The journey to Tanba was smooth and there was no danger - the degree of danger is determined according to the force value of Jikuni Yuanichi, and if Yuanyi can't deal with it, then it can be called dangerous. And the things that can make Ji Guoyuan helpless are basically equal to nothing, so even if he encounters robbers and bandits in Tu Village, it is indeed not a danger to Youguo and Yuanyi.

And those robbers and bandits were very "unlucky" to meet Jiguo Yuanyi, who happened to pass through the village, and was cut down by Yuanyi without even grabbing some food, and finally got nothing, but was tied up by Yuanyi and Youguo to the village they were about to attack, and sent to the nearby city in exchange for the bounty money.

After a short day of rest in a village full of enthusiasm and gratitude, Yugo and Enichi left for Tanba again. Tanba said that it was not close, but it was not very far, and after walking outside for three or four days, the two of them were already about to arrive in the territory of Tanba, in fact, this speed was also slow, if it was Yuanyi, it would only take about two days to walk alone, but Youguo's physical strength and foot strength were obviously not as good as Yuanyi, in order to take care of Youguo, Yuanyi quietly slowed down his speed.

Fortunately, the gang of robbers they met did not fight in vain, and Ji Guoyuan left one of their horses and let Youguo ride all the way, so the slight slowdown became faster again, and on the evening of the fourth day, they finally entered the territory of Tanba Kingdom.

According to Jiguo Yuanyi's habits, he generally rarely finds a place to live, and often waits directly for the night to go to the place where the evil ghosts often go to get rid of the evil ghosts and then go back directly, but today is different from the past, and he doesn't care at all how rough Jiguo Yuanyi's life is, but who let you have Youguo this time?

So it was rare, and Yuan Yi took Yugo to the vine house that was connected with the ghost killing team to rest for a while.

The owner of the Fujiya is a kind woman, after seeing the Yuan Yi holding the sword, she knew that this was a member of the ghost killing team, and ordinary people always have a layer of fear for the samurai, and when she looked at the Yuan Yi, she couldn't help but have a trace of fear on her face, and Yugo saw it clearly, so she pulled Yuan Yi behind him, and walked up to talk to the owner of the Fujiya by himself.

"We want a room." Youguo said, "I'm sorry for you. ”

"Please follow me!"

Compared with the moody Yuanyi, Yugo is obviously much more amiable, and the owner of the Fujiya takes a long breath and nods with a smile on his face, and takes Yuanyi and Yugo to a nice room.

It was much easier for the owner of the vine house to leave Youguo, he had never ridden a horse, and he had been cautious on the way over, and he almost fell apart, and now he was lying on the bed and his body was really relaxed, as if it had turned into a puddle of water.

Yuan Yi walked all the way without showing fatigue on his face, and unlike Youguo, who sat and stood without standing, he can now sit upright on the tatami mat and watch Youguo bury his body in the soft mattress and roll.

Yugo looked up at him, only to find that Yuanyi was now looking at him with a very kind and gentle gaze, as if he was looking at a cat fighting with a ball of yarn.

Youguo is basically very elegant and decent in front of Yuanyi, and now that he is showing such an inelegant and undignified appearance, Yuanyi is not very surprised, obviously he also understood early that his "brother" is not an elegant and decent person who is consistent with his appearance.

Losing a little face in front of Yuanyi, Youguo was a little uncomfortable, he tried his best to break free from the futon and sit up straight, and said to Yuanyi with a straight face

"I'm just a little tired. ”

Yuan nodded a little, very understanding: "I know, brother." ”

Youguo said again: "Yuanyi, you know that I rarely do this at home. ”

Yuan Yi still nodded: "I know, brother." ”

No, you don't understand!

Youguo shouted in his heart, coughed lightly and said to Yuanyi: "The horse is not very easy to ride, it is a little too bumpy." ”

Only Youguo can complain like this, such a precious species as horses can generally only be raised by nobles, and among the robbers, there is only one robber boss, and the treasure is as filial as his own father—even the robber boss may not be as filial to his own father as he is to the horse—and Youguo not only has no touch to the white horse, but also complains that the horse ride is too bumpy.

When you hear this, others will say that Youguo "doesn't know what to do", but the person who listens to it is Yuanyi, and Yuanyi will only say to Youguo: "Yes?" Then I won't ride, I'll think of a different way. ”

Yuanyi was really temperless, Youguo opened his mouth, looked at Jiguo Yuanyi's serious thinking expression or took the initiative to say: "Forget it, it's good to ride a horse." ”

Yuan nodded, stopped talking, and looked at him with a silly smile.

Youguo suspected that if he asked Yuan Yi to carry him all the way back to the ghost killing team, Yuan Yi would probably nod his head without hesitation.

After dinner, the sky was getting darker, Youguo looked at the sky outside the window, and said to Yuanyi, "Can it be solved tonight?" ”

Yuanyi is a quick character, but he also needs the appearance of evil spirits, he did not answer in the affirmative, but said, "Not sure." ”

Yuan Yi patiently explained to Youguo: "Usually ghosts don't appear every day, usually once every two or three days, only the most vicious ghosts will act every night, and I still need to observe and observe." ”

Youguo nodded thoughtfully, and Yuan Yi said hesitantly, "Brother, I have to go out at night and come back at dawn." ”

Although the evil ghost may not appear tonight, Yuanyi can't help but look for the traces of the evil ghost.

Youguo said very understandingly: "Okay, you can go." There was no reluctance in his tone.

Yuan Yi didn't stay a few more minutes, and before leaving, he instructed Yugo to light incense made of wisteria flowers in the room, although these incense incense may not be able to kill evil spirits, but they can also make evil spirits avoid them.

After Yuanyi left, the room was a lot quieter, and the air became empty, Yugo lit an oil lamp to read the medical book that Dr. Matsuda had ordered him to read, and after a while, he became sleepy, and he didn't blow the lamp and put the book to the pillow and closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Only the oil lamp in the room still had a small light.

The oil lamp was quite resistant to burning, and when the dawn broke, Yuan Yi quietly pulled the door and walked into the room, attracted by the light on in the room, and his eyes were naturally placed on Youguo, who showed half of his side face.

Youguo's eyes were tightly closed, his eyebrows were stretched, and he looked carefree, and he looked at the half of Youguo's side face illuminated by the oil lamp, and for a while his heart was soft as if he was immersed in warm water.

Before, when he was out to kill evil ghosts, Yuanyi always heard his companion say how he felt when he came home at night and saw his sleeping family who had left a lamp for him, he always listened, but there were no fluctuations in his heart, and now he finally met it outside, and he quickly understood the face of the companion who spoke at that time at this moment

What shows such a gentle and happy smile.

He paused, and a slight smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.

Yugo was dazed and heard the sound of clothes rubbing, and it took a long time for his eyelids to separate as if they were glued together, and through the dim light, he saw that Yuanyi was about to change out of the clothes stained with morning dew on his body.

He sat up from the bed wrapped in the quilt and stared at Yuan blankly, he still didn't wake up, Yuan stopped moving, and felt guilty that he had woken up Youguo, so he said, "Brother, you continue to sleep." ”

He was ready to go out and change his clothes.

Youguo was still sleepy, but his mind was clear, and he said, "It's okay, let's change it quickly." ”

Yuan Yi obediently quickly took off his outer clothes, revealing the white and neat single clothes inside.

"Are you still sleeping?" Youguo asked him.

Yuan nodded, and Youguo pointed to the mattress beside him that had been laid for Yuan Yi in advance, and fell down again.

Yuan Yi didn't want to make a noise to Youguo, but he still woke up Youguo, so he was still a little sad in his heart, but the sadness of seeing Youguo fall asleep turned into a helpless smile, he took a light step and wanted to lie down gently on his quilt to rest, but he didn't want to put a warm hand in from the left quilt.

Yuan Yi can recognize it even if he is blind, that hand used to be interlocked with his ten fingers, how could he not recognize it?

Yuan Yi immediately turned his head sideways to the left, although Youguo closed his eyes and was confused, he still habitually leaned towards Yuan Yi, holding Yuan Yi in his warm hand and staying outside all night, so his cold hand closed his eyes and frowned, "Why is it so cold?" ”

Yuan Yi wanted to open his mouth to speak, but was gagged by Youguo's following movements.

Half of his body was hugged into a warm embrace, Jiguo Yuanyi was stiff like a piece of wood, Youguo sent himself to Jiguo Yuanyi's arms with a warm quilt to hold him, and gently patted Yuanyi's arm from time to time.

"Sleep, sleep......" Youguo's voice was muffled, "it won't be cold for a while." ”

Yuan Yi stared at the wooden beams on the ceiling in a daze, as if he could count all the textures on them.

Just now his heart seemed to be immersed in warm water, but now it is different, Yuan Yi thought about how to describe it.

After thinking about it for a long time, the sun was completely rising, and Yuan Yi thought of a description that he thought was appropriate, when he was a child, Yuan Yi picked up a sparrow that had just been born not long ago in the woods near the village, maybe something happened and fell out of the nest, Yuan Yi originally wanted to climb up and put it back in the original bird's nest, but Yugo stopped him.

"You picked it up, it smelled of a human being, and the female won't feed it anymore." Youguo said.

Yuan Yi looked worriedly at the weak sparrow in his palm, "Then what should I do, brother?" ”

Youguo finally brought the sparrow home with him, fed it carefully every day, raised the little sparrow until it grew fine down, and finally was able to fly high.

At that time, Youguo touched the touch of the sparrow's newly grown velvet when he gently rubbed it on his face, just like the feeling in Yuanyi's heart now.

Yuan Yi moved his neck slightly, and looked down at Youguo beside him, Youguo was still sleeping, Yuan Yi raised his other empty hand and also wrapped around Youguo beside him.

……

When Youguo opened his eyes, Yuanyi had already opened his eyes one step ahead of him, but Jiguo Yuanyi kept one the whole time

The posture didn't move, probably because he was afraid that his movements would wake up Youguo.

Youguo saw that there was a little bit of a saliva mark in the place next to him, and he felt strange in his heart, so he wiped it casually and said, "Didn't you sleep?" ”

He still remembered that the sun had just come out and Yuan Yi had come back.

Yuan Yi shook his head and said, "No, I've already woken up." ”

“？” Youguo was at a loss, Ji Guoyuan slept much later than him, why did he wake up earlier than him? Youguo didn't understand, "Aren't you sleepy?" ”

Yuan Yi said: "I'm not sleepy, even if I don't rest, it's no problem at all." ”

Youguo didn't sleep enough to feel like a ghost, but after all, people like Ji Guoyuanyi were a minority, and after a moment, he asked in disbelief: "Really not sleepy at all?" ”

Ji Guoyuan Yi also thought about it seriously, and then replied seriously: "I'm not sleepy, brother." ”

Youguo sighed in his heart, when will he be able to have such a wonderful and powerful body as Ji Guoyuanyi.

The system came out and poured cold water: "Don't think about it, he has a script that is even more powerful than the protagonist." ”

Youguo muttered in his heart: "It's not okay to think about it!" ”

Seeing that the time was close to noon, Youguo and Yuanyi simply freshened up and left the room, and Yuanyi returned

I need to learn more about the residents of the city to see if I can learn some clues about the evil spirits.

The proprietress of the shop always felt familiar when she saw Yuanyi, and asked when she was talking, "Has Mr. been here before?" I always felt like you looked familiar. ”

Yuan Yi paused and said honestly, "No." ”

The proprietress is not good to ask any more, after all, the two are just the relationship between the owner and the guest, and it is not easy to ask too much, until Ji Guoyuan leaves the proprietress is still thinking about where she has seen this familiar face.

Actually, it is not unreasonable for the proprietress to feel familiar, Tanba Country is not one of the most powerful among the dozens of countries in this forest, but it is not weak, at least there are many powerful samurai under the command of the daimyo who manage Tanba Country, and the most famous one among them has the surname Jiguo, and the head of the Jiguo family is now called Jiguo Iwatsu.

The proprietress had seen it once from afar when Jiguo Yansheng led the team to travel, and if she saw Jiguo Yansheng again now, she would be surprised to find that although Jiguo Yansheng and Jiguo Yuanyi could not be said to be very similar, there were also seven or eight points.

Yugo and Enichi originally came to Tanba to worship Enichi's mother who died early, but since Enichi's mother is the first wife of the Jiguo, she must be buried in the ancestral grave of the Jiguo, but there must be a samurai guarding the Jiguo, and Yuanichi only wants to worship his mother, but he doesn't want to visit the Jiguo.

Youguo was quite strange: "Aren't you going to your father's house to see?" ”

Ji Guoyuan shook his head very calmly, and there was even a hint of coldness in his calm eyebrows.

"No, there's no need to go." Yuan Yi said, "I already know that my brother is doing well, and there is no need to go or not." ”

Yuan Yi still remembers that after knowing his swordsmanship talent, his father decided to change him and his brother to the temple, in order not to cause this incident to happen again, and he didn't want to disturb Jiguo Iwatsu's current life, Yuan Yi never wanted to go home to see.

Fortunately, when I was young, I also followed my family to the place where the ancestral grave of the country was located, and I still remember it even if more than ten years have passed

How to go on the road, so after buying the things you need, I took Youguo to the small path, and went smoothly to the place where the ancestral grave was, and found the grave that belonged to Yuanyi's mother.

The words engraved on the gray stele are still very clear, Yuan Yi knelt in front of the stele and quietly looked at the small mound of earth belonging to his mother, his expression was very calm, and after a while he left, pulled out the weeds around him, and then put the prepared white flowers in front of the stele.

"Mother, I've come to see you." "I haven't seen my brother yet, but I've heard that he's living a very happy life, so I won't bother him." ”

After speaking, Yuanyi paused for a moment, looked sideways at Youguo beside him, and his originally calm face finally showed an expression that was enough to be called a smile, and Youguo also sat next to Yuanyi, and also put a white flower in front of the monument.

It was very quiet, only the chirping of birds jumping in the woods, and Yuan Yi did not make a sound, but quietly stared at the gray tombstone in front of him.

At that time, his thin mother knelt in front of the shrine and prayed for him day and night, dragged his sick body to the shrine to ask the sun god to bless him, cure his ears that were born with problems, and even made a pair of sun-wheel flower earrings representing light and blessing for him.

His sick mother always looked at him worriedly and sighed, because he neither spoke often, nor did he please his selfish father, nor did he have a good swordsmanship like his brother, and even if he went to the temple in the future, he might not live too well, so she often touched Yuanyi's head and muttered: "Yuanyi, what are you going to do in the future?" ”

Instead of worrying about what his future would bring, Enichi looked up at his mother, who was holding him, and observed her body gradually crumbling under the heavy kimono, and also observed her mother's panic in her heart worried about him.

He didn't speak, just put his little hand on his mother's chest, and in this way told her that he was not afraid at all and that he thought he was already happy.

He didn't know what happiness was and what happiness was like, and he didn't care, but he understood that to make his mother feel happy and happy, he just had to bend his eyes and his mouth towards his mother.

Kneeling here now, Ji Guoyuan didn't say whether he was happy or unhappy, he just held Youguo's hand and looked at his mother's tombstone with great sincerity and seriousness, "Mother, this is Youguo." It's my brother, it's my family, and it's the people I love. ”

When he was young, he only felt that he was already very happy when he was born in this world, but now he understands that happiness has many different forms.

Youguo, who was held by Yuanyi, also turned his face sideways at this time and glanced at Yuanyi quietly, and then shouted in the direction of the tombstone and Yuanyi: "Mother." ”

Enichi's heart was pounding, as if it could jump out of his throat.

Yuan Yi quietly said to his mother in his heart: He feels extremely happy to be with Youguo.

*

After clearing the weeds next to the tombstone with Yuanyi, the two of them left here quietly as when they came, as if they had put down some burden on their shoulders, Yuanyi's heavy face relaxed a lot, and on the way back to Fujiya, Yuanyi and Yugo happened to meet a samurai who was hurrying all the way.

Youguo hasn't made a sound yet, Jiguo Yuanyi has already moved quickly in the next second he heard the voice, and he quickly took Youguo in his arms and hid on a dense tree, the dense branches and leaves covered the bodies of the two, Youguo leaned on Yuanyi's arms and grabbed his clothes, and his heart went up and down

。

He motioned for Yuan Yi to speak with his eyes, Yuan Yi just shook his head, his eyes innocent and pure, and asked Youguo to pinch the flesh on his cheek helplessly.

Ji Kunichi waited for the group of samurai to leave, and his gaze immediately stopped when he touched the samurai who was the leader, and Yugo followed Enyi's gaze and saw half of the extremely familiar side face.

Unlike Yuanyi's somewhat handsome and gentle eyebrows, Jiguo Iwatsu looks tougher and more serious, and Youguo thinks that he may be more like the father of the two. And Jikuni Iwatsu under the tree was talking with a light smile with the samurai beside him, probably not knowing that he had just passed by his younger brother who he hadn't seen for more than ten years.

Wait until everyone leaves Youguo before he speaks: "Is it your brother?" ”

Yuan nodded and whispered, "We haven't seen each other for more than ten years." ”

"It's too late for you to catch up now." Youguo said: "Maybe next time, I don't know when it will be." ”

Ji Guoyuan just shook his head quietly, and jumped down from the tree lightly with Youguo in his arms, as silent as a leaf falling.

"It's okay, brother, I didn't expect to meet him when I came to Benben." Yuan Yi didn't look excited, but instead curled the corners of his mouth towards Youguo: "If I appear again, it may only disturb him, so that's fine." ”

It is not unreasonable for Yuan Yi to do this, only the eldest son in the samurai family inherits the family business, and the other children either go out independently or send them to the temple to become monks, if Ji Guo Yuan Yi, who has disappeared for more than ten years, appears rashly in front of Ji Guo Iwatsu, I am afraid it will cause a lot of riots and vigilance.

Youguo looked at Yuanyi in a complicated way, thinking: Yuanyi always only thinks about others, but forgets to think about himself.

Since this is the case, there is no other way, but Youguo can only think more about Yuanyi by himself, Youguo thought, stretched out his hand helplessly and connivedly rubbed Jiguoyuan's thick and hard red hair.

……

When I got back to Fujiya, the sun was going to set again, and it was time for Enichi to leave to look for the demons.

"The last time he killed someone was three days ago, and he's going to show up tonight." Yuan Yi analyzed Youguo: "After tonight, we can go back to the Ghost Slayer Team." ”

Youguo is not worried, judging from the record of Ji Guoyuanyi's pair of evil ghosts, he has only scratched the oily skin a handful of times, and before Yuanyi left, he only emphasized seriously: "Don't let that evil ghost escape." ”

Youguo's every sentence Ji Guoyuan took seriously, and when he heard the words, he also said seriously: "I know, brother." ”

Watching Yuanyi leave, Youguo continued to light the oil lamp to read the medical book, Dr. Matsuda set a task for him, if Youguo couldn't finish it, he could only go to see Dr. Matsuda, and he had always cherished his little life, so he also looked at the medical book in his hand very seriously, and unconsciously immersed in it.

There was a small popping sound from the quietly burning oil lamp line, and Youguo came back to his senses, only to notice that a long time had passed.

According to the speed of Jiguo Yuanyi, it shouldn't take too much time, Youguo rubbed his eyes, walked to the window to see, the quiet and terrible in the dark night, Youguo couldn't help but start nervous at this time even if he understood Jiguo Yuanyi's ability.

In the dead of night, people tend to think a lot, Youguo walked around the room, and finally made up his mind to put on his clothes and go out to see the place where Yuanyi said, but just got dressed, Jiguo Yuanyi had already walked in from the open door.

His body was covered with specks of blood, and even his face was covered in blood

Trace.

Youguo was shocked, ran over and grabbed Yuanyi's face and asked, "What's going on?!" You're hurt?! ”

Ji Guoyuan was stunned for a long time, and then reacted and grabbed Youguo: "No, it's someone else's blood." ”

Youguo carefully looked at the uninjured parts of Yuanyi's body to feel at ease, he originally wanted to pull Yuanyi and ask what was going on with the blood, but Jiguo Yuanyi didn't wait for him to ask and said that he was going to clean his body and went out of the room.

When Yuanyi came back again, he had already changed into a clean and tidy single clothes, and he had become a clean Jiguo Yuanyi again.

It's just that the body is clean, and the desire to talk about things hidden on his face has stopped and shaken out cleanly, and Youguo can see that Yuanyi has something in his heart to talk to him, and he didn't sleep, waiting for him to speak.

After a while, Yuan Yi finally spoke: "Brother, I met someone. ”

Youguo blinked, "Who?" "Is anyone else here from the Ghost Slayer Team?

Ji Guoyuan Yi seemed to be nervous, a little relaxed, a little excited, and a little guilty, in short, the emotions were mixed, and Youguo couldn't understand it.

"That demon ran into my brother's camping party." Enichi finally spoke: "I went too late, and my brother was left alone, but fortunately I saved my brother and sent him home." ”

Youguo finally understood where Ji Guoyuanyi's mixed expression came from.

"Luckily, I saved your brother." Youguo said that he didn't really care about Jiguoyuanyi's brother, he only cared about Jiguoyuanyi.

"Did he tell you?"

Ji Guoyuan smiled, and the smile was pure joy.

"That's a lot." "He asked me where I left home when I was a kid and where I learned my swordsmanship. ”

Jiguo Yuanyi doesn't think about many things, he just feels happy because he talked to Jiguo Iwatsu, and only Yugo sensitively senses that there is something wrong in what Yuanyi said.

Jiguo Iwatsu only asked where Yuan Yi learned his swordsmanship, and he didn't care at all if his younger brother had suffered since he was a child, and if he had encountered any sad things?

It's weird.

Youguo frowned, he didn't want to disturb Yuanyi's happy mood at this time, so he didn't ask this question.

It wasn't until the next day that I saw Jiguo Yansheng who came to the door, and I knew the answer at the first glance when I saw Jiguo Yansheng.

He doesn't like Jiguo Iwakatsu, very.

Jiguo Yansheng is also thinking the same way, but it is the first to Jiguo Yuanyi.!