I accidentally died yesterday [comprehensive]

1.

After Kurokawa bid farewell to Tianhai, he set off for Edo, but on the way, he went to the residence of Xue Zefu's family, and after many inquiries, he learned that Xue Ze was buried in the back forest of a temple.

Heichuan and the monks from the monastery explained the purpose of their visit, and the other party led Heichuan to a place where there were many graves, large and small. No matter how prominent they were during their lifetime, they were only five feet square.

Xue Ze’s tombstone was very clean, and it could be seen that someone often came to clean it, presumably because of the monks. He knelt down and saw Xue Ze’s life engraved on the tombstone. When she died, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was fighting the world. Now, Toyotomi Hideyoshi also died.

Heichuan didn't find Xueze's soul, so he must have been reincarnated. He saluted a little, but wished Xueze a safe and stable future life, and then bid farewell to the monk and left this place.

When going to the Kanto region, he will definitely pass by the city where Ah Zi lives, but there should be a samurai here who has seen him, so Kurokawa simply disguised himself and went to Ah Zi's residence again. He knocked on the door familiarly, It was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl who opened the door, looking at him suspiciously: "Who are you looking for?"

"I'm Ah Zi's friend."

The girl laughed, "You really know how to joke, how could my great-grandmother have such a young friend like you."

However, under Heichuan's request, the girl came in to inform, and Ah Zi's thin figure appeared in the corridor, as if she was shrinking with age. In those years, Ah Zi had a few heavy bones on her, but when we meet again today, it seems like a The tightly clenched reed stick trembles and can be broken by the wind.

AhZi's eyes were cloudy, but they brightened again when she saw Heichuan. It seemed that meeting her childhood acquaintance made AhZi feel her youth again. She smiled and said, "Zen—it's you."

Ah Zi cleverly saw Hei Chuan's clothes, and knew who he was hiding from.

Ah Zi and her great-great-great-granddaughter Ah An said: "This is indeed my friend, you don't have to worry."

Ah Anzheng was young and curious about everything. She watched the great-grandmother leading the young people towards the Japanese room, but she was still puzzled. She didn't understand why the great-grandmother had such friends.

Did you know each other when you were in spring last year?

Or when partying by the water?

Heichuan and Azi sat opposite each other, and Azi was quite emotional, "I feel very at ease whenever I see Zen Master."

"Although I am about to die, when I see Zen master, I feel that the past has not left, and my youth is still on me."

"Zen Master is like a dream, saving the time of my youth."

Ah Zi said a lot more, Hei Chuan nodded and agreed, and then the two talked about Xue Ze, current events, and various festivals in the city.

Ah Zi stretched out her sleeves a little, showed Kurokawa the material of the kimono, and jokingly said that people as old as her are very annoying. Some people said that she lived too long, why didn't she die early to make room for the newborn at home? In other places, some people say that her extremely long life should be an auspicious sign.

Ah Zi doesn't care about these kinds of remarks, she has lived for such a long time, and she has already seen many things.

AhZi said later, there was snow-like sadness on her face, and she looked at Mount Fuji outside the window, still covered with snow, "Zen Master, people say this is the undead mountain."

"You who come down from the mountain can live forever, and the children who come down from the mountain will also have the same appearance. If I—if I die, you can also bury me on the mountain."

"What nonsense am I talking about?"

"The Zen Master is the same as the Undead Mountain. He will always be here. This is the greatest comfort in my heart."

It was already the evening when every household started cooking, and Heichuan couldn't stay any longer. After saying goodbye to Ah Zi, he walked through the corridor, surrounded by lush bushes, the green eye-catching. Among these turquoise, Heichuan Seeing a corner of black cloth, a mage in black was sitting on the top of the wall, half of his face was covered by a bamboo hat, his jaw was slightly receded, as if he was dozing off.

Heichuan stood in the corridor and said, "Go and see her."

"She's sitting in the innermost Japanese room, whether it's a sneak peek or a greeting."

"Xu, humans don't have that much time to wait."

Hei Chuan didn't say anything more, turned around and left Ah Zi's house, and then went to the osmanthus house. The osmanthus tree was still standing in front of the house, with deep roots and luxuriant leaves, and it was quite imposing.

The owner of the cassia house when he came last time has passed away, and now his grandson has taken over, and it has become a family business passed down from generation to generation.The boss was very enthusiastic when he saw him, and came up to greet him kindly: "You are back."

"What do you want to eat, do you need hot water?"

Kurokawa asked for a stack of side dishes and two pairs of chopsticks, walked up to the bedroom on the second floor, opened the paper door facing Mount Fuji, and tapped the edge of the dish with his chopsticks.

"Ding--"

Like mountain snow melting, the cold water that forms a stream hits a submerged reef.

The breeze was unnoticed, brushing the ends of the hair like a ghost.

Everything is quiet.

He likes this quietness very much.

Footsteps sounded in the sound of the wind, as if the tentacles of insects had grazed the tree trunk. Although the visitor had reached the peak of his pace, Kurokawa still noticed it.

"Did you see her?"

The black-clothed mage floated in through the drawn paper door, lighter than a snowflake, and the loosened monk's robe came down and floated silently. After falling in, he took the second pair of chopsticks, took a few bites, and then said "hmm" respond.

Meeting Xu in this city was no accident.

He has become the second-generation leader of Amaterasu Institute. He was supposed to spy on Tokugawa in the Sekigahara Battle, but pretended to be a substitute, and then the real body quietly crossed Junhe Kingdom and went to Edo. He wanted to find The onmyoji of the Blossom Academy.

According to the anecdote learned on Penglai Island, the mysterious Taoist should come from Huakaiyuan, and Huakaiyuan also mentioned the same idea at the Onmyoji meeting many years ago.

Recently, because of the Sekigahara War, the Hanakaiin family withdrew from the Osaka Castle to Edo, so it was a good time to ask about some things.

The two walked together again.

Compared with the long trip when I was a child, this time was much lighter. Although there were many monsters on the road besides robbers and ronin, it didn't cause them much trouble.

The branches and leaves of the mountain forest are exuberant, and the intertwined branches cover each other, leaving only a dark and obscure forest for pedestrians. When the two of them walked through, a swaying blue fire swayed between the branches. They thought it was something like a phosphorous fire, and it approached When he looked at it, he found a group of human faces in the flames.

Seeing Kurokawa and Xu, it laughed crunchingly, and then suddenly swelled up, and the whole road was covered in dark blue flames. The bottle fishing wriggled around, baring its teeth and claws, approaching them cautiously like a pack of wolves.

Then it was swallowed by Kurokawa's monster.

The monster's figure was surrounded by black mist, like a burning black beast. It burped and spewed out a blue flame.

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa—"

Diaobohuo yelled and appeared next to the monster, but at this moment it turned into a pendant-like head, revolving around the black monster like a satellite.

Heichuan found it very interesting. He manipulated the black monster around a few times, constantly groping for something. When he arrived at the next village, Heichuan no longer called himself a monk, but changed his identity and became a street-walking monk. A juggler.

And this magician who called himself Kurokawa was good at drilling fire rings.

Wearing a black monk's robe, he set up a ring of fire in the middle of the field, saluted the surrounding spectators slightly, and then jumped up in threes and twos, turning into a blazing black flame and rushing into the ring of fire, in harmony with the red flame At the moment of meeting, it instantly turned into a faint blue, and then like shooting stars in the night, countless blue flames scattered in the field, dancing and spinning, like stars in the sky.

Finally, it landed lightly like a butterfly, and the thin wings piled up one by one, transforming into the appearance of a black-clothed mage again.

Almost magical.

Such a bizarre performance left many people stunned. Even the stingy miser took out copper coins, and the sound of rewarding money was like a rainstorm.

On that day, Kurokawa not only saved enough for the road expenses, but also saved enough money to rent a house in Edo.

He picked up the landlord's dream again.

3.

News from the Kanto area spread quickly.

It is very safe here, and everyone likes to hear some new news after eating and drinking. Someone once walked nine miles a day just to be the first to eat the newly caught fish.Such miraculous tricks naturally became a must-talk topic at the dinner table.

It seems that everyone knows that there are two black mages walking in the Kanto region.

Kurokawa and Xu had just arrived in Edo, and found an inn to go in. The innkeeper saw the clothes of the two of them, and immediately cheered up, saying repeatedly: "You must be the mage in black."

"That's right, I have a merciless request."

The innkeeper invited Kurokawa not for tricks, but for a monster.

"Why don't you ask an onmyoji to do it? There should be many outstanding onmyoji around Edo and Kamakura."

"This..." The boss was a little shy, "Some adults only serve the rich and powerful, and small people like us still dare not talk to ourselves."

The perpetrator was a relative of the innkeeper, who was said to be a samurai living in the Yamanote area.

The boss said that his samurai relative was haunted day and night by evil spirits, and hoped that the mage would help to dispel the evil spirits and save his relatives' lives.

The innkeeper didn't tell the story clearly, but for the sake of money, Kurokawa still went to that place, and Xu made another way to Huakaiyuan's residence.

Yama no Hand is a collective name, it is a place where the samurai class lived, and civilians were not allowed to approach without authorization. Kurokawa entered the door under the guidance of his servants. Those who were wronged did not see it, but saw an onmyoji with four eyebrows.

... quite chic.