However, there was nothing he could do no matter how much he couldn't bear it. Sanlang had already turned over and climbed up. He looked at his condition blankly, and then turned to look at Qiao Xi in a panic:
"Onmyoji-sama, what happened? Where is my brother Taro?"
Qiao Xi: "..."
After thinking for a while, he decided to fool the young man, so he raised his fan to cover half of his face, and started talking nonsense:
"Oh? Did you dream about your Taro brother?"
"..."
The amount of information in this sentence was a bit large. Sanlang felt that he might not be able to react at the moment. He looked at Qiao Xi blankly for a long time before he managed to say "What?"
Qiao Xi's eyes were slightly separated from Sanlang's, and she whispered: "Well, don't be anxious. Xiaosheng has calculated the time. It won't take long to reach the land. Over there we..."
"This is wrong!"
Sanlang suddenly interrupted Qiao Xi's words in a hurry:
"No! I really saw Brother Taro just now! There is also a small island! A very gorgeous loft!"
He emotionally recounted what he saw on the island and his encounter with Taro, which made Qiao Xi sigh slightly in her heart.
After waiting quietly for Sanlang to finish, Qiao Xicao said with pity in her eyes: "What are you talking about? How could there be such a gorgeous palace on the sea?"
This rhetorical question was so powerful that Saburo began to doubt his own memory for a moment.
--yes.
Such a gorgeous and majestic palace is difficult to build on land, let alone in the depths of the sea where there are no materials?
——Could it be that I just had a dream? Did I dream about the palace and Brother Taro?
Sanlang lowered his head and began to doubt himself without saying a word. Qiao Xi did not disturb him and sat quietly on the head of the bamboo raft pretending to paddle.
"But it's not right!"
After a moment of silence, this sentence suddenly came out of Saburo's mouth.
Qiao Xi remained calm and looked over with a smile: "Oh? What's wrong?"
Saburo looked hesitant.
He actually didn't know what was wrong, but there was always an intuition in his heart that told him that was not the case.
He has always trusted his instincts.
——Just like when he saw Qiao Xi before going to sea, his intuition told him that if he followed this Onmyoji, he would know the truth.
So he mustered up the courage to follow the Onmyoji out to sea in a small broken boat that looked very unreliable at first sight.
At this point, he felt that something must have happened just now - even though it might have challenged his own worldview.
With this thought in his mind, Saburo had a corresponding look on his face.
Qiao Xi glanced at him and smiled:
"Are you suspecting something?"
"Eh? It's not...but, but..."
He said "but" several times, but he didn't give any reason for "but". In the end, he could only frown and shut his mouth.
Yamabuki Otome looked at him with a bit of hesitation on his face, glanced at Qiao Xi, and then said softly: "Can you tell me what you met in your dream?"
- As soon as she opened her mouth, she directly characterized Saburo's memory as "dream", which made Saburo stunned for a moment, and then he unconsciously began to doubt - maybe it was not necessarily true that this was a dream.
While he was thinking, he narrated his "dream" intermittently to the two monsters next to him.
"That's really my brother Taro. That familiar feeling is definitely unmistakable."
"Of course it's not wrong. In your dream, your Taro brother exists according to your memory, and it is naturally exactly the same as your memory."
"But……"
"What's more, you just talked about an island and a palace, but look, this is the sea, and we are surrounded by endless sea. As for the small island..."
As Qiao Xi spoke, she sighed softly and did not continue.
Although he didn't finish the rest of his words, Saburo obviously understood the meaning of his words.
——If there really is an island here, then according to the speed of this bamboo raft, they will definitely be able to see the shadow of the island.
But now I looked around and saw that there was nothing except the sea and seabirds passing by in twos and threes.
Realizing this, Saburo's face suddenly turned red.
——It really turned out to be a dream.
He lowered his head and pinched the corner of his clothes uncomfortably.
——If this is a dream, then Brother Taro still has to find it.
Qiao Xi glanced at him, looked at each other with Yamabuki Otome, smiled slightly, and sat cross-legged quietly on the tail of the bamboo raft.
After all, Saburo was a cheerful and brave child. He only lost his mind for a moment before he cheered up again and waved his fist with a firm look on his face:
"Okay, although it's just a dream, I dreamed about Brother Taro, which is a good sign! I will definitely find Brother Taro!"
Yamabuki Otome had just been mentally stimulated, and now she was feeling both excited and melancholy. In short, all she could think about was the guy named "Nura Koihan". For a while, she really didn't have any intention to pay attention to the human boy.
mental state.
Qiao Xi looked at him and raised her eyebrows, unable to comment.
——What a pity.
There will no longer be a brother Tailang who belongs to Saburo in this world.
——Human beings swallowed by monsters will not even leave their souls behind.
On the bamboo raft, the three people were each thinking in their own minds, and no one spoke. There was silence.
After a long time like this, after Saburo had made some mental preparations for himself, he had time to tilt his head and look at the child who was sleeping peacefully in Yamabuki Otome's arms, and asked curiously: "What is this?"
Qiao Xi: "..."
Yamabuki Otome: "..."
"It's a baby...probably."
Saburo: "emmm... Why do babies suddenly appear in the sea?"
——I always feel like something is not quite right.
Qiao Xi coughed and started to fool again.
"Well, I don't know why, but a big peach suddenly floated on the sea. We fished the peach up, and after cutting it open, there was a little baby inside."
"Hey, hey, hey? Momotaro?!"
Saburo was so shocked that he almost jumped up from the bamboo raft, his eyes widened, obviously very shocked.
Qiao Xi nodded seriously: "Oh, do you think so too? Xiaosheng also thinks this child should be called 'Momotaro'."
Sanlang blinked his eyes and carefully looked at the child who looked no different from a normal human baby. Hearing what Qiao Xi said, he quickly learned:
"No, haven't you heard of it? The story about Momotaro?"
Qiao Xi's expression was innocent: "'The Story of Momotaro'? Could it be that besides our Momotaro, are there other Momotaros?"
"Yes, yes!"
At this time, Saburo had quietly approached Yamabuki Otome, holding out his fingers as if he was ready to move, and his expression was full of the novelty of seeing something legendary.
When I heard that the noble-looking Onmyoji in front of me actually had something unknown to me, I immediately became excited. Even the feeling of disappointment due to dreaming about Brother Taro was left behind, and I turned to
He told the story enthusiastically.
"It is said that a long time ago, there lived an old couple in a remote village. Although their lives were not rich, they lived frugally and peacefully. One day, the old father-in-law wanted to go to the mountains to pick up some food.
To buy firewood, I left the house early in the morning."
…
When Saburo told the story, his tone was ups and downs. Sometimes he changed his posture and expression according to the situation and plot, and sometimes he danced and made faces. It sounded quite interesting.
The boy told Momotaro's story very carefully and seriously.
——After all, he is still a simple child, and his emotions change quickly when something attracts his attention.
Although Qiao Xi knew this story, she had never heard of the version from this era, so she held her chin up and listened with great interest.
Even Yamabuki Otome, whose mind was filled with thoughts of Nurakarabi, was gradually attracted by his story, and she listened attentively while holding her child in her arms.
When Sanlang saw that Wei Er's audience was very considerate, he became more serious about what he said.
"So Momotaro married the county magistrate's daughter with the blessing of the villagers. The county magistrate's daughter was also a good girl who was knowledgeable, courteous and filial to her parents. From then on, Momotaro and the magistrate's daughter lived happily.
day."
It wasn't until his mouth went dry that Saburo breathed out a sigh of relief and told the ending.
After listening to this, Qiao Xi looked thoughtful.
"Well...in that case...but our Momotaro is a girl. Why is that?"
Saburo looked very confused, obviously he did not expect this:
"⊙▽⊙Eh? Is that so?"
——This is different from what was promised!
"Yes, what is going on?"
Qiao Xi looked at the confused look in young Sanlang's eyes, couldn't hold back, lowered her head and laughed.
Although he acted like he was trying to hold it back, in fact the shaking of his shoulders was so obvious that Saburo couldn't ignore it.
Saburo: "..."
Even Yamabuki Otome next to him had a smile on his face, and Saburo immediately realized that he had been deceived.
——So angry.
He wrinkled his nose, but said nothing more.
Mainly because although he seemed to have a fairy spirit that made people feel that he had nothing to do with the mortal world, in fact, he was actually quite evil in a subtle way. Saburo felt that there was nothing he could do.
What can be done?
You can't say it, you can't fight it.
But knowing that this child was not the legendary Momotaro, Saburo had the courage to reach out his fingers and touch the child's cheek.
He selectively ignored the origin of this child - he didn't know whether he was really fooled by Qiao Xi and forgot to investigate, or whether he deliberately didn't think about it. In short, in the following time, two non-humans and one human brought together
With a half-demon child incapable of taking care of himself, the group of people floated on the sea in harmony.
A few days passed by in the blink of an eye, and just like that, a few people arrived on the other side of the sea.
In fact, under normal circumstances, they couldn't be so fast, but there was only one real ordinary person on the ship, Saburo, and no one cared about these small details.
And the time to go ashore was also controlled by Qiao Xi and stayed in the middle of the night.
This is not because no matter what, the idea of crossing the sea on a bamboo raft still sounds too unusual.
When standing on the ground, the one who showed the most excitement was Saburo.
The little guy is an ordinary person after all. He originally went to sea to find the big brother who came to the other side of the sea in the legend. Now that he has reached his destination, he is finally down to earth. The thought of being able to see his big brother makes him understand even more.
Get excited as you should.
Yamabuki Otome's heart was also not at peace.
When Qiao Xi took her back to Fengyue Mountain before, she was not in a good mood because of her physical weakness. She was confused the whole time. In addition, Qiao Xi was worried about her condition and drove with all her strength, so she didn't even notice the scenery along the way.
.
At this moment, she already knew that Zi Si's matter was not her fault at all. After putting aside the entanglement in her heart, she just wanted to stand in front of Nuliang Liban and tell him her recent state of mind.
So seeing Nuliang Liban getting closer and closer, her emotions were a little out of control for a while.
Qiao Xi couldn't quite understand why the two people next to him were so excited, but he was actually quite interested.
When he came here before, he was only paying attention to whether Yamabuki Otome had any accidents. He was in a hurry all the way, thinking that the last time he walked slowly here was hundreds of years ago.
The three of them walked along the pier, each thinking about their own things at this time.
It was late at night, and it was not very practical to find a place to live. Qiao Xi tried her best to recall, and remembered that she seemed to have purchased a mansion when she came here before.
——Actually, he can’t remember whether he bought it or not, but generally speaking, he had a hobby of buying real estate at that time. In addition, because as a god, he has a very #helpful character, so he wandered around in the first place.
Sometimes, there are also people or monsters who take the initiative to give him some mansions and the like.
Basically it can be said that if you investigate carefully, you will find that he has properties all over the country, and the doorkeepers for him are all non-human beings.
It is convenient and safe in every sense of the word.
——As long as Qiao Xi can maintain a force level that is far superior to that of ordinary monsters, there is no need to worry about being betrayed.
It's very useful.
After Qiao Xi felt it for a while, she quickly found the aura she had left behind back then. She followed the aura and found that it turned out to be a mansion, very luxurious and classic.
Ever since Sanlang entered the house, the look of wonder on his face had not disappeared, and he unconsciously became more convinced of Qiao Xi.
It was getting very late, and since there was an ordinary person among them, Saburo, everyone went to sleep in separate rooms without saying anything more.
When I woke up the next morning, monsters of all sizes that had been protected by Qiao Xi had already appeared in the house.
These monsters may be strong or weak, and most of them have strange shapes. If you see them suddenly, the impact on your vision is quite big.
Qiao Xi was very calm about this, and allowed the monsters who could take human form to appear generously and help clean up the house that had not been lived in for a long time.
As for the little monsters, they spontaneously found their own sites in the trees and ponds in the courtyard and took up residence.