[Onmyoji] Bo Qing

The rain had stopped, but the fog had risen again, filling the atmosphere with a dense cloud of fine moisture.

Listening to the gurgling sound of the Kamo River on the left, Hiroya walked on the wet grass with Seimei in his arms, and was about to leave the sound of running water behind him and climb up towards Kamo Kamo Shrine.

Because both of Boya's hands were placed on Qingming's body, Qingming held the torch used to illuminate the road.The strange fog blocked the line of sight, and even with the torch in hand, he could only see a short distance in front of him.Moreover, the fog only covered the surface, the sky seemed to be clear, and the hazy, dim moonlight could be seen when looking up.

The two walked in this strange moonlight.

"Qingming, aren't you scared?" "Scared." "But the tone of your voice doesn't seem to be scared at all." "Really." "I'm scared." After saying it, Boya seemed even more scared , Can't help arching the shoulders and shrinking the back.

"I'm actually a coward, Qingming." Boya swallowed a mouthful of saliva in a deep voice.

The road deviates from the Kamo River unknowingly, and begins to climb towards Kamo Kamo Shrine.

"Although I am a coward, there is another self who will not forgive this cowardly self. I feel that self always drives me towards a place of horror. It is difficult to express, probably because I am a warrior. Why." He began to talk in contradictory circles.

Boya is a samurai in the character setting of this story.But although a samurai is a samurai, his status is very noble.Prince Kemei, the first prince of Emperor Daigo, is Boya's father.

"Are you tired?" Qingming saw a drop of sweat dripping from Boya's forehead, and asked with a smile, "Otherwise, I'll come down and walk by myself."

"No, no need, I'm not tired at all." Boya rejected Qingming's offer.In fact, Boya really didn't feel tired at all, his nose could smell the faint and elegant fragrance from Qingming's body, which made him fascinated by his son's dream, and felt infinitely powerful.

Although it took a lot of time to walk this distance, in Boya's eyes, it was only a short distance, and Seimei was not very heavy.

"By the way, Qingming, there is something I want to ask you." Fearing that Qingming would decide to go down and walk on his own because he was considerate of himself, which would make the foot injury worse, Boya learned to change the subject.

"What's the matter?" Qingming asked without doubting him.

"Did you say something weird during the day?" "Strange thing?" "You said that maybe tonight the affairs of the Huguo Temple can also be settled together, right? What does that mean? Does the matter over there have anything to do with it?"

"Probably so..." Qingming explained with a smile: "Didn't you meet a monk in my house? That monk's name is Xuande. I told you that he was a Buddha statue sculptor in Huguo Temple..." Seimei began to talk about the ins and outs of the matter.

At this time, the path they took had entered the miscellaneous forest where the cypress that was said to be over a thousand years old was located.

Four years ago, Xuande started to carve the statues of the Four Heavenly Kings, using ancient cypress wood cut into four pieces.

Huguo Temple obtained the ancient cypress tree over a thousand years old.The thousand-year-old cypress had to be dried in the shade for two years after it was felled. Just when Xuande was about to start work, the thousand-year-old cypress arrived.

Xuande first started to carve the Southern Zengtian King, and it took half a year to complete.Next is the Heavenly King of Protecting the Country in the East, and then the Heavenly King of Duowen in the North.It takes half a year to carve each statue.Finally, it is necessary to carve the Western Guangmu Heavenly King.

First of all, a month ago, the evil ghost was completed.Next, prepare to carve the main body of the King Guangmu.

Just when the Guangmu Heavenly King was about to be completed, a strange thing happened—an evil ghost was stepping under the feet of the four Heavenly Kings.The evil spirit stepped on by the foot of the Guangmu Heavenly King.Just one night when the entire statue was about to be completed in a few days, it suddenly disappeared.

From the base to the evil spirits and heavenly kings, each statue is carved from a single piece of wood.As far as Guangmu Tianwang is concerned, the sole of his right foot is connected with the back of the evil spirit he stepped on, but the evil spirit disappeared suddenly, and it didn't look like someone chiseled it away.

Until noon that day, the evil spirit was still stepping on the feet of King Guangmu.This point, Xuande is very clear.

When he got up to take a urinate that night, he suddenly wanted to see the statue of the Guangmu Heavenly King.After all, two years of work is almost done.So, after urinating, he lit a lamp and walked into the carving room.

At this time, they found that the evil spirit had disappeared.

However——the next morning, I walked into the carving room and saw that the evil spirit was at the feet of King Guangmu, isn't it?Xuande couldn't help wondering: Could it be that he was dreaming last night?The day is still working as usual.

At dusk, although the work was over, I still felt inexplicably uneasy about what happened last night.So, I thought that the work would be finished tomorrow anyway, and if I worked harder tonight, the statue would probably be finished tonight.

Xuande made up his mind.So after dinner, I prepared candles and went back to the carving room to have a look——the evil spirit is gone again!This time to the second day.Even on the third day, the evil spirit did not come back.

On the fourth day, Xuande finally couldn't restrain himself, and secretly came to Qingming to discuss a solution, but kept it a secret from the temple.

Because Xuande knew that if he told the temple, the position of Buddha statue sculptor might not be guaranteed.

"Because of the disappearance of the evil spirit, maybe I should blame myself." Xuande told Qingming at that time: "Master Qingming, do you know about not respecting the law?" Don't respect the law—— This is a method of prayer, and it is not Buddhas and Bodhisattvas that are enshrined, but various other gods.

There are many different types of Dharma.Due to oral transmission and the inheritance from generation to generation, there are great differences in methods.In short, what Xuande means is that if the gods enshrined are the four heavenly kings, there are corresponding methods to worship and support them with the four heavenly kings as the main Buddha.

When a Buddha statue carver begins to carve a Buddha statue, no matter what Buddha statue it is, the Buddha statue is the only one in his mind.

It can be said that in the whole carving process, the Buddha statue is the real Buddha of the Buddha statue sculptor.Therefore, when Xuande starts to carve a new Buddha statue, he must sprinkle water to purify his body. If, if it is not the real Buddha but other gods, he must use the method of other statues to make offerings before starting to carve.

But when it came time to sculpt the Guangmu Heavenly King, Xuande neglected this link, and this may be the cause of the error...

"In that case, Qingming, what do you think..." Boya was so excited that he couldn't speak clearly.

"You guessed it right." "But could it be..." "That's a cypress tree over a thousand years old, and its spirit is naturally extraordinary. In addition, it is an evil spirit carefully carved by a superb Buddha statue sculptor. , and the evil spirits were completed earlier than the Heavenly King with his feet on his body. All in all, the truth will come to light in a while. Look, isn’t it coming over there?” The path has already penetrated into the miscellaneous forest.

Weeds were growing on the left and right sides, Seimei and Boya's clothes were soaked.

Overhead, the leaves rustled.

"Ah! That's it." Seimei's words made Boya stop.

Boya looked forward.In the hazy moonlight, a white thing could be vaguely seen standing in front of it.

"Let's go." Qingming urged nonchalantly, and at the same time did not forget to mention Boya: "Don't talk later, I will take care of everything."

Boya nodded, then swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then took slightly heavy steps as if resigned to fate.

After the two walked over, it turned out that the year had come, and there was a huge cypress tree stump, and a naked boy stood beside the stump.

The boy looked at Qingming and Boya, and smiled with his thin red lips parted to the left and right.White teeth appeared between the two red lips.

"Do you want to go there?" the boy asked in a penetrating, thin voice.

"Oh, what should I do?" Qingming said nonchalantly.In fact, if his foot hadn't been injured and Boya was hugging him, he wouldn't mind letting Boya take the lead, and then watching Boya being overwhelmed by a twig.

However, Boya was so considerate, Qingming couldn't let Boya let go of himself and enjoy the show.

"Want to go, or don't want to go?" the boy asked again.

"Ah, this..." "What exactly do you want?" Before Qingming finished speaking, the boy asked angrily.With a scolding sound, the boy's hair stood on end, his eyes widened with anger, and his eyeballs doubled in size: only his lips remained slightly red.

"What do you want? Do you want people to pass by, or don't you want them to pass by?"

"What did you say!" The boy's voice became hoarse, and changed into an adult's tone.

"Let's do as you say."

"No. I don't intend to do as I said." "Hehe. Then will you do as I say?" "No." "You said you would do it." "No!" The boy was tired of arguing with Qingming , his mouth suddenly opened, revealing a huge tongue and fangs.

"Ah, what should I do?" "You are here to tease me!" The boy no longer pretended to be a child.

Although the boy's body was still very small, he looked like a devil. Whenever he opened his mouth to speak, green flames would spew out from his mouth.

The devil jumped off the tree stump and swooped towards Qingming.

Boya wanted to protect Seimei, and drew out the long knife at his waist.But holding Qingming in his arms, he couldn't draw the sword at all, so he could only turn sideways and use his body to protect Qingming.

Qingming didn't have time to be moved by Boya's actions, but just stretched out the index finger and middle finger of his right hand towards the devil who was pounced on him.Because there was a Boya between him and the devil, Seimei could only continue gesticulating in the air, but at the same time immediately stopped the spell he was reciting and switched to another one, and because of this, it took a little longer than usual.

The devil froze suddenly.

Seimei breathed a sigh of relief.

Qingming told Boya that it was settled, and motioned Boya to turn around so that he could face the devil.Qingming chanted the spell into the devil's mouth, because it was Gengshen's spell, the devil's body twisted and folded according to the spell, and finally fell down on the grass with a plop.

Boya carried Qingming in his arms and rushed to have a look, and sure enough, he saw a wooden carved evil ghost lying on the ground.

It happened to be the appearance when Guangmu Tianwang stepped on the soles of his feet, his body overlapped into two parts, and he lay prone on the ground.

"It was originally connected to the tree stump. If I can't get it to leave the tree stump, I can't do anything about it."

"This is the evil ghost at the foot of the Guangmu Heavenly King carved by Xuande." Boya marveled.

"En." Saying that, Qingming glanced at the tree stump beside him.

Signaling Boya to lead him closer to the tree stump, Seimei touched the wood grain on the edge.

"Boya, it's still alive." Qingming said with a smile, "The other parts are almost completely rotten, but this part is very weak, but it's still alive. It looks like there are very strong roots underneath." Qingming put his hand down again Go up, and then chanted a mantra in a low voice.

Qingming put his hands there and chanted the incantation for a long time, so long that he could even clearly feel the hazy moon gradually tilting down.

Finally—after chanting the incantation, Jingming moved his hand away from the tree stump.

"Oh..." Boya couldn't help exclaiming.Because at the edge of the tree stump that Seimei let go of, a green sprout that was so small that it was almost invisible to the eyes raised its head.

"After a thousand years, there should still be a towering tree standing here." Qingming whispered to himself, looking up at the sky.

The mist that covered the moon had dispersed at this time, and the faint blue moonlight quietly fell on Qingming from the sky.

That scene is really beautiful and beautiful.

Looking at Qingming bathed in moonlight in his arms, Boya's heart, which was already throbbing for him, suddenly jumped very hard.

Thump, thump!

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