I accidentally died yesterday [comprehensive]

"That's a coincidence."

The bat fan in the hands of the onmyoji closed and tapped lightly on the palm of his hand, "I didn't find anything."

"How about exchanging clues?"

Although the pine tree spirit was very talkative, and according to human grades, he was a grandparent's generation, and he was very tolerant towards Heichuan, but he refused to say a word when asked about the problems in the neighbor's yard.

Kurokawa told the onmyoji about the pine tree spirit, and thus learned about the mystery of the samurai's wife.

—She was the samurai's second wife.

The samurai was born in the Musashi country. Because of the war, he migrated abroad and finally settled in Edo. Because of his outstanding talent, he married his daughter to him after being favored by others, and gave him a lot of support in the officialdom.

All these were inquired by the onmyoji of Huakaiyuan's family from the neighbors. As for the samurai's second wife, he really couldn't find anything from here.

The two exchanged clues.

The onmyoji went to find the mystery of the pine tree spirit, while Kurokawa went to the samurai's wife's house by virtue of his status as a monk. If the other party asked the reason... naturally he said "fated".

He was born with a good appearance, all these years walking around bluffing thanks to this ice-like face.

——It doesn't look like a liar at first glance.

——everyone who saw him thought so.

Kurokawa knocked on the door of his mother's house, and said that he passed by here by chance and found the miasma formed by monsters, "Did it happen?" Kurokawa asked, and then said: "Although I am a monk from afar, but And a little bit of mana."

The family was puzzled: "Where did the Zen master come from, and where is he going?"

"I'm coming from the usual road, and I'm going to Kyoto to attend the Buddhist Dharma Conference."

"Stay in Edo for a while."

Seeing that the man seemed to be hesitating, Kurokawa said again: "The fate between you and me is like duckweed, which emerged yesterday and dissipated like the moon in the water today. If you really have any confusion that you should not tell outsiders, it is true that I have overstepped."

Heichuan turned around and pretended to leave, but someone behind him said, "Ai ai——Zen Master stay a step."

"A little thing."

The family said, "It's just a little thing."

Heichuan met the samurai's wife under the guidance of his servants. She has not been having a good time recently, with a haggard face. Doesn't it mean that this place is not infested by ghosts?

The wife glared at her bitterly, "Where are you from, are you here to ask me what I did then?"

"I dare not."

Hei Chuan lifted up his clothes and sat down, "I'm just a wandering monk, and I really dare not make any nonsense about the secrets of the inner house."

"I'm only here for you, madam."

The wife wondered: "For me? Is there anything worthy of a Zen master's visit?"

"Have you ever heard of the monster heart demon?"

"what is that?"

"The monsters are made by keeping things for a hundred years. They last forever, and the years are long. Naturally, a little bit of spiritual energy attaches to them, making them transform into spirit monsters."

"And the heart demon..."

Heichuan nodded: "It can only be born in people's hearts."

"I really don't know what kind of grievances my wife has suffered in recent days, but I happened to see something strange when I was passing by. I think someone in this family must be suffering."

"The tortured heart is the best breeding ground for the birth of monsters."

The wife was very nervous when she heard it, "Zen Master, I——"

She hesitated, as if desperately wanting to say something, seeing Zen Master's quiet eyes, the restlessness in his wife's chest slowly subsided, "What you said is that I am really sad these days."

"It was just an unintentional remark that day. Unexpectedly, my husband blamed me for it and drove me back to my mother's house."

The wife sneered, "The villain was afraid that ghosts would come with me, so he drove me away, but he didn't expect that the strange thing still happened in that house, hahaha, he deserved it."

The wife's hatred is worse than the dove's poison.

"Not to mention that he spread rumors that my inadvertent tongue caused the abnormality. It's ridiculous. No matter how sharp my words are, did I still kill someone? I think he clearly wanted to climb up to that family to cover up their actions. It is."

Kurokawa listened quietly and didn't do much poking around, but he thought what his wife meant was that the husband was trying to cover up the truth for his neighbors, so he drew everyone's attention to his wife.

The wife began to cry as she said, "The neighbor's food salary is three hundred shi higher than him, I originally wanted to make friends, and hoped that this adult would promote my husband for the sake of friendship between the two families, but I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it. "

The wife cried for a while. She hadn't vented so comfortably for a long time. She looked up to see the Zen master sitting in front of her, and wiped away her tears in embarrassment, "I made you laugh."

She tidied up her clothes: "If you want me to say, the neighbor's family is the real pickle."

"What about servants stealing food?"

"I think it's clearly an affair between the servant and the master."

"but."

"My real demon is not this matter."

"This is someone else's dirty business, so what does it have to do with me?"

The wife bit her lip, "Zen Master, you don't know, that man had a wife once."

"but……"

"It's dead."

……

"Is that how things are?"

Onmyoji was very surprised, he kept flapping and fanning with bats, "Sure enough, the world is so complicated, I'd better move around more in the world in the future."

The two had finished inquiring about the news and returned to the samurai's home to share information.

Kurokawa told Onmyoji: "Two months before the Harvest Festival, this samurai received a letter from his hometown in Musashi country. Only then did the wife know that the husband had married a wife in his hometown."

"The letter said that the husband left his hometown to build a career, and when he left, he promised his first wife to take her to the resident to share the wealth and honor, but he didn't expect that the husband had been away for ten years, and the wife was getting old and tired. withered."

"The first wife knew that she had no time to wait for her husband, so she sent a letter as farewell."

"After receiving the letter, the couple had quarreled, but they quickly reconciled."

"One month before the Harvest Festival, someone salvaged a female corpse from the river in Edogawa."

"Although it has been soaked in water for a long time, it still does not rot and smell, and its face is lifelike."

"A fisherman thought it was the corpse of a native of Edo, so he went door-to-door to inquire. Her husband worked in Edo, specializing in thieves and thieves, so he naturally saw the corpse."

"According to the wife, the husband was restless when he came back that day. It took a long time for her to find out that the corpse was his first wife."

Kurokawa asked the Onmyoji again: "Is it the samurai's first wife who caused the trouble?"

Onmyoji shook his head: "No."

"The source of the trouble is still the neighbor's servant."

He has observed the miasma in this house, and it still comes from the well in the neighbor's yard

Onmyoji talked about the news he got from the pine tree spirit, "Although it is a tree spirit, it also has an official name, wood spirit."

"Mu Mei outside the courtyard obviously doesn't like an onmyoji like me, so he didn't say a word."

"But it's all right."

Onmyoji waved his fan, half covered his face and asked Kurokawa, "Have you heard the rumor about Aioki pine?"

"Two wood charms living in different places are married to each other. Although they are far away, they have a heart of love for each other."

Kurokawa nodded.

He knew that there is a custom of singing "Takasago" in modern weddings, and the Noh drama "Takasago" tells the story of a pair of Aioki pine.

"The pine tree outside the courtyard is exactly a pine tree, and its marriage partner is in the swamp far away."

"What's more interesting is that the place where another pine tree lives is the hometown of the maid who jumped into the well and died."

……

The maid's hometown is a swamp. The gurgling stream flows from the forest and divides into several channels to irrigate the flat land. The whole place is wet and calamus is everywhere.

I heard that there was a flood in this area last month, and the only remaining fields were submerged. Many farmers who used this sanitation lost their property and could only beg for a living.

Heichuan and Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan—the two had just exchanged names on the road and came to the maid's hometown together. After many inquiries, they found out that the maid's parents had moved out of here.

The farmer who told the news had a look of envy on his face: "At that time, there was a flood, and everyone had no food to eat. Then the two of them would have new rice to cook every day. It must be that the daughter in the distance helped them a lot."

"But then I don't know what happened. The two old people suddenly left here and went further away."

Presumably it was the death of the daughter, and the two old people were hurt by the scene.

"Is it a fellow villager who worked in Edo to spread the news?"

The farmer shook his head: "No, it was very sudden. I was happy the day before, but my face changed after one night... We don't have many people here, if there are any strangers... How can I be like you? can forget."

"However... that night, a child pointed to the sky and said that there are green monsters in the sky."

"Who knows, kids always say weird things."

Losing the clues of the two old men, they walked up the mountain and found the "Saisheng Pine", but unexpectedly, the pine tree was cut down, leaving only a little root in place.

Kurokawa compared the growth rings and diameter of the tree, and found that this pine tree must have a history of at least several hundred years. Should he just cut it down?

Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan folded the paper crane. He has something used by two old people in his hand. He can just use the paper crane to find people. Kurokawa went down the mountain and continued to ask who cut down the Aioki pine.

"It's Yoshizaburo Orion."

The man at the foot of the mountain said, "It happened one month before the Harvest Festival. He wanted to chop wood and make a fire. He didn't choose the many small branches on the mountain. He insisted on picking the biggest one. No one else could persuade him. He went."

"But it's also retribution."

"Kisaburo died soon."

The person at the foot of the mountain lowered his voice, "It is said that Ji Saburo was eating at home, and suddenly started vomiting and nausea. Others thought he had eaten some poison, and wanted to find a doctor for him, but unexpectedly..."

"Jisanlang opened his mouth, and birds flew out of Jisanlang's mouth—he was killed by a monster, it must be because of that tree."

Kurokawa asked: "So one month before the Harvest Festival, Yoshisaburo cut down the tree and was killed by the sparrow monster. A few days before the Harvest Festival, a green monster came down from the mountain and entered the village, and then the two old people left overnight. "

The man at the foot of the mountain thought for a while: "...that is indeed the case."

"What about the pussy?"

"Where did you fly to?"

……

Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan did find two old people, but they stared at the Onmyoji cautiously and defensively, and refused to say a word, "This is the first time I've been disgusted like this."

Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan said.

"Probably because you are afraid that you will take their daughter's soul."

The two exchanged tasks again, Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan went to look for the trace of the sparrow, while Kurokawa opened the mouth of the two old people, and he told the two old people: "Ghosts stay in the world and suffer a lot, why not let her become a ghost?" Buddha, get rid of the intrusions of the world and go to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss."

There are many people who believe in Buddhism in this world, especially in those years when the Pure Land Shinzong preached that everyone can become a Buddha, just by chanting a slogan, so many ordinary people without money became Buddhists.

The same is true for the two old people. They looked at each other and wept bitterly, hoping that Kurokawa would save their daughter from suffering and save her from becoming a Buddha.

"My daughter has been strong since she was a child, and she will never do anything sneaky."

Speaking of this, the old man burst into tears, "It's also my fault, just endure the flood, why complain to my daughter, she brought food the next day, we thought she stole it from the master's house, just To blame, I didn't expect her to say that it was given to her by the master of the main family."

The old man started to cry again when he said this, "What else can a man give food to a woman for? I never imagined that for the sake of the two of us, my daughter would endure this kind of suffering."

When the old couple said this, they hugged each other and wept together, "I wanted to leave after the contract with the employer expired, but my daughter died suddenly."

"Who sent the news?"

Kurokawa asked.

"It was a dream. An old man in a green robe appeared in the dream and told us that our daughter was dead. She was entrusted by her daughter to send us a message, hoping that we would leave the village to avoid being poisoned."

……

Indoor tits found.

These monsters hide in the mass graves in the woods, standing on the branches like living birds, chirping non-stop.

Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan's paper crane was torn into two pieces and fell to the ground.

The house finches called out in unison when they saw them—noisily like schoolchildren after school.

"Are you here?" "Who are you looking for?" "Are you coming to arrest me?" "Or her?" "Are you entrusted by someone?"

Hearing that they were coming from the samurai's house, the squirrel originally wanted to attack them, but then calmed down.

"That's it."

"I'm just entrusted by others."

"The one who entrusted me is a woman—although she is dead, it doesn't matter if she is a woman. I am not a human being, but an egret living by the water. I live by fishing all year round. Also relaxed."

"However, Edo Castle was built very quickly, and many fishermen also took boats to swim up and down the river. Little cuties like us with white fur were also killed. The meat is delicious, and the feathers are also beautiful. .”

"It's a worthwhile business by any measure."

"And then I died. Isn't it always so easy for hunters to kill their prey? At that time, I always wanted to take revenge, but the fishermen by the water more or less had spells to prevent evil things like us, and I couldn't do it."

"Later, a woman came to me and said that she was trapped in the water and could not get out, but the person she wanted to revenge lived on land, and a monster with wings like me should be able to reach that place easily. "

"She is a ghost who was killed."

"Nature is more powerful than me, so there is nothing I can't agree to."

"I flew away from the river and went to the place where the woman said the hand of the mountain. I heard a voice when I was docked on a tree. It was a wood ghost. It asked me if I could help it avenge it."

"I said to exchange."

"So the two of us exchanged tasks. I went to kill the hunter who felled the tree, and Mu Mei killed the woman's enemy for me."

"After that...of course I don't know."

Nie Que said again: "Woman - the woman said that she wrote a letter to her husband a month ago. She thought she would die and say goodbye, but she didn't expect her health to improve. Thinking of her wish, she decided to take another look at her husband, so Let's go to Edo."

"It's funny to say that I ran into my husband by chance on the road, but I didn't expect him to take her to a remote place, strangle her to death, and throw her into the water."

……

The pine trees outside the Samurai Academy are still like this. If one of these pine trees dies, they cannot live alone. The one in front of me must be dying.

Kurokawa approached and told the stories of the woman, the tit, the wood charm, and the maid one by one.

"So, after the maid died, you were entrusted with passing the news to your parents, so you exchanged this and handed over the task of getting inside the tits to the maid, right?"

Mu Mei whispered: "Indeed."

"It's true that the maid has no enmity with the samurai next to her, but the samurai and his wife have a real blood feud. Besides, do you think the maid is willing to be with the man? It's nothing more than what happened. , and give me a little compensation."

"Her family suffered a flood, and she will accept this no matter how uncomfortable she is."

"It's like going back and forth like this, it's like selling yourself for money."

"The people in his family look down on her, so they slander her for everything. It's obvious that the ineffective young master of his family went to the kitchen and dropped the plate, and she has to bear it."

"In the end - I still have to slander her for stealing rice."

"Hey."

Mu Mei sighed: "I only think that my heart is bad, but I didn't expect it to be so bad."

"The maid was forced and couldn't figure it out, so she jumped into the well that night."

The first wife, a peacock, a wooden charm, a maid.

Kurokawa thought that there are so many people with great mana in the world, he and Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan must not be the only ones who can see the truth, but those onmyojis didn't say anything, so they don't need to say much.

Back at the samurai's house, the samurai had already settled down and sat in the room, muttering to himself, "Look, is there someone who has a grudge against me, and that's why he cursed me?"

Heichuan and Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan looked at each other, and gave the same answer as the past Onmyoji mages very apologetically, "I'm sorry I can't do anything, I'd better invite someone else."

When I left, I heard from the servant that the house was haunted again.

"Interlocking."

Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan said suddenly, "The world is just like this."

"I don't know if the mage has time to spare, so I went to Huakai Yuan's house to have a gathering."

"of course."

"I'll bother you next."

They discussed this matter all the way back to Huakai Yuan's house, but saw an onmyoji hurried in, "A man suddenly broke into the house and said bluntly that he wanted to look at the family history, what should we do."

Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan pondered for a while: "The guests are coming from afar."

"Please go to the Japanese room."

Kurokawa had already thought of that person's identity, and didn't think about anything other than Xu, the two walked to the Japanese room together, Xu had already sat down without any scruples, and there was a small table with tea in front of him.

He raised his head, looked over with red eyes, first saw Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan, and then saw Kurokawa, he paused holding the teacup, his eyes clearly wrote "How did you get in?"