Chapter 59: The Legend of Chinese New Year's Eve

"That mascot is my god, and he will definitely follow me all the time, what does Bai Lao mean by that. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info" Yan Nai, who was lying on the bed, was puzzled by Bai Lao's words.

However, what made Yan Nai more concerned was the problem of those scrolls, he had always thought that those scrolls were some basic techniques of the beginner Onmyoji, and he had always wondered why the things that the beginner Onmyoji learned were so difficult, so if it was to the middle and high levels, wouldn't it be more difficult than taking the doctor's exam?!

And today he learned from Bai Lao's mouth that even if he became a high-level onmyoji, those scrolls would be completely enough, if so, then these things that Bai Lao let himself memorize were not only the knowledge of a beginner-level onmyoji, could it be that he also taught himself a lot of very powerful things, but he didn't know at all?

"Crunch-"

Murong Yu pushed the door in, and Yan Nai sat up from the bed, "Murong, what commission did you take today, and you came back so late?"

"It's nothing, it's just a little delayed by some small things. Murong Yu replied with a smile, and immediately walked to the brazier in the room and sat down.

"There's a lot of snow outside. Looking at the heavy snow blowing outside the window, Yan Nai locked his gaze on Murong Yu's body.

"Well, it's Chinese New Year's Eve. Murong Yu sat by the brazier and said lightly, "Do you know a legend?"

"Legend, what legend?" Yan Nai looked at him blankly, not to mention legends, he had just figured out even the most basic things in this world......

"The legend about Chinese New Year's Eve. Murong Yu stared at the fire in the brazier and said slowly.

"Could it be the origin of Chinese New Year's Eve?" Speaking of legends related to Chinese New Year's Eve, Yan Nai's mind flashed the legend of Chinese New Year's Eve in his own world.

"Hmm, you seem to know?" Murong Yu slowly looked up at Yan Nai.

"I don't know if it's the legend you said, or I'll tell you about it?" The Chinese New Year's Eve legend was still heard by Yan Nai from his grandparents.

In ancient Han folklore, on Chinese New Year's Eve, there was a horned and four-legged, hideous, vicious beast with a fierce nature, Xi, who was short of food due to heavy snow in winter, and often went to nearby villages to find food, because its body was very large, short-tempered, and ferocious, which brought great disasters to the villagers. Therefore, at the end of each month, people will tidy up their clothes, help the old and the young, and go to the nearby bamboo forest to take shelter.

On the way to the bamboo forest, the villagers encountered a child about seven or eight years old who was starving on the side of the road.

Due to the cold weather in the bamboo forest in winter, everyone is so cold that they have cut down bamboo to build houses and burn fires to keep warm. The child, who was rescued by the old woman, asked everyone curiously, "This bamboo forest is so close to the village, aren't you afraid that you will come here at night?"

An old man replied, "When I was young, I came here with the villagers to take refuge, and in the years when the snow was very heavy, I chased after it because it was very hungry, but every time it saw the villagers cutting bamboo in this bamboo forest, it hurried away." ”

After listening to the old man's answer, the child smiled and told everyone his thoughts, "I have a way to get rid of 'Xi', so that everyone will not have to come out and flee every month from now on." Everyone was very happy and asked what to do.

This clever boy told everyone that it would be good to cut more bamboo ribbons and put them on their bodies, and then hang a red cloth outside the doors, and wait until dawn and never come back. The villagers listened to the child's words in disbelief, and the old man of the village led everyone back to their homes.

After the villagers returned to the village, it was soon night, everyone did not dare to sleep because they were afraid that the evening would come, and after hanging red cloth strips outside their own doors, they all came to the open space in the middle of the village, guarding some bamboo knots brought back from the main force, everyone lit a fire to keep warm, and when they were hungry, they took out some food......

In the middle of the night, there was a loud roar that shook the sky, and the villagers shrank in fear, when the boy stood up and said, "I'm going to bring Yuki over, and then everyone throws those bamboo knots into the fire." ”

Before the mother-in-law who rescued him back reached out to pull it, the child had already arrived at the entrance of the village, and Xi was bumping around, so he shouted to attract Xi's attention, but when it followed the sound and chased after him, he didn't dare to enter when he saw that the walls of the house were hung with red cloth, so he endured his hungry belly and came to the open space in the middle of the village.

At this time, the child said loudly, "Folks, throw bamboo into the fire!" But everyone was already standing there for fear, and at this time, Xi picked up the child with the horns of his head and threw it heavily on the ground, and the villagers reacted when they heard the sound of the child falling to the ground, and threw the bamboo into the fire one after another.

The wet bamboo knots burst one after another when they encountered the fire, and they crackled, and Xi immediately turned around and ran away when he heard this sound, without making any more stops in the village.

The day gradually brightened, and Xi was scared away by the crackling sound of the bamboo knots that people threw into the fire, and because of the red stripes hanging in front of everyone's house, it was not destroyed by Xi, but everyone was not happy in their hearts, because the child who saved the whole village was killed by Xi, and this day was the first day of the first month.

Because Xi is not dead, so every year on the thirtieth day of the lunar month, everyone guards the broken bamboo festival and waits, hoping to get rid of the night as soon as possible, but a year has passed, no one has ever seen the night again, some are just in order to prevent its arrival, the firecrackers set off and the red cloth hanging in front of the door, but it has left this legend and the customs of the New Year.

"Well, this legend is quite interesting, it's not much different from the legend I'm going to talk about, it's just that Xi wasn't scared away, but was sealed by the Onmyoji. After listening to Yan Nai's story, Murong Yu also told another legend about Chinese New Year's Eve.

In this world, there is not much difference between the legend of Chinese New Year's Eve and the legend mentioned by Yan Nai, the difference is that the eve here was finally sealed by a certain onmyoji somewhere outside the Yin Capital City.

"It turns out that Xi has been sealed.,It seems that my legend seems to be an unfinished version.,Your legend is the full version.。 Yan Nai said with a grin.

"That seal will be strengthened by an onmyoji every year, otherwise Xi may break free from the seal and escape, this year's onmyoji who is responsible for reinforcing the seal happens to be a mid-level onmyoji of the fifth team, however, I heard that he has not returned. Murong Yu rubbed his hands, put his hands together and put them to his lips, staring thoughtfully at the flames without making a sound.

"You don't want to say that it's very likely to run out this year, right?!" Yan Nai had a faint sense of foreboding.

"Just kidding, you're so scared. Murong Yu smiled slightly and looked at Yan Nai.

“…… Classmate Murong, it's not right for you to do this. Yan Nai pretended to be serious and glared at Murong Yu, hearing him say that he was joking, Yan Nai was still relieved, that kind of evil beast was really going to be a big deal if it really escaped from the seal, but even so, he was still faintly uneasy in his heart, could it be the reason for obsessive-compulsive disorder?