novelraw Chapter 199 The Hometown in Dreams
Chapter 199 The Hometown in Dreams
Xiaoxue, who suddenly said something outrageous, felt that she had become the focus of everyone's eyes. She shrank her neck in fright and hid behind Fran.
"Lan... did I... say something wrong?" Xiaoxue asked timidly in a low voice.
Fulan patted Xiaoxue's hand that was holding onto her sleeve, and comforted: "It's okay, don't be afraid." She turned her head to Shuten-douji again, and asked, "Jiuten, you don't want to argue with a little girl, do you?"
Shutendouji glanced at Fulan indifferently, held the wine cup with three fingers and drank it in one gulp, and then said: "You can rest assured, my capacity is not so narrow."
Qingming's lips curled up, and he waved his fan leisurely and smiled: "Oh, Mr. Ghost King's taste is quite...special?" He turned his head to look at Xiaoxue, and asked with a smile: "Miss Xue, where are you still Any other legends?"
Flan looked at Qingming disapprovingly, and warned, "Qingming, don't provoke trouble."
Qingming compromised obediently: "Ah, I'm sorry, I really shouldn't drag a little human girl into the grievances of the big monsters. I'm rude."
"Okay." Fran looked around, and finally fixed her eyes on Shuten and Ibaraki.
"Ibaraki, and Shuten. It's been hundreds of years. I'm glad to see you again. It's just that Seimei and I have other arrangements, and it's not convenient to stay here for a long time, so I'm leaving." She looked at Qingming again, and urged: "Seimei ,let's go."
"Wait a minute!" Ibaraki Doji stopped, and asked a little irritably: "Lan Ji, you didn't listen to a word I told you, did you?!"
"Ibaraki." Fran replied helplessly: "I remember everything you said to me. But, you didn't tell me the details, and second, you didn't provide evidence, and you just kept vague every time. What do you want me to do? Are you questioning my friend just because of your endless accusations?"
"Why are you so stubborn? Am I going to hurt you?!" Ibaraki Doji's expression became even more troubled.
"Maybe that's not the case." Luan continued, "Monsters, like human beings, have emotions and desires, and the selfishness and greed in their hearts are no less than human beings. Their emotions and personalities will even be more paranoid and extreme. But not as hypocritical as humans."
"Huang! You xxxxx...."
"Is it hypocrisy?" Qingming waved his fan, repeating Huang's words softly in his mouth.
"That's enough!" Shuten-douji interrupted Ibaraki's scolding, and said, "Ibaraki, that's enough, go back, you have a backlog of things you should deal with for several months."
"My best friend, but..." Ibaraki Doji's expression was a little unwilling.
"I know." Shuten-douji turned his head and looked at Seimei calmly, his narrow purple pupils were full of coldness and depression.
"Abe." Shuten spoke slowly, every pronunciation was extremely clear: "I'm looking at you."
"Understood? I'm watching you. Even if you're hiding in your territory, I'm not helpless against you."
"Oh, really?" Qingming looked back lightly, and said with a smile, "Then, I'll wait and see."
The eyes of the two intertwined, as if they collided with a cold and sharp light, and after a few breaths of looking at each other, they each looked away.
Shuten-douji nodded at Fran, and Konzaku said goodbye.
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It wasn't long before Fulan and her party separated from the two demons, left the city, and embarked on the journey again, that Fulan saw Xiaoxue who had been silent all this time and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
Fran said with some amusement: "Xiaoxue, are you scared? In fact, Ibaraki and Shuten have good character as big monsters, and they are not the kind of cruel and unreasonable monsters."
Xiaoxue sighed and said, "I'm probably influenced by the legend of the night walk of the ghosts. Besides, those two are really scary. When they confronted Master Qingming, the momentum they exploded made me unable to even move." She was a little embarrassed He whispered: "I'm so weak, I can only hide behind you, and I always hold you back."
Fran touched her forehead hair, and comforted her softly: "It's okay, I don't think you are a hindrance. But if you want to work hard to grow up, I will be very pleased."
Qingming answered with a smile: "Miss Xue's spiritual power is not too strong, but its purity is good. She is qualified as a witch exorcist or an onmyoji. So, how about learning onmyoji? I’m a great demon, but I haven’t given up onmyoji, so I’d be very happy if I could communicate with young onmyojis.”
"Oh? Really? Master Qingming." Xiaoxue looked at Qingming in surprise.
Fran patted Xiaoxue's head with a smile, and said to Qingming, "It's great that you are willing to give her advice. After all, I'm a half-baked person. I can use yin and yang techniques by myself, but it's a bit tricky to teach others."
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The atmosphere of the team gradually became active, and when they arrived at the central and southern borders, Fran said to several people: "Speaking of which, I remember that there is a bone-eating well built by the gods in the maple village in the south, and there is a connection to the future. Qingguang passed through this well back then, left the underworld, and went to the place he wanted to go. Xiaoxue, shall we go and see? Maybe through this well, you can also go to the place you want to go. "
"Oh? Is there such a magical well?" Xiaoxue exclaimed.
Fran explained with a smile: "The sacred tree is called the tree of time, and it is usually planted in the shrine. The ancient sacred tree has the special power to connect time and space. When I was in the underworld, I once met a man from the future. She is a high school girl who passed through that well to go back and forth between the underworld and her own time, and she didn’t even miss classes and exams.”
After finishing speaking, Fulan looked at Qingming again and asked, "Is this well still there?"
Qingming tapped her palm with her fan, and said slowly: "There is indeed this well, but after so many years, it is said that the power of the well has disappeared. Since that girl left, no one else has come to Yin through that well." However, if Jun Ji wants to confirm it, that’s fine too.”
Xiaoxue blinked and asked, "Lan, do you think I can reach the Government of Time through the well?"
Fran shook her head and said, "Not necessarily, I just proposed to give it a try. From Qingguang's experience, the Well of Bone Eaters is connected to places that you have a deep bond with, or places that you miss deeply. Therefore, If the well is still usable, the connected place is more likely to be your hometown."
"Hometown?" Xiaoxue murmured softly, "My hometown, it seems like I haven't been back for a long time."
Fulan had never heard Xiaoxue bring up things about her hometown before, and seeing her complicated expression, she also became curious: "Xiaoxue, you were in middle school before. Don't you go to school in your hometown?"
Xiaoxue shook her head lightly: "I... I was a little unhappy with my family. When I entered the advanced department of middle school, I went to Tokyo alone. Before I graduated, I joined the Toki Government, and it seemed that I hadn't contacted my family for a long time. "
She lowered her eyes, curled her hair unconsciously with her right hand, and looked a little uneasy and anxious.
Fran understood Xiaoxue's thoughts, and said softly: "Xiaoxue, you are family. As a family, no matter what happens, they will accept you. I think they should always miss you."
Xiaoxue smiled bitterly: "I don't know how to face it. I ran away from home willfully back then, and I haven't even sent a letter back for so many years... Sometimes I miss home very much, and I miss my hometown. In the dream, the scenes of my hometown will appear from time to time. The lush cedar forest at the foot of the mountain, the quiet and beautiful valley, the large mustard fields beside the stream, the steaming hot springs, and the beautiful waterfalls flying down in the valley... "
After hearing this, Fran was slightly stunned, and suddenly asked, "Is your hometown... Izu?"
Xiaoxue also froze for a moment, nodded and said: "Lan, you actually heard it, that's right, my hometown is Izu City in Shizuoka Prefecture." She smiled and said with some pride: "To be precise, it's from Izu City." Yushima is where Yasunari Kawabata wrote the book "The Dancing Girl of Izu."
""The Dancing Girl of Izu"..." Fran sighed, "Is that 'The World's Number One First Love'?"
"Yeah." Xiaoxue laughed: ""The Dancing Girl of Izu" is my favorite story."
Fran felt a little surprised: "If I remember correctly, "The Dancer of Izu" should be regarded as a tragedy. Although the protagonist and the little dancer fell in love with each other during the short trip, they never confessed their love, and finally passed each other. In this way It’s a sad story, will high school girls also like it?”
Xiaoxue smiled shyly: "But I think it is very beautiful. Compared with Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country", I like his early works. Maybe it has something to do with my hometown being Izu. Kawabata Yasunari walked through the "Doriko Trail" that he and the dancer Kaoru walked together. I can recall the scenes described in the book in my mind, and appreciate the pure and restrained feelings. The short meeting is like a long separation The reunion, the sourness and sweetness are hidden in the bottom of my heart, and I will never forget it for a lifetime, this is probably the beauty of "one period, one meeting"..."
"One session and one meeting?" Fulan sighed softly, and then said with a smile: "We have a one session and one session here."
"Lord Lan, don't always laugh at me." Yiqi Yizhen said helplessly.
Qingming also answered, "I haven't read this story below, can you tell me about it?"
Xiaoxue is very happy to share her favorite stories with others, so she enthusiastically introduced: "Actually, the story is very simple. It is about a male high school student who travels to Izu during the summer vacation before going to colleges and universities. It is a story about a group of entertainers walking together, and thus meeting a pure and beautiful little dancer, and developing a pure and ignorant relationship.”
Qingming asked thoughtfully: "But from what you said just now, it seems that their relationship has not come to fruition."
Xiaoxue nodded of course and said: "Yes, because although the male protagonist has intense emotions in his heart, he has never expressed it clearly, let alone launched a passionate pursuit of the little dancer. As for the little dancer, it may be because of her young age, or she may be Because of the class gap between the two, although their love for the hero has sprouted at the beginning, they can’t express it. So, after the journey, this ignorant first love also ended.”
Qingming asked again: "Why didn't the male protagonist express his feelings?"
Xiaoxue thought for a while and explained: "I think, one is because he has a more forbearing personality, and the other is that he doesn't want to hinder the life of the little dancer. After all, according to the world situation at that time, the protagonist and the little dancer almost have no future to speak of." So this sour and sweet first love can only be hidden in the bottom of my heart." Then she smiled, pretending to be relaxed and said: "However, it is almost a matter of course that the first love is not successful. Few people can achieve a positive result with the first love .”
Qingming lowered his eyes, gently shook his fan, and didn't say a word.
Fran smiled and nodded Xiaoxue's forehead, and said with a smile: "You are always very mature in strange places..." She looked at Xiaoxue and asked: "Speaking of which, your real name should also be related to 'Xue' Well, but as I remember, Izu is very warm and it doesn’t snow much.”
Xiaoxue said with emotion: "It is true that Izu doesn't often snow, but it still snows in Amagi Mountain and Kita Izu in winter. The year I was born, the snow was extraordinarily heavy, so it was named..."
"Okay, we're almost there." Fulan suddenly interrupted Xiaoxue, pointing to the village not far ahead and said, "That's Maple Village."
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