Chapter 2: The Maiden and the Jade of the Four Souls
Time passed in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye, more than half a month had passed since the burial river first came to the village
Today, the sun is shining, and the fields are a lively scene of harmony, and everyone is bent down to plow, sweating their hard work.
"Bury River, come to your uncle's house for dinner today! I deliberately caught two hares, and I was going to make up for your boy, otherwise my body is so thin, how can I please my wife in the future? ”
In the distance, the sturdy young man who had been the first to find the burial river, holding two gray-haired rabbits strung with a bow and arrow in his hand, held them high, and shouted at him with a smug smile.
"Thank you, Uncle Takeda, but I have to accompany Grandma Feng to dinner today, and I'll see you next time, can I?" Although he was grateful, he still refused in a soft and whispered refusal, for fear that Daishi Takeda would be angry because of this.
"Okay, I'll keep it for you, and we'll eat together next time." Daishi Takeda is a bold man, and I saw him wave his hand casually with an open-minded expression, without the slightest hint of dissatisfaction.
"Hmm." The funeral river immediately nodded solemnly, obviously caring very much about the promise.
......
After bidding farewell to the enthusiastic Takeda Daishi, the pace of the burial river became faster and faster, and he soon broke into the forest alone.
According to Grandma Kaede, there is a powerful half-demon sealed in the depths of this forest, named "Inuyasha", which was suppressed by the previous shrine maiden Kikyo with the arrow of the seal on a towering ancient tree.
There is actually a reason why you have to look for Inuyasha. In the past half a month, Fuhe has felt the abnormal reaction of his body more and more day by day.
Sometimes you can even hear a distant and ethereal call, from far to near, as if it is in your ears.
A strong burning sensation will also occur in the chest, as if something is about to burst out.
At this moment, carefully following the inexplicable induction in his heart, the burial river quickly found a place.
Looking at the past, about five or six people hugged the huge towering trees, the branches and leaves were luxuriant, verdant.
The silver-white long-haired boy in a fiery red robe was brutally nailed to the trunk of a thick tree by a worn-out feathered arrow.
The years have not left a trace on his face, and he is still as handsome as he was fifty years ago.
The tranquil face seemed to be asleep, and it didn't look like it was sealed.
Burial River opened his black pupils wide, looking curiously at everything in front of him, this was the first time he had seen a youkai, except for the erect furry ears, it felt no different from a human.
Standing for a long time, the burial river did not make any strange moves, just watched from afar.
Because of Grandma Feng's earnest advice, it still keeps echoing in his mind at this moment.
In contrast, he didn't care about the anxious impulse in the depths of his heart.
"Grandma said I was human, why didn't I always feel like me?" Fuhe muttered to himself, his expression looking particularly tangled.
......
"Grandpa, Mom, Kusata, Gnata ......"
In a trance, the burial river seemed to hear the voice of a girl coming intermittently from the dry well.
Sure enough, after a while, a chaotic sound of the grass being stirred suddenly sounded in his ears, and then a dignified and delicate girl in a strange costume quickly walked out of it.
However, the excited expression on the girl's face instantly stiffened after seeing the burial river.
"Who are you?" The two said in unison.
"You speak first!"
After realizing that he had said the same thing as the girl, he suddenly lowered his head shyly.
"This is obviously the sacred tree of my family's shrine, why are you here?" The girl saw that the funeral river was soft, and her attitude was even more arrogant, but her inner fluctuations were also very violent.
"Your shrine? Shenmu? ”
Fuhe's brain was stunned for a moment, he remembered very clearly that there was only one small shrine in the village, but it was obviously a place where Grandma Feng usually stayed.
Could it be that the girl in front of her is the granddaughter of Grandma Feng, but she didn't hear the old man say it when he chatted!
"Definitely!" As soon as the girl finished speaking, she turned her head and looked at the sacred tree in her eyes, and when she saw Inuyasha, her pupils instantly constricted violently, and then she looked at the burial river in horror, and said in a trembling tone: "You...... You...... Did you kill him? ”
"No, no...... He's still alive. Fu He suddenly waved his hand in a panic, indicating that he was innocent.
"Get out of the way!" Rudely pushing away the burial river, the girl strode in front of Inuyasha with angry steps.
"Alas! This doesn't seem to be a human ear! Dog...... Dog ears? ”
The girl was stunned for a moment, is this playing cosplay? Or are you making a movie? Is there a crew nearby? Got a video camera?
"What are you doing there?" I don't know when all the men of the village came here.
"Whew!"
The sound of arrows breaking through the air suddenly shuttled in her ears, and the girl looked at the few arrows with feathers fluttering on the trunk in front of her, and she was almost fainting with fright.
"Burial River Boy, are you alright? Didn't I tell you, don't come to the Inuyasha Forest alone? Why are you so disobedient? Daishi Takeda quickly rushed out of the crowd, anxiously came to the burial river, and then asked with a worried face.
Although he was blaming the burial river, he didn't hear the tone of blame at all.
"I'm sorry, Uncle Takeda, but I'm fine." Bury River smiled apologetically.
After these days, the scar on his left eye has long been covered by the bangs on his forehead, and the young man's delicate and handsome face looks very tender and delicate at this moment.
"Tie her up and take her away!" Greeting everyone, Daishi Takeda immediately wanted to go back ahead of schedule with the funeral river.
When leaving, looking at the girl's eyes asking for help, even if Fuhe had the heart to help, he couldn't speak, after all, the matter happened in such a sensitive period.
However, he believes that the uncles are not malicious.
Not to mention......
This girl is indeed too fierce!
......
"Strange people again? Same as the Burial River Kid, but why does this girl look a little stupid? Xiao Fuhe is much more well-behaved and sensible than her, and there is no comparison at all. ”
"That's not it! Grandma Feng has no children under her knees, this time it's really good, suddenly there is such a filial little grandson. ”
"Yes! Oh, yes! ”
"Little Whisper......"
The discussion in the crowd didn't last long, and soon Grandma Feng pushed aside the crowd and walked out quickly.
She looked nervously at the funeral river at first glance, and when she found that it was okay, she slowly let go of the heart that had been hanging tightly in her throat.
He skillfully took out the small bag, and then began to repeat the same act as the burial river, that is, to splash the magic medicine.
"What are you doing?" The girl shook her hair, her expression was very depressed and angry, she frowned, and shouted loudly at Grandma Feng with a little dissatisfaction.
"I heard that you appeared in the forest of Inuyasha, so I guess it might be some kind of youkai or goblin." Grandma Feng patiently explained.
"Could it be a spy sent by a neighboring country?" Someone in the crowd brought up the old story.
"As I said a long time ago, what's the good of beating our village? In our village, there is not enough food to eat. Grandma Feng sighed, her expression a little sad.
"Huh?" As if she had discovered something, Grandma Feng couldn't help but step forward at this time, looked at the girl carefully, and said in an excited tone: "Let me take a closer look at your face." ”
"Alas!" The girl had a wooden expression on her face, and her head swayed from side to side with Grandma Feng's fiddling.
"Make your face smarter!"
Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
The girl's heart is broken at this time, and no one whose head is manipulated and demanded like this will not be happy.
"It's so similar, it's really like Sister Kikyo." Grandma Feng's face was full of shock, and her tone was even more surprised.
In this way, because of her appearance, the human girl was taken in by Grandma Feng.
......
It was still in front of the ceramic cauldron of Grandma Feng, and she looked at the girl with a curious expression from the burial river, and it had been a while.
However, just when the girl was about to burst out, he suddenly opened his mouth and asked Grandma Feng, "Witch ...... Does Miss Kikyo look like this? ”
"Well, when I was young, Sister Kikyo basically didn't look different from her." Grandma Feng's eyes were full of reminiscence, and her tone was also sad.
"Oh!" Fuhe, who got the answer, stopped talking in an instant, and he didn't know how to comfort people, so he could only bow his head and eat the food in his hand seriously.
"It's delicious!" Without that embarrassing gaze, the girl suddenly relaxed.
"I'm sorry, because there have been a lot of wars recently, and young people are always murderous, and I said that there is no way to fight in this village, and they just can't listen, it's really nerve-wracking." Grandma Feng used her long chopsticks to rummage through the food while continuing to talk casually.
After the girl seemed to understand what she didn't understand, the expression on her face stopped talking, but finally she mustered up the courage to ask, "Excuse me, here...... It shouldn't be Tokyo, right? ”
"Tokyo? I haven't heard anything about Tokyo, is that your hometown? Grandma Feng replied in surprise.
This answer made the girl's heart instantly cold for half a beat, but she still forced a smile and said, "Yes! It's getting late, and it's time for me to go back. ”
But how can I go back?
......
Fifty years ago.
A little girl in an orange kimono with her right eye hidden by a white cloth knelt on the ground and struggled to support a beautiful woman in a red and white shrine maiden costume.
"Sister, hurry up and heal!" The little girl cried out, looking sad and anxious.
"Take it...... Cremate this Jade of the Four Souls with my corpse. ”
The pink jade of the four souls, which exuded a moist luster, was tightly held in the woman's hand, and was handed to the little girl tremblingly.
......
"It's coming!"
In the room, Fu He, who was eating, suddenly raised his head suddenly, he pressed his chest tightly, and his expression looked very painful.
Beads of sweat the size of beans kept dripping from his forehead to the ground, and the burning heat in his heart brought him unbearable pain from time to time.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bell! Clang! Bell ......"
The sound of the collapse of the houses outside, as well as the sound of gongs for the alarm, intersected and sounded.
"I'm fine, leave me alone!"
After hearing Fuhe's words, Grandma Feng and the girl who were about to support him didn't bother to check his body, and hurriedly ran out of the house.
"What's going on?"
"There are youkai!"
Grandma Kaede and the girl looked up, and a strong brown horse happened to be picked up by the monster.
It was a monster more than 100 meters long, with a centipede's lower body and a human upper body, and it was now entrenched throughout the village.
"Whew!"
The arrows loaded with fire oil were fired at the youkai, but they did not have any effect at all.
"Ahh
The monster flicked its tail at will, and seven or eight young men were easily slapped away without any force.
"It's the monster!" The girl obviously recognized the youkai in front of her, and her tone was a little surprised.
"Give me the Jade of the Four Souls."
When the monster saw the girl, it immediately roared wantonly with a fishy evil wind, and swept past Grandma Feng and her in a low altitude.
"She said the Jade of the Four Souls, is it on you?" Grandma Feng, who fell to the ground, quickly got up and said solemnly to the girl's voice.
"I don't know, I don't know what the Jade of the Four Souls is." The girl tried her best to explain, looking extremely aggrieved.
"Give it to me, give it to me!" The youkai's mood seems to be very unstable.
After a high-speed spin, it turned into a black-gray tornado and struck the people below.
"Grandma Feng, knives, guns, bows and arrows can't hurt her!" Two middle-aged men retreated from the front, looking nervous in front of Grandma Feng.
"The only way now is to drive her into a dry well."
"What dry well?"
"It's a dry well in the Inuyasha forest."
As soon as the words fell, the girl's expression became thoughtful, for she knew the well, and it was from it that she had climbed out.
"Where is the forest?"
Grandma Feng didn't speak, just turned around and looked behind her, expressing it very clearly, and the girl was not really a fool, and she understood what she meant in an instant.
"Is that the place that glows?"
"What did you just say?" Grandma Feng was stunned for a moment, and before she finished speaking, the girl had already run away in a hurry.
And the monster's tornado gale interrupted her train of thought at this moment.
"That youkai will definitely come after me." The girl ran on the field path, not forgetting to shout behind her.
"This girl can see the miasma of the forest that ordinary people can't see."
Grandma Feng looked at the direction of the girl's departure in a daze, and did not come back to her senses for a while.
"Grandma Kaede!"
"Grandma Kaede!"
On the other side, men arrived on horseback.
"Chase!"
Turning over the horse, and then taking the bow and arrow handed by the person next to him, Grandma Kaede immediately led everyone to the Inuyasha Forest quickly.
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The village gradually quieted down at this time, and the women and children all came out silently, quietly cleaning up the dilapidated mess in front of them.
"Roar!"
Suddenly, a domineering desolate roar that seemed to come from ancient times came from Grandma Feng's house, and the violent sound wave extended far away, but it did not cause any harm to people.
"What's going on?"
"I don't know, it seems to be Grandma Feng's house."
"Look at it."
The women looked at it with horrified expressions, obviously trying to find out the situation, but no one dared to approach it.
"Bang!"
At this moment, the wooden wall of the room was instantly shattered by something from the inside.
Then a figure flickered out with a strong coercion, leaving only a black-purple afterimage of horror in place, and then disappeared.
However, looking at the direction in which its afterimage is opposite, it happens to be the place where Grandma Feng and the monster rushed before.
If it's not a coincidence, then ......
"Hurry up and inform Grandma Kaede and the men!" When the women figured this out, they immediately took action.