When there were more people, everyone's presence in the eyes of others was evenly distributed. No one noticed that Shi Wuqi became taciturn and seemed a little preoccupied. Because he was always busy, as if he was using his busyness to temporarily ignore it.
What's going on? It seems like he wants to take the opportunity to find opportunities for personal thinking. He hasn't changed much.
However, relatively speaking, Miss Qi was a lot more clumsy. When she was washing dishes at noon, she broke the old man's plate and hit two of them. She didn't care if they even paid the old man compensation. Shi Wuqi said,
He couldn't help it, so he went to a small shop selling bowls and basins in the village and brought back more things.
He went alone, leaving Miss Qi in the house doing nothing. After all, he didn't know what kind of trouble he would cause in a store full of pottery and porcelain.
The shop was at the other end of the village. There was a kiln there that specialized in burning these things. When he went there, there was only a little boy sitting at the door playing. He was the boss's son, only five years old. He said that his father went to buy rice and oil.
If someone comes, tell the guest that he will be back before dark. But it is still a long time before dark, and Shi Wuqi does not want to go back.
He went further. There was a river outside the village, and groups of women were washing clothes and chatting by the river. Whose children got into trouble yesterday, and whose men went out to make money again; whose children this year
The harvest was not good, and someone lost two more chickens. The originally ordinary scene made him feel noisy, and even the occasional sound of the wind blowing in the woods was annoying. He kept walking along the river, far away from the leisurely surroundings in this area.
The whispers are getting farther and farther away.
The river passed through the woods. When he walked in, he saw a puddle of yellow-brown in the distance. When he stepped forward, he saw it was a pile of chicken feathers. They were soaked by the river water splashing on the shore, but they were not washed away. Shi Wuqi
I thought to myself, could the chicken thief be hiding in the woods?
Since the feathers were plucked, the two chickens were probably roasted and eaten because of bad luck. There might be traces of charcoal fire around them. He had nothing to do and wandered around a few times, but saw no burning fire.
But he saw a few broken and scattered chicken bones. The bones were severely deformed, making it impossible to tell which parts they were. But he also noticed that the chicken bones were not cooked, but raw, and there were still dark stains on them.
Red blood streaks.
Did a wild beast take it away? But wild beasts can pluck out hair, and they plucked it out so cleanly? He was murmuring in his heart.
"Hey, don't dig through other people's leftovers."
It was the voice of a familiar young man. Shi Wuqi still held the broken bone in his hand. He turned around and saw his old friend Lin You. He was still wearing a Taoist robe, and his posture was very elegant, sitting on a high stone, making him
No one could relate to these wrecks. He had the light behind him, which made people look dazzling. Shi Wuqi dropped the bones, frowned and asked:
"You steal other people's chickens to eat? And, you follow us?"
"No such thing, it's just that we met again by chance."
"What a coincidence."
"Okay, I admit that I'm looking for you."
He suddenly jumped down from the height and patted the dust on his hands. Shi Wuqi took a step back - who knows what this fake weasel was going to do.
"Why are you looking for us?" He rolled his eyes, "No one of us raises chickens. You should pay the money to others quickly, so that no Onmyoji will deal with you."
"I'm just going to meet my family. Okay, just kidding. Here, I'll give you the money."
Lin You clenched his fists and stretched out his hand. Shi Wuqi looked at him suspiciously and sniffed the smell in the air. Well, it probably wasn't an insect corpse.
He also stretched out his hand and got three copper coins.
"ah?"
"I have no money, so let me return these to you first."
"Is this the last time..."
"Yes, that's right." Linyou said while stretching, "I originally wanted to save some immortality for Yingyue-kun, but it seems that it was a drop in the bucket. How can a few copper coins prevent disaster? Or
Give it back to you."
Shi Wuqi raised his eyebrows slightly, showing a look of disapproval.
"You were very honest with him from the beginning."
"No matter what, he is a lifesaver." He smiled and then asked, "By the way, what happened to the shikigami the woman was looking for?"
"You got it."
"I'm not stupid. I asked Uoyuki-kun about this matter. I also asked Uoyuki-kun where you are."
Shi Wuqi had some impressions of Mao Yuejun. They were friends a long time ago. And he heard that Shan Hai and the others had also met her. But he didn't know that Lin You, a little bad guy, had some friendship with her.
"It must have been told to her by the other six impermanences." Shi Wuqi said, "Forget it...what's the matter, I didn't find it."
"Although they are independent clones, it is said that after the contract is broken, the main body will capture the momentary connection. But this is just what I heard. I didn't feel it. It doesn't mean that nothing happened to them." He still looked indifferent.
"You know, right? Unilateral
Youkai who break the contract will be punished by the contract; and if humans are cut off, the shikigami will fall into evil. It is not impossible to fall into other evil realms, but I really can't feel it at all. How can you
No response, don’t you feel distressed?”
"I know...those shikigami who have fallen into the evil realm will come back one day. By then, it will no longer be a question of whether they can communicate, but whether they can deal with them."
"Yes. He has lost all his memory, is full of evil thoughts, and is dominated by hatred... just like a person who turns into a ghost after death."
Another gust of summer wind blew through the woods, making the leaves rustle.
"Speaking of which, you also came back from hell, right?" Linyou asked him with raised eyebrows, "Did you come back with any specialties?"
"none of your business."
"You are a very magical old guy." Linyou said, "Don't you think so? Are you a human or a ghost now?"
Shi Wuqi rolled his eyes to the sky. He felt that this monster was really noisy. If it weren't for the face worth three cents, he would have slapped Linyou. He always deserves a beating, but if you really hit someone,
He only jumped around repeatedly when the idea came up. He asked this kind of question with a smile, which in Wu Qi's eyes was tantamount to provocation.
"ill."
"I'm serious." He was still joking, "If you give up those humans, wouldn't you be able to live a better life? The monsters who smell your breath will be frightened and scared. You can live happily anywhere.
The water rises."
"Okay, that's enough, I'll get tired of talking anymore." Shi Wuqi raised a finger.
The two of them talked about useless topics. Wu Qi warned him not to do any more messy things, and Lin You just said "try your best." But if nothing else, this should be the last time he saw them. He said
I decided to travel further afield. The rivers and lakes are so big that I might never see them again in this lifetime.
"Get out of here." Shi Wuqi waved his hand, "I'll fight you next time we meet."
"You have no love!"
Linyou pretended to curse, turned back into a weasel and disappeared. It wasn't until the strange smell of "weasel" in the air completely disappeared that he was sure that this guy had gone far. He looked at the three copper plates in his hand and weighed them.
I checked twice to make sure that he didn't deceive me with counterfeit money. After thinking for a long time, it would be better to return the money to Mu Wan.
It was getting dark, so he walked back. When he went back to buy a plate, the boss asked him where he came from.
"Oh, I've heard of Xuanzhu Town! Is it the one where there was a big monster before? Later, it was killed by the Great Onmyoji Seventh Night."
"That's right. But it's quite far from here."
"It's quite far away. Before the shrine was built, there weren't many people there." The boss happily chatted with him.
"Have you been there? Or know someone there?"
"Hey, the child's mother lives nearby, but she's not from Xuanchuang Town. It's in another city next to it." As he said that, he held the child in his arms, and the little boy hung on his strong arms.
Swinging, "When I was young, she often told me about the interesting and strange things that happened there."
"Hey, my wife married quite far away. Where is your wife?"
"Well...well, we also have a little son who gets a rash in the summer. The village doctor couldn't cure it, so this year his mother took him to the county to see a doctor."
"I hope your son will recover soon."
"Hey, you should have a wife at your age."
"Uh... the fate has not come yet."
"That shouldn't be the case. I think you are so talented, but you are so talented that there are no girls to like you?" The boss was very surprised. "Aren't there any pretty girls in my hometown? Ah, I heard that the granddaughter of the Great Onmyoji is still stationed at the shrine. My wife said she heard when she was a child,
That's a big beauty. Hey, have you seen her?"
The boss came up mysteriously, which made Shi Wuqi feel a little funny. Sure enough, men like pretty girls regardless of their age.
"Yes, her name is Qi Xiangling. I, I probably haven't seen her before." Even if I have, I have forgotten about her. "After all, she has already sacrificed her life."
"I heard it was because Xuan Sui broke through the seal... Oh, how pitiful, I heard you are still young. By the way, since you bought it for Mrs. Chen, you don't need any money."
"Why is this so embarrassing?"
"Oh, if you round off my mother's family, please don't be polite."
Unknowingly, they chatted for too long, and it was already past dinner time when he returned to Mrs. Chen's house. But he was not hungry at all, and the previous chat only made his mood slightly relieved. Mu Wan had already finished washing the dishes, and he
Stack the new plates together smoothly.
"Where have you been? Come back so late."
"I'm going to collect the debt from you." As he said that, Wu Qi put the three copper coins on the stone table, turned around and left.
"No, where have you been? Who did you see? This seems to be..."
Mu Wan remembered clearly that there was a deep scratch on the back of one of the copper plates. As soon as she saw it, she suddenly knew it. But her hands were still wet, and when she anxiously looked for a towel, Shi Wuqi had already
Went to the backyard to collect roselle sand.
As soon as he arrived in the backyard, he found that the fruits on the ground had been put back into the bags, tied and put aside. Shanhai sat on the bench next to him to enjoy the cool air. When he saw Wu Qi coming over, he said:
"I put it away for you. Aluan and the others were listening to the old lady telling stories in the front yard. Ye Yuejun said that there will be a thunderstorm tomorrow, so they can lay it out to dry in the sun after it is over."
The sky is a bit dull and heavy, making people breathless. There is no sunset today, and it might really rain.
"What else are you asking during the day?" Wu Qi said suddenly.
"What……?"
"You didn't finish your sentence at that time. Before asking about your father, you changed your story. You had something else to ask me."
Shan Hai was stunned there. He seemed to have recalled the incident in an instant, and the hesitation at the moment was just thinking about whether he should say it or not. The clouds were very heavy tonight, blocking the moon, and the light in the backyard was only a little leaked from the house.
Son. This time, Shi Wuqi leaned on the door frame, holding his shoulders with his hands, his eyes quiet and slightly bright, like a windless candle.
Shanhai stood up, not flinching, but not moving forward.
"That's not important."
"You remember. So that's important. What's the problem? Tell me."
"..."
"Let me tell you. I figured it out. Did you originally want to ask during the day..."
The breeze blew by, causing the candlelight to tremble slightly.
