[Comprehensive] Natsume Reiko's trip

"Dang bang"!

A white chess piece landed in the chess box made of ebony wood, making a sound like a pearl falling to the ground.

A handsome man with purple hair hanging down and wearing a white hunting suit opened his eyes slightly, looking at the chess game on the board in disbelief. The black and white chess pieces seemed to turn into ferocious giant beasts, about to devour him.

"Master Fujiwara, you lost." Kentada Sugawara covered half of his face with a fan, narrowed his narrow eyes and looked maliciously at Sakai Fujiwara, who was in a state of despair.

Fujiwara Sawei suddenly raised his head, the anger in his eyes seemed to be about to turn into substance: "If it's an upright competition, you lose if you lose, it's no big deal, but I saw you move the pieces on the chessboard with my own eyes! Wait for the villain to act..."

"Speak carefully!" Sugawara Akatsuki interrupted Fujiwara Sakai's questioning unceremoniously, "Master Fujiwara, everyone present can clearly see that you were the one who moved the chess pieces. Your Majesty kindly forgave your behavior, You even allowed the competition to continue, but I didn't expect you to shamelessly slander me after losing the chess game."

"You, you!" Satoshi Fujiwara's face turned pale with anger, and he couldn't even speak.Zuo Wei, who has always been obsessed with Go and not popular things, has never seen such behavior of opening his eyes and telling lies.

He could only kneel down in front of the emperor, hoping that the emperor would uphold justice for him: "Majesty, Zuo Wei asks for a new contest to prove his innocence!"

Sitting behind the bamboo curtain, the expression of the emperor could not be seen clearly. The supreme ruler of Heiankyo waved his sleeves and made a judgment in a cold tone: "Fujiwara Sakai cheated in the Go competition in front of the hall, You have no repentance, and now you are expelled from Heianjing, so you can do it yourself."

After saying that, he left the throne.

"My Majesty?" Zuo Wei looked at the swaying bamboo curtain in disbelief, as if he couldn't believe that such an ending was waiting for him.

"Tsk tsk, so what about the people from the Fujiwara family? They have lost a complete defeat!" The ministers and ministers watching the battle covered their lips with their sleeves, talking unceremoniously about the "loser" in front of them.

They don't care who wins and who loses, they are just happy that there is one more thing to talk about after dinner.

"Didn't you see it? Some of you must have seen who the person who moved the chess piece was! Why didn't any of you tell the truth?"

Faced with Zuowei's questioning, even the officials of the Fujiwara family in the main hall shook their heads and sighed, as if they were ashamed that such a person with bad conduct appeared in the clan.

Zuo Wei looked at those ministers and ministers leaving one by one in confusion, those eyes of pity, ridicule, or contempt pierced him like a sharp arrow, why did they look at him like this?The person who obviously cheated was Kentada Sugawara, not Sakai Fujiwara!

It wasn't until Fujiwara Sawei and Sugawara Kentada were left in the hall that Xianzhong supported the ground and got up slowly: "Don't you understand? This competition, you can only lose, not win."

"The power of the Fujiwara family is overwhelming, constantly seizing the rights that belong to the maharaja, but the ancestor of the Sugawara family, Michizane Sugawara, has just become a god. If you were the maharaja, who would you prefer to win?"

"Everyone in this hall understands, but you are the only one who doesn't understand. It's no wonder that even the people from the Fujiwara clan don't bother to save you."

Fujiwara Sakumi could understand every word that Kentada Sugawara said, but the combination made him feel like he was listening to heaven: "What's the matter in the court, what has to do with chess?"

Akita Sugawara took a sympathetic look at Zuo Wei, a person who is simply obsessed with one thing like this is not suitable for being born in the complicated Fujiwara clan: "Life is like chess, the outcome on the chessboard is never between this square inch. "

But the world is so big, his world of Fujiwara Sato has always only had this small chessboard.

……

It was October at this time, and the maple leaves all over the mountains and plains dyed the whole world red, and Reiko had stayed in the Heian Era for half a year before she knew it.

There are cherry blossom hunting in spring, summer festivals in summer, red leaf hunting in autumn, and winter is the day when all things sleep, and everyone nests by the stove to enjoy the snow and drink tea.

Just when Seimei decided to take Reiko to the Maple Leaf Forest to enjoy the red leaves, an unexpected guest came to the courtyard.

This was undoubtedly the daughter of a prominent nobleman. Although she was not very old, she was wearing extremely complicated twelve single clothes, with smooth and beautiful black hair hanging down her waist.

She took off the jug attire that women put on when they went out, revealing a childish face: "Excuse me, is this Master Qingming's residence?"

"I'm Abe Seimei, I don't know who you are?" Seimei stepped forward and looked at the girl in front of him in surprise.

Reputable women in this era don't go out easily, so although Seimei has come into contact with a lot of high-level officials, this is the first time Seimei has encountered a daughter of a nobleman who came to visit her in person.

The girl breathed a sigh of relief, took out a package from her bosom, and carefully put it in front of Qingming: "I am Zhuyin, I came here secretly this time, I hope Lord Qingming can keep it a secret for me."

"Princess Zhuyin?!" Qingming exclaimed in surprise, it was hard to imagine that a princess from a country would come to his small courtyard in person.

Zhuyin clasped her hands together and looked at Qingming with a pleading expression: "Yes, so please, Master Qingming, please keep it a secret. If others find out, it will be a disaster!"

The 13-year-old princess is not as domineering as imagined, but very cute and playful, which makes people feel good and can't bear to refuse.

"Lord Qingming is really charming, he is indeed a female killer!" Xiao Bai couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

After seeing the fluffy Xiaobai, Zhuyin's eyes lit up.She grabbed her clothes with both hands, and rushed to hug her crazy breasts patiently: "It is said that Master Qingming has many shikigami, and it is true! But don't get me wrong, I already have someone I like, and I don't know how to match Shikigami." The gods are going to snatch Master Qingming."

It took Xiaobai a long time to digest the information in Zhuyin's words. What does it mean to "not compete with Shikigami for Lord Seimei"?

Zhuyin clasped her ten fingers in front of her chest, with a longing expression on her face: "It is said that Lord Seimei has an unusual love for a shikigami named 'Reiko', that's why he has never married a wife and had children."

"Huh?" Xiaobai couldn't help opening his mouth when he heard the words, and his eyes fell on Qingming.

"Reiko and I don't have that kind of relationship." Seimei quickly explained, but this excuse was very weak to Zhuyin.

In this era when you can be a parent at the age of thirteen or fourteen, the 22-year-old Seimei Abe who is still single is indeed a maverick.That's all, whenever she goes out to eliminate demons, Reiko will follow her around, and she even lives in Seimei's house.Even though Reiko's public identity is Seimei's shikigami, some good people still spread various rumors.

"Qingming, do you have any guests?" Reiko, Yaodao Ji, and Tong Nu came over from the kitchen with some refreshments they had just made.

Most of the days in the Heian era were very boring. In order to pass the extra time, Reiko began to try various things - tea is one of them.

Maybe it was because she was good at cooking before she was alive. After a short contact with Yaodao Ji, who lost her memory, she became very good at cooking. Tongnv and Reiko also began to ask Yaodao Ji for her cooking secrets.

Zhuyin's eyes became brighter after seeing Reiko, Seimei quickly changed the subject before she said "surprisingly" again: "Princess Zhuyin, why don't you talk about your purpose for coming here."

"Ah, that's right." Zhuyin's expression became a little sad, she gently stroked the package, and then opened it.

Inside the package was a boxy chessboard. One corner of the chessboard was stained with dark red blood, which looked like dirt from a distance.

"This is a relic of the master who taught me chess. After I got this chessboard, I tried to wipe it clean, but no matter how much I wiped the blood on it, it was still stubbornly attached to the board. So I thought, it is It's not that Master has any grievances that cannot be resolved... That's right, how can there be no grievances? Master will never do such things as cheating! He loves Go so much."

Seimei lightly touched the chessboard with his fingers. The wood used to make the chessboard was of the highest quality and evenly painted on it.The pool of blood didn't seem to exist to the touch, but it could indeed be seen with both eyes.

When it comes to the words Go and cheating, Seimei has also heard a little bit: the famous chess players Sawei Fujiwara and Kentada Sugawara met in front of the emperor in order to compete for the title of No. [-].This competition was originally scheduled for summer, but because Sato Fujiwara was struck by lightning while practicing chess under a tree, the competition was postponed to October.

Fujiwara Sawei first cheated during the competition, and then publicly slandered Sugawara Kentada after losing chess. The emperor expelled him from Heiankyo in a rage, and Seimei never heard of it later.

But since it is a "relic", it means that there is something else hidden in this story.

"The master you mentioned must be a Fujiwara chess player, can you tell me how he died?" Qingming asked with a fan.

"I only found out about Master being expelled from Ping'an Capital two days later. At that time, I sent servants to inquire about Master's whereabouts, but... I got the news that Master committed suicide by jumping into the river with a chessboard in his arms." Speaking of this, Zhu Yin The sockets of her eyes slowly turned red, and she raised her sleeves to cover her face, not wanting others to see her crying.

"I want to know whether it is true that the Fujiwara chess player cheated in chess?"

"How is this possible!" Zhuyin's emotions suddenly became agitated, "For Master, Go is everything to him. Apart from Go, he doesn't care about anything... How could such a person do something that would tarnish Go .”

Logically speaking, Fujiwara Saori undoubtedly died full of resentment. In this case, Seimei would not find it strange even if Saori became a vengeful spirit.

But why is there not even a little resentment on this chessboard?If Zuo Wei was successfully reincarnated, why couldn't the blood on the chessboard be wiped off?

This is what Seimei has always been unable to figure out.

"The Fujiwara chess player you are talking about, is that man sitting on the chessboard, with purple hair, wearing a white hunting suit, and crying all the time?"

While talking, Reiko pointed to the empty chessboard with her finger.

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ps1: Originally, there was supposed to be a summer festival to write, but my mind was full of Sakai’s story, so I simply wrote it first. That's right, this Zhuyin is the "Sakura" who first became Sugawara Michizane's artifact after death, and became Yato's artifact after being expelled from Michizane.Sakura taught Yato what good and evil are, but later Yato was designed by Nora to tell the real name of "Sakura", and "Sakura" also became a monster and was beheaded by Yato.