[Comprehensive] Traveling through Liaozhai with a hundred ghosts

After hearing the other party's intention, Li realized that the other party was probably a monster that his grandfather knew before he was alive, and said: "The snail is my grandfather. He has passed away, but all his belongings are stored at home. Could you tell me what the theme of this book is?" Books? I'm going to look for them in the warehouse first."

The other party seemed to be stunned, and sighed: "It's already passed away. The lifespan of human beings is too short. If you don't see him for a while, you will be gone."

Natsume sat obediently in the room, listening to their conversation quietly.

"It's a story about foxes." After expressing his emotions, the fox envoy said, "At the banquet about 30 years ago, Lord Tamazao admired his work, so he commissioned Snail to write a story about foxes."

Lawyer expressed his understanding and said, "Please wait a moment."

After speaking, Ritsu went into the house and went to the warehouse to find the book that the fox envoy said.

For a time, only Natsume and the fox angels outside were left in the courtyard and the living room. As for the black-tailed and white-tailed monsters, because they are little monsters with low mana, during the day they just look like birds and can't change into people, and it doesn't matter much. Advanced spells, in a way, the fox envoys who came now are better than them, so the two squatted on the cabinet next to them, looking very obedient.

"Are you the great-grandson of the snail?"

During this waiting process, maybe because he felt that waiting was a bit boring, the fox messenger outside asked Natsume.

Natsume looked around and realized that the other party was talking to him.Because black tails and white tails are easy to get along with, Natsume's fear of monsters is now a little less, but he still focuses on precautions and taboos. After seeing the fox envoy talking to him, he felt a little flustered and shook his head silently.

"Hey? Isn't it? Looking at your spiritual power, I thought you were the great-grandson of the snail."

The conversation paused again because Natsume was shy and silent.

But soon, the fox envoy noticed the two murine birds on the cabinet and looked over.

The sight of the fox makes cold sweat on the head with black tail and white head. After all, foxes can catch birds.

Fortunately, not long after, Lu returned to the living room, holding a kraft envelope in his hand, which looked like it contained a book.

"If you're right, it should be this book." Ritsu handed the book to the fox messenger outside.

The fox envoy opened the seal and took out the book. Natsume noticed that the picture on the cover was still in the old Ukiyo-e style, and it showed a nine-tailed fox.

"This is it." The fox envoy said happily, "It's a pity that the snail is not here, otherwise I can thank him personally."

After the fox envoy got the book, he quickly said goodbye and left.

As soon as he left, everyone in black and white breathed a sigh of relief, and complained to Lü.

"It was really scary when the fox saw it just now!"

"I almost thought I was going to be eaten, but luckily you came back in time, son!"

"Is that an exaggeration..." Ritsu's head was full of black lines, and then he asked Natsume, "Shouldn't anything happen when I was away just now?"

Natsume shook his head and just said, "He just asked me if I was the great-grandson of the snail, and I said no, so he didn't ask any more."

"That's good. If you don't invite him in for ordinary monsters, he won't be able to enter the house."

Natsume said he remembered, and Ritsu told him: "If you don't want to be noticed by monsters, don't look at them. Don't be afraid of ordinary monsters. Fear will attract them, but don't forget that fear. My grandfather was alive. That's what he told me."

At this time, Natsume's understanding of the meaning of these words was only superficially ignorant, and around noon, Natsume bid farewell to the reluctance of the two little demons with black tail and white tail.

And then on the way to school a few days later.

When he passed by the convenience store, he happened to see Ritsu who was out shopping, and Natsume greeted him.

"It's Natsume!" After seeing Natsume, Ritsu remembered something, and found a few tickets from his pocket, "Oh yes, the fox envoy a few days ago came yesterday and gave me a hot spring package ticket as a reward , Qinglan and I plan to go next weekend, there is still a spot, do you want to come together?"

"Huh?" Natsume was a little surprised.

"Because the soup house that runs the hot springs is run by monsters, and other members of the family don't have the ability to see monsters, so they can't take it with them." Li smiled, "I remembered this when I saw you just now, anyway, I can bring more people there. , so I want to ask you."

"That..." Natsume hesitated, "If it was opened by a monster, wouldn't the guests be all monsters?"

"Yes, but when the time comes, follow Qinglan, as long as you don't run around, you don't have to worry about anything."

Even so, Ritsu doesn't really want to go. He knows that he should keep calm when he sees monsters, but everyone understands the truth. It is still difficult to do it. Anyway, even if he has been with his grandfather since he was a child When all kinds of monsters gather, when I grow up, I still feel scared when I see monsters.

If it wasn't because Qing Lan happened to see the fox envoy when he came to deliver the tickets, and then Qing Lan made a fuss to go, and threatened to leave his father's body as a threat, he originally planned to keep the tickets and forget about it.

Natsume was a little confused.

Based on his experience of meeting monsters in the past and nothing good happened, he should have avoided seeing monsters when he learned that he was going to a soup house owned by monsters. After bullying or wanting to eat people, he couldn't communicate, and he had the slightest idea of ​​wanting to understand that world.

"But, if you want to go, you won't be able to come back within a day, right?" The relatives he is staying at now are very shy of the Iijima family, and they will definitely not allow him to go out with the Iijima family and not return overnight.

"That's right." Law frowned.

At first, I wanted to say forget it, but when I saw Natsume lowered her head and looked very disappointed, I felt that I couldn't say it, which would disappoint the child.

Lil coughed dryly, and said, "If you really want to come and are afraid that your family will disagree, or I can ask Qinglan if I can be a substitute and stay at home on weekends instead of you?"

Natsume raised his head immediately.

Lil asked again: "Are you sure you want to come together?"

"Yeah!" Natsume finally plucked up the courage to nod, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

"It's nothing, Natsume, you don't have to be so careful." Ritsu smiled and waved his hands, "You seem to be going in a different direction than me, right? Then I'll go first, and I'll ask Oguro to bring you a message when I'm sure."

In this way, the itinerary was finally scheduled to depart on Friday evening.

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Looking at the sparkling river in the wilderness, Xia Mu's eyes widened, and he tightly held on to Lu's sleeve.

Not long ago, there were only endless weeds in the wilderness, but with the sunset, a river appeared in front of me at some point.

Appearing along with the river, there are all kinds of monsters that have gradually increased around the side.

It seems that this is a ferry, and the monsters are all waiting for the ferry to come.

Qing Lan seemed to be in a good mood, with a happy expression on her face.Lily was wearing the bathrobe that his grandfather had worn before, with a straight face, and for a while he looked a bit like a grandfather.

When Natsume saw so many monsters around him, he was very nervous and scared, but after looking up and seeing Ritsu so calm, he gradually calmed down.

But the most important thing is that the monsters around are not like those monsters in the past. When they see him, they will come up to make fun of him. At most, they just glance over and then stand quietly aside.

It seems that except for the weird appearance, everyone is just ordinary passengers waiting for the ferry. This kind of normality makes Natsume gradually ignore the difference in identity between humans and monsters, and begins to be less afraid of the monsters around.

They didn't wait too long, and a large boat decorated with lights and festoons approached from a distance on the river.

The monsters on the ferry seemed to be of high quality, and they consciously lined up and walked onto the boat one by one. Soon after, the ferry gradually became empty. At the same time, there were more and more passengers on the boat, until finally Loaded with passengers, the ship began to leave the shore.