[Onmyoji] Chronicles of Heianjing

Yan Mo stays in the underworld and wants to be the hands-off shopkeeper. The ghost messengers black and ghost messengers leave as soon as they come, very chic, and finally Qingming has to clean up the mess alone.Born to work hard, Ootengu silently commented in his heart.However, Qingming obviously doesn't have this idea, he has always positioned himself as a "good person who works hard without complaint", and now he is sitting on the sidelines diligently thinking about how to deal with this matter.

The big tengu looked at the movement of his hands and stopped, Yasha grunted a few times dissatisfied when he saw this, the big tengu patted his head, and said, "Pig?"

"You're the one!" Yasha rolled his eyes after finishing speaking, and Daitengu stood behind him and tightened his hair tie, smiled softly, and stopped arguing with him.Yasha didn't hear the movement behind him for a long time, so he decided to change the subject, maybe it's what a shikigami should do to help the master solve problems, so he said, "I know Sanshu."

"What?" Qingming stopped flipping the book.

"I should call her Aju. I know her, I know everything that happened to her, I even know who the reincarnation of the general's wife is." Yasha said calmly, he thought of the girl who was counting the plates at the bottom of the well, worry— ——The girl has counted for hundreds of years, can she count the unceasing love?

"Not all passionate love will have a happy ending." Yasha pulled back his hand and pulled the defenseless big tengu into his arms. Seeing Qingming's veins popping out, he rubbed against Qingming without hesitation. Rubbing the hair of the person in his arms, he continued, "Do you want to hear a story?"

"Let go."

Daitengu came back from his arms, looked at Qingming with a somewhat unclear look in his eyes, his heart tightened inexplicably, and he signaled Yasha to let go.But Yasha didn't have this self-awareness, so he hugged him tighter and asked, "Are you listening?"

Datengu was very indifferent to this, and got up from his arms roughly, and stood aside, his eyes revealed a deep disgust for Yasha's childish play, "Hurry up."

"Okay." Yasha began to tell the story of the female ghost Aju under the pressure of Seimei's unfriendly eyes, which brought us all back to more than 100 years ago, when Aju was just a fresh girl.

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Aju met him at the age of 16.

At that time, the general was 20 years old, which is the age when a man is full of glory.Even though he is already married, there are still beauties around him. There are countless men and women who come to follow him because of his talent, knowledge or power, and the generals are always willing to come. Be ashamed of him and forbid your younger generations to get along with him.But young people are always interested in new things, and dismiss the orders of their elders. They blindly worship the general's behavior and think that he is 'Heianjing No.1'.

So the young nobles in Kyoto began to fall in love freely, and even raised men, thinking that this was a trend, and they had to follow the general's footsteps.At this time, the general was not as chic as they thought. He was harassed by the letters sent by the old nobles from time to time, but he had to deal with these annoying things, which was his duty.

"Ministers are annoying."

"Your Highness, be careful." Mieko knelt beside him and poured tea for him. She is the main wife of the general, and a woman from a public family is always more careful than others, and has a gentle temper. She is in charge of everything in the general's mansion. , although the general didn't particularly dote on her, he respected her very much, "It's the tea brought back from the Tang Dynasty by the envoy. Your Highness, try it?"

"Where is there still time for tea?" The general knocked over the ceramic cup, and the hot tea flowed down the edge of the table, forming a line, and the white mist made it difficult to see the general's face clearly.

Mei Huizi sent a maid to clean up, but was stopped by the general, she was a little worried, so she asked, "What do you mean, Your Highness?"

"I'll clean it up myself." The general said easily.

"This should be done by the servants. Why does Your Highness have to do this?" Mieko didn't feel bad for the general's inconvenience. She continued to call the maid to clean up. The maid briefly looked up at the general. From then on, their fates were changed entangled.

"What's her name? I've never seen her before." Seeing that Mei Huizi insisted on disobeying him, the general wanted to curse, but stopped when he looked at the profile of the maid who was tidying up.

"It's called Aju." Mei Huizi glanced lightly, and replied indifferently, "Her mother is sick, and she came to work for her mother for a few days. You may not recognize her mother, but you should know her father. Well, he's your coachman."

"So that's the case." The general nodded slightly, looked at Aju carefully, and finally waved her hand to signal her to wait aside with the broken ceramic cup. Hovering over Aju's profile made him unable to meditate.The general stopped writing and asked, "Can we start preparing for the banquet after the next year?"

"The preparations have already started last month. Although there are still three months left, I heard from my father that His Majesty seems to be very interested in the New Year's banquet. Maybe..." Mei Huizi hesitated to speak, and the general meant what she said naturally I understand that her father asked her to give some advice, just to tell him that there is an eyeliner for the emperor in the general's residence.

"Go back."

"Yes." Mieko got up and told Aju, "Take care of Your Highness."

"Please don't worry." Aju's voice was a little trembling, and Mieko smiled when she saw this, but turned around and left without criticizing.Hearing the sound of the door closing, A-Ju looked up again, the general had already packed the desk by himself, and he thought he was about to get up and go to the window.A-ju hurriedly took small steps to open the windows. In winter, the fragrance in the house was very heavy, and it always made the general feel stuffy, but the general's wife liked it, so the general let her light up every room.It won't be better until summer, when the weather gets hotter, the general's wife had to replace the aromatherapy with fresh flowers and plants.Aju knew these things from her mother. She secretly kept the general's preferences in her heart and dared not be negligent. The whole family's food and clothing depended on the general's words.

Keep the windows open, and the sight is white snow.Refreshing and cool came to his face, the general breathed out, the haze between his brows and eyes cleared, and he praised with a smile at the corner of his mouth, "You are very smart."

Ah Ju didn't dare to answer, and lowered her head even more.The general only thought she was shy, but he didn't think she was afraid.Rumors spread widely in Beijing, and everyone regarded him as a prodigal son who wanted to kidnap beautiful men and women whenever he saw them.The ministers intentionally made things difficult for him, but the emperor did not stop him, and was even happy with them doing so. Rumors spread outside Beijing that they came and went again and again.

"how old?"

"Sixteen." Aju replied respectfully.

The general leaned on the edge of the window to recall, he said, "Mie Keiko also married me at this age, can you marry me?"

"No." Aju vaguely understood what he meant. Although she was a little unhappy in her heart, she also concealed her expectation and shyness, and her face still looked respectful.The general watched her reply slowly for a moment, knowing what she was thinking, it was a little funny, but he let her think and didn't correct it.

"It snowed all night last night, crushing the trees. In those autumns, the leaves would have fallen, and I hated it, but now it looks like a graceful tree." The general said gracefully, Aju Listening to the side, she didn't understand. She looked out the window, the tree bent by the snow was a tree, and the tree whose leaves had fallen was also a tree. She couldn't see what the general said was slim, but she felt some strange feelings in her heart, which couldn't be said. Now, I feel that when I look at those trees again, they are no longer the original trees.

After about a quarter of an hour, the strong aroma in the room disappeared along with the warmth, and the cold wind blew in, making the whole room feel chilly.Mieko came in with hot soup, seeing this state, she couldn't help scolding, "How do you take care of Your Highness? Quickly close the window, and then blow it down, what should you do if Your Highness is sick? It's not like usual in winter, Your Highness is weak—" Mieko suddenly realized what she said When he made a mistake, he stopped to look at the general's face. The general looked out the window with an unclear expression.Mieko bit her lip and asked cautiously, "Is Your Highness tired?"

"No problem." The general stopped, sat down on the tatami, and replied with a smile, "What do you think she is doing, I ordered her to open the window. Put the soup down, is there anything else?"

"No."

"Then go down."

"Yes." Mieko sighed, he didn't want to stay in the room with others for too long, this is a habit that he hasn't changed over the years, it's just that this maid, Mieko was a little worried, but then she thought that she was being paranoid, Then he shook his head, handed the hot soup to Aju, and retreated by himself.There are many things in winter, and it is difficult for her to take care of them alone.

Aju was at a loss with the soup, and her mother told her that the general didn't like hot soup, but the soup was handed to her by the general's wife.The general saw her embarrassment, so he called her over. Aju hesitated for a moment, then walked over, "Your Highness, do you want soup?"

"Drink it for me." The general said lightly, Aju was taken aback and didn't dare to do anything else, "There is no one else here, drink it, it's fine."

It was as if the general's words were magical, Aju stared straight at him, and forgot the etiquette explained by her mother, and finished the whole soup neatly.Warmth rose from the bottom of her heart, she blushed, and found that she was still looking at the general, and quickly knelt down.But the general stretched out his hand to stop her, the coolness of his fingers permeated Aju's arm through the thin kimono, she let out a short ah, and distanced herself from the general.

"Sorry." The general looked a little surprised, and withdrew his hand, he asked, "Can I see you tomorrow?"

Holding the empty bowl, Aju bit her lip, heartbroken, and said, "Mother's illness is not cured yet."

"So, I see."