Chapter 50 Section VI

"Isn't this Aoi?" Fujiwara Shiyin said. Shi Yin stood on the narrow corridor, overlooking the courtyard. In the courtyard, two attendants stood in front of the narrow corridor, each holding down the woman in the middle on the left and right. There were bonfires burning on the left and right of Shi Yin, and the fiery red flames stretched into the night sky. Qingming and Boya stood on the right side of Shi Yin. "So, Kui is the one who sucks the maidservant's blood every night..." Shi Yin asked. "You can also say that." Qingming nodded. "Where are the other maids?" Shi Yin asked.

"Everyone is safe and sound. The waitress who was sucked blood and all the other waitresses probably won't wake up until morning. If they are dealt with before they wake up, the waitresses won't know who they are. is sucking blood, and perfectly solves this problem." "But, how should I deal with it? Lord Seimei..." Before Shi Yin finished speaking, the woman—Kui—screamed: "Hey! Let me suck blood, let me suck blood..." The woman's mouth was still covered in blood. "That woman... seems to have something attached to Aoi's body. As long as you get rid of that thing, this problem can be eradicated."

"How to get rid of it?" "I'll come and talk to her." After Qingming finished speaking, leaving Boya and Shi Yin behind, they walked down the narrow corridor to the courtyard. After walking a few steps, Seimei came to the woman on the left and right who were being pressed down by the attendants. "cough!" The woman opened her mouth and spat out something on Seimei's face. Seimei caught it with his left sleeve.There was a mouthful of dirty black blood on the white cuff. "Hey, it's nerve-wracking." Seimei glanced at the stained cuff as if nothing had happened, and stretched out his right index finger on the woman's forehead.

"scare!" The woman wanted to bite Qingming's index finger with her mouth open, but when Qingming's index finger reached the woman's forehead, the woman suddenly stopped moving. "Tell me, who are you?" Qingming asked. "I am a leech that has lived for 150 years, living in the pool of Shenquan Garden." The woman said. "Why did the leeches living in Shenquanyuan possess this woman?" "Yes. A long time ago, monk Kukai prayed for rain in Shenquan Garden. At that time, he threw a piece of paper with the mantra of the dragons in the pond. It happened to be me who ate the paper in the pond. Probably It was because of eating the mantra that I gained supernatural power, so I must have lived for such a long time."

"and then?" "I can't forget the taste of the mantra, and I hoped that the paper with the mantra written on it would fall again. As a result, about ten years ago, the mantra of the dragons written by Monk Miaoyue fell..." "The mantra was also eaten by you?" "Yes. After eating it twice, I want to eat it even more. Will it be available this year? Will it be available next year? I look forward to the fall of the mantra every year. Then, ten days ago, a woman entered the pool, chanting Long Mantra. So I immediately sucked her blood and possessed her body. That woman is exactly the woman now."

"I see." "After possessing a human body, because it is not in the water, every night I will be thirsty, and my stomach will be very hungry, so I have to..." "That's why you sucked the blood of the maids?" "yes." "However, since the deeds have been exposed, you can go back obediently." After Qingming finished speaking, she still placed her index finger on the woman's forehead, murmured a mantra, and finally put the tip of the woman's nose in her mouth, and with a "hoo", breathed into her nose. As a result, "Cough!", the woman opened her mouth.

"That's..." Shi Yin called out from the narrow corridor. Something crawled out of the woman's open mouth. The surface of the thing was smooth and dark.It was a leech as thick as a child's wrist. After the leech crawled out of the woman's mouth, it snaked towards the pond. "It seems that you deliberately created this kind of dry weather in order to get the mantra for praying for rain." Qingming said seriously, "The water in the pond is imported from the Kamo River, and you can swim along the water in the pond." Go to Kamogawa, then swim to the sea, go to Sea Dragon King, tell Sea Dragon King, Seimei asked him to rain as soon as possible..."

I don't know if the leech heard Seimei's words. The leech slipped into the pool from the edge of the pool and disappeared into the black water without a trace. After eating the food and wine prepared by Shi Yin, before dawn, Qingming and Boya left Shi Yin's mansion in an ox cart. When Qingming and Boya were about to get into the ox cart, thunder suddenly sounded in the dark night sky, and it began to rain from above.