Driven by Uesugi Ginji, the van soon drove through the mountains along the road in decent condition.

Uesugi Ginji didn't care much about the conversation between Uesugi Maki and Aoba in the carriage behind him, even when he heard that Aoba had two girlfriends at once, he just smiled and treated it as a child's nonsense.

Who hasn't been ridiculous when they're young? When they grow up, they will naturally mature.

It's just that what Uesugi Ginji doesn't know is that if it's really more mature, I'm afraid he can't really compare to Aoba.

In this way, the conversation between Aoba and Uesugi Maki echoed, and after entering the mountains soon under the drive of Uesugi Ginji, you could already see the village built on the mountainside in the distance.

The village was not large, with a maximum of twenty or thirty households, but Uesugi Ginji's car did not go to the place where the twenty or thirty families lived, but drove in the opposite direction, along the highway to the mountain opposite the village.

"Where are we going?" asked Aoba, puzzled.

"Of course I'm going home, Brother Aoba shouldn't think that the Uesugi family lives in the village, right?" said Uesugi Maki with a smile as she looked at Aoba.

"Isn't it?" Aoba wondered.

"The Uesugi family is also a member of the village, but they don't live in the village, but on the opposite hill. Uesugi Maki helped Aoba solve his doubts.

"Why do you want to live in the mountains, instead of living in the village, isn't it inconvenient to live in the mountains?" said Aoba with a furrowed brow.

"Because the Uesugi family is a big landowner, in order to show the difference between ordinary villagers, of course the Uesugi family can't live in the village. Uesugi said with obvious disdain in her tone.

"Maki, don't talk nonsense. Uesugi Ginji said helplessly in the face of the sarcasm in his daughter's tone.

"Hey, I'm not going to say it. After being told by his father, Uesugi Maki turned his head to look to the side in a bit of anger.

"Uncle Ginji, can you tell me why?" So Aoba had to ask Uesugi Ginji.

"Actually, it's nothing, it's just that it is said that the ancestor of the Uesugi family is a famous onmyoji. Because of the relationship between the demons, he is often retaliated by the ghosts, so in order not to affect the villagers, so he set up his home on the mountain! But that's just a legend, and it shouldn't be true. However, the Uesugi family is indeed the family that owns the most land in the vicinity, and many of the mountains in this neighborhood belong to the Uesugi family, so the reason why the Uesugi family lives in the mountains is also to better protect their own land! After all, the population of the Uesugi family is getting smaller and smaller. Uesugi Ginji smiled and said with a bit of gloom in his tone.

"I see!" Aoba nodded.

"By the way, I've heard that there is a temple near the Uesugi family that worships Shikkai. I snuck in when I was a kid, so let's go there later?" Uesugi Maki suddenly remembered something, and suddenly refreshed himself and said to Aoba.

"Maki, how many times have I told you, don't just go to the temple. Uesugi Ginji suddenly became stern, no longer gentle, and reprimanded his daughter.

"Oh, I see. Uesugi Maki agreed casually, but she kept glancing at Aoba. knew that she didn't take her father's warnings to heart at all.

Aoba had no choice but to nod helplessly and agree to Uesugi Maki's invitation, after all, he was also very curious about the Uesugi family's Shikigami.

And with Aoba's understanding of Uesugi Maki in a short period of time, it is certain that even if she refuses, she will go by herself. Maybe in the eyes of Uesugi Maki, the so-called onmyoji-style gods or something are just legends, but Aoba knows very well that this world is far from being as simple as ordinary people see.

The van drove through the mountains, and soon followed the road into a hill opposite the village. After walking some more distance, the van came to a halt as a shadowy complex of buildings appeared.

"Alright. We're here, let's get off!" said Uesugi Ginji, parking the van in a weed-infested parking lot.

"Is this the Uesugi family? It looks like it's the size of a big family!" Aoba, who got out of the car, looked at the complex in front of him thoughtfully.

"What kind of big family, it used to be a big family, but now it's not anymore, Brother Aoba, don't look at the courtyard here, it's usually only three people! Uesugi Maki said to Aoba.

"Are there usually three people living here?" Aoba looked at the vast complex of buildings in front of him, and felt a little incredible.

"No, my father and I are usually here with my father and Miss Sato, who is in charge of cleaning and cooking! But Miss Sato has to go back to the village house at night, so my father and I are the two people who really live here. Uesugi Ginji said with emotion.

As long as you see this complex, I am afraid you can imagine how prosperous the Uesugi family was at its peak, but now there are only three or two big cats and kittens left, how can it not be embarrassing!

"Brother Aoba, don't look like this, grandpa's old stubborn still thinks about the glory of the family all day long, and wants to carry forward the family or something, I really don't know what he thinks, what age is this, there are a few people who are still willing to nest in the mountains, just to worship the Shikigami who somehow doesn't know whether it exists or not!" Uesugi Maki said with an unhappy expression.

"Okay Maki, remember not to say this in front of grandpa. Uesugi Ginji sighed, but he also knew that what his daughter said was the truth, if it weren't for the accident death of his beloved wife, he wouldn't have been disheartened and returned to his hometown alone to accompany his father, just said that his eldest brother's family, now isn't it also going abroad, even this time his father called them back, saying that there was something important and didn't come back!

Therefore, the times are different, and many things have changed, not only the changes in the world, but also the changes in people's hearts.

"I know Dad.,I'm not going to talk nonsense in front of grandpa.,Brother Aoba, let's go in!Where do you like to live?Just choose a room by yourself.,There's nothing else here.,It's just that there are many rooms.,But if you want to live in it after you choose.,You have to clean it up first.,Most of the rooms here haven't been inhabited for more than ten years.。 Uesugi pushed Aoba towards the complex in front of him.

And in Aoba's hands, he was carrying two people to salute.

"Alright. Then Aoba, you go with Maki to choose a room now, and after choosing a room in a while, let Maki take you to the courtyard where your father lives, where my father and I will wait for you. Uesugi Ginji shouted at the backs of the two.

"Okay, Uncle Ginji. Aoba immediately agreed.

"Got it, Dad, let's go and choose a room first. Uesugi Maki replied in the same way.

In this way, under the leadership of Uesugi Maki, Aoba followed her into this building belonging to the Uesugi family.

It's a pity that the huge Uesugi family in the past is now only three or two big cats and kittens, which witnessed the former prosperous buildings of the Uesugi family, and after losing maintenance, they can only slowly decay.

Aoba followed Maki Uesugi through room after room. But as far as the eye can see, they are all dilapidated, and even if they are cleaned, they will probably not be inhabitable, because some of them have either collapsed in half of the roofs or have broken holes in the walls.

If you want to live in such a house, you can only repair it again.

So Uesugi Maki didn't stop in front of these houses at all, but continued to walk inside with Aoba.

"Let's go, Brother Aoba, the houses here are all peripheral houses, and they are also the most damaged, although there are still many houses that can live in people. But it's almost all internal, and we still have a little way to go. Uesugi explained to Aoba.

So Aoba, the person in charge of holding the two people to salute, had no choice but to continue walking towards the depths of the Uesugi family.

It wasn't until a moment later that the houses were not so dilapidated. Instead, it gradually looks like someone is cleaning up occasionally.

"Okay, this is it, this is the core area of the Uesugi family, and the place where grandpa lives is over there. And over there is where my father lives, and my room here is there, where does Brother Aoba want to live? Any ideas?" Uesugi Maki took Aoba to the square in front of a hall that seemed to be very important. Pointing around, he said to Aoba.

It seems that the core area of the Uesugi family should be centered on this main hall.

"I can live anywhere, Sister Maki, do you have anything to recommend?" Aoba asked as he looked around curiously.

"Actually, it's the same everywhere if you live here, since you don't have a special favorite place, you might as well live next door to me, so that we can secretly go to the temple together at night." "Maki Uesugi hasn't forgotten about the expedition to the temple, and she doesn't know how she can be so curious when she's such a big person.

"Sister Maki, didn't you say that you went to the temple when you were a child? Is there anything special there? makes you want to go now?" So Aoba, who had some questions, asked her question directly.

"Is it special, no, it's just Brother Aoba, do you know what Grandpa called us back this time?" said Uesugi Maki with a somewhat mysterious feeling.

"I really don't know about this, does Maki-san know something?" Aoba asked, shaking her head.

"Since Dad is not here now, I'll tell you about it, Dad won't let me talk to people casually about these things, although you are not an outsider, but I still don't want Dad to know that I told others!" Uesugi Maki hesitated for a moment before making up his mind.

"Don't worry, Sister Maki, I won't say it. Aoba immediately nodded in agreement.

"In fact, legend has it that the Uesugi family enshrines a Shikigami in the temple, and this Shikigami is different from most of the Onmyoji family's Shikigami and is a very gentle Shikigami, so even after the Uesugi family lost the person who could control it, it did not kill all the bloodlines of the entire Onmyoji family and rebelled like other Onmyoji family Shikigami, but thanked the kindness of the previous masters, and chose to stay in the family and accept worship in the temple, and at the same time, as long as the descendants of the Uesugi family reappeared someone who could control it, it was willing to continue to serve the Uesugi family。 Uesugi Maki told a story about the Uesugi family.

"So there is such a thing. Aoba nodded slightly.

"It's just a legend, Onmyoji and Shikijin or something, no one has ever seen those things, who knows if it's true or not!" Uesugi Maki said with a disdainful face.

"Okay, so does that have anything to do with us coming back?" Aoba nodded and continued to ask.

"Of course it matters, since then, the Uesugi family has held a festival every ten years, and asked Shikigami to check the bloodline of the family's children to see if anyone can control it!" said Uesugi Maki with a shrug.

"In other words, it's going to be a festival every ten years soon?" Aoba nodded knowingly.

"That's right, the last time I had the festival, I was still a middle school student, and I sat there excitedly and watched the adults busy for a long time, and I didn't see any Shikika, or where in this world there is a Shikigami. Uesugi said with a look of embarrassment on the past.

"So, you don't believe in Shikigami anymore?" said Aoba, looking at Maki Uesugi.

Of course I don't believe it, this kind of shadowless thing is, who will believe it. Uesugi Maki said categorically.

"Then why did you come back to this puja, instead of being like my uncle, the whole family didn't show up, I guess that would be a sign of really not believing!" Aoba said with a smile.

"I just want to take the opportunity to come back and see my father!" said Maki Uesugi after a moment's hesitation.

"Really, why do you have to go to some temple secretly at night? Doesn't this mean that you are actually very unwilling? unwilling not to be chosen by Shikigami?" Aoba looked at Uesugi Maki and said seriously.

"How could it be, Shikigami that kind of nonsense, how could I believe it! This is just an adventure, an adventure, an adult's activity, shouldn't Brother Aoba be afraid of ghosts?" Uesugi Maki skillfully diverted the topic, to the point that he did have the demeanor of an adult, but the dodge in his eyes couldn't escape Aoba's eyesight no matter what.

"Tonight, okay, then I'll go with you!" Aoba smiled, and instead of picking up the new question that Maki Uesugi had thrown out to change the subject, he just nodded and replied.

"Okay, then we'll settle our minds. Uesugi Maki also did not continue to delve into the question of whether Aoba was afraid of ghosts, but immediately finalized the matter.

Then he took Aoba and walked towards her own room, and was going to find a room for Aoba to live next to her room. (To be continued.) )