The eighth year of the Republic of China, the eighth year of Taisho in Japan, the 1919 year of the Western calendar, the first day of the first lunar month.

For many days and nights to come, she would dream back to Sagano in the snow, see the blood-drenched night, see the dead souls of samurai, and see the boys and beasts set off by ghost-faced armor.

The bayonet was so close that it almost pierced the eyeball. She followed him and it, stooping and fleeing up the hill. Behind him, there was a series of gunshots, bullets grazing his ears, and his heart was about to jump out of his throat. The boy grabbed her arm, his fingers almost digging into the flesh.

Run all the way back to the bamboo forest of Nonomiya Shrine. Qin Beiyang wiped her face with the corner of her shirt, and in the dense light of the stone lantern, the slender eyes common to the Japanese, tears rolled twice in the corners of the eyes, like pearls sliding down the cheeks. He took off his school uniform and wrapped it around the girl's thinly dressed body.

"Thank you for saving me."

The little girl was only eleven or twelve years old, and although her voice was thin, her tone was not humble, but there was a kind of condescending momentum.

"Your name?"

“ひかり。”

The girl spoke three sounds, and in order to confirm that she heard correctly, Qin Beiyang used a branch to write a Chinese character in the snow - 光.

"You are the fire, I am the light."

"Light ...... Great name! ”

Seeing Qin Beiyang bow his head close to her face, the girl heard the flaw in his pronunciation, frowned and retreated: "Wait a minute, you're not Japanese?" ”

"I'm not."

"The people of China?

Hearing the little girl's mouth, "Xi Na Jin" popped out, Qin Beiyang's face was gloomy: "I don't know what a branch is?" I am Chinese. ”

"My father said that the people of China are stupid, selfish, cowardly, unhygienic, and do not take a bath for a year, and they are still cowards."

Qin Beiyang had never seen such a venomous little girl, looking at her miserable gaze, he pulled out a three-foot Tang knife from the long-handled umbrella. Originally, she just wanted to scare her, but the girl had a strong temperament and raised her neck proudly: "You cut me, right?" I'm not afraid of death, and my father is right, you are the most savage. ”

The Japanese take life and death lightly, and they will commit suicide and martyrdom at every turn, so they don't want to die when they start a war. Qin Beiyang doesn't kill women, he doesn't kill children, let alone girls! He put away the Tang knife and walked away with the nine colors, leaving the little girl alone in the bamboo forest.

She had just taken a few steps in the snow, and when she turned around, the little girl rolled down the hill with her bones.

Qin Beiyang went down to save her, and Jiu Se rolled down with a group, covered with snowballs, and turned into a big white dog. The girl whose name was light smiled when she saw this young beast, and she was about to ride it on her back while holding it, before she was dragged down by Qin Beiyang: "Hey, this is not a horse ridden by you!" ”

"Oops! Feet hurt! ”

You can't stand up alone. Qin Beiyang helped her check her ankles, and she couldn't see anything wrong, naked in the snow. It is an old custom for Japanese people to leave their legs exposed in winter.

Qin Beiyang carried her onto his shoulder. The little girl's weight is not heavy, not a burden at all, and the nine colors are still leading the way.

The snow seeds in the middle of the night, through the gaps in the canopy, fell finely on Qin Beiyang's eyelashes. The girl's head rested on his neck, and the strands of hair rubbed against his earlobes, exhaling hot air, like autumn frost against the pores.

"Hey, how old are you?"

"Twelve."

"Where do you live? I'll send you home. ”

She paused and said, "Tokyo." ”

"Tokyo? Do you have a family in Kyoto? ”

"No, I sneaked away from home. Last year, my mother died, and my father remarried my stepmother, and I hated them. ”

"You ran away from Tokyo and walked to Kyoto alone?"

"Well, I stole some money from my family and wanted to come to Kyoto."

"You're so daring!" There are also many underworlds in Japan, Qin Beiyang couldn't help but say, "A little girl like you, aren't you afraid of being sold to a brothel by bad people?" ”

"Are you a bad person, then?"

"I'm not."

"Well, my family runs a brothel."

No wonder this girl has a perverse temperament and is not easy to get along with. Qin Beiyang really wanted to put her down and leave immediately. She wrapped her two little hands around his neck: "Don't you leave me alone!" You made my foot hurt. ”

Qin Beiyang carried her helplessly and walked all the way to the foot of Lanshan Mountain and the head of the Moon Bridge. On the second day of the first lunar month, the sky was already dark.

Two policemen appeared in front of him, lying on his shoulders and saying, "Hurry up!" They're here to get me! ”

"Wouldn't it be good to send you home?"

"They'll think you're a pervert who kidnaps little girls!"

"Nani?"

"Because that's what I'm going to tell the police!" The little girl grinned, "You're an international student in China, right?" Either go to jail or rush back to China - it's up to you, whether the police will believe me or the people of China......"

"You're such a wicked girl!"

She patted Qin Beiyang's head like a horse: "Take me away, if you are caught by the police, it will be over." ”

Qin Beiyang was led by this light, and ran to the back of Lanshan in a panic, hiding in a dense residential area.

"Hey, if you dare to say the word 'Zhina' to me again! I'll beat you up. ”

"You're not going to hit a little girl."

"Who's to say it wouldn't?"

Qin Beiyang really can't, and his voice is empty.

"I'm sorry, I was just deliberately angry with you. I promise you never to say those two words again. ”

"You swear!"

"Okay, I swear that if I break it, I will immediately commit suicide by disemboweling myself like a samurai."

Looking at the little girl's serious expression, as soon as Qin Beiyang looked up, he saw a cemetery. He was born in the ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty and grew up in the underground palace of the imperial tomb, and he had an inexplicable sense of intimacy when he saw the tomb.

This cemetery in the snow is hidden deep in the alleys of private houses, like a small patio. There is a stone tablet at the entrance that reads "Doctor Yin and Yang Harumi Abe Harumaki Gong Saga Imperial Cemetery".

"Haruaki-sama Abe's grave!"

Guang screamed loudly, almost waking up the onmyoji in the tomb, Qin Beiyang gagged her mouth: "Be quiet!" Is it really the tomb of Harumi Abe? ”

"Well, when I passed by Sagano, I wanted to come and see Abe Harumi."

It's as if this great onmyoji is still alive! Onmyoji originated from the theory of the five elements of yin and yang of Zou Yan, a native of Qi and the law of all things. The five elements of yin and yang were introduced to Japan and evolved into the way of yin and yang. The Emperor established the Onmyo-ryo and became the official religion. Onmyoji must know the stars, faces, positioning, divination, drawing talismans, chanting spells, illusions, exorcism, slaying demons and destroying monsters. From the royal family to the peddlers and pawns, they are all inseparable from the onmyoji.

On the tombstone stone, there is a big pentagram - this is the symbol of Abe Qingming, the prayer charm of the Yin and Yang Dao, symbolizing the infallibility and innocence of the five elements of Yin and Yang in the universe.

"When Harumaki Abe was alive, he was graceful and independent, far away from the bustling and noisy, and lived alone in Kikyo Nunnery. His tomb was chosen at the foot of Arashiyama, next to Sagano, small hidden in the wild, hidden in the city, large hidden in the court, in Kyoto, where he guarded his life, from the Heian period to the present, it has been nearly a thousand years. ”

Just speaking half-literately and using elegant and timeless words is not something that ordinary little girls can say.

Qin Beiyang found out that the little girl could walk on her own without any problems with her ankles.

"So you're pretending?"

"Oh...... I just want to feel the same feeling of being carried down the mountain by my brother. ”

Hikari uses the word "Ernie sauce".

"What do you call me?" Qin Beiyang looked at her slender eyes, "Do you have a brother?" ”

"Yes When I was a kid, he died."

Walking out of the back door of Abe's tomb, I saw a signboard that meant "Yokai Museum".

"Yay!" After all, it was a little girl, pulling Qin Beiyang's trouser belt and saying, "Brother, can you take me in to have fun?" ”

"Look at the youkai?" Qin Beiyang is also quite curious about "monsters", is there a monster more than the tomb beast? Jiuse bit his trouser leg and reminded his master not to go in, he squatted down and said, "Jiuse, let's go in and hunt demons!" ”

Walking into this Japanese-style house, although it is a museum, the façade is inconspicuous. Early in the morning, I'm afraid the door hasn't opened yet. Just as he was about to leave, an old woman's voice came from the crack in the door: "Brother and sister, welcome to the Monster Museum." ”

Hikari bowed excitedly, took off his shoes and went in, Beiyang dragged Jiuse and said, "Can it go in too?" ”

"What a cute dog, please come in with you."

The old woman's voice was like sawing wood, kneeling in a dark corner, with white hair, her face covered with wrinkles, and her teeth gone, wearing a kimono from the Edo period, and holding her hair in a bun from that time, like a figure from an ancient painting.

She must be eighty years old, right? Or even a hundred years old? The old woman led the way in front, like a lobster with a rickety back, shorter than the twelve-year-old light, almost only to Qin Beiyang's waist. Nine Colors followed last, through a dark corridor, and the air was filled with a certain smell of decay......