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

"Chacha?" Yuan Boya walked a few steps closer, bent down to look at the words carved on the stone wall, and said, "Isn't it Cha Ji?"

"I didn't just say it so casually, the three Boya really believed it." Yuan Dongshi clicked his tongue a few times, then folded his hands, and said, "Since the resentment is directed at this tea garden, then this incident must have something to do with Guichuan Shrine. It’s out of the question.”

Qingming walked up to the stone, carefully looked at the old bloodstains and inscriptions on the stone, put away the bat fan, and said, "I don't know if it has anything to do with Guichuan Shrine, but it has a lot to do with Master Mizhen." At first, after thinking about it, he said, "Let's go."

As he spoke, he turned around and walked towards the way he came. His posture was still elegant, as if he was just a nobleman on a leisurely outing in the countryside.

The corner of Yuandongshi's mouth twitched, and then he chased up and asked, "Qingming, are you not catching this tea princess?"

"What Chacha stays here is only resentment, the tea garden is not her burial place." Qingming stopped, looked at the corner of the torii of Guishen Shrine in the opposite forest, and said, "I just heard about this Chacha .”

Boya said angrily, "So Qingming, how many girls in Heian-kyo do you not know?"

Qingming smiled and said, "Unfortunately, there is only one." He glanced at Yuan Dongshi, and the smile deepened at the corner of his mouth, "But we met last night."

Boya looked at Qingming, then at Yuan Dongshi, blinked his eyes and looked confused: "You guys last night..."

Yuan Dongshi, who is well aware of the nighttime tryst customs of Heianjing nobles, immediately interrupted: "Since Seimei said so, let's go and find this Chacha!"

After the impatient old cow slowly pulled the overloaded carriage out of the tea garden, Boya had forgotten to ask Qingming and Yuan Dongshi about "the romance of last night", and just sat on the carriage, yawned, and said: "Since Chacha is not in the tea garden, where should it be?"

Yuan Dongshi also looked at Qingming when she heard the words. She saw a crying woman from Qingming's resentment before, and she must have picked up Chacha. In addition, Chacha's name and Mizhen were engraved on the stone wall side by side. Let her think about it, and there are only a bunch of legends stuffed in her mind, all of which are worthy of Tathagata and wrongful of Qing.

Seimei didn't answer Seimei directly, but looked at Minamoto, and asked, "Ms. Persimmon has heard about the legend of Hashihime, so she must also know the story of Uji Hashihime and Rikyu Hachiman."

Yuan Dongshi nodded: "I know."

Boya looked confused: "What kind of story is that?"

"It seems that the three of Boya still have to study and study the legendary stories." Seimei smiled and said, "Ujihashihime is the earliest legend of Hashihime. She is the goddess who guards the Uji River. Meet her at night, and return to Hachiman against the current in the morning, so the waves of the Uji River in the morning are also the most turbulent."

Boya shrugged and said, "The legend of Ujihashihime is not different from the night party customs in Heian-kyo."

Seimei smiled and said, "Then Boya must have known about the Rikyu that Emperor Saga built in Hachiman. Rikyu Hachimangu is a shrine built on the site of Rikyu, and it is dedicated to the Hachiman God."

Boya nodded and said, "A few years ago, I went to pay homage."

Hachiman God is the god of bow and arrow, and also the clan god of Genji generals. Boya learned archery since he was a child, and he probably visited the Hachiman Shrine near Heiankyo.

Qingming nodded, and then said: "This Chacha is an orphan born in Yawata."

At this time, the ox cart had already arrived at the foot of Guichuan Mountain, and Yuan Dongshi could hear the noisy voices outside the car through the curtain of the car. When she opened the corner of the curtain, she saw that the trail leading to Guichuan Shrine was crowded with people , most of them were dressed as commoners, and there were also a few ornately decorated ox carts parked at the crossing. The attendants of the ox carts were driving away the commoners, and then helped off the noble woman wearing a city maid's hat from the ox cart.

Boya also glanced at it, and said, "Presumably today is another day for Master Mizhen to do water divination in person."

Gentoshi nodded. Yashin is a famous monk in Heian-kyo, and he stopped going down the mountain a few years ago. On the day he personally did the water divination, the Kifune Shrine was naturally overcrowded.

Gentoshi put down the curtain, looked at Seimei, and asked, "Since Chacha was born in Hachiman, why did she come to Kifune Shrine to take care of the tea garden?"

"This has to go back to when Master Mizhen was not yet famous." Qingming said slowly, "Master Mizhen was obsessed with tea ceremony when he was young. He traveled to Tanba, Harima and other places in search of high-quality tea. He once came from Rigong Hachiman When Gong came back from practicing tea art, he brought a thin little girl by his side. At that time, I was still studying under Master Zhongxing. When the nobles of Heianjing talked about this, they all said that Mizhen brought a girl by his side as soon as he was fully ordained. I am afraid that he will return to the world of mortals sooner or later, but Master Zhongxing said that it is unknown whether Mizhen and that woman are the second Ananda and Matanga."

The Matanga girl got acquainted with the Buddha's disciple Ananda because of a bowl of water. Since then, she has thought about it day and night. In order to marry the monk Ananda, she shaved her hair, but she suddenly became enlightened. Bhikkhuni.

"It seems that the teacher's imagination is very rich." Yuan Dongshi twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "But it seems that Ananda is still Ananda, but the Matanga girl is not the Matanga girl."

Qingming nodded, and said: "The woman was only about ten years old when she first came to Guichuan Shrine. She was thin and afraid of strangers. She just followed Mizhen every day. Someone asked Mizhen, how did this child follow him from Yawata?" After arriving in Heian-kyo, he just sighed, when he was discussing tea art at Rigong Hachimangu, he happened to see this dying vagrant in front of the torii gate of the shrine, so he gave her a cup of tea and a full meal, and the child followed him all the time , Walking all the way from Hachiman to the expensive boat, he couldn't bear it, so he ignored the precepts and brought this child with him. But this child has no name and name, Mizhen thought, and because of a cup of tea, he gave her Her name is Chacha."

It turned out that the name Chacha came from here. Yuan Dongshi nodded, and then Boya said: "Cha Ji sounds better, why isn't it called Cha Ji?"

Yuan Dongshi had no expression on his face: "Boya, are you so obsessed with Cha Ji?" She paused, and then asked, "If you save a nameless orphan girl in the fire, what will you do?" will name her..."

"Huo Ji." Boya said with determination.

Yuan Dongshi: "...Okay, I refuse to talk to you."

Qingming watched the two of them bickering with a smile, then lifted a corner of the car curtain and said, "Here we are."

Yuan Dongshi also opened the curtain of the car, and found that they had already walked to the bridge yesterday.It is probably because Master Yazhen of Guishen Shrine personally did the water divination today. There are obviously more pedestrians on this road leading to Guishen Shrine than yesterday. The sound of wheels rolling over the wooden bridge deck can be heard endlessly. shouted loudly.

Yuan Dongshi turned to Qingming and asked, "Here is Chacha?"

Qingming said: "The lower reaches of this river flow into Kamogawa, and the upper reaches, as you have seen before, come down from Guichuan Mountain." The water used in divination comes from the upper reaches of this river."

Yuan Dongshi also jumped out of the car, and she followed Qingming to the bridge railing, bent slightly to look down the bridge, the river was clear, faintly reflecting her appearance, no different from an ordinary river.But she did indeed see a faint figure of a woman under the bridge the day before.

She straightened up and thought about what she saw at the time. The woman was standing under the bridge with her ankles submerged in the river, holding on to the bridge pillar with one hand, and tilting her head sideways, as if she was looking at something in the distance.She looked in the direction the woman was looking at, and as expected, she saw a corner of the torii gate of the Kibune Shrine hidden in the mountains.

At this time, Qingming said: "There may be danger in the future, Miss Persimmon, please be careful."

Yuan Dongshi turned his head to look at Qingming, when he saw the rare serious expression on his face, his heart skipped a beat: "I suddenly have an ominous premonition."

Qingming took out a paper talisman from his bosom, and handed it to Yuandongshi. Yuandongshi reached out to take it. It was an ordinary paper talisman, but there was an extremely neat sign of Kikyo drawn on it.

"If you are in danger, please take out this paper talisman and shout your name."

Gentoshi solemnly put away the paper talisman "Drawn by Abe Seimei himself, it is possible to directly summon the ssr", and then nodded: "Come on, I'm ready to face all dangers."

Seeing that she had no fear, Qingming smiled, "Miss Persimmon is also very courageous."

He stretched out the middle finger and index finger of his right hand, put them together, and stretched towards Yuan Dongshi. Yuan Dongshi closed his eyes reflexively, only feeling a slightly cool touch from her eyelids, At this moment, she felt a slight numbness like an electric shock all over her body. She frowned, and slowly opened her eyes, only to find that the surroundings were quite different from those when she closed her eyes.

It was still the same bridge, except that there were no other pedestrians on the crowded bridge before, and the river rolled up white waves on the uneven stones under the river bed, and then slapped on the bridge pillars, making a loud sound. It is especially obvious in the silent mountain forest at this moment.She supported the bridge railing with one hand, but found that the wood of the bridge railing at this time had no scratches from the years and wind and snow, and was much brand new, as if it had just been stripped from the big tree not long ago.

Yuan Dongshi frowned. She originally thought that Seimei just opened her yin and yang eyes for her, but she didn't expect to come many years ago?

Just as she was thinking, she suddenly heard a series of footsteps getting closer and closer. She hurriedly ran behind a big tree at the head of the bridge, quietly watching the two figures, one big and one small slowly appearing at the end of the path.

The big one is tall, wearing a dark gray monk robe, with a bamboo hat on his head, and leggings wrapped around his calves. He seems to be a young monk returning from a long journey, while the young one is only as high as a monk's waist, wearing old patched clothes , with bare calves and a pair of brand new straw sandals on her feet.

When the two reached the bridge, Yuan Dongshi heard the monk sigh, and said slowly: "The front is Guichuan Shrine, you can no longer follow me."

The tone was gentle and compassionate, and Yuan Dongshi could tell that this monk was Mizhen.

So……

Yuan Dongshi looked at the child, the child's hair was a little frizzy, covering most of her cheeks, only her upturned nose and tightly pressed lips could be seen.

This little girl is Chacha?

Just as she was thinking, she heard the little girl say: "If you hadn't weaved straw sandals for me, then I wouldn't be able to get here no matter what. Master, you want me to come here."

Yuan Dongshi clicked his tongue, at such a young age, he can talk nonsense in such a serious manner. Although Mizhen is good at talking about Buddhism, he has the most gentle temperament and never fights for the advantage of tongue, so he must be speechless.

Sure enough, Mizhen was silent for a long time, turned around, looked at the little girl who was much shorter than him, and said, "Life in the shrine is poor."

Hearing his tone loosen, the little girl immediately shook her head and said eagerly, "Master, I'm not afraid of suffering!"

"I am boring, and I only love tea art."

"Master likes tea art, so I will grow tea for him!"

"I can go out and travel at any time and walk thousands of miles."

"As long as the master gives me a pair of straw sandals, I will follow wherever the master goes!"

Mizhen raised her head and sighed, bent slightly, rubbed the little girl's frizzy hair, and said, "From now on, follow me."