Izumi Shikibu's eyes fell on the poetry collection, and mixed emotions rolled in his heart.

When I looked up, I saw that the samurai was leaving the pavilion, and I didn't know what kind of psychology I had, but Izumi Shikibu suddenly asked, "Who are you?"

It was quite rude to ask, but Izumi Shikibu couldn't help but ask.

Without it, with the literary literacy and words and deeds displayed by Yamada Shinichi, not to mention the son of an ordinary samurai family, even the son of a national secretary (kokumori) with an official position in the imperial court, it is far inferior.

Such a person is more like the son of three ministers!

Pei Ziyun glanced at her, didn't speak, but smiled, turned to leave.

This smile made Izumi Shikibu directly stunned, and when Yamada was far away, he woke up and was a little stunned.

"Yamada-sama, do you need us to serve?" Immediately out of the pavilion, a maid cautiously came over and asked.

Pei Ziyun knew that these people took the initiative to come together, not so much because they listened to the orders of the Izumi Shibu, but because it was the arrival of the palace maids, which made his identity seem mysterious and unpredictable.

Pei Ziyun looked at the sky: "Is the room cleaned up?"

"Yamada-sama, please come with me, your room has been packed. The maid led the way in front of her.

Pei Ziyun's room is not far away, this house is not very big, and the rooms for guests can not always choose the next room, and in addition to the main house, there are only a few guest rooms.

The next door is empty, uninhabited, and the main house is separated by green plants, which is exactly what Pei Ziyun wants, open the door, and see that it is quite clean inside, and he is quite satisfied.

"Yamada-sama, this is the book you wanted. "I had prepared paper and ink for Pei Ziyun before, and now the maid is more willing to serve, and the speed of preparing books is also very fast, he asked for a few, and it didn't take long for him to be delivered.

At the same time, some meals were delivered.

Pei Ziyun glanced at it, let them put them on the low table, and when she saw that the maid retreated to the door and did not leave immediately, she said: "I don't need you here, I will call again if there is something, retreat." ”

"Yes, Yamada-sama. Then the maid answered, and her footsteps came near and far, and gradually faded away.

At this time, the sky was getting dark, the oil lamp in the house was lit, and the firelight swayed and swayed, making Pei Ziyun's expression look a little more unfathomable.

He didn't touch the food that looked quite exquisite, let alone drink the tea sent by the maid, but held the scroll and read it for a while, and when the night was dark, he directly turned off the lamp, closed his clothes and lay down, looking asleep.

The gray sky, the waning moon probed through the dark clouds, sprinkled some pale light, and was quickly obscured by the black clouds.

Inside the room, the samurai, who had his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes in a quiet atmosphere, and his eyes were amazingly bright in the dark night.

"I can't hold my breath anymore. ”

The ghost transformation and Izumi Shikibu killed Ichiro Yamazaki, and plotted against the prince, and finally showed the form of Prajna on the princess, which is all a demon that women hate, Pei Ziyun didn't believe that the princess was innocent.

Living in the Izumi Shikibu house, on the one hand, is to protect her, and on the other hand, it is also to lure snakes out.

The princess hated the prince for falling in love with Izumi Shikibu, and now that she is dead, she will definitely go out, which is why she said that she will travel tonight.

Pei Ziyun stretched out his hand, and between his fingers, there were three strands of green silk forming a heart, which was vibrating at this time, making a silent scream.

It's a pity that no matter how crazy he struggles, under the pinching of Pei Ziyun's fingers, he still can't break free.

"Ahh

In the main room, Izumi Shikibu suddenly woke up in a nightmare, she got up with a wheez, instinctively looked at the window, I don't know what was going on, I closed the wooden window before going to bed, and at this time it was wide open, and a gust of cold wind blew in, which made people feel very cold.

No wonder she seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar in her dream, which turned out to be a cold wind.

Izumi Shikibu struggled to his feet, put on his coat, and walked to the window to close it, when he saw a thin mist filling the courtyard in the middle of the night.

"Foggy?" "On a windy night, there was still fog, which made Izumi Shikibu very strange.

She couldn't help but look outside for a while, this window could see the door straight inside the house, and just as Izumi Shikibu was standing here and looking out, she suddenly saw a figure appear in the fog, and the door was open, and an ox cart was parked outside.

"Damn, who is so careless?"

Although the distance is too far to see clearly, this scene still shocked Izumi Shikibu.

You know, in Heiankyo, the gate is open at night, and it's easy to provoke evil spirits.

I don't know what's going on, she should have called the maid, but she just walked out of the room by herself.

The figure that was walking towards the door, at this time she also saw it clearly, although it was only the back, she could see that it was Yamada Shinichi!

Did the other party really go to see the emperor at night?

Izumi Shikibu suddenly realized, and was even more surprised, this is completely inconsistent with etiquette.

"Mountain ......" was about to shout, when she saw that the fog blocking her vision suddenly dissipated, and there was an ox cart parked at the gate, which she could see clearly.

The woman driving the car was facing away from her, but at this time she seemed to have a sense and looked back.

This glance made Izumi Shikibu break out in a cold sweat!

She is none other than a dead female official of the Prince's Mansion!

I saw that the other side was pale, his red lips were like blood, and he looked like an evil ghost, no, this is a demon in itself!

Izumi Shikibu was flustered, wanting to scream but couldn't, seeing her gradually approaching.

"Break!" At this moment, there was a muffled thunder, and a sword light fell.

"No, don't ——!," a mournful cry came from the Izumi Shikibu room.

The maid who slept in the next room heard the sound, and she didn't even bother to put on her coat, so she immediately panicked.

"Shikibu, are you alright?!" pushed the door in, and found Izumi Shikibe lying on the couch with a pale face, and the maid breathed a sigh of relief and asked.

“…… It turned out to be just a nightmare?" Izumi Shikibe woke up from his dream again, hesitated for a moment, and then suddenly realized that he had just dreamed within a dream.

Her gaze fell slightly sluggish on the maid's face, and she shook her head: "It's nothing, it's just a nightmare, you can step down." ”

"If you have anything, call me at any time. The maid observed and thought that Shikibu should just be having a nightmare, so she retreated.

As a result, as soon as she left, Izumi Shikibu struggled to get up, and then suddenly felt something, and his movements paused slightly, and he sniffed lightly around.

"Burnt ......" Where does this smell come from?

Unable to find her, she finally gave up, and with hesitation, she pushed open the wooden window with a view of the door and looked out.

Fortunately, the scene in the nightmare did not reappear, there was no fog outside, the gate was not wide open, and there was no dead female official with an ox cart.

Izumi Shikibe breathed a sigh of relief, and when he was about to go back, his eyes fell on the house on one side.

It was a guest room, and one of them was occupied by Shinichi Yamada.

But at this time, the wooden door that should have been closed was open, and it was dark inside, and it was impossible to see if there was anyone, but in this weather, there were sleeping inside, and it was not right for the door to be open.

Thinking of the nightmare, Izumi Shikibu was suspicious, but finally decided to go out.

When she came to the court, she hesitated for a while, and then she took small steps and walked cautiously to the room.

For a woman in this era, going alone at night would be considered a plea for pleasure from a man, which was a bit risky.

When I finally got to the door, I saw that the room was empty, and Izumi Shikibu's heart skipped a beat, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

For a moment, she even had some doubts about whether the nightmare just now was really just a dream.

"Someone!" she shouted as she walked back into the courtroom.

When the sleeping maids heard the movement, they put on their clothes and got up.

"Did any of you hear the sound of bullock carts just now?" asked Izumi Shikibu.

This question is really strange, it is inexplicable, and the maids who came out one after another listened to this question, looked at each other, and a female official with willow eyebrows came forward: "Shibu, I haven't heard it." ”

"I'm sorry to disturb me, you guys go back and rest!" Izumi Shikibu, who had an ugly face, waved them back, and stood in contemplation, ignoring the maid's gaze.

Suddenly, her face changed, and at a speed that could be called rudeness, she quickly returned to her room, ignoring the eyes of others, and knelt directly on the tatami mat and turned the quilt over.

A knife mark, although thin, appeared very clearly on the quilt, and in addition to this, there were a few strands of burnt hair stuck to it, which made Izumi Shikibu's face even more ugly.

"Shikibu, what's wrong with you, but what's wrong?" asked the maid with the audacity.

Izumi Shikibu stood up suddenly, did not answer at all, and went out of the room, and went towards the door, and when she reached the gate, her hand was already pressed on the door, and she shuddered and hesitated again.

"What if...... If the dream was true...... "She was afraid to look at the door, pushed it open, and really saw what she didn't want to see, then what would she do?"

If she doesn't pay attention to it, this matter will definitely become a knot in her heart, and she can't let go.

After thinking for a while, she heard the sound of chaotic footsteps behind her, and knew that the maids were frightened by her strange behavior, so she no longer hesitated and pushed the door open.

Quiet street, empty.

The night wind blew, and the snow on the ground did not melt away, and there was a ...... Traces of ox carts.

Looking at the obviously fresh traces of the ox cart, Izumi Shikibu was stunned, and his body couldn't help but tremble.

At this time, on the way to the palace, it was quiet and dark, and an ox cart was galloping with dim lights.

Following the lights, there will be the sound of Suo Suo behind him, and I don't know what is moving.

Pei Ziyun didn't seem to hear it at all, and closed his eyes to recuperate.

I don't know how long it took for him to open his eyes.

"The palace has arrived. Although the nature is slightly different, Pei Ziyun will never admit his mistake, and in the next moment, the side of the ox cart flew out with a "boom", and the person fell from above, and the return hand was a knife, and he groaned in his mouth: "Ten steps to kill one person, thousands of miles without staying"

Before the words fell, the sword light fell, only to hear the sound of "poof", and before the ox cart and the demon driving could react, a little white light burned.

As the flames spread, the closed palace door opened wide in the moonlight.