I didn't expect you to be such an onmyoji.

Although he was wearing complicated unlined clothing, Yuan Dongshi felt that the chill penetrated through the layers of clothing and flesh and blood, and penetrated into the bones after being blown in the cold winter wind and snow for a while, and the chill invaded the brain along the bones, The snow dancing with the wind in front of me also became blurred, and the black wings of the big tengu almost merged with the night, showing their shape in the flurry of snowflakes.

She retracted her neck into the collar, clenched the palm of her sleeve into a fist, and stabbed her nails into the hypothenar of the palm, so as not to lose consciousness in this windy and snowy night.

Even so, when she was swept by the wind to Mount Black Night, her sanity was already blurred.

She only vaguely remembered a few hazy lights suddenly appearing in front of her eyes, as if seeing the warm lights in the house through the window screen, she slowly stretched out her hand, trying to reach the light, but the hand that was pinched and bleeding with nails only grasped to the cold air.

Although her mind was blurred, she still thought of the little match girl.

Tsk, it's a bit miserable.

She lowered her hand and slowly closed her eyes, but she felt a faint warmth at the little finger of her right hand. She moved her little finger slightly, and the warmth spread along the little finger to the whole palm, and finally along the meridian , like tributaries criss-crossing the land, flowed to the whole body, and finally merged into one stream, flowing into her chest cavity where the heartbeat became a little slow.

She exhaled and felt herself come alive.

There was a faint familiar scent coming from her nostrils. She was still a little sluggish at the moment, and she couldn't remember it for a while. When she was about to open her eyes, she suddenly heard a gentle and deep voice from her side: "Ah, this It's Miss Dongshi."

Gentoshi's hand, which had just regained consciousness, moved violently.

This voice is clear.

The fragrance lingering in the nostrils is also Qingming's usual mustard fragrance.

But she quickly vetoed it again. Although her voice was the same, her tone was a little arrogant and contemptuous, like a superior who watched a weak person dying. His actions were relaxed, and even though he said words that could choke people to death, his tone and demeanor were impeccable, making him half-deadly angry, but he couldn't say anything wrong.

She slowly opened her eyes, and saw a figure standing in front of the hazy light in her eyes. He stood against the light, casting a shadow in her eyes. She squinted her eyes, and could only see clearly the black hunting clothes on his body, and The whole body seemed to be stained with thick night color, and walking from the boundless darkness, even if it was bathed in light, it could only feel the bone-chilling chill.

She looked up, and when she was about to see the man's face clearly, a pair of cold hands had already covered her eyelids.

The cold and arrogant voice said with a smile that didn't enter the heart: "Miss Dongshi has worked hard all the way, you have worked hard, please go to sleep."

Yuan Dongshi managed to raise her hand, grasped the man's cold wrist, and wanted to take his hand away, but unexpectedly, the man didn't use any force, she easily moved the hand aside, Looking at the past again, he was against the light, his face could not be seen clearly, only a pair of eyes with slightly upturned corners, and golden pupils looking down at her condescendingly.

"You are..." She frowned, and Qing Xingdeng's memories of demonizing Qingming's golden pupils flashed in her mind.

However, the hand she removed just now covered her eyes again, and the cold touch made her shiver uncontrollably, but then she heard the voice say again: "I am Abe Seimei."

That hand was as cold as a snowy day, and it almost seeped into her brain from her eye sockets, but she felt strangely sleepy, her eyelids seemed to be filled with lead, and they were getting heavier and heavier, her mind was in chaos, and all guesses were in vain. become blurred.

She couldn't help closing her eyes, and then heard a soft and slightly sad voice in her ear: "Dongzimaru, mother is gone, if you miss her, you can come to Shinta Forest at the foot of Heiye Mountain, but mother will never see you again." is you."

"Don't blame your mother, only in this way can you grow up safely."

Yuan Dongshi's hand hanging by her side trembled slightly, and clenched the cuff at her hand. She opened her eyes slightly, but saw that her eyes were no longer a piece of darkness with hazy light, but a dense forest bathed in starlight. It was cut to pieces by the crown of the tree, and stars of different colors can still be seen from among the dense leaves. There is a faint red light in the forest in the distance, and I don't know where the light comes from.

She propped up her upper body on her elbows and slowly sat up.

There are cicadas chirping one after another beside her ears, and the warm wind blows occasionally, making the leaves whirling, and the starlight is faint, but every tree and leaf is very clear in her eyes.

here is……

Yuan Dongshi opened his eyes wide and looked around: "Xintai Forest."

She lowered her head and spread out her right hand, only to see that the hypothenar area of ​​her right hand still had the marks she had pinched out with her nails before, the wound had scabbed over, and there were still a few bloodstains on the back of her hand.

"Is it a dream?" She said to herself, then propped her hands on the ground, stood up slowly, and just took a few steps forward when she suddenly smelled something burnt.

She suddenly widened her eyes, and ran towards the red glowing place with the hem of her clothes on her hands. The closer she got, the more she could feel the hot air waves, and the crackling sound of the flames licking the branches and leaves was getting louder and louder in her ears. clear.

This is the fire in Xintai Forest 20 years ago!

She was running in the forest, and the heavy and complicated single clothes made her almost breathless. She simply took off the outermost single clothes, hung them on a low tree branch, and threw away the clogs on her feet , stepping barefoot on the ground covered with broken branches and leaves, she ran so fast that she didn't have time to look at her feet, she tripped over the roots of the old tree sticking out of the ground, and rolled down the slope.

She gritted her teeth, letting the broken branches and gravel on the ground scratch the single clothes and sweater on her body, leaving bloodstains on her skin.

After the momentum of the falling was changed, she supported her body and stood up again. At this time, she was very close to the fire scene, and in front of her eyes was a flame that almost dyed the sky red. Almost scorched by the heat.

She reached out and wiped the sweat on her forehead from the heat wave with her torn sleeve, then put her hands around her mouth and shouted: "Qingming!"

The fire was getting stronger and stronger, and the sound of burning almost drowned her cries.

While calling Qingming's name, she walked through the fire scene, her bare feet stepped on the ground that had just been scorched by the fire, and she only felt bursts of unbearable burning pain, and the skin on the soles of her feet was burned with scorching marks. Biting her sleeves, she tore off the fabric, bound her feet carelessly, and then found a gap in the fire wall, slipped in, and went deep into the scene of the fire.

At this time, Yuan Dongshi felt that she would never dislike the snowy night in Heianjing a few days ago. She was in the fire scene, feeling the high temperature of the flame at the closest distance, her fever was scorched by the heat wave, and her body was forced out by the heat wave. The sweat dripped from the eyelashes to the eyes, and she felt sore. She wiped her eyes with her elbow, then shook her head, trying to stay awake.

She took a few more steps forward, and saw a banyan tree not far away that was being licked by flames. She froze for a moment, then ran over there quickly.

At this time, the cloth tied to her feet had fallen off, and the embers wrapped her instep, but the burning pain was forgotten by her, until she saw a small figure under the banyan tree, she couldn't bear it anymore, Weeping and shouting: "Qingming!"

The figure seemed to move, and looked towards her. She wiped away the tears from her eyes with the back of her hand, and ran over there.

The person standing under the banyan tree was indeed the young Seimei.

He was in the midst of the fire, and the big banyan tree behind him, which was once curled up in the roots, was already wrapped in flames. Time can swallow him up like that banyan tree.

However, he closed his eyes and stood in the fire, as if he was unconscious.

Yuan Dongshi gritted his teeth, covered the scratched and torn clothes on top of his head, wrapped his whole body, closed his eyes, and rushed forward. When he passed the wall of fire, the scorching heat that he had never felt before suddenly came to him. Sweeping around her made her almost unable to breathe, she ran a few steps, threw aside the flame-stained singlet, and ran to Qingming's side.

Seimei still had her eyes closed, but her brows were tightly frowned, as if she was having a nightmare.

Yuan Dongshi held his shoulders with both hands, shook him vigorously, and called his name, seeing that he still didn't respond, he hugged him, and at this moment, someone's exclamation suddenly came from outside the fire wall .

"Xintai forest fire! Restriction is dangerous!"

She turned her head, and there seemed to be someone outside the firewall.

"Someone!"

"There are still people in the fire!"

"Hurry up and save people!"

Yuan Dongshi let out a sigh of relief, fortunately there was someone.

She hugged Qingming in her arms, but suddenly found a trace of black air floating in front of her eyes, the black air was tangled into a human shape, floating in front of her eyes, she quickly lowered her head, and sure enough, she saw traces of black air oozing from Qingming's body.

"who are you?"

She heard a childish voice asking her, with cold arrogance.

She looked up, only to see a pair of golden eyes appearing in the black air of the human figure, looking down at her.

"Who are you? Why did you save me?"

The voice continued to ask.

Yuan Dongshi frowned and said, "It's not you I want to save."

Those golden eyes narrowed: "I am him, and he is me."

"No." Yuan Dongshi said, "You are not him, so get out of his body quickly."

The black air became more intense, with a compelling aura, and at this time the voices outside the fire wall became even more noisy, and some people shouted "Master Zhongxing has brought people from Yinyang Liao here", and when they heard He Maozhongxing coming, Yuan Dongshi heaved a sigh of relief, the golden eyes looked at Yuan Dong Shi once more, then flew out from above the flames, and merged into the sky dyed red by the fire.

At this time, the fire had already surrounded Yuan Dongshi. She looked around her body and then at herself. At this time, only a thin undershirt was left. No matter what, it could not resist the flames, nor could it resist the flames. Envelops two people.

Before she had time to think about it, she bent down, wrapped Qingming in her arms, and rushed towards the wall of fire.

When she passed the wall of fire again, the flames burned her skin without any hindrance, and the vines carrying the fire fell from the banyan tree. The burning pain made her almost cry out, and the flames rushed to her hair and devoured the hem of her clothes.

At this time, she heard a childish voice:

"who are you?"

She lowered her head and saw those black eyes, and from those clear black eyes, she could still see herself covered in flames.

She felt a drop of warm liquid slide down from her eye socket and hit Qingming's cheek.

She squinted her eyes and smiled, seeing herself smiling like a fox in Qingming's eyes.

"I am Yuandongshi."

The onmyojis came with shikigami flying through the flames, she threw Seimei to the onmyojis who were rushing over, and the fire quickly spread all over her body, covering her vision.

It turned out that they met each other 20 years ago.