novelraw Chapter 224 The Phantom of the Cherry Forest
Chapter 224 The Phantom of the Cherry Forest
"Miss Fujimaru?"
"Huh?" Fran came back to her senses, and found that Zhang Jingsi was looking at her with a smile, and asked warmly, "What are you thinking?"
Fulan blinked her eyes and said with a perfunctory smile: "It's nothing, I just feel that the Tuyumen family is worthy of being a thousand-year-old Yin-Yang family, and they used spiritual power formations to maintain the cherry blossoms in June and July." She looked at the pink cherry trees full of trees , sighed: "However, if the cherry blossoms are no longer perishable, the splendor of the trees seems to lose part of their charm."
"Yes..." Chang Jingsi also followed Fran's line of sight, reciting softly with emotion: "人の世のものとは见へぬ桜の花 (The world is full of cherry blossoms that pass away silently) Relatively only a moment)”【1】
Fran looked at Ma Jingji with some surprise, and said, "This is Hijikata Toshizo's haiku. It links cherry blossoms with Bushido, and praises them withering at the most beautiful moment. I didn't expect you, Makata Governor, to issue such a sentence." emotion."
Shiba Shizumi smiled and said: "I just mentioned it casually, but when I saw you, I remembered a haiku by Matsuo Basho about cherry blossoms."
Fran blinked, and thought that the handsome Chang Jiadu was planning to compliment her beauty, so she said casually, "Then, I'm all ears."
Chang Jingsi took a deep look at Fulan, then raised his hand to catch a falling cherry blossom petal, and whispered softly: "さまざざまのこと思い出す桜かな (but seeing the cherry blossoms bloom makes me think about the past)" [2 】
"Miss Fujimaru, did you remember something?"
Fran was stunned for a moment, but she didn't answer directly, she just smiled and said, "You're joking."
"Sorry, I'm being rude." Zhang Jingsi didn't ask further.
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In the silence, a group of people walked to the venue, and a deacon immediately stepped forward to lead the way.
At this time, some participants had already arrived at the meeting place. Seeing the presence of the Chang family supervisor, many people gathered around.Seeing this, Fulan hurriedly dragged Yuki to the side, and within a few steps, she heard a gentle female voice calling: "Lixiang."
"Mom." Fran noticed an elegant blond lady wearing a black long-sleeved kimono not far away, and immediately pulled Yuuki over.
"Lixiang, you actually came here by yourself." Fulan's mother stroked her daughter's hair and asked, "Who is this?"
Fran pulled You Ji, and introduced in a low voice: "Mom, she is my classmate, the black master You Ji, I brought her here to play, please don't expose me." Then she introduced to You Ji: "You Ji Ji, this is my mother."
"Hello, Uncle... Auntie." Yuuki greeted shyly and politely.
"Hello, Yuki." Fran's mother greeted Yuki gently: "Lixiang, please take care of me."
"Where, I owe it to Lixiang to take care of me." You Ji was even more embarrassed.
Fulan's mother touched the heads of the two little girls before saying, "Then you young people, go play. Lixiang, don't run around, there are a lot of people here today."
"I got it, Mom. By the way, is today's meeting divided into two sessions?" Fran asked while nodding.
"Yes, only representatives of various schools and great onmyojis can participate in the second round. You shouldn't be able to participate. Mom will tell you when you get back." Fulan's mother took out two royal guards from her handbag and gave them to Fulan respectively. Lan and You Ji: "Take this bodyguard close to your body. Also, don't run to places where there are few people. Many of the great onmyojis who came this time brought high-level monster shikigami."
Fulan paused for a moment when she received Yushou, and asked, "Mom, is there an onmyoji with a big demon?"
Mama Fran nodded.
"Then..." Fran asked hesitantly, "Did someone bring Shuten-douji, Ibaraki-douji or something like that?"
Fulla's mother laughed straight away: "How is this possible, Lixiang, those are legendary big monsters, even the great onmyojis of the present world can't sign a contract with monsters of this level, unless Abe Seimei is reborn gone."
'No, Seimei will be thankful if he doesn't fight with them, why not sign a contract? ! Fran complained silently in her heart, but she was still relieved.
Fran pulled Yuuki and introduced her to people and shikigami in a low voice. When there were more people in the venue, Fran saw that there was still a while before the meeting, so she took Yuki to Tsuchimikado's house landscape garden.
The garden that I took Yuki to visit is usually not open to the public. It is not a Zen garden such as a dry landscape garden or a mountain-style return garden in a traditional Japanese garden, but a large cherry blossom forest that combines the yin and yang five elements formation. .Among them, a large number of natural stones are used to pave the quaint and simple path. The low shrubs beside the path are deep and shallow emerald colors, which contrast with the pink makeup of the cherry trees that line the path, making them more green and pink. .
"Wow..." Although she lives in Japan, Yuuki, who sees more roses than cherry blossoms, is obviously attracted by the cherry blossom forest in front of her. The splendor of the trees and the falling flowers make her dazzled.Although Fran brought her here to introduce the interesting yin and yang techniques used in the cherry forest.
"...So you see, they set up a stone niche at the end of this step just for... eh? Yuuki?!" Fran tilted her head slightly, only to find that Yuuki who had been following behind her had disappeared.
Feeling excited, Fran hurriedly turned around to the fork in the road just now, looked left and right, but she didn't find Yuki's figure.Simply because the defensive barrier she put on Yuuki didn't activate, Fran was relieved a little.
'Did they get separated by accident, or did someone do it on purpose? ' Fran was thinking to herself when she heard the faint sound of a flute.
Fulan frowned slightly, feeling weird in her heart, and followed the sound of the flute.
Walking along the steps, turning two corners, I saw a figure in black standing under the cherry blossom tree not far ahead.The man turned his back to Fulan, and played a small bamboo flute leisurely in his hand. The cherry blossom petals all over the tree rustled down, and with the sound of the flute, he flew lightly into the distance, and a few pink and white petals fell on the ground. The man's jet-black hair added a sense of reality to this fairy boy who seemed to have strayed into the world.
It seemed that they heard Fran's footsteps approaching, and the melodious flute stopped.I saw the man lowered his arm and chanted softly: "世の中にたえて桜のなかりせば春の心はのどけからまし" It’s even more depressing to see the beautiful flowers fall!)”【3】
Fulan stopped in her tracks, frowned and looked at the handsome young man in front of her, with a complicated expression on her face: "The supervisor of the Chang family?"
The black-haired young man turned around with a smile, nodded slightly at Fulan, and greeted softly: "Miss Fujimaru, we meet again, we are really destined."
Fran was silent for a while, only quietly watching the smiling young man in the cherry rain.
After a while, Flan sighed and asked softly, "Qingming, you are pretending to be Chang Jingsi, so you dare not see me with your true colors?"
The black-haired young man was obviously stunned for a moment, and asked in a puzzled tone: "Miss Fujimaru, what do you mean?"
Fran looked at the black-haired young man calmly, and said lightly: "Among the people I know, you are the only one who is full of waka and haiku, except Mikazuki Munechi. It is probably a habit left over from the Heian Dynasty."
After finishing speaking, she looked at the emerald green piccolo in the young man's hand, and said, "The most important thing is, did I tell you that I heard Boya play the piece you played just now, and it was written by him himself. .”
The young man was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then chuckled lightly: "Oh, so that's the case." After saying that, a layer of ripples appeared around the young man, and when the ripples returned to calm, what appeared in front of Fran's eyes would be A tall and thin young man in white clothes and black hat, with silver hair like snow, is impeccably handsome.With a smile on his cheeks and affectionate eyes, he holds a folding fan in his hand and stands tall, even if thousands of years pass by, he will not be stained with dust.
"I thought there was a flaw in my transformation technique." Qingming swung open the folding fan in his hand, looking leisurely and at ease.
Fran glanced at him, and then said: "There is nothing wrong with the technique, I just deduced it from the sound of your flute. Speaking of which, the Jingji Ma you met when you entered Tsuchiyamen's house was pretended to be you." Right? The mouthful of haiku, the smirk on your face, you saw through the illusion I cast on Yuuki, and even asked Yukino... Are you afraid that luck will show up and expose you directly?"
Qingming choked, with a helpless expression on his face: "Ji Jun, do you have to make me so miserable?"
Fran shook her head, didn't say anything, but asked, "Where's Chang Jingsi himself? You didn't do anything to him, did you?"
Qingming slightly lowered his eyelids, and his tone was soft and soft: "Of course he's fine, and I won't kill him just to pretend to be an identity. But why do you always care about irrelevant people? You don't have anything to ask about old friends you haven't seen for many years?" ?”
Fran looked at Qingming calmly and asked, "If I asked you, would you answer me?"
Qingming looked back at the past with a smile, only one figure was reflected in the clear and moving pupils.
"If you don't ask, how do you know that I won't answer?"
Fran looked at Qingming silently for a while, and then asked, "Qingming, is your split personality okay?"
Qingming's hand shaking the fan paused, his expression a little dumbfounded: "You just want to ask this?"
Fran replied coolly: "I care about the body of "old friend", although if I beat you now, I would probably have slapped you in the face with a brick..."
Qingming: "..."
After a while, Qingming sighed, and said softly: "Lan Ji, you don't have to be so guarded against me, I really didn't want to do anything unnecessary. This time I contacted you under the guise of my identity, but I just wanted to secretly see how you are." .If you hadn't exposed me, I would have just silently looked at you as another person, as long as you are safe and happy, I don't have anything else to ask for."
Fran's lips moved, her expression softened a little, but she didn't speak in the end.
Qingming secretly looked at Fran's expression, and said with a wry smile: "Lan Ji, I know you don't trust me now. Sincere..."
"It doesn't take time to prove it." Fran cut off Qingming's words, looked at him seriously and said, "Qingming, as long as you are willing to explain, I will believe it."
"So, would you like to tell me what you're all up to? You know what I'm asking."
Qingming tightened the fan in his hand, and asked hesitantly: "Do you have to figure it out? The so-called rare confusion, sometimes, ignorance is not a bad thing, as long as you live freely and happily, is the truth so important?" ?”
Fran nodded and replied seriously: "It's very important to find out. I don't like to be kept in the dark. Even if you don't tell me, I will find out by myself."
Qingming sighed, and said helplessly: "Well, it's okay to tell you now. It's just that I shouldn't tell you the cause and effect of this matter. Another person knows better..."
"...Lan Ji, go find Feijiandian, no one knows the ins and outs better than him. Please find him as soon as possible, if it is late, maybe..."
Fran was stunned for a moment, then frowned and asked, "Qingming, what do you mean by that? What's wrong with the door?"
Qingming shook her head, and said softly, "Lan... no, Lixiang, it's almost time, you should go back."
"What do you mean? Tell me clearly!"
"Lixiang!"
Suddenly, a familiar call came from behind Fran, and she couldn't help but turn her head, and it was You Ji who was waving at her from afar, and behind You Ji was the boy holding the fat cat.
"Yuuki? And Natsume..."
"Huhu, great, I finally found you!" Yuki ran over and exhaled heavily.
Fran hurriedly turned her head to look at the place where Qingming was standing just now, only to see that there was no one there, only a field of cherry blossoms.
Fran: "..."
"Lixiang, what's wrong with you? Why this expression?" Yuuki asked strangely.
"It's nothing." Fran restrained her expression, and asked nonchalantly, "Youki, what happened to you just now? Why did you disappear suddenly?"
Yuuki scratched her head, and replied suspiciously: "That... I don't know, I got lost with you without paying attention... I followed the trail to look for you, and then I met Natsume." She said cheerfully: "Natsume Your cat is amazing, it knows the way! I followed the cat to find you!"
"That's it..." Fran turned to look at Natsume, and thanked Natsume with a smile: "Thank you, Natsume-san, and Mr. Kitty."
"Hey, you're welcome." Natsume smiled shyly, and the cat in his arms also meowed.
Natsume picked up the cat and said, "The cat teacher said, his name is Madara."
The corners of Fran's mouth twitched slightly, and her tone was a bit complicated: "That...is such a good name. Thank you, Madara...Mr."
After finishing speaking, Fran took Yuki's hand and said, "Let's go back."
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Under a luxuriant cherry tree in the distance, Seimei quietly watched the back of Fran and the others leaving.
Suddenly, another young man with white robe and white hair appeared next to him, with a smile on his mouth but asked in a complicated tone: "Why did you ask her to find Santiao Feijian? Are you so self-sacrificing?"
Qingming slightly lowered her eyelids, and said softly, "I just don't want to leave her with regrets and knots..."
"...Merlin, isn't that what you thought too? Fei Jiandian is a vibration knife, but I don't want her heart to be scarred by that vibration knife..."
"...After all, the living will never be able to compete with the dead."
The author has something to say: [1] Haiku by Toshizo Hijikata
【2】Haiku by Matsuo Basho
[3] In Yuan Yeping's waka, the cherry blossoms are used here as a metaphor for the feelings of worrying about gains and losses.
Let's get back to the main thread hahaha~