Journey to Seek Past Reincarnations Chapter 4: Hundred ghosts at night

In the evening, He Maozhongxing and Baoxian came to my room. Through the bamboo curtain, I could vaguely see their appearance, but I just thought it was strange to talk to them like this, and it wasn't like playing hide-and-seek. cat cat. After He Maozhongxing said a few homely words to me, he said again: "Shaluo, treat this place as your own home, and tell uncle if you have any requirements."

I hesitated for a moment, and said, "Uncle, Shaluo has a request."

"What request? As long as my uncle can do it, I will make your wish come true."

"I, I want to enter the palace."

"Entering the palace?" He Mao Zhongxing's tone seemed a little surprised.

"Well, to be a court lady." I added another sentence.

"You mean the female room?" He immediately regained his composure.

Different from the Chinese court, in the Heian period of Japan, most of the people who could hold the position of court lady in the palace were the daughters of nobles, and ordinary people were not qualified to be maids. Sha Luo's identity also meets the conditions for entering the palace, not to mention that her father was a member of the three palaces during his lifetime.

"Uncle originally planned to spend a period of time, to make an appointment for your life first, and fulfill your father's wish, but..." The corners of my mouth began to twitch, what? Lifetime event, please, don't provoke me.

"Uncle, Shaluo really wants to go to the palace to see and see, just promise me." I started to use my grinding skills.

"My lord father, actually there is nothing wrong with my sister going to the palace. But," I was overjoyed, my brother was speaking for me, but his next sentence threw me into the ice and snow world again. "However, I think I should ask Aqiu to teach Sha Luo more court etiquette, so as not to lose face of the He Mao family."

I glared at him from behind the curtain, He Mao Baoxian, **** it...

"But..." He Maozhongxing was still hesitating, but Baoxian suddenly leaned over and whispered something in his ear. A smile appeared on his face, and he said, "In this case, uncle also I won't stop you, but what you say about protecting the constitution makes sense, let Ah Qiu teach you court etiquette tomorrow."

Help me, why not just kill me...

"Miss Sha Luo, please do it again as I said." Ah Qiu's voice sounded like a nightmare in my ears.

"What, what?" I had been wandering in Taixu just now, and I didn't hear anything.

"Miss Sha Luo, please listen carefully. When walking, keep your eyesight twenty feet in front of your body. Don't raise your head too much, and don't lower your neck. Your feet should be slightly arched. As for It’s best not to lift your heels too high.” Isn’t it just walking, I took a few steps forward indiscriminately.

"Miss Sha Luo, do you walk in a flat step, a quick step, a practiced step, or a slow step?" She smiled slightly.

"Huh?" I opened my mouth wide.

"Please remember, the speed of walking is called a slow step with one breath, two steps with one breath is called a flat step, and four steps with one breath is called a hasty step, and women usually use a flat step. However, Miss wants If you want to be a woman in the palace, you must learn how to walk, please spread your elbows, put your heels on the ground, and walk slowly, and the interval between each step is three breaths.”

I rolled my eyes, stretched out one foot, took two breaths, and before the other foot went out, I fell because of loss of balance.

Why, even walking is so troublesome! The interval of three breaths, such a long time, is simply the independence of the golden rooster! How can anyone walk so slowly! I'm dizzy, the balance of the people in the palace must be very good.

"Miss Sha Luo, your breathing is too deliberate, and your movements are not yet elegant, please practice a few more times." Ah Qiu's smile looks like a devil's smile to me.

Sha Luo, for the sake of suffering so much, please forgive me...

"Aqiu, I'm so tired, can I drink some water." After practicing N times, I finally sat down on the tatami indecently.

The maids served the tea, and I quickly picked up the shallow saucer containing the water, and just as I was about to drink it, the voice that startled me sounded again, "Miss Shaluo, don't point your fingers when holding utensils or other things. Use them all, but leave one finger as a decoration." I looked down and saw that my five fingers were holding the plate firmly, as if afraid of being snatched by others.

I'm going crazy, what is the reason, I'm so depressed even drinking saliva...

"Shaluo!" A constitutional voice came from outside the door, and I was secretly delighted that the savior had arrived. Aqiu quickly invited me behind the curtain, and said in a low voice: "Since Master He Mao came to see you, let's stop here for today, and Aqiu will continue to teach you about etiquette tomorrow."

Tomorrow, I will continue... My eyes are dark.

"Sha Luo, how are you doing today? Are you doing well?" Baoxian sat across from me and asked with a smile.

"Thanks to you, I haven't been tossed to death yet." I said angrily.

"Hehe, you were the one who said you were going to enter the palace. Do you think it's so easy to be treated there?" He smiled lightly, stroked the juniper fan with his right hand, and paused, "By the way, you will pay less in a few days." Dianzi from the Yan family will come to teach you the skills of waka, if you want to enter the palace, you must learn how to do waka."

"What!" Another big blow, Sha Luo, I knew I was wrong... I really knew I was wrong...

"You seem very listless." There seemed to be a hint of a smile in his voice.

"Nonsense, I'm afraid I'll be tortured to death before I even see the palace." I complained weakly.

I saw his figure move slightly, and he used the juniper fan to lift a corner of the curtain, his evil eyes narrowed, he glanced at me half-seeing, and said: "Then, tomorrow, I will take you out for a walk." Relax, how about it?"

"Really?" I immediately came to the spirit. "But, I have to learn a lot of etiquette tomorrow..."

He smiled even more mysteriously, "Aqiu won't come tomorrow."

"Really?" I was dubious.

"Of course it's true. After my father and Qingming leave, I will come to pick you up." He retracted the fan and lowered the curtain again.

"Seimei, is that Abe Seimei? By the way, what kind of person is he?" I couldn't hold back my curiosity, and wanted to know more about that boy.

"If you ask other men in front of me, I won't be happy." He said with a half-smile.

"What and what, I'm your sister." I glared at him.

"Hehe, Qingming is a smart kid, but he doesn't like to talk very much, and his relationship with other senior brothers is not very good. It really gives me a headache." Listening to Baoxian's words, it seems that he doesn't hate him. Seimei.

"Why are you so kind to me and take me out?" I asked a little puzzled.

"Why?" He smiled again, suddenly stretched out the juniper fan from under the curtain, lightly pressed the back of my hand, and said in a low voice, "Because——"

Although he didn't touch me directly through the curtain, I felt a faint ambiguous smell.

"—You are my sister." As soon as the words finished, he retracted the fan in a timely manner, stood up, and said, "Willow suits you very well, and I will wear this set tomorrow."

In the blink of an eye, he had already left the room, leaving behind only a faint scent of plum blossoms.

It was not easy until the next morning, but I still had doubts about what Baoxian said. Why didn't Aqiu come? After waiting in the room for a while, suddenly a maid rushed over and said at the door, "I'm really sorry, Miss Sha Luo, Ah Qiu can't come today."

Really not coming? My heart suddenly felt relieved, I don't need to suffer today, but I was a little confused, so I quickly asked, "Why?"

"Miss Hui, Aqiu, she has to avoid things and can't go out today." The maid replied.

Wu Ji, I am no stranger to this term, it is an act of avoiding "violent parties". According to the theory of Nine Star Qi and Qimen Dunjia, every direction between heaven and earth is guarded by different star gods, such as General, Taibai God, Tianyi God, Jinshen and so on. If you offend the gods, you will be punished with death. Therefore, if you see dead bodies of cats or dogs or dirty things on the road, you should stop what you are doing and go home to avoid "material taboos" in order to pray for the forgiveness and protection of the gods. In the Heian Dynasty at that time, people believed this very much.

"I see, you go out." I said calmly, but I was secretly happy in my heart, wishing that she would break the taboo every day.

Not long after, Baoxian arrived at the appointment and took me into a bullock cart.

The plum fragrance in the car is fresh and pleasant. I like this fragrance very much. I asked the maid for some yesterday, and put my own clothes on the fume cage to smoke for a night.

"By the way, Aqiu violated a material taboo today, so he really didn't come." I smiled and said.

A smile flickered in his eyes.

Suddenly remembered what he said yesterday, I stared at him, "Did you do it?"

"Me? I didn't do anything, oh heh heh."

"I don't believe it, seeing you smiling so awkwardly, it must be you." I snorted lightly.

"You're underwhelmed?"

"I really want someone to punch you."

"Oh heh heh."

"Here it comes again..." I turned my head away and stopped looking at him.

Not long after, the bullock cart passed through the Suzaku Gate and stopped beside the Tai Chi Hall in the inner courtyard of the Peace Palace. Da Nei Li is the centralized office of all provinces and ministries of the imperial court. Yinyang Liao is located to the east of Taiji Hall and to the right of Zhongshu Province.

"Go a little further here, and you will find the inner part where the Lord lives, that is, the harem." He pointed to me not far ahead and said to me.

The emperor's harem is too close to the offices of the officials. I'm a little surprised. I heard that in the Heian period, which was not influenced by Chinese Confucianism, the life of the harem and the nobles was relatively open. Although there are differences between men and women in the harem, there are no eunuchs, but some ordinary male court guards. It is not a special exception that some officials and nobles enter and leave the harem.

"Sha Luo, you have to stay here obediently, otherwise..." Bao Xian got out of the car at some point, and he smiled, "I'm afraid you still have to learn more."

"Don't worry, brother, I will stay here obediently!" I immediately swore, his threat was so lethal.

Just finished speaking, a black cat suddenly jumped over, Baoxian picked it up, smiled and said: "Good boy, you played dead just now, so let's stay with Shaluo now."

Playing dead? I was stunned and said: "Could it be that Ah Qiu's object avoidance is because he saw him pretending to be dead?"

"Oh hehehe, with my shikigami to accompany you, you won't be bored anymore." He smiled awkwardly and walked away. God formula? By the way, he is an Onmyoji.

I lifted the curtain and looked out. There seemed to be a row of ox carts parked beside them. Some were simple, some were gorgeous. Most of them had their family crests drawn on them. This seemed to be a parking place. I couldn't help feeling a little itchy in my heart, and as soon as I moved, the cat gave a warning "meow".

Small sample, out of the way. I glared at it, rolled my eyes, took out the charm, read a few words of the spell, and the spell immediately turned into a mouse, and jumped out of the bullock cart with a "chiliu", and the cat followed immediately by conditioned reflex. It jumped out.

It's done, I clapped my hands triumphantly, and as soon as I moved, the bat fan next to me slid down, and I was about to get out of the car to pick it up, but suddenly I heard footsteps coming here.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer to my direction, and they stopped in front of my ox cart.

Through the curtain, a slightly cool astringent fragrance wafted in with a light breeze. Why is this person standing here? I looked down and found that a corner of my willow dress had accidentally leaked out from under the curtain. Oops, must have been found.

The man seemed to bend over, and then my bat fan was handed over from under the curtain. Following the fan, I saw the elegant and slender fingers, and the almost transparent white skin. This person should be somewhere noble son.

"It smells so good." He said in a low voice, with a touch of gorgeousness in his **** voice. Judging from his voice, he should be a little older than Baoxian.

"Thank you." I said in a low voice, just as I reached out to take the fan, the man didn't intend to let go of the fan.

"Hey, are you going to give it or not." I said while pulling the fan towards me.

"This fragrance seems to be the incense commonly used by Lord Baoxian." He gently let go of his hand.

Wow, this man has a good nose, he can be regarded as smelling a beauty. I suddenly remembered He Mao Baoxian wearing twelve single clothes, and I couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Unexpectedly, Mr. Baoxian is hiding here..." He seemed to move a little closer, and his hand had already touched the curtain. Ah, this man, wouldn't he dare to lift the curtain, would he? Although I'm not the kind of shady noble daughter, it's always a bit rude to have the curtain lifted rashly like this.

Suddenly his voice sounded softly outside the curtain, "The spring clouds cover the spring flowers, and the colors of the flowers are invisible. Only the breeze blows, and the fragrance of the flowers is secretly sent." He paused, and then said, "I don't know if I will be here today." Are you lucky enough to see suits?"

"No." I immediately and flatly refused. Does this count as someone flirting with me?

"So, can you tell me your name?"

"I can't, and besides, I'm not a spring flower, just a weed in spring, so don't take it to heart." As I said that, I felt a little funny. This man didn't even know what the person in the car looked like, so he started pursuing him, inexplicably, what if it was an ugly monster.

"A weed in spring? Hehe." He laughed lightly, and couldn't help but want to lift the curtain.

"Your Excellency, why are you here?" The constitutional voice reached my ears in time. I was overjoyed that constitutional protection always appeared so timely.

However, the man in front of him is actually the right minister, and his voice is very young. The right minister is equivalent to the right prime minister in China.

Before the right minister could answer, Baoxian had already blocked my way without a trace.

"Master Baoxian, I don't know who is in the car..." The right minister was obviously still very unwilling.

"Oh hehehe, Mr. Right Minister, you have also discovered this." Baoxian smiled ambiguously, bowed his head and whispered in the right minister's ear, "You must keep it a secret." His bewitching eyes Turning his eyes, the minister on the right seemed to be unable to hold back, just smiled and said: "It turns out that he is the confidante of Mr. Baoxian, so let me say goodbye."

Hearing his footsteps going away, the curtain was raised, and Baoxian got into the car and sat down opposite me.

"Is that the right minister? He seems very young." I asked curiously.

"Yuan Gaoming is the lord's younger brother, so it's only natural for him to be an extremely respected minister." Baoxian seemed not interested in talking about this anymore, and immediately changed the subject, saying, "Let me show you around."

"Where did my uncle and Seimei go?" I asked again.

"Father went to Fujiwara Dai Nayan's mansion today to do a fortune-telling for him. I'm afraid he will come back very late."

If I knew it was such a distraction, I would definitely not come out with Bao Xian. I just sat in the car and walked around the streets of the capital, and the constitutional protection did not allow me to get out of the car. I could only look at the scenery outside helplessly, feeling really depressed.

By the time the ox cart reached the four main roads, the sky had already turned dark, perhaps because there was no nightlife in ancient times, and there were no people on the street. Just as our ox cart passed through the four main roads and turned into Omiya Road, an ox cart slowly drove up on the road beside it, followed by a dozen or so young men in white hunting clothes. Two ox carts Meet impartially at the intersection of the street.

Among the crowd, I saw Abe Seimei standing out from the crowd at a glance. He was as light as a white lotus, as if he had absorbed all the youthfulness of the moonlight, and easily became the focus of others' eyes. So, isn't the one sitting in this bullock cart...

"Bao Xian, is that you?" He Mao Zhongxing's voice came from the bullock cart, Bao Xian sighed helplessly, got out of the car, and saluted his father.

"Who else is in the car?" Zhongxing asked again.

"Father, it's Shaluo." Baoxian's voice was even more helpless.

"What!"

"I just want to show Sha Luo a look around the capital."

"Nonsense, how can she come out casually as a woman, what do you do as a brother?" Mr. Zhongxing seemed very angry.

I looked at Baoxian sympathetically, the expression on his face seemed to be disapproving.

I glanced at Qingming again, he didn't seem to be interested in what happened here, he just stared into the distance indifferently, he wasn't so cool. When he turned his head, I pulled up the corner of the roller blind and waved to him with a smile. He froze for a moment, then nodded slightly towards me, then turned his head to the side and continued to look ahead.

It's so strange that Seimei actually reacted.

The watery moonlight fell on Qingming, making his profile more elegant. His face suddenly changed, he lowered his head, and whispered a few words beside Zhongxing's curtain.

Seeing the curtain move, He Maozhong got out of the bullock cart, his face was solemn, and when he looked in the direction Qingming pointed, his expression changed drastically. He whispered something to Baoxian, and Baoxian's face immediately changed. I suddenly felt a strong demonic aura, looked up, and saw something like a gloomy cloud billowing ahead, approaching here.

There are so many ghosts and ghosts, such a depressing feeling, even Mr. Zhongxing and Baoxian are so nervous, I feel a thrill in my heart, could it be... Could it be that I met the legendary "Hundred Ghosts at Night"?