense of smell is very sensitive, maybe he can find something."

noob:"……"

Master Qingming, although Xiaobai is very happy to help, but Xiaobai is really not a dog!

The author has something to say:

This chapter is a bit heavy, so Xiaobai was finally asked to show off his cuteness.