(a)

It is rumored that the eldest lady of the Saigyoji family is not a human being.

Her face is pale, her body is cold, there is no trace of human anger on her body, and there are often some lonely ghosts floating around her, just getting close, she will lose her life.

Her father, a singer of the Westward Journey, was revered during his lifetime, and after his death, he was buried "under the cherry blossoms of spring." Those who admired him in life also went with him when they died. Their ghosts gathered under the cherry tree where he was buried, and refused to disperse for a long time. Under the influence of those dead souls, the cherry tree gradually deviated from the "normal" track, growing bigger and bigger, growing more and more beautiful, and finally transformed into a demon, called the "Westbound Demon".

It is said that this demon cherry blossom feeds on the vitality of all things in the world, and blooms every time thousands of souls are scattered. When it bloomed, the heavens and the earth were colorless, everything was silent, and countless souls surrounded the tree, slowly rising in the powder snow, returning to the bliss of the West.

This scene is enough to lure the living into the realm of death, the best scene in the world.

(b)

That was a thousand years ago, and the soul was jealous at that time, but he was only eleven or twelve years old. At that time, he didn't have a half-spirit around him, but he was just an ordinary boy who was good at wielding swords.

In the spring of March, the snow in the sky is still there, which is not much different from the deep winter. The white jade building was covered tightly by snow, and it was the same color up and down. Cleaning up this mansion over and over again is a kind of cultivation for young demons.

The Soul Demon was busy in the snow-covered courtyard with a broom almost as tall as his own. As he swept, he snorted for a while, occasionally rubbing his little white hands that had already been frozen red.

"Tuk Tuk!"

At that time, there was a knock on the door, and Youji shouted "Coming", and hurried to the gate with a broom. The double gate slowly opened, and a blonde beauty dressed in a Taoist robe gracefully stepped over the threshold of the Xixing Temple compound and walked in.

"It's Purple-sama!"

Youji opened the big eyes of the water spirit and looked up at Yakumo Zi with a look of reverence. Purple smiled and stretched out her hand, stroking back and forth on the bewitching little brain, crumpling his freshly trimmed silver hair. Then, she squatted down, gently pinched the cheek of the jealousy, and said softly in a motherly tone:

"I haven't seen you in winter, and I've grown a lot taller, little monster!"

"Yes, I can get to the top of the cabinet now!"

"yes, that's amazing!"

Purple smiled and rubbed his face with both hands and ground. She didn't mean to play with the bogey, but after rubbing it like this, she found that the child's face was really soft and elastic, and the feeling of the hand was too good, so she rubbed it selflessly, endlessly.

"Paper Dayin, please don't be like Aojie, your eyes should be narrowed!" (Lord Zi, please don't do this, your face is going to be broken)"

The face of the jealous was deformed by her, and her speech was slurred, and there seemed to be tears flashing in her eyes. Seeing this, Zi hurriedly withdrew her hand, she looked at the little face of the demon jealousy that was rubbed red and puffed up with anger, and smiled happily:

"Hehe, I'm sorry, little goblin. Your face is so cute, Sister Zi can't hold it back. ”

"Please don't do this, Lord Purple!" said Youji solemnly, "I want to become a swordsman in my own right in the future, please give me a little respect!"

"Yes, yes, the little demon is really a human ......" Zi smiled, touched the head of the demon jealousy, then stood up and said:

"Yuyuko is here? I'm looking for her for something. ”

"Yes, Yuyuko-sama is in the inner room!"

As he said this, the demon man walked forward first and led the way.

"You haven't been here all winter, and Yuyuko-sama misses you so much. As he walked, he said, "She must be very happy to have you here today." ”

The two walked through the front yard and into the long corridor of the White Jade Tower. Outside the corridor, there is a backyard full of cherry trees, and the famous westbound demon cherry tree is planted in the middle of this courtyard, keeping a certain distance from the ordinary cherry trees around. Its trunk is as large as a tower, towering over the middle of this dwarf cherry tree, like a wild crane standing on a flock of chickens.

As she walked past that neighborhood, Yakumo Zi deliberately turned her head to take a look. When she saw that the cherry trees in the garden were all bare, and not a single flower had bloomed, only the ice flowers on the branches were growing bigger and bigger, so she shook her head very regretfully, and said to herself:

"I'm afraid I won't be able to enjoy the cherry blossoms this year, and I don't know when this winter will be a ......."

As she was talking, the demon in front of her stopped, opened the screen door in front of the two of them with the purple cherry screen painting, bowed down and said:

"Purple-sama, please, Yuyuko-sama is in this room. ”

(c)

"Purple this villain, I just combed the hair of the monster!"

The daughter of the Westward Song Saint, Yuyuko of the Westward Temple, wearing a kimono with blue flowers on a white background, kneeling on the mat, holding a sandalwood comb, while combing the hair of the demon, while puffing up:

"Say it, youji, is this old woman bullying you again?"

"No, Yuyuko-sama!"

Youji sat in front of Yuyuko, with his waist straight, his hands on his knees, and he sat upright like a good student in a private school. He looked up into Yuyuko's eyes and defended Yakumo Purple in a serious manner:

"Lord Purple hasn't done anything excessive, please don't embarrass her!"

"You...... What a fool!"

Yuyuko couldn't hold back for a while, and after losing the comb, he pressed the head of the demon into his arms and hugged it tightly. It wasn't until Youji was suffocated by her huge breasts and struggled with her dancing hands that she let him go, and then held his face with both hands, and said:

"Listen to the monster, just because you are too kind, you will be bullied by bad people. You have to be ruthless in the future, and refuse when you should refuse!"

"Of course, yes I don't have to say no......," she added.

"I said, Yuyuko......"

Zi sat aside, looked at the pair of stupid master and servant, and said with some tears and laughter:

"You gave Youji this hair...... Isn't this a girl's hairstyle? His clothes are also women's kimonos, so you shouldn't raise him as a girl, right?"

"What's the matter, do you have any opinions?" Yuyuko turned her head and glared at her, and said angrily, "The little demon is so cute, what's wrong with me dressing him up beautifully?"

"That's fine...... "Zi wryly smiled and shook his head, "I just think you're a little too doting on him." ”

"Doting...... What's the matter!" Yuyuko said confidently, and wrapped another arm around Youji's waist, "It's better than being ruined by you old witch, isn't it?"

"That's going too far, Yuyuko-sama. ”

"Hehehe......"

Yakumo Zi took out a folding fan from his sleeve, shook it off, covered half of his face with it, and smiled without saying a word. She looked at the master and servant who were indulging in happiness, and the smile on her face gradually disappeared behind the fan, where no one could see.

"Don't you think this room is a little too crowded?" she said suddenly.

"Huh?"

Yuyuko was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and she couldn't react for a while.

The room is quite spacious, the decoration is simple, the furniture is not much, and there are only three people, it should be empty. She looked around carefully again, and then she understood what Yakumo was talking about.

"Before I knew it, it had become so much ......"

Yuyuko muttered as she looked at the ghosts that kept passing through the crack in the door, burrowing into the house, and floating to her.

These are the souls of long-lost people, most of whom don't even have a basic human form, just a pale white air mass with a long tail, which neither makes a sound nor causes trouble, but just circles around Yuyuko, like a butterfly flying around the cherry blossoms. In this white jade building, such ghosts can be seen everywhere, and there are many special around, which is the main reason why outsiders dare not approach her.

"There seem to be more ghosts here than before. "Yakumo Purple Road.

"Hiss...... There's no way, who called me Youyouzi of Xixing Temple, I was born with a hard life?"

Yuyuko said, and sobbed fakely, like the heroine of a tragic play, and said with emotion:

"Twenty or three years since the birth of the slave family, they were born slim, but they have never even held a man's hand. Parents died early, the family was unfaithful, there were no relatives and friends, no old friends outside, only the deceased was always with him in his life, and before he bloomed, he would wither, sad and sad!"

As she spoke, she reached out and touched the ghost that had just floated in front of her, and said:

"A woman like me, who can not hurt, who can not love, you say yes, Konosuke...... Forget it, you are a merry man who owes too much debt and was hacked to death by your lover, and what you say has no reference value. ”

"Excuse me," Yakumo interjected, waving her hand, "That guy's name is Kotaro, and besides, he has to be a man." ”

"You talk a lot!"

Yuyuko glared at Yakumo Zi, then hugged the demon jealousy again, and said:

"No matter how many ghosts it has, I just cuddle the demon to survive the winter, and I will live on him for the rest of my life. ”

"That, Yuyuko-sama......" Youji squeezed a small brain melon from between her arms, blushing slightly, and said, "I actually ......"

"What's wrong?" Yuyuko interrupted him, "Didn't you say a few years ago that you wanted to marry me when you grow up?"

"That'...... That's all ignorance when I was a child, it's a joke!"

"Hey, I don't even want the demon jealousy anymore, I really can only hang myself by hanging the beam, and my soul will return to the western sky?"

"That's not the case, Yuyuko-sama, I'...... I just ......"

"Hehehe......"

Yakumo Zi couldn't help but laugh out loud when she looked at the demon jealousy who was played red by Yuyuko.

This baby was redeemed from the hands of traffickers in Xixing Temple.,I thought it was just a plaything with a good look.,Who would have thought that he was a samurai.,Since childhood, he has practiced a good swordsmanship.。 At that time, the family of the Xixing Temple family had all left because they were afraid of the more and more ghosts around Youyouzi, and she was left alone in the white jade building, which was desolate and dilapidated. Although this soul demon is young, he has single-handedly picked up the three heavy burdens of eating and living, taking care of the courtyard, and security protection, and he has done it all well. To this day, Yuyuko can't leave him.

For her, the child was both a servant, a young brother, and even, when he grew older, a lover. Although the weather is cold, the small life of the two of them is warm, and the face of Yuyuko in Xixing Temple, which is full of luck, is as pale as a dead man, as in the past. Zi knew that she was born like this, the difference was that she had never smiled so happily before.

This boy named Soul Demon Jealousy can give her things that people in the world, including Yakumo Purple herself, can't give.

Its name is "Love" and "Loved".

All this is so beautiful, Yakumo Purple really wants to be so immersed in it, forget the sorrow, forever, just like the westward song saint who sleeps under the spring cherry blossoms.

She really didn't want to say that to Yuyuko, she had brought here from afar.

"Your days are numbered. ”