The world is restarting

When we knocked on the gate of Abe Seimei's house in peacetime, there was a muffled thunder in the sky, and dark clouds piled up, as if heavy rain was coming.

Holding a flower pot covered with a cloth in his arms, he stood anxiously in front of the door, only to feel that his mood was covered with haze like the sky at this moment, with no way forward.

The Shikigami of Seimei's family came to open the door soon.

"It's Master Weishi," the beautiful woman in light-colored Tang clothes bowed, but her expression was not surprised, as if she knew he was coming, "Master Qingming, Lord Baoxian and Lord Fujita are already in the hall waiting."

"Are Baoxian-sama and Fujita-sama there?"

I was a little hesitant when I was in peacetime, but I still gritted my teeth when I thought about the important things on my shoulders, "Please lead the way."

"Come this way, please."

It was already late July, and the osmanthus trees in Qingming’s courtyard began to bear golden osmanthus seeds, and the sweet fragrance filled the courtyard.People walking in the yard seem to be wrapped in this fragrance, and there is a kind of tranquility and comfort brought by the cool autumn wind.If the ministers of Heian capital were here, they would definitely recite a waka to express their hearts.

In Pingweishi, he was also an elegant son of a family in the past, but now he doesn't have the desire to play and enjoy himself. He hurriedly walked through the courtyard behind Shikigami, and walked to the living room of Qingming's mansion. As soon as he entered, there were already three people We waited indoors.

"Master Wei Shi, you are here."

The owner of the mansion, Abe Seimei, was the first to greet him.

The people present are all common faces in the palace, and they have met each other on various occasions.Eliminate unnecessary introductions and greetings, put the flower pot in your hand in front of you as soon as you sit down, and introduce the situation concisely.

"Master Qingming, you gave me a seed and asked me to put it under my father's room. At that time, you said that if the seed broke through the ground and germinated, bad things would happen."

His father is Ping Zhensheng who suffers from facial sores.Qingming was entrusted by Kamo to protect the constitution and went to the Ping's mansion to treat Ping Zhensheng's facial sores, but he shirked it with excuses.In fact, Ping Zhensheng asked Ashiya Doman to practice in private, but after treating him for a period of time, Doman said that his method didn't work and asked him to go to Abe Seimei, so Ping Weishi had to invite Seimei back in person to the house.

It's just that the spell on Pingzhen Sheng's face sores is extremely tricky. According to what the Onmyoji said, since Daoman is powerless, he can't do much in essence.After going to Ping Zhensheng's mansion to have a look, he couldn't undo the spell in Ping Zhensheng's body on the spot, but left a black seed and left with a little warning.

This happened before the ghost feast, less than ten days from today.

"But now that seed..."

Pingweishi looked embarrassed and lifted the cloth on the flower pot, and a black mist came out from underneath, it was like a layer of condensed tulle, and a black plant was covered in the center of the tulle.The leaves are pitch-black, but the veins are blood-red, which gives people an ominous feeling at first glance. Compared with the creatures in the yang world, they seem to have grown on the edge of the underworld.

"But it has grown so lushly in a few days," Ping Weishi unconsciously walked away from the pot of strange grass, and said with lingering fear, "What is this?"

Everyone collectively looked at the pot of weeds dancing in the black mist, Biao Tengtai showed vigilance, and He Mao Baoxian's expression suddenly became a little dignified.

"Qingming, could this be..."

"That's right," Abe Seimei affirmed what his brother hadn't said, and he waved his hand. The strange grass stretched out its long leaves to the ground and slid towards him lively, with the grass and the pot, which seemed more self-aware than plants animal.

"Do you still remember the fire in the Black Mist Mountain last year? This is the remnant of the grass from that time."

"This is Yingcao?" Biao Teng was too surprised. This kind of little monster is very common outside the city, and he is naturally familiar with it when he often goes out of the city.After observing carefully for a while, he nodded unexpectedly, "Although there are some differences in color and details, it seems that it is indeed Yingcao. Qingming, what's going on?"

"At that time, the group of Yingcao were all polluted. Although they were saved in the end, they all mutated."

The Great Onmyoji held the bat fan and tapped on the edge of the flower pot, "Although these mutated Yingcao will not actively attack humans, their temperaments are much fiercer than normal, and the food has also changed. Sunshine and dew, but feed on filth, and they are particularly sensitive to a certain smell."

"What do you mean?"

"The black filth that made them mutate in the Black Mist Mountain back then."

Abe Seimei retracted the bat fan, looked up at Homo Kamo, "Senior brother and I preliminarily speculated that it might be the breath of Yamata no Orochi."

"!"

Ping Weishi was taken aback for a moment, and then he remembered that Qingming had asked him to plant this seed under his father's room, and within a few days it broke through the ground, sprouted and grew vigorously, which obviously means...

"How could my father have anything to do with Yamata no Orochi?!"

Yamata no Orochi is an evil god in the age of mythology. At the beginning, it raged in Izumo country. Every year, it would eat a girl as a sacrifice. If one of the three noble sons, Suzhan Mingzun, passed by and killed her, no one would be able to get it. Today, the Amazono Cloud Sword, one of the three artifacts, was discovered from the tail of Yamata no Orochi.

Compared with the confrontation between the later earth spiders, the Ezo tribe, and the gods of Tianjin, Yamata no Orochi can be said to be the enemy of all human beings in the oldest age.

"It's just contaminated with a little breath, and it can't be definitely related to Yamata no Orochi."

Great Onmyoji comforted the terrified Ping Wei and said, "Has Mr. Zhensheng done anything unusual in recent days?"

Pingwei sat in place for a moment, his expression struggling.

After a long while, he seemed to think that the matter was indeed serious, he gritted his teeth, "Master Qingming, what you asked about 'er doing' last time..."

Abe Seimei looked at him quietly, without urging, his eyes were as light as thin clouds in the sky, as if he already knew what he was about to say.

Pingwei closed his eyes forcefully, "My father... indeed used 'ergan'."

If Loli Sawada Ya was here, she would find this rhetoric quite familiar.In the "Konjaku Monogatari Collection" of later generations, there is an article "Tanba Shouping Zhensheng Takes the Liver Words", which mentions that the military general Ping Zhensheng in the Heianjing period suffered from malignant sores, so he took the unborn baby in the mother's womb as medicine s story.

Most people in the future will laugh when they see this, thinking that the legend is far-fetched, deliberately exaggerating to create a sense of drama in the story, no one expects that reality can be more absurd and terrifying than the story.

"After the battle with Ping Jiangmen, my father was left with a wound on his forehead by his knife, which could not heal for a long time, and eventually developed into a malignant sore, which spread all over half of his face. My father searched for famous doctors. At that time, there was a man named Xiangxian The doctor came to the door and claimed to be able to heal the wound on my father's face...it was the one who was with my father when you visited the mansion last time, Lord Qingming."

When Abe Seimei was invited to Ping Zhensheng's mansion a few days ago, he did see a doctor beside Ping Zhensheng.

"Is he the one who proposed the 'Er Gan' method?"

"……Yes."

Biao Teng was too shocked, "So those pregnant ladies who were attacked in Beijing didn't encounter monsters, and these cases were committed by Zhensheng?!"

"……Yes."

At first, Xiangxian used ordinary ointment for Ping Zhensheng, but it didn't work for a long time. Under Ping Zhensheng's persecution, he finally revealed the method of using children's liver as medicine.

At that time, Ping Weishi's wife was already eight months pregnant. After Ping Zhensheng got the prescription, he immediately called his son to ask him to prepare the funeral for his wife, because he was going to cut open his daughter-in-law's abdomen to take the liver of his unborn grandson as a medicine.

"My father thought that looking for women outside would be found out, so he started attacking his own family." Ping Weishi's hands on his knees tightened suddenly, as if he was forcibly restraining something, his voice was tense Trembling slightly, "Probably that's when he became a ghost..."

Everyone in the room was silent, and the atmosphere was dignified and complicated.

Ping Zhensheng was a famous military general in the Heian Dynasty, one of the main forces who attacked the rebellious Ping Jiangmen, and he can undoubtedly be called a hero in later generations.

There is an old story here. The Ping family was in civil strife in the early years. After the death of Jiangmen's father, Ping Liangjian wanted to embezzle his father's property. From this dispute, it evolved into an internal war among the Ping family. The four of them, Genfu, were all defeated by Ping Jiangmen.

Ping Guoxiang is Ping Zhensheng's father, that is to say, Ping Jiangmen and Ping Zhensheng have revenge for killing their father.

At this time, Ping Jiangmen had no objection, but because Chang Lu Guoguo was afraid of him, he falsely accused him of treason to the court.Then Hira Shomon went to Beijing. At that time, Taizheng Minister Fujiwara Tadapei interrogated the case. After listening to Hira Shomon's self-report, he turned to Hira Sadaomori for his opinion.

At that time, Ping Zhensheng said without hesitation, "This is a family's private struggle, and Ping Jiangmen did not rebel."

Although this is a good time to avenge the murder of his father, he did not mix the two things together, but chose to tell the truth.

Ping Zhensheng was also such an upright person when he was young. Because of his testimony, Ping Jiangmen was finally cleared of suspicion and returned safely.

Until Ping Jiangmen really rebelled, Ping Zhensheng took the initiative to ask for orders to lead the court soldiers and horses to counter the rebellion, and finally joined hands with Omotota to cut off Ping Jiangmen's head to avenge his father. The shadow of intrigue.

"I was always proud of my father when I was a child. I never thought that he would become a cannibal ghost one day."

Ping Weishi looked down at his tightly clenched hands on his knees, a faint light flashed in his eyes, "I'm not afraid to say anything now, Mr. Qingming, after knowing that he intends to do this no matter what. For a moment, in order to stop him, I actually planned to kill my father."

There was silence in the room, Omotota looked at his kneeling figure with his back straight, and heaved a long sigh.

There is nothing sadder in the world than the death of a hero and the twilight of a beauty.And Ping Zhensheng's end came more rough and dark than most people.Time is ruthless, and it has peeled off the skin and bones of the upright and upright hero of the year, turning it into a face of an unrecognizable evil ghost.

Abe Seimei sighed softly, "Master Zhensheng's sores are not only on the face, but also in the heart."

Ping Weishi smiled bleakly and was speechless.

"Then after that, someone should have stopped you?"

After a moment of silence, the Great Onmyoji spoke again and brought the topic back to the main thread.

Ping Weishi wiped his face and tried to raise his spirits, "Yes, when Xiangxian came to my house, he brought a girl who was nearly ten years old with her, named Ruyue, just when I was about to commit the crime of patricide. She inadvertently stopped me."

He Mo Baoxian suddenly raised his head when he heard this, and looked at Abe Seimei.The Great Onmyoji lowered his eyes, and couldn't see anything on his face, just repeated it seemingly unconsciously, "Nearly ten years old..."

He didn't pay attention in normal times, and continued to narrate the scene at that time.

At that time, Ping Zhensheng seemed to have noticed something, stared at his son coldly, and ordered someone to invite his daughter-in-law.It was just that after the people were invited, Xiangxian checked it himself and told Ping Zhensheng that the baby in her womb was a baby girl, and a baby boy was needed to make medicine.

Ping Weishi's wife escaped, he also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, restraining his impulse to slowly persuade his father.However, he didn't expect that the sores on Ping Zhensheng's face began to heal, and then he received his father's order to kill Xiangxian and the two. Only then did he know that his father still used his son's liver.

"It's my fault," Ping Weishi said bitterly, "Knowing that my father has done such an unforgivable thing, but I have lost the courage to kill him..."

His voice was pained and self-reproaching, but no one else could blame him for it.In the end, only Biao Tengtai sighed, "...this is human nature."

Ping Weishi smiled bleakly, without echoing or defending, and continued, "Although I can't kill my father, it is absolutely impossible to follow his words and kill the two innocent doctors, so I reminded them after I found them. They left Beijing quickly. It's just that Xiangxian didn't seem surprised after hearing my words, and took the initiative to find my father."

"Since then they have stayed in the house?"

"Yes, because Xiangxian said that my father's facial sores were only cured temporarily, and there might be relapses later, so he is still useful. And he is willing to stay in my house and become my father's exclusive doctor, so that you don't have to worry about him. The news that my father ate his son's liver will be leaked, and my father agreed."

Abe Seimei thought for a while, "This Xiangxian is not an ordinary person."

Ping Weishi was a little puzzled when he heard the words, he obviously hadn't suspected the doctor yet, "Why do you say that?"

Qingming looked at the young man in front of him, when he mentioned the girl named Kisaragi who stopped him just now, his expression softened a bit, obviously he had feelings for her, but...

"After Ping Jiangmen's death, there was an orphan girl, who is still alive today." The Great Onmyoji picked up the scroll on the table and handed it over, "Have you seen the portrait of Mrs. Jun of Ping Jiangmen?"

Pingwei suddenly had an ominous premonition, he took the scroll with some hesitation, and slowly pulled it away.

As the scroll moves up, a man and a woman with superior looks appear in the field of vision.The woman's face was beautiful and elegant, if she was a little older, there would be a bit of melancholy between her brows and eyes...

The scroll fell out of his hand, and fell to the ground with a "slap" and rolled a few times. The folded scroll covered half of the familiar face, leaving only the red lips smiling at him.

In normal times, his complexion turned pale, "...like the moon?"