At night, the courtyard is so quiet, the frost condenses in the flowers, the nightingale cries on it, evokes the old dream, the three of them carefully taste the tea, Zhuang Mengli is in a good mood, babbling and singing: "Dream back to the warbler, chaotic year, people set up a small courtyard and deep courtyard, no diamond flowers, throw the residual embroidery thread, this spring is like last year?" Singing and dancing, self-pity, as if nostalgic for the golden years, a pair of purple eyes of cut water looked at him, Jiang Xingyue smiled: "Good song." "At first he didn't know what the song meant, and then he was already a person in the song, and many years later, he understood the sadness after the tactful jade sound.

At this time, the sky was dark, the red stars were very bright, comparing the brilliance of the stars, Hyacinth raised his head and looked at the sky, worried: "Tonight, the confusion stays on the ghosts, the yin qi is dark, and there will be a hundred ghosts walking at night, so be sure to close the door and latch at night, and don't come out." ”

"Don't scare me, I think it's going to be fine today." Jiang Xingyue intuitively felt that she was chattering, and she didn't pay attention to it at all. "It's true." Zhuang Mengli emphasized and added: "The location of the ugly gate in Kyoto is where the ghost gate is located, which is where we are now, and the establishment of Eizan Enryakuji Temple here is also to suppress the evil spirit. ”

Jiang Xingyue looked at her serious expression, not like an alarmist, while obeying Hyacinth's arrangement, settled in the room, they were in the next room, only separated by a screen, and they could take care of each other in case of danger.

Although the attic is beautifully decorated, sleeping on the mat is like a concrete floor, and what is even more unbearable is that the thin wooden curtain can't block the cold wind, Jiang Xingyue is wrapped in a mandarin quilt in the evening, shivering: "It's too cold, I really don't know how they get it, maybe they are not mortals." How did he know that since the Edo period, geisha have always been beautiful in thin clothing, even in winter, and for them, the autumn wind is far less cold than the heart.

He tossed and turned, lonely sleepless, heard the noise of gongs and drums outside, he simply leaned against the window, looking at the situation outside, although the waning moon has sunk in the west, but it is very lively, the fireworks in the sky are gorgeous, the fire trees on the ground are silver, in the distance, on the high car that returned from Mo, there are children with snowdrifts and jade grinding, and there are also girls with strong fragrance, and the accompanying men are all powdered and black-haired, with golden crowns and robes, like the team of the Kwai Festival, solemn and mysterious.

Glimpsing that it turned out to be a human population, Jiang Xingyue felt that it was a false alarm: "What kind of ghosts walk at night, it's really feudal superstition." Suddenly, a woman in the crowd looked up at him, it stands to reason that this angle should not be visible, it really startled him, the woman was wearing a cherry blossom red dress, as bright as Danyang, her skin was as white as wax paper, and she grinned at him: "Tonight, the son is leaning alone on the window, so not lonely, why don't you let me accompany you." ”

Jiang Xingyue waved her hand again and again: "No, I don't need it." But the woman turned a deaf ear, floated to the eaves, and said softly: "Childe, do you dislike my bad skin?" How so? Under the moonlight, her pretty face suddenly turned into a skull, and her graceful body became a craggy skeleton, this woman is a bone girl, she was betrayed by her husband before her death, died tragically, and turned into a monster for revenge over the years.

There is no difference between the heart and the pink skeleton, but Jiang Xingyue obviously does not have this awareness, and shouted in fright: "The white bone spirit has come out, help!" The bone girl came from hanging in the air, stretched out her arms, and wanted to hug him into her arms: "Don't be afraid, I just want to have a good time with Gongzi Yunyu, but Gongzi also has to take off his skin, so that he can really intersect with flesh and blood." This skin-devouring love is both perverted and unreasonable, and he naturally refuses to obey and curls up in the corner.

Hyacinth heard the movement and hurriedly pushed the door in, the bone girl turned her head, her hair was scattered to the side, but there was no beauty that half covered her face, only more weird: "Onmyoji? You can't stop me, even if Da Luo Jinxian comes, it's useless. As he spoke, his hair swept in and swept in.

The corners of Hyacinth's mouth raised a slight arc: "Really? She lightly raised her cloud hand, stretched out like a lotus flower, and read in her mouth: "Zhou Tian Xingdou, gather in my hands, southern Vermilion Bird, burn up the sin." With the urging of the incantation, the light and shadow under her feet lingered, revealing a vast star map of the twenty-eight constellations, which were distributed in order of the sky, and from the position of the seven Nakshatras in the south, a flaming Vermilion Bird swooped down towards the Bone Maiden, and in an instant her hair was engulfed in flames, and the greedy tongue of fire wantonly devoured her body, and Hyacinth issued an ultimatum: "It's too late to beg for mercy." ”

Unexpectedly, the bone girl laughed wildly in the fire: "You can't cross me." Hyacinth looked at her who was gradually disappearing, and was a little unbearable: "Bone girl, I know that you have been wronged, but all kinds of things in your previous life are like water without a trace, why not be entangled." The bone girl was bathed in flames, as if she was going through a baptism, she remembered her husband's letters, and the tragic death of the empty boudoir, and laughed with tears: "He said that he was homesick, because the tired bird knew that Si Nest, what a beautiful lie." Maybe it wasn't tears, and after too much time, she couldn't tell the difference between tears and pus.

Hyacinth ruled: "Although you have done all the wrong things, your nature still exists, and today I will draw you to the living beings, and I hope you will do it yourself." With a wave of her hand, the three souls and seven spirits of the bone girl were withdrawn from her body, like colorful clouds on the horizon, and entered the body of a black cat, which left a few tears of gratitude and rushed out of the window.

Jiang Xingyue wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead: "I didn't expect the monster to look like this." Hyacinth nodded his head: "That's right, youkai are greedy for fireworks in the world, so they love to dress up as ordinary people, you have to be careful in the future, it is already considered good."

"I'm late, but I'm glad you're fine." Zhuang Mengli came in through the curtain just now, Jiang Xingyue patted her head, and then reacted: "It's not good, she's a monster, and the group of people outside must be too." Hurriedly looked out the window, the ghosts in gold and jade clothes showed their true appearances, there were dog-headed sons, feathered banshees, and nine-tailed foxes, headless warriors, long-tongued ghosts, all sorts of things, countless, just listen to their heated discussions: "Wow, the bone girl has been gone for so long, why hasn't she come back yet." ”

"Woo woo, I think she wants to be alone."

"Hiss, let's go up and have a look."

"Okay, find a human to follow the rules, I want eyeballs, and everything else is free."

"Come on, the breath of the living is getting closer and closer, I really can't hold it back."

The monsters reached an agreement under the fierce quarrel, approaching their building, the huge team of black clouds pressed the city, it was very terrifying, Zhuang Mengli smiled indifferently: "It seems that we are busy." Jiang Xingyue was up and down in her heart and asked, "Have you thought of a strategy to retreat from the enemy?" Hyacinth half-jokingly said: "It's okay, Mengli and I are not mortals, even if we can't support it, just hand you over." ”

Although Jiang Xingyue knew that she was joking, for some reason, she became serious: "I don't want to bury my good life in the belly of the monster, even if you surrender, I will fight to the end." This unyielding momentum, Zhuang Mengli felt very much like Ye Bingyan, seeing that his eyebrows were also somewhat similar, under the light of the light, the outline became blurred, as if he was an old man, and immediately assured him: "Don't worry, we are friends, of course, we must share weal and evil, live together, and die together." She realized she had said it and stopped talking.

The winged banshee took the lead in spinning her wings, different from the immortal who flaited and soared, the banshee looked extremely ugly, with two fangs like a walrus, eyes as red as lanterns, and a body covered with scales. "At the corresponding position of the astrolabe under his feet, a dazzling lightning bolt flew out, and the lightning and light stones struck the banshee downstairs, and the air was filled with the stench of burnt feathers.

Zhuang Mengli was a little worried: "You control the starry sky and do things in the sky, is there no price?" Hyacinth replied: "Naturally, there is, so I pray from time to time, and I don't dare to use it more, so as not to lose my longevity." ”

"Help!" Jiang Xingyue was tied to his neck by a monster shaped like a snake, and it was difficult to breathe, Zhuang Mengli moved lightly from the lotus step, turned his hand and unfolded the iron fan, and the edge drew a silver arc, like the bright moon reflecting the cold river, mercilessly cut off half of its body, the cut off half of the body was still shaking, the monster turned over and over on the ground in pain, turning into a pretty woman with a snake head, Zhuang Mengli quipped: "It's all female monsters who catch you, it's really a good fortune." "What? Jealous. Jiang Xingyue slammed back sharply.

"Who said there are only female monsters!" The sound of pure and rough sound, deafening, from a monster with a bull's head and a spider body, this kind of monster is relatively strong, mainly appears in the mountains and swamps, called the cow ghost, the sparkling iron armor on the body makes it almost indestructible, it will be a tiger with a big axe, and it roars towards everyone's face, Zhuang Mengli hurriedly pulled Jiang Xingyue to avoid it, and the wall was hit by a big axe, and it turned into powder.

Hyacinth cast a spell, the sawdust scattered around rose out of nothing, with her gesture, the pear blossom rainstorm hit the cow ghost, the cow ghost waved the axe to block, Zhuang Mengli waved a long whip, softly wrapped around its arm, it seems to be as soft as catkins, but it is vigorous and powerful, the cow ghost instinctively has a hard hand, the axe that stopped in the air can no longer be swung, there is no block, the sawdust hits it flatly, although it is small, but the small stream can set off huge waves, a little bit of damage is not worth mentioning to the cow ghost, but the damage is added together, but it makes it painful, I didn't care about the image that had always been brave, and I fled with my armor thrown away, and my image was very unbearable.

The monsters surrounded them, and when they saw their strength, they didn't dare to act rashly, but just surrendered: "The two of you are a little bit of a catty, you must not be mortals, it is better to join us monsters, thirsty for blood, laughing and eating human flesh, wouldn't it be happy!" ”

Hyacinth knew that although he could rely on mana for a while, he couldn't withstand a lifetime, so he showed his true appearance, and five horns were born on his head, like a dragon's Boshan, the white hair in black turned bright red, the totem on his face stretched out like a vine, and his yin and yang eyes also became black and red, like a little spark in the night, and she said in a loud voice: "I am the daughter of a drunken boy, and all the ghosts and monsters retreat." ”

When all the ghosts and monsters saw that her appearance was the same as that of the wine-swallowing boy, they all bowed prostrately, and did not dare to be presumptuous: "She was the daughter of the ghost king, and she was offended." Jiang Xingyue was shocked when she saw her transformation: "It turns out that she is also a monster." Zhuang Mengli gave him a fierce look, as if to say: "What nonsense is telling the truth." I only heard Hyacinth ask with great momentum: "You don't want to stay in Ping'an City, why do you want to disturb the world?" ”

"It's not our intention, it's really out of helplessness, that Takeda Takeo occupies our home, so we have to settle down in the world." The ghost told the truth, and Hyacinth was like a thunderbolt: "This is impossible, my stepfather is not that kind of person." The monsters prompted: "Seeing is believing, you go and see us, don't you know." Hyacinth didn't believe it, but nodded anyway, and they agreed to meet at the train station tomorrow night, and every time they got ugly, there was a special shuttle bus to the world of youkai.