Seeing Sa Dou's delicate expression, Qiao Xi couldn't help but hold her forehead and glance at him sideways.
Hong Ye stayed in this shrine for more than half a year, and the hostility in her body gradually dissipated a lot.
At first, she would just sit quietly in the corridor, or watch the little monsters playing in the courtyard, or sit with Qiao Xi and read and write.
Although she seemed calm, Qiao Xi could not help but worry that she might suddenly explode at some point because she had been suppressed for too long.
It wasn't until Qiao Xi had nothing to do that she took out the shamisen that Sa Dou had found somewhere and played random tunes. Hongye's eyes, as calm as dead water, finally changed.
She looked at it for a long time, and finally couldn't help it. When Qiao Xi stopped, she cautiously stepped forward and said, "Lord Fengyue Shen, can you show me your shamisen?"
Qiao Xi was slightly startled, then handed it over without thinking much.
Hong Ye held the shamisen gently, and her slender fingers brushed over the strings bit by bit. With a slight movement, she struck out a trembling note.
The next second her eyes suddenly turned red. Qiao Xi thought of the scene where the other party cried so hard that her heart was broken. She immediately said in her heart: "Hime Hongye likes this shamisen very much, then I'll give it to you."
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Hong Ye looked up at Qiao Xi with a dull expression, her eyes were still red, filled with unyielding tears.
Qiao Xi's scalp was numb at the sight of her tearful eyes, and she said, "I can't play anyway."
Then Hongye looked at the impatient expression on his face and couldn't help but burst into laughter.
——Because such an obviously very powerful adult behaves in such a way because he is worried that he will cry... It is difficult to explain in words. It is really hard not to feel very cute from the bottom of my heart.
So Momiji, who was reminded of some bad memories by the shamisen one second ago, immediately laughed out loud the next second.
However, after making the sound, she immediately realized her impoliteness, and quickly raised her hand to cover her mouth to cover it up. After all, the previous sad mood was indeed gone.
Seeing her like this, Qiao Xi didn't feel angry, she just blinked and asked curiously:
"As a noblewoman of Kyoto, Momiji must be very proficient in this kind of thing, right?"
Hongye's eyes flashed and he nodded.
——After living in this shrine, she discovered that when the Fengyue God spoke to her, he did not dare to mention the fact that she was a human being like others, but was very casual.
Just ask something when you think of something. Generally, you won't bring it up proactively, but you won't deliberately avoid it either.
Hongye blinked her eyes gently, and the water droplets still hanging on her eyelashes were blinked away by her. She suddenly sat up straight and said softly to Qiao Xi: "If you are curious, sir, I will show my disgrace."
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As she spoke, she put the shamisen upright on her knees and fiddled with it gently.
"Come and fro, morning and night,
The corolla is in full bloom,
Attached to the shadow of the tree,
Overflowing light,
All things grow,
The waterside is lush,
Wherever you go,
It’s Yamato.”
She sang this section in harmony with the music, her voice was soft and solemn. Although the tune was very simple, Hongye sang so softly, and it sounded strangely holy and solemn.
She sang this section several times before changing the words. The previous lyrics remained unchanged, but the last two lines were replaced by "The world is rippling, but it will eventually calm down."
During this period, a few little monsters gathered at some point and snuggled up to Qiao Xi's legs, listening carefully.
After singing, Hongye sighed and laid down the shamisen flatly.
The firefly beside her whispered: "This is the death song of the human world."
Qiao Xi opened her eyes slightly, Hongye looked at him with a smile, nodded and said, "Yes, Yingcaosang is very knowledgeable about human affairs."
Yingcao shook the dandelion in her hand and said with a smile: "Ah, because the Lord is very interested in human beings, as a servant, I have to understand it for the Lord~"
Qiao Xi couldn't help but hit Yingcao on the head. Yingcao knew what he meant by hitting her, but she just stuck out her tongue and didn't say anything else.
——Although you don’t like to call yourself a servant, no matter what, as a weak monster who can get the protection of Lord Fengyue, she is actually happy to be called a servant.
Hongye looked at the shamisen in his hand with a melancholy expression, feeling a little lost for a moment.
After a long while, Qiao Xi suddenly gently hammered the palm of her left hand with her right hand:
"By the way, Hongye Princess plays the piano very well, and I would also like to learn it, too."
Hongye suddenly opened his eyes and said at a loss: "Master Fengyueshen wants to learn shamisen?"
"Hmm, Momiji, can you teach me?"
"Um...if your lord is willing, I would be honored to be my concubine."
Qiao Xi couldn't help but laugh when she saw the nervous expression on Hongye's face: "Well, you don't have to be so nervous. You have a lot of time as a monster, so you have to find something to do occasionally."
When he said this, he seemed to be explaining his motivation for wanting to learn shamisen, and also seemed to be hinting at something else. Hongye listened and felt confused in his heart unconsciously.
So, from then on, Qiao Xi added another daily entertainment activity to her previous reading and writing activities - learning musical instruments from the ghost girl Hongye.
As a noble girl during her lifetime, Hongye was very good at elegant things like playing the piano. After discovering that Qiao Xi was interested in these things, she once wanted to teach Qiao Xi some poetry - but Qiao Xi ruthlessly rejected her.
In addition to shamisen, Qiao Xi became interested in flutes in the past two days. On a rare occasion, she went out to the bamboo forest on the hill next door and broke a piece of bamboo with a beautiful face (?). Under the guidance of Hong Ye, she started making flutes by herself.
Today I have almost finished making the flute - this is not the first one that Qiao Xi has made. To be honest, even a god can't learn a skill for the first time on something that he has never touched before, so today
Before the flute was formed, he actually wasted some bamboo.
But when he went to the next mountain to look for bamboo for the second time, there was a monster in the bamboo forest who heard that he wanted some bamboo to learn how to play the flute. He generously gave him a lot of bamboo and gave him special guidance.
He asked him which part of bamboo was most suitable for making a flute.
In view of the fact that even though Momiji, as a ghost girl, had made a flute, it did not include the process of selecting suitable bamboo from the bamboo forest, so I have to say that the guidance of this bamboo monster was very useful.
Qiao Xi expressed her gratitude for this and intended to invite him to visit her shrine, but he was rejected.
Ahem, that’s too far off topic.
In short, today Qiao Xi finally succeeded in making a flute that seemed to have nothing wrong with it. He carefully held the flute in his hand and tried to play it.
Well……
It seems... ok?
Although the sound is not particularly outstanding, it is enough for practice.