Chapter 29 second quarter

Boya is drinking. The location is the narrow corridor facing the courtyard of Abe Seimei's residence. Boya sat cross-legged on the round straw mat, pouring the wine in the glass cup to his mouth. It was an exotic wine, the wine of the Hu country made from grapes. Seimei was draped loosely in a safari suit, raised one knee, and leaned against the pillar with his back.There are also glass wine glasses filled with exotic wines in front of their knees. Spring is drawing to a close and early summer is upon us. It was night. There is a lamp between Qingming and Boya, and a few bugs are flying around the lamp.

The garden was overgrown with weeds. The lush new summer grasses have grown taller than spring grasses such as chickweed and wild daylily. These spring grasses are buried among the summer grasses and gradually become indistinguishable. It is better to say that it is a field than a courtyard. Weeds and trees grow freely in Qingming Garden as they like.The fragrance of these young grasses and green leaves blends and floats in the darkness. Boya breathed in the atmosphere mixed with the aroma of Hujiu and grass, and drank the wine with emotion. There is a cherry tree in the back of the courtyard.It's Yae Sakura.The leaves are densely covered with pink cherry blossoms, making the branches droop under the weight.

There are also ditang flowers, and there are several strings of wisteria flowers hanging from the wisteria wrapped around the old pine. Of course, since the Yae Sakura, Ditang, and Wisteria bloom in the dark, the colors and shapes are not clearly visible. Compared with seeing with the eyes, the fragrance of the flowers and leaves strongly suggests the existence of the flowers and plants themselves. "Qingming..." Boya looked into the depths of the courtyard and said. "What's the matter? Boya..." Seimei replied with a smile on her pink lips. "It seems to me that things that are not visible to the eyes exist in this world."

"What's the meaning?" "For example, wisteria." "Wine flower?" "Although I can't see where the vine flowers are blooming in the courtyard, the intoxicating fragrance of the vine flowers will still pass over." "No." Qingming nodded slightly. "You and I actually have the same reasoning, Qingming..." "yes?" "Before I met you today, weren't we all in different places? Although we are in places where the other cannot see, once we meet, you and I exist here at the same time. Doesn't this mean that, Even if we can't see each other, do we all exist in this world?"

"Well." "The smell of the vine flowers I just mentioned is the same. Even though the eyes cannot see the vine flowers, the smell of the vine flowers undoubtedly exists in this courtyard." "Bo Ya, what exactly are you trying to say?" "I mean, Seimei, I think that the so-called life may be such an existence." "life?" "Yes. For example, aren't there weeds in this garden?" "Well." "But even if it were a wild daylily, what we see is not the life of a wild daylily." "How do you say that?"

"What we see is nothing but the shape of a grass called daylily, which has the color of grass. What we see is not their life." "Well." "It's the same with you and me. What I see now is only the face of a man named Qingming who I am very familiar with. What I see is not the life named Qingming. You are the same, too. What you see is only the shape and color of this man named Boya. What you see is not my life." "I see." "do you understand me?" "and then?" "Then what?" "Bo Ya, next thing you have to ask me is 'What's the point of what I'm talking about?'."

"It's okay, that's all. I just want to tell you that even if you can't see it with your eyes, life still exists in this world." "Bo Ya, what you are saying now is a very mysterious truth. Ordinary onmyojis or monks may not understand it." "yes?" "Exactly, listen carefully, Boya, what you just said is related to the basic principle of the mantra." "Another curse?" Boya frowned. "It's the curse." "Wait a minute, Seimei, I just finally felt like I understood something, and I was drinking wine contentedly. If you mention the curse again, my current happy mood will probably fly away."

"Don't worry, Boya, I'll keep it simple..." "Really?" Boya took a sip of wine anxiously, then put down the glass wine glass. "Ok." "Okay. In that case, Seimei, I will listen to you obediently, but please try to keep it brief." "Well, let me talk about the universe first..." "universe?" Yu refers to heaven and earth, left and right, front and back—that is, space. The universe refers to the past, present, and future—that is, time. In this era, Chinese civilization has combined the two into the word "universe" as a word for understanding the world.

"People in this world use 'mantras' to understand things that exist between heaven and earth." "W-what..." "To put it another way, the universe exists based on human 'vision'." "I don't understand, I don't understand, Qingming, didn't you say you want to make it simpler?" "Then, let's talk about stones." "Well, um, is it really a stone?" "It's a stone." "What happened to the stone?" "For example, there is a stone lying somewhere." "Well, there's a rock lying on the ground."

"If that thing hasn't been named 'stone,' that is to say, it's just a hard, round thing with no name." "But isn't a stone just a stone?" "No, that thing hasn't become a 'stone' yet." "what?" "If someone sees it and names it 'stone'...in short, if someone casts the spell 'stone' on it, then the thing 'stone' will appear in the universe." "I don't understand! No matter whether someone named it or not, that thing has existed since ancient times, and it will always exist in the future, right?"

"Ok." "In this case, whether that thing exists or not has nothing to do with the curse." "However, if it's not 'that thing', but 'stone', it can't be said that it doesn't matter." "Can't understand!" "Then let me ask you, what exactly is a 'stone'?" "what?" "'Stone' was originally 'stone'." "Well, um." "If someone kills another with that stone..." "Ok." "That stone will turn into a 'weapon'." "What did you say?" "Originally it was just a stone, but through someone using it to kill another person, that stone is equivalent to casting the curse of 'weapon' on someone. I have also talked about the analogy of the stone before, how? Say it like this If so, do you understand?" "I, I understand..." Boya nodded. "The reason is the same." "Where is it the same?" "I mean, the hard, round thing that was lying on the ground was just a hard, round thing, and it was nothing at first. But, someone saw it and named it 'the stone'. In other words, the curse of 'stone' was cast on that thing, so the existence of 'stone' exists in this world. Isn't that all right?" "no!" "why not?" "Hey, Qingming, are you lying to me again?" "I did not lie to you." "No, you're lying to me." "Then, let me give you an example. Waka is also a type of mantra." "Waka?" "That's right. If our hearts are disturbed, but we don't know why we are disturbed. So we made a waka and pinned our feelings on the lyrics of the waka, and finally realized it." "What did you suddenly realize?" "It suddenly dawned on us that we were in love with someone. Sometimes, people have to cast the spell 'Waka' in their hearts and turn it into language, so that they can understand their inner feelings..." "The so-called 'curse' is language?" "Almost, at least very similar." "similar?" "Although it is similar, language is not equal to the mantra itself." "really? Why?" "Languages ​​are but containers for curses." "what?" "Curse... let's use God as a metaphor for now. A curse is an offering to the god when offering sacrifices to the god. Language is the container for the offering." "I still don't understand, Seimei." "There is the word 'sorrow' first, so that we can contain such feelings in our hearts in the word 'sorrow'. The word 'sorrow' alone cannot be a curse. A curse cannot exist alone in this world. A curse must be Contained in various containers such as language, behavior, rituals, music, songs, etc., there is such a thing as 'mantra' in this world." "Uh, uh..." "For example, when you are stuck in the feeling of 'my beloved, I want to see you but I can't see you, every day is sad', Boya, you can just extract the sad feeling from the word 'sad' and give it to you Is anyone else watching?" "..." "Conversely, without using any words, without drawing any pictures, without doing anything, not even breathing, panting, doing nothing, can you express your sad feelings to others?" "..." "Language and spells, to put it bluntly, are precisely this relationship." "..." "In short, neither of us can intercept the 'life' from me or you and show it to others. The reason for both is the same." "..." "The so-called 'life' must be contained in me or you, or in all living things such as grass, flowers, and insects in the garden, so that others can see it, and 'life' can also appear in this universe. There is no container, just take out In terms of 'life', you cannot make others feel your 'life'." Qingming explained with a smile. Boya still had a dissatisfied expression on his face. "Look, the result is the same as I said!" "What's the same?" "As long as you bring up the topic of mantras, I will definitely end up as I predicted, and in the end, Zhang Er King Kong, can't figure it out." "That's not the case. In fact, you know the truth of curses best." "But I don't know where to fly to the happy mood just now." "I'm so sorry." "Do not apologize." "However, Boya, I was really surprised when I heard what you said just now. Because you don't need extra reasoning or thinking, you can directly grasp the essence of things. This is not something ordinary people can do..." "Qingming, are you admiring me?" "of course." Boya looked at Qingming dubiously, and said, "Then I'm at ease." Then he muttered to himself, "Although I don't know why, you seem to be really admiring me." "Instead of listening to the boring nonsense of Onmyoji, it's better to listen to you playing the flute..." "Having said that, Seimei, it was the same last year. Every time this season, I always think of one thing." "What's up?" "The waka competition held the year before last." "Oh, by the way, that's also the season now." "March 30th... At that time, the cherry blossoms bloomed, and the wisterias and ditangs also bloomed..." "I remembered, it was the year when the Xuanxiang Pipa was stolen, right?" "At that time, in order to get back the mysterious elephant that was stolen by the foreign ghost, didn't you go to Luocheng Gate with me?" "Ok." "You mentioned waka just now, and it reminded me of Mibu Tadami-sama again." "It's the Tadami-sama who said in Waka that he was in love..." "As long as I think of Mr. Zhong Jian, I feel that what you just said is really very reasonable." "What did I just say?" "Didn't you say that waka is also a kind of mantra." "Oh, it's that..." "To be honest, I also made a fool of myself during the waka competition..." Boya scratched his head. After hearing this, Qingming held back her laughter with cluck, cluck, cluck. "Bo Ya, you recited the Waka incorrectly then." "Stop talking about that time." "You came up with it yourself." "Why don't I bring up this past incident?" "You ask me, who do I ask? Boya..." Boya seemed to recall something, and raised his face to look at the dimly lit courtyard. "I always feel that that glorious night seems to have been a dream long, long ago..." "Every party, once it's in the past, even last night's party, feels like it happened a long, long time ago." "Yeah." Boya nodded bluntly, then muttered to himself, "Qingming, what you said is not bad at all."