Qiao Xi sat under the porch, holding her chin with one hand and watching the fireflies in the yard running behind the stumbling Dudu, and suddenly muttered for a long time: "Running around, I still didn't send Dudu out in the end." ”

Sa Dou, who was sitting next to him holding tea and drinking slowly, smiled slightly when he heard this: "Well, that's what I said." ”

Qiao Xi glanced back at him, Sa Dou knelt down in the wooden corridor, the hem of the pink kimono was spread out around him in layers, holding a turquoise teacup in his hand, and behind him was a dark brown wooden window painted with green bamboo.

Qiao Xi glanced at him, and then turned his head to look at the cherry blossom trees in the yard full of beautiful flowers, the red and pink cherry blossoms were clustered together, which was very beautiful.

The corners of his mouth curled slightly.

- Sure enough, it was a very correct decision to bring Sa Dou back at that time, and it was pleasing to the eye to put it in the yard.

He looked at Sa Dou and smiled meaninglessly, Sa Dou was inexplicably looked at by him, holding the teacup and blinking, and when he was about to ask something, he saw Qiao Xi naturally turn his head and look at the doodoo who was chasing the little monster and kept running.

"Well, shouldn't I find a teacher for Dudu?"

Qiao Xi tilted his head and said, "You see, a child as big as a human being will have a teacher." ”

Sa Dou was silent for a moment and said, "I think she should learn to speak first." ”

Qiao Xi suddenly tapped his palm: "You're right!" ”

- And so the process of unclear parenting began.

When Qiao Xi was still a human being, he could always hear people say that there was not enough time and not enough time - when he became a monster, he felt that when life was close to infinity, time seemed to lose its meaning.

He didn't carefully calculate how much time had passed, but one day, Fuyue returned to the shrine in a bit of a loss, and told him that the monk called "Asakura" had died.

The first reaction in Qiao Xi's mind was - couldn't he have been accidentally eaten by a monster?

However, it is not in poetry.

- He's just, life has come to an end.

When he heard Buyue say this, Qiao Xi was stunned for a long time before he suddenly came back to his senses, and muttered unconsciously in his mouth: "Yes...... Is it? It's been so long......"

His mind was in a trance for a moment.

Buyue sat next to him, leaning her back against the pillar, and maintained a movement for a long time, before she suddenly took out a gourd and shook it towards Qiao Xi.

"That's what he gave me."

Qiao Xi turned his head to look over, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned - it was a gourd wine.

Buyue smiled: "It was said that he buried it under the tree more than ten years ago, and when he buried it, he told those monks that if I went to him after he died, they would dig up this wine for me." ”

Qiao Xi didn't know how to react, so he said dryly: "That's the case." ”

Buyue looked at him and laughed with a "poof": "I'm just a little emotional, human beings are really a very fragile creature." ”

He smiled and looked at the cherry blossoms blooming in the yard: "But ah, such a fragile existence is always so magical." ”

He opened the lid of the gourd, and the taste of the wine that had been buried for more than ten years was really very mellow, and the rich aroma was blurred in this small space.

Buyue poured a small bowl and handed it to Qiao Xi, and he also poured a bowl himself, and then drank it all.

Qiao Xi stared at him and kept looking up to drink, then looked down at the brightly colored wine in his hand, thought about it, and then raised his head and drank it directly.

- What a pity, even if the wine tastes mellow, as long as it is still in the category of ordinary wine, they will never get drunk again.

Qiao Xi stared at the empty small bowl in a daze, and heard Buyue suddenly say, "Na, do you remember that fox and half-demon kid?" ”

Qiao Xi frowned and thought for a moment: "You mean Qingming?" ”

"Ah yes, that's the kid."

He tilted his head sideways, his long black hair swept across his cheeks, slightly obscuring his eyes, and he smiled: "I heard that he has converted all the demonic power in his body into spiritual power." ”

Qiao Xi blinked, a little confused, and said, "That's very powerful, then his Yin Yang Technique should be more convenient to use." ”

"Yes, it's very convenient, as a human being, he is already a very famous onmyoji in Kyoto."

"You say...... Mankind? ”

Qiao Xi narrowed his eyes and asked with some hesitation.

Buyue turned the wine gourd over and poured it upside down, then lay back, and said regretfully: "Ahh I've finished drinking it - it's human. ”

He lay on the ground and turned his head to squint at Qiao Xi, who was sitting upright, and said with a smile: "Haven't you heard?" That kid has become a human being completely. ”

Qiao Xi frowned, a little stunned for a moment.

It's been a long time since he's been in contact with Qingming, and he can't say how long it has been—five years? Or ten years?

He thought about how long it had been since he had seen Qingming, and Buyue, who was lying on the ground unexpectedly, suddenly stretched out his hand and pulled him and hit him.

Qiao Xi supported the floor with one arm and looked at Buyue in confusion, Buyue squinted, staring fixedly at a certain point in the void for a long time, and muttered: "It's really ...... It's so unpleasant. ”

Qiao Xi was stunned for a moment, and said with some hesitation: "What if...... If you want to leave Asakura behind, you can ask Qingxing Lantern-san to help. ”

Buyue came back to her senses, raised her eyebrows in some surprise, and then rubbed Qiao Xi into her arms, and laughed: "You are so cute!" Now, listen to the cry Onisan. ”

“……”

Qiao Xi was silent for a moment, crawled out of Buyue's arms with an expressionless face, and then stood next to him and stared at him condescendingly, without saying a word.

- I have to mention here that although time is indeed passing, it is not wrong that Qiao Xi's appearance is still twelve or thirteen years old, which has led to the more and more maternal nature of the monsters in the shrine.

Buyue lay on her back and smiled, a pair of eyes as black as ink flashed with a little bit of light.

Qiao Xi sighed silently in his heart, couldn't help muttering in a low voice, "You're amazing", and turned around and went to the study.

Shiraka was sorting out the wish list of the human beings who came to the shrine to pray in the study, and when he saw Qiao Xi coming in, he stopped what he was doing and ran to Qiao Xi, raised his head and said, "My lord, do you have any instructions?" ”

- These things were originally supposed to be done by Sa Dou, who is an envoy of the gods, but Sa Dou said some time ago that something had gone somewhere, and Qiao Xi never cared about him.

Qiao Xi smiled and patted the top of its hat, shook his head and said, "No, I just came here to find a book." ”