Journey to Seek Past Reincarnations Chapter 2: Okita Souji
"Excuse me, what would you like to order?" She smiled slightly.
"Oh, give me a bowl of ramen." I responded and sat on the floor beside the short table. This woman's physique is not the kind that is easy to attract ghosts. Is there something strange about this room? I looked around, glanced across the beams, and suddenly realized that this was the case.
"Aju, come quickly." Someone in the inner room called her name. Aju? Then the woman in front of me is an important person in my mission. Thinking of this, the corners of my mouth twitched, thinking of a good way to stay with her.
When the woman came over with the ramen, I whispered, "Madam, if I'm not mistaken, there must be something unclean here."
Her hand trembled suddenly, she stared at me, and suddenly grabbed my hand and pulled me into the inner room. There was another man in the inner room, who looked to be a little over twenty years old, but his complexion was extremely haggard and haggard, and there was also a layer of black and gray on his face.
"Girl, you can tell that she must be no ordinary person, please save my husband!" She knelt down with a plop.
"What's going on?" I asked in a low voice.
"Well, my husband has been having nightmares every night since two months ago, in which there is always an ugly man cutting him with an ax, and it has been like this. That's not counting, every time my husband wakes up , I will feel pain all over my body, as if I was really cut. If this continues, I really don’t know what to do." She said sadly.
I looked at her and said, "You guys only moved here two months ago."
She nodded.
"The problem lies in this room. The wooden beams in this room are made of pagoda and willow. Do you know how to write the Chinese characters for pagoda?" I said, dipping my finger in some tea on the ground I wrote the word Huai.
"There is a word for 'ghost' in the Chinese character for locust trees. Willow wood is easy to become monsters. These two types of wood are the most likely to attract ghosts. If you use both of them, you will naturally attract ghosts living in the tree." I shook shook his head.
"A ghost lives in the tree?" A trace of doubt flashed across her face.
"That's right, this ghost mostly lives in or under trees, and locust trees and willow trees are the most favorite places to live."
"So, is there a solution?" she asked eagerly.
"The magic power of the ghost living in the tree is very weak, just drive it away, don't worry." I took out the spirit ghost evil disaster retreat talisman in my arms, silently recited a few ghost exorcism spells, and shook it vigorously , the charm was firmly attached to the beam.
"Don't worry, your husband will be able to sleep well tonight." I smiled and said.
"Thank you so much, thank you so much, I don't know how to thank you." Aju said excitedly.
"It's just a little effort, but if I really want to thank you—" I paused and said, "I'm new here and I need a place to stay. Can you let me work here?"
She was stunned for a moment, then said hesitantly, "But you..."
"It's okay, I can do anything."
"In this case, I ask you to stay." She also laughed.
"Well, thank you, my name is Xiaoyin, please take care of me."
"My name is Aju."
The first step of the task seems to be going well. Maybe, we will be able to go back soon.
I lived here for three or four days, and I got familiar with everything very quickly. Aju took me to the front room here. The peasant women in the town will bring fresh vegetables and flowers to the front house for sale in the early morning, which is equivalent to the current vegetable market. People can enjoy fresh lettuce, fruit and flowers here.
After going there twice, I volunteered to go alone, but she always seemed embarrassed to send me. In her opinion, maybe I was a half-god, at least her husband never did it again. Had that nightmare.
Although it is late autumn, the sun is still shining brightly. The narrow streets are covered with scattered red leaves. Occasionally, there are a few melodious birdsong from among the branches and on the roof, as the paper door of the lattice window house is removed. , People who got up early appeared on the street one after another, children also started to play and chase, and the city suddenly became lively. It seems to be a peaceful scene, only the swords on the passing ronin remind me that this is a dangerous era. With the attitude of not causing trouble, if I see a fight between ronin, I will stay away from it.
Carrying a basket of radish as a side dish I just bought, I walked down the street in a leisurely manner, enjoying the morning in Kyoto by the way.
Walking in front of a shrine, I suddenly heard a cry coming from inside. I poked my head in curiously, and saw several children surrounding a girl, as if coaxing her. cry. I walked in without knowing it and put down the basket.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"Oh, Taro accidentally broke Ayun's new headgear, and Ayun kept crying." A little girl who was only six or seven years old answered me.
What, it turned out to be such a trivial matter, I couldn't help but feel a little bored, and was about to stand up, when I suddenly heard a voice as clear and soft as ice from behind: "Why is Ah Yun crying?"
As soon as those children turned around, all of them were smiling, and they kept shouting: "Brother, brother." I turned around in surprise, and saw a boy in a white kimono smiling in the light golden sunlight, with long black hair It was **** casually, and a few strands were casually scattered on his shoulders. It faintly exudes a kind of cold, fragile and spotless purity. His dark eyes are reminiscent of a starry night, and his pale pink lips are reminiscent of the first cherry blossoms in spring. He smiles lightly, as if the sun shines into the bottom of his heart. The feeling has been spreading, spreading...
"Beautiful boy", I couldn't think of any more adjectives at the time, and only these three words came to mind.
He went straight to the girl named Ayun, leaned down and said softly: "What's the matter? Don't cry." When Ayun saw him, he just grinned and wanted to smile, but he might think of his headdress again , and continued to cry. When the child beside him explained the reason, he smiled slightly, stood up, looked around, walked to a red maple that was in full bloom, reached out and broke off a small maple leaf, walked back to Ayun, bent over and inserted it into the tree. On her temples, he said: "Look, isn't this beautiful too." His tone was gentle, and a smile seemed to overflow from his eyes.
I quickly took out the small mirror I brought with me, opened it for her to see, the child is a child after all, I looked in the mirror, and immediately stopped crying. "My sister's mirror is so clear." She said softly, keeping her eyes fixed on my mirror. Seeing her wanting expression, I hesitated for a while. If I don't give it, it seems too stingy. I don't want to leave such an impression on others, especially in front of such a beautiful boy. So he handed the mirror to her and said, "Then sister will give it to you, so don't cry." Forget it, forget it, anyway, I can buy it again when I go back.
Ayun was overjoyed, quickly said thank you, and happily continued to play with his friends.
I glanced sideways, and the boy was also looking at me with a smile.
"That mirror is very beautiful." He said suddenly.
"Well," I nodded and said, "So I regret it now."
"Hehe." He laughed out loud.
"My name is Xiaoyin, how about you?" I laughed too.
"——My surname is Okita. That one's name is Souji." When he said "My name is Souji", he smiled again, and that smile was as bright as the sun that suddenly bloomed.
But I can't laugh anymore, Okita Souji, is that Okita Souji? I know that the two top swordsmen of this era, one is called Saitoichi, and the other is called Okita Souji.
I stared at him in shock, completely unable to connect this crystal-clear and gentle boy with the Souji Okita who has been holding a knife since he was nine years old and beheaded countless people, known as the Son of Demon.
After a long while, I came back to my senses, "Oh, it's getting late, I have to go back." I quickly picked up the basket on the ground, smiled awkwardly at him, and fled away as if flying away.
"Goodbye!" His refreshing and joyful voice came from behind.
It took me a while to return to Omiya before I calmed down. Such a young man, who obviously has an angel-like face and smile, how could he be the child of a ghost?
A piece of memory information about Souji Okita quickly appeared in my mind. "Shoji Okita, the captain of the first team of the Shinsengumi, the deputy chief assistant, and a swordsmanship demonstration, belonged to the natural mental flow, died at the age of 26." When I first read this short and boring information, I didn't feel it at all, but Now I really saw the real person, and he was still such a beautiful boy, but I felt a sense of loss in my heart, I don't know whether it was regret or regret.
Just as he was thinking about it, two people walked in from the door, wearing light onion haori with white mountain-shaped cuffs on the cuffs, and a tachi at the waist. The shorter one had an ordinary appearance and a smile on his face. And the tall one was tall and straight, although he looked handsome, but his expression was cold, a pair of deep eyes flashed with a cold light, and his whole body exuded a fierce - murderous aura.
As soon as they came in, the guests at the other tables just took a look, then lowered their heads, not daring to take a second look, their eyes were filled with panic and disgust. This kind of costume seems to be the special uniform of the Shinsengumi, and these two people should be members on duty.
The Shinsengumi has always been tasked with maintaining law and order in the capital, but the people in Kyoto have never had a good impression of the Tokugawa shogunate's police, because after all, Kyoto has been a thousand-year-old royal city. In contrast, they are more partial to the Changzhou faction that is against the shogunate. Although the Shinsengumi stationed in Beijing in the name of guarding the royal castle, everyone in Kyoto knew that the Shinsengumi was the shogunate's minions during the Ikedaya Incident. Therefore, many people also tried to protect the Changzhou feudal vassals and ronin who were wanted and captured.
Although the time period I live in is only two years away from the collapse of the Shinsengumi, it seems that people are still very afraid of them.