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Chapter 156 156
Although it is "going home", but thinking about it with your feet, I know that the "home" that Iwakatsu said is definitely not the kind of "home" that humans say.Maybe it's some kind of ghost base camp. Once inside, the Pope is scratching his feet and Yue Yan is washing his hair face to face. The picture is too beautiful to behold.
When Yuna thought about it, she felt that she was about to die socially.
Yansheng led her, left the town, and gradually entered the desolate forest.The dilapidated houses, the red mud ground, and the messy wires all disappeared here, leaving only a quiet and vast tree, which will make people get lost if they are not careful.Wearing wooden clogs, she stepped on the ground covered with dead branches with great difficulty, and asked, "Master Yansheng, where is 'home'? How long will we... have to go?"
He stopped, didn't answer, and asked instead: "Are you tired?"
She nodded: "A little... I'm a little sleepy."
Yansheng looked up at the night sky, the light of the moon leaked from the gaps in the branches, and there was still some time before dawn.So, he sat down at the roots of a tangled tree and said, "Come and rest for a while."
Yuna: ...
It’s really just eating and sleeping in the open, Brother Yansheng, have you forgotten that your wife is a human being!
But she was really sleepy and her feet were sore, so she couldn't control that much.She had survived such a harsh environment in the Warring States Period, and it was okay to camp.So she simply took Iwakatsu's haori, spread it on the ground unceremoniously, then sat down on it, and fell asleep with her head tilted.
His haori was used as a carpet, but Iwakatsu didn't look displeased.He just waited for her to sit down, then reached out and clasped her hand.
After holding it like this for a long time, the coldness in his hands seemed to be dispelled, and the palms were no longer so terribly cold.
Yuna closed her eyes, entered a half-dream and half-awake state, and murmured, "Master Yansheng, have you ever considered...Actually, did you really recognize the wrong person?——The person hundreds of years ago has died, just Won't be coming back."
Yansheng said: "The mage said that her soul will come back again."
Yuna listened, and sighed softly: "Such persistence..."
Well, it's not that she can't understand.When his own family members passed away, she couldn't bear the death of her closest relatives, so she accepted the deal with the devil and became a wage earner who was squeezed out.
"Go to sleep..." Yansheng said, leaning close to her ear, and murmured something, but the last words were so soft that Yuna couldn't hear clearly.Faintly, he seemed to be saying——
"This time, Yuanyi is gone, and the only one you met is me..."
She soon fell asleep from exhaustion.
She had a dream, which was so strange that she was very puzzled.
In the dream, her eyesight was very short, and if she looked straight up, she could only see the waist of an adult.The men wore silk knuckles, the women wore small sleeves and colored gowns, sitting in two rows in the spacious hall.Red tassels hang from the four-fold screen, and the family crest in the shape of eagle feathers and hemp leaves is pasted on the screen with gold foil.
"When the young master turns 14, I will ask you two to get married."
A grown-up said so.
"I heard that Jiguo has two legitimate sons, twins. Lord Yansheng is an elder brother, and he has a younger brother named Yuanyi. Is this true?"
or
Someone asked.
"There is no such thing! There is only one young lord of our Jiguo family." The first adult to speak retorted fiercely, "Master Yansheng is talented and good at swordsmanship; His Highness said that sooner or later, Lord Yansheng will be the successor of the family governor The position with the country guard."
Such an answer reassured people's hearts, and the doubters felt relieved, saying: "Whoever inherits the position of the family governor—whether it is Mr. Yansheng, or Mr. Yansheng's younger brother Yuanyi—he must marry Ji Jun of Liujo City. The child born in the future must also be established as the heir."
"That's natural."
——It was such a strange dream.
Yuna opened her eyes lightly, and saw a hemp leaf pattern in her hazy vision. She thought it was the family pattern of the Ji family she saw on the screen in her dream, but in fact it was just the pattern on Yansheng's clothes. Patterns.
The night still enveloped the sky, and the slanted branches stretched towards the night sky.She yawned, sat up slowly, and then realized that Yan Sheng was watching her.
"...Master Yansheng." She smiled at him professionally and greeted him, "I'm awake. Shall we... continue on our way?"
"Let's go."
So Yuna shook the haori and stood up.
The branches under his feet were crushed by the wood, making a crisp sound of "click".A few birds were already awake, hopping on the branches, and went out to feed before dawn.If I'm not mistaken, it's almost dawn.It is estimated that Yansheng will soon leave the place where the sun can be exposed, and go somewhere to rest, just like Yueyan.
"What did you dream about?" Yan Sheng asked suddenly.
"……what?"
"You're talking in your sleep." Yansheng said, "You said 'Chicken Crane, it's very big'. Who is 'Chicken Crane'?" Yuna: ...
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
And Mr. Yansheng, don't say such shameless words in that cold tone, okay!Very bad image!You are one of the top strings, the most powerful ghost!
"Well, it's like this, Chuhe, it's a girl, my sister from the Yuya..." She explained with a dry smile, "Hahaha, it's really a girl, a very beautiful girl .”
"...Really?" He held her wrist, "I remember you said that you have a man you like..." His tone became even colder.
Yuna gasped.
Master Yansheng is not going to settle accounts with her, is he?Because his wife fell in love with another man?
It's really lifting a rock to smash your own jio!If I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have said that!
Just as she was thinking about how to coax Yansheng to forget about it and let it go with the wind, Yuna noticed something hot passing by her ear—it was as if a flame passed by itself, setting off an incredible hot air.
"One type Shiranui!"
Accompanied by the third person's voice, she finally realized belatedly that the flame passing by her ear was not the wind, but a person.
In that instant, a figure as fiery as a flame appeared beside Yansheng.A crimson sun wheel knife tore through the air, and cut straight towards Yansheng's neck, as fast as a phantom, leaving only a residual trail in the air.
film.
"laugh--"
Yansheng's figure disappeared from the spot and moved a few steps away.Where he was originally standing, there was only a bamboo hat that fell to the ground, was split in two, and lay quietly among the dead branches.
Without the cover of the bamboo hat, Yansheng's face was completely exposed in the thin night.The long black and red hair fell on the shoulders, and a red spot wrapped around the chin and forehead, like the scars of years; three pairs of scarlet eyes, looking straight at the person coming
"Ghost Killing Squad..." Yan Sheng muttered, putting his hand on the saber at his waist, "Do you still dare to come before me at night?"
"It's not my style to see death and not save it!" The visitor answered him like this, with a hearty and upright voice.
Yuna stared blankly from Yansheng to the ghost killer who suddenly broke in - he stood in front of Yuna, she could only see a cloak with flame patterns blown up by the night wind , fluttering; hair color like the sun and flames, golden and red, hot and scorching.
"Nice speed..." Yan Sheng slowly pushed the knife out of its sheath with his thumb, and asked, "Are you 'Zhu'?"
The Ghost Killers raised their Japanese swords with their backhands, and reported their names without hesitation: "Yan Zhu, Purgatory Kyojuro—"
His Sun Wheel Knife was crimson, and a flame rolled up on the blade, which seemed to be boiling hot, almost igniting the dead wood around it.It is conceivable that if he fights Yan Sheng, the flame on the blade will surely turn this forest into a sea of flames.
At that time, Yuna wanted to stop the two of them, push them into the dance practice room, and let them talk about the benefits of Jinkela.
——Don't hit, don't hit!Go to the dance studio to fight!
——Don't fight, don't fight, talk about the benefits of Jinkela!
The city gate caught fire, and Chi You was affected! !
Yansheng stepped forward with one foot, and had already assumed the posture of the Iaishu starting hand.But soon, he pushed the blade back into the sheath, and then looked up at the sky—the night was already very light, the sky was about to dawn, and the sun would shine on the earth soon.
A gust of wind blew, and Yan Sheng's long black hair bundled behind his head was gently lifted.He restrained his killing intent, and said in a flat tone: "Next time, I will come to see you again."
Who this "you" is is self-evident.
Then, he disappeared in front of Purgatory Anjurou and Yuna.
"Have you run away?" Xing Shoulang held the knife in both hands and chased forward a few steps, but he could no longer find Yansheng's breath, only the bamboo hat left by Yansheng was still lying quietly on the ground.
In this way, Kyojuro inserted the knife back into the white sheath.After a pleasant sound of gold and iron rubbing against each other, he turned around.
The dawn climbed up to the sky, and the clear sunlight poured down from the clouds, driving away the night inch by inch.The face of Purgatory Xingshoulang was also gradually illuminated by the first ray of morning light—a pair of bright eyes, passionate and fiery, gentle and tolerant.Morning Breeze passed through the forest, raised his white cloak with flame pattern, he smiled cheerfully, and said, "It's safe now. Are you not injured?"
Yuna stared at him blankly, then nodded belatedly: "...Eh, um, no."
... What a warm, sun-like person.
she thought so.
"Don't worry, as long as it's dawn, ghosts won't be able to come out to move around." Purgatory Xingshou Lang's face was always shining like sunshine.
"Speaking of which, it's really a pity that I lost the rare opportunity to fight with Shangxian, eh!"
Yuna looked at Kyojuro's face, then at Iwakatsu's haori still clutched in her hand, she didn't know what to say for a moment.
In fact, Yansheng should know too, right? —It's almost daylight.The ghost will turn into ashes in the daylight, he should take advantage of the night to go to a safe place.But he stopped and let himself rest until before dawn, and only then did he encounter the Ghost Slayer team.
She's a little bit complicated.
Seeing her complex expression, Xing Shoulang asked with concern: "What's wrong? Aren't you going home?"
"Uh..." Yuna didn't know how to explain, "This problem is a bit complicated, and I can't go home for the time being. Just treat me as someone who escaped from home!" When I go back to Yuki's house, Yue Yan is waiting If you go back to Yumao's house, Yansheng will be waiting for you.Wherever you go, you have to be the wife of a ghost, it is better to wander around the world.
"Oh! That's how it is." Xing Shoulang patted her on the shoulder boldly, "Then come to my house to rest! I am good at taking care of people! I also like to take care of people!"
Yuna was a little surprised: "Is this really good?"
Xing Shoulang didn't take it seriously at all: "Being able to help those in need is the meaning of my birth."
Yuna: ...What kind of Bodhisattva reincarnation is this!
Although the ghost hunter enthusiastically expressed that he could take care of herself, Yuna was a little afraid of getting him into trouble, so she asked cautiously, "Here, Lord Zhu..." She still couldn't remember the name of this person, I just remember that he seems to be the "pillar" of the Ghost Killing Team.
"I'm Yanzhu from the Demon Slayer Squad, Purgatory Kyojuro." He introduced himself again.
oh oh!It turned out to be Yanzhu.
In this way, he is a colleague of "Sound Column" Yumao Tianyuan, and maybe he has a good relationship with Yumao.
"Master Xingjulang," she said in a low voice, "that..."
"Everyone calls me 'Purgatory,'" he corrected. "Don't call me 'Sir.'"
"Then, Mr. Purgatory." She changed her words, "Yan Sheng...is the ghost who wound up the string just now. He said that he would come to me again. In this matter, he will never miss the appointment. As long as he said 'Tomorrow I will come again', so I will come. Wherever I flee, he will appear before me again. I am afraid I will get you into trouble... After all, the night always falls."
At that time, Yansheng will not withdraw his knife and leave, but will kill Purgatory Xingshoulang.
"In that case, you need my protection even more!" Xing Shoulang smiled cheerfully, his eyes sparkling, without any fear or retreat, "However, I'm very strange——under normal circumstances, ghosts can only eat people .The winding ghost doesn’t eat you, but keeps following you, what’s the reason?”
Yuna shook her head and said, "He seems to have mistook me for his old friend, that's why he came to me again and again to 'reminisce'. To be honest, I don't remember knowing him at all."
"Find you again and again..." Xing Shoulang groped his chin, lost in thought, "Did he leave anything on you? Such as chains, hidden weapons and so on. Some ghosts can use their own blood to Items to track, so that even if you run to the ends of the earth, you can't avoid him."
Hearing this, Yuna was stunned.She handed over Yansheng's haori first, Xing Shoulang looked at it and shook his head: "It's not this one."
Yuna Tilted Head Boy
After thinking about it for a while, he took out the hairpin from his belt—the old camellia hairpin with gold leaf on it, and showed it to Xing Shoulang: "Then what about this one?"
Facing the sun, the faded hairpin still glowed with a clear golden color.The leaf tassels were blown softly by the wind.Xing Shoulang looked at it for a while, pointed to it and said, "That's it! Throw it away as far away as possible, so that he can't find you."
"Throw it away, throw it away? Do you want to throw it away?" Yuna looked at the hairpin, feeling a little bit unbearable.This hairpin should be an old treasure that Yansheng has guarded for hundreds of years, right?Wouldn't it be bad if I was thrown away casually by myself?
"Let me throw it for you!" Xing Shoulang took the initiative to take the big responsibility, and took the hairpin from her hand. He turned his head and looked around for a while, and found a small lake not far away. ran over.
"Wait..." Yuna chased after her anxiously.But Xing Shoulang moved faster, and put the hairpin into the lake.As the lake rippled, the golden hairpin slowly sank to the bottom of the lake, and it was hard to see clearly, only a few withered leaves floating on the water.
Xing Shoulang clapped his hands and said, "That's all right, he won't track you down anymore."
"Ah... yeah, that's really great." Yuna showed a faint smile.
Yan Sheng, you, you can swim once in a while, and it's fine.If you are a ghost, remember to exercise and keep fit, next time you will find someone in the water... (guilty)
"Okay, next, let's take you to a safe place." Xing Shoulang said, "The shortest way is to go in this direction... Why are you wearing such thin clothes? Be careful that you will get sick!" After finishing speaking, Xingjulang tore off his cloak and wrapped Yuna tightly.The way he wrapped Yuna was very unusual. He wrapped the cloak from front to back, and then from back to front, tightly wrapped the inside and outside, and tied a beautiful knot, just like packing goods.
Yuna: ...
Yan Sheng draped her feathers with a thin and gentle technique;
Xing Shoulang wrapped her cloak like a packer of takeaway boxes.
But these two people have good intentions, and she should thank them for fearing that she might catch a cold or catch a cold!
Yuna, who was tightly wrapped, chased after Purgatory Xingshourou, and asked, "Mr. Purgatory, may I ask, do you know Yuhao Tianyuan?"
"Is it Yu Mao? I know him, and he is also the pillar of the Demon Slayer Squad." Xing Julang didn't turn his head.
"Actually, he is...he is my husband." Yuna said the word "husband" with difficulty, "If possible, I hope to contact him..."
"Huh?" Xing Shoulang paused, showing a somewhat surprised expression, "Are you also Yu Mao's wife?"
A "also" is used in its essence, and it expresses the character of Yu Mao Tianyuan.
Yuna nodded shyly: "Although I just married him not long ago..."
"I understand." Xing Shoulang's complexion became more and more sunny, "Since it is the wife of His Excellency Ubi, then I should take care of you. I will definitely let you return to Ubi safely! Now I will go Write a letter and let the crow bring it to Yu Mao."
"If possible, I would also like to write a letter! I don't know if it is convenient..." Yuna said.
"Of course!" Purgatory Xingshoulang agreed without hesitation.
Yuna's letter was written on the carriage.
If there is no train, the transportation between towns and towns is still done by livestock such as cattle and horses.A cart with two horses tied to the front, and four wheels rolling across the track and field path, this is the most common mode of transportation.
As a member of the Ghost Slayer running around, Xing Julang was obviously used to such short trips.But Yuna is not used to it, especially her "travel companion" is still a pile of straw that is piled high, which is brought home by the coachman to feed the horses.
She wrote two letters, one to Yu Mao and the other to Yuki's family.
The letter to Yu Mao was a little more complicated, it wrote about being kidnapped by Yan Sheng and rescued by Yanzhu Purgatory Xing Shoulang.Because Yan Sheng knew about Huajie's home, she was worried that she might be caught by Yan Sheng if she went back hastily, so she chose to leave first with Purgatory.
The letter to Yuxi's family was even simpler: Uncle, I got married outside. My husband's family name is Yu Mao, and he is a ninja. Don't read it.
It is conceivable that Yuxi's family will explode after receiving this letter.The lady of the dignified Marquis family, not only did not obey the order of the head of the family to get engaged and married to the Chinese, and continue to live a noble and wealthy life, but instead ran out on her own, and even married a ninja who had no relationship with the upper class without authorization. An act that is no different from "elopement" can almost make the headlines of the tabloids.
What would the tabloids say? "Misses of the Chinese ethnicity eloped with country rogues, married and had children without permission..." Yun Yun.
She folded the two letters and handed them to Xing Shoulang: "Mr. Purgatory, my letter is finished. This one is for my husband's family, and this one is for my mother's family."
The wheels creaked and the carriage rocked slowly across the field.A group of farmers are working in the paddy fields with their trouser legs rolled up. Not far away, there is a faint outline of a town, which looks distant and warm in the morning light.
"The letter from Yu Mao is fine, just let the crow deliver it." Xing Shoulang said, "But your natal family..."
"My maiden name is Ukita, and I live near Koyuji in Tokyo," she said.
Xing Shoulang said "Oh" and said: "Your maiden name is Yukita! Then I will call you Yukita too. I remember that Yubi's wives don't change their surnames... No, they don't seem to have a surname... Speaking of which, I I've never seen them before!"
Yuna smiled, and said, "Then Mr. Purgatory, please call me Yushita. The name is just a code name, you can call me whatever you want. ... I will leave it to you for the letter."
The carriage passed through the ridges and headed for the town.Xing Shoulang turned his head and looked at the increasingly clear outline of the town, with faint excitement in his tone: "Ah, the last time I went home was a month ago, I really miss the beef donburi in the town! They The sweet potato miso soup at home also reminds me from childhood...it is very delicious!"
It's okay if he doesn't say anything, but Yuna also feels a little hungry when he does.
This is a fairly clean town, with wooden longhouses arranged high and low in the shape of a well, a row of wires passing through the air, and occasionally a few sparrows perched on the wires and squeaked.I don't know if it's because the purgatory family who have hunted ghosts for generations is here, this town looks extraordinarily peaceful, simple and quiet, which makes people's hearts calm down.
On the side of the road, a mother-in-law with her cuffs tied was sweeping the floor. The broom brushed the leaves on the ground into a pile.Seeing Purgatory Xing Shou Lang get off the carriage, she bowed to him respectfully and said, "Master Xing Shou Lang, come back
coming! "
It seems that Xing Julang is very respected.
"Good morning!" Xing Shoulang greeted the townspeople with a bright smile, and then showed Yuna the way, "My home is in this direction."
The old lady sweeping the floor was a little surprised when she saw Yuna behind Xingshoulang: "Oh! Master Xingshoulang has brought a woman home. Is this going to marry a wife? Why are you wearing such thin clothes..."
Yuna noticed the caring eyes of the old woman, and gave her a comforting smile: "I'm not cold, Mr. Purgatory's cloak is very warm, and I'm not Mr. Purgatory's wife..."
"What an elegant and beautiful smile!" The old lady held the broom, and only saw her impressive face. She couldn't help exclaiming, "You must not be a lady from an ordinary family!"
Xing Shoulang, who was leading the way ahead, saw that Yuna hadn't followed, so he turned back and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Ah, it's all right, it's just that this old woman is asking me if I'm cold." She replied.
"Cold?" Purgatory thought for a moment, then unwrapped her cloak and wrapped it again.This time, Purgatory covered her head completely, from head to body, like a mummy.
After wrapping, Purgatory looked at his masterpiece and said with satisfaction: "Okay, this way it won't be cold!"
The mummified lady: ...
Are you a straight guy?
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Next comes the occasion of Big Brother Purgatory.
Friend's wife, don't be bullied, Big Brother Purgatory is a good person with extremely righteous views, he will keep these words in his heart...