[Comprehensive] Natsume Reiko's trip

"Boom...boom...boom..."

When the first rays of sunlight hit the earth, the monks in the monastery had already started their morning classes.

They knelt devoutly in front of the Buddha statue, tapped the wooden fish in front of them regularly with mallets, twirled rosary beads in their hands, and muttered words in their mouths.

The solemn and solemn Buddha's voice continued to spread outward along the morning mist, and was carried away by the mist.

A dancing butterfly landed on the edge of the wooden window, its wings trembling slightly, as if listening to the quiet and distant sound of wooden fish.

The sound of the Buddha stopped, the butterflies went away, and the monks started a new day of life, only the wooden fish was left alone in place.

But wooden fish is not lonely, because it has something to look forward to.When it could speak, it wanted to ask the butterfly: "Little butterfly, do you like the sound of that wooden fish?"

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The pace of time has never been diverted by human will. Winter has come to this world quietly, and the fluttering snowflakes have extinguished the fiery red of maple leaves, turning the whole land into a piece of white.

Yasuhiro Kamo and Seimei Abe sat in the Japanese-style room with a stove around them and warm wine on the table. They looked at Reiko and the shikigami who were having a snowball fight in the courtyard with amused expressions.

Bao Xian took a sip of his wine and smacked his mouth: "Sure enough, you are more comfortable here."

"If you don't have anything to go to the Three Treasures Hall, tell me, what's the matter?" Qingming asked straight to the point, but he didn't follow the set of constitutional protection.

"Really, can't I come and see my lovely junior brother?" Baoxian complained in a low voice, "Qingming, a plague suddenly appeared in Ping'an capital recently, do you know?"

"Plague? This kind of weather?" Qingming couldn't help being a little surprised.

As we all know, things like plague usually only occur on a large scale after wars or major natural disasters, because the accumulation of corpses is the most likely to cause plague.

Even the plagues caused by sudden infectious diseases are mostly concentrated in spring and summer, and winter plagues are indeed quite rare.

"It's strange, right? But there are even more strange things." Baoxian said while drinking, "Obviously those patients are getting weaker day by day, but the doctors who see them can't find any signs of their illness, but the same symptoms Large-scale spread in Heian-kyo."

"Moreover, those who got sick have one thing in common, that is, they dare not fall asleep at night, and most of the people who died died in the middle of the night."

Hearing this, what did Qingming not understand?This "plague" was probably created by another monster.

Monsters rarely attack humans on their own initiative, not to mention that the target of the attack is Heian-kyo, which is protected by layers. This is probably caused by some stupid transactions between humans and monsters.

"Which family was the first to be infected with the 'plague'?" Qingming's face flashed an indiscernible sarcasm.

"Aren't you usually not interested in these things?" Bao Xian was a little surprised, "But although these are some secret things, in fact, everyone knows it very well. It is nothing more than a trick of the Yuanping family to fight for power."

It doesn't matter whether Genji was the first to find the monster to curse Ping, or whether Ping cooperated with the monster to murder Genji.The important thing is that the monster they found is not under their control, and countless innocent people have become victims of power struggle.

Qingming suddenly felt very tired of this kind of intrigue, and a desire to destroy everything appeared in his heart, but he still took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed all the negative emotions.

Seimei knew that all the abnormalities that appeared on her body were all the conspiracy of Yamata no Orochi.

Yamata no Orochi is indeed an evil god, and the most powerful evil god is the ability to control the heart.It didn't try to invade Qingming's body or consciousness, but infinitely magnified the negative emotions in Qingming's heart.

If it's an external invasion, Qingming can drive it out, but what if it's a part of his soul that corrupts his mind?

"Qingming? Qingming, are you listening?" Baoxian, who had waited for a long time for Qingming's reply, couldn't help urging.

"What do you want me to do?" Qingming came back to his senses and asked without any abnormality.

Baoxian looked at Qingming suspiciously, and finally attributed Qingming's distracted behavior to the restlessness of a "boy in love".

"After investigation, the monster who secretly spread the plague should be a 'Witch Master', and the way it spread is people's dreams. Qingming, you are protected by an enchantment here, and that monster cannot enter your dreams, so I hope you can Stay outside for two nights and get rid of that monster."

"You can't solve this trivial matter?" Witch Gu masters are not indestructible monsters, as long as they find its hiding place in the dream, for an onmyoji like Bao Xian, eliminating them is a breeze.

To Qingming's surprise, Baoxian blushed with embarrassment: "Well, Muli is about to give birth in a few days, and I want to be by her side. What if I kill the voodoo master in my dream? When I couldn't wake up, Muli suddenly gave birth, what should I do?"

Rao Qingming was speechless after hearing this.

Kamo Kiri is the current wife of Kamo Hoken.

What a coquettish person the constitutional protection was back then, but now he has become a guy who guards his wife and lives a good life alone.

If those women in Heianjing who used to love constitutional protection found out, I'm afraid they would tear up a lot of veils, right?

Isn't it a kind of happiness to live a simple life with only one person to accompany you throughout your life?

At least in Qingming's view, this kind of constitutional protection is much better than those men who obviously have wives at home and still go to trysts with women every night.

So, can he have such a person by his side all the time?

Seimei's gaze fell on Reiko who was laughing and throwing snowballs in the garden.

Seimei originally planned to reveal his heart to Reiko, but now he hesitated again.The hidden dangers that Yamata no Orochi left on him cannot be resolved for the time being, presumably the kind-hearted Reiko will not like him who is subconsciously trying to subvert the order of Heian-kyo.

Wait a little longer, wait a little longer, he will definitely find that way to strip the darkness out.

"Ah, it's snowing again!" Baoxian stood up, walked to the front porch, and reached out to catch the slowly falling snowflakes, "If Muli gave birth to a daughter, how about I name it Xiaoxue? "

"What about having a son?"

Bao Xian froze for a moment, and showed a "silly father" smile: "Then it's called Daxue?"

"Hey!" Qingming laughed.

Baoxian was not annoyed: "Don't look at me like this, you will understand this feeling when you have your own child, Seimei. You are not too young, I know that the matter of Yamata no Orochi is your head now. It is a sharp sword in the face, but after solving it, think about it for yourself!"

Qingming glanced at Baoxian, and finally replied: "I see."

No matter whether the opponent is Yamata no Orochi or his own dark side, Abe Seimei will never lose, absolutely not.

As the snow fell more and more heavily, and the sky gradually dimmed, Baoxian began to worry that Muli might feel uncomfortable at home, so he hurriedly got up and said goodbye.

The sudden heavy snow also interrupted the undecided snowball fight in the courtyard. The Nine Lives Cat, relying on the backing of Yaodao Ji, unceremoniously stretched out its paws to provoke the Yingcao team.

As a result, Yingcao yelled "It's so scary", and at the same time unceremoniously gave the Jiuming cat a "ding", and the whole world fell silent.

"I was very happy when I was playing, but now I feel a little cold when I rest." Reiko walked into the house, sat next to the stove, and kept breathing into her hands that were red from the cold in the snow.

Qingming sighed, put down the fan, stretched out his warm hand, and covered Reiko's hand in his palm: "Your physique is different from monsters after all, don't play with them so crazy in the future."

Reiko blinked, felt Seimei's warm body temperature, and felt that her heartbeat was a little strange, maybe it was because she was exercising too much, but Reiko would not admit it.

"I will not lose to monsters."

"I have some things to do tonight, and I might not come back." As soon as the words fell, Qingming felt that something was wrong. Why did this kind of conversation feel like a husband who didn't come home at night was explaining something to his wife.

Reiko didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this conversation at all, instead she looked eager to try: "Is it about monsters? I'll go too!"

"You stay, this incident does not require too many people to participate, and the shikigami in the courtyard also needs to be taken care of." This time the battlefield is basically useless in a dream, and naturally it will All were left in the garden.

"Okay, come back soon."

Come back early, the feeling of someone waiting for me to go home seems to be good.

The snowy night passed quickly, the sky brightened, and the sun emerged from behind the clouds again.

Reiko put on her clothes, stretched her body and walked out of the house. The cold wind outside was blowing in her face, and the courtyard was empty.

In the past, as long as the door was opened, Qingming could be seen sitting or standing in the courtyard, then nodded to her, and greeted her in a flat voice: "Wake up, Reiko."

But now, there is nothing in the courtyard.

"Master Reiko, Master Seimei hasn't come back yet." The virgin flew to Reiko's side with a somewhat disturbed expression.

Reiko patted Tongnv's head and smiled reassuringly: "I guess something has delayed her. A person as powerful as Seimei will be fine."

"Hmm." The maiden's expression eased a lot.

"Master Reiko, there is a monster called the one-eyed monk who came to visit outside, saying that he wanted to ask Master Seimei and Master Reiko for help." The boy fell from the sky and said to Reiko.

In Seimei's absence, Reiko is the owner of the courtyard, and all decisions will be made by Reiko.

"Then let it in..."

"Master Reiko." Before Reiko finished speaking, White Wolf came over respectfully, "Lord He Mao Baoxian came to pay a visit."

Was Seimei so busy in the past?It's not quite light yet!

"Lord Baoxian..." Bai Lang paused for a moment, and then said the second half of the sentence, "He also brought the unconscious Lord Qingming with him."