My Weird Life

  Chapter 393 The Girl in the Stone Bridge (12)

  Darkness is like ink, gradually infecting the world outside the courtyard of the "Inoue House".

  The cherry trees outside the courtyard and the wooden houses not far away were all overwhelmed by the turbulent darkness.

   Even the white paper lantern with the family crest of "Inoue Family" hanging on the main gate of the courtyard is surrounded by darkness little by little, and the light emitted by the lantern is gradually eroded by the darkness.

   If you can look down from the top at this time,

   You can find that the darkest fog has engulfed the street market,

   is now encircling Inoue's house, the only bright house, and overturning.

   In this thick darkness, the four grass figurines wore white paper masks on their faces, bells adorned their necks, and carried a pair of wooden boxes soaked in water. With stiff steps, they slowly approached Inoue's house.

   For every point they approach Inoue's house,

   The darkness presses forward a point.

   ding dong, ding dong…

  The shredding sound of bells loomed in the darkness.

  The head of a stone woman with black hair that emerged from the mud of the grave turned slightly,

   After seeing the back door of Inoue's house in front, the stone head gradually retracted into the soil - together with the thick black hair on top of its head, back into the soil together.

  The flat ground has no weird changes for the time being.

   But inside the back door of Inoue's house,

   The red lacquer spells that were nailed on the door, eaves, and beams accelerated melting at this time.

The    spell gradually twists and dissolves.

   A red lacquer flowed down the crack of the door.

   is like red blood.

   "Ding dong... ding dong..."

   Ms. Haruko, who was tossing and turning on the bed and couldn't sleep, was sitting in front of the table and practicing calligraphy.

   She only wrote a word when she heard the faint sound of a bell.

"strangeness…

  It's all this time, why is there a bell sound? "

   Haruko was slightly alert.

   Put down the brush,

   listen intently,

  The tiny bell sound disappeared again.

   She frowned and looked around her bedroom—a bedroom with only one oil lamp lit, it was illuminated by a little light, and it was completely different from the boudoir in the daytime.

   Haruko stood up,

   Holding an oil lamp to illuminate the body,

   went to the wooden box in the corner of the bedroom,

   Opened the wooden box, took off the neatly stacked clothes with a faint fragrance, and took out a 30-centimeter-long wakashi from the bottom.

  Wakizashi's scabbard is painted with red and gold lacquer,

   is like falling leaves at dusk.

  Miss Haruko took off her clothes, changed into casual clothes, hung the Wakizashi at her waist, and held the sword in her hand—the blade of this Wakizashi was covered with vermilion spells, and the blade was dazzling and extremely sharp.

   Next, Haruko took out a lacquer box from the box.

   Open the lacquer box,

   There is a stack of white cloth inside.

  The cloth smells of ink and cinnabar,

   open it,

   You can see the whole half-meter-long square cloth, painted with a colorful dragon-shaped animal covered with colorful feathers, circling above the black sky.

  The picture is full of some indescribable charm,

   With the cinnabar embellishment, it seems that there is aura flowing in the dragon's body.

   And below the whole picture, a line of Chinese characters is written: Baixianghualongtu.

  Haruko took out a loose cloak from the box, pasted the 'Baixianghualong Figure' on the inside of the cloak, and buttoned the cloth buttons one by one into the specially sewn buttonholes on the inside of the cloak.

  She put on a great cloak, and holding a wakama full of scarlet spells, she crept to the window,

   open the window,

   took a look outside - her residence is surrounded by many houses in the courtyard, in the center of the courtyard.

   From her point of view, she could not see the situation outside the courtyard walls at all.

   But Haruko still observed that the night sky was very dark and unusual.

   Under the gloomy sky,

  There are samurai passing through the alleys between the pavilions and buildings, hurriedly passing by with white paper lanterns.

   Today, the number of samurai patrolling at home is also much less than usual,

   was arranged by my father to do something.

   Haruko felt more and more that something was wrong,

   However, when she saw the surrounding buildings and the samurai walking through the alley under the window, she felt that her inner premonition was just an illusion.

   close the window,

   She sat cross-legged on the wooden floor,

   silently pondered for a moment.

  I finally decided to talk to my father,

   Even if nothing happens, there is no harm in being more vigilant.

   Haruko put the knife back in its sheath, got up and walked outside the house.

  The samurai who passed by the second-floor building where she lived, turned around the corner, went around a few buildings, and when he passed the back door, he saw a group of wriggling shadows on the ground.

"what is that?"

The    samurai was nervous and drew his sword to defend.

  —He was a timid man. He used to patrol the main courtyard with his three or five companions, but he didn’t think it was a big deal.

   Now the companions have been summoned by the head of the family to do an important thing,

   He was the only one left to patrol,

   Seeing that he was sober, it was inevitable that he would panic.

With the    end knife resting in front of him, the samurai took small steps to approach the wriggling shadows.

   approached,

   Only then did he realize that it was a mass of black hair fluttering in the wind.

  Who would throw their hair here?

   Wrong!

hair?

   Several thoughts flashed through the warrior's mind one after another,

   He hasn't had time to react yet,

   Only saw the mud under the hair suddenly rise up,

   A woman's head made of stone emerged from the soil—

   The woman turned her head to him, the corners of her mouth seemed to be slightly raised on the stone face.

The eyes of the    samurai quickly turned gray, and then the entire face, the entire body, and the clothing on his body turned blue-gray, turning into a stone sculpture.

  …

   It was so dark that I could not see my fingers,

   The footsteps of all the warriors became extremely subtle in this darkness.

  The torches they hold will gradually lose their light under the erosion of such darkness, and then go out completely.

   "Family old!"

   The samurai who followed Ah Xiong's left lit the torches with fire again. After observing the surrounding situation, he immediately asked the tall figure in front of him, "This is not the way home, where are we going?"

   side front,

  Axiong's long hair fell to his waist.

   He heard the sound and turned to look at the samurai, his eyes shone with miserable green light under the evil mask: "Go to Soseki Shrine!"

"at this time?

   Going to Soseki Shrine? "The samurai obviously couldn't understand the decision of the "family elder".

   "Someone is behind the fight between the Haruno family and the Inoue family.

  We cleaned the Haruno house for him,

   Now it's his turn to clean the Inoue house.

  The only possible way to avoid the collapse of the Inoue house is to trace the source of all these conspiracies - Soseki Shrine. In Soseki Shrine, we can see what the people behind are preparing.

   And, interrupting his preparations. "

  Axiong said lightly and explained a few words to his subordinates.

   "The Inoue Family—

   Even we are going to suffer the calamity of overthrow?

how can that be? ! "The warrior lost his voice for a moment,

   Being led by the elder Ah Xiong, he directly cleaned the Chunye family. Even Anlu Onmyoji, who was in the early days of the Chunye family, was beheaded by all the warriors. They thought they had mastered the situation and were completely victorious.

  How could I have expected it, it's just less than an hour,

   The family behind him has been reduced to a fate that is about to be overthrown!

   As a result,

   Samurai cannot accept.

  A Xiong glanced at him, a sarcastic smile appeared on his face under the evil mask, and he did not say anything to persuade him.

   Game of Thrones is always so cruel,

   And the person who masters this game has never been the one with power,

   is not any one person in the game, but every 'moment' that is insignificant and ignored by most people.

  …

   The lightly radiant crescent moon in the sky has been completely obscured by darkness.

   The Inoue family yard in the dark night was also submerged in darkness.

   Those red lacquer and gold lacquer spells engraved on the corners of the pillars and eaves melted, dissolved, and disappeared without a trace under the invasion of the river in the cold winter!

  The warriors who patrolled the courtyard became silent stone figurines in the dark,

  The servants and their family members were still sleeping in the house, and they had to wake up from their sleep because of the cold and strange rhythm, and then saw a clump of black hair 'growing' from the wooden floor.

   A woman's head made of stone appeared from the wooden block raised from the tomb,

   The woman smiled at them,

   So they also turned into cold stone figurines in panic.

  Death swept the Inoue home.

   With the ‘girl in the stone’ swimming around in the courtyard and between the rooms,

   Hundreds of people in the Inoue family yard,

   Over half of them died at once.

The 'Girl in the Stone' emerged from the soil and the ground with more and more figures. At first, it was just a head. Later, as for the neck, as for the chest, and as for the whole stone body, it emerged from the ground. .

   It no longer sneaks under the dirt,

  There seems to be a roller installed under the stone body, so that it can appear in any direction silently,

   A strong strange rhyme emanated from the stone body,

Where    has passed,

   Frightened shouts and footsteps running frantically sounded.

  Some people escaped from it without seeing the smile on the corner of its mouth;

  Some people were stunned by it, until they saw the smile on the corner of its mouth and turned into a dumb stone.

   Panic and darkness covered the entire courtyard of Inoue's house.

   Those who escaped in front of the girl in the stone,

After all,    didn't survive much longer—four straw men with bells hanging around their necks, carrying huge wooden boxes soaked in water, smashed the main gate of the well-sted family yard.

  The wooden box stands under the steps of the gate,

  The lid of the box is pulled out one inch by one,

   revealed a slender woman with a complex comb and wearing Wu clothes.

   This woman's limbs are all soft and slumped, like a flesh and blood sac without the support of a skeleton. Behind 'her', a wooden frame in the shape of a 'big' is tied.

  Because of the binding of the wooden frame, her body was able to stand on the ground,

   will not collapse directly on the ground into a pile of rotten meat.

   The wooden frame behind 'she' trembled,

   led her out of the wooden box,

   showed her a flat face without eyes, bridge of nose, ears, teeth and tongue.

   There seems to be water flowing in the dark eye sockets and mouth.

  'She' bowed her head slightly,

   His mouth opened wider, and a voice came out of his throat: "Woo-woo-woo-woo-du-du-du..."

  The sound of empty air became the sound of water submerging and immersing,

   A stream of blood-red water spurted out of her mouth,

   Shaped into the image of a woman with a pointed chin, eyebrows drawn like dots, empty eyes, and a high nose bridge. The water of the woman image escaped from her mouth and began to flood the entire courtyard.

   (end of this chapter)