It was night, and the moon was almost above.

The location is next to a stream in the middle of the forest.

Su Shang looked at the female monster sitting in front of the piano.

She is very beautiful, with a slender melon seed face, silkworm eyebrows, a yao nose, a cherry mouth, and long black hair spread on the ground. The dark blue kimono was not cumbersome, but she wore it neatly.

What the female monster was thinking in her head at this time, Su Sheng didn't know.

But the mood is probably very excited, after all, after so many years, I can finally find Master Reed.

But Qihe is really stupid to the point of ridiculousness, obviously he doesn't need to look for the reed master after getting out of trouble, does he really just want to repay Yuluo's kindness to him? There are still other feelings in it.

Qihe turned his head in the direction where Su Sheng was, with gratitude and excitement in his eyes, and a calm smile on his face.

Even if you use music to attract the master reed to come out, even if you get the harp, even if you go back to the valley, but the seven rivers, the rain is no longer there.

Su Shang suddenly wanted to say such a thing, but just as he was about to say it, he found that his throat seemed to be unable to make a sound.

It's not that I've been hit by some spell, but I can't tell the female monster in front of me the truth.

Perhaps from beginning to end, it will only be a sad story.

There is no way to start, let alone end.

Probably the only thing that made Su Sheng happy about the whole thing was that at least he knew the story, before Qihe knew about it.

"Natsume-sama, it's time."

Qihe's voice pulled Su Shang back from his thoughts.

"Huh? I'm sorry. ”

……

By the stream in the forest, in the night sky directly above the full moon, there were two people by the river, Su Shang and Qihe.

Su Sheng held a jasper-colored flute in his hand. Glows green.

In the forest not far from them, there were many youkai such as Lin Ye.

When Nanagawa's fingers lightly touched the harp, a wonderful melody appeared.

Su Sheng didn't know how to play the flute, but probably because of the leaf he got in the evening, when he put the horizontal flute to his mouth. The melody also appeared.

It was a sound that complemented the piano played by Shichikawa.

Nanagawa seemed to notice that the sound of the god's flute wavered, and the sound of the piano began to change, and she began to cooperate with the god.

The Buddha will be like the moon in the sky and the trees on the earth will shake, and the sound of the transverse flute will resonate with the sound of the qin, and gradually, the two will begin to merge.

It was the voice that poured all the thoughts into it. The regret of the past and the confusion of the present are all in this voice, which is the unspeakable feelings of ordinary life, and now they are all poured out here.

Su Sheng glanced at Qihe slightly.

The female monster has completely melted into it.

There seemed to be a calling voice in the wonderful melody, vaguely inaudible, not really what it was calling. But subconsciously, Su Sheng knew that it was the sound of rain falling.

Probably the call of the Seven Rivers.

The ensemble of Su Shang and Seven Rivers is combined into one.

It seems that their hearts are completely together.

Su Shang's lips left the play, but then, at the same time, he blew again from the beginning of the song. The wonderful melody shook the woods in the forest, and eventually, the woods became quiet when Su Shang's lips left the transverse flute, and when Nanagawa's hands left the qin.

The youkai around them were completely silent, and none of them spoke.

Because the melody just now is an ensemble that makes the heart vibrate.

The melody born from the combination of the transverse flute and the harp.

After Su Shang and Qihe ensemble finished playing 'Falling Maple and Snow'. The plants and beasts of the forest are completely immersed in the afterglow of just now.

Soon, in the middle of the dense woods, one tied up the sleeves of his kimono. The craftsman-like youkai stepped out.

"Kami-sama, are you looking for me?"

"Well, it's just that this one has something to do with you."

Su Shang looked back at Qihe.

"Hello, I have something to ask you."

Master Reed stared at the Seven Rivers, and after half a sound, he seemed to understand everything. Nodding slightly.

Then he bowed slightly to Su Shang, then turned around and walked into the woods again. When he came out of the forest again, he carried a red lyre wrapped in a cyan silk cloth in his arms.

But when the instrument is handed over. Master Reed's gaze fell on the piano that lay on the ground.

He stared at the piano with the sharp eyes of a famous general, and soon his eyes showed amazement: "It's really a good piano." Such a great income is quite rare. ”

After finishing speaking, he set his eyes on Qihe again.

"It must be very hard, I don't have my own place to live because of many things, this piano was commissioned by Lord Yuluo a long time ago, and told me that I will have a youkai named Nanakawa come to fetch it, and I really want to praise your piano skills, this piano will definitely make a beautiful sound when you play it."

As he spoke, Master Reed handed the crimson piano to Qihe.

Taking the piano, Nanakawa, who held it in his arms, bowed deeply: "Thank you very much." ”

"Is there anything you want me to do?"

Master Reed looked at Su Shang respectfully, as if he felt the majesty emanating from Su Shang's body, which made Master Reed, who originally looked arrogant, become respectful.

"It's not a matter of any more, it's just that I'm really bothering you, and I'm still attracting you here at such a late hour."

"You're welcome."

……

Master Reed left.

After greeting Lin Ye and the others, he went back.

It seems to be a youkai who likes to be alone.

Su Shang looked at the ecstatic Qihe, and mixed emotions appeared in her heart.

Then he looked into the depths of the trees in the distance.

Yuluo was standing there, and he had been there since before the performance began.

I was standing there alone all the time.

Maybe he should tell Nanagawa that the rain fell right there, just a dozen meters away from him.

Maybe after that, Seven Rivers will rush over it impatiently.

But Yuluo will run away because he doesn't want Nanagikawa to see what he is now.

Su Sheng felt a deep sadness in his heart, just as he had thought before, this would only be a sad story from beginning to end, with no beginning, let alone an end.

But the only consolation is that things have changed.

Nanagawa got the piano, and it looked like Yuluo had prepared the piano for him.

And that's probably the end of it.

Shichikawa got the harp and returned to the valley.

But the people who want to see them are no longer there.

That's how the story ends.

But is that really going to be the case?

Su Sheng glanced at Yuluo, who seemed to be about to leave, and then looked at Qihe.

But at this time, he couldn't help but look behind them, because he felt the breath of a human being.

"Sure enough, there's a monster here tonight."

It was seven or eight monks wearing hats, wearing swaggers, and holding staffs, all of them with the same expression, unable to hide their shock and disgust.

And the monk standing at the front was the monk that Su Sheng knew before. (To be continued)